#she says it so sincerely too

[mycatismyfriend]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 3x04 "Beauty and the Beasts"

[mewtwo24]

I just started reading the svsss volumes (and re-read them again because A LOT IS GOING ON) but like. This shit is so hysterically funny I don't even know where to begin.

Was no one????? Going to tell me that one of the cornerstone jokes in the damn series is that lbh's adoration for his one and only 'tism person who literally cannot express his emotions to save his life is basically genetic?????????

Was no one???? No one AT ALL going to tell me that Mobei-Jun straight up yeets Airplane at the problem in one of the scenes?????? And that in the most hilarious twist of fate Airplane then unyeets Mobei-Jun not twenty minutes later?????

It's one thing to see people joke about sqq and lbh being unable to communicate but it's on a league of its own when you have to read HUNDREDS OF PAGES of sqq's inner monologue be like 'that's my darling boy. my baby. my sugar plum pumpy umpkin you're my sweetie pie' but on the outside he says "get lost binghe" and somehow deems that an effective expression of his affection that lbh will surely understand. 'Why is lbh whining and crying and tugging at my sleeve like a plaintive wife, why is he so angry?' Sqq asks, the entire circus, as lbh is about to fling himself off a cliff for attention--

In short, MXTX is the queer comedian of our generation and nobody appreciates her enough

[dootznbootz]

I think some folks MAY have gotten the wrong idea about how I feel about Circe with some of my posts. So, to clear the air...

Homies, I love that fucked up sorceress.

I love how we're never given a reason why she turns people into animals. That's so funny and so awful. And another potion-making magic gal?!?! I love that she's just basically vibing on an island doing whatever she wants. I even love the fact that she scares Odysseus shitless! She's morally gray and that's why she's FUN.

I just sincerely hate when people try to girlboss her or have her be a victim of SA when she never was Looking at you, Miller. Especially when she was actually the one who coerced Odysseus in exchange for his men being transformed back into humans. And even then, while he was clearly afraid of her, (it's in the language of the Odyssey) she likely meant him no harm after a certain point. He just didn't know that.

Why does she need a reason to do awful things? Why can't she just be a goddess who does whatever she wants? That's the reason why I love her!!! She's fucked up!!! :D

I hate what the Telegony did to her as well! >:( You're telling me, this sorceress goddess, who makes potions (!!!) wouldn't have magic contraceptives??? Would WANT CHILDREN?!?! WITH THE PATHETIC WIFEMAN?! No. Fuck no. Eugammon of Cyrene, I have beef with you 🤬

Anyways!!! Understand all the "#anti circe" I have is simply Anti "Girlboss Circe" or the book. I genuinely think she's neat af as her morally gray, fucked up sorceress self and just get frustrated with...everything :'D

[future-island-egghead]

Muse of Violence, Warrior of Science.

To the ordinary, everyday genius scientist-for-hire with a heart too big for her own good, we raise our sake cups.

You gave us food. You tried to protect us. You gave your life to ensure we'd all live on. Just lending a hand.

You knew it would end like this. We all knew it would end like this, and yet you still did it. And you did it to protect the friends you had made and the family you had left. And you did it all on your own terms, smiling all the way to the afterlife, knowing your will would be inherited by those you saved.

Clone or Machine or Satellite or Daughter. It matters not what you were. Because you went out like a true member of those who carry the will of D.

Thanks for everything, Atlas. For a satellite representing rage and violence, you had the biggest heart of any of them.

[empty-dream]

[quietwingsinthesky]

no wonder missy is insane about him. she just mindmeld trauma bonded with him and got confirmation through him that she was right the whole time about the thing that happened to her, AND then they traded life-saving moments. of course she wants her friend back. she needs him to see her again, as clearly as he did in that moment. she needs him to be like her, because among time lords, she is alone, but with the doctor, she isn’t.

[aeolianasio]

(i would not normally post something like this, but my girlfriend made this and thought it was funny, so here we are!)

[commsroom]

something really gets to me about eiffel and hera talking to themselves while addressing each other - in am i alone now? and the watchtower in particular. i can't say this to you, but you're still the person i want to tell it to. i know there's no way you can hear me, but if you can...

eiffel talks to himself a lot, and he is very used to being alone with no one paying much attention to the things he says, so i'm not sure he ever realized exactly how much until he was on the hephaestus. in the early days of the mission, i imagine hera responded to a lot of eiffel's asides and sort of embarrassed them both. and then that sort of... shifted. their relationship shifted, they got comfortable being around each other, and eiffel's conversations with himself started including hera, too. i like the idea of that as an establishing moment: that, at some point, there was a first time eiffel said something in an empty room, and hera was so used to him talking to himself that she didn't realize it was meant for her, and he asked her, "hera? are you there?"

i imagine hera still talked to eiffel, too, when they all thought he was dead. with each day increasingly longer and more difficult, that she would vent her frustrations to the empty comms room the same way he would've encouraged her to when he was there. she can't talk to anyone the way she can talk to him, and they just... keep talking to each other, even when they can't. they are so much a part of each other, the voice of encouragement and comfort in each other's heads. for so long, all they can really do for each other is talk, and they maintain that connection even in absence. they ask each other "are you there?" like reaching for each other's hands in the dark.

