#ship; mother and sister (enabler)

[twinsmoochies-are-goodsmoochies]

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[thatbookgirl1118]

I cannot for the life of me find the original post (tumblr is a hellsite) but this was sent in an atla gc:

@the-badger-mole

and tbh i always kinda felt like kataang was weird exactly because of that one-sidedness??? like there's one episode of katara maybe sort-of seeing aang as a love interest (when the fortune teller tells her she'll marry a powerful bender), but then the rest of the show is her being passive in the relationship or actively pushing aang away (like their second kiss). and then at the end she just randomly decided "okay i like you i guess."

whereas aang got a bunch of pining moments and you actually believed he was in love with katara.

and most of their relationship was about how she helped aang - he did contribute to her character development over the course of the series especially as a bender of course but it didn't feel as emotionally/spiritually deep as katara's literal one episode sidequest with zuko.

but then someone else wrote "I would argue the opposite? Kataang is where Katara choose the peaceful nomad which subverts the trope presented where zutara is where she chooses the strong protector/combatant. Aang as a character is a subversion of the typical hero while zutara is like,,, coloniser romance idk"

and honestly... i kinda get that. aang was problematic in a lot of ways, but he was definitely a subversive protagonist, and i can see the power of allowing the woman to choose the pacifist vegetarian over the extremely obviously hot jock badboy. this is an incredible oversimplification of their characters of course, but the point stands.

Basically, Kataang is the ship we all logically want - the sweet, friendship-based, seemingly subversive one. But Zutara is the one that actually makes sense in the story, with these characters, not their tropes. Aang is subversive, but he and Katara are also kind of terrible for each other - he isn't mature or selfless enough for Katara, who needs someone to force her to take care of herself because she's always the one taking care of everyone else (wonder what that's like). That's why she and Zuko are so perfect, because he not only takes care of her, he makes HER prioritize herself. Aang... does not. He's pretty selfish, which yes is partially due to his immaturity (I personally don't count Korra as canon because it treated ALL the og characters terribly so I'm speaking purely from his 12 yo self), but it's also just a basic incompatibility thing. And Katara is actually equally bad for Aang - she enables him waaay too much, and he needs someone who doesn't. Who forces him to stand up on his own two feet and take responsibility. She's too much of a mother, and her relationship with Aang is too mother/older sister-ish.

With Zuko, on the other hand? Katara started out HATING him, forcing him to prove himself to her instead of handing him everything she had like she tended to do with Aang and Sokka. He had to earn her care, and as a result he appreciates it way more and demands way less of it. He's a far less selfish character generally for the same reasons, and is much more mature/has a better understanding of life and gray areas. Southern Raiders is a great example of this - he's down for whatever Katara decides because he understands that there's no one right answer, unlike Aang who simply preaches forgiveness. I'm not necessarily attacking Aang about that either - I do believe that grudges eat away at a person, and taking a life does haunt you, so forgiveness isn't necessarily bad advice. But it's not what Katara needed. Aang is great as a friend, but I don't think he's what Katara needs from a romantic partner. Zuko just... is.

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I agree Max's statement probably was written or overseen by his PR team, not in a "he'd never write that/he wouldn't defend his gf that way/it's Kelly who wanted him to comment there and made him do it way" but in a "If Max was allowed to say what he really wanted, it wouldn't be media friendly to say the least" way. Max isn't someone who reacts to the hate that he himself receives, but we've seen him time and time again go to the bat for his loved ones, particularly his mother, and his sister and her kids (y'all do remember Max's nephews - literal babies - got death threats in 2022?).

I personally don't like Kelly. So I don't interact with her tag, or her socials. I scroll past when she comes up in tags I do follow. I block when people are being weird about her. Has she done and said things that warrant criticism? Yes, absolutely and without question. But my question is: would you care about that if she wasn't dating Max? Because a lot of the comments come off as less "this action/behaviour is questionable/appalling/etc, it must be rightfully called out" and more "it should be me dating him". Also, perpetuating misogyny towards her and bodyshaming her, isn't criticism. Some of you jump that line often. Kelly has done a lot of problematic shit, I'm not denying that, but two wrongs don't make a right.

It's important to remember not just Kelly gets this type of hate, no "wag" or even the mother of a driver goes unscathed. Even Oscar's girlfriend, whose Instagram is private and who very quietly shows up to support him, gets hate. Let's not forget ferrari fans singing that Sophie Kumpen Max's mum was a whore, or all that's been said about Alex's mum over the years. We've enabled such a toxic environment for any woman who is in any way connected to f1. I remember what some of y'all had to say about Hannah Schmitz, who *check notes* had the audacity to do her job, do her job well and do it as a red bull employee. We talk about wanting to get women onto the grid, but we can't even allow the women currently involved in the sport, whether fans, crew & team members, drivers' family members and girlfriends, to simply exist. We're only talking about Kelly right now because she made a statement.

This is just two examples of some of the shit that's been been perpetuated:

In short, your fav driver isn't going to fuck you or the driver you ship them with.

[saintsenara]

For unhinged and deranged ships: Voldemort/Narcissa, with the explcit purpose of making sure Lucius knows about it as one more way for Voldemort to fuck him and his family over (literally!)

thank you very much for the ask, anons!

now... here's why i declare myself a citizen of cissamort nation, a ship i actually find fascinating enough for a wee bit of it to be chilling in the wip folder...

and the reason i find it so interesting is because it enables me to indulge one of my favourite things to explore when writing voldemort - his extremely complicated relationship with wizarding social convention.

by which i mean, his blood- and magic-supremacist views are obviously sincere, he does genuinely think that being pureblood makes somebody better than having muggle ancestry [he just doesn't include himself in that category].

but he doesn't respect the social order - and its norms - which the wizarding world has invented to uphold blood-supremacy - not least because he clearly doesn't think these are sufficient to keep all the mudbloods at bay. he is singularly lacking in deference towards the class system, he shuns the expected behaviours of "polite" society, he wants to tear down the established order and make it anew...

and he has very little respect for those among his death eaters who would prefer to do otherwise.

that is... lucius and narcissa.

lucius enters such a flop era from order of the phoenix onwards because voldemort is clearly fuming about the fact that he preferred to insist he was under the imperius curse during the first war - rather than, like his brother- and sister-in-law, refusing to denounce the cause - because he didn't want to lose the comfortable, socially-prominent life he had by virtue of his name, wealth, and blood status. voldemort goes to great lengths throughout the latter books of the series to punish him for this by specifically attacking the maintenance of social norms which lucius values so highly [by squatting in the malfoys' home, refusing to behave like a guest, and humiliating his host before his peers; by constantly emasculating lucius; by treating his son and heir as expendable; and so on].

and lucius and narcissa's turn against voldemort - as much as it's connected to their love for draco [and as much as they do seem to be sincerely good parents] - is also connected to their growing realisation that, if voldemort wins, they will be made pariahs, and will never again enjoy the life at the top of the pile they've had for so long.

however, while voldemort's ire is beamed straight at lucius, his feelings towards narcissa are - it's clear in canon - rather more complicated...

because while voldemort evidently doesn't like her, he seems to dislike her predominantly as a cipher for social convention - and, specifically, for gendered social convention.

or, she becomes collateral damage in his quest to humiliate lucius by painting him as a failure of a man. voldemort spends the opening of deathly hallows insulting the conventions narcissa canonically takes pride in as an elite pureblood wife and mother... but he does so by, even if not entirely intentionally, portraying her as someone lucius should also feel ashamed of disappointing by his lack of proper masculinity.

i don't think this is because he respects the role of the pureblood woman as narcissa would understand it [the lack of opportunity afforded to elite pureblood women - all of whom seem to be married when they're barely out of school, don't work, and don't seem to be particularly socially visible - seems to me like something he would perceive as dishonouring the superiority their blood-status and magical power should afford them], and nor do i think he's some sort of "free her from her shackles" marriage abolitionist.

but i think he can be written as thinking of narcissa as someone he pities [although certainly not in a particularly kind or empathetic way] and sees as having been denied "proper" experiences because her husband's a worthless peacock-fucker, and whom he thinks would benefit from receiving the attention of someone who actually knows what he's doing...

and we have our potential setting right there on the page in order of the phoenix, as narcissa becomes central to voldemort's plans to retrieve the prophecy - with lucius circumvented throughout the plotting stage - when kreacher goes to her when sirius orders him to leave grimmauld place, and provides her with information that - it's implied - many of the rank-and-file death eaters wouldn't appreciate the importance of, but voldemort very much does.

narcissa's significance to voldemort's prophecy caper is reduced in the watsonian text by harry's grief over sirius - which associates the debacle in the department of mysteries in his mind primarily with bellatrix, and therefore ends up linking kreacher's great affection for bellatrix to his betrayal of her cousin.

but it's there.

and it must have involved narcissa spending the odd night shut up with the dark lord in her best guest bedroom.

