#bill would be a great friend fr

[peanutseagle]

i have this hc (they are all teenagers) where bill and anya are in the volleyball team and they are like super besties & becky is just there pissing off damian about it (he’s jelly but he won’t admit it).

[captainuranium543]

Fairy tail headcannon a nobody wanted at all😊

- most of the dragon slayers+erza eat bugs regularly and it's gross AF to everyone

-Natsu because he grew up in the woods and they were like the number one abundant source of food, same for Wendy but she stopped for a while because Carla told her it was nasty (as soon as she joined the fairy tail guild she reverted so incredibly fast)

-gajeel pretends to thinks it's gross but secretly he really likes the taste he just doesn't wanna have that in common with natsu

- erza and Erik because in the evil slave tower where everyone was starving if you found a bug you ate it before anyone else could grab it from you.

- sting did not do that growing up but started when natsu told him it was good, he does not agree but does it anyway so natsu thinks he's cool

- rogue only tried it a couple times because frosch wanted to try it to be more like a frog and rogue is nothing if not supportive

- laxus grew up normal and thinks all of them are disgusting

- Lucy has the WORST financial skills. Legit they are awful. Everyone thinks she's always broke cuz of the tpd (team property damage) constantly making them lose their reward to repair bills but (while that is a factor) when Lucy sees smth cute that would look great in her apartment she just cannot help herself. Lucy will be so careful trying to save her money then she'll see a new set of stationary and goes "haha rent what rent"

- the hand me down game at fairy tail was fucking insane when they where kids. For levy and lisanna basically everything they owned had been passed down like 6 times already

- that red shirt natsu wore in the flashbacks? Before him it was erza's, and before her it was canas, and before her it was laxus.

- gray wears almost exclusively white jackets because jackets are expensive and if he loses them he would rather they be easy to spot so he can find them again rather then have to buy a new one

- sometimes people will invite erza places for the scary dog privilege when they dont want to be bothered by strangers. Erza has no idea thats the reason she just thought people really liked walking with her through rough parts of town in the middle of the night.

- Carla and lilly have insane beef, for no damn reason. Like both of them are fairly polite so neither will say it openly but every conversation between the two is the most passive aggressive petty insult battle you could imagine

- freed, levy, Lucy and later jellal have a book club where they all meet up and talk about whatever they're reading and play Scrabble and talk a lot of shit about their annoying ass friends.

- happy sometimes comes but he is under no circumstances allowed to bring natsu(he knows what he did)

- when erza met seigrain/jellal in the magic counsel she first tried to attack him, when that proved to be a bad idea she later started specifically destroying stuff under his jurisdiction to make sure he had to deal with as much paperwork as possible

- for her modelling, Mira used to use a very light spray of holy water to remove body hair because it burns it off💀

- wendy romeo and chelia are actually best friends like they are constantly hanging out together just to go do stuff

- erza and Erik hate each other for no reason at all. Like over that year that she worked with crime sorciere they where ALWAYS BEEFING. Every time they were near each other erza was thinking insults she knew he could hear and Erik was fighting for his life not to strangle her to death.

When erza became sclass she used to sit on the 5th step of the stairs because Mira wasn't allowed on those stairs yet and it really pissed her off. She was like, just barely out of reach, so Mira would stand at the bottom the stairs yelling death threats at her and erza would be like "whattt I'm not doing anything I don't even know what your talking about in literally just sitting what are you so mad about"

- when Warren invented cellphones, despite all of them looking like modern smartphones, freed somehow managed to get one that looked exactly like a Blackberry and refuses to get a different one

- Mira used to cut her siblings hair and because she didn't know any good haircuts yet her 2 options where 1- bald or 2- bowl cut. Hence lisannas horrifying cut as a child

[yellowraincoat]

I wonder sometimes what the L&Co crew did after they aged out of having the sight. Obviously Lucy makes some mention of them helping DEPRAC clear the other side and you can help with that even w/o sight thanks to the Orpheus society, but I don’t imagine they did that forever or even full time.

I’ve actually thought a LOT about what I think they end up doing as adults so… here’s an extremely long post about it:

George’s path is obvious to me. He becomes a foremost voice on the nature of the problem, and he’s able to go to Oxford for university (or the most prestigious UK university still running) on this basis. He gets a degree in history and goes on to a PHD. He then dedicates several years to writing a complete, multi-volume, history of the problem/agencies/corruption/visitors (which will go down in history as THE TEXT about the problem)

… I’ll put the rest under the cut bc this is fr going to be lonnnng

We also know from the existence of Lockwood and Co the books that Lucy at some point metatextually writes a memoir detailing the antics of Lockwood and co. (Which, go off girlboss, she did a great job.) For Lucy’s career path, I imagine that she is a formal DEPRAC partner for a time goes to the other side more than any of her other L&Co colleagues to help out.

This may be a weird take, but I also think that Lucy’s relationship with the Skull and all the weird experiments on ghosts she witnesses lead her to go all GHOST RIGHTS. She campaigns for seeing ghosts differently and repsecting the dead and works to get DEPRAC to create better regulations for how sources are treated when contained and advocates for figuring out how to release them to the other side rather than destroying sources as a first move. Idk I think it suits her relationship to ghosts; she’s definitely more invested in their humanity than other agents.

I don’t think Lockwood would try to hire young agents as a supervisor to keep the agency going after losing his sight. Especially since he’s aware that the problem is fading and considering he’d still have work available through DEPRAC. I think Lockwood spends his first few post-sight years in lots of therapy and takes time off from working since he’s been running a very intense business since he was like 14. I also think he foots the bill for Flo to get a therapist as well.

They’re both able to work through their grief and trauma from the people they’ve lost, Lockwood works through his habit of repressing his feelings, and Flo works through her feelings of being cornered while in doors. Flo eventually moves into Portland Row, and she and George and Lucy and Lockwood spend most of their young adult lives (whole lives if you ask me) living in the same house or living right next door to each other.

As for Lockwood’s actual career path I think Lockwood’s would make it his life’s work to share his parents findings. He spreads the traditional burial practices and ways to ward off ghosts like that Lockwood’s parent’s researched to help people protect themselves from ghosts around the UK as the problem fades.

I don’t know that I see Flo having a real job. I could see her in advocacy for housing insecure youth (we know London has MANY due to the Problem) but I’d also like to see her have a relaxing-ass life. Enjoy therapy and her friends, date George, plant a vegetable garden. Flo’s never cared much about material goods so I could see her working odd jobs here and there to help contribute to Portland Row Expenses, but mostly focus on nonprofit work and political activism while enjoying her life.

I think both Kipps and Holly stay on at Lockwood and co until it permanently disbands, then I imagine they both work to advocate for the rights of former agents in some capacity. If Holly could further her eduction I think she’d work in the legal system, maybe working in administration/research on cases that are attempting to hold leaders of the Orpheus society and high up Fittes and Rottweil people accountable for compensating traumatized former agents. Oh and she asks out that girl from DEPRAC she was living with (and they were roommates oh my god they were roommates)

I think Kipps might (after he’s matured a bit) get involved with a young adult professional development program trying to address all of the former agents and nightwatch kids who forwent education at a young age to hunt ghosts and help them access free education and classes to gain new marketable skills as the ghost hunting industry declines and kids age out of the sight. He also stops beefing with teenagers (so much) and lives out his destiny as surrogate brother/20 year old adopted father to Lucy George and the rest. And he gets himself a husband bc he deserves it 😤

As for the Skull… I’m in the camp that he does return and he occasionally stops by Portland Row to chat with Lucy and pull poltergeists type pranks on the other residents. When Lucy can no longer hear him 🥲 I still think he sticks around for a while, making his presence known by moving objects and helping keep the house cool in the summer (yayyy ghost chill), he also still speaks to Lucy when she does work on the other side with DEPRAC. But eventually, maybe when Lucy’s in her late twenties, the skull feels ready to move on, and Lucy visits to the other side to say good by and help him pass on.

