#said: “You’re gonna need me.”

[thestarlightforge]

“Darkhold” Hanging Plot Thread

I used to think the “dark magic” Agatha had supposedly been studying when Evanora tried to have her executed was the Darkhold—perhaps to try and learn how to control her succubus powers, which I do believe she couldn’t control in the beginning (much like Wanda and Billy at first). Now, it seems like there’s no way that timing can be true, for several reasons.

It’s unclear if Rio and Agatha continued some toxic version of their relationship while Agatha was on her post-Nicky killing spree, but Rio said the Darkhold had hidden Agatha from her—and they were in genuine love for quite a while after Agatha’s Salem trial (at least up until Nicky’s birth).

Evanora believed Agatha was “evil from the moment [she] left [her] body,” so it probably wasn’t anything Agatha had done that prompted the attempted execution.

She clearly didn’t trade Nicky for the Darkhold… “No, Billy. Sometimes, boys just die.”

It seems like the “horrible truth” she couldn’t face was that even after Nicky died and she didn’t have to protect him anymore (feeding Death those bodies to stave off his demise), she kept using Nicky and her song to kill all those witches.

In WandaVision, when Billy and Tommy ask Wanda to bring Sparky back to life, it’s clearer than ever that Agatha is there investigating the Scarlet Witch because she wants to use her rumored power to actually do spontaneous creation—when she made Nicky “from scratch,” she had to keep feeding him bodies/souls to stave off his Death, but Wanda actually can best Death and has powers of creation that don’t require an equivalent exchange.

I feel like there are a couple fairly plausible explanations.

Agatha found the Darkhold and it led her to Wanda—which could mean she acquired it fairly recently. (This would be an interesting twist that opens it up for Rio & Agatha to have continued being in contact for those hundreds of years, even if toxically, and would assert her serial witch killing really was out of grief/a substance abuse metaphor. I think this is actually more likely, or else she may have found an ancestor of the Scarlet Witch, and it’s unclear if that’s a thing in the MCU—the degree to which Wanda was created by the Mind Stone vs. inheriting her powers matrilineally as a kind of Blood Witch, like Alice & as in Scarlet Witch comics.)

Going off this “Book of the Damned” motif— Agatha got it sometime after Nicky’s death, and it promised her Nicky’s resurrection in exchange for the souls of the witches she killed, i.e. damning them. (This would potentially mean she hasn’t seen Rio in a much longer time, strengthen the Darkhold/drugs metaphor MoM lightly explored, and assert it could have been corrupting her for decades—but I honestly believe it’s less likely.)

I don’t know what the magic was that Agatha was sniffing around in when Evanora tried to have her killed, but I’m almost sure it wasn’t the Darkhold, now—or if it was, she had the Darkhold briefly and then lost it for a good while. But regardless, it seems that she—like Wanda—was trying to use it to get her kid back, one way or another (by feeding it or by using it to find Wanda). And as Rio said…

“It seems like there’s a story there.

[anna-scribbles]

had a conversation last week with a 10 year old girl about the s5 finale and i can’t stop thinking about it. she said nathalie is the best because she loves adrien enough to lie to him about his father so that he stays happy. completely convinced that emilie was resurrected at the end and shocked when i suggested otherwise. i’ve been dying to know what the children think happened and it’s so interesting

[msfcatlover]

Pristine Cut is so fucking good y’all!

I’ve played through The Cage, the new post-Adversary Fury, and just got through Happily Ever After. I’m actually crying right now, Happily was so good, I don’t even have words. I hope nobody ever gets it as their first playthrough first route, because so much of the dread rides on knowing something is very, very wrong when the formula breaks, and every single character goes to such interesting places, and…

The worst part? Hearing the Narrator’s development and knowing it’s not my last chapter for this run. I’m so sorry, buddy. I’m so, so sorry. I’m going to reset you, and you don’t get a say. I hate that I’m taking this away from you.

I mean, honestly, everything about this chapter was “the worst part” in the best way, but that’s the point where I couldn’t hold back the tears anymore.

Thank you for the dance, Happy. I’m glad you saw the stars.

[doublel27]

I got a brief glimpse of Phum and Tan trying to out best boyfriend each other at the Loy Krathong festival and it was everything I needed.

Be crazy cringy simps. Peem and Fang are very, very into how stupid you two look trying to outdo I each other.

[wewontbesleeping]

he loves the folklore blanket so much lollll

[cuteniarose]

What I imagine Suiren and Vaatu’s ‘friendship’ in @rokurookajima’s Metalbanders verse to be like, as told by memes I found in the depths of my pinterest memes board

(Feat. Some commentary because I am Having Thoughts)

I apologise for how grainy it is but you just know that these two are the definition of WLW-MLM hostility

She gets him body wash for his birthday one year. greasy stinky bastard man (/affectionate) (/you cannot convince me that I am wrong about the state of Vaatu’s personal hygiene. Have you ever met a teenage boy) (/I have not showered in a week I have full right to say this)

Headcanon that Suiren knew she was a lesbian since she was a wee lass so her gaydar is crazy good and she literally went “I know what you are” as soon as she first met Vaatu. Except he very much was not aware yet and she knew he’d never figure it out on his own. But if she tells him he’s gay outright he’d reject it. So she’s left being the Ryuk to his Light Yagami, hovering over his shoulder whispering “gay gay homosexual gay” and telling him to google yaoi

She means it with love... I’m pretty sure

“Dude you’re talking like my uncle cut it out”

She’s his only friend TOLERABLE ALLY fr

Okay so we’ve established that Vaatu is a freak but the only reason he and Suiren get along is because she’s very much a freak too she’s just got a pretty face to hide it behind. She literally cannot talk like a normal person it somehow always boils down to smth like this

