#i love you i’m sorry mother

[slytherinslut0]

how does it feel to hurt your mother

GEORGE PLEASE 😭😭😭😭 may or may not have gone to bed at 6 am but that’s fine. who’s keeping track anyways

[super-nova5045]

sylvia plath, todd anderson and virginia woolf (aka ACTUAL tortured poets) watching taylor “im breaking up with my boyfriend for his intense depression and blaming it on him, im dating a racist who enjoys watching woc being brutalized and harasses young woc artists, i sent my fans out on a hate train to attack a young woc actress for a line she had to say as part of her job to show how mentally ill her character was, im dating a maga supporter, i refuse to say anything about a current genocide despite being the most influential person in the world right now, i am a billionaire, i fly 13 minute flights and have the highest carbon emission of any celebrity, i am a known white feminist who only speaks about issues when it affects me and has constantly let my fans get away with extreme racism and even encouraged it by associating myself with known racists” swift call herself a tortured poet (her writing sounds like a bunch of thesaurus words slapped over gabba hanna and rupi kaur-esque poetry that was created purely as a trinket for an edgy pinterest board)

[telestorm]

we knew ambessa was a terrible mother, we knew she was abusive, but she felt especially cruel to mel in a way that was so devastating. mel is pleading with her at every turn to not go to war—she’ll even leave the city she built and go home if it means war won’t unfold! she was willing to be the weapon her mother desperately sought! but ambessa absolutely refuses to meet her. she slaps her, she calls kino the sweetness in heart but the "kindest" thing she ever says to mel is "you are the wolf" (which she didn’t want to be), and, sure she wasn’t going to kill mel but she definitely had no problem fighting her. mel begs for peace and all her mother does is laugh in her face.

now ambessa is gone and yet she still causes mel harm. mel has no choice but to return to a home she resents. the life she built has been completely upended. she has new powers that she knows very little about, and there’s a mystery surrounding her birth that she has yet to uncover. the one time she actually needs her mother’s guidance, she cannot have it. when does the cruelty end?!

[wheneverfeasible]

When Steve’s parents announced their divorce, Steve told Eddie he loved him. They weren’t dating at the time, though Steve thought that the feeling was mutual to at least some extent since Eddie always flirted back with him, but he hadn’t been certain.

He had known his parents stopped loving each other years ago. Hell, he didn’t know if they had ever truly loved each other, but in any case, Steve knew.

His parents decided to sell the house, to move away from Hawkins with its cursed misfortune and small town gossip, and there was no talk of either of them taking Steve with them. Which, sure, he was grown, he hadn’t been part of the conversation at all.

Steve was left at a crossroads on what to do. So, distraught at his change in circumstances, he’d gone straight to Eddie’s and confessed his feelings because he had to know if it was at all possible for anyone to want him the way he wanted them.

Luckily enough for Steve, Eddie did!

The Munsons still had a decent amount left over from the government hush money after everything, so Eddie took his share (Wayne tried to get him to take more since all Wayne had lost was physical possessions and the trailer while Eddie almost lost his life, but Eddie would only agree to a 50/50 split) and together he and Steve threw caution to the wind and found a small place to rent together in one of the new complexes being built as part of the town’s rejuvenation project.

Things were going great. They still visited Wayne, who could now stop working such long hours at the plant and who had moved to a small fixer upper on the outskirts of town. He even moved up the ladder at the plant after some of the higher ups were lost in the “earthquakes” (R.I.P.), which offered better pay and benefits.

Wayne even started dating again, which Eddie informed Steve of in such a scandalized tone, but Steve could tell that Eddie was happy for his uncle, ribbing the older man when they had stopped by one morning and the man hadn’t even been home, stumbling back an hour later with lipstick stains on his shirt’s collar.

(Wayne had told him that he was going to call the cops on them for breaking and entering while he was gone, but there was no heat in it as they set chocolate chip pancakes, eggs, and a steaming cup of coffee before him, having made use of the kitchen while he was out.)

