#Wangst

[lazulibundtcake]

I have finished my short, two-part post-season-two series, for those who crave that "Final 15" flavor with their smut.

He thought, for a minute, that it had worked. Aziraphale made an undefinable sound in his throat and hesitated, but then pushed back against him, hard. His mouth was very warm. Crowley felt his hands land flat on his back, one after the other, clutch him; his lips part just so slightly and he thought wildly, yes, angel, yes, yes -- but then Aziraphale let him go, took his hands off and Crowley had dropped his hold. Stepped back.

Read both stories here!

Group of Two Sad Wanks

[nervouspiratedragon]

Other Heroes : " Should I really kill Emperor Evulz? Even though he massacred thousands of villages , dissolved people alive in acid, enslaved millions of people, subjected countless innocent people to fates worse than death and literally ate a live kitten, wouldn't killing him make me just as bad as him? He turned the world into a hellhole but a life is a life. The choice is so agonizing." *wangsts and cries*

Sonic : * Straight up Mercs a villain by spindashing through their chest* "Oh well . c'est la vie" * speeds off somewhere else and hangs out with his friends without a care in the world and not a tear shed*

[jurakan]

Lost my library card and I didn't realize until I went to the library today, and along with seeing how many of my vacation photos are blurry, forgetting to set up my desk right this morning, reminds me that I am a functionally useless person

[weirdratblogs]

Leaning into the bowser/luigi ship, but also being fucked up. Imagine one of bowser's "rewards" for being good being luigi dressing up as peach?

Like, luigi isn't into it. He thinks it's a little creepy, even. But it's his biggest tool in keeping bowser on the right track. One week without incident? He's dressing up as peach on date night.

And, like, at first, it's kind of comical(?), "haha, luigi's emasculated! he's in a dress!", but then there's the reality that luigi's dressed like a friend(?) - his brother's... romantic interest(?) - so his boyfriend can get off, and that his boyfriend getting off on it is what's keeping said boyfriend from going to war.

Like, not only is that basically cheating and a very real sign of disloyalty, but then luigi's being "forced"(?) to push a boundary by dressing like that. And that's not even getting into how peach might feel if she ever finds out!

Is he wearing accurate underwear? How'd he find that detail out if so? Did fuckin mario take his brother lingerie shopping so he could point out his... tentatively ssying girlfriend's... underwear? That's a whole other... Thing!

[a-certain-nerd]

I'll just drop this here, I guess. Whether I continue writing this or not is probably up to god. Jk if i get my hands on soju this weekend, i will. I actually have a plan with this, and :')

Even though I'm dreading writing this, I have to channel this sadness elsewhere. I'll take my leave now.

[kelzebub]

I am extremely, dismally burnt out at work (don't worry, leaving this job in 3 weeks) but barely making it through my day... right now doing chart reviews while listening to Metallica and all that's really going on in my head is imagining Crowley in various excessively dramatic postures listening to whatever song is playing.

Favorite: drunkenly draped over his throne, head dangling backwards, glasses discarded on the floor, tie askew. Unforgiven playing.

Runner up: In the Bentley, parked around thr corner from the bookshop, head on the steering wheel, weeping to Fade to Black.

Let it out, Crowley. Be dramatic for me while I am here being professional.

[weireir]

“Wangst” is when a character acts like a child wanting attention by becoming an embarrassing mess of tears. A sister to torture p*rn (where bad events constantly afflict the character), I consider any excessive visceral emotion to be a cheap attention grabber, like rage or panic.

Writers today seem less interested in appealing to logic and the intellect and more interested in manipulating audience emotions with what I can only call Pavlovian methods (sad character faces, music etc. cues desired sad response). Same methods are used in political propaganda.

[sprocketsmusings]

I wish I knew how to be a person.

[nervouspiratedragon]

And then Whisper ugly cries to end all ugly cries and either has a complete nervous breakdown (essentially becomes an insane vegetable)

or tries to join her dead teammates (and probably fails miserably at it or gets interrupted by tangle)

Given how much IDW makes whisper the token punching bag of the comic, I bet that in future issues, whisper will face an evil psychic that literally forces her to relive the deaths of her teammates ...

