#i pre-grieved

[beronicalongcon]

deep breath clears throat hi uh deep breath one second *rifling furiously through my note cards* jarchie longcon......*strangled breath* it was a great longcon in the um in the true sense sense of the world....word . fuck. um. *long silence* i-uh-no-so uh i can't do i can't do i actually can't do this i can't i tried the thing i can't *gesturing at finale* are they in there?.......can we get them out!!!!???????

[toneelspeelster]

i, too, am defined by absence. i am a child, and anything could be taken from me at any moment.

[wingsofthesun]

So, am I the only one that thinks Shepard dying wasn't the only reason Garrus wound up on Omega?

Like it was a factor, don't get me wrong, I don't want to ignore how big of an impact Shepard had on him and how devastated he was, but consider what else was going on in his life at that point:

His mom was dying of a neurological disease that has no cure.

He was estranged from his dad due to differing viewpoints.

He was most likely back at C-Sec, back at a job he hated, where things probably didn't change.

The Council was actively slandering Shepard’s name and refusing to even entertain the idea that the Reapers are real and coming to slaughter them all.

To me it feels like if any of those things had changed- especially the family ones- Garrus might not have ended up on Omega.

I don't know, it just feels disingenuous to say that Shepard dying was the only factor here, because his life really sucked on multiple levels during that period of time.

(There's also the fact that Garrus will end up on Omega even if he's not recruited in 1, but considering how unlikely that is I'm unsure whether to really count it here or not.)

[o-wild-west-wind]

you know, I’m just gonna come out and say it. reason 182639302 why I’m sad ofmd was canceled: I would’ve liked to see a post-Izzy world.

you can stab me in the face now.

[lifemod17]

PRE SELF TITLED TRUTHERS, GATHER ROUND!!!

'Blood' studio version AND 'Love Supreme' by Hozier

big day for annoying people (me)!!!

[danielsarmand]

i have that very specific aroace spec kind of abandonment issues where i get horrifyingly scared when a friend of mine starts hanging out with a new group or gets a fuller social life not because i don't want them to have other friends, but because that exponentially augments the chances of them finding a lover and then it's joever for me

[thiagodasilva]

half an hour </3

[dylan0bemyboyfriend]

me seeing loki stuck in that chair

[ohdeargodwhy]

As the likelihood of tedtrent never becoming canon looms ever closer, the fanart gets more and more intimate...

[forzaformulaone]

me before the pics of carlos at williams testing dropped:

me after:

[velveteenoutlaw]

was taking a short walk in a pretty town and I couldn't stop laughing at Arthur's face

rip arthur, you would have been a great youtuber

[thejugheadparadox]

loving the prank about riverdale nearly being over its sooooo funny I love how elaborate it is but I think its kind of got old now right haha like jokes over now right???????? we can get back to real life riverdale forever now right hahaha??????

[njararna]

i am as always thinking about voltron. because i have issues. but i really and truly cannot get over vld’s flanderisation of lance’s character, it actually aggravates me to no end!!!

in the franchise, lance has been established to be an ace-flyer, incredibly perceptive (specifically in dotu and vttd, the source material + the closest sequel!), impulsive, and cocky—but his cockiness had SUBSTANCE. he knew he was that good. to me vforce has one of the best lance characterisations in how they get him: he’s a great flier, he’s a dependable figure of authority, he’s snarky, he bites back, he has the right amount of silliness and pettiness dotu lance had. in vforce, everyone could get teased by the narrative! it wasn’t one or two characters taking the brunt (hi vld hunk and lance!).

but in vld, they practically cut out all those parts of lance, the flying, the perceptiveness, his confidence, and then give it to keith (whose original personality had been then given to shiro). they leave him with the cockiness, but there’s nothing to back it up. they orchestrate keith and lance’s rivalry to be one-sided and terribly unbalanced because keith IS better than lance in a lot of things. this was never the case before, they had strengths and weaknesses that the other complemented and would sometimes cause conflict (vttd is a great example of this!).

i think the reason why it bothers me so much, is because this is first time lance has been latino and not white (not counting golion’s isamu in this). the first time! and the moment he is, they take away his skills and his strengths, have him bullied by the narrative and made into a joke, never taken seriously, and dialed up his flirtatiousness to over 9000. the only time i can actually recall lance being flirtatious in the franchise was in ddp’s run, but even then it wasn’t nearly as prominent or excessive as vld lance’s nonstop flirting. he gets keith’s leftover lion, he gets a sword like keith, he’s allura’s second choice, he never really finds his place in the team.

the arc of feeling like a seventh wheel or insecurity wouldn’t bother me if he had history in the franchise of this, if his character wasn’t established the way it was, but he doesn’t! and its not like vld’s narrative does much to disprove lance’s insecurity—in fact it winds up doing the opposite most of the time. on the surface vld and dotu lance seem similar, but deeper down i feel like the writers just…lost the plot. it’s not that you can’t branch out in reboots or explore other pathways, but it’s just so blatant to me in how they’d taken so much from him and passed it off to other characters. where’s the love for the source material in that? where’s the respect? i don’t know, maybe i’m just going on and on, but it haunts me.

[saint-cecilias]

claudia 2.0 diary entry: i'm just a girl, what's my destiny? || a claudia de pointe du lac playlist || songs curated by @saint-cecilias || edits by @bluetiefling

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[adh-d2]

So at this point, if we get him back, we're not getting him back whole, are we?

There's no way the same writers who've spent an entire season lingering on Crosshair's PTSD would just give Tech a factory reset with a bump on the noggin'. And there's no longer time to give him a healing journey. The best we can hope for is open-ended optimism. The possibility that he might be himself again someday, in a future we'll never see.

It's starting to feel like a Faustian fucking bargain at this point.

[stewy]

i think roman's pre-grieving is a very real thing and has a lot to do with his inability to achieve... anything, including sexual pleasure. he can't "let go" because he already pre-imagined a situation so he's therefore incapable of enjoying it as an actual experience/of even getting past the first few stages of grief.