#i honestly hate this LMAO

[mossyvil]

rook with a fae partner!

notes: gn reader, a teeeeeeeny bit of angst but mostly fluff

before you get together it’s obvious that rook has an interest in you, but no one knows he has feelings for you until he confesses. he stalks you like all the other non-human students, but it never gets to a point where anyone would suspect he has a heightened interest

he waits a while once he knows for sure he likes you romantically. he wants to make sure you also have feelings for him before he does anything, he would hate to make you uncomfortable! or to ruin his stalking chances

he considers asking lilia for his advice in wooing you, but decides to just wing it. he’s confident he knows you well enough to get on your good graces.

he decides to take you on a walk in the forest behind the school and shows you a beautiful clearing with wildflowers and a small pond that he found while exploring. it’s beautiful, and it’s enough to distract you while rook prepares himself to ask you on a date.

once your relationship is official, rook is like a loving shadow that follows you wherever it can. in the very beginning he reads up on fae courting traditions and implements any that he reasonably can. it’s kind of weird seeing him do some of them but his determination is very cute!

he does know some things about fae, he’s watched you and the other fae on campus from afar and has picked up on some things, but it’s very surface level. he really wants to understand where you’re coming from, so he asks about what it’s like back home and how it’s different than life at nrc.

rook hangs on to every word you say, it’s like he’s hypnotized by you. he just doesn’t want to miss anything you have to say to him because your voice is alluring to him.

he really likes any un-human traits you have like horns or wings. sometimes you can catch him just staring at them and when you ask he tells you he’s just thinking about how much they add to your beauty.

sometimes he does slip up and let the anxiety about you inevitably outliving him get past. it’s very rare, but every so often he’s a little more quiet than usual, and holds you just a tad bit tighter. he doesn’t tell you what’s wrong when you ask, he doesn’t want to upset you :(

he chooses to go with you during school breaks so he can get a glimpse of your home! no matter where you come from, he thinks the scenery is beautiful.

depending on how old you are, he wants to know about things you’ve experienced like historical events or people you’ve met. yes, part of it is just to hear you talk, but he is curious about the things you’ve experienced

assuming you have magic, he’s curious as to how it differs from that of humans. he won’t outright ask you to show him but he does have a very intense focus when he gets to see you use it

around the time of your first anniversary, he starts to think about plans to propose when you both graduate. it’s a good bit away, but he wants to be prepared and make sure it’s perfect. after all, he knows for certain he wants to spend the rest of his life with you <3

[0fps]

JANE DOE ❖ undercover r&b

The big bad daddy who cussed you out every day is gone and yet you still miss him. What are you, a bunch of daddy's boys?

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

Nine would have never “Rose Tyler I….” he’d of said i love you and he’d of said it with chest

[savefrog]

thank you to that tumblr post that said to create a trollsona in 2023 because a friendgroup of mine did all the quizzes and shit and then descended into goddamn madness and ended up with a goddamn sburb session spreadsheet with lands, classpects, consorts, strife specibi, THE WHOLE SHEBANG even wikipedia diving for Denizen names with THEMATIC MEANINGS and shit it was the most free and healing 24 hours of my life i think of it fondly on this day, apparently the anniversary of Cascade which I didn't learn until AFTER I dredged all this back up. mad world.

[words-after-midnight]

One hill I will die on is that some stories genuinely work better in first person, and that people who have this rigid opposition to reading first-person narration no matter the context or premise (I see this a lot) are depriving themselves of some really excellent stories.

[buwheal]

Mr. Spamton, have you ever tried sewing before? The patterns some people draft up are bamboozling to the mind, for sure...

-Silly woman who tried, but only managed to stitch together lopsided "pillows" from t-shirts and stuff them with cotton balls

[platoapproved]

[blue-thief]

problematic/possibly irredeemable characters they could never make me hate you because me liking you is not a reflection of my real life morals + isn't synonymous with me excusing your actions

[silverraes]

okay but now that Charlie's powers are officially confirmed in the show, can I just say how absolutely fucking hilarious I find it that Charlie has the objectively strongest powers in this show??

this guy can absorb literally any power he wants to and the only way for him to get rid of them again is to die? he has the power to just have any power he wants to, forever??

and he's just a big human puppy with nothing but heart eyes for his car racer alpha boyfriend who he calls mama and fully plans to start a family with. they only met bc his big brain plan to take down his evil adoptive dad involved him fucking his way into the local racing team. this show is a delight.

