#Deep Feeling Magic Being

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Sasha using the title "Lord" in RiAAU after taking over Toad Tower and presumably killing Grime and stealing Barrel's Warhammer from him, and other political and military leaders assuming she's a man because, well, Sasha is a gender neutral name, so they hear Lord Sasha and assume they're talking about an adult male toad warrior. The second most powerful person in the known world and only real threat to the Leviathan reign!

Cue princess Marcy fleeing Newtopia and her father seeking refuge with his worst enemy hoping to offer information and political levarage in exchange for protection, perhaps even offering herself in marriage to transfer eventual inheritances and whatnot, and she finds out that Lord Sasha is not, indeed, a dark and domineering toad warlord, but a beautiful, terrifying girl her age that looks like her and oh god her poor little lesbian heart can barely take it.

[hanzajesthanza]

i adore how geralt instantly puts his dad hat on around angoulême like I Would Prefer It If You Didn’t Use Drugs and Watch Your Language, as if he has any parental authority over this stranger girl at all.

but then she actually listens, more or less, because while she doesn’t really know what having a parent is like, she knows and recognizes him as the Leader of the Hanza, so it’s like a secret loophole to hack into her character development

[stormyoceans]

SEA TAWINAN SQUISHED BETWEEN TWO MEN LIKELY PLACE FOR HIM TO BE

[charmfamily]

CORVUS CROSSING: A CHARM FAMILY STORY. CHAPTER I "BOY, YOU'LL BE A MAN REAL SOON." PART XVIX. Transcript Beneath the Cut.

DAMIEN: We're going to the library?

TOMAX: Yeah — it's about to start raining harder than a cow pissing on a flat rock. If you want to stay out in that and get soaked, I mean, you can…

DAMIEN: A cow…? [His words trail off for a moment, muttered to himself before he snickers and shakes his head.] Okay, you're definitely not from anywhere I've ever been. Never heard that one before.

TOMAX: Chestnut Ridge. [He laughs.] And before you say wow, you don't even have the twangy accent, yeah, I know. I worked very hard on that. C'mon, I've got some people for you to meet if you're up for it.

DAMIEN: Uh… yeah. [He nods, shrugging noncommittally.] Sure, as long as they're cool.

TOMAX: I wouldn't introduce you to anyone uncool. [He playfully rolls his eyes.] But seriously, if you don't feel up to it, you don't have to… You know you don't have to say yes to everything someone asks you, right?

DAMIEN: I didn't know. [He grins, his tone teasing and playfully snarky.] I've never heard the words 'people pleaser' in my life and I don't know why you'd insinuate that I do a bunch of stuff I don't feel like doing on a regular basis…

TOMAX: [He opens his mouth to say something but looks up at the sound of approaching footsteps and keeps quiet instead.]

AKIRA: Dude. There you fuckin' are — Kyle and I got saddled with clean up duty for a bit but I was looking for you everywhere, are you good now? Do you need a couple more minutes?

DAMIEN: Yeah, I'm good. Why, did something happen?

AKIRA: Group meeting with just the boys, there's some shit we have to discuss. No outsiders. [He grins at Tomax] No offense to your new bro here who looks chill but it's kinda important. Akira, by the way, and your shirt's dope.

TOMAX: [He chuckles.] Thanks, it's a flea market find. I'm Tomax and uh, no offense taken.

DAMIEN: The boys as in…?

AKIRA: You know what boys, dumbass. Us. The meeting's at home.

DAMIEN: Just checking, I don't wanna see that asshole again tonight.

AKIRA: Dude, he is the least invited bitch in the universe right now. [Lowering his voice as the two of them begin to walk down the hall, his brow furrows and his lips twist into a frown of concern.] Did you think we weren't gonna have your back? Seriously?

DAMIEN: I mean… [He sighs.] I don't know, shiny new social perks and getting handed a key to the kingdom around here right out of the gate is a pretty sweet deal…

AKIRA: Fuck that, you and I have been bros since I barfed all over your desk in third grade. That's deep lore that can't be erased overnight — and since when have I ever given a fuck what anyone else thinks?

DAMIEN: [He laughs, smiling genuinely and playfully shoving Akira.] I still can't believe you made yourself sick eating a banana peel after Kyle told you that's how people get high.

AKIRA: Okay first of all, I have always been man of science so jot that down and two — we just watched the Don't Huff Markers video in class and I thought that was also stupid so it stands to reason that if that's stupid and apparently works 'cause someone made a video about it, the 'eat a whole raw banana peel' thing could be legit.

DAMIEN: Also we don't fuckin' listen to Kyle anymore. That's a valuable, life-long lesson.

