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[lockandkeyhyena]

7

Applejack considers herself a sensible pony. 

She doesn’t go on and on about silly nonsense fairy tales the way her younger sister does and she doesn’t lose herself in her work the way her brother does (she insists). 

No thank you, applejack very much prefers to keep her head attached to her neck and her hooves in the mud, just the way Celestia intended.

She doesn’t mind her life, one might go so far as to say she enjoys it. She takes pride in her work and is satisfied in the knowledge that the fruits of her labour are the best in all of Equestria.

Indeed, Applejack is content.

But then she has a dream. 

[silverdragonreads]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: James Bond, Q Additional Tags: Exhibitionism, Public Sex, Frottage, Lapdance, Mission Fic, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot Summary:

“Focus, Mr. Bond,” Q says, and how the bloody hell is he still in possession of his full faculties. James is slowly losing his mind with the way Q circles his hips, the crease of his arse moving over James’s cock in a filthy slide that makes James sweat and leak into his trousers as if he’s the boy here and not Q.

It dawns on him with sudden clarity that the sole purpose of Q’s existence is to torment him in every way possible.

[thatoneluckybee]

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[gabrieldrawsstuff]

Knowing he would fail, he still tried

[pauls-mescal]

PAUL MESCAL as LUCIUS VERUS Gladiator II (2024) dir. Ridley Scott

[vaguely-concerned]

huh. you know something I just consciously put together for the first time about caterina and lucanis' relationship is that through the game we get to hear them talk about each other a lot, but we get very few chances to hear them speak with each other at any length at all. contrast it with other companions whose storylines have elements of 'believed lost/long time no see relative returns!' like bellara and davrin, where we get to see both of them have several pretty in-depth conversations with cyrian and eldrin. hell I think even rook talks with varric longer in the regret prison scene than we ever get to see lucanis and caterina interact directly.

(and when we do see them interact, it's mostly one-sided -- it is, perhaps unsurprisingly, caterina who is doing most of the talking and giving all the orders, as he ruefully observes is her wont after murder of crows. including jumpscaring him with 'you're first talon now btw' and the shocked pikachu face in five acts he goes through in response lmao. perhaps it's more accurate to say that she talks at him and he reacts, than that they talk to each other much.)

it has such an interesting effect too, because in deliberately denying us direct insight or experience and only having this mosaic of description from each of them to go on, as well as forcing us to pay attention to the negative space of what is carefully not said, it's evocative along the same principle that you never actually show the monster in a horror film. if you've read the wigmaker job you have a clearer image of the more uh. worrying elements at play here going in, but there is something fascinatingly insidious and naturalistic in the way it's 'hushed up' in the game itself. she has his complete loyalty both as a member of her house and, more importantly, that of an abused child to a parent figure. he readily admits several times that she's a difficult person to live with, an even more difficult person to be loved by ("even for me. and I was her favourite")... but never once does he actively blame her nor truly conceptualize that he has every right to do so (that he can be angry with her and still love her, because whether he should or not he unavoidably does), or that she might have acted differently than she did, that she made a choice every time to hurt him. even affectionately he speaks of her as a force of nature, an act of god -- something that can't be reasoned or pleaded with or resisted, something you can only hope to navigate with as little pain as possible and pray to survive. let yourself get carried away by the riptide, resisting it will only make it worse. you don't compromise with a hurricane, you just try to find the best shelter you can and cross your fingers while you wait for it to pass and be calm again.

love is that hurricane. you do whatever she asks. you earn her continued affection day by day by never letting her down. you only want the things she tells you it's okay to want and cut everything else away preemptively. ("A wyvern tooth dagger?? I loved wyverns as a boy --Caterina would never let me have one of these, though." and as we have all wept and gnashed our teeth over, it never even OCCURS to him that he's a like thirty-five year old adult man who can buy himself any dagger he wants at any time. she said he couldn't have one. so he'll never have one. that's just how it works. and maybe if Illario could just accept that and find his peace with it like I have, this whole thing wouldn't be so difficult. oh lucanis.)

such is the price -- and the cost -- of being loved by her, it's a loan on which the interest will never stop piling up. you have to keep paying it down in perfection every day if you want to keep it. who got the worse deal there: the grandson who has abandoned everything else in life to live up to that and mostly succeeded, until the day he's so burned out and broken it threatens to no longer be an option, or the grandson who can never seem to scrape together enough worth in her eyes no matter how he begs, borrows or steals it, how he hustles and plays dirty?

one of the worst things that can happen to anyone is to be loved by a selfish god. another one of the worst things that can ever happen to anyone is to not be loved by a selfish god. (hope that helps, boys!) even in betraying everything else, Illario can't bring himself to hurt his grandmother, because that would defeat the whole point. who would he defiantly be proving himself worthy to, without her. in love, devotion, submission, hatred, frustration, bitterness, everything is defined in relation to her, you can spot the gravitational force of it through how the dellamorte family move through time and space. she -- her love and regard and attention -- is still the sun both of their worlds orbit around, even as adults. the game might never tell you outright 'she used to beat and starve them growing up. for their own good you see, so they'd be strong (and broken down enough for her to build them up again however she wanted but I'm sure that's incidental)', but if you know even a little bit about how these dynamics can work the writing is on the wall everywhere you look and all the more unsettling for it.

follow lucanis' freeze-logic and fraught interpersonal catch 22 irreconcilable mixed emotions problems back far enough, looong before the ossuary entered the picture, and you start to see caterina's ghost around every fucking corner. she is so proud of him. (well, she would be. she made him. she forged exactly the knife she needed and it rests willingly, devotedly, in her hands, it would return to her every time because it doesn't know love as anything but to be a knife. his tama never taught him how to be anything else. his biggest fear with her is that she won't even want him back, the way he is now.) to the best ability of her soul, whatever parts of it survived a lifetime of crow politics and 'five children, eight grandchildren, only Illario and me left now', I think she really does loves him. he certainly loves her, with all the sincerity and artless desperation of a child, of the little boy he was once. and what she's done to him (and to illario, for all his shitty gremlin scar-ass antics lol) is awful. the harm is real, and the love is real, and trying to find a way for these two truths to exist in the same space is driving all three of them their own individualized forms of insane. you know. the way only family can and so often does lol.

through implications and short glimpses and having to put the pieces together yourself, you can have the feeling that there is very genuine mutual love and attachment in this relationship... and that beneath that there is something so profoundly wrong. and the sneaking '...oh shit it gets worse the longer I think about it' horror of that is more effective for me at least than the stark in-your-face presentation of the facts of the matter could have been. the love is here. the love is here. it only ever makes it worse.

[haechanhues]

please indulge me

💌 send me a kpop group and I’ll answer:

[ if i stan ]

favorite member / bias line

which member I’d fight (& why)

favorite song(s)

favorite thing about the group

something i’d like to see from them

[ if i’m familiar ]

favorite member if I have one

favorite song(s)

why I don’t stan (yet) / if I want to

question for veteran fans

[ if i’m unfamiliar ]

I’ll listen to their top song on Spotify & tell you my thoughts

I’ll look up photos & tell you who stands out to me

I’ll tell you if I’d look into them more

[dootznbootz]

Odysseus: "I need her to be Mine~" Athena: "...I can introduce you two." Odysseus: "What? Really?! Wait, you know her?" Athena: "Uh, yeah? You think you're my only pet trickster? You just said she was the 'smartest girl in the game', you think I'm gonna ignore that? I'll be right back."

Meanwhile~

Penelope: "...So...The guy who has been watching me from around corners before running away is also one of your favored mortals?" Athena: "Yes, I'm sorry, he's usually a lot smarter than this." Penelope: "...Eh, You know I've had stupid moments too. I'll go say hi."

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

The behind the scenes of the change of Aziraphale's bookshop into a ballroom 😍❤

[eldritchstormisanartblog]

SALVATION,

DAMNATION

[perditionanddiatribes]

idk if i’m supposed to make a new one or not but OuO this is fun. i only use mobile so this might look a bit different.

LAST SONG: Honeybee by The Head and The Heart

FAVORITE COLOR: I don’t actually have one but i like pink a lot.

CURRENTLY WATCHING: I just keep slapping documentaries on while i read fanfic so i have background music, but the last thing i actively watched was Criminal Minds

LAST MOVIE: dawg i don’t even know. i THINK it was american hustle way back in like june at a dates house but i cant truly remember. i don’t watch movies.

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY: spicy and savory 🥰🥰 i love them

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single and just straight chillin.

CURRENT OBSESSIONS: you know i got that tism. supernatural, teen wolf, SPECIFICALLY dean winchester, SPECIFICALLY stiles stilinski, bbc merlin, reading fanfic, my new kitten castiel.

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED: listen i had to do a fucking dylan o’brien twink death crash course for two of my best friends because they’d never seen teen wolf or had any idea who dylan was. saur. TECHNICALLY TWO THINGS “dylan o’brien stiles stilinski” followed by “dylan o’brien 2023”. and brother i was Not disappointed.

tagging @http-lovelyknow @dwcoded @heller-castiel @regret-breathing just because you’re some of my favorite mutuals. no pressure <3

thank you for the tag bestie cody @deancodedinthewater <3 this is gonna get 2014 cringey because. well.

LAST SONG: afton family the story

FAVOURITE COLOUR: currently hunter green and angel blue

CURRENTLY WATCHING: wwdits, only murders in the building and bbc sherlock (💀)

LAST MOVIE: five nights at freddy's (in theatre)

SWEET/SPICY/SAVOURY: all three :)

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: long term relationship

CURRENT OBSESSIONS: spn, dw, wwdits, ofmd, fnaf and knitting/crochet drama

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED: ice flavoured ice cream how to

tagging @magdaclaire @e-mio @realmandolin @perditionanddiatribes @kerryweaverlesbian and anyone else that wants to join <3 (no pressure!!)

[fuckyeahizzyhands]

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

bro chill. that's your girlfriend

transcript:

JENNIFER: Well, what d'ya think? Do I make a good cowboy? MARTY: o////o MARTY: Yeah! Good! Great! Good. Good cowboy. Great. Good. JENNIFER: Ah. JENNIFER: Aw, you really think so? MARTY: Aaugh. JENNIFER: Y'know, Marty, you make a pretty good cowboy yourself- MARTY: I do? JENNIFER: Yeah, you do. DOC: [LIVE DOC REACTION] DOC: *AHEM*. When you're done with that... about the Delorean... JENNIFER: (forgot he was there) OH MY GOD.

[gauntletqueen]

Gang watch me do this jump watch this check it out look watch watch

[seethegreatescape]

Surprise Song Bingo!

Ok new game! DM or ask me your completed bingo board by tomorrow’s show so I can verify a winner, and then throughout tour keep track of your own board and first person to bingo wins! What do you win? I dunno but I’m willing to put some money behind this to make it fun lol so maybe like a piece of merch of your choice up to a certain price? A gift card? We’ll see but there WILL be a prize

[flovoid]

‘tied by blood and yet, you are my greatest nemesis…’