#but he finds her so intriguing!

[heartdesire]

     princeling   does   not   believe   in   the   outlandish   concept   of   love   nor   has   he   ever   experienced   the   phenomenon   of   love   at   first   sight      —   no   matter   how   many   times   sixteen   year   old   sister   congregated   household   within   estate's   movie   theater,   after   triumphant   win   of   rock,   paper,   scissors,   to   screen   scrupulously   -   selected   film   from   personal   collection   of   romantic   comedies.   in   fact,   one   would   go   as   far   as   to   say   he   had   spent   twenty   years   of   his   life   never   experiencing   a   single   emotion   that   went   along   with   it.   nonetheless,   athlete   could   count   on   one   hand   the   amount   of   significant   others   accumulated   over   two   decades   despite   particular   view   on   relationships.   women   were   amusing   for   a   short   period   then   became   more   vexing   than   they   were   worth.   prince   prefers   the   notion   of   one   night   stands,   receiving   every   ounce   of   pleasure   beating   vessel   desires   under   moonlight   then   inaudibly   slipping   out   begrimed   sheets   to   accrue   dispersed   articles   of   clothing   from   bedroom   floor   to   redress   well   before   sun   caresses   the   horizon   signifying   morningtide.   absense   of   strings   allows   homme   to   come   and   depart   when   he   wants   without   cellular   device   acquiring   influx   of   irate   text   messages   after   being   photographed   with   damsel   whom   one   slept   with   in   the   backseat   of   luxury   sports   vehicle   twenty   minutes   after   image   hit   the   internet.   as   dyad   stand,   second   -   born   hayashi   feels   something   more   riveting   than   lechery   (   .   .   .   )   an   incessant   itch   that   nails   upon   epidermis   would   be   unable   to   satisfy.   ❝   they   wouldn't   know   what   to   do   with   you.   ❞   remarks,   obsidian   hues   taking   note   of   endearing   snaggletooth   showcased   with   even   a   hint   of   a   smile   on   winsome   features.   teammates   could   probably   ruminate   on   a   million   things   to   do   with   cherub   yet   with   every   possibility   own   cerebrum   can   supply,   he   feels   practically   overwhelmed   by   rage.   light,   fleeting   touch   on   sternum   brings   lopsided   smile   to   brims.   femme   undeniably   brazen   and   surely   unaware   of   the   web   she   is   allowing   herself   to   be   woven   into.   hand   atop   her   shoulder   moves   then,   gradually   descending   down   limb   until   fingers   are   able   to   entwine.   ❝   chance.   you   can   lead   the   way.   ❞   introduction   smoothly   cut   short   when   impatience   begins   to   rear   its   ugly   head.   there   were   few   hayashis   born   with   forbearance,   and   coincidentally,   trait   happened   to   bypass   him   completely.

˚   ₊   ‧   𓈒   ❀   cranium   raises   quite   a   bit   when   steady   hand   is   placed   upon   shoulder.   as   the   most   sought   out   in   nightclub   with   two   years   of   expertise   under   her   belt,   malachai   has   rapidly   become   knowledgeable   on   the   type   of   clients   that   will   frequent   the   high   end   strip   club   ———   the   timorous,   often   the   ones   who   are   aware   of   the   fact   that   they   should   not   be   venturing   into   such   an   establishment,   perpetually   due   to   the   fact   that   client   usually   has   an   eternally   -   devoted   significant   other   and   darling   progeny   who   thrive   under   his   tutelage   most   in   this   world,   or   the   exigent,   who   commands   ecdysiasts   as   if   he   owns   them   and   belittles   them   despite   being   desperate   for   the   sort   of   pleasure   only   they   can   provide.   with   all   of   that   in   mind,   it   is   safe   to   assume   that   occupation   was   not   something   doll   adored,   which   is   a   reasonable   assumption,   but   malachai   finds   that   if   she   situates   psyche   in   such   a   way,   it'd   only   induce   abject   misery.   the   truth   of   the   matter   was,   it   was   not   something   she   had   loved,   nor   loathed,   it   was   merely   something   to   keep   and   sustenance   placed   upon   solid   oak   oval   coffee   table.   notion   was   difficult   for   many   to   follow   when��  posed   like   this,   and   in   the   end,   she   would   simply   reassure   them   all   that   she   was   existence   with   her   life   as   it   stands,   savoring   the   highlights   of   the   career   (   .   .   .   )   like,   now,   for   instance.   a   moment   of   stillness   overtakes   the   newfound   twosome   as   dollette   takes   in   other's   physiognomy   as   best   she   can   under   such   harsh   azure   luminescence   ———   she   does   not   believe   she   has   ever   seen   anyone   who   resembles   him,   countenance   nothing   short   of   celestial.   from   what   she   can   gather,   every   bit   of   him   looks   delicate,   the   ultimate   deception   just   based   upon   this   interaction   alone,   but   she   allows   herself   to   be   impetuous   just   this   once,   poorly   concealing   simper   with   a   turn   of   her   head   when   homme   speaks   once   more.   ❛   well,   ❜   articulation   is   spoken   with   a   candy   -   laced   lilt,   cat   -   like   hues   taking   him   in   once   more.   ❛   i   was   supposed   to   spend   my   night   in   a   section,   but.   .   .   how   could   i   refuse   a   night   with   you?   ❜   before   a   manicured   digit   is   placed   upon   other's   chest,   only   to   be   trailed   down   ever   -   so   -   softly,   then   withdrawn.   ❛   sorry,   manners.   i'm   kai.   ❜

