#like.. what am i supposed to do with this knowledge now

[luigilore]

[1:17 AM]

luigi's limbs and your own are entangled together, one of his arms thrown over your waist, pulling your back close against his chest. you haven't felt any movement from him except his rhythmic breathing and start to wonder if he's actually asleep until you feel his touch gently move across your bare shoulder.

his palm warmly slides across your spine and the direct contact makes you shiver a little- in a really good way. one of his fingertips moves across your back, almost like he's tracing something, but you can't quite discern what it is. still, the gesture itself makes you feel so incredibly endeared that something blooms inside of you that you can't entirely understand in the moment, something like overwhelming love. 

“what're you doing?” you mumble, voice hoarse from not speaking for a while. you stay with your back to luigi, not having the energy to turn around and face your boyfriend, and not wanting to mess up your current comfortable and cozy position.

he responds easily, his low voice makes your heart beat a little faster. “just tracing the constellations.” luigi continues softly, “this is orion.” you feel him gently trace a pattern along your skin. “and this is cygnus,” he says as his fingers continue to graze across your skin.

"i didn't know you knew the constellations," you smile, although not that surprised. you've known luigi long enough to not be shocked at all the things he somehow manages to know, the bits of knowledge he seeks out and retains.

you can hear the grin in his voice when he repsonds, "yeah, i had this big book of constellations when i was a kid. i read it all the time."

"it's all muscle memory now," he mutters, as tracing the same patterns he used to spot in the sky, his own little constellations, fingertips warm against your skin.

“feels nice," you sigh simply, enjoying his soft, warm touch. "show me another," you murmur, now turning your body to face him as he smiles widely at your request.

“this is cassiopeia.” luigi thumbs a small pattern on your skin that resembles a simple zig zag. “it’s supposed to be a seated queen.”

“let me try,” you find yourself surrounded by luigi's as your arms find their way around his neck. you trace a similar pattern to the one he showed you on his own bare shoulder blade. his eyes flutter shut as he shudders, “that was good, really good.” he says softly, eyes remaining closed but he's still smiling back at you, totally relaxed.

“good,” you whisper back, continuing to trace the zig zag pattern up and down his back, slowly lulling him into a content sleep. there's something satisfying watching luigi fall asleep. it's something he deserves but is not so often granted to him and you love that he feels safe and comfortable with you. you shift to return back to your original spooning position- but not before pressing a sweet kiss to his forehead.

[sassypeacock0501]

I was going to save posting these two being so happily in love, intimate, and vulnerable with each other for down the line. But I feel like sharing this clip now, especially since things didn’t quite work out this way for Grier and Davrin in the end.

Also, WOW, was it a treat to watch this scene after the first run. *Starts playing “I Can’t Hear it Now” from the Arcane soundtrack.*

Enjoy my first attempt at a fanon codex. Be kind!

Codex Entry: Heart of a Hala

A crisply folded letter stuck between the pages of a monster hunter’s manuscript.

Davrin,

I really don’t know how I’m supposed to start this. What am I even supposed to say. Emmrich tells me it’d be healthy to get my feelings out, but damn if it isn’t hard.

I doubt you’d want me to apologize a thousand times. Started that count already anyways. And I know you’d want me to stop taking on the blame, but it’s a hard habit to kick. Going nowhere with this.

Guess I could fill you in on what you’ve missed.

Neve and Lucanis are doing great. Gallus has really stepped into her own as the new head of the Threads. Kinda scary honestly, but it’s working for her. And Lucanis finally made the split with Spite. I miss the weirdo a little. I’m talking about Spite, just to be clear. I know you’re probably thinking of a comeback. Well you would’ve, I mean. Anyways, it’s gonna be great for the both of them.

Bellara is doing better. Evka promises me that things are looking up. I just hope they’re not holding back around me. (Furiously scribbled note on the margins: Damn it! He wasn’t there for that. Idiot!) Anyways, Bel’s off working with the Jumpers. They’re trying to get every bit of info they can pry out of that artifact, the Nadas whatever. Thought it was a good idea to keep the knowledge stored in something that doesn’t talk at you like you were born yesterday. The Dalish get talked down to enough as it is.

And Taash and Harding are going strong. Lace ran off with Taash once things quieted down around here. They both needed the escape after everything. Lace writes a lot though. I think she’s picked up some of the overbearing qualities that Varric sometimes had.

I know you’d ask, but I just haven’t really thought about taking a break myself. I’m used to keeping busy so it just feels right to keep that pace going. You’d understand.

And I promise I’ll go and see the other griffins when I don’t think it’ll hurt as much get the chance. Assan would want me to. Miss the little guy, wherever he is.

Anyways, I

You meant the wor

You’re gone. We’re Wardens, so this should’ve been easy. But we caught a glimpse of a future for us. It was so close. And then it slipped away.

I can’t say goodbye. Not now. Probably not ever.

