#it's the exact same dialogue!!!

[lunarcloak]

Not enough people are talking about this. No, I don't mean the Rinsagi breakup or Rivalry breakup or whatever.

I mean this.

All those jokes about Rin and Isagi being the same... Because their expressions, when confronted with such a sheer, impossibly high gap in ability are the exact same. Really, this particular football maneuver is not rare. It has happened plenty of times.

But only Rin and Isagi have reacted this way to bring overthrown in such a callous, effortless manner.

And not to mention, Rin himself. The words he's heard come from Sae, every time this happens to him. "What have you been doing in Japan? You'll never be able to surpass me. "

"With such a lukewarm existence... You're a failure of a rival. "

Even when he's trying to beat Sae, he cannot help but be Sae. Learn from Sae. Acknowledge Sae. And he sees himself in Isagi, just as Isagi sees himself in Rin. The pages after this are of Isagi acknowledging that, while their drives and reasons may be different, they are both MORE than willing to put everything. EVERYTHING. On the line.

The same blood runs in their veins. And Isagi and Rin are absolutely delightful rivals.

[magicicephoenix]

I'm not sure if you're still accepting palette request but if you do: #6 "shy" for toon bendy (BATDR) or maybe #52 "plastic heart" for Twisted Alice?

an anxious demon and a murderous angel. what could go wrong?

batdr bendy with #6 - shy and twisted alice with #52 - plastic heart

[coffehbeans]

Another g/t trope that I love but as a dialogue prompt

Giant: "You're scared of me."

Tiny: "...I don't want to be."

[ultimateyakazoo]

chapter 1 trial

[maelancoli]

i feel like 'who talks like that' mentality has harmed unique dialogue in books ngl?? like we need to let our characters have their own way of talking, let them be a little melodramatic. the written word often requires flowery speech and sharing sentiments in a way real people don't because we cannot convey the micro expressions, the atmosphere, the little visual cues—all that modern media allows. you have to be willing to be a little cringe if you want your characters to stand out and feel earnest and real

[segretecose]

i know most of you aren't interested but i need everyone to know there is a bit in harry windsor's book where him and his brother are fighting over projects and william goes "africa is MY thing". it's not framed as satire btw

[mnasthaii]

knowing jaal’s intimate scene was originally meant for solas makes me want to crash out. especially these lines.

[vendettasfanfictioning]

I hate him.

I hate him.

I HATE HIM.

What do you mean you spent it on ammo? What do you mean you left your kids, barely teenagers at the time, to look for their own food at some crappy motel room? What do you mean you left Dean at a boys' home as punishment after he got caught stealing bread because he and Sam were hungry?

I hate him.

[genericpuff]

I just KNOW they’re only having sex for episode 265. I CAN FEEL IT IN MY BONES

no that's literally all it is

it's morpheus talking gibberish about dream diving for like 5 panels

and then the rest of it is just the same shot of H x P from different angles talking about things we've already seen them talk about

and then hades 'proves' to persephone she's a good queen by boning her

i'm not fucking joking

you're not missing out on a THING

[lumibye]

it’s really disappointing to me that x n ys companion characters get so much unneeded flack for what i only can assume is nitpicking for the sake of justifying why you don’t like x and y . especially shauna- i genuinely find her the most endearing and developed of the four - but anyone with a pulse can see why bubbly feminine girl gets The Most hate of the three and not your direct rival who says this abysmal jaw dropping garbage go calem 🫴 ✨

[natjennie]

play it by ear dropout.tv is sosos so important to me when I'm high. that shit is genuine magic. how are they doing that.

