#because…. yeah. she messed up

[ssreeder]

the more you write Ara the more i like her. she's just a bundle of grief and rage and shame and it's so INTERESTING to me and I'm excited (and scared) to see what happens when she finds out about Shen... poor girl needs a break though i doubt she'd let herself have a break with her consistent need to punish herself. anyway. i love when women are kinda fucked up it drives me insane in a good way <3

I find Ara soooo interesting, but I can’t say how I feel about her because she is constantly changing. Right now I feel like she is in her,,, ‘poor me I’m sad about shit I did even though I kind of have an excuse.’ And I hope to see her grow into ‘I’ve made mistakes and I’ve moved on and I’m doing better because I forgive myself’

….but honestly who knows.

[nerdynuala]

Had a vision at 3 am and instead of being concerned as I should, I turned it into a comic with the weak excuse of it being a healthy pose drawing practice (yeah no, there's nothing healthy about this)

Anyway L has found a new way to confirm if Light is Kira

I would say he's Kira

[yardsards]

do people who have listened to taz balance but not graduation Know that it was HEAVILY IMPLIED that lup and barry eventually adopted a lil sorcerer child who got disowned by his family for his natural necromancy magic, and they taught him how to use his powers for good and were overall great parents that he looks back on fondly

(and said child grew up to be a dimension-hopping lich, caretaker of the dead, and very sweet adoptive father of a major npc)

[bruhstation]

can't it even be more obvious thomas. why are you surprised that a sudrian historical site filled to the brim with armor and weaponry that dates back to the middle ages has old people afflicted with the gold dust working around the castle

[vaguely-concerned]

lucanis truly has a near terminal case of burned out golden child syndrome. caterina fucked both of these kids over so incredibly bad with the dynamic she enforced there, with illario being labled the perpetual fuckup kid where lucanis 'could do no (would never be allowed to do) wrong'. the way he admits in the first coffee date scene that the only thing that happened when he showed he could carry the weight of expectation was that more weight was added makes me so sad. you can hear it in caterina's voice in his intro mission that she's incredibly proud of him, but this is clearly a leandra and hawke situation where that pride never translates into relief or resolution or unconditional warmth or understanding or anything that really helps.

[bixels]

What did/do you like about Pharah?

Uh, gameplay-wise, I really love characters in shooters who rely on three-dimensional movement techs. Chaining together hover and jump to stay in the air for as long as possible and keep momentum is so satisfying, and picking enemies off from the sky made me feel like a bird of prey. I was a good Pharah main.

Story-wise, there unfortunately isn't much to canonically go off because Pharah is so underutilized and neglected. Her personality's pretty boilerplate "heroic hero" (she's literally inspired by Captain America).

But it's the crumbs/bits and pieces that I really latched onto. Pharah's a confirmed lesbian; her short story with Baptiste implies she harbors a crush on Mercy (fucking thank you.). She's biracial Egyptian/First Nations. She has major mommy issues, having grown up both admiring and resenting Ana. She's the bridge between Old Overwatch, inspired by the idealized heroes who surrounded her childhood, and New Overwatch. She's one of the only inter-generational characters in the cast; someone whose experiences span the gap, which is why I seriously believe Pharah would make a great main character.

There isn't much to go off of, though; she's a very uncomplicated character (she's a soldier for a private military corporation, lol.). But that just means she's a blank slate character, so I've seen fanfic writers run wild and create some really interesting takes on her. My favorite interpretation of her's a dense, herbo gym-bro type (a lot of her liens are about work outs, exercising, and playing sports) who's easily excitable under her seemingly self-serious, armored visage. We see how she tends to gloat and hype herself up when she's on a streak too, so Pharah definitely has a competitive and boastful side under her more professional and militant performance.

Now Mercy? Mercy is a real complex character.

[sera8273]

The first thing she felt was Pain.

The second thing was the warm glow on her arm and back-

The ones filled with cuts and burns that’ll last decades on-

-and also heard Soft Humming coming from her right as the soft and warm welcoming glow moved up and down her. Sealing the made cuts and burns to the best of his ability-

She scrunched her closed eyes and tried to move fingers. Groaning in pain as she couldn’t even do that. The warm glowing and the soft humming immediate stopped as relief breaths and chocked sobs filled the room.

Where was she? What happened? Her memory was so foggy. Why was that?

The fact that she was questioning everything thing was pissing her off.

A hand gently touched her other shoulder, the one not glowing the one still covered in red blood and black burns and while she flinched harshly from the contact.

“…ena…..ena?….” The voice said.

She grunted in response. The hand shook her just a tad before a slap was heard.

She grunted again in annoyance before trying to open her sore sore so fucking sore eyes.

Even opening her eyes were tiresome.

Was this how humans felt when they were on the verge of death tired and tried to pass away out forever?

Despite her blurry vision. The faint outline of a helmet with wings on the sides were still noticeable.

“Ena…Athena!” He cried out.

