#and dies on the battlefield

[nat-without-a-g]

When I talk about Paeden to my friends who I know will Not watch the podcast, or at least not season one, I mention that he died and hasn’t come back yet. And then I remember I already emphasized that he was eight and have to scramble to explain why this child’s death isn’t actually super morbid.

Not once have I told people HOW he’s died because ngl I love him and Walter but if I tried telling people it wasn’t kind of fucked up I’d let them call me a liar.

[roguefiction]

To die unremarked and unnoticed… and be free.

my knight alicent agenda continues

[add1ctedt0you]

Yu Ziyuan & Jiang Yanli

mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be. (x)

[waywardwhispersblaze]

I'll be forever mad that Jayce ruined the moment right there, but not because I think this would've been a perfect ending for them (I don't). I'm mad because if Jayce had just waited five fucking minutes, the resulting scene would've been so juicy.

Look at the way Vi and Cait look at each other here:

Caitlyn: shocked, betrayed, hurt

Vi just looks sad:

We know from their dialogue in ep 8 that while Vi and Caitlyn were making the plan to distract Ambessa, Vi had another one, to bring in Jinx as a contingency in case Caitlyn couldn't be trusted or failed. She had to know Caitlyn wouldn't take it well once she found out. Vi's priority n°1 was saving Vander though, and they likely didn't have much time to think this through. Basically, she had to know that from Caitlyn's POV, it would look like "Vi chooses Jinx over Cait", edition number 2.

And she was likely right! We know Caitlyn lets go of her anger towards Jinx in the next episode, and accepts that Vi has the right to choose her family, but in my opinion, she wasn't there yet in ep 6. Having a broken Jinx locked up in a cell (her single goal for the last few months) while Vi was lying unconscious on her bed for days very likely helped Caitlyn reassess her priorities in life. But here in this scene she literally doesn't have time to think!

Let's look at Caitlyn a bit more here. During their reunion, She probably expected Vi to hate her guts, but instead, Vi looks grumpy, calls her a mongoose and a cupcake in two sentences, and drops the "my dad needs help" bomb after hesitating for a hot, single second. Moments after that, Caitlyn reevaluates her life choices and decides to make a big career change. Plenty of great posts have already been made about Caitlyn's motivations there, but to sum it up, I'd say it was a combination of: her being already wary of Ambessa and not wanting to let a Noxian warlord get her hands on a dangerous weapon / innocent man, being tired of hating herself, and, yes, her feelings for Vi coming back to her in full force.

For a few, glorious moments, she was working with Vi again! Probably feeling more like herself than she had in months. Maybe she started to hope they could reconcile after all. Maybe, she hoped it could be a "do over" for their failed mission with the strike team, where she'd be helping a member of Vi's family, instead of being torn apart by one of them.

... only to find that Vi didn't actually trust her (which was deserved, but still, ouch), and to come face to face with the source of her seething hatred, the single object of her obsession in the last few months. Right after being saved by said source of seething hatred. It's a lot to take in. She had to be simultaneously disappointed and shocked

So, what was she gonna do? There was probably nothing Vi could have said that wouldn't have pissed Caitlyn off right then (no, Vi, saying "she's changed" probably wouldn't have helped), Jinx opening her mouth would have likely made it worse, but at the same time they still had to run away asap. Caitlyn had already betrayed Ambessa, she couldn't go back. Vi pretty much put her in a position where she'd have no choice but to follow along, no matter how angry she was, at least for a little while...

and I made this post just to say, that the resulting bickering would have been hilarious to see :S

(forget about Jayce waiting five minutes, though, what if it they had an hour? what would Caitlyn had done once they were far enough from the Noxian army? point her gun at Jinx? attempt an arrest? (right in front of Vander? gulp) she might have simply ended up separating from them, and that would have been heartbreaking enough, but a completely different story)

((and that's assuming cult member!vander would have just agreed to leave the commune without acting weird))

[uncanny-tranny]

The thing that gets me the most about intersexism is the fact that... it doesn't matter how many intersex people there are - no matter if they are as common as redheadheaded people or anybody else - when the intersexist sees human bodies and their states as a inherently a political battle, an agenda to be "won," the intersex body will always be an "anomaly," something crude and unnatural, regardless of how oxymoronic the "unnatural natural body" is.

[riphertoshreds]

Victoria De Angelis looking like an angel at the premiere of "Battlefield" (Campo Di Battaglia) at the 81st Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy.

[sesamenom]

day 1 of @tolkiengenweek: fingon & maeglin in mandos.

a little while ago i did this piece and @tanoraqui mentioned maeglin in the tags. anyways i was thinking about which nolofinwion would be best at dealing w maeglin's trauma.

turgon means well, but maeglin probably doesn't want to talk to him. aredhel is a) his mom and b) part of the traumatic backstory so that would also be difficult. argon never even made it past the grinding ice (and frankly i havent figured out his personality enough to do one of these). fingon, however, kept nicely to the theme of eldest son & youngest grandson and made sense trauma-wise.

so anyways here's fingon helping maeglin deal with the aftermath of his time in morgoth's captivity and the trauma of losing aredhel.

