#but like. it's been seventy years

[acediscowlng]

okay but consider the idea that edwin actually had an incredibly normal family, like they weren't perfect but edwin's parents genuinely loved and cared for him and he had a good relationship with his siblings

but like. edwin spends so long in hell and in such an awfully traumatic and violent place that he kind of forgets that? like, the good memories he had with his family eventually fade away in the face of all the tortures of hell, and he only remembers the bad things, and he convinces himself that his teenage insecurities about not being good enough for his father and being hated by his mother and being ignored by his siblings were actually all just true and well. he's in hell. the entire point of that place is to make you feel worse about yourself.

and when he finally makes it out, it's not like there's any way to fix that anymore. his family loved him but they're all dead now. edwin barely remembers them, and what he remembers are only the bad parts. the school called his disappearance an act of god and he assumes his family also thought the same. and there's nothing left to mourn, so edwin doesn't and he just moves on and buries all that pain and trauma and absolutely does not deal with it.

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

kind of hilarious how Armand's favorite method of bonding with people he loves or even just kind of incidentally crosses orbits with is to make them replay his own fucked-up experiences. hi stepdaughter would you like to get objectified and exploited before your inevitable demise. hi husband would you like to lose your memories and lose your loved ones to fire and get trapped in the dark. hi ex-boyfriend would you like to watch your family burn alive. hi pet journalist would you like to have your mind wiped and writhe like a split fish around the damage. hi this is fun this is sooo fun. i could not prevent it. disregard. this worked out great in the sims trust me. armand is an unstable concept that never really existed but with your help we can all be armand i.e. dead fucking wrecks.

[bastardtrait]

…Toby had the distinct sensation that this being here, in this place, was exactly where he needed to be. This endless summer of many years, under the starry blue dome, with the man he cared for more than anything.

transcript:

TOBY: Forgot what the sky looked like out here. EDDIE: Yeah…me too.

[phantoms-lair]

In the time briefly before his death Edwin met a supernatural entity. It terrified him before dragging him to Hell on a technicality.

In the time briefly before Charles' death he met a supernatural entity. And Edwin, being on the other side of things, made an effort to bring as much comfort and as little fear to the process as possible.

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

When Huntress met the Anarcha-Feminist of Gotham

and also realised the real value of taking a stand.

Huntress: Year One my beloved

[meownotgood]

chapter one word count = 34k, chapter two word count = 36k

that means finally, 70k word count in total 🫡

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[tamaharu]

sorry im not lolita blogging a whole lot bc i know its somewhat uncomfortable to talk about unless youre going into it deliberately but the experience of reading it versus seeing how its been distorted over that past nearly seventy years will make you lose your mind with anger

[navree]

people talk about pumped up kicks as the premiere "school shooting song that is really catchy" but they're fools because i don't like mondays by the boomtown rats is right there and has been for nearly fifty years.

[emcads]

not to be dramatic about it but the way esme falling in love with jack and trusting jack lead to her helping him set christophe and borya free. who will later murder her grandfather. setting her on her path to revenge. how it was all because she trusted and loved this boy everyone said she shouldn't trust and love.

[ancientrimer]

strongly considering changing my whole theme on mobile

[whimseee]

there’s some really bad wildfire smoke here and I’ve finally figured out that’s why I’ve been feeling off today lol

[july-19th-club]

problem im not equipped to handle socially: neighbor i barely know keeps texting me asking me to go to a rodeo or come over and visit (as in, neighbor would come to MY house) and while i have nothing against this neighbor i also have no interest in hanging out. but i dont know how to SAY no i dont want to hang out with you sorry without being rude. so i just keep ignoring the texts and the neighbor keeps texting and i know that's the wrong way to do it but if i text the neighbor then they will REPLY and i will have to carry on a conversation with them

[therealvalkyrie]

being an old woman in this society must be so scary

[rainbowgod666]

I was referring to the 75 years of genocide.

Because seriously why did that even happen.

It's been 55 days and 75 years

[autumnrory]

cannot relate to people liking things in fic that they wouldn't actually like in canon like most of what i like in fic is to FIX things from canon or sometimes to explore different things between AUs and canon divergence but like. no i don't want to see my favorite character die. no i don't want to see a healthy relationship turned into abuse. do you i guess but like sure i love angst in fic but i want it to work out in the end and i do want the angst to be like. believable and make sense instead of nonsense that doesn't fit with the characters/dynamics