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i bought 3 candles from goosecreek for myself and i am so excited!!! i got 2 candles from their care bears collection, and 1 candle from the strawberry shortcake collection.
#mads makes a text post#i'm sooo excited#i got the wish and care a lot candles (from care bears)#and the custard candles (from strawberry shortcake)#i got some candyland candles for my sister and irl bestie#and they both LOVE what i got them#the one my sister has smells soooo good lol#im also thinking about getting her and my mom candles for mother's day
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How much longer 'til your luck runs out?
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jiang cheng#wei wuxian#Aaargh...I have so many thoughts about this scene.#This is a hard goodbye. I'm not your burden to bear. Not anymore.#This is the culmination of years of miscommunication. There was so much love there. They trusted each other with everything once.#I think it is easy to hear the anger in JC's voice and consider him the aggressor in this but listen to the words not the tone.#It is anger yes - but it is an anger born out of love.#Jiang Cheng wanted him to live - damn the rest of the world to hell if that's what it took. And Wei Wuxian chose strangers over him.#Sometimes two people who once flourished together become each other's worst wounds.#A goodbye to someone you once would have done anything for is a wound you don't easily recover from.#Jiang Cheng could have stood at Wei Wuxian's side and joined him. Consider though; as a sect leader his life is not his own anymore.#JC cannot just abandon the fledgling New Yunmeng Jiang without also dooming people.#And that is the lynch pin of it all. Both of them are trapped by duty. And the older they got the more tangled the web became.#The song I linked (Hi Epic fans) is such a good JC and WWX song that doesn't fit this scene exactly#But it does fit *them*. The words of warning that go dismissed. The Tactical Genius who continues to press on.#The seeds of doubt that grow louder until they creep towards mutiny. Ultimatly this *is* a mutiny! It *is* betrayal!#'You rely on wit and people die by it'. Is that not Wei Wuxian?#Just smashing my brainworms together over here. Don't mind me.
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got a couple pieces planned for v-day but had to share this wip early 💘
#arcane#melvika#mel medarda#sevika#arcane season 2#arcane s2#(stands up) PERSONALLY i think sevika should be hopelessly in love with mel. you have to make them losers for each other#theyre both so guarded already thats what makes it goooood#add the long distance and youve got the ideal slow burn yuri full of political intrigue
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Hello ! I positively adore the running joke of Idia unknowingly finding Lilia to be the coolest guy ever whenever he doesn't know it's him, like when Silver described his father, or obviously with muscle red. I can't say what'd be funnier, Idia finding out his online best friend is actually Lilia, resident spooky hyper fairy; or them both never finding out, and it'd become even more ridiculous as time goes on. How do you think it'll play out ? You're always so on point
(Also, though it makes sense, I'm still devastated bat boy didn't get a ticket for the Halloween skeleton train : ( does anyone mentions him at some point ? Like how he'd have fit right in with all those Halloween town little freaks, and how he'd have impressed them with his spooks and scared techniques; after all he's been every Briar Valley's children worst fear on Halloween for centuries. I'm on the eng server and I didn't wanna spoil myself by watching the whole thing on youtube)
Have a nice day !
you and me both, Idia and Lilia being oblivious online BFFs (+ Idia being incredibly intimidated any time Silver brings up his jock gamer dad) is my favorite running joke/subplot. 🤝 it's SO good, to the point where I also am unsure if I actually want it to ever be resolved or not...maybe, like, as a post-canon stinger or something? everyone's standing around covered in overblot ink, and Idia and Lilia's phones go off at the same time...
(legit I do think this is part of why Idia couldn't be present for Lilia's dream, because for some reason Lilia decided he was going to just. embody his past self online. he probably quotes his own battle strategies or whatever in the middle of boss fights. Idia didn't pick up on the whole "oh how weird that we both live on a super remote island" thing, but he would spend thirty seconds listening to General Lilia describing siege warfare and be like "w-wait")
all that aside, however it does end up happening, I do see Lilia being very blasé and all "oh! cool!" about it. y'know, taking it very much in stride! and Idia...very much not.
(can't tell if tumblr is going to chew this into illegibility or not, this will be a fun surprise ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ)
as for Lilia sadly missing out on Halloweentown shenanigans...he does get one little mention as part of an offhand reference to the light music club, but so far no one has brought up how this basically is just Lost In the Book of Liliatown (Sebek's been too busy yelling about not getting to be in the same group as Malleus). 😔 honestly though, it's probably for the best that he got left out, because he would just settle right in and refuse to ever leave. canon would shatter. we would miss out on all the delightful angst of episode 7 because Lilia is too busy eating poisonous shrubbery inbetween practicing his very best screams, and no one can pull him away from it.