[waechan]

meeting haechan for the first time (at the convenience store)

pairing: haechan lee x reader

genre: fluff

wc: 573

notes: idk i just love this concept tied to haechan<3 the loml fr

of course my friend just had to send me out on errands to get his condoms.

of course, me, the most innocent and pure minded girl at our school had to buy them out in PUBLIC without me even really wanting to.

i sigh as i throw them onto the counter, refusing to look up as i grudgingly throw a $10 bill at the cashier.

in the corner of my peripheral i see his hand grab at it, scan it, and he puts it in a bag, no questions asked. i breathe a sigh of relief and reach out to grab it, but the mystery man pulls the bag away.

huh?

i hear him chuckle, and i freeze.

"condoms for you?" he asks and i look up, prepared to defend myself.

"NO! my friend, he-" i stop talking almost immediately as i lock gazes with the man in front of me. god, he was gorgeous.

his skin was glowing, his eyes were staring right back into mine, and that smirk on his lips...god.

he tilts his head as he looks at me, and he chuckles a bit. "okay sweetheart, no need to drool."

i snap out of it instantly and i gasp as i grab the bag from him, in disbelief that someone would just say that to my face. "excuse you?? you're really not that great-" i mumble out as i stuff the change in my pocket, and he shakes his head as he goes back to his work at the cashier.

"really? cause you were kinda staring...just a little bit though."

"i was NOT!"

"was too..."

i couldn't take it anymore, so i turn around to walk off but he stops me again.

"wait, your receipt." he grabs my bag from me and shoves the receipt into it.

he watches me walk out smirking once again, but i dont see this as i continue to talk to myself even after i escape his gaze.

"what an interesting girl." he mumbles to himself. "very interesting..."

☄. *. ⋆

i arrive home and place the condoms on the counter for my friend to grab. the receipt falls to the floor and i groan in annoyance as i bend to pick it up. placing the receipt on the counter, i see the dark strokes of a sharpie on the other side.

flipping the paper over, i scoff in a bit of shock as i realize what was written.

"you ever need any more condoms, come visit. i don't judge:)

- haechan"

i crumple up the receipt and toss it immediately in the trash can.

"no way am i ever visiting this- this haechan, ever again. ever." i roll my eyes, and i push the thought of him away.

or try to.

☄. *. ⋆

i walk into the convenience store for the 5th time this week after my first encounter with haechan. sure, i was looking for him but so what. i just wanted to see if he was annoying another random girl. poor, poor girl...i wasn't jealous.

i walk through the aisles but he was nowhere to be seen, and i feel my stomach drop a bit lower each time i realize you weren't going to show up.

i turn around in frustration, ready to leave, but i walk right into the chest of some guy.

"sorry-" i blurt out as i look up and i realize who it is.

"oh." you breathe out, as you blush.

"looking for someone?"

☄. *. ⋆

sorry guys this one was so rushed but i hope its okay!

[w1ngedsoul]

dating george clarke...

he's such a sweetheart fr 😘

buys you flowers n all 🌷

you're constantly featured in his youtube videos and the useless hotline

all of his friends love you 🙌

but grace, she becomes your long lost soulmate 🫶

you're literally inseparable, gets to the point where george has to drag you away

jealous bf 😔

living with george and his...interesting roommates is definitely something

jk jk arthur h and arthur love you fr 😘

if you're an aspiring singer, you and arthur definitely swap and criticize each other's lyrics

go play 'you're not a god' while you're at it!

arthur tv is the type of guy to listen to 'queens of the stone age' for sure or 'foo fighters'

plays his music way too loud so when you and george are cuddling for example, george has to shout out to him to get him to turn it down lmao 😭

george is most definitely an amazing chef

brings you a cup of tea every morning 🍵

actually banging though

because you're born in london and have a thick accent, george loves to mock it while you imitate his posh bristol accent

you two are literally so in love

grace or max will take photos of him just gazing at you

"look at you! you big softie"

saw it on someone else's account but it's so true 😭😭, if you're an influencer then you wouldn't really bring him to events as much bc he'd just stand in the corner with a little drink in his hand

literally wouldn't know anyone there 😭

you and max become really good friends so quick

back to that useless hotline headcanon, like andrew does you'd be on george's lap in the episodes that you're featured in 🫶

max is literally so invested in your relationship

double dates w him and andrew 👫🍜👬

you and george created your own lil podcast called 'honesty's the best policy'

gets so many reviews icl

it's one of the podcasts where you don't have guests, it's just the two of you

"google play 'just the two of us' by bill withers"

you talk about your relationship, you read random reddit stories and give your opinions, talk about upcoming events/the current news

it's a great way for the both of you to become really open towards each other, not that you weren't before

since the start of your relationship, your channel has received so much more attention

you're grateful always 🫶

you and george make a video looking back at your first few videos (you were, in fact, fourteen years of age)

you're embarrassed asf but laughing the whole way though

so glad you got out of your teenage clothing style 😘

was an actual disgrace against humanity

cooking together, reading to each other, cuddling while watching films

literally so comforting

when you meet his family, they LOVE you

can't get enough of your brilliant sense of humour

#comedian

before you moved in together, you two would ride trains to go see each other

running to each other in the station

#movieworthy

his hugs are literally the best, he's so warm it's like hugging a large cat

kinda sounds insulting but i swear it's not 😭

speaking of cats, you have one or two...

okay, when he went to yours for the first time you had four

😭

MILLIE BOBBY BROWN HAS THIRTEEN WHY SHOULDN'T YOU LIVE OUT YOUR DREAMS

they all love him

your oldest cat, sylvester, literally hates strangers for unknown reasons but loves george

he's literally full on purring and you're just like 'wtf??'

do you move all four cats into george, arthur and alex's flat?

yes, yes you do

luckily they all love cats 😍

except alex...he's slightly sceptical lmao

your relationship with george is so slay 🫶🫶

you love him through everything and he's the same to you

he whispers 'i love you' when you're cuddling 😭😭

literally on the ground

personally, i would never recover

[kisses4tom]

ᡣ𐭩 CONCERT

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Basically what Tom would do if you were at a TH concert/he brought you at another artist's concert 😝 period

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YOU AT A TOKIO HOTEL CONCERT

Bro would look at you the whole time

Wink, smile and give you flirty looks

Vip tickets

He would still try to "impress" the girls in the crowd since that's his character let's just say, but you know he doesn't mean it and it's just to hype them up

He would look at you during Leb Die Sekunde 😉 iykyk 🎸

I have a feeling Bill will call him out in front of everyone like: "excuse my brother he's very busy looking in that particular direction!"

