#a stranger's vow

[newlesbianprideflag]

joyce pulling will mike and jonathan aside at the byler wedding reception because she wants to get a photo with all three of her sons

[artaintfartwarriors]

Modern skyclan (and some extras) time

[diaswarriorcats]

[tennessoui]

omg time traveler ahsoka au! she gets obi-wan to leave the order for satine in the hopes that he’d be weird with someone else but anakin gets sent on a mission to mandalore and wow there’s this handsome duke he has to look after. what a shame he’s married and definitely wouldn’t leave his wife for this jedi he feels immediately weird about

hmmmmmmm this is one of Ahsoka’s closest attempts because obi-wan’s personal sense of loyalty wouldn’t let him cheat on his wife, and he’s spent so long building a family and a life on Mandalore that he would never toss it aside to be romantically involved with a kid (read: 22yo) that he doesn’t even know even though he feels a very strong pull towards him….obi-wan is adept at lying to himself

It gets easier to lie to himself when he realizes that Skywalker is also married, though secretly…..it offends part of Kenobi, but that’s just because Skywalker is making a mockery of the Jedi order with his secret marriage!! Kenobi is no longer a Jedi of course but he still has great respect for the Order!!!

That’s the only reason he feels so strange when he thinks of Skywalker’s marriage even long after Skywalker and the senator he was guarding as she came to a celebratory feast on Mandalore leave again.

(Ahsoka tenses on her reset button as anakin makes his way back to mandalore a few months later, but they’re being….normal…this anakin requests to study ancient mandalorian and Jedi texts that are housed in the capital city and it’s weird because he’s never really cared about history but he’s being very…respectful….and master obi-wan is also being very respectful if a little stand offish….he accompanied him down to read the texts and they spend hours down there together but as far as Ahsoka can tell there is nothing inappropriate happening —she has gotten very good at telling when something inappropriate is happening between her old masters—they really are just…talking and reading and they’re being…sort of weird…but sort of normal….it’s the closest they’ve come to the original timeline in fact…Ahsoka relaxes on her reset button)

War breaks out anyway of course and obi-wan lasts only a month or so after anakin is pulled to the front lines before donning an old beat up and anonymous suit of mandalorian armor and flying to fight with him. The Duchess of Mandalore offers no comment. The official story is that her husband is sick in bed from a nasty case of Flafu flu. No one knows that it’s the Duke of mandalore in the red armor, supporting Skywalker’s troops.

Ahsoka wonders if Anakin knows, up until the moment some droid gets a lucky shot in and obi-wan goes down on the battlefield and anakin levels an entire field of droids to get to him looking half out of his mind with worry and rage….then she knows he knows and maybe that he’s always known

She’s tensed up over the reset button again, but after obi-wan’s been seen to by the medic, anakin sends him back to his wife on mandalore and, miraculously, after 2 years fighting to be by anakin’s side, obi-wan…stays, but he looks so beaten down over it, so without half his heart, like he’s suddenly aged 20 years and lived in a desert for all of them. But he stays.

The war ends eventually and the Jedi triumph. Ten years later, leia runs through Anakin’s study with an old red helmet over her head as Luke runs after her, playing war. anakin gently takes it off her and sets her on the ground. He cradles the helmet though in battle worn hands, but thankfully before either of them can ask, padmes speeder arrives and they shoot off to go welcome their mom home - anakin stays for a second longer, just staring at the helmet with such a naked expression of wistfulness longing heartbreak and acceptance that Ahsoka almost wants to turn away. Before she does she sees anakin touch his forehead to the helmet’s once before rising and putting it away, turning instead to go greet his wife

and it leaves Ahsoka with such a WEIRD feeling in her own heart that she’s pressing the reset button before she can think it through because she wants them to be apart and she wants the Jedi to win the war and everyone to get their happy endings but…but not like this…not if they’re not happy….she gets 1 reset where she gets to be selfish ok she’s gone through thousands now probably.

[merciawintersageposting]

this content is for @scribblesome only

[jonathanbyersphd]

Oh blah blah blah we don’t know if Jancy’s endgame this. We don’t know if Jancy’s endgame that.

Respectfully, what are y’all talking about????  WE LITERALLY WATCHED THEM GET MARRIED

[morggo]

Here's a better #ArtistWrapped2022 #ArtVsArtist2022 along with some few huge accomplishments from this year. I didn’t think I’d ever see my art in a book store, but here I am.

The Stranger Interview

Venom & Vow

Your Body Is Not Your Body

Thank you everyone for a great year! Here’s to 2023.

[mabaris]

do we have a date when vows and vengeance is set? it just occurred to me that they’re talking about the inquisition like it’s still around which like. it could be but that’s a big choice to make

[catharusustulatus]

Steve and Robin go to Vegas for Steve’s 25th birthday. They say fuck it, let’s get married for fun and so they do, with an Elvis impersonator as their officiant. After beautiful vows that make even Elvis cry, Steve shocks everyone by turning to kiss not his “bride” but his “best man,” who has been Eddie tagging along on the trip the whole time. After Elvis kicks them out, they eat pancakes as newlyweds.

