#and then i just sort of embraced it

[fascinationstreetmp3]

i need daniel to be overcompensating for his insecurities so bad. 100 times more cocky and rude and aggressive and insensitive than he was as a human, falling back into old dangerous habits and vices, not just because now he has new energy and power and wealth to flaunt but because it's ALL he has, and he needs to cling onto it. play it up and revel in it so no one sees that underneath, he feels like a botched fledgling in the body of a sick, faded old man who maybe has no real idea why he was even made. that armand might think he failed in making him. that his maker didn't even really want him.

[cubbihue]

I NEED to know what CosWan think of Hazel’s parents/their lovely neighbors compared to Timmy’s bio fam

They see moments, sometimes. Scary moments where it hit them like deja vu. But, aside from their initial fears when meeting their neighbors, they find it hard to think of the Turners in the same breath as the Wells family.

Hazel’s parents are just so… different. Relieving even. There's a lot of "Never"s with Hazel's parents. Cosmo and Wanda can leave Hazel’s side for long periods of time, without worrying.

Not that they ever stop worrying. They still do. But its a first that their worries are unwarranted.

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[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i’m obsessed with the idea of cult leader!geto pining for a reader who just fucking hates him ….... maybe it’s someone from his past that he left behind when he defected, maybe they’re bitter and spiteful and all they do is hiss and bite but he’s so smitten. you can do no wrong in his eyes. he deserves the curses and anger, he knows, and he receives them with a smile and eyes full of hearts. he gets giddy when you scowl at him. he just thinks you’re love personified. he’s so gentle and patient that it’s infuriating because nothing you do or say will get him to bite back — it’s like you’re a kitten gnawing at his fist but he does nothing but coo at you even when you draw blood

[beresaad]

'You have the world at your feet, myself included'

what's a little blasphemic body worship between a messiah herald and her eagerly penitent warden?

this is referenced off of 'adoration' by stephen abel sinding

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

if Crozier had a nickel for every time someone close to him kept a mortal wound secret from him he'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's definitely enough to give him some very specific trauma for the rest of his life

[evenmyhivemindisempty]

My controversial opinion about Hob Gadling is that I believe he’s absolutely the sort of guy that “puts things behind him”, and tries to wash his hands clean of the things he feels icky about. This is implied pretty well in the show, with him blithely moving from soldiering and robbery to printing, from slaving to… whatever it was he was doing in the 19th century instead. That being said, this is not at all the same as actively trying to atone, or even making a concerted effort to be a better person, and I really wish fandom could tell the difference!

[doctorsiren]

Felt like some simple painting today

[dykesynthezoid]

I think the funniest thing about scogan to me is that if you try to imagine it in practice it actually ends up much more compellingly fulfilling some of the tropes that the comics have seemingly always been trying to push with Jean/Logan. Which is just. Hilarious. Like the supposed (very old, tired, romance novel ass) dynamic they’ve often tried to push w Jean/Logan (esp in the new xmen era) is that of Logan representing some sort of… wildness or freedom to Jean’s restraint. That her “giving in” (yuck) to him is also her embracing… idk? Some sort of more natural, unrestrained version of herself and her power.

But it falls really flat with Jean not just bc of the misogyny inherent in the trope but also bc. She’s literally already done that. Like several times in fact. It’s sort of her whole thing. She doesn’t need to fuck Logan to step into her unrestrained power. She already, as a character, is supposed to be a vibrant, impossible, wild manifestation of pure creative/destructive will. (And really it’s kind of everyone else— and the writers’ latent misogyny— that keep fucking that up for her).

Scott on the other hand. Well. He kind of is the high powered female romantic lead obsessed with her job who gets sent on a work trip to a rural town where she’s forced to loosen up a little. Like for better or worse that’s kind of exactly him. He would fit alarmingly well in that sort of push and pull storyline. Which is so… good to me. That Scott, of all people, makes more sense on the cover of a Johanna Lindsey novel than Jean does. That him having that kind of dynamic with Logan actually feels way more interesting bc Scott is restrained to a fault, he is an insufferable, neurotic little headcase who would rather die than tell a waiter they got his order wrong. And yet he’s also the guy who’s admitted to actively enjoying riling Logan up bc part of him just wants to see what will happen. Which I’m pretty sure is called chemistry

[aeolianblues]

Seeing people who were openly queer in the 80s and 90s and were either ignored or ridiculed at the time getting to openly embrace their sexuality in the present day, and wrap themselves triumphantly in their flags does something else to me, I have such a soft spot for it that I could cry

[chirpsythismorning]

This is everything

cr: @hellfiresbyers

[butwhatifidothis]

I LOVED To Be a Creature, and it genuinely creeped me out to see the things Edelgard and Hubert said to Byleth (though it's the same as the game, stripped out of its voice acting and background music, the dialogue is so much more horrifying). Really makes me wonder if Edelgard's love for Byleth is genuine in any way. Do you think there's any real love there or is it just obsession?

