#pretend he has a drink

[councillor-roland]

Roland didn't really normally take slaves anywhere but his suite, normally, or sometimes the music room or a playroom. Perhaps he'd make an exception, if Taliesin proved interesting enough. The Clair de Lune was Roland's type of place, high class and sophisticated, though he didn't eat food, of course. It also held a special place in his heart because it was there that he and Rhys had had their first real conversation and it had lead to their first night together. It would be strange to take a slave there but he just wouldn't take him out onto the rooftop patio, where he and Rhys had met, if he decided to take him there at all. "Do you? Somehow I'm not surprised." Roland smiled at the eyelash fluttering. "I'll have to see what I can do about that."

He raised his glass at the toast and took a sip, watching Taliesin and smirking at the cherry stem trick. "Bravo. Clearly you have a very talented tongue. I'll have to put it to good use after we finish our drinks."

If Taliesin were totally honest, he found high class restaurants rather boring, or at least he had done, when he'd had his freedom. Plenty of men had taken him out for exceedingly expensive dinners, hoping to woo him with a great display of wealth like Taliesin hadn't been perfectly capable of paying his own way. Truth be told, Taliesin had enjoyed seeking out arty spaces, strange little coffee shops that only eccentrics visited, quieter, less well-renowned art galleries, clubs with genuinely interesting clientele, creating the vibes not eating them like... Well, vampires he supposed. Still, he chuckled in response to Roland. "Oh I do like to be spoiled." He fluttered his eyelashes jokingly.

"À la vôtre." He raised his glass, now sitting propped up against the headboard and took a sip. Roland certainly knew how to make a good drink. He took the cherry garnish into his mouth. This was his party trick, knowing how to tie a knot in the stem with his tongue. He'd spent an afternoon figuring out how to do it, bored at university and putting off exam revision. After a moment, he showed the tied stem to Roland, perched on his tongue, before putting the inedible remnants of the cherry in the ash tray.

[sircolinmorgan]

If you want to track down the orchestra members and have a word, it's probably more up your street than Jim's or mine. Most likely just putting a name to him. Be alright with that? I should think I'll manage.

[kacievvbbbb]

I’ve been rereading this lovely fic by @erinyra (it’s great I seriously recommend) and I’ve been doing some thinking and I do think Mihawk should get sick and it could be just like a passing illness or bug but something that lays him out for a bit and while yes I think a sick Mihawk would be adorable and terrifying and I love that for me.

I also think it’d be a way for Shanks to confront his probably latent issues with illness and seemingly untouchable people. After all his captain was as untouchable as they come, literally king of the pirates, but he still got sick and that ruined Shanks life. And here it is happening all over again. Mihawk probably the strongest most unflappable person he knows is sick with some unknown disease (not really his anxiety riddled mind just can’t process what Hongo is saying) And Shanks is not handling it…..well.

Shanks can withstand many things; any manner of injury or bodily harm to him and his loved ones that’s fine they can walk it off. but illness? he does not fuck with illness…

[umemiyan]

everyone says nanami could fix them (which is great i hope u r living ur absolute best life truly) but to me he gives the vibes of someone who lowkey drinks himself to sleep every night 💀

[ohlookitsthearkhamknight]

Theres nothing more i love to read than Tommy’s first crush being Sal to the point he would do anything for an ounce of his attention that slowly broke his heart but he was desperate to feel any love and would put up with Sal being an asshole and never reciprocating his feelings. Like mmm thats the good shit. (Im totally not projecting lols)

I love that its not just Evan thats learning to be loved and wanted, its Tommy too i just love that vulnerability *chefs kiss*

more hc in the tags

[emmetofthestars]

part of me wants to bite carl but ik he'd be sad so i'd opt for picking him up like a beautiful pebble off of the ground and putting him somewhere safe i think

one mistake i see carl owners make is not giving him a proper hideout burrow. theyre very sensitive to light and even with the helmet they need somewhere to rest because the bounce light is also quite irritating. also this ones not that important but you really need to give them something to look at like a U.S. flag or color confetti. yeah i know it sounds dangerous to put confetti in there but they wont eat it, they just collect it and put it in their burrow.

[moeblob]

There was a post I saw about someone who mutually ghosted a guy after a date and kept matching with him and they're not interested but it's the longest "relationship" the person had been in at that point and I'm like. Karen would mutually ghost someone.

She doesn't really tell Brent/Right/Evelyn/Chris his name (he has a double first name, Patrick is not his last name) and just refers to him as "My Guy". Like "Ah damn, My Guy matched again. End my suffering." And when she tries to explain it to Right who does NOT understand how it's different, her logical answer is "it's my God given right to ghost a polite man!"

Also I just imagine her confiding in Paul about Rick and he's like "is his name Patrick" and she's like "kinda". And after that, Paul calls him "Pattycakes" cause he's never even seen the guy so why not give him a funny little nickname. He's allowed to do so at this point probably.

[blusical]

"i miss drunk kane" yeah uh considering the shit that he'd fucking get into whenever alcohol was involved, I'd rather NOT people miss that era, actually!

[ratatatastic]

[randomnameless]

Well, looks like even a broken clock's right at least twice a day; an edelstan on twitter was pissed a few days ago when they saw that Cyril's Meet the Heroes description described his time “working” for House Goneril as “some odd twists and turns”, pointing out that such vague wording was most likely used due to a combination of 3H not caring about Cyril's backstory and IS needing to sanitize Hilda's image so she can sell better in Heroes.