(I can hope for a sequel next year though...)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#gentle spoilers but y'know. just in case#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#most of the kitchen scene was jade messing with the firsties and that was so delightful that i didn't think til after#that you'd think sebek would have made some kind of reference to lilia 'i lost my tastebuds in the war' vanrouge's quote-unquote cooking#ah well. jade being mean is more than entertaining enough#looking forward to more of it tomorrow!#god. lilia and idia though.#lilia is like. genuinely idia's best friend and neither of them have any idea#and idia keeps doing that 'ha ha what if we were friends out of game too? what if we met offline? jk jk jk uNLESS...👉👈'#and then he immediately chickens out because he's so convinced that crimson will hate him if they ever met irl#(meanwhile lilia is just like 'my online bestie is so cool :) la la la')#they are both so stupid and i love them so much#i've just realized that i actually do want them to find out each other's identities#because idia doesn't just go to school with his online bff#he ALSO goes to school with his online bff's extremely supportive and extremely socially-inept kids#idia is going to get invited to dinner at diasomnia and it's going to be SO awkward#silver is going to give a long formal speech thanking him for being a stalwart comrade and trusted warrior brother to his father#as sebek stews in jealousy that idia got to fight by lilia-sama's side >:(#while idia sits there like 'all i did was link him a video about lane control for his character class'#malleus will make such an effort to learn literally anything about online gaming and he won't understand a word of it#it will be SUCH a disaster and i very much do want it now
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ROTJ ruled, as usual— it has more flaws than my beloved ESB for sure, and more than ANH, but the highs are so good and so rewarding in a way that never gets old.
One of my favorite parts this time around comes after Anakin tells Luke it's too late for him to ever go back (a belief explicitly shared by Palpatine, Yoda, and Obi-Wan, but not by Luke until that moment—and only for a little while). Luke withdrawing into "Then my father is truly dead" is always great, especially the shot of him in the lift, surrounded by taller men in Imperial uniforms with his shoulders and back rigidly straight and the warmth in his expression gone. But the thing that really makes it is not ending the scene with Luke disappearing, but letting that rejection linger by shifting to Anakin and just letting seconds tick by as he contemplates what's just happened.
He doesn't actually do much—just walks a few steps and reflects. His body language isn't overwhelmingly despondent or anything. Obviously we can't see his face. And yet we feel how hard that hit and how much he's dwelling on it. He's all but encouraged this response from Luke and yet it feels like it's really, truly sinking that this isn't at all what he wants from Luke.
He doesn't want Luke to call Palpatine (or anyone) master, I don't think; he just considers it inevitable, the only possibility other than Luke's death. And for Anakin, death above all is the thing to prevent.
Everything Anakin says is about things he or they must do, or what cannot be escaped, or destiny, but all of these things he says to Luke are ultimately about Not Getting Yourself Killed. There's no sense of choice beyond submission or destruction.
(Anakin does know he's done terrible things, clearly, but his takeaway from that understanding is that he's gone too far to turn back. That sense of powerlessness, the inability to make a choice that really means anything, pervades his characterization in ROTJ in particular.)
But I feel like, while he still feels powerless after Luke leaves, there's also this sense of a slow, half-buried epiphany. This isn't what he wants.
#anghraine babbles#anghraine's meta#cleft chins and cyborg hands#star wars#anakin skywalker#luke crying when anakin dies - luke who in rotj is so clearly the only person alive who would cry for darth vader - is so much too#and him crying out 'father i won't leave you' right before is like... both such a mirror of anakin with shmi in aotc#and the most meaningful thing that anakin could ever hear.#anakin spending his last moments accepting death/separation and trying to teach luke to accept it too - not like the pt jedi#but in a way that honors the intensity of the bond between them and the highly personal individualized love and grief they feel#but also is about acceptance. anakin's death is harder for luke than anakin himself and it's luke who's going to have to make peace w/ it.#in the end anakin did get what he really wanted. he got to make a choice that meant something and he got to see luke w/ his own eyes#(one of the edition changes i DO support: making anakin's eyes the same color as luke's as they look at each other. perfection)#but yeah - just letting luke's rejection sit with him and his obvious melancholy over it w/o a jarringly obvious indication of it?#perfect choice love it#oh and the emphasis on luke having time to /think/ about murdering palpatine and getting clearly warned about what it means#and attacking anyway... hell yeah. love beloved characters making informed bad choices.
