#not really SHIPPING in the traditional sense

[dish-licker]

Cross posting this ValAngel thing I put on twitter. Tw for abusive relationship.

Valentino with memory issues from all the years of hard drugs. He forgets where he left his phone, why he summoned his assistant, what he likes to order at restaurants. When he forgets, he gets frustrated and lashes out.

So Angel keeps track of things for him. He makes a mental note of where Val puts his keys and remembers his favorite foods. In peaceful times, he does it out of love, to dispel the lost expression on Val’s face. When things are bad, he does it to avoid Val's temper tantrums.

But he walks a tightrope. If he’s too forward with his help, Val will take offense and lash out. So Angel flirts and flatters and makes Val think everything is his idea.

“I'm hungry,” Angel pouts cutely, because he’s noticed that Val hasn't eaten in hours and he always gets cranky when he's hungry. “Take me to that place I like?” It’s actually the place that Val likes, but this way he gets to feel like he's spoiling Angel. The strategy has worked well in the past. Valentino likes to feel magnanimous- as long as Angel is properly grateful, of course.

Val can't find his keys, so Angel surreptitiously sweeps them up from where he saw Val toss them earlier. He drops them onto the couch cushion nearby when Val is looking away. When he looks back, even with his poor eyesight, Val spots the keys. Crisis averted.

They get to the restaurant and slide into the booth. “Want me to read ya the menu?” Angel asks, and he knows it's a mistake when Val’s eyes narrow. He’s about to say that he can read the fucking menu himself, he's not blind, but Angel thinks fast.

He tilts his head and frowns down at the menu. “Hang on. Is this thing in French or somethin’? I can't read none of this.”

Val relaxes. “You're so stupid,” he says affectionately. “It's a good thing you're pretty.”

The menu is in Spanish, not French, and Angel knows it. But he mispronounces half the words as he reads them aloud so that Val can chuckle and correct him each time.

Val orders fajitas, so Angel gets the enchiladas that Val likes. When the order arrives, Angel takes a bite and moans with pleasure. “Soooo good. Try this, daddy.” He feeds Val a bite from his fork, and Val brightens immediately.

He tells Angel that it's just the way his grandma used to make them- a thing he's told Angel a dozen times already, but Angel doesn't remind him of that. He lets Val eat his food while he picks at Val’s abandoned fajitas.

They drink margaritas and cuddle in the booth, making fun of the waitress, gossiping about which of the restaurant’s other customers are hot enough to feature in Val’s movies.

Angel prides himself on being able to handle Valentino. He senses the slightest shifts in his moods, defuses his anger before it flares. This time, Angel navigated safely through the storm. Now he gets to enjoy Valentino at his flamboyant, affectionate best.

On days like this, it's easy to dismiss the days that didn't go well. When Angel missed a signal or failed to suppress an eyeroll, or snapped an “I know,” after Val told him the same anecdote for the hundredth time, only realizing his mistake when Val yanked him off his feet.

When Angel lets himself be flattered by the pet names that Val murmurs into his ear, when he bites his lip when Val gets handsy with him under the table, when the bad days are the farthest thing from his mind…Angel has to wonder which one of them actually has a bad memory.

[captaincanonly]

none of these make sense. send help. i’ve gone woke…..

[comtessacrow]

LOVE being a multishipper it’s my favorite thing actually like why wouldn’t I love this guy with this dude and also sometimes this other one

[40cleverways]

Intrusive Thoughts are tricky, especially when they’re not yours.

[insufferablemod]

hmm realizing that the ship i like properly Ship the most is probably arasol...

[pankomako]

not self-shipping, not oc x canon, but a secret third thing. oc x self

[piperslovebot]

Jay and Nikki bonding over their heartbreak (◕‿◕✿)

Nikki with someone who treats her right (◕‿◕✿)

Jay moving on from the Nate/Leia fiasco (◕‿◕✿)

Jay and Nikki being Eric and Jackie coded (◕‿◕✿)

Jay and Nikki being happy together (◕‿◕✿)

Jay and Nikki both being intellectual equals and bonding over their passions (◕‿◕✿)

Jay and Nikki being domestic (◕‿◕✿)

Jikki (◕‿◕✿)

(Shamelessly stolen here)

[57sfinest]

Are there any aspects of DE that you wish people talked about more often? Conversely, are there any aspects that you wish people talked about LESS often/that you think people don't really understand?

honestly i think the discussions about disco elysium are pretty well-rounded as long as you're looking in the right places. i've posted my fair share of analysis on various subjects and i think all the main themes of the game have gotten coverage, but i definitely would like to see dora talked about a little more-- for how important she is, i feel i don't see a lot of serious posts about her

as for less often? idk, fandoms are fandoms and i'm not gonna poke that particular sleeping bear, but suffice it to say that i've never had a lot of interest in shipping, so there's a lot of fan content that just isn't up my alley

[fitzrove]

jfkfkdkddk i just realised it's gonna take me a couple months to release my video essay so maybe i'll just blurt out some of my tanz der vampire hot takes now

- ALFRED IS THE MAIN CHARACTER come on you guys,,, you can like and be interested in other characters but it's a problem when the show itself doesn't remember how it was written. The very structure of the show (music, dialogue, plot, scenes) rebels against trying to change this and productions that push him aside just end up jumbled and messy. It's literally a main reason Kunze hated Broadway Tanz

- tied to this, so many people view carpe noctem as this "haha weird random nightmare dance number, guess it was added to pad the runtime" like no... that is literally a way for the show to metaphorically recap and further develop the central themes of the show to the audience at the beginning of act 2... open your eyes...

- I'll take Kunze's "tdv is a musical symbolizing the fall of the berlin wall" (true take of his) over "a longterm relationship with krolock is the ultimate way for sarah to liberate herself" any day. 😭

[fennel-tea]

I had some thoughts piling up in my brain so I pulled up that limbus shipping chart going around. Hear me out ok

[franeridan]

rereading wholecake really is making me wish we'll get to see sanji at least once seriously in love with someone, he's so fucking weird tbh. he'll be infatuated to the point of incapacitation for the first ten minutes of constant exposure to a pretty girl and then he'll mostly start acting normally once he's gotten used to her presence, but then what does actual love look like on him? reading this arc makes me so curious

[lightbulb-warning]

Do you have specific LGBTQ+ headcanons for Kokichi and Shuichi?

nope! nothing specific ^^

[seddair]

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[40cleverways]

CW: EYE STRAIN / GLITCH EFFECT Below the Cut!

Intrusive Thoughts are tricky, especially when they’re not your own.

[soubiapologist]

ok something that i've noticed about this. fandom i guess you could call it broadly speaking is that people will ship anyone with anyone even in nasty ways but i do not recall ever seeing anyone actually shipping soubi with seimei which is really funny to me for some reason

[my-amygdala-is-synthetic]

I'm so obsessed with Rocket x Nebula and ik I'm alone out here but rakes my fingers down my face

the history. the connection. the loyalty. finding familiarity in each other's flaws. two lost souls discovering solace in one another's company. realizing that they aren't as broken as they always thought they were. do you understand me yet,