#I'm so *screams into the void*

[warpedpuppeteer]

Alternatively, Tommy keeps hanging out with Eddie and realizes how Eddie is absolutely ass over teakettle in love with Buck and he goes to Buck and says something like "I think you should take a chance with him, maybe it's not so one-sided after all" because Eddie has decided he's not gonna be the one to break whatever it is they have between them and wants Buck to make the move

[oh-snapperss]

they'll fund a genocide and let their poor regions be destroyed. don't fucking forgive them for that.

my hometown is completely gone from what pictures i can find of it, i have not heard from my family (including aunts, uncles, parents, one sibling, and a grandparent), and the infrastructure in the mountain communities is wiped out. i cannot stress how catastrophic this is, or how difficult it will be for these communities to build back. i am angry, and scared, and heartbroken by everything that's happened.

and our government is spending it's money to fund a genocide.

free palestine, and don't be complicit. realize that this is not something happening that doesn't affect you--although it shouldn't take this to care about the deaths of thousands of people anyway.

[mobius-m-mobius]

I think there’s one or two who will.

[somethingformyself]

Just saw that very fucking disgusting video featuring 2 Arcane animators talking about Mel and Jayce's relationship. I really hate how they snuck that fanfic ship into the last Act and the complete nasty way they talked about Mel's character truly is pissing me the fuck off. I couldn't enjoy Jayvik as gay man even if it was my ship(it isn't)with how dirty Mel was done as the disposable black girl. Those motherfuckers better not be anywhere near her spin-off show about Noxus.

[ruby-static]

Dude caught me taking a screenshot, I'm cooked-

[rillils]

idk why I never thought about it, but if we're assuming that this

is the brochure Bucky got at the Smithsonian in 2014, that must mean that he held on to it for two whole years. possibly carrying it in his pocket at first (you can sort of see the marks where it was originally folded), then carefully straightening it and smoothing out the inevitable little crinkles, with a tenderness he'd long forgotten he was even capable of.

moving it from journal to journal as he went through them, so he wouldn't risk losing it.

using it as a bookmark, so it would be the first thing he saw every time he flipped his journal open.

maybe tracing Steve's familiar face with his fingertips, with the odd but unfaltering certainty that he used to know what that felt like. that the memory must be somewhere in the back of his mind still, waiting to be unlocked like a treasure chest.

recalling how, during the war, he'd wished he could have carried a picture of his sweetheart on him like all the other guys did. how he'd wished he could see Steve's face every day, just for something good to hold on to, to keep him going when he felt every last shred of hope slip away from him.

and how, when Steve appeared with his new body and his old recklessness, all too eager to throw himself into battle, Bucky had learned what people meant when they said be careful what you wish for.

just. the notion of Bucky taking this fragile piece of paper in the first place, and then deciding to keep it, and then going out of his way to make sure it wouldn't tear, deliberately keeping it close at hand, cherishing it like it was his most prized possession– yeah no I need a moment

[velveteenoutlaw]

i gotta ramble about Morston for a second. so i played rdr2 a little after it released and didn't interact at all with any fandom content until recently. but i just knew Morston was THE SHIP™ for not only Arthur and John, but RDR2 as a whole.

the whiplash i got when it turned out that Morston is not in fact the most popular ship, but the ship that's kinda "normal" to shit on?

like i thought the two that have known each other for ~15 years, the two that bicker like an old married couple at every chance, the two who share the same trauma of orphaned street kid groomed into killers by a cult leader, the two that stand together when everything falls apart, who in a final act of love one gives their life so the other can escape, would be THE ship.

i'm sorry??? sacrificing your life in an attempt to buy a little time for the other is not the most romantic gesture?? and John going after Micah to avenge Arthur's death, years later bc apparently Arthur is a wound that still hasn't healed is not romantic as fuck??? despite having a wife, son, and ranch.

like is there any other reason besides "tHeY'rE liTeRaLlY bRoThErS" and a 10 year age gap in 1899?? i really thought R* made the perfect storm for a beautiful and tragic ship with them. :(

as soon as John is back on his feet, he's asking Arthur to do a job with him. he gives a cute little uwu when he's praised. Arthur throws in a jab and they both laugh it off. UGH.

when Cornwall's men have a knife to John, he doesn't flinch, he doesn't even blink. he looks at Arthur and fucking knows Arthur's going to save him. wholly trusting someone with your life like that is not romantic??

i love the missions when Arthur and Sadie are prepping to break John out of Sisika. Arthur gets in a goddamn balloon just to catch a glimpse of Johnny. yeah yeah it was to make sure he was there. but was it not an incredibly reckless/dangerous thing to do? fly a balloon over a penitentiary full of armed guards??

the way Arthur says "Quickly followed by Marston!" when Sadie was talking of Colm's hanging. oh my goddd he loves that boy

how softly Arthur says John when he finally sees him in his prison stripes.

the fact that John was the reason Arthur finally defied one of Dutch's orders. the "I felt different". he didn't even let Dutch finish scolding him before cutting him off. and he felt different. idk he could have said thought instead of felt. but there was no thinking with it. he knew he had to go get John.

i don't get it!! how are they not THE SHIP™??

anyway. if u made it this far, i'm so sorry u read all that lmao what made u ship Morston tho?? for me it was when Arthur threw John over his shoulder like he was a sack of potatoes u//w//u i knew it was over for me. then that damn sheep herding mission. sunshine. fucking kill me.

