#not overly romancy

[overlyspecificmcrmemes]

it’s time to find resellers and hunt them for sport

[vulpixelates]

i know it will never happen but i so desperately desire an origins-type playable backstory thing in all games but especially veilguard. i feel like it added so much depth to origins and made you feel instantly connected to your character in a way that gets lost in games like inquisition where you fill in the blanks as you go except for the bare basics. like, i do enjoy the freedom to willy nilly decide where a character was before the events of the story from a creative perspective, but the playable origins were just so good! especially when you go back to where your warden is from and can engage differently with the arcs there

[perplexingly]

Whenever I read fics that use Trucy’s supernatural perceptiveness so she can read how other people feel about each other, I can’t help but wish it was more focused on her like

[elssbethtascioni]

See, I don't mind if you yell because I know you're not really angry with me. Oh, yes, I am. No. So, you can yell and throw things and tell me to go to hell because I'm not Pablo or Valentina. I will never leave you.

DEVIOUS MAIDS (2013-2016)

[ladyinbooks]

Tidying up the next RP chapter today. Small spoiler: there are two three characters I'm very excited for everyone to meet.

Unfortunately these characters have a whole bunch of backstory, and more-story, and hello yes I am also elbows-deep in plotting a book about them (it may be two books - you see the escalation problem I have here?!). And I thought 'given all the inevitable space politics and the length of this potential thing, maybe this would be better suited for actual, y'know, traditional publishing in the space opera genre? So people don't have to read quite so much politicking with their romance?'

And then I thought, 'Nah. AO3. Clearly I am meant to subject as many people as possible to free space politics, for fun'. 🤣

(And this thing already includes an arranged marriage, backstabbing, enemies to lovers, slow burn, politics, politics, politics, spying, tragedy, characters earning happy ending(s), feminisation kink, drama, gratuitous use of the word 'wife', betrayal, size kink, 'is it true love if I don't stab him at least once?', and as much fake mythology as I can cram into this bad boy. 😭)

I have... become a little carried away with this...

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Asunder

slow-paced high fantasy

a woman who has a contract with an eldritch entity allowing her to see the dead & survives by taking various jobs

when a job searching for stranded smugglers in a cave goes wrong, she ends up with the soul of a dying stranger bound to her shadow

along with a scholar and her old childhood friend, they travel to his home country to find a way to unbind him and save them both

dark fantasy world with gods, demonic entities, arcane magic, and semi-sentient beasts used as transport

[waltricia]

Colin’s reaction to his sex dream (and my reaction to shirtless Colin):

[justcallmejoe]

"You're in my blood." Flesh + Blood (1985) dir. Paul Verhoeven

[overlyspecificmcrmemes]

logging off of the internet cause i won’t be able to join in on the chaos of buying tickets this time

[befuddledcinnamonroll]

I've just realized something about why I'm enjoying Dangerous Romance so much. It's not the only reason, but it's a big one.

Sailom is one. stubborn. fucker. It's there from the very beginning. At first we're led to see it as a virtue, as he outmaneuvers Kang. But over time, it gets revealed as a critical flaw.

He quits school, not just because of Kang, but because he is going to get the truth out of Saifah and get Saifah out of prison, no matter what it takes. Because he's fucking stubborn! He's going to get the money he needs alone, and fix everything, alone. He is so used to being the smart & capable one, the one responsible for handling things, and sees his problems as his alone. It makes him literally incapable of accepting help from the multitude of people who care for him. You wanna smack him for it - but that is who he is.

Kang is an impulsive asshole. He was at the beginning, and he still is now. He acts on emotion and without thought. He sees what he wants and he goes for it. Something makes him angry and he lashes out. He's been immersed in privilege and emotionally neglected, and his regulation skills suck. And even his closeness with someone like Pimfah can't get that to change. He pushes away the person he loves the most at the absolute worst moment. Because that is who he is.

The only thing that makes an impact, the only way these two break through their flaws, is with each other. Sailom lets himself lean on someone else and accept care. Kang sees how someone else is impacted by his impulsive behavior and learns to put his feelings into a more selfless direction.

Yet these changes don't happen overnight. They take steps backwards. Because that is how real human change works. No one wakes up the next day completely fixed. They have to decide to come back together, and keep working at it. Because a part of them knows they are better when they are together.

And this theme of how the right relationship can help us overcome our deepest flaws extends to the side characters. Guy comes across as assertive, but he fights for other people, not for himself. Nawa reminds him that his dreams are worth fighting for just as hard as he fights to protect his friends. Nawa, on the surface, comes across as cynical and uncaring. The only way he can think of to flirt with his long time crush is to antagonize him. But with Guy, he's able to reveal the vulnerability underneath.

Saifah has had a fairly lackadaisical approach to his (and Sailom's) life. But meeting Name again has given him something to reach for. While Name, who has survived by making himself cold and dangerous, realizes that he wants to be better, and lean towards Saifah's warmth.

I know for some people watching the series, the flaws are too much, and it's too frustrating. But I love it. Real people are flawed. We are all SO flawed. But we can find people in our lives who help make us better. Who encourage our better impulses and call us out on our bullshit.

Maybe in the end it's not all that dangerous. But it's pretty damn important.

[honeycreammilkshake]

i just finished chapter 27 of the summer hikaru died which i kept putting off on reading and...

this chapter just killed me.

not only does yoshiki no longer see "hikaru" as a substitute for the real hikaru, he's also empathizing with him on a much deeper and intimate level than he ever realized. he sees himself within "hikaru" - a lonely soul who feels out of place and misunderstood within this world. someone who had to hide his true nature, sometimes even from his best friend.

yoshiki calls himself a monster like "hikaru" because he feels like he's hiding and isolated from everyone else. but with "hikaru" he's been far more open, honest, and understanding of himself. yoshiki feels like they see themselves in each other. and not only that, he wants them to both be able to live together freely despite how other people are telling them it wouldn't be right or good for either of them.

he wants to run away with this monster??? this monster that he knows has tried to eat his soul, that despite trying to fit in with other people is actually some sort of eldritch being that can't be understood or comprehended by mortals? the monster that more than likely killed matsuura and even attempted to kill asako??

yet during that beach scene in the last chapter, yoshiki was horrified at the idea of "hikaru" leaving him to return to the mountain. he was literally pleading with "hikaru" to stay with him. not because he still thinks of "hikaru" as a filler-in for his friend, but because he wants to see this monster stay cared for and close to him.

he's basically saying he accepts "hikaru." he doesn't hate "hikaru" for not understanding the value of life, he doesn't care that "hikaru" is something truly otherworldly and inhuman, and he doesn't care that he might fully merge irreversibly with him.

he doesn't want them to be taken apart from each other and isn't willing to let "hikaru" go.

it's far too romantic and i might just scream ;-;

[isawhitney]

Love

Scratch out your eyes!

Come on,

Scratch out your eyes with me!

[kahixxi]

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

I know we’re all focused on EUSTACE WINNER and rightfully so but for a second let’s all hold hands and pray that Ray Eddie doesn’t have those weird moments where he keeps asking for a hug from random women/especially Kay anymore in the official translation

[simplyalexeiofficial]

Now that I’m thinking about it, bridgerton really said “We’re gonna give you the carriage scene AND the mirror scene…

…and that’s it.”

[bonnibellexox]

Main Character of My Book Series