[interestofthemonth]

I am so convinced that Alastor and Lucifer know each other.

It's been bothering me how fast our favorite aroace got into a fight with our favorite depressed father figure in episode 5. Prior to that episode, we constantly see how Al doesn't have rivalries. He has pests that sometimes he'll give enough attention so he may put them back in their rightful place.

He barely gives Vox the time of day. He straight up forgets who Sir Pentious is within 24 hours. This one's not a rivalry, but the bitch didn't even get rid of the Egg Bois like he was supposed to in episode 3. Al takes most people so unseriously.

But the King of Hell? It's on sight. Two seconds of breathing the same air and he's ready to square up.

I would LOVE if it was because he actually cares for both (or either) Charlie and the Hotel. Neither of which Lucifer seem to believe in. It would be very characteristic of Alastor to be a petty bitch.

However, I think the more likely option is that he's taking his anger with Lilith out on Lucifer.

And I think Lucifier is doing the same thing.

He looks to the family photo after Charlie mentions going to Heaven. I have money on Lucifer knowing exactly where Lilith is and what she has done. About the deals she has made to get there.

[baejax-the-great]

A little life update:

Porthos has been back from the ICU for a couple days. The vet indicated there was nothing else they could do for him, and that we were pretty much bringing him home to have a last good day or two before saying goodbye.

Porthos has responded to all this with a resounding "fuck that" and has decided to get better. That, or he hated the vet so much he was willing to die about it.

Anyway he's like. He's fine. He currently grumbling at me because I wouldn't give him a cheese curd.

[connorsnothereeither]

Ulysses discovering he’s basically a father is so funny to me because like,,, I feel like now he’s suddenly realized has words for most of the other parents on Fable. He didn’t get to have an opinion before but not he does and those opinions are strong akgsksgsgaks

[nestastits]

Something that lowkey pisses me off is how Nesta is always portrayed as this girlboss by her stans because she was a bitch…

Like, yeah she was bitchy and at times she had good iconic one liners but it was a trauma response, her using harsh words to tear into others before they could tear into her was a defense mechanism rooted into her from the mental and physical abuse she suffered from as a child. This side of nesta is commonly the only one portrayed and it’s so sad. Especially when we see this soft side of nesta in acosf when she’s finally able to just be herself in the house of wind, like at heart she’s just a girl who loves to eat chocolate cake, read smut, cuddle, and have sleepovers. She’s not some bitchy club girl! (Not bringing down anyone for this lifestyle.. it’s just not Nesta’s lifestyle lols)

And nesta hated herself when she said harsh things to others. She hated that she was a bitch 😭. It’s just sad seeing people who say they love her uplift her for things that nesta hated about herself and wanted to improve on..

[lilithofpenandbook]

Seriously how can M*r*uders stans like random Slytherins (who tf are Evan Rosier, Pandora (is that Luna's mum and why tf is she Evan Rosier's twin in half of these), and I don't even want to discuss Regulus) and make them Actually Misunderstood Good People Who Were Forced Down That Path when at least one of them *coughreguluscough* was obsessed with Voldemort

And then turn around and make Snape an awful person?

[rottmnt-residuum]

How's the move going?

*shaky thumbs up*

[genericpuff]

I wonder why christian misrepresentation are rarely talked about if compared to other religion misrepresentation. Like, I've seen people really vocal about Greek myths misrepresentation in LO and such (and it's valid because it's a culture and religion) but I rarely saw the same thing with christian even though there are many media who use christian religion innacurately, to the point where it comes off as using it as an aesthetic and not a proper religion.

Is it because of rampant religious trauma especially in western world? No ulterior motives on this question. I'm not a christian and yet I'm curious about this. I apologize if this sounds harsh.

