#dark places? DAMN

[lunian]

made a couple of posts about Astarion being hilarious gremlin but never made a collection of Gale's silly talks?? I should've fixed it

[autobot-ratchet]

I combed through some episodes of earthspark and put together some references for Nightshade bc I'm gonna be real, there's not a lot of references out there and I am not willing to trudge through transphobia to find more through any given search engine so I just made em my damn self lmAO

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

If a ghost says it, you have to do it.

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[scenecipriano]

Lucifer hanging out with Alastor in his bayou: *notices a golden fiddle on the wall* hey what’s that?

Alastor: Oh, just a family heirloom! Before they learned of me being a serial killer the county coroner buried it with me per my request!

Lucifer: Family Heirloom huh…

Alastor: Why yes! It’s been passed down for generations! It belonged to my great-great grandfather Johnny Boudreaux!

Lucifer spitting out his tea: I’m sorry who???

Alastor: Johnny Boudreaux! Story goes he won it off of you in some outlandish fiddle battle! That possibly can’t be true as I have seen your fiddle in person!

Lucifer sweating bullets: haha…yeaaahhh-

[thyhauntedmansion]

Miranda hating Cassandra for virtually no reason you say? Enough to deem her THE Annoyance?.. Cassandra herself can’t even stand Miranda?

Perhaps they were just at odds with each other… in another time.

[telestoapologist]

Positivity time! What are y’all’s top fav Destiny locations? My three go-to’s are

Titan

Riis Reborn, Europa

Neptune/Neomuna

edit: oh! it appears a lot of people are missing the tags! y'all are more than welcome to add more than three if you'd like 💖 i just put three to keep it simple and not make the post too big!

[ca-d]

halloween cemetery hangs

[artaintfartwarriors]

[pathetic-gamer]

love Remedy's commitment to putting Alan in fun little outfits, but giving him a messenger bag and tweed suit is so fucking funny. bestie where r u going? what r u carrying? textbooks? joseph campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces? u have a lamp in there.

[sparklecryptid]

Who do you think would fit as a Companion for broken!ice!Luche? (SO tempted to say either Sonitus, Stefen, or flat-out VANYEL.)

On one hand Stefan would be good for her!

On the other hand Vanyel and Sonitus tho

Sonitus having to face down his descendant who is holding on to her sanity with her teeth who has been given a fate and broken that fate and doesn’t know what to do now. Sonitus whose granddaughter sided with his brother, who calls him ‘kinslayer’ and dislikes him enough to ignore him. Sonitus and Luche who have to make it work anyway.

Vanyel who looks at this woman and knows her in his soul. He knows the type of person she is. He can relate deeply to the tragedy she faced. Luche is bastard and royal and all rage and confusion and lost and won’t admit that she needs or wants help. Vanyel knows the look on Luche’s eyes.

He’s seen it in his reflection a few times. She won’t seek death, but she wouldnt mind if it came.

[honestlyvan]

(Crossposted to DW)

Continued thought -- it is also very interesting for me that other than the weirdo-coded profession, the real Casey is... really not that remarkable of a guy. A lot of the heavy lifting for us to see past the stony-faced exterior is just Saga's point of view, the two of them are tangibly fond of one another, her being so used to and comfortable with the kind of guy he is communicating to us that this is, like, normal, he's pretty much always like this.

The real Casey is temperamental but not particularly dramatic, realistically awkward in the way someone who spends a lot of time in his own head and doesn't enjoy the sound of his own voice would be. He's insightful, but clearly self-aware that this tells us more about him as a person than anything else. I'm sure he's capable of being charismatic, of converting confidence into authority, but that is as circumstantial to his personality as it would be in real life. He's at the upper end of what weird withdrawn guys are like, sure, but still ultimately just a guy.

And with that in mind, when you, like... mentally align the two Caseys... you can see where Alan is coming, y'know? You can see the real Casey fill out the shape of the Casey in Alan's head, you can see the creative liberties taken to turn one into the other. You can see the elisions being made going both ways, because a lot of the things that the real Casey knows would make him genuinely too offputting if said out loud make for excellent thematic background noise, and the things that ground his humanity would make for a boring story.

[woelfin-sheeps-clothing]

[imminent-danger-came]

I'm really normal about dark road

[lofan]

Have you ever thought about the parallel that there were two people who physically violated Londo, humiliated him, and painfully intruded into his mind (yeah, strange it happened twice) - Drakh and G'Kar, the same one who later became his best friend? They did exactly the same things, but while Drakh wanted to control him, G'Kar wanted to hurt him(even if under the influence of Dust). Londo hated Shiv'kala for that, nothing more. But G'Kar was horrified by what he'd done(at least after Kosh. I think it's a fact that without him Londo wouldn't have survived). He turned himself in and paid for that. 

But THE most interesting and even ironic thing is that later he became his bodyguard, willingly, and Londo agreed. Yes, they've been through a lot before that, and he knew G'Kar better by this time and that he'd do the job, but STILL. That's a LOT of trust—letting him sleep next to him, protect his back and just be there constantly. And they did become friends. Wow.

