#she is still very angry and hurt ofc. but she doesn't believe he is all bad. she doesn't believe he is incapable of doing a good thing

[bayofwolves]

i dunno, if i was abeke (or rollan, or any of them), knowing shane was out there somewhere, i would be constantly looking over my shoulder waiting for him to reappear. so the moment a mysterious masked dude shows up and saves my life, i'm asking myself, even if only for a moment, "what if?"

i find it hard to believe that abeke and rollan didn't at least suspect that king was really shane before he revealed himself. like, i dunno. i get that king's redcloak disguise was supposed to be really good. and it had been a while since they'd seen him last. but if 11 y/o me could figure it out in immortal guardians, surely abeke could?

it would have been so cool if there'd been a part where the thought started to form in abeke's head. or she talked to rollan about it. and isn't rollan's whole thing supposed to be intuition? maybe he'd raise the possibility before abeke, who might have written off her suspicions as her just being paranoid and emotional. idk. just a thought.

[placetofangirl]

Red string - quackbur soulmate au

We know the drill, but here are the twists this time

865 words / script written in bulletpoint format

The red string of fate is usually invisible. Strong emotions cause it to become a visible on the person's end: not the entire length of it turns, of course, it fades slightly the farther it stretches, unless both soulmates are feeling strongly at the same time, then it flashes red in its entirety. .

Near everyone has a string except Ranboo, Purpled, Foolish- Wilbur has one too, however he is usually calm so his string isn't visible. Q is trying to stay composed but his string would flash often anyway. .

The two of them did not know they shared their string until Wilbur's exile when the string flashed complete, but at that point it was already too late to do anything about it. Q was with Jschlatt. .

They pursued something in Pogtopia, something in Nikki's birthday party. It never lasted for obvious reasons. .

The moment Wilbur died the string snapped and turned gray. Q was still be able to see it when he felt strong emotions, but it always flashed a dead gray. .

Sapnap and Karl have strings that aren't connected to Q, but not to each other either. Karl's string is weird, it spirals into thin air, and Sapnap's leads to dream. They all do not mind their strings not being connected. .

When Wilbur was revived the string didn't re-attach. Q and his strings remained gray and cut. .

Wilbur was hoping they try and get together, since Limbo left him claustrophobic and unable to stand neither silence nor solitude- He realized he'd like a soulmate by his side. .

Q doesn't believe there's a shot for them. This is Both because the string remained cut, and because Wilbur is one unstable son of a bitch. .

The plot goes very similarly to the canon plot, with the addition of full on knowing they used to be soulmates. Headcanon break: side characters Tubbo and Tommy - /p soulmates Jack and Nikki - /p soulmates Phil and Techno - /p soulmates There are /r soulmates as well, but there three bonds are all /p. .

Eventually, Wilbur and Quackity manage the emotional capacity to kiss. Their strings flash slight red- this of course freaks them both out- they break apart, still emotional, only to find that the red glow faded out into gray again. .

Quackity does not want to talk about it. Will does talk about it with Tommy, and learns Tommy and Jack were also revived, however Tommy and Tubbo's string never cut. .

Will makes the effort to go all the way to Jack to hear his story. Jack ofc doesn't want to talk to Wilbur, but after a lot of apologies and begs they manage to have a talk. Jack tells him his string with Nikki did cut when he died- back then they drifted apart and weren't as close as they used to be. Visiting to check if she was alright revealed she was fine, the string simply cut. More importantly, he realized he cherishes her company so he started visiting more. Slowly the string recovered, until one time it hit fully how happy he was to see her, to be friends with Nikki, and just like that the string snapped into place. Jack doesn't understand it, but he doesn't understand half the things that happen to him- he learned to roll with it .

This story leads Wilbur to believe he needs to make up with Q in order to repair the string. He tries, in his own way, but Q only gets angry at him. .

Enough failures lead him to change his attitude, so he asks for a ceasefire and for them to try being friends instead. It works slightly better, but there's a chill that remains. .

