#piss goblins

[theythemmer]

phinktober day 11: ur fav AU

i dont rlly do AUs so i just drew them how i wish they would dress xo

(dan’s tats r carnations and snowdrops and phil’s r roses and honeysuckle. for no reason 🤗)

ALSO bonus version w makeup bc i couldn’t pick <3

[philsbignaturals]

This video was so insane I haven't even seen anyone mention how the *first* thing they talked about with the colour changing trousers is how it would be obvious if you pissed yourself in them

[colubrina]

I think one of my problems with making friends in the writing community is that I am just constitutionally a fic writer. When I am in original "I want to be published" writing groups, I am always struck by how much the work for everyone else is important and mysterious (sorry, severance, had to steal the line) and I'm like... so, first, I need to do this or the clowns will eat me, but also, this is grubby fun. And they are probably better than me in every way, but I do not relate to their heart warming, intense sincerity. And they can tell.

[lin-sterling]

wtf have I just caught on camera

[cuntholicism]

ok. so we've got the father (dip n pip) the son (phetus) and the holy spirit (golden pig) .. and since the phible is real .. the pheligion is officially canon

[begaydodrughailsatan]

I can imagine any character pissing themselves in a humiliating scenario 

[syncedpheriods]

JOSH IS BACK!!!

[not-poignant]

The latest UtR update on AO3 got me hooked and I could no longer constrain myself and had to read the other chapters on Patreon. Now I need to know: does Lucien have any redeeming character traits in the series or can I add him straight to the list of characters that deserve the worst? That attitude of his towards Faber made me so mad lmao

Hi anon!

This actually reminds me of the ask I got recently about how awful Augus is as a character and how it's impossible to consider him through a positive light after reading Falling Falling Stars. Because that's how he seems if you've never read him in anything else of mine!

My narrators are unreliable, anon. We only ever see Lucien very briefly through the jealous eyes of an insecure man.

(Spoilers for a future brief verbal encounter between Lucien and Faber in Underline the Red).

Lucien is an extremely vulnerable omega who is in an institution that has temporary custody of him. They control what he eats, what he does, whether he leaves or not (i.e. he's functionally imprisoned), who fucks him, if he gets to see anyone else, if he can talk to his partner and family back home and how often. He has significant psychiatric issues around his own insecurities re: jealously and his partner, and he clocks Faber as being in love with Caleb, and he's right.

And that's incredibly unethical of Faber, honestly, to not have disclosed any of this to Dr Gary (like Dr Gary will be right to consider firing him over this in the future). It puts Lucien's mental health in direct and severe jeopardy, and is ironically likely what causes his relapse that causes Caleb to suggest domestic discipline in the first place (oh, Faber, the irony).

Because Lucien's there to learn that actually a lot of his jealousy and insecurity is unfounded. Instead, he learns the opposite, that no matter who he bonds with, someone else is there loving his potential partner while he perceives himself as having very little control (and in the case of Hillview - this is true, all he has are his words).

He's a chronically disabled omega who needs a disability aid (walking stick) to get around, he's a second class citizen, he's agreed with his partner to stay at Hillview because they both recognise how sick he's getting.

Faber is not a mental health patient/omega like Lucien is. He's a staff member who is nursing unrequited loved to an alpha companion, that he's refused to disclose, while still interacting with Caleb and his omegas. Imho, while Lucien is very good at lashing out, he's not wrong to, and that's why Faber fully acknowledges what Lucien is saying and listens to him, and basically never interacts with him again, and avoids Caleb where possible.

Lucien's mean about it, but Lucien is right re: Faber trying to hide his feelings because he knows what will happen if people find out, and that it's also wrong/unfair to put Lucien in that position.

And Faber knows that.

So yeah. The reader is meant to hate Lucien on a surface level, in the same way that Faber does.

But consider that Faber also sometimes seems to hate all omegas. He finds the smell of their heats disgusting. It's actually pretty normal for people to go through a phase of rejecting the thing that they are, if that's something hated in society. Faber's oscillating mixed feelings of bitterness, resentment and cutting attitude is actually mirrored in Lucien.

Faber has thought extremely savage, scathing and unforgiving things himself to the people around him (and himself). Lucien responds to Faber like Faber is an omega (something Faber doesn't recognise yet), because Faber...kind of acts like one in moments like that. (Efnisien also picks up on this, Faber is not great to him in the beginning of Underline the Black, in a very specific way designed for Efnisien to pick up on, and for Gary to miss. Faber behaves jealously, and constantly suggests to Gary that he should get rid of Efnisien, before he finally adjusts to the absence of Gary in his life. Faber is possessive and manipulative!)

Lucien ultimately doesn't need any redeeming characteristics because he's a victim who is at Hillview to heal and Faber is jeopardising that. We can hate him, but that's just the fact. He didn't try to kill Kadek when he arrived at Hillview, he hasn't tried to destroy memories of James, things Efnisien has done even though we love him all the same (ideally). Lucien felt understandably jealous/insecure (literally the thing he's at Hillview to be treated for, safe from people who will be in love with his lover until Faber) and he lashed out meanly.

If a staff member of Hillview can't handle some rude words, they shouldn't work there.

But yeah, I like the Lucien and Faber encounter because they are both extremely similar people in some ways. They are both bitter, jealous, resentful people capable of very scathing thoughts (and words). The only difference is that in that moment, Faber is the recipient and we feel bad for him. I mean, I do feel bad for him. Faber is in a bad place psychologically, it's a horrible thing for him to experience.

