#saving your marriage

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Shit's tough

This somehow saves his marriage and he somehow manages to get his wife and kid to stick around though, so don't worry, they figure it out eventually <3 Fidd's gotta have his wins every now and again, I'm not that cruel.

The fiddauthor & billford divorce arc is so real in this au, everyone fumbled each other and no one in the love triangle is happy

[a-most-beloved-fool]

spirk using telepathy to keep each other alive. kirk, desperate, psy-null and untrained, reaching clumsily into spock's dying mind and pulling, dragging spock's essence into himself, wrenching him forceably from the very jaws of death and holding him there through sheer strength of will, saying you can't die, i won't let you, you can't leave me, i need you, and binding him to life and to himself until it's impossible to fully separate them. spock, more skilled, carefully managing each one of kirk's vital signs - keeping his heart beating steady, his lungs drawing breath, his temperature within a safe range, all while suppressing kirk's pain, and at the same trying, vainly, to keep their minds from tying themselves inexorably together, but they're pressed too close and he can't, and he hopes that kirk will forgive him, for bonding them like this (he will, of course he will), but the alternative, letting kirk die, was - unthinkable.

[wishchip106]

still thinking about this

“Like I said, you are perceptive.”

“The Professor I know would never turn his back on someone who lost their path.”

“Especially someone he loved.”

EUGHSGD DONT DO THIS TO ME😭😭

thank you Logan for calling out cherik’s relationship like it is 🫡 no else has been brave enough to do it

the step back on the stairs… aughh this man is still heartbroken even after eleven years i can’t believe him…

[cartoonybus]

i feel like part of the reason dwampy didn't want to make dakavendish a thing is because they're two characters they put a bit of themselves into (tho not the extent doof has a lot of aspects of dan's personality) and thus felt weird about making them a romantic couple. which i get!

but maybe they shouldn't have written them so gayly then

[paris-in-space]

Me reading a vampire novel other than Dracula? Shocking.

[prumanoenjoyer]

Gilbert not now sweetie FrUk are getting their 156th divorce

[meidui]

2012!stevetony + that don't impress me much

[cherryinterlude]

his reaction after you flirt with him despite the fact that he's your professor and decades older than you

[squishymamasboy]

EXCUSE MEEE

[jakeperalta]

the thing with swifties using song lyrics to justify their hatred of taylor's exes is that sometimes their lyrical analysis is just bafflingly wrong. I am sorry but how are people with clear investment in and knowledge of her relationship lore saying "loml" was written about joe. please..

[miracle-romance]

! Great work, Baby !

[w98pops]

you don't have to try and remember. you never knew in the first place.

[sarasade]

Part of me almost hopes that Viren's story arc will end in a disproportionately cruel way, you know.

I'm just so tired of seeing a character doing one good thing before they die or trying to change before they die and instead of the audience taking that as purposeful ambiguity the discussion will center around if the character was "Redeemed".

But imagine if he was punished so harshly that even the Viren haters would feel bad for him. Now that would be interesting! I've seen some dark speculation around season 5 so I'm looking forward to seeing how the show will contextualise his arc.

I don't understand why "Redemption" is such a popular talking point when centering villains (ok I actually do. I'm looking at you, Zuko).

"Sin and Atonement" and "Redemption" are deeply Christian themes. I don't think those should be a universal frame of reference to all stories.

Yes, yes, this is more of a fandom problem, not a show problem. But if people want to see a bad character harshly punished for their crimes maybe they should get that for once. I don't really mind because I think Viren, while unlikeable, is a sympathetic character already. Of course I feel for a character even if they are "irredeemable". That's what stories are for.

I don't mean it's a completely useless way to look at art but it's just- I don't know- I'm bored? Especially YouTube commentators talk about redemption constantly instead of engaging with the themes that actually are there.

Sometimes villains can't even really make up for everything they have done, just like some people in real life. Viren has committed so many crimes- like how do you even fix that? However it'd still be interesting if he tried to change. That's what I'm here for. Like Viren and Claudia are not just an antagonistic counterforce to our heros but they have a lot of going on as unique characters.

Viren has his saviour complex and values domination over cooperation. Claudia is interesting because she's both the victim and the perpetrator. It's interesting how self-sufficient she is while being deeply emotionally codependent on Viren. She has a ton of agency as a physically (magically?) strong person but not a ton of agency as an independent, emotionally strong individual. Viren and Claudia love each other but it's isolating kind of love where they don't really have anyone else but each other (Terry is really trying to get in there. Like sorry Terry you don't know how fucked up these two are lmao).

No wonder it was so easy to Aaravos take Viren's place as an authority figure in Claudia's life after Viren died. Or at least that's what I took away from Lost Child short and TDP season 4 in general.

I still think about the first information we got outside Viren and Claudia's POV about Aaravos's mirror: Runaan's warning about "A Fate Worse Than Death".

This framing device sounds really important. I've been wondering how it'll play out eventually. Is it something about Viren losing his old life he worked so hard to build, or will he lose Claudia in some metaphorical or literal way? Is it something even more personal?

Personally, I'd love to see Viren live and change as a person. There are plenty of high-fantasy male characters like him who go through that kind of transformation: Guts from Berserk, Geralt of Rivia, Jaime from GoT, Ged the Wizard... You know, characters who realise that the things they value are unsustainable or even harmful to themselves and to people around them and even to the world as a whole. Or they realise that superficial things like status and power are unfulfilling and only serve status quo. There are some parallels to toxic masculinity/ hegemonic masculinity, too.

However, I think it'd be interesting if Viren's story will be a deeply tragic one. Anyway I'm here for this.

[pisshandkerchief]

fucked up in the club thinking about hiatus pete wentz

[winged-cries]

i wish that was me

[ballsballsbowls]

On the one hand, I think it's a net good that people are more aware, in a general sense, of ethical nonmonogamy as an option for a relationship.

On the other, I cannot possibly be the only person who has some uncharitable feelings when something I've done pretty much my entire life on the whims of some innate part of my personality** is now suggested as an obvious step in reconciling every shitty marriage, after "couples therapy" but before "trial separation."

** I'm sure there's reams of argument happening right now about whether being nonmonogamous is cultural or innate or something else entirely, but as for me it is for sure an innate and immutable part of my personality that became obvious at about the same age most people start realizing they're not heterosexual.