Prison break occurs. Q is so stressed about the prison break and trying to revive slime that when Wilbur bothers him he says in passing he's not sure he even wants to be Will's soulmate - very hurtful, painful. Will's string bleeds in black. .

They do make up: Techno shows up with dream and Phil to destroy LN and execute Q, when Will picks up a sword to defend him. "He's my red", he points, expressing that Q to him is an important person like Phil is to Techno. Although he had a reason to kill Q, Techno respects the concept and allows them both to leave Las Nevadas before the second doomsday. Luckily it's not dream who they faced, since he wouldn't... Q has to be dragged away kicking and screaming, but in the end he's alive and safe in Snowchester. .

All this does not fix the cut string. No, the string snaps into place the days that follow; watching the sunrise, sitting in the snow Will looks over to him and the calm realization hits that he is and have been in love with the other for a long time unnoticed, he never realized- Loud, red and clear; a snap, then a tug, and suddenly Quackity's looking at him, and it turns so clear he was waiting for him all this time- Just like that, they came back together.

[hamliet]

As someone who has a radicalised family member I used to love and ultimately have cut ties, I feel the ending of AoT deeply.

Because the truth is that even if they ended up hurting me so many times, before they turned into a horrible, hurtful person, I admired them deeply and even after all of this time, I love them for the good they did for me.

They were the one who told me 'to find a goal' in life to move forward and I almost feel angry that the only valid option people see is hate in this kind of situation.

Or that 'Eren taking this path isn't believable'.

Yes it is. Many young men especially these days go down this path. Eren is essentially a modern radicalised youth as they say.

Does that mean the 20 years of kindness I saw from that person is not valid?

How do you think the families of these people feel, especially those who suffer under it?

And the even more screwed up part is that this case is even more personal to me because they ended up having serious mental illness.

I had to live with them talking to themselves and trying to hurt themselves before they were administered to a hospital and even after they came back, it fixed the worst if it, but not most of it and the best option was *still* to cut ties.

AoT hits very close to home in that aspect to me.

And I so rarely see this talked about because I don't think people care much for the families of people like this and to be fair, they often aren't any better.

And even *more* so, when questioning that person, they gave the answer 'I don't know', too.

And to this day, I haven't figured out where it went wrong. When did this happen? Why? I still don't have much more but speculation.

The entire ending/final arc even was *almost* like a massive trigger for me, very scarily real, but also comforting.

And the most frustrating thing is that this shit comes from supposedly 'empathic' people.

There is an interesting connection between Mikasa and OG Ymir in that in the extra pages, Mikasa tells her that at least she loved her children and by proxy of having them gave her life.

At least there was something good that came from her suffering.

And I've thought about that a bunch and how people really don't know anything about how abusive relationships work, either.

For how much people say empathy and validation is the way to go, so many sure don't even try to understand perspectives that feel strange to them.

AoT's ending is ultimately for sort of very specific people, I think, which is another reason I think it's so polarising.

Hell, I saw the moment where Jean and co where chiding Eren for something they didn't ask for at all described as 'he's an idiot, but our idiot' and for a while I couldn't explain why this pissed me off, but I think it's because it's not some cute fucking farewell, it's Eren falling back to his tendency to be self-destructive.

It's people imposing generic ending tropes to an ending that is actually kind of challenging and puzzling because it doesn't give you all of the answers and asks you to at least understand 'unusual' perspectives they've never encountered before in media or real life.

Another one is like the surface interaction of 'I'll never understand Eren or OG Ymir, so wierd.'

Good for you for not even trying, I guess.

It's this energy of tone-deaf gifsets using psychopathic characters' quotes as inspiring without zero self-awareness about the story's actual point or tone.

Idk if this comes across as being a little too assholish, but for so long some of this stuff has bothered me and nobody is willing to talk about it.

And ofc what is 'challenging art' is also very subjective. People are very much free to consider AoT childish, shallow and edgy and the like, but to me it really feels like it many people's first exposure to this kind of more 'tough'(?) storytelling.

