#and i loooove these dynamics

[bastardlybonkers]

[keirahknightley]

That's probably Spycraft 101, isn't it?

Black Doves 1.02 "A Little Black Dove"

[ningadudexx]

post this cat..... everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!

[katebeckets]

uncommon moments [5/?] ⤷ 1.04 — “Maternity”

[sneakydraws]

like i said. some kinda crack they put in the soma dynamic it cant just be nostalgia for my 2012 otp. it feels like straight yaoi somehow

[transmascpalamedessextus]

ianthe and harrow wearing matching “i got my prosthetic arm at harrow’s” and “i got my lobotomy at ianthe’s” shirts

(harrow doesn’t know ianthe’s got a spare made for her that says “i got my hair transplant at ianthe’s.” maybe one day she’ll give it to her)

[celestialowlryxs]

Ezran and Aanya ↳ THE DRAGON PRINCE - BOOK 7: "DARK"

Queen Aanya, what do you think? What would you do in my position? King Ezran…I'm humbled you ask, but I'm not a member of your esteemed council. Please, Aanya. I invited you to join us because I value your opinion. I trust you.

[willyhoos]

you know for someone who loves metamy so much. i gotta say having it be fully unrequited is honestly fitting with metal's whole arc (or rather his LACK of arc)

he wants what he can't have. he's not anything or anyone, he doesn't deserve it. what would he even do with it?

"i don't think i have anything. i don't think i can have anything. i don't know how to have something." (src: 17776)

whether or not you subscribe to the roboticized metal theory, it doesn't change that metal's goals are not aligned with reality. ironically it's the robot that is unable to logically analyze his situation. he wants to be sonic but it doesn't change the fact that he isn't. he wants to win but it doesn't change the fact that he won't. his desires are narratively and morally unfulfillable because what he wants is wrong (factually and ethically.)

and so if he, in theory, wanted amy rose how could he ever actually have her?

the most she would give him is "you're more like him than i thought."

because he's Not sonic. all he can be is sufficiently Like him (sometimes). whatever metal claims he is (and honestly whatever he ACTUALLY is) is irrelevant because he can't MAKE himself sonic. he can't make himself the version of sonic that amy loves. amy loves sonic for WHAT he is (good) not what he's named. the most she could ever do is passively appreciate the traits of sonic that metal is able to imitate. emulate. simulate. fabricate.

sonic's role (in the meta story and in-universe) is so unique and treasured and irreplaceable. the only way to kick him out would be to, idk, replace him with an identical copy and put the old sonic in a lose-lose situation where he could not possibly be believed or sympathized with. or something.

say he gets "rehabilitated," rebels against eggman... you know those metamy fics. what is he then?

-> another job well done. another good deed for team sonic (y'know, the real one).

because it's not just that he's Not Sonic. (and he isn't. even if you believe he once was, he's not anymore in any way that is relevant to the narrative. the narrative, as you know, is the real sonic's pov.) it's that he's not even really a person anymore.

he's been forcibly depersonalized, dethroned, removed from his role (+ promptly replaced with something canonically better!) and isolated from any semblance of humanization. he doesn't even have a mouth. either it was taken from him or he was never given one. and we are not given any glimpse into his thoughts. (they're not important.)

like. this is a dead end. he is a dead end. there's nowhere to run.

he won't "get the girl" (pardon the term) not because he's evil not because he's not sonic but because he is not a "person" in any sense. not literally not socially not narratively not practically not really

idk. whether metal falls in love with amy genuinely, or if it's just out of jealousy/desire to want what the real sonic has/instinct to emulate the real sonic's emotions... it's doomed. he's just a ghost from a doomed timeline and everything he will ever do is destined to fail. he can't kill sonic. he can't hold amy's hand. he can't do anything but lose.

in that sense, metal "losing" amy to the real sonic (as if metal was ever even a contender, as if he was ever real enough) is just another failure in a long, long string of mostly unpleasant memories of a character who doesn't even get to go by his real name. because someone more important took it already has it.

[angrycloudcrown]

i think the idea that the concept of devotion or attachment in fiction HAS to be romantic is stupid. yes i do enjoy the devotion of two unhealthy romantic lovers who love each other more than anything BUT. friends devoted to each other because they have no one else who understands them? friends willing to both die for and kill for each other, and will go down with each other if one friend dies? friends who would never want to engage in anything romantic or sexual with each other, but would give up everything for each other in a heartbeat? friends who would sacrifice their lovers and family for each other? friends who would sacrifice themselves for each other? i feel like boiling complicated dynamics to "oh theyre just in love" sometimes takes away certain things, not all of the time but in a lot of cases. idk anyway platonic devotion/attachment trope ily

[raiorca]

they're besties.

just some sketches i made bc i miss them and i love them so much they're my babies.

