#i hope she REDACTED

[sinnettini]

i basically watched like 5 minutes of the match bc i was so sick for all of it but even i know aryna was insane and basically unplayable

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

My Cabinet of Tiger Ministers is in shambles.

[pmartyr]

Obsessed with this review from Kojima

[stars4krios]

I'm sorry but ppl have been DEFENDING ALEXIS!? Like people have been genuinely upset at Sam for calling her a bitch???? I'm sorry but who in their right mind could defend Alexis turning Sam AFTER HE SAID NO? HE TOLD HER TO STOP! HE WAS PUSHING HER OFF HIM UNTIL SHE FORCED HIM TO OPEN HIS EYES AND TRANCED HIM

Y'all are fucking insane for excusing Alexis' actions because "she's hot.", Sam had all the right in the world to call her a bitch and honestly he could've (and should've) called her worse because she is.

She assaulted Sam. End of story. AND she's not even sorry, she said it herself!! Now I'd get if y'all we're mad at Sam for calling her a bitch after she tried to apologize and if she was actually sorry and trying to make up for her actions but she wasn't, and I doubt she ever will.

Y'all have taken pretty privilege way too far.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

OK @taylortruther reblogging her post made me go back and watch the whole BBC Live Lounge performance and her introduction to Can't Stop Loving You is SO revealing in retrospect regarding so many of the themes we've been talking about lately in her later albums.

"The type of love that this song sings about is unconditional love. People say that term all the time and they kinda think that they know what unconditional love is, but I think true unconditional love is, like, do you love someone so much that you would even love them if they didn't love you anymore? That is unconditional love."

Um, "hoax" has entered the chat. 😳

I feel like that goes a long way to explaining why she may have believed "hoax" was romantic, and why "grey skies everyday, would you still stay" was the ultimate expression of love. "Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in" makes a lot more sense in this context, holding onto someone who's drifting away or showing that they may not love you in the way you need or in the way you'd once been. It's kind of heartbreaking because she's so earnest and so emphatic about it, but it's actually so sad in the context of ~everything~.

Help me hold onto you. That's the kind of heartbreak time could never mend. And I can't talk to you when you're like this, staring out the window like I'm not your favorite town. Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in. Don't want know other shade of blue but you. I'll be getting over you my whole life. Like waiting for a bus that never shows you just start walkin' on. Pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away. I left all I knew, you left me at the house by the Heath.

(My personal opinion is that unconditional love isn't loving someone even if they leave you; it's loving someone for who they are, including their challenges, and not seeing it as a transaction but an action. ANYWAY. Semantics I guess. I find the way she explains it really devastating tbh.)

(video timestamped @ 19:27)

Unrelated: I need an entire show done acoustically like this please and thank you because the entire performance is 🤌

[penumbra-mayhem]

wolves & ghosts (pt. 3/?)

david - there the whole time

pt. 2 // <1k words

(TW: death, ghosts, illness)

—————————————

For years, David was haunted by a wisp taking the form of a skeleton.

When he was very young, he couldn’t put to words what he was seeing. He’d squeeze his teary eyes shut and turn away in horror, the little vocabulary he possessed locked behind his clenched teeth.

Always present for these spells, Gabe would urge him to speak, the soft rumble of his voice cracking with worry. But David never could.

As he grew older, he became almost accustomed to the wisp’s presence around his dad. Fear’s tight hand would still snake around David’s neck, but the ghastly sight no longer sent him spiraling. So long as he looked away, he could maintain his composure.

It wasn’t until David was thirteen that he was able to look at the wisp for more than a second.

~

David was sick. Really sick. It was something working through him so quickly that the healers could barely keep up. He’d been in Dahlia’s Hospital for Empowered Youth for almost a week, sinking in and out of a delirious consciousness.

On the sixth day, his fever broke. The unsettling chill of his sweat roused him. He blinked blearily against the light of early morning that was trickling in through the window and painting the room indigo.

Pain flashed in his throat as he tried to swallow. Desperate for something to drink, he shifted his aching head to the right, then to the left.

Gabe was sitting beside him, slouched over in a small plastic chair. One of his arms was propped on the arm rest, his hand covering his face. David couldn’t tell if he was awake or not.

He almost called out for him, but was cut short when he noticed the bony hand on Gabe’s shoulder.

David’s eyes flicked up and, for once, he didn’t have the strength to look away.

In the first moment, he saw what he always had in every glimpse prior—a silver skeletal specter. But as he continued to stare, David realized what he was actually seeing:

Whispers of hair clung to the top of her head. The sharp angles of her face were covered with a thin layer of skin, stretched tight over the bone. And her eyes, sunk deep into their sockets, were cast downward as she gazed at Gabe.

Despite her sickly appearance, she looked familiar, like a dream. Like a faded senior portrait tucked inside a wallet. Like an out-of-focus face in a home video. Like a tender smile floating in his memory.

His lower lip began to tremble. She’d been there the whole time, all those years? David raised his hand with as much strength as he could find.

“Mom?”

She didn’t look towards him, but Gabe’s head shot up at the sound of his son’s weak whisper.

“Oh thank goodness,” he breathed in relief, grasping David’s outstretched hand, believing he was reaching for him.

David blinked and the wisp was gone, her afterimage rapidly fading from his vision.

