#making gifsets is how i cope

[goldensakuma]

i am in. Immense Pain

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

MARVEL'S Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. || s02e14 "Love in the Time of Hydra"

[jinstronaut]

doing this cc wrapped has made me realize just how many of my sets are between 100 - 200 notes. like that's my average notes per set (re: jin a day specifically)

and that's wild all things considered lmao

[inchidentally]

supercut of hot lap: adorable noises and synchronization and going insane below

Lando's barely smothered excited smile as he waits for Oscar !!

Oscar's little oop! face at shutting the door too hard

him immediately reading Lando's thousand yard stare and signing the cross (kinda)

THEIR JOKE RELAY THEY DO oh my godddddd !!! "there are harnesses" "lemme put the harness on" GIGGLE BREATHLESS GIGGLE HUGE SMILE

bc they always share a joke they don't banter it about. one of them has the joke, the other joins in on it and they just smILE AND SMILE and it's devastatingly sweet !!

classic voice crack from Oscar in the "has it been um… has it been lowered" and I cannot fucking cope with the way they have never and may never at this point leave that sweet, quietly thrilling place of like, spending time with someone you really wanna be besties with - or someone you've got a crazy infatuation/crush on and suddenly you have a legit excuse to spend time with them and they'll talk to you and you're nervous but also you're so happy and giddy and you just want to enjoy it y'know ?? like yes there's a little bit of fumbling over your words and you just want to keep the conversation flowing but mostly you just want to enjoy being in this person's space bc they're Special To You And Make You Feel Things

and the mounted cameras letting them relax so they lose that slightly jaded look they sometimes get when PR are trying to recreate carland0 or dand0 content ;__; bc Oscar is different! he slots into the Max F side of Lando where half of the time Lando's speaking in sentence fragments waiting for Max/Oscar to finish them and the other half is spent making sounds and doing voices bc it a l w a y s makes them giggle

and they speak SO quietly and gently as they always do with each other even tho the engine is an absolute racket - they don't do shouting and loud ! it's not what they do!

OHHHH LANDO'S UNBEARABLE SMILE WITH DIMPLES AGAIN bc Oscar's about to get excited !! and he has to hide in his jacket a lil bit !! and yes Oscar does get excited and giggles with his own dimples !!

Lando's answer to "is it actually drying?" being an adorable nose scrunch and Oscar immediately translates it helpppp

K has a whole gifset of Oscar "well, technically…" that I adore (and will find and link to I swear) and always makes me think of how he said "my girlfriend wouldn't say I'm a good teacher but I don't think I'm too bad" bc even with the people he adores this absolute giga chad nerd will NOT let something like 'does the weather merit slicks' just slip by if the weather very much does not merit slicks! that eeEEEhhhhh sound is literally saying "Lando, I will change my eating habits to your tastes, surrender my pre-race relaxation to your music choices, watch you closely in case you need help with words, and find you adorable even when you're hangry. but I will not allow a quantifiable fact to be obscured by you just bc you wrinkle your nose at me"

THIS GIGGLE OSCAR DOES TO LANDO BEING SCARED OF GUNNING IT IS TRULY HUMILIATING. ARE U NOT EMB BAH RAHSSED.

okand now this time Oscar makes a little face and mouths "wow!" and Lando translates it immediately

MCLAREN EDITORS OVERLAPPING THEM WHEN THEY SAY THE EXACT SAME THING whoever was in charge of this video they get it

their whole horsepower conversation being shared ?? Oscar starts it, Lando picks it up, Oscar adds more, and then they both giggle in PERFECT sync - like it's such a cute, boyish, geeky, gearhead conversation too

"well, thanks for the lift!" "yea… neewww problummmm!" @cx-boxbox said Lando always speaks in Tiny to Oscar and goodd the way Lando says this and aims his big dimpled smile back out the window again bc he just spent a fun time with Osc and got to show off too !!

"is it dry" (together) "noooooo" AGAIN with their little return to some tiny shared in-joke that makes their dimples pop out jesus christ I need a fucking nap they make my chest hurt

[house-of-dadneto]

The House of Dadneto 2025 has drawn to a close! ✨

Apologies for the delay in getting this recap to you all, I've been away the past few days but it's been so exciting seeing all the final entries roll in for the House of Dadneto! We cannot believe how big the event has grown, and we just want to thank all the amazing, beautiful creatives who jumped in this year to make this whole thing possible! You should all be incredibly proud of the work you've done, and we hope you enjoyed this event as much as we have!

In the final week, the House of Dadneto had 43 unique works posted for the event!! 🎉🎉🎉

For one last time, we have created a list below with links to all the fics, edits, gif sets and animatics that were posted in the past week! Don't forget to share some love with these amazing creators who worked so hard to make this event possible, and we'll be back soon with the final masterlist and instructions for our incredible winners this year!

✨ Just a quick reminder that the House of Dadneto has an official AO3 Collection you can browse or add to if you are posting on AO3! Check out this post for more details on how! ✨

Final Week of the House of Dadneto!

