#both derogatory and affectionately

[coffeebrownn]

tell me about preston!

[SOMETHING ABOUT PRESTON]

Baby girl! Baby girl! Baby girl! (affectionate)

His full name is Preston Nell Johnson. BUT, he forgot that he has a middle name, so it's just Preston Johnson for him.

His height is around 5'10 or 5'11 (around 179 CM). Age 32.

Has a typical Mid-Atlantic Accent. Light brown eyes, dirty blond hair. Naturally doesn't speak or smile a lot, so he's somewhat had gotten the title of "chick magnet". Hates that title.

From New Hampshire! but moved to Vermont because he was adopted to a Vermont family! (HAHAHAA) Which he's no the only one who's adopted in the family.

Agnostic. But raised in a Christian setting, went to an all boy school until Highschool (he was moved to a public one)

Family consist of His father and 4 siblings (him included), he's the oldest. His little sister stayed with his biological family and he'd never gotten any answer why he was chosen to be taken away.

A dog kind of person, Favorite dog breed is the Collie or the Labrador Retriever, but no dogs right now, too broke. But he wish to adopt one,,, he's very weak to strays, really want to take every stray back home.

Can't tie his own tie.

His family kinda forgot that he existed and Preston is okay with that, but deep inside he wished that his family respect him a little bit, but he stop chasing that in his late 20s.

Very natural in music, has a decent singing voice and pretty good at playing a trumpet (even though he smokes), but prefer literature. Now he's picking up Computer and Coding.

Not a lawyer but he understand laws pretty well, read it in his free time. The type of person who read Terms of Services 😐

He teaches college students because he's broke and he need to payback his loan because his college is the one who paid his tuition fees. Surprisingly he likes teaching them and doesn't mind it.

Experiencing an emotional burnout from the last relationship, it was an abusive one (emotionally). Now his low self esteem tripled and suffering from trust issue.

Really like Breaking Bad (Tv series) and his favorite movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), he remembers word to word for the first 30 minutes of the movie.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 271

“Grandmother is visiting,” Damian suddenly said with no warning and with his usual not-quite demanding tone. 

“Who?” Tim wasn’t the only one to startle, seeing as Bruce had practically froze, a downturn to his lips in a silent show of confusion. 

Damian scowled. “Are you deaf Drake? Grandmother is coming to Gotham to, quote, make sure I am being properly cared for.” None of them had known that Ras was with anyone actually. At least Tim was pretty sure that would have been in the files. 

“Oh?” Dick didn’t quite crouch to Damian’s height but it was a near thing. “She-” “He,” Damian corrected, interrupting him. They all exchanged a glance before Dick continued. 

“Is he coming to the Manor or…” 

Damian scoffed again, a tiny bit of a flush against his face. “No, Grandmother will most likely be staying with Akhi-”

Now wait one moment-

“YOU HAVE ANOTHER BROTHER?!” 

[vaguely-concerned]

My two cents on how much of Mind!Varric is Rook’s mind trying to fill the blank space and how much is Solas actively talking through a convenient blood magic paper doll of the mind: I think it's a mix of both, a truly collaborative psychosocial horrorshow if you would, but waaaay more towards the second. It feels too directed and tactical at times to be anything else. Rook's mind is willing to go along with the denial phase as far as it can fucking carry them to not have to face the grief and regret and does its part in papering over details that don’t make any sense, the way brains will strive to create coherent meaning even out of deeply confusing input, but to my understanding it's a collaborateur in how that plays out, not the instigator or control center. Solas is using it as a path to agency and to gather insight into Rook as a person unguarded as he can't count on in his own guise. (That stoic option that leads to him being like 'oh I see you're cautiously denying me access to your inner life. well. at least you still have Varric to talk to. y'know as an outlet :)'. You absolute BITCH Solas! That alone convinced me that he HAS to have an active hand in it on some level.)

My guess is that it takes considerable effort on Solas’ part to make Mind!Varric do anything more involved or complicated than seeming to sit up in bed and give casual commentary, and that’s why he keeps having eerie five minute shallow pep talks with you before he announces he conveniently needs a nap aaanyway good luck kid you got this haha. When he’s just spouting NPC lines from his bedrest, I’m ready to believe that could be Rook’s mind being allowed to improv lines for him more freely because it’s less about Solas trying to get something out of them or working an angle and more ‘Still here! Still totally alive and fine and the mentor figure you know and love and trust :) don’t even worry about it! Thankfully there is no war in Ba Sing Sei, as we all know’ upkeep work lol. Rook’s mind is allowed to set the tone of Varric, the outlines, but not always the content. 