After a concert Tom would wait for you backstage to run up to him (and kiss & hug ofc)

"I couldn't wait for this concert to end because you look way too good in this tight skirt tonight, my love" *wink wink*

He obviously needs a good luck kiss before going on stage

You and the band usually go back to your hotel room after a show, but there are times where you go to an after-party. Either way you and Tom are gonna fuck pretty much~

You're basically living every TH fangirl's dream. Tom Kaulitz's rockstar girlfriend (giggled HARRRDDD)

You pretty much attend most shows and Tom is more than happy to bring you on tour with him

As tired as he is, he never misses a chance to do it afterwards

Bro would also have a little quickie before a show for "good luck"

Loves when you surprise him in the crowd

He would also mouth you different little things that are easy to read, such as: "See you later" "Get ready for later" and even "I love you" 😨

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AT ANOTHER ARTIST'S CONCERT

If it's an artist he doesn't like, you basically have to drag him there. Not even kidding. Bro is so stubborn but eventually gives in because it's you (and he would never admit he had a great time)

You guys also go to random artist's concerts with friends just for a change of night

You would dance and sing together

Blud would rub your back against him 🫣😀

Arm around your shoulders always

Not really matching fits, but matching merch at best (like a hat or shirt idrk)

I feel like he would whisper things in your ear if you do a specific movement iykwim ;)

Expect to fuck later 😻

You guys would litterally be screaming the lyrics as loud as you can and it's the funniest thing ever 😭

OMG BILL AND THE BAND WOULD THIRD WHEEL

After the concert you guys would usually go to a restaurant to eat or a club if you still have energy and your vocal cords 😻

He gets so excited like if he isn't a famous person himself

Why do I feel like you guys would sit in the car in the parking lot of the venue and just talk about every little detail of the concert that stood out to you (post concert blues fr 😩)

When dancing you would get back to back and sing (idk if that makes sense but yeah just vibes~)

He always gets the best seats

You guys just have the time of your life

okay slay I think this is pretty much it since I ran out of ideas 😻 also PLEEEASEEE send requests for headcanons I'm desperate and idea-less 😩

[vespertin-y]

OKAY I FINALLY WATCHED GRAVITY FALLS. TEN YEARS LATE I KNOW. i was expecting to have to power through a bunch of boring kid stuff to get to the actual interesting drama and i was so so wrong i locked tf in and finished it in two days. it's so good what the actual fuck. heres my thoughts on the main characters

mabel: when i was the actual target audience for this show i saw a bit of mabel while flipping through disney XD and i immediately concluded that she was annoying af and i would never watch this show because of her. i would like to repent for this evil evil take by flinging myself belly down onto shattered glass. MABEL MY BABY GIRL...if they ever put her in another Situation or Scenario ill kill someone fr. she's a little too selfish and a little too pushy sure but so genuinely KIND and SWEET and so willing to make a fool of herself to pull her dumb brother out of his head. that unicorn doesn't know jack i hope she gets everything she wants forever

dipper: if i had watched gf as a kid i would have been in very real danger of naming myself after this guy (which doesn't even work bc im not nearly as cool as him!! the woodland creatures would have eaten my ass). it would've been so easy to give him a generic gaining confidence arc but he is never a coward when it really matters and i think that's great. he may not be able to talk to a girl but he can and will beat a gnome to death with a shovel for touching his sister!!! also yeah he is extremely transgender.

stan: OUUUUUGH. STARTS SOBBING. stanley pines the man that you are. i assumed at first that his plot would be about Learning To Love but no he is 100% on board with being the world's best grunkle from minute one. he definitely fucks up sometimes (putting waddles outside comes to mind as does. The Other Thing) but he always tries his very best to fix it. every action he takes just oozes with care for his family. every time i thought he had a motivation that wasn't his family they pulled the rug out from under me and revealed that it was, in fact, just his family again. he would give everything for them. AND HE LITERALLY DOES??? im gonna vomit. he hand stitched fishing hats 😭😭😭

wendy: definitely my least favorite of the main cast im sorry wendyheads...i just feel like there isn't a lot to get into here. every time they imply there's something more going on with her or her family they just snap her right back into The Coolest Girl In The World which might be fun but it's not that interesting.

soos: SOOS MY FRIEND SOOS!!!! i wobbled on him during the middle of the show bc i felt like they were making him Genuinely Dumb instead of just a good babysitter but they pulled his characterization back around by the end i think. he is like me in that he would also die for the mystery twins without hesitation or regret 💖. a lesser show would've been really mean about soos but gf is BASED and SOOSPILLED so he gets what he deserves. he does not have to lose weight or drop his "childish" interests or stop living with his grandma to WIN AT LIFE. awesome girlfriend! dream job! big house! stan using that boat to hunt down his bio dad and kill him, probably!

ford: ill be honest and admit i hated this guy at first but eventually i learned to live laugh love about his massive incredibly fragile ego ruining everything all the time and now i am a big ford enjoyer. what a FREAK oh my god. he believed his journals to be capable of destroying the world and still refused to destroy them because they're His Life's Work????? he had the painfully obvious option to tell bill he didn't know the equation and stall for time and chose instead to say that OBVIOUSLY he knows it he's the SMARTEST MAN ALIVE he's just not TELLING YOU 😤 and then immediately got tortured????? he spent most of his screentime projecting his relationship issues onto an Actual Child?????????? he needs to go to therapy and learn he's not the main character of the universe but he will not be doing that so i can only hope the boat fixes him. if i was stanley i'd've fed him to the shapeshifter.

bill: SIGH. YES OKAY HE'S MY FAVORITE. I KNOW I'M FUCKING PREDICTABLE DON'T @ ME. i spent 90% of his screentime cracking up and the other 10% making Homosexual Detection Eyebrows at my brother! the ideal ratio!!!!! i can't wait to get my hands on the book so i can poor little meowmeow him more efficiently. i knew i was saving that barnes & noble gift card for something important.

[yourslvtywhor3]

everyones favorite emoooo rodirck heffleyyyyyyyy ❤️‍🔥

NOT PROOF READ OR EDITED

~~~he must have a hand on you at all times bc he wants you to feel safe from his crazy ass rock friends especially bill

~~~his mom hates your guy's relationship, but its not her life

~~~ rodrick knows your insecure and he wants you to know that he's there for you in every way possible even if you were in another country

~~~he says this alot " yea me and y/n are gonna have good lookin kids because their hot asf and i have the great drumming skill ya know , so thats how you know ours kids are gonna pull"

~~~ the way this man grabs your thigh is actually like omgggggg girl you know damn well after a minutes its a whole pond down there....

~~~cuddles and morning kisses he love you kiss your puffy face good morning because he like to see how flustered you get

~~~sleepovers every weekend like you both know damn well to behave because your parents know exactly what to take away if you misbehave (if that even made sense)

~~~ ok yall remember that scene in the movie where there at the roller skate thingie? yea ok. so when you guys went you and rodrick went roller skating and he was grabbing your waist for support so he doesn't fall and because he wants to make sure you don't fall either

~~~he loves to watch you swim like when you guys go to the pool during family trips you guys are splashing each other play fighting in the water

~~~ he went with you to get your bellybutton pierced because why not tf

~~~ lets be fr here you're the smart one in the relationship and your helping rodrick get his grades up and its working

~~~ you like art so when your with him you like to kiss him but his face gets dirty because of the pastel oils you have on your hands

~~~ LETS BE HONEST HERE WHO THE FUCKED DIDNT HAVE A CRUSH ON RODRICK WHEN THEY WERE A KID LIKE IF YOU DIDNT YOU ARE WEIRD AS FUCK BRO LIKE THIS MANNNNNNNN AGGHHHHHHH

~~~ so when yall do that lets be fr here he likes the cowgirl position

~~~ hes a boob guy thats it no arguing

