#Possibilities of An Impossible Existence

[scarletfasinera]

Literally. Be vigilant I love you. Something beautiful is going to happen. True love is possible only in the next world—for new people. Tomorrow is just a whisper away. We refuse to accept that the world has to remain like this. It's the world and you're made of it, you can't be unmade now. This is somewhere to be, this is all you have but it's still something. Things can't go on like this forever; something will give, it always does. Comrades, the forsaken, the wretched, who tried to rise against the horrors of the world. She would die to return to it. One day I will return to your side. They're beautiful and true—and they will win. The future can be better than the past, if we're willing to work and fight and die for it. In dark times, should the stars also go out? I exist. I exist too.

[hussyknee]

I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.

"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.

Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.

[vero-niche]

actually i was thinking about meryl's personality shift in stampede and if vash will feel guilty about her becoming more cynical and hardened. i imagine a scene in the next season not long after eriks when they meet again and meryl is now calling out vash's bullshit or just generally being skeptic and vash lightheartedly asking what happened to that girl he knew who believed in him even when it seemed hopeless. and meryl just saying "julai". by which she would mean the horrors she saw there and the death of roberto (none of which are vash's fault) but vash taking it so so personally. that he ruined yet another bright thing. i think it would hurt him like hell and therefore very possible orange would do that

[crownedwille]

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[cobaltdevils]

if terraria has taught me anything, its that you can literally put an encyclopedia inside your game explaining everything the player would want to know, and players will STILL ignore it, use a wiki instead, and then call the feature useless

[yaoi-yaoieverywhere]

Have we been capitalizing enough on the prime real estate that is Possessive Dragons? All the dragons are in Cale's unintentional thrall on some level. Gift-giving, secret lair tours, hunting for him, protection magic, posing as a guard, all of that is good.

But (and this may be my past fandoms showing) shouldn't we... Have a few ideas about them deciding that Cale is theirs and chewing on the thought that Cale... should be like them?

A brief, collective intrusive thought passed around that... Shouldn't Cale be free like a Dragon? He already seems so similar aside from his frail lack of mana. Commanding, calm, powerful, unbeholden to the divine or the demonic... To a generation of dragons so far from a living Lord, he alone has the power to command them as such. They are slowly striving for a future filled with connection and they want him there.

Unblinking reptilian eyes stare at Cale lying between gold coins and plush sheets, breathing shallowly with sleep. Completely unbothered by the attention of such mighty beings as Raon curls around his head. Unknowing of thoughts of berry-red scales and slitted brown eyes. The Dragon Half Blood next to him flinches in his sleep but settles down at Cale's body curling closer. Dodori's grasp tightens on Cale's sleeve in protest, a snore soon following. A little hoard of dragon children sleeping the evening away while the adults brood silently...

[front-facing-pokemon]

[gen-0]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Lucy Gray and Coriolanus’ relationship failed because they both didn’t truly know or understand one another

Coriolanus had understood Lucy gray to be differing things over the course of the book but she was ultimately “his girl”, he believed that she liked the attention that came with being a performer(the peacekeepers overall treating her nicely after her Ballad) even though the most it gets her is basic respect and decency. A way to further his own prospects as a mentor. His manic pixie dream girl that he could control and that would always be there for him and only him.

However…

Lucy Gray had misunderstood Coriolanus to be a pure and noble person. He went above and beyond to ensure her survival when he didn’t even get confirmation that she felt the same way for him(until the kiss that is). That he didn’t just love her for her songs, he loved her for who she was as a person. Despite her admitting her troubled past, the social imbalance, and the so called trouble she caused him. “Pure as the driven snow” and all that.

If we really want to stretch it then perhaps she saw a performer in him, Snow’s financial situation is never explicitly stated to Lucy gray but I’m sure she would be able to tell that he had less than his peers, and that he was pretending to have wealth so that he wouldn’t loose his way of life. Just like she performed so as to not lose hers.

