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[ruemcclane]

I have entered RevPit on lucky Friday the 13th >_<

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[bumnyv]

'And it was an odd thing, resting his hand over Nico di Angelo's. In a sense, it was as if he were formally resting with the boy in the darkness of a coffin.'

Do yourself a favor and go read Leo Valdez & The Olympians: The Ceaseless Eve by @rosesradio

Ok? Ok.

Please, it's so good.

[hes-a-tough-kid]

[ritens]

[Drifter Lane] spoonful of void sugar

[winters-rose-daughterofcain]

I've been trying to phrase things eloquently and I really can't so here you go. Part two really felt like it was trying have its cake and eat it as well in a lot of ways, and it really didn't work.

You give Cressida a whole redemption arc and friendship and put her in an impossible situation and humanise and make you sympathise with her, then want me to hate her again?

You show how Pen uses LW as a coping mechanism and how it's not good for her or those around her and not have her drop it?

You want LW revealed to the ton but no real consequences?

You double down on how Pens family treat her only to have them all come together and be forgiven at the end?

You sideline Colin in his own damn season and butcher Penelope so badly I almost wanted less of her as well?

You can't have everything. Not in such a short time span at least, and it really suffer from it. If you wanted to give Cressida more depth and expend on her role why was she tossed away like nothing at the end? Why did Eloise abandon her? Why was she treated as awful in part two after being put in an actual horror show of a situation? I know they needed the blackmail plot but you can't just give her depth, make her the antagonist and then drop her storyline in the drain that's not how that works. That's not complexity that's laziness, and laziness they created mind you.

They didn't have to write Cressida the way they did this season, if they wanted to make it easy they could have had her marry off screen between seasons to a rich man, they could have had Eloise befriending her be a mistake and had a different arc there, they could have had her LW claim be for any number of reasons, and her blackmail because she still has it out for Penelope. They added this to the story, and as much as I was sceptical at first (I have seen far too many botched bully redemptions) I was glad they did it aded a lot of depth and character interaction, it created some interesting parallels between Cressida and Penelope and seeing Eloise in a different, less intimate friendship with someone who, ironically, is a lot more open with her was interesting. Incomplete, but interesting. It was good, or it could have been. But you can't just turn like that and have it still work. You can't just have Eloise abandon her and have it treated as the right thing to do. You can't leave her with that ending and consider it a happy one. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You didn't create a complex antagonist, you created a scared lost girl who was cruel because she was taught to be and you left her to burn.

You could have had Penelope and Cressida talk to each other, could have explored the ways the mirror and the ways they differ. You could have had Penelope struggle, but untimely empathise with Cressida and help her out, she could have forgiven her for her years of torment because she of all people understands why she did it. You could have had her forgiveness mirror Colin and Eloise forgiving her for LW. You could have looked at how Cressida's openness helped her friendship with Eloise and how Penelope might start to incorporate it. About how by nature of Cressida's openness Eloise is learning to see other perspectives and listen more even if she still has work. You could have done so much with female friendship and camaraderie and empathy and you just... didn't.

The Lady Whistledown this season was just... I think I have a thesis which is most of my thoughts on Polin.

Whistledown was meant to be the subplot to the Polin storyline, not the other way around.

Putting aside my own wishes to have her end Whistledown for her character and for her and Colins relationship, and her love of Colin, her continuing it isn't unexpected I was afraid of this and thought it might happen even if it's lazy. If that was it and if it was handled better I think I could begrudgingly live with it. But it's not. Not only was it handled so so poorly it was the whole second part and for what? Part one was Polin. Part two was Lady Whistledown drama with some cute Polin moments sprinkled in-between with some mandatory angst. Tell me the resolution to Colins arc now. Quickly. You can't he didn't have one, we barley even saw him through Episode seven and eight. There is so much romance in your purpose being the person you love, IF and only IF, it's reciprocal. Penelope literally says in season two, when she has been Whistledown for over a bloody year that she hasn't found her purpose yet. They were meant to find each other. To both have their writing as their passion and creativity and fulfilment, not Whistledown, but her manuscripts, his stories from around the word their joint and secret words. But their centre, their purpose, their guiding light was always meant to be each other. It's what kept Penelope sitting at that window, it's what draw Colin to her at every ball. They had all the potential and set up to be the most beautiful, genuine, heartfelt relationship. But no.

