#mirror niche

[whitehousevsslippers]

Traditional Powder Room - Bathroom Powder room - small traditional beige tile and ceramic tile porcelain tile and beige floor powder room idea with beige walls and a pedestal sink

[fooltofancy]

emotional support fate run abandonment new years

[pisoprano]

Question: Do either Felix or Bananoir count as Adrien's 'Marino'-esque identity? Or do we need to come up with another fake civilian identity for him?

[person4924]

PLEASE 🙏🙏 I AM ON MY HANDS AND KNEES I NEED MORE JAYLOS CONTENT 🙏🙏

[honetii]

as someone who grew up in st louis and had a lot of family in the southern/rural midwest I really do love the setting of borrasca bc there's a lot of random niche shit about the midwest and missouri that I get to project onto the characters. like I know in my heart that they say "warsh" instead of wash.

[haichengtual]

uncle who lives in the US and has a shit ton of money asked if i want anything for my birthday what do iask for

[messrsrarchives]

i heard fralice and now i'm once again thinking about fralice with nonbinary frank it awaked something in me

i am FUCKING WITH THIS.

i love frank so much omg. this has awoken something in me now

[crystalromana]

finished Unnatural History last night and I keep thinking about if we had gotten an alternate "blonde" Clara (since Name of the Doctor is clearly inspired by).

Blonde Clara, party girl, sugar baby, "I just got back from Spain", tiny purse, stilettos

I just see her following Eleven out of the TARDIS and he's chattering away a mile a minute and she's trying to light a cigarette. She clicks the lighter and he spins around O.O there would be a parallels to Bells of Saint John to make it really pop.

Also I mean Missy creating a perfect companion Clara would honestly hit harder then just finding her. Or just lingering ambiguity of did the Doctor cause this? Did Missy? Was it just her jumping into his time stream?

Eeeeeh?

[lenievi]

The Captain's mind was too inflexible, too disciplined, but the Doctor was sentimental, soft.

Spock's meld with McCoy in Mirror, Mirror. [Spock's POV]

Ever since seeing Mirror!Sarek’s meld with Michael, I wanted to use “seemingly impossible depth of human compassion” in a Mirror!Spock/McCoy meld fic. Three years later, it’s finally here~

[blackhillverse]

every six months i remember i have a blackhill tattoo and my mind just explodes, i love these two so much it’s actually insane!

[apocalypticdemon]

man. i really thought i knew where this was going and now. i once again realize i have no idea what i'm doing

[littleeyesofpallas]

Ishuzoku Kyoshoujo SEXTET![異種族巨少女セクステット！]: "Interracial Giant Girl SEXTET!"

aka Over Size Sextet!

[tyrannuspitch]

okay time to try and make a coherent jesterpost. let's break this down. here is a list of ideas that *can* apply to jesters that can also, on some possibly-non-literal level, fit loki too:

a liar and a storyteller

a speaker of the truth whose truth is rarely welcome; a prophet disbelieved or a shot messenger

one who speaks in riddles

a magician; a player of tricks

a player of tricks; a traitor

a madman or a fool

a wearer of costumes, disguises and masks

one who is always performing, who must perform to stay alive

one who mimics and reflects the powerful back to them

one who acts and emotes outside the bounds of propriety

one who engages in gender/sexual deviance, just within the bounds of plausible deniability and/or convenience to the powerful

an outsider at the centre of society: both elevated and lowly

the lowly among the powerful, the coward among the brave

a servant, defined by their master

a “favourite”; tenuous, dependent power that is seen as undeserved and attracts distrust and persecution

one who mocks those no-one else can, but may have that privilege revoked at any moment

one who can be mocked or abused without consequence (a sacrifice)

one who mocks, endangers, or injures themself in order to gain or keep the approval of the powerful (a priest, and a sacrifice)

a scapegoat: punished and/or blamed for the crimes of the powerful or the collective (a sacrifice)

one who says or does the dishonourable thing so the powerful do not need to (a sacrifice)

a politician or advisor who pretends to be powerless

one whom no-one can imagine having power

one who plays at power, but always surrenders in the end

one who hears secrets and has the ear of the king

one blessed or cursed with secret knowledge (the magician, the prophet, the holy fool)

[landgraabbed]

just fell to my knees at a continente parking lot wdym 60+% don't know nor heard anything about planescape torment...............

[lightdancer1]

This chapter has this AU's equivalent of the Wishverse:

Which is also a thing I will use to lay out one meta-point on writing and that this reinforces one of the key points of what this AU actually does with Tara. First, the Wishverse is very direct foreshadowing of later plot points. Given this story's framing the question that Willow's powers have destructive elements and of Dark Willow are there in the forefront for someone already consumed by self-loathing before she gets the news she's going to destroy the world.

Canon Vampires Willow and Xander deal with their potential bi aspects, which were established differently for Willow in this AU and will be built in with Xander in a collegiate aspect as well as showcasing that the heroes have dark sides. Here the AU Wishverse shows that the hero with the darkness theme is in fact actually heroic....and that brings me to the other point.

As I've said before at that meta sense Tara Maclay was meant to be replacement Willow because Whedon's writing approach meant there was a 'niche' here and she was selected to fill it. Tara's meta-aspects with this pervade the story at multiple levels and shape her arc well beyond the love interest factor, where her being the product of a physically abusive background with complicated feelings with Willow and around from the start also make her a feminine and less creepy Xander equivalent to a point, which is one reason they get along so well (that and he does accept she's gay without any problems).

Wishverse Tara as such is a nod to this, with her taking on aspects of the canon Vampire Willow's role in one way and demonstrating that in the right circumstances Tara very much can enjoy having demony dark magic things, which is also a thing that, lest people forget, Amber Benson wrote into her own take on the character in that recent Audible series. She's also the nod to a proper version of Book Dracula, where Buffyverse Drac is very different to the Count.

Like in the book she's a vampire who's had a great deal of mystical studying and aspires to be a vampire-ruler....and like in the book she's developed the capacity to daywalk which book Drac not only did, but does so more than once.

Also unlike the canon it's point blank established that the Wishverse is an existing alternate universe whether or not it was always that way or sprang into being (which is a separate question entirely and gets way too Sandman-ish for me to decide to concretely answer or not) and that the undoing of the wish did not, in fact, end life in that world.

[2000sanimeop]

ｌｉｔｔｌｅ　ｇｏｏｄｙ　ｔｗｏ　ｓｈｏｅｓ finally 100%'d 💪 I can now play FF7R2 with a clear conscience