He wanted to tell his dad what he had seen—what he’d been seeing most of his life—but he couldn’t. Though this time, it wasn’t for lack of words or the halting effects of fear.

David didn’t know why, having no knowledge of wisps, but the unrelenting dread in his stomach told him to not tell anyone, especially Gabe. Somehow he knew that if he did, bad things would follow. David chose to protect him.

~

The final time he saw the wisp was a few weeks before Gabe died. Sometimes David thinks that maybe if he had known then, he would have tried to talk to her, or finally tell his dad.

But Gabe died never knowing.

Or maybe he did. Gabe sometimes caught David’s gaze lingering just to the side of him, his eyes wistful and haunted. David could tell he was curious but Gabe never said anything. Perhaps he understood what was going on and also knew better than to ask.

Ultimately, David didn’t know what Gabe had known. David didn’t know if the figure was really his mom or some figment of his imagination or some sort of projected grief from Gabe.

The only thing David knew was this: once his dad was gone, the visions of his mom were gone too.

[deus-ex-mona]

gonna start calling them gen retcon from now on bc the lore with ‘em (as we know it) is alllllllllll over the place

[deus-and-the-machina]

ngl I might get crucified for this but I think the dunmeshi yuri/yaoi discourse was stupid and misrepresenting the ao3 factoids. as of today the most written for mlm ship is labru with 69 (nice) and the next most popular has less then half that at 31. meanwhile farcille has 125 out of the 154 F/F ships in the tag. it is by FAR the most popular ship, with the next two most written about sapphic ships being marcille/izutsumi (9) and kiki/namari (4) and also a couple of x readers? so farcille dominates by far

it seems to me that what's going on is that several mlm ships are in rotation in terms of popularity whereas farcille dominates as the singularly popular wlw ship.

and this doesnt mean that the issues people were bringing up about the general lack of sapphic content and the way fandom treats female characters aren't valid, but idk man when farcille fanart is cropping up daily and getting thousands of notes and has about twice more the amount of fics that the most popular mlm ship on ao3 has its like. I dont think this is really a fandom that proves that point.

I would like to see some more variation in smaller wlw pairs to make up the difference though! I dont think I see any tade/izutsumi fics and we need to change that they could be so cute.

[ashertickler]

random headcannons me and my bestie made a year or two ago when we would scream about redacted together 😽 (pt. 1 cos we be YAPPING)

[wrestletotheground]

I don't need a period tracker all I need to do is see a picture of matty healy and depending on my reaction I know what stage I'm at

[phagodyke]

at its core dorohedoro is abt what if there was someone whose special interest was making gyoza and also someone else whose special interest was eating them. and they found each other in this crazy world to be besties <3

[the-way-astray]

why don’t you like grizel?

super subjective reasons

she is such a hyper girlboss. like to an extent that goes even farther beyond shannon's typical. she's a classic case of shannon's tendency to write girlbosses instead of good female characters. (yes i know della is like this too but it's hard to find a female character that isn't like this in kotlc and i have made up lore for della so. lmfao.) also she insults an entire gender and god i despise men vs. women writing it makes me cringe out of my soul because it's either misogynistic or it's used to try to create a cool girlboss character (of which grizel happens to be the second) and it never works. i stand by the idea that true feminist narratives don't need to rub their feminism in your face with men vs. women writing but i digress. also this happens in legacy. like okay i thought the sexism was gone with the first few books but i guess it's still here okay i see how it is

her introduction to the series very much reads like shannon realized sandor had been around for like three books (technically two) and we still knew little to nothing about him besides the fact that he's a tough goblin warrior. so she gave him a love interest to try to "humanize" him, so to speak. grizel exists entirely to be sandor's girlfriend. it annoys me greatly. she is not a character by herself. seriously. name a characteristic or piece of lore of hers that isn't encapsulated by "she flirts with sandor and also makes the occasional snarky comeback". and shannon could, you know. we know that she was offered a position in the queen's guard but turned it down for a lost cities job because sandor was there. do you see what i mean. this could be an interesting piece of lore but instead shannon uses it to make her character revolve entirely around sandor. it annoys me so so so so bad. she's like ro in that sense, except instead of her only personality trait being "sokeefe shipper that occasionally snarks about the lost cities/sparkles", it's "sandor's girlfriend that occasionally makes a snarky comeback generally" idk it's just not something that appeals to me personally . . . the bodyguards in general are not very fleshed out but grizel annoys me the most because she's in the story enough to be fleshed out and yet she is not

so to put it together we have a hyper girlboss in the place of an actually well written female character who revolves entirely around a man . . . she's kind of an encapsulation of my main problem with most of the female characters in kotlc (della included . . . with her i just make up my own lore so i like her more but canon della leaves a lot to be desired)

[butchkaramazov]

google how to stop swooning every time an older woman shows the slightest bit of assertiveness

[milomysweetheartz]

Happy mothers day mrs marie greer you sexy woman

[natjennie]

my mom got out of some scary chest surgery a little bit ago and we've just been updated that everything's good, she's breathing on her own, no intubation or respirator or oxygen or anything so that's really good. we're not 100% out of the woods but it's looking good. my family needed a fucking win.

[silverhalla]

neve came back and I IMMEDIATELY started crying