Thank you!!! I had a feeling that placing Edelgard and Hubert's words in a context that isn't meant to make them look flattering would really let their casual racism shine, and I'm glad it's seeming like that is in fact the impression people are getting lol. SO sorry for the late answer btw 😭😭😭

As for whether Edelgard's love is genuine... I got opinions lmao.

got a bit long lmao under the cut it goes

If Edelgard felt the way she does for Byleth on exclusively SS and CF, I could maybe see how this is a "genuine" love (insofar as a love steeped in "I may hate your race but you're special and Not Like The Other Ones because I think you're special to me" can, uh, ever be genuine, in any case). But because Edelgard still feels as strongly towards Byleth on AM and VW where she quite literally never talks to them directly in any meaningful way, it becomes waaaaay more like she's just weirdly obsessed with this person who saved her one singular time ever five years ago from an attack Edelgard set up. It makes the "love" way more forced and contrived and obviously trying to squeeze tears out of the player for standing up against the cute girly trying to murder them. Or, alternatively, it makes Edelgard come off as manipulative, saying that she just wanted to walk with Byleth and it makes her so sad to HAVE to fight Byleth because BYLETH wouldn't stand by HER - and she's saying this on AM/VW to a person she's talked to in conversation a cumulative, what? Hour? Two? Maybe a few days, being nice? Over the course of, being as absolutely generous as physically possible and not counting the five years Byleth was missing... two fucking years? She's shitting herself over fighting this stranger she doesn't fucking know? Yeah, sure buddy, whatever you say - you see what I mean?

And honestly even outside of those two routes, I think it's more that she sees Byleth as being hers rather than actually liking them for who they are. A body to stand next to her and tell her how right she is and comfort her - who doesn't have the background of "I was literally raised to think this is my only purpose in life" muddying the sincerity of the brown-nosing - who also happens to also act as The Perfect Fighter and The Perfect Strategist to actively help her get what she wants. That view of Byleth being a tool doesn't really go away unless they marry her, seen by how they quite literally get nothing for all they've done for Edelgard should they go unmarried to a noble (guess they just weren't meritable enough once their use to her was done).

As well as how much more Edelgard doesn't like Byleth disagreeing with her or otherwise going against her flow than pretty much anyone else in the game - you lose supports points if you don't think the Black Eagle Strike Force name she made is good, she quickly denies the notion that Byleth isn't detached from others/emotions and insists they are just like she is, she gives them the same callous and thoughtless words she was apparently given once in her life while they are in the midst of mourning their recently murdered father so that they get over it already and get back to being useful to her (directly saying she will only reach out her hand when it's time for HER to move forward, not when BYLETH heals from WATCHING THEIR DAD DIE IN THEIR FUCKING ARMS MAYBE A WEEK AGO). She never treats Byleth kindly unless they do everything she wants, which like. Isn't love???? At all????

There's just this... weirdly possessive air Edelgard has around Byleth that always threw me off, especially with how easily she admits to have been willing to kill them so far into CF and how readily she cuts ties with them the second the fighting's done (which is particular because how just how clingy she was to Byleth everywhere else - you know during all that time Byleth had a use to her). Incorporating that into being an intentional part of her character is certainly interesting, but not in a way that's flattering to the idea of Edelgard genuinely being in love with Byleth lmao.

Personally tho, even disregarding almost everything else, the simple explanation is that I don't think you can really sit there and say you love someone while openly hating part of their racial heritage. Wild thought, I know lmao

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

STILL thinking about that confrontation from earlier. fucking. "what's up kidnapper" and forever not believing bad (and bad lying directly to his face) and then when forever tried to hug him Bad Stepped Back. and then later tonight when bad got lassoed by tubbo and bagi, bad called to forever for help first. and bad showing forever a fake cell and forever telling him that this isn't how they get dapper back and the "you can kidnap me" and bad telling bagi that he's going to keep checking on the appreciation room because forever told him too and. they care about each other SO MUCH but they trust each other SO LITTLE. can anyone hear me look at them. look at them. they've been so dysfunctional but now they're finding something closer to an equilibrium. how long will that last. they've tried and they've failed to kill each other. holding these cubes so fucking gently and then i am putting them in a glass jar and shaking it violently.

[grapejuicegay]

there's a space in my heart that is now permanently occupied by cooking crush and how much it values friendship. the very real pain of feeling left behind by friends getting into relationships and hiding them from you. ten walking in on the friend group reunion ready to ask prem out and quietly and happily walking out because that's not his moment and he respects it. metha and samsee's heart to heart about how relationships and friendships are different and both are important. metha and ten's friendship. actually just metha in general and his relationships with his friends - including samsee now because good god i love their relationship so much. this show loves friendships. this show is my friend. i love you cooking crush

[bruqh]

after ep 11 and the marriage contract reveal and seeing a lot of speculation that they are a god of anarchy (already v connected to figs character) i rewatched the scene between her and porter and zara talking about where she gets her powers from fig says about kristen (and cass) “she’s doubt, im rebellion, they go hand in hand” and brennan lays it on thickkk about fig pledging herself to rebellion would also make kristen (and cass) stronger !!!

[dykedvonte]

An independent Courier would actually hate being in charge or enforcing standards in New Vegas. At least in my mind.

