#I AM JUST IN AWE

[djmurphy]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53830969/chapters/136247980

Here' the link to the fanfic I wrote for the Hypno Pop au! Kind of sucks and I might change the second chapter a little.

DUUUUUUUDE YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH IM SMILING THIS IS AMAZING!!

I just finished reading and you did such a great job!! Thank you so much for writing this!!

[25centsoda]

Who let them make Spy Kids, anyway?? Wartfingers Juni, wears-a-diaper-at-night Carmen, the family is Latino...these are just. Not what your average protagonist is doing these days I feel like XD. Maybe I'm no longer Hip With The Kids(tm), but Spy Kids was out there Doin' It.

[grimmweepers]

idk if anybody here listens to shenseea but i saw her live tonight and holy fuck she’s even more beautiful in person and she’s so charismatic and and and and and and

[minijenn]

Yes that’s right. After four long years, Keys to the Kingdom is finally complete. 

If you want to know more, please read the afterword right over here and stay tuned for a special farewell art piece sometime in the next few days... 

[ninacarstairss]

and inej— the scene with the taxidermist. i have been shaking for ten minutes. she has alina’s dagger in her hand and she kills with it. “what happens here is up to me”. this whole scene is so meaningful, so powerful. she kills for love the first time, to protect kaz. she kills for protection now. for her.

[oliviawebsite]

(after misunderstanding what someone said and embarrassing myself) oh great now they hate me and want to kill me with rocks

[hinamie]

make it vicious, take a stab

[wanderingibon]

" I noticed that you've been smiling more, Lucanis. "

" ...Have I? ...Si, I suppose I have been. "

[t-hirstreview]

[gatoburr0]

I HATE how this turned out WITH A PASSION.

[thelesbianluthor]

It's always incredible to see how good Emily is at taking advantage of the rules of the world while going for out of the box moves that not many people could come up with.

One of my favorite incredibly genius moments is in FHSY, using the Forest of the Nightmare King rule that makes things real to make gems to revivify out of nothing.

Brennan said "in this space all the scary things Kalina does become real, your nightmares are real and WILL hurt you" and Emily went "Bet? Then if I create gems they are real too and my friends come back to life"

I love her mind, she is terrifyingly ingenious

[forecast0ctopus]

happy 57th anniversary to spock and kirk writhing in the sand

[guooey]

Ant

[dreamerdrop]

something about how garak and julian both lead with their worst foot forward as the first impression.

which is why The Wire works so well for them, because it’s both of them on full display in a way that forces them both to accept they either like each other at their most infuriating or they don’t. and turns out, they do like each other, even when they’re both being incredibly aggravating to each other.

julian contends with the reality that garak has likely killed and tortured countless innocent people, will likely never be truly honest with julian about anything ever, and that he can be incredibly venomous and cruel at his worst, and julian decides he still cares about garak and will still be his friend in the aftermath.

garak gets to see how impossibly stubborn and reckless julian can be, how frustratingly dedicated to his ideals of looking after other people he is, how utterly annoying julian can be when he’s got his mind set on something… and garak absolutely walks away deciding these are also julian’s best traits, even if garak thinks they might need tempering for julian’s own good.

they don’t actively consider each other proper friends until they have been forced to look at the parts of each other they might find most off-putting, and they both see that and go “… yeah, i still like him, even more now actually.”

idk there’s something about how they find themselves endeared to each other for the exact same traits that would normally drive others away. they fall in love with the whole picture right from the start. of course, julian can joke about garak having murdered people. he knew that from the word go and decided he liked garak anyway. of course, garak falls deeper in love with julian when he demonstrates his near-suicidal levels of dedication to protecting others, that determination was what sparked garak falling in love to start with.

and they can still dislike parts of that whole, garak definitely wishes julian would be more selfish (for the sake of self-preservation, mostly), and julian doesn’t exactly *approve* of garak doing morally reprehensible things, but… they knew exactly who they were falling in love with and went all in anyway.

something about falling in love with someone from their worst parts so that every time you have to reassess your view of them, it only makes them more lovable.

[ducktracy]

there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love

[featheredadora]