I bet that too! 👀👍

[halfbaked00q]

okay as an admitted did-not-watch-NTTD'er who got, like, all of their info from uhh recappers, the wiki synopsis, the specific clips with Q I watched, and whatever I osmosis'ed from fics.

I finally watched the beginning of NTTD at @prismatic-bell's nudging. And I was like. Okay wait. wait wait wait. This is... well-written? And shot and directed & acted?? In a hollywood movie lmao?? Like. The way it's set up w Madeleine's backstory, and then the Bond & Madeleine stuff that does a much better job of establishing their relationship, the goooorgeous wide shots.

I admittedly was rather "I close my eyes I do not see" to a lot of canon - coming from partially a comics fandom background I'm very aware, well-versed, and well-practiced in the 'canon is your pick-and-choose buffet no need to feel like you have to 'respect' the 'sanctity' of 'canon' esp when it's Bad (like it contradicts other canon or you can just Tell this character was Not Written Well and it's like, here's what it could be that is better)' - and from opinions I saw on NTTD I was expecting to be very pick & choose about it.

But okay, wait. wait wait wait. It works. The beginning at least which I watched. Works. Like, it establishes a key character moment for Madeleine that Explains Everything about her behavior, actually - like she just like Bond is actually also very traumatized & has been locking it down/deflecting it vs processing it, and the whole like Vesper thing is (to me) very obviously her misdirecting Bond away from her own Goin Thru It. I can see how it can read as very suspicious to Bond esp with everything else but it, like, is a Narrative and Makes Sense for her character and Works. wild.

Even the Bond stuff makes a ton of sense. Like, when I hadn't watched it and was going off second & third hand information, one of the things I was hrrrm ?? about was the. How do you get from the guy who says "I miss you" at Vesper's grave, to the guy who put Madeleine on the train. The man who, even after finding out Vesper betrayed him, still wanted to save her? Would... send Madeleine away? In what, a fit of pique? Surely he's more of a "run to me and I will handle it" if it turns out not to be true or a "if it is, I'll handle it" kind of guy.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS. YOU KNOW WHAT IT FUCKING WAS LMAO. I WAS MISLED BY THE FUCKIN. BILLIE EILISH SONG LMAO. The lyrics of it make it SOUND like it's a like "you betrayed/cheated on me how could I have ever trusted you" break-up song kind of situation. BUT IT ABSOLUTELY FCKN WASN'T LMAO.

It's like. two traumatized individuals who trauma-bonded and honestly maybe should have spent time apart healing/learning themselves again before re-evaluating if they think a relationship could work, but like. they both were Goin Thru It and let themselves get carried away with it ig. And then right when Madeleine was like. hm I've been Not Dealing with this a Lot (tbh her being a psychologist probably made it worse cuz I think it made her more effective at Not Dealing With It and deflecting/misdirecting, but like. I don't think she was doing it intentionally, I think it was just a "combination of circumstances" thing. But this also works cuz I think before the like why did Madeleine push him towards Vesper again even though he said she was in his past. And it's like. She was delaying dealing with HER shit and probably unconsciously deflected his attention by poking at waht she thinks is still HIS equivalent to her baggage) where was I. Oh yeah, Madeleine is like. hm. yeah. the whole letting go of secrets thing. I. need to come clean to him...

but then all of the Spectre stuff happens.

Even the him sitting in the car thing is soooo so so. Cuz Craig absolutely put his whole pussy in the acting for this scene. he's got that like. wrong side of overstimulated so you shoot past being in the zone and instead are zoning out lowkey thing going on, mixed with the like. agent faced with a hopeless situation Observing Everything still but like vaguely morbidly amused about it, probably what's running through the brain rn is "lmao, wonder which bullet will be The One" kind of deal. And cross-cutting the shooting & wide shots with the bells was *chefs kiss* genius.