[the-black-bulls]

I like the headcannon game, how about Luck or magna :D

seeing a headcanon you disagree with and it kinda pisses you off

y'all want me to ramble about luck alright lol, already did magna here and I don't think I've more to add, so this post is for luck, vanessa and the bulls relationship in general!

Luck:

- I think a lot of people just assume that luck hates his mom because she's an abusive person, when in reality he's showed nothing but love towards her even after he finally let her go... and honestly, I doubt he would ever hate his mother period (even if he should 🥲), and taking that nuance out of his character doesn't sit right with me

- also, "bad friend luck" is a dumb headcanon that mischaracterizes him, magna, and the black bulls in general

- I'll be honest, I was never into the "half sister charlotte" theory, but especially after it became so widespread people treated it as canon thus it lost its appeal to me and sound boring now (we could always get creative and embrace "half sister sally" theory instead 😛), but nothing wrong about supporting it though

Vanessa:

- manga spoilers alert: there's this headcanon that popped up by charlotte fans at the end of spade which basically reads: "it's her feelings and plea for yami to live that triggered rouge into bringing help for him..." which, why? vanessa was there and grey was there and they don't need to be romantically involved with yami to have strong feelings for his safety be freaking real, not to mention that rouge has always been a black bull spell; it's favored by them and triggered by them and would alter fate for their sake regardless of any outsider's tears, but also... what the hell? we're talking about the spell vanessa developed out of (family) love, the same spell that's connected to her heart, why tf should charlotte be credited in her place is bad enough but stretching so hard to twist what is pretty much a love spell from vanessa to the bulls just so your ship gets petty points is pathetic!

- so anyways, "vanessa needs to find true love" is an awful, awful headcanon (emphasis on need)

Black Bulls Relationships:

- that they only started bonding with each others after asta joined the squad and inspired them to do better, SURE... they did become better magic knights thanks to him, but their development is a long process shaped by each other's presence even if it'd take them years to admit it... this is why when each black bull hits their Development Moment, they always think back of yami, the other bulls, or both, so there's NO WAY they acted like strangers or were unhelpful to each other prior to the year asta and noelle became members

- likewise, any headcanon that implies one bull or another is disliked by the others or only barely accepted isn't headcanon, that's straight up mischaracterization, go reread the manga again

- likewise, I believe that just because the manga didn't explore every single relationship within the squad, it shouldn't lead to fans making it like each member's circle is only limited to one to two bulls, like ok luck and magna are each other's #1 person, but luck can still share ties with the other members too... he can be vanessa's little bro, and noelle's big bro, and charmy's partner in crime, and the little gremlin gauche keeps enabling, etc etc

- this post is getting long so one last thing, I think of the black bulls as a team with mutual and equal influence over each other, so unless we're referring to yami there's no "X bull is carrying the squad on their back" or "without X bull the squad will be lost" - because, honestly, it doesn't fit the bulls, they're all so flawed and bad at things they need each other to balance their cons with their pros, case in point I don't do "finral has been the vice captain before nacht" but I DO "vanessa finral gordon are a trio of senpais who've been carrying/sharing vice captain duties for years"

[emilykaldwen]

HOUSE GREYJOY AT THE START OF THE DANCE OF DRAGONS:

The IRON ISLANDS keep to their own. Ruled by the erratic and cruel DALTON GREYJOY, he is enabled by his mother, the lost BRIONY MARBRAND of ASHEMARK, whose brother on the Kingsguard still fights to secure her freedom even after nearly three decades. With him, are his elder sisters and younger brother:

HELYA GREYJOY, THE IRON SERPENT: A reaver of the darkest kind, Helya's own madness runs loud and unhindered. Just as ruthless as any of the men, Helya commands her own ship, The Serpent's Song, and her crew of loyal men known for the decimation left in their wake.

GWYNESSE GREYJOY, THE DRIFTWOOD BRIDE: The waters speak to the Bride of the Drowned God. Many say the lady was touched by the gods to divine the tides and the changing of the sea.

VERON GREYJOY, THE LITTLE KRAKEN: The youngest of the Greyjoys, Veron has just reached the age where he can now follow the men on reaving. A gentle hearted boy, it does not appear that his kind heart will last long.

MYRANDA GREYJOY, THE ALBATROSS: The youngest daughter and middle child, Myranda is lost in the shuffle of the brood. Quiet, sullen, she wears the weight of her cursed epitaph around her neck. Eager to be rid of her in hopes of turning the luck of their fleet, she is readily offered as a sacrifice to GWAYNE HIGHTOWER when a truce is offered.

[part one of two]

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[the-manor-7]

My Key to Revenge - Chapter 1

Reverend Mother,

You have put me through much pain and suffering, but even then I am grateful. You have given me the means and made me powerful enough to do as I will with the minds of men and my fellow women. Perhaps we will meet again, in a world that is not so war-torn and lost. But, unless that happens, you and I will be sworn enemies, never to meet again in a room amicably and without bloodshed.

-from the letters of the Bene Gesserit Lady Carina Fenring

Hooded figures stood in the shadows, draping, dark cloth adorning their bodies to obscure their appearance and assure secrecy. 

“This is the girl?” The old woman peered into the bundle lying in the man’s arms.

“Yes, this is my niece. Freshly born not but two hours ago.” 

“You give her up so early?” Another hooded figure whispered into her ear, “Yes, as my sister said, that is quite young.” 

The man sneered, “You promised an alliance in exchange for a girl. I have provided one for you, so take her and leave. But, keep your promise.”

“No need to get testy, now. We will uphold our promise. You will be catered to in Bene Gesserit deals.” 

“Good.” He shoved the bundle into the old woman’s arms, “Take her and get out of my castle, her mother will be looking for her soon.”

The woman glared at the man at that, but took the young child in hand anyways, “I will turn her into the finest Bene Gesserit. She will know the ways of powerful women.”

He merely waved his hand, “I do not care what becomes of her. She is my niece, born out of wedlock, and to a lowborn no less. Keep her as a servant or student, it matters not to me.”

With one last look at the man, the old woman and her circle of hooded figures turned, “We shall be on our way then.”

When they began walking and were out of earshot, one of the hooded figures caught up, “Reverend Mother, are you sure you want to take this child? She is of mixed blood.” 

“There is no mixed blood in this one, girl. That idiot of a count cannot tell his left hand from his right. This one is born of the blood of two Great Houses, just like her cousin.” 

“Like the other Fenring? How is the family going to take to two missing children?” 

“If they search or not, it does not matter. These children will not know of their heritage, and they will grow up as upstanding noble women of the Bene Gesserit. No one is to speak of this night.”

The circle hushed.

“Yes, Reverend Mother.” 

***

“Your thoughts betray you. They are a bridge for your enemy. Do not be enslaved by your thoughts.”  

Lady Carina Fenring walked briskly across the sand, feeling it mold to her feet, as she made her way towards the Emperor’s ship. 

“Your thoughts betray you. Your thoughts betray you.” She insisted upon the Bene Gesserit mantra under her breath, trying to calm her panic and not let her nerves and temper betray her. 