~~~ sometimes he pinches your ass because he likes to hear you screech and turn around and hit his chest

~~~ you his everything and he lets you know that every day he will text you paragraphs on how much he loves you and how he never want to lose you.

I WOULD APPRICIATE IF YOU LIKE AND FOLLOW TO HELP A SMALL CREATOR OUT BC Y NOT 😊

[panelshowsource]

it's actually been leaked for some time, although — and not to sound whiny — any time i've posted it or just talked about it i've gotten 10+ anonymous messages telling me i'm the devil and ruining the establishment of taskmaster with my irresponsible gossiping. so i didn't post about it and deleted any of the asks/convo about the new cast, even though ofc everyone has had tonsss of thoughts about it 😅

anyways would have laid down my whole life betting john robins (one of THE most obvious future tm contestants, being such a good friend of alex's!) and joanne mcnally would be on so i feel very vindicated — and excited! — in that regard! we're gonna have a great time :)

someone sent an anon asking about people i'd bet — not who i want, but who i'd bet — would be on the show so i'll think more about that and post later this week! the series will def have more seasons so i'll try and get some guesses in heh

OMG ME TOO her name is mabel! she's sooooooo cute ≧◡≦

hello anon!! actually you don't need me for this, it was recently posted on tv_bunny :)

enjoy!

she's great! she reminds me a lot of roisin, in that when she's not doing her semi-pre-written joke material, she's supremely good at hanging, bantering, fitting in with the vibe. i really appreciate that when it comes to panel shows particularly! but i can't say i've seen much of her standup

(wait — can i digress for a second — roisin is one of the ONLY recurring catsdown contestants who actually brings in sensible mascots that have the purpose of helping her/bringing her luck, and her presentations of them are always so hilarious and she deserves more credit for that)

+ not important but i really like her voice

thank you for sending her well wishes <3

i appreciate the message and you weren't the only person to say this, but i think some people are only part-way informed as to her journey reclaiming her name. her intention was never to scrap the nickname shappi or stop people from calling her that; it was 1) to reconcile her experience growing up in the uk with her name and how that led to her committing to shappi as a teen, and 2) to be published, credited, and billed as shaparak in professional capacities. she has clarified many times, including here and here, that it is totally acceptable to call her shappi; people on tv & radio still call her shappi after formal introductions, like in the new wilty when everyone calls her shappi throughout the entire episode; her social media handles are still shappi; and so on. she's shaparak, but that doesn't mean she "no longer goes by shappi". there is some confusion here i think some people are taking her journey, which was lovely to follow, as rejecting shappi — but that isn't the case.

i already updated her tag to 'shaparak khorsandi' a while ago and would definitely credit her full name where necessary, but socially, colloquially, like in the quick text post i made asking people to give shappi some love, there is no disrespect in calling her that! of course, plenty of people are credited by one name and are regularly called another/a nickname, like olivia colman who is actually called sarah by her family and colly by most everyone else. she seems really happy with having done her book and her recent show under her full name, and it's been beautiful to see her come around to love shaparak as much as she has loved shappi :')

btw for anyone who doesn't know, shaparak means butterfly in farsi!

hahahahaha that is hilarious

long story short is just that keith lemon is a disreputable character (and i mean character literally, he's not real, he's played by leigh francis!) who spends a lot of his energy shouting and oogling over boobies etc

i think it's fair to say hating on white supremacists does bring us all together 😅

i'm sorry i haven't seen it! but ugh tamsin greig is one of my longest-time crushes fr i actually think the friendship between her and stephen mangan is one of my roman empires. i have a list of scripted tv rewatches i plan to do this year — the thick of it, peep show, and so on, some of my faves ever — and green wing is def on the list so maybe i'll add friday night dinner!

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[queer-aunty]

OS: Ningguang & Reader "Comfort in difficult times"

Ningguang comforts the reader and shares her advice and experience || no romance, just comfort for bad times || reader and unknown figures are gender neutral pronouns for better self insert:)

[Request/Idea from tarudocd from twitter/x]

Enjoy!

It was already evening in Liyue and the typical bustling streets became slowly empty, as you realized, while sitting in a lonely corner on the streets of Liyue. Tears were  blurring your view, while anger and deep sadness were bubbling inside you. It was as if your heart was breaking and bleeding from all the hurt, you had to endure with this person.

Exhausted you pulled your knees to your chest, wraping your arms around your them and put your face on them, so you could let it all out. Then a smooth, slightly rough voice started to talk to you: "Hello dear, what is wrong? Do you need help?"

Quickly you raised your head and looked into a pair of red eyes. An elegant woman with long white hair, whose ashy ends danced around her waist in the chilly wind, wore a golden dress, covered in ornaments. You stood up in shock and stumbled back. "T-the Tianshu, Lady Ningguang!", you bowed before her and hid your face with your swollen eyes. It was so embarrassing, that she saw you exactly today in your messy state.

"Everything's fine."

The Tianshu chuckled lightly with a soft smile. "Doesn't seem to be the case."

She sat down beside the spot you sat before and pat on the place beside her. "Come here, child", she invited you softly with a smile. Hesitantly you sat down beside her. It's not an everyday event, that the all-knowing Lady Ningguang talked to you. "What happened?", she asked you. How were you suppose to answer this? How could someone like her understand? She was the richest person in Teyvat and you were just a normal citizen of this city. You payed your bills like every other one in Liyue, you ate, you slept, you talked to people. Why would she care for your wellbeing? "It-It doesn't matter", you mumbled, while wiping away the tears from your cheeks, not faring to look beside you. Ningguang placed her chin thoughtful on her hand, while looking at you carefully. "You do know, that your emotions matter, right? And the reason why you feel this way has to be resolved somehow. How else are you suppose to move on with your life?"

It made sense, you thought to yourself. You glanced over to the woman, who was right now just that, a woman, a human like you. Okay, maybe the vision hanging on her body makes her even in this moment not like you, but advice from her would be appreciated. "Uhm... there is this person", you started with shakey voice and told about all your troubles with them, how they hurt you, how they manipulatrd you into trusting them and now blamed you for their own failing. They were your best friend, what else should you do except staying? You knew them for so long.

Throughout your explanation Ningguang listened carefully to every detail of your story and nodded understanding, before staring of into the distance, where the sun was setting. Then she sighed and looked at you with sorrow.

"They're your friend?"

"Yes, my...best friend."

"Darling, if you have such a person as a friend, you don't need enemies."

That shut you up, not being able to argue against this. "From what I heard all this person has ever done to you was making your life miserable", she took your hands into hers, holding them gently, "Maybe they were once great to you and you were genuinely happy with them, but they aren't good for you anymore."

Tears started to come back into your eyes again, a sob escaped your mouth. "But they're all I have left-"

"That is not true", Ningguang cut you off in a firm tone, "Just because you knew this person so long and sacrificed so much for them, that doesn't mean it has to be that way forever."

She closed her eyes one moment in thoughts, before continuing to explain: "I once had a buisness partner before, who was also my best friend.", she didn't smile anymore, hiding anger behind the rubin eyes, "They helped me, when I was still very poor and fighting for every single Mora. We became a very good team- Until I found out, how they were trying to use my ideas to only promote themselves and told important people lies about me and my abilities, making me sink in status and wealth.", she breathed deeply in and out, "I don't think I would've had this much knowledge about buisness interactions and trades without them and I onced thought I owed my life to them. So leaving them wasn't easy for me."

You hung on her every word and listened to every word, as if they were lifesaving water in the sumerian desert. "What did you do?"

"After realizing they needed me and my abilities, I contacted a friend of mine, who also happened to be a lawyer. We collected enough evidence to sue them. We both lost a lot of money in the process, but I was free from them. They couldn't harm me anymore.", a smile sneaked back onto her lips, "What I'm trying to say: You don't need them. There are other, better people, waiting to be discovered by you. The only thing you need is this", she tapped your head, "and this", and tapped the place on your chest, where your heart is. "You can do a lot of things."