Even Madeleine not managing to tell him was well written/paced. Cuz it was very believable that she (not trained for this) was scared/shocked & couldn't get a word out. Until the "JAMES. I'd rather die than have you think I--" and then the fucking. tragedy of the bad timing. god. And then even her not just saying it later is like, it all makes sense with the way it was paced, shot, & edited. It was beaaautiful oh man. This also where I was like. damn lmao. miscommunication in a movie where it. feels like it makes sense and isn't just a stupid macguffin lol??? In a hollywood movie?? wild

but yeah this is also where it was like. hey wait. the man who, in the face of sort of a morbid (passively?) suicidal emotional blowout due to the Everything, but was able to break through it when she got through to him enough for him to look at her, and her to cry & shake her head like no, it's not true/no don't do this/please/(w.e). and go, "Okay." and take action. How does he put her on the train??

BUT. BUT FUCKING. BUT THEN. MY GOD. *Actually* watching the fucking scene I was like. Ooooh. ough ough oh god. This isn't him vindicatively cutting her out of his life "the bitch is dead" style. This is his Vesper in the elevator cage moment. He's fucking drowning in the cage but he doesn't want to take her with him. He's locking her out of the cage. god.

And the fucking. devastation on his face while he's on the platform. THAT'S HIS FUCKIN. VESPER HOLDING HIM ONE LAST TIME AND SHOVING HERSELF TO TH EBACK OF THE CAGE AAARGGGGHH BARK BARK BARK

Which, a-fucking-gain. THEN MAKES THE NO TIME TO DIE SONG. ALL THE FUCKING MORE EGREGIOUS LMAO. "was I stupid to love you was I foolish to trust was it obvious to everybody else" WHAT ARE YOU ON. THIS IS A SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY THIS ISN'T FUCKIN. 'THE BITCH IS DEAD.'

God this is like when ppl are convinced QoS was Bond going on a revenge rampage when he was (1) not even rampaging (2) not on a revenge quest/storyline - that was Camille's story!!!* caveat I did not watch QoS either lol, but I did watch a video essay breaking it down which I found Very Compelling and have since incorporated it into my worldview lmao. Like, in light of me actually watching the beginning of NTTD, and then it launching into the title sequence and the song. IT ACTIVELY. REWRITES HISTORY YOU JUST WATCHED ON THE SCREEN AAAGGGHHH BITE CHOMP KILL. IT UNDERMINES THE WHOLE. ALL OF THE WORK THE FILMMAKERS DID UP TO THAT POINT IN PLOTTING OUT ACTING OUT & ESTABLISHING THE STORY TO THIS POINT.

Like. The problem of the song isn't even oh it's a limited POV thing. IT'S NOT EVEN WAHT BOND'S POV WOULD HAVE BEEN/SHOULD HAVE BEEN BY THAT POINT. Again, this is the "the bitch is dead" edit of the scene, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. THIS IS BOND LOWKEY SPIRALING AND LIKE. OVERSTIMULATED-EXTREME-EMOTIONAL-AMBUSH-IN-A-VERY-SHORT-TIME LOWKEY EMOTIONALLY SPINNING OUT. BUT THEN BREAKING THRU IT ENOUGH WHEN MADELEINE CALLED FOR HIM. TO LOCK HER OUT OF HIS SINKING CAGE. BRUH. BE SO FORREAL RN.

also lmao she clutches her torso WAY too high up, bruh that's her sternum not her belly... but ig the idea translates across still.

but yeah. god. And here I thought No Time to Die the song was just. boring & musically uninspiring. but no. it's so much worse lmao. god.

[noorahqar]

It's so embarrassing when you reread one of your favorite fics of all time, click "kudos" and don't immediately get the dreaded

What do you mean. WHAT DO YOU MEAN

[midoriima]

lingering | shirabu kenjiro

If there was anything that you dreaded more, it was nighttime. The fear and guilt always crept into your mind as soon as the lights dimmed and silence engulfed the dark room. Nothing made its presence known enough for you to distract yourself from the imagery that flashed and replayed night after night inside your head.