“They are a bridge for your enemy. Do not be enslaved by your thoughts.” 

Anxiously wringing her hands, she dreaded the sight that would greet her. 

She knew what was behind that door.

She could feel it.

But, she did not want to accept it.

All of the years she spent scheming. All of the years spent planning, gaining the knowledge and assets to enable the plan, and being so close.

So close.

She could taste it, her end-goal was so near to her future. And right before it was within her grasp, it slipped through her fingers, fell, and sifted straight into the sand which tortured her vision and plagued her senses. It flew away into the wind that whipped at her hair and grappled with her clothes. 

She had spent years, years chasing that dream, that goal. 

All for it to be undone by the split-second decision of her subordinate. Her slave. 

For that is what she had reduced him to.

At one point, she may have questioned the morals of her methods, but she was too deep into this, too far into the strategy she had built from the ground up to care.

Of all the people she had thought would thwart her plans, she didn’t think it would be the person she had recruited from the beginning. The one who had been the cornerstone in all of her work. The one who had sworn their loyalty to her more times than she could count on her fingers. 

Of all the people, why did it have to be him? 

She had a few other individuals on the side to complete the minute details of her plan, so it mattered not if they betrayed her. They could be replaced. 

But, this one's lineage was too strong. His name held too much influence for him to be granted a mistake. 

However, he had gone and done it anyway.

He had done the unthinkable, and ruined everything. 

Feyd-Rautha, you are lucky you are all I have left.

Oh, how she wanted to strangle him, to make him bleed and realize just what it was he had done. He was a traitor, and traitors deserve to suffer. 

Perhaps she had put too much effort into molding him into her perfect weapon to consider disposing of him, but his betrayal was making her feel extremely venomous and on the edge of murderous. 

Forget the edge. She was plunging off of that cliff, and thinking of numerous ways to make him understand her pain. 

She should have seen this coming.

She knew he was loyal, and strove to uphold his honor, no matter how twisted his sense of self and honor was.

Though, showing his loyalty to the emperor was not something she would have thought he would do. Not when he was a Harkonnen, and they had been known to remain loyal only to those within the family for as long as anyone could remember.  

Sighing, Lady Carina attempted to reign in her raging emotions and maintain her rationality.

The metal door to where the duel transpired stood tall in front of her, looming ahead like a foreboding shadow. 

One of sorrow and crushed dreams.

Very telling indeed. 

Not wanting to delay the inevitable any more than she already had, she pushed open the doors and took in the sight that greeted her. 

There, in the middle of the room lay Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, in a pool of his own blood.  

To the naked eye, one would think he was dead. The blood was beginning to dry, dark on the sand beneath him. His face contorted in a pain-filled expression, his eyes wide-open and unmoving. 

Holding her breath, she walked over to the mangled pile of flesh upon the floor.

Kneeling down in the center of the abandoned room, next to the bleeding body, the veiled lady spoke softly, “Na-Baron.”

Only a soft breeze across the sand could be heard, a contrast with its serenity to what had transpired before. 

When the body did not speak back, she clicked her tongue in annoyance. 

“Na-Baron Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. Get up.”

At the command of her voice, the body began to twitch. A few minutes went by and it struggled to stand, arms shaking and legs trembling.

“I know you live, Feyd-Rautha. You cannot fool me.”

Slowly, the breath returned to his lungs, his breathing labored. Blood dripped from his mouth, and was caked to his abdomen and head. 

He heaved a choking cough, “I would never dream of deceiving you, My Lady.”

“And yet I had to bid you rise to greet me. You did not do so yourself.”

Barely gaining back control of his limbs, the Harkonnen allowed his head to drop in her direction, “You have my sincere apologies, Great Lady.”

Standing up to be on his level, she grabbed his chin and yanked it up, forcing eye-contact between the two of them.

“Why did you do this?”

He only gave her a bloodied smile.

“Why did you almost get killed in place of the Emperor?”

“My honor bound me to do so.” 

Pushing his face away, her voice seethed, “You should know that your honor binds you to me, Feyd-Rautha. You have sworn your loyalty to me ten-times over. Your body and mind, as well as your soul, belong to me. How dare you use it in the service of another.”

“You haven’t visited me in so long, My Gracious Lady. I was beginning to wonder if you were ever coming back, so I wanted to gain your attention.”

“Attention?” She snapped, “You dare, dog?”

Seemingly undeterred by her ire, he collected himself a bit more, and wiped some of the blood off of his face, smiling, “Even a dog needs attention every once in a while. If left alone, they may get rowdy. Isn’t that right, my master?”

Rage swept through her mind and took over like a hard desert wind, grating at her nerves and eating away at what little calm she could conjure.

Glaring at his pale face, she clenched her hands, “You seem to have your wits about you now.” “You bid me to rise and be alive, My Lady. What else was I to do?” 

Having enough of his backtalk and banter she thought she had grown accustomed to over the years, she ground her words out through clenched teeth, “Kneel and repent.” 

“Gladly.” He sunk heavily onto his knees, a harsh sound in the otherwise quiet room.

“What do you will of me, master?”

She scoffed at his brazenness, “You should be asking how I will punish you. You have sinned against me greatly, and in a way you cannot atone for.”

“What is it that I have done to offend you, My Lady?” 

“‘What have you done?’” She repeated his word back to him in disbelief, “You have gone and gotten yourself killed in the eyes of the empire, and in turn have killed off your bloodline. Your uncle the Baron and your brother are dead. Your Uncle refused to have any children of his own, leaving the Barrony to be left under your control should he die. And he did. You were the Baron for under an hour, and you had to go and get yourself killed. You cannot be seen by anyone in the empire anymore.”

She watched as he licked the dried blood off of his lips, savoring the taste of it, “You are no longer useful to me. I should kill you right here;finish the job.”

“You know I would find no greater pleasure than that, My Great Master.”

“Yes, I’ve been made well aware, you masochistic dog-brained fool.” 

Reaching out, he grabbed the edges of her robe and brought the material up to his cheek, stroking it against the skin gently, “But, I believe I still have use to you yet.”

And this is how he gets me, every time.

His tenderness in these moments was what always broke her down. That she could bring this on in such a brutal man as this made her drunk on the power he placed in her hands. Carina knew he was aware of what he was doing, but played into his ruses every time.

With a softness she did not think she could feel in this situation, she replied, “And what could you possibly be useful for?”

He went further and grabbed her hand, pressing his face against it and holding it there, “Now that I am dead, I can become wholly yours. We would never have to part again. We could be together, always.”

She spoke as a reminder, for both herself and him. 

“I did not enter into a contract with you for companionship, Feyd-Rautha.”

He nuzzled her hand, “Oh, but I crave it, Master. I would give myself to you freely.”

Bringing herself back to sense and reality, she retracted her hand, and she shook him off, “Go retrieve your pets if you would like bodily pleasures. I will not indulge you in such things.”

“My pets?” He blinked, as his eyes cleared a bit, “Oh, yes. My pets. I should go get them. Do you think they survived?”

“Who knows? Your pets are probably an afterthought to everyone but you, you disgusting swine. I did not think you would enjoy them as much as you have when I gave them to you.”

“I cherish them because you gave them to me, Master. Although, they do offer great entertainment.”

“Yes, I’m aware of your peculiar fantasies and interests. I pity the ones who must endure the receiving end of it.”

“Oh don’t be that way, My Lady.” Black teeth flashed her way, “You have always indulged me.”

She pushed her face towards his, “Do not think you will get another ounce of mercy from me. You have betrayed me. You are a traitor.”

Something flitted through his eyes. It could have been guilt, but it disappeared as quickly as it had come, “You have my apologies.”

Sighing, she looked him up and down before turning away, “Rest assured I will bring you great suffering later. But for now, follow me. We must get going before someone sees you.”

He again struggled to his feet and trudged after her, still attempting to gain back full use of his limbs.

