#he's a point of pain

[phantom-of-the-501st]

Remember that this is not the proof that they love each other

That was a last-ditch attempt from Crowley to get Aziraphale to stay

This is the proof that they love each other

Their love wasn't just made real because they kissed

It always existed

[chloesimaginationthings]

Gregory knows he looks LIKE HIM in FNAF..

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[seventeendeer]

ppl are too quick to point to laios' disability as the reason his friends think he's a freak sometimes. so many instances of laios getting yelled at are, in my eyes, a case of "this guy had to emotionally mature very early in order to be there for his little sister" combined with "much older friends who never had to learn to manage their own emotions to the same degree"

a lot of the time he's right about needing to be more direct/deal with things in a way that may seem scary/needing to put your gut reaction aside. he tries not to make his friends uncomfortable and he puts up with a lot because he's trying to keep the peace, but he also pushes the others out of their comfort zones purposefully to try to get them to think more constructively. everyone else in the party is prone to acting on their gut instincts and avoiding uncomfortable situations even when facing them head-on is very much necessary. part of what makes laios such a great leader is the fact that he knows from experience how to put his own feelings aside to help someone else grow.

yes, he does make a lot of social blunders by accident and he does struggle to connect with others, but not all of his positive influence on others is accidental or "despite" making people uncomfortable. a lot of the time, I think it's clear he knows exactly what he's doing and he's trying to help the people around him process emotions in a healthy way as they all go through some truly harrowing shit. all the main characters support each other as well as they can with their unique emotional skillsets. laios' skillset just happens to be "gently talk child into eating her vegetables"

[sevinite]

a modern witch and their familiar

[vi-is-badass]

You know what I've rewatched act 1 a few times and I definitely disagree with myself here for the most part. I think it's perfectly clear why Vi becomes an enforcer and makes the decisions she does throughout the act and I'm going to go more in-depth here because I'm a bit tired of the constant mischaracterization of Vi. (I’ve never agreed that this was ooc for Vi, just that it was underexplored.)

There are a lot of factors that play into Vi's decision to become an enforcer but the biggest ones are guilt (for Cassandra's death and for "creating" Jinx), Vi's knowledge that Zaun wouldn't survive a full-scale invasion from enforcers, and her fear of losing Caitlyn.

Let’s start with Vi’s guilt.

The very first sequence after the aftermath of Jinx bombing the council is Cassandra's funeral. Vi's guilt is very obvious here. She feels responsible for Cassandra’s death and Caitlyn’s loss and this guilt coming from two fronts. From her actions and words at the tea party and her hand in “creating” Jinx.

She’s the one who begged Caitlyn not to shoot. She’s the one who said and did the wrong things that led to “Powder” choosing the Jinx moniker and shooting that rocket. And she was the reason that Caitlyn was even at that tea party in the first place and faced so much pain at Jinx’s hand (She knows that Jinx thinks she’s replaced her with Caitlyn even if that’s not true). 

She believes on some level that if Cailtlyn had never freed her from that prison cell and become a part of her life then Caitlyn wouldn’t have faced the loss and pain that she did in season 1.

Vi’s guilt over creating Jinx is twofold as well. She believes she created Jinx with her actions that night when Vander, Mylo, and Claggor died.

She spent years torturing herself, replaying that moment over and over to the point of twisting herself into a monster, fearing she’d broken her sister with those actions and words and desiring nothing more than to apologize. At the tea party, she is told by Jinx that it was that night that “killed” Powder and created Jinx. (even if this isn’t true. So many factors went into creating Jinx. Silco and the systems in place are inarguably bigger factors)

Vi also believes she created Jinx and feels responsible for her actions because of how Vi was parentified as a child. That responsibility for the actions of those around her, especially her sister, was ingrained in her from a young age. She feels responsible for Jinx’s actions because Jinx herself is Vi’s responsibility.

This guilt over creating Jinx is shown in the scene where Caitlyn springs the badge on Vi. 

Vi asks Caitlyn for the gauntlets and says “I can do this myself, no one else needs to get hurt.”

Vi believes she needs to be the one to bring Jinx to justice. She created her so she needs to be the one to stop her.

It’s also here that we start to see that Vi knows that Zaun won’t survive a full-scale invasion from the enforcers, which is backed up by her later plea to Caitlyn after the memorial to just take a small squad of people down into Zaun. She knows at this point that a full-scale invasion is likely if Jinx isn’t brought in and/or an alternative to an invasion isn’t presented. She’s trying to minimize casualties and put out fires the best she can.

