#about the sin babies

[karalovesallthegirls]

Also have another “first words spoken to you are on your skin” soulmate AU idea where Kara is a journalist assigned to shadow the controversial CEO of L-Corp for the day. It’s a big deal for her to get this assignment, so of course she trips the second she’s near the other woman and tries awkwardly to redeem herself.

The CEO stares at her almost in shock, and then says nothing. At all. Ever, for the entire day.

Kara spends hours following Lena Luthor around trying to fill the silence, but no amount of questions get her to talk. Lena almost seems to be running away at some points - like she’s trying to lose her? - and the few times she’s managed to catch her actually talking to someone she goes silent the second she sees Kara.

She asks around if Miss Luthor is usually like this and everyone looks at her like she’s crazy. Apparently she’s the only one who gets the silent treatment. By the end of her first day shadowing she’s walking away with half a page of observations and not a single quote. Miss Grant is going to kill her.

But that’s okay. It’s fine, this isn’t over. She has four days of shadowing ahead of her and she’ll be damned if she doesn’t finish this with a quote from the woman herself. It’s only a matter of time.

[ericas-spop-blog]

All Your (My) Fault

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Man, it's almost like Corrupted!Catra isn't really Catra, and is instead a spectre giving voice to Adora's deepest fears!

[radfemsiren]

Another one for destroying the myth of male supremacy! Anyone watch those survival shows where contestants take like 10 items with them and have to spend months isolated in the wilderness?

It’s so funny to me because the female contestants are so mentally strong and at peace. What usually gets them is lack of food, an infection, an injury… something always physical.

Meanwhile the men always lose their damn minds lmao, they can not be alone with their wretched, miserable thoughts.

My grandpa loves those shows and when I watch with him, it always shows a woman on screen happily working on her snares or nets, humming along peacefully… then it cuts to a male contestant shaking and jittering like a madman and confessing to the camera that he’s gonna hang himself if he has to be alone one more second …

I don’t think misery is always indicative of moral standing, but if one sex consistently can’t stand even their own company… well! It’s interesting!

[sammygender]

i’ve never been as angry on behalf of a character as i am for sam winchester

[thefrogdalorian]

The Mandalorian - Chapter 3: The Sin

[sinnbaddie]

The Hokage and his right hand man everyone

Reference under cut

[moeblob]

"What's cookin', good lookin'?"

AKA I love how unhinged both Alfred and Bunet are and I want to study their brains.

[yellowocaballero]

dude psyched ur reading orv, insanely curious about ur takes

My friend @charterandbarter put it best.

ORV is pretty fascinating to me. It's really just a self-insert isekai OP webnovel, and it is nothing else. Its medium is trashy and lowbrow, and its genre is almost devoid of high art. OP isekais are 'id' stories, meant to be satisfying and fun and contain very little of substance. ORV is a very well executed OP isekai - it contains the elements of the genre that make it satisfying, it understands why people read the genre and enjoy it, it reproduces those elements very well, and it is very concerned with telling an enjoyable story. ORV really, really loves webnovels and isekais and shitty wishfuillment stories. There's a lot more to ORV than the 'fist pump' moments of kdj doing something cool or pulling a fast one on a shmuck, but those moments are the undoubtedly the point of ORV, as they are the point of all SIOC isekai OP webnovels. And that's the point of ORV.

Metanarrative stories are cheap. Neil Gaiman's written 30 and millenials love waxing philosophical about the power of narratives. These metanarratives tend to describe stories as a theoretical framework through which we understand the world and our lives. Therefore, stories are tremendously important and valuable because they contain the totality of religion, history, culture, relationships, and lives. ORV says this too. But this theory tends to land at mystifying and exalting stories on virtue of them being stories, which I think misses the point. Stories aren't special because they're stories. They're not more sacred for containing our lives. What ORV says is that stories are important, because our lives are important. I like that a lot more.

ORV says that stories are our way of ordering a disordered world. A history, culture, nation, and religion are stories. None of those stories are true or real, because histories/cultures/nations/religions are constructs - they're how we interface with reality. They're created with a purpose, told for a point, pulled together into a narrative, and are satisfying or dissatisfying based on certain factors. ORV's perspective on fiction is deeply seeped in its own nature as 'low art'. There's something very cynical and commercialized about narratives in ORV, and every narrative in ORV is being told for a quick buck or to try and spread an idea for an individual's gains. It's a very unromantic, unimpressed view of narratives and fiction. It's pretty much the only way a SIOC OP isekai webnovel like ORV can talk about it without being disingenuous. And it's remarkably raw and visceral as a result, because ORV loves SIOC OP isekai webnovels like kdj loves yjh. Fiercely, insanely, like breathing, exactly for what it is. No pretensions.