[stargirlintermission]

I have watched "Fire in the sky" a normal amount of times because I'm normal about Skyfire and something that always strucks me is the scene where Ratchet is helping him after Starscream shot him.

Because he just looks so done.

He is not even unconscious, he is just not getting up, even when Ratchet is encouraging him to do so.

I feel like, for a moment, Skyfire was not fighting for his life. I mean, why would he? Life as he knew it is gone. His home is in ruins. Most of his friends are likely dead. The only person left from that life is nothing like he was back then. That person just left him to die.

He might as well.

... But no, he can't die. These people need him. They didn't leave him behind, so he is going to stick by them. Skyfire gets up and fights on their side. It's the least he can do.

It's all he can do.

[alexandraisyes]

The cutest reminder ever that the way family works in TSAMS canon is that two parties have to be in mutual agreement that they are family. If one party doesn't agree then they aren't family. Parties can revoke familial ties whenever they want and that means they are no longer family.

"Code Relation" theory is stupid because you're then implying that Eclipse is Sun and Moon's child. Which he isn't. Or that Killcode is somehow Moon's child and his brother at the same time that he's Eclipse, Lunar and Bloodmoon's "father" at the same time that they're Sun and Moon's grand children. Like, we're seeing the issue here, right?

Don't make things more complicated than it has to be. Just accept the fact that family is literally determined by a verbal agreement between two animatronics and nothing else because none of them were born from wombs. That means respecting canon when characters in canon decide that they aren't comfortable being family (like Eclipse) or just straight-up disown everyone (like Bloodmoon). It's okay to have headcanons, but don't try to push them onto canon.

[birbleafs]

Alhaitham really, really loves needling and riling Kaveh up instead of simply telling him directly sometimes lmao (but we all know Kaveh secretly enjoys their back-and-forth just as much, so lol). And I’d also kind of suspected that Alhaitham would be the type to read whatever books or notes Kaveh left lying around in the study or any common shared space in their house—because, of course, he's nosy about Kaveh, just like how Kaveh can't shut up about Alhaitham too all the time even when he isn't there… Hehe...

I miss seeing their silly banters and adore it to bits—I just love that petty bickering over mundane and/or domestic trivialities are just This Thing That They Do Together, even when they have mostly reconciled and are rebuilding their friendship again. But even so, why are they always being Disg0sting (tm) and just.... openly flirting?? in public like this ????? XD

That poor street vendor caught in the middle of their bickering against his will: Uhhh, really? Right in front of mY salad BOOKS???

I LOVE Alhaitham so fucking much, he's so annoying (affectionate!!!) and effortlessly funny but tbh SAME LOL.... Me, whenever I'm plotting the secret paingst/sudden plot-twists in my fics lmfaodskfjsvk

Lol this screencap really sums them up entirely: Kavetham being a public nuisance and third-wheeling any poor soul nearby, caught in 4K

[that-ineffable-devil]

I know I already posted about this but it was on a reblog that I think got buried under the original and I need someone else to lose their mind with me.

So the wonderful human that commented on this post about Hell's understaffing problem made me rethink something that I think a lot of us are sleeping on: Hell is RATIONING something.

At the beginning of S2 in between other remarks, Shax mentions that Beelzebub has put some lower ranking demons "on half rations." But we know celestials and infernals generally don't eat, so surely it's not food, right?

So what could they be rationing?

And then I remembered how both Heaven and Hell keep close tabs on the miracles done by Crowley and Aziraphale on Earth--even the little things.

And how, in S1, Hastur is stuck in Hell waiting for "maintenance" to come fix a leak in the ceiling. It's played off as a joke and it's something that would be so mundane for a human in an office or apartment building, so we don't give it much thought... But they can do miracles. They could literally fix that with a snap. We've seen Crowley fix the Bentley, so surely a little leak is nothing.

And Aziraphale gets reprimanded for doing "too many frivolous miracles," which we initially ignore because it's exactly the kind of bureaucratic/corporate BS we'd expect from Heaven and Hell.

But what if it's not just BS?

What if the power sources used by angels and demons are not infinite? Worse, what if they're not replenishable?

What if Hell is rationing miracles, because there's not enough power to go around?

And if so, where's the power coming from?

[distant-screaming]

ODYSSEUS CALLING OUT FOR ATHENA????????

