#Thank u for coming to my Ted talk

[hattersarts]

im already at the south downs cottage guys, catch up

[yeehawgeek]

say it with me now:

wrecker👏is👏not👏stupid👏

he is actually pretty smart, you don’t become a demolitions expert without being smart

he is also like 100% the most emotionally intelligent of the entire batch

just because he has a childlike wonder and love of life doesn’t mean he’s dumb

[alexpdcl]

can u tell. im so ... so ... normal about him

[quillthrillswriting]

no love story trope will ever hit quite as hard as "two traumatized teens (often) with unique abilities who are forced to save the world each help the other shoulder the burden of their respective destinies and slowly become each others safe places as they shift from friends to something more."

[misfitwizardry]

Come play with me in this space (M!ik Ch.367 spoilers)

He's not wrong, is the thing!

Iruma has shown time and time again that he is not only willing but actively invested in changing the lives of the demons around him. While we as the audience know that he has only the best of intentions, we can't deny that he is changing the netherworld and it's culture to his whims.

He is a threat to the current netherworld.

(Funny how that's exactly what we were told the demon king does, huh?)

But I think it's specially telling that it is Narnia, who we know is a "return to origins" supporter, who is so opposed to Iruma's entire existence in the netherworld.

Iruma, who is so in love with the demon realm but is also an outsider and so can see the faults in it and also act on them, is very much the embodiment of progress in the netherworld.

"It's just the way things are" or "That's how things should be" doesn't work on Iruma.

But that's exactly what "return to origins" is.

All of the current members of the "return to origins gang" have one thing in common, and that is that they hate the current demon realm. They want things to go back to how they were. They are stuck on an idealized vision of the past.

And that's all the current power struggle in the demon realm is about.

It's a conflict of the future vs the past.

[dfastback68]

Good evening!! may I present: a non-comprehensive list as to why kataking is a top tier ship

Middle Aged Man Yaoi 👌

Tall bois

Leather

Touch Starved

The repression. THE DECADES OF REPRESSION

Tattoos (Katakuri even has a wing on his back 🤭)

Masks/concealed identity

First Mate of an insane pirate Emperor, constantly doing damage control, probably the entire reason the whole operation hasn’t burned to the ground

Pretty dang reliable and also level headed in a fight

Jumps immediately to murder if anyone sees their face

Confusing aesthetic (Katakuri: pink tattoos and biker gang getup and… spurs? What are those for buddy. King: ‘it’s giving gimp suit’ to ‘the most beautiful man you’ve ever seen’ whiplash fr)

Have they ever met in canon? Who knows. If you love being delusional about ships then this one is for you

That’s what they have in common, but what sets them apart??

King: no family Katakuri: too much family

King: loss of captain devastating Katakuri: loss of captain liberating

King: brings his fists to a swordfight Katakuri: takes his personal code of honor way too seriously

King: spicy Katakuri: sweet

Okay, great, but the real question: who would win a fight?? Bad news! They’re both bottoms. But pairing how secretly considerate and compassionate Kakakuri is with King being a demanding shithead, King usually gets his way. And then later blows out Katakuri’s back when he knows he needs it most. Evens out in the end.

[hugevanserrass]

in that scene where nesta dances with eris, cassian thinks to himself that it was a mistake to bring nesta there and dangle her before eris and the world, that the new nesta might send entire courts and kingdoms to their knees. the thought upsets him. and I can't help compare it to some of sjm's other mated pairs, like rowan and aelin. I just know if rowan was in the same position he'd be cheering aelin on and would have her back as she brought said kingdoms to their knees. it's so obvious that cassian is afraid of nesta, of what she might become without him holding her back. which is why he continues to do so.

[flushwithdarlings]

"My uh...whiff...is very faint thank you. Nothing a little bergamont, rosemary, and a hint of fine aged brandy can't hide. It's the perfect olfactory disguise for a corpse. Honestly, I think I missed my calling as a perfumer!" - Astarion to Shadowheart I don't know if anybody has analysed Astarion's perfume or if the ingredients were even thought of this hard by Stephen Rooney (I am kicking myself for not asking when I met him at MCM 2 weeks ago). I, however, have read about them and thought about them quite hard.

So, my findings and ramblings about Astarion's perfume:

Bergamot - From the bergamot orange. Ironically, it's phototoxic - it makes skin more sensitive to sunlight/UV damage so I guess you could say it's associated with the sun? I dunno if Astarion should be wearing it tbh...

I also saw the fruit called 'Aphrodite's apple' and 'the most beautiful fruit' but the source was kind of flimsy.

