#anyways i agree with the message

[cookingcreatkr]

No no youre doing it wrong. Its supposed to be toxically positive

They look like they would be great at fitting into small spaces uwu. I could NEVER wear a bikini like that if i looked like that, they're so brave!! Their little sunken face is so cute, I just wanna poke it!! Oh em gee, they look so pretty with their exposed ribs!!! They're probably soooo happy they managed to look so malnurished!!

gonna start talking about skinny characters the way some of yall talk about fat characters

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: Oh, it's gonna be so cool to see how this develops. I'm excited, I'm gonna try my best. I'm not the greatest at Minecraft whatsoever, I did nerf Green Team a little bit by accident on the second day. My bad! But, you know, I'm so ready to just grind out and see what we can do, and I just–

I wish everyone saw it with the same amount of, like, kind of enthusiasm. I think all of this and all the development and all the potential arcs, that's going to fcking allow for something absolutely incredible.

And if anyone ends up clipping any of this, something I do want to say is I implore people to view everything with a lot of enthusiasm. No stress, no anxiety, just a lot of enthusiasm. Because, again, this is going to allow for a lot of cool things in the server. Not just now, but in the future, too.

[methoughtsphantom]

I want Tim!Robin and Red Hood caught in camera fighting where Tim’s being such a little shit trying to get Jason back in to the family and get him to bond, that Jason ends up throwing back “Yeah, how’s fracticide for a bonding activity?” Only Tim smiles like the little freak he is. In his mind, he is like wow he skipped steps two to five and acknowledged we’re brothers. progress.

meanwhile, Jason is screaming in frustration and shooting at him, but just missing him cause he is sorry about titans tower but that’s about it. he doesn’t like the brat, he doesn’t want to play happy family with him and he doesn’t appreciate his efforts of purposely getting in dangerous situations in front of Jason so he has to sweep in just because he feels guilty. (Tim is totally trying to get him to associate him to safety)

Jason doesn’t care what anyone says, that little menace is a manipulative little shit and he doesn’t. want. to. see. him.

Anyways the next day Jason wakes up to a bunch of headlines and conspiracies stating his sibling rivalry with Robin publicly which what. Now Jason has many of his enemies trying to get back at him via the little idiot and oh my fucking god Jason has never been so distracted as to having to keep up with bat comm than he is now. He curses everything and everyone and begrudgingly has his goons act like traffic light protection control.

Yes Jason has accidentally been given the chance to redeem himself by dealing with a problem he himself made and he’s giving himself sooo much shit for it. He literally never meant everyone to question in polls who’s now more protective over Robin—Jason’s literally mortified????to have Batman compared to him in that regard??? Jason may not like Robin at all but hell is the bar fucking low. that he refuses to let the dumbass die in the same colors he did is—is not a fucking custody battle?? what why is Vicky Vale painting it like that

Jason swears he has never hated the media more than he does now. He is constantly framed in being in a competition with Batman?? which yeah he gets a fucking kick of winning one over the asshole but he literally said it in that fucking video (the beginning of his downfall) he is the Tim’s older brother why do they have to bring Batman in the conversation?? he fucking hates him. Forget replacing him, he hates him cause now all of Gotham walks around the implication that if Robin’s his brother well then that must fucking mean he’s freaking Batman’s son??? which fucking yeah he is but—but now his goons go behind his back and update the sulking piece of emotion brick on his fucking wellbeing??? Yeah. Jason hates everything.

[xarciel]

okay, I've been putting this off for far too long. every time I see someone speculating I start to type and then decide it's too much and back out. but let's do it. let's talk about kaveh and faranak

so, here's the thing right

kaveh was a compelling character from the get go. as soon as we met him in the library in Sumeru, I was down. I was keen. I was ready to know more about this dude

and then we got to know him - we got his backstory! and I went - hmm. and oof. because kid with dead dad raised by a grieving mother is certainly something more down to earth than a lot of the other fantastical backgrounds in genshin

and then we got his character story. and we got that one fucking line.