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never gonna stop losing my mind over this scene i fear
#what we do in the shadows#wwdits#wwdits spoilers#laszlo x nadja#ladja#laszlo cravensworth#nadja of antipaxos#they're so in love i truly can't#couple of all time#gosh i'm. really happy we got this from nadja as well after his scene to her in ep5 <3#the. i love you for you not for the hero you feel like you have to be to deserve it 🥺 something just like this coded#also her mentioning his hair. so real it is one of his best qualities#and the similarites between both scenes with them bickering & sitting back to back but so close to each other still!#old married couple fr#only thing that would've made this scene even better was if they kissed fr. even in the background or something#but it's alright in my head they did#and yeah while she obvs doesn't really need it i still do think that him training the monster specifically to protect her was a lot#god i love them so much. it is i who can't live without them i fear i can't believe we only have 2 eps left :(
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Oh shuichi the traumatized bisexual you are…
#danganronpa#danganronpa fanart#danganronpa v3#danganronpa 3#danganronpa killing harmony#shuichi saihara#kaito momota#kaede akamatsu#dv3#maki and kokichi are also there in the bg but their not that important 😭😭 (sorry loves)#saimota#saimatsu#shuichi x kaede#Shuichi x Kaito#This is how i cope after v3’s ending#(SPOILER) WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE WAS INNOCENT THE WHOLE TIME#If you accidentally read that and believe you got spoiled my condolences and dont think too hard about it#No but look me dead in the eyes and tell me shuichi didnt have the biggest crush on both of them like honestly 😭😭#“Omg cuties”#Famous last words
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ANOTHER SKETCH DUMP! Featuring more of me playing with lineless art. Batman reborn era trio (dick, damian and steph) I miss you...when will you return from war. Also featuring Steph designs bc I've seen ppl dissatisfied w/ her current look, some good mom Talia, and Jason Todd poetry club. Duke is confused not that Jason would start a poetry club but that he'd have such mid poetry opinions. (ID in Alt)
#dc comics#batfamily#damian wayne#stephanie brown#dick grayson#talia al ghul#duke thomas#cassandra cain#mine#woo new art tag. please god let me keep this up all year#uhh anyway yeah! still a big backlog of sketches but i got burnt out which means i had time to collect some#i feel like my art looks. extremely different w/o lines compared to with? idk i worry that's it weird/off-putting#but hey at the end of the day I'm hardly worrying about my brand integrity on tumblr dot com#duke and cass being at poetry club is based on them canonically being into poetry and for a good while duke and jason got along well#Steph is there for both jason and cass' emotional support (unfortunately there's a design flaw. she can't do both simultaneously)#(which is fine bc cass is fleeing the scene at the idea of having to casually hang out with jason)#(they're the exact amount of similar and more importantly different that it's like putting two firecrackers together. bad)#i really like the steph mask designs... it'd be fun to do something with them but idk what y'know?#I'm just like. if we're assuming that her mask has to be different from both babs and cass then this is what I've got as alternatives#i mostly wanted to practice character interaction with the talia and damian one... and also i love them#looking at james gunns batman movie proposal. you keep your hands OFF HER MR GUNN#please if shes evil in a movie they're never gonna let her be good in the comics again 😭#dc when you inevitably cave and do your next big reboot let the ppl finally have the son of the demon origin (w/ tweaks of course)#idk it's canon in my heart. heartcanon if you will <3#anyway yeah uhhhhhh enjoy?
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I'm also having a lot of fun with this game!!
#tloz#a link to the past#I both put so little and too much effort into these#no effort into the starting stage and way too much effort trying to make it somehow work out#it's fun to work like that!#it kinda helps with the stuck feeling since I get to jump straight to what would normally feel like the finishing touches sdhisu#link#zelda#my art#I sure do have a lot of thoughts and impressions of them considering how minimal this game is... (extremely affectionate)#Link's outfit looks like that bc I've gone outfit crazy in totk and I got bored of drawing the plain green tunic for smth else#I wanted to just look at the sprite and do whatever but I love this Zelda outfit too much to touch it too much dfskfu#that was so many tags... maybe nature is healing.... (me)
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watching the sdcc panel and i am just very :) about how sweet their answers to “what are some of the micro moments from the game that have stuck with you the most over the years?” are. taliesin saying what the fuck is up with that which was the first like The Party Gets To Know Each Other moments of c3. travis saying asking his wife if he could kiss her in campaign. marisha going way back to the cannonball competition in campaign one. ashley choosing the beauyasha date but also just the silly goat noise matt made. liam adding onto that to compliment matt roleplaying grass so well and then saying his favourite moment was writing a story for laura and reading it to her as caleb for jester. and then matt saying that was his answer, and that his favourite moments of the game are when they find ways to give gifts to each other whether tangible or not. and sam saying his favourite moments have less to do with the story and is more so when he can just. see his friends across the table from him. when marisha perches and when laura and ashley are (badly) drawing dicks and liam saying he loves when sam sneezes and ashley tells him to stop it and just. yeah. they Are an extremely popular online powerhouse, but i’m so happy that they’re also friends building a world together out of gifts to and love for one another.
