#condolences congratulations

[rarepairnation]

just between us did the love affair maim you too & you kept me like a secret but i kept you like an oath & maybe i'm too proud to say i missed you but what if here i told you i'm all figured out or maybe i just like how that sounds & this heart of mine it yearns for times when we were whole and you were kind & you kept my old scarf from that very first week

[rarepairnation]

im feeling FERAL tonight and i feel the need to elabourate. well denethor lives au navigating aragorn's return to minas tirith specifically regarding the. situationship. i wrote a post about this literally a month and a half ago and let it disappear into my drafts because i wasnt brave enough to post it for real but ive grown and changed. or something. maybe for the worse LOL anyway the thesis statement is truly. aragorn: well i don't think more gay sex can fix him now but i might as well give it ANOTHER good college try. denethor: well he IS still hot and i AM mad about it i GUESS we have to make out about it. well the real thesis statement is that well what happens when you see your ex-situationship after FORTY YEARS and A WAR have passed and he’s waltzing back into your life to claim the throne you denied him when you were thirty and he’s not even going to be good at the job. so you can have it, and the consequences too. condolences, congratulations. your majesty. i just they are so different and there is so much spite and resentment and political strife that separates them and there is no reason to make it any more complicated AND YET. they see each other and too much is still the same. and what if they both made the bad decision<333

more chatter under the cut bc u know i love to talk

- idk if i can put it in the au because i have a complex about it. like the au is my big serious project and if everyone isn't in character along the lines of my Main Interpretation of them ive fucked it up. but i also love myself. so in THIS particular timeline denethor rides either onto the pelennor to meet aragorn with the armies of the dead, or to the black gate with the army of gondor. or both if im really feeling spicy. i just the idea of the first time aragorn sees him in forty years being as The Steward Arrayed For War...........delicious.

- and that being immediately followed by aragorn walking into the throne room for the first time and seeing denethor out of All Of That for the second first time and realizing abruptly the toll that all these years have taken. the toll that they haven't, not really, taken on aragorn himself. i want it to trigger a guilt complex SO BAD. like. i had the choice to leave and he didn’t and i knew he wouldn’t have come if id asked (and he asked me to stay (he didn’t but he did) and i didn’t). i want him to pity him and denethor to know it and want to fucking kill him about it. you RAN and left me ALONE to fight this unwinnable fight and now you think you’re at a ground high enough to pity me from? just because you’re waltzing back in here with your legendary sword? go fuck yourself because im certainly not doing it (lying).

- and don’t even get me STARTED on the psychic aspect of it. denethor has always been powerful and known it and wielded it. but when aragorn touches his mind - by instinct, maybe, because that was what they always did, that was always their secret dimension of their relationship and he doesn’t even pause to think - oh, the shock and the horror. oh its so bad. for him. to expect a soft place to land (probably never that soft at all. but there was a certain level of familiarity) and encounter a blade…and for his first thought to be “what have you done to yourself”…..girl its crazy. and the natural response. “what was needed. unlike you.” prime time for a “you’ve aged, lord steward”/“you left, your majesty” moment if im being so honest. which is really just a disguise for “what happened to you”/“you happened, and you left, and i’ve beEN PICKING UP THE PIECES OF THE MESS YOU MAAADE”

- denethor knowing that he is much better suited for the lordship of gondor than aragorn is but! this is the will of the people in the wake of the war! and that is one thing he Will acquiesce to! he’s got the legal right to deny him but the consequences of that might be ruinous. so he looks at aragorn and goes, this is what you wanted the whole time wasn’t it? the throne. even forty years ago you had it in your mind while you played my loyal second for my father’s favour. then here. you can have it, and the consequences too. condolences, congratulations. your majesty. yeah i said this already but it was THEE image that captured my mind when you mentioned that lyric.

- an addendum to the previous point: the way that they argue has NOT changed even though they haven’t seen each other for forty years it is still as singleminded and vitriolic and homoerotic as it ever was and not a single other person in the room exists when they really get into it. denethor ONLY calls aragorn your majesty in an unapologetically spiteful and also horny way. he DOES think it’s hot and DOES hate himself a bit for thinking it.

- except he also thinks about their incredibly high-functioning military and political partnership and how no one else in all of gondor has ever been able to match that for him and thinks that perhaps…this steward-king relationship might not all be lost. perhaps, as he had thought all those years ago, aragorn could be a powerful weapon in his hand, if only he could put him there. (and maybe he looks at him and in a secret part of himself thinks, well, i missed you.)

anna you mentioned condolences congratulations the mountain goats the other day and i just want you to know it awakened the world's craziest idea inside of me and i MIGHT be stealing it (give or take 12 business months. well the novel. that the au is)

the way I Would Love To See This....... abby i am sending u my strongest energies

[tamatosss]

The results are in!!!! Thank you everyone for participating in my poll!