AND, on a (beautifully fucked up) character psychology level, I feel like Solas is indulging in actually getting to be the good supportive mentor figure to Rook with one hand to assuage the guilt he feels about what he's done -- and what he's going to do -- to them with the other. Same internal logic as he uses in Trespasser about the Qun. ‘Almost everyone is going to die from the course of action I’m doggedly pursuing eventually. But at least I can make their last years happier and freer and kinder than they would have been otherwise. and that kind of makes up for it right. a little bit. doesn't it. doesn't that make it better at least. I need that to make it better)'. Did I really take your beloved mentor and friend from you if you don’t know yet that I did? Some philosophers would argue not really! So it’s probably almost ok actually. Isn’t it even a little noble that I’m taking all this grief and guilt on myself and shielding you for now. With undertones that I’m not sure he would realize himself (and might be mortified by if he did) that he is so incredibly lonely, and even a dishonest and indirect emotional connection is more than nothing when you’re that desperate. In this setup he gets idk. Both the control he craves so incredibly badly in relationships and over himself, and the scraps, the fading afterimages, of intimacy and warmth and companionship, even second hand. The one thing Solas and Rook agree on deep deep down is that they really wish Varric weren't gone. They're handshake memeing this in the saddest and most creepy way possible.

I think an important element too is that Solas needs Rook and their team to *succeed* —  up to a certain point. He needs someone to hold the two other elven mean girls off until he can get out of here. Ideally, in a perfect world, even do all the hard work of killing them so he can swoop in at the end and do his thing when both sides are exhausted and out of resources to stop him, and then Bob’s your uncle! Same logic as he was using with Corypheus, and after that worked out so well, too! King of choosing to never learn from a single solitary mistake he’s ever made even though i fully believe he could have the capacity to Fen’Harel <3 The underlying idea isn’t flawed, you see, it was just unforeseen circumstances getting in the way. This time for sure it’ll all work out the way I cleverly imagined it in my head beforehand. Cue By Talos this can’t be happening etc. in the form of a statue almost crushing him like a bug. 

So he's providing guidance and forging Rook into a leader from two angles: one Rook might not trust, and one they probably will. Shaping them into what he needs slowly and carefully. He’s helping you hone your team into their most effective state, as he might have done with his own agents back in the day, setting up his chess pieces even if he has to squint through two glimpsed realities to do it haha. Pincer maneuver of an insidious stealth mentor you never asked for. Also… at one point mind Varric gives you a whole little monologue about how Solas' problem is that he’s always seen his interpersonal connections as flaws and see where it’s landed him, all alone and the worst part? it hasn’t even worked. it’s all been for nothing he’s back where he began with nothing to show for it but his mistakes. Like...that has such strong 'uh okay happy to play your therapist from two rooms away here what the fuck kind of traumadump is this' energy to me, I’m not sure Rook like. Thinks that much about Solas as a private person. So much of Solas' self-loathing and futile insights into his own flaws seem to shine through in Mind!Varric's dialogue all the time — I just can't believe that there's no guiding hand behind it as it were. 

Most of all. I feel like people underestimate the degree to which Solas is incredibly funny. As in, he has a very consistent and recognizable sense of humour. It’s one of my very favourite things about him. We must remember — it is crucial that we always keep in mind — Orlesian accent and wig Solas from May The Dread Wolf Take You (my beloved, the explanation for why I love this dude even with the. All of the everything else. No one does it quite like him). He is not at all above doing things or adding little flourishes for his own obscure amusement, in fact that seems to me to be one of his most consistent traits. The Randy Dowager Quarterly comment Varric has? The ‘Maybe this is the Dread Wolf’s revenge. Forcing us to house sit for him’ thing? To Me this is 100% Solas amusing himself in his boring Fade jail surrounded by the screaming hellscape of all his regrets. Source: it came to me as divine revelation through pure vibes trust me bro 

If nothing else I find it much more narratively interesting personally if the connection between Rook and Solas really is that defenselessly intimate and entwined (and so unbalanced!), and the sense of violation and invasion and betrayal afterwards consequently all the more nauseatingly intense. Even if you kept him at arm’s length in the open, he’s been under your skin the whole time, looking around, gathering what he needs to destroy you, wearing the face of a friend. Regretfully, probably, but choosing to do it every step of the way anyway. (Sound familiar, Inquisitor? Solas doesn’t have that many tricks when you actually look at it, he keeps returning to old tried and true ones like a dog with a bone haha.) Maybe he even genuinely meant some of it as mercy, which only makes it so much worse. It makes his sin against his own core principles of autonomy and the freedom of all beings in mind, spirit and body so much more juicily grave if it’s something he pursues actively and consistently, rather than it half-falling into his lap as a happy accident mainly orchestrated by Rook’s own subconscious. Solas, too, is at his very lowest point, the closest to giving in and becoming his own antithesis fully that he’s ever been, and it makes the choice of whether you still reach out your hand to him one last time or not all the more impactful and difficult.

[electroempathy]

When you tease your maker about his small fangs but your maker is a freak so all you really do is turn him into a size queen who fawns non-stop over your big chompers.

Inspired by this very true and correct take by @armandsfangs.

[blmpff]

Various Favorites 2023: BL Fashion - shows (BL Fashion IRL)(FrameRyan)

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

I love that there's one half of people who think Ridley should be this terrifying dragon demon who antagonizes Samus and moves quicker than lightning and that Dark Samus should be this strange organic being with hardly more than a skull who will stop at nothing to have her dead and then there's the other half with Goth Girl and Pathetic Pterodactyl.