“Erms…” Athena mumbled out in attempt to make the noise in her ear stop.

Hermes smile was strained and forced as he heard her sister hoarse voice. “Yes. It is me, Athena….Your voice sounds horrid…..Here,,,,water. ….Drink.” Hermes said (atleast that what she got out from her cotton filled ears) as he raised a glass of water to her lips.

Said Goddess closed her eyes and slightly lifted her head up as the fresh cool water hydrated her sore throat and cried and chalked lips.

She was a Goddess! Why was she using terms that only Humans Had!?

Šħë ďıðñ’ť ťűřņ mœřťæł ņœŵ ďîð şħè?¿

The glass left her lips as she heard whispers. Suddenly, a cool wet hand came in contact with her closed eyes.

“Just washing the blood from your eyes dear.” Another voice called out. Soft, welcoming, warm. Guilty, heartbroken.

Hera?

“What….What happened?” She questioned while Hera cleaned her face. How long had she been out for?

What happened to make her feel like she’s near Uncle’s underworld—-

“You humilated dad.” A rough but surprising quiet voice chipped in.

Ares.

Athena’s eyes widened at the memories of Fathe- Zeus’s little Game.

About how she won and how he still punished her and how she still moved on and how she

Suddenly, the Goddess tried to get up -despite Apollos -and everyone’s protest— since she remembered what she was even fighting for in the first place.

Odysseus.

Her Wandering King.

Her Champion.

Her Friend.

Her breathing started to pick up.

Was she too late-

Is he dead-

“Odysseus is fine Sister. He’s off of that….That prison of an island.” Hearing the energetic happy go Hermes scowl was so out of the ordinary. But she couldn’t complain when she was bleeding red and weak.

She simply exhaled her holding breath, stopping any attempts of getting up, and let her head fall back into the soft fluffy pillows. (When did those get there?)

Ok.

Good.

She didn’t hear anything else as energy drained out from her body, leaving sleep to snatch her for a while. Not forever, luckily.

(She wasn’t thinking straight. Not at all. But for now. The goddess of the Mind could rest her own mind since her family was here, couldn’t she??)

[sketch-twentytwo]

Wait. Say that again—

NO THE FUCK SHE DIDN'T

[korkorali]

I think the worst bit for me about all Those Sorts (you know the type) of fics is that they always take Della extremely out of character in order to make her the 'antagonist.'

And that sucks because it's just not necessary! It's the worst because you can have Della & Louie angst where Della's the 'antagonist,' and it's in-character.

You just have to have Louie be wrong in the end (kind of).

The reason why Della and Louie clash in Timephoon and Glomtales! isn't because Della 'disapproves of scheming in entirety' or something, it's because she's done the same goddamn thing as him.

(And side note- Timephoon is honestly an amazing piece of storytelling, because it allows us to see Della's thought process for taking the Spear of Selene by showing us Louie doing pretty much the same thing.)

She's been through it all before, and she knows how it ends.

And that fucking terrifies her! The idea that one of her kids is making the same mistakes as her, could go through the same thing as she did, and she's the only one who can see it, is terrifying.

The way to start out a story like this is simple; have an adventure go wrong. Not in a deadly way, not in a way that's caused by Louie (at least, not that anyone but him notices), not in a way that costs anyone their life- but in a way that causes them to lose the treasure. The adventure is a failure, and they have to come back empty handed, like New Gods on the Block.

Maybe some people get hurt, maybe it's vaguely Louie's fault (and even then- it'd be better if it wasn't even his fault, it's just his brain connecting patterns where there aren't any), but the most important part is that they don't get the treasure, and it's like- one of those ones that can only be found once every hundred years or something.

Louie feels responsible (I mean all of the kids do, but as it'd be a Louie story he'd be the one focused on) and upset that they want to all that trouble and don't have anything to show for it, so he tries to figure out some way to go on the adventure again.

Turns out, after a bit of research, there is a way to get to the treasure again! Louie brings it to Scrooge's attention excitedly- but Scrooge turns it down. Says it's too dangerous, that they're not doing it, end of story.

...Not end of story- everyone's still obviously miserable. So Louie decides that 'okay, if it's 'too dangerous,' then I'll just go in secret. It'll be fine, Scrooge is just overreacting.'

So he starts trying to put a plan into place to get the treasure in secret- but Della, somehow, seems to know what he's doing (hint: it's because she knows what she'd do if she was in Louie's shoes). And is consistently getting in his way.

And there you go- a perfect setup to have Della consistently and purposefully stepping on Louie's toes, getting in his way, trying to stop him from doing things, and it's even in-character! It'd probably start out with the two acting like everything's perfectly hunky-dory, even though both of them know that the other knows that they know that the other knows why they did this one thing.

As plans get deeper, it'd escalate to Della trying to actively call Louie out, but he always manages to just barely weasel his way out of it, and eventually commence his plan.