[yujeong]

I keep rotating this line in my head lately - mostly, in comparison to the idea that Vegas will be feeling immense guilt about wanting to "hurt" Pete post-canon. I always have to take a step back and remind myself that this particular idea is a headcanon: nowhere in the show does Vegas actually express such thoughts or feelings to Pete, or even to himself. Everything that happens in regards to VegasPete has to do with Vegas not treating Pete like a person, but an outlet for his frustration and self-loathing, to put it very plainly. It doesn't mean that the guilt is not there, it's just that we, the fans, interpreted it this way (myself included). It's particularly funny to me though, as well as very intriguing, how what Vegas and Pete did while having sex wasn't even on the sadomasochistic side of BDSM - if we could even call what VP engaged in as such. The chains, the rope, even the position with Vegas being a literal weight on Pete's body: this all indicated that Vegas took the role of the dominant and Pete took the role of the submissive. It's because of this that I find Vegas' words here a little amusing and very, very sad: he finds his desire to dominate people shameful and freaky. And in my opinion, that's what he'll be feeling guilty over post-canon. It makes me wonder if the main reason for it is because in the past, he had to force people into the role of the submissive and it didn't happen willingly. We don't know how he was fucking Tawan (if he was even the top in that exchange), but the glimpse we got made it seem to me like Tawan was coerced into doing things he didn't really want to, in order to keep Vegas in his life and to please him (like the whole mission with Kinn). I'm not denying that Vegas could have sadistic tendencies and/or desires - the show did demonstrate such ideas and, mask or no mask, he could want to hurt Pete during sex down the line. I just really love thinking about the possibility that what Vegas wanted this entire time was someone who'd willingly submit to him, and how that could fuck him up post-canon because he thinks he doesn't deserve Pete's submission, even when he chose to offer it.

[eatanorange]

Can I share a fear rq? can I share a fear with y'all? Can I tell you what I witness and what it manifests in to? Will it manifest the entity looming in the darkest parts of my head? Will you blame me for going insane or will you find some sort of sick, disorienting beauty in my destruction, in my fusing with said entity? Will I still be alone then? Will I be known, then? Will it sicken you to see how full of love I am and how colored by distrust it is? Will you look away when the hand you reach for turns to a blade and cuts yours off, or will you pull back too? Did you already have that prosthetic, there? Is that what you call self preservation?

[cantspelldragoonwithoutgoon]

we will devour

[chaoticly-shy-dragon]

Whoever wrote that percy jackson au of the dead boy detectives, you live under my skin and I love you. So much so that my brain tried to think of a way to make it even more canon-accurate without making them dead. or reborn Hazel Levesque style.

What I have so far is playing on the whole West civilization bit and how it moved to the.. well west - but also that World War 2 was a big three kid conflict? So. I have sort of a time-table and I'm throwing it out of the window.

Edwin is a child of Athena - that much stays the same - who is very bookish and very studious but not in the way the rest of his siblings are. They are handy and crafty, strategic and interested in architecture or design. He.. is not. (I need a reason why his siblings didn't come to help him when the "death scene" happens.)

The whole boarding school is one of many spread across the London countryside - Chiron moves a lot. They teach both ancient and modern warfare because magic or not you can't escape the bloodshed forever - you either get drafted or you run and get blacklisted somewhere or another.

(St Hilarion was actually a son of Apollo that got really popular during the Crusades - Zeus didn't smite the school when it was established because times are different and Hera would be angry if there was another big fire with no explanation that put their soldiers'- eh-hem- kids' lives at risk.)

They still teach Latin alongside Greek because it was what all normal boarding schools did and that's what they were. Maths, English, and Sciences - were all taught to the boys. The girls went to another school - where they were taught the bare minimum to survive. Because sexism was rampant and if the Romans were on the wrong side of the civil war, that means no matter how progressive the gods could have been in certain areas, they aren't now/then–

Artemis really, really hated that time period. Zoë or this version of Zoë got a kick out of shooting so many assholes in the face. Or in their dicks. They also got way more recruits than in later years. Silver lining.

Anyways: Simon - son of Hecate - and the bunch of boys, one of which was a son of Hades, do the whole let's sacrifice Edwin. Only the book is a Christian book on witchcraft that Simon truly didn't think would work. He and the rest - Hades boy included - did the whole preparation of the sacrifice as it was absolutely terrifying for Edwin to experience on top of everything else. They didn't know it was a real thing - but is the only reason why Edwin stays alive.

It's essentially a stasis charm that lets the ritual run for as long as needed without the poor victim dying beforehand. It requires bloodletting and "runes" and such. The thing is scary, traumatizing stuff so it seemed like a fun thing for Simon and his buddies to do. So they did it.

They skimmed the reading. Blood with power is spilled, ritual that is very real gets haphazardly done and so monsters get involved.

Fun fact, that I'm really hoping is actually true - sometimes monsters with names similar to other religions' occult beings pick up the summoning calls. If the ritual is shoddy enough for them to hear, the participants all die either way, it's only important who gets there first.

So. The bullies get killed and a fury-type thing drags Edwin's whole being to the fields of punishment so it can feast on its offering. He gets dusted Sally Jackson style.

We enter his hell era. ( Part 2, Part 3, TBC )