For the first time for today, you felt... relieved and not that sad anymore, as if a lot of the weight, you've been carrying around was gone after this special conversation. The first stars appeared on the sky. The Tianshu let go of your hands and rose up. "I have to leave now. And you too."

Before leaving the Tianshu took out a few mora and placed them into your hand. "Get yourself something to eat, drink tea and sleep early. Tomorrow is a new day and a good time to finally leave. Otherwise, you will be stuck forever in this circle."

Surprised your gaze sticked on the Tianshu as she walked away, from you with a smile. "Take care, little one", were her last words to you.

"Thank you...", were the words you mumbled as you stood up with new determination to change your life for the better. Maybe you could do great things for yourself.

[murderoushagthesequel]

12, 16, 24!

thanks for the ask, anon! <3

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

oooo i feel like there's so many for this one. i went a bit into lightning era too. young molly weasley, peter pettigrew (this one is relative), pansy parkinson, percy weasley, rita skeeter (this one goes back and forth tbh). now explanations. molly, i just feel like there's a lot of potential for her character that isn't discussed!!! (which i will absolutely be adding into my fics). but like, think about how her parents must've treated her and her brothers for her to end up as the mother she did. also think about how fucking badass she would've been as a teenager! like yeah, she's a bamf in her 40s, but imagine her, single, childless, with not a care in the world just going around and doing whatever she pleases. peter!!! we all know how i feel about peter so i won't go too much into it but yeah. he's amazing (i will go into this more in another post if anybody wants to hear all my thoughts). pansyyy. ok so yes, she is an awful person in canon. but consider this... fanon pansy is amazing and she's my wife. i've also read some one shots where the reader is fr just like me :sob: and it makes me so happy. percyyyyyy. ok he is my baby. i love him so much. he just made a little mistake okay! he was outcasted by his family his whole life and so he wanted to do great things. yeah, he was a nerd, and his brothers relentlessly made fun of him for it, then he found the first person who appreciated (used) him (he didn't know, he was manipulated!) and he stuck by them. not to mention him trying to live up to the immense pressure he was under to live up to bill and charlie's legacy. but he realized he was wrong and he went back! and then his fucking brother died and he blamed himself for it. this man has been through enough!!! leave him alone!! (i can also write a whole thing about percy, i've hyperfixated on this man, i have a playlist and art of him and everything) MOVING ON i really jsut exposed myself there. rita! tbh i don't... like her? i just think she's interesting. i despise her in adulthood, but i think she was a really cool teenager. i would add bellatrix in here too but she gets enough love so she's an honorable mention. wow that was... long. i went on a bit too long about percy WHOOPS.

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

childhood friends to lovers (unless it's prongstail or my mlp jegulus characters). bartylus. straight james potter. straight mary macdonald. mean evan rosier or barty crouch jr. blackcest (i need to claw my eyes out every time i come across it). and so many more but this is all i can think of off the top of my head.

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

women in the marauders fandom. y'all please just stfu already and let me enjoy my marauders content in pEACE.

[mangodestroyer]

Does anyone else on the spectrum end up attracting the weirdest (in the not good way) people?

Because this has been my experience! Sometimes, I get tons of attention from men decades older than me. Even when their wife is RIGHT FUCKING THERE. And I mean... they're REALLY interested in me! And a lot of these men... will often look like they have some kind of issue going on. An untreated add*ction/s*vere m*ental i*lness, or they just generally look like they could be a h*bosexual/an old guy looking for a nurse. I only wonder because there will be tons of r*d flags from the interaction alone. And just a... not great vibe.

When it's someone in my age range there will, again, be mountains of red flags. Once I was pursued by someone who admitted to attempting to make c*unterfit bills, using heavy dr*gs, and just getting into arguments with and hanging out on some very weird parts of the internet. And this guy was REALLY into me! Once I gave someone a chance because they seemed really nice at first/compatible, despite them also having lots of r*d flags. Turn out that was all an act... and they let the act fall FAST. It didn't take long at all for them to literally start acting like a toddler with rage issues. And then there are the people who will have strange (in the not good way) interests, like g*ns. Or they'll openly s*xualize women or say very concerning/dangerous shit. The best I ever seem to do is get the attention of some annoying fr*t boy. One that is very loud and rude. And calls women b*tches. Or some attractive young woman with a shit personality who has a creepy bf looking for a third.

And while going on campus in person again... I notice tons of people my age seem to be... intimidated by me? It's weird because I used to get bullied a lot by my peers. Now it's like the room goes cold when I enter it. Like I'm some exotic big cat that escaped from the zoo and is prowling around civilization. Maybe if everyone acts neutral and uninteresting, the cat will leave them alone. I don't get it because I seem to get along fine at work/with the professors. And I mostly keep to myself/don't look at people. When I do talk, I try to keep it friendly. But darn... it does sting a little. For once... can't a person who is a little more functional and sociable engage me? Someone with inoffensive interests? I've seen plenty of other neurodiverse individuals who are insanely shy and don't put themselves out there/literally don't do anything to seem interesting end up with huge friend groups. Like... the person's whole personality is that their diet is mostly toast, they hide in their room, and they like Halloween decorations. Sometimes, it will be a person with issues who hasn't gotten them under control at all attracting tons of healthy individuals into their lives.

I'll admit that I am somewhat self-aware about why I probably get this experience. I've seen myself on cameras before. My body language can sometimes be pretty weird. I also have a weird facial tick, which doesn't help. I also grew up in a h*order's home that had tons of issues. I probably have a "vibe" because of that and sometimes wonder if being raised that way makes me a little uncivilized. But... I'm still able to get and keep jobs. And maintain good hygiene.

Idk, I've just been feeling horrible about this lately. Someone once told me, very rudely, that people with my condition sometimes give off s*ciopath vibes. And unfortunately, there may be a kernel of truth to that. Looking back, it does seem that some individuals assumed the worst about me. I sometimes wonder if I would be creeped out by another version of me. It can literally take people YEARS to finally warm up to me.

And, well, naturally you're going to become closed off and have trust issues if it seems you're a magnet for terrible people. Especially if people seem to think you're one of them. It's a mindfuck too because I used to have empathy for some of these people... I just thought that maybe they felt left out like me and were acting weird because of that. Uh... nope!

I'm not saying there isn't someone out there for me who is just fine as a person. It would just be kind of nice if I could find them already! Like, where are they hiding? Where's my bestie?

[riverdamien]

Day of Silence

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. “This is the first and great commandment. “And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Matthew 22:37–39).

Day of (NO) Silence is this Friday, April 12th! Join us as we rise up and take action against discrimination and censorship in schools for LGBTUQ youth

Regularly I talk to young people on the street and off where forty percent of the homeless youth population is queer. I am told of parents turning their backs, their churches condemning them to hell, and friends and their schools rejecting them. I have held the hands of youth who have attempted suicide and have had funerals for those who die, as a result of homophobia.

These are the ones treated with silence.

LGTBQ youth are met with silence.  And that silence allows for destructive courses being taught like  this one:

"Gender ideology is a false system of beliefs about the human person, premised on the idea that “human identity becomes the choice of the individual.” According to gender ideology, the person self-determines a “gender identity,” based on feelings or the person’s “sense of self” as male, female, both, neither, or something else—regardless of the person’s actual male or female sex. Gender ideology asserts an individual’s “right” to “transition” to a desired identity, using social, medical or surgical interventions to “feminize” or “masculinize” the body’s appearance. "

This course is being offered by a Church, with a lawyer, and educator teaching. It is a direct attack on anyone who is queer. And I can tell you personally that our gender and sexual orientations are fluid. This course is offensive, and frankly very terrifying in reinforcing stereotypes that are dehumanizing.

We need individuals like basketball coach, and a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Dawn Staley of the University of South Carolina who stands up and declares her support for her transgender players, in the face of bigotry.

