#I've been thinking about this for months

[mariusslonelysoul]

do you think that leonard mccoy, born and raised in the american south, who before starfleet was a -damn good- country doctor, who is a man of medicine, of science, but who still keeps certain age old traditions and convictions, who despite being in space and around all sorts of new technologies and unknown aliens never forgets his humanity, and indeed keeps his captain and crew grounded, sometimes perhaps exceedingly so, who would never use god or human religion as an excuse or a reason but still he was raised in it, and either because of respect, fondness, wariness or tradition he holds some beliefs still

do you think that leonard, when he realises he could maybe, just maybe save jim, feels the slightest bit of struggle from within him, because how dare he, a simple man, try to bring somebody from the death, who gave him the right to even consider it. but he ignores that voice in his head, barely even hears the words in the first place, his hands -the steadiest hands in the galaxy- never shake as he does it, because this was jim, jim who is just as messed up as him but covers it with charm that isn't even fake, jim who smiles too wide and too sharp to cover his incredible heart, jim who has carved his place with bloody fingernails deep into leonard's very soul. jim, who leonard manages to save, to bring back, miraculously perhaps, but the words feels wrong, tainted

do you think that leonard, once jim is breathing again if unconscious, finally takes a moment to breathe too, looking at jim, and is suddenly invaded by nausea, because how dare he cheat death, who is he, who gave him the right to play with nature like that, and a voice, almost familiar, garbled as if it were many voices he once knew put together, screams at him from deep inside his mind, threatening to twist his body and mind like he twisted life and death, damning him. and yet as quick as it came, leonard shuts it, because he doesn't care, he may have traded his life, his sould, made a deal with the devil when he used science to cheat death, but jim is back, jim is alive, alive, alive

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

y'know what else i'm thinkin about?

splash! au steddie where steve meets the merman that he would swear up and down was real when he was little; the little merman he'd see every time his family would visit the coast.

steve, who moves permanently to that (now much bigger, touristy-adjacent) town and runs into (no, literally, smack into) a fully naked (very handsome, holy shit!) man when he's on his way to the little shop he runs on the coast early one morning.

steve gives him his sweater and shuffles the softly smiling (vaugely familiar???) man to the shop and gives him a spare set of clothes that he'd had there from the remodels he did a couple years ago.

the man follows steve around the shop all day, poking around the books and tchotchkes the shop sells, listening to the tourist stories steve tells him, never speaking, until steve closes up early, taking him just outside town to get him some more clothes and such.

at one point while at the store, the man wanders away and steve panics, eventually finding him gazing wonderously at all the screens in the 'home entertainment' section, completely entranced by the multiple screens playing MTV and blaring music through the speakers for sale as well.

He tries to explain the non-speaking-ness of his new friend to the employee trying to close up their part of the store when the man suddenly speaks, "Hi Steve, how was your day?"

The employee ushers them out and the pair leave, walking back into town. Steve asks, "So what's your name, anyway? Did you learn it from the TV?"

The man rolls his eyes, "I had a name before today, sweetheart."

Steve's stomach flips at the term of endearment, assuming it's just a product of whatever commercials he may have seen today, maybe he thought it was a normal thing to call your friend..they are friends, right?

"O-okay, what is it?"

"It's kinda hard to pronounce in english,"

"Try me, I wanna know."

The man gives him a look, but does, squealing out something more suited for something living in the tanks at Sea World than for a person.

He grimaces at Steve's bewildered look, "I told you."

"Uh.. yeah. Well hey! That's okay, we just need to find something else to call you."

"Like what?"

"Well lets see.. There's Andrew?"

"No.."

"Joseph?"

Another no.

"James? Isaac? Brad? Seymour? John?" more and more names and 'no's until they're nearly home (and no closer to a decision). "Wayne maybe? Where are we... Ah! Edmonton." Steve mutters to himself. Only a couple more streets to go.

The name 'Pablo' is on the tip of his tongue when he's stopped by "Edmonton! I like that one."