"She sacrificed a lot raising me as a single mother"

and I had to put the controller down and go for a walk

because here's the thing about characters with a dead parent and especially dead dad backstories. a dead parent is a plot device. it's a reason for adventure, or mystery, or intrigue. or being ridiculously unsupervised. it's 'you've inherited your father's birthright' grandiose moments. it's not REAL

and the more we've gotten to know about kaveh, the more I've become convinced that someone in the writing team lost a parent young - probably a father. because kaveh and his relationship with faranak seem too real to be a fluke

I've seen kaveh and faranak's relationship described in a number of ways - abandonment, estrangement, guilt-filled avoidance - but imo none of those really match what we are seeing. because here are the facts: - faranak lost her husband young, in a tragic accident - faranak still had a young child to take care of, who needed her - faranak never had time to process the grief of her husband's passing (we know this from kaveh's backstory where he describes the way that she changed after his father's death. the way that she would cry for years after when reminded of him) - faranak never abandoned her self-imposed duties as a mother ("No matter what happens, I'll do my best to raise my son on my own.")

faranak, despite facing an overwhelming emotional situation found herself thrust in single motherhood, and she committed to it. she gave kaveh the best parts of herself that she could. she was burnt out and emotionally fraught, but it was everything she had, and she brought that dedication to kaveh every day. the best mother that she could be

and kaveh grew up with that love. with faranak's steady, dedicated presence. a good mother. but what else did he pick up inadvertently? - if you care about something, you dedicate yourself to it. you keep pushing, no matter how much it costs you - there's no such thing as quitting - emotions are something that you can squash down, something you can put them to the side and maybe dedicate some small time to feel when everything else in the world is done - caring is something you do for others, it's not something other people do for you

and then young kaveh meets young al haitham and they start their doomed thesis, and we know how that story ends

but before that, we know that faranak moved to fontaine. and we know that she did this with kaveh's blessing.

faranak, dedicated emotionally burnt out mother with no chance to recover, finally had a chance to go somewhere new, do something different; finally see something for herself outside of the duties she'd carried all of these years. and she brought that joy back to kaveh. to her son, who could see the change in her after all this time.

and faranak said - I enjoyed fontaine - I was even offered a job while I was there - maybe I'll go one day - when you're all grown up, and you don't need me any more

and kaveh felt - guilt, at his father's death, all those years ago, like maybe this was all his fault really anyway - self-loathing, at having held his mother back, every year since, that she dedicated to raising him, at the expense of her own life -determination, to be the best son he could be, by giving faranak whatever she needed from him, regardless of how it impacted him - love, for his mother

and kaveh said - I'm old enough already mother, you should go now

and so faranak went to fontaine, and finally had a chance to process what had happened to her. she finally allowed herself to pursue her own happiness, to move on and continue living her life. after years of putting kaveh first, she no longer needed to carry the weight of their relationship. as an adult, kaveh can tell her what support he needs from her now - her tired heart can rest, knowing that her son knows she loves him, and that if he needs her he only needs to write

and kaveh has continued to love his mother in the best way he knows how. by not needing her. by letting her go, and letting her live her own life. by showing her whenever they meet, whenever they write, that he's doing fine - better than fine even, great! he's a successful architect with everything he needs in life.

he was worth her sacrifice, for all those years, and now she doesn't need to worry about him any more.

so kaveh and faranak - don't talk often - barely see each other - and when they do communicate the focus is squarely on positive topics, about how their lives are now

and could kaveh ask her about his father? about her work? about her journal? theoretically, yes. realistically - with the amount of grief that blanketed their home while he was growing up, to the point that he knows more of his parents' lives through external sources - no. there is simply too much. to try and open that pandora's box is too much to bear.

so kaveh and faranak don't talk about it. they don't talk much at all, really, but that doesn't mean that she's abandoned him, or that she doesn't love him

imperfect love is love all the same

[iraprince]

Hiii, i love your stuff and kinda from a distance really look up at you for, in my perception, being able to express yourself without giving a fuck. Thats sick dude, Im so so afraid, of absolutely everything, its nice to think like i might grow into someone less apologetic of my existence. Nice to see people just being yknow

hey, thank you, this is really really nice. the secret that is probably not a secret is that i am also deeply afraid a lot of the time lmao -- but less than i used to be, and in ways that feel less stifling and self-suffocating, if that makes sense.