[myokk]

[vaguely-concerned]

god I hope lucanis being confirmed as a companion means that he pulls his cringe failcousin-but-more-like-brother (affectionate) illario into the narrative with him. (and also teia and viago, let's get this crow party started! viago dealing with a drunk illario in the wake for teia's sake was *chef's kiss* I'd like to see more of that dynamic.) it's not so easy to go around 'I am the night'-ing convincingly when your cousin who remembers when you were five and obsessed with wyverns is hanging around and ready to drag you in front of your new friends lest they think your edgy ass is actually cool

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever

[aroanthy]

i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc

[cosmicourple]

*coughs up mic* Hey Gals :DD

A.U where before Telemachus meets Athena he decides “Y’know what? I’m gonna go find dad myself >:((“ and goes sailing off on their own journey to find Odysseus. Aaand somehow, somewhere along the way ends up gaining a only kinda ‘crew’ consisting of:

—a Lotuseater who Telemachus names ‘Gát’ (nickname is jst the Greek word for cat without the last ‘t’)

—a bunch of dumbass Sirens (their all a mix of their more accurate designs AKA bird ppl & the modern Mermaid lol haven’t thought up any name for the 3 of them yet L)

—feral ass sea wanderer of a homeless (Gran)Demigod (former) princess (thinking of naming her either Koinós or Mēdén idk I apologise for my shitty Ancient Greek O.C naming attempts jjhhh I am using google for it 😭)

—another O.C whose a fankid of Notus (God of the South Wind)

—teen pirates (even as they become closer, a small part of Machus’s’ brain would still like to casually yeet them right overboard whenever any snarking & / or little shit questioning happens)

…& Thanatos, Personification of (albeit peaceful) Death,,,,,

damn, that’s one crazy tourist group right there I’ll tell you what,,,

also, in Telemachus’s absence, Penelope kills all the suitors hehe :)

[pensymbols]

if u believe that jason grace is lame gtfo this is NOT safe space for you

[a-shadowedvales]

so… in the additional media of stranger things (specifically the comics i’m mentioning), it was initially brenner’s idea/plan to kill off the other test subjects because they weren’t performing as well as eleven was. it was his best solution because that way, all the resources, time, and money could instead be placed only to her. and i just…. sure henry is a fine character and the massacre makes a lot of sense to me, but i think i am once again gonna change up my canon to actually fit this potential narrative instead.

i genuinely think the comic canon of the lab and brenner is far more intriguing than the show. everything with 9/9.5, ricky, and francine. eleven being the only one who grew up completely in the lab. those other kids were either volunteers, well into their teens, or had some semblance of a home life. eleven was the only one practically moulded from the womb. and they all had such a range of interesting powers. i firmly stand with the idea that jane is the only one who can contact the void.

brenner’s entire point of view on the lab subjects changed the second he found out terry was pregnant. he discovered he could steal this baby and make her his own. there would be no convincing the child because it’s all she would have ever known. because of this, i would not put it past a man like brenner to kill the other subjects for the sake of the “greater good” in this case, eleven.

eleven’s gifts just continue thriving beyond his wildest expectations. brenner would never dare assume that having moulded her from the womb, she would still be able to grow into her own person, her own mind, and one day be able to see him for exactly who he was.

back before season four aired, it was obvious there were other test subjects because jane was 011. so there were at least ten kids before her. but i always liked the idea/assumed that she was the last experiment because she was the most successful. that they didn’t need anyone after her because she was fulfilling everything they set out for her to do. with flying colours.

i just think the whole rainbow room idea, pitting the kids against each other thing… been there, done that. boring and predictable. i think at this point my portrayal of her time in hawkins lab really stems from the complete isolation she endured. where having the rainbow room, although eleven was obviously the most isolated out of the kids, brings that sense of community and sister/brotherhood. albeit extremely warped and toxic. knowing that she wasn’t alone in that experience just. doesn’t sit well with me. i think it’s important to note that she was alone, physically and mentally. which is why kali is also so important to her growth. i thought a lot of the flashbacks of her time in the lab during season four was really boring, repetitive, and just very predictable. although peter becoming vecna was a surprise to me, and was a nice little twist, the idea of her having an ally on the inside was really interesting.

maybe they did get as far as they do in canon, peter ballad was telling the truth about everything, about some of the workers there being prisoners like him, and he really wanted to get her out and to safety. but before they can escape through the pipes, they’re caught. peter is shot on the spot, and eleven is put into the isolation room for a few days as punishment. in this timeline, henry would be vecna, but henry would not be peter ballad.

when eleven turned seven, and was already showing extreme promise, where the other children were average at best, brenner had the eight children killed. kali had already escaped. this was the main cause for peter to gain eleven’s trust and try to get her out. because if brenner could murder his “children” in cold blood, there’s no way eleven was safe even in spite of her power.

when eleven is allowed out of the isolation room, her testing becomes more rigorous in attempt to distance and make her forget about what she attempted to do with peter. brenner begins gaslighting her, saying that there was never a peter, that she must have been dreaming. eleven does ask “papa” about “mama”, given peter told her of the day terry broke in the lab, but brenner is convincing enough to make eleven believe it was all in her head. say she is around eight years old, meaning the same timeline of season fours canon flashbacks.

i still do wanna keep the henry creel canon, and keep him as 001. brenner didn’t have him killed alongside the other test subjects, because who knows, one day he could become an even better asset than 011. brenner definitely wants to be able to control henry, but keeps the chip in him because, for the moment, doesn’t know how. killing him would be too big of a loss.

when eleven is ten years old, henry’s concealed powers break free and he manages to get the chip out himself, and unleashes hell onto hawkins lab. he almost kills brenner by snapping his bones, but eleven manages to stop him. her extreme abilities are unleashed, and she sends henry to the upside down. she does fall into a coma due to the extremity of the situation, but she does not forget what happened. brenner believes she’s the perfect weapon as she stepped in to save him without a second thought, was able to defeat henry, and opened a door to something he never thought possible. eleven is rewarded for her efforts. although she remembers the entire battle / confrontation, her memories regarding the portal are very hazy.

brenner decides not to focus on the portal straight away, instead gets her training harder and harder to see what else she can accomplish. also loved the idea of brenner sending her into the void to “look for him” so that will definitely be kept.

by the time she escapes and season one begins, her knowledge of the upside down is basically what we see in canon. because she passed out the moment after she sent henry away, she was once again gaslighted into believing she merely threw him through the glass and killed him. for two years she believed this, until making contact with the demogorgan, and those memories return completely.

due to her saving brenner’s life, (it was pure instinct. she happened to be there. saw her “papa” hurt and knew she had to make him better.) brenner constantly thanks her. but in a very condescending way. tells her: “you saved me so i can continue saving you.” aka, harness your abilities and see what else i can achieve from you. despite the fact that she saved his life, these words and phrases make her feel indebted to him. that she owes him something further.

i don't realistically see her thriving with her speech improvement until she's well into her twenties at least. her slowed development, sensory and social deprivation causes a serious delay in language. surrounded by other children she would have overheard conversations, some would have spoken to her. her conveniently forgetting her upbringing pre the battle with henry just isn't good enough for me anymore. it makes more sense for her to have been raised alone.

it also helps indicate why she gravitated towards the boys when they found her in the woods. they would have been the first people her age she ever remembered seeing. as far as she knew, during the lab there was no one like her. everyone was much older, they were adults-- although she stayed with benny, i'm not sure if she would have stuck around very long. where she followed the boys home without thought.

also it's important to note that after time, jane does understand that peter ballad was a real person, and was truly the first person (aside from terry) who wanted the best for her. when she remembers him, knows that brenner was lying, she deals with immense guilt regarding his death. he was shot right in front of her eyes, because he was trying to help her. this is another catalyst as to why after season two, jane never refers to brenner as papa. she does not give him that sort of credit.

[dyna-myght]

Niclays devotion and heartbreak over Jannart is so moving, I really enjoy reading his heartfelt thoughts and memories over him. I really wish the romance between Ead and Sabran was as moving…. Idk what it is but they don’t click very well for me. I am trying my best to enjoy them but the writing for their romance feels so distant. Maybe it’ll get better, I do still have like 300 pages left to read.