Wayne never introduced any of the women he dated to Eddie and Steve, saying that it wasn’t proper to introduce anyone to the kids yet until he was certain that things were serious, never mind that the “kids” were well into their 20s now.

(Steve also felt a warmth at being included as a “kid” of Wayne’s, however, filling a hole in his heart that his parents had left behind, though his mother had recently reached out to him to rekindle their relationship. His father remained radio silent.)

Eventually, however, there was someone Wayne kept seeing repeatedly, someone he’d met while outside of town when he was at some convention for work and her car had broken down outside of his motel room. She hadn’t left the motel room until the next morning, and Wayne was certain it was just a single night of passion, but…

They had really hit it off, it seemed, and though Wayne hadn’t thought such an amazing and sensual—(“Uncle Wayne! For the love of everything holy, unholy, and whatever’s in-between, please don’t say sensual!)—woman would be interested in him, they exchanged numbers. And then, the day after he’d told her he should be home again from the trip, she called him.

Things only progressed from there, and soon enough there were talks of something committed, of something truly serious, and after a while, Wayne broke the news.

“Boys, my partner is going to be moving back to Hawkins and, while we know it’s a giant leap, we decided to move in together.”

As it turns out, apparently the woman is actually from Hawkins too but had left after the earthquakes tore the town apart, so she is someone that they actually knew. Wayne still won’t tell them who it is, however. He seems a little embarrassed by that, actually, but he also tells them that he is the happiest he’s ever been and he was willing to fight to be with her, so what else can they do but accept that?

They are thus excited for him, excited to finally meet her (again?), and the plan is set that they would have a family dinner together once she was in town. Steve and Eddie are, of course, moderately worried given the whole being queer thing, but Wayne assures them that they will be safe. That Wayne had made damned certain that both his boys would be safe.

(Steve again feels that warmth of belonging to someone, of being loved and cared for and supported in a way he’d never known before.)

And then the day arrives. Steve and Eddie show up early, looking pretty damn spiffy they believe, and help Wayne get the dinner ready, though it’s more like a late lunch really. Eventually, they hear the sounds of tires outside of Wayne’s house.

Wayne, smiling and looking absolutely besotted, moves toward the front door to let his girlfriend in without missing a second. Steve and Eddie hear the door open and close from the kitchen, hear quietly murmured words and what disgustingly sounds like kissing, and then there’s footsteps and—

Steve turns around to greet this mysterious woman, a smile on his face, before dropping the bowl of salad in his hands as shock and something very much like horror make itself known to him.

“MOM???!”

~

Hostage Hotties: @derythcorvinus @katyawriteswhump @honeii-puff

[whotfelsewantedtobelynnyx]

Chat, I regret to inform you that I have added a new hyperfixation…so…

Agatha All Along Incorrect Quotes!

Alice: Hold the fuck up.

Also Alice, crawling into Lilia’s lap: It’s me. I’m the fuck up. Hold me.

Rio: I have an idea!

Jen: No murder.

Rio, sighing petulantly: I no longer have an idea.

Lilia: I have a bad feeling about this…

Agatha: What do you mean?

Alice: Don’t you ever get that little voice in the back of your head that tells you if something is going to get you in trouble?

Agatha: No.

Jen: That actually explains so much.

Lilia: As far back as I can remember, I’ve always had this little voice in my head telling me to “live it up today, because there’s not gonna be a lot of tomorrows”.

Agatha: You do realize there’s medication designed to get rid of those kinds of voices, right?

Teen: A bird flew in through my window and I’m trying to befriend it.

*later*

Agatha: Why don’t you quit bothering me and go talk to your bird friend?

Teen: Matthew and I are not speaking at the moment.

*the coven, huddling together behind a makeshift shelter to shield themselves from repeated gunshots*

Alice, hastily shoving the others behind her so she can return fire: Agatha, do you have any idea who would want to shoot you?!