[psychopomp-namine]

was reflecting on this liu xiao character study fic and I just want to copy paste my comment from there so it's easier for me to find again later through my blog's tags

the xiaochen childhood friends meeting is still so ??? to me sometimes. first of all, "if you don't have the guts for that, how can you be my friend?" is so bananas for a kid to say. something something friendships are earned and relationships are transactional.

from one particular lens we could, mayhaps, think liu xiao was actually a Normal Kid (lmao) and was just trying to look cool in front of tianchen and spouting nonsense that Sounded Cool. otoh. what if liu xiao is just genuinely Like That from the beginning

so in the fountain scene, liu xiao can (literally) afford to get his shoes wet (replaced) when he fetched the football; meanwhile, li tianchen would (quite reasonably, imo) rather avoid getting his shoes wet and in doing so struggled to fetch the ball on his own. liu xiao demonstrating that he's willing to lose to gain something, without actually losing anything. li tianchen comes away from this actually losing and losing and losing until he gains liu xiao's... approval? attention? yeah.

I was also reading this li tianchen character study fic (by @muninnhuginn) and wanted to preserve my comment from there for easier look up as well, because I am having Thoughts.

like. I think it's soooo fun that li tanchen sees cheng xiaoshi as another hunter. like, of course! the one guy who can maybe help him must be one! it kinda makes me wonder if li tianchen would have been able to really disentangle himself from liu xiao if cheng xiaoshi was able to help him somehow. maybe not through changing the past, but changing his perspective — the classic cheng xiaoshi move. like, what if cheng xiaoshi was able to succeed with li tianchen where his speech with emma failed? something something instead of being a hunter, you become a guiding light just like how others have been one for you.

and pairing this with my tianchen-vein thoughts from before of how vein is also a fox and represents how, if we follow liu xiao's metaphor, vein is also a "beast" but he doesn't have to be a victim. something something cheng xiaoshi failing to be the hunter li tianchen wished he was, and vein failing to act like how foxes (like tianchen, like tianxi) are expected to act. just breaking that metaphor down until it no longer really serves him

li tianchen pleaseeee have extra screen time in season 3. I miss you so much 😭

[bloodsbane]

hey. i think im fucking obsessed with these two

[foolbehavior]

Queerplatonic Yoo²hankim picnic for @YooHanKimLetter on Twitter; thank you so much for donating via @orv-gotcha-for-gaza!

[shibanagame]

Eddie Brock, Venom symbiote and Flash Thompson commission art by Tom Fowler 2023

[musicalmoritz]

One thing I rly hate in fandoms is ooc angst just be for the sake of having angst. It gets to the point where a lot of angst is corny to me bcuz ppl just make it to be emo without considering whether or not it actually aligns with canon

Kou Minamoto is one of the biggest examples of this that I’ve seen. There are so many angst posts abt him being sad that Nene is with Hanako, when he acts the exact opposite way in canon. The only time he’s really acted jealous over her was when Teru flirted with her, and that was more because he felt betrayed by his brother. He didn’t seem upset at all when Hanako crashed their “date” in Yako’s boundary, in fact he was perfectly happy to let Hanako tag along

There is plenty of angst to be made with Kounene, especially considering Nene’s short lifespan. Since the ship is treated as the designated “healthy” pairing in the fandom I also don’t see a lot of talk about how Kou’s savior complex would negatively impact their relationship. There’s just so much to talk about with them outside of the whole “Kou is sad because Nene has a boyfriend” thing. Kou has a boyfriend too so like, now what?? I’ll admit I’m very biased here, I don’t like the unrequited love trope very much. The angst that goes along with it isn’t really my cup of tea, so whenever I make Kounene fics/posts they’re almost always from Nene’s pov with her liking him back. It’s not that it’s too sad for me it’s just kinda lukewarm?? And some of it gives Nice Guy vibes idk. The way I see it, if one character isn’t interested then that’s where the relationship ends, so I don’t see the point in shipping anything that’s completely one-sided. Not trying to yuck anyone’s yums, this is just a preference

Anyways Kounene is a really good ship with a lot of potential besides just being “sad boy Kou hours.” There is another character that Kou gets very possessive over but for once this ain’t about them so I’m directing my attention towards Kounene. And preferences aside, I’d rather the angst just be in character. Teru is a character that gets very mopey about his crush being one-sided, so a lot of these Kounene angst posts would work great with him and Aoi or Akane. Again, it’s not my favorite trope in the world but I can see how it would make sense with him. But for Kounene I think there’s so much angst (and fluff) potential we’ve been missing out on by reusing the same trope. Let’s get creative with it!

[silentflashoflightning]

if you could keep one more contestant on house’s end team in s4 who would it be. EXCEPT amber because she is the most obvious choice and also still stayed in the show for a while.