#<- I HAVE A SCALE OF BALANCE!!!!!

[snowangeldotmp3]

btw i feel like this shouldn't have to be said but the reason that agatha hates rio is because agatha didn't get to say goodbye to nicky. rio couldn't offer her any more time. and, in rio's mind, nicky going peacefully in his sleep (and even telling him to turn around and kiss agatha goodbye!!) is the one grace rio feels she can give agatha. nicky doesn't suffer. he doesn't fight. he just...goes. he goes on a walk with his mother and kisses his mama goodbye. but agatha doesn't get to say goodbye!!! she doesn't get those final moments with him!! she wakes up and he's already gone.

[hyakunana]

Pocky Valen when?

[mylittleredgirl]

i love that star trek the next generation was like okay we've got a lot of new characters to introduce to the audience so i think we should hit the essential information first. what kind of drunk are they

horny drunk (tasha, beverly)

weepy drunk (geordi, deanna)

"lmao i'm so wasted watch this" (wesley, data)

"i swear dude i'm totally good to drive" (picard, riker)

designated driver (worf)

[storytellering]

Look at me when I'm talking to you, son.

[acronym49]

Sunny Appreciation time

(rambling about my wof headcannons in tags below!)

[fisheito]

Fish Yakumo is canon. Magical girls event is shining on the horizon. Kuyorb. We are free

the complete confusion on my saggedskin dehydrated face as i rouse from my impromptu hibernation and everyon'es talking about orbs

[novelconcepts]

Jokes aside, I really do like what they did with Agatha and Rio all the way through. They really are antagonists; Rio’s trying to do her job, fulfill the function of nature’s balance, and Agatha’s whole deal is to outrun her like the wind. Immortality, power, a refusal to play by the rules is Agatha’s MO, and here comes Death, falling in love with her.

Death, whom Agatha assists time and time again by killing everyone she comes into contact with—and who blames her still, for taking her child, even though Rio fully broke her own rules by giving him a number of years in the first place—and who still believes she’s better than dying, despite it all. And of course, in a way, she is! Death is in love with her! She’s in love with Death! That in itself is balance, and it throws the whole system desperately out of wack at the same time, because how do you love Death and still prioritize immortality so much that you’d give anything, sacrifice anyone, to keep running? For centuries! They’ve been doing this dance for centuries! This is the one person Agatha can’t con, can’t steal from, and still! Of course! Of course she still manages to pull a fast one, because Death has fallen in love with the ultimate con woman. Because they are, in a way, equal and opposite, balanced and forever unstable. Because Death cannot stop for love, not even for you, Agatha Harkness. Death cannot stop for love, but she can maybe run a little slower. And, when she catches you, she can perhaps turn her head from the life she’s made bloom out of your bones…and let you slip free one last time.

[whetstonefires]

#4 please !

Now see this could be tricky, because generally if I don't get some key elements written down very quickly the idea flows away again and the 'yet' disappears, even if I remember generally what it was about, but I have one this time! I am still just enough plagued by this vision that it's not out of the question I'll go for the capture, but so far nada.

Idea was basically a Jiang family character study by way of modern au. (So tw canonical abuse.) I started from the reflection, in a modern au very high chance the Jiangs are divorced, because being a divorcee wouldn't necessarily ruin Yu Ziyuan in the modern world, as long as she was allowed to control the narrative enough that she didn’t look at fault, so it might be on the table.

Especially because modern views on child abuse are such that while she'd hold back more than she already does in terms of physical chastisement, Jiang Fengmian would also be under less societal pressure to not interfere in her disciplinary system too much, and both these factors mean he’s more likely to put his foot down.

So, concept: Jiang Fengmian, when his son is eight and his daughter thirteen, forces the issue of taking in his best friends' abused orphan child whom he’s just managed to track down in a nightmarish group home, probably leveraging the fact that wherever their money comes from it's mostly his, something he usually doesn't do, but she has always known he could, and been fucked up about it (reasonable) and hated him a little (less so) and hates him so much more now (understandable but still fucked up).

They were obviously still both pressured into this marriage by their families, because I literally cannot imagine them choosing one another of their own free will, and if they did that would be an au in an even more dramatic way than being modern, and no longer work as a character or relationship study as far as I'm concerned. I mean or it’s a cql-based au, but that’s not the version of this toxic marriage I find compelling.

