#it may have been a mistake for her to do it

[superiorsturgeon]

Wedding Jitters

Weiss: *organizing Bumbleby wedding* Okay, let’s go, people! We’ve got less than five hours to set this thing up!

Pyrrha: What can I do to help?

Weiss: *checks her clipboard* You’re in charge of doing Blake’s hair. I’ve seen Jamie’s school pictures, and you’re the best hairdresser we’ve got.

Pyrrha: My little boy actually prefers when his mommy does his hair instead of Jaune…! 😁

Pyrrha: …

Pyrrha: …it’s only a matter of time before he’s all grown up and I’m doing his hair at his own wedding…☹️

Weiss: No time to unpack that now! Blake’s in the changing room having a drink to relax. Get busy!

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Weiss: Pyrrha? Blake? Are you almost done? It’s almost zero hour out there and we need to-what the hell?! 😦

Pyrrha: *swaying and holding champagne bottle* Heeeyyyyy, Weiss~! 🥴

Blake: Pyrrha was kinda preoccupied, so I offered her a drink to calm her down…

Blake: …which may have been a mistake… 😕

Weiss: Ya think?! 🤬

Pyrrha: My baby boy is never going to grow up and lose his virginity! 😫

[chaifootsteps]

if Vassago is in the next episode that means Mastermind is the one where Stolas is summoned to presumably face consequences for lending out the book

this is one of Viv's last chances to show she actually meant it when she was doing the 'both sides have made mistakes' routine

how Stolas losing everything is framed is one

how he and Blitzo probably get together for real is the other

but honestly I'm not confident. the obvious writing choice for making Stolas actually change is to have someone in the courtroom say something along the lines of 'he leant out his precious book in order to get sex out of an imp when he could have given him a crystal from the start, taking advantage of him and hurting both his heir and his reputation'. then Stolas has an epiphany where he realizes he did a little more than 'come on too strong' or 'read things wrong' or whatever the song tried to minimize it as

and have him pay that off when he and Blitzo get together

but what I think is going to happen is this:

the episode is called mastermind because Stella & Andre are the masterminds behind oh-so-evilly using the fact that *checks notes* Stolas is terrible at his job and objectively broke demon law to get him stripped of his titles. this is portrayed as very tragic and totally not something Stolas could and should have foreseen if he hadn't been spending all his time getting drunk and being gaslighting Blitzo. only silver lining is Satan himself will call Stolas an embarassment or whatever the line was in the trailer, but if he has a celebrity VA he probably won't be too harsh

anyway, losing his power results in him getting the Gabriella stripe for real in his hair (it's symbolism for the fact he is indistinguishable from his telenovela heroine and needs a hero to save him, something the audience should root for and not find pathetic and weird) and Andre taking over his palace, turning it to ice. He tries to call Via but can't get through and in either this episode or sinsmas decides to go over there in person

Andre/Stella try to attack him and Blitzo, who has been given one last push either offscreen or onscreen to accept his fate as Stolas' romantic object, goes to save him, risking his life and his employee's lives once again to do so. He doesn't thank them but presumably gets all shoujo romance filter when Blitzo protects him with a sword, clinging to him like a helpless baby who can't be expected to even bother trying to defend himself (this is no different than how he was as a royal when he got nerfed just so the show could have another fanfic torture and rescue plot in western energy)

Via may or may not have to end the battle by killing Andre/Stella. she's understandably a bit upset about having to kill her uncle but this is written like she's just mad he and Blitzo are together (something Blitzo but not Stolas is made to feel responsible for) and being upset about Stolas' antidepressants so she can look unreasonable. the fact he let her down by breaking demon law, got caught, is still fantasizing about having Blitzo rescue him even when it hurts everyone around him, goes totally unmentioned. she cuts him off. it's portrayed as very tragic...for Stolas. he lost everything but got Blitzo as a consolation prize (something which he won't show much appreciation or even love for him onscreen but offscreen they'll totally have cute date nights and Blitzo will never be happier)

old timey title card 'that's all folks!' comes up (just kidding, there's two more seasons of this to get through)

The ride never ends, folks!

[archduchessgortash]

Thank you for your rant! 😁

I agree that Gale isn't just talking about his ex. He's sharing his trauma, but unlike Astarion, his trauma was enacted upon him by a goddess with powers of manipulation that far surpass those of a vampire lord. Not to diminish what Astarion went through, but he knew what was happening to him was awful, while Gale struggles to recognize what Mystra did as abuse. This is very often the case with male victims of female perpetrators. The challenges they face are different.

The thing that the media illiterate can't seem to grasp is that Gale isn't trying to get over Mystra.

He's recovering.

From what she did to him.

His arc and his romance are not about Mystra unless an Origin Gale makes them about her.

His story is about him. There are so many conversations with him that have nothing to do with Mystra. Reducing him to a 'guy who can't get over his ex' isn't merely a reduction; it's a complete misread of his story. Yes, he had a toxic ex, and she may have been a goddess, but guess what? She's not important anymore. She's a footnote in his story, and I mean the one when he eclipses her entirely.