[lynx-224]

sometimes i just think abt how romantic “crazy together” is

[memesnotwelcome]

Shoutout to the retired widow I helped last night; 20 minutes of conversation about her embarrassment, human needs, and tastes as she tosses $150 of sex toys and lube on the counter. Paid cash so she wouldn’t be mortified at her daughter seeing the receipt.

Glad I could help you work through that 😐

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Thoughts on the speak now x hey stephen mashup?

THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!

I don’t know if there’s anything to delve into it beyond that 😂

Horrified looks from everyone in the room but I’m only looking at you… Hey Stephen I could give you fifty reasons why I should be the one you choose… All those other girls, well they’re beautiful, but would they write a song for you? NOPE!!! 😁😏

I think someone is very glad she spoke up to a certain someone when she did cause she felt this magic ever since she met them and can’t help it if there’s no one else now. 😉

[victorluvsalice]

To Die For by The Birthday Massacre

This Song Saturday is brought to you by the following:

Me: [randomly sees a song by The Birthday Massacre in my Recommendeds on YouTube] Holy shit, The Birthday Massacre?? I listened to them LOADS when I was younger -- they're still around? Huh! Might as well check it out, then...

Me: [after listening to the song "Under Your Spell" and enjoying it well enough] Nice -- I missed this band. What else have I got to listen to by them on here... Oh hey, "To Die For!" I remember that song title, it was on one of the albums I owned! Though I don't remember how it goes...well, what better time to find out?

Me: [clicks the video]

To Die For: Tighten your tie boy/you're something to die for~

Me: [nearly fucking bowled over by a sudden rush of nostalgia and associating this song with Victor]

Me: Oh. Right. Like that.

Me: ... [likes and makes a note for Song Saturday]

Yeah, got a personal blast from the past here for me -- I used to love this song when I was a little younger and listening to Walking With Strangers regularly. As stated, it sounds to me like someone singing to/about Victor, especially with those opening lyrics -- I am like 99% sure this was a Valice song to me, as so many things are, and that I associated it with the Forgotten Vows Verse because of stuff like "your memory's fading/I'll love you forever/I'll try to remember/I'll try to hold on." Though I think there's a case to be made for this as a Victor/Emily song too... Right now, though, it's just giving me the feels in general, so you guys get to share them. :)

[nightmarist]

just something for me to uhhhhhh keep track of

Just outside the city, the characters pass a majestic weeping willow tree atop a small hill with a serene view of Elturel. An elderly priest of Lathander officiates the wedding of a young couple (use commoner stat block). The young couple approaches the characters and asks them to witness their final wedding vow. In Elturel it is customary to invite strangers to witness a newly married couple’s commitment to their union. If the characters accept, the couple recites their final vow. Read or paraphrase the following: The two gently hold hands and look each other lovingly in the eyes as they begin to recite their final vow: “Before the Morninglord Lathander and those here today, I commit to you, now and always, until we return to his endless light.” The newly married couple thanks the characters and gives them each a flower

(The Fall of Elturel, Chapter 2)

[bylertruther]

thinking about how will gave a girl on the playground his toy truck, knowing he wouldn't get another, because she was sad and he thought she needed it more ->

how will told dart, the creature that he was forcibly impregnated with and that's just like the creatures that hunted him in the upside down and have killed people, that it's okay, he's not going to hurt him ->

how will gave mike his painting that he worked so hard on for so long and told him it was all el's idea even though he clearly put his entire heart into it and has reasons for every design choice, but he did it to make mike happy and because he needed it ->

how will has so many moments in the show where he's been shown genuine love in every form, and how those will likely be used in some kind of mind-fight sequence between him and henry, where he's blasting these into henry's mind to fight off the darkness and/or to show him everything that he missed out on in life,

because time and time again will has been shown to show everyone mercy, kindness, and compassion, even when he had every reason not to, even when it came at the cost of himself, even when it wouldn't have hurt anyone for him to be selfish,

because will knows what it's like to have a parent that should love you, hate you for things you can't control bc they think you were just Born Wrong, and he knows what it's like to not fit in with other kids, and he knows what it's like to be Different,

but he also knows what it's like to have a mother that would do anything in the entire world for him, to have friends who would do anything to get him back, to have people who don't even know him risk their lives to help him, to play a game where he can be big and strong and defeat monsters with those he loves most in the world, to have siblings that love him and support him no matter what, to have someone who he can tell the scariest thing he's ever felt and have them love him unflinchingly anyway,

and so he wants to give henry a taste of it, to show him no, you're wrong. people are worth saving. they are worth loving and protecting. there will always be people who will see you, accept you, and love you for exactly who you are. i'm sorry about what happened to you, and to me, and to everyone else like us. but there is love, light, and goodness in the world, too, and it's worth protecting. it's worth living for. i don't forgive you and you will never have this, but i will allow you to hold it for a moment, to feel it for the first and only time in your life, because you need this more than i do, and you can stab your hate into it all you want, but this is what's saved me before and it's what'll kill you again, for good this time.

[jonathanbyersphd]

Jonathan Byers walks a very fine line between cynical sad boy and optimistic sunshine boy and I just think that's so interesting