The history of Day of (No) Silence: Started in the mid-90s by two college students, Day of Silence has expanded to reach hundreds of thousands of students each year. Every April, students would go through the school day without speaking, ending the day with Breaking the Silence rallies to bring attention to ways their schools and communities can become more inclusive.

2024 Day of (No) Silence: With more than 800 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced last year, we must Rise Up and Take Action. GLSEN’s Day of NO Silence is a nationally recognized student-led demonstration where LGBTQ+ students and allies all around the country—and the world— protest the harmful effects of harassment and discrimination of LGBTQ+ people in schools.

This year I will remain silent from Midnight on April ll, until Midnight, on April 12. I will carry a sign with me and a flyer to hand out explaining what I am doing. I am writing our Congressional and State Leaders, asking for support. I encourage you not to keep silent with your youth, your friends, your church, or your social groups, speak out loud and clear!

I am proud to be queer! I am proud to be a priest! Join me on the Day of Silence!  Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!

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Prayer of St. Brendan!

"Help me to journey beyond the familiar

and into the unknown.

Give me the faith to leave old ways and break fresh ground with You. Christ of the mysteries I trust in You to be stronger than each storm within me.

I will trust in the darkness and know that my times, even now, are in Your hands.

Tune my spirit to the music of heaven,

and somehow, make my obedience count for You"

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[clockwise-works]

Link, 7,9,10,20

Appreciate the ask! my crazy thoughts will be below the cut...

7. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

So I really love it when people take small, gameplay mechanics and elements from BotW/AoC/TotK and use it to flesh out Link's personality. What he likes, how he thinks. etc etc. It's... honestly easy to write him off as a gremlin brainlet who likes to cook. Or just a sad and damaged sad guy. I love it when he has a fascination with history, pulling from him documenting stuff he finds in the slate. I love it when pre-calamity he's a competent and strategic mind given his time in the army. I love it now after TotK that we can give Link an interest in mechanics and engineering. Let him have some brains! He's goofy? Of course he is! But there's so much beyond that, and pulling little stuff from gameplay mechanics just itches that one part of my brain!

9. Could you be roommates with this character?

So I did already answer a roommate question earlier with Mipha, so my general thoughts remain the same... for me. I think I wouldn't be too intrusive or annoying, but Link? Idk, given how you can just absolutely FILL the slate, I get the impression Link is someone who has a bad habit at not throwing stuff out. Everything holds value to him, it could be used for something, it looks cool... BROTHER THROW IT OUT ITS A BROKEN PENCIL! Also given the weapon durability I think he's break my appliances...

Dude would make meals that SLAP though, so you take the good with the bad.

10. Could you be best friends with this character?

I mean, I really don't struggle with making friends in person, I find it really easy to talk to people, so yeah! Pull him into the real world where he wouldn't have his knight baggage, dude would be a fun and chill guy fr fr. Good jokes, good mindset and solid beliefs, I imagine he would be a good friend I could both goof and laugh with over stupid shit while also having a late night 3am life talk. Let me give him advice! Listen to me dumbass, I'm older, by like a year! I got SO much more experience than you, wisdom is OOZING from my mind!

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter.

Oh wow I wonder what the Miphlink enjoyer will say, certainly he'll surprise us!

No, but for real I do love them being best friends, but I think there's some other characters that fit the bill too. Pre-Calamity I'd say Bazz. I imagine the two grew up together (Zora aging is wonky, but I do go with the mindset that Zora's have a few good years where they age comparable to Hylians, using Ruto as a base) and had a back and forth friendship where they mess with one another, but there is a mutual respect and love. (Yes you can love your friends, I love my homies). I imagine that when Link wasn't with Mipha during his visits, he was having kid adventures with Bazz and the others, doing whatever they could. After the whole shrine thing though? I think Bazz grew up, and while Link did too, it was under different circumstances so the two aren't as close. Still good friends, great even, but best friend? Idk. In a non shrine world, though? Hell yeah!

[xfrancecis]

On to good notes

Life really is amazing. Other than my own mental break down at the moment. I have an amazing life. I have an amazing and beautiful wife. With great company from my best friends. I really am blessed in this life. I have soo many things to look forward to in life. And this is a disclosure, this is not be bragging but me trying to thank my past self for the decisions that led me up to this point.

Something that makes me emotional is the past that I’ve gone through and all the hardships that I’ve over come. From going through the hardest heart break of my life, to basically being homeless after my parents and I got into a fight, to the most life changing breakup, to the sleepless nights due to school and work , my business ventures and most recently my mental break down. I’m grateful for the hardships because without it, I wouldn’t be here and blessed with all the things that are within my grasp.

I’ll start with my work, materialistic things, my friends, my family, my dogs and most importantly my wife I’m that order. And as a bonus, things I’m excited for in the next handful of months/years.

I’m grateful for my line of work. It feeds me, pays for the bills, pays for my investments, and keeps my humble. I’m currently a pharmacy tech and I’m grateful for this line of work because of how easy it is. I’ve been bless with the people I have met in life to get to this job. And this is not be trying to brag but to this point at 25 years old I’m making well over 80k a year individually. This isn’t something to brag about because I want more but this is an accomplishment on its own. My past self would be so happy at my accomplishments because this is what I struggled for. This was a bucket list that’s been checked off. There is no drama at work, there is just enjoyment and new memories I get to create with friends and the little family I grew.

Now materialistic might not be peoples cup of tea but it helps me motivate myself in certain points in life. I might not have a house yet, but I know it’s coming SOON. My wife and I have saved up 30k in just a little over 5 months. I have 3 cars to my name. I have a 2013 scion FRS, a 2020 Lexus IS300 f sport, and a 2021 subaru STI limited. And this might not be significant but as a kid, this is all I dreamed about. I wouldn’t be a dreamer without these toys. And these cars are expensive on its own other than the FRS but still having all three is a dream come true. I have things that I only wished for during my lowest times in life.

Now onto more important things. My friends. I’m very blessed to have a very good HANDFUL friends for life. It’s hard to explain everyone and I’d rather not list everyone but you know who you are. I have ALOT to be grateful for them because they keep me sane. They let me enjoy life, have fun and experience things that I didn’t even know was a thing. They are my family when my family was absent. They might irritate me sometimes and make me mad but what family doesn’t have this. I’m grateful for them individually because each person has helped me get through hardships at different points in life. Even if the friends that I believed were my best friends at the time. I’m grateful for you. Your love and i hope the best for you guys. But to the friends that are still here I can’t thank you enough. And words can’t express the love and gratitude I have for you guys.

Family might be a short one but I’m still appreciative of my parents for what they had to sacrifice for me. I’m sad that they don’t get to see my grow up, but I always keep them in my prayers. One day, they’ll understand my decisions and I know they are forced to accept them at the moment. And not just grateful for my parents but my aunt and uncle! And my cousins. I love them to death!

But not only them but my extended family. I wouldn’t be standing if I was not taken in but all of my extended family. The people I call my second parents! And I have ALOT! I can’t explain how lucky I am to meet them and for them to have adopted me and cared for me! Thank you.

Now this is sooooo farfetched but I’m soo grateful and happy that I have my dogs. They are loving, annoying, and the most loyal beings I can ask for. They show me so much excitement and joy ever day. Every time I walk through the garage and the joy of seeing all of them makes my heart full. My babies chippy, coco, and caramel! I’m soo grateful for all your quirks, personalities and undeniable love.

Now to my number one support, my pillar and the woman of my dreams. I can’t thank you enough. I know I’m a handful, I’m emotional, a baby, crazy, impatient, annoying, and soo much more words that I can relate to myself. But I’m so thankful to god that out of everyone in the world, you were the one that I get to experience and go through life with. You are loving, supportive, understanding, and so much more than I could have ever asked for. There is no other woman for me, there is no other life I would pick, and no other person I would ever want to come home to. You are my joy. Someone that is beautiful, inside and out. I’m grateful that you support me and believe in the path that I know will lead us to a fruitful life. I can’t wait for you to have our kids, to be the mother that teaches them and to see the love you have for our family. I don’t deserve you, but I will try my best to keep you happy, keep you smiling and love you till my last breathe. I’m going to make sure that you don’t regret marrying me and be the husband that you deserve and the one that you dreamt of when you were young. I can’t wait for what the future holds for us, and the story that I will be able to tell our grandkids. I’m here for you always. And I can’t wait for what the future has in store for us.

