#shut up this is so precious

[hooned]

playful jakey 🥹

[catgrandpa]

If anything happens to this kid I can not be held accountable for my actions.

[chaosinterlude]

“lucifer is sadistic and mean!! he’s so serious and scary!!”

meanwhile,

he’s just a silly man who wishes for a domestic life with his partner and dog <3

[virgothozul]

I don’t talk nearly enough about part5 and Mista. He’s my comfy dummy, bless this lil silly man. (wdym we’re talking about a mafia dude who does t0rtur3 and mur43r for a living)

[happypeachsludgeflower]

I’ll never understand why He Xuan had to go through with his elaborate revenge plot against Shi Wudu the way he did. He already had the perfect revenge set up. Murdering Shi Wudu might have brought He Xuan momentary satisfaction, but seducing the man’s precious little brother and rubbing the relationship in the water tyrants face every single day is eternal.

[accio-victuuri]

this yibo video tho. so precious 🥹🥹🥹

OP’s text/explanation:

The torch relay was over by then and the staff has been debugging the camera position for a while. just wait a little longer with Yibo. the baby just smiled warmly. later, other torchbearers were being interviewed nearby. yibo just said it casually "I think it doesn't matter, there are other people's voices."

then they cooperated and recorded the first Q&A. i met him many times because of work. He is always considerate. not late or even arrive early and just wait in the car. easy to talk to but not too busy, very cooperative, professional and insightful. After the filming was over, he was just playing with his cell phone alone.

[leslutdepointedulac]

Something that I really love about Louis and Lestat's love, is that they're so opposite about it. On one hand, you have Lestat who's saying all the time that he loves Louis (even if he can't say it to his face), always talking about how he makes him feel. He's very loud about his love for Louis, again, if he's not outwardly saying the exact words, he's showing it by doting on him, buying him new clothes, trying to give him a comfortable life (often whether Louis wants him to or not).

And then you have Louis. I think people sometimes forget or just don't realise that Louis is so deeply in love with Lestat, equally as much as Lestat is with him. Louis cares for Lestat so so much, he's just far more subtle about it. Unlike Lestat, Louis isn't displaying such huge gestures of affection. His love is smaller in how he shows it, not smaller in how much he feels. I like to think that it's because Louis feels that his love for Lestat is for the two of them and no one else. Anybody outside of their relationship isn't apart of it, therefore doesn't need to see it. Louis' love for Lestat may seem small from an outsiders POV, but between himself and Lestat, the subtle way in which he displays his affections speak so loudly.

I love the way Lestat shows his love because it's so loud and obvious. He can't contain his love so he has to share it with the world for everyone to know about. He has so much love to give for this one man and we all get the privilege of seeing that. But I also love how Louis shows his love because it's more subtle. It feels more intimate and private, he doesn't want or need for anyone else to see it. He knows his love for Lestat is true and strong and Lestat knows it too, and that's all they need.

Neither way is more or less valid, they both love and care for each other more than anything, they just go about it in different ways. And that's really beautiful to me and makes me love them even more than I already do everytime I think about it.

[roselikeaweed]

why do i not see anybody talking about how cute joel with slicked back hair was???

LIKE LOOK AT HIM

like- hes so precious please i cant

its giving gentlemen

like hes so fucking cute bffr

[silvermoon424]

How it feels to learn about the Sweet Baby Inc controversy against my will, making me realize that there really are mfs out there who want to start up gamergate again

[solar093-art]

ElidibusWeek2022: Day 3

"My home... My friends... No more than a dream..."

[carefulfears]

we've both talked about how scully isn't jealous fire. what differences do you see between protective scully vs jealous scully?

yeah to me the main difference is that one is more external and the other internal. she gets very emotional when she’s jealous. in episodes like alpha (literally sitting that woman down and going “i’m watching you.” cracks me tf up. Dana nobody is taking your man.) and war of the coprophages, it’s kind of angry. it’s louder, but still something very vulnerable and true to her (hater-ism). in episodes like the end, it’s heartbreak. that’s one of the very few episodes where i think she was purely jealous, and sad. she usually understands what’s going on and i think she knew as soon as she heard him call diana by her first name that something was going to change. i think it hurt her feelings, that specific display of connection, usually reserved for her.

when she’s jealous she retreats. she watches quietly. she cries alone in her car. she needs a moment to herself.

it’s when she’s protective that you can’t shake her for anything. one of my favorite images in fire is her standing in the doorway while mulder and phoebe meet with the arson specialist. i didn’t even notice she was there the first time i saw it. she wasn’t invited. she’s just keeping watch. later, she’s standing in the hallway. after that, she’s in his hotel room, and doesn’t leave when phoebe comes in. says “are you okay?” the moment they’re alone.

people write off her behavior in this one as being “jealous” because she has a lil crush and there’s another woman there, but i honestly find that dismissive. sometimes people discuss scully through such a wide lens, not taking into account who she is. she’s really surprised throughout the time that phoebe was there. it’s that soft edge that still shocks to cruelty, that she never really loses. it’s what shocks in the pilot when the doctor hits mulder twice. what shocks in the following episode when the government agents punch him on the side of the road. (look at you you’ve radicalized scully). it’s what makes her wary of jerry lamana, even before he stole mulder’s work.

but phoebe is so cruel, and so personal, and has so much history. it’s not jealousy that makes scully linger in doorways. it’s not jealousy that spawns that folie a deux. no one else understands. no one else can be trusted. (which i do kind of think started in fire, i’ve said before). she isn’t jealous that he startles when he hears this woman’s voice.

and i know that’s a lot on phoebe as an example, but it doesn’t stop. she doesn’t stop keeping watch. she doesn’t stop shocking to cruelty. she’ll get loud. she’ll make plans. she’ll surprise herself. and it doesn’t come with jealousy’s mortifying intimacy.