She’s seen that Zaun doesn’t stand a chance against hextech when she raided the shimmer factory with Jayce. She’s also seen what a group of enforcers can do on the day of ash. A large group of Zaunites were led across that bridge by Vander and Silco and yet all they saw was death– no progress– and her parents were among the casualties.

She’s internalized Vander’s lessons and is trying to avoid war.

She also remembers Vander’s deal with the enforcers to keep the peace and minimize conflict. To her joining this strike force is meant to lead to that same end, so even if she hates the enforcers– they are the people who killed her parents, caused her to lose years of her life to prison, and beat her regularly over that same time– it’s a “necessary evil” to avoid a conflict she knows topside will win.

And that brings me to my final point: Vi is afraid to lose Caitlyn.

Caitlyn is all Vi thinks she has left. She’s Vi’s only tether in a world that has completely changed without her and left her behind. She literally begs Caitlyn in episode 3 to promise her she won’t change. “Everyone I know has changed. Promise me you won’t change.”

Vi has lost everyone. She lost her parents, Vander, Mylo, and Claggor when they died and, in a sense, she lost her sister to change. She isn’t the person Vi left behind and Vi hasn’t been able to grapple with that yet. 

So in the wake of all this loss Vi grasps onto Caitlyn as tightly as she can. There is pressure on Caitlyn’s end when she offers Vi the badge and when she enlists Vi despite her rejection, which Vi learns from Maddie, and it pushes Vi towards this decision so she won’t lose that last pillar of connection she has to hold onto.

It’s also this fear and the guilt she has for the situation that causes her to not push back against Caitlyn when she’s saying derrogatory things about Zaunites. Things she definitely would have called her out on prior to that rocket being launched. 

These three things drive Vi during act 1 and allow for her to justify the concessions she makes leading up to the end of episode 3 where she reaches a line she can’t justify when Isha gets in the way of the fight and Caitlyn still tries to take the shot anyway. (That scene is the most well-executed part of the act imo)

She’s an active participant in the search for Jinx and the raids on the shimmer factories. She could easily justify taking out the shimmer factories and the chem-barons with the logic that it’s necessary for Zaun and for peace.

She sees the chem-barons as a few high-profile people actively exploiting the undercity for wealth and power that need to be removed. It’s a similar line of thinking that she used for Silco and her raid with Jayce.

This justification can even extend to Vi’s acceptance of the use of the grey. It chokes people but it causes them to clear out and allow the strike team to take out their targets without civilians in the way.

As long as there are no casualties and the people they are targeting are limited to the chem-barons and Jinx, Vi can convince herself she hasn’t gone too far.

This is why Vi is horrified when Caitlyn powers her gun up in a silent threat to the informant.

This man isn’t Jinx or one of the Chen-barons and he admitted to quitting his work for them. He isn’t a target or necessary to take down to appease topside. This is the first on screen instance of Caitlyn deviating from those goals and flexing her power over someone that isn’t a target.

In the hellfire montage (seen below) that’s a Chen-baron that Vi and Caitlyn are apprehending. Hence Vi can justify the actions she’s taking alongside Caitlyn.

Now I do believe there is definitely an under exploration of Vi’s perspective in this act when it comes to the grey and the strike team’s increasing brutality, especially in comparison to Caitlyn and Jinx, but I do think in this act the reasoning behind Vi’s actions can be extrapolated from the points made above so it’s not as much of an issue here as it becomes later.

To bring this back around to what my initial point was, I do disagree with my initial take that the show didn’t do a good job showing what pushed Vi to become an enforcer and what motivates the decisions she made in act 1. There is underexploration, but it’s not to the detriment of her character here.

Caitlyn and Vi weaponizing toxic air pollution against the undercity and then Jinx and Sevika using Janna’s temple to recreate her legendary miracle by blowing that toxic air back onto Piltover.

Jinx (and Sevika) just became the hero Zaun needs.

[linoyes]

bonus worm time

[captainfairygodmother]

I need Crystal to casually mention something about a relationship with a girl in front of the boys, and then Charles is like "Wait, I thought you liked guys?" and then Crystal says, "Oh, I'm bisexual, I like both" and Charles is like "YOU CAN DO THAT?????" because I saw someone mention that bisexuality was not widely known in the 80s, so Charles might not even know that you can be bi.

And naturally this is followed by Charles having a bi crisis.

[tagerrkix]

rage.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji goes to Lotus Pier (No relation to the AU of the same name)

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[jay-wasstuff]

Nobody, absolutely nobody:

This motherfucker:

[aq2003]

twelfth night main plot: haha bisexual love triangle that is gay in both directions! haha mistaken identity and gender fuckery haha

malvolio side plot:

[tangledinink]

Will Swannie miss his wings? He’s been like that for about a year now, he probably gotten use to the wings and the pain in his calves/legs…would Donnie get like….phantom pain or something because of the missing wings? Would he in some way try to get them back or have a reminder of them? Will Donnie even try or want to dance again?

donnie doesn't usually dance on pointe anymore-- it was a rare occasion pre-curse, and now post, the physical demand is typically too much for him to handle. but when your little brother knows levitation magic, anything is possible for a special occasion.

generally speaking, though?

there's no way he's ever gonna want to stop dancing.

[ swanatello ] [ prev ] [ fin! ]

and... that's it! that's the end!

... well, the end of the main storyline, anyway! the end of the story for swannie that i wanted to tell. the au will still be around! <3 swanatello has pretty much always been built on the asks i've received about it, and i still have more tucked away in my hoard that i intend to get to at some point or another as little bonus side stories, and my askbox is always open as well...! and on that note--

thank y'all so, so much for your support on this magickal girl journey. i NEVER expected to get the amount of love or attention that i did for my silly little donniesona that was based on a pun, but i had so much fun with this comic and am so grateful to y'all <3 like i said, this entire au was really powered by the amount of asks i received about him and his story, and it was really such a fantastic experience for me all around. not including any non-canon crossover content, this comic is approximately 965 pages long! definitely wasn't my plan when i doodled him for the first time as a goof, haha.

thanks, gang. <3 i hope you enjoyed the ride, too.

[mirensiart]

Four trying to fight for his life making excuses as to why he never split like:

Four: LISTEN THERE WERE ALREADY 9 OF US. you wanted an extra 3?? YOU WANT 12 LINKS IN THE GROUP? Time has enough grey hairs as it is!

Time, hearing four explain they could've been 12 links:

(art is @/linkeduniverse hdgdjdhd)

[chiyana]

this is the stupidest crossover possible but I want Tim to make House his doctor

yes that House

why? He needs someone who is very good, will not give up or send Tim out to a different specialist just because his medical condition is difficult, will not be overly concerned about the danger Tim puts himself in, and will lie on Tim's medical records AND to Batman/Bruce Wayne/all of the Bats without hesitation or fear.

House is and will do all of those things without hesitation. He has no shame, no boundaries, he WILL get into a public fight with Bruce Wayne if it means keeping that man out of his patient's (and House's) business. He will help Tim lie to and gaslight the rest of his family without hesitation.

in exchange, Tim is his favorite patient. Not because they get along, necessarily, Tim is a know-it-all little shit and they constantly bicker and House hates how practically every facet of Tim's existence is a lie (and Tim thinks House is a smug know-it-all jackass who is needlessly cruel and callous bc he thinks the world owes him and never delivers just bc he's in pain, news flash a lot of people are in pain and manage not to be assholes) BUT, 1, Tim brings him really interesting cases and problems, and 2, Tim NEVER lies to House about his medical conditions or what he was doing when they happened.

He lies about literally almost everything else under the sun TO everyone else, but he is 100% completely upfront and honest about his medical history and what is going on with him with House.

admittedly it takes a while for House to realize Tim ISN'T lying to him because some of the shit he says is completely insane ("the vigilante thing is pretty obvious but what do you MEAN you got the Apocalypse virus TWICE, AND SURVIVED, AS A FOURTEEN-FIFTEEN YEAR OLD")

but once he realizes Tim doesn't ever lie to him, he becomes House's favorite patient because at least TIM gives him all of the data he needs as best he's able the moment he asks. At least House doesn't have to waste his time following up on bogus information or figuring out the truth, he can just get right into the meat of the medical issue at hand.

also it's so fun to lie directly to Batman's face, know the man knows, and know he can't do anything about it

[hemlock-dreams]

PG rated question: Peter has organic webs in this universe, so he has spinnerets I assume? Does he have to wear bracelets or something to hide them? R rated question: Can they be used for purposes other than web slinging 👀

His spinnerets are organic, but Peter doesn't wear anything like bracelets/bother to hide them because the holes are usually small enough not to be noticed. However, they do expand when Peter engages in any activity that gets the blood pumping (sex/fighting/exercise/etc.)

The spinnerets themselves are pretty sensitive when engorged, and direct contact into the opening is way too intense to be pleasurable. Around it....that's a whole different story.

Unfortunately, because his webs are toxic, anyone putting their mouth to his wrists will end up feeling like they came back from the dentist.

The taste is also extremely strong and not necessarily pleasant. Godspeed Wade you insane mfer.