#ouuuuughhhhh

[jerichoes]

also. my final squad is gale astarion lae'zel. and let me tell you. with the way this playthrough has played out, including the romances. gale is not over her. he's not over her he's not over her he's not over her somebody kill me

[madwickedawesome]

moulin rouge spoilers under the cut 🤭

do u think when he was holding her body after he felt her go limp (like in below) he started singing their song into her ear and repeating that he loves her despite the fact that he knew their time together was up . christian entering an entirely catatonic state upon losing the only point in life for him and just refusing to let go of her and accept that he would never hear her voice again Just a thought lol haha

[decarabiandivorce]

HELLO!!!!! hands u silly little ffd au comic that took way to long

OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH MY GODDDDDDD [instantly gains +100 energy]. OH MY FUCKING GOD.

ITS

OH MY ITS THE DECA AND THE BARD AND THEY ARE BEING FAMILY (UNFORTUNATELY 😔)

i just love how Deca's speech bubbles are Like That. Hes so tall. And NB is so short. So tiny. Litttle little baby guy!!!

Its so shape. NB's back to the camera for the first shot then the next shot is Deca's smug ':)' face. Ough i lvoe love lvoe eeeee

And the next page!!! NB subconsciously calling Deca his dad is MWHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGGAGAGAGAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA

....

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im normal

Also just oove how this part Bends Inwards with NB's expression. He is shouting so much and this is Pushing The Pose and I love it. Adds some Impact to it. A genshin impa-

[greyswarden]

thinking about zev/ariel today. what if we both know what it’s like to live in a cage. what if we were mirrors. what if i was a mage and been told my whole life that i’m dangerous but you told me that being dangerous and even exciting is attractive. what if we both are trying to be independent and have agency. what if we found love and freedom in each other. what if we got married. just something to think about

[honexjams]

WATCH DEAD BOY DETECTIVES HOLY SHIT

[koasku]

ouuuuughhhhh

[teddybeartoji]

ouuuuughhhhh suguru bringing his streamer!beloved meals bc they tend to forget when they're gaming yk.... he comes in and the chat goes wild at the mere sight of his body in the background but then they see how you look up at him when you say thank you and they see his smile just before he kisses your forehead and then they actually just all explode, screaming and crying in chat bc of how perfect you guys are together<33333333333

[gnashingwailing]

GIRL (gender neutral) HELP NOT THE PEER REVIEWED HOMOPHOBIA

@fireflywritesgt sending u my ch 24/25 thoughts <3

⬆️How Harry looks processing how upset he is that Joe nearly died in a lake while lovingly making him tea for his hangover

Meanwhile, Joe: I hope sober Joe knows how to deal with this Sober Joe:

First off. this is primarily a reflection on Joe & Harry throughout these last two chapters but I would be remiss not to mention how EXTREMELY fed I am by the Gutters lore ... was HE a pet or was it someone he cared for... either way... woof. Plus Calloway coming to Joe's rescue once again... even though there are now rumors and Gutters saw something. In parallel with the marking scene ... this story does such a great job of balancing the horror with the levity. maybe it's for the best Joe isn't telling Harry the particulars of his visiting Calloway's bcuz Harry might just have a heart attack if he stops and thinks through the implications of all this. Wonder if he realizes how much danger he might have put Joe in... he seems to kinda forgor everything else where saving/supporting Joe is concerned (as seen in ch21 when he wanted to bring Joe to see O'Grady...)

(Btw I love the way (sober) Joe will NEVER admit anything re: Harry saving his life lol. “You just threw me into a curtain 🙄“ “I don’t even remember the turtle 🙄”)

“He knew what the medical journals had to say about homosexuals; hell, he had read them! He had to give himself some credit, however. The little bastard had been drunk as a skunk, lying helplessly in his hand, and the worst Harry had done was march him straight upstairs to tuck him into bed. Whatever pathology Harry himself had, it had not gotten the best of him yet.”