Not by becoming a god. By becoming a teacher. One who would never do what she did.

Without the outside perspective of the main character encouraging him to do otherwise, Gale thinks his mistake is worth giving up his life and continues to be willing to make that sacrifice for the greater good. Mystra is the reason his self-worth is tied to how useful he is. Isn't it possible, likely even, that Gale's strongest drives to obtain power might have sprung from the desire of a mere mortal to finally see himself as good enough for a goddess?

And her making the past year of his life into a glorified 'teaching moment' is why she should never have had a sexual relationship with him to begin with...

End of... rant addendum.

Time for a Gale appreciation post...

People talk non-stop about how Astarion looks at their character once he's in puppy love, but can we take a moment dedicated to the sheer range of rizz coming off Gale across two freaking sentences in his very first scene??

This man is flirting with his entire rizzard self from the moment we meet him.

Gale is positively adorable, and my gnome warlock cannot wait to climb him. 😁

[bitethebullets]

ik the secretary theories are everywhere rn but

I feel like instead of being the one pulling the strings or being complicit in the dictatorship that the secretary might actually be a martyr of sorts. she’s a woman in a position of power (being the secretary to such powerful men) and while shes not in center if we take the drumheads into consideration it feels like a growing resentment and urgency to rebel against. ‘fix fax fuck you’ and ‘everything under control’ are silent protests against the power she works under, and after those drumheads was the ‘bark bark bark’ without her present but instead gerard in regular clothes which could insinuate the men who over power and bark orders to her. Even in her wardrobe she starts to resist, wearing more provocative clothing like latex gloves and a shorter skirt — then she comes in with the head wound and her glasses and coat are off, shes not shielded anymore by her position. The final look where she looks like a corpse shredded of who stood before (stepping away from her old self who remained complict). The lyrics from foundations “so he gets to die a saint but she will always be the whore” are interesting to look at when also including the religion aspects seen so far because in the book of revelations there is the story of the whore of babylon who is in a position of power and ultimately betrayed by those kings. And in that story she remains a mysterious figure only known as the whore and cause for the downfall while the kings are seen as the victims of her doings, turning evil as a result of her. essentially while she may have been complicit to a degree, she becomes the figurehead and absolves the men of their wrongdoings and easily becomes the scapegoat for them to walk away unscathed while she pays the ultimate punishment.

anyways i think much like the patient in tbp lore the secretary is a character that has to identify their mistakes and own up to them while possibly feeling some fear and regret over their actions (ie. aiding the dictatorship). Their eventual endings being a final destination of choosing which path to take based on reflection.

[girlishwhimsies]

unfortunately i have to yap more on the economic divides.

just there are so many implications and complications when it comes to generational wealth vs cycles of poverty. cycles of poverty my beloved in fiction and beloathed in life

i yapped a lot in the tags of my last post so read those too but i will be yapping so much here too!!! the way it affects familial relationships consumes me, two bits father leaves and suddenly now his mom has to go work and she sure as hell can’t get a great job cause she’s a greaser so she probably doesn’t have much education and she’s an asian woman in the 60s!! she’s now a single mom with kids to take care of. so she ends up working as a waitress or something similar and uses that money to scrape by, food stamps were starting to become a thing in the 60s as well so she def used those. and then she has two children. she can’t get them through college and two bit knows he has to step up and be the man of the house and that means finding some way to make money so he has to drop outta school cause he needs to get a job. that’s what greasers do and that’s what was always gonna end up happening to him. the cycle didn’t start with him or end with him but it has to keep going l

ace and steve too. bounced around to different homes, never having one home with a steady flow of income, having to find ways to get through it. ace who didn’t trust any men, especially when money was involved, and only trusted those close to her!!! the cycle of poverty hits them all again as her and her brothers can’t rely on a father to bring in income. god plus the way that poverty creates addicts due to the stress of it all and then addiction further fuels poverty since you have to buy your vices. some addicts can’t hold a steady job which makes it even worse. all cycling in on itself over and over again. and that’s not even mentioning the clear redlining that tilly mentions in her ace backstory (this may even be a whole other post tbh) the town is designed to keep the poor poorer and the rich richer.

johnny who in my mind is clearly food insecure (y’all saw the way that boy snatched that food from dally and hid it away immediately right) never quite sure where he is gonna get food from besides the curtis’s since his parents spend most of the money on alcohol. the anxiety that would bring him and it impacts his story so hard cause he always is at a disadvantage due to that. there is a reason that boy looks so small

dally has always travelled, choosing to steal to get what he needs cause he never stays long enough anywhere to get a full job. he’s been labelled a hood since day one anyway and wouldn’t get a great job anyway cause of his skin color so he decides to lean into it and do what he has to do to get by.

