#in like every normal conversation

[klanced]

“Keith is not a tsundere he just sucks” you know and understand more than a simple mortal mind could ever dream

i feel like a quintessential part of understanding keith's character is realizing that he is generally okay at socializing with people (he just doesn't like dealing with strangers), but there is something very specific about lance that makes keith fumble every single interaction they have

[suntails]

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[solargeist]

Grian trying to drop off Xelqua to another Hermit to babysit so he can go to the Nether, but Xelqua clings around his neck and Grian wonders if this used to be easier or not

[number1greedlingfan]

The greed team camping trip is extremely funny for obvious reasons but can you imagine how Darius and Heinkel felt interacting with Ling for the first time? Like Greed probably had something to do with their opinions 180ing from "being turned into a chimera ruined my life" to "actually, i can make the best of the body i have now" SO they probably like him. But Ling?? All they know about him is 1) he's a prince from Xing 2) he's Ed's age and 3) Ed and Greed constantly talk shit about him but in the same Weirdly Fond way so he must be an alright guy?

And then Greed hands over control to him for an hour or something and they're like. Oh Fuck this kid is a Freak with a capital F. He's chipper and silly as hell and he antagonizes Ed like a normal annoying 16 yr old but then another country is mentioned and he has in-depth knowledge of their culture and he can also speak the language fluently??? Then later he's talking to Ed about Someone and they're like, "'Lan Fan', is that your friend?" and he cheerfully responds "Oh she's my vassal, she cut her arm off for me so I'm really worried about her ahaha"

[tinseltownie]

RIP me. Bob and Bruce 4eva

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

If i had a nickel for every time I've become unreasonably attached to a human male character from a BioWare game with dark hair and brown eyes who you meet in the very first mission of the game, and has trust issues either with himself or others or both, and is also voiced by Raphael Sbarge, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

Im talking about them

[vellichorom]

hi i'm once again on that routine tsp grind & thinking about what isolation does to a motherfucker,

i don't think the narrator could really handle having a conversation with another person that he could not dominate or assume the entirety of it's direction,

you SEE how he talks to stanley; leading the entire conversation ( of course, considering he's the only one who talks between them ) & drawing- JUMPING, rather - to his own conclusions & beyond if stanley just so happens to breathe in a certain way that makes the narrator upset,

& this is how it's been for assumedly YEARS. if not a damn long time otherwise for the narrator & stanley both to be as co-dependent / co-dependent coded as they seem can you imagine how that must impair his already incredibly clearly fucked social skills

can you imagine putting him in the real world & him basically talking out an ENTIRE conversation that he's supposed to be having with another person & jumping through so many hoops, assuming them somebody nasty & entirely unintentionally driving them away because that's all going on in your head old man?

listen. 5 minutes into the demo, he ( jokingly(?) ) implies you a sexual predator. do you think he can have a normal discussion with a person who can talk back because i don't

[jubmato]

i was gonna buy myself the stanley parable: ultra deluxe but i ended up having to spend the money i had for it on my goddamn therapy appointment. fuck my gay chungus life

[incesthemes]

i can't stop thinking about the first episode of season 6, when sam tries to convince dean to come with him, to come back to hunting. he says "it's just better with you around, that's all." it's an interesting line because sam is soulless, obviously. and even though he doesn't understand the details yet, he knows something's wrong with him.

"it's better with you around" he says, citing dean's compassion and care for others as the reason why. and how interesting is that? sam's working with plenty of other hunters who still have their souls—they're all more than capable of caring about the people they save. but sam needs dean specifically. he knows he's missing something, and he sees dean and recognizes that something in him. even cold and calculating and unrelentingly logical, sam recognizes that dean, alone, can "complete" him, give something back to him that he's supposed to have.

in episode 8 he tells dean he "needs his help." he doesn't elaborate; he never explains what he means by that. he has a whole family of hunters who'd be willing and able to help him, but still he needs dean. even without his soul, his hyperrational mind knows he needs him.

soulless sam isn't capable of caring about dean. but he doesn't need to care to know they need to be together, no matter what—to know dean is good for him, dean completes him, dean needs to be there for him.

it's like a sick reversal of season 1. sam drags dean back into this life because he can't keep going without him. because he needs him. because when you think about it logically, and sam has no other choice, there was never any other option for them.