like, it used to be "i'm scared that if i express myself the way i want to, everyone will find me obnoxious, so let's just sand those edges down to be safe" -- now my fears are more like "now that i'm expressing myself in a way that feels natural and real, i'm afraid that it's all stupid/vapid/not worthwhile or meaningful" (<- specifically abt my art) or "i'm happy that i talk and act the way i want to now, but what if it makes me impossible to befriend," etc etc etc. which still feels bad and puts me in a funk a lot of the time but at least it's a fear that comes After/in reaction to doing stuff, rather than a fear that STOPS me from doing stuff, you know? like, it's evolved into a kind of fear that's less in my way.

anyway. i believe you'll experience something like this, because wanting to grow is the first step of growing. the fact that u hope or wish for something different means you're already on your way. to fewer fucks!! or at least distributing the fucks u give in a way that serves u better

[panicbones]

hello, is that you? come right in and have a seat :]

bonus

[yardsards]

"they never dated but they ARE exes" is such a funny relationship for two characters to have. very awkward relationship to have irl tho

[streets-in-paradise]

do you still write stories? i just downloaded this app and read some of your stories, they just so gooddd.

if you do, can you please write something about Patroclus x f!reader, like headcannons or a fic.

If you need inspo for a plot, Patroclus could fall in love with Odysseus’s daughter as they meet when the Greeks celebrate peace with trojans and they reach together Troy (because yn is the princess of ithaca) or she just waits for him to come back.

Thank you so muchhh

Hi!!

Welcome to Tumblr, and to my blog :)

Thank you so much for your kindness on my writing 💕

I am still writing fics and my requests for Troy are permanently open because there are only 3 writers in the site currently still writing for that movie: my mutuals @alysinwonderland-at-tea ( writes for all lead men), @ethereal--muse (only writes for Achilles) and me.

I write for all characters and i love cute Patroclus fics. This idea sounds so cute, thank you for sending it in!!

Actually, your idea for the plot is fantastic cause in mythology Odysseus did lead a peace mission in Troy demmanding Helen diplomatically before the war started. I can either use the Sparta settling of the movie's first peace mission or take that plot from the source and start from there.

Now that i think about it, Odysseus going like " You know what? Let me handle this" in Sparta would have made a lot of sense. It's not said in the film, but Helen and Penelope are relatives (cousins), so it would make even more sense for him to be there as mediator between trojans and spartans. Knowing his trickery, he may just go like "menelaus! i came with my family for a reunion because my wife wanted to visit yours. Ohh, you have a peace mission? I had no idea! Well, I guess I'm part of it now" * Captain Kirk pretending to be surprised meme*

This is a great start, thank you so much i'm gonna have so much fun writing this.

[agirlwiththoughtsandnegativity]

this is the only reason I don’t want hozier and taylor to even LOOK at each other…because then I’d have music snobs like this in my ts tags lmfaoo

[moodr1ng]

concerned about the number of posts from "pro shippers" and the like that get around where the argument is "if you say pedos should die youre literally a fascist and you support the death penalty" like i promise you that a lot of people say child molesters should die as an emotional statement that may come from very personal trauma, not a serious, thought-out and well-constructed statement of their personal political beliefs. ive said "pedos should die" a number of times AND i have always been firmly against the death penalty and have spoken personally on how i am refusing to employ the legal system against the pedophile who groomed me because i believe that he is no longer a threat to children based both on his current living situation and my belief that he has changed, and him getting prison time would only feed the cycle of abuse. (and im a prison abolitionist).

coming from that pov and knowing many other leftists who, in the heat of anger, will say "child molesters should be taken out back and shot" or something similar but whose actual, thought-out political stance is more like "i want reparations to victims and rehabilitation for the perpetrators, but also i dont want to have any contact with them because this is very emotionally difficult for me", and seeing 'proshippers' take that initial emotional response as proof that the person is some kind of pro-genocide fascist is.... well its disgusting basically. its tone policing survivors of csa and comparing them to fascists if they cant always act collected and nuanced about their trauma. and when you see those posts i encourage you to check ops blog and see if theyre actually arguing in good faith, or if the underlying point is actually "we should accept pedophilia".

