#Contact isolation

[sunlight-shunlight]

i always bounced off the "she was a halla and he was a wolf 🥺" or "she's sooo mild and innocent and he's a hardened stoic morally grey immortal" version of solavellan, bc firstly that is generically heterosexual in a way that i find silly. and secondly the timeline is just. SO wild.

from lavellan's perspective they're like "hm this guy saved my life from the anchor! cool. a very knowledgeable and skilled mage. he's a bit annoying about the dalish but i do like our talks. we've been through some pretty scary life or death situations together. he seems kind of mysterious or depressed at times, i wonder what's going on there. but we have been flirting a bit... maybe i can go for 1 (one) kiss and see what happens 🤔"

this is very normal. this isn't notably "✨such a pure and gentle soul that has won the heart of the ancient bloody-handed trickster✨" behaviour, they're actually acting in a fairly regular way as someone who has a crush.

but by the point lavellan makes any move at all, from solas' perspective. he is already Dying Internally. he is Pining. when lavellan shoots their shot, he's already reached the level of "meeting you has changed my whole life and worldview, i don't know how to handle it," and presumably has restrained himself from saying anything to them only through pure stoicism and willpower. millennia of insurgency and political experience, all bent onto the task of Acting Normal Around Lavellan. he's halfway about to blurt out a love confession if they reciprocate the feelings at all.

his entire plan for however many eons was to NOT get overly attached to any single person and risk his trolley problem calculations and schemes for them, but within like 4-6 months of hanging out with this random, somewhat curious mortal, he's considering telling them everything and/or giving up the plan entirely. truly cringe fail.

[javierduffy]

different.

[prettyupsetnerd]

[jennastarkhasaheart]

rewatching 2x20 rn and the the drama is so well written.

on the one hand, you have may, and coulson, who just spent weeks on the run trying to handle a coup by realShield™ and large new trust issues and find skye, barely having fixed the situation. then skye comes back after almost being killed by realShield, suddenly having a handle on her previously catastrophic powers, but being lukewarm at best towards shield and talking about this group of powered people shes been with for barely two weeks the way youd expect someone in a sect to do. yeah, theyre worried.

on the other hand, you have skye, who still vividly recalls trips death and blames herself for it, who had to deal with her murderous dad and whose life did a complete shitty 180 afterwards in every single way because she got powers she couldnt understand or control, who was put through pointless and exhausting profiling, sustained dramatic injuries, was out of nowhere attacked and almost killed by the people she trusted and never got any context or explanation for it, at least until the ultron timeskip (and even with that its still not a good look), and who just barely got a version of normalcy back together. and she found her real mom, and people who are like her and genuinely know what shes going through, and can and have helped her handle it. but her moms kinda not handling the whole cal situation well so she tries to fix that behind her back, at risk to herself, by involving shield again, before that whole situation erupts into a spectacular clusterfuck. and then she returns to shield only to find the people who tried to kill her in charge and her friends cooperating with them. and theyre after the people who helped her now because she tried to do the right thing and rescue one of them and it has unintended consequences.

so yeah its kind of a mess

[bogkeep]

i generally think i am pretty okay with being by myself for extended periods of time, i rarely crave physical contact and never desire to be surrounded by crowds. like you can clearly tell i am Not a city boy and i frequently fantasize about living as a kooky artist somewhere out in finnmarksvidda who only visits a small town a couple times a month for groceries. HOWEVER. after three years of social isolation in sweden i think maybe that was not super great for me in the long run

[missescalientee]

[Cowboy Niccolo AU]

I think I might have sent an ask like this a while back, but do you think Gryffin would make friends and find love in Lonesome Flats? Do you think Niccolo would gain a half-Country sibling or two?

Gryffin is fine being a single dad, his main focus is his son, I can imagine him and Delta having a short "romance". Delta was very present in Niccolos life, helping him to feel welcome in Lonesome Flats. The folks there are pretty kind to Niccolo because he's just a child, but Gryffin is another story. I think I've said in the past there are still quite a few people who are wary of him being this tall lanky rock troll. It's not until post world tour that he gets more friendly with the others in town, again he's not really bothered by it since he has Niccolo, Delta, and Growly Pete to chill with, plus he's on friendly terms with his employers so it's chill!

And ye, that means no half country siblings as of right now!

[opalsiren]

the hse's advice on covid self-isolation is such dogshit. 'you can come out of isolation after 5 days but don't interact with anyone high risk for 10 days' cool how do i know the person sitting next to me on the bus isn't high risk. the person in line behind me getting groceries, the person i make small talk with in the pharmacy queue. literally eugenics-adjacent advice

[lumberjackson]

Why do you care so much with what's going on with Israel? You're a Twitch streamer, stick to video games lol

It's a GENOCIDE happening in real time

[nightingaletrash]

Do you think Dracula lizard-climbs the walls of the castle so that when he's not present, his absence increases his guests' sense of isolation?

[queer-space-tragedy]

Okay. But consider. Just CONSIDER...

Narrator as Phos.

JUST CONSIDER IT.

ARE WE CONSIDERING IT?

Guys. Guys please. Guys come on. Guys-

Have a pleasant 10,000 years.

[unionizedwizard]

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[coyote-catcher]

one thing i actually really like about star stable (and wanna embrace more in my own lore building stuff in my brain) is that it doesn't actually matter at all where your character came from, just that they're on jorvik now

[mysandwichranaway]

Guysss i can't muster the courage to sign up to the ninjutsu class 😭😭😭. I'm terrified of being in a class making a fool of myself in front of everyone, including my fucking crush, who is the fucking teacher. I want to exchange all my organs for cement.

[indooroutdoorboyfriend]

it's Harassing You o'clock so i am gonna discuss my oc some more in the tags

[dgoul]

it's beautiful how everything is suddenly going wrong for Jonah . the art of plotting roleplays . I think he needs new friends

[dirt-apple-productions]

The leader of Women’s Bible Study at my new church just called me and talked to me and asked me how I was doing.

Is this what Christian fellowship feels like?