#must be bittersweet for you

[clingyduoapologist]

It's closing night for The Addams Family so I'm being a total sap all over the place but I feel like you'd be able to appreciate this as a theatre guy, yknow? So tell me isn't it absolutely insane that our Lurch, the guy who was told to audition just bc he's 6'5 and in band, JUST SO HAPPENED to be an actual bass singer??? Like he's SIXTEEN and his final solo note in the show is an Eb2. Sorry like you literally don't know these ppl but I had to share

BRO??

[pigeonstab]

I think Toriel would totally get one of those projectors that show the stars to Sans. Maybe it came up that he loves astronomy or maybe Frisk or Papyrus let her know in secret, heck! Maybe it's from all of them. I think he wouldn't really know how to take it. Like bro sees it and goes '*oh neat.' and actually he's fucking dying inside.

[flygonscales]

I’m rereading the Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak) and oh my goddddddd

What do you put in your books Darren?? It is not often I read something so addictive. I saw someone describe them as being like crack. And yeah I can see that I don’t even read Animorphs books this voraciously

(Spoilers below)

And yet. Rereading the second half of the series. When you know who the vampaneze lord is and how it’s going to end. Just:

God. (Or should I say, Charna’s guts!) the planning that must have gone into the series. I can see the foreshadowing/just a prophesy that they don’t know how to follow properly because they don’t know how it ends. It’s like how a horror film protag doesn’t check why a cup fell down because they don’t know they’re in a horror film. Darren! You had Steve at your mercy! SEVERAL TIMES!!! Kill him! It’s unbearable!!! He’s lying!!!!!! This is like a fucking Greek tragedy mess of a plot!!!!!!!!

(Just try. Try reading Allies of the Night knowing full well what’s happening)

(The Greek tragedy comparison makes sense though, Darren is literally struggling against Des Tiny, even if he doesn’t know it)

And then, Mr Crepsley is dead, and Darren (post depression) and Harkat go on holiday to the nuclear dragon desert to gather panther teeth, gelatinous toad globes and Grotesque venom so they can go fishing for souls! It’s very reasonable that the war is drawing to a close so we need a break before the final battle but those toad spheres came of left field.

And then we hear the cirque du freak is returning to Darren’s hometown!! Love it when heroes return after most of their journey and discover they’ve changed too much to go back! But especially Darren, who cannot talk to anyone or even look around too much. He died. I LOVE IT I LOVE THESE BOOKS SO MUCH BUT I AM TEARING AND CRAWLING OUT OF MY SKIN THEY HURT SO BAD I JUST WANT MY BOYS TO BE HAPPY AND SAFE AGAIN)

(Boys includes: Darren, Harkat, Mr Crepsley. Vancha, Alice and Debbie. Not Steve Leopard. Fuck Steve Leopard. All my homies hate Steve Leopard)

And another thing: now I know about actual science - ‘vampire atoms are wobbly so they don’t show up on cameras’ - that is some of the most shallow pseudo scientific bullshit I’ve seen outside of JoJo’s. I love it. It’s so silly and makes no sense.

[moe-broey]

HEARTBREAKING

Worst Dad You Know Has an Extremely Endearing (Now) Reoccurring Character Trait

For further context: this whole FB involved Sharena and Henriette seeking out lockpickers in the Order of Heroes to open this VERY SECURELY locked box from Gustav's room that took Tina's special staff to finally crack open (or rather -- "steal" the contents out of. No one could actually break the lock!)

And the first instance of this!

It makes me wonder if he saved anything related to Sharena..........

[sweetmoons]

Narratively how do you think the QSMP should end?

Obviously this is VERY far away (thankfully, I'm too invested) but I was thinking about the story of the QSMP and what potential endings it could have. Do you guys want a happy ending where everyone leaves the island with the eggs? Or maybe a more tragic ending? Or if you think every character and egg should have their own personal ending like Q!Max, what ideas do you have? I JUST WANNA HEAR YALLS THOUGHTS IM SO CURIOUS

[cacophonylily]

The Blue Caftan (2022)

[chilapis]

I think every moment is eternal in its own right and we hold no authority to deny it that status. Even if it is a forever that will escape our memories, it’ll still exist as a forever in the history of time. In the memories of no-one but the Earth itself. In the records kept and made by no-one, where everything is stored for all time to come. No love is lost and no existence truly unacknowledged.

[yioh]

these make me think about kaeya and diluc honestly it’s so heartbreaking 🥲🥲

[exculis]

"Do you think that there's an afterlife?"

The question seems to come from nowhere. Not to mention a rather odd one to ask a man who's still not quite sure if what he's doing counts as 'living'.

He pauses only long enough to give her a confused look. She ought to know by now he isn't the philosophical type, and yet, she returns his look expectantly.

"Do you?" she prods again.

This time he at least pretends to think about it, though he can't bring himself to give it any genuine consideration before formulating a reply.

"I don't know, it's not really the kinda stuff I think about. Far as I know, that could be what this is." Makes no difference to him either way, but she doesn't care for that thought at all.

This can't be the afterlife. She never died. Well, neither did he, she must admit, and yet neither of them ought to exist. Maybe, in a sense, he had stumbled into a truth. Whether or not an afterlife exists for most, the two of them are living on undeniably borrowed time, their own personal lives after 'death'. (If, of course, you could even call 'instantaneous removal from the timeline' 'death', or is it simply 'nonexistence'? Can you truly die if you never lived?)

"I believe." Or rather, she hopes. It's hard to believe in much when objective reality as you knew it gets turned on its head, but she knows that it was something she believed when she still could. It was a thought that brought many like her comfort on the battlefield. Now, it's the only hope she can cling to that any of those others are still out there, somehow, in some form. The hope that maybe... maybe there's still a chance to resolve the messier endings.

[flavia8]

I've come to the conclusion that I can read and enjoy the most fucked up literature as long as it doesn't feel mean. It's hard to explain but as long as the book/manga/comic/whatever doesn't feel mean spirited I'm totally down.

[novelconcepts]

I am so in the mood to write nothing but Taivan. Which is a slight problem because I’ve got a whole chapter of Other Characters to finish for this current fic to see the light of day. But after that? Expect more Taivan.

[tofixtheshadows]

Have to set up a new series of tags for all my dungeonposting.

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Ough when the bittersweet marimba? hits in “hate us and see if we mind”

[luminaryofblood]

I still keep mulling over this image in my head of Mohg showing off his wings to Miquella. Kneeling down and letting him climb up onto his back, and then taking off.

Clinging to the back of Mohg's golden mantle as he soars through the vast underground where the Mohgwyn Palace resides...

I'm sure there's a metaphor to be had; between Mohg stretching his wings and taking flight; a bird basking in freedom - and sharing this moment of bliss in some small hopes of connecting with Miquella - and Miquella himself who's the bird that's being kept caged...

A longing to return to the Haligtree... A longing to see his sister Malenia... His desire for freedom runs strong. As does his pity toward his captor.

The contrasting feeling between 'I want to go home' and 'I want to help this deeply troubled omen'.

As the Lord of Blood takes flight, Miquella settles, resting his head on Mohg's back...

[martyrbat]

the homoeroticism of sharing a cigarette while overlooking a city you both want to save and are willing to sacrifice everything to do so while desperately clinging to the hope you both can somehow still live to see another sunrise.

[profanetools]

somehow, after two/three days of thinking about this kagrenac comes back idea, i have gone from 'fish out of water who has to reckon with the Horrors of What She Has Done' to a version of that which involves kagrenac being invited into a lesbian polycule.