#nice to feel young again

[bunnieswithknives]

I feel bad for neglecting Hazel so much, I do have many thoughts about her.. and also a mermaid au that im probably not going to do anything with

[iamacolor]

I was curious about something, that's why I came. That day, when you remembered you kissed me, why did you run all the way here? You knew it was a crazy thing to do. If you came looking like that, the things you hid...the secrets you've worked hard to keep would've been revealed. You knew that. So why did you come? Just because you like me? For that one reason? [He nods yes.]

MY DEAREST NEMESIS - EPISODE 7

[youngpettyqueen]

I know the decision to have Julian's parents have him augmented was made on the fly but imo its pretty obvious from early on that Julian has Family Issues because he avoids talking about his family like the plague and I think they should've incorporated this into the Julian and Sisko dynamic right from early on because I think it would've made for some really compelling stories and moments and could've set up a REALLY interesting Julian and Jake dynamic which they kinda started to do but never fully went for

[plusultraetc]

Mic being a good fake stepdad in chapter 2 of the fake dating au for WIP Wednesday :D

[the-words-we-sung]

Thoughts and pictures - S3E1

So after digesting my first watch a little bit, I'm starting my rewatch of this season and I'll share a few thoughts and reactions (and screenshots) because I can't keep it all to myself 😱

I was happy that we dived directly into the (sort of) trial and confrontation between Wilhelm, Simon and August. I do wonder how much time passed between the speech and this scene though. It sets the tone for the entire season for Wilhelm: he's gonna be alone, with no support whatsoever from his parents. He enters the room alone, his parents arrive after him and his mother doesn't even look at him... Simon arrives with his mother and August with his stepdad. But Wilhelm has to deal with the situation alone (aka how to get incredibly mad at Kristina barely 5min into the season 😤)

Simon looks so pretty and so sad. (And how did Omar manage to look even younger this season??) He wants to be done with this whole thing. Also I checked but 1.2 millions kronor is not as much as I thought it would be (it's apparently around 107 000€, which is not bad, but I was expecting more)

I see what you did there Simon 😏 (Can someone gif this scene and put it in parallel with Wilhelm seeing Simon's room for the first time and saying "cozy" in season 1? :p)

The boys coming back to the meeting: very smooth. Nobody knows what you were doing. Nop. Not at all. (We can see Linda kinda smirking when Simon sits back whereas Kristina looks like she just ate a very sour lemon). Wilhelm arranging his hair and Simon smiling at him: they might be in the middle of an important meeting and at the Palace but they're still 2 teenage boys in love (and I love them for that 💜)

Rickard looked and sounded like such an idiot in the previous seasons that I didn't expect him to actually be competent! But I guess we were mostly seeing him through August's eyes... I know Rickard said he was the best lawyer in the country but I have to admit that I thought he was just bragging ^^' Also: August is such an asshole. Did he really need to rile up Wilhelm like that? He's got quite the confidence to attack him and tell him how he just fuck things up on his own, in front of everyone like that, including the queen. Who, again, is not defending her son!! She tells them to shut up but she says nothing to August for talking like that to her son 😠

(They look like they've been called to the principal office). Kristina doesn't look at them immediately, she looks at Erik's picture on her desk first. Then she looks at August. And then finally at Wilhelm. She is so awful to him this season... Right from the start. And then she breaks down crying for Erik.

While Wilhelm holds her. I wasn't expecting to see her grieve so much this season. We didn't see that at all in season 2. Is it because she repressed all of her emotions too much? I hate that she breaks down like that just after Wilhelm publicly coming out. How can she not be there for him. I get that it must be hard to lose a son, but she still has a very alive one, who needs her.

Kristina is not getting redeemed in this season but Linda kinda is! I was super happy to see her get in mama bear's mode at the trial ^^ It was about time!! But here: I'm sorry Linda but it's not your son's role to keep you updated about what's going on in your house! You're the mother! Stop putting everything on this kid's shoulders!! Maybe he never tells you but do you ever ask??

Simon being truly angry at Sara is so good. I am so happy so he's able to feel that way and to not feel like he has to repress it, to forgive her, to help her. She did something truly bad and he's allowed to be mad. Also look at his angry lil' face 💜

In things that made me laugh: Wilhelm's reaction and face to learning that Simon is grounded all semester xD He was talking all smoothly/flirty and then his tone changes so dramatically when he realizes he won't be able to get his boyfriend in his bed very soon! Horny boy is horny (and frustrated :p)

This faaaaaace ☹

I'm happy to see that Simon still has Ayub and Rosh here to support him. I wish they would have told him that replying to comments online was a bad idea though. You know the saying kids: don't feed the trolls!!

