#i need a house reunion

[supernaturalsuperhero]

Ok literally how did anyone ever think House and Wilson were straight? Just... L👀K

[mortally-beloved]

everytime I come back to tumblr it’s ALWAYS because I’ve become overly obsessed with a ship and can’t get enough of it. (except I’ve loved them since 2019 and I just keep. coming. back. they’re my dopamine.)

[guigsysdinner]

CUTE

[the-loststone]

so just about anyone can meet with the royal family huh. no guards. no ladies in waiting. nothing. apparently they are always alone and able to be assassinated. completely logical.

[kayarai]

Yesterday's adventure in Epic fic writing: featuring Telemachus having A Bad Time (Content warning: brief suicidal thoughts near the end (lines immediately following a list of single words in parentheses). Telemachus has massive self-worth issues and a knife to his throat. You can probably guess where his thoughts might go.)

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It was painfully obvious that Melanthius didn’t actually what to do with a hostage. Sure, he’d managed the first two common sense steps of “incapacitate sword arm” and “knife to throat.” The next logical steps should’ve been “drag your hostage upright and use them as a shield” and “put your back to a wall.” Instead, Melanthius made the truly brilliant decision to shove his hostage down and stand with his back to the open hall.

As the hostage in question, Telemachus couldn’t really say he minded all that much that the man holding a knife to his throat was only half competent and leaving his back wide open to attack from…

“Your very presence has doomed the king—”

from…

“We can still defeat the king—”

from…

“Make the king obey our commands—”

…anyone.

There was one small downside to the man holding a knife to your throat being half competent however. That would be that a half competent man holding a knife to your throat might be inclined to do something less than competent with that knife, which was, again, being held against your throat.

Maybe is was the blow to the head, or maybe his luck had just run out. The focus and battle-calm he’d managed to cling to while fighting had shattered. His thoughts broken into thousands of jagged shards. Shards with sharp edges cutting him apart from inside as they spun and spun, and broke and broke, and shattered and—

Melanthius’s mediocre hostage holding capabilities was probably the least painful of his spinning thoughts to try to hold in focus and Telemachus had to hold onto that otherwise…

otherwise…

(Last week, yesterday, two hours ago he’d considered Melanthius one of the handful of suitors inclined toward letting him live. Now though? With the flat of a blade pressed so firmly against his throat that he couldn’t draw a proper breath? It was obvious Telemachus had horrifically miscalculated.) (What else had he miscalculated?) (What else had his mistakes threatened?) (What else had he endangered with this failures?) (With his weakness?) (His mother.) (Their kingdom.) (His…

“Your very presence has doomed the king, young prince”

father?)

(What would his father think? His father. Returning home to find the son that should be following in his legendary footsteps like… like… this.) (Defeated.) (Broken.) (Hostage.) (Liability.) (Burden.) (Disappointment.) (Shameful.) (Failure.) (Weak.)

If he could wriggle just enough… Shift his head in just the right way… he wouldn’t be useful leverage anymore. (He wouldn’t have to face his father’s disappointment.)

“No.”

*snap*

Somewhere between the snap of a goddess’s voice and the snap of a bowstring, Telemachus manages to pull enough of his scattered thoughts together that the moment the grip on his arm slackened and the knife began to fall away he’s moving, scrambling for his spear and darting to put a wall at his back.

[thetriangletattoo]

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[aethes-bookshelf]

the prompt for my cloud 'three squeezes mean "i love you"' fic would fit aric jorgan from swtor so well........

[pynkhues]

I wonder if they'll go with Marius being physically monstrous or go with him NOT looking that unusual and emphasizing his inner monstrousness -- I could see it working either way.

Yeah, me too! I actually re-read Lestat's turning just the other day in the context of writing this fic, and the way Anne describes Magnus is so viscerally monstrous that it made me wonder how the show's going to handle him. Given this show's exploration of memory, I could see them maybe playing with that in the sense of what he did to Lestat being twisted up in Lestat's memory of what he looked like, especially given Lestat's so out of it for most of the time he's with Magnus.