like i Am so enamoured with the characters and the world of exandria but the moments when you can feel the love that those people have for each other reach out from behind the stained glass of their performances (to steal a metaphor from brennan lee mulligan) are so extremely special and i am endlessly grateful that they decided to share their silly little home game with the world.
#it’s just the. laura and travis’ characters always being supportive of one another when they’re facing hardship#taliesin and marisha consistently making characters who challenge one another and still protect each other relentlessly#all of them being so fond of ashley’s characters always and literally seeing them light up in c1 episodes when ash got to join in person#sam and liam always making characters who offer one another reprieves into kindness that they don’t always get in the campaign setting#liam making orym after falling in love with keyleth as vax#marisha making laudna after matt’s storytelling with delilah and choosing vex as her body double#ashley using ‘i would like to rage’ and matt having kord ask her where she finds her strength#laura and matt always weaving these deeply complicated and emotional interactions between a daughter and a father#the gasps and yells and clapping when matt makes cool sound effects or reveals a map or breaks/ends on a cliff hanger#them ending both campaign 1 and 2 with ‘what a great/nice story’ and travis saying ‘let’s do it again!’#and it’s like. yes yes i love the comics and i’m a fan of tlovm but . seeing this well produced thing that somehow mimics#the feeling i get sitting in my living room laughing with my roommates about my ranger’s giant rat failing to climb stairs#it’s very special it’s very sweet#critical role#sdcc 2023#taliesin jaffe#travis willingham#marisha ray#ashley johnson#liam o’brien#matthew mercer#laura bailey#sam riegel#cr cast#critical role cast#my posts
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Tl;Dr - I stopped playing the game but I like the characters and I wanna draw them but idk if the wiki I use is up to date for cards
Do u know any wikis that have up to date cards for all the twst characters-
Asking specifically bc of Malleus cause I can't tell anymore if he has any more new cards bc HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A 100 DISNEY ANIVERSARY CARD IN THE WIKI I USE 😭
Like compared to everyone else in Disanomia, he has 12 cards (in the wiki I use) and then Lilia has 17 cards 💀
Cause I think Malleus has a Bean's Day card as well, but that could just be a fanmade one, I don't have JP twst nor ENG twst anymore so I can't confirm it myself urhghrhevw 🫠
Malleus doesn't have a Beans Day card, so that would've been fanmade! and the 100 anniversary cards are actually the new round of birthday cards, so most of the characters don't have 'em yet -- Malleus should be getting his in a couple of days, when his birthday event starts! oh god my keeeeeys
I think the wiki.gg stays pretty up to date? it looks to me like they have everything that's currently up through JP, at least. :O I did go through and do a quick count just because I couldn't believe Malleus only had 12 cards, but. he really does have the least...defeated only by Silver with 13...astonishing. we need his gargoyle club wear immediately.
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#...maybe? tenuously? i have no idea#i think lilia and floyd are tied for the most at 18 each#twst loves the chaotic gremlins#granted card quantity is separate from card rarity/significance/whatever#i remember all of us losing our minds when vargas camp 2 came out and trey FINALLY got an event ssr after a million years#anyway i am looking forward to the upcoming magift cards and all don't get me wrong#but i am VERY VERY excited to see what the gargoyle club wear looks like#i NEED to 1) know what malleus thinks gargoyle fashion is and 2) see him in it#jade is also in a weird club by himself but at least that. y'know. has a gear theme and everything.#tangentially i do sometimes think about the fact that malleus and jade are both in single-member clubs#despite how in...i think lilia's robes story the music club was in danger of disbanding because they only had three members#although i do genuinely believe that crowley is too scared of both jade and malleus to tell them they can't have their clubs#so y'know. it tracks.
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Y’all I’m literally never going to be okay about Simon and Betty.