You can point out that Londo did war crimes against his world and it wasn't easy for G'Kar either, and it's TRUE, but hear me out! That was painful and personal. At that moment he didn't even know that this particular centauri is the one responsible, he just wanted to take it out on someone. So yes, Londo made a lot of shitty decisions, but this was a brave and trusting moment for him. This situation was never mentioned again, but knowing G'Kar and the noble man he became, I BET he remembered that at least a couple of times. 

[elitehoe]

The parallel of Hangman not going to the hospital to visit Nick when Brandon told him he was there on BTE 195 and Hangman going with Nick in the ambulance to the hospital tonight after Brandon told him to make sure Nick didn't go alone is what you call GROWTH

[richincolor]

There are many books coming out this month, and I thought it would be fun to highlights five of them with gorgeous covers that caught my attention. Have any of these caught your eye yet?

Damned if You Do by Alex Brown Page Street

Seven years ago, Cordelia Scott’s abusive father left without a word, and life has been normal ever since. The seventeen-year-old spends her days stage managing the school play (which is going great, if anyone asks), pining over her best friend, Veronica, and failing one too many pop quizzes. She’s never been sad that her father left, but she knows something is...missing. When her school guidance counselor, Fred, reveals during a session that he’s actually a demon, she learns that something is indeed missing: a piece of her actual soul. Why? She unwittingly made a deal with him to make her father disappear – then bargained to have the memory erased. To make matters worse, Fred is here to make another bargain: Help him with a “little” demonic problem, or she’s doomed to spend eternity in Hell with her father. The deal? Help Fred neutralize a rival demon, who means to do more harm in her hometown than your average demon deal. --Cover image and summary via Goodreads

The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis Disney Hyperion

Seventeen-year-old Hylee Williams didn't ask to disappear. But she did disappear, and not only that, but when she vanished from our world, she materialized in a dark, twisted version of the night that changed her life forever: the night her older brother went missing. Just as Hylee realizes this moment could be the key to unraveling the truth about her brother, she's yanked away from the dark place back to our world. Craving a sense of normalcy, she goes to a party with her best friend--where she meets Eilam Roads. Tall, handsome, and undeniably, inexplicably familiar, Hylee can't help the pull she feels towards him. It's a classic teen girl-meets-boy situation, until it happens again. She disappears, right in front of him. Together, Hylee and Eilam investigate the truth about time, space, and reality, with Hylee increasingly convinced her time travel holds the key to saving her brother. But the more they learn, the more Hylee begins to see darkness lurking in her world--and in herself. -- Cover image and summary via Goodreads

Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology #1) by Ehigbor Okosun Harper Voyager

In the midst of a tyrannical regime and political invasion, Dèmi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy her ancestral homeland of Ife; to escape the King’s brutal genocide of her people—the darker skinned, magic wielding Oluso; and to live peacefully with her secretive mother while learning to control the terrifying blood magic that is her birthright. But when Dèmi’s misplaced trust costs her mother’s life, survival gives way to vengeance. She bides her time until the devious Lord Ekwensi grants her the perfect opportunity—kidnap the Aje prince, Jonas, and bargain with his life to save the remaining Oluso. With the help of her reckless childhood friend Colin, Dèmi succeeds, but discovers that she and Jonas share more than deadly secrets; every moment tangles them further into a forbidden, unmistakable attraction, much to Colin’s—and Dèmi’s—distress. The kidnapping is now a joint mission: to return to the King, help get Lord Ekwensi on the council, and bolster the voice of the Oluso in a system designed to silence them. But the way is dangerous, Dèmi’s magic is growing yet uncertain, and it’s not clear if she can trust the two men at her side. A tale of rebellion and redemption, race and class, love and trust and betrayal, Forged by Blood is epic fantasy at its finest, from an enthusiastic, emerging voice. -- Cover image and summary via Goodreads

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea Henry Holt and Co.

There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her bitter and privileged peers, leaving broken bodies behind her on her climb to stardom. But even as undeniable as she is, Laure is not the only monster around. And her vicious desires make her a perfect target for slaughter. As she descends into madness and the mystifying underworld beneath her, she is faced with the ultimate continue to break herself for scraps of validation or succumb to the darkness that wants her exactly as she is—monstrous heart and all. That is, if the god-killer doesn’t catch her first. From debut author Jamison Shea comes I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me , a slow-burn horror that lifts a veil on the institutions that profit on exclusion and the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back.

Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim Knopf Books for Young Readers

One sister must fall for the other to rise. Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she is forever changed. Cursed with a serpent’s face, Channi is the exact opposite of her beautiful sister, Vanna—the only person in the village who looks at Channi and doesn’t see a monster. The only person she loves and trusts. Now seventeen, Vanna is to be married off in a vulgar contest that will enrich the coffers of the village leaders. Only Channi, who’s had to rely on her strength and cunning all these years, can defend her sister against the cruelest of the suitors. But in doing so, she becomes the target of his wrath—launching a grisly battle royale, a quest over land and sea, a romance between sworn enemies, and a choice that will strain Channi’s heart to its breaking point. Weaving together elements of The Selection and Ember in the Ashes with classic tales like Beauty and the Beast, Helen of Troy, and Asian folklore, Elizabeth Lim is at the absolute top of her game in this thrilling yet heart-wrenching fantasy that explores the dark side of beauty and the deepest bonds of sisterhood. -- Cover image and summary via Goodreads