#if you understand this no booing me!!!

[stevehairingtit]

what if i wrote pre-canon chimney/tommy lol

[nonranghaes]

heads up! volleyball au. seungkwan dealing with a minor injury (twisted ankle) + mentions of cheol being injured during sport in past.

seungkwan swears his entire body is on fire, and all he can do is focus on the bag of ice you're pressing against his ankle right now. he should be watching the team practice now. he should be paying attention to joshua's serve, or listening to jeonghan as he coaches from the sidelines, or watching to make sure no one else fucks up and lands on their ankle like he did trying to block mingyu's spike.

instead, he's just thinking about the way you have his injured ankle in your lap, an ice pack pressed against it. vernon ran to get something to wrap it in properly, this makeshift bag of ice the result of you combining a plastic bag with ice from the ice chest containing bottles of water.

"seungkwan?" you say quietly, and he finally drags his eyes away from the bag (and your hands) to look at your face. "it's okay if you're upset, y'know. accidents happen." the side of your hand is pressed against his skin as you shift the bag a little, careful to keep it from dripping onto him as it melts. "remember when cheol landed on his shoulder instead of his chest when he dived? he was fine." you pat his leg. "you'll be, too."

"he's not allowed to play," jeonghan says offhandedly, not looking over. "not until he sees a doctor and recovers." he looks over, smiling at the two of you. "i'm sure they'll watch over you for today, seungkwan."

his face is burning hotter now. shut up, jeonghan. shut up shut up shut up--

"i will!" you chirp, happy as can be, as if your very existence didn't set seungkwan on fire a little. butterflies in his stomach and all. butterflies on fire at this point, considering you're so casual about all of this. "don't worry about it. i'll take good care of him," you pat his leg again, that same fond smile on your face. "okay, seungkwan?"

if it were anyone else, he'd be flustered about it. maybe he'd even playfully jab at them. but with you, he just averts his gaze for a moment. "thank you," he says in a small voice that'll net him teasing once you're out of earshot. "i'll take care of you, too, if you need me."

and maybe he thinks it's stupid for him to have said it, considering he was injured and mentally kicking himself... but your smile soothes away those thoughts all too easily.

[tennessoui]

it’s like baby gorl there’s no way I, the author who wrote the fic you’re commenting on and who is the intended audience for this comment, am gonna agree with you 😿🙏 some things can just stay on your chest 🙏

[ef-1]

burn your village | female rage playlist

[kaiser1ns]

TAKIISHI CHIKA IN CHAPTER 153

[bayetea]

just all of this from moa regarding frank/hazel/leo. the most uncomfortable romantic tension ever because nobody understands it and nobody involved wants it to be there

especially "Hazel's eyes glittered like gold. 'Gold is easy,' she said. It didn't seem that way to Leo--not when he looked at her." like we can interpret this in a few ways. what an interesting thing to think about a girl you just met

and the whole "if this is a private special thing that she's only done with her boyfriend then I either really don't want to try it or I really really do want to try it" like STOP cut the cameras

[hongtonie]

SUNMI + SEUNGKWAN "Stranger" CHALLENGE

[the-diary-of-a-moody-teenager]

When Odysseus takes "trade the world to see my son and wife ..." to a very literal level in Thunder Bringer , because he is JUST A MAN ....

[eyluvu]

the JOY when i see that stupid monster james p sullivan on my screen again

[kisaragitomi]

i love kita shinsuke. unlike a portion of his fans, i actually wish he was my brother. or a friend i can keep at arm's length. i wish i was more like him, maybe then i'd be a better person.

as i grow up, i find that i have no other option but to live "properly". it makes me resentful, because it feels like nothing good ever happens for those that live "properly". the world keeps on moving anyways, with good things still happening to those who don't live in a "proper" way. hell, it feels like those who live in a "proper" way still has hurdles upon hurdles to get past. what's the point of living like this? why not take a shortcut, hoping to get lucky like everyone else?

as someone starting adulthood, i wonder how someone like kita can live in such a "proper" way, yet still seem so... content. not a trace of envy or a hint of impatience. he lives at his own pace and doesn't let others lead him astray. he's steadfast and unflappable. i want to live like that. to be myself unapologetically, to do "proper" things even if i feel or don't look like someone who should, to be comfortable yet motivated progressing at my own pace, and best of all, to not feel malice towards others. to be able to push on, even if its not assured that your efforts will bear fruit.

i can't help but think i finally have a role model to easily relate to.