Vacation? by @callie-caje

Peter needed a vacation, a trip away from the chaos of teaching young mutants to harness their powers safely while also watching them fail geometry. So, a trip away from the students and away from the chaos? It seemed welcome, invited even. That did not mean he was asking to be kidnapped, no matter what Erik argued.

5+1 by @mapofyourstars

Gifset: 5+1

For The Last Time by @superherotiger

Animatic: Memories + Embrace + Music + Peace

save every day ‘til eternity passes away (just to spend them with you) by @xxqueenofdragonsxx

Once, the sight would have filled him with panic. Once, it had. OR Erik wakes up in the Pentagon nineteen years after being freed. It isn’t the first time.

A Gentle Touch by @onlyheartaches

Five times Pietro and Erik used an aquarium as a vessel to strengthen their bond, and one time they couldn’t. (Or, five times Erik rested a hand on Pietro’s head as a form of comfort - and one time he didn’t.)

let me love you in this life by @sunsetuniverse

After Jean repairs Erik’s psyche, he has a hard time coping with what he saw in his mind, or rather, who. [Longer summary inside] or, giving magneto depression 101

You Were Everything by @superherotiger

Animatic: Broken + Head Injury

Something to make it all worthwhile by @silverpleatherjacket

Erik looks back on his life and wonders, after all the bloodshed, all the loss, all the pain, if it was all worth it. A certain someone reminds him that it was.

takes a strong hand and a sound mind. by @mapofyourstars

Chapter 16: Head Injury - Erik has had enough, and he doesn’t care how silly he looks - it’s practical. Chapter 17: Suffocating - Erik's eldest baby leaves the nest. He doesn't take it well.

when everything’s made to be broken (i just want you to know who i am) by @stolenlullabies05

“You’re disappointed,” Peter says quietly, but it’s phrased in more of a question, because in all honesty Peter can’t tell what Erik is feeling right now. All he knows is that he’s here and he’s not leaving. Erik looks affronted for a moment, eyebrows creased in resolve. “How could I be disappointed? You’re… you’re perfect.” (Or, 5 times Peter pictured telling Erik he was his son and +1 time he actually did.)

Checking Up by @onlyheartaches

The X-Men are together again, Apocalypse is defeated, the world is saved - but there are only three people whom Magneto wants to make sure he finds.

1983 (What a mess) by @star-lights-up

Nina lives, Apocalypse sleeps - this is what happens when Erik and his daughter come to the school. Chapter 13: Head Injury Chapter 14: Outsider POV Chapter 15: Peace

Someone, Somewhere, Right Now by @dandelion-blues

“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m full.” Peter exclaimed, a full grin upon his face, as he leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes in bliss. He would have broken someone out of the pentagon sooner if it meant eating like that again! Of course, the teen, thus missed the concerned looks that all the adults gave each other at such a remark. Somehow, this leads to Pietro spilling his guts, because no one will ever blame his wonderful mother. Magna Maximoff is a saint, and it’s not her fault Pietro probably eats enough to feed a whole football team. Unfortunately, Erik did not get the memo that he had a son, but he’ll do his best to be there for him now. And giving his son a hug and a talk about how wonderful he is isn’t a bad way to start.

Both Arms Cradle You Now by @superherotiger

Animatic: Sanctuary

Outsider POV by @mapofyourstars

Gifset: Outsider POV

Un peu plus près des étoiles / À l'abri des colères du vent by Etoilemauve

5 times where Erik wanted to watch the stars with his family but failed to and 1 time his children organized a surprise for him.

Time In A Bottle by @onlyheartaches

Erik’s tortured past means he can’t handle peacetime well, so Pietro offers some advice.

(Don’t) Do This by @onlyheartaches

When Magneto escapes Bastion’s prison, the pain and trauma of Genosha weighs, and he breaks. He returns to the Xavier Institute with a rebuilt Asteroid M - And his son, maimed in Genosha himself, reaches out, begging Magneto to see reason.

Asteroid M by @mapofyourstars

Gifset: Asteroid M

January 30th, 1973 by @theaterpug-writes

Peter Maximoff travels back to 1973 with the time traveler known as Cable to witness the day his father was killed in front of the whole nation on the lawn of the White House. When he interferes in the Sentinel attack and saves his father’s life, he unleashes a universe destroying paradox upon the world. AKA, a Doctor Who "Father’s Day" AU (not necessary to have any Doctor Who knowledge).

in the quiet by @xxqueenofdragonsxx

“Do you remember when you stabbed a guy for insulting me?”

In Little Ways, Everything Stays by @superherotiger

“Would you ever have one of your own?” Pietro’s features fell into a frown. “I’ve seen too much of this world to put a kid into it,” he answered bluntly. “Wouldn’t be fair to them.” “And in a different world?” Erik asked. Or, Erik sees a new side of his son.

but if I lose you I lose everything by @callie-caje

Before Luna, Pietro had understood very little of the world and how it worked. He had known there were people out there who used their mutations for Evil, but he also knew there were those who used them for Good. All his life Pietro had aspired to be one of the latter, but no one had told him that the fear for his daughter’s safety would make him one of the former. OR The five times that Pietro’s belief in humanity wavered and the one time it was broken completely.

it was enchanting to meet you by @sunsetuniverse

Post-Apocalypse - A week after Peter tells Erik the truth, something… weird happens.

