#and how did she react to it?

[technically-human]

Bisexual crisis Crystal edition

[bishicat]

you are as beautiful as the day I lost you

[qiinamii]

crown swap

[lazylittledragon]

something something more alt dads

[somewhereincairparavel]

Jason: *dies in an excruciatingly painful but heroic way because his dad screwed up again, saving the lives of a literal God, his ex, a random girl and his dad's fucking ego*

Zeus: um chile anyways so-

[ciderjacks]

I love how Ryoko Kui uses context and pov in scenes like this.. bc like, in the first scene where he’s saying Laios isnt normal, it’s from Marcilles point of view, she takes it as him just being a jerk, and so you sort of think it’s a one off joke of him insulting Laios for doing something as insane as using his leg as an anchor.

And then a few chapters later, that scene comes back from Chilchuck’s point of view, in a way more serious tone, and you realize that the reason he reacted like that is because seeing someone he cared about put themselves in such a painful and dangerous situation with seemingly no regard for their own life really disturbed him. And like, witnessing the aftermath of that was apparently traumatic enough that it stuck with him long after the fact.

[foldingfittedsheets]

One sunny day when I was in high school I was walking home alone. The sun was shining, gentle wind rustled the treetops. I was just starting to be able to see that beauty again. I had been depressed for a long time, but that mundane walk home felt magical to me.

On the sidewalk I saw something unusual. I was in love with life in that moment and fascinated to know more. I crouched down to observe and saw the most enchanting bug. I’d never seen anything like it. To this day I can’t remember what it looked like, only that it was as beautiful as the sun shining on the green world below.

My attention was rapt on this tiny magical creature living in such a massive and wondrous world, wondering what it was and marveling that I’d never seen anything like it.

I didn’t hear the girls come up behind me on the sidewalk. But suddenly there was a leg beside me. I wasn’t embarrassed to be caught looking at a bug. I was glad someone else might come observe this tiny wonder with me.

Her foot shot up and stomped down abruptly, crushing the object of my interest. I looked up at her.

I didn’t know either of the girls standing above me. They had seen a stranger and decided to punish her for behaving in a way they considered unacceptable. I looked up at the face of the girl who had killed my bug, trying to understand her thoughtless malice.

I think she had expected me to be upset or visibly shaken by her destruction. When I stared unblinkingly up at her she seemed to feel a brief moment of shame, shifting uneasily.

Then she and her friend turned and walked away without a word spoken.

[suja-janee]

So did Ashrah tell the shaolin she was bringing Sareena, or did they just have to find out the hard way?

[himehomu]

“Homura can't stand the idea of moving on. So she's isolating madoka from everyone who's ever cared about her.” Are you fucking stupid? She literally rewrote the entire universe so that Madoka could be happy with her parents and her little brother, so that Sayaka could have another chance with Hitomi and Kyoske, so that Kyoko can have a life with Sayaka, she literally revived Mami and Nagisa and gave them a life together. What the fuck do you mean she's “isolating Madoka from everyone who's ever cared about her??”

The only person she's isolating Madoka from is herself because she knows Madoka will regain her godhood sooner ot later and she knows that her desire for Madoka and her friends to be happy will directly rebel against Madokami's rules that require Madoka to die to maintain order to the broken world that traps Magical Girls in their cycle of hope and despair, even if maintaining order means making hard choices and sacrifices, which in this case, is Madoka sacrificing herself again and again not only because she cares so much for others but because she cares so little for herself whilst Homura is the only one who can see that she's so much more than her sacrifice and that she shouldn't reduce herself to a means to an end.

She took Madoka's immortality for herself to spare her of anymore loneliness in Heaven as a trapped Goddess. She literally gave Madoka and the rest of her friends a second chance at life and you people have the audacity to just blatantly fucking lie on her to justify hating her for how she reacts to the psychological torture of having to watch the love of her life and her friends die for 12 years worth of time loops then to live in a world where no one remembers the girl she loves but her. Let something like that happen to you at the age of 14 and then come and talk to me about Homura. Idgaf that she's a fictional character. If y'all continue to treat her like a heartless monster that deserves to be “held accountable for her actions,” then I'll defend her like the traumatized 14 year old child that she actually is. Fuck off and stay away from Madoka Magica. It clearly isn't for you.