First of all, I'm very sorry you've been through this/are going through it. Been there too myself/am there, and it sucks. It's just not so simple as Twitter would like it to be.

I agree with you that the ending was both triggering and comforting, though for me it felt more the latter, because it was genuinely empathetic (for the most part). It's genuinely complex storytelling, and honestly 99% of the storytelling this day and age would never go for such a bold or honest story. And the sad thing is it's both people on the radicalized side (see, the Fandom Menace and Erehisu Dudebros) and the Twitter social justice people, the latter of whom might be well-intentioned but operate on childish ideas that operate on the logic of a Dhar Mann video but don't operate with the reality of real life and complex humanity, are very anti-empathy.

I'm not gonna talk about the Dudebros here, but instead about the Twitter people because like... we share some values on the surface.

Tumblr and Twitter cultures is constantly calling for empathy, but by empathy they mean "everyone agreeing exactly and aspiring to be like the loudest voice in the room" which is kind of, well, not empathy.

People: we want dialogue!

Also people: actually if your experience contradicts mine then shut up.

In reality, nuance of course, but experiences have been and will always be contradictory. Dialogue is important precisely because it allows us to meditate on that paradox.

Contradictory experiences means that I genuinely get why some people aren't comfortable with AoT. That's fine. But any arguments that remove Eren's humanity and specifically argue that people are bad for seeing that fall into the "you missed the point" category.

Sigh.

[marciego]

brodmila for the shipbask game, thank you!

ohh i didn't expect anyone to ask about them, thank you!

1. Favourite scene of them?

that scene around the end of s3 where camila couldn't calm down when she was acting, and then broduey showed up and she finally managed to say her lines while looking at him, i'll admit it was a very wholesome scene, i did smile a lot seeing how happy they looked

2. What do you like the most about them

the last 10 eps or so of s3, that's really sad to say but that's like....the only moment of the show where they have nice interactions, which is kinda :/ because i think they deserved to have more than arguing all the time to them you know. those eps really showed they could improve, i don't get why the writers didn't make that happen sooner

3. A random headcanon

this one and the quote question are always the hardest to answer when i don't like a ship szdefr

sorry, i can't think of anything

4. If you could change something about them what would it be?

i could say a lot of things, "giving them more than lies and arguing all the time" being the short answer, but there's one specific thing about them that, above everything else, i'd like to change

it's the seba plotline in s3, because it was starting SO WELL like?? broduey actually, genuinely working on his jealousy, but somehow it's not enough and he doesn't want to hold camila back but he's hurting, and that scene where she finds him crying alone and he tells her she should do what she wants but it still hurts, and instead of getting angry she's like "what can we do now?" LIKE. it was so much more interesting than everything we ever saw with them?? and honestly i believe it was such a nice way to treat jealousy, because even if broduey's feelings weren't rational and he knew that, that didn't change the fact that he was hurting, and i wanted them to follow through this plotline SO BAD. like it could have been so GOOD but once again the violetta writers hate nuanced writing and only know how to take away from camila everything that makes her happy so ofc seba had to actually have feelings for her and "broduey was right all along" and they went back to arguing after that. i'm still so mad this could have been so good

5. If you could date one of the people who would you choice?

no one, broduey is a nice dude but i couldn't stand his jealousy and camila would honestly get on my nerves aszdefrg

6. Favourite hot scene of them?

insert my "diego's not here" answer

7. Favourite quote?

i don't have anything in mind rn

8. How do you see thir relationship in the future?

i believe camila is a lesbian and deserves to have broduey become a close friend, they've always been better off as friends

9. Scene that makes you emotional?

the scene i talked about where camila found broduey crying all alone, at least the first part of the scene before this arc loses everything that makes it interesting when broduey asks her AGAIN to choose between him and the rockbones. it was a very sad scene, and for once broduey's jealousy didn't get on my nerves, it was just...something he tried and failed to control, it was sad and very genuine

[verobatto]

Destiel Chronicles

(Vol. XXV)

It was a love story from the very beginning.

