#but may... percolate

[variousqueerthings]

I find all of hawkeye’s sweetest/most believable/most erotic (because most of the time they’re really not erotic at all - always thinks of loretta swit describing him as a little boy) sexual relationships with women to be Erika, nurse Able in s4, and Inga, and they’re all examples of times when he’s feeling challenged and vulnerable in his sexuality-and-romance internalised ideas..... 

[lady-merian]

Maybe a Christian fiction writer just needs to tell the truth. Then tell a better truth.

[ranticore]

the thing about the wyrms is that usually they just don't move. they stay underground because it's where the crawling beasts are but also because they are just not the type of creature that can easily go anywhere. one that gets dragged aboveground will probably die of sunstroke and dehydration before anything else. they cannot use magic anymore. one travelling overland by choice has never happened before, ever, let alone a multi-year march supported entirely by an army of followers. To many people seeing this, they instinctively think it a sign of the end times, something deeply and intrinsically wrong with the world, something impossible. Of course this only works because Revelation can cast spells but eventually it doesn't need to, for any but it's closest inner circle, because despite the fear people hold for it, they are still drawn along, they know the world might end and they want to be on the right side. Or they just want to witness what they believe to be the dawn of a new age

[welcometomybraincomics]

oizrtjgorj OH MY GOD

ORION DOES THE "SHUT UP" VERSION OF "I'M SORRY"

I AM LOSING MY MIND

Edit: Wait-nvm, he just had a similar cadence to the "shut up" version and my brain stuck words in his mouth

[jamiesfootball]

I’ve been twirling it around in my head how Ted and Jamie had similar but opposite movies assigned to them, both revolving around the concepts of dreaming and waking up, but which are very very different in execution. Like literally so different, that that’s the only common thread they have.

Ted, son of Dorothy, with the Wizard of Oz. Leaving the tornado back home in Kansas and traveling to another world where he builds relationships with people trying to discover the magic in themselves. Something about a road (but also something about quoting Robert Frost’s ‘the road not taken’). Crossing through the Dark Forest. Making his way to the Emerald (Man) City. And we know the point of Oz is that eventually you can not stay in the dream. The shoes you’ve found and worn will carry you back home - you’ve had the power within you this whole time. But it also begs the question: has Ted met the man behind the curtain yet? Or is that man meant to be the reflection of himself, the person - the dad and husband - he always assumed he’d be? Wizard of Oz is ostensibly a story about growth and questioning your belief in the role you’ve been assigned and when you’re ready, seeing who you really are and what the world really is. You had the power all along. The dream is a wonderful place, but it’s closing time and you want to go home. You want to go home.

“There’s no place like home.”

In Nightmare on Elm Street you are never safe in your home. Freddy Krueger hurt and sexually abused kids when he was alive (in the waking world), and after he died preyed on kids when they were asleep (in the dream world). And even when they were awake, the kids were always afraid that Freddy was after them. Jamie is literally afraid of his own Freddy Krueger. There are no magic shoes. There is no exploration of self, no growth, no learning - there is just constant, exhausting vigilance. The only way to kill Freddy Krueger is with fire, and even then he keeps coming back. And that’s the note that every Freddy Krueger movie leaves on. The idea and hope that maybe you’re safe. Maybe this time. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. So you try to enjoy that possibility as hard as you can, as much you can, but it’s forced, because you know deep inside that you can’t truly know that if you’re safe ever again. Because it’s the hope that kills you.

So Ted. Sweet Ted. Amazing Ted with his red heels and his beloved witches and his strange but wonderful companions and his flying monkeys. Ted probably feels like he is wrapping up in Oz, ready to face the wreckage of the tornado head on. He’s ready to leave the dream. And he thinks as he’s talking to a Jamie from his world, a Jamie that has grown so much and who’s so strong and smart and kind, a kid who’s so so brave. Because that’s what Ted has seen. That’s the role he’s played. From his viewpoint, this is how the movie goes.

But that’s not Jamie’s viewpoint. Jamie may have wandered into Ted’s play, but to him if he ever fit in, it was only because he was pretending. Because he was stopping himself from being a prick. Everyone else is great and does great things - it’s Jamie who needs to try harder. Ted’s dream was a great place to hide for a while, but Jamie was never waiting for the slippers; he was always waiting for the other shoe to drop. One, two, Freddy’s coming for you. You can’t hide from him. You can’t escape him. And he can even get you in your dreams.