Steve snorts out a laugh, "Edmonton isn't really a name, it's--" he cuts himself off this time, seeing the horrible kicked puppy look on the other man's face. "Hey, no, okay, Edmonton it is! We'll call you Eddie for short!"

Eddie grins at him so bright and sincere in that moment, that Steve can feel it hit him, and snap something into place inside him.

He's going to fall in love with this man.

He can feel it.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Kyoshi kill math: cracked and solved

It's funny, like.....if you hurt Rangi, you're chance of dying to Kyoshi goes up like.....150-200% (guesstimating) ajfkdlsjaf; And like that's Kyoshi choosing to kill you ON PURPOSE.

Like look at her bad guy list:

Tagaka, alive (threatened Yun, but didn't threaten Rangi, I see your favoritism Kyoshi, I know what you are 👁👄👁)

Guan (lei tai guy), left alive then died later (Kyoshi left him alive because Rangi beat him and broke his leg, he did of unrelated reasons later)

Jianzhu, dead (was already planning on killing him, but went for kill shot at the mention of him saying he'd kill Rangi)

Mok, alive (was creepy about Rangi, but otherwise didn't harm Rangi)

Wai, alive (weird guy, but not towards Rangi)

Xu Pin An, dead (literally went into the Avatar State because he was mentally torturing Rangi. Thought about dashing his brains out on the floor the second she entered AS, realized she should hold back and only decided to kill him because he was a lost cause)

Governor Te, alive (never came near Rangi)

Saowons (leaders), alive but thought about killing the leaders (only ones she internally didn't think about Rangi at that moment, THAT BEING SAID they also made Rangi's life a living hell. It's also the only one Kuruk thought to step in and stop)

Brawl in North Chung-Ling/Koulin, alive (Rangi beat them up, and Kyoshi actually stopped Rangi from killing Koulin.

Yun, dead (almost killed Rangi)

Chin the Conqueror, left alive but died (Kyoshi chose to separate herself and Yokoya from the combat, Rangi was not seen on the battlefield nor in any danger. Chin died cause he didn't move cause he dumb. She does mention if he kept going she'd kill him, maybe because Rangi could be hurt?🤔)

Rangi defends herself without Kyoshi's help? No deaths. If Rangi is safe? No deaths. Rangi hurt (mentally or physically)? Deaths. Kuruk is also fine with this mentality. It all ties back to Rangi.

[feralsonnen]

[persephonaddams]

Lestat @ Louis and Claudia walking on that stage

[mrhowells]

i had to do it. i just had to.

[wonderlandleighleigh]

It feels like every other week, someone makes a post, lamenting that the fic writers for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel missed the point of the show and we focus too much on the Midge x Lenny romance and not enough on Susie/Midge or Midge's success without a man.

And I feel like I need those people to understand that if we've missed those big points (we haven't. It's just that Midge x Lenny are fun and real life is hard and this is a hobby), then they have maybe missed the other big points of the last season:

1. Midge failed in every aspect of her life but comedy. Sophie was a cautionary tale she did not heed. "All Alone" was a cautionary tale turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy. She drove her children away, which means it is unlikely she has a close relationship with her grandchildren. Her best friend is 3000 miles away. She has a string of failed marriages. She has celebrity "friends" who likely don't know her as a real person.

Midge has comedy and a half-hour phone call with Susie every day. That's not a happy ending. For a woman that so valued connection and family for the whole series, that's fucking sad. If she had ever expressed a desire to be alone, it wouldn't be. We know it's not what she wanted. It's sad.

2. The season 5 flashforwards are, largely, about unexplored, unacknowledged grief, and the narrative tries to make it seem like no big deals. Lenny dies in '66. Rose dies in 'in the mid-70's. She loses Abe, and likely Noah. Moishe and Shirley. Joel dies in '04. Again, she drove her kids away, whom she did love and tried hard for even if she wasn't mother of the year. We dont get to explore her falling out with Susie in any real way and the grief in that. The grief of so much failed love. We never get to explore any of those things with Midge. The narrative intoduces these ideas and then moves on, asking us to shrug those things off, but how do we do that? Surely Midge wouldn't, and didn't, but we're asked to just keep it moving, as if these things don't deserve more time.