Simon realising that their whole relationship he hadn’t been examining why Betty always followed him because he was too focused on his love for her and not what she really needed. Not what they both really needed.
The devastating parallel of Betty being so blindly in love with Simon that she willingly and unthinkingly always put him first. And Simon being so blindingly in love with Betty that he saw her being happy and so never thought to fucking question whether those were the right decisions to make. Enabling them every time because they were in love and that was what she wanted, right? She wanted to be with him. She loved him. She was happy. So why would he think it should be any different?
And Betty reassuring Simon that she made her own choices. That he didn’t hold her anywhere. That he never forced her to be with him, or put him first. That she made those decisions and that she didn’t have any regrets. But that they both had to let this go because as long as they were focused on each other neither of them were ever going to be able to have the life they needed.
That they had both been trapped for so long carving pieces of themselves out for other people. Betty in her blind devotion when it came to Simon. Simon in his belief that his crimes as the Ice King, and that all the ways he had let down Betty, meant the only purpose and worth he could have was in sacrificing himself for others.
That they both deserved self-possession and the ability to find autonomy and actualisation as individuals. That they deserved to make their own choices, the good and the bad, and just live without the blind devotion, and guilt, and sacrifice that was going to trap them in this loop forever.
That they meant everything to each other, but that now they needed to mean everything to themselves. That the only way forward was on different paths, but that they both deserved that. That they were able to show each other that they deserved that.
That Simon gets to live now.
I will never be okay about this show. Or these two.
#fionna and cake#fionna and cake spoilers#simon petrikov#betty grof#simon and betty#i am not okay#but I’m also fucking so happy that this is how the story ended for them#that they got to break the cycle and just fucking live for once#that there wasn’t a blame game or resentment or hatred#just an understanding that they loved each other#but that they way they both loved each other wasn’t what they needed#that letting go was the only way forward#but that they had no regrets#that the time they had was so fucking meaningful#but that it was time to move on#it was time to live
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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09
You know, back at his place, I heard your heartbeats.
#Daredevil Born Again#Karedevil#Karen Page#Matt Murdock#ddba spoilers#Daredeviledit#Daredevil Spoilers#Not Revolution#GIF set#Mine#Turnabout is fair play I guess.#But that was not the answer she was looking for.#This is what happens when your type is emotionally unavailable men.#I think it was deflection at first.#And she said it without thinking about how that would sound.#And then she couldn't take it back so she prompted him for an answer.#And I doubt she knew what the f**k she wanted him to say.#Because they tried... sort of... and it blew up and as if she'd want to go there again and he's seeing someone and it's fine.#There is something fun about two people having a conversation where the real conversation is between the lines.#Alot of Karen's scenes with Frank are very straightforward and direct and the complete opposite of this.#And I enjoy the idea that Karen and Matt have to find a way to be partners without Foggy there to make it platonic.#Because I don't think they're *in love* or anything but the connection is strong and their dynamic could turn into ANYTHING.#It's got no limits (maybe it should). And I think it catches them both off guard sometimes.#Also I think the writers like playing with the pairing. But they don't want to commit.#(I'm also 1000% fine that they didn't even let Frank and Karen touch hands. OR HUG. But Matt's getting forehead kisses.)#Also the subtitles say 'Yeah?' but I could almost swear she says 'And?'...
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Mmmmm
"Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.
A Steddie break-up fic where Steve, hopeless romantic Steve, is in a whirlwind romance with Eddie. And Eddie who finally gets his big break and plans to leave Hawkins in the rear view. It starts slowly, just little things Steve doesn't take to heart: Eddie getting distracted in the middle of a cuddle session or a kiss or even sex, Eddie pulling away quicker (but he's still loving on Steve so he doesn't really care), maybe cancelling more on their date nights or claiming that he's got plans already made with the Corroded Coffin boys.
And then the space between them just gets bigger and bigger and bigger, and Steve is left behind in the dust. Abandoned again. He's always looking to Eddie, but Eddie's not looking back. They're arguing more. There's a knot, a strain weighing on their relationship.
When Steve begins to pull back, Eddie barely puts in the effort to keep him tethered. And Steve, gullible and hopeless romantic Steve, lets Eddie get away with it. Because any attention is better than none. Even if he's going to bed alone every night, waking up to a going cold space beside him. Even if he's biting his fist during an argument, saving the tears for a quick shower. Even if he has to choke back on his emotions, because any big outbursts he thinks will push Eddie further away. Will spiral them out farther.
But then Eddie just abruptly leaves. Leaves their life, their friends, Hawkins as a whole. And Steve has to get his number through Wayne, who thought the boys were still together.
