#anyway I love them both

[bensonsknuckles]

benson’s relationship with tenderness towards randy is so fraught and conflicted and it drives me insane because it’s almost all projection? like on one hand he genuinely wants to comfort and help randy, show him the softness he deserves (benson deserved). but every little pathetic thing randy does, every moment of ineptitude or weakness or submission, is either something benson sees in his past self and wants to punish or stamp out (because he’s convinced himself that showing weakness means getting hurt), or something he sees as denied to his past self, and then he’s raging because why does randy get to be soft and innocent and coddled when benson never was. he’s earnestly protective, both of randy and of what benson has convinced himself randy represents, but he’s also so angry and bitter and resentful. so he caresses randy and cries over his wounds but also hits him and controls him and like??? he’s punching a mirror the whole time????????

[cosmicharm]

You kiss me, we officially tethered What happens when you tie wild horses together?

[ziyalstan]

Quark adores Ziyal and her slave mentality work ethic

@hingabee and I were talking about quark and Ziyal's friendship and how that might translate over in my Young Ziyal AU that I'll never get around to writing.

[eclown4hire]

headcanons for koga and adonis' mums!

[fruitypieq]

Did I ever show you guys my Pony Life OC Glassy Clear

She's Dishwater Slog's sister bc I thought it would be funny to have one be obsessed with being clean while the other is. Yeah

[cosmic-walkers]

after seeing that amazing edit...I can't ever stop thinking about Wriothesely and the complexities of his character. From his prior loyalty to Thomas to his eventual loss of devotion to him, whether it be out of fear, lust for power, or both - but his unquestionable loyalty to Stephen at the very end of things. One thing I appreciate is that, in the show , Risley tried many times to help Thomas, trying to get him to make a move against his enemies (Norfolk), trying to warn him of potential threats. There were even instances where we knew Risley was probably talking to Stephen, and he still attempted to steer Thomas in the right direction but just realized he was too stubborn. Then Risley betrayed Thomas and Gregory, which negated all his good qualities unfortunately.

I don't think what Risley did to Thomas at the end of the day was right, by any means, but what I do think is that he is such a nuanced, and complicated character. and i love characters like him.

It would've been so much easier if he hated Thomas and the Cromwells, if he was planning to betray them from the very beginning but that isn't the reality. He loved them, he saw them as his own family, he enjoyed being around them and being in their presence. His heart absolutely ached for what happened to Thomas, despite being the most instrumental person in his master's downfall. It was Risley's confession - that i don't believe was actually in the show - that really pushed Thomas to be executed.

And then there is the other hand, where even in the books there is a power play between Thomas and Stephen when it comes to Risley. They both want him, they both want to use him for their own ambition, they both want to show him off to the other just to say' I have him and you don't.' One of Thomas's main reasons in the books for having Risley close, was to spite Stephen.

And then you have these instances where, as much as Risley loves the Cromwells, he questions his place in their lives. Richard and Rafe outwardly talk down on him, Richard calls him an idiot, Rafe never liked him to begin with. He mentions how Thomas laughed at him when he suggested something and you can tell he questions if this family really accepts him, or not. Or if he is just another example of a man of 'noble' birth that Thomas parades around to show that he can.

So many complexities in Risley - even down to his attire. I was never sure if it was cheetah or jaguar or leopard clothing but the point is, those are both ambush and solidarity predators. They don't fit well in groups, especially the males; they will fight and kill, and they will ambush. I always saw Risley as a person who tried to fit in with the Cromwells but realized at the end, he never had a place, so his next logical step was simply an ambush.

Another animal, at least I find him comparable to is the snake that Thomas many times references in the books. Not just the snake, but the poison that eventually catches up to Thomas. Thomas spoke about how he was bitten by a snake in Italy, but it didn't kill him, but he never knew if it was poisonous or not. However, after that, he would consistently get ill, and it was implied that the poison was killing him slowly he just didn't know when. There was something about Risley being there, like the poison festering from the snake wound, slowly undoing the Cromwell house hold, slowly sinking his fangs into the stability and that family that let him in, and then eventually, destroying them.

[bestdressedchuuya]

If I had a nickel for every time a customer brought in an extremely cool-looking snake shaped watch that wraps around your wrist, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[anna-scribbles]

so this summer i am nannying a 5 year old who loves miraculous ladybug (my dream) & every day she asks if we can play ladybug and chat noir at the park. these are some comics based on our various games<3

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[egophiliac]

everyone out of the way, this is the only thing I'm going to be thinking about from now on.

(okay, there is one more thing)

[ineffable-romantics]

Do not apologize for the long addition! (I'm a tumblr elder; that's how we used to do it in the old days, I miss it lol)

YOU GET IT.

Aziraphale is so awful at communication, even worse than Crowley is, bc he just can't seem to use his words and explain that he's trying to do this FOR CROWLEY. Not "for Crowley's own good", which is what is being heard, but "for Crowley" full stop.

It isn't about changing Crowley, it's about giving him a gift, rescuing HIM for a change, courting him. Maybe even thinking that this will leave them free to continue whatever they've finally started down here, without the ever-looming threat of Heaven or Hell behind them. But certainly it's meant to be a gift. They showed the scene of Crowley creating the stars for a reason. We needed to see him as Aziraphale saw him, happy and unabashedly joyful, so that OF COURSE Aziraphale would think he would want that back. Not listening to what Crowley told him point-blank in the Job episode: that That. Is. Not. Him. Anymore.

The Fall changed him, fundamentally. It permanently changed his relationship with Heaven, it shaped his personal philosophies, and while it hurt at the time and still does, it has also given him things like opportunities and relationships and freedoms he never would have had otherwise. And he wouldn't change any of it.

And it hurts him deeply to think that Aziraphale would, except that THAT ISN'T HIS INTENT AT ALL.

And round and round and round we go again...

The thing is, I don't think Aziraphale thinks of it as changing Crowley at all. To him, Pre-Fall Crowley and Demon Crowley are the same person, kind and fun and sweet and cool and equally beloved. So to him, there should be no difference whether Crowley is here on Earth or up in Heaven with him, he'll still just be Crowley, and at least this way they would be safe and protected.

All the while Crowley sees it as Aziraphale's long-term love and acceptance being conditional (like God's that was already ripped away), that Aziraphale has just been slumming it with him being a demon bc there wasn't anything they could do about it, and that he's jumping at the chance to fundamentally change Crowley the first chance he gets.

[ruporas]

realizing it’s mutual (ID in alt)

[thatswhatsushesaid]

jiang cheng says "son of a prostitute" within earshot of jin guangyao, 20 dead, 44 wounded

[stump-not-found]

A Lifetime Served in a Little Cup

pt.1 / pt.2 / pt.3 / pt.4

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bill, babygirl, the red flags get outta there

[bellwethers]

Boo hoo did someone use spirit magic to blow up your factory?

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?