#perhaps but i'm desperate

[ravneski]

I can't be the only one who thinks the Doctor quoting from Philip Larkin's An Arundel Tomb is a reference to Amy and Rory, right? Moffat loves his intertextuality, after all.

[madisoncounty]

— the oresteia

[joblessquinoa]

Me watching ULS: wow Hotae is so intense, I wonder what his deal is

Me revisiting ULS after watching TTOF: Hotae has experienced levels of yearning and desperation previously unknown to man. All things considered, he's handling it pretty well

[lemoniiiiiii]

me judging violet as if this wouldn't be me if a boy like tate came into my life

[thelaurenshippen]

desperate hollow

me / alan foster / dorothy / @vintagecowboy / saintseneca / squirrel flower / @julykings / me again

[moonymode]

i understand the appeal of angsty wolfstar i get the rationale and i do think that is part of the main draw and like i've definitely been sucked into the wolfstar doom spiral many times. but also i do think their relationship is more forgiving than is really acknowledged on here. like as far as we know, there wasn't actually all that much strife between them post poa, actually. they're often presented as a unit even when there's no literary utility to that choice (joint christmas present my beloved), they both go out of their way to forgive each other even when we, as readers, question the sanctity and ease of that forgiveness. they're extremely quick to support each other and provide a united front, to the point where they both immediately change their answers to suit the other when they do contradict. and even from this perspective there's a lot of toxicity and enabling and codependency and unhealthy shit you can read into their relationship without manufacturing drama. sometimes the drama is that they love each other so much that they could forgive the unforgivable, even when they know they shouldn't. or that they're too afraid to conflict for fear of abandonment. but ultimately i think the greatest tragedy IS that they were briefly each other's greatest hope for healing and love. it's not a tragedy if there's no hope in the first place you feel me

[front-facing-pokemon]

[chickensoupleg]

oooh ok if you’re wanting prompts- robin chrissy and heather’s days off finally align, but they all have different things they want to do together. do they bicker? make a plan? compromise?? 👀

So I'm imagining they all have entirely separate jobs because of course they do. Robin's got her job doing whatever, let's say she's managed to snag a job (With Steve of course that's her work best friend never leave home without him) at the local Waffle House so her work hours are weird and sometimes she's going to bed the moment her wives wake up, Chrissy is working as a gymnastic coach, and Heather has somehow gotten herself into being a volunteer firefighter. Chrissy has the most flexible schedule (Get it) out of all of them.

They do love their jobs, but man is it brutal on their date nights.

Eventually they do manage to get a weekend together, and of course they don't want to waste it!

Problem is the how. Heather just wants to have a normal date night so she wants to go out and eat after a nice walk around town. Robin doesn't want to be near a restaurant because she is positive the waitress mentality will embarrass her in front of everyone ('Babe you work at a Waffle House it's not that fancy.') ('Heather baby my sweet sweet flaming ball of my miserable yet enchanting life I will accidentally walk into the kitchen if I'm not careful.') ('... Robbie why would you be in the kitchen?') ('Tickets.') ('Ah.')

Chrissy wants to spend the entire time in the house, cuddled up with each other and being lesbian wives doing lesbian wife things like holding hands and see how close they are to succumbing to building furniture for fun. As sweet and relaxing as that sounds somehow it feels like a waste just being home and doing absolutely nothing. They're not gonna have this much time again for a long while they might as well use it! (They do sleep in bed a little longer together regardless. Chrissy is a lump in the blankets, Robin has sprawled over everything, and Heather is octopused around the closest things which are usually either her girls or a pillow)

Robin wants to commit crimes of the loving but frankly a little concerning kind.

We can't let Robin commit crimes.

No matter how much Chrissy and Heather also want to commit crimes.

So they do bicker for a while over the span of a week before the actual days off in the form of many, many sticky notes stuck to bathroom mirrors, passing conversations, muttered sleepy time musings, messengers in the form of sending whoever they could convince to go between work places, phone calls, and even one (1) point in time where they were just in the same bathroom together.

In the end they ask Steve, date-life extraordinaire, for advice, who just tells them (in a fit of this man was rudely awoken) something about how girls like spas and stargazing. He's totally making something up.

It gives Robin an idea immediately, even if it makes no sense and takes a little convincing. A nice and relaxing spa day followed by shuffling off into the wilderness and laying underneath the stars! Perfect! No sitting around at home but also plenty of relaxation and being all date-y!

(It ends up being the greatest date night ever.)

(Even though Steve is a little worried when Robin came back with a photo of them in a tree while a bear was sniffing around at the bottom.)

(And when Heather came in to regale the tale of how Robin does not believe she could wrestle a bear.)

(... And how Chrissy accidentally kicked a bear in the face and apologised as told by Chrissy herself.)

[raayllum]

Reaching for hope

[piplupod]

and i often get upset with myself for complaining and venting as much as i do, or also for being as anxious as i am, but given the circumstances that I live in, I do think realistically I am being ... incredibly "well-behaved", all things considered. i could be acting so much worse.

but i do still wish i weren't so ... [gestures vaguely at this whole mess] because it's off-putting for people! and understandably so! but i wish i could make friends!

[safyresky]

Scrimbly Jacqueline 18/52: this is how Dite meets Elle. Canonically.

INTO THE SHADOWS SPOILERS: Cupid gets Legend-napped and Dite is the big sad about it and sees Jacqueline first when she goes to report it and this happens. That's her emotional support sprite, sirs!!

Elle is with Jacquie as this is ALSO when Jacquie is introducing the other Legates to Elle and when this happens, I imagine it goes like this (since the TEXT GOT CUT OFF):

Dite, sobbing, looking at Elle: who's this?? :( Jacquie: Oh! Right! Dite, Elle. Elle, Dite. Dite: IT'S A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU ELLE (SOBS HARDER) Elle, muffled: Likewise! Sorry about your Dad!

This is around Chapter 11 territory? Jacqueline shadows Dite all day and I can't decide if it ends with Jacqueline getting Dite safely to her mom's place (underworld), or Dite having a sleepover with the besties themselves, lol.

Elle is @shittyelfwriter's blorbo!!! Sorry her hair is so LIGHT I only have 2 browns and they are somehow nearly EXACTLY THE SAME COLOUR

[andromeda3116]

you know i wonder where the essay is, i certainly don't have it prepared, what it reflects about society, that the '99 trigun was a fun action western-sci-fi anime with a plot that wove itself out slowly and had plenty of heart that got serious eventually but was also a quirky romp through most of its run

and the '23 trigun stampede is a dystopian sci-fi set in a crumbling desert that can barely support life with a dark plot that drags you under immediately and also does have a lot of heart but ultimately appears to have the theme of scavenging that heart from a place that gives you no reason to believe it exists

like, as time capsules i feel like it's unintentionally saying something about us, about where we've come to and come from, that the same basic story is told in two such wildly different ways, after less than a quarter-century

[butchboromir]

today i will write for realsies. not now. but at some point

[seapasture]

I sometimes hate having a hyperfixation or a particular favourite character because as soon as someone else expresses having a similar level of interest with me, I feel so fragile and so threatened. It's as if I have lost some claim to the object of interest; they have more right to appreciate it than I do. I am a stray animal hoarding scraps, and they are so easily pulled away from me no matter how hard I clutch at them. It is pathetic and embarrassing.

[seagullcharmer]

i wish i knew how to write. how to tell stories and show glimpses of other lives

[rathologic]

helloo rathologic how does it feel to always be so based.....i have an actual question: since there were originally meant to be 7 playable characters in p1, three of them being the ones we have and also the planned alexander block and aglaya, who do you think would be the other two characters? or just overall which characters do you think would be interesting to play as?

Benedict from the 2002 techdemo! since he did largely get developed into the person we now call the bachelor, it's hard to say how he fits into the original seven wrt: none of the healers really existing at this point. but an intriguing guy he "knows nothing about medicine" and is making it up as it goes which would be SO fun in a healer... if I had to guess any other "unique" npc from that demo it'd be kuron, who was at least relevant enough in the writers' heads that his name was reused as a mythological figure in p1

it's not a big chance at all but the techdemo including maria kaina makes me wonder if they'd conceived of letting us play as her-- with 7 playable characters incl. the emissaries you can't have em all be healers right? She's very different from the maria we have in the final game but in any case maria route would be fascinating :-)