#just like ftr

[quicktimeeventfull]

Read on AO3 Matsuda/Light/L (Dom!Matsuda & L, Sub!Light) Written for @dnkinktober Day Six: Knife 900 words Content notes: Established relationship AU, BDSM, knifeplay, bloodplay, a threesome, a hint of breathplay Matsuda has a steady hand and a sharp knife which Light adores. Tonight they have invited a guest -- a man named L, new to kink -- to share the blade.

In one deft movement, Matsuda pulls the knife from his thigh holster and lays it against Light’s throat. Backwards, sharp edge away from him so he can press deep, deep enough that Light goes lightheaded as it compresses his carotid artery.

[catball]

[syn0vial]

my gun-loving, car guy, "i'm the straightest man i know" brother who just finished baldur's gate 3 talking about astarion:

[casualavocados]

It didn't make sense to me how we could connect to each other. At first I thought it was like the Warder bond. But then I realized that you can see our weaves, too. You feel it when I channel because we're linked. We're the same. You sul'dam are just so weak in the Power, the Searchers didn't find you. ...The first rule. You cannot hurt your sul'dam.

Madeleine Madden as EGWENE AL'VERE THE WHEEL OF TIME 2.08 | What Was Meant To Be

[tevanbuckley]

this might be controversial, but man am i becoming increasingly convinced that buddie trutherism* is just not (and probably never has been) a very healthy way to engage with this show. *to be clear, by this i don't mean shipping buddie, or hoping it'll be canon, or thinking that it could be, i mean the completely unshakeable belief that it is absolutely going to happen (and to a lesser extent that it's always been the plan).

every single piece of evidence for buddie is evidence of a potential, often very compelling potential, but there is really nothing to suggest some big six season plan or any plan at all.

i'm sure a lot of these ppl (maybe even most) aren't bad, or doing anything out of malice. however, i do think having a large chunk of the fandom make post after post, week after week, season after season going "don't worry guys, buddie's definitely happening because of x, y or z," has helped create the current environment. where ppl have spent so long in a bubble where buddie's been presented as the only reasonable outcome, that they can't conceive of the idea they might've been wrong.

atp a lot of buddie meta isn't a queer reading of the show/relationship it's just straight up lies. no tommy isn't a miserable hater who never smiles at his bf, nor is he a predatory freak preying on sweet baby bi buck, and no eddie wasn't jealous at the wedding, no buck didn't realise he was in love with eddie when he came out to him. truly, after a decade in different fandoms, I don't think i've ever seen shipping goggles this bad.

again i don't think the ppl making meta/analysis about things that genuinely have some queer subtext to them are bad or doing anything wrong. but, when a narrative that you're contributing to is feeding into this much wider ecosystem that's influencing others to harass ppl and peddle homophobic dog whistles in an attempt to bridge the gap between their fanon and canon, at what point do you step back and go, "you know what, i don't think it's responsible for me to feed into this anymore."

and i worry that even the people who aren't hurting others with this kind of engagement, are gonna end up hurting themselves in the long run.

[phoenixyfriend]

I think there's a really big difference between "I recognize and respect what the canon is trying to do, but I'll write this thing that goes against it anyway because that's what makes me happy" and "I do not recognize or respect what the canon is trying to do, and am going to do what I like because it makes me feel like I'm smarter than canon."

The former is Anidala writers who just want the sweet and fluffy domesticity in a no-66 AU, because we know it was meant to be toxic and tragic but DAMMIT let us have this. We know they're fucked up and a big part of the message and tragedy is that they're fucked up, but we want to live, if only for a few hours, in that dream Vader had in that one comic l, where Padmé was Supreme Chancellor and they had a son named after Qui-Gon who was also a Jedi. We know it's a dream and a fantasy but It Makes Us Happy.

The latter is people who write the New Mandalorians as enacting cultural genocide and lionize the True Mandalorians because why treat a complex political situation with nuance when you can use a Bad Animation Decision as an excuse to say that Actually the guys with guns are the morally correct party.

"I don't get why people write Anidala as this happy domestic--" delusion is fun and can make you feel better and that's fine if you aren't hurting anyone

"I don't get why people rewrite Satine to reject Mando'a when she speaks more of it than any other named character in TCW and all the signage and writing is in the Mandalorian alphabet--" malice and misogyny, probably

Sometimes, a girl's just gotta complain

[voidwelt]

this is my only coherent thought about this leaked penacony character so far

[whomst-the-hell]

i have noticed that there is a trope in star wars fix it fics that includes obi wan basically sitting anakin down and telling him the difference between love and attachment, positing that anakin misunderstood/palpatine misrepresented the theories of the jedi code and that anakin resents not the real jedi but the fucked up fake ones that live in his head, and if he only understood then surely everything would be fixed! i do just want to point out this scene from aotc

where anakin clearly does understand that jedi are allowed and even encouraged to care for people and love people so long as it isnt possessive and they are capable of letting go of them… and he still fell

like full offense but anakin wasnt exactly expressing pure healthy love in any of his interactions at this point, and definitely falls on the attached possessive side of things, and im. not entirely sure that some people believe that?

[enbyfication]

showing yourself off is so fun, right? doesn't it just feel so good to know people are getting off to your pretty body? you deserve to be worshipped, after all!

[phlegm--princess]

[quicktimeeventfull]

actually i am going to explain this bc its not that serious. puppy dog is about L soliciting emotional abuse that would have occurred anyway (beyond does not stop after L asks him to — he doubles down, just in a nicer tone of voice) but it is intentional that this is not obvious & that it comes across like L is in control. it’s not meant to be a gotcha thing, it’s meant to be like a fantasy of having agency in a situation where one does not typically have agency.

[tibby]

collection of some of the most entertaining line deliveries and reactions in the saw franchise. [john kramer voice] to ME.

[mayordea]

f!byleth fit for my smash hcs. but really it’s just that one dlc for m!byleth. what can i say, that hat looks really cool. i used to draw her with the skirt, but i think the pants look cooler so thats how it is now. i did try to detail the inner part of her cape to look like the pattern of her wacky tights in her og design.

[afrsconp]

Last post on the episode, I promise.

I think Isaac really did love Nigel, but I also think Isaac's idea of a romantic relationship might be based on a fantasy, or an unrealistic ideal. Like he calls off the wedding after Pete's speech about Donna, but that was about the excitement of meeting someone new, not about a long-term relationship. There are ups and downs; it's not just a perfect fairytale all the time. And it takes work, you know? Work that we know Nigel was prepared to do, and had in fact been doing, when he revealed what Isaac's wedding present was going to be.

If the plan is to show us Isaac slowly falling (back) in love with Nigel as a person, and not just a fantasy, I'd be down with that. It would also be pretty satisfying to see him having another freak out about confessing a second time - especially if at that point he's no longer sure if Nigel feels the same way anymore.

One last thing: I've seen people hating on Nigel for not saying anything when he apparently always suspected that Isaac was moving too fast. (And I do mean hate, like people calling him abusive and stuff, not just mild dislike.) But the reason seems pretty obvious to me? Nigel was (is) in love. He may not have expected Isaac to propose so soon, but Nigel wanted to marry the guy, so - he said yes when he was asked. Just because he's been with a lot of people doesn't necessarily mean he's any wiser about relationships than Isaac is.

[crimeronan]

i really am kind of obsessed with how after every faulkner episode, there's a dozen new posts about how worried various listeners are that he "can't come back from this," as if what he's done is somehow NOW worse than everything else he's done. it's enchanting to me. like. at what point did he cross the event horizon for you guys when he hadn't before.....?????

[nightmarekings]

ira art dump from the past few months