There was no time to say 'I'm sorry'

(7x01/7x02/7x03/7x05)

Hello my dears!! This is a new meta from my Destiel Chronicles. We will start with season 7, is gonna be a short road, I calculated a total number of six metas, so.

I want to say thank you to my friend @agusvedder , she made the gifs for this era and discussed some matters.

Okay! Let's start!

You're Not my Cas

After Cas became Godstiel, Dean noticed the big change. He wasn't Cas anymore, even his voice was different, and he'd said Dean wasn't his family.

In episode 7x01 Meet the New Boss (written by Sera Gamble) he have Dean trying to avoid Castiel's topic by trying to fix Baby (a symbolic representation of Dean's heart). Baby is broken, like Dean (bc of CAS) and he's trying to endure it. And he uses this as a distraction too. That's why when Bobby came to see him, he asked him...

BOBBY: So, you fixin' her or primal screamin'?

This is a great point of view here, if Baby is Dean's heart and he's trying to fix it. He's yelling at it. To get better quickly. To forget about Cas and his betrayal. To recognize Castiel isn't his Cas anymore. And now he's a monster and he has to stop him.

Then they start to talk about Cas, and this is the interesting part...

BOBBY: I don't even know what books to hit for this, Dean.

DEAN: Well, figure it out! I'm sorry. This ain't in no book. If you stick your neck out, Cas steps on it. So you know what I'm gonna do?

BOBBY: What?

DEAN: Imma fix this car. Because that's what I can do. I can work on her 'til she's mint. And when Sam wakes up, no matter what shape he's in, we'll glue him back together too. We owe him that.

Again, the car, his heart. He's gonna fix it, because he needs that fixed and patched, and renewed because he knows what he has to do about Cas. So he needs not to feel a thing about him.

He knows how to do that. How to fix things that hurts his heart... He pushed those things down, and deep... But he won't be able this time ( as he will say it in 7x17), because is Cas.

Then, Sam wakes up and...

Again to the car. Because Sammy put his finger in that wound... And Dean is still trying to fix it...

And Because you're not him, I'll try to kill you

Ok, now... The News...

And Dean shutting down the TV because, he knows Cas is young and sexy, he knows more than anyone, because he feels sexually attracted to him, but that, isn't Cas, so... Stop saying things I know about my Cas, I know he's hot, but this one, isn't my Cas.

He shuts the TV, angry and hurted, and he goes to fix his Baby/Heart again.

But while he's fixing Baby, he's hearing the new on the radio, to follow Castiel's steps... Godstiel is targeting motivational speakers.

SAM: Motivational speakers?

DEAN: Yeah, I'm not sure new Cas gets irony any better than old Cas. Of course, old Cas wouldn't smite Madison Square Garden just to prove a point. He is off the deep end of the deep end. And there's no slowing down.

Dean was able now to separate OLD CAS (his Cas) and NEW CAS (the monster they have to kill). His brain is doing this to help him to take the hard decision.

But Sam is the one here that can't lose his faith on Cas, he tries twice to convince his brother to speak again with Godstiel, and Dean explodes, because he was trying so hard to take this decision, and he doesn't need hopes or faith in Cas again.

SAM: Okay.

DEAN: Hand me that socket wrench.

The car again. His heart.

Dean is spilling the very hurtful thoughts he was ruminating the whole time while fixing his car/heart, yeah, that's the thing that huts him so much, Cas isn't coming back. This is not Cas. He betrayed us.

And then, when he vomited all that, he came back to fix his heart, trying hard to do it. The symbolism is exquisite and sad at the same time.

Then, Dean devised a plan to kill Godstiel by slaving Death. They asked Crowley's help, and they summoned Death.

And Godstiel enters in action again. And when se sees what Dean was doing... He said this...

CASTIEL: I didn't want to kill you, but now...

