#I LOVE YOU HON

[rillils]

no bc like

this part of the book

EVEN AFTER ALL THAT HAD HAPPENED IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES IN THAT BOOKSHOP

HE. STILL. HAD. HOPE.

HE WAITED TO CHECK IF AZIRAPHALE MIGHTVE CHANGED HIS MIND, THAT THE PAST 6000 YEARS OF HIS LIFE WASNT ALL JUST THROWN AWAY BC OF ONE SMALL CONVERSATION

HE HOPED THAT AZIRAPHALE WASNT REALLY ACTUALLY GONNA LEAVE HIM

AND NOT EVEN NOW, HIS IMAGINATION CANT SAVE HIM

NOT NOW WHEN HE NEEDS IT THE MOST.

let me just go jump off a cliff 💕💕 i am not Okay

Oh sweetie noooo 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 Don't think about this. don't think about how this is the most hurt and lonely Crowley has felt since his Fall. definitely don't think about how this might be the first time he's ever felt so thoroughly hopeless. how for once, he can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, just the stupid fucking tunnel stretching on forever and ever in pitch darkness.

RATHER, think about the future!! think of the moment he'll be kneeling on the ground, exhausted after saving the world again, his sunglasses broken and lost sometime during the battle.

and Aziraphale's kneeling down with him, gently placing the sunglasses he just miraculously mended in Crowley's hand.

but Crowley doesn't slip them on immediately, like Aziraphale thought he would. he just looks up, battered and bruised, and takes Aziraphale in, because even after everything he can't help but drink in the sight of him.

and so what if he'll be laying himself bare again? doesn't Aziraphale already know why he's done everything he's done? hasn't he already seen the miserable, fathomless love in Crowley's eyes? he doesn't have the strength to try and hide any of that anyway, not right now, not when everything was almost gone all over again.

and so he holds the glasses in his lap, all walls down. I thought I'd lost you forever, he says softly, looking in his angel's eyes.

Aziraphale cradles his face in both hands, so tenderly it almost hurts. You cannot lose me, not ever, he says. We still have the rest of eternity to spend together, love. and Crowley falls into him, and buries his face in Aziraphale's shoulder, and they hold each other so tight and for so long, he'll think they'll never be able to part again.

AND THEN THEY MAKE OUT UNTIL THEIR LIPS FALL OFF, THE END

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

zany to me how these um actually nihilists like to pretend that "um actually love/friendship/cooperation/kindness isn't real bc we evolved that way to benefit ourselves as a species..." um YES? that's also where tool use comes from? that's where cooking comes from? am i supposed to think social bonds & tool use & cooking aren't "real" because they evolved over time instead of appearing fully formed from the ether?

sorry u can't enjoy things. im a superior being twirling a fork in my bowl of delicious noodles whilst staring in adoration at the world

[hulloitsdani]

Everyone congratulate The Order on the adoption! Look at their new son!!!

[reinbouxsworld]

Hey so like sorry if you're the wrong person to say this to but I love Jamil's character so much and it makes me so mad that the fandom takes Kalim's side in his ob when they're so much more sympathetic to everyone else's ob situation. Like all the ob's are caused by trauma so no olympics but Jamil was Kalim's slave??? He was literally fighting to stop being his slave? To the son of a rich merchant family that could decide the fate of his whole family?? The stakes were so fucking high. Kalim not knowing says everything about his relative privilege and nothing about his innocence. Kalim's saving grace was his willingness to change when he learned, but that slave-relationship was multigenerational and Jamil had no guarantee it would happen if he "asked for his freedom". I think the fandom has some real inner reckoning to consider about why Kalim crying is more upsetting than Jamil's (and his family's) life.

OKAY I HAVE A LOT TO SAY ON THIS ONE.

﹙𝑡𝑤𝑠𝑡.﹚ ─ WHY JAMIL TRAUMA IS (BUT SHOULDN'T BE) DOWNPLAYED

﹙ or why i support jamil viper rights and wrongs﹚

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٬٬ I think the most obvious reason is that Kalim, by being a very kind and often naïve person, wins people over quickly (myself included). He’s sweet, kind, and honest. He just wants to have a good time with his friends—he’s easy to be around and talk to. More often than not, a "happy person" is easier to forgive than someone you’re not as close to.

But what do I mean by that?

Jamil is not used to being himself. He always has to manage and calculate his every step to ensure he doesn’t overshadow Kalim’s presence, even though, by merit, he could be in the spotlight (which, at this point, I see as an unspoken Viper family tradition). And it’s not just when Kalim is around — even when Jamil is alone, he’s still under pressure to maintain his facade. We do see glimpses of him sometimes, especially after the overblot, where he's a little bit more acidic, smug and sincere, but the reality is that his entire life has been shaped around a forced role. The most frustrating part of his story is that when Jamil got to NRC, he had a brief moment of freedom—only for it to be taken away again by Kalim’s overwhelming presence. And the worst part? He wasn’t even chosen to be there. Kalim literally bought his way into NRC just to be with Jamil. I don’t think people fully realize how hopeless that must have made an already frustrated teenager feel. He had no choice but to start over, once again masking himself under Kalim’s shadow.

I won’t go into the nuances of his initial actions leading up to the overblot, but they clearly show his frustrations, especially when he hypnotized Kalim to do his own work as a housewarden.

And then, right after all the resentment and fight, we get Kalim crying over his friend. Of course, as you said, Kalim’s willingness to change is a big reason why the fandom takes his side. It makes sense— he genuinely wants to be a good friend. But the frustrating part is that people still reduce Jamil to just "the scheming servant" while ignoring everything else we see in the chapter. Kalim’s willingness to change is important, but it doesn’t undo the years of pressure, resentment, and lack of autonomy Jamil has endured. At the end of the day, Kalim can change, but Jamil? He’s still bound by the same expectations, the same role, the same system.