[skitterjitter]

Dazai constantly puts up a facade. he wants people to take him at face value, because to look even a little bit deeper means they'll see just how much pain he's in. he uses humor as a means to help construct his facade

Fyodor, for all his intellect, can't see past Dazai's facade because that's all he sees. he sees the intellect, the superiority, and sees himself reflected back at him

Chuuya sees the facade, knows it's a front, and sees the person underneath. it makes him angry, because he wants Dazai to be honest about his own needs

Fyodor is a monster and what Dazai thinks he is. Chuuya is a human who thinks he's a monster and that's what Dazai is

[skepticalfrogcat]

It makes so much sense that Nathan Prescott is from Florida

[lifea16]

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He is a DEMON

Why would he have any religious belief mortals can categorize

[shorthaltsjester]

ashton and imogen trade the stupid gene every week and they both inherited it from their culty parents

[the-saddest-clown]

Hello tobecky nation. Enjoy this terrible wip of smth that was funny to me in my brain. Becky is not going to finish that book anytime soon.

[rbvcdeluxe]

sam sweetly fans when sam exists and appears in hatchetfield content. its me im sam sweetly fans

[southern--downpour]

why he ourple

[themyscirah]

Amanda... I miss her.

But I don't trust a single person to write her other than Ostrander/Yale. Like I don't trust them to do it right. Because like it's easy to write her being shady and manipulative and involved in secret government conspiracies. That's what she does. But it feels so hollow once you've seen her character in the way Ostrander describes it. Like she is a woman who is desperate and trying to do what she thinks is right. She has found a place of power (as a fat Black woman in the 1980s) and is doing anything she can to fight and hold onto it as powerful and ambitious men try and steal it from her. So she doubles down. She doubles down on the shady deals and the broken promises and the violence and she destroys her enemies, and loses a part of her soul in the process. And then some other ambitious politician rises up and the process repeats itself over and over and over again as each time she loses more of her morality and more of her soul and more of the respect her colleagues had for her. In place of that she gains more power, she gains fear, and an even more badass reputation. Until by the end of the book the villains begin to understand/sympathize with her more than the heroes ever will. Like THAT is who Amanda Waller is. It may happen subtly, it may happen over a longer period of time but that descent is a critical part of her character! She is a tragic character! And I feel like every perception of Suicide Squad I've seen outside of the original has her as this static villainous snapshot which is just untrue to her core imo. Like she is not a hero. But she is also not JUST a villain. She is a highly flawed character who is always descending farther and farther into villainy as she is led there by what she believes is right.

[palaceoftears]

Both Hatice and Ibrahim are very ashamed of taking/asking something for themselves during the first part of the season, and that's why they're so secretive with Valide and Suleyman respectively, usually excusing their "lack" of personal needs with their close relationships, Ibrahim says he can't think of forming his own family because Suleyman is already his family (oh, the irony of him officialy becoming it w the marriage and that adding a new problem later) and Hatice, when she tries to reject Ayse's ideas of marrying her off, explains she doesn't want to be separated of her mother. Even then, Suleyman & Valide sense that there's something that isn't being told but they chose to think they know what's better for their loved ones and plan in consequence. In the scenes above, they know a little bit of ibro & hati's wishes but not the real cause: Ibrahim's desired travel to Parga is, in Suleyman's mind, something from what his vizier will return to keep on serving him like always, it's not the act of "rebellion" that Pargali is actually planning. On the other side, Hatice wanting the wedding's dissolution is perceived by Hafsa as caused by her daughter's fears of becoming an early widow again, so she's still not rebelling against what has been chosen for her or "destiny" (I find it funny how destiny and Suleyman's & Valide's wills are kind of synonyms atp), so while Valide reassures her of how she has to stay patient, she doesn't see a threat to "the order" (and if Ibrahim contemplating the possibility of not coming back is the threat for Suly, Hatice thinking of dying is it for Hafsa). Both Suleyman & Valide are partly right about tying Ibratice's words to the past traumas (the death of hatice's husband & ibrahim's lost of his family, even if Suleyman can't comprehend the dimension of the dylemma with his origin, conversion, etc), because they're indeed a big part of what it's going on, but they don't perceive the new desires, deeply entangled with the already mentioned pasts, their loyal ones dare to have, so the ruler and his mother can't see the "rebellions" coming at all, and that's why they'll react with a lot of anger once the romance is discovered even if they'll accept it at some point.

[witchofthesouls]

Imagine Nemezis and Executor (in hyperspace Vader senses they're about to crash into something with lot of energy so they drop out right in front of Con's warship) running into each other

And neither is backing up or something cuz i can see Vader just standing ominously on bridge not giving any orders and just looking at Nemezis throught the window while Megatron i imagine getting more irritated

Megatron: What is this nonsense?? Soundwave!

Soundwave:*busy mentally sniffing with Vader like dogs cryptids meeting each other probably*

May the force be with you o/

The ships pass each other at full alert, but no weapons primed. The crews on both ships are sweating bullets until the other is out of range.

Meanwhile, Soundwave and Vader are eye/energy hustling each other as two highly dramatic cryptids could only upon meeting their own ilk.