Wilhelm looks like such a normal teenager when he gets back to his room. First time we see him so carefree. It breaks my heart to know that on the other side Simon is so unwell already.

Wilhelm waking up happy and smiling. And being just a teenager (for the first time in a very long time): thinking about his boyfriend, redrawing the heart on his hand. It's such teenager things!! My boy just wants to have a normal life... (And then he's immediately reminded that he's actually not just a regular teenager with Farima's text).

Simon's worried face when he asks about Wilhelm's initiation. You can see he's truly horrified at the idea that he might have gone through what's been described in the article.

And then it starts: the piling up of everything on Wilhelm's shoulders. First his mother looking really unwell and breaking down (even though she hasn't been said to be officially ill yet), and now the negative impact of his speech on the school... Which Vincent takes great pleasure in reminding him about.

This first episode is really good at setting things in motion. We see already the beginning of what's gonna go down during this season: Simon not feeling well, dealing with online hatred, struggling with his new place next to Wilhelm in the spotlight. And Wilhelm trying to finally live a carefree life at school with his boyfriend now that he's officially out but slowly getting crushed under the pressure of his role as Crown Prince and the increasingly obvious lack of support from his parents.

[infernalmelancholy]

okay i've been seeing more and more people, especially fic writers and fan artists, leaving social media because of the way they're being treated and it's becoming worrying.

fandom creators are not celebrities (not that you should treat celebrities horribly either but y'know what i mean.) most of the time they're teenagers or young adults just making some art in their room at 3am about a thing they like.

you have no right to make demands or offer unsolicited criticism. no right. it's the equivalent of banging on your neighbor's door to let them know you don't like how they've decorated their garden. it's their garden. you can look at it. you can like or dislike it. and then you move along. you're not allowed to demand that they change it.

and when people share things about their personal life online that is not an invitation for you to invade their privacy or converse with complete strangers like they're your childhood besties.

respect people's boundaries. ask for permission before offering your opinion. just be fucking nice to people please.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE SCOURGE BETWEEN STARS by Ness Brown.

Devoured this in one intense sitting last night! It gets right into the "fucked up shit happens in space" (as I was promised it would!), and I liked that you could see the author's astrophysics background peeking through without derailing the tension.

(And, for real: Don't Open The FUCKING Door, holy shit.)

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

danny talking about how resentful she became when nobody who she self-sacrificed for cared when she died and then leaving kirsch with laura and carmilla bc "if he stays with me i might lose control again and kill him" kinda confirms my thoughts abt both newly-turnedness and anger making vampires more vampiry

but also makes me think that in more usual circumstances, when the dean turned vampires like carmilla and mattie, that shes really nice at the start to temper any of that unruly anger

[rox-of-iu]

me + mayhem going on a stupid silly hike for my stupid silly mental health

touched grass and i am normal again (lying)

[calyptramoths]

I LOVE QUEER ELDERS

[sonofsin]

cold and small and scared but I feel stupid about it because I know it's just a freaky shadow and not my dad at the foot of my bed. but I'm still scared.

[agentemo]

it really is going to be 2016 all over again huh

a bunch of proud progressives are going to neglect voting where a bunch of evil conservatives proudly will and the shittiest New Yorker on the planet is going to become dictator for just one day haha so funny and quaint

I'm fucking tired

[huldrabitch]

Can we talk about playing as Jason in Gotham Knights and getting the ends scene? I would fucking love to talk about that and see more art and writing inspired by Bruce going through the exact same effects of the Lazarus pit as his son, and going from blind aggresion to primal protectiveness for his kid. Literally almost killing the person manipulating him, anything to protect his son, never letting the past repeat.

[the-acid-pear-art]

In a way, my complex and long-lived relationship with Undertale as a game and franchise is, too, yuri.

[cosmcther]

Thanks for the assist in advance, star lady. Being practically stranded and left for dead called for desperate desperateness! And that lead to... the big hot thingy being dammed up to the point of lack of proper gravity.

Sorry about the lack of gravity on Earth due to the immense damming of the big hot thingy to, y'know, save their own fur, but hey, better than anyone perishing out here like bugs fizzling under a magnifying glass, right? But... that raised another problem. How would they even get back home.

Either way, Rosalina would be staring at a very deconstructed space ship, and two rodents grasping at the dam they constructed WITH that ship.