“May I bring my pets with us?”

Her shoes clicked along the floor, a stark difference to the eerie, quiet stillness which hung over the decimated Emperor’s ship, “You do not deserve such privileges. I gave them to you because I deemed you worthy of a reward, and you have broken that great faith I had in you. You deserve my gift no more.”

“If we leave them here, they will die.”

“Since when did you care about such things?” She sneered at him, “Those creatures will die, yes. Like the animals they are. You should be worshiping me for not exacting the same fate upon you.” 

“Master, you know I welcome all of your attention: violent or loving.”

Oh, the brazenness of this man. 

“I have never been loving towards you.”

Coughing, he wheezed out a chuckle, “As you say.”

Nearing a small alcove out of the way, a small ship came into view. 

“Did you pilot yourself here, My Lady?” More blood oozed out of his wounds due to his movement. 

“Of course I did. If I am to go unnoticed, I cannot arrive on a big, shiny vessel, now can I?”

He frowned and didn’t say another word as they embarked upon the vehicle in question.

Sighing, she asked him a question, since she could see something swirling in his gaze. 

“What’s the problem?”

“Seeing you without an escort is displeasing.”

That took her by surprise, “I go around by myself all the time.” 

Crossing his arms, he sunk into his seat with a pained grimace, “An esteemed lady who has amassed such a following such as yourself should not be unguarded. It is unsafe.”

“Do you think I cannot take care of myself, My Lord Na-Baron?”

He shot her a sheepish smile, “I meant no disrespect, Master.” 

Merely shaking her head, she revved up the engine and pulled the ship up into the air, before speeding away in an attempt to not be seen. 

Coming here had not been easy. So many Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers were gathered in such a small area, Carina was sure she would have been sensed by one of them. 

After all those years of not seeing any of them, she kind of hoped one of them would. 

But, fate dictated that could never be the case, not as long as she followed her vow to exact revenge upon them.

They had stolen her from both her birth-mother and home, and painfully trained her up from a young age to be an ideal Bene Gesserit Lady. One who possessed no fear of pain or misery, and one who sought the betterment of the organization over her sense of self or respect.

No amount of temporary loneliness could erase what they had done to her, what they had put her through in an attempt to construct the Lisan al Gaib. 

Waving her hand, she willed those foolish thoughts of longing to abandon the roots in her head.

They could be there no more if she was to complete what she started.

Only when the safe-hold she had created after years of toil and secrecy came into view could her thoughts shift to something else. 

Focusing on what had already happened and the rift in her plans Feyd’s misstep had brought would do her nothing.

She would have to focus on all that she had built, and how she could use it to move ahead and make sure her ambitions could become reality.

When the ship finally touched the ground, she shifted it into the correct gear and quickly disembarked, not waiting to see if the Harkonnen was following. 

“Lady Carina.” A tall, proper looking handsome man made his way over to the Bene Gesserit Lady.

She leveled a look at him, “Owain.”

Bowing his head towards her, he placed his hand on his chest, “I hope your journey went smoothly.” 

“As well as it could, given the circumstances.” Scoffing, she stomped past him, “I’ve brought a present.”

Said present made his presence known by calling after her, “Master! Where are you going?” 

“Somewhere alone! And go make yourself useful somewhere else, I do not wish to look at you anymore.” 

Not checking to make sure he did what she asked, she kept walking towards her quarters, wishing to be alone to contemplate what she should do next. 

Bursting through the entrance, she slammed the slab of wood behind her and seated herself on a cushioned chair by the already-lit fire in the hearth. 

The crackling of the flames soon calmed her enough to lean back and try to relax.

However, once again, her wishes were ignored when she heard a soft knock upon the door of her abode. 

“Lady Carina.”

I was Owain again.

Knowing that what had transpired was not his fault, she breathed and recited a few calming mantras under her breath before she replied.

“You may come in.”

He pushed the door open carefully, obviously expecting to see her still raging away inside the room.

When she just stared at him, he closed the door behind himself and stood facing her, his hands folded behind him in that polite, ever formal way of his. 

Silence once again overtook the room, the movement of students outside or the occasional clanking of metal the only thing that could be heard.

“Did you need something, Owain?”

He spoke quietly, as he often did when he knew she was angry, “I wanted to make sure you were alright, Lady Carina.”

When she just stared at him, he pushed again.

“What happened? Why is that man here?”

She knew exactly who he was talking about, she could see his opinions about him written all over his face. 

Sighing, she acquiesced as she learned back further in her chair and crossed her arms, “Feyd may have created a rather…large problem.”

His eyes darkened, “What did he do?”

Taking a second to maintain her decorum, she ground out her words through clenched teeth, “You know that meeting between the Atreides boy and the emperor I was telling you about?”

He nodded. 

“They ended up dueling. Which would have been fine if the circumstances were regular, it would have not caused any problems. But, Feyd volunteered to be his champion and was defeated by Atreides. They think he is dead. The emperor has given the throne to that Atreides boy, and now Feyd can no longer show his face anywhere. If he had just stayed silent, he could have continued being the Baron. Given, it would have been under Atreides rule, but he could still have had access to Harkonnen funds and resources. Now, he is a destitute man with no connections and nothing of value to speak of.” 

Her words hung heavy in the air.

Owain’s eyes darkened, “...then he is no longer useful to you now, is he?”

Raising her hand, she held it up in front of her, “I know your opinions on him, Owain. But, we will not have this conversation right now.”

“Lady Carina, if he no longer has any resources or anything useful, then he is worthless. He is no better than a bloodthirsty, war hungry foot-soldier.”

She slammed her hand down on the armrest of her chair, “I said we would not discuss this right now, Owain. Did you not hear my words?”

That vengeful look in his eye was replaced by one of slight panic, “Ah, I apologize, Lady Carina. I did not mean to cross you.”

“You didn’t mean to, but you did.”

She was just so tired. She was tired of everyone doing what they think is best instead of listening to what she had to say. This was her plan. They were all gathered here to do her work. 

Covering her face with her hands, she said weakly, “Just leave. And do not let anyone else in, I wish to be alone for the rest of the evening.”

She could sense his hesitation, but after a few moments, he moved, “As you wish, Lady Carina. I shall see you tomorrow.”

Then, she heard his steps out and the soft latching of the door.

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Thank you so much for reading!

I genuinely hope you enjoyed it as much as I had fun writing it.

I plan to make multiple chapters for this, so please stay tuned!

Thank you and love,

The_Manor

Masterlist

[moistvonlipwig]

can i do the same thing to you i did to sssammich and upend all the -corps on your desk or is that too greedy 🥴

looping in @yourlocalegotisticalqueerishere since it's easier to do these all in one post ! alphabetical order for funsies under the cut:

agentcorp - no...idk what to say really except the vibes are off for me. sorry chyler </3 i know you wanted to kiss katie so bad. i think alex and lena have similarities & differences (just like every character does with every other character lol) but i personally feel like their specific similarities & differences would cause them to either enable each other's worst aspects or to butt heads constantly. just my onion i know many people disagree and that's fine. also the triple hit of alex trying to nuke lena and justifying it by twisting all her previous good deeds to make them sound bad, lying about it to her face while asking for her help, and then not advocating for her to get her memories back and even encouraging kara to deceive her once again all in quick succession in s5 -- all of which got swept under the rug in s6 -- really soured me on the friendship s4 had built up between them. so i'm not even really a fan of their friendship. tragique :(

braincorp - they are my brotp <333 i don't ship them romantically at all but actually their relationship is probably my favorite relationship on the show period. it helps that they are my 2 fave characters lol but also they are so smart and so bitchy together and i love them <333 brainy is so ride or die for lena even when she gives him literally the worst advice anyone has ever given anyone else in the history of the world and lena feels safe with brainy to express how she really feels and they are kindred spirits. also the parallel to the comics dynamic between brainiac & lex luthor [which should've made it to the show!!! where was the original brainiac???] is poetic. braincorp 4 life !!!

