So, my in-laws are supposed to go to Maui next month for a vacation that they've already had to cancel once, because of COVID. This was going to be their first proper vacation really since the pandemic started.
If you haven't seen anything about it, there are apocalyptic wildfires in Maui right now that have killed 50+ people, destroyed Lahaina, which is a tourist hotspot, displaced thousands, overrun hospitals with burn victims, and forced people TO FLEE INTO THE OCEAN TO SURVIVE.
So anyway, I'm thinking that's not going to happen. This is just how it be in the 2020s. Maybe you can take a vacation, maybe there's a global pandemic or everything is on fire.
"If we must fight, Sethos... I shall defeat you with the power of my friend group of employed adults who miraculously have regularly scheduled meet-ups, and also my daughter!"
The way Lestat reacts to Louis approaching him is taking me out you guys. Shock. Awe. Terror. Devastation. Excitement. A feeling so profound it makes the breath catch in his chest. Shielding himself with his sad wood plank piano. Shielding himself from the intensity of the moment. A moment he’s certainly imagined for decades. Louis there. Louis home. Louis real and alive and walking right toward him…
The maths fandom is wild. “Real” and “imaginary” numbers? I think you mean canon and non-canon. You guys seriously go “this is my number oc his name is i and he is the square root of -1” when in numbers canon lore it’s actually impossible to square root a negative but sure whatever. “Complex numbers”? I think you mean a character x oc ship. “f(x) = 3x - 5”? That is self-insert fanfiction.
I feel like people must’ve forgotten how objectively horrifying Spamton NEO is, like on a psychological level. Once he goes NEO, that’s the point of no return. The only way out of it for him is to basically die.
Not to mention Puppet Scarf’s flavor text:
Yes, Ralsei can no longer cast healing spells as effectively with it equipped, but think of the implication; that’s Spamton. By the time he goes NEO, he gave up on healing and making amends. By this point, he’d rather go out and kill everyone who wronged him (or he thinks they did) than seek forgiveness, or forgive them himself.
And in Snowgrave, he has no problem with letting (or even encouraging) someone commit mass murder if he can take advantage of the situation.
He may call you out on it, but by that point he’s mostly projecting his own self-hatred onto Kris.
But if we adhere more closely to the normal Ch2 route, it’s implied that he still had murderous intentions with NEO.
And even if you end the fight by sparing him and get the Dealmaker instead, it's already too late for him. He went NEO, and there's no other way it can end for him.
something that’s always been funny to me is that long fics with smut tend to do better than long fics without but it’s like. if you write a longggg 10k+ word fic with a build up and plot and sprinkle in smut at the end, people will read that long build up and pay attention to the plot in order to get to the smut. and 99% of the time the tags and comments will talk about the plot itself and the way it was written as opposed to the sex and they will ask for more or for part 2’s and as annoying as the part 2 comments can be sometimes, it also means that they focused on the plot and not the smut. but if you post that fic without the smut—as in same fic and same build up and everything, but the smuts not there, a lot of those same people will simply not give the fic a chance. it’s just funny to me bc yes, a part of it is just horniness, but also i think it’s partly that there is also some conditioning to believe that a “perfect romance” or a “perfect story” of a romance is sealed with intimacy that’s more often than not sexual in order to actually be valid. and yeah. idk. it’s an interesting thing to see from a writers perspective
Do certain people know that when they say shit like “you’re not a real Nesta stan if you don’t like Cassian/Nessian,” that they are implying Nesta isn’t worth liking on her own?
If you literally do not have rat king Gerard Way that was covered in motor oil in your top 5 tour looks he did for the reunion tour, I literally cannot hang!!!