#ooooookay

[frostbeees]

( x )

[britneyshakespeare]

Me leaving a stupid ass argument that is beneath me: Always leave them wanting more

[wuzeio]

matt and neil hiking + camping shenanigans :)

matt: nobody wants to go hiking with me .dan is busy and im lonely (sighs dramatically)

neil: I'll go with you Matt :D

matt:

matt:NeilI need you to know that I would do anythiggn for you you're such a good boy you're like my little brother you're a blessingto this world

extra thoughts:

-mosquitos find neil tasty and he still gets tons of bug bites even with the bug spray. sorry neil

-they find a banana slug and neil is enamored

-when they're going to sleep, night 1>

Matt: Neil, I need you to know that I get really clingy when I sleep. so if I end up hugging you, just push me off okay?? That's what Dan does!!

Neil: Okay :o

Matt ends up doing exactly what he said he would. Except Neil can't manage to budge Matt off so he lays there for the next 8 hours having to endure Matt's bear hug and only getting 4 hours of sleep.

[ennn]

Agatha and Rio as star-crossed lovers: Why a happy ending for them is unlikely (for now) but it'll be okay (probably?)

Look, I’m obsessed with these two—both their complex characters, their crazy unique dynamic—it’s a ship I actually can’t play favourites with!

BUT I also fully expect these two will fight it out in the finale and they aren’t headed for a happy ending, at least not a happy ending where they walk off happily into the sunset together at the end of this series and we shippers should maybe try to not freak out about it.

Let’s look at what the show is—in my opinion—telling us about these two. Under the cut for spoilers and my heap of meta thoughts–

Agatha’s arc is about her finding her coven, her community

I’ve written a bit more about the show’s and our protagonist's arc here: Basically underneath all that lust for power, Agatha’s deepest desire is to find a coven, a family of witches she can share her trials and blessings with. Agatha loves powerful witchcraft and she wants someone to share it with.

And she did find Rio. These two incredibly lonely women found each other, fell in love, and probably murdered their way through so many people together.

But then Agatha had a child and realised she could be a little bit less selfish for another human being. And then Rio took him away and they separated but i think they ultimately never dealt with what I think is at the heart of their rift now, of Agatha still having that bit of humanity and vulnerability for human connection in her.

Now of course at this point I don’t know what Rio’s deal is exactly. Is she human? Was she human? What happened in her past? What we do know is that Rio has a certain detachment from people, and that she enjoys watching Agatha kill witches.

Right now Agatha's getting a taste of what having a coven can be like. Something she's not had in centuries. Them working together, making magic together. That moment during the campfire where she realised they were laughing with her. The shared experience of riding those broomsticks.

Yes, covens—like any kind of family or community—can be good or bad. They can lift you up or tear you down. Agatha's first coven and mother failed her, we'll see how this one fares (especially after what we saw in episode 5). Will they be enough to bring out more of Agatha's humanity?

The thing is, Agatha is going on a bit of a character development journey and Rio—whose her world hasn't been rocked the same way Agatha's has—isn't.

Now I don't expect Agatha to turn over a new leaf by the end of the series but I expect her to be in a somewhat different place from where she started, and Rio I expect will not be in that same place. At least not by this series' end.

There is a certain tension at the end of episode 4 after Rio brings up the topic of "the boy". And again when Rio watches Agatha leave the cabin in episode 5. I think Rio is recognising that this isn't the Agatha she knew and first fell in love with many years ago, and she's not happy about it.

Agatha's moving in a direction Rio might not be able to follow, and I expect that's where we'll get our conflict down the road.

In a world without logistical limits, it's not impossible for these two to be together given enough time and character development (and hey that's what fic is for) but with 4 episodes remaining I expect we'll at best get more of a bittersweet resolution for them, after both of them finally let loose the anger they have at each other.

A closing of a chapter, I suppose, but not necessarily The End.

Agatha and Rio love each other, but they also bring out the worst in each other

It’s clear that these two have loved and do still have love for each other. That they found a special connection with each other that has maybe even saved one or the both of them before.

But they can also be standing in each other's way.

I'm reminded of these lines from Killing Eve:

I think my monster encourages your monster, right? I think I wanted it too.

Look, Agatha can't have a community if she keeps killing members of that community in the pursuit of power. Yes, with Rio around, it's terribly romantic: the two of them against the world. But what if Agatha actually wants to be a part of that world, even a little?

And as for Rio, now this is just my theory but it's possible Rio is perhaps too focused on the darker aspects of her role, of her power.

As The Green Witch, isn’t she meant to be more than Death?

I've been marvelling at all the details in Rio's nature-themed warrior witch outfit. It's beautiful, a celebration of life. She clearly has a strong connection with plants; there's a cute spider on her jacket; she's shown some ability to heal. Even her Death outfit has vines and roots forming her chest piece — what happened with Rio to make her hone in on spreading violence and death?

It just feels like there's a story there, to have her be The Green Witch as opposed to a more traditional or mainstream manifestation of a Death entity.