It's bizarre, because ORV is about love. It's not about love for anything that deserves it. Not for a story with a lot of literary merit, a main character who is a remotely kind or lovable person, or art itself outside of its commercial or philosophical value. kdj really, really, really fucked loved TWS - because it was there, and because it lasted 15 years, and because it was fake, and because it was what he had. He loves yjh because yjh was his only companion in a dark world. That's fiction. Fiction helped him survive, because love is a way of ordering a disordered world.

I'm still reading myself, but ORV seems to be about how we manage to live in a hard world, and how to find it within ourselves to love each other and find meaning in that hard world. I see why kdj's the protagonist: he can find merit in something for existing, and loving it for being there, and he holds onto something because he has it. He sees the value in that. He read it in a book.

TL;DR: ORV is well-executed trashy commercialized art that is so obsessed with trashy commercialized art that it's looped straight back around into being somehow the most raw and visceral depiction of love I've seen in a long time.

[vaguely-concerned]

bringing lucanis to emmrich's loyalty quest when you're an ingellvar romancing him has such energy of like... 'okay this is starting to feel really serious so I guess it's time to mutually show off some of the familial skeletons in the closet (as it were. ahaha haha....). we've already seen what one of your family parties look like when they go a bit awry, so it's only fair you get to see what happens when my folks go off the rails. there's -- admittedly a bit more unhinged mage hubris and plans for world domination and threatening the fabric of existence than would perhaps be ideal, no two ways about it, can't get away from that. but on the other hand I have to deal with illario. so *anxious🥺 rook face* wouldn't you agree we're kind of even in the grand scheme of things'

lucanis voice: well yeah okay when you put it like that fair point actually. (from his comments through this quest I think his main complaint would probably be that it feels a lot like just another work trip fhadskj)

[togoshiba]

Iori is also going to die straight up. Riko Amanai style. It’s going to be awful. Or at least that’s my prediction.

[keewu]

Merlin and Meliodas headcanons because I'm ignoring canon.

They always stay up late and talk, both their sleep schedules are fucked anyway so might as well talk to each other. They don't admit it but it's comforting, since they've known each other the longest out of anybody. The others are high-key concerned but don't intrude.

In the past 3000 years, whenever they run into each other they have the most BRUTAL drinking competition. That leaves them both wasted for the next day (Merlin has a hangover cure but it's about a 50/50 chance she'll give it to him)

Meliodas being Merlin kinda dad 👀 okay don't judge me but I wanted canon to give this to me, but since they didn't I'm giving it to myself. Meliodas sees Merlin as a little sister (maybeee daughter) he isn't really protective over her, he knows she can handle herself. But if she were to get hurt this man would internally freak the fuck out. If she were unconscious Mel would def sit by her bedside until she woke up.

He's kinda concerned for her mental and physical health (he should be concerned about his own but that's to high of an expectation) like shes not outside alot, if it's not for getting things for her research. And she'll neglect her own needs (like food and sleep) when she's really busy with experiments. Also she's depressed (go fight a wall over this, her trivia says she regrets being born) anyway I feel like Meliodas sees himself in her and that really hurts him. He sees she's not doing well because he's literally going through the same thing 😭

Merlin has been there for a few of the Elizabeth reincarnations. Especially in the beginning when meliodas and Merlin found each other again, after the holy war was over. Merlin didn't grow close to any of the Elizabeths. Until she did, it was like she got her sister back for a few years. Then the curse hit and she died. Merlin didn't show a whole lot of emotion but meliodas could see she was so broken after that. Meliodas didn't want to make Merlin even more traumatised and thought only one person should go through this curse so he distanced himself from her alot. And that's why Merlin wasn't there for the other Elizabeths as much.

[soullessjack]

gooodmgiht i made this today too 👐

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Partner adopted a baby dragon. I'm so goddamn jealous.

[enbyaxolotl67]

work song by Hozier but it's a mother-daughter relationship. is this anything

[spurgie-cousin]

JROD IS ON HER WAY TO VEGAS (with Kaylee and Gideon) THIS IS NOT A DRILL

It’s in the 100 degree heat index this week in NY where I live, I hope to god those two aren’t going to traipse a baby around outside on the strip if it’s even hotter in NV

My prediction: they’re not going to leave the proximity of the hotel. I feel like they’re about to have some extreme culture shock

I honestly can't wait to see all her complaints 😭 I have a stripper friend in LV and I'm so tempted to hire her to just say hi to Jill at her hotel in one of her flashiest work outfits

So far we know that Jill hates that it's called sin city (not enough to not go there though i guess) ☹️ but she loves the bright lights 😬!