dreamcorp - again i don't ship them at all but it's so bonkers that developing this relationship wasn't more of a priority for the writers. little sisters with asshole siblings who blame themselves for their mother's deaths (and also have magic powers i guess thanks s6 🥴)...the scenes write themselves! or so you would think. i liked that they had some rapport in s6 but also ngl it cracked me up in 6x07 when nia called lena "family" i was like girl this is your first onscreen conversation ever 😭 you are colleagues at best...oh well. i like the idea of them becoming found family though. i don't see the superfriends as a found family (they are actually this cool thing called 'friends' instead) but nia & lena specifically i think could come to lean on each other in a sisterly way.

guardiancorp - so as i've mentioned part of what really piqued my interest in guardiancorp was the reveal that james had 16 scars from lex yet he was able to look past that to see lena for who she was not just as lex's little sister. james as clark's best friend and lena as lex's sister are kind of inherently tied together by the superman/lex drama and i'm interested in how they can work through that to love each other anyway. one thing i find interesting about them is that they are deeply different in ways that could set them at odds -- lena is a luthor, james is team super; lena is a white woman, james is a black man; lena is morally flexible, james is much more morally steadfast/rigid -- yet they are able to find solidarity and common ground with each other despite those things and have each other's backs. a lot of people like to point to the scene where lena & james are completely out of sync at game night as evidence that they were never really right for each other, but the thing i always remember is that lena wanted to practice with him afterwards. she wanted to put in the work. that's actually very romantic to me. another thing i like is how protective they are of each other; morgan edge might call james lena's bodyguard and james might take a bullet for her and dangle morgan edge off a building for her but lena is also HIS bodyguard who would make deals with the DA for him and poison her mother for him. they're each other's guardians. also they are capable of being so powerful and bitchy together like when they went to confront morgan edge in 3x09 that was sooo funny and iconic. i do wish the show built them up better and let us see their friendship properly develop in 3a instead of having them flirt in a couple scenes and then not interact for 4 episodes and then have kara & sam hamfistedly tell us they have chemistry. if i were writing season 3 i would give them a slower build and probably not have them kiss until the balcony scene in 3x17. but oh well. if wishes were horses i would have lots of horses. i wouldn't even know what to do with all those horses. so it's a good thing wishes aren't horses, if you think about it.

kellycorp / goldencorp (that's the name i just came up with now that i am advocating for) - i quite like this idea because it's a kelly ship i can actually get invested in. hooray <3 i think kelly would be good for lena and, crucially, i think lena would be good for kelly. they both are more 'outsiders' to the superfriends than the other members are, as evinced by the two of them being the last to know supergirl's identity, and i think they could bond over that. i could see kelly feeling comfortable being displeased/angry with lena in a way she maybe doesn't with the other superfriends, while also holding space for lena's emotions in a way Certain Other People Who Shall Remain Nameless aren't always very good at. and i could also see lena really enjoying spoiling kelly with her wealth and kelly being kind of into it. also the fact that the showrunners seemed weirdly allergic to putting azie and katie into scenes together, meanwhile azie and katie were supposedly constantly flirting on set and working overtime to try and sneak goldencorp crumbs into the background, suggests to me that their chemistry was so palpable and powerful that TPTB were scared of letting them loose lest the fandom descend even further into ship wars. ...ok that last part is just a silly little conspiracy theory that i made up so please don't repeat it as fact or even as plausible speculation but also why Did the showrunners keep them apart so much 🤔 makes you think !

mirrorcorp [mirrorverse iris/lena aka a ship i invented] - so if you've never seen the flash you are probably thinking: who is mirrorverse iris??? i'm so glad you asked. mirrorverse iris is a clone of iris from the mirror realm which is NOT an 'evil universe' a la star trek, it is instead a world literally inside mirrors. mirrorverse iris was essentially created by mirror monarch (don't ask) for the purpose of infiltrating the normal world. she spends an arc impersonating the real iris and is similar in some ways but is also angrier, more ruthless, and more impulsive. in her last episode she figures out that she wants to be her own person and live life on her own terms not mirror monarch's and she defies mirror monarch during a fight with barry and then she dies. don't like that she died i wish she'd stuck around she was an epic character. but anyway this arc takes place in season 6b of the flash which you guessed it coincides with season 5b of supergirl. so my pitch is that instead of teaming up with lex to continue project nonsense lena goes on a sojourn to central city and meets mirrorverse iris who is impersonating real iris and undergoing an existential crisis/crisis of conscience. and the two bond and become friends. and then mirrorverse iris doesn't die and she and lena have to figure out who they want to be for themselves not just for the people who created them or tried to mold them in their image. and then they kiss about it idk just saying it could be good!

nationalcitydistrictattorneycorp - i mean. you've seen the scene. possibly the most sexually charged scene in the entire show. unclear to me why both actresses decided to play it that way but ok queens !

peggycorp - not my thing but i respect the warriors 👍

reigncorp - sam is imo the best & healthiest friend lena could ask for -- actually the best & healthiest friend anyone on this show could ask for -- but i don't really think their relationship is improved or made more interesting by them dating. i do think they have hooked up in the past and they decided they were better off as friends.

rojascorp - i'm not a rojascorp shipper actually but i believe in their beliefs...andrea and lena definitely dated, i see them as exes who still have affection for each other & sexual tension, i'm just not interested in the idea of them getting back together. if anything i actually worry that andrea might be too deferential to lena? i think she sees herself as deeply indebted to lena and -- whether you're looking at the pre-crisis more interesting timeline where she directly has blood on her hands or the post-crisis less interesting timeline where she tried to kill supergirl & accidentally put william in the line of fire -- i think she has a lot of guilt and she views lena as a moral authority in contrast to her morally 'tarnished' view of herself. which is interesting & juicy because most characters don't view lena that way. but i don't know that it's a great dynamic for a romance.

spheercorp - jack is sweet and rahul kohli is pretty. here endeth my thoughts on spheercorp. ...ok i guess i can say a little more which is that like rojascorp i prefer them as exes/bffs to them getting back together. i also will say that, while i think jack's death contributed to a disturbing trend on the show of killing off south asian characters, i do actually rather like it as a character beat for lena. i enjoy seeing him pop up in fics but in the show itself i think him dying is kind of a better story. sorry jacky :(

supercorp - i mean i think the premise alone is kind of epic and awesome. a super and a luthor but they're in love. like that's just plain cool. plus think of the awkward family dinners! i am always here for ships that will generate awkward family dinners. i also think they have a lot of great comedy scenes together which is always a plus to me shipping-wise, i like ships with a comedic bent. but there's also a lot of juicy drama/tragedy/gay divorce with them too which is also good of course. as a big fan of dramatic irony i like the secret/reveal as a storytelling device i just wish they handled it better post-5x01 (i think 4x22 and 5x01 actually kind of nailed it ngl). i like that they both used each other's kryptonite on the other person and yet they were able to forgive that and love the other person anyway. i mean the actual in-show process of forgiveness was wack but the idea is spicy. and i like that, as kara herself (clunkily) put it in the finale, they really do challenge each other and push each other to be better. as i've mentioned before theirs is a relationship where actions have consequences and where every scene they have matters and affects later scenes, which is unlike.....well, most relationships on the show, frankly. i also tend to think their scenes are just generally better-written and have more subtext (and i'm not just talking about the gay kind) and interesting things going on in them than most of the rest of the show's scenes. for all my many gripes about how s5 & s6 handled their fallout and then kind of just papered over it with platitudes, i still think their relationship is one of the best parts of the show and it's still the major thing that keeps me on the hook.

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✨Introduction✨

Note: This will update as I see fit.

Name(s):

MirrorCatCreditcard, SleepyBurger, or WhipController depending on the account/platform. If you know me under any of the listed names, you can congregate/talk to me here or wherever you found me.