Agatha, squashed between Jen and Rio: Many people want to shoot me. I take great pride in that!

Jen, glaring at the group as she hands over bail money:

Alice, tapping her shoulder: What about Teen?

Jen, glaring more: I’ve got to bail him out too? Where’s Agatha?

Teen: No one called her. We used Lilia’s phone call to call Alice and Rio’s to call you. Then Rio used my phone call to vote for American Idol.

Rio: :)

Jen: Rio isn’t answering her phone.

Agatha: Here, I’ll try.

Jen: Alice and I have tried six times each, what makes you think that-

Rio, picking up on the first ring: Hey, sweetheart.

Agatha: The ends always justify the means!

Jen: Do you know who said that?

Agatha: Was it Oprah or someone nice and great like that?

Jen: It was Machiavelli. A decidedly non-Oprah like person.

Jen: I bet you didn’t even finish the thing I asked you to get done!

Agatha: For your information, I most certainly did! Got it done last night!

Teen, whispering to Agatha: You didn’t get it done, did you?

Agatha, whispering back: I don’t even know what she’s talking about.

Lilia: I am at a loss for words!

Teen, glancing at the camera like his mom like he’s on The Office: Despite being lost for words, Lilia yelled at us for the next 45 minutes.

Agatha, carrying Señor Scratchy out of the room:

Señor Scratchy: *snuggles under her chin*

Agatha, kissing his head: You are being punished. Please stop being adorable. I love you.

Teen: I got a trampoline tent for summer sleepovers!

Jen, whispering to the other adult witches: …think of all the sex.

Alice: There are two types of people.

Rio: If you wanted to eat someone, you could put a fire under it and slowly roast them :)

Lilia: …three. Three types of people.

Jen, cautiously: I can’t believe I didn’t notice this before, but…Teen, you are a little crazy.

Teen: Aren’t we all a little crazy here, Jen?

Jen: No, I mean you’re aging-ballerina, child-chess-prodigy, professional magician kind of crazy.

Teen: It’s my mom’s fault. You know, we come from a Jewish family, but she used to tell me the reason Santa didn’t come was because my room was too dirty.

Rio: I’ve come looking for trouble. And if I can’t find trouble, I WILL create some.

Alice: Do you trust me?

Lilia, smiling proudly at her: Yes.

Alice, who has been completely panicking: Wait, what? Why?!

Agatha, awkwardly glancing around for help: Er…Alice, I’m gonna be honest, I don’t know what to say to people who are crying. So I’m just gonna hope that the tone of my voice makes you think I do, okay, sweetie?

Alice, sniffling: …thanks, Agatha.

Agatha, patting her on the back with a bit too much enthusiasm: No problem, kid.

Lilia: I told Agatha about it weeks ago!

Teen: She WHAT?

Agatha: What??? Lilia says insane shit all the time, how was I supposed to know this one was true?!

Lilia: Bank accounts are a sham created by the shadow government!

Agatha: SEE?!

BONUS:

Wanda, watching from the afterlife: so…when exactly do kids grow out of that whole emo, rebellious stage?

Lorna, shrugging: I don’t know. Alice is still in it.

[robinsleeping]

She tried…

[doctorwhommm]

dontcha think it’s kinda cute that i died right inside your arms tonight?

[makesyouevil]

happier days

[jambamthepaperman]

AGATHA BACKSTORY I KNEW SHE HAD TRAUMA. Also she spared the daughters of her coven bitch she has empathy. Rio was annoyed by that choice but still.

[undercover-grisha]

Inej, already making biryani for lunch: “What do you want for lunch?”

Jordan (Kanej kid): “Hutspot please,”

Inej: “…pick something else.”

[thebestusernamepossible]

Literally going insane, might have to write fanfic for the first time in 2 years because the people™️ do not get my favorite female characters like I do and I feel the insurmountable urge to write her. I’m going to bite drywall why don’t ppl see her complexities. PLEASE STOP WRITING HER ETHIER AS DOMICILE MOM OR BITCH (or just for shipping) she is so so cool please guys please.

Also while I’m here, fandoms tendency to shove women in the ‘pure powerful goddess who can do no wrong’ box and then proceed to never give them an actual narrative role other than like ‘supportive’ or ‘took out a few background guys’. Like why DOES this incredibly badass and complex female character just get shunted into doinging some cool flips, getting praised about it (she’s the strongest fighter, so feminist wow) then never getting actnowleged as a 2 dimensional character.

I saw this a lot when I was in the Batman fandom, particularly with Cassandra Cain. She is a highly complex and interesting character, but in fandom she’s kind of shunted to ‘Badass therapy dog who takes care of the men’. Because even on the slight chance her backstory is brought up it’s always never delved into and mostly used to make her etheir more tragic and in need of support on a surface level or to let her be compassionate with the men characters who get their actual problems foucused on. It’s a unqiue kind of frustrating because it’s like almost letting the cool female character be cool, but it’s more like the idea of a badass women is shoved in your face, maybe joked about (or if we’re lucky she gets to beat up a few bad-guys), but ultimately treated like a cardboard cutout. Interestingly this actually isn’t entirely a female character thing, it’s also common with like old grandfather/grandmother characters and the elderly in general. But it’s usually badass women from what I see. :/ Why can’t fandom explore their stories (people do but why is it so much less), why can’t they be the prtags of cool AUs or time-travel fix-its, or crossover events

Idk I think I’m just frustrated, and I typed out more than I thought I would. Also Ive seen what happens to some other posts complaining about fandom misogyny, so please know if you’re a TERF, fuck off you have no place in this discussion. We will never agree, and frankly all of these points apply to canon Trans Women characters. Don’t say shit ill fucking end you.

[jeanmoreaue]

I agree!! *an incoherent rant incoming* Jean imo def moved on from Kevin (in a romantic way; i think he’s not moved on from the whole ‘Kevin left me’ thing ofc but I think he obviously knows and accepts that he and Kevin won’t ever happen lol). And that scene with Renee was obviously a closure/farewell and they’ve moved on to being friends now (also imo while i like their dynamic i feel like they’d never work bc of the whole victim saviour complex, that’d be really uncomfortable and hard to overcome). Jeremy seems like he’s able to handle Jean’s crazy baggage without placating him too much or pushing him too hard. He definitely needs to work on his own shit first (i feel like the way he went all in on helping Jean is kind of giving ‘I am avoiding my problems by getting too involved in others’ problems’) but I think Jean will be the perfect person to help him with that! As you said he’s super perceptive and honestly very empathetic even if he doesn’t show it in the most obvious way. Jeremy would probably really appreciate Jean’s brutally honest approach lol. They’re lowkey perfect for each other ☹️ TSC2 can’t come soon enough

hardcore agree on every single point you made!! i feel exactly the same about Jean and Renee, as much as their dynamic is sweet, i think it would be really difficult to overcome Jean feeling indebted to her (whereas Jean and Jeremy are both growing together) + ya i think Jean has very complicated feelings toward Kevin but i don’t think he’s actively yearning over Kevin anymore

and exactlyy i definitely imagine Jean quietly picking up on whatever Jeremy’s going through and expressing concern only for Jeremy to try and pull a “my problems aren’t that bad and therefore don’t matter” which i don’t see Jean accepting. especially since Jean has an ‘older brother who cares more about other people’s well-being more than his own well-being’ vibe (underneath his slightly prickly attitude lol) i think Jeremy and Jean are really good for each other, Kevin subconsciously knew what he was doing by having Jean transfer to USC 🤨

[greenconvor]

Okay, my brain has been on overdrive since last Tuesday, SO I offer you 3 insane theories and a fanfic style ending to connect them based on what we know as of ep 5 of The Acolyte!

