#all of this is to say

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

Still a little insane over how Shiv is shown more than once in this episode to really see Roman’s hyper emotional reaction, first at the funeral breakdown, later at the tomb. Like, you can see the wheels turning in her head and for a moment it looks like she is going after him when he leaves in distress.

 But she goes up to ask her father’s business buddies “How bad was Dad?” and the answer, as it will always be, is not real, not genuine. What you saw is what you got. But what did those children witness. Shiv can recount playing in front of his office and being scared of him. She can recall witnessing physical abuse. So what did you see. What did you see. How bad was Dad.

[mountainofhistory]

As funny as that would be, it runs counter to how I play youkai on this blog. They're shaped by the beliefs of society, especially human society, not their own beliefs.

Besides, it's fun to make her suffer.

"Fuck off! I've done enough suffering in the last day!"

[djevelbl]

I feel this rabid need and desire to make a Zam drawing with lyrics to I/Me/Myself — Will Wood bc it is SO Zam coded except for the gender identity angst which like, if I knew enough of Zam in this LifeSteal season I could even spin it into the VAST AMOUNTS of angst that motherfucker shoved into his little cubito character--

[byrdstrolls]

Grief is a funny thing. I know it’s probably gonna hit me slowly, through this week and the months that follows. I brace myself for that impact.

I’m not gonna sit here and pretend like I didn’t care about mask4mask. These characters meant the world to me. And I will miss them. And this breaks my heart. But sometimes things just come to an end.

It’s never too late in a relationship to realize you deserve better.

[rentalboos]

Sometimes being in fandom as an adult in a healthy manner just means you're talking to a maximum of four people, all of which are, out of years of fandom, the only people you trust, and are in fandoms you were once vaguely alligned with, listening to you talk about fandoms they were once vaguely aligned with, while posting a fic into the void and then quickly disappearing off the face of the earth again

[cassassinated]

for reasons that I don't have the spoons to get into, in my youth I developed a reflex to just. up and leave situations that were bad/scary/dangerous, to the extent that i completely burned entire identities to the ground to Escape and

I never really got over that. like that's still in me. and I fight it every time I'm in a scary situation, or I have an anxiety attack, or I just feel overwhelmed

[apollos-boyfriend]

[vamprisms]

kill 'character did nothing wrong'. nurture 'character did everything wrong and i was whooping and cheering the whole time'

[fromcainwithlove]

author’s notes today: hey guys so just a warning there isn’t 100% explicit verbal consent even though they’re both really into it so remember this is FICTION, also they don’t use a condom :((( but in real life safe sex is important!!! please be safe out there everyone

a/n back in the day: kept thinking about ____ stabbing knives through both of _____’s hands to pin him in place while they fucked so here you go lol =P

[astral-herald]

jayce enduring a symbolic rendition of viktor's trauma is so painful and so, so clever.

being stricken down and immobilized through sheer accident or, in viktor's case, a cruelly random quirk that caused his disability.

then physically dragging himself from the lowest level of zaun to piltover, much like how viktor spent his youth reaching toward the promise piltover offered, but only if he could "pull himself up by the boot straps" and get there on his own. socioeconomic forces working against him be damned.

i appreciate arcane reminding us of viktor's origins - the reason he is so called to help people and, eventually, save himself - and putting jayce through the ringer - the contrast between he and viktor's lived experiences is front and center throughout season 1. the writers send jayce, and the audience, on a grueling journey to contemplate those experiences and how they've manifested in these intertwined characters.

[carnelianfoxx]

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

the picture of dorian gray (1890) - oscar wilde

"fuck my yaoi life"

[s-aint-elmo]

pass it on!

(ID in alt text)

[mewmewdoppio]

He's trying okay.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.