#as if i’m not insane enough already

[ilyuu-archive]

scara with a tongue piercing. that’s it. that’s the sentence.

[jeeliebeeliegoomiebear]

On Isolde and Many Doors (and One Key)

Thinking about Isolde and how she feels like she is constantly trapped in a small cramped room full of 1 million doors. Each door represents a presence that haunts her, an identity that lives inside her that calls to her from beyond the grave, a new mask to dawn.

If every person in the world were to have a room, most would have just one door, their own. But not Isolde.

Isolde feels like an empty vessel who is only there to serve as a point of entry for other people and their spirits. She has been forced to become so repressed by her environment, upbringing, and her nature as a medium that she finds it easy to forget herself. Her “self” is not someone she has ever been allowed to know.

The room grows increasingly smaller, claustrophobic and strangling her with pressure as the amount of doorways in it only increase, every new person she meets a new doorway she is plagued with, a new voyeur who has granted themselves full access to her life and her body. Something she is now willing to let them do. It is easier that way. Easier to let someone else command her vessel, something that never solely belonged to her to begin with. An escape from all the pressure, the expectations, the perfection demanded from her. It is something she should do. The duty of someone like her. Something to hide her wretched face from view, to give the people what they want, to uphold her family’s legacy. A performance that was never allowed to end. Each new door lead right back to that.

The only exception is Kakania. The only person Isolde believes has ever really seen her as more than a host for other identities or something to mold into shape, prop up as a set piece. A perfect lady. The star of Vienna. A tragic heroine. A dangerous hysteric witch. A curse manifested. The only one who was ever interested in finding Isolde’s door and that door alone. When she is with Kakania, a new door does not appear in that ever shrinking empty room, although at first she expects it to. For the first time she meets someone and is not greeted with a new ghost to haunt her. Not a door. But a key. A key that Isolde knows can unlock her own door, even when she herself cannot find it.

[moonkhao]

hi.

[ghost-proofbaby]

so who’s gonna write a quiet place au with eddie

[ssreeder]

I'm so looking forward to iroh and zuko properly talking and seeing irohs reaction to zuko being gay.

Like we all know he doesn't agree with the fire nation rn but how will he react?

Will he not support him cause sokkas a guy? Will he not support him because it's SOKKA? Will he accept him? Will he reveal he's known for years zuko was gay?

Especially with everything that happened with zhao, regarding to what jee said to bato on their date. (Which is a very understandable perspective, zuko just got out of this very sexually traumatising situation and almost immediately starts a relationship (his first relationship) with sokka, but then again it is a very unique situation)

One thing I love about some atla fics is how they portray the FNs thoughts on queerness, cause on one hand they were one of the only country's (I think) that treated men and women the same but then again it's also the fucking fire nation.

And I also think zukos whole canon arc can be very comparative to queerness,

His dads an asshole and after speaking out against him he throws him out, and zuko try's for 3 years to regain his father's love and acceptance, and then faced with the opportunity of regaining it takes it immediately regardless of who or what he may hurt (iroh, his own morals etc) but once he makes it back home realises how fucked up everything is and eventually confronts his dad and openly tells him he doesn't agree with him then runs aways.

I also wonder if iroh secretly knows jee is queer it doesn't seem that likely to me but it also is iroh so who knows.

<3

I do think Iroh’s reaction will be a big moment for not only the story but for Zuko’s character development. Right now, Zuko’s technically still a prisoner, holding himself there by assuming Iroh will not understand or judge him when in reality he’ll never know what his uncle is thinking until they TALK ABOUT IT. (Which the FN royal family is just sooo good at healthy communication I don’t understand why this is so hard for them lol?!)

I do agree that the suddenness of the relationship combined with the intensity from both zuko and Sokka is very alarming for people looking at it from the outside (I mean we all totally get it cause we were there but others are like uhhhh hmmmm ok this might be concerning) so I get them gossiping and wondering if this is truly real or what the fucks going on with those boys.

I love Zukos canon arc because there’s just so much about zukos story that can be relatable no matter who you are and I think that’s why he is a fan favorite (it doesn’t explain why we torture him the way we do but ehhhh it’s fine haha)

Hmmmmmm does iroh know Jees gay? Depends on how saucy those music nights got ;)

[lunarrolls]

i’m finding out that i’m only invested in ships when the dynamic is made funnier when it’s romantic and oh my god that one clip of ashton staring at a human-sized orym who is suddenly taller than them and imogen immediately bullying them about it has me on the ashrym brink

[novelconcepts]

So on the one hand, TLOU is out here smashing viewing records and gaining critical acclaim all over the place.

And on the other, future seasons are gonna be helmed by two female leads, one of whom is an unrepentant lesbian.

So at what point does the unstoppable force (HBO’s affection for its newest darling) meet the immovable object (the abject inability for any service to renew a lesbian-led show)?

[unopenablebox]

i’m still so excited about alvin ailey that i started crying in the shower

[romantically-yours]

I just wanna go on dates with her

[sunnibits]

finding a new hyperfixation is so hard I just wanna hyperfixate on doctor who for the first time again

[unknownarmageddon]

hozierr

armageddon almost entirely forgets to do his daily hozier again holy FUCK

[bhvr]

i am not including nic cage in my fics no matter how fucking funny it might be to be writing fengnea and then boom nic cage in the background

[chuckecheeseshippingdiscourse]

on the subject of the off the cuff interactions and cec characters i absolutely agree!! i feel like rockstar era doesn’t have enough of those, which i feel in turn kind of makes them all seem less complex as characters. when i see the characters interact in previous showtapes it is always such a different vibe than the more modern stuff, which is a shame (talking about this because of a reblog you did a few days ago! and also this isn’t rockstar era hate, i still love these guys)

you get it

it’s wild to see mmbb featured more prominently than they’ve been in decades and recognized as a valuable IP while the characterizations are suffering as much as they are. the show format is a huge culprit. I completely understand why they’re doing it this way, it makes sense with the budget/phasing out the animatronics/current children’s media trends but I wish they would stop just dropping songs telling us what great friends these guys all are and start showing us again, lol. cec has always been about cartoonier/broader archetypes than say, the rockafire but the avenger era content managed to make them feel more like characters than just mascots if that makes any sense.

there’s so much potential! I hope they can fully tap into it eventually

[soft-serve-soymilk]

Gaslighting? In MY household? It’s more likely than you think

[georgcfan]

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[apotelesmaa]

It’s so fucked bc like. Rui never really had friends before especially not any that are as important to him as the rest of wxs so he’s so incredibly unused to basic very human emotions like loving your friends that whenever he indulges these feelings & works towards keeping wxs together he’s like I’m so selfish. As if the rest of wxs doesn’t want to stay together too. Him saying he was greedy for staying w wxs in curtain call (why don’t I want to follow Facts And Logic and pursue my goals why do I feel sad abt leaving my friends) … him saying he’s selfish for getting wxs to go freelance (I believe the implication is that he feels like he’s getting in the way of emu’s dreams as if emu didn’t choose to join them & is very happy to be there) his intense fear of abandonment/being “too much” for his friends -> guilt complex over loving his friends. (Horse on a beach dot jpeg) Man…. I don’t think he comprehends how much wxs values him (& their friendship as a group). Guy who would do anything for his friends shocked to discover they would do anything for him in return.