#lies of omission

[spiritsglade]

fun tidbits about lies of omission's au-verse that won't fit into the fic itself

essence and isabel have something going on. they're dating, their friends with benefits, it's queerplatonic mutual devotion that transcends words, i haven't decided yet.

jason is not aware of the previous point he just assumes that they're like... acquaintances. they forgot to tell him.

although they're technically jason's exes and will use that language, in practice things with essence never escalated past an awkward kiss while they were at the acres of all, and things with isabel never got past the first date.

charlie might have a celebrity crush or equivalent on steph. just a little bit.

mike at some point caught onto the fact that her job description is very similar to this rumored oracle and confronted jason about it (jokingly demanded a raise). jason (also jokingly) said she was more like a secretary than an information broker and has been bullied for this relentlessly since.

liam sanderson knew willis todd <- still ironing out the details of this one. but it's real to me.

steph & cass are 100% having insane homoerotic tension in the background. they are on the cusp of realization. unfortunately the fic is not about them.

i think i put a singular reference to the pit giving jason fangs and then never followed up on this. it's kind of out of place but i think he deserves the pointy canines.

while it may make the most sense for the joker to simply be sitting in arkham asylum, in my heart of hearts he was either killed in a hit-and-run where the perpetrator was never caught, or shot by a cop. take your pick.

[stilesstilinskisposts]

[justanothermachine]

I love my family but I have to selectively narrate most aspects of my life towards them because they are both conservative and PG rated

[howifeltabouthim]

You should have told me the story . . . You should have told me directly rather than hinting at it.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blindfold

[notnowricky]

“here and there” he said

“a couple of times” he said

Everyone making fun of Omar and Edvin’s acting skills in their last little TikTok when he demonstrated his prowess just recently in his live for Red Light.

Omar on the outside:

Omar on the inside:

[spiritsglade]

4 and 5 for lies of omission for the ask game!

[questions for fic writers]

4. What detail in lies of omission are you really proud of?

the things that are going on with damian :) he's a relatively minor character (for now. i am gesturing around ominously and vaguely) but i really do love writing him as someone who's prickly but genuinely cares and is trying to show it!

in the opening scene to ch9 damian goads tim into participating into the pi day pie competition. i do prefer letting readers interpret scenes and character motivations however they like (death of the author and all that) but to me. damian is absolutely doing this because tim is clearly distracted and frustrated. damian is forcing him to participate in a fun bonding activity instead of continuing to be distracted and frustrated on his phone.

also ch7 first and ch12 last scene... shutting up now. anyway.

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about lies of omission? Answer it now!

i really like talking about my fics in general. i don't think there's anything specific i want to talk about so uhh here's my favorite bits/details from each chapter. that's a question someone could ask i suppose.

ch 1 - tim's parasocial relationship with jason's memorial case that is only mentioned in passing. tim idolizes that thing. he does not idolize jason. (also bruce being the one to confront fake-red hood when we later learn that bruce and jason haven't talked face to face since the batarang incident... anyway)

ch 2 - lima being a massive asshole. it's not your fault mike i'm sorry. also barbara thinking about how pointless their offscreen fight was and then proceeding to argue with him immediately upon his return. love u babs.

ch 3 - ollie still being pissed off about seeing red

ch 4 - cass vowing to beat tim at super mario kart. yeah let's go, cass!! u got this

ch 5 - these lines:

"Dude, why are you treating this like a hostage negotiation?" Jason blinked. "If this is how Batman has been teaching you to handle hostage negotiations, then I have concerns." Signal shrugged, unrepentant. "Okay, fair. You're treating this like you're the hostage trying to negotiate. Like, you want to ask me a couple things. That's normal. You don't need to make it weird."

ch 6 - essence moving so jason can lean on her for support without needing to look at him, when jason throws a knife at damian and misses because he was aiming for a taller target

ch 7 - :) this one is just 3k+ beautiful words. what is there to add. oh also jason disarming himself because his first instinct is to fucking murder damian and he doesn't want to do that.

ch 8 - "hallucijason" shooting damian in the head. we're uhhh getting into spoilers territory a little bit here but. dick takes this as a natural extension of his nightmares re: tim getting shot, but since that jason is actually jason's actual real soul, or a piece of it, well... remember how last chapter, jason's first instinct was to fucking murder damian? "what are you, a cop?" is also peak.

ch 9 - charlie realizes he's being bribed with food to reveal red hood's secrets to spoiler, and his first instinct is to make sure the food he just got doesn't get confiscated.