Branding by @mapofyourstars

Gifset: Branding

MAGENTA WAS RIGHT by @onlyheartaches

Magneto and Quicksilver have a conversation about knockoff X-Men merchandise.

Mourning Doves by @onlyheartaches

On the anniversary of a devastating loss, Pietro and Magneto make a connection.

Patrilineal by @theaterpug-writes

After his twin sister's memories are rewritten by Mastermind, Pietro Maximoff isn't so sure she's his sister anymore.

Peace by @mapofyourstars

Gifset: peter implores erik to choose peace.

Luna's Favorite by @theaterpug-writes

In which Erik visits his sick granddaughter.

Wake Me Up by @onlyheartaches

This is a follow-up to my "Alternate Universe" entry. Pietro wakes up with nightly panic attacks, haunted by dreams he can't fully remember and the feeling of suffocation. He can only hope that being able to spend winter break with his father will help.

Memories by @mapofyourstars

Gifset: peter’s mother hints at some bad memories she had with magneto.

gutted by Caspiansea

The lamp bathes them in golden, honeyed light, the only illumination in the room, aside from the box television in front of them. The TV flickers steadily, buzzing softly against the howling of the wind. Pietro is stretched out next to him, curled around a heap of blankets. His feet are burrowed under Erik’s thigh, wedging there in an attempt to annoy him and left there to fight off the cold

The sun will set, but not tonight by @silverpleatherjacket

Erik floated himself over the blood that was flowing slick on the once white floor of the experimentation facility. Charles’ way didn’t work. The humans would take and they would take and they would take. Well this time, he’d take from them. Peter goes missing. Erik refuses to let him stay that way.

wicked like a torturous dream (like a sweet calamity) by @sunsetuniverse

Peter is falling.

Band on the Run by @callie-caje

Peter was no stranger to time and its ways of twisting and turning, but he never expected it to turn on him. --- “Peter,” Charles, greeted him, “Shouldn’t you be headed towards the east wing for history class? You’re going to be late.” Peter smiled, “We both know I’ll still beat Logan there. He’s never been on time for class since he started teaching.” A part of Peter was confused, his mind spinning as it tried to make sense of what was going on. The other part was spinning in the opposite direction full of anxiety, wondering if he was imagining things. or A Dadneto Timeloop where Peter has to slow down and stop running away.

I Couldn’t Say the Words like You by @superherotiger

“Do you need anything? Blankets, pillows- a shit ton more drugs?” A weak chuckle escaped his father’s lips. “No my son, I-” Without warning, Erik raised a hand towards Pietro’s face. A gesture he had tried only once before, back when they first met. One that Pietro had rejected in a heartbeat. One that even now made him flinch without meaning to. ~~~ Or, the final scene of ‘To be Loved is to be Changed' from Pietro’s perspective.

Patrimonial by @theaterpug-writes

Wanda contemplates her relationship with Pietro and why he keeps looking at her like that.

The North Star Guides Me Home by @theaterpug-writes

5 times Erik Lehnsherr looked to his daughter for guidance and the 1 time he couldn't anymore. Or, Erik Lehnsherr and Lorna Dane throughout the years.

A Question Of Need by @onlyheartaches

When Charles seeks to learn why Magnus hasn't shown up at work for several days in a row, he makes a rather unexpected discovery.

the wishing well by Caspiansea

“Erik?” Erik shot upward, reaching out with his mutation to sense the metal nearby. Pietro stood at the edge of the doorway, haloed by the light of the hallway. Erik began to scramble forward, trying to untangle himself from the sheets. He looked for Charles, briefly, before remembering he was giving a talk at Oxford. “Pietro? Are you alright?” He squinted, trying to adjust to the sudden state of awakeness. His instincts were propelling him forward, but his largely peaceful life at the mansion had softened them, if only slightly. That, and he wasn’t as young as he used to be. “Yeah, yeah, chill. I just– could you help me with something?”

let us find laughter beyond the screams by @xxqueenofdragonsxx

The speedster is loud.

If there are any details missing or mistakes in this list please let us know and we will amend it as soon as possible!

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the event! Stay tuned for the final masterlist coming out within the week! ✨

Announcement // Prompts // Event Info

[werosmyss]

ok i feel like were well on the cusp of getting more hazbin news, so i wanna finalize my predictions for s2 going forward (mostly vox/radiostatic focused). i also haven't seen any of the leaks so a) don't talk about them and b) they may outright confirm or deny any of this but i don't want to hear it either way

okay, predictions below the cut since this got longer than i liked

we know vox (and luci) will both be more present due to vivs tweets

vox & alastor backstory episode, it'll either be the full episode or the a/b plot with some sort of dramatic foil

in said episode we will get canon radiosilence (not copium not copium)

i really dont want to say this but i think the most common fallout theory (vox made an unwanted advance that broke the camel's back, whether that was the partnership proposal or something romantic/sexual) is probably going to be canon. i really hope that it will be nuanced, though, and not just come out of nowhere

radiostatic and radioapple fans will be eating very well this season

by extension the applemedia content will blow up for sure

this is more copium but i want staticmoth to be confirmed as a fwb/fuckbuddies situation. i think they work better as found family/friends who fuck each other rather than as a relationship, because i personally have a hard time seeing staticmoth as anything other than toxic.