It obviously goes wrong. But Della's there to help. And finally she'd actually explain why the fuck she's been something of a thorn in his side for the past few weeks, why it seems like she knows what he's thinking: because she does.

Because she's been through the same thing.

Because she fucked up, and left her stranded on the moon for ten years, and she does not want that for her kid. (And of course everything could've been solved if she'd just sat down and talked to Louie about that at the onset, but it's Della- she only likes to bring up the moon when it's funny. She would've thought 'nah it's fine, I can handle this, I don't need to bare my soul, I shouldn't burden anyone with that' without realizing that oh yeah, no, that's the exact same thought process she doesn't want Louie to think)

And of course they'd argue, because it'd be a high-stress situation and neither of them would have the composure to pretend that everything's alright and they haven't been sniping at each other for the past week or so, and eventually it'd finally come up; eventually, they'd finally bring up that they thought the exact same thing when Louie did this, when Louie took the Timetub, when Della took the Spear.

'...And if anything goes wrong, at least I'm the only one who'll get hurt.' (Because you cannot tell me that that was not the last thought running through both of their heads when they took the timetub/Spear of Selene, you cannot convince me that they didn't think they were doing right by their families in that moment, that they hadn't done their due diligence and minimized risk down to one person.)

And Louie wouldn't understand, because he did the right thing. He minimized risk, he made sure nobody else would get hurt. But that's wrong- because if he got hurt, then Della (Donald, Scrooge, their family, her kids) would get hurt too. That they could fly into a vacuum all they wanted, but at the end of the day, they still didn't exist in one.

Eventually, they'd get out of there and abandon the mission again. Maybe they'd succeed, but probably not. But that's not important- what'd be important is that they were both safe and alive and okay.

There- a Della & Louie thing, extremely angsty, well Della as the 'antagonist,' and it's all in-character. Easy.

[thunderc1an]

a jayfeather drawing I did a couple of weeks ago that I forgot to post

[jexversea]

gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss but it's actually daji, jiang, and riga in the same exact order.

[lilithofpenandbook]

My sympathy for Snape in POA has gone a hundred times up now that my shitty grandmother is potentially going to be using our house as an inn

[tadc-harlequin-au]

How would you feel in sm-baby drew fanart on your au?

I would scream, die, land in hell, beat up the devil, ascend back to earth, revive, only to die again but this time I'm in heaven

and THEN wake up because it would only be in my dreams that that scenario will ever happen

[vulturevanity]

I feel like SV girlies haven't seriously considered "codependent mutually obsessive JuliNemo" yet and that's a shame, really. I've seen a lot of wholesome ChampionRank (really cute but a rehash of every wholesome yuri I've ever seen, not much original content here and that's okay) and one-sided obsessive yandere!Nemona ChampionRank (REALLY do not like the villainization of Nemona's neurodivergence but eh, you can do whatever you want forever) but not as much "these two get on like a house on fire. and boy, it's dry season" ChampionRank.

Where is "battle-hungry socially starved trainwrecks who have no one but each other" JuliNemo. Where is "oh god these two exacerbate each others issues into the stratosphere and this can only end in disaster but I can't look away" JuliNemo. Where is "bringing out the worst in each other and scaring the hoes" JuliNemo. Where is "you two are perfect for each other. Never change, just never involve anyone else in any of this" JuliNemo. There's so much potential here. Toxic codependent yuri save me

[radfae]

completely unrelated post about men being predatory toward young girls and your first thought is drag queens… lol self own

[vaguely-concerned]

Thinking about the symbolic weight of smoking in the TLT universe that comes to the fore in The Unwanted Guest -- the way it moves through from person to person: Pyrrha smoked, and Augustine wanted to impress her in all her stone cold fox MILF James Bond glory (and tbf who wouldn't) so he started too. and even though as far as he knows she's been gone for a myriad and is never coming back, he keeps the habit. Ianthe sees something in the hollowed-out Faberge eggshell of Augustine that resonates with her, all that gilded eloquent emptiness and disdain through the ages, so she picked it up from him to try to emulate it. She picked it up so hard that Palamedes -- the exact spiritual antithesis of the 'smoking! on a space station! what a powermove' ennui Ianthe so admired -- spontaneously unnerded enough to even known how to, simply from a sort of contact contamination of the soul.

G1deon and Augustine sharing a jittery smoke after their near-Harrow experience during soup night, and it's the closest thing to any real sense of brotherhood that remains between them. Pyrrha going ten thousand years dying both literally and for a smoke (and then Camilla sold her fucking cigarettes (for a third of what they were worth, probably Pyrrha's own good, and also more importantly grocery money). what an entirely haunted time to be alive etc.). Augustine and Mercy trading a cigarette back and forth in the middle of their collusion over the love and murder of god.

An act of small and measured self-destruction in the name of something a little bit like connection when you're stuck somewhere in yourself where love itself dares not or cannot tread (ritualized, transmissible)..........