Suiren likes Ghibli movies. Vaatu thinks himself too much of an edgelord to watch Ghibli movies. Unfortunately for him, Suiren doesn’t care about what he thinks. He’s going to watch Ponyo with her and he’s going to LIKE IT

(She catches him humming “Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo fishy in the sea” afterwards and never lets him live it down)

After a certain point he just starts talking like this all the damn time. She’s accepted her fate

BONUS ROUND: Suiren being a useless lesbian and Vaatu judging her severely

[roman-roy-apologist]

i love you animal symbolism

[edge-oftheworld]

I don’t really talk about it much on here because I’m extremely lucky to be able to understand exactly what’s going on in my body, but it’s scary to live for years as someone who Gets Things Done in a way your peers don’t really understand, be putting effort into so many things you care about, and then suddenly lose the ability to do not only that but also basic tasks overnight after a deadline, and bit by bit after many. it’s scary getting really irritable sometimes to the point of violence, just when you were meant to be celebrating the rewards from your hard work, the only impact of the work you did that you can see is that you overdrafted your ability to do anything. including have a basic conversation without getting grumpy or crying. and your body is going to make you pay it back with interest, you already know that, but you don’t know how to start filling yourself back up. you’ve only ever enjoyed being on the grind, hard at work on exciting things.

I don’t know how many of you have been through the kind of burnout that’s years of needing 12hrs of sleep a night but with terrible insomnia, waking up to what feels like a hangover for weeks on end with little relief then rinse and repeat without having a single drink, feeling too sick to eat and needing to exercise to emotionally regulate but being unable to, anxiety that doesn’t come from worry but you’ll pick that up too at some point, dissociating every time you try to do mentally taxing tasks that you’re PAID for so it takes an hour of grounding yourself just to get five minutes worth of productive concentration, falling asleep the minute you feel a little safe by being in the presence of loved ones. but I suspect I’m not the only one.

I’ve had songs for the energetic and angsty times leading up to this. for the exasperated times and the brain fog and the times where all my limited energy is tied up in feeling things. that I need to, need to acknowledge, but it’s overwhelming and I live in a haze for weeks as a result of. songs telling of the kind of youth I wish I had, even when I was sold something else. songs for the months spent as a teenager trying to be there for my friends, worrying for them, distracting me from worrying for myself, trying to cling on to positivity and hope amongst it when I had to choose to make a discipline of always seeing that. I’ve had songs for healing and when healing is harder than expected and songs that have the right level of musical complexity to capture the layers of everything that’s happening in my head, making it sound good, telling me it’s gonna be okay.

I don’t know how I could ever say thank you for this. but I do know that I see parts of myself in the people behind these songs, of course I do, and I worry for them as a result and ache for them because it’s hard enough to feel this way when no one knows me or feels the need to control me or mould me into what they think I should be. I’d do anything to keep them all healthy and happy and all of their loved ones too and I don’t think it’s strange as a fan to take that seriously. I hope we can understand the need to treat them gently, and to while not questioning their privacy and the fact that they’re never going to tell us everything they go through, listen to our intuition when we catch something we relate to and treat what they’ve shared with us or hinted at with the dignity we would if someone we love told us something vulnerable. be kind in our expectations and be intentional in the fan culture we create because it does make its way back to them.

and the same goes with all of you. we’re bonding over the same things. I know a lot of this fandom is in the stage where interpersonal relationships are hard. we don’t mean to be grumpy of frustrated but we are. and I’m sending love to all of you. we can get through this together. it’s what they’ve always longed for isn’t it?

[sunbunnyyy]

lan xichen is not a perfect human being. he is an older brother who is Going Through Some Shit by the end of the novel. did he always make good choices?? no!! have you????

[sailorsleepymoon]

Whole squad is in the discord vc except the one transfem friend before dnd starts and one of them refers to her using they asking if anyone knows when she’s coming. and you go. She said she’d probably be here but someone should message her :) also I noticed that we’ve all been using they/them for her but I checked her pronoun roles in a different server we’re all in and the only ones she has are she/her :) so we should proba

And you get cut off by the person who said it and one of the other people going “OH well I use they/them for everyone” and “yeah I just kinda always default to they/them” and “yeah same I just always use them” talking over each other and

And the impulse to bring out your academic essay from sjw university hits. There is the sharp impulse to go 🤨 you guys using they/them for her when we know her pronouns is degendering her and ultimately feeding into the larger structure of transmisogyny and

you ignore it and say ok well I think :) we should try anyway 💕 to use her right pronouns

And there’s the quiet consensus of like yeah ok that’s fair that’s true. and she joins the vc three seconds later

[clottedscream]

every 2 or so minutes while coloring this i went “ugh” out loud

[sluttyten]

My afraid-of-romance ass has just been asked by another regular customer for my number and the stupid thing is that again I do think this guy is kinda cute and I really probably should say yes

[chekhovs-nailgun]

antis who stalk proship blogs especially to repost what they find are really wild.

either u actually adhere to what you preach (that interacting with fiction will make you reenact it if there’s not a big red sign saying “BAD” overtop of it) and you’re willingly taking the content out from behind the warnings and putting it in an unregulated place where minors/people more likely to actually do that will see it.

or you don’t actually think that’s happening, and you just want to be a bully. which is it? can’t have it both ways and you know it lmfao

[shima-draws]

Told my boss that NO I cannot take over customer phone calls because my anxiety will literally not be able to take it. And I’m being SO brave about it,

[lightspren]

bad stuff in my brain tonite dudes. not a fan

[apathyfairy]

i have 2 interviews on monday so im gonna try to just eat so much tomorrow that i literally die