Colin deserved to be angry. The woman he loves has lied, has hurt him, has his from him after all the times he was venerable with her and so, so much more. They deserved to argue. Penelope deserved to be more upset over this than crying in the moment and walking past him later. That's the man she loves, who she thinks hates her, who she know if he did hate her she would deserve it and she wouldn't blame him for a second. They deserved time and space and Colin deserved explanations and apologies. They deserved a later, happier wedding, they both deserved to have their feelings heard and said and listened too. Is that not the core of their relationship? Listening to and seeing each other? Would that not lay the groundwork for some really good well earned conflict and a really rewording resolution? The groundwork was all there that's what's killing me. The set up was all there for something so good which is why I was excited. I know screen time is limited, I know there is only so many emotional conversations you can have on screen, but Bridgerton primarily just people talking on conversations, when it's there bloody season surely they can space out the conversations that need to happen in a way that works with pacing. And to be honest, the screen time defence only works when the screen time that they did have was allocated well. And I'm not taking subplots. Even if I think a few could have been trimmed, the screen time Polin did get was just used so so badly. Colin got dust and that didn't even feel like Penelope had the time, just a mouth piece for the writers.

Rapid fire stuff because I need to expand on the above in more detail later lol.

The acting was flawless give everyone on that set their flowers.

I really like the Mondrich's and seem to be the only one who likes seeing them lol, their sweet and always a good time they just need a better storyline, or you know, one that actually has a resolution.

Not what I would have done for Benedict and I still want to see him look at art again but let's hope season 4 is better lol.

Don't like the way Penelope's family stuff was done, specifically Portia but it is what I thought would happen. Disappointed but not surprised. I'm biased tho so I won't speak on it too much. I lose too much objectivity.

Hate hate hate the baby thing tho, it was fine as a subplot with her sisters but her having the boy was predictable and also dear god the girls nineteen for fucks sake. No. Hated that.

Francesca the absolute love of my life. I adore her and John, I liked the conflicted with Violet, loved everything about her storyline this season she was perfect, my favourite part honestly lol. Also Michaela Stirling get behind me NOW. Sapphic Bridgerton fans truly are the bravest soldiers cause istg. Also I don't trust this fandom with any actor or actresses period but especially not a Black actress who's "ruining" your favourite storyline. So I will be greatly enjoying everything I see of all three of them Francesca John and Michaela, while watching with a sharp eye for any bullshit.

Kate, also the love of my life it was so lovely to have her back even if just for a bit. Wish they did more with Anthony especially him and Colin tho, but again, wasn't expecting much more. I do wish they would write them out with a bit more subtly tho it's getting almost funny how obvious it is.

The Violet, Marcus, Lady Danbury plot I didn't actually mind. Could have been trimmed a bit but it was good seeing the adults in more depth, I haven't watched queen Charlotte tho so I kinda feel like I missed some things.

Overall, I liked certain parts of this season I really did, especially if I fully ignore the context, and I'm happy for everyone who enjoyed it truly, but it was have an entirely different ending in my head. I'll definitely write about at some point but who knows if anyone wants to see that lol.