[physicsgoblin]

I hate myself do much for this but I'm starting to not be able to be around babies and little kids and pregnant women. Or women talking about being pregnant and being moms and wives. It makes me too sad and it hurts too much. I feel like a sexless blob or a female eunuch. I will never be married. I will never have children. I will never be able to give my love to someone that is mine. No amount of prays or tears or trying to be good and patient will make me feel any differently. I want things deeply and I will not get them. I will rot and be useless and have no place to put my heart. I cannot imagine how anything will change. I know I am not owed these things. But my heart is broken and hearing married couples with kids tell me "well you just have to submit to God's will :)" and "this life isn't all there is" as I age and my beauty and fertility fade, hurts. I know everyone else has there struggles, even if you're married, but this is still a grief and I wish it would stop being trivialized.

[millenianthemums]

parents of disabled kids will be like “we know our kid is disabled but we just won’t tell them about it. we don’t want them to think they’re less valuable than other kids. we don’t want them to feel limited by their disability, we want them to know they’re capable of anything.”

meanwhile those kids are growing up thinking “why is everything so much harder for me than it is for everyone else? there’s no reason i shouldn’t be able to just do this. i guess i’m just a failed, broken person.”

[fragileizy]

could you imagine if mlb trended again #1 because everyone for no reason whatsoever decided to pretend that stormy weather, the first episode of season 1, just suddenly came out and no one's ever heard of this show before

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

my experience with maxing out the twins' friendship is just-

Hawke: So, Carver, my dear baby brother who I love and adore, I only need +10 more points to max out your friendship. I've done the grind; through gritted teeth I've kissed templar ass so that we don't raise suspicion. I've supported and defended you and let you take the lead whenever I could. You're my favorite warrior. I took you to the Deep Roads with me because you desperately wanted to go and then made you a warden and you found a place, a purpose. I've practically written my own guide on how to earn as much friendship with you because I love you and it's totally worth it so can I please please have the last +10...? Carver: Hawke: Carver please I'm begging you Carver: Carver: +5 Friendship Hawke: AAUUGGGHHLKSAJDLKAJSDLK-

Hawke: So, Bethany, my dear sis- Bethany: +50 Friendship Hawke: Bethany: :)

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

sorry for only saying this type of shit lately but i kinda wanna drive a car straight into a brick wall at the highest speed possible

[spellsparkler]

writing elias is fun for, i expect, the same reason a lot of people find the dark urge fun: I know more or less what's going on with her and she's got no fucking clue. she's a very information-driven person, and as soon as she realises that there is some largely indefinable difference between her and the rest of them she immediately starts trying to catalogue it and narrow it down. it's interesting to write someone who is so deliberately aware of themself and observing themself all the time

[paigemathews]

Something that I feel a lot of fans forget when they get angry at Phoebe for refusing to help Cole in the Wasteland is that he's not just asking her to save him. Despite saying that the Source is gone, he very intentionally still asks her to be evil. That's not me being dramatic or anything either because that's very explicitly canon. Phoebe, even as a Charmed One, doesn't have the power to resurrect Cole. As a good witch, she just physically (magically?) can't; it's not something within her abilities. (Obviously, otherwise, she and Piper would've resurrected Prue.)

The only method that Cole gives her to save him is the Grimoire. Y'know, the book that requires you to be evil to even touch it, much less use it. That's not something that you can trick; she would have to become evil again to even use it. He knows that, even acknowledges it to Phoebe in the Wasteland. She literally tells him that she won't use dark magic again, acknowledging it as evil. Cole isn't like oh, forgot about that! No, he asks her if she wouldn't use it "even for us." He knows what that would entail and what that would require Phoebe to do.

That isn't even getting into what the spell itself would require. This part, admittedly, is speculation but with the Grimoire being the Grimoire and resurrection like that being so rare and difficult, I have a hard time believing that the spell or ritual wouldn't have involved killing innocents. (Personal headcanon is that the spell calls for at least one heart personally. We see with Tuatha in That Old Black Magic that she uses a human heart to disempower witches. Something much worse would logically be required for a resurrection spell.) Just asking Phoebe even retrieve the Grimoire, much less use it, is bad.

As for later, she is still planning on giving up her powers, so it's not as if she'll be able to discover some other method to save him. She won't be Charmed anymore. And while, yes, the Angel of Destiny gives them some time to make this decision, there's still a time limit on how long they can take this option. Maybe with more time, Phoebe would have been able to figure out a way to save him without the Grimoire. However, it'd have required her to stay chained to a destiny that she no longer wanted and give up the future that she, and Piper, wanted: one free of magic, pain, loss, etc. So, yeah, she simply doesn't have the time, resources, or ability to save him without the Grimoire (which still isn't an option anyways). And by the time that she and Piper decide that they want to remain as witches, Cole has already freed himself, so it's a moot point anyways.

I mean, genuinely, in this situation, what did people want Phoebe to do? She didn't refuse to save Cole; she literally could not save him from the Wasteland. (And this is without delving into the argument about if Phoebe should save him or is obligated to save Cole anyways, which is a completely different question involving their relationship, choices, and morality.)

