#daniel x grace

[trashy-greyjoy]

being delusional is half the fun of shipping, idk what y'all are on...

[fluorescentbalaclava]

please everyone start praying for Daniel 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[mswyrr]

"ready or not" - grace/daniel ship meta

It's a delightful Horror/dark comedy film about how rich people suck. Scary but not too scary (I am a 'fraidy cat about Horror movies) and just a romp really. It's paced well and has a great Final Girl and I'd recommend it.

But now I want to talk about my ship lol

SPOILERS TO FOLLOW

Hm, so, are they "in love" exactly? No. There's chemistry and ultimately they appreciate each other (as the only two people in that house "who [have] a soul" - Daniel is able to recognize and appreciate that Grace has one because he's still got one too, albeit tattered and buried deep). But the more important thing, for me, is the structural shift between the two brothers and how that strongly implies things would have turned out happier if Grace had fallen in love with Daniel.

Namely, Alex has a heel turn arc and Daniel has a face turn arc. And, the one who face turns acts on the promises the one who heel turns broke.

The film is a wedding night gone wrong, specifically a new spouse who proves untrue. Grace says her problem was "in-laws," but it's actually Alex breaking the vows he just made to her that comes closest to killing her. The in-laws themselves are not the most efficient threat ever. They're pretty bumbling. Alex keeps Grace in the dark and Alex turns on her, that is what brings her close to death. As well as a funny political satire, it's a satire of the tensions marriage brings into a family, over who your new spouse will be loyal to - you above all others, as they've promised, or the family that raised them, even if it's shitty.

Grace marries one man who promises to be good to her, care for and love and protect her. To be her family, when she is a foster kid who has no family. And then Alex proves false and the other brother, the "weak" one, poisons his family and puts himself between her and a bullet.

Daniel does what Alex promised to do.

Now, he largely thought he was doing this for Alex (not realizing Alex would have a heel turn), so it's not primarily about Grace - HOWEVER, Daniel independently recognizes and values Grace as a person as well as doing it for Alex. Loving his little brother and trying to protect him is how Daniel kept his soul; he's that kind of person at heart. And the structure lends itself to asking how well he and Grace would get along in other circumstances. If this is how he is when they barely know each other, what would he be like if he was the one who'd met and fallen in love with her? Or what if he survived?

The writing includes other elements that strength this as well: they both recognize each other. Early on, Daniel keeps saying "You don't belong in this family - I mean that as a compliment" and saying she "has a soul" so she'll never fit in. And Grace recognizes his soul too. She keeps reaching out to him and believed Daniel would help her before he knew it himself. ("I knew you'd help me." / "I didn't.")

A YouTube review was like talking about how Grace doesn't survive by her own wits because she trusts Alex and he turns on her, it's only "good luck" that saves her. That she has “plot armor.” And I was like wuuut lol Good luck is part of it, but not beyond belief - and Grace does keep herself alive with her grit and wits and then she reaches out to someone and that person poisons his family and takes a bullet for her.

Another point is that, despite it clearly not being a love match, Daniel warned his wife, Charity, about the family cult before their marriage and let her decide whether she wanted to take the risk. Alex hid the information from Grace because "If I told you, you would've left."

That's the key choice where Alex doesn't put Grace first. He puts what he wants (to keep her with him) first. And that foreshadows him putting what his family wants first. Subconsciously, Alex was always ready to betray Grace if she pulled the wrong card. He betrayed her by not warning her.

I think the final thing that makes it work for me is that Daniel and Alex were both children the last time someone pulled the Hide and Seek card. As much as the movie tries to make us not feel bad about the kids today, they're not to blame for the shitty way they've been raised, and Alex and Daniel weren’t to blame for what happened 30 years ago.They were kids.

It's *this* time that they're both adults and making decisions as full moral agents. It's this time that they both find out who they really are. And the decision Daniel makes is to put a stop to all the ritual murder bullshit.

It's also about the heroine's victory. What does Grace *want* from the very beginning of the story? A permanent family, people who will stick by her and love her.

In the canon movie ending, Grace survives, but she's still a foster kid with no family. Though she's legally filthy rich now, it's not the same. She doesn't actually get what she told us she wanted from the beginning of the movie. In fact, she loses the one person she was certain would be family to her, along with the hope her in-laws would be there for her. So there's that sadness to it, which makes the ship meaningful on her side. In this terrible circumstance, she found someone who has a good heart too and would prove true.