Hahaha,

It's funny because on SPE some people made memes, and you have angry people in the comments, being angry and basically lying or making up facts to either diminish Cyril's uh, "working conditions" in House Goneril, or try to sweep it under the rug to give some "Rhea BaD" takes again

Like :

(meme where Claude doesn't criticise his allies for keeping slaves, but blame racism on the lady who saved the child slave)

"Faerghus is the most violent country because they killed the emperor and enacted a coup while being backed up by mole people" to talk about that time when Loog got his independance

"Rhea BaD bcs Cyril can't learn how to read if you don't support him with Lysithea" even if he writes in the Post TS regardless of recruiting Lysithea or not

"Claude tries to talk to Cyril out of fighting but Cyril drives to a suicide charge with Rhea's blessing so Rhea BaD" in GW, with the source being, idk, since the person who came with that take never sourced it

"Rhea BaD she used the regicide in Faerghus to get rid of her political enemies" you mean the dude who tried to kill her?

"Supreme Leader wouldn't be able to continue warring if Rhea DeD bcs else she would be invading people and would lose public support" like the Supreme Leader? From the land of MAGA? Lose public support?? If she invades nations to restore Adrestia to its glorious past???

"Cyril never said he wasn't eating well in house Goneril" but the JP line says he was always hungry in PAlmyra and Fodlan before coming to the Monastery...

Anyways, as expected, even if FEH tries to sanitise some of Fe Fodlan's most, uh, contentious points, we will always have discourse because some people just prefer their fanon to canon, and while I can understand them to a degree (look Willy is basically fanon at this point) it's always hilarious to see people refuse to engage or even consider that the game they "love" says X when they prefer Y.

When it comes to, in general, Church related characters or Kingdom related characters, we see a lot of discourse like this popping up because while FE Fodlan shat on them (to an extent, for the Church related characters) FEH has to give them the minimum spotlight they give to other characters of the franchise, so yes, Hilda's popularity most likely is the reason why Cyril in MYH just had some "odd twists and turns" (tfw Begnion Senators aren't as popular :( so Muarim was mentionned to have been a slave) but his voiced lines has him mention he was captured as a "war prisoner"...

Putting everything it adds up and we have : Cyril was captured as a war prisoner when he was 11-12 by the Gonerils, was hungry there, complained about "work being hard" there (when Cyril doesn't complain at all in GM despite the huge workload he has!), and implies to Mercedes to have been mistreated in House Goneril because he was Almyran (which matches Hilda's prejudices in her C support about Almyrans).

Why is Cyril's backstory so "discourse rising" then?

Is it because Rhea BaD cannot rescue a child from slavery from a popular character's family/household? Or because Hilda's laziness and preference to let other people do her chores looks especially wrong if we take into consideration that those "other people doing her chores" at home might be children "kept as prisoner of wars and fed twice per week"? Or because it reflects badly on Claude (in both games) who wants to end discriminations and prejudices by getting rid of the institution that rescued an abused child, while working hand in hand with the family that abused said child based on his origins?

(lol@the "but Faerghus BaD" bonus point in the earlier SPE thread I mention, I don't even understand why it was brought up lol)

Back to your post, it's hilarious how this edelstand was pissed becayse FEH whitewashed Cyril's backstory to maybe sell more Hilda alts, when Pat'n'pals try their hardest (in FE16, Nopes and even FEH!) to "alter the script" to shit on Rhea, Dimitri to make Supreme Leader alt'able.

Maybe there's hope for this twitter/X stan?

[martyrbat]

so many of you talk about the cruel adults in your childhood that negatively effected you and caused lifelong insecurity yet you're still perfectly fine with being that mean stranger to any kid that has the misfortune of existing around you and thats just really gross !!!

[barnbridges]

the only meaningful conclusion i have made while reading the secret history for three months on repeat basically is that the more bimbo-y, ditsy and silly a character is, the closer they are to being a religious martyr, i do not make the rules i just read the text.

[blazingflareon]

merry chrisis 🎄

[shieldslingera]

i think a lot about that moment at the start of house of m when tony is saying that he wasn't drunk in front of the un and he asks if everyone believes him and steve is immediately like "yes"

yeah it's a steve-and-tony thing, steve will always believe things tony says with less proof than others need to provide. but he also knows just how important tony's sobriety is to him and how seriously he takes it. if tony says he didn't drink, then he didn't drink.

i like to think he'd turn that cheerleading and incredible belief towards his other friends in recovery too.

[chesacakeripper]

It's obviously going to be a big jump in income and workload for Kazuki and Rei going from contract killers to owning and running their own diner, right? Sure, Kazuki's got a pot saved from his refused payments to Karin, but that's likely to run dry quite quickly - deeply unlikely that either of them are receiving their gunshot wound care and PT/OT from an official source and shady mob doctors aren't going to come cheap.

The café/diner is definitely a goal and a reliable income stream when they get there, but that's going to take some time, some physical recovery, not to mention the overheads!

What I'm saying is, whilst I don't think that Kazuki or Rei go back to the organisation by any stretch of the imagination, I don't think they'd divorce themselves from the underworld completely at first. Entry-level minimum wage jobs would be a start, but they'd need other income sources to make up for the loss.

And with Kazuki's honeypot history, I don't think it's too much of a stretch for him to transition into some escort work 👀

[lesamis]

no idea how to sort any of my emotions about good omens 2 but they really went straight for the jugulars of those of us w heavy religious baggage and a deep-seated love of human existence when they made aziraphale say "i don't want to go back to heaven, where would i get my coffee?"