Theory 1: Osha and Mae’s true origin

Mother Aniseya describes the coven’s interpretation of the force as a thread that when pulled can change things. Later, Koril makes a point to remind Aniseya that the Jedi would not approve of how the twins were created. This could be world building to show the differences/conflicts between the witches and the Jedi, but what if it’s more?

A witch would not go about creating a being like the Sith did; they would attempt some kind of ritual. One that matches their own beliefs and uses of the force: a cause and effect based on how one shifts the thread. They would not forge life essence out of nothing, they would transfer life essence from one sentient to another. Using, say, a sacrifice. THAT is how Mae and Osha came to be—and how they differ from Anakin.

Theory 2: Qimir is a front for Mother Koril

What do we know about Mother Koril? She is strong in the force, she can go into people’s minds, she loves her children but has a strong hand with discipline, she despises the Jedi, she is willing to fight for her family, and her death is not seen.

SO, consider— what if Qimir was either someone that Koril puppets or someone who made a bargain with Koril for power?

Hear me out, this would explain why Qimir sticks with Mae so closely, seemingly upset when she pretends to be hurt. That’s why he doesn’t kill her (or Osha) when he has the chance. Koril through Qimir was trying to scare Mae, maybe even hurt her a bit, to keep Mae under her thumb. That’s why Sol says he sensed something familiar and why Yord feels the same effects that Osha says her mother had.

And it makes sense for Koril to keep hidden from Mae since she knows Jedi can infiltrate minds (she thought Osha was manipulated on Brendok and Qimir’s first comment in the shop was to not mess with his mind). This proves smart as Sol did look into Mae’s head for her master and finds exactly what Koril wanted: nothing.

With the tragedy of her people and no one left to balance her, Koril’s anger and brutality would spiral. Without her coven, she is weakened, so she amasses power through the dark side, dwelling in her desire for revenge. A venture which she has Mae take on as the Acolyte.

Then, after Mae quits, Qimir still kills Kelnacca because Koril wants the four Jedi to pay more than Mae ever did. Mae was just the cover, the explanation for why these Jedi were being targeted when someone came looking. What they weren’t supposed to know is that the one driving the mission was always the Master, Koril. Hence why Mae is so willing to drop everything when she discovers Osha is alive. But while Mae is happy, Koril is angry because the Jedi turned Osha against them then kidnapped her. That’s why Qimir emerges to see Osha when he really could have stayed hidden, then shooes her away to kill all the Jedi in sight, singling out Sol later and taunting him about being two faced, knowing he must have lied to keep Osha’s trust.

Now to set the scene:

While Mae’s off being the wolf in sheep’s clothing with Sol, Qimir is alone with Osha. Koril knows that she cannot be influenced like Mae. Not as a child and not now. So Koril sends him away and reveals herself, reveals what actually happened on Brendok (I imagine there was some kind of confrontation where the witches wanted the Jedi to leave and the Jedi refused to leaved without Osha and things got out of hand in addition to the fire/explosion), and finally the ritual. She says that from the moment Aniseya reshaped the stolen life essences into one, infusing it with the coven’s power, then into two, their destinies were set, forever intertwined with the coven and each other. The Jedi tried to destroy that—to their own detriment. She tells Osha to take their deaths as a testament that no one can alter destiny.

Theory 3: Osha and Sol are connected (my final and most far-reaching theory)

For good measure, Koril shows Osha a vision of the ritual, but in doing so also shows the two sacrifices. Two Jedi. (Maybe they’d been sent to investigate the coven before they’d sought refuge in Brendok and the Mothers decided to hit two birds with one stone). But the real shock, the real clincher, is that Osha recognizes them. She knows them by heart because Sol kept pictures of them. Because they had been close once.

And this is where Osha realizes Koril is wrong. The ritual must have messed up someway, somehow. Mae must have received the imprint of the coven’s powers and purpose while Osha received the Jedi’s—alongside their bonds with Sol. Suddenly, everything makes sense: Why Osha had been so instinctually adamant about becoming a Jedi, drawing their symbol before she knew what it meant, and forming such an instant connection with Sol. More than that, why Sol had ben drawn to Brendok in the first place, how he knew about the twins, and why he fought for Osha beyond what protocol dictated. The ritual, their destinies, had been altered, and consequently, so had everyone else’s around them.