(don’t have much else to say but i found this from an old post of mine and wanted to share: “scully has that kind of protectiveness towards him that you have towards a child that hasn't been touched by the world yet. it's very 'the world is at least half terrible, though i keep this from my children.’ 'good bones' by maggie smith. scully in the beginning is like......there is something here that should have broken by now. and she wants to watch him be able to walk into every room with the most hopeful answer and a hand out to every stranger.”)

she shares him with the world only reluctantly, Etc etc

[fozzieosbourne]

America’s Sweetheart Sam Lake

(He ate my son but LOOK AT THEM TEEFIES AWW!)

[shady-swan-jones]

She's Perfect But You're Mine ~ Finale

She's Perfect But You're Mine | captain swan fic | roommate romance | mature | 3/3 | 7.8 k | completed

Killian has a girlfriend. Emma handles it with the utmost maturity and grace. Or not.

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[ronancebyler]

im sorry but rewatching season one makes byler so apparent. if they were wlm i can guarantee everyone would know mike is down HORRENDOUSLY bad for will.

lucas and Dustin are fighting about the hobbit and mikes just like "we can help look 😡🥺"

[leslieseveride]

i'm always a normal girl in my bedroom until i think back to lucy's face when tim was cradling her to his chest after saving her life.

[glitterdustcyclops]

okay it's nearly one in the morning and i can't sleep because i'm thinking too much about astarion so permit me to ramble for a moment (you actually have no choice)

but just

ugh

the more and more i play the game and experience all the different facets of the conversations you can have with him (and also ruthlessly spoil myself on his arc both ascended and not because i'm impatient lmao) the more i am just, completely in awe of the depth and care that went into writing him??

like, okay, cards on the table, i have a pretty major vampire kink, biting kink, blood kink, etc. and from the first moment i heard there was a romanceable character in a fantasy rpg that was a flirtatious queer vampire pretty boy with a Traumatic Backstory and a twisted master/slave relationship with an Evil Dude i was immediately like 👀👀👀

could not draft the marriage proposal fast enough, you know?

and larian could've just stuck with that! they could've had him be an incorrigible flirt, and have his whole arc focused on getting revenge against the horrid man what wronged him, and by helping him on his quest you earn his love and you two ride off into the sunset, happy forever

but no. instead we got something so much more, and it's entirely fascinating to me. all of his layers and contradictions!! the different masks he wears on top of each other, and all his pain and trauma barely simmering under the surface of his pretty polished façade.

and not only do we go ahead and take this man whomst on the surface appears to be a walking vampire erotica trope in a gorgeous package, but we pull off the reveal (and depending on how you play it this can happen almost immediately after you express interest in him) that this whole thing, is a very blatant, deliberate act. one cultivated by a sexual abuse survivor, as a way to protect himself from the things that scare him, that make him vulnerable.

he straight up tells you to your face that this is a lie!! this all pretend!!! you're supposed to fall for it, he wants you to. what he does not want, what he could never predict, not in centuries, is that you would see past his mask(s), and then go ahead and love him anyway. him. the real him, the one he barely knows himself, the flashes he reveals to you accidentally in small moments, as much as he doesn't want to: all those messy cruel capricious terribly horribly wonderfully real parts of himself, and how he wants to be real with you in turn, even though it scares the absolute bejeezus out of him

and THEN!!!! the further you go in his romance, the more you realize that this walking series of pickup lines, this supposed master seducer, is actually incredibly wary of sex because of all the trauma and pain it's caused him. sex is not something he associates with true joy or pleasure or even intimacy, not anymore; the ability to feel good about his body was taken from him. the game makes it explicit that, as a man who was robbed of his agency and his ability to meaningfully consent to sex, not only is it the objectively wrong decision but it is downright evil to force him into doing anything sexual with you, even though you're his True Love or whatever, and as he learns and grows and feels more secure in himself he will straight up dump your ass if you violate his boundaries around sex!!!

and instead of flirt-flirt-flirt-true-love-forever you get all these really sweet, tender moments of nonsexual intimacy, hand holding and hugs and just, honest sweet conversations? you can even tell him "hey i don't think it's good for us to be serious right now, but i still want to be your friend." and even if you do keep romancing him, you can reassure him that you don't hold his lack of interest in sex against him, you still want to be with him just as he is!! he is worth it to you, with his ten-piece designer set of luxury baggage. and he practically melts about it!!

and this is not even getting into everything post cazador quest, i haven't even gotten to those scenes yet except for the "evil" version (trying not to ruin it for myself haha) but the way his arc ends in the "good" version where you talk him out of doