#she’s just very naive

[workingchemistry]

Fox sucks on his teeth as he debates how tactful he wants to be and finally settles on not very. “I’m sorry. You seem to be under the impression that I care whether or not people die.”

“You just said—“

“I said it’s my job to keep you alive.” Fox presses into her space. Intimidation is a tactic too heavy handed for him to find any satisfaction in it, but this is an active battle zone. “That means I’m going to sacrifice my men, so you don’t have to bloody your hands and so my men don’t get slaughtered anyway when we take the fall for your death.”

She falls silent with an audible click of her jaw snapping shut.

Fox watches her another moment to make sure she’s going to continue staying out of the way and then, because he’s a good product who can remember his manners in an active battle field, he says, “Thank you.”

[flovoid]

… 𝔗𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 𝔬𝔣 𝔇𝔞𝔴𝔫 𝔱𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔰 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔣𝔩𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔱

[cry-ptidd]

Thinking about human Laura, really hope nothing bad happens to her

[cometblaster2070]

oh boy im having thoughts about miquella and malenia again!!!

i don't know if it was intentional or not but like yk seeing malenia's entire character and seeing how the most important thing to her (save for her brother) is her dignity and her pride and her sense of self. after a lifetime of fighting the scarlet rot malenia is someone who still resists it every day no matter how strong it gets because she is someone who will fight to the bitter end to make sure it doesn't overtake her, to make sure that she's still just her and not the vessel for the rot.

(of course, the exception to this is when she bloomed in aeonia and in her fight with us, but I'll call those last-ditch attempts arising out of desperation so)

you get it malenia suffers every day of her life and the rot threatens to consume her but she refuses to let it win and instead completely rejects it and scorns it; she won't let it take away what makes her her.

and contrast it with the dlc where we see her brother miquella do exactly the opposite of what she does. because of his crosses, we see how much of himself miquella has lost how he constantly sheds pieces of himself in his effort to become a god to the point where he even discards his love, his other half st. trina.

he did all this to fulfill his goals, to succeed in what he thought was right; what he thought was a necessary sacrifice that would only bring him closer to his goals of a kind and compassionate world. only the problem is it ended up making him into something he was not; miquella the kind was certainly not like miquella the unalloyed.

i am aware that miquella even in the base game was not the wow sunshine jesusesque figure that did no wrong and was purehearted through and through. even then there were hints to a more complex character, but I think the difference between miquella the kind and miquella the unalloyed is that the miquella of before was someone who cared so so deeply on such a personal level; he was someone who put his heart and soul into helping each and everyone whether it be by crafting prosthetics or needles for his sister to ward away the rot and the meddling of outer gods or whether it was to try to give his brother godwyn a proper death; he was someone who cared very very deeply and in a very personal manner. but afterwards, I think in his quest for godhood miquella became someone very distant, very impersonal in the way a benevolent god who is looking out for everyone and who is "doing the right thing no matter what because ik better and I have the power to fix things" is. he is very removed from that which he once was; he abandoned himself and subsequently abandoned the very ideals he was fighting for.

miquella the kind still wants a world filled with peace and compassion but now, he is a god, now he is someone willing to take the most drastic of measures because now he is no longer the boy that was miquella the unalloyed that believed in an age of compassion with love present. you cannot have compassion without having love which, of course, miquella the kind has abandoned.

i don't know there's just something interesting about these siblings where one has continuously resisted the urge of an outer god who is trying to force her into being something she does not want to be and then there is the one who willingly rips away that which makes him him because he thinks that this will help him become someone he should be; it will help him become the god that will fix this broken world.

[geospiral]

Did you ever have that one person in your life when you were younger that was so unabashedly kind that even though you personally weren’t good at interacting with others or had a hard time understanding other people, that person never treated you any differently from the rest of the people around you? When you were mentally struggling, did thinking about how effortlessly nice and welcoming that person was make you feel better and even give you some hope for the world if it was able to make something—someone—this good? And maybe that person was actually your friend or someone that you wanted to consider your friend, but the point is that they were kind, and you were kind in turn for the moments you had with them, and that's all that matters.

Anyway, I wasn’t really sure how to get the feeling across any other way, but this is why understanding Sua, Till, and Ivan’s fondness toward Mizi is so easy to me personally; even if how they feel towards her doesn’t perfectly align with the feelings I had towards my person, I get why they care for her so much. Mizi’s a light in the dark.

[hauntingofhouses]

guys cmon. be ffr please. akemi did Not love taigen. the only reason why she was desperate to search for him to the point of putting herself in danger is because she didn't want to get married to an abusive man (which she believed at the time that takayoshi was). when seki tried to dissuade her from running off, her reason was not "but i love taigen and wanna be with him 🥺" it was because she refused to be controlled and have her autonomy taken from her; she literally says "i won't be locked away in edo married to a stranger." and when seki still tries to argue that getting married to the heir of the shogun would be better than getting caught by brigands, she then says "that kind of man"—referring to takayoshi—"treats women like animals. they say he's a tyrant." and when seki chuckles and says "what man isn't?" her response is "you." she doesn't even talk about taigen. she is using him as much as he was using her. they both see—or, well, saw—each other as means to an end. for taigen he saw that marrying into the tokunobu clan would elevate his status and wealth. for akemi she wanted the right to choose who she married, and she wanted that person to be someone kind. that's it! neither of them loved each other. but since they were courting of course they acted sweet to each other, and they do still care for one another, especially due to their romantic history. but let's be real! akemi is a boss bitch who dropped taigen and forgot all about his ass as soon as she saw takayoshi was a nice guy. because duh? not only is takayoshi a better lover (it's implied their lovemaking lasted a long time) but he's also kinder towards her and presents her with an opportunity to claim power and freedom, which she would not have if she had married taigen, as she would have still been stuck under her father's thumb. so literally why should she settle for taigen's stupid ass! she may be a little naive at times but she's still incredibly intelligent. she would not do something stupid for the sake of "love." you know who would though? taigen.

