#No regrets though

[janglingargot]

i'll go, i'll go wherever you go

don't care, i'm here, i want you to know

don't mind, we'll make time and take it real slow

i'll go, i'll go wherever you go

(i'm with you, whatever you do)

[dontletyourguarddown]

i guess this is it

[gallapple]

My @huangman standees came and I am a mess.

This ship has consumed my heart and soul and wallet

[pidgydraws]

I'm thinking of getting into arcane, I've seen a few episodes, like the dynamic between jayce and Victor - as someone who's seen it... Do they have a happy ending? I'm ok with spoilers, I know vaguely what happens, but I don't want to get super invested in the show if the ending is like, unambiguously sad... Basically, what am I in for if I continue watching? Thanks so much for your time, I love your art! 💜💜💜💜

oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my... that is a COMPLICATED question. cuz... like, since i don't know what you personally look to invest in, or how strongly you feel things, or what you consider "sad" vs what i do, it's a bit hard to answer in way that i think can be useful??? but i'll try!!!

for me, i have zero regrets about the fact that i've watched the full show over twenty times now. does it cause me a lot of emotional anguish every time still? yeah. it's pretty much "emotional anguish" the show. but i am also someone who describes themself as "empathy poisoned" so, like, i very easily feel too much~ to the point where i need to just NOPE out of stuff if it hurts me too much. (i'm looking at you Jujutsu Kaisen) and that might not be true for you. but i also think it's ABSOLUTELY a show worth sticking it out for. even if it's only for the animation and the music! but! even better! every single character will take you on heart-wrenching emotional journey in their own way. just, some definitely get happier endings than others.

but as for Jayvik specifically - would i have liked there to be a world where their ending is more... just... UNAMBIGULOUSLY a cut-and-dry love story??? obviously! i'm a wretched little queer who wants to see their boys get EVERYTHING - but i also don't begrudge the show the very, very beautiful ending that they did get.

throughout the show they both fuck up so much, make the wrong choices so often, and get manipulated by people and forces so far outside of their control that it's little wonder there's so much AU and fix-it-fic written about them. you desperately want better for them. but you also see exactly WHY people ship them. their connection is UNDENIABLE in so many ways and across so many facets. and in the end, Jayce and Viktor choose EACHOTHER over LITTERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE. and it's so beautiful that i absolutely sobbed my eyes out.

do they ever say the words "i love you?" or kiss? no. and what becomes of them is intentionally left super ambiguous. so, in the end, you're really just left with the intense melancholy of knowing that all they want - forever - is just to be together. and that's so fucking beautiful that i just can't help but say it's worth it. 100% absolutely worth it.

[damallarky]

Not me writing a short fic about Lavellan reuniting with Solas in the Lighthouse only to find out the very next day that Solas is, in fact, not there.

Ah well. It can be after we spring him from the Fade.

[fuedalreesespieces]

litany

ao3 summary:

If Inuyasha had to describe how he fell in love with Kagome, it would be this: as though water had been dripping onto his parched skin slowly, droplet by droplet so that he couldn’t quite yet tell if he’d dreamt it, and then, suddenly, an endless, sweet downpour - a realization impossible to ignore.

or: inuyasha and the confusion that is Kagome Higurashi.

read on ao3!!

snippet:

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He didn’t know what to think of her. 

He tried, at first, to categorize her by feature. It would keep him from fostering any attachments, he thought. She had long, dark hair, strands flaying every which way. She wore strange clothes and smelt of a fragrant aroma he had yet to put a name on. She had fair skin, but when she ran for just a little bit her cheeks would flush the color of flower buds, and it would spread through her face when her lips split to smile up at him, breathless.  

Feh, he would mutter. Hurry up, slow woman.   

Her eyebrows would dip and she’d shoot something out at him, a verbal remark, stinging like a wasp. And, naturally, he would have no other choice but to respond with worse, until they were at each other’s necks and the redness in her cheeks had become a sort of fire burning through her veins. He would seize her wrist and she would tug harshly on one of his silver side-bangs and they fought until they swore they hated the other, then, in solitude, ached for the other’s company. 

Though Inuyasha refused to admit something like that. He hadn’t ached for company since he had first been cast out into the forest, hadn’t quite ached for anything. Yearning was a privilege for those who had wishes in reach. He’d weaned himself on untrust. Ever since waking up at the base of that damned tree with an arrow still pulsing in his chest, he’d declared that would ever be led astray by hope again. Hoping was for humans, and there was never such a thing as half a hope.  

And so it was inevitable that he wouldn’t understand this girl. 