[tteokdorokimain]

my tew cents is that you don’t have to like everyone but i think it’s kinda crazy how ppl have created block lists over split opinions and/or spread smear campaigns for people when they really don’t like someone n it’s genuinely just accepted

[famewolf]

baring my teeth at my friends when they send me nice, genuine messages about how much they care about me and replying in kind but wanting to bite something at the same time

[seventh-district]

not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go

(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)

[wannaliveattheholidayinn]

had an insane interaction on facebook

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

Thinking about my Shepard and how much more fucked up it is for a Sole Survivor Shep to be forced to work for Cerberus. Thinking about that personal quest in me1 where you find Corporal Toombs: a survivor of the Akuze tragedy that no one knew about because he was taken BY CERBERUS to be experimented on because he survived the thresher maws that CERBERUS SET UP IN THE FIRST PLACE. Yeah, apparently Akuze was a Cerberus experiment the whole time, and a Shepard who was there and survived is then forced to work for the very people who are responsible for the wholesale slaughter of his entire unit on Akuze. And they have to just act like that's okay because bioware says so. Like Shepard doesn't even mention Akuze when arguing with any of the Cerberus people. There's no option to say anything about it. I am fine.

[seriousbrat]

I think I know what you mean about Effie being "handsome", I can see her as someone like Diane Keaton or Laura Dern - or even Fiona Shaw, tbh. Olivia Coleman as well, although I wouldn't describe someone with such big doe eyes as "handsome".

I love what you came up with Hope! I also imagine her as someone full of imagination. I'll give her a pass on being a housewife because it kinda tracks that Remus needs company and attention kinda 24/7, since he can't go to school, play with neighbours, or stay with extended family.

I just want to make it clear that this is not me shitting on the stay-at-home-mum lifestyle, just expressing my frustration that:

That's the only kind of mum we see in the Harry Potter series. Except for maybe the small forgettable detail that Cho's mum works in the Ministry?

While Lyall is given a detailed career, the complexities of guilt, regret, and overcoming old prejudices for love - and even a glimpse of a post-war broken relationship with Remus, Hope's characterisation is basically "she loved her son and married a talented wizard :^)"

Yeah Hope, publish that Victorian ghost smut.

No, no, I absolutely agree with you about that! (and I know you weren't shitting on stay at home mums dw) It is very annoying to me also that we only see housewife-type mums in HP. The exception arguably would have been Tonks, who had a successful career while Remus didn't, but lmao, RIP that. (and yes also Cho's and Marietta's mothers, but obv they're not rly characters.)

Anyway that's why I love my hc that Hope was an accomplished anonymous writer of Victorian ghost smut! It fits with her housewife lifestyle and taking care of Remus, while giving her personal realisation too.

If people haven't seen Rivals I do recommend it, I strongly dislike the main relationship/character tbh it's all a bit dodgy (also he reminds me very unpleasantly of a narcissistic ex of mine. like they have the SAME face it's uncanny, and a similar enough personality so ig it was good casting.) But it's set in the UK in the 80s, a good portrait of the British aristocracy/upper middle class and the blurring between them. And Danny Dyer and Katherine Parkinson's characters and their relationship COMPLETELY made up for it. I was so invested!!! Lizzie Vereker's dickhead husband rot in hell!!!

LOL anyway, my beloved Katherine Parkinson plays a very Hope-ish character, a housewife who secretly writes smut haha. (Though I see Lyall as more of a Danny Dyer's character than her dickhead husband who should, again, rot in hell.)

Also yes I absolutely see what you mean about Diane Keaton (who is honestly a pretty perfect fancast for how i picture Euphemia) and Laura Dern. Completely agree!! Also I agree Olivia Coleman isn't quite right, she has more of a timid/frazzled air to her too, though that might just be my association with her Peep Show role haha.