Special interest(s):

my spouse, canines (especially dogs and wolves), humans, history, literature, Obey Me, languages, philosophy, the omegaverse, disabilities, Luka (Alien Stage), snakes

Current hyperfixation(s):

Luka (Alien Stage), monster/cryptic stories, Alien Stage, Alien Stage rarepairs and canon ships, Alien Stage lore, IvanLuka, (this show has taken over my goddamn mind, I'm begging you to send help in the form of enabling this hyperfix-)

Fanfictions (by fandom):

Obey Me

Beyond Our Touch — oneshot, completed

The Madness of Magic — series, irregular updates

Little Mizzi Muffet and the Spider King

Not Even a Mouse — oneshot, completed

The Promised Neverland

They Still Called Me Mother — oneshot, completed

Bungou Stray Dogs

Beat Them and They'll Return an Army; Ignore Them Yet They Swarm — series, ongoing

For the Verses of Time That Dance Across Our Skin — series, ongoing

Quite The Odd Child — series, ongoing

You're Proud, But I'm Just in Pain — oneshot, completed

Death Note

Shivers Not Caused by the Rain's Chill — oneshot, completed

It Was a Normal Evening — oneshot, completed

Played Me By Another, Played Himself a Fool — oneshot, completed

Miscellaneous/mixed media

Fictober 2024 — series, ongoing

Personal tag list and uses: (they will be linked underneath)

#mirr's rambles — I yapped excessively or did an analysis but it's disorganized on average

#mirr's personal favs/#mirr's favs — whether my own or another's work, it's just stuff I really liked

#mirr's honesty — I spoke what I believe is truth

#mirr answers — I answered an ask or replied to a question via reblog

#mirr speaks — just a regular post of mine with no particular tag needed

#mirr writes — my fanfic discuss

Fandoms/things I read/watch and will participate in discussion about (in no particularly ranked order):

Demon Slayer

Obey Me (video game)

Death Note

Bungou Stray Dogs

Yuukoku no Moriarty/Moriarty the Patriot

Brutal: Satsujin Keisatsukan no Kokuhaku/Brutal: Confessions of a Homicide Investigator

Genshin Impact

Among Us

Undertale

Spy x Family

Jujutsu Kaisen

Kaguya-sama: Love is War

Noragami

The Ancient Magus' Bride

The Misfit of Demon Academy

Mo Dao Su Shi/The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation

Happily Ever Afterwards (manhwa)

King's Maker (manhwa)

The Promised Neverland

Weak Hero (manhwa)

any series by Idolomantises (ex: Monsters and Girls, Bugtopia, etc.)

Aporia

Black Butler

Eleceed

Dr. Frost (Webtoon)

Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto

I Don't Want This Kind of Hero

I Failed to Oust the Villain!/I Failed to Abandon the Villain

Akuyaku Reijou desu ga Kouryaku Taishou no Yousu ga Ijousugiru/I Was Reincarnated as the Villainess in an Otome Game but the Boys Love Me Anyway!

It's Mine (Webtoon)

Killer Crush (manhwa)

Killing Stalking

Like Wind on a Dry Branch (Webtoon)

Lookism

Mob Psycho 100

My S-Class Hunters/The S Classes I Raised

Navillera: Like A Butterfly (manhwa)

Noblesse (Webtoon)

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint

Payback (manhwa)

Roxana (manhwa)

Solo Leveling/Only I Level Up

Steel Under Silk (manhwa)

Teenage Mercenary

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

The Boxer (Webtoon)

The Case Study of Vanitas/Vanitas no Carte

The Crow's Prince

The Falcon Princess

Kininatteru Hito ga Otoko ja Nakatta/The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All

Hametsu no Oukoku/The Kingdoms of Ruin

The Knight and Her Emperor (manhwa)

The Lady and the Beast (manhwa)

The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor

The Newlywed Diary of a Witch and a Dragon; The Makeup Remover

The Remarried Empress

The Tyrant's Sister

The Villainess Is Retiring

The Villainess Is a Marionette

Death Is the Only End For the Villain/Villains Are Destined to Die

Saijaku Tamer wa Gomi Hiroi no Tabi wo Hajimemashita/The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

The World After the Fall

Tomb Raider King

Under the Greenlight

Tower of God

What's Wrong with You, Duke?

any series by Obelis (ex: War and Tea, Meow Are You?, etc.)

Who Made Me a Princess

(The Reason) Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion

Empress Cesia Wears Knickerbockers

Roses and Champagne

any series by Brothers Without a Tomorrow

Endless Night Encore

Another Typical Fantasy Romance

Hunter x Hunter

Alien Stage

Low Tide in Twilight/Waterside Night

One Punch Man

Bendy and the Ink Machine

Doki Doki Literature Club

Hell Neighbor

The Stickbot Show

Subnautica

Five Nights At Freddy's

Monster School (Minecraft)

In the Doghouse (manhwa)

Mr. Beta

The Villain That Embraces the Light

Stalker x Stalker (Webtoon)

Extras(?):

My former pinned post

My Luka analysis post

Luka enjoyers on this site

[hazelkjt]

Felt like taking a shot with all my OCs, so uhhh

Wanna give thanks to my friend @iron-sparrow for enabling my madness in making all these characters and having blogs for all of them. I hate you for not stopping me love you!

Little descriptions of each below

From left to right- Claire Ashe- Mercenary and Lemure who is currently under contract aboard the merchant ship The Enduring Deeds. While officially hired just as a deckhand she pulls double time as the ship's cook. Pureblooded Garlean who defected after witnessing the callousness of the Garleans towards the subjected people of Ala Mhigo. Keeps her identity as a Garlean hidden with the use of her headband she never takes off. Hazel Kha- The one and only. Steppe hunter and warrior who followed her dream and left home in search of knowledge and adventure. Currently working as the assistant of Nolanel Corbeaux on his research into Dynamis. An insatiable curiosity, anything that is a new experience for her is something she will almost never turn down. Exploding Goldfish- Crew member and self appointed Chief Engineer aboard The Enduring Deeds. Maintains the equipment aboard the merchant vessel while spending his free time inventing new ways to not have to work as hard on the open water. Builds and maintains all his own equipment, including his own prosthetic. His face was scarred and his arm was lost in two separate incidents. E'venna Zekiel- Fighter in the Ul'dahn Coliseum fights, nicknamed "The Dancing Coeurl." Grew up the oldest sister of five to a single mother, her life is one of making ends meet yet her cheery disposition and ever present optimism wouldn't lead you to believe that. Good and close friends with Hazel after the two had a match, E'venna coming out victorious.

Derrinall Evramont- Duskwight and an Ashkin from the time before Gelmorra fell. Resurrected in modern day for reasons he does not know by someone he cannot recall. Currently employed as a member of House Amelune's staff, doubling as both servant and Captain of the House's knights.

[problematic-rwby-shipping-poll]

I/NCEST BRACKET - QUARTER FINALS: ENABLER VS HARVESTING MOONS

Propaganda is below the cut.

ENABLER

“they are incredibly close, also Ruby was totally jealous in vol9, she told me herself.”

“Yang basically raised Ruby and has been there for her since day one. Protective big sis Yang and her precious little rose. The dragon and her baby sister. They are just meant for each other. Not to forget that the red and yellow goes together so well.”

“The original! Before there was White Rose there was Enabler—it’s history really, and damn if they aren’t cute. Goth little sister x jock older sister, trying to protect your baby sister x trying to be as cool as your big sister? So good.”

HARVESTING MOONS

“Voted “most likely to call your girlfriend by her dead mother’s name”, Qrow and Ruby have a super strong canon dynamic! The loners of their family bonding over huntsman training, he adores her as the best thing in his life and she idolizes him as this amazing, strong person. If Little Red Riding Hood loved the Big Bad Wolf for his teeth.”

[justalildumpling]

can you describe ur relationship with ur moots using different kpop idol ship dynamics?

(hopefully that makes sense!!😣)

wait i actually love this prompt HELLO??? also, i only chose the mutuals i talk to on a regular basis and feel like i know well enough for this so im so sorry if i didn't mention you😭

@sungbeam ⎯ nct mark & haechan (aka soulmates)

if we haven’t advertised about this enough already, beam and i are certified soulmates like😐 like mahyuck we literally tease each other about our side hoes (*COUGH ch*ngm*n) but we will never hesitate tell each other how much we mean to each other. idk if mark had ever exclusively mentioned this about haechan but i truly believe beam and i were cosmic coincidences (soulmates) like i feel at home with her, she is my safe space

@polarisjisung ⎯ nct mark & yuta (24/7 flirting)

idek how to tell y’all, its literally playful flirts back and forth😭 and like yuta, hua wins most of the time…. literally bf who? but literally i would say our friendship is so wholesome tho, like if we were to meet irl i can imagine us like that one yuta and mark date at the restaurant

@wuahae ⎯ tbz sunwoo & changmin (menaces to society)

it just works. if u guys see our messages to each other it’s literally keyboard smashes and screaming about some random topic😭 we both take turns insulting each other tbh but 🥰lovingly🥰 but also like.... i don't think we can mentally and emotionally go without talking to each other everyday like idk what to tell u we literally are stuck together. ok but jokes aside, i feel like sunwoo clicked with changmin really well and have a deep trust in him just like i feel towards cat

@jaeminvore ⎯ nct haechan & johnny (the enablers)

we’re like… enablers of the inner chaos of each other. literally i could have the most feral thought and nics would be the first to be like yes😁👍👍 just like johnny constantly defending haechan HAHAHHAH

@winterchimez ⎯ tbz jacob & sunwoo (gentle mother with her chaotic ass child)

can i just say how much i adore ally like😭 she is so big sister energy but also like mother energy at the same time!! i feel like with jacob and sunwoo, ally is both very concerned.... towards my chaotic ass irl actions but also like entertained at the same time OAFOEF LOOK- she is my mum (in the non weirdest way possible) period.

@zzoguri ⎯ tba sunwoo & new (tom and jerry)

admittedly... i like teasing moni. why? well,,,, i love them that's why😁 ok. but, like chanhee and sunwoo's relationship i feel like our relationship is the perfect balance of very fun but also very deep at the same time. like we could literally be swearing at each other when playing game pigeon💀 but then could be venting about personal things the next second. i feel like sunwoo can really rely on chanhee for advice or hardships which reminded me of moni💗

@from-izzy ⎯ tbz sunwoo & eric (sibling energy)

i contemplated putting jaemin and jeno down but i feel like izzy and i give off more sibling energy then old married couple JBEWOFOWF i always have fun talking to izzy on vc like i miss her presence if we haven't spoken in a while even tho we might not outright say it

@invuwrld ⎯ tbz younghoon & new (the biggest cheerleaders)

can i just say mona is literally the biggest hypewoman? like. post a pic on deoboyznet and i can bet ur ass mona will be the first one to reply and it will literally make my day LIKE HEAISNPI?!?!?! and i would literally not hesitate to do the same for her. hoon and chanhee seem to hype each other up all the time and their interactions were always so cute to me just like ours hehe

@jaehunnyy ⎯ riize shotaro & sungchan (pair of besties)

IF CHIP ISNT THE IRL VER OF SHOTARO IDK WHO IS because girl. she is literally the sweetest human being ever and just like shotaro, she took me into her arms the day we met and i have never left since

@mosviqu ⎯ svt hoshi & shinee taemin

i always looked up to bar when it came to writing and still do, like i have such high respect for her and still fangirling that we're moots OIUBQOEUFBOW but like hoshi and taemin, i would like to say that we're getting closer hehe

bonus:

@/wuahae @/zzoguri ⎯ tbz new, q & sunwoo

istg there's just chaos when we're together like idek what to tell you. HEAVY EMPHASIS on when we play crazy 8 SKSJSJSJSJ like last time, cat and i literally ganged up on moni😭 like we all love each other but we will literally bicker all the time OIHFOIGHWE (not to mention the fact that we genuinely have attachment issues.......) LITERALLY SOULMATES!!!! (the pattern confirmed everyone)

[scotianostra]

On March 17th 458, Mo Padraigh (Saint Patrick), Patron Saint of Ireland died.

There is a theory that St Patrick was born around the Dumbarton area in about the year 372, other sources put him further south in what is now Cumbria, the truth is nobody knows for certain. What is known that The Islands as we know them now were in the main occupied by The Romans.

It is said his father, whose name was Calpurnius, was in a respectable station in life, being municipal magistrate in the town in which he lived. What town this was, however, is not certainly known, whether Kilpatrick, a small village on the Clyde, five miles east of Dumbarton, Duntochar, another small village about a mile north of Kilpatrick, or Dumbarton itself. But as I said these are only the ares quoted in what is now Scotland I wont go into the ones saying England.

His father is supposed, (for nearly all that is recorded of the holy man is conjectural, or at best but inferential,) to have come to Scotland in a civil capacity with the Roman troops, under Theodosius. His mother, whose name was Cenevessa, was sister or niece of St Martin, bishop of Tours; and from this circumstance, it is presumed that his family were Christians.

He was captured as a teenager by Niall of the Nine Hostages who was to become a King of all Ireland.

He was sold into slavery in Ireland and put to work as a shepherd. He worked in terrible conditions for six years drawing comfort in the Christian faith that so many of his people had abandoned under Roman rule.

Patrick had a dream that encouraged him to flee his captivity and to head South where a ship was to be waiting for him. He travelled over 200 miles from his Northern captivity to Wexford town where, sure enough, a ship was waiting to enable his escape.

Patrick's devotion to Ireland started with a dream which he wrote about as.....

"I saw a man coming, as it were from Ireland. His name was Victoricus, and he carried many letters, and he gave me one of them. I read the heading: 'The Voice of the Irish.' As I began the letter, I imagined in that moment that I heard the voice of those very people who were near the wood of Foclut, which is beside the western sea-and they cried out, as with one voice: 'We appeal to you, holy servant boy, to come and walk among us.'"

The vision prompted his studies for the priesthood. He was ordained by St. Germanus, the Bishop of Auxerre, whom he had studied under for years, and was later ordained a bishop and sent to take the Gospel to Ireland.

Patrick arrived in Slane, Ireland on March 25, 433. There are several legends about what happened next, with the most prominent claiming he met the chieftan of one of the druid tribes, who tried to kill him. After an intervention from God, Patrick was able to convert the chieftain and preach the Gospel throughout Ireland. There, he converted many people -eventually thousands - and he began building churches across the country.

He often used shamrocks to explain the Holy Trinity and entire kingdoms were eventually converted to Christianity after hearing Patrick's message.

Patrick preached and converted all of Ireland for 40 years. He worked many miracles and wrote of his love for God in Confessions. After years of living in poverty, travelling and enduring much suffering he died March 17, 461.

He died at Saul, where he had built the first Irish church. He is believed to be buried in Down Cathedral, Downpatrick. His grave was marked in 1990 with a granite stone.

Saint Patrick's Day is observed on 17th March, the supposed date of his death. It is celebrated inside and outside Ireland as a religious and cultural holiday. In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day of obligation; it is also a celebration of Ireland itself, although recent events have meant it will be more subdued than normal. I once read many years ago that there is more alcohol in the world sold on St Patrick's Day than any other day of the year, and I quite believe that, but again am not getting into an argument.