[doublel27]

You know what is still haunting me, Kang telling Moo to take care of himself. To not get sick. To eat. To love himself.

And the BTS shot of the hospital set with Keen/Moo in a bathrobe.

Bitches if Moo gets hospitalized and that’s what gets Kang to fully come back to his side…

I’m fine. It’s fine.

(It’s just that blue boys will martyr themselves for the success of their man but if the love of their life is in trouble you couldn’t possibly keep them away…the duality)

[imminent-danger-came]

(4x10 The Jade Emperor)

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(4x14 Better Than We Found It)

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Jade Emperors smiling before their inevitable ends.

[chaoticas-hell]

I like how in the scene after Andrew goes to Easthaven and Neil is trying to get Aaron to understand why Andrew killed Tilda by pulling that bait and switch, when Aaron denies it Neil just goes "he told me he did. I didnt even have to ask him." Which is just so funny to me bc it implies (at least to Aaron) that Andrew just,,,willingly offers this information up unprovoked like Neil didn't have to ask, Andrew just told him could've had nothing to do with the conversation for all Aaron knows

[spacelesscowboy]

anyone else violently afraid of dying in a mass preventable accident or is it just me. asking for a friend.

[mpregspn]

am i........... a troll?

[atopvisenyashill]

Sorry, but I saw your tags on an Alicent post and I am now using your inbox as a way to rant about the reaction to the Viserys praise in Season 2.

Because no, we probably didn’t need a once-an-episode mention of how great he was. But people acting as though that’s out of character for Alicent or that the show is engaging in abuse apologia really annoys me.

First, in the context of Westeros, none of what Viserys did to Alicent is recognized as abuse. While she was slightly under the Westerosi age of maturity when they married, she had almost certainly had her first period by that point and was therefore seen as appropriate to marry. Marital rape is not a concept for them, and even if he hit her (which I think is unlikely from what we are presented) no-one is going to punish him. He is the king. So while she clearly knows that she doesn’t like “having sex” with Viserys, it’s likely that she (consciously) sees it as less of “he’s forcing me to do this” and more as “I am bearing my marital duty as best as I can, perhaps this is how it is for all women” or at worst, “I’m a bad wife.” As for the emotional abuse: even our modern society is really just discovering that concept. Either way, given the context of Westeros and how she was raised, I think it would be very unlikely for her to recognize his treatment of her as abuse and subsequently rail against it. My guess is that she sees him as a kind of typical husband: she wasn’t in love with him, but she liked him sometimes and he was sometimes nice to her, and he was never overly violent in a way that she would recognize. In her mind, he was a fine husband and a good king.

Second, the idea that abuse survivors feeling anything less than murderous rage towards their abusers is “abuse apologia” really pisses me off. Especially when we’re talking about Alicent in the context of being a victim of grooming, which is done specifically so that the victim sees nothing wrong with their abuse. I see this with Rhaenyra about Daemon sometimes and it just…that’s just not always how it works. Not every single survivor of abuse is just going to hate their abuser with no complicated feelings (which there’s nothing wrong with to be clear) and oftentimes, they are going to have a lot of complicated feelings. So the idea that she should just plainly hate Viserys seems very reductionist to me and just further feeds what I’ve been feeling about the way that a lot of people seem to want Alicent to be a perfect victim.

