#I opened the gates of hell

[thequeen-crimson]

This video lives rent free in my head

[prongcollar]

Sometimes, sometimes Dead is better

[constantvariations]

I get why people say Wyll/Karlach is enemies-to-lovers but it's missing too many of its signatures for me to agree

By nature, E-t-L's are slow burn. A good chunk of the story waits for one party to discover they're on the wrong side/both parties to realize they have more in common with each other than their factions, then a whole other chunk is dedicated to them learning how to trust each other. The higher the stakes in the story, the slower the burn

Yet everything between Wyll and Karlach is revealed and resolved in a single conversation. There are no lasting consequences of that initial animosity. Both are too good to hold grudges and all the fault lies firmly in hands not their own. Karlach trusts Wyll instantly and he her. Their friendship is so immediate that it's easy to forget that we met Karlach with the intent to kill her

And then there's the source of their quarrel. Wyll was led to believe Karlach's a devil seeking destruction and Karlach was just trying to go home. The thing that sets them against each other isn't their own beliefs or loyalties or anything deep seated and personal, it's the chain of command, something they're both eager to be rid of by the time we meet them. While it gives them something in common, it leaves them with nothing to unpack or overcome together

Compare that to the king of E-t-L's, Zutara of Avatar the Last Airbender. Zuko spent most of the show's runtime trying to capture the Avatar to guarantee the Fire Nation's total conquest, something Katara wants to prevent at all costs. When the two are stuck together by happenstance, they lash out at each other only to bond over their lost mothers. Then Zuko betrays her, something Katara does not forget and does not forgive until he proves himself much, much later. Afterwards, they support each other, watch over the others together, and make a damn good team against Azula. Perfect, should have been canon, fuck Bryke

Honestly, I think Wyllach is just Faerûn's version of a meet-cute

[hopeworth]

dmc orpheus au where trish baits dante into hell with the possibility of saving vergil and dante bets his amulet to mundus in a deal: he will return to the human world with nelo angelo at his back but if he turns around to check, he loses both his brother and the amulet, which means staking the fate of the entire human world on the line just for the chance of getting vergil back.

[loquaciousquark]

Hey Loquaciousquark, I've been reading your Tavstarion fics and absolutely loving them! I also really like your Tavish, she is a joy to read. I also hear everything she says in a Scottish accent, and it makes everything even better!!!

I name Tavish's brother something VERY SLIGHTLY SCOTTISH and my God does the movie night discord come out slavering for blood

the worst part is I can't even tell which one of you this is!! I'm laying 75-25 odds on @bettydice over @mystery-moose but you're both bloody MENACES

[vitamin-zeeth]

Greg house and Malcolm tucker would be such good friends but only if they never ever ever had to actually work together

[allbridgesburn]

fic: all your wasteland flowers [chapter v]

the ballad of songbirds and snakes; lucy gray baird/coriolanus snow; R, 5/?

Freedom. 

For the last few years, freedom has been nothing but a fantastical concept to her, a dream far outside her reach. A child’s tale, the kind she tells Mallory before bed.

But it is close now, so close. Almost at the tips of her fingers. Foolishly enough, Lucy Gray begins to hope again.

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or: Lucy Gray Baird survives Coriolanus Snow. However, she's not the only one. [post-canon]

read @ ao3

[stormyoceans]

today’s first note of love post is brought to you by me reading too much into xiao hai wearing a baseball cap the first time he goes to echo music and gets officially introduced to neil

i just find it so interesting because the only other time we’ve seen xiao hai wearing a hat in these first 5 episodes was in the flashback when he was going to magnet’s concert the day matt died

i wonder if maybe some subconscious part of him was trying to emulate neil’s look from the day they first met

but what fascinates me the most is that on a narrative point of view the hat is an element of concealment: in the past neil used it to help not being recognized by people, but in the present he’s using it to metaphorically hide himself away too. a baseball cap, in particular, is also a type of hat that with the right angle can somewhat cover the eyes, which in this case really are the window of the soul: you can tell a lot about how both neil and xiao hai feel by the emotions they’re conveying through their eyes, and a lot of communication between them is also done just by looking at each other, so i think it’s interesting that in their official first meeting, which goes spectacularly bad, they’re both somehow blocking themselves from being fully seen by the other

and if we keep this in mind, then it's not surprising that the first time we see neil without the hat in the present is when he is back on a stage, after six years, because of xiao hai

without the hat hiding them, they're finally able to actually see each other

[front-facing-pokemon]

[dothegravitybounce]

karlach respectfully that's my man (one of)

my tav main character syndrome would not survive this letter lmfao she would pass out reading "yours faithfully"

[forcedhesitation]

why should it just be steve who has all the torturous purgatory realm fun?

[redraven393]

okay so this is a big ass stretch i'm talking but hear me out

cause you see our dear little leonarda is awsome, they are the best.

that backward cap design is iconic, but you know who else wears a backward cap and is iconic???

this is Boboiboy, every Malaysian and Indonesian child would be familiar with him, he's a sweet kid that had recently experienced so many traumatic adventures but that's no important.

you see Boboiboy here has a cool trick up his sleeves

the child can multiplies.

each one have a different elemental ability with some neat hat arrangement to help us tell who is who?

and I need someone to draw Leo with similar design like these

[merevide]

[ryllen]

absolutely has no recollection on how that happened 

[static-martini]

i play my silly LEGO games for the plot

the plot:

[simscastaway]

Look, I need some Karlach x Minthara fics. What do you mean when Minthara gets captured by Orin Karlach calls her MY Minthara?!?