Speaking of the future. In the next handful of months, we will be able to purchase a house! Im so excited for this because this starts our investments and future ventures. Im excited for the cars mostly. The next car that I know we will get is that Supra and the Tesla. And after that maybe a couple years down the line I’ll be able to import some JDM cars. I can’t think too far ahead but I will for sure make it happen. Now not to be cliche or take something that’s not mine but in the words of Tj hunt “peace out, and keep moving forward”!

[slowdrippingnoise]

!!!! i was gonna take a break but i worry that my thoughts may leave me, this might be disorganized(uh oh, this one got long again)-

lol i didn't know about the charity stream thing, that's amusing, but yeah that's more "far left-field" canon, i guess?

fiddauthor qpr unfathomably based (im still Thinking- interesting to imagine a period of time where ford is in the camp of "we have an emotionally intense and very intimate but still very platonic friendship" and fiddleford is "losing his grip on his marriage and down so bad for his best friend as a kind of emotional pre-rebound" oh thats some ideas)(they can equalize and cool off later)

who said divorce? we're in it for the long haul, baby! til miserable, unsatisfied death do us part! but yeah that's a very "they(stan twins) just like me fr because i said so" type of hc so i don't really expect people to see it like i do *shrug*

the journal pages are so. theyre so. augh

ok so. important context: i've been on the billford train since the last mabelcorn aired. i'm an OG. i live in this house made of poison and mold. etcetera. that said, until this book came out i always saw it as varying degrees of likely accidental subtext- i did not expect,, basically the book reaching out and slapping me across the face with "hey, you were right!" (at least, to some degree)

I think you've hit on a very interesting question (within the context of what we've been discussing) with "Was it genuinely romantic and Bill had a crush/ was deeply in love with Ford? Did he see their relationship as romantic partners?" because to me these are two very different questions, I think you can understand what I mean pretty well? in tbob specifically, bill is shown to have a long-ish list of failed romantic relationships, he's pushy and sociable, he keeps a group of people around him, he wants people to pay attention to him... but in the same way it's questionable whether the henchmaniacs were really his "friends", were his exes really people he "loved", romantically speaking, or were they people who he could pressure into giving him a particular kind of attention, until they got sick of him and left?

the dynamic with him and ford is so so so so interesting to me rn. ford is his perfect pawn, perfect for him to manipulate, and he does open up to him a bit as they get to know each other, there's enough parallels shown to easily imagine that he sees himself in ford and wants to see more(we'll rule your world together it'll be great-)- the way bill talks about (and occasionally to) ford is full of "relationship" subtext/implication- however he feels about him he clearly wants him so bad.

(making room- i honestly see the karaoke page thing as just "he got me to drink when i said no at first", but i do think the fan response is very funny so i'll let it slide. the "he's got it all figured out"... well i'm insane about character parallels so i hope bill first tried to convince him of how well he's doing and how you see he's so much smarter than all those boring normies (just like you, sixer! we could do great things!) then got drunker and started venting and they got to complain about everything together. and then forget it the next day)(oh- just caught what you meant by that being when he pitches the portal- that makes a lot of sense i like it)

i think (and i'm biased) bill has very intense feelings for ford that he himself would call romantic. i think they are whatever that term means to him. i think the way we all think of and categorize our own emotions is very interesting, and i like to explore that with fictional characters. i think bill wants to be the closest person to ford, for all that gets him.

(tangent- the way people talk about these kinds of dynamics can be bothersome to me. there's an overall reluctance to admit that you can love someone and still hurt them- that you can love someone and hurt them very badly, that you can love someone who hurts you, that you can love someone, romantically speaking, without having their best interests in mind, and on and on- maybe it's "ship discourse" brainrot or something. i've always been the most invested in intense, destructive relationships in fiction, it's what draws me in, so the conversation confuses me. anyway)

as far as ford's side goes, well, i am still biased from years in my brainrot- i find it difficult not to read into the way he talks about bill in j3, the "cipherholic" remark in tbob- i think that canonically bill fostered a sort of devoted worship in ford in the way that he manipulates and flatters him, an emotional dependence. and like i mentioned before, i'm interested in the way that, at first, bill could provide a "safe target" for whatever ford's equivalent of romantic feelings may be- he's something from ford's world, an anomaly, practically an imaginary friend. all the usual blaring warning signs are turned off, and bill is openly inviting him in. that- and the turnaround into isolation, then vindictive, openly abusive threats and attempts to break him down into absolute control, creates a very compelling emotional journey to follow, in my eyes. (they're meeting all of my standards etc. etc.)

none of this necessarily proves that ford's feelings were romantic, that's more my own preference leaking through. i like a good melodrama. i think it works either way. and would calling his feelings romantic or platonic in this case make a difference to ford himself, outside of a self-defensive desire to know whether he's being "abnormal", or not? that question is interesting to me too.

tl;dr billford and fiddauthor can both be nightmare qpr if you believe hard enough

(!! i'll have to keep an eye out for that, feels like something i'd know if i'd actually seen the translation yet. thank you!)

I cannot stop thinking about Fords dream. Plan sexual? Is this aroace confirmation??

"Attracted to planning" my ass. What happened to attracted to strange and the strange was always attracted to him?? You are a weirdo, except it

I an aroace and i was concerned that Ford will be straight in TBOB but now i am just confused???

I see you want to scream about the book of bill. Please scream at me i need someone else in this madness

OK!!!! so this is an extremely interesting question, and my perception of it is very heavily influenced by this interview being fresh in my mind (you've probably already read/watched but if not go do that it's great) towards the end you can find alex answering a question about ford being interpreted as queer- and basically talking about how ford is written as extremely romantically/interpersonally repressed in general- I won't try to summarize it i genuinely recommend just going and reading that, he describes it all better than I could (and again maybe you already have idk)

I feel like the tbob dream note could be taken a number of ways (and, while I wouldn't actually ask it cause i feel like leaving it up to imagination is actually more interesting in a creative engagement kind of way, i'm desperate to know what hypothetical answers are hiding behind that "usually" oh ford) but the thing that sticks out to me is. i mean it's very difficult to read it as straight isn't it. ford has recurring dreams about being quizzed on "what he's attracted to" and consistently dodges the question (doesn't even give a straightforward answer like "nothing", he misdirects back onto his logical smartguy persona) it's definitely a nod to fans too, sure, but in-character it's no-way-out firmly establishing that his sexuality specifically is on the Grand List of Stanford Pines Insecurities. we definitely got a nod to this way back in j3 of course- the ford&fidds campout conversation- but this i think this new tidbit betrays a much more internal fixation/anxiety than "it's confusing to me and I don't really want to think about it for more that a minute at a time" (<-the vibe his j3 stuff had more of to me) TL;DR whatever he is, i do not think you can call this man canonically straight at all lmao. W

(ok i'm losing track of my own thoughts a bit here. i should've outlined this like an essay lmao. back on track-)

In terms of what I personally believe/headcanon? honestly i'm in a funny in-between place right now- if you asked me last week i'd just say "he's gay probably" but this has me Thinking now in a more "ok, what cooperates best with canon and how I personally view him" way and the "ford aroace" people are making some interesting points. my most recent idea of him that i've been rolling around in my mindscape like a shiny rock goes basically like this:

(putting this under a cut)(also this goes wildly off-topic for a while because i love talking about ford. i promise it is tangentially related and relevant to my argument)