Which is why there’s a point in every Freddy Krueger movie when the victim says they’ve had enough of hiding, and they take some sleeping pills, and they decide to face him head on.

So Ted thinks he’s ready to leave Oz behind and that everyone in Oz will be fine once he’s gone, when actually what he’s accidentally done is given Jamie an idea: to wade into the Dark Forest and confront Freddy Krueger head on. Jamie doesn’t h

Ted and Jamie are talking, but they’re not in the same movie. They’re not in the same genre. They’re both at the end of their movies, ready to face the bad guy, so they think they’re having the same conversation. But they’re not.

And once again I’ve typed so far that I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but there’s definitely. More story there. A climax that hasn’t happened. Another story to explore. Because what becomes of the companions after Dorothy leaves Oz? Even if Jamie defeats Freddy, will he survive to the end of his own movie? Does he make it to the sequel?

Will Roy Kent get to fight his dad like Jason Vorhees? Does he already own a machete, and does he borrow the hockey mask from Van Damme?

Now I’ll just pivot down a different somewhat related path (road):

Shoes.

Isaac literally told Keeley he just wanted to do something with shoes. Something about the shoes. Something about Jamie burning the shoes his mum got him. Something about all the football lads fighting over what kind of shoes they’re allowed to wear, and Dani hating mourning shoes and stealing Rebecca’s soft bright cozy ones that she never wears. Jamie being stuck in his socks at the locker room at Wembley. Roy wearing his colorful socks with the yoga mums. Keeley wearing shoes that out her on eye level with everyone else. Trent’s leopard shoes. All these people in Oz with their fucking shoes or lack thereof.

Dreams!

And shoes!

[crossbackpoke-check]

Dysprosium, Mary Soon Lee

dysprosium, AN 66, is a silvery-white rare earth metal. its name is derived from the greek dysprositos, meaning “hard to get at”, owing to the difficulty in separating and isolating this rare earth element. dysprosium is used to measure neutron flux, to fuel reactors, and to activate phosphors. terfenol-d is a magnetorestrictive alloy, meaning that it changes shape when a magnetic field is applied, and is used to manufacture underwater acoustic systems.

jason “robo” robertson, dallas stars #21 for @simmyfrobby’s nhl periodic table poems <3

[fabaceous]

Is there ever a hypothetical world where Jackie and Shauna’s situation is reversed (as in Shauna dies and Jackie makes it home)? And if so, how do you think Jackie would react and deal with it?

this is ANOTHER of my favorite cans of worms to open lately so THANK YOU for giving me an opportunity to talk about it!!

i was thinking about this mostly because i was thinking about how shauna's hallucinations of jackie provide us with such valuable information about shauna's thoughts/feelings/desires, how she thinks of jackie, how she thinks of herself (via jackie). hallucighost jackie i think sort of has two sides that are intertwined but serve different purposes - there's one side that's more straightforward and even sweet: it shows how shauna, in her grief and pain, wants to remember jackie (the fun, lighthearted moments; braiding her hair, joking about randy). the other side is more dark but gives us just as much if not more insight into shauna: she uses jackie as a mouthpiece for her own bad thoughts about herself. hallucighost jackie is the whip that shauna self-flagellates with. and she punishes herself, but she's also sort of repressing the fact that she even feels guilty (which maybe is why she needs jackie's "ghost" to guilt her, because she can't admit to herself that she feels guilty). and it all must hurt even more coming out of jackie's mouth - which, if you think about it, is probably why she does it (better fuel for her guilt complex).

ANYWAY, i digress (sort of). my point is, i've always wondered what we could learn from jackie hallucinating shauna. how would jackie want to remember shauna, but at the same time, how might the memory of shauna torture jackie?

if we do a simple swap and have shauna leave the cabin when jackie tells her to during their fight and then shauna freezes, that's one option. we get jackie feeling both immensely hurt by shauna's nearly inconceivable betrayal but, at the same time, feeling guilty for sending her out there. this could lead to some interesting hallucinated convos and, personally, i 100% think it could also lead to jackie doing shauna's makeup in the meat shed lmao. (and thats how you know they're made for each other!)

