#PLEASE GOD PLEADE PLEASE PLEASE

[pestocavatappi]

calling Dan & Phil Professional Coworkers the same way i call Trixie & Katya Biological Women 😍

[littlecrittereli]

It's what they deserve....

Chris hates cuddling but somehow always ends up in the middle...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I was *not* longing, I swear.

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[vaguely-concerned]

For personal reasons: Nona’s conversation with Varun towards the end of NtN (I had to do my own transcription of the audio book here, so pardon any errant punctuation or mistakes) 

The Captain opened her mouth and said, “Get him! Get him! Get him, he flees!”

“I can’t!” said Nona, “I can’t do anything. I don’t want to do anything.”

The Captain moaned sharply. “All for nothing! You asked for help — you asked — and all for nothing, only pain! You asked. I gave you blood for blood!”

Nona, grief-stricken, hollered: “Not like this! I love this place!”

“Do you love?” said the Captain’s mouth. 

Nona struggled. “Yes! No. Yes,” she said, then, “I don’t know what it means. I say it, and I don’t know what it means. Did I ever know what it meant?”

“Green thing,” said the Captain, “green—and—breathing thing — the ghost, the drinker, transformed — what will you eat now? Where will your body go? What did he do to you to make you this way? You eat yourself. I gorge on unliving marrow!”

It was true. The Captain looked as if she were withering before Nona’s eyes. She cried out in haste, “Don’t! Stop that! I can’t stop it, but you can stop it. Stop hurting her! She doesn’t know what you’re doing.” 

“You cry mercy?” said the Captain.

“Yes! Mercy, yes!” said Nona.

“I have crossed the face of the universe,” said the Captain. “I poison it to match my grief!”

“Yes,” said Nona, “but — but stop this. Stop hurting the Captain.” She rooted around wildly to find a phrase, and fell back on Cam. “You’re acting out. Maybe you should take five.” 

“For eight thousand unjust bodies I will stop,” said the Captain. 

Nona said, “NO! I want you to stop now!”

“They concoct their own vengeance,” said the Captain. “Their justice is not my justice. Their water is not my water. I came to help. I am made a mockery. The danger is upon you, and you do not even know. They are coming out of their tower, salt thing. There is a hole at the bottom of their tower. I will pull their teeth. I will make it blank for you.” 

Nona said, “Hot Sauce never did anything wrong. Or Beautiful Ruby, or Born-In-The-Morning, or Kevin. And Honesty — “ here, she was compelled by the truth, “Honesty doesn’t know any better. Camilla and Palamedes never did anything wrong. Pyrrha says she did a lot wrong, but at least she knows it. And we don’t like the Captain, but we pity her. Stop hurting the Captain. Don’t do this.” 

And Nona found herself saying: “I’m ready to die. Really ready.”

“Nothing is really ready to die,” said the Captain. 

. . . 

Nona looked at the Captain’s face with its closed eyes — still wasted, but not dead, and looking a little less like a piece of fruit someone had sucked all the juice out of. 

Nona lay on her back atop the stretched canvas, and Nona’s mouth said: “Just — wait. Just… help me. Help me do this. I might be different, soon.” 

*

Planet ghost arrives to pick up little sister after she called it crying her eyes out earlier that night; thousands wounded hundreds dead natural order continues to be in shambles. To be serious though — Nona’s plea for humanity here has stuck with me so deeply. I love this place. I love these people. Don’t hurt them. The love is stronger than the rage, and Varun listens. She cries mercy, and is heard, if ony momentarily. Not happily and not forever, but it agrees to wait and to help her in the way she needs it to. (“We had the choice to stop”/”I can’t stop it, but you can stop it”............) It ties in very neatly with the overarching themes of vengeance in TLT: that you have to love and care for what’s hurting more than you hate what inflicted the damage, or else very bad things can start to happen. (Also ‘Honesty — doesn’t know any better’ is the funniest and the loveliest part of it to me. Like yeah. If you want to love humanity that’s such a crucial part of it. You have to accept that the Honestys of the world won’t know any better no matter what you do or say and that they’re still worth it; they live here too.) 

[butterflysonnets]

the fact that i am sitting here twitching and foaming at the mouth all because i need haunted chocolatier to come out so i can marry the astrophysicist grunge boy jett and make chocolate with a bunch of ghosts after slaughtering a bunch of things inside a painting in my giant mansion is very telling about my mental health

[tomwambsgans]

tom's expressions as he stares up at greg in the safe room in 2x4

[habibisagi]

I NEED VI TO BOUNCE ME ON IT IMMEDIATELY

[allpiesforourown]

Tbh today I wasn't even that horny about shen yuan I was just thinking about him wearing an oversized cat sweater and sitting in my lap while he plays on his phone or Nintendo or something .... sighs he's so cute..

[sh4rkw4r3]

Pride month is over. Time for me to hate the gays. (I'M JOKING.)

WAUUGGGHHHHHHHHH. I'm totally not slowly starting to fall into the tadc rabbit hole!

.............

Please euthanize me.

[pillowfriendly]

no one can say psyop anymore. word removed for misbehavior

[transbrucewayne]

SEBMARK REUNION PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE

[opikiquu]

(rocking back and forth in the corner of an empty room) save me white boy save me white boy save me white boy s

oh my god. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS . BOY.

[takeyourdailydoseofcyanide]

asking for help always makes things worse

[dittolicous]

i dont get hpw people can make jokes about biden being shitty right now, when its nearly guaranteed that its either him or trump who will be president.... and trump becomimg president again is just.... horrifying? like legitimately really fucking scary????? im terrified thinking about biden not doing well, not because i like biden (i do not) but because the other option is basically. a nuclear bomb.

its all fun and games until we have no one who can get enough votes or power to go up against trumps corruption. and im so fucking afraid of how we'll joke ourselves right into our graves

[jamesvowels]

James honey take a nap. You look exhausted. I don’t know who’s keeping you up but I am coming for them 👊

[ev-writes-things]

i wanna write a fenglian fic based on this one song 🏃

i’m just kind of losing my mind over the idea that feng xin really would’ve stayed with xie lian. sooo. might write a kind of short au of what would’ve happened had feng xin stayed aaaa