If you don’t look deeper into each chapter, it’s easy to sum up an overblot with a simple explanation: "Riddle is acting like his mom," "Leona is throwing a tantrum because he’s not king," and so on. I think we are often drawn more to the breaking point than to the underlying cause of it. But in Jamil’s case, the most obvious problem is also the one people tend to overlook: Jamil was — and, by definition, still is —Kalim’s servant. More than that, all Vipers still are.

The reason Jamil seems "fine" is because, unlike the others, he can’t change the very thing that made him feel this way in the first place. To be clear, I’m not downplaying any of the other boys' trauma—I’m speaking from a storytelling and borderline objective perspective. Most of the other characters could change their circumstances if they wanted to (again, i'm not saying it is easy or simple). Many of them have the resources and/or support networks to do so. But Jamil doesn’t. Even after his overblot, while Kalim gets to grow and change, Jamil is still stuck playing the same role. He may have a little more space to breathe, but his reality remains the same—his life is still controlled by the Al-Asim family.

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[sun-dipped-quill]

And day by day

and week by week

underneath that light you plant the seeds

seeds that bloom to flowers

that are tended

by many hours

of loving affirmation

with petals made of patience

put to the point of making me feel

accepted and loved

not pushed nor shoved

because being me is part of being us

string of hearts

—

I met you

somewhere along your journey

and it felt like a detox

you planted your morals

and I propagated a few sweet thoughts

Now they’re doing really good,

sitting on upcycled wood

Your first few chapters

didn’t want me to put you down,

we all know

feeling something

can be a wonderful read.

I know I don’t need to change you,

I just want to give you what you need.

Gathering that

too many clouds make you feel

like you got robbed

so on slow nights,

I flick on the grow lights

.•.peako green•.•

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Instead of coming back as a crime lord, Jason pretends to be a vengeful revenant, haunting Gotham criminals and the batfamily.

This has… consequences.

[beetlebabber]

Honey, I've got one more surprise. This one's from the heart. <3

[seance]

I'M GONNA SEE MY MAN, 'TIL I GET SATISFIED / for @izzy-hands

[muffinlance]

The point where you, uh. You definitely put a note with the wrong story. Because what does this mean

Which was the point Zuko realized trees didn’t really understand people. At all. That was okay, Zuko didn’t, either.

[writeraid]

if there's one thing I've learned from the (MCU) moon knight fandom, it's that some people (specfically people who are not from any of these places) are really good at writing a British accent but not the Midwestern accent, and vice versa.

Obviously no hate intended here, I just think it's really kinda amusing. Also I technically fall into the vice versa category but at the same time I'm from the Midwest so no actually I dont.

[loving-elvis]

My favorite 50s!Elvis photos, part 210 of ∞; Sam's Birthday Special 💖⚡️

Happy birthday, Sammy!! I'm honored to call you my friend these last few years! 🥹 I hope you're having the best day ever—you deserve all of that and more!! One of these days I hope to be able to go to Graceland with you again soon! In the meantime, I hope this post makes you smile!! 💖💖

[idk-bruh-20]

Irondad fic ideas #139

NWH AU where Tony's been in a coma this whole time. He still is. But the world thinks he's dead.

One day, Rhodey is in some science place (maybe SI, maybe a community college where he was giving a speech?) and he sees this kid tinkering who looks exactly like Tony Stark. The teen Tony Stark from when he first met him at MIT. Even down to the mannerisms. He goes up and has a brief conversation with this stranger, just curious. Then he leaves.

Unbeknownst to the kid, Peter, Rhodey managed to grab something for a DNA test. The kid just looked too much like his best friend. Like seeing a ghost

When they analyze the DNA, they learn that this kid is in fact Tony's biological son

Rhodey goes back to find the kid, this time bringing Happy. Peter gets to have the super fun conversation where two people who should know him but don't tell him that the person he saw as a father was his actual father, only it's too late

They convince Peter to come with them eventually. And Peter gets the shock of his entire life

Over the next little while, at Tony's bedside, Peter gets to know Morgan (who he would've seen as a sister anyway but this is insane). He also gets reacquainted with Rhodey, Happy, and Pepper, who all admittedly find him a bit sus with how much he seems to know.

But...this is Tony's kid. His son. So they let him be there, let him talk to Tony and hold his hand. 

Finally, finally, Tony wakes up.

And it turns out, being in a coma and thought dead by the entire world, including wizards, makes one exempt from certain magic

Bonus:

As he sits by Tony's bedside, Peter has to grapple with a lot of emotions. One of them is the realization that he was never actually related to Uncle Ben, which makes him feel like his uncle and aunt died for nothing

Pepper helps him through it. Even not knowing him the way she once did, she knows plenty about guilt complexes and chosen family. She assures Peter that he's still a Parker, no matter what, and that his aunt and uncle wouldn't have given him up for the world

Another thing Peter deals with is the fear of Tony waking up and not knowing him. It breaks his heart just thinking about it.

Cue THE most relieving hurt/comfort reunion ever imagined

[leojurand]

i love them so much

[gildedmuse]

Law and I know VERY different Corazons.....

[depression-napping]

I love Ever Crisis because I can just put it in Auto Battle mode and let Vincent destroy everything for me while I do my dishes or fold my laundry

[v6quewrlds]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP826JCPR/

UR TWO MAN!!!!

AT THE SAME DAMN TIME 🗣️😁

from @/baeurrow (tiktok).