Situation subsequently deteriorates to the point that when the boys are around twelve some outside party observes and is repulsed or otherwise upset by Yu Ziyuan's treatment of Wei Wuxian specifically--she's emotionally abusive to everyone in the family, canonically, and it harms Jiang Cheng significantly more than Wei Wuxian, which I think is also pretty explicit on the page, but she's more openly antagonistic about going after wwx because he's basically a proxy for her husband, whom she doesn't consider to be someone she's capable of harming.

And ofc in a modern family scenario, being abusive to your foster kid is more plainly personal misconduct than being unfair in how you discipline one of your husband's many students, even if it is his favorite. Which means she's very unlikely to chase him around with a whip, but whatever she does do will sting that much more emotionally.

Anyway the outside judgement provokes a more explicit confrontation than the last four years of maneuver and attempting to balance all the competing needs according to two very different standards. And the upshot is that by the time wwx is 13, the Jiangs are divorced. To avoid making a humiliating spectacle of themselves they present a weirdly united front in court and have a very smooth uncontested proceding, although the closed meetings with their respective lawyers involved a lot of vitriol.

Yu Ziyuan, despite having a smallish trust fund and probably a job of some kind, though one that's more prestigious than profitable like uh. Olympic fencing coach. Idk what they make but it's probably not enormous. She and Cangse Sanren probably competed in the same events back in the day.

Anyway she gets a solid chunk of alimony, the house, and primary custody of both her children, although Jiang Yanli is almost 18 at this point so mostly she just gets Jiang Cheng. Everyone thinks Jiang Cheng wants it that way, including sort of Jiang Cheng; he has this idea that if he has his mom to himself they'll finally have a good relationship, even though he's also terrified of being left all alone with her. He's complicated. Families are complicated.

Also she would never have forgiven him if he hadn't concurred that he wanted to stay with his mother because she was the only one On His Side.

Jiang Yanli ofc does not move out right away when she comes of age, in part because her brother needs her, but she probably does go to college, so she's only around part-time.

Jiang Fengmian, meanwhile, keeps most of his financial assets and Wei Wuxian, and gets his kids on the weekends.

So that's all setup for how you have this situation where Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng are entering high school--probably the same school, together, but no longer sharing the commute except maybe Monday mornings--and Wei Wuxian's primary residence is Jiang Cheng's dad's apartment.

It’s really chill. They get a cleaning service in once a week and eat a lot of delivery food, but they do cook at least once a week. The canonical thing where they largely agree about what’s funny and what’s right-or-wrong, and so forth, on the one hand really pops when there’s mostly no external conflict disrupting it, but also probably gains more complexity now that it’s not a thread of positivity fighting for its life against a background of drama. They get to know each other better than they ever had a chance to in canon.

Some of that isn't all that positive, because now they have the space to discover the places where they do actually have the capacity for friction, but both of them are very good at dispersing tension (I do tend to suspect jfm's dad was abusive he sure acts like it), and on the whole it's a good thing.

Jiang Cheng is going to have such a mental health crisis, and Jiang Fengmian is going to handle it so badly. Because of course when his son starts replicating his ex-wife's toxic attitudes and behaviors more now that she has primary custody, he’s going to feel guilty and like it’s His Fault, but he’s going to feel like it’s his fault that Jiang Cheng is growing up to be a shitty abusive person.

And even if he’d never say that the subtext would come through, in the assumptions he made when framing communications and so forth, as in canon, so the thing where Jiang Cheng’s father loves Wei Wuxian more than him, or at any rate likes him better and thinks he’s a better person and prefers his company, would wind up feeding into a self-reinforcing loop.

(Jin Zixuan's nasty public remark about Jiang Fengmian treating Wei Wuxian better than his own children hits Jiang Cheng significantly harder in this scenario, where he's being Tormented by the feeling that all his peers know his dad walked out on him for another son. Wei Wuxian's punch is therefore even more clearly primarily for Jiang Cheng's sake, although Jiang Cheng is probably more inclined to see it as being for his dad's. Jin Zixuan is about halfway between the Jiang kids' ages here, so he's a senior saying this shit to a sophomore.)

So that cycle builds to the point where Jiang Cheng would eventually have one of those rare moments where he resorts to actual violence, because his poisoned feelings are choking him so bad his rationality deserts him.