The conceptions they have for eachother is absolutely flipped once they realize the others true intentions. Coriolanus that Lucy will not eternally be in love with him with her possibly running away. With Lucy gray possibly realizing that Snow was not as pure as he seemed (lying about the third murder)

[vampkomori]

i love how star rail paints fate as not just one single End. there are countless paths towards fate, and theres multiple possible "endings", even if some are more or less likely than others because one end may have more paths that lead to it

and that defying fate isnt even on the table (currently). they work within the confines of the rules, seeing a potential "ending" they want to achieve, so they try to work with the established order to specifically land on the path that leads towards it. it doesnt paint fate as a terrible, unavoidable thing that makes you feel powerless (like genshin) but rather as fate just being the way the world works and highlighting the importance of Your Choices

maybe 99% of fates suck, but theres still the 1% that doesnt suck. although the chances of getting that are unlikely, its still technically possible. in the wise words of dr. veritas ratio himself

a possibility still exists even if it is infinitesimal, but it is Not Zero

[thegreatyin]

Would they moonmilk someone tho

weirdly enough, yes... and no. like. simultaneously. it very heavily depends on what context gets them involved with moon milk in the first place

[carnage-cathedral]

the kind of lasting trauma that comes from having your entire home be unsafe yet eerily calm for several hours is really hard to accommodate. it's hard to avoid triggers once the wound is reopened because everything is a trigger. just the existence of the space itself becomes a source of fear and there's no way to escape it because this is literally just where we live. it doesn't matter how safe we actually are because being reassured that we're safe is also a trigger and everything appearing calm is also a trigger. it's hopeless and nowhere ever feels safe now

[yaminerua]

I think the thing that fucks me up more about Lister’s dream is the hug that comes just before the kiss.

like the kiss moment itself is a tad awkward and it was probably kind of meant to be and it’s played a little silly for the dream sequence as they just smush their faces together (and also that puckering of Rimmer’s lips as they lean in lmao)

But I mean it makes me feral anyway bc I can’t believe they did that at all and I love the implication much later in Red Dwarf that dreams and hallucinations etc create their own universes so Somewhere out there there’s at least one universe where that moment was real and they’re fully canon somewhere;;;

But anyway the moment immediately before the kiss even happens gets me every time.

Like they’ve just said they both miss each other and the emotional weight of the moment becomes too much so Lister gets up and pulls Rimmer into a hug and Rimmer’s face destroys me bc it’s very much that ‘oh god…I’m finally home’ kind of hug.

Like he looks a little overwhelmed immediately, like all the air’s been knocked out of him by this first touch with Lister since that last goodbye hug in Stoke Me A Clipper. A hug itself is a kind of comfort he probably hasn’t experienced much of in the first place and certainly not one with as much emotional weight to it. The knowledge that someone missed him, that Lister missed him!! And the little sway they do in the hug, and the way Rimmer’s face softens hearing Lister tell him not to leave ever again. It makes my heart burst;;;

[sonknuxadow]

sorry but im like the worlds biggest hater when it comes to future/next gen au stuff for sonic characters . and its not that i have an inherent problem with people doing those types of aus/stories its just that i havent seen many people do it in a way that isnt boring and also actually fits the characters. like they either make almost everyone cishet and go with all the "default" ships and/or put most if not all the characters in a married with kids situation even if it doesnt fit them or something else would be more interesting. and they also just completely ignore the concepts of adoption or single parents or people who just dont want to get married or have kids . and its like why are you all so boring with this why do you insist on shoving everyone into little nuclear family boxes even if it doesnt work for them as a character especially when non traditional family situations are such a common thing in sonic come on

and i think that out of all the characters sonic is one of the ones who gets it the worst with this sort of thing. with the way he acts in canon having him "settle down" into a "traditional" married with kids lifestyle once hes an adult feels like the most forced and out of character thing ever. he would not fucking say that etc etc

[birdylion]

Some day I'm going to write a story in which the readers are rewarded for having good knowledge of weather. Like, the characters need to travel somewhere through the mountains in a high stakes situation, and in the chapters leading up to that, I already put in enough information about how it rained a few days earlier or sth similar that a reader who knows this stuff and knows about the characters' abilities and equipment can already form a reasonable guess as to how it might work out, or be extra aware of the dangers involved.

[monstersqueen]

anyway

the smitten explains that she won't free herself even if she can slip her chains because she needs us to 'present her with freedom'

whether she drags our corpse or eat us the beast can't live without us accepting it

if she kills us and survive one way or another, she will be there the time after because she can't leave without us. (fun fact but the smitten is right about everything :p)

interesting that the initial explanation of the narrator is not 'if you free her she'll end the world' but 'if you fail [to slay her], it'll be the end of the world'. it's not dependant on her getting out it's dependant on us killing her. somehow this gets turned into 'she'll end the world if she gets free', which is different on 1) it's an action she'll take rather than something that'll just happen and 2) the inciting point is her being free instead of us not killing her.

That's really not an unimportant distinction !

[brinnanza]

I think it's important to resist the urge to pathologize ultimately harmless behavior like maybe you can trace it back to its parent disorder but if it's not harmful to you in any way that isn't a symptom it's just a trait