Kagome tucked her head into the slope of his neck and wrapped her arms around his shoulders like she’d done it all her life. She didn’t sleep with one eye open, like the villagers. Her fingers skirted over his claws without so much as a flinch. She smiled at him. He’d forgotten what that was like, to be smiled at without malice.  

The villagers had their opinions of her, and they ebbed and flowed in tidal waves of gossip. Inuyasha heard them whether he wanted to or not: a spy, no, a deity. But she was too immodest to be a deity, what with the garments that hiked up in the wind and hardly covered the expanse of her thigh. Does she not know shame? Does she not value her sanctity? From where does she hail, that she would be so careless? 

Inuyasha was beginning to think that it had less to do with where Kagome came from and more to do with Kagome herself. And, he thought she was far from careless. She cared more than any being ought to.  

She cradled flowers gently, and devoured the night sky as though she’d never seen it before, and helped the villagers who would praise and scorn her in the same breath. She packed strange medicines from her time and took pains to bring everything she could; did her schoolwork under the lithe branches of the trees he slept in even when dirt soiled her books and ink stained her hands from nights spent writing. They would be riding in her pink, iron cart, and she would see a man hobbling down the road and simply insist that they stop everything and help him.  

He looks so tired, she’d say, disregarding her own exhaustion. Just a second, okay?

Kagome would drag him off to help someone or another, and she would smile at his irked mumblings, somehow laughing at it all; a laugh that would echo into his dreams when the night was silent and thawing. 

She made him feel like his existence wasn’t a tragedy. With her, he felt that there was something worth hoping for. 

full thing!

[cant-get-worse-than-this]

This came to me in a vision

Reference to that one video of Justin Bieber. You know the one.

[goldenteaset]

So unlike my other posts for @tristampparty , this one is focused on two things that are connected but not directly. But they are about the twins, who are Plants, so it fits the theme. XD

I have so many thoughts about Vash's panicked/drowning reaction in the Plant fluid and Nai's reaction to it. "Breathe, Vash." It's another unexpected reminder that for all he projects onto Vash, he does genuinely care for him (which makes everything worse). As, well, erotic horror as the tentacles right afterward is, I can't help but read it also as Vash trying to fight off a life preserver...

And now, we get into what I like to call "I'm Biased Toward A Specific Sort of Antagonist And Unfortunately I'm Also A Writer", aka a fic idea poorly disguised as analysis. And also a post about how attractive(ly scary) Nai is. XD;

Every day I thank Studio Orange for Nai, and also hope desperately that at least some shred of what I'd like to see with him actually happens.

Look at him. What a wonderful smile! And it's so deliciously jarring compared to the corpses that are all around him and Vash. Episode 3 and that "Does it cure the loneliness?" line were the creators preparing a lure, and then by episode 9 they cast it with That Smile to younger Vash in this exact spot, and here they hooked me and never let go.

My favorite antagonists deeply care for the protagonist, often in very complicated ways that offer up a hundred interpretations, but the most common one is love. Nai loves Vash--the memories of him, the idea of him, the saint, the sinner. And in this moment, he almost comes to love him as a person, too. "Join me, and we can save our kind." (Also of note: I love how this is framed so that the audience can see this side of Nai as well. It's a very compelling moment and wouldn't be out of place in an otome game.)

I was so excited for more of this: more Nai gently denying Vash his autonomy, lovingly indoctrinating/baptizing him into his cult as a fellow Angel and what that might mean!

...And then I realized that this scene happened only a few minutes in and oh. Oh no.

Don't get me wrong: I love/am horrified by the Tesla scene, and the desert and Rem scenes are amazingly done. But they're forceful, like Nai is embodying that "Gentle Persuasion" meme, and that just isn't scary to me. I would've mostly kept them as they are, but maybe leaned more into the "Everything I did was for you/a paradise for us" lines. Because yes, Nai is being a manipulative slimeball here, but I also think he has 1000% chugged his own Freudian koolaid so much that it's leaking out of his pores.

So I'd do it all mostly backwards, is what I'm saying: show the scene with Rem first, then the desert, then Tesla, then combine the "Join me~" + geranium garden scenes into one. It can convince Vash and the audience. Vash is now worn down, and more importantly he sees Nai as both a savior and, like the other Plants, someone who needs him.

Have there be visions of Vash's companions in the geranium garden (but conveniently far away) happily interacting with the Plants. Show Rosa and her baby! Wolfwood and Livio with the other orphans! So many knife-twisting ways to make this all seem like the best of all possible worlds. Have Vash mindbreak himself.

Now when Vash transforms and starts consuming July/impregnating the Plants, it's not just happening because he's just an empty vessel: Vash earnestly thinks it's the right thing to do.

