#This isn't much of anything

[dreamsteddie]

Steve and Eddie have to learn to give and take a lot in their relationship. They are two very different people from two very different backgrounds and that means they have different needs and ways of navigating life and it takes a lot of listening and compromising to fit their lives together. Those differences become especially pronounced around any major holiday.

Steve is a bonafide loverboy and while Eddie loves Steve to the point of becoming a feral raccoon about it, he's never been one for Valentine's Day. It's not even that he has any particular baggage attached to it. It's just that the popular crowd that loved to rub him into the dirt was always so gung-ho about it growing up so it's become second nature to tear it down for its capitalistic nature, forced affection, and disgusting color palette. When Steve wants to take him out for their first Valentine's Day, Eddie completely shuts him down without a second thought.

They end up spending the entire day alone and they're both miserable about it. Eddie calls at midnight and they talk on the phone for almost an hour about what happened. In the end, Eddie relents because he knows how much it would mean to Steve to have a day to celebrate their love besides their anniversary. The compromise is that there won't be any cheesy gifts that will end up in the landfill or themed gifts that have no purpose on any other day of the year. Instead, Eddie makes brownies (of the non-pot variety) and Steve makes dinner and they make a blanket fort at home and watch movies. They end up celebrating on February 15th every year and vehemently refuse to call any other day Valentine's Day

With Christmas, it's Steve who pushed too hard. He has a very picturesque image of Christmas in his mind that includes piles of presents, loads of decorations, and wholesome family time built up from too many holiday movies and too many lonely Christmases. The Munsons on the other hand are generationally poor and usually don't do anything for Christmas besides cooking up the ham the plant gives Wayne every year. Eddie especially hates how many people feel pressured to break their backs working overtime around this time of year so they can get their kid or spouse or whatever the newest this or that. Wayne did that Eddie's first year living with him, trying to build good memories with his nephew, but Eddie hated seeing his uncle hurt for him and spent Christmas day crying out of guilt.

He tries to explain this all to Steve who seems, at first, to understand but then he shows up to the Munson trailer Christmas day laden with wrapped gifts and decorations. He sets it all up quietly while the Munson men sleep and Eddie wakes up to find his living room covered in Christmas cheer. He knows Steve means well, but to Eddie it just feels like Steve is treating them like a charity case. That they just need someone to spend a bunch of cash on stuff and they will magically understand the magic of Christmas. He chews Steve out and goes back to his room after demanding Steve take everything down.

Steve comes back later that day with his tail between his legs apologizing for not listening to Eddie. Steve explains that he's always wanted a family Christmas where they spend the whole day together exchanging thoughtful gifts and eating way too much fudge and got carried away and tried to force it. When Eddie talks about how many people slave away to try and make Christmas happen when they're on his side of the poverty line, Steve takes that to heart. He may not get it personally, but he understands how Christmas can be a source of stress. The next year, Steve asks if Eddie would like to do a low-budget Christmas exchange with him (Wayne included). They make each other handmade gifts and aren't allowed to spend more than $10 for materials. They eat ham and mashed potatoes and exchange handmade scarves and patches and mugs. Even when inflation goes up they both refuse to raise the money threshold, both of them taking it as a challenge.

[sky-kiss]

R/T, H/T: I’m not a villain, I’m just a sucker for a bleeding heart.

Tav whimpers. 

Tav moans. 

Tav makes many lovely little noises, no less lovely for their frequency. The devil lifts his head and listens. A symphony of sound accompanies the ghosts of pleasing licking across his skin. He hears the steady beat of Haarlep’s wings, the slap of sweat-slick skin. If he focuses, turning himself over to his Infernal heritage more fully, he will hear the riotous thunder of the once hero’s heartbeat. 

He basks in this note, inhaling deeply: sweat, sin, lust. Trifling temptations, beneath a devil of his stature, but undeniably effective. Raphael crosses from his office to the adjoining suite, watching his toys play. Haarlep sees him, a lascivious smirk tugging at their lovely features. The incubus shifts just enough to bow the adventurer up beneath them, fingers curling around her throat to tip her head up. 

“Ah, we must consider ourselves flattered, pretty bird. Our song summoned the cat.” 

Tav’s eyes flutter open just long enough to fix on him, lovely mouth falling out in a wordless cry. Such a sight, this prize of his—her once lovely skin is a patchwork of bruises and scrapes. She no longer heals them—the silly dear wears them like badges of honor. 