[wallbeatjournal]

if you had to base a new riverdale season off three movies, which would you choose and why? they could be tonal choices or you can pluck entire elements of the movies and work them in.

ok i broke the rules bc i didn't stick to movies, i went novels and pop culture with it too. and i also kind of embroidered a few references together around each main riff in a way that i think COULD be riverdalian, but these are my 3 selections:

jt leroy (2018). trashy iffy-hot-take kristen stewart/laura dern movie about a very 2000s literary scandal/internet drama run Too Far into irl drama that i think riverdale would know better what to do with. two ideas (this is a jughead plot btw):

put jughead in the dissociated trauma-projecting controlling persona-having laura albert/jt leroy role and rope veronica and reggie and their monetary-business motivations into the scam angle. monica posh savannah knoop stuff and rattling veronica and jughead around in a jar together intensely in a campy way

or step lightly outside the bounds of this script into the real livejournal and myspace based drama of it all and jughead's sometimes-characterization as a guy who needs help unpacking metaphor even though he's swimming in it. make him into one of the many emo band boys (ryan ross?? ryan ross????) who related so so so so sosososo much to the writing of jeremiah terminator and then had a whole crisis when j.t. was unmasked as a middle-aged woman with a metaphorical literary persona.

permissible bonus web-weaves: james frey a million little pieces and oprah, augusten burroughs and running with scissors. we're doing the 2000s obsession with author authenticity is-this-really-autobiographical-if-it's-not-literally-true-or-are-you-shaming-your-family-for-NOTHING questions and scandals. but we're especially doing the emo community freaking the fuck out about blorbo from their novels doing a catfish online to extend the persona just that much further.

the avril lavigne replacement conspiracy theory (linking the wiki even though what i'm REALLY thinking of here is this moving pandemic essay alexander chee my beloved posted that i can't locate now, riffing on themes of feeling like a ghost inhabiting your own life after a major trauma). they can work in some other famous body double / replacement and assassination conspiracies (paul is dead, jfk) too but avril is the main reference and this is a betty plot.

pull in some actual alexander chee images and motifs too maybe, his novels about csa grooming trauma and having complicated feelings about your intimate abusers via like grandiose opera/paris siege metaphors (the queen of the night) and fox demons (edinburgh) betty would eat, i fear, even if they're a step off her normal serial killer media mix. dark betty has the range <3

stephen king's the long walk / suzanne collins' the hunger games / battle royale / state-sponsored brutal murderous game show authority abuse dystopia media homage in general!! especially when it's homoerotic and full of ptsd and institutional abuse, because clearly this is a plot primarily for archie and the lads. imo the long walk ("how bad do you have to hate yourself to join the military" but it's game show horror) and the hunger games ("child stardom is traumatic institutional abuse especially in the era of social media and society simply pretends not to see it" but make it a ya game show adventure) should be the main references, but we could work the academic/art-competition angle of battle royale for kevin. as a treat. ok yeah and maybe work in that arnold schwarzenneger movie the running man too while we're here picking up interwoven motifs at the store. why not!

[tyrannuspitch]

people are always ridiculing the idea of exclusively gay people and nonbinary people having *actual conversations* about gender and orientation to work out if they're compatible, as if attraction that is anything less than instinctive, instantaneous and sharply binary makes a mockery of Real Homosexuality. meanwhile cishet people going on multiple full-on *dates* to work out if they're "really into" each other is the most normal thing in the world

[capricioussun]

Is drawing Dusk with eye shaped things inside his skull a style choice or is there a lore reason for that?

Ooh inchresting question... Yes and no. Partially it's just because I thought it looked cool, but also partially because Sans's judgement eye is Eye Shaped, and I always thought that was sick as hell, and I liked to hc Papyrus has a flashy eye himself, but it's actually vertical, rather than horizontal (I think I've only drawn it a couple of times, but most notably here, and should be stated that I think this rings true of any Papyrus).

Anyways, that's the origin of the shape, however I typically draw him specifically with six-nine eyelights as symbolic representation of the plot relevant humans and how their "ghosts" torment him teehee <3

[whomeidontknowthem]

I watched an mdzs animatic with a song from wicked, and something in my mind finally clicked and now I want to scream about how similar my current and my past hyperfixations are.

"Good news, the witch is dead!" like

"No good deeds" is such a "character pushed to their limits" song. Imagine it before the nightless city. The first scream, as Wen Ning and Wen Qing walk away. The chanting as he lies there, unable to move, praying for them to be well. Memories of people he loves: Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli, Lan Zhan, the Wen siblings.

"Was I really seeking good, or just seeking attention?" -- as he looks at the burial mounds and leaves.

"If I cannot succeed, Fiero, saving you, I promise no good deed will I attempt to do again." -- as he learns about Wen Qing and Wen Ning's death.

Ending with him arriving at Nightless city and pulling out the flute.

I want to see it animated so much!

My skills are so annoyingly not up to the task. Maybe if my hyperfixation survives long enough that I learn drawing and animating things well? It'll be the third mdzs animatic I really wish to do one day. Maybe one day.

[hubristicfool]

it's a wild thing poking back into the silm fandom after a 7 year hiatus and being like. oh my god. you crazy songs of bitches pulled it off. you actually managed to get people to stop calling it silverfisting