GIRL (gn) HELP NOT THE PEER-REVIEWED INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA… The Harry chapters always hit soooo hard for me when you read between the lines of what he’s thinking. He is SUCH a poor little guy… We can see pretty clearly that Harry thinks of his affections as something poisonous but Also apparently as something predatory? “his pathology” “getting the best of him” being like… what? That he’d take advantage of him because he’s attracted to him ? Is that the kind of thing the research said? UGH IT BREAKS MY HEART. I hope he’ll reject his coping mechanism of rationalizing and dissecting everything and just let go and trust Joe to know what he wants! It would be really tragic if Harry tried rejecting Joe much the same way Georgie rejected him :’(

“Harry, though he hated to admit it, was afraid – not of Joe himself, but what Joe represented.” - OUUUUUGHHH THE PARALLELS… the way Joe thought the exact same thing after the night of the thunderstorm… ouuuuughhhhh save meeee...

And the parallels continue in their tendency to self-harm… Joe may be more overt about it (lol if Harry ever learns that Joe has purposefully eaten poisoned chocolate three. times. and fully thought he was doing it a 4th with Harry’s own offering … #girl…) but Harry’s absolute repression of any self-expression or vulnerability is equally a form of self-harm… questioning Joe’s ability to make his own decisions is such a sad expression of how Harry (maybe unconsciously?) views things — safety and staying alive is worth more than authenticity. Maybe he won’t stick Joe in a cage anymore but he still wants to exert control over him — in the relatable way many of us do when we feel like our loved ones are making bad decisions. And Joe is making some of those! But so does everyone! And in Joe’s case the worst of them are likely driven from years of internalized self-loathing and self-neglect !! He would probably chill out if he just had a good man waiting for him at home……. Taking Harry by the shoulders and shaking him. U are both two sides of the same coin

Except

“Unseasoned. The word crept back into Joe’s mind. Calloway had a point, he realized; Harry wasn’t acting all that different from some of the lesser-experienced boys of Joe’s own size that he had toyed with. Surely, though, Harry didn’t find Joe attractive. That would be absurd!” Holy shit this whole chapter is so good but this part is hysterical. 1. TOYED WITH⁉️ 2. Watching Harry’s brain overheat in real time while 3. Joe getting to enjoy flirting shamelessly (clapping and hollering that he got to do that AND got to be sober to remember it) WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY BEING LIKE 🤨 there’s no way he finds me attractive tho. How do they both manage to be such conniving little bastards and also so innocent. So clever and yet soooo dumb. 💕

But even tho he’s somewhat in disbelief about how Harry feels about him, Joe knows himself so very well lmao. At first I thought he was lying about not remembering their conversation but. I don’t think so. Harry telling him he said “something very nice” to him and Joe being like. Was it that you had a nice ass. LIKE HE WAS THIS 🤏 CLOSE TO THE MARK BDDJSHHD but ALSO even just calling Harry handsome made him a blushing mess!! It fascinates me that Harry is so terrified of receiving affection but he felt much more at ease when he was giving it. I mean, he was calling Joe handsome two chapters ago‼️ I think Joe can be forgiven for his romance-novel-brain idealizing Harry as a seductor. It says something interesting about Harry’s character that he’s been so comfortable complimenting Joe until it might lead somewhere … Is that open, easygoing kindness, the sort that compliments other men readily, the ‘real’ Harry? Was Joe seeing his unvarnished personality before it got hidden under the internalized homophobia that has come out in force since ch22? I get the sense Harry is just the sort of guy whose true feelings sometimes spill out of him in a way he is barely cognizant of. We know that’s true for his anger, but I could see that being true for his affection, too. I’m guessing that is why his internal monologue goes “wow! He’s like a movie star :) and he’s so brave and cool and I respect him so much. He looks like a dancer. And his clothes look so good on him. And I notice his haircut and whether he’s getting enough sleep and every scratch and scrape and other intricacy of his appearance immediately. Yeah, I can’t help but love him - you know - like a brother or a friend!!” 👈 UNSEASONED