The show does seem to like to play around with the horror elements of the show too - like things that are so horrific in the books, like the trial, are still horrific, but carry a lot of other tones and genre elements too, whereas things that you maybe wouldn't expect to be so horrific, like the original interview, go full horror. I'm so curious as to how they play it!

[anaalnathrakhs]

"i thought you said you'd make an effort" MOTHERFUCKER THIS IS ONLY COMPLAINT #1 OUT OF A VERY LONG LIST JUST BE GRATEFUL I CAN WAIT UNTIL THE GUESTS ARE GONE TO SNAP

[yackers]

What would it take for you to be on board with a reboot?

honestly literally nothing like I really do not want one. like I have my little criticisms of hoa but I wouldn’t actually change a thing and I just want it to be left entirely alone. I don’t want it to be ‘darker’ (bc as I think tess pointed out before the reason most of the time that there’s no murder and torture and other weird gross creepy things some people like to imply is because that was just not the villains’ goal) and I don’t need anyone to take a group of realistic (to the extent that nickelodeon allowed) teenagers and make them act like a cw group of oversexualised pseudo adults. also apart from adding more representation, I don’t think that enough time is passed and enough has changed for redoing it to be any better than just sitting and watching the existing shows?? like something doesn’t have to be brand new for you to watch it??

I see people on twitter even saying the show should’ve had more seasons but like it showed the last three years of school and their graduation they left the school what else could there have been?? we’re so lucky that the show actually got to finish properly and I don’t think any of that should be messed with. I wouldn’t even trust anyone to do a school reunion special right because I think that fans should just get to decide where the characters ended up for themselves. like if the cast was willing to do something like that I would love it if it was them discussing it as themselves but not in character. basically if it was down to me, no reboot, no revival, no school reunion, nothing.

[melpcmene-arch]

Also, another thing I gotta watch/listen is: Once upon a Witchlight - just another D&D Podcast. So now I got: Crit Role, Dungeons and Daddies, Tales from the Stinky Dragon and now that.

[eats-the-stars]

we just don't put the kids in anything we don't want caked in mud/grass/etc. when we go outside to play. Super easy to just keep a bunch of outdoor play clothes that can get absolutely wrecked on hand (majority of their outfits tbh), and keep the really cute/sentimental stuff for like indoor outings like the children's museum or so on. and yeah there are also totally skirts that are plain outdoor things to be muddied up just as much as pants. any clothes can be destroy-able as long as you think they're kinda bland/ugly and they're also decently durable for rough-housing around.

My baby daughter got her adorable puffin-print dress absolutely CAKED in mud crawling around the yard and my first thought was "oh no her beautiful dress"

And my second thought was "oh huh it really WOULD be easy to unconsciously steer her away from playing in the dirt. Unlike my son, whose outfits are usually some kind of solid dark easily washed pants plus a shirt that doesn't trail in the dirt like a dress does."

Anyway something something gender roles start getting shoved on kids from literal birth, but with a little time to think about things, YOU TOO can let your children of any gender absolutely destroy their clothes in the dirt pit they're digging in your garden

[itsalwaysdark]

i want to watch the things on my watchkist but i also never do its rly tragic

[wreckedhoney]

unironically. i do like the sound of horny violence. but nothing that extreme is actually happening. it's just like, a pool party. but no one is being normal in there. no one is having good clean fun in a normal way

[londrya]

*The kitchen in Wayne Manor*

Clark, drinking a coffee: And then I was like, i don't need....

Jon walking in, not fully awake yet: Morning...

Clark: Morning? What are you doing here? You where supposed to be at kon's?

Kon walking in with Tim in tow: Well technically he is with me.

Wally sapping in to get something from the fridge: Wow, in what kind of family reunion did I stumble into here?

Roy, also there to get something to eat: I dunno man.

Bruce, appearing out of nowhere: The real question here is, why tf you all are at my house.

Alfred: It seems like the boys had a sleepover. Just like old times.

Roy: Hah, tell that to the hickeys on Jason's neck

[strawbebyjam]

need someone to take the ex RO trope away from me