#End of Year Reception

[introspectivememories]

can i be honest? i dont think tim and bear have a really grand proposal. i think it happens at their apartment that they got bc bear finally put his foot down and went "baby you're immunocompromised. you cannot live on a murderboat on the gotham river" and tim reluctantly gives in but not without finding some random apartment complex that's still near the marina so he can go down and get his ass beat at poker by pie. and so it happens late at night, when tim is in nightwing sleep shorts and bear's old band tee on and bear is in some horrendous anime sweats and no shirt because their home is the only place he's ever felt comfortable leaving his scars out. and the lamplight gives a soft hazy glow to bear's tattoos and tim reaches under the shirt to scratch and in the movement bear can see the bear tim got tattooed onto his hip and he can't help grin softly. and they're both sitting on the couch as some lame ass procedural drama goes on in the background and they're eating batburger. tim's got the nightwing special and bear has the sword robin combo. and the ringbox is burning a hole through bear's thigh and tim makes some stupid comment about how lame meredith sounds begging some guy to love her and all bear can think is how much he loves this boy. so he gets up to get some water and he positions his phone so that he can get the best video bc tim is a sucker for home video and he plops down on the sofa hard enough that tim turns around to complain except bear is holding the ringbox open with a soft "marry me?" and tim goes "what?" and bear says "baby i have loved you since you walked through the gates of our high school and i loved you when you left and i loved you when you came back. i love the way you talk to yourself and i love the way dance when i put music on. and i even love the fact that you shove your ice cold feet in my shins every night. and i don't know exactly what to say except that i want to do this everyday until you get dentures and i get a hip replacement. and i want to be horny in the old age home and-" and tim cuts him off sob-laughing and says "can i say yes now?" and bear who is also crying says "wait, let me finish love. -and i want to do this in as many lives as we get together. so all this to says, timothy jackson drake, will you marry me?" and tim launches himself bear and shouts "yes, yes, yes! a thousand times over, yes" and they're sobbing as they slip the rings on each other.

[descendantofthesparrow]

"hold on Ben's calling me again, Hi Ben…yes shes okay Ben, yes she's here Ben. No you cannot come see her, its bad luck!" Audrey the Ben wrangler becuase he wants to see his almost wife before the wedding really really badly(rewrite royal wedding/rewrite bal)

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[yuridovewing]

I think Curlfeather should've succeeded in becoming leader, because the growing tension and distrust Frostpaw would have for her amid their genuine bond intrigues me far more than what's currently happening. Also because I love when evil women win

i can’t give a concrete response because i wanna wait til i’ve read ASC for myself until i form my own takes on what the characters should or shouldn’t have done (which is why most of my posts have mostly just been reacting to fan content and secondhand information) so i won’t answer as to whether or not i think itd have been more interesting if curlfeather did survive

but i DO like the concept of a parent as a leader, their child also being in a high ranking position, and them becoming at odds with one another through the parent’s corruption. i think thats definitely something worth considering for this universe, especially since we do have parent/child leader/medic relationships in canon already (bramblestar and jayfeather/alderheart for example) that havent quite touched on how their dynamic would be affected by such a thing. ESPECIALLY with the manipulation going on with curlfeather and frostpaw

[jils-things]

sorry viddy game posting lalalal

[mintbees]

im going through my once every few months binge of buzzfeed unsolved and other paranormal youtubers while im knitting and i hate how often "loud human footsteps" are put down as undeniable proof of something walking around because you wanna know what also sounds like a fully grown man stomping around in a space where a human shouldnt even be and is active late at night?

we had one of these in an old ass windmill we were staying in in france one time and when i tell you this little thing sounds like a giant man in combat boots on your roof i mean it. At some point it dragged in a mouse that started to rot (gross) and had maggots growing in it (grosser) and because it was in the cieling it started Raining Maggots Inside (The Grossest). If we hadn't known it was a ferret i wouldve thought we were stuck in some conjuring shit in the french countryside. If you say your remote old building has rotting smells and footsteps its not infested by demons youve got something worse: a fucking creature

[switch]

according to the vet's estimate chihuahua puppy is approximately a year old now. here's hoping the adolescent phase isn't too bad.

[primamchorus]

Work distractions...

[bingus35]

Mephisto somehow went from my most hated character to my 2nd favorite character after W. Maybe I’m just too fickle or emotional or not exposed to enough media with the same character archetype, but idk anymore man chapter 8 got me bawling my eyes out for this little shit.

(Its not like all the hate went poof tbh. I can’t forgive him for the crimes against humanity. The fact that even in Reunion everyone fucking hates him is a testament to his horrid personality. Part of me still wants the bear girls and probably 10k other victims to take turns smacking his smug face. But thinking about him just makes me so sad??)

He had a shit life. His family abused him, other slum kids bullied him, someone shoved a radioactive rock down his throat and gave him arknights cancer. Faust was his only friend and he would do anything to make him happy, even if he was beaten up even worse for it. Even after getting power, his first act of defiance (which is uh. killing his family by mind controlling the slum kids) was prompted by his bestie and not out of his own will. Then they got sent to the mines and almost starved to death. Then the first adult he ever trusted was possessed by some ancient evil guy and encouraged him to kill people, so he did just that. He didn’t even know it’s wrong until Faust basically killed himself. Then he wanted to die but couldn’t because Faust wouldn’t want that, so he turned himself into lugia funniest shit I’ve ever seen tried to wipe his memories to start over. But of course he failed and instead turned into an eldritch abomination that only caused more and more harm.

After everything I can’t even feel mad anymore, just… hopeless. The environment fucked him up so bad he sees no value in anyone’s life except Faust and Talulah. Then he fucked up so bad that everyone he knows is either dead or wants him dead, and who can blame them. At the end the only thing left is one broken kid with no self-worth, no dreams, no will to live, only the blood of thousands on his hands.

I know trauma isn’t an excuse to commit war crimes and other characters also have fucked up backstories but didn’t turn out like him. But I feel like most of them at least had some kind of guidance (through family or education) at some point of their lives. Mephisto’s guidance is terrorism. No surprise his moral compass is so fucked.

Tldr arknights got me depressed over the smug war criminal I’m deleting this fucking game >:’(

[juusasu4evagrrl]

Genuine question, does anyone want to hear about naruto from the prospective of a Liberian person grappling with the generational trauma of a brutal civil war or is that too heavy??

Like there's, I like sasuke cause he's a cool dude, very wholesome do tell, and then there's, I like sasuke cause the government also tried to eradicate my people group that one time and holding empathy for that dumbass kid teaches me to examine a my own experiences with compassion, honestly what a downer like who cares.

I don't know thoughts???

[roxannepolice]

There's an unintended flattery to the fact Simm!Master has to hide his face X years into the future. No research to support that, but I'd bet most Britons, let alone people from other countries, nowadays wouldn't recognize Neville Chamberlain. By all accounts, a UK PM for 24 hours that summoned spaceballs to kill USA president elect and got killed by his own wife should be little more than a footnote for history nerds, yet here he is, with everyone knowing his stupid round face more than a century into the future. You go king, even when the author tries their best to humilate you, you turn out on top.

[konakoro]

Every time I rewatch Ready or Not, there's always a part of me at the beginning that thinks "what if she doesn't pull the card this time?"

Like ah yes, surely the deadly hide-and-seek movie won't have her pull the deadly hide-and-seek card, and they instead all play uno or something. Surely that will happen this time. That's how movies work

[tragicmelpomene]

There are times when I look into a mirror and my eyes are dead. Tired and soulless and empty. And all I can hope that this is the purgatorial interlude I have to claw my way through to get to something better.

[maintitle]

at the risk of having a hot take... dragon age 2? not the ultimate piece of media to hold up and compare other things too. i'm sorry. i recognize it's very important to a lot of people, and it has so many strong merits and characters, but it uh... isn't good a lot of the time! in a lot of places that are pretty important!

[marc--chilton]

ok so i never really liked mgv too much before but your house md au kinda made me love it. thank you? (but seriously i am going insane i love your writing so much)

music to my ears!!

[flatoatchi]

anxious bc i haven't been able to find a simple receptionist job here so what if i can't find a job in a field i actually have experience in california

[mylovelookup]

Cattonquick boarding school sweethearts/romeo & Juliet AU

In which Oliver also comes from old money and he and Felix fall in love in boarding school(?). The Quicks and the Cattons have been business partners since Queen Victoria was still kicking so Ollie and Felix have known each other their whole lives (summers and holidays always spent together) but when their family ties are suddenly severed after a hostile fight between their fathers, the boys’ last year at Eton is irrevocably ruined. As a reaction they decide (it was Felix’s idea and he succeeded in cajoling Oliver to agree) to elope run away on the first day of the Christmas holidays (imagine their respective chauffeurs endlessly waiting for them at the school gates lmao) and get married on a whim (also Felix’s idea to somehow "fix" things like ta-da! Can’t separate us now dad, we’re fucking married. Oliver is now a Catton. Family peace restored! No, not really Felix lmao.)