Rosemary - Used in funeral rites throughout history, it symbolises death and remembrance but also fidelity in love.

The Ancient Egyptians used it in their embalming process to mask the scent of death (makes sense that Astarion uses it to mask his faint whiff of undeath), and it used to be (and still is?) placed on or in graves.

It's also mentioned a bunch in Shakespeare's works, specifically in scenes to do with death, which is quite appropriate and ironic for this silver-tongued, theatrical vampire who hates poets.

FRIAR LAWRENCE:

Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary

On this fair corse

- Romeo and Juliet

OPHELIA:

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love,

remember.

- Hamlet

Aphrodite pops up again here because in some versions of her creation myth, she arises from the sea adorned with rosemary.

Brandy - A biiit of a stretch maybe but there is a category of brandy known as eau-de-vie - water of life - so-called because medieval alchemists would ascribe miraculous properties to alcohol such as immortality.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, brandy was also used as a cardiac stimulant (so an association with life?) because it seemingly increased cardiac output and blood pressure. Which doesn't really help Astarion in any way but hey he is wearing it, not drinking it or getting it injected up his butt (that was one way it was used to resuscitate patients apparently yeah idk).

SO basically, his perfume ingredients are associated with life, death, the sun, immortality, devotion in love, and maybe the Greek goddess of passion, pleasure, beauty, and sex.

It also smells amazing.

[blakbonnet]

Ed would enter a Blackbeard lookalike contest, get third place and cry, Stede would enter a gentleman pirate lookalike contest come second and burn the entire venue down

[justawanderingfan]

EVERYONE SHUT UP

I JUST LEARNED ABOUT THE BEST ANIMAL NAME EVER AND NOTHING WILL CHANGE MY MIND

THIS IS PEACOCK SPARKLEMUFFIN

[yourgalgremlin]

Petition to cease & desist using WATER as a ship name for Regulus Black because:

It’s slander

It’s the location where he d!ed, not the (kinda metal) thing that caused it.

It don’t make no sense.

That twink didn’t “drown”— he breathed in water while monsters ripped his flesh from his body (there’s a difference.)

He was taken down like a thirsty gazelle drinking @ a watering hole that gets ambushed by an alligator, dragged into the water, & chomped on 2 d£ath.

Canon: After drinking the poison (to switch out the locker horcrux) he was hella thir$ty -> bent down to drink the water in the cave -> he was ambushed by water dwelling monsters that can only be killed with Fiendfyre (like mf-ing horcruxes) -> dragged into the water (still alive) by their creepy skeleton hands -> ripped his flesh from his bones while breathing in water -> he ☠️.

Out of all of that 🔝 this was the thing we latched onto?

His most likely causes of d£ath (ranked in order from ‘ofc its this one’ to ‘interesting wrong opinion’):

The Inferi injuries/attack.

The mf-ing poison he’d already drunk.

Lack of oxygen; water into the lungs.

🙅🏽‍♀️ the names of Moonwater/Rosewater

[milflewis]

lesbian.

[christronomy]

idk and idc what u think. chan loves cum eating. he loves cumming inside you so he can watch it drip out and lick it all up before it drops onto the surface beneath you. or he'll cum somewhere on you, thighs, tummy, ass. wherever. he'll just have you watch him clean you up with his tongue cause he loves that taste of your sweat mixed with his cum and can't get enough of it. he especially loves it when you eat his cum off of him as well. don't even get him started on that. jerk or suck him off and make him cum on his abs so he can watch you lick it off of him. that's all send post

[whuuuuuuhhh]

Sometimes I just need some old girl yuri to ease the pain

[queerdiazs]

you go to twitter and see buddies and bucktommies arguing, and then you come here and see buddies and bucktommies arguing. homophobia and misogyny is somehow worse now that buck has a boyfriend than it was before. younger queers are forgetting tommy was enlisted during the don’t ask don’t tell era because they don’t learn our history. there’s weird amounts of eddie hate all over the place? lots of kink shaming too even though daddy kink is arguably one of the most vanilla kinks. people have lose friendships over this shit and it’s like??? our fav show got dropped from its original station, picked up by another, and is now like the number one show in the world. we got a confirmed 8th season before we were halfway through s7. we’re seeing our fav characters fuck up and grow, come out as queer and be proud about it later in life. and we’re fighting over ships?? SHIPS? jesus christ. this is like the voltron fandom and i wasn’t even there !!!

[not-rab]

yes trans!regulus chose his first name to be a star, the heart of the lion, for sirius

but do u ever think that his second name, arcturus, guardian of the bear, wasn’t to do with pandora’s patronus being a bear?