#I’m grateful for it tho

[smilesrobotlover]

Me: why on earth is chapter 5 leagues better than all the other ones. What the heck happened in between?

Me, remembering when I started posting Love at Twilight: ooooh it was Whumptober, that’s why…

[suburbansuns]

me & my dog by boygenius (2018) // letter to an old poet by boygenius (2023)

[beach-bears-surfer-girl]

I find it funny when people are like “I love the animatronic fandom” and they’re only on Tumblr

Ur so right like it’s so nice here but trust me if you go anywhere else, it is not.

My homies. I have witnessed the horrors (half joke)

[silverhalla]

Back at it again with another theory: What if Lucanis’ betrayal wasn’t a betrayal at all?

(obviously, spoilers below the cut)

During The Wigmaker Job, we have some dialogue between Illario and Lucanis about their position within both the Crows and the Dellamorte family. Illario wants Caterina to step down so he can take the coveted First Talon spot. Lucanis reassures him that his time is coming, to which Illario makes a snide comment about whether his cousin would ever go against their grandmother’s wishes. When they continue the conversation after the job, Illario states that Lucanis is the potential heir, that he’s her favorite, and that he’s unlikely to say no to her. Lucanis doesn’t argue, only insists that he doesn’t want to be First Talon, and that he hopes she’ll see reason before that. It’s mentioned again in Eight Little Talons - Caterina favors Lucanis. It’s well-known enough among the Crows that Viago and Teia discuss it in front of her (not on purpose, but she doesn’t deny it). He’s her prodigy through and through.

In the opening scene for the Lucanis quest in Veilguard, Caterina is poised, as you’d expect of the First Talon. She’s certain that the body they buried wasn’t her grandson, that it had been altered with blood magic. She doesn’t pose it as a theory, though: she poses it as a fact. It could, of course, merely be her confidence, but there’s another very unusual aspect to the scene – everyone else discusses how Lucanis was clearly betrayed, that someone must have sold him out in order for the Venatori to capture him. Caterina is the only one in that room who never speaks on it. She doesn’t ask for justice, doesn’t mention vengeance, never acknowledges that her grandson was sold out by someone he trusted – perhaps because he wasn’t. 

What if, when Caterina comes to him with a plan, with an impossible request, he’s still her favorite prodigal grandchild, and he still does whatever she asks? She’s had him tortured before as a child, has tortured and starved and beaten him herself before, because it makes him stronger and more resistant to it in the future. He says in The Wigmaker Job that he used to hate her for it, but now he understands. He justifies it. All Crows justify it, because they have to - if they don’t, then the cruelty wasn’t for survival’s sake, and their suffering meant nothing. Perhaps he doesn’t even question it. When Caterina tells him that she has a job for him, he takes it. 

What if the contract has a caveat? Sure, Calivan must die by his hand by the end of it, a little treat for a job well done, but what if his primary mission is reconnaissance, is discovery? The Venatori are using blood magic to torture and corrupt prisoners. It would behoove the Crows to find out what it entails and how to resist it, before it’s turned back on them. It would have to be someone so deeply, unabashedly loyal to her that when she asked them to infiltrate a Venatori prison, expecting torture at best, their own death at worst, they’d take the job anyway, no questions asked - someone Caterina can trust, certainly, but also someone who has never once said no to her.

And Lucanis has always been a loyal grandson. 

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Joseph receiving a dream from God: you will be the last remaining sheaf of grain standing tall in the field, all others will bow to you

Me receiving a dream from God: yo, add that chili you made last night to that white cheddar Mac and cheese you just bought, it’ll be 🔥 I prommy

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Why is science actually so cool

[frostbeees]

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[scarlet-herring]

as someone who’s never liked timsteph i find it so funny that i just accidentally talked myself into a revrob au of them. revrob au where war games happens, steph (~15) gets captured & tortured, except this time tim (~16) comes in to try & help but due to [unforeseen circumstances] no one comes as backup, and they’re both tortured, leading to steph’s red hood era via being resurrected somehow by arthur brown and tim’s oracle era brought on via complications due to torture.

tim’s the one person steph won’t target, and steph’s the one person tim can’t really get angry with about killing, because they get it.

[myfriendgoo94]

genuinely seems like the prettier i get, the less engagement my page receives

[lunarsolar1]

HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!!!!!

I hope everyone is having a fantastic new years (night or party)! Even tho it’s sad dbda got cancelled I’m glad 2024 gave us that tv show, it literally changed my life and I can’t imagine for it not existing :( I know it’s dumb to believe in miracles but I still HOPE that maybe next year some magic happens and we can get a dead boy detectives spin off, second season or at least something else.

I miss it so much :(

But anyway, I’m so happy I got to meet some amazing mutuals (you know who yall are!) and I hope next year I can continue meeting new people and hopefully be more active here and maybe work on dbda fanfics 👀 or other stuff dbda related. Here’s to 2025!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ (also if you aren’t having a fantastic new years, my DMS are open! If anyone wants to chat, or rant or just hang out!) maybe we can play games, talk about dbda or theorize how season 2 would’ve looked like idk! 😊 you’re not alone!

[bulldog-butch]

i sometimes so desperately wish my gender and sexuality were more simple. i wish we weren’t trapped in a world where the binary even within transness weren’t so rigid. i wish i could just say i was trans man or that i never had had the desire to transition and could have just stayed happily as a cis butch lesbian

[misty-moth]

Part of me wants to believe that Jean and Joan of Arc were completely different people with a crazy amount of coincidences that convinced Comte that they were the same.

And true there’s the gender thing, but also…

Joan of Arc never killed anybody. Or fought. 👀

[makeshiftloops]

Am I going crazy or did the Loop plush get like?? A two week extension (if so, then HELL YEAH)

[lylahammar]

if it helps ease your mind at all, pugs can be bred ethically. there are healthy pugs out there! unfortunately they only come from breeders who are actually responsible & do genetic and health testing on their lines. same case as any dog breed prone to health issues (gsheps, dalmations, other brachycephalic breeds) where in the end backyard breeders are always the enemy pumping out most dogs to your average person & flooding the world with dogs w worse qualities of life :-(

Yeahhh I’m aware of this and I definitely support the efforts to breed retro pugs as well as responsible breeders of other varieties but it’s such a horrific problem that I think it’ll be a long time before it gets significantly better 😔 the same goes for all the other mutated breeds as well, which unfortunately seem to only be getting worse with time. I think the most important thing is raising awareness about it and informing people about the problems with these dog (and cat) breeds, because the problem continues to get worse as long as uninformed people continue to shop for poorly bred animals for the aesthetic.

[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

if i have to be grateful for one thing about the finale it’s that sam didn’t have kids while dean was still alive bc imagine him naming his son john instead

[lilidawnonthemoon]