velmilla will be real (not copium not copium) (this one is mostly a joke, but...)

another rap battle or musical duel of sorts between vox and alastor just because i like stayed gone and i love old news more

the first hazbin/helluva crossover will probably be a minor cameo and not a major role, and it will be in hazbin before helluva.

my vote for crossover (which i dont know how well this works given the animation timelines) is to see some of the mastermind fallout and headlines and newsreels and such

radiostatic has no chance in hell of happening in canon (and neither does radioapple, sorry guys)

season will either end with the vees being permanantly disposed of (unlikely), neutered as villains (most likely) or on the path to redemption (also unlikely, though i see them taking this path with valentino, whether or not it succeeds or fails, to drive the "everyone deserves a chance at redemption" point home. would be crass to put canon val in the hotel with angel, though, and i don't see a good way of doing this (maybe reedeemed valentino is endgame for s4?)

by the end of season 3 (i know these are s2 predictions but..) alastor will do something to betray the hotel and be cast out, whether that is a misunderstanding, intentional, or a result of his deal, i don't know. i desperately need alastor to betray them because i just re-read that one tuesday and im coping.

please dont let vox be pookie. im begging you

^^ by this i mean don't let vox take the easy road out by claiming abuse at valentino's hands. ties in with my earlier hope about them just being fwb, but i want vox to be a proper villain. i love making him pookie but the show should keep him evil

alastor's power will be significantly diminished over the course of the season. lucifer will be begrudgingly helping mend the would from adam at charlies request. radioapple shippers will go feral for this

radiostatic fight scene. proper fight scene, anime fight scene, anything to take advantage of the amazon budget. let me see them really go all out against each other (second to last or last episode of the season)

okay this one is more for me but i want a recreation of the pilot scene where alastor first shows up at the hotel, but with vox.

also, this season will see the people who make those radiostatic similarities gifsets eating VERY well. like we will see back to back shots of them doing the exact same behaviors. never forget who raised you, vox.

we will get radiostatic merch finally because the radioapple shippers got their hoodie and damn it i want one too

vox will be taller than alastor (not including hat, ears, antlers, poofy hair) despite what the announcement video shows. i am a tall vox truther and there is no way that man isn't exactly 1 inch taller than alastor just to spite him.

please let baxter be voiced by richard horvitz please he is so zim coded

if any of the vees are getting 'redeemed' (not fully, but starting on the path) at the end of this season, its velvette. she really seems to have no problem with anyone at the hotel, and would be easiest to fold into the main cast as a neutral/anti-hero sort of character. vox obviously has his shit with alastor, and val has his shit with angel. there is no way either of them would survive at the hotel for more than an hour. velvette actually has a chance (and i am a velvette simp sorry)

give me domestic found family vees not because i want to undercut their role as the villains but just because i love them and need to see them being silly like in the finale

GARDENER VALENTINO how could i forget omg we NEED to see val just being so obsessed and in love with his plants. if redeemed val is endgame then we need to start sowing those seeds now

i do NOT want to see any sort of valentino backstory excuse shit this season. if we get anything like that, it needs to be in s3 or 4. i don't want to see any 'oh he used to be in the same position as angel' 'hurt people hurt people' etc etc etc. if that's the way they take this storyline, okay, but it would be too much at this point in the plot and feel more like an excuse than an explanation. i love valentino as a villain, but his character needs to be handled carefully if they want to actually try and redeem him and not make him a stella-type 'completely evil' character.

if val is going to be stella please dont make vox stolas. vox can be andrealphus, they can both be comically evil. vox is not the stolas in this relationship.

i know i said radiostatic will never be canon but a small part of me wants the show to end with them being friends at least, or at least not outright hating each other.

also!!!!!!!! make the static communication canon! i dont know HOW they would visualize it, but i need to believe that vox and alastor can communicate through the ariwaves and im really not taking no for an answer here

also also we need at least one more overlord meeting and it has to go like that one story from the radiostatic zine (this one, which may be my favorite from the whole thing) in the sense that the entire thing gets completely derailed by alastor and vox fighting across the table. literally my favorite thing to see whenever it pops up in a story.

okay i want to hesitantly say that thats it. its 12:40am, i just had a delicious coffee from my fuck alastor mug, and now im going to go re-read more of my bookmarks and pine for the tv man

[bengiyo]

2024 Recap: ✨A Summary✨

Post your most popular and/or favourite edit/gifset/analysis for each month (it’s okay to skip months!)

@troubled-mind and @my-rose-tinted-glasses brought this back, and @lurkingshan mentioned me in hers.

January:

most popular - Last Twilight Ep 12 (Finale) Stray Thoughts

favorites - An Apology to Ossan’s Love and The Novelist, and Goblin is One of the Best Shows Ever Made

Seems I decided to cope with Last Twilight’s disappointment by capping off three big catchups. I am still so glad that I went back to Ossan’s Love and The Novelist to watch them properly. I still think these shows get a bad reputation, and I’m curious to see how the Thai version lands with audiences. I feel like I could also say so much more about Goblin, because I’ve also been considering a rewatch.

