#like why can't I just read the room?

[sweetsuenos]

What do you do when someone asks you to not be honest about how you feel about anything they do? Are you just supposed to lie?

[sergle]

man, you know, nobody asked me, but I have such conflicting opinions on some of the fat falin art, where on one hand: it's always nice to see A Fat Body in fanart anywhere + it's being done in positive ways, for funsies and on the other hand, there is something so familiar about how you are automatically The Fat One if you are a woman simply standing next to a more petite woman, bc I've had a 0% hitrate in seeing people change Marcille's body type and keep Falin's, or change both of them. it's just Falin

[homielander]

shiv's motivations for voting to pass the gojo deal are so layered and i don't think they should be dismissed in favour of any one interpretation. shiv desperately grabbed on to a lifeline for her relationship with tom. shiv was the deciding vote and she couldn't bear to hold the crown only for a moment just to place it atop her brother's head. shiv knew she would have more influence as wife of CEO rather than sister of CEO. shiv absolutely hated seeing kendall crystallize into logan before her eyes, especially when he made roman bleed ("and if we did kill him we get to go to bed") -- succession has always been about siblings so of course she tried to free her brothers before her child. shiv still thinks she can raise her child with all the material benefits of being the daughter of waystar CEO while doing better by her, whatever that means. and all of those things are true

[sysig]

Take care of him (Patreon)

[raycatz]

I'm not including a situation where someone might be injured because in that case I'm thinking the bed goes to them by default or they are nominated for it. anyone who wants to be chatty goes to join the living room floor gang.

What are your thoughts and headcanons? Do you have thoughts on how the boys tend to approach assigning beds in inns? Who do the chain choose to sleep near when camping and why? What are their dynamics like when settling down for the night and getting ready for the day?

In "Mirror Vs Open Closet Door: Fight!" by Gintrinsic (here) Four refers to the chain's decision on how to split up between inn rooms as the "Link-per-room ratio" which I find very funny. He, Sky, and Time also talk about their thought process behind why they do or don't want to sleep in a room with some of the others which I find fun and interesting.

So! If you have thoughts and want to share them! *gestures to the post!*

[gregoftom]

TO ME, THAT’S CINEMA

[oh-meow-swirls]

i think this was funnier in my head.

[petricorah]

humble offer of an au instead of (a continuation of) divorced zukka

Zuko fakes his death:

Someone's been trying to assassinate him. It's long after Sokka leaves, and they aren't together. Maybe they had something once, and Sokka always thought they'd end up together, but they aren't together. And he hears word of the fire lord's death all the way back in the water tribe. How there was nothing the Kyoshi Warriors or the palace guard could do, and he was killed.

There are no remains.

He goes to the funeral, and it's this big dramatic ordeal (because they're trying to really hammer in that he's "dead") and Sokka's a mess. A complete and utter mess. He can barely function, and he's angry, especially at Suki, because he doesn't understand how she isn't more upset (she knows Zuko's still alive. She tries to talk to him, but he pushes her away, and they're never able to talk in a private place.) But more than that, he's angry with himself. Because if he hadn't left, he could have saved him. He could have been there. He thought they had a future together, that they couldn't be together now, but someday they would, and that all goes up in smoke.

And then Zuko's alive. They were able to apprehend the mastermind with the guise, and Sokka should be happy, but all he feels is emotions he can't understand. He feels betrayed.

"You were in the water tribe," Zuko said. "I couldn't tell you--"

"You died. You were dead. I-I went to your funeral, I mourned you."

And he wants to be angry, he wants to hit him, to make him feel a fraction of the pain he felt, but he can't hurt him, not ever, and the only thing he can do is crumble at his feet because Zuko is alive.

[torybrennan]

show tempe gang crossover with the morris islanders would actually have been the best episode of bones ever. btw

[dykrophone]

in a very i hate everyone sort of mood because my college bestie didn't want to room with me for literally no reason and sat with my original college bestie-turned-worstie who started ignoring me out of nowhere instead of me AFTER SAYING SHE'D SIT WITH ME IN CLASS and I'm 99% my other college bestie is mad at me because she's being super distant and I'm sort of just frolicking between every friend group ever fitting in everywhere but also not belonging and not being a part of them WHY DO I PERENNIALLY FEEL LIKE I'M 14 YEARS OLD IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS AND ALSO WHY DOES EVERYONE LOVE IGNORING ME

[theo4eve]

The guilt I feel rn

[pynkhues]

I started following you for your excellent succession takes and you can imagine my immense delight when you started posting excellent iwtv takes as well! :D

If you have them, i would love to hear more of your thoughts on armand. Do you think the lestat flashback version of him and their relationship is going to be anything like the version louis and armand presented? What would you like to see them to with him next season?