Maybe I just need to lower my expectations for lesbian romances but I don’t want to settle for bland relationships just for the sake that they’re lesbian 😔.

[thevampirearchive]

There’s something I've been meaning to say but I haven't had the words till now. There is something that deeply upsets me about witnessing stories where villains, who are literal killers, fall in love and somehow become good or act outside of what is expected from them. I love love, love is beautfiul, it is powerful and it can truly change a lot. But to sit, and write a killer suddenly go "actually, this one can stay because I am in love for the first time" is such a weird concept to me. Is this happening because as a sociaty we're trying to convince ourselves that deeply disturbed people can be cured by the power of love? That if they just find the right person, they would stop the masacer? or at least no longer feel the need to kill how they were or at least let their person live? And I am not mad at the love, I do belive anyone can fall deeply in love, but my issue is with how it ends. I want to witness the unthinkable — I want to see is exactly what we expect but hoped won't happen, happening. A gut wrenching truth that stays true to who we have been witnessing, despite the "I can change them" dance. And perhaps people hate this idea because they want to belive that anyone can change if only they meet the right one, or that we can change the monsters in our lives with affection, but trust most likly is that they cannot be changed. And I can understand that to some this is then seen as an illusion. "oh then this was never true love", why can the two not exist? Do we not hurt those we love? Maybe not kill them, but someone elses hurt could feel like a small death to me, and vice versa.

Examples, so that you are not confused as to what I am reffering too;

Killing Eve; I stopped watching when Villanelle was shown shooting Eve. It felt true to her character, even if it hurt. She is a killer, we knew that and so did Eve. Regardless of her love, that was what was always going to happen so why were we given additional seaons of this fanatsy of a declawed Villanelle?

Hannibal; It should have ended with the death of Will, and possibly Hannibal consuming him. Didn't Hannibal say that the consumption of Will would somehow join them in a deeper way?Something so disturbing that only could make sense to a serial killing-cannibal. And I would have watched with wide eyes, and gone to sleep staring at the ceiling.

Interveiw With The Vampire; Louis' death in the hand of a Lestat would have made sense, and despite his dramatics, Lestat would have not committed suicide but instead burried himself in deep regret untill he was too numb to his own feelings that he could return to the world of the living. He would have never forgotten Louis, nor what he did, but he would have moved on beause Lestat is not a good person. He's deeply disturbed and Louis knew this. I don't even aknoclege that beatdown episode because Lestat may be a killer, but he's a drama queen first and formost. Louis' death would have been poetic, beautiful and grusom like a greek tragedy without an audiance.

Bonus - Twilight; I could not end without adding my own favorite, and despite this path never being teased to the audiance the same way the other's were, I would have loved the book simply ending because Edward did as he said he would - drained Bella like a Caprisun on a hot summer day. Because what is love agaisnt animalistic urgase (I understand why it is much hotter that he is simply so retsrained and devoted that he resists her, but I'd pay good money for an AU)

At the end of it all, I think want I want is for sociaty to get over the idea that a good woman, love or any form of kindness can change who some people are. Love can do many things - look at crimes of passion! And to some extend I belive that these villain's love were true, possibly not the way we imagine them - which is less so "I love you too" and more so, "wow, finally someone I can manipulate and obsess over. Someone who I can mold, someone who is alone in the world like me" only to realize that is not true.

So why do we make love into what it isnt? Even when the scene is set for us to be shown the truth, writers and the audiance always make the plot lean towards whatever fits so that we can have that "happy ending".

Honorable mentions;

God should have killed Lucifer, I know the bible and christianity is not technically fiction for all, but the idea that he is forgivin but lets the biggest meanness HE CREATED terrorize everybody is evil. Take him out or let somebody else do it homie.

[kashilascorner]

What were the prose Tristan authors eating for lunch when they wrote Mark and Tristan's dynamics seriously it's so toxic but also like they keep hanging around each other? Toxic exes except family instead of lovers

[queen0fm0nsterz]

Reading my fave thin man and lady fic. Kicking my feet a lot because tbh. Sometimes a sad man really is just a weird woman's science project in a way that is so homoerotic

[birdmenmanga]

I love a good AU which makes no fucking sense

[arolesbianism]

Finallly got around to properly designing Demonstrator! She’s silly

[meetthegofer]

getting to knowww you getting to know all abouuuut you

[sudden-memory-loss]

I can't fucking believe I have work tomorrow, gang. I'm gonna be fucking insufferable; my coworker is gonna be sick to death of me