#Doomed lovers

[helaenarts]

‘What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… We are only humans and the gods have fashioned us for love.’

Rhaegar Targaryen leaving a pregnant Lyanna Stark at the Tower of Joy to join the war

[maxistownie]

tell me what to say to make you stay forever.

[saorsawrites]

house, who no matter what happened to him went back to his pain killers, and yet sacrificed them to give to wilson when he needed them.

wilson, who would rather die in houses apartment than try to get better in a hospital, only wanting to be seen by him.

[zcarbonart]

stay and die with me, er-ge

[stardotnet]

i've been reading the song of achilles and playing hades and listening to mcr. anyway who else is doomed by the narrative

[thief-of-eggs]

Dear god I love me some doomed plot. Give me those siblings who were never made to love eachother without conditions, who were always destined to be at eachother’s throats. Give me those lovers who were never going to end up together, who were always going to have life and tragedy get in the way of passion and love. Give me best friends doomed to fall apart as time goes on, as their morals and ideals slowly diverge. Give me parents who never truly know how to love their child without strings attached, give me a child always doomed to chase after the approval of their caregiver, always one step behind, never quite amounting to “good enough.”

Give me suffering. Give me loss. Please for the love of god PLEASE. Give me heart wrenching, stomach aching, gut dropping pain- and give it to me without magically solving it later!!! Let people’s lives fall apart !!! Let those relationships crumble and let the wounds fester. Let the characters be driven by the losses and regrets of their past.

Let the relationship be doomed.

[hangesbelovedexperiment]

Alicent asking for Rhaenyra to leave with her just like young Rhaenyra used to ask her… OH IM SICK

[thewarmthofequallyreturnedlove]

“You should come with me to the capitol, Polis will change the way you think about us.”

“You already have.”

[llama-aesthetics]

Gallagher x Sunday (Galladay)

Be My Angel / Be My Demon

[stripedstarsblueflags]

i didn't win the wheel: episode 7 (pt. 2)

[game ends, Logan loses but they both fumbled their way through the whole thing; they apologize for their lack of knowledge]

Logan: "It's not intentional at all, I respect–"

Alex (pointing at Logan): "Tell us about NASCAR, he'd know everything!"

Logan: 😁

this isn't the first time alex has done this and it won't be the last, but watch alex's reaction when logan loses at something. like, literally anything. when they're competing and alex is ahead, he'll tease, laugh, celebrate each little point that puts him in front of logan. but what about when the challenge is over– when it's time for somebody else to come in with the comparison? when an outside voice needs to be the one to say "alex, congrats on the win; logan, you lost"? alex is immediately averse to it. there's an old video where they're doing something similar to "who's more likely to" and the question comes up about who does better starts; i'll find it but alex absolutely fumbles through his answer. shoulders shrugging in on himself, voice getting quieter. "well um i am– i mean actually, so far, i've been... a bit better at it than, than logan has". he's fine with being the best but he's not fun with being reminded that logan is the worst. all of the sudden alex has this protective side coming out, he's literally putting an entire arm between the camera and logan, and this isn't even the first time he's stood like that during a video or a photoshoot. he shrinks into himself when he gets silly and flustered but there are these microscopic shifts and tone and he's a guard dog. like when he was the ONLY ONE to say remotely anything good or at least forgiving about logan's performance out of the whole fucking team pointing out that "He's been doing a great job in the last few races. I don't think it's really been understood because we aren't driving the same car. He's a great driver with great raw speed" (this was in late june). which, considering how the rest of the team treat logan? bold move. when logan's confident in himself– even about a stupid basketball challenge or whatever– is when alex is most comfortable. so here he steps in with a completely unrelated topic, even though he's been surprisingly quiet this whole video (for alex) to remind everyone, "hey, this isn't his area of expertise, but don't fucking underestimate him he will blow you out of the water with nascar facts".

Alex: "So, the prizes are, Logan– it's a spark model car..."

this. fucking. moment. this is right after alex has done his little nascar-themed pick me up, and there's actually a sudden cut in the video at this moment so who knows maybe there was just the beginnings of a nascar tangent going on and they needed a little redirection (with how much redirection these two need on-screen it's surprising they get any footage at all). but what's just happened is that alex has taken ANY chance of logan being told "you lost" or "you didn't make it" into a little ego-boost instead. and logan pulls an alex then, laughing suddenly and unexpectedly like whoaa i did not expect to be feeling these feelings and looking down in the middle of what he was trying to say. they switch back and forth between roles so comfortably, so seamlessly, it's like you can't even describe their relationship in clearly defined roles because they take turns looking after each other.

hand-on-the-hip-leaning-over-the-table-to-gaze-helplessly-into-each-other's-eyes okay boys is that your signature move now?? logan has this way of following alex with his eyes, even as alex fidgets around and shifts and has so much restless energy, logan is so still and stable beside him and the contrast would make me anxious but they're comfortable and familiar with how they each occupy space and they know how to share it.