Everyone tells you it wasn't your fault, you want to believe that it wasn't, but it still holds a heavy weight in your chest for you to disregard it. You could never persuade yourself enough to think you weren't the cause of Shirabu's accident but had you processed things quicker, you would've done something to change the outcome.

You remember he told you a while back that he'd switch schools by the time you two would move up to your third year. It didn't affect you as much then since you two were only in middle school then, but the months pass by so quick it's hard to believe that your third year is only mere months away.

Just get through this year, then maybe the guilt would start fading once he goes. You'd tell yourself, but it always made you feel even more guilty. Instead of facing what caused your anxiety, you pushed it away. You were afraid that all the walls you'd built up until the present would fall and that you'd have to build them up once more when you muster up the heart to face him.

It was always such a pain to turn your gaze to his direction, seeing him unable to use his legs, unable to play the sport he's loved since his middle school days, having no other choice but to sit back and watch the rest of his team play without him. Semi Eita even took his position back as setter.

publishing as is again, i need to clear up drafts but i wanna publish the ones i really wanted to post back then but couldn't. i hope yous enjoy ❤️ also, go check out more on my masterlists cos these partial works are open for any continuation or derivatives, etc. but on one condition: ask permission 🤗 that's allll

[protemporescitor]

Dissolution (excerpt)

The group continued walking in relative silence, crossing the long bridge separating the pagoda from the temple district's main concourse. There was a faint chill in the air, as well as the first hint of sakura blossoms drifting on the evening wind. A school of multicoloured fish lazily circled around the bridge's posts near them as they passed by.

"So... 'Lady Kisaragi', huh?" Tifa said, teasing Yuffie. "Is that how we should address you from now on?"

"Please don't," Yuffie said, a little embarrassed by all the pomp and circumstance surrounding her upbringing. "It's just a title."

She jumped up onto the nearest bannister, arms held out to either side as she maintained a precarious balance while they kept on walking. The others marvelled at the young girl's sheer vitality. Despite using up most of her stamina mere moments earlier, she was already back to her usual shenanigans.

"Speakin' of which..." Barret said. "What's all this mean, exactly? You're, like, the new head ninja or something?"

"Yep," Yuffie nodded, beaming with pride. "I mean, I always knew I was amazing. But it's totally official now."

She rushed on ahead, leaping on top of a tall stanchion near the middle of the bridge, darting a finger towards the setting sun. "I am Wutai's greatest contribution to ninja-dom. Suck it, dad!"

Her bratty antics made Cloud chuckle, something that was a rare enough occurrence that he immediately had her attention. Curious, she hopped back down to the ground, landing next to him. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing," Cloud said. "I just didn't expect the world's top ninja to be so..."

He trailed off for a second, causing her to grow flustered and self-conscious in spite of herself. "What?"

"Cute."

Yuffie grinned.

"... Shut up," she replied, giving Cloud a playful punch on the arm, before turning away from him in an effort to disguise how hard she was blushing.

Excerpt from "Dissolution", chapter 4:

[jurakan]

Like yeah, I objectively did well at the trivia challenge tonight, and it really doesn't matter; at the same time, there weren't many contenders, and out of the three serious players I came in third, and I rarely pass up a chance to hate myself!

[ofstarsandskies]

@serandipity | @agloryofuniicorns [My alarm went off boys--]

Despite Akira's attempt to disappear from Victor's reach, this doesn't stop the stupid haxxor nonsense of Chromatus. Thus, right on time, Victor teleports into the room.

"You've got a stabbing to get to."

In an instant, both Akira and Victor both teleport to Akechi's current location. Although in that time, Akira's hands and legs are stuck together by some strange force.

"Alright Akechi-san, go stab this idiot till he fixes things or whatever," Also as promised, Victor lays out an assorted of over 100 knives, all different lengths and sharpness. "I'll just watch the show. Speak up if you need me," Popcorn's ready, let's see some suffering.

[frogsman]

wtf was bear s3 man