But I want you to know that I’ll keep living. For you. For Assan. For us.

Whatever it takes,

Rook

[zaffiri-saffici]

Eek, I'm sorry you had this experience. There are lots of fans of this show out there who will argue that AAA can stand alone from other MCU products, but unfortunately, everything Marvel does is part of a grander narrative, so I would disagree. While the story in AAA can stand on its own from the rest of the MCU, ultimately, it is part of a bigger whole and that context can impact how you perceive this project from the next.

You could technically watch this show and only this show, but without the backstory from WandaVision, Doctor Strange MoM, and some of the previous Avengers movies that came before it, it's hard to do.

Agatha Harkness was never supposed to be this grand character, to my knowledge. It was really Kathryn Hahn's insanely iconic introduction and performance in WandaVision that ultimately made the Marvel producers ask her, "How would you like your own show?"

There was always a plan to introduce Billy Maximoff and eventually tie that into the Young Avengers arc, but now, Marvel had this popular character that kind of thwarted their plans a bit. And that was a good thing because it meant they were listening to their audience! (hard ask for Marvel historically, tbh)

So what we got with AAA was more context on Agatha's history, how and why she became this villain character, and how that ties into other important questions about things like the Darkhold (though that's still a bit of a hole by the end of AAA, and I wish we got more answers about it), but the sad truth is that her role and impact (based on the comics and the MCU's current plans) means that she will likely never be a driving character that the Marvel relies on to further the other stories that are already on the move as we enter the next phase of the MCU.

What this show did give us was a canon sapphic relationship, a canon queer character as a main character, and a pretty awesome, layered villain with an open ending that implies we will continue to see more of her in future projects (I know Kathryn is signed on for multiple mcu projects so I don't doubt whether they continue Agatha's story in a second AAA season or in VisionQuest or other upcoming projects, that we will see more of her). Agatha and her popularity was pretty much all thanks to Jac Schaeffer and her writing team, in combination with Kathryn Hahn's stellar performance in WandaVision. It was a perfect recipe for a new project centered predominantly on her.

It also undeniably told the Marvel exec team that there is a massively underfed audience base out there who craves this representation and media that they are missing out on and that they should probably (and FINALLY) start investing more into. AAA broke records for viewership and acclaim, surpassing Loki S2, which was one of Marvel's most recent successful projects before it. And I believe they saw more Disney+ subscribers as a result than during any other release, which says a lot tbh, because Disney has notoriously not supported wlw media in the past, amongst other things.

I am looking forward to how they decide to incorporate her character in future projects, now that they have the data to say they need to being doing more with queer rep, and I hope, somewhere in that process, and because of the ship's popularity, that we'll see them revisit the Agatha/Rio dynamic, too. But, the MCU is not a place where anyone should ever get their hopes up. They will always have bigger plans and a larger agenda, and every project is just one piece of a larger whole.

I live comfortably in a fanfiction bubble and will gladly stay that way.

Watched all of ‘Agatha All Along’. The story was certainly interesting but the reason why I wanted to watch it wasn’t really given much focus. I mean aside from what they did to each other, it was pretty bland.

Oh well. Here’s to the next one.

To be honest - short-form just doesn’t really satisfy me.

It’s my own fault really. That’s more the problem than anything else. I keep expecting something really significant and I never get it. I need to lower them.

[lovemebitxh]

Guys... i am not doing well.

[umbreonix]

I forgot I never posted this outside of discord XD but this was a lil secret santa exchange I did for @ponie-cornious <3

[mildcicada]

[margindoodles2407]

blame @seeking-elsewhither for this one. it's echo time and i'm having thoughts (tm)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

(genderly) chill as hell if i was only ever glimpsed / detected like this

[apheliia]

good morning. learned about boothill's backstory last night and have not recovered since then

[electronic-elevator]

had a dream the other night that I woke up and was back in the first grade, and like a true ABDL, my first order of business was "okay. HOW do I get back into diapers"

[magpiesbones]

worst thing about being disabled is that now I am fully and completely aware of exactly how much I am worth to everyone I know. And it is not a lot!!

[xumoonhao]

the8 // performance team vcr, '17 Japan concert

[keeps-ache]

gummy bears :33

[robinsnest2111]

ngl people at the therapy program noting how I switch between wildly different styles every single day (and drawing conclusions about my mental health) has me a little self conscious and questioning my entire life a bit. First impulse is to go back to no make up, unstyled hair in a low ponytail and baggy nondescript clothes 24/7 again. the old "don't stick out/make myself a target or else i get hurt" mentality coming through. but I know it'd bum me out in no time because so many different styles and looks make me happy and my style is very music and vibes based, switches on the daily. augh...

[kojakaj]

i do think its silly that if u have trauma ur allowed and even encouraged to be in therapy for ur entire life, or at least until u have less symptoms of mental illness, but if u dont u get kicked out after like 2 months once u stop being in active crisis

[ohthepain]

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