He’s not going to be nearly as close to actually murdering Wei Wuxian as he was in canon the night the Jiang Sect was massacred, because it’s a less extreme situation, but he still goes for the neck. So Jiang Fengmian is in his home office one Saturday about a year and a half into this new normal, and realizes the boys are fighting. He hears through the wall the accusation you stole my dad. He says to himself, well that’s terrible but interjecting myself into this situation would definitely make it worse.

Then he hears sounds of violence, and then an ominous abrupt silence, and updates that analysis.

And when he opens the door to the boys’ room, Wei Wuxian is being strangled. He’s not really resisting, which is because he’s made the call that that’s way more likely to get Jiang Cheng to snap out of it, and thinks it might make Jiang Cheng feel better to get it out of his system (because he does sort of feel like what Jiang Cheng is going through is all his fault, or at any rate is much worse as a result of decisions made for his sake) and is severely underestimating the dangers of choking, but looks to a third party like he’s already passed out and Jiang Cheng is still at it. Which is to say, it looks like a serious murder attempt on the brink of success.

So that sure made that situation worse!

So yeah that's my idea that I probably won't write but it sure has its teeth in me.

[irfrenchfries]

Fantasy AU again, for college/research age. Rookie knight Stan and new mage Ford. And here, a bit of audience participation-

We have a choice to make- Stan has been knocked down in the sketch. Do we follow the flavor of the show, and say that Stan in the sketch gives up knighthood and becomes a rogue? Or does he get up and become a fully fledged knight (and make me draw armor in future weeks)?

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

🎉✨Baby Chrobin!!!!!!! 💜💙🎉

[gonetoforks]

tragic crossover crackship yuri save me tragic crossover crackship yuri

Hero who came from little but has others x Villain who came from everything but has no one

What if she is violent like Toga and sees herself as needing to be useful like Deku what then. What if Uraraka is determined to not only save her because she believes she can be a hero but to help Frida want to save herself so that she can live happily like Toga couldn’t what then. WHAT IF SHE WANTS TO PROTECT THE SMILE THAT HAS ONLY BEEN HIDDEN UNDER HER MASK AND HER MOTHER’S MAKEUP HER WHOLE LIFE AND NOT LET HER BE HARMED LIKE LAST TIME WHAT THEN. WHAT IF-

[menlove]

Why do you think Paul insists saying John was sweet and nice when he really wasn't. He was shit to everyone including Paul. Because he feels he has to or because he was in love with him and that's what he remembers?

i meannnnn people are mixed bags. someone isn't always cruel and they also aren't always nice. ofc, john WAS a deeply awful person to many people around him (especially women). he had a Lot of untreated issues & anger. he could be very cruel & hurtful. but i think paul says he was sweet and nice because he was that, too. people aren't all black and white, ykwim? and while certainly you can absolutely hate john for some of the things he did & that's totally your right, so too can the people that loved him in life choose to forgive him. i think paul definitely like. remembers john's capacity for cruelty. he's talked about it a lot, as well as how much john hurt him & how confusing that whole period of their lives was for him. i DO wish he'd ever talk about the awful way john treated women, but i really don't think that's ever going to happen.

but as for their personal relationship, i think he just sees that john was sweet/nice a Majority of their friendship (or... whatever lmao) & that's just as much a part of him as the cruelty was. not to mention, a lot of that cruelty paul unfortunately shared in, especially in their youth, so i don't know that he saw as much of an issue with it before it turned on him.

but yeah i mean. john being a cunt & abusive doesn't necessarily negate him being sweet/nice. and if the latter is what paul remembers most and wants people to remember about john as well, i can't exactly blame him given how traumatically john died & the hole he left in his life. i think remembering him only for his cruelty would be worse for him than remembering both and focusing on the sweetness, yk?

[bringer-of-divine-retribution]

TYCHE YOU LITERALLY ALSO HAVE FAVORITES DONT BE HYPOCRITICAL

dont lie you actually love me rightt

@yeahiguesssim-white

no. you are the slighttty lesser hated though, because you don't tip the scales of balance as much as you do your sister. also to spite tyche.

[hiya-im-mary]

THE VEE!!!!!!! The SHE!!! whatever you’d call her

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[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[moe-broey]

I've hired this thing to stand there. Menacingly.

Wow, he's so good at tha--

Nevermind.

He also sits very politely though (needs assistance to do so, but hey! He's polite.)