#kind-souled perhaps

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Bro “color” could literally be sans’ and the six human souls’ singletsona

[vaguely-concerned]

what would I do without you. indeed illario.

lucanis trust me! indeed illario. the ea-nasir vibes on this shitty little rat of a man (somehow still slightly affectionate despite myself)

I am obsessed with WHERE this letter is found and what we're meant to read into those context clues. I don't have a handy save for this mission right now to double check the details, but from memory: It's the room across from what seems implied to be Caterina's room (Lucanis says these are the family quarters, so Illario has kept her locked in her own room all this time probably?? Oh oh house arrest, house arrest for grandmother for ten thousand years style)? We find the scraps of a letter from Zara to Illario, torn to pieces with one fragment still in the empty fireplace so presumably we're meant to assume he burned it, and this old letter from Illario to Lucanis lying neatly on a table. Whose room is this? Because here's a theory one could put together that has some real crazymaking potential for me specifically at least:

Considering that we're helpfully down to only three Dellamortes to account for, it's likely either Lucanis' or Illario's room. If I'm remembering right/let's for a moment assume that Caterina is being confined to her own rooms -- the fact that Lucanis is her favourite and also heir apparent I'd say tips the scales for me that it's likely she'd keep him closest, whenever he's home. Thus opening for the possibility that all this time Illario has been staying in the room of the cousin he murdered but as it turns out not hard enough that he didn't come back again like a haunting, reading his own old letters to him that Lucanis apparently kept all this time (!!! ow !!!), and sparing them from the spiteful fate he gave Zara's 'aww chin up you'll get 'em next time babe' one, right across the hall from where the grandmother he apparently can't bring himself to kill or seriously hurt even with everything else he's done is imprisoned and i n c r e d i b l y pissed off, if she gets out of there while he's sleeping or something he's fucked. Has he been sleeping in Lucanis' bed since kidnapping Caterina????? (did they ever share a bed, when they were children? for comfort if not ever out of real necessity?) is this some kind of incredibly fucked up way to try to be close to them both somehow even when he is the one who messed it all up to begin with? no matter what I have so many questions here what is WRONG with this family???????? (well I don't think we have time to get into all that right now that's a novel not a text post probably fhsdkj)

[mariocki]

RIP Timothy West (20.10.1934 - 12.11.2024)

"We met when we were cast with small parts in that really boring play, so had both brought the crossword to stop us going mad. We saw each other across the rehearsal room doing it, so decided to sit together. Then we couldn’t record because of the strike one day so we went to the cinema, Pru and I, to see The Grass is Greener with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. The show was cancelled, but a bit later Pru sent me a card saying ‘they’re reviving that terrible play, are you in it?’ I wasn’t but we started writing to each other then."

"Humour is vital, and respect for what people do and what people think. Kindness is important, and we’ve always had the same humour, laughed at the same things, been interested in the same things, got cross about the same things. And been in the same business. We have often been away from each other work-wise and therefore we’re always very glad to see each other again."

[sainteclectic]

uhhh warrior cats au. whole/goldenstar has been missing from the clan for a long time, but his loyal deputy crimsonsong refuses to take his nine lives because he believes goldenstar is still out there somewhere. thistlemoon and sunspot, meanwhile, vie for the obvious title of crimsonsong's deputy in this neverending power vacuum. featuring side characters such as piecemeal (ship of theseus), lightwing and shadowheart (the before + covered in discontent), etc. etc.

[qoldenskies]

The way power fatigue could easily be a thing for either Donnie or Mikey in Rise continuity because it was pretty heavily implied that the more extensively you use ninpo the more it takes away of you life force wise or whatever.....not sure if I have anything more concrete than that but I could easily see Donnie accidentally taking it too far in trying to test out the limitations of his ninpo and then it ending up like that meme "You're not ascending to godhood you're using too much of your ninpo" "outta my way gay boy i'm bout to---" [later] ".....hopital....."

i already have something for power fatigue (its mikey WRENCHING his brothers back to life out of sheer furious willpower because fuck yeahhssss) but i still think this is a silly and potentially angsty concept so i might keep it for elsewhere

[sugar-coat-it]

you’re so old!!! <3

[mad-hunts]

[transmechanicus]

I’m allowed one (1) vent of the colossal amounts of pressure my body and mind are under per month and i usually do my best to bury it in the early hours of the morning, so now that i’ve provided this valuable and important context:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[nikkicafeina]

Thinking about soul bleed and about the way John caught all his friend's souls and held them inside him, maintaining them until he resurrected them. That's halfway to Lyctorhood, baby.

Do they all have pieces of each other? Are there little bits of John in all of them? Are there little bits of them in John? And Alecto! Her soul is in mix too. All of them, inseparable, forever.

Truly when John talks about them all as being extensions of his being, he is not wrong. They are fundamentally inside him, he is fundamentally inside them. He is not being purely narcissistic. It's true, it is literal! They are all mixed up in each other. Wild, absolutely wild!

[rawliverandgoronspice]

still a hardcore believer in the "totk was absolute development hell" theory btw, even if I know it will never be confirmed or denied, but all the signs are there honestly

[spittingspite]

It's always "character who will do anything to protect their loved one, even commit horrific acts of violence, learn kindness and mercy at the request of their loved one" and never "merciful character who hates violence and fighting makes an exception because they love someone so much they will disregard their own morals and values to commit horrific acts of violence if that's what it takes to keep their loved one safe"

[howlsofbloodhounds]

wonder how often kindness has pushed color to forgive before he was truly ready to forgive only for integrity and justice to sharply tug him in another direction either during or immediately after

[mountedeverest]

911 BtVS AU called Buck the Vampire Slayer send tweet

[orcelito]

I'm at the painful "confession" scene during the kage summit arc. It really is so emotional, but also... hm.

When I was younger, like 13 or so, I was a big Sakura and Naruto shipper. They were the first pairing I read fanfic for even. And in a way, I do still enjoy the two of them together... but it's moments like these that really drive home the fact that it Doesn't really work in canon. Not the way that it's set up.

As Sakura puts it, "Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke! That's all you think about!"

She's told that Naruto has feelings for her and decides to use it to convince him to stop going after Sasuke. She does love him, but not in the way she's trying to confess. The love they share is one of comradery, not necessarily romantic. The love of two people who have gone through such pain together, and who have leaned on each other throughout it all. And the fact that she's turning around and saying she loves him "simply like everyone else", now... it's trivializing. And the fact that she's trying to convince him of this, the fact that she thinks she Can convince him of this, is pretty hurtful. They've come a long way from when they were kids, Naruto the goofball vying for her attention while she yelled at him for being stupid. Sakura respects Naruto so much more than before, and Naruto respects her too. So the fact that she's still doing this... She's desperate, really. She thinks the promise he made to her to bring Sasuke home is what's driving him to let himself be hurt over and over and over again in the pursuit and protection of Sasuke.

But she's wrong.

That may be part of it, but it's only part. Naruto wants Sasuke back for himself, too. He let himself be beat up to avoid selling him out. He chases after him with single minded determination. Sasuke is his entire drive to get stronger, to catch up, to bring him home. Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke indeed.

As it is, Naruto knows she's lying to herself. And no matter what she says, he will keep going after Sasuke. Because that's just the person that Naruto is.

[kellyvela]

shansha shtark

What is this?

[ratstuckinamarble]

Everyone please feast your eyes on the unholy creature I found on the web today:

Tis a wolpertinger. Apparently.

I see myself in him.