And it's not until Eddie answers with a, "Hello? Oh—hold on, babe, somebody's on the phone," that Steve finally puts two and two together. They aren't even dating anymore. He hangs up before say anything.
Eddie's left with the distant sound of somebody breathing on the other side and the dial tone. Never to hear from Steve again.
...anyway!
#stranger things#steddie#steve harrington#eddie munson#angst#break up fic idea#I don't know if this would be an unhappy ending though if I wrote it...I don't think I can do that to my babies#I think they wouldn't talk to each other for a very very very long time. Like more than fifteen years worth of time.#But maybe Steve follows Robin out to California. Something about college and queer scenes or whatever#And he's in a queer bar with Robin#except she's abandoned him for the night to mack it with a girl in the corner of the club#he's tumbling outside to have a smoke. except he turns the corner out the door and bumps into somebody.#somebody who is a very very very healthy and attractive and obviously happy eddie. also having a smoke#and steve lets eddie light up their cigarettes#and they stand next to each other in mutual silence#steve is there contemplating them as a whole#until he promptly bursts into tears. still trying to stifle the way he used to when they were together#and all eddie can do is offer up his bandana. offer to wipe his cheeks#and it sends steve spiraling because eddie is still so sweet and gentle. even if they're total strangers now. even if they're fucked over#and then steve makes a dumb decision to get tipsy with eddie and they go back to eddie's and do y'know what#and he wakes up the next morning completely nude in eddie's bed. next to eddie who's got reading glasses on and reading#something completely domestic and warm#and steve decides he's had enough and asks if they could talk. if they could hash it all out. and that he'd leave afterwards if it's all ba#and eddie immediately is ready to listen. because he knows he deserves whatever steve has to say to him.#somehow it ends with the both of them crying. eddie profusely apologizing. yada yada yada#kiss kiss fall in love 2.0
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Sleepover with bestie
previous // next // beginning
#this is filler and it’s fucking ugly but whatever#I needed Lennon and pansy together for the next part#sims 4 screenshots#the sims 4#sims 4 gameplay#sims 4 legacy#struckbylovelegacy#struck by love legacy#sbl gen2#sim: pansy hills#sim: lennon marlowe#remember when they had a sleepover as kids...#the other girlies are living there lives meaning they both got married and had kids#these were not what I wanted for this but im not retaking them#im a lazy bitch and im uninspired#gen2
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I think a lot about how Sophie and Parker both had male mentors who saw them more as tools than as people, and how so much of their defining characterization comes from how they took (and mastered! and improved upon!) the skills of their mentors but rejected the way they were taught by those mentors to interact with the job. Parker was taught to work alone and save herself first and always. Sophie was taught to push away any and all emotion.
And it's their choices — including choosing Leverage — made all the difference. We actually see them become greats because of it? People from Sophie's past — when she wasn't even fully formed as a criminal — know that Sophie’s the only one who can take Ramsey down — and she does. From what we understand, she’s one of the few who was able to stop working for him, albeit at great personal cost to herself.
And Parker!!! The greatest thief in the world! The mastermind to lead Leverage into the future! Parker not only carves out a space in a family who carves out a place for her — but also her ideology is just so compelling that she does change Archie’s heart and mind just by being her. And she didn’t even set out to do that.
It's not even like they both stop at finding better situations for themselves. Mentorship is shown to be a factor in both women's backstories more than anyone else on the crew we've seen...and so I don't think it's a mistake that Sophie and Parker both are shown to have become fantastic mentors in their own right?
How many times have we seen Sophie encourage someone to lean into their emotions or empathy during a job, as a superpower? How comfortable have we seen Parker become helping team members with work and relationships?
Leverage is a show about found family, which means that it acknowledges that people not of your blood can hurt you as much as help you. Sophie and Parker were significantly shaped by people they were not related to, and that also means that they inherited those intergenerational curses.
And despite being such different people, they both break those intergenerational curses so magnificently in ways that only they can? What a treat to watch.
#there is of course a feminist lens to read this through and one should#but it is not the only way to read this#this is a story about taking what works for you and leaving the rest#and becoming better than those before you#and building up those after you so that they can be even better#and they both do this#(I would also argue that parker breaks intergenerational curses she got from sophie and nate but that's another post)#and once again I'm thinking about how sophie and parker are such different people#but share more in common in background than one realizes at first#their choices make them who they are#parker#sophie devereaux#leverage redemption#leverage#theft as a love language
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