ch 10 - jason's really awkward emotional vulnerability moment in front of duke. jason. come on.

ch 11 - duke & dick fight i like a lot. but also it's funny to me how frustrated jason is about the fact that babs is good at her job.

ch 12 - "hey dickiebird wanna see a magic trick"

ch 13 - cass is 100% bullying duke on purpose at the end of that first scene.

ch 14 - babs tactically deploying kyle's crush to avoid talking about touchy subjects. also issy <3

and obviously the rest of the chapters are not out yet, but have some quick not-super-spoilery details from the outline that i enjoy.

ch 15 swings that keep on loudly squeaking throughout the entire conversation, ch 16 the 'there's something wrong with the moon' that i... i don't know what that's about i have no idea what the fuck i meant but i haven't deleted it out of fondness. ch 17 an untitled being a dramatic asshole and jason being upset over this despite jason himself being a dramatic asshole all the damn time, ch 18 essence participating in the love language of gift giving and she's really thoughtful with this one good for her, ch 19 damian driving on the highway and miraculously not getting stopped by the cops despite being thirteen, ch 20 spicy hot cocoa.

[maid-of-the-golden-deer]

smth i love about zevran, amongst many others, is i dont think he ever really Lies to u- if he does, its usually a lies he also telling himself (being in the crows isn't so bad, that he isnt interested in love, etc). like if he doesnt want to tell u smth he just... tells u he doesn't wanna tell you

the moment hes not under the crows thumb hes just like "oh sweet i dont have to do this all this shit anymore"

[princeescaluswords]

Lets be clear: Stiles had no rational reason to believe that Scott would turn his back on him. Stiles feared that would happen because of his deep-seated fear and insecurity, springing from both his mother's dementia-inspired paranoia, the aftermath of the nogitsune possession, and possibly even from his ADHD (I've been told about Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria). Coupled with several very specific recent events -- his upcoming graduation from high school, Theo's sinister manipulations, and Donovan's threats toward his father -- this was a perfect storm which led Stiles to make the terrible mistake of trying to hide something that wasn't his fault. And everyone should note: he hid it from everyone, not just Scott.

Scott understood this, which is why Scott didn't hold Donovan's death against him. All Scott told Stiles was to go talk to his father, who happens to be the sheriff and thus responsible for these legal issues, about Donovan's accidental death. Was Scott upset? Yes, but people dying tends to make Scott upset, as it should any good person. Scott didn't even hold Stiles's overreaction against Stiles. The only words Scott said against Stiles's behavior was "I know what self defense is." That's it. That's all.

The idea that this somehow makes Scott the worst friend in the world and a terrible alpha is nonsense.

People that think Scott would ever abandon Stiles because of what happened in season 5 or season 3b make me cackle. Scott??? Turn away from a possible murderer?????? Let me just give you his track record.

- Peter Hale: Tried to make Scott kill all of his friend by forcing him to shift against his will, wake up in the middle of the forest with no recollection all while Scott was trying to understand what werewolf even was. = Amicable relationship, never forced him to part from his nephew, only ever truly fought him when he wanted to hurt others.

-Jackson: All round asshole, killed people in his sleep, literally bullied Scott and threatened to ‘out’ him to a family of werewolf hunters. = More than amicable relationship, Scott defended Jackson more than once and was the one of the only people that fought to save him.

-Gerard: do I even need to say anything.= Found a way to subdue him without killing him (#chemist Scott), didn’t harbour any bad feelings towards Chris when he healed his father in season 6

-Chris Argent: Shot him in the fucking arm for no reason, threatened to blow his brains out for being together with his daughter= literal besties

-Victoria Argent: tried to suffocate him to death= didn’t say anything to ANYONE because he didn’t want to tarnish her memory

-Deucalion: calls himself “The Demon Wolf”= besties, Scott’s trust in his goodness turned him into a pacifist and an ally on multiple occasions.

-Theo: isolated him from his pack before killing him= Didn’t completely freak out on Liam for reviving him even though Theo killed him less than six months ago. One can argue that he would’ve totally housed Theo if he knew Theo was homeless

Y’all think he would kick Stiles out for supposedly bashing one dudes brains out with a wrench??? One pesky murder??????

Scott is the walking personification of “but mother I can fix him”, he was overwhelmed at the moment with a bunch of teenagers dying and Malia wanting to kill her mum and Kira wanting to fight everyone and now Stiles supposedly killed someone. His reaction was understandable and he handled it like a champ I’d say. But he would NEVER EVER abandon his brother, murder and miscommunication be damned.