[jays-doodle-spool]

realized i never posted this

this was just an attempt to improve on two things im not great at: backgrounds and digital painting

[dean-you-assbutt-cas-loves-you]

I was trying to reblog this post where someone was looking for fix its and tumblr didn't publish the post and I lost the whole thing so making a whole new post

This Impossible Happiness by FriendofCarlotta

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59253775

50k, dean in heaven, The Winchesters, multiverse

Don’t Tell Me That Your Love Is Gone by GarrisonsLilAngel

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29386446

13k, dean keeps getting hurt and almost dies, soul bond

You Will Be Loved by startswithf

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46520506

22k, established relationship, stanford era!dean time travel

Proverbs 13:12 by starlingcas

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40340370

16k, dean and cas get stuck in a tree

A Long Road Back by allthismusic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42420903

41k, dean trying to have a life and find purpose after losing cas

Amen (Let it Be So) by vibesandwonders

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29908482

52k, cas gets saved from the empty but he's not quite right

Cowboy Like Me by Goth-Bias (GothBias)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32556049

55k, jack saves cas from the empty

stay by thisisapaige

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28945671

15k, dean in heaven

Cas, it’s an expression. For Christ's sake, Google it! by Say_It_In_Enochian

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40588902

20k, cas lives in the bunker after getting saved from the empty

Sing Me to Sleep by slipper007

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29530674

26k, dean saves cas from the empty

that's how the light gets in by allthismusic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36182524

11k, dean saves cas from the empty

whisper your name without making a noise by deancaskiss

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42881913

12k, dean saves cas from the empty, mute!dean

ascend by quiettewandering

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27823678

53k, dean saves cas from the empty

the home we make together by vaudelin

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35417089

48k, dean saves cas from the empty, angel possession

Everywhere by loversantiquities

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44923165

30k, cas finds dean in a rehab facility due to drug addiction

I'd Search Forever Just To Bring You Home by AngelWithoutAShotgun

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29611152

25k, dean saves cas from the empty

enjoy!

[hopelessfandomfreak]

what if….I were to write a multi chapter agathario fic….and actually see it through??

[batsplat]

In fact Open is a mandatory book for vr46 boys :)

ohhhhhh thank you!! that is SUCH impressive archiving, I'm always in awe of how much material you've amassed. and very based of them, big W for italian motorcycle racing. it's a great book!! I love that they've read it! there's a lot of sports autobiographies that take care never to stray from the generic when telling their stories... but this one has so much character that even knowing other professional athletes have read it makes me want to quiz them about what they thought

seeing as I've been given an opportunity to proselytise about this book, here is how it opens:

it's a book about having a deeply complicated relationship with the thing you've been forced to dedicate your whole life to, about being in constant pain and asking yourself if it's really worth it, about never having been given the time and space to develop properly into your own person... about hating tennis and never quite being able to walk away from it. the misery of winning and the refusal to countenance losing. the burden of having the whole world narrativise your career and your life, denying you the chance to do so for yourself, of being constantly judged and being constantly found inadequate. about rivalries!! having your whole career ending up being inadvertently defined by One Guy who you just don't really understand and who you can never escape

what agassi does is put words to a lot of the underlying narratives and themes of sports that other athletes also come into contact with in one way or another but are far less capable of articulating. you'll be hard-pressed to find another book that captures the humanity of sports so well, its twisted appeal and why it's so compelling

like,, idk there's so much going on in that book that when I find out another athlete has read it, I do want to basically go through it with them chapter by chapter (obviously I have a full set of notes and a highlighting system with one colour dedicated just to the sampras rivalry, so I'm well prepared for this task). it's cool that they've read it! good healthy interest in sports narrativisation on their part. in this post I brought up one of my favourite excerpts from the book when discussing the vale/casey rivalry -

- and idk, this kind of thing is just so fun and interesting you kinda want to go around and get everyone's thoughts on it. also obviously on a personal level,, enjoy the motogp guys, adore agassi and that whole era of tennis, so it's a fun crossover for me specifically. yay

btw, a new interview with agassi was published in the nyt a few days ago that I'd defo recommend to anyone with even just a passing interest in the sport (once you scroll past the bits about the worst event in tennis). starts with the line “as far apart as you are on a tennis court, you can actually feel the other one very intimately". even when he's delving more into the nuts and bolts of the sport, he just kinda gets how to explain it in a way that taps into the fundamental narrative appeal of what you're watching

oh yeah that's the good stuff

[chaos-has-a-tmblr-now]

Thinking about the fact that in G1 when Megatron was thrown into space by Starscream, Soundwave made an attempt to claim leadership and if he had won, he would've made Astrotrain return to rescue Megatron. (And also the fact Starscream won by shooting the winner on the back)

I'm like 80% sure he was just waiting for Megatron to return and kick Starscream's aft like he always does (because come on, it wasn't the first murder attempt he's gone through) and just sitting there like, “Yeah, I bet he's coming back aaaany moment now”. And he sortof did, but it wasn't Megatron anymore.