She’s survived them again, she says, and there is something sweetly naive, quite precious, in her defiance. Haarlep rocks into her, languid, a pace designed to build and build but never break. They’ve been at this for hours, teetering on the edge of oblivion. 

“Show me more of her, won’t you?” 

Haarlep snickers. The incubus rolls onto their back, dragging the little hero on top of them. Tav tosses her head to clear the hair from her eyes, flushed, sweaty, and darkly lovely. 

“There—my favorite client. Still enjoying yourself?” 

She opens her mouth to speak and screams instead, Haarlep thrusting up hard enough to leave her sagging in their grip. Tav manages a shaky nod. 

Raphael crosses to the pair. He kisses her with the gentility of a groom’s first taste of his bride—sweetly searching and light. She clutches at his doublet. He tuts, prying her hands off him. 

“Tsk. So slow to learn: you may not touch the Master’s things without permission. Greedy thieves must play with Haarlep till the lesson sticks.” 

He nods to the incubus, and the game begins again.

[cousticks]

the amount of times dazai has been "prevented" from dying for the most stupid fucking reasons is funny as hell

in stormbringer when mori is like "if you go die now, its basically a double suicide with chuuya, you know" and dazai cries and screams about it in fetal position

oda in the day i picked up dazai threatening to leave him a tombstone that says "here lies dazai, who couldn't beat oda at poker"

its so fucking funny.

but it also says a little about dazai. he's not really looking for death, he's looking for a reason to live. these little things are reasons to live, even if its for like... the next 15 minutes. its enough of something

but it also kind of implies there's some kind of something about dazai that wants to be... remembered, in a way. he cares about the manor in which he dies. even with he and atsushi's first meeting, he mentions not wanting to inconvenience anyone when he dies. but he also seems to care about opinions about him that linger afterwards. why should he care what his gravestone says? why should he care if anyone is inconvenienced? he'd be dead. he cares about what he leaves behind, too, at least a little bit, even at 16. i think there's something important about that.

[syrupbitee]

sanji's first days in the crew

[inkskinned]

love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.

love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.

love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.

love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.

maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.

recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.

[everchased]

at least it'll be wonderful while it lasts.

(a little post-game downtime discussion, when they have the time and space to talk about these things. also in my canon, scratch gets to stay. :/)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

When in doubt, Soup it out.

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[nothorses]

I think the other thing about it is that sometimes what you get out of art says a lot more about you than it does the artist. and what you see in people says more about you than it does them.

the people who looked at Gaiman's work and saw beauty and love for humanity and a life worth living may have been looking at the mask of a monster, and they may have been seeing a bit of something real in an otherwise abusive person, but what they were definitely seeing was a reflection of something already inside themselves.

your relationship with art isn't just about the art, and it isn't just about the artist. it's about you. you are a lens the art shines through, and you are a part of the conversation the art is having, and you are reflecting and being reflected through and by the art, and you are echoing and interpreting pieces of yourself alongside pieces of the art.

it's not foolish to see good things in art made by shitty people. it's not foolish to see good in people who are lying. it's not foolish to trust, believe, hope, or love. I think you might just have hope, love, and joy in your heart, and you might just be finding it in all of those places because you carried it there with you in the first place.

[uncanny-tranny]

To any disabled person undergoing tests to find What's Wrong: I hope your results come back the way you hope and that you receive the help you need. I hope you are not denied care, I hope you are taken seriously even after this, and I hope that you will be taken care of compassionately

[chimchiri]

May I humbly request AJ in a vest please? Maybe with flustered Rarity as well?

I love to hc that AJ is rather shy about stripping, actively showing off her body and being the single center of attention. Though once she sees Rarity's over-enthusiasm, she's probably having quite the fun.

[egophiliac]

CROWLEY SSR THOUGHTS

there is zero basis for this, but I can't get this thought of my head

I don't know why I decided to draw it this way

[genericpuff]

new genre of LO comedy unlocked: watch the LO wiki editors fight for their lives to justify entire articles for characters who only showed up once and then disappeared forever

"well, themis is pregnant so that must mean SOMEONE knocked her up, right??? put that in relationships, that counts"

"charon's abilities... ferryman... boat... he ferries a boat! therefore he must be very good at ferrying boats! write that down!"