February:

most popular - Quick Post about How Great It Is to Be a J-BL Fan

favorites - My first interaction with @happypotato48, Love for Love’s Sake Finale, Drama Shower Explainer, My Post About How Much I Love Dynamite

What a fun month! I made a new friend, and found a new favorite show! I was so correct about how much Japanse QL we were getting and how much we’ve gotten in the past year. Though I was disappointed in the end of Drama Shower, I’m still glad that MBS is making BL…and whatever Red Blue is (I want to watch it so bad). My love for Dynamite has only grown since I wrote that post. I need to see so much more Aungpao this year.

March:

most popular - Love is Better the Second Time Around Ep 2 Stray Thoughts

favorites - Perfect Propose Finale, Cherry Magic TH Finale, Cherry Magic Anime Finale

It really was unexpected that we got two good adaptations of Cherry Magic in the same year, both of which would supplant the original adaptation for me. I think the Thai live action might be the best one for viewers, but damn is the anime still my favorite. Perfect Propose also may have been short, but that show has stuck with me. I still think about Kai giving Hiro the first good sleep he’s had in forever.

April:

most popular - Threatening people to tag Unknown spoilers

favorites - A “violence” ask about I used to shout out Tadaima, Okaeri.

This month looks relatively quiet for me, but holy shit was Tadaima, Okaeri unexpected. I was not expecting one of my favorite shows of the year to be an omegaverse husbands becoming dads show.

May:

most popular - Asking other BL fans how often we’d seen a 69 in BL

favorites - My Post About Why I Don’t Like We Are, My Wandee Goodday Check In

Man, I really hoped that Wandee Goodday would be good. I’m still flabbergasted by how badly that show lost me. Oyei and Cher were so important to me. Pour one out for the homies.

June:

most popular and favorite - Love Sea: Tongrak is Kind of an Asshole, and I Like It

other favorites - My Love Mix Up TH: The Adaptation Changes to the Class Play

Becoming a fan of MAME was not something I ever expected of myself, and yet here we are. I’ve now enjoyed three of her shows in a row, and supported another adaptation of her work. I also am so sad that MLMU wasn’t something I could enjoy. I was so amped after Cherry Magic TH and had real hope that this could also be fantastic.

July:

most popular - I Hear the Sunspot Ep 5 Stray Thoughts

You can tell I was traveling this month. I was quiet.

August:

most popular - Ben’s Big BL Blurb

favorites - Knock Knock, Boys! review, Office Romance Meditation on The Trainee and Other Shows

There were too many episodes to catch up on after traveling, so I dropped Stray Thoughts. It was probably for the best, because it took up a lot of time, and it made me grumpy to write about shows that were in a slog. I’ve enjoyed writing more focused pieces since.

September:

most popular - Horniest Sex Scenes Ask

favorites - The Trainee Reflection on Adulthood, Happy of the End Review, I Hear the Sunspot Wasted Taichi As a Character

The Trainee was so solid that I wrote about it two months in a row! Unfortunately it coincided with two J-BL losses that I had to mark.

October:

most popular and favorite - Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo: We Are So Fucking Back

other favorites - An Apology to The Miracle of Teddy Bear, Love in the Big City Part 1: It’s Gay, Peaceful Property: There’s Nothing Noble About Being Poor

What an incredible month for me! I finished one of the best shows we never got to see properly in 2022, we got a fantastic adaptation of one of the best books I read this year, and Hwang Da Seul came back with an absolute banger.

November:

most popular - Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo reaction

favorites - Love in the Big City Part 2: The Weight of Homophobia, Making a Clown of Myself at the Beginning of Your Sky, Ben’s Big BL Blurb 2: Fall is Finally Here, Blue Canvas of Youthful Days: BL is So Good When The Characterization Holds

I feel like I must have had a lot of time to write this month. I still stand by what I said about Blue Canvas at this point, even if the finale threw a lot of this away. I also highlighted my Your Sky post as an example of how exciting the beginning of a new show can be before it veers off and loses steam. 

December:

most popular - Ben’s Big BL Blurb 3: Blue Canvas of Youthful Days Blew It, But I Still Recommend It

favorites - Random QL Superlatives 2024, Our Youth: “Don’t Do It At School”

I really love the end of the year posts as a time to reflect on everything we watched. What really stood out for me this year was how much I just let go. I’m glad I’ve watched less, and have stuck with things that compelled me in some way. Hilariously, I think it’s actually lowered my overall average, but my general mood is up because I’m not forcing myself to slog through shows. 

You can go here to find your top 10 posts of each month.

[accol-fics]

Marvey Bang 2024

Title: I Give a Shit. About You. Specifically.