I obviously don't have The Answer(tm) to this but personally speaking (and I'm about to get VERY personal here so take this with MOUNTAINS OF SALT), I think it's just the obvious - Christian mythology is one of the most well-documented and strongly protected out of virtually any other religion on the planet. Especially here in the West, it's commonplace for kids to go to Sunday school, for couples to have Christian weddings even if they're not practising Christians themselves, even the American anthem references the Christian God. It's simply not as easy to 'misrepresent' it because the representation is written into our very fabric of society. Even Greece itself is primarily made up of Orthodox Christians.

So anyone that does 'misrepresent' it are either completely mislead hardcore Christians, or people who are doing it intentionally, such as with the intent to make a parody of it or to deconstruct it through a different context or whatever have you. And of course, people will still get mad at those things, if you're implying that people aren't vocal about Christian misrepresentation then frankly IDK what to tell you there LOL If you want a contextual example in the realm of webtoons, Religiously Gay was dragged to hell and back during its launch for having a very crude and insulting depiction of St. Michael, and frankly, yeah I don't disagree because what the fuck is this-

(like at best it's just terrible character design lmao that said, there's also plenty else to criticize Religiously Gay for, including its fetishy representation of gay relationships and the fact that it's still just the "naive person who looks and acts like a child hooks up with mean person in a position of power" trope, blech, but the character design is definitely the first thing you notice)

There are even plenty of hardcore Christians who will deadass claim "misrepresentation" over things that ARE factually correct but they just haven't read the actual Bible and simply cherry pick what works for their own agenda. And of course those people are routinely called out by people like myself who know for a fact that Jesus wouldn't have promoted the war crimes that many modern day Christians are committing and justifying today. So it really depends on the definition of "misrepresentation" here.

The issue specifically with LO and Rachel that I personally call her out for (and many others) is that she's called herself a "folklorist" and claimed she's so much more knowledgeable on Greek myth than anyone else, while making a complete mockery of the original mythologies while not being honest about her intent as to whether LO is actually supposed to be a legitimate retelling OR a parody (because it sure acts like the latter more than the former, but she still seems to expect us to take it seriously and consider her knowledge of Greek myth superior?) Which leads to a lot of her teenage audience claiming shit like "Persephone went down to the underworld willingly" and "Apollo did assault Persephone in the original myths actually" and the classic "why would Lore Olympus lie or make up fake myths?"

You just can't pull off this extent of erasure with Christian mythology because we have a whole ass book of it that's been preserved, sold on shelves, and systematically integrated into society for thousands of years. Of course, there are people who will still try their damned best to twist the Bible to match their own bigotry with the whole "Jesus hates gays" bullshit (he would never), but it's met with equal amounts of 'misrepresentation' that are actually fully well-read and are intentionally subverting and changing things to either critique, parody, or restore the original intent of a lot of stories in the Bible without all the manufactured right-wing crap.

Greek myth, on the other hand, has some stories that are well preserved, and others, not so much. And in the modern day outside of the poems and hymns, you'll also rarely, if ever, see anyone use stories from Greek myth to ostracize, torture, and murder other people. "Misrepresenting Christianity" is more often done by actual Christians who are using the Bible to commit hate crimes than the people who have actually read the Bible and are just taking creative liberties with it for the sake of deconstructing / parodying / analyzing / subverting it. Veggie Tales "misrepresents" Christian stories because obviously Moses wasn't a fucking cucumber lmao but it still accomplishes its goal by retelling Christian stories in a way that's fun and educational for children.

By comparison (on the whole, I'm not comparing LO to Veggie Tales LMAO) LO just isn't clear in its intentions beyond Rachel's initial statements that she was trying to "deconstruct" the myths, while labelling herself as a folklorist. Therefore, I'm going to criticize how she does it because the way she's done it up until now has been very mishandled and has resulted in a lot of misinterpretations of the myths simply for the sake of fandom. And yes, these people exist in Christian media as well - they're called TV evangelists.

And that's my (very heavy) two cents.