BUT ALSO. shauna's betrayal (i mean, combined with jackie losing her social status in the wilderness and having the other girls turn on her ofc) made jackie so depressed that she was unable to eat, and shauna dying on top of that would have the potential to completely destroy jackie's will to survive. it would be a big ask, at that point, to get jackie through to rescue. id say its pretty likely she dies of a broken heart, so to speak. like, just loses all her remaining will to live (because her will to live was literally hanging on by a thread and that thread was shauna). the only way i can imagine her surviving long enough to go home is if she has a complete and total break from reality and like, just sort of dissociates from the entire year-plus that follows. i think (? let me know if you agree bc this actually just came to me while writing this and im not sure if it holds up) that if the writers really sold it right, they could convince me that jackie basically goes catatonic and retreats into some fantasy world (one where shauna is around, of course!) for the rest of their time in the wilderness. not exactly the way shauna talked to jackie in the meat shed, because shauna knew she was hallucinating and was more or less able to walk away when she had other obligations. i think jackie would actually legitimately just lose her grip on reality, and succumbing to this would be the only way for her to survive. kind of like the bacchanal but about, like, everything.

the other scenario that occurred to me (and it's a pretty awful way for shauna to die and makes me really unhappy btw, so, sorry in advance) is what if shauna's abortion attempt had gone really, really wrong and she had gotten an infection and died from that? obviously jackie has no clue at this point about jeff/pregnancy/rutgers/etc so its pure unadulterated heartbreak. taissa could play a really interesting role in this situation as the only other person who knows this huge, earthshattering secret. would she keep it from jackie? i think that would be the prudent thing to do. losing shauna would already be almost too much for jackie to take, but she could maybe survive that by designating herself as the keeper of shauna's memory and she could probably convince herself she owes it to shauna to stay alive because if jackie dies then shauna is gone for good. but, as we've seen in canon, finding out that shauna betrayed her sends jackie into a really dark place where she doesnt have much will to live. i think she could plausibly survive with her sanity intact if one or the other happens (shauna betrays her OR shauna dies) but, as i discussed above, experiencing both would either break her sanity or effectively kill her.

and i suspect taissa is smart enough to realize this too, so if she wants to keep jackie alive she'll withhold this information (hide/burn the journals?) and let jackie cling to whatever romanticized image of shauna she comes up with. once they get back to the real world, who knows? taissa might tell her because she feels like jackie deserves the truth, jackie might read shauna's journals from before the crash in an attempt to feel close to her again and find out that way, or even jeff might tell her (worst case scenario IMO)... and im honestly not sure what jackie would do at that point, like, murder jeff maybe? (im joking but i actually am not sure how that whole situation would play out. maybe depression 2.0 but in the real world, but that's not as fun as murder.)

i haven't even said what i think jackie would hallucinate, so lets end with that. for shauna, it's primarily about self-flagellation and self-punishment, although it has some ability to soothe her as well, like when she imagines having fun with jackie.

for jackie i think its actually fairly simple: its obvious to all of us that what jackie wants most is shauna's authentic and full love, and my personal theory is that the main (and maybe even sole!) function of jackie's hallucinations would be escapism and wish-fulfillment, and imagining that shauna really did love her.

jackie doesn't have a self-destruction/guilt complex like shauna does. jackie, i think, would be able to just feel guilt in a more straightforward way. as well as anger! so in the scenario where shauna freezes after their fight, jackie would certainly be feeling a lot of guilt, but she doesn't need or want shauna to remind her, she could just apologize. and she's feeling a lot of anger, but she'd be able to say it to shauna's (hallucinated) face instead of putting it through some twisted alchemical process that turns it into something else. like, i think she actually does have a chance of getting closure in a way that shauna doesn't because shauna would never let herself get closure because then she'd have nothing left to fuel her guilt/self-destruction complex.

i think jackie would want closure for her immediate anger and guilt about shauna's death, and because she wants it, she'd be capable of getting it. but after that's dealt with (assuming she survives long enough to deal with it), or in a scenario where jackie doesn't know about shauna's betrayal/isn't responsible for her death, i really think (and i just made myself sooo miserable realizing this btw so you're welcome. or i'm sorry) that the thing that would cause jackie eternal and relentless pain for the rest of her life would be the immense regret and the feeling that she didn't love shauna enough, or didn't love her right. and her hallucinations of shauna would, by and large, simply be an outpouring of all the love she didn't get to show her in life (and imagining the reciprocation of that love that she always wished shauna would give her).