Imagine how devastating it was when he realized the fact that he had the chance to rescue him, the fact he trusted too much in fate only to have his routine and plans completely crushed because the literal equivalent of space Satan (Unicron) got hold of Megatron's broken frame and spark.

Like, is even Galvatron the same person? Because despite sharing body and soul, he seems so upset whenever adressing the past of the Decepticons or “himself”. So practically he's a new mech in the end, even if he were to hold all memories of Megatron.

Thinking about how despite all of this Soundwave just blindly follows, even though it's clear that Galvatron has lost any resemblance of strategy or battle/war intelligence. The guy is pretty much just an overgrown crazy power-hungry dictator, and that isn't so different from G1 Megatron, but come on.

Do you think they would ever talk about it? Because I just know that Soundwave would not. The guilt and fear of confirming his thoughts about Megatron feeling alone, abandoned and betrayed by him the few moments he had left before Unicron's arrival would make him simply not want to ever mention it. And Galvatron either doesn't seem to care nor remember, so why would he bother?

Ugh the potential for heavy angst between them in G1 is so good, y'all missing out.

[lowkeiloki]

been having a lot of fun with blockbench in the past few days, i made a few animals i wish were in minecraft (im not good at colouring in mc style so they remain flat coloured)

some info abt the mobs under the cut

so we know minecraft is an enviromentalist game and has been prioritizing interracting with mobs without killing them and i feel like tumblr is the only safe space where i can say i agree with that, so no useful loot dropped upon killing any of them, youre gonna have to be nice

River otter

neutral (will only attack back once like pandas)

spawns in small groups in rivers

can be bred with eggs

sometimes spawns holding a nautilus shell which it will happily trade for some salmon

hostile to tadpoles, baby turtles and drowneds

definitively tied to an achievement that has a cheesy "otter" pun in its title

African penguin

passive

spawn in groups on stony shores

can be bred with raw cod

will lay eggs as blocks like turtles, always lay two eggs

occasionally will dig through a gravel block if they find any nearby, pulling out an item, it's mostly something unamusing like sticks or flint, but rarely they might find pottery sherds or iron nuggets

Puffin

passive

out of the existing biomes, i think stony shores would be most fitting for them to spawn in, but i'd like to propose a new biome, cliffside (tall steep mountain right by the sea) it would look something like this

also would like to propose a new fish, sandeel (might make a model of them) which can be fed to puffins to breed them

if fed enough raw cod or salmon, the puffin will sit on players shoulder

when sailing with a puffin on shoulder, the boat speed will increase, regardless if in water, on land or on ice (thought that might be a more practical version of the proposed penguin function)

Pine marten

a rare mob that spawns in old growth taigas

passive, will run away from the player on sight

can be made trusting by feeding them apples, trusting martens will not run away and will follow a player holding apples or either kind of berries (which they can also be bred with

bringing a trusting pine marten to a village will increase the amount of emeralds gotten in a trade (this may sound random, but its actually a reference to their cultural significance in croatia)

hostile to chickens, rabbits and baby turtles

Red panda

passive

spawns in bamboo jungle

can climb bamboo and doesnt take fall damage

hurting a red panda near villagers will make them do angry particles like with giant pandas

can be bred with bamboo

by this point i had a hard time thinking of a function, but aparently they need to have one or else minecraft players get angry (because cuteness and whimsy is not enough APARENTLY /j)

will occasionally break a bamboo block theyre holding onto, but they never break the bottom block so the bamboo keeps on growing (could be used for bamboo farming)