The story both provides us with a lack (Grace, the heroine, not getting her heart's desire) and someone who the story shows us could be that for her. Someone who has a soul, despite everything, and wants to do the right thing, to protect and love.

There's a reason why there's timeloop stories where Grace keeps playing the game until she can have a "complete victory" by saving Daniel and winning the family she wanted as well as getting away with her life and the money. The heroine's victory in the film itself is compromised.

The reason why there's a lovely bunch of gems of fanfic about Grace and Daniel on Ao3 is that the story itself provides that bitterness to the sweetness of Grace's survival, that she's still so alone, and a strong foundation for ways they could have been happier or worked out if they'd fallen in love instead of Grace and Alex or if Daniel had survived.

[evenlarksandkatydids]

vaultghoul has got me thinking about grace and daniel from ready or not again. when you’ve spent a lifetime trapped in an endless cycle of violence and then the first genuinely kindhearted person you’ve met in years is thrown into your world and you don’t think they’ll survive but they prove to be tougher and cleverer than you gave them credit for and maybe they can survive and they can do it without losing that goodness and you can’t help but feel drawn to them and maybe you’ll crawl out of the pit and maybe you can change the narrative you’ve trapped yourself in and maybe there is life or redemption to be found outside of all this and maybe if you follow them they’ll show you how.

[liliennacht]

love the Read or Not (2019) fandom for having a glorious amount of Time Loop Fanficsin which Daniel gets to live

[outofmemory]

Love at first sight is fine, but I appreciate characters who love each other after knowing each other for a while.

Time that gives you the opportunity to get to know all the dark sides.

And even if they know the dark sides, they can still see the parts that deserve to be loved.

― Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello

[ourladyofeternity]

Hadestown UK cast for 2024 is fucking pure GOLD

Video from @whatsonstage instagram feed

[ouiouibaguettt]

WOSO masterlist pt1

you can ask a request for those player or the player who are on the two other part of the masterlist

masterlist part 2 - masterlist part 3

danielle van de donk (lyon - netherland)

against the world right? - one shot

ingrid engen (fc barcelona - norway)

not so secret now? - one shot

leah williamson (arsenal - england)

bluey and red - one shot

jana fernandez (fc barcelona - spain)

love beneath the shirt - pt.2

deja vu - one shot

aitana bonmati (fc barcelona - spain)

bienvenido de nuevo - one shot

ellie carpenter (lyon - australia)

yellow - one shot

laura freigang (frankfurt - germany)

sydney lohmann (bayern - germany)

grace clinton (man. united - england)

alessia russo (arsenal - england)

(i take request if you guys want)

[dr3smile]

Joe & Grace are in Monaco with Daniel. 🥹 hope the rest of this weekend goes well for him, he’s been in such a good mood. Please don’t let us down F1 gods. 🙏🏻

[tomsland]

@juguitodecaja

[waitingandwishing]

WHO WILL PRAY FOR YOU?! WHEN YOUR BODIES GONE? 😫❤️

i dunno abt you but nerdy prudes must die has consumed my life once again and im thinking about adding a line into one of the things im writing

[fluorescentbalaclava]

I'M SCREAMINGGGGGGGGGGG

[cassidysanne]

EVERY JULIET IN & JULIET WEST END

"I believed there was something hanging in the stars but if this is it, then I've got say, the stars are full of shit."

© @lasagnatrades/@shakeatradefeather/andclelia

[tomsland]

@juguitodecaja

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight:

[bloodofakashainme]

Posted new chapters of my Loustat fic on AO3! Check it out when you get a chance — featuring babygirl Lou, loads of smut, and scandal🫱🏻‍🫲🏾

What else could you possibly wish for?🥴

[vole-mon-amour]

could someone please give me tiny prompts with situations or words to use with particular characters? I'm stuck in a non writing comatose and I need to get myself our of it. I'm not promising anything, but ideally I'll be able to give you a drabble or a small oneshot.

will try for halstarion, silverdyne, jilco, grace x daniel, drakecest. rhack and klive if I really reach (I struggle with portraying them). maybe sirry? that could be fun.

if you know I'm into another fandom, feel free to suggest the ship and the situation/words, but I'm not sure I'll be able to come up with something.

please don't let this flop 🥺👉👈 and thank you in advance!