[benoitblanc]

no no you guys don't get it. the x files cancer arc was, excuse the pun, a fucking white whale of a tv plotline that would not have worked nearly as well on literally any other show. it was a complete hail mary. the writers' room nearly didn't make it happen because they were worried it would fall too deeply into soap opera territory. and on any other show, it would! but the x files is about four key things: mistrust in the government, faith in both science and the otherworldly, building a life around trauma, and the fine line between love and codependency. it is the only show where the entirety of this situation- a government experiment on an unwilling young catholic leads to a terminal illness that is counteracted by a literal scientific miracle in the eleventh hour due to her partner's refusal to accept her impending death- could both happen at all and happen well. none of the themes in the cancer arc were new to txf at all. they'd all been lurking, to some extent, in the background since the pilot. the cancer arc wasn't merely milking a left-field catastrophe for the drama, it shoved the overarching themes of the show to the front and said look. look what these people are to each other. look how impossible it is to face the darkness alone. regardless of when the plotline was conceived, it was always going to happen. it was the only way the story could have ever gone. they were always doomed from the beginning

[forcebookish]

i do find it funny how much the writers didn't know what to do with cordelia in "dead man's party."

straight up, they knew that she would be on buffy's side, but didn't know how to navigate it in a way that didn't make her look like a better friend than xander and willow. like, "ok we know she wouldn't actually be mad about buffy leaving🤔 but we can't have her be nicer than everyone else🤔 i guess she'll just be kinda obtuse once while defending her and not talk the rest of the time???🤔🤔🤔🤔"

......yeah you know that cordelia, she loves to stand back and not speak her mind lol

anyway, they should have had a scene together after the party where cordy comforts buffy but in her cordy way. maybe says she likes her dress, but that it's a shame that it doesn't fit her. and i think she'd ask about angel! she wouldn't be all fuzzy-wuzzy about it, but she liked him before he went evil so i think she'd be curious.

you know, i think she'd ask what it was like to kill him. and buffy would be like, "what the HELL, cordelia?!???"

and cordy would get all defensive like, "well, like, was it a total bummer or was it carthardiac?"

".................you mean cathartic?"

"yeah, whatever!" and when buffy doesn't answer, cordelia would say that she's sorry they didn't get the soul thingie to work ("that smudge stick smelled So bad, it sucks that it wasn't worth it. i had to wash my clothes TWICE to get out the STINK.")

and buffy would break. and tell her everything. and for the first time in her life, cordelia would have nothing to say, and just hold her.

[insanesonofabitch]

What

What

What.

[littler3d]

I’m sorry this is the funniest plot line I’ve ever heard of. Imagine you, the MOST religious mother ever, who helped usurped your ex bffs thrones AND were complicit in the murder of her son, go down to the church to pray and then suddenly bam. Your ex bff, who has crowned herself queen, is about to go to war, and is possibly complacent in your grandsons death, is dressed up as a nun and says “we gotta talk”. What are we doing right now

[raylasgf]

stella getting mad at sneezles for not letting rayllum kiss LMAO she’s the biggest rayllum shipper at this point

[sysig]

Ellen McLain’s commentary from my trivia playthrough

[starbiology]

nothing makes me feel quite as crazy as how I made an artificer faerie right before the faerie artificer plushie came out. Because I read Brynn's neopedia article about her and Hanso being tasked to locate and recover ancient faerie artefacts and wondered who had made those artefacts

and I was making up random lore about tdf and figured itd be neat if her mom was involved with the court,

im going to bang my head against a wall like you cannot believe how insane this makes me about never finishing this draft page

more of this page (its a giant sketch page)