#it will break my heart though

[unfortunatelyimaginary]

If Marvel tries to make Rio move on to a new relationship (idc if it's comics canon) I am fighting them because I cried over Peggy Carter for YEARS. That's also not comics canon. If Steve Rogers can pine over her to the point of absurdity and breaking the narrative then I don't expect anything less of Rio who's already been pining for like 300 years.

14-year-old me who didn't know she was queer but cried through The First Avenger over and over and felt a stab to the heart with every following reference (Winter Soldier, AoU, early Endgame (didn't like the ending of course), Agent Carter s1) deserves nothing less.

[anna-scribbles]

emma dupain cheng on the brain😽🎀

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[iwasbored777]

They asked Lee Majdoub what he thinks of Stobotnik vs what Stone thinks of it and this man chose violence omg the more I read the more painful it gets

[chayatorns]

The Heart Killers + tumblr text post (FadelStyle edition)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good morning, Sleepyhead.

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[egophiliac]

I have never been more concerned for a JP update from your art than I am seeing a Cheka knowing the context of Leona’s dream.

My bois ok right?????? My sweet nephews ok right??????

well

uhhhh

I'm sure the real one is fine :)

[khaoala]

Don't get on people's nerves. Stay alive and come out of there in one piece.

What? I've got way more mellow since I met you, you know?

FIRST KANAPHAN as KANT PATTANAWAT and KHAOTUNG THANAWAT as BISON episode 11 of THE HEART KILLERS

[velvet4510]

Watching the X-Men: First Class documentary and omg they’re literally saying Charles and Erik were a “tragic romance” and Hank & Raven were intentionally written to parallel them as the “making and breaking of a relationship” and Moira’s bigger role in the earlier script drafts would’ve created more of a “love triangle” and omg this is actually real, the filmmakers actually said it, you guys there is no more room for debate here, it’s all canon.

[danny-not-vasquez]

What Intriguing Specimens

[lienwyn]

"This is a talisman I invented myself – it makes it so that no one can move more than four meters away from you. How is it? Isn't it interesting?"

[ditchesanddunes]

I need an unhinged Barty

Give me a Barty who will hunt down hurt and kill for the people he loves

Give me a Barty who gets unhealthily obsessed with people

A Barty who, after Regulus died, cracked and used even more unforgivables, killed for fun, and tortured for sport

A Barty who heard Dorcas was killed and made it his personal mission to avenge her by any cruel means necessary

But when Evan died, a Barty who doesn’t even have rails to fly off of anymore. He kills anyone in his way, including death eaters, and he enjoys it. He is hardly on the death eaters side anymore but stays with them because of the pain they cause

And when he heard Pandora died, the sweet gentle soul of Pandora, he crumbled.

[babybells123]

Noorhelm Nation (if you’re still alive) how are we feeling?!!

[onlyancunin]

Just thought of something, let me know if that makes sense -

I was just reading another "Tav is not a spawn to Ascended Astarion because he calls them consort" type of argument and something struck me.

I remember reading somewhere before that Astarion insists on not using the name "spawn" and use "consort" instead much like Cazador avoided the "s-word" and used "family" instead.

Because.

Of course he would call his spawns his lovers. Of course he wants a harem of consorts, he thinks his only talent is sex. As ascended he never really got to the other side of thinking about himself, he never left the form his trauma molded him into, this hypersexual, emotionally avoidant (teasing and alluring) type of seducer. He never let go of the notion that his only value is his body and what it can provide in terms of sexual services.

I also think of the way ascended Astarion is dumbfounded when realizing he doesn't have all those powers Cazador was supposed to have. Perhaps those will come with time, but I think there's a real possibility that Cazador never had/was supposed to have them to begin with. He just lied to his "family" to keep them in check, to add another layer of control over the very real physical control he already had over them.

It has been brought to my attention by @starryjuicebox in the comments that ascended Astarion DOES in fact get his powers. He can summon ghouls and wolves in the final battle.

But all Cazador ever did to his spawns at the height of his cruelty were things a mere human could do: bury someone alive, starve them, imprison them, isolate them, brainwash them. None of those are mythical and exclusive to powerful vampires.

What breaks my heart even more for Tav-spawn is that they'll never be The One. They'll only be the first. The first one, much like Astarion was one of Cazador's first. Cazador's very first is not even in the game to be found or mentioned anymore. Perhaps they got away, but more likely they became a liability, as they saw Cazador's vulnerable beginnings and became a threat to the "all-powerful influential vampire" myth he was weaving around himself.

Tav is just the beginning. They're just a test drive. A trampoline for ascended Astarion to help him learn manipulating his future consorts and pitting them against one another. Pull them just right and push away at the perfect time. Just enough to give them a taste and leave them wishing for more.

And seeing how many fans of ascended Astarion there are in real life, it's already working. His harem is in the making.

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[blamemma]

daniel ricciardo photographed by vladimir rys for the red bulletin: 20 laps around the sun special edition

if used, please credit.

[sigillumsanguis]

The way Messmer’s inflection in his dialogue changed from the trailer is so interesting. In the actual game he sounds so much more.. disappointed, once he finds out we’re tarnished. He also sounds tired, like he’s said the line “those stripped of the grace of good shall all meet death in the embrace of Messmer’s flame” far too many times, and is just going through the motions.

No wonder he curses Marika as he dies — he may have done her bidding willingly in the beginning, but Marika basically made him the scapegoat of her crusade, later abandoning him in the land of shadow, afraid of his power. He sacrificed so much for her, yet it availed him nothing… especially after he realizes she’s giving the title of Elden Lord to a graceless tarnished.

[vaggieslefteye]

HUSK, Hotel Bartender & Concierge | 1x04 - Masquerade

"Oh, I FORGOT — you're the wise-old bartender who's seen it all! Get the fuck over yourself and pour me a real drink."