and the fact that alex says logan's name here. in the middle of his sentence. during the most administrative, the most rehearsed, the simplest (they're literally reading words off an ipad) part of the video. and it's not even akin to the way logan uses small hand gestures to shift alex's focus. logan is completely focused, he literally goes from turning to the camera/instructor to leaning into alex waiting for the moment when the wheel spins and they get to crowd close. he makes room for alex before it's even the time yet because he's ready and he's welcoming and he's anticipating that they're going to be close to each other and yep, alex leans forward and diagonal and right into the space. it's like when you make a circle out of tape on the floor and your cat immediately sits in the middle. and i don't think either of them even realize that they're doing this, that they've formed a routine within this routine. but alex saying logan's name? while logan is already focused, and also not interrupting, and while this part is supposed to be for the audience who will actually get the prizes. the fact that he interrupts himself to add the name is so indicative. it's almost as if he'd intended to say the name all along but forgot at the last second but even as they leaned in close to each other and alex made that nascar joke and they're finally at least a little bit relax alex needs to make a point. he says logan's name when he's talking directly to logan on a regular basis. i don't have to do a behavior analysis of that, right? we all know what it feels like to carry the shape of someone's name in your mouth all the time that the silence aches without them and when you get to see them and say it out loud just remind yourself that this is who you are to me? moving on.

Alex: "If you want to win that prize of a framed bodywork, make sure to check out the Williams website, williams f1 dot com, or–" (turns expectantly to Logan)

Logan (doesn't miss a beat): "–visit the app!"

Alex (laughing even as Logan steps away): "We're getting good at this!"

oh, alex. he's gonna break your heart, and it won't even be his fault.

something happened with alex over the course of this episode. blink and you miss it– well shit, i must've blinked because i definitely missed something. the last, like, twenty seconds of it. reminding the camera that they both struggled and that logan's loss doesn't mean that he isn't smart, leaning into logan as if they have a prechoreographed pose required for The Wheel, saying logan's name for literally no reason ("logan i'm trying to tell you that even though the game is over and we have to read off the cards again and they're about to end the video i still want this to be about us because there is an us when we play like this and i'm telling myself and i'm telling the world that that's what i'm getting out of this"). three minutes of a dejected confused flop of content (from the william's admin side, total fail) and suddenly alex has been hit with some lovestruck epiphany and his behavior. is more obvious. these two are not obvious with each other. charlos will openly use pet names and then insist on other pet names and perform wedding vows on a golf cart. landoscar are more subtle, but it's always been easy to read between the lines and the facial expressions give it all away anyway. but these two are not obvious withe themselves or with each other (spare the one little miracle moment of episode 4) and they're not even in a situation where being obvious is fun let alone easy. but what happened the last time we were at this point in the video? the doors closed, the lights went off. alex got like 2 seconds of the logan he cherishes and then got shut the fuck out because they'd already spun the stupid wheel, and subconsciously or not alex hasn't forgotten that. he's reaching out to logan in the middle of his sentences. because every second that passes with logan not talking is a second of logan that alex is losing, and he's trying to just drag this out and it's obvious and clumsy desparation. giving logan the cue in a way that was clearly improvised even though i know they must hate all the retakes. logan picking it up instantly. alex's face literally falling even as logan says the line because he can sense that it's fading, it's slipping, it's not working. then logan straight up leaves. before the camera turns off he's just walking away. alex's last little setup didn't work because the fucking video is over.

less actual imagery this time because there was less to work with. this episode was about 2 or 3 REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT moments that carried a lot of weight but were rare among a pretty extensive drone of statistics and depression. then again, episode 1 was pretty much the same format, and the alex and logan even from just a few months ago are not the alex and logan we have right now. i think alex is more aware of that than logan is and yeah.

he's gonna break it, alex.

episode 8

[helaenarts]

Bonifer the Good

[dmitridish]

what the fuck i'm crying

the parallels between fionna blowing away the dandelion representing her world and golbetty blowing away simon both symbolising wishes just like the crown promised to grant the owner's wishes oh i'm sick

simon getting some form of closure and a renewed zest for life i'm going to throw up

[nessafayee]

“All they were—all they had ever been— was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.”

"Crawl inside this body - find me where I am most ruined, love me there." - Rune Lazuli

something about doomed lovers where one of them dies at the hands of the other. something about knowing it was never going to end well, but continuing on anyways because the love was so strong. love & hated, seeing yourself reflected in the eyes of the person you love and hating what you see and hating them for making you see that. me when love is destructive & toxic.

[dragon-flies-72]

I hate and love any form of doomed relationships

Doomed lovers

Doomed friends

Doomed siblings

Doomed families

I hate them so much bc they deserve so much better but they will always be doomed and that's what makes them perfect. ESPECIALLY when if you change one thing, just a small thing they wouldn't be doomed because that just means it wasn't fate that doomed them but themselves

[feith-rikya]

All these characters are from an RPG campaign called; Gehenna's Gates, set in the world of "Vampire The Masquerade".

My entry for the WoD HalloZine! hosted by @vampemoqueen

Anselm and Danya started as lovers first, before his madness drove them apart. She and her coterie had to kill him for the horrible things he had done... until he came back as a wraith to haunt Danya, revealing that Anselm was framed, and he was never the mastermind behind all that she had to endure, like the death of her sire and the circus burning down. She had killed an innocent man, and now he is back to torture Danya for her mistake... or maybe their love can even bend time and right the wrongs?