If we were getting Lucien's story from his perspective, and saw the panic attacks he had afterwards, and the regression he went through, etc. it might be different. But it doesn't have to be! Lucien in that moment functions as a reality check for Faber, and a very effective one at that. We're meant to hate him, but also meant to understand that Faber's love for Caleb is not as subtle as he thinks it is in the sense that - omegas can see it for what it is.

I personally like the one moment where we see that Lucien might have a heart when Faber admits his parents are dead, and we can see that he doesn't react with savage satisfaction, but like Faber broke the narrative he'd built for himself in his own insecure, jealous, scared mind.

[lavalamps-and-ladydoors]

for all your piss goblin summoning needs 🤫

[luna-the-cretar]

How the fuck did my eyes stay mostly dry while watching episode 46, but then I immediately start crying by hearing Torbek sobbing in episode 48. Nothing sad is even happening, just Torbek’s cries are shattering my heart and I just want to give him all the hugs in the world :(

[nam-oscar]

Idk

[harpers-tartarus]

Me writing the goblin king riz au: I'm about to make Nara the most toxic person in Fallinel and Riz HATES HER

[cruesuffix]

i see a lot of people calling mick ugly but its not like hes would give u a chance anyway 😭😭

anyways... mick makes me feral iswtg sometimes i feel like getting all fluffy w him and later FREAKY 👹

i hate when ppl call mick ugly OR unconventionally attractive. there’s nothing unconventional about mr blue eyes!! he’s a pretty boy, but because he was older than the rest of the guys that automatically means no one was fucking with him. that’s completely untrue. just because the rest of the band doesn’t talk about it, doesn’t mean he wasn’t pulling any chicks! i have plenty of stories of him getting chicks. there’s one article from some british magazine where the reporter talked about how mick just like pointed at a blonde chick he saw backstage and said “i’m taking her!” and then the reporter said he saw mick walk away with said blonde chick. he wasn’t some sad pathetic case like so many ppl want to think. like that one website article that named him one of the ugliest rockstars and talked about how they doubted he got to bag the groupies like the rest of the band did. completely false. maybe he didn’t fuck as many crue groupies as ppl think he should’ve… but that’s probably because he didn’t want to, not because he couldn’t!

like what’s ugly about him? nobody’s answered that question for me yet! a bunch of unfortunate looking photos where he doesn’t look glammed up and picture perfect make you think he looks ugly? pathetic. there’s SO many photos were nikki or vince look dead disgusting but i’m not going to call them ugly or creatureesque cause of it! so why do we automatically look at a bad pic of mick and go “eeww disgusting he looks ugly!!” for every “bad looking” photo of mick, there are ten more where he looks like an angel that was sent to earth to protect us. all that, and yet everyone just looks at him and goes “ewww he’s old and ugly!!11!” FUCK OFF!!!!!

he’s literally conventionally attractive yall just aren’t true old man enjoyers like yall say you are!!

(also i too like to get all cutesy and freaky about my mans… that’s the duality of men ofc!!)

[begaydodrughailsatan]

Getting into tf2 is GREAT like theres a whole character who pisses in jars and throws them at people as a melee weapon

[eggcats]

I strongly believe, that about 5-10 years into Maia's reign as emperor, when he's finally confident/able to REALLY shake things up is when he's going to make HUGE sweeping changes in the culture

Every school/university/higher learning has to take in women or risk losing any kind of imperial funding or being sued for discrimination

No discrimination in any workplace or anything based on gender, marital status, race, sexuality etc

Legalizing marriage for marnei/ decriminalizing being marnei

Somehow doing something about nobles forcing their daughters to become wives and mothers to complete strangers JUST to give their fathers more power

(my brain's not working, but shit like that. that like, if he did any earlier his entire court would try to assassinate him for, but now it's just everyone noble OUTSIDE the court who wants to)

Just like, absolutely FUCKING UP the entire power structure that's been the norm for centuries the SECOND he has enough people in his court and enough knowledge to let him do so

...

The week before the announcements go out for the new laws, he sends a letter to Thara Celehar asking if he is available for a meeting. And he's, Freaking Out. What has he done now? Has His Serenity finally decided to execute him for some offense he's done????

Meanwhile Maia is just SUPER EXCITED to tell him that he's FINALLY made it so he can get married! And Thara is HORRIBLY embarrassed. This is his worst nightmare. Let him sink into the earth this second and no longer exist.

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I LOVE the books on Thara Celehar, don't ever get me wrong he's my babygirl and I love him. But I ALSO want more on Maia and how he's handling his reign (maybe not right now, but once he starts bringing in people he can trust and who have progressive opinions) bc I trust him so much and I KNOW he's going to do so much good as emperor!

[demonsandpieohmy]

Politics under cut

So goddamn sick of seeing posts about how Democratic strategy, voter outreach etc cost us this election.

The Democratic Party didn’t put a gun to anyone’s head and force them to vote for trump.

PEOPLE did this. 72 million people looked at a rapist, felon, and an insurrectionist and said “yep, imma vote for that guy.” PEOPLE with brains and eyes and ears or some combination thereof looked at his words and actions and decided that was acceptable. PEOPLE actively and knowingly voted against the interests of just about every disenfranchised group in the country.

Everyone is responsible for their own actions. No one gets a pass because the Democrats didn’t run enough ads in a certain state or county. They all have access to the exact same information the rest of us do.

And now we all have to live with the fact that 72 million people in our country are either willfully ignorant or actively malicious. And honestly I don’t know which one is worse.