The final confrontation:

By this time Mae would likely have outed herself to Sol and, subduing her, Sol would rush back, coming across this scene with Koril and a horrified Osha. Koril and Sol fight, meanwhile, Osha reels from the knowledge that it was never Mae’s obsession/attachment that doomed their coven, it was both of them. It was the very act that brought them into the galaxy that sealed their family’s fate. So she makes a choice. She and Mae have been the cause of it all, so they need to be the solution. The ritual, the mistake, the curse, has to be undone.

Osha has an idea what to do, but can’t do it alone. She reaches out her hand for Mae and Mae, overjoyed at finally being accepted by her sister again, takes it. Together, using either what Osha saw in the vision or what they learned as kids, they recite their poem and begin the reversal.

Koril, seeing this, runs over, but it’s too late, the process has begun. While she fights her way closer, Sol is stuck on the outside. The twins get to the final point, but they can’t return their lives to the Jedi who were killed because there’s nothing left of them. So, Osha redirects their life forces to two different Jedi whose lives were taken because of events surrounding the twins, who weren’t given a pyre funeral, who were within reach. The two sisters embrace a final time as their undoing is complete. Koril gets to them right as the backlash hits and Sol is knocked back, unconscious.

He wakes in a haze, searching for Osha, but the only thing that remains is Koril’s lifeless body. Sol is still processing when Yord and Jecki run out of the forest, confused yet completely healed. He stares at them, shocked, as they ask what’s going on, where’s Osha, and why there’s so many dead Jedi with lightsaber wounds around Kelnacca’s home.

Sol realizes he is now the sole (haha, get it?) survivor to know the truth about the events of both Brendok and Khofar. He should tell the truth, but ultimately decides not to. He won’t risk Jecki and Yord remembering the blood bath or their own horrific deaths. He won’t let Osha’s name be marred by her origins or start a witch hunt over covens and Sith that no longer exist. So, the three simply gather the bodies and leave.

The official story is that Koril, revealed to have survived as Mae’s master, killed Kelnacca, stole his saber, and used it to kill the other Jedi. During this, Osha got through to Mae and together the twins teamed up to stop their mother, sacrificing themselves in the process.

In the end, everyone gets what they want:

Mae gets to be one with her sister again, Osha gets to save her friends and find closure/peace, Koril is with her coven in the beyond, Jecki and Yord live to find their own story. And Sol, well, Sol is left to finish the narrative. He would leave what’s left of Koril in her village alongside Mae’s daggers and something of Osha’s so that the family may rest together at last. He’d go on, guiding Yord, training Jecki (eventually taking her to get another crystal because she’s Cleary meant to wield two blades) and making sure that Osha is never forgotten.

(I’m aware this won’t happen; it is NOT a legitimate prediction. It’s just me sitting in a bubble of denial and deliberation while I still can :) )

Edit: I have made changes after some Enlightenment and the realization that I apparently have no eye for subtle chemistry between Star Wars characters. Thank you.

[pheonixbuchanan]

Based and right

[eywaseclipse]

Because even in death, I will be there to comfort you

[valewritessss]

I have never been more envious of anyone more than I am of the people who fall asleep the second their heads hit the pillow

Like wdym you don’t toss and turn every single night for a good hour or two before you actually fall asleep

Wdym you can say “I’m going to go take a nap” and actually take a nap instead of scrolling through your phone because the light from outside doesn’t bother you

And what do you mean you don’t get so overwhelmed by the sheets that are wrapping around your legs and your hair poking the back of your neck and the thirst you feel but there’s no water left in your water bottle and the fact that you need to pee and great now you’re sweating and not tired but your eyes are ready to sleep but your body isn’t.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN