#I am incorrigible

[retrobr]

guess who spent 3 hours of thinking about sad and heartbreaking scenes between charles and erik and crying like an idiot before going to bed last night

[thisperfectmonsoon]

🥰.

[skibasyndrome]

taking a silly little mental health break at noon and sitting alone in the cold uni garden was NOT my best decision. this cough is back with full force baby

[thxrnking]

Goddam am I going to make this an AU? Why do I feel I'm going to make this into an AU

[spacedoutwitch]

Tribble Month 2023 Day 15: New or Old

He can’t quite run, what with the clustering woods and the falling snow and the footprints he’s following, but he makes an effort.  His breath puffs out in front of him, again and again, caught in the beam of his flashlight.  His flickering flashlight, nevermind how many times he smacks the handle’s end or the fact that he bought it yesterday.  Flickering and jittering, distorting the shadows of bare branches.  Not enough to thrust him into darkness, or to make him give up and go home.  But enough to unsettle him.  Enough to make that risk loom large in his mind.  

Because of course it is.

The other signs are less subtle.  No animals shuffling around leafless bushes, or stepping on twigs, or even a whistle of wind.  A cold which sinks its fangs right into his ribcage, through four layers of clothing, and sets his teeth achatter to spite his scarf and hat and coat hood and earmuffs.  And birch trees, more and more the deeper he goes, until they crowd out all others and try to do the same to him, staring him down with what are not eyes.  Yeah.  Really not subtle at all.

Still no sign of his wayward roommate, but all the evidence in the world of the thing hunting them.

If it hasn’t already left them dead in the dark, and turned its sights on him next.

He huffs, pulls his fur-lined coat tighter, and slaps the butt of his flashlight with a gloved, shivering hand.  And then he keeps going, step by step, matching up with the sole-shaped holes in the snow.

(Word Count: 269.)

[rookthorne]

not me overhauling my entire masterlist... sigh

[anteroom-of-death]

I know celebrity tea that I shouldn't

[antlered-vixen]

I talk chess w this friend who's a v prim+proper Brit former pro, in his 60s, who'll at most describe a move as cheeky or mean, when he's being dnright visceral. Meanwhile in the past week I: -Called winning with Black "topping from the bottom." -Called baiting a deep White attack by feigning retreat to open some diagonals etc, "chess CNC". -Intentionally delayed a victory to promote two pawns, just to claim it a "transbian couple win." -Called a King-Queen mate "diplomacy via bisexual 3some." -Kept saying "forcefem that pawn" instead of promote. -Called a back rank mate "one-hit death anal." -Said of a smothered mate "worse ways to die than your face sat on". -Teased pre-60s/70's old-positional-chess as "doing more adjusting the angle than actual fucking." -I leave to your imagination jokes on suffocation or pinning I think he kinda deserves to stab me, as a treat.

[katerinaaqu]

When I hear some of my mythology fanfiction readers comment on my take on Odysseus and say "oh my you write him so well" I feel so ecstatic and happy and I cannot thank you enough guys! 😊 you are all awesome 🫶

But...

I realize more and more that the reason it happens is probably not my love for the classics but rather that I am an annoying little bitch like him who just asks for it sometimes 🤣🤣🤣

And when I realize that and still get happy when people think I am achieving what I want to achieve when I write and transfer I am like...

Yup...makes sense!

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[bladekindeyewear]

I might have binged all of Murder Drones start to finish now that the youtube show / series is complete as of a couple weeks ago

i might be bingeing whole reaction playlists of different people watching the entire show back to back

i might do a classpect post on all the characters sometime later once i've worked them out 👀

[len-the-neverending]

I relistened to "Minkowski Commanding" and "Do No Harm" sequentially because I love them, and I can't stop thinking about Minkowski and Lovelace and the fear of being powerless.

Minkowski is driven by a desire to be in control and in command, and her fear is losing that control of her ship and of her life. She desperately tries to exert power over the situation in whatever way she can: we see her in "Minkowski Commanding" hunting the plant monster because "We're juggling a million problems right now. I am solving one." She can't control the mysteries of the station, or Hilbert, or Hera, or the star's unusual signals... but she can control the plant monster and protect her crew that way, so that's what she's doing. Her big, climactic darkest hour is when she kills one person and another dies under her command: she lost control, and can't trust herself, and has to take herself out of command because if she can't be in control at all times, she's useless.

And Lovelace? Lovelace's greatest fear is also being helpless. Her trauma, the thing that shapes her, is that she watched her crew die, while she was captain, and couldn't do anything about it. Hera points it out in "Do No Harm" -- it's not the guilt, or the grief, or the fear, it's the impotence. When she arrives on the Hephaestus, she's in complete control almost immediately, because she's terrified of letting that happen again. When she finds out she's an alien and can be controlled by the Dear Listeners, she's scared, but resolves nonetheless that she's going to be Isabel Lovelace anyway -- she's going to control her own life.

In a lot of ways, they work the same way, and their arcs are really intertwined when it comes to their fear of losing control and power over their lives and the safety of those around them, and eventually finding a way to take their power back. When Lovelace takes control of the Hephaestus, it's at Minkowski's expense. When she sacrifices herself so she doesn't have to watch another member of her crew die, it's Minkowski she saves. When Minkowski loses control in the season 3 finale, the start of that is Lovelace's death, and it's her shock and anger at that as well as Hilbert's death that leads her to kill Maxwell. When she gives up command, she gives it to Lovelace. In "Dirty Work", the episode where Minkowski takes back some power over her life and is able to control the situation, it's Lovelace she confides in at the end. I took my life back. The same way you did.

And then there's the finale. Ultimately, they beat Cutter by finding a way to break free of Goddard's control and regain power over their own lives. Cutter says that Minkowski only has power because Goddard gave it to her, and she replies with, "I am Renee Minkowski. And that is more than enough to kick your ass." She's conquered her fear. She doesn't need a position of power to be in control of her life: she's herself and she knows it, and that's enough. And Cutter also tries to control Lovelace, and she breaks free, reclaiming her power and her identity. To save Minkowski. So she doesn't have to kill her.

And then Minkowski kills Cutter with the harpoon, a contrast to the way she killed Maxwell in season 3. This is on her terms. She's doing this her way, because she wants to, just like she did in "Dirty Work". And Lovelace is there with her when it's over. Couldn't have done it without you, Captain.

[renabe4life]

another FGW wip! this one for the second and last chapter of Distraction

[hollowcryofthegodless]

The Michikatsu tags may be quiet but at least they don't spew out vitriolic shit like the Ford Pines tag does. I will classify this as a win.

[skibasyndrome]

I mean I would've loved for the project to be something else and I also really would've liked for them to wait a little longer but like........... the sheer amount of content and the quality of a OMR beauty style campaign??? with all the photos and clips???? and you add Edvin into it longside Omar as well?????

this might be our chance of getting the type of promo we didn't quite get for s3 🥹

[deargravity]

hajun’s commitment to being a little bitch is commendable. because it would be so easy for him to be the bigger person. he’s 6’1

[lyricalviolet]

I'm sorry, did I hear you ask for more Anson Mount? 🫠😇👹🤡

Me: *begging the muse* PLEASE STOP MAKING ME FEEL THINGS Me: I STILL HAVE LEFTOVER FEELS FROM THE LAST MUSE-- Me: I CANNOT PROCESS YOUR NEW ONES