DEAN: You can't kill us.

CASTIEL: You've erased any nostalgia I had for you, Dean.

So... Godstiel had some nostalgia about Dean, because when he was CAS, they shared something profound. Is like someone remembering his ex.

But he gets more mad at Dean when the hunter orders Death to kill him, look at Godstiel's face. And look at Dean face. He's able to do that bc he had in his head a voice repeating him He's Not My Cas.

He can't believe Dean wants to kill him.

He vanished, and Dean's hopes to defeat him too. Even with Death giving them another plan... Dean is devastated.

Sam still believes in Cas

Then Dean is drinking, because he lost any hopes, but Sam, He's trying hard. He still believes in Cas, he has hopes, so he prays to him...

SAM: Hey, Castiel. Um... Maybe this is pointless. Look... I don't know if any part of you even cares, but, um, I still think you're one of us, deep down. I mean, way, way, way off the reservation, but... Look, we still have till dawn to stop this. Let us help. Please.

Sam believed Cas is still there, his part of the Team Free Will. And he had right there.

Castiel came back to his senses when he gets possesed by the Leviathans he carried inside of him. He lost control and kills innocent people. That's what makes Cas coming back. His vessel is very damaged, but he listened Sammy's prayers... And he went to him.

Dean is there too, look at his worried face, looking at Cas in that shape, and the camera focused on him immediately after showing us Cas. Is because his reaction is more important than Sammy's. But Cas was answering Sammy's prayers, so he named just Sam. Because Sam still believes in him. And Castiel asks for help.

There was not time

When they were about to re open the doorway to Purgatory, Castiel is ashamed and he wants to ask for forgiveness, but there's not time.

CASTIEL: If there was time, if I was strong enough, I'd -- I'd fix him now. I just wanted to make amends before I die.

DEAN: Okay.

CASTIEL: Is it working?

DEAN: Does it make you feel better?

CASTIEL: No. You?

DEAN: Not a bit.

A huge thing like this doesn't fix in seconds, or minutes. It requires time to talk. But they didn't have that. Cas was trying to use the few seconds he knew he had to give a good end to that. He knew he was about to die. So he tried hard, but human's feelings are not that easy to fix. Even Cas was experimenting those human's feelings too.

When they opened the gate, and Cas was about to expell the would into the Purgatory, he gave what they thought was one last look at Dean... And he said it...

With such sorrowful face, Dean echoing the sadness in his face too. A painful ending? Not... There will be more ...

Castiel's Death

Cas fell to the ground, and Dean is terrified.

DEAN: Cas?

BOBBY: He's cold.

DEAN: Is he breathing?

BOBBY: No.

Okay, this is Dean denying Castiel is dead. Bobby said HE'S COLD, and Dean was like is he breathing? And when Bobby said he didn't, Dean went with that excuse... And Bobby had to be more specific. Cas is gone.

And Dean breaks in anger again... But not for so long... Because CAS wakes up.

DEAN: Damn it. Cas, you child. Why didn't you listen to me? Cas?! Hey! Hey! Okay. All right.

The reproaches again

CASTIEL: That was unpleasant.

And again, for a few seconds before the Leviathans take control over Castiel's vessel, he tries to enmend things with Dean. Is the only thing he had in his head an heart.

CASTIEL: I'm ashamed. I really overreached.

DEAN: You think?

CASTIEL: I'm gonna find some way to redeem myself to you.

(And he will by the end of this season 😏)

DEAN: All right, well, one thing at a time. Come on. Let's get you out of here. Come on.

Dean is not saying he won't forgive him. He just need him to be safe. He died and now he's back. He knows they can fix things... But is sad... Because the Leviathans made his entrance right in that moment.

In episode 7x02 Hello Cruel world, Castiel dies.

We had Cas dying in that river... And the scene with Dean taking his trenchcoat. He lost Cas again. This time for real.

He breaks...

And Bobby tries to comfort him, as he will do through the whole season...