[sleevebuscemii]

everyone who meets boris as an adult is always like ‘ah! the famous boris! we’ve heard so much about you!’ but i am so so so curious as to what the hell theo was telling them without them being deeply concerned pray tell What did and he and boris do that wasn’t absolutely insane?? ‘boris and i liked to hang out in the playground and drop acid’ ‘boris and i liked to go to the supermarket to shoplift steaks’ ‘boris and i liked to watch movies but don’t ask what happens in any of them because i was too drunk to remember’ ‘boris and i liked to swim in the pool in the middle of night and then beat the shit out of each other’ theo liar who lies decker what did you tell these people

[kradogsrats]

S1E1 "Echoes of Thunder" / S3E1 "Sol Regem"

[princeescaluswords]

What always drives me absolutely nuts is that the only person hating on anyone in that scene was Stiles hating on Scott, per se:

SCOTT: You killed him? You killed Donovan? STILES: Well, he was going to kill my dad. Huh? Was I supposed to just let him? SCOTT: You weren't supposed to do this. None of us are. STILES: You think I had a choice? SCOTT: There's always a choice. STILES: Yeah, well, I can't do what you can, Scott. I know you wouldn't have done it. You probably would've just figured something out, right? SCOTT: I'd try. STILES: Yeah, because you're Scott McCall! You're the true Alpha! Guess what? All of us can't be true Alphas. Some of us have to make mistakes. Some of us have to get our hands a little bloody sometimes. Some of us are human!

There is only one person screaming insults and insinuating that someone is a terrible person, and it's not Scott. Just in case people missed it, I highlighted it in red.

Some other observations that I have made before a hundred times and I will make another hundred times until they stick:

Scott didn't 'side' with Theo over Stiles because Stiles never denied anything that Theo told Scott.

Scott might believe that Stiles killed someone to protect his father because he had witnessed Stiles suggesting death as a solution (Derek and Jackson), he had watched Stiles threaten and attack alpha werewolves and a Darach to protect his father, and he had been in the room with Stiles when Donovan threatened him.

If they had been 'together forever' as the commentator put it, why would Stiles think that Scott wouldn't understand? Why does Scott have to be the only one with perfect faith in Stiles and never the other way around?

What was Scott supposed to believe was the reason that Stiles couldn't tell him about Donovan before that night?

"It was an accident" is four words. That highlighted speech Stiles gave is 42 words. Can we stop suggesting that Scott didn't give Stiles enough time to defend himself?

Does no one else remember the fact that it had been clearly established that chimeras turned violent after being experimented on against their will? And that Scott might insist that people turned into monsters against their will deserve to live?

The only thing that Scott told Stiles after he came to conclusion that Stiles killed Donovan (which Stiles did, it just wasn't murder) and that Stiles concealed it from him (which Stiles did and on puropse!) is to go talk to his Dad. That's it. How the @#$#@ is that hate?

I can't believe that in a scene where Stiles uses Scott's heroism against him -- especially after Stiles was partially responsible for that heroism in the first place -- that we still have to remind people that a) Scott did have blood on his hands, b) Scott had made mistakes, c) Scott is human, and d) even if all of those things were not true, it still doesn't excuse Stiles deceiving everyone -- not just Scott!

Eight years. Eight Years and it's still going on.

was scott mccall actually selfish and a bad main character and a bad alpha and a messed up person or was he a sixteen year old boy? answer fast

[craftbreak]

My favorite loopchat is definitely "did you know your eyes are two different shades?" but tbh i haven't stopped thinking abt the one where siffrin asks if loop is a star and they say some shit like "I'm more like a mirror. It'd be boring to be the real thing" ever since i finished the game w twohats

Like loop's favorite activities are being vague as fuck and foreshadowing. So it's entirely possible that loop starts saying star to mean like. Actor (star of the show, the star of a play and stuff like that). And they just like. Answered that at least half honestly just bc siffrin would be like "? What are you blinding talking about" and the true meaning would fly over his head bc he's still thinking about stars (celestial bodies). + it would add to a lot of stuff loop says to you not really being lies like you might think on a first impression

[trash-begging]

If I have to read someone calling solas the god of lies one more time I’m going to fling myself into the sun!

[zeb-z]

Foolish outright lying when Tubbo presses him about the fed worker death message oh if anyone wasn’t certain he’s protecting Cellbit they can be damn sure of it now

[platoapproved]

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hey quick question: you ever read something so fucking sad it gives you a stomachache?