[rings-of-power-realm]

okay okay but what if the golden tree that Elrond gifted to Durin and Disa is not only destroyed because the balrog is gonna literally wreck everything but also to symbolise their broken friendship

[firefly-fez]

nothing gets to me about star wars like the fact that ahsoka and rex were forced to leave dead brothers discarded and abandoned in the ruins of war literally day after day, battle after battle, and the first thing they do when the war is over is take the time to bury the dead.

[om0000]

the fact that there r no female watchdogs on the skullship is fucked up for obv reasons n stuff but tbh. if there were ONLY women on the skullship i wouldnt bat an eye. id think its pretty cool actually . the yuri empire ... is that a double standard

[superbat-is-king]

Felt like being angsty for no good reason, I’m soooorry

Orym’s first to wake in the morning, as usual.

What’s not quite as usual is waking up with his face buried in a chest, wiry arms wrapped around his, holding him close. And it was so… warm. Comfortably so. It had been a while since he’d woken like that, since Fearne and Ashton had started to get closer.

Wait, no, Orym finds himself thinking as he cranes his head upwards to see Dorian’s peaceful, sleeping face. It’s actually… a bit cool. Like there's a slight breeze surrounding us.

Oh— Air genasi, duh. Of course!

A smile makes its way to his lips as memories of the night before filter in.

“Maybe you’re just the first beautiful, kind face I’ve seen.”

“Let me comfort you for once.”

Orym swallows a laugh as he realizes how far they’ve both come — running away from home and finding a new one to protect — and it fills him with pride. All of his friends, in fact, who have seen and grown so much, he couldn’t possibly be more proud of them. Despite the insurmountable task they’ve found themselves facing, he doesn’t think he’s been happier than in this moment right now.

“You are why I’m here.”

Those words ring out in his mind and the smile slips. Maybe he had lost himself in the euphoria of finally admitting how he felt and being so close to Dorian that he didn’t consider—

Is this really okay?

In a rush, his mind is filled with images of Will, of relaxing under the cherry blossom trees, of the spring winds whistling past their ears and tousling their hair. He looks past Dorian’s shoulder and sees it all so clearly. Unbidden. Somehow welcome, but not. And now the guilt is back.

Because he’s not over it.

Slowly, as carefully as he can, he separates himself from Dorian’s embrace, settling into a kneel on the bed.

He’s not over it and a piece of his heart still lies with Will and if he’s not all in, when he was always the reason Dorian’s here, then how is that fair?

How could it be fair to allow someone to love him if he couldn’t let go?

Orym quietly slips off the bed and just stands there for a moment, staring down at the bard. He reaches a hand out, brushing a blue-hued lock of hair off Dorian’s forehead, and lets out a trembling sigh. His vision is blurring and he blinks rapidly to clear the tears that have started to gather.

“I’m sorry,” he whispers in a voice so quiet, it barely reaches his own ears. “I’m sorry I can’t be what you deserve.”

—

But, fuck, the night had been so—! Can’t he pretend just a little bit longer?

“Mmm…” Dorian grunts in his sleep as he shifts in his spot on the bed, arms closing in on the body that’s no longer there.

Orym flinches, quickly adjusting his footing as he backs up to the door, silently pulling it open. He takes one last look, before he turns and walks away.

[happyk44]

Nico being on friendly terms with Ares because a lot of the underworld crew are friends with him versus Percy who is ready to throw hands with him at a moment's notice and does not understand why his boyfriend thinks he's "an okay guy"

[backjustforberena]

I don't think telling Corlys that Rhaenys died with honour, and how she might have wanted to (if she, in fact, did want to die in dragon flame especially as she thinks both her kids died by fire) means an actual jot to Corlys.

All he probably thinks is about how Rhaenys SHOULD have died. And she should have died at home. She should have died at peace, in peace. She should have died decades from now, with a smile on her face and no troubles. And, most importantly, she should have died after him.

[shehsart]

Frreal I didn't think I'd have to even explain but dabi living doesn't mean him forgiving his family and accepting everything that happened to him. How did people get that idea I'm still not sure but it's supposed to be about how living is greater suffering than dying. It's about living and continuing to remind the world of that anger, existing to expose the ugly truth. Being a bit triggered is necessary, he's been trying to escape those negative emotions for a while. Healing isn't that smooth nor easy. It's always a bit ugly. That's why he says he would've wanted to butt heads with his family sooner, before he became a killer. You get that? He's finally regretting it just a little bit.

He has every right to be angry especially at his dad who did ruin his life while also realising the murders he did to avenge it weren't the right way. Dying is easy, it's what he wanted from the start, it would mean this is the fate those with atypical quirks deserve and since dabi is a case especially publicised in their world what kind of message would that even send? Death over disability, no? Those who want him dead are actually dehumanizing dabi just as much as he's dehumanizing himself.

I actually want to see him battling his suicidal thoughts like he was in the moments Shoto came back and he finally sees him as not a masterpiece puppet but as a crying little kid much like himself. Realising he was detaching himself from reality and he really did care about the league and to some extent his family too. I want to see the remaining members of the league reuniting and surprised they all survived. Life might be bleak but it's worth it to try again, no? This time they're not alone anymore.

[maiselyormaiforshort]

Idea/concept

Deceptibee au made by @yuukirita but bee goes batsht insane after a few months for some reason and starscream gaslights him into becoming a cybertronion cannibal and nom nom nom the aurobots in battle

[babyloniastreasure]

Fujimaru voice: Hey Karna isn't this exactly how you died?