[squidaped-oyt]

Very funny to think about higher-ranking houses trying to poach Fiorenzo from House de Riva after everything settles a little post game and being baffled when the answer is always 'No 💖'

[owlynonaledge]

Well, shit...

I find this image interesting as it contains way more darkspawn than I was anticipating/expecting. Darkspawn were relatively missing from DA:I, replaced by the Red Templars in the storyline. However, there are whispers in Inquisition that something was up and there was speculation that another Blight might be bubbling up. This would provide an opportunity for our Warden-Commander to show up in the game.

Bellara, (rogue) a creative and romantic Veil Jumper obsessed with uncovering ancient secrets.

Davrin, (warrior) a bold and charming Grey Warden who has made a name for himself as a monster hunter.

Emmrich, (mage) a necromancer of Nevarra's Mourn Watch, comes complete with a skeletal assistant, Manfred.

Harding, (rogue) the dwarven scout, returns to the fray as a companion with her big heart, a positive outlook, and a ready bow – as well as unexpected magical powers.

Lucanis, (rouge) a poised & pragmatic assassin who descends from the bloodline of the House of Crows, a criminal organization renowned throughout Thedas.

Neve, (mage) a cynic fighting for a better future, both as a private detective and a member of Tevinter's rebellious Shadow Dragons.

Taash, (warrior) a dragon hunter allied with the Lords of Fortune who lives for adventure and doesn't mind taking risks.

Based on the Official Reveal Trailer (which I am using to speculate class) and the information above from the press release, it looks like we have 3 rouges as potential companions but only two of the other build types. I am not counting Varric at this point as he may or may not be a viable companion for the entire game. This makes me wonder if companions from previous games will join up to even out the numbers.

It seems that both Bellara and Davrin are Dalish elves, too, which I find an interesting choice.

Also, is it just me, or is Bellara wearing some kind of prosthetic?

And how many of these characters were in Tevinter Nights?

[aerodaltonimperial]

Okay, my will to live is coming back slowly. I've got IcyHot on the horrible crick in my neck that's prevented me from looking left all day. And I... am making Playlist #4. Yeah. Okay. Write for me. We're gonna write it cause I fucking love it.

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

Saw the boy again today (we did not interact), and I'm once again having thoughts. I still love him, I still derive a great deal of joy simply from watching him and from simply knowing he exists in the world, and yet I am increasingly aware that though he might be the right man for me, I would not be the right girl for him, not at this point. He brings forward all my best qualities, I do believe, for I am happier, my thoughts are more elevated, more Godly, less on dark trends when I am talking to him. But what do I do for him? Nothing, apart from provide a little light conversation (that is, of course, until my own heart betrayed me and now he won't look at me, which is fair enough). I do nothing for the lad, and no wonder.

So I suppose I ought to turn over a new leaf and become a better sort of person, God help me, whatever 'better sort of person' really means in practical terms. The only way I know where to start is to confess openly and honestly what has been going on mentally to a particular dear friend, who has a wonderfully Godly outlook on life and is sure to have some kind of suggestions for how to pick myself back up again. And, of course, prayers. But otherwise, I haven't a clue.

All I know is that I need to somehow turn this, turn something around somehow before something of this awful cocktail kills me. I don't know. I wish I could talk to the boy about it all; he is fast growing from an exceedingly shy boy to a quiet and wonderfully gentle man. I could acknowledge his faults (I could list them off if it would do any good) but his good qualities outweigh the faults, in truth, and it is a pleasure seeing him grow up as he is. But I do wish I could talk to him about everything, for his advice is always remarkably level-headed.

Even so, I really must turn over a new leaf somehow, if it kills me.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

makes a bumper op because i am having Thoughts about TQ and everything it fucked up a year later and i don't particularly feel like dropping it in search lol

[heich0e]

Just curious, how long have you been writing? :)

i think i learned when i was about 13 or 14? late bloomer

[fingertipsmp3]

I haaate when apple pay doesn’t work and I have to type my credit card number in because now I have to actually comprehend the ways in which I am damaging myself financially

[belledxct]

my haven cd is here! :)

the only question is. where do i put it.

[giddlygoat]

Ya art good

also buck has quackerjack vibes

aww thanks, your art is also so cool 💚💚

and yeah. he really does. for me quackerjack and buck have some pretty distinct differences, but i absolutely 1000% think they would get along and rob banks together