"now hold on, let's not completely discount the idea of artemis' pet wolf having some kind of relationship with someone later on, i'm sure rachel will answer that soon"

[spirk-trek]

trying not to think about how balance of terror ends with jim trying to comfort a member of his crew who just lost the man she was about to marry

then in the next episode we see one of his "fondest wishes, either old ones you wish to relive or new ones," and it's his first love, ruth who I'm PRETTY sure is dead

he doesn't do any of his usual kirk things, doesn't go for the kiss or the charm, just stares at her in awe, wonder, shock... confusion. and it must've crossed his mind then, right? the lieutenant who died on his watch, causing the same pain he had gone through with ruth... were they engaged too? was he going to marry her?

and i'm definitely NOT thinking about how after bones is killed, his desire changes back to his academy bully, but instead of venting out an old rivalry he gets his ass kicked (how often do we see captain james t kirk beaten like this just from a fistfight??)

his fondest desire is punishment, for not being able to save ruth, for losing bones, for being the reason that poor girl lost her love, for everyone else he hasn't been able to save

i'm not thinking about it i swear i'm not i would never (lie)

[spicyvampire]

BIBLE WICHAPAS SUMETTIKUL as GREAT PACHARAWIT SRIWATSOMBAT in

4 MINUTES (2024) EP. 3

[bumblingbabooshka]

Thinking about marriage/women's rights on Vulcan Some may think that T'Pring not being allowed to divorce Spock was because he was going through the pon farr but if she were allowed to divorce him at all she probably would have done that a long time ago, confirmed by T'Pol when she's speaking with Koss, who isn't suffering from the pon farr. She says that he can choose another mate (without invoking a fight it seems: note the difference between a 'mate' and a 'challenger') and after he makes it clear that nothing she says will change his mind about marrying her, she finally threatens to declare a kal-if-fee. It's clear that Vulcan women cannot divorce/refuse to marry a man they've been betrothed to under any circumstances if A) He himself doesn't consent to ending their marriage or B) She doesn't have someone else waiting in the wings to be given to in his stead. Though, if the challenger she selects fails to win the fight, she'll have to marry her betrothed anyway unless (again) he decides he doesn't want her after the challenge. That seems like an incredibly unfair system, heavily biased towards men. SNW is an alternate universe in many obvious respects but most egregiously in that T'Pring has a lot of non-canonical agency over her relationship with Spock. It's interesting to me that Vulcan society has women in many positions of power and treats women as equal to men from what I've seen despite these laws. We don't really see Vulcans exhibiting a misogynistic attitude towards women in general but in TOS (perhaps because of its general writing style but it's still interesting to note) both Sarek and Spock take on patriarchal attitudes specifically regarding wives. Amanda says that 'of course' Sarek commands her because "he is a Vulcan and I am his wife." It's worthwhile in my eyes to note that she specifies 'wife' instead of attributing this attitude to women as a whole. Again, with TOS' writing style it wouldn't be out of place for her to say "he is a man and I am a woman." Spock, while in a pon farr induced irritation, states that it's "undignified for a woman to play servant to a man that isn't hers" - again implying that there's something specific about being a Wife in Vulcan society which is different from being a woman in general and demands subservience to a husband. This could perhaps stem from the extreme sense of ownership that Vulcan law has permitted men to have over women. A woman legally cannot point blank refuse marriage. There is no option which guarantees she won't have to marry her betrothed other than death. When T'Pau speaks of T'Pring she refers to her as being 'property' and Stonn, before being interrupted, states he's made 'the ancient claim' - we don't know what this is because he gets cut off but it's obvious they're both using the language of Vulcan law. Men are permitted true freedom to choose. If a woman wants to choose someone else to be with there is no option available to her other than the kal-if-fee which might result in the death of the one she wants to be with. And, if her lover fails, her husband can still just decide he wants to marry her and she'll be forced to. T'Pring gives two scenarios: One where Spock 'frees' her and one where he doesn't - it's still ultimately his decision which is clear when he ends the conversation with "Stonn, she is yours." This again isn't just because of the pon farr as T'Pol also goes through this. Koss can choose another mate and when the option is talked about there's no implication that this would result in any sort of fight (both by the casualness of its mention and by the fact that there's no formal word for it unlike the kal-if-fee.) Also, the fact that Koss does eventually grant T'Pol a divorce and it's all fine means that T'Pol isn't lawfully required to have another man waiting if her HUSBAND doesn't want her. It's ONLY required if SHE doesn't want her husband. Tradition must take precedence over individual desire UNLESS!!! You're a man. Then it's fine. Like, your parents might not be happy but legally you're golden.

[trixxedheart]

It is amazing how the "people that love and uplift transwomen" website will instantly fucking maul a transwoman if she even remotely insinuate that using radfem rhetoric harms trans people