#just needed to get this out of my head

[boredth]

In good hands

Inspired by @johnwickb1tsch's collab fic

[helluva-headache]

I try usually to not get into discourse about the shows because it's exhausting but I'm just throwing this out there because it's bouncing around in my brain.

It's kinda wild to me how many Stolas haters there are that genuinely don't believe Stolas is going to have any sort of reckoning when it comes to his class/racial bias.

I've even seen people go as far as say the writers of the show are "just going to let it slide" and Stolas "won't face any consequences".

Like... the writers are the ones who wrote in Stolas' class/racial bias to begin with.

During Harvest Moon Festival, they purposefully show a shot of the crowd looking angry as Stolas addresses them as "tiny wrath ring imps".

The writers wrote Striker's dialogue in Harvest Moon Festival and Western Energy, clearly showing his distaste for royals and the disparity between classes. They wouldn't do this, especially in the scenes where Striker is talking directly about/to Stolas, if this wasn't going to be an important issue that will be addressed down the line.

It's even brought up in Full Moon and Apology Tour. In Full Moon, Blitzø's anger towards Stolas' attitude regarding imps is the climax of their argument at the end of the episode. He may not have expressed it in a way that Stolas would be entirely receptive to in that moment, but it's a huge first step as this is the first time Blitzø is directly expressing his frustration to Stolas' face.

And then in Apology Tour we have Stolas saying to Blitzø "I don't look down on you!" and "When have I ever?-" and then goes on to compare Blitzø's attitude to Striker's. This conversation is derailed when Stolas finds out about the first assassination attempt, but their conversation here is another big step in the right direction. This conversation shows Blitzø, and us in the audience, that Stolas doesn't actively believe he's better than imps, but passively without realizing it treats imps as if they are lesser.

This is important because it distinguishes Stolas' behavior from that of someone with malicious intent, perhaps like how Andrealphus did when referring to Striker as a "mangy stray". This distinction shows us that Stolas is capable of change. He's never had a reason to examine his class/racial bias, until he met Blitzø.

All this to say there are too many breadcrumbs intentionally left by the writers for this topic to not be addressed at some point. I understand some people who are especially fans of Blitzø may be upset because of a literal "anti-Blitzø party" in Apology Tour, and might feel like the show is unfairly digging at Blitzø without addressing Stolas' wrongs. However, I feel like it's reasonable for Blitzø's issues to be addressed first as he is the main character. And based on the season 2 trailer, I don't doubt that in one of the next few episodes the show will be digging into Stolas as well.

The show isn't over yet. If a major character flaw that has been referred to in multiple episodes throughout the entire series hasn't been formally addressed yet, trust the writers to address it before the show is completed.

[thefandomtraveler]

this is probably not a really popular opinion, but I kind of hope they will scratch the kuwei kiss out in the spin-off? I know people would love the potential angst that would come with it but in the show it will hurt so much more and now that wesper is established (and literally lives together) I just don't think it should happen it feels so wrong

[lilstrawberryghost]

Imagine if Crowley wasn’t Malleus’s dad but his UNCLE.

Like, a one sided love story between Crowley and Meleanor. Crowley loved Meleanor but she loved his brother, the father of Malleus.

Crowley couldn’t bear having to watch his brother be with Meleanor, so he leaves. Cuts off all communication. Changes his name. A few centuries later, finds Night Raven College.

He’s content, until one day he hears a name he thought he’d never hear again.

Draconia.

(Y’all are free to add on to this. I wanna see where this goes)

[mrprettywhenhecries]

last line tag game

rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

tagged by @melodymunson & @thecreelhouse ����💚💚

Started on a little two part fic for Benny Cross from The Bikeriders bc the brainrot is real & has me in a chokehold.

Giving your boyfriend one last disgusted look, you turned on your heel and climbed behind Benny, wrapping your arms around his waist as he lifted up momentarily to bring down his boot on the kick lever, putting his full weight into the jump and the bike roared to life beneath you, the vibrations spreading through your body like a wildfire.

tagging: @imagine-you @super-unpredictable98 @heartbreak-sandwich @tangerinesteve @stevesxyellowxsweater @buckysgrace & @sadhours

[aasgardsreia]

So... Eursulon is Garrett from quest for camelot right?

[ace-cf-cups]

Speaking of vaping, my best friend's husband loves vaping, especially at home. In the evening. He comes home and he starts freaking vaping and it smell horrible and that smell and smoke is all over their small flat... and that's with less than a year old baby and a young breastfeeding mother in that very same flat!

Honestly, whenever he does that, I get this burning desire to strangle him.

How can a smart man be so stupid?!

[redwidow616]

Old people love to say how bad the internet is and that we should spent more time in the real world but honestly the real world can be just as bad if not worse and it's much harder to escape bad things in the real world. If someones being shitty online i can just block them, in real life that's probably gonna be a lot more difficult, and also the internet can be just as good as the real world you can make friendships that are just as significant you can search for the people you want to "meet" better and it's always gonna be less awkward. Of course it is dangerous and people need to learn and therefore be taught how to handle it, but didn't you also have to learn that about the real world?

[shnipshnap]

Hmmm...

[divinemissem13]

Fair Haven double drabble (Wasn't it weird how Chakotay didn't seem to care about KJ dating Michael Sullivan? No, it wasn't. Here's why 😊)

Chakotay noticed the changes, even if no one else seemed to. 