Lemur

neutral

spawns in small groups at treetops in jungles

hostile to any kind of illagers and scare off ravagers

can be bred with pumpkin pie

dance to music discs (i mean obviously)

Albatross

passive

spawn rarely over cold and frozen oceans

if fishing with an albatross flying nearby, the player will get a status effect that increases their chance of finding rare loot (it stacks with luck of the sea)

can't be bred

Whale shark

i can somewhat understand mojang not wanting to add sharks because they dont want to encourage kids to kill it by making them hostile, nor to encourage kids to interract with sharks by making them passive, but a whale shark is RIGHT THERE

passive

spawn in deep warm oceans

will consume any floating item they encounter

after consuming a certain amount of items, they make kelp, seagrass and corals around them grow

can't be bred, but might spawn as pups

[shesmore-shoebill]

putting maybe an unreasonable amount of thought into the logistical question of "why is no one else coming into the greenroom during this fic and why are they sure of that" considering the amount of fics (that i fucking love) that have people fully fucking in said greenroom that i would have never, in my life, questioned the logistics for.

[spandexinspace]

I know it's favouritism but Zevran and Fenris being excluded from the Veilguard choices in particular is just annoying. There are others who feel like they should be relevant too, but those two are just straight up physically there sticking their hands dangerously close to the plot in a lot of cases.

[leavethepuddle]

I have not even attempted to write fic since middle school and now twenty years later myatb has compelled me to write 1000 words of porn. who am i. who is this show turning me into.

[lollytea]

I really love hope is a thing with feathers and I also really LOVE the hope as a sewer rat poem too but I wish it was not explicity written as "well actually" against Dickinson asgvsjnk. The imagery is SO GOOD but this whole vibe of "my metaphor is better than your metaphor" kinda sours it for me

[silvernyxchariot]

I can take him.

In a fight. And not in a fight. ( ͡°ω ͡°)

How my Genshin break and HSR binge is going:

This fight was easy. I'm a little sad I had to change up from my first team comp because I took out Ratio and Tingyun, but Harmony Trailblazer had to be added. This team still got the job done, just not as quickly. (Honestly, HSR is easy to play, but people just actively choose not to read. 😑 Or be patient. The hints, tips, and weaknesses are right there.) My Himeko and Serval were barely built during this fight too. Ma boi, Aventurine though✨; E1 with his signature light cone, ofc. . . Don't look at me like that; my Gepard would have been just as useful as the sustain if an Ice type was needed in this fight.

Funny enough though, I started playing HSR thinking I would be an Erudition main because I liked Serval so much, but Gepard came swinging in as my first 5 star like, "Yeah, no. My sister can't handle that kind of responsibility." So, I decided to become a "sustain main," though that probably doesn't exist in this fandom or they're just very rare, meaning if my "friends" need a Preservation or Abundance character to support, I have some ready on standby. Unlike the 10,000 DPS units out there. Build your DPS units right and you won't have so many problems, Susie! I'm working on Gallagher right now, but I made the mistake of raising my Equilibrium level today when my characters aren't ready. So, farming is taking longer than necessary. (My process is chara.level > light cone > relics > traces, because I forget traces exist most of the time💀)

Don't be mistaken, I do have damage dealers/DPS and other units built, i.e. Himeko, Dr. Ratio, Dest.Trailblazer, and even little Herta. But I've dedicated myself to the "You're not allowed to die without my permission" curse. My Bleach Brave Souls main is Seinosuke Yamada, a healer. I didn't even mean to have him as my best character.

For future teams, I want Jing Yuan and Robin. An upgraded Serval with FuA and the newest Harmony unit? Yes, please. If Sunday ever becomes playable, I'm definitely pulling for him though. I just added a new birb man to my harem. I can see him as the "opposite" of Robin. So, a Quantum or Imaginary element with the Nihility or Erudition path; I also went off of the vibes his Boss fight gave. On Sunday's note, I don't think becoming a Stellaron Hunter should be a part of his character development. No, I will not elaborate.