[yallemagne]

Every time I see someone claiming you can't ship Wolverine with anyone because of Wolverine's age, I'm just like "I think maybe you might be stupid. You should get that checked."

Age gaps are only toxic when they create a toxic power dynamic. Wolverine's age doesn't give him an advantage over grown adults because they have the same relative maturity. He doesn't lord his age over the people he has romances with. Honestly, I struggle to imagine how he could use his age to his advantage in a relationship because it's not like his maturity matches that of a theoretical 200+ person. He doesn't even act like, say, 100. Calling him a creep for having feelings for a thirty-year-old woman? You are the one being weird there, infantilizing a grown-ass person.

There's definitely some ships that I'd side-eye you for, but the problem with those isn't the numerical difference in years, it's the difference in maturity and the pre-existing dynamic between the characters. Younger characters he has taken a mentoring/parental role with? No-go. But see, I would have the same conviction if he were just 40.

[chainsawl]

[vancalox]

im a eurydice = solas truther btw and ill die for my beliefs

be so serious........ and lavellan as orpheus......

[spurgie-cousin]

i'm going to hold everyone's hands when i say this: if a creator you love is Christian or Mormon and purposefully does not disclose their beliefs on politics or human rights, you need to assume it's for a reason 👀

and i'm sure that sounds harsh to some people but think about it: if they really cared about the LGBTQ community, or women's rights, immigrants, the environment, etc and they had a huge platform to make change, why would they be silent about it *all* the time?

literally the only argument you can make for them is that they don't want to lose followers and eyeballs, aka lose money, aka they WANT to appeal to people who might not give a shit about those things, including your humanity. and I would encourage you to ask yourself, how does that make them any better than those people?

edit: and yes I get that sometimes you just want a break and don't want political content. there's nothing wrong with that, and it's a case by case thing for sure. but in the case of absurdly rich, conservative lifestyle influencers, I just feel like we should want to know who we're giving our money and attention to.

also all the people that got mad at me for insinuating that Nara Smith's whole bit is rooted in truth....... not to say told you so lol but...

[hazellvsq]

writing sammy and marie levesque interacting for the prequel fic is kind of challenging because hazel and sammy grew up together so there had to have been some sort of relationship there even though its straight headcanon. i think sammy had to have disliked her, i don't think anyone who cared about hazel would have liked her, but at the same time being respectful would have been engrained into him so i think ultimately he would have been uncharacteristically quiet and sullen around hazel's mother a lot of the time as to not say something disrespectful. marie doesn't pick up on this because. how can i put this. she's aware on some level that him and hazel are either together or going to be but also pretty much views hazel as his babysitter of sorts. like she still kind of thinks sammy is six that's how little he registers to her. she's aware that hazel is growing up that's a whole separate thing. she does not gaf about sammy though he is literally some neighborhood kid. just some guy. she's not even a hater because in her eyes he's too young to hate. he doesn't pick up on this which is good.

[niaerinisms]

Jam’s said this before but through what we’ve seen of him in book 3, I think it makes more sense for Aerin’s character for MC and co to have mistrusted Aerin and for him to have run away and not have returned, only to be forced to group with them in the afterlife…

[krotiation]

whats ur opinion on wainlock

LOVE IT and love how they're written with actual depth which is honestly so rare with older couples in media in general. like two old dudes with actual development in their relationship? wainwright worrying about not being a good fit for hammerlock which makes hammerlock worry for him?? but then they say screw it, it will work out and it does??? it's very realistic and i love them for that

[autismmydearwatson]

I actually can't believe how many people used to (or even still) hate Misa Amane. Her only crime was that the boy she loved happened to be Light fucking Yagami

[balsee]

jinx is so ready, so accepting of her death. she was ready with ekko, and now with vi, and you can see just how tired she is in both scenes. she's had it in her head ever since she was a little girl that she's deterimental to everyone who gets close to her, and the only way to remedy this destruction that jinx is so convinced is hard-wired into her is for her to die.

[memento-morri-writes]

I've been thinking a lot about how Rook's reunion with his former mentor, Zara, is going to go, and since I can't predict what the DM is going to have her do or say, I can only dwell on what I know is going to happen. Which happens to include taking off the illusion ring that's been hiding his injuries from her. So have a snippet of the description I have planned for that moment:

tw for description of (mostly healed) injuries

He hesitates, twisting a ring on his finger. Looking at it more closely, she can tell it’s very finely crafted, and must have been very expensive. A large emerald is set into the band. Rook sighs, and pulls the ring off his finger in one quick motion.  Immediately she’s struck by the difference in his appearance as the illusion melts away. He looks awful. His warm, healthy skin fades to a dull and sickly grey. There’s huge bags under his deeply sunken eyes, and his cheeks are hollowed, as though they have been carved out by an overeager sculptor. He looks like he’s recently risen from the grave.  While he was thin before, now she can see his ribs under the skin, and his collarbones are exaggeratedly pronounce. Thin white lines left by dozens upon dozens of recently healed cuts are scattered across his body. On top of that, faded bruises cover most of his visible skin, a mottled mosaic of purple and yellow. They’re clearly days, maybe weeks old, and she can only begin to imagine what they must have looked like when fresh. Bandages are barely visible under his shirt, wrapping around his back, hinting at even more injuries.