#and have 10 children

[bethanydelleman]

I'm a bit of an outsider in the Jane Austen fandom/fan fiction world because I just don't care that much about "our dear couple" Elizabeth Bennet & Fitzwilliam Darcy. I love Pride & Prejudice, but I'm happy to break them up and pair them with someone else (and I've done it multiple times). I don't think they are the be-all end-all of romance.

No, my One True Pairing is Henry Tilney & Catherine Morland from Northanger Abbey and I'll tell you why. Anyone can appreciate Elizabeth Bennet, her merits are easy to perceive; anyone can love Mr. Darcy (once he's a bit new and improved); but only Henry Tilney can meet someone like Catherine Morland and see the shining gold underneath her plain, naive exterior.

She thinks the best of people, she's honest (to a fault), she stands up for her sense of right, she's kind, she's enthusiastic, she loves things and isn't ashamed of loving them (unless John Thorpe is a dick to her). She is a ray of sunshine and she melted the jaded Henry Tilney and I love them so much.

[valtsv]

are we still doing this because i have a late submission

[mylifeingotham]

[shinedoitsulikeabright]

Do you guys think there were moments while they were in that horse when Ody's soldiers giggled like middle school girls during a sleepover?

Elpenor: "Oh my gods, Perimedes, shush! You're gonna get us all busted!"

Perimedes: "But this is so much fun, they have no idea! They'll never see it coming! What a bunch of losers!"

Odysseus: "Guys, please, we worked so hard to build this stupid horse. Don't be the reason we lose the war."

Eurylochus: "If they didn't hear them by now, they probably never will. I'm honestly starting to suspect they're all deaf..."

Perimedes: "Heh, that makes our job much easier then."

Athena (to herself): "I have no idea how any of them lasted this long..."

[silvoldoy]

Ok so hear me out

Louie, but babysitting

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

[redbean-nom]

Cadets

(aka trash children, chaos children, and children who understand 98 is getting graded on this)

Inspired by @thefoundationproject! Closeups under the cut:

jesse got this pic from jangotat:

[danelloevee-sky]

I did always tell myself I’d come back for those…

[classichorrorblog]

10 Stephen King Movies To Consider For October/Halloween

[imhyperfixatingdontbotherme]

I love all the 'billy batson literally being called bat-son and immediately being adopted by Bruce' jokes so I pose you this:

Bruce finds out Billy's identity (because he's batman) and blue screens before even getting to to the part of the document where it says his age. Just the name.

*at the next JL meeting*

Bruce: "Shazam, I need you to sign this."

Shazam, *sweating*: "batman, these are adoption papers."

Superman: "bruce, that is a fully grown man, who is several centuries older than you."

Batman: "and his legal name is batson. Bat. Son. What choice did I have????"

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 175

Talon -William Cobb, that was his name once, he remembers that much at least- stares down blankly at the small child who is clinging to its -his His HIS- pant leg, tiny claws digging into the cloth and gripping onto the armor. It he freezes, unsure as to how to react. With Hunts or Orders, the talon knew exactly what to do. Entertain. Kill. Simple. 

Talons were supposed to kill witnesses, he- IT knows this, especially as one of the oldest talons that belonged to the Court. Yet the talon hesitates, something stopping it from doing so. The child looks up at it, something oh so familiar about the motion, with blue-green eyes before burying their face against its- his?- leg. 

“'̵m̸ ̵c̴o̷l̵d̸…” the child-chick… spoke? Not-spoke. Something else, familiar-yet-not. But cold, he knew that. Cold was bad, it meant sleep, not rest but a deep frozen sleep that took time to awaken from. A dangerous thing. A thing not-talons didn’t wake up from. 

The chick -Hadn’t he had a child once, all that time ago- whined, bringing its-his attention back to them. Talon could wait to return to the Court for a few hours more- the task it had been given was already complete-and keep the Cold away from the tiny chick. Just for a little bit. 

[onionowt]

Putting 3 expensive traveling spirits in a row was not very sigma of TGC.. especially in the context of huge server failures these days

[blueskittlesart]

“did you really not know about the tower of babel” well i knew that it was a tower. that either existed or didn’t exist. (???? still unclear. also still don’t know what it was for) either way how the fuck was i supposed to make that connection with no context other than “spaceship stronger than jesus”

[drakaripykiros130ac]

Just a daily reminder that Queen Aemma Arryn had only one living child.

Alicent Hightower had four.

And yet the surviving bloodline which created a new Targaryen dynasty that lasted for many years after and produced several incredible Kings, beautiful Princesses, skilled warriors and a Queen came from the one living child of Queen Aemma.

This is what I call poetic justice.

[beneathsilverstars]

i keep adding things to this one post and then realizing they'd make more sense as a separate post. so here's how the party explained what happened in dagger ending au to bonnie:

Siffrin was very sad and worried about everyone leaving, because he was alone before he met us and he didn't want to be alone again. But he didn't talk about it because we all had plans that seemed very important, and he didn't want to get in the way, and he didn't want to admit that he didn't have anything else to do. It sounds pretty silly when you put it like that, but the rest of us were nervous to admit how much we cared about each other, too! Sometimes it's hard to tell someone how important they are to you, if you don't know whether you're important to them.

During the quest it was okay, because Siffrin knew we would stay together until Vaugarde was saved. But getting to Dormont meant the quest was almost over, and they got so upset at the idea of everyone leaving, that they didn't really care about what they were doing. Why did it matter what happened to them, when they were going to be sad and alone tomorrow either way? So they weren't very careful while they were training, and they got hurt. Luckily Odile saw, and Mirabelle healed them right up.

Now, he's really glad that we all decided to stay together longer! But he might still feel worried for a while, because it's hard to believe that everyone isn't leaving, after he's been dreading it for so long. And sometimes when you're sad for a long time, your brain just tries to keep being sad even when there isn't any reason to be. But if we keep reminding him that we love him just as much as he loves us, it'll start to stick in his brain better! We might also need to remind him to be careful and take care of himself, because that can be hard to remember when you're sad. And while he practices that, we can help take care of him, too!

[1000sunnygo]

IMO a lesser mentioned reason behind Luffy's overwhelming success as a protagonist is Oda's extreme overprotectiveness. Like he'd rather jump off a cliff than let Luffy be controversial.

Marineford is an easy example. An arc heavily featuring Luffy's low point, but Oda didn't make him responsible for Ace's death. In 1000+ chapters of screentime, I can't think of an instance where Luffy did something irredeemable in fandom eyes. Only controversial scene that comes to mind is picking a fight against Zoro in Whiskey peak? Maybe Oda had the luxury to let his guard down back then bc online discussions weren't a thing PFFT

It's not like Luffy doesn't make mistakes, but Oda makes sure Luffy is immediately called out by someone in the story so he stays grounded and can apologize if he has to.

And that's not all, Oda is vocally supportive of Luffy in the polls, he can't not include Luffy in magazine covers even when the editors press him to, he made the timskip 2years bc he wanted Luffy to stay a child during story's runtime, he doesn't let a single character outshine Luffy in an arc, he cushioned Luffy's past with TWO brothers and kept one alive after taking away one of them.. he's spoiling Luffy rotten and I love to see it bc that's the right kind of spoiling, that's what keeps Luffy the happy boy he needs to be, shonen authors should take some notes methinks