#I'M NEVER RECOVERING FROM THAT

[medufasa]

the discovery of my 67 year old English teacher writing gay fanfiction as a genuine assignment of his has given me the courage to turn in a lachambers poem as my final summative ☠️

[agent-tempest]

ART HEIST BABY SPOILERS!

Me:*sad face* My sister, who knows me very well: What Marauders fanfic did you read now? Me: Art Heist Baby, and Regulus died My sister: Doesn't he die in cannon too? Frankly nearly everyone dies in cannon anyways Me: My sister: You guys love to make yourself sad by reading different ways your characters die don't you

[masked-and-doomed]

I can handle the kill yourself comments from Baldias, I can handle Axus being annoyed by my mere presence, I can handle Chronus scolding me with disappointment

If Libraria calls me bad boy I would immediately kill myself like I cannot come back from that

[astrhae]

"I'm very good at forgiveness. It's one of my favorite things."

[flowersforthemachines]

Regrets of the Dread Wolf || Liar of the Dragon King

For Taash Week over at @datvcompanionweeks Day 3: Family

[mobius-m-mobius]

I think there’s one or two who will.

[tianlavellan]

I thought I could bring an end to the world's suffering. But when every equation was solved, all that remained were fields of dreamless solitude. There is no prize to perfection. Only an end to pursuit. In all timelines... in all possibilities... only you can show me this.

[buttercupshands]

can you even call it a warm up if I'm going to bed without drawing anything big

and a sketch I made while sitting in the park today

[captainrufflebanger]

Inhales. Sighs.

A request was made of me in The Village server. Dear followers, you may use your imagination to figure out just how someone convinced the illustrious Lady Dimitrescu to wear... those things.

[cosmickoshi]

What if this was my final straw?

[felassan]

The gameplay reveal.... I was so scared Solas was going to kill Varric holy shit

ask messages that haunt me.. 💔

[reunitedinterlude]

phil finally getting his midriff out <3

[curseofdelos]

mentally I'm still here:

Nico insisting that neither of them are going to be sacrificed/left behind to satisfy the prophecy is a perfect encapsulation of his growth over the series and it makes me SO soft to think about

Nico as a character - particularly in BoO - doesn't have a lot of self-preservation. He doesn't really care what happens to him as long as the mission gets done. We see this most explicitly after he almost fades into nothingness after the Bryce Lawrence incident:

And again when he considers shadow travelling into Octavian's tent to assassinate him:

(Nico himself notes here that it was unlikely he would survive another jump. If Will hadn't stopped him, he probably would have died.)

In both cases, Nico was willing to risk death for the sake of ending the war. He puts very little value on his own life, and repeatedly argues to Reyna, Hedge, and Will that the possibility of saving camp (a place he never felt welcome at, might I add) is worth the risk of losing his life.

Even before Nico went on the quest with Reyna and Hedge, the others were concerned about his safety. Percy tried to remind him how unpredictable his shadow travelling could be, and Hazel notes that he has been acting strangely lately:

It's not quite clear what Hazel is worried about here, but my interpretation of this scene is that she's concerned that Nico isn't thinking - or perhaps, isn't caring - about what effect the constant shadow travelling will have on his wellbeing. Between Tartarus, the jar, and the Cupid incident, Nico's mental state is at its worst at this point in the series, and I think Hazel is worried he'll do something reckless - something he can't come back from.

And so in TSATS, when Nico is told that he's going to have to leave something of equal value behind in order to save Bob, the old him would have had zero issue sacrificing himself if that's what it took to ensure Will and Bob's survival. This version of Nico, who's been going to therapy w/ Mr D and opening up more and built a little support system for himself, can't fathom it.

Nico in BoO did not have a future. He had fully convinced himself that nobody cared about him or would miss him if he was gone - not Percy who fought for him at every turn in PJO, not his sister Hazel, not his new friends Jason and Reyna. He was ready to leave both camps behind because he couldn't see himself ever being happy there. He couldn't see himself being happy at all.

But now, in TSATS, he has a boyfriend that he loves, he has friends that he loves, and he has a community in Camp Half-Blood. He has experienced so much loss that losing someone else is his worst fear. The old Nico would have considered sacrificing himself to protect Will and Bob. At the very least, he would have kept that option in his back pocket as a 'just in case'; he wouldn't have sworn on the Styx that he wouldn't stay behind.

This Nico, however, is doing much better - not perfect, but better. He loves Will, and he wants a life with him, and he's not willing to give that up for anything. Nico has hope for the future, and he's clinging to that hope with everything he has. He sees a light at the end of the tunnel, and he wants to reach it. He's not willing to sacrifice himself because it means losing that future.

Gone is the cynical pessimistic Nico who assumes the worst because the worst is all he thinks he can have. Here is the Nico who has had a taste of happiness and is willing to fight to keep it. He's not going to sacrifice himself because he wants to live. He's not just fighting for Will here; he's fighting for himself too.

And seeing him go from "if it kills me, it kills me" to "it's not going to be me" makes me so ASDFGHJKL

[adam-scott]

also it's so fucking annoying that the acolyte is actually the first star wars show to be officially cancelled

like they never cancelled the book of boba fett or obi wan kenobi but they made sure to officially cancel the acolyte. and for what? to make the chuds happy?

i will always be mad at this holy shit. fuck disney and fuck star wars

[aquard-skaii]

my funny contribution to all of this

[lyannatropes]

Things happened -- and they changed her