Author: @accol-fics and @lovethesnark (aka kho)

Artist: @lesbiandarvey

Genre/Trope: canon divergent, prison fic

Rating: E

Warnings: prison-typical violence (non-graphic)

Word count: 30,351

Summary:

When Mike takes the fall for the fraud they’ve both been committing, Harvey is made to suffer in silence from the sidelines while Mike is carted off to prison. Not only does Mike have to learn how to cope with the lonely life inside prison, but an old enemy of Harvey’s gets involved making things that much more dangerous. Mike isn’t dealing all that well to begin with but it only gets worse once Harvey shows up, dressed in prison blues. Only then, does the real mystery unfold…

Link to fic: fic at AO3

Link to art: gifset at Tumblr

[bird-inacage]

Love in the Air Locations | (Sky's Arc) as told through Sky's Bed

(PART 1) (PART 2) (PART 3)

This final gifset is where we really see a major change in Sky, most notably his healing towards happiness.

9 - Sky wants to be close to Prapai. Sky's feelings are becoming increasingly hard to ignore. Despite Prapai being the subject of his inner conflict, his knee-jerk reaction is still to find comfort in him. The way Sky gingerly crept beside him felt reminiscent of what a young child would do in a thunderstorm. This time Sky sleeps facing toward Prapai, which is his own small gesture of surrender. 'I do need you and I do appreciate you.' Another detail I enjoy is how Prapai treats Sky's dorm like a second home too. He slept in Sky's bed as if he also lives there which emphasises a sense of regularity. This is becoming a 'shared space' and not just 'Sky's space'.

10 - Sky and Prapai make love in his bed. Their first time together was on Prapai's 'turf' and was very much instigated by him. Their second time is in Sky's bed, and instigated by Sky. The reversal is really important as it demonstrates Prapai's priority to put Sky's comfort first (which includes progressing at a pace he agrees with, in a space he feels safe, responding as and when he feels ready). When the wind initially tried to 'force' its way in, Sky only held up more resistance. When you give someone breathing room, they will let down their walls by choice.

11 - Sky being open about himself. Sky willingly starts offering information about himself and his past to Prapai, probably for the first time in the entire series. Sky is happy, he's animated, he's keen and eager to finally share himself with the person he now loves. They've made a safe place that belongs to just the two of them. Somewhere Sky can be himself without any fear, worry or doubt.

12 - Sky calls Prapai when he feels scared. Sky's nightmares still persist. Prapai can't be physically by his side at all times, however Sky now has a direct line if he's ever afraid. Sky has learnt that it's okay to lean on someone, to be needy, to reach out to the person who will support you no matter what. Sky's candidness and honesty about being vulnerable is a huge sign of recovery. He doesn't have to shoulder and cope with things alone. He knows he can cry out for help, because he's aware Prapai will always respond.

13 - Sky and Prapai as a happy and healthy couple. The final scene that features these two in Sky's bed is incredibly sweet. By this point in the series, Sky has completely invited Prapai in and embraced him fully as Sky. The true Sky. Prapai makes him happy. Prapai makes him laugh. Prapai is his now and his future. There's hope.

[becauseplot]

90 Seconds to Midnight: An Ordem Paranormal AU Masterpost

Figured I should make one of these so I can keep track of my own posts lmao. Will be edited with new entries as they come but don't expect toooooo much content. Spoilers through OSNF finale and OPD 6. Asks are always open for the AU!

90 Seconds to Midnight is an AU where Thiago survives Santo Berço, but he doesn't quite escape the Symbol. After all, anything that is touched by Death cannot ever go back to the way it was. (Liz+Thiago-centric.)

FANFICS

Full fanfics that I (or others!) have written and posted in regards to this AU. All main links eventually lead to Ao3, if an Ao3 version of them exists.

Still Feel (Original fic where I made up the basic premise of how Thiago survives Santo Berço. This was written BEFORE I decided to make the AU angsty lol. You can definitely read this as standalone and pretend the rest of the AU's storyline doesn't exist.)

Unusual (A fic about the uncanniness of Liz and Thiago's growing comfort with each other. Codependency? Shared trauma? Paranormal influence? It's impossible to say. Featuring a fun new concept: Platonic Cuddling (But Evil))

almost midnight by rabbit-harpist (A fic written by a friend of mine who is also crazy about Liz and Thiago. Very good writing with amazing atmosphere! Explores Liz's side of their downward spiral as things start to slip.)

The Event Horizon (A fic written exploring a scene touched on Post 5 (see Tumblr Posts below). Many months after the burning of Santo Berço, as the Symbol is pulling apart what remains of his mind, Thiago follows Liz to the New Dawn Apartments in the hopes of saving her from herself.)

MORTE (One-off I wrote for Inktordem. Towards the end of the AU's storyline. One of my reblogs on the original tumblr post has extra meta info about it, but the explanation contains spoilers for OPD 19, so be warned!)

MY TUMBLR POSTS

Posts where I've written/rambled/drawn things that happen in the AU: setting, what the characters are going through, major plot points, etc. They're listed in the order I posted them and not necessarily in chronological order story-wise.

Post 1 (Self-indulgent rambles and Liz and Thiago's living situation. Secret-third-thing Liz+Thiago my beloved.)

Post 2 (First explanation of how Thiago's situation starts to take a turn for the worse.)

Post 3 (How Thiago initially tries to cope with the nightmares.)