[aulerean]

Everyone go watch deadloch immediately

[lungfuls]

Maybe I'm projecting and being hopeful but I mentioned to M that I don't even get to shit by myself in peace lmao and I feel like something clicked for him. Bc I was like hey, at least you get private bathroom breaks at work (noncombative). And since then he's been a lot more acquiescent when I ask if I can nap and stuff

[wispythreads]

I don't trust North we disagree on literally almost everything why does me attempting to still be a civil human being with the basics of decency lock Markus and her into a romance what the heck

[fragmentedblade]

Goodness, apparently Argenti's One and Only is named in Chinese after Rocinante, which is so fitting for him, especially with Himeko's words about him in mind

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

I'm thinking about Dahlia and Iris again. I'm thinking about how Iris had to bury her sister four times in her life and never got the chance to say goodbye once.

Thinking about we don't really know what happened in the Terry Fawles case, because we only hear about it from Dahlia's lips (and why should she tell us the truth? She owes us nothing), and how possible it is that Iris was there when he first started tutoring them, was there when he began "falling for" her sister, was there and was so kind and sweet and vulnerable that all it would have taken for her to have been his victim instead of Dahlia was a slight turn of the head, a little look to the side, and how Dahlia could not allow that to happen.

Thinking about how Dahlia's first death -- the death of Dahlia Hawthorne as Iris Hawthorne's sister -- comes with the death of Iris Hawthorne herself by Dahlia's own two hands, because it is the only way; two halves dying as a whole to save one of them. Thinking about how Dahlia's next step was to kill "Dahlia Hawthorne", because she has no use for that name unless it ties her to her sister. Thinking of how she goes back to Iris for that, offers her the chance to do to Dahlia what Dahlia did to her and free them both, at last, from this horrible, poisonous family so they can just be together again, whole again, sisters again, just the two of them, like it has been from the beginning. And Iris wants that so badly, she agrees, but she can't do it, because she is good, and kind, and they aren't alone anymore, because Iris has Sister Bikini now, and maybe things can be different. But they can't. Thinking of how the second time Dahlia Hawthorne dies, she dies with her hatred of her sister burning her tongue, but then she climbs out of that river reborn and loves her all over again, because she can't stop. It's her sister, and maybe things can be better now that Dahlia Hawthorne is dead, and it isn't perfect, but she's free of all the people who hurt her, and she still has Iris.

And it is better. For five years. And then her past catches up with her, and Dahlia Hawthorne comes back with a vengeance, and, this time, she isn't going away. Thinking about how, no matter how hard they pushed her, no matter how easy it would have been to fabricate a story about the girl at Hazakura Temple and how it was her who was at the bridge that day, Dahlia never breaks, never breathes a word about her sister because she won't do that to her. Thinking of how Dahlia is reminded of Iris's "betrayal" and immediately chooses to trust her again anyway. And thinking of Iris, and how she becomes "Dahlia" in her third life -- becomes a person who is openly resilient and smart and loyal and loving and is Iris but is her sister as well, and she can't tell how much of her is whom. Thinking of how the third time Dahlia dies, it is as a direct result of Iris's actions and inaction. Thinking of how Iris believes that this time, the time it truly matters, Dahlia's death is at her hands, and she has finally fulfilled her role as her sister's executioner. Thinking of how Dahlia's third death is also the death of Iris, but, this time, neither of them are saved, and Iris is left with the only part of her that is truly her own: weakness.

Then, at last, the final time. The time Dahlia says she never loved Iris, but still calls herself her "other half"; and the time Iris isn't allowed to speak of her sister, both narratively and mechanically because you're never allowed to ask her about Dahlia, but still manages to push through and say that she loves her, she always has. The time when they meet on the mountains, and, for a few moments, it's just them again, like it has been from the start, and it's almost as if Dahlia hasn't died and Iris has come like she promised and things are going to be okay. Almost, but it isn't. And so, Dahlia dies for the final time, again in a place far from Iris, where her sister never has the chance to say goodbye, but it isn't the end. Because Phoenix is here, and Dahlia's final death has returned to Iris what her third death took away, and she is finally, finally able to tell the truth. And the truth, as they say, sets her free. Because Phoenix tells her that the death of Dollie was not the death of Iris. Because she has always been smart, and kind, and resilient, and loyal, and more. Because he recognises her when they meet again. Because she is, and has always been, the person he thought she was. Because she has always been Iris, even when she was Dahlia.

And so, Dahlia's final death does precisely for her sister what her first death did all those years ago, but it goes further, too. Because Iris is now not only free.

She is whole.

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Starting a little collection of times when Rose says/does something cute and silly and you can literally see the hearts coming out of Blanche and Dorothy

[madamescarlette]

💐

[rxttenfish]

i absolutely cannot let myself get started on another fic until im at least onto chapter 5 of caecilian but the temptation to write something of aaravi taking miranda monster hunting and describing the entire EVERYTHING there is real