The man was suddenly a little bit taller (about Chakotay’s height, actually). 

He began to wear vests (not unlike the ones Chakotay favored).

He was more likely to be found reading than tending bar these days (though Irish literature had never been Chakotay’s favorite).

He was more free with a joke. He asked more questions. He engaged more with the people and the world around him. 

And when Kathryn entered the bar, his face lit up in an all too familiar way.  

Yes, he certainly reminded Chakotay of someone…

So when Kathryn sheepishly admitted that her new boyfriend was a hologram, Chakotay only flashed her a knowing smile (complete with the dimples that he knew made her insides melt). 

“I never let that stand in my way.”

She didn’t need to know that his hologram was always her. 

Because he had noticed the changes in her too. She was lighter, freer in a way she hadn’t been in years.

Not since New Earth. 

So if she was determined to keep him at arm’s length, who better than a poor holographic imitation to remind her how much she missed him?

[hinamie]

post-graduation trip airport looks

[risetherivermoon]

ppl dont talk about the fact that even Daisuke's characterization is affected by Jimmy's unreliable perspective. He refers to Daisuke as a spoiled rich kid who has his mommy and daddy behind him, that he's impressionable and stupid, and i do see people kinda characterizing him like that

like he has these rich parents who will dote on him and give him everything, that he's an airhead who isn't good at anything...

yet in curly's perspective we see that he's good at board games, he's trying his best, he's trying to listen to swansea and learn from him. He did get the internship from his parents but not because he wanted to, but because his parents thought he wasn't going anywhere in life, that he needed to be doing something. Daisuke is silly and a positive person but that's just for show, we see in the scene where Jimmy finds him lying on the floor drunk on mouthwash, that Daisuke isn't doing well, he's scared and feels sad about his parents. He makes jokes to cope with the horrible tension on the ship.

people characterize him as a stupid little kid too much for my liking, that's how Jimmy sees him. As a spoiled brat who came on the ship just to be an inconvenience. Even Swansea didn't see him like that, sure he complained about him but in Daisuke's final moments we see Swansea's true colors and how much he actually cares for him. He's an adult, who's putting on this happy go-lucky persona because he truly wants to succeed in life, and he's doing the internship for his mom and dad even though he doesn't want to. So he makes friends, he tries his best, he wants to be on the good side of everyone on the ship.

Jimmy just saw him as an easy target, someone too trusting and easily manipulated. A stupid kid he can use to get what he wants. He even plays with Daisuke's feelings of needing validation from Swansea, someone he looks up to. He tells Daisuke that by going in the vent, he'd make Swansea proud.

Daisuke isn't someone who has it easy or someone who's a stupid airhead. Jimmy just saw kindness and positivity as weakness.

[snarkspawn]

the devil you know

[loss-of-my-life]

How can I keep it casual when we talk about a shared future and what we will be doing, you tell me about your plans and ask about mine, when you talk about what our kids will look like.

Because at the same time all this talking seems like a big deal, but at the same time it just feels like breadcrumbs, conversations ad a relationship that will never leave my apartment.

I wish I was the girl you take home to meet your mom, the one you introduce to your friends because I'm important to you, but I know I'm not and it just breaks my heart a little bit.

Sometimes I fell like like I'm always the one making an effort, then I see you and all uncertainty goes away until you leave and it all comes crashing back down.

And how can I voice my concerns when this is just a casual thing

[ephos]

a gift to you

I open my chest to you.

Peeling away the layers of skin you open the cage.

Offering my heart beating and bloody. I pull apart my ribs, one by one as they snap and crack against the pressure. My lungs pulse in and out dancing in an unsteady beat gasping and gurgling through dry air. With my withered hand I pull out my diaphragm crumpled and withered, the tendons holding it in place break with sickening snaps.

This is all I have to offer.

Yet you pull deeper, unspooling the great chain of my intestines, empty, red and wet. My kidneys are unpackaged, the twins ripped from their place into your greedy large cracked hands.

I lay staring with my bleeding beady black eyes, into yours.

I find nothing.

You keep pulling, grasping at my great cavity empty of all there is to take. Bloody, bruised and beaten, you grasp between my bones pulling apart the muscles and sinew. They snap as you empty them of their marrow thick and sweet.

There is nothing left.

I am nothing.

I am yours.

[lbulldesigns]

There's something I've just realised with how Jinx, Isha, and Sevika communicate with each other.

None of them have to actually say words to each other, because they understand what the others saying through body language and looks.

Sevika and Jinx fight seamlessly alongside each other without calling out to each other.

The way they bicker without uttering a word, for example, when Sevika fully takes stock of how her arm look or when the music starts blasting and Jinx just responds with a shrug or a little dance.

Jinx thanked Isha by doing the finger gun towards her and Isha, understanding instantly that it was acknowledgement.

Jinx instructs Sevika on how to operate her new arm by just indicating the motion.

I love dynamics like this because it just shows the level of trust that all three have in each other, even though they know nothing about each other.

Jinx has been isolated from others for the past eight years, Silco has had Sevika work like a horse and, too frustrated with Jinx to really get to know her, and Isha is a new addition and non-verbal. But they still worked together perfectly.