It's clear that these two came together and did monstrous things. There's usually reasons for that. Human or not, I suspect Rio has her own pain, one that's warping the balance of nature. Maybe they both need to heal in their own way, apart from each other.

This relationship is important to the show

Whatever happens, it's clear that this relationship is key to Agatha's story and the show. Their relationship, with its soft moments and sharp edges, filled much of the first episode on purpose and I expect it to play a major part in the finale as well – an appropriate bookend – including the fight between them.

You could even say that it's actually a good thing that these two are getting the focus at the show's start and end. It's always been Agatha and Rio: understanding each other, at each other's throats, pushing each other, tearing at each other, wanting but not meeting each other.

The thing about this being a "small stakes" show is that the cause of the fight happening between them can be very personal. A lovers' quarrel. Rio may simply want to kill Agatha for something she did, or in rage or fear of losing her.

On that note though, these two have such a long and complicated – and as Hahn once put it "toxic maybe but loving" – relationship that one big violent messy fight in itself doesn't worry me. I mean, we've all seen episode one.

Maybe sometimes you have to bleed to let the poison out.

This is still a love story.

[hyohaehyuk]

jacob and sam's reactions to scripted capital letters/exclamation marks (eg “I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!!!”):

via OUT and CornbreadSays - 'Interview with the Vampire' cast talk memes, Claudia, Season 2, & the mechanics of floating

[xitty]

Nagisa: "... Since Ibara isn't here I can't tell if my appearance is strange. Kaoru-kun, can you check?"

Kaoru: "Okay~ Leave it to me. ♪ Actually, you have long hair and nice figure, so I'm interested in your fashion choices, Ran-kun."

[paintmelikeoneofyourfrenchpoodle]

oh :|

[pierswife]

Every single time I get this ad I laugh because honey. Honey. I am not the target audience for this one and probably won't be for a LOOOONG time like at least a year or two long time and even then IT'S A LONG SHOT I'M FUCKING AROSPEC--

[phantasma-mirror]

self care isnt enough, i need medically induced amnesia

[ebitenpura]

being able to actually name Eight as eight in a swtor player name has been funnier than expected bc in a vet FP I was in, instead of addressing him by any written/shorthand version of his name or even his class like they would if it was ffxiv, they just called him "8"

[fulcrcm]

            WHEN DO YOU GET YOUR SOFT ITALICISED 'OH'.

the kiss.

you typically wait until the last second to believe the truth -- because it would destroy you to believe it, and then find out it was a lie. you are someone who has never wanted to want, but has rarely been able to do anything else. the idea that you might have to break down your walls for the sake of someone else, someone who could easily decide they don't like what is on the other side, is harrowing. why let people get close enough to be rejected ? you are enough for yourself. and you will tell yourself that every time you catch yourself staring at their mouth, smirking at their joke, finding a reason to flick their shoulder. until the kiss. that's when the flood of want, want, want bowls over you and you realize that you are torn between two ways of living. Oh, you think. because despite how complicated you have made it, the moment you kiss, somehow, things seem incredibly simple. they won't be once you start thinking again, but for now, for this moment, you live in the quiet peace of revelation. Oh.

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[ace-of-rabbits]

Revenge, madness, magic

Witchcraft, Wisdom, Death...

[unluckystreak]

okay fine i ship rontoto

[jmflowers]

the amount of thoughts and ideas racing around the singular recall of that one line:

“See those lights? That means life.”

[girlcrushau]

x

[mswyrr]

otoh, it's better off white parents who are able to defend that concept of "rights" over their children. poorer people, especially lower income people of color and their kids? Cps will remove kids from a home for being poor basically and then - give foster parents money we could have given the parents. giving foster parents money for disability accommodations after taking a child because the kid's parents couldn't afford those accommodations is a common thing.

child poverty doubled in recent years due to policy decisions under a Democratic president who hasn't fought for poor and working families. and kids removed to foster parents and situations make kids more likely to be pressed into the carceral system, which the Democrats are entirely complicit in. poorer schools similarly fail and abuse kids (cops and other security in schools literally hitting, cuffing, etc kids, and things like oppressive military recruitment). there should be no such thing as lunch money debt etc. in the US, society/government itself isn't such a great "parent."

i absolutely, as a kid of poor white parents, didn't tell anyone about abuse because it was the simple reality that (a) a lot of the abuse was due to the fact that my parents were poor and mentally ill and had little to no support and i knew this (b) i knew the alternatives were worse. i'd seen my brothers in those situations.

society abuses kids. kids are unsafe in unjust, exploitative, -ist societies.

I think the hardest part about addressing child abuse is getting people to acknowledge, not just intellectually but actually responding accordingly, is that the biggest threat to children, the biggest risk of abuse, is family and parents.

it is of course most often parents who are crowing about needing to protect children (often against far smaller threats than family), and pointing out that they are, statistically, the biggest threat to their kids is not gonna be received well.