It was a close match, but after a week and a total of 2073 votes we have:

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Harvey in 4th place with ~311 votes

Krobus in 5th place with ~300 votes

Sam in 6th place with ~134 votes

And Alex in last place with ~124 votes

Tbh I’m not shocked with the final standings at all but I was surprised with how spread out the votes are. I thought it’d be more one-sided. I also expected Alex and Sam to have more votes than they did. Those two didn’t have a chance… you’ll get ‘em next time, boys ;-;

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[voidedgear]

@guidingkey in response to [x]

Sora’s mood was just another wave on the beach. Those familiar emotions crashed into Vanitas, stronger than anyone due to the chains that bound their hearts. The Keyblade’s Hero was worried about his presence and Vanitas’s lip quirked up beneath the mask.

“Hmph. Does it matter?” Vanitas snorts, crossing his arms across his chest. His existence was tied to both Sora and Ventus, he was their eternal shadow and they were the light that shaped him. He was made for them the same way that they were made for him.

This was how Vanitas justified his continued existence, anyway. Not that he intended to share that with Sora. He’d already explained to him exactly what their connection was. He wasn’t fond of repeating himself.

Vanitas turns his head toward Sora and the boy’s face reflected back at him off the dome of his helmet. There was one feeling from Sora that Vanitas felt himself resonating with, however. The curiosity.

Just who was this boy who had defined Vanitas with his image? He knew—or thought he knew—who Ventus was. But Vanitas wasn’t made from Sora’s heart the same way he was from that coward’s.

“You got a problem with that?” He asked, uncrossing his arms and widening his stance. The challenge in his voice is unmistakable.

[five-star-stay]

For context, the "him" is lee know's friend who was in his japan vlog.

Jeongin: what kind of conversation is this?

[zorosdimples]

i have no idea what’s going on with bnha but i’m pouring one out for all my friends ❤️

[anxiously-sidequesting]

This blog is my house so I can say basically whatever I want but I know I have some esteemed guests and friends who come over a lot and some lurkers who peer into the windows so all my wildest ass wizard shit stays in the locked basement where it belongs because it's common courtesy 💖

[pluralquotebook]

Co-host: You have a chest the size of Alaska-

Host: We have a chest the size of Alaska.

-invisible anon

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[thegreatyin]

my working theory that chainsaw man is just professional-made A-grade 24/7 twink whump is NOT being disproven right now

[cluster-b-culture-is]

Comorbid BPD, HPD, ASPD, & NPD culture is being an "empath's" worst nightmare

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[tiredassmage]

[zombiecleo-shippping-tournament]

And that’s a wrap on round 3!

As usual, the polls for the semifinals will go up 12:00 edt tomorrow, and the bracket will update imminently.

[korusalka]

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[interpol-anonymous]

They assigned me to Carmonte Island.

[submission received and posted]

[crimsontroupe]

dumbass to dumbass communication...

my favorite thing is how dia talks to others and they are all "??????????????????" at him all the time. and then you remember

That it really works somehow because somehow he is good at getting what he wants out of a conversation. why are you like this

[salmalin]

I love how impossible it is to advertise Take(me)out.

Like, "Tee-hee, this is a fic about Cloud going back in time and working fast food! Also Sephiroth got sent back too and is now stuck being 9 years old."

And then you read the fic and it's lowkey like, "Life is hard and fast food is harder and 'flipping burgers' can be terrifying, but being able to connect with people you've lost contact with and who love you unconditionally is great," and you start to wonder how much customer service I've worked.

And then Sephiroth nearly beats himself to death against a wall.

And then Cloud realizes he's gay and he's super happy and he's living his best life.

And then Sephiroth nearly beats himself to death against a wall again, but this time for a publicity stunt.

And then Cloud loses his virginity in a threesome.

And then Sephiroth binge drinks with Genesis and Angeal before asking Reeve (who is now basically his Dad) to teach him to call a taxi.

And then I kill off some characters and drop lines like, "He has taken up the mantle of one who would vanquish a giant, but I am its cattle, and I worry for my trough" in the middle of an arc where I'm screaming at the top of my lungs that megacorporations should not have unfettered access to people's rights and livelihoods.

And then I'm like, "Tee-hee, they're having revelations about sexuality and romantic inclinations." [Smushes Cloud and Sephiroth's faces together like dolls]