ford is repressed in how he deals with people because people are confusing and often scary (history of bullying and ostracization, we all hc him as some kind of autistic, etc.), and this extends to how he views romance/sex- if you don't see yourself as safe/belonging among other humans it can be extremely difficult to imagine yourself in such intimate dynamics with them (accepted, loved) and ford is very well established to close himself off to keep himself safe. the prospect of "romance" is by default more unsettling than it could ever really be comforting to him (within his ability to imagine it, at least) outside of the rarer "what if i was just normal and nobody bothered me for existing" fantasy, which is its own can of worms,,

another part of this is my (more arbitrary/i know because im right forever/because i lived it) hc that the elder pines twins' parents didn't really love each other by the time they were raising stan and ford, it was more of a "we both pay the rent/keep the family going, we may not strictly like each other and yeah there's a screaming fight or two every few years, but divorce is off the table because it would leave us both financially up the creek, so you do what you gotta do" situation. which has the potential to do. things. to how you think about Traditional Ideas of Couples and Suchlike. take my word for it.

another important part, though i find myself getting technically off-topic for a ways here, my apologies- i've been thinking about ford's Patterns with his attachments, in that he generally has one Main Person to focus on and trust at a time, and for a most of his life these attachments end Badly- throughout his entire adolescence he has stanley as that person, they exist in constant contrast to each other, their own self-perceptions are defined by their existence as a duo, covering for each other's weaknesses (to the extent that they can ignore traits in themselves that "double up", so to speak- stanley is the dumb muscle and ford is the booksmart genius with potential- no way out of that)(their dad affects this too)(oof) he and stan have a really awful falling-out that leaves ford with the belief that his One Person was willing to sabotage his future, completely disregarding ford's own feelings or sense of security and agency, just to get his way. (strike 1.5? against ford's ability to trust people) --- in college he attached to his roommate, fiddleford- and they genuinely get along and compliment each other really well! they're besties for life! yippee! so ford has a Person again, to exist next to, to prop himself up. but their lives go in different directions- they both move on with their studies/careers, and ford winds up in gravity falls, alone, where he has trouble again interacting with the locals and spends all his time wandering the woods, with endless hours for introspection. --- enter- Bill! :) bill becomes ford's 3rd Person, and he flatters ford and manipulates him and validates him and offers him everything he could ever shallowly imagine would solve all his problems and patch up the gaping hole in his self-worth forever definitely (while reminding him of what he remembers/imagines of his brother most likely, ow) bill is also more "safe" than other people, he's an anomaly, a supernatural phenomenon, even, and he lives exclusively inside ford's head. he's a perfect, safe, obsession target. (billford situationship essay for another day)

until he's not, of course.

until his college bestie Person is back too, and he's more Real than bill in a way that's very comforting, but fidds is another strong influence, one for the better, and bill can't have that around, he has to go. after that his relationship with bill also turns sour extremely quickly in a terrifying way, which leaves ford shaken and unmoored and desperate, which leaves... stan.

which also falls apart. (strikes 2, 3 and 1.5-the-sequal in rapid succession)

the 30 years spent multiverse-hopping are interesting to me too in how they affected ford- i think being around so much "abnormality"/being disconnected from his own world's ideas of normal did a lot to mellow him out- but he still couldn't really stick around anywhere to form deeper bonds with anybody, he's a wanderer until bill is dead, which may well end up killing ford in the process, so...

then! he's back home! which is bad! (from his perspective) but gives him the opportunity to try to Attach to a 4th Person- dipper! this was a secret essay on why i think he's Like That about dipper all along not about romance at all haha trick'd'ya! (i'm joking)

anyway you get the idea- fortunately he has a slightly wider support net by the end of the show between stan, fiddleford, and the kids- but to me it's relevant in that ford has a very limited network of people who he is close to at all, considering that his view on romantic relationships seems to orbit around "don't wanna think about that/that's scary, I don't know/etc.", and that for a long time the relationships(platonic or otherwise) that he did have were defined by their ending in trauma, guilt, and shame. it makes sense to me for him to not really be able to figure himself out, how do you dissect all the layers of the bonds you do manage to form, tease out one strong emotion from another, especially when you're always afraid of ruining something because this is all you have?

I guess, given all that rambling, to me he lands within some combination of demi-aroace(attraction of any kind is rare and difficult to distinguish from other emotions, needs a strong base first) and too repressed and deeply, deeply traumatized to really say what comes naturally and what's his brain trying to protect him from being hurt. he knows that something is, by the standards of humanity, "wrong" with him, but it's just another note on a long list of "reasons normal people don't like him". and he's gay.

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ok i probably forgot some stuff but i think thats my thoughts on that lmao. anyway BOOK OF BILL this makes me. so crazy. hasnt left my brain for days. i will never be the same i called these shots i CALLED them. but i couldn't imagine. anyway-

while i'm still talking about ford, i love that this book let him be more emotionally vulnerable than j3 did, i feel like there was a harsher impression of ford among fans for a long time (at least, with people who weren't already Obsessed with him) because he has limited time in the actual show for his character to be established, and a lot of j3 either had him on the defensive, or still stuck in "everything ever is my fault" mode. getting a better view both of how bill manipulated him, and how he's still affected by it "postcanon" puts him way more in line with. how i've seen him all along basically!! augh. he's lonely and insecure and afraid and wants so, so badly to connect to people,, "the ego of a king. the insecurity of a circus freak." compare to "my immense self hatred vs my delusional god complex" we were so right.

his last section of the book is. so so perfect i'm so glad we have that- it wraps up what felt like a loose end with other pieces of canon leaving him on "i'm the biggest idiot in the world" which felt. bad. all things considered. but tbob lets him air out that soul-crushing shame in such a beautiful way- both in letting us the audience actually See how it was with him and bill before, and his family reassuring him that they love him and don't carry some massive sense of Blame for him being manipulated... it hurts good man. perfect place to end on. he's gonna be ok it'll be ok.

related- possession pages go crazy. like that is some "i've read fanfiction less fucked up than this" shit and I [the rest of this sentence redacted for my dignity] what was i saying. the dream scene was so viscerally upsetting. the "light switch". the stretching. (alex drop a link to your ao3 account. urgh) bill is so so so scary for that brief moment which is an amaaazing essential addition to the book that actually made me feel horrifically personally sorry for the little bastard for the first time maybe ever. i mean this so genuinely he's the worst he's been he's the saddest he's been it's a beautiful tapestry drawing me in. it's gonna occupy my brain for weeks. maybe months. he's desperate to hold on to ford he's desperate for his plans to work for once and he's pissed as hell but also now he has an excuse to cut loose- he doesn't have to hide his angry, shitty, abusive side from this little human that he's grown so attached to(who he sees himself in)- he can see ford and ford can see him (or, what he's willing to think of as "himself")(where did you all go-) and ford is just living a nightmare that he couldn't have possibly imagined. incredible

i'm practiced at being emo about ford i've been emo about ford since 2015 but the bill thing is new to me (not strictly the lore, i was around for the reddit AMAs/the axolotl poem, but the elaboration-) and it's killing me. he's so fucked. he's hopeless. he's fucked himself up so bad and refuses to get any better because just looking at it inside his head is too much. there's a loud buzzing in his ears and he blacks out for 30 seconds. everyone loved him he was the best baby ever. sixer, it would eat you alive. the doctor says three sips a day will make the visions go away. where did you all go. he's fine, he's fine, he's fine. it's all hitting me fresh like it's brand new, funy nightmare triangle abandonment issues go brrrr-

he wants ford to want him so bad he wants to not be alone so bad. hes awful he ruins every chance he gets and it's all genuinely his own fault. fuck (im not gonna talk about "pain is hilarious" im not gonna be cringe im not gonna do it) blacked-out list of exes love and fear are the same love cage you're my property if lost return to bill cipher covered in blood all alone in the universe-

I was gonna elaborate on those last scraps but. i am running out of brain. big week for ford enjoyers. big week for me being so so sad (/pos) ☀️