(//AARON MY FRIEND AARON I MISSED YOUUUUUU!!!!!!! ❤❤❤)

     The Comet Observatory regarded itself as multifaceted. Though it served as the expansive home of both Rosalina and her Lumas, so too did it accomplish its namesake as an observation station. It was a beacon, a satellite. A place for information to run through and reverberate throughout the cosmos. And currently? There was excessive talk of planets within the Solar System with misaligned rotations. Disastrous. As well as a sudden deep freeze upon those that relied heavily on the heat their galaxy's center emitted. Catastrophic.

     Say no more, the Protector of the Stars was on her way to set the scene back to standard. She could speculate the causes on the voyage there, what mattered most was making sure Earth and its delicate ecosystem weren't set off course.

     ...And that a second ice age didn't eradicate the population en masse as the entire planet faces the harshest winters it's ever experienced, those portions of the planet currently facing away from the Sun becoming instantaneously inhabitable.

        ...And that it wasn't slingshotted from its systematic course and left the Sun's influence entirely, entering some other portion of the Milky Way Galaxy in an extinction-level event.

           ...And assuring that one of the several other planets, moons, asteroids, and comets in the system didn't enter any collision courses with one another due to this major upset.

     Yeah... today was going to be a long day. It's a miracle Earth even exists with how fickle its relationship to its star system is, why does this neighborhood in particular always have to be most troublesome?

     Alas, questions without answers for later. Without further delay, the Comet Observatory would once again live up to its namesake— a celestial-sized baby blue comet would be born from metal and magic, a tearaway take-off towards its new destination. Lightspeed travel is achieved in the fractions between milliseconds. Through galaxies and asteroid belts, past planets and several civilizations that could now say they've borne witness to the largest streaking comet they've ever seen in their lives.

     ...If only the scene of the affair was even an ounce as magical as the trip there. What Rosalina had to bear witness to as the dazzling comet hit the brakes, thus transforming into an interstellar space station for all to see, was a slapdash shamble of a raw metal shield blocking the sun from the Earth's view. Quite the sizable one, too. Oh, and about... let's say fifteen percent of what could have only been a spaceship?

     You know, she's always had quite the mind for putting two and two together, but this? —Haven above, you've just about got her stumped. How did it get here? What is its purpose? How swiftly can she destroy it before irreversible damage is done to the surrounding planets? But thank the stars for closer looks and context clues, she was seconds away from unleashing a volley of arcane destruction upon the wall two far-off beavers were currently clutched to.

     —Wait, run that one back. Did you say beavers...? Beavers? Yes, quite. Beavers in space suits... in front of a wall— ah, no. A dam. Surely it's a dam. Because, you know... Beavers. Some cosmic beavers built a metal dam... in front of the Sun. Mother Void give her strength.

     From here, a telescope now lowered, arms merely folded themselves behind her back as she waltzed into open space. No space suit required. No jet pack to move. No cable connected to her back for when it was time to return. It's a raw force of will that motivates her to move. And it's with a calm demeanor that she strides forward. Almost in the same way a health inspector walks into a rat-infested, mold-plagued, illness-festering restaurant with a smile, thinking 'now this oughta be good' during their approach towards the owner.

     After a few moments of the figure's imminent approach, The Beavers would be staring at a tall blonde woman with, hmm, let's say clenched features. Yes, clenched is probably the kindest way to put it.

     "Hi." She began, politely. There is an entire book's worth of subtext to read behind that greeting of hers. "My name is Rosalina Lavonne. Might I ask you fine gentlemen what it is you're doing? Because, while this isn't exactly private property, I'd be remiss if I failed to mention the severe ramifications of building anything within and all throughout this particular area."

[termagax]

like ronnies wuest is ALSO really really good but you basically get to say to her everything i wanted to say. about it not being her fault and about how much i love her and want her to be free and live her own life and not tie herself to a sinking ship forever. girl i love you sometimes your family is determined to wallow in the mud but YOU dont have to. but like you get to tell her that straight up. the combo of not getting to say everything i want to say + arcade LEAVING ME FOREVER. SOMETHING I DID NOT KNOW WOULD HAPPEN. just leaves me with this big aching arcade gannon shaped hole in my heart that will never be filled by anything else as long as i am on this earth. i get to go back to my apartment every night and go HONEY IM HOME and kiss veronica on the mouth. i wont see arcade again for months and months and months of in game time. and i miss him dearly.