Yeah first - I wish we had gotten an equivalent of Rhaenyra's "we became one person he could love" speech for the greens. I think that speech went a long way in telling us how Rhaenyra feels about her father (and Daemon, and vice versa) and how he's negatively impacted them and their lives without being an ooc "wow maybe my dad did suck all along" sort of thing. I don't think the greens really get that - I think it makes sense for Otto to compare Aegon disfavorably against Viserys at this point (Aegon is acting kinda wild) and for the smallfolk as well to look disfavorably on Aegon and Aemond (Viserys never dragged them into a dumb fuck war, did he) but at the same time, these comments are not made in a vacuum and I think especially when it comes to Viserys' neglect of his kids and the domestic violence Alicent experiences, which is not only kind of, idk, subtle I suppose (subtle for a general audience, anyway, bc even people real deep in discourse in fandom don't understand dv lol, let alone random joe schmoe just watching his dragon show), but also it's not a thing they have words for or context for in the show, and i think there should have been more spice there when discussing him. but that gets into how the greens writing fell off right around regent/smallfolk.

But secondly - YES. God last season it annoyed the SHIT out of me because I watched a) the throne room scene and b) Alicent crying alone over him, and I FELT that shit. It all rang so true to me - Viserys making a grand gesture at the 11th hour that makes him feel good but ultimately does not really help Rhaenyra's cause in any sort of meaningful way, and Alicent who feels so duty bound to be A Good Wife left crying alone in her room after her shitty husband dies because she HAS to mourn him, that's what a good wife does. And I saw people describe it as "rhaenyra needs viserys to save her" "why does alicent care about that rotting idiot" "why can't rhaenyra/alicent be strong on her own" and it made me want to scream.

Viserys is integral to understanding their characters! Arguably he is the influence on the way both of them develop as people, in both the book and the show. Rhaenyra loves her father - and I will say it again because I don't think people understand that Rhaenyra loves her father. When she's angry with him, when she argues with him, it is because she feels rejected by him, not because she hates him! She does not resent him for putting her in this situation - or, she does, but that resentment does not point towards him and frankly, it never will! It's the same reason Sansa cannot resent Ned, Cersei can't hate Tywin, Arianne is so desperate for approval from Doran. I think often people want Rhaenyra to reject Viserys completely because they think it's what they would do (no, they wouldn't, but alright, u can lie to urself here) but feeling like you've been backed into a corner and reaching for a parent, even a flawed one, to come rescue you, and he does (sort of, kind of, in a way that makes him feel better and is flashy but kind of useless) makes sense when you think about where Rhaenyra will end up which is following this thread and this inheritance she gets from her father to a bitter, violent end!

And then Alicent. Alicent who spells it out literally right on screen that her whole life is about serving ideals she thinks are above her, outside of her, greater than her. And what are these ideals? Family, duty, sacrifice. And who is the living embodiment of family, duty, sacrifice? The patriarch! Her husband! She is duty bound to love him, to mourn him, and so she does, because even in the privacy of her own room, the privacy of her own mind she is incapable of separating her self from her husband, her sons, her duty. She uses Viserys as a cover for her own feelings and desires constantly. And like you said - I mean, nothing that happens between them passes any sort of line in Westerosi society. I think Alicent is the sort of person who would force herself to find things to love about him and she very much seems to love the things in him that she loves in herself - his propensity for quiet, for reflection, his reluctance to act rashly, his perceived lack of violence. Of course she loves him. He practically raised her. Do we not love our fathers, even when they are imperfect?

It very much ties into all these ideas about being a "good victim" but people don't want to really talk about the way our concept of a "good victim" has shifted over the years. Now, when people love their abusers, when they don't rage against the abuse they experience, when they don't realize they're being abused, when they crave the abuse back, it's seen as being weak, unfeminist, bad writing. Real victims rage and seethe. Real victims plot to escape. Real victims may fawn in the moment but deep down they never loved their abusers even a little. That's just not true and it's especially not true when it comes to domestic abuse such as spousal or parental abuse, and because Rhaenyra and Alicent love and crave the abuse heaped on them because it is done by people who they love, by people who love them in return (however selfish that love may be!), it means the writing is bad. No, it's not actually. Sometimes, your dad sucks and you know he sucks and he never gets better and you love him anyway.