[sharknark]

⬇️rant about a really good hengren (reverse renheng) fic i read. link at the bottom give it a whirl

i've never read a fic so well-catered to my tastes before in my life and the best part is that i was so caught off guard by how good it was cuz the tags and summary had me like "right this is some omegaverse-esque, rawr XD mating shit"

but from the very first paragraph i realized it wasn't just ao3-typical possessive mating shit it was (dare i say) IN CHARACTER possessive mating shit. underappreciated dan feng lore is the two hearts shit, duty expects him to smother his own empathy and perform cruelty obediently (and that being in his dragon form literally numbs his empathy towards mortals) but then it's flipped around and he's criticized for being too heartless

there aren't a great many english fics that take advantage of the 'numbed empathy' thing, so this fic using that to explore the toxic codependency that drove dan feng to making yingxing immortal in the first place is so!

dan feng's dragon heart prioritizing it's own indulgence and power, his human heart screaming against it for empathy and restraint, but both hearts united in this possessive adoration of yingxing... dan feng is possessive to the point of harming his partner, forcing them to take his affection, inherently contradictive to the protective impulse to see the other unhurt.

dan feng makes yingxing immortal in a really sketchy operation, despite knowing that yingxing is literally defined by his pride in being a short-life. he wants yingxing to be with him so badly that he does the one thing that would hurt yingxing the most, too blinded by possession, this sickly overbearing affection, to empathetically respect yingxing's death.

yingxing lived cramming every second he could into his craft and his goals precisely because he has so much less time than all the immortal species around him, but when he's forced into immortality, his hands are scarred and ruined past the point of ever crafting again. he suddenly has so much time, all this time he would've cherished as a mortal, but is totally useless to him now that his purpose for living and passion is gone.

so there being a scene in this fic where dan feng is moping "yingxing doesn't wanna fuck because he's glued to his workshop", being followed up with a scene of dan heng fucking blade while kissing his scarred hand and crying that he's "so sorry", yeah no shit asshole, his dragon heart got what it wanted, blade has all the time in the world to fuck and nothing competing for his now limitless attention and no one's happy about it.

as arrogant about being a short-life as yingxing was, it really is compensation for the discrimination he faced for it. other immortals looked down on him, so having dan feng, THE top dog, be so deeply enamored with him stirred his own toxic codependent urges. he was so desperate to have dan feng's eternal regard that he's willing to die for him (as in the sedition), his death being the force cementing his place in dan feng's heart forever.

so the fic having yingxing ruminate on this, that he had hoped for dan feng to love him even centuries after he inevitably died, only for the fic to end with:

yeah yingxing... you left an impression... he made you immortal.... everyone's upset by this

(that's what makes dan heng forgetting blade was ever yingxing to begin with all the more painful because, you went and turned him immortal and when it backfired horrifically you went on and fucking forgot, bitch i'd be pissed to the point of centuries long bloody pursuit of vengeance too.)

here's the fic go read it and leave kudos and a comment, technically porn but i got so invested in the character study that part barely registered. also yeah if you hadn't realized already super dead-dove:

blah blah "renheng is toxic" sorry that's why i like it

[choices-binglebonkus]

Why does Pixelberry write babies and animals the same way

[trashogram]

Hedging toward Alastor/Reader bc I’m in my “I hate being in love bc it makes me a desperate mess and I hate how pathetic I become under its spell” phase and that’s so him if he genuinely loved somebody.

[eternalgirlscout]

i cannot stop thinking about the letter from elminster in the godgale epilogue. imagine you're 8 years old and you can do something nobody else your age can do. sometimes it's the source of the most joy in your life, other times it destroys beautiful things around you, and you don't know how to control when it's one or the other. and then the most famous wizard in the world comes to you and tells you that you're special and important for this thing that makes you different. (his first loyalty is to someone who will chew you up and spit you out, but you won't know that for a very, very long time.) you become the very best at the thing you're best at and everyone tells you that you can do anything, you always get it right away. they see what you can do and they think the size of the fire means they have nothing more to teach you, but you never really learned how to stop burning the roses.

[airenyah]

Hidden Agenda (2023) | Episode 10

– I don't know who gave you permission to kiss me. – I gave myself permission.

Star In My Mind (2022) | Episode 7

– I don't know who gave you permission to call me "Dao". – I gave myself permission.