[lilacthebooklover]

real suffering is learning that the awesome pretty girls in your chem class are also into starkid and you have no way to drop that you know what that is without it being completely out of the blue <//3 i'll just have to settle for liking all of their starkid innit reposts <///3 woe is me

[nostrildamus]

family members shut the hell up about your allergies challenge

[thefishdeath]

Just. finished fallout. normal.

[mcleavemealone]

I like to imagine the Oak family having a very convoluted and mixed language that's just a mashup of English, Spanish, Elvish, and Druidic that is absolutely indecipherable to anyone else that overhears it

[shift-shaping]

I wish Solas had a real hangout in Skyhold. I hate flirting in the Reverse Panopticon.

[nico-di-genova]

why does alexs childhood actually sound so sad 😭 and where did you hear this info.. cause respectfully i want to now pull up go the rossi household and have a little chat..

James and Tim have referred to his childhood as sad and depressing multiple times on the podcast. It sounds sad because it was :(. From Off Track we have learned:

The last “normal” birthday Alex had was when he was ten. He went to a water park with two friends from his school. Most of his other birthdays were spent at dinner parties with his parents and their friends, where everyone was his parents age or older. These were often dinners where they were trying to secure Alex sponsors, so they were called “birthday dinners” but really they were just business dealings. As an adult, he says the best birthday he remembers is where a small group of his friends (James and Tim included) came over for dinner and they made a lasagne. I think they lost power, so they ended up cooking it on the grill. So small intimate affairs are what he prefers, James has mentioned offhand throwing him a party to make up for all the ones he missed as a kid and Alex has straight up told him not to. He’s uncomfortable with the attention now/doesn’t see the point.

When he was a teenager he won a scholarship. This scholarship was typed on a computer, and done so professionally the guy reviewing it thought Alex was bullshitting him. He met every criteria of this scholarship to a T, to the point the guy said it was “Harvard level”. Turns out it was perfect because Alex’s dad had made him sit down and work on it until it was nothing less. “You know how Peter is,” he said to Tim/James when they were like, “oh so you’re just good at everything Alex.” So he’s a perfectionist because his dad was, he gives 110% because that’s what’s always been expected of him.

His family never really celebrated Christmas, he never saw extended family during the holidays, because him and his parents would stay home and just spend the time with each other. He never did “milk and cookies for Santa” or did any of the “fun” holiday stuff, because his parents raised him to believe the “true meaning of Christmas” - I.e. Jesus’ birth. He didn’t get a lot of Christmas presents, and the ones he did get seem to be predominantly from family. His parents would give him a legal pad and as he opened gifts he had to write who they were from and then he’d have a send a thank you note to them afterward.

For Halloween, his parents would make him count each piece of candy he got from trick-or-treating and they would only let him have 1-2 pieces a day. Which, teaching your kid discipline and self-control is good and all, but making a kid count how much candy they got… he also couldn’t dress any anything from “secular film culture/anything scary” hence the battery and traffic light costumes.

Overall he seems to have been raised in an overly strict, highly religious household where he was expected to be a mini adult and didn’t necessarily get to enjoy just being a kid.

[fromperdition4]

You Never Cared (Enough)

This. This is the moment, I think, where Porsche finally admits to himself he wants Kinn.

Because Porsche isn’t really arguing against Kinn’s point here.

Kinn does care about his people - we’ll see very clear examples of that later in the series (when he’s grieving for Big and Erica, when he saves Pol and Pete during the shootout, etc.), and Porsche has concrete proof that Kinn cares just as much about him -

But Porsche doesn’t want Kinn to see him as an employee - a responsibility. He doesn’t even want to be seen as a friend.

He wants Kinn to admit that being with Porsche meant something… different. That he didn’t just use Porsche, to get it out of his system, when he was an easy target.

Because it was different for Porsche.

As far as we know, the end of episode 4 was the first time Porsche had sex with a man, the first time he’d had sex after being drugged, and… the first time he’d had sex with someone he really liked. Someone he’d been starting to get to know, who irritated and intrigued him all at once, instead of just a one-time fling.

And he barely got any time to process all of that - his sexuality, his autonomy, his feelings - before Kinn shut down, put more distance between them than ever before, and became cruel -

So it’s only now, after getting time away to get back to who he was - in his own house, spending time with his brother and friends - that Porsche has finally worked out just why he’s so hurt by Kinn.

That, despite everything, he doesn't want to be just one of Kinn's people.

He wants Kinn to care more about him.