Post 4 (Toying with ideas concerning Thiago and Liz's entwined decent.)

Post 5 (Ending of the AU's storyline.)

Post 6 (Epilogue!)

Post 7 (The entanglement of their love, their trauma, and paranormal influence.)

Post 8 (Liz's nightmares. Can't believe I haven't talked about Liz's nightmares yet.)

Post 9 (Some art about Thiago's sinking feeling of running out of time, inspired by the song All the Time in the World by Kiltro)

MY TAGGED POSTS

These are posts I've reblogged that I think fit with the "vibe" of the AU. Consider this list something like a deconstructed web weave.

Post A (Textpost)

Post B (Textpost)

Post C (Gifset) (God it's so pretty)

Post D (Song lyrics)

Post E (Textpost ft. my buddy calling me out)

Post F (Screenshot) (Contains OPC 8 spoilers)

Post G (Screenshot)

OTHER STUFF

Some wonderful art made by the lovely @rabbit-harpist! Please go look at this it's amazing it's incredible I love it so so much.

HEY LOOK AT THAT I MADE A SPOTIFY PLAYLIST :D

[mayabishopgold]

ok but one of the things I loved most about Maya’s spiral is that it wasn’t heroic. Like, it happened in the shadows where most people didn’t even realise how bad things were for her. She just kept doing what gave her comfort, even as her whole coping mechanism was falling apart.

(I got this ask after posting this gifset.)

Same. Honestly, I think the two best storylines this show ever had were Maya’s realization of her abusive past in S3 and her mental breakdown in S6. Sometimes I feel like Maya was a happy accident in the writers' room because I’m not 100% convinced they actually told the story they originally set out to tell, lol.

They ended up making Maya a complex and well-developed outcast, which naturally made people sympathize with her (on top of her being played by one of the 2 best actors on the show). And then they expected us to root for the lazily written main character? Like, having other characters constantly recite Andy’s supposed great qualities instead of actually developing her? That’s not character growth, that’s just bad writing. And it happened way too often.

[cartoonjessie]

Just a small post, but if you see me unfollow you despite the fact we've been mutuals for many years, it's probably due to too much politics on my dashboard. It's definitely nothing personal - in fact, I'm probably on your side.

I'm as anti-Trump as the rest of you and I fucking hate his guts. But all the politics stuff is making me anxious and for my own mental health, I don't wanna see too much of it. And my tumblr dash has been blowing up with activism posts and everything the orange turd and his friend the muskrat says or does that makes people go surprised pikachu face.

I can't deal with that for another four years. I'll see some posts anyways, that's just how tumblr is - but I want my dashboard to show fandoms for the majority, not politics. And the past month has been really bad in that regard, in that I'm constantly doomscrolling (not what I signed up for) instead of heart-eyeing gifsets of my comfort characters and such.

So yeah, if I unfollow you - don't take it personal. And if reblogging all the politics stuff makes you feel better, definitely keep doing it. We all have our own ways of coping.

[elizabethrobertajones]

Dean & Cas Are In Love

A hopefully one day conclusive study of these assholes, hopefully told as briefly as I can.

[it went fuckin canon? Rendered useless in my own job. Posting these gifsets from my drafts for @mittensmorgul​ who can make better use of them than me.]

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I clearly picked this out to highlight the conflict between the three of them, and how the dynamic with Benny present also serves to highlight a lot of the things we can’t see when it’s just Dean and Cas talking at each other so urgently they pretty much forget that Benny is there. 

Cas tries to convince Dean out of it again and Benny is hearing what Cas is putting down and understands that Cas has very different motives and intentions to what Dean has, and that their quest has hit a dead end here, and now they simply have to survive around this obstacle. So he tries to show Dean gently as he can that Cas is not moving on this and will keep finding reasons to nay say the plan for whatever reason. 

The choice of “are you hearing what he’s saying” as phrasing is well chosen to have Benny urging Dean to re-evaluate what he’s looking at when he sees Cas, which is important when up topside he’s then making up a different interpretation of what happened to Cas and tormenting himself with that. Showing that at this point Dean is NOT understanding and reading Cas well, caught up in his hero fantasy of rescuing them all and having a nice happy family reunion at the end of this. 

A good clean win. 

Benny is more realistic and also an outside eye, so he can clearly read that this is not in the cards, and try and poke Dean to seeing it.

Dean immediately hate-crimes Benny and makes it plain he’s not bending to this reality, but this is what Benny is going to have to deal with; I think Dean is reading it as hostility between Cas and Benny that neither wants to work with the other and would rather the other was not there. In truth I think they’re already kinda connecting better over what is the objective reality than what Dean’s living in, and if you look at it from their point of view, Dean’s being by far the least realistic one and living in a hopeful state which I think is crucial to survival for him but unfortunately not going to be very emotionally healthy in the long term.

You know, normal Dean Winchester coping mechanisms.

And that ends the tour of posts Lizbob had saved up from 5 years ago! Glad to get this out of my drafts, sorry I am not making gifs any more and haven’t watched Supernatural since I was trying to catch up before the finale then heard the news and immediately stopped trying to catch up :P Happy for you or sorry that happened I ain’t reading all that etc. 