"“So you admit it. I’m up here because I manipulated you, and not because you manipulated me.” Joe said." — omfg. On the one hand, I love that these two are so good at unhanding each other, and it’s very cute to me that they’ve both at different points felt proud for “catching” one another. On the other hand, Harry & Joe when they are tasked with cultivating a mutually nurturing and vulnerable relationship:

WHAT IF NEITHER OF YOU ARE MANIPULATING THE OTHER AND DOING THIS BECAUSE YOU LIKE ONE ANOTHER AND YOU’RE BOTH CHOOSING THE UNKNOWN. WHAT IF THAT WASNT BEYOND BOTH UR KEN RN. What then. One day they will quit playing Tom and Jerry-esque mind games with each other but not today. I know the rituals are intricate. I know. I know they’re intricate 😔😔😔

On a lighter note so glad to see Joe’s other go-to behavior is back. If he doesn’t wanna Just Walk Out then he wants to Fuck Around & Find Out <3 I luv how compatible the two of them are… Joe is not only moving in he's turning Harry into the u-haul service and Harry is just enamored with him for it. Faithful hunting dog retrieving game indeed. Submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to its sheep. 10/10 Joe got his ass so good.

"“I’m sure you[‘ll listen to me]. You have to. If I’m gonna be the tiny, then it means you have to be the giant and do everything I say all the time.” He said." — Hmm. Joe and I have the same g/t fics bookmarked I think 👍 I sort of get the same sense that Harry got when Joe was talking about “luck” — that maybe the idea of “being the tiny” vs “being the giant” has some cultural connotations for him we don’t quite grasp.

OH this reminds me of the question I meant to ask you and promptly forgot about. If miniatures have a taboo against taking things without giving something in return… what does it feel like for Joe when Harry just keeps giving him stuff? Does “paying me in sleep” really work in borrower cultural norms? Hazarding a guess, I’m assuming romantic partners don’t necessarily operate on the same principle of equivalent exchange… given “Joe’s got a rich boyfriend that’s spoiling him” being something Calloway reads as normal/expected … That is to say. Hmm. Is Harry giving Joe all these things something that a romantic suitor would do? 🤔 Harry the unknowing seductor…

Parting thoughts… Miss Wilkins’ dad suddenly came down with tuberculosis, huh. Gang, do we know how Harry’s mom died, other than that it was sudden and traumatic? How do we think Harry is doing re: pushing all his feelings & unprocessed trauma down at this time. 👍/👎?

[terranatior]

Me w this version of Harry Osborn

Not a spoiler but I simply think Spider Man 2 ps5 MJ, Peter and Harry should be poly and have a cozy little home together thank you

[hyp-fixator]

I dont usually share colouring updates but OUUUUUGHHHHH.... HE SHINY.

Finished version

[self-hatred-h00die]

ouuuuughhhhh i have a fever and im just incredibly Unwell and i had to call out of work WHY

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

I'm flared up and I should go to bed but I keep thinking about what it'll be like four or five years from now when I will have seen Senpai live in concert for likely the last time and have one final chance to talk to him... who do I want to be at that point in time? What do I want to say I've accomplished after being brought back to life again? What do I want to be able to thank him for?

I'm just giving myself another mini existential crisis, aren't I.

OUUUUUGHHHHH

[seaoreos]

@princeinsomniavoid

part of the madness

[chajunhwanlovebot]

ouuuuughhhhh…..

[greyswarden]

ariel was scared to death over his harrowing because all he knows is that some apprentices come out of it new mages of the circle, and there are some that don’t come out at all, but he wills himself to put on a brave face and be externally calm about it because he absolutely refuses to show any fear in front of the templars when they drag him out of bed in the middle of the night to take him to the harrowing. and yeah he does in fact tell jowan what the harrowing is when he passes his and wakes up from passing the fuck out after it

[mossy-green-aka-ferrythem]

Ouuuuughhhhh... Faust Erotic! Oh!