DEAN: Okay. So he’s gone.

The sadness in Dean's face is huge.

BOBBY: Well, he was friends with us, wasn’t he? Can’t get much dumber than that.

After this, Sam and Bobby are worried about Dean, and Bobby tries to talk with him, but Dean avoids the topic faking he's ok, as always.

DEAN: (...) I’m not Sam, okay? I keep my marbles in a lead friggin' box. I’m fine. Really.

BOBBY Of course. Yeah. You just lost one of the best friends you ever had, your brother’s in the bell jar, and Purgatory’s most wanted are surfing the sewer lines, but yeah, yeah, I get it. You’re – you're fine.

Then Sam and Bobby sent Dean to a hunt alone, because they knew he needed some distraction. They knew Dean was grieving, in his weird way to grieve.

We will see Dean drinking a lot of alcohol in the nexts episodes as a scape from his thoughts. This Will be very recurrent in this season.

Mirroring Destiel

I'm gonna talk in this last section about two Destiel mirrors in the following episodes to Castiel death.

One was settled in episode 7x03 The Girl Next Door.

If you recall this episode was Sammy's first love when he was a teenager and he was hunting.

But first of all I want to mention some interesting scene, Dean had a fracture after fighting with one of the strongest Leviathans (Edgard) in Bobby's place. His house was burnt and they thought Bobby was dead (foreshadow of it ofc), but when they were in Rufus's cabin, Dean was watching a Latin novel, and Bobby enters and this was the peculiar dialogue...

DEAN Dude... Ricardo.

BOBBY What happened?

DEAN Suicidio.

BOBBY Adiós, ese.

DEAN looks very moved at what has happened on the screen.

Ok, why would I put this here? There was a woman embracing his dead lover in her arms, crying bc he had committed suicide. And Dean was moved about that.

Lovers separation by death of one of them... Suicide specifically, like Leviathan!Cas killing himself in the river... Do you got the picture here?

And btw Sam goes to the groceries shop, Dean asked pie but. .

DEAN Where's the pie?

SAM I got cake. It's close enough, right?

Okay... Dean ate the cake... If we know the cake represents Dean's queerness and hanger for CAS... 😏

Okay, back to Sam again...

He was hunting a Kitsune, but he fell in love with the Kitsune's daughter.

When her mother discover that she tried to kill little Sammy, but the girl stabbed her in the heart. (Hello Destiel recalling).

She rebelled against her mother and her lore for Sam. (Sounds familiar?)

When Dean discovers Sam didn't finish his job again he decides to kill her.

Because he knows how hard is try to kill the person you're in love with, even when that person becomes a monster... He knows.

So he did it instead Sammy. And he lies to him. That will be one of the topics for the whole Wincest subtext (very blantant this season).

Ok... Jumping now to episode 7x05 Shut up Dr. Phil ...

Remember this one, two witches in love, they were a couple for centuries... They were fighting because Maggie Stark (the witch) thought Don Stark (his husband) was cheating on her (misscomunication) and Sam and Dean get in the middle and they decided to interview. And read what Dean said... People... He's talking about his experience with Castiel here...

DEAN:Look – obviously, you two are capable of wiping each other out, right? But you haven't, huh? Which means that you two – you still value whatever it is you got. A-and you want keep that dance going. Maybe it's – maybe it's punishment. Maybe it's – it's sick, messed-up, erotic, kinky, clamps and feathers kind of love.

What-the-hell!!???? I said to myself... Do I need to add something here? He said fighting is sick, messed up erotic/kinky/feathers and love in the same sentence!

Ok Dean... Tell us more... 🤣🤣🤣

This line was juicy...

To Conclude:

Castiel's death was a huge traumatic experience that leads him to depression and alcoholism, but he pushed that down and avoided it as always.

There was two Destiel mirrors in the two following episodes after Castiel's death reflecting their story and Dean's inner truly and repressed feelings for him.

I hope you enjoy this first meta from season 7! C-u in the next Chronicles!

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