A wee but more about the Scottish thing here...https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/saint-patrick-born-scotland

[saintsenara]

*rolls up in sexy nurse costume* i have those crack ships you ordered, doctor! extra strength unhinged.

firenze/narcissa malfoy

augusta longbottom/piers polkiss

colin creevey/the bloody baron

oh, you thought you ate with these, anon, but they're hardly unhinged at all.

firenze/narcissa malfoy

i wonder what returning to the forest would be like for narcissa in the years after the end of the war? it's the site of probably the most pivotal decision she will ever have made in her life - one which saves her son, but kills her sister; one which sees her family lose its status, humiliated by the ministry clearing house after the battle and dependent on the goodwill of harry potter to stay out of prison, but which still enables them to survive as a trio.

i seem to write, whenever i'm asked about narcissa, that she's clearly someone whose life is dictated by conformity to conventions - especially ones relating both to her gender and to her social class. with the end of the war, the mask behind which she has lived for decades is no longer available to her, and a woman who is clearly quite fragmentary is going to find herself trying to piece back together a person who hasn't been seen in public since narcissa realised she'd have to make up for bellatrix and andromeda's defiance by being a porcelain-perfect wife and mother.

and returning to the forest is going to stir up the same feelings in firenze. he was driven out for also making a knife-edge decision of huge consequence - agreeing to abandon the usual centaur policy of indifference to human affairs and working for dumbledore as the war ramps up - and which also results in a victory which is tenuous: he's absolutely right to recognise that there's a time for being hands-off and the government in being in the control of a genocidal terrorist kingpin isn't one of them; but, in being right, he ends up an outcast from his community, living as a second-class citizen in a society in which even the good guys think of non-humans as less worthy than themselves.

so you've got your forest-based meet-cute. you've got your central couple striving to come to terms with who they really are. you've got two people whose lives have been dictated by conformity to a set of social standards who no longer have the safety of those standards available to them. you've got a woman whose whole family are named after stars and a man [who is also a horse] who knows how to read the skies.

tell me you don't ship it.

augusta longbottom/piers polkiss

i've seen harold and maude.

colin creevey/the bloody baron

if you were adjusting to life as a ghost, having been brutally killed in a battle you shouldn't even have been fighting in, who would you want to show you around as you learn the ropes?

a forever-fourteen-year-old girl who literally doesn't stop whining

the world's most pompous partially-beheaded man [also fond of whining]

a mysterious and rude young woman who won't stop going on about how hot the man whose forces killed you was when he was sixteen

a drunken monk who represents the least interesting house and who's probably really into "looking on the bright side" and "manifesting", even though he's dead

or

5. an intriguingly blood-stained [always sexy!] anglo-norman nobleman who would help you tackle the big questions about regret and remorse and who could keep peeves away from you.

we all know what decision we'd make.

[newnitz]

I was wondering: which marginalized group are krakens?

So, in the Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken universe, krakens are quite obviously an allegory for a marginalized group.

They look different, they come up with a rehearsed excuse for looking different, they physically struggle to act like the human majority, their ability to lead a normal life is conditional on them being in hiding. The town despises krakens, a townsperson has dedicated his life to hunting down krakens and is suspicious of the Gillmans, due to lacking any familiarity with krakens the rest of the town considers them a myth, but the moment one shows up it's all torches and pitchforks.

To me, this looks suspiciously like racial/ethnic discrimination.

Which is why I'm incredibly disappointed in the popular takeaway here, of "the movie's condoning Grandmamah's racism and imperialism".

If anything, the movie is condoning Agatha. Agatha, who's taught her family to hide for the sake of a peaceful life. Agatha, who acted out of trauma. Agatha upon realizing how much she screwed up, immediately feared that her daughter will live with the same bitterness she harbors towards her own mother. Not Grandmamah, who used every opportunity to show her granddaughter her heritage, in hopes she'll be tricked into becoming just like her, and therefore left her open to be tricked by Nerissa/Chelsea. It condoned Agatha, who tried to set all her personal grievances aside to protect her daughter from what she rightly suspected as a bad influence. Neither kraken could have predicted alone that Ruby was being groomed by a charismatic immortal with a vendetta, which btw Grandmamah considered not to be a threat without any raw power backing her up, but the reason they don't talk is because Grandmamah was trying to push Ruby into becoming what Agatha sacrificed everything not to become from the moment she was born. Grandmamah enabled Nerissa.

Ironically, this reminds me most of the Little Mermaid sequel, where Ariel similarly hides Melody's heritage from her, only for the tweenager to stumble upon it herself and get used up by Ursula's sister. The main difference is that it's specifically to hide her from Morgana and not Triton(with whom she's reconciled).

The movie had a very important message of "your parents aren't perfect, they're probably biased by their own issues, but they're looking out for you. So think before you decide to go with the first person to show you it's cool to defy them."

Which is why I find it incredibly disappointing that people here strip the nuance of how krakens are treated outside their aquatic comfort zone to get the worst possible takeaway out of it.

Not as disappointed as I am by every other post shipping the 15yo main with the adult woman who used her youthful looks to trick her into undermining her mother, though.

[biscuitsofthesevenseas]

Ima just drop the rest of these rewrite ideas (Credits too @sonicfan1837 for writing some of these)

I HC that Sea Fairy is Black/White Pearl & the rest of the Gem Mermaid's mother, so it'd make no sense for her to abandon them, so she's gonna help, only to get frozen under the curse. That way, she isn't indirectly the reason Black Pearl became...well...herself

The St Pastry Order isn't thrown away like dirt and is a vital part of the Odyssey storyline (With the white masks and shit)

Pastry Cookie joins the Cookies of Darkness after learning the truth of their “gods” (The witches)  

All of the Beast Cookies have their own version of the Dark Side of the Moon to talk to their Soul Jams new holders (The most funny one being Eternal Sugar randomly falling asleep because shes the Beast of Sloth and Hollyberry having to wake her up to communicate with her)

The Beasts are much more relevant instead of being randomly thrown in during Beast Yeast and never being mentioned before that 

SEA FAIRY ISN'T A SIMP FOR THE MOON (she still likes her, but doesn't go as far as she did during A Mermaids Tale)

SEA FAIRY ALSO DOES HER GOSH DARN JOB AS A PART OF THE ELEMENTAL COOKIES-

All of the Beasts were created from the personality Witches from Witches Castle (Mystic Four was made by the Witch of Order, Shadow Milk was made by the Witch of Logic, Burning Spice was made by the Witch of Aspiration, Silent Salt was made by the Witch of Observation, Eternal Sugar was made by the Witch of Happiness)

There are good witches and bad witches, the bad witches ate the Cookies and enabled the Beasts to destroy everything, and the few good witches locked them away (BECAUSE FUCK THE BULLSHIT THAT THEY WERE ONCE GOOD, NO) 

The witches basically got FUCKED during the Salem Witch Trials, so uhh…yeah, they’re dead 

Gingerbrave & the others tell the truth instead of hiding it from everyone 

DOOMED YURI!! (Aka abyss monarch and aquamarine+more doomed yuri ships I can’t think of)

MORE DADDY-I MEAN DARK CACAO ANGST

Smoked Cheese & Burnt Cheese are brother and sister (yes I hc SC as transfem, ok?) 

Golden Cheese & Smoked Cheese actually talk things out, and Smoked Cheese is NOT the villain 

The Beasts are stuck in separate prisons across the lands they once ruled over. Burning Spice laid in the Great Destroyer's Tomb, Mystic Flour hid in her cocoon, and Shadow Milk was trapped in a tree.  

As for Eternal Sugar, she’s inside one of her clouds, and Silent Salt is trapped in the Bottomless Pit 

Oh you thought Dark Cacao & Dark Choco was the only angsty family we got? Hell no. Capsacian angst with Burning Spice baybeeeeeeeee (I know it would be ancestry, but who says it can't be a fucked up mother/father and son reunion?) 

Since the Beasts are treated as Eldric gods, they often get offerings at their prisons. This is based on a hc of mine. 

EVERYONE WHO GOT A FAKEOUT DEATH ACTUALLY DIES FOR REAL (Ex: The Christmas gnome guy and Frilled Jellyfish) (Only one exempt from this rule is Sherbert since technically he’s still dead)

Speaking of which, Sherbert is basically the messenger of the Elemental Guardians 

Faeries and Gem Mermaids are creatures of Cookie Mythology 

I actually agree with some of these, and they could help patch up some of the big a d gaping plot holes in cr storylines.

Thanks for dropping these!