(To twist the knife, I'd also bring back the "I can hear you. Don't be afraid" line at this moment. Heck, maybe it can all even sound triumphant from his POV, with tender piano music or similar. And then we cut to Meryl, desperately trying to reach him...)

[brekitten]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Pamela Isley/Harleen Quinzel, Danny Fenton & Pamela Isley, Danny Fenton & Harleen Quinzel, Pamela Isley & Harleen Quinzel & Jason Todd, Danny Fenton & Jason Todd Characters: Pamela Isley, Harleen Quinzel, Jason Todd, Danny Fenton Additional Tags: Fentonic 2024 (Danny Phantom), Adopted Danny Fenton, Kid Danny Fenton, Dad! Jason Todd, Fluff, One Shot, Protective Jason Todd, No beta we die like the traffickers that pissed jason off, Implied/Referenced Murder, Babysitting, sleepy, Pink Ribbon Series: Part 24 of Cat Soulmates Fentonic 2024 Spoilers, Part 3 of All My Daydreams Summary:

Jason needs a babysitter. Ivy and Harley are happy to oblige.

Sleepy | Pink Ribbon

Welp. Guess who forgot to post Day 24 to Tumblr yesterday? I wasn't here for the initial posting yesterday, so it completely slipped my mind. Oh well.

@catnek-writing-things

[glitzbot]

How often do you update the amnesia fic? I can't get enough!

aaaaa tysm it makes me so happy to know you're looking forward to the next update!

unfortunately I don't have a consistent schedule, but most of the chapters have been just under a month apart (not including the first two, but chapter 1 is kiiiiinda like a prologue anyway)

I would guess it's gonna be similar for the next one! especially because I have no chill and signed up to draw for three fics for the helluva bang

[thedrotter]

didnt think I'd be drawing anythjng today but i saw this one tweet by @/crying_anabell about a ship dynamic and it inmediately reminded me of these two so i blinked and this happened .

ive been posting a lot lately it makes me a bit dizzy but rhe brainrot tells me to go cook something up and i must obey making sure we all well fed/lh

[strxberryicecream]

Never thought about “shipping” fcking bowuigi but I’m in Tumblr, what was i expecting?

Those two are actually cute together

[texts-from-dean]

pov: you spent way too much time on something stupid for the lols (just was testing out an easier way to make screenshots and went overboard???????)

[jourke-rourke]

alright so I may have lied and gone on to watch leverage: redemption after all (had time to kill). and in light of that I shall now say:

(a) the comparison to Dark Matter makes much more sense to me now. The structure of the two shows is still very different, but I can see more of a thru-line in the less forgiving world, the group dynamics (trying to build trust while still lying to each other out of shame), more of a focus on redemption and penance, uncertainty about which side you belong on and if you can make up for what you've done before- I get it! Consider my previous position null & void in light of new evidence.

(b) on an unrelated but deeply held note: as a virtual twin, I really appreciate the adoption & fostering storylines in L:R. It’s a big pet peeve of mine when media that leans hard into the ‘found family’ angle winds up pushing really reductive views of adoption experiences (e.g. lumping group homes, foster families, and kinship care together into just ‘the system’, talking about ‘orphans’ as a homogeneous stock group of Tragic Children, relying on Secret Biological Relationships to generate drama for characters who previously didn’t seem to care about genetics). that bugs me!

so it was really refreshing to see to see a found-family centric show actually explore adoptive relationships like Breanna and Hardison’s (shared foster family) without devaluing them or repeatedly calling attention to the fact that they’re non-biological. Or Astrid being consistently referred to as Sophie’s daughter, including that exchange where Arthur asks ‘you believed her?’ and Astrid replies ‘she’s family’ as if the question is ridiculous on its face- because it’s clear that despite the lack of blood relation, both of them chose to define their relationship as mother/daughter instead of focusing on the 'step' separation.

and especially I love Eliot’s family storyline where he’s just like ‘yeah this is my dad. yeah he’s a different race. why are you acting like that's weird?? get over yourself' and then the rest of the episode just proceeds as normal without it coming up again. a worse show would center Eliot’s family conflict on the adoption itself but instead it is entirely irrelevant to their father/son dynamic- which makes absolute sense for somebody adopted in infancy who has only had one family for as long as they remember. cool show! good writing.

[and if there is a later plotline where eliot discovers his Secret Biological Parents and angsts about it I'm gonna start throwing stuff]

[vhalesa]

This TikTok, but MaHiKaren

Mahiru POV: I notice I'm loosing your attention on our date.

[mostesteemedgingeroverlord]

Me accidentally making friends: smooth criminal, basically seducing them into being my friend, the coolest version of myself

Me trying to make friends on purpose: tripping over fourteen pieces of furniture, breaking their mothers prize vase, accidentally insulting them and their dog