then we have the curtis brothers. who were so close to getting out of tulsa. they were able to try to break the cycle and send darry off to college after he was one of the first to get through high school and make it out just for him to have to come straight back. no matter how hard darry tried he couldn’t ever end it but at least he can try to get pony through school and get him a better job that he can succeed in and love comfortably with

more various thoughts i couldn’t fit into any one greaser story- a lot of the kids were most likely mistakes and/or teen pregnancies that they really couldn’t afford to have but had to go through with it anyway. the cycle of addiction that runs through these families. the parents hopes and dreams of getting out never getting fulfilled. the way race plays into poverty as well

then you have the socs who have all the money they need, who have the opportunity to get out and choose not to take it cause tulsa is a source of pride for them. they benefit from the cycle too even if the kids don’t always realize it. just ugh. the way all of it comes into play with the overarching story

[blood-mocha-latte]

tagged by the incredible @merryandrewsworld to create myself using THIS!

i actually had a lot of fun doing this lol -- i made my partner do it, so this is her masterpiece

no pressure tagging @506thpir, @dcyllom, and @musicalfreak24601; plus whoever wants to do it :)

[starry-bi-sky]

my martha knight au in a nutshell:

Danny/Martha: see up here?

Danny/Martha: *taps skull*

Danny/Martha: intense psychological damage

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Danny/Martha: *upon finding out she's pregnant*

Danny/Martha: oh my god i cant be a mom, I'm fifteen and homeless--

Danny/Martha: im going to be a terrible mother--

Danny/Martha: i live in a cAR--

Danny/Martha: what if the baby inherits my powers? Oh no--

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Danny/Martha post giving birth: i've only had Bruce for a minute and a half but if anything were to happen to him i won't even need to fuse with Vlad, I'm razing this goddamn planet to the ground myself

Danny, to Baby Bruce: you are the last remaining thread of my sanity. I'm going to give you the world :)

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Danny/Martha prior to getting pregnant: Fuck it, if everything in my life has led to this moment, i'm allowed to make one stupid decision. I'm getting drunk and getting laid

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Danny/Martha while Bruce was a toddler: i swear to fucking god i am going to kill the next person who talks to me--

Bruce: hi mommy!! i brought you something!!!

Danny/Martha, immediately flipping on a dime: hi baby!! what do you have?

Bruce, a weird child like his mother: a spider :)

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Danny/Martha, talking to Falcone after he made an unsavory comment at her and Bruce: If you ever come near me or my son again, I will dig up your shithead father's corpse and make you eat his skin.

Danny/Martha: do you understand me

Falcone:... crystal, ma'am

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Danny/Martha new in Gotham: *getting mugged*

Danny/Martha: *grabs man's arm*

Danny/Martha: I AM GOING TO BREAK YOU IN HALF LIKE A TWIG, FUCK BOY, DO YOU HEAR THE WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH--

(she then proceeds to terrorize Gotham's night life for the next extended period of time, mostly unintentionally)

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Danny/Martha: Danny Fenton?? No. you must be mistaken, my name is Martha Knight.

Danny/Martha: this here is my littlest knight, Bruce.

Danny/Martha: I made him all by myself :]

[afterlife-2004]

Reminds me of “The World Was Wide Enough”, a song from the musical, Hamilton!

[chatdae]

Grace FUMBLED Ryan! BAD parenting to preach respect and then act contrarily (ie saying she wants him to feel safe, then not allowing him any autonomy). She should've let him leave and come back... or at least explained why she didn't want him to leave before deciding (ex: 'Homelander will kidnap you', etc). She needed to let him make the decision for himself... agh. AAAAA.

And now Butcher's no use because he's committed to being evil and can't offer ANYTHING good to Ryan!!! He was so right, they NEEDED to give Ryan more space... I know the external pressures seemed impossible, but dammit, Grace, this was no way to beat the odds!

(this is about The Boys season four)

[keitheaverage]

Imagine being Jenny Wakeman, having not one but TWO cool purple alien girls ask you to run away with them within the course of a year, and fumbling them both. 😔

POV: you're a closeted bisexual who is still oblivious to other sapphics openly hitting on you

[welcometogrouchland]

Also in the replies of the Steph concept art on twitter announcing she was gonna be in a new project at DC (posted by Travis Mercer), there were at least 3 comments saying "will Tim be there?" I don't care how hard you ship timsteph I'm exploding you with my eyeballs if you do that on my girls post again

[timetohealit]

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[vampyroteuthid]

crying by the side of the highway new summer trend

[iniziare]

Re-tag drop: Yelan

[monty-glasses-roxy]

I've been trying to form a coherent post about the... I guess ending of Sewercontrol AU that's all about DJ and Roxy being so excited and emotional queerplatonic partners, reuniting after one is freed from Glitchtrap and the other is finally safe to approach them. I want the cool and fun DJ to have a little fit of zooms for the first time of his life cause it's all over and they get to zoom together now, in tears, hugging every five seconds, being completely incomprehensible to everyone within earshot together...

I just love them your honour. This is the most coherent I've been about them all day.

[casadefreewill]

You ever just see the worst lovesquare takes and you know it’s not worth it to get involved and it’s not like it’s even salt but man we have been watching totally different shows