Ah! Thank you, anon! You're lovely, haha.

Mm, yeah, I think Lestat's account of their relationship is going to be fairly different, but I don't think it'll be entirely different from Armand's account either? Like there's enough there that feels rooted in the book - like Armand kidnapping Nicki to bait Lestat out, and Lestat's involvement in the destruction of the Children of Satan cult, and Armand's feelings about that, plus their mutual attraction to each other - that I don't think will drastically change in Lestat's recount, although, of course, Armand's deliberately leaving Gabrielle out is hilarious.

This is spoilers for the book, so heads up, but one of the things that I do think will be changed from Lestat's POV is that he and Armand had sex. They almost have sex in the books, and definitely have a strong connection and mutual attraction to one another, but the scene where they almost consumate is such a pivotal scene in demonstrating the fact that Lestat's still traumatised from Magnus which Rolin's expressly said that he wants to explore. Like Lestat's genuinely into it until he gets pretty explicitly triggered and then Armand tries to drink from him anyway (sorry again for the crappy photos, my copy of TVL is conveniently still on my desk, haha):

Armand making a point in 2.03 of telling Daniel that Lestat had made a 'remarkable recovery' from his turning before going into all the great sex he and Lestat had feels pretty pointed to me, and I'd be surprised if they veered much from the book as a result. How they decide to explore that is anyone's guess though.

What would I like to see them do with him next season? I really want to get some juicy Children of Satan cult flashbacks, haha. I love the sequence in the books where Armand and Lestat and Gabrielle are kind of circling each other in Paris, and Armand's struggles with his own identity and emptiness. There's also this beat where he and Lestat connect over the fact that nobody has ever loved them enough to teach them anything, which to me is such a poignant and compelling aspect of their connection, and really feeds into this sense of who he is in the modern era.

Armand's about as good at being alone as Lestat is, so I think there's a lot of fun to be had there too with Daniel and Lestat being on tour together, and I kind of love the idea that he might be bouncing between fixations on people as he tries find something to really hold onto. I don't know though! What would you like to see?

[running-in-the-dark]

me before: wow I'm not nervous about my appointment at all, cool!

me in the waiting room: hm I wonder why I can't stop shaking, and sweating like I'm running a marathon, and feeling like I'm about to die

[seafoam-taide]

Weird having an actual favorite band and knowing it. I don't really have many favorites it is hard to understand my feelings and even harder to pinpoint a 'better and more' feeling about one specific thing. But I know all of their songs, I listen to them all in a big playlist and never get bored, I am always happy to hear any song by them, I have every song's lyrics memorized, like ... they are my unequivocal favorite. There is nothing like it. Yes, I can get really into other songs, there are probably singular songs I can say I like more than any one song by this band. But I guess having a favorite is like what people say about getting married. I'm not explaining myself on that one actually I do have a point there that's an actual metaphor but I've decided explaining it is a bad use of my time. It's one of those artists that are popular enough and artsy enough that they can crop up as fic titles occasionally and no matter the lyric or song it comes from I can always tell immediately. I don't remember what the point of this post was I'm deep in my panic phase and it's 4 am and I was just sitting there singing I Have Made Mistakes to myself bc I can just do that, the whole song, and because it is very funny to go I have made mistakes I have made mistakes and I will continue to make them while in the middle of freaking the fuck out about existing or something. Bc you know yeah im one spoon away from setting the ends of my hair in fire because if I'm kindling for a little while at least I'll feel of use ????????? Yeah this post for sure had a point and it's devolved.

[ofpolitics]

not me, a 26-year-old woman, having nearly a full on breakdown when my mom asks if any of my dad's history books are special to me. she didn't mean anything by it, and i didn't think when i sat down and started to look through them but ugh, i nearly started sobbing and felt like i couldn't breathe at the idea of getting rid of any of them. it's fine, mom, if i can't get rid of any by the time i move out, i'll just take them all.

[keeps-ache]

little soup cans are some of the neatest things we have, wish there were more soup-can-like things in this world