Instead, we get to see a whole season of boring late night drivel along with these underdeveloped snippets of future we're asked to shrug off because "Midge did it!! She doesn't need a man!!!!!!"

And in the meantime, she ends the series with...nobody. nothing but Susie's disembodied voice over the phone.

And if the entire point of the show was for Midge to end it lonely in her fame, what the hell was all of it for?

I'll stick to my fic.

[deathsbestgirl]

i have the hardest time watching paper clip. scully's guilt over melissa, the fact she lost her older sister. they were so different but she turned to missy for guidance and missy always encouraged her to make her own path (it's not his life, dana) and to pay attention to the journey (what she would have missed). scully was looking to touch lives because of missy's words and she had such a hard time not having evidence of it.

a little sister losing their older sister makes sense, but it was horrible & violent and she was killed in scully's place. scully is older than melissa will ever be, her life cut extremely short.

scully gets a visit from her father, he speaks to her when she's in a coma. the only message she gets from melissa from beyond the grave guides her to emily — as she's grappling with the fact she can't have kids and realizing how desperately she does want it.

melissa & mulder had so much in common, and we're still so different. they came at it from different perspectives. mulder, it's the paranormal. missy, it's spiritual & human. and later, scully rediscovers a piece of melissa in reyes. (she rediscovers herself in doggett and gives up a child, later loses him.)

a little sister without her big sister, not having her to turn to when she's been there her entire life, when she needs that perspective & guidance from someone who's always known her. not having anyone to argue with, an easy target when she's struggling with too many emotions & pain (someone who won't take it too personally). her sister who kept the family together, linked. even with as different as she was. to lose melissa the way she did, never getting true justice or answers. never being able to let go.

it's different than losing a younger sibling. the responsibility older siblings have to care for their younger siblings, and what failing does to a person. scully still feels that.

melissa understood there was danger. she was going to be with scully because she could sense it — and took a bullet intended for scully. something i fully believe melissa would have done if that's what it came to.

[that-disabled-princess]

Genuinely curious about elven musician fingerings in The Dragon Prince, though. They only have three fingers to play with--what do their finger patterns look like? Their chords? Shifting positions and patterns? I need to know!

[taylachan]

Yes to TLT being animated like Castlevania, but in particular adapted by the people who wrote the one scene where everyone in Dracula's castle is debating whether or not Vampires can travel over running water.

ShdhshGsgsvs you are so right.

I still didn't watch Nocturne but nobody can convince me that a TLT Castlevania like adaption would be a bad idea.

They animated Alucard getting pegged by twins.

I believe they can animate whatever TLT throws at them.

[b0dyhorrors]

everyone who played deltarune chapter 2 knows that gag where the annoying dog runs kris over in a fisher-price car, but may i suggest something even funnier:

the cash register in sans' grocery store is a toy. he's got a soundboard hidden below the counter in order to imitate a functioning scanner and cash register, neither of which he actually has. sans has a setup that every other adult in hometown has theories and opinions about, but will never bring up for fear of looking silly. when a customer shows up he swipes a fake scanner over their bar codes, maybe presses a few buttons on the register, and then adds up the total in his head. with sales tax, obviously

[progeniterror]

okay here me out--

billy and stu with a red letter media / the last drive-in with joe bob briggs ass kinda show where they talk about horror movies with the obligatory kinda alt 20 something girl who seems borderline pointless other than eye candy but is also a horror fan and like, monitors the chat or something.

[total-serene560]

ok ok... historically accurate byler-centric old west supernatural cowboy au. you get it.

[vitactree]

Sellbots are totally running the C.O.G.S. company tiktok account. All of the company social media accounts, really.

[yeehawpim]

a comic about fix-it fanfics

[bobasthrone]

i think i'm going to make clara austraIian vfvvHB it's rlly fitting for some reason

maybe she was born in austraIia but moved to amerlca later in life?

her voice claim has been ca.tra for years now idk if want to change that... it could just be them but w/ an austraIian accent??