#even under normal circumstances

[coldgoldlazarus]

Having way too much fun writing the world's most sexually oblivious pansexual woman

[abrahamvanhelsings]

listen i don't think edward little was actually a bad first lieutenant. when we see him in the first episode he's calm and confident. he does not say much but he's amiable enough. crozier likes him, and i don't think crozier would like anyone he doesn't think capable in some way. generally he's dependable and knows what he's doing. however unfortunately for edward he has these qualities because he has a major case of eldest daughter syndrome, which means he both wants to please his mum (crozier) and has an overdeveloped sense of responsibility for his younger siblings (crew), so when they get stuck in the ice and crozier starts going (more) alcoholic, he enables his mum bc he doesn't want to disappoint her even if he doesn't agree with her, and he has to pick up the tasks and care for his siblings she's not doing, but he can't let his siblings know about their mum's situation because they'll get worried and restless. and like a true eldest daughter he has to bear the brunt of mummy's anger for being a disappointment but he also doesn't want to seek refuge with the man she divorced (fitzjames) because that feels like a betrayal. also while this is going on there is a giant bear who hunts his siblings for sport so they're dying left and right and also a changeling master manipulator who's making his siblings mad at their mum and who wants to fuck said mum before eating her like some sort of praying mantis. anyway i think i would start being miserable and anxious too.

[hylialeia]

you don't get it. she loved him once. she didn't have a maester, she had a brother. he sold their mother's crown to keep them fed. he said Dany, please. she loved him, once.

[bbyboybucket]

I’m completely mind blown, wtf is going with fans that they’re FAT-SHAMING Bucky/Seb Stan after the thunderbolts trailer? Like bro looks gooddd, and that is a farrrrr cry from fat. Tf are y’all hating on him for that’s so ???

[zer0point5ive]

adam lawrence pre trap au is a little compelling to me i must say. stuck up doctorguy lawrence gordon md, certified repressed homosexual who cheats on his wife, angryyetapatheticbutmostlyjustpathetic adam, cat lover, not a vet (sad), rocky relationship with his mother, worse relationship with his father and makes his living following people around with a camera, meet and either despise or are charmed by one another immediately. either way they get jiggy with it and lawrence winds up divorced with a chainsmoking twink in his bed six nights out of seven

[sejarcus-archive]

All the most important mentor-tribute duos are a boy and a girl, except for Marcus and Sejanus… gay

[angelsdean]

ruthlessly deleting old 2021/2022 posts (not by me) from my dean studies tag like *click* un-incorporating that from my beliefs system! also the way SO many posts have me like ok uh-huh good aaand then say one completely wrong thing that loses me. it's so many posts.

[imanopossum]

he’s in his psychology professor era 💚 (actually he’d teach entomology)

foaming at the mouth WHAT IS THIS SCENE FOR. TELL US RN. WHY IS HE NORMAL /ref

[evensevan]

“let damian be a normal kid”

the kind of kid he would be:

[quetzalpapalotl]

Honestly, Optimus sacrificing himself so Arcee can go back to her girlfriend is really funny is you see Unicron as the culmination of Optimus' god-awful love life.

[bumblingbabooshka]

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[zeb-z]

ok listen. you're badboyhalo and having the worst week of your life. you're willing and wanting to give anything, anything, to get your kids back. forever, your crush/enemy/friend/date partner?/ president sits you down and asks you to marry him. he's on a drug that makes him manically happy and has an extreme level of brainwashing for federation purposes.

you consider for the briefest moment saying yes, because you're drowning in your grief and hard in bargaining, but it won't do anything to help bring the eggs back, forever doesn't know anything. forever wants the eggs back as much as you do, the real one at least, you know this.

you're surrounded by roses. you ask him what you can do to help him, what he needs, asking the forever that you know is in there somewhere. any other personal feelings aside, he's your friend and he clearly needs help. he asks you to marry him again. he tells you to stop making some noise that he's clearly hearing through auditory hallucination. you just want your kids back, you keep telling him this, until he snaps and starts shooting mines under both of you.

forever is still out of his mind. your kids are still missing. the roses are burning.

bad said no to the proposal, of course he did. that's not forever, the kids are gone, this is no time or place for such a thing even if forever was himself. but I don't think forever asked because he feels "opposite than what he usually feels" under the pills. he's manic and under the influence and half brainwashed - he wants every day to be the best day.

and how heartbreaking is that? that bad is only being proposed to while forever is out of his mind. that forever wants bad to say yes because that would make the day the best day ever for him. that under any other circumstances, on that bench with the roses all around them, it might have been something good?

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

13, trying to prevent yaz from spiralling when they get separated: i need you to do a deepdive into eschatology

[patchwork-crow-writes]

86 - A Taste Of Sugar

He's all too eager to please, earnest to an almost off-putting degree. It's like he was designed by committee, to be as sickly-sweet as sweet can be, like the most cloying, creamy white chocolate - an acquired taste, best sampled sparingly.

And yet what scares you about him most is not that he looks uncannily like your idle doodles from your younger years, or the way he stands just a little too close to you when he talks; it's that his seemingly ironclad convictions melt like butterscotch the instant you cross them.

You put him to the test and he fails it with flying colours, striking at his own likeness just because you asked him to. You hug him afterwards, curious to see if he'll let you - it doesn't occur to you until later what kind of lesson he might take from this.

It would be so easy, you realise, to train him upon the trellis of your will, to twist the stem of this delicate flower into any shape you please. Pull upon his strings and watch him obey, wanton power thrilling through your strained nerves. Unadorned adulation oozes from his every pore as he hangs on your words; dewdrops clinging to an overripe apple, eager for the teeth that will break its flesh.

It's a heady concoction, not to your usual taste... but sometimes you catch yourself wondering, and your mouth runs dry. What could one sip hurt, after all? Because that's what everyone wants, isn't it - a chance to be loved, even if as nothing more than a deity...?

But you already know that won't be enough - soon you'd come back for the entire pie, gorging yourself to vomitous ruin again and again, taking and taking until nothing remains...

You never could stop once you started on something, after all...

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The Dark Menagerie No. 86

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[astranauticus]

honestly in any other world i would be drawing so much ivan alnst he is so. but no unfortunately yoohankim has placed a death grip over my output for the past 7 months and also the foreseeable future

[elkkiel]

it is Friday my dudes I am once again getting cheap wine drunk alone and watching YouTube with my cat ✌️✌️✌️ I'm gonna try and draw something with impaired fine motor control, stay tuned kittens *mwah kiss kiss you're so ding dang cute I wanna squish u*

also hi friends in asks and dms I will reply to u tomorrow 🩷🩷🩷 love you ty for being patient with me 🩷🩷🩷 cutie patootie behaviour fr