They made Vegas independent but I feel like that playthrough/style so clearly makes it apparent it isn't for them. They are making Vegas a place where people can live freely, like how House genuinely didn't care what people did but without the behind-the-scenes Big Brother surveillance he did. Having every family, faction, and other influence group or person comes to them about alliances or rules would be draining, and boring, one note.

In an independent Vegas, The Courier is also Independent. They like getting rid of lines and borders that impede freedom, they like to help give people the tool but I don't believe they want to be the one to shape it.

[marshmallowprotection]

Hi, Kate! It's been a long time since I visited your blog, I hope you are healthy & happy wherever you are now🥹 I remember I used to check on your blog like 3-5 times a day back in 2021...

I want to ask tips how you can be so faithful to Saeran for years, cause me, I always want to be like that too but I always jump to one media to another and my feelings for the previous one seems like vanished🥲 I want to have a character that I can love for forever... like how do you maintain that feeling? Sorry if this question sounds so silly🥲

Hi, Anon! I hope you're doing well, too. I'm still here, and I don't intend to go anywhere else anytime soon. I'm comfortable where I am in our little fandom. I get to share my love for Saeran every day, and I could think of nothing else to make me happier than that. He's one of those characters that has interwoven his way into my heart and I just don't see that love disappearing even if the day comes that I can no longer access him the way I can now.

I think it's important to remind yourself that you're allowed to share your love with more than one character.

If you spend all of your time getting down on yourself just because you like (insert character here) more than Saeran one day, then, all you're going to do is make yourself feel bad when Saeran himself would never want you to do that. When the third day of the After Ending comes around, you can actually ask him how he would feel if you moved on from him one day because he died. He doesn't lie to you in that moment.

He says he loves you more than anything, and even though the idea of you loving another person makes his heart ache, he knows that it would hurt even more for you to never love another person if you feel that way someday. If you choose to love again, he hopes that person loves you just as much as he loved you... because you're special and he knows you're a person worth risking everything for.

He's capable of saying he wants you to be happy, but at the same time, fully acknowledging that he would prefer to be with you if the situation allowed it.

Which, that sounds like a very human and reasonable way to respond to something like that. Death, grief, moving on, holding back, and the choice to love again... it's a conversation that's hard for a lot of people in this world, and there's no right or wrong way to feel about it. So, I will be the first one to tell you, if you haven't heard it already, that it isn't a bad thing if you love someone just as much, if not more than you did Saeran.

He wants your happiness above all else. So, instead of being harsh on yourself, be more forgiving, as Saeran would be.

I have characters that I love like Saeran, you know. Saeran isn't the only character I've ever loved, and he certainly won't the be last one. I don't force myself to feel love for a character to prove anything. I just let my heart feel what it wants to feel. I don't need to justify my love for Saeran to anyone, and if my mind shifts to another character for a day or two, it doesn't change the fact that I love Saeran.

Just because you love other characters doesn't mean you don't love him. It just means your heart has a lot of love to give and receive. It's okay to love others, and it's even okay to move on if you don't feel the same way that you used to feel about a character. You'll always have the fond memory of loving them in your heart, and who knows, there could come a day when the love you felt for them comes back out in an instant—seemingly out of nowhere.

It's not that I'm faithful to Saeran, or that he's my one and only. It's that I'm willing to let myself enjoy everything that makes me happy, and not be ashamed of myself if something out there makes me just as happy as Saeran does. I hope this thought can comfort you! Because, I totally understand wanting to have a character that sings to your soul as if they're your one and only and they're the beacon in the darkness waiting for you on a stormy day.

I don't think your love disappears when you move onto a new story, game, or whatever you pick up. I think that the love you felt is still in your heart, just wanting for the right moment to spark again. Saeran's not my first love. I've loved other characters before him that I felt just as passionate about, and even though I don't talk about them as much as Saeran as far you guys see, when something reminds me of those characters—oh, boy, I'll talk in NEVER-ENDING circles about them.

If you ask me, the only advice you need is to learn that it's okay to love more than one character, and you don't need to find "the one." You might never have one character that speaks to you, you could have many, and there's nothing wrong with that. Indulge in things that make you happy, even if that means you rotate characters you love.

Because, what's helped me the most with Saeran Choi since 2016 is knowing that my love for him is a part of me and it's something that can't be erased. Don't get so caught up in trying to force yourself to stick by one character, just... live in the moment... experience what you have in your heart regardless of what it is. There is no shame in what you feel. Haha, and if you ask me, you'll have a lot more fun if you do that! I've got three love interests right now that I rotate, with Saeran being one of them.

That's three whole boyfriends, and what's more fun is I get to make it make sense by tying the universes together and... see, you've got me on a monologue now! Anon, I'm sure you'll find characters that mean the world to you! Enjoy all of them, and don't try to kick yourself if it feels like you can't find everything you need in just one of them. You get different things from the characters you love. I know I do. I wish I had a "secret" way to help you find the "one", but I think it would be a disservice to you to tell you to find "one", when it seems like you need to hear this more.