[youcalledmebabe]

the gift fic I received for the heavy artillery exchange was shiftylieb (absolutely scrumptious and delightful and excellent) and then the first thing I saw on here was yna’s new shifty gifset. so the shifty in me has re-awakened. and I’m thinking about shiftylieb. both of the shiftylieb fics I’ve read were situated within the context of the show (and did that beautifully) but for me I think shiftylieb is so situated in the aftermath of the war. some disorganized shiftylieb thoughts under the cut

in points they both have two of the more complex scenes. joe, of course, has the mountain scene which in my mind has always been him choosing death/the cycle of violence (while web chooses life…a topic for another day) and therefore not moving forward. we find out at the end of the show that joe went back to San Francisco, which neatly elides both the fact that he went missing for a couple years after the war and that he never spoke to anybody again. the only other character (as far as I remember) to address wondering how they’ll cope after the war is shifty, in his scene with dick. shifty says he doesn’t know how he’ll explain all of this to his family, dick says he was a good soldier and that’s all that matters (incidentally this is a scene I would be interested to hear smarter people’s takes on because I find it fascinating and sort of damning of dick but also it was 1945 and it was dick winters, what else was he going to say?). and then shifty gets into the accident and doesn’t get a segment in the baseball ending.

anyway! so we have two men that we either know or can extrapolate had difficulty coping after the war. I haven’t read Shifty’s book (yet, it’s next on my list) so if he expands on his post war life and I’m reading this totally wrong sorry. but I can imagine joe turning up in virginia where shifty is living up in the mountains. neither of them is doing very well but shifty is coping marginally better. and they help each other through it. shifty and joe are both very caring so I think they’d both be like ok I’ll fix you. and that would be healing for both of them. but I don’t see them ending up together and it would be a bittersweet ending…

assorted vibes and things that I think would make it into the great American shiftylieb

- the fact that the Appalachian mountains are some of the oldest in existence

- green. when you look up Shifty’s town it’s so GREEN. thematically I think the fic would be focused on rebirth and life and new beginnings

- moonshine

- late night moments on the porch under the stars

- shifty sun motif?

- shifty trying to teach joe to shoot…classic excuse to put your arm around them trope

anyway gonna read Shifty’s war and then maybe I’ll stop talking about this and finally write it 💖

[stonesarehavingapartyundermyfoot]

I am still emotionally damage by watching Lighter and Princess. It’s really hard to move forward so I am looking throught the tag, trying to cope with my too many feelings. If gifset maker could be kind enough to make more gifs about them, I would be eternally grateful (I can only imagine how long it must take to make a gifset and how many hours you spent doing it and I clearly don’t have the skills for doing it myself).

A few ideas I may have in my head…

Them taking care of each other (giving her his ice cream, bringing him food, covering her/him with a blanket, trying to block the wind with her body so he doesn’t wake up)

Casual touch

Them being married without being married (him clutching her hand when he is in the hospital, her playing with his shirt, him being protective of her, her defending him)

Just them bickering

The scene where she is taking care of him after he went to the hospital and he can’t hide anything from her

Feeling free to add anything or to come talk to me, we are in this together.

[waxwork-daughter]

okay but quagmire was literally the episode starting on my binge watch when that gifset popped up and now I'm actually at that conversation where they think they're stuck on a rock in the middle of the lake...

iId forgotten about Mulder saying that ever since he was a boy he wished he had a peg leg or hooks for hands or something so that people would stop expecting him to make something of himself. It made me think of that discussion i saw somewhere on here where they pointed out that people 'wishing' they had been abused in some more obvious and grievous way or that it would be discovered they had a terrible illness, or that some public accident would befall them, so that it would 'count' and 'justify' the amount they were struggling in their lives was a common theme among people whose trauma is consistently invalidated. Told they should get over it or it didn't happen or that either they shouldn't have been effected that badly (because it didn't happen to them directly or directly enough) or that it wasn't that bad or that they should be strong and intelligent enough to like, out-think their trauma and not let it affect them.

It made me think about Mulder growing up in a profoundly dysfunctional home with specific and diffuse traumas around both parents and the loss of his sister (but also likely issues before that) that weren't dealt with at all. All the expectations he would have felt on him in that social class, his father's ambitions (and his other father's ambitions) coupled with hearing throughout his schooling how intelligent he was and how successful he was supposed to be, all while feeling profoundly broken and wrong and helpless and guilty. unable to cope and unable to get anyone to see he had legitimate reason to be struggling because he's 'so smart' and 'has every privilege' and he has to be strong and resilient to look after his mother and 'make something of himself.' All with him secretly wishing he had outward signs that would make people notice and take him seriously when he can't keep up, doesn't want the right things, and believe him if he says he needs help.

yes he can be a self involved ass (endearing), even and especially to the person who is paying attention and doing her damnedest to accommodate and help him (because there has never been anyone else around whom it's been safe to act selfishly and without filter). but i can also see how he got that way, more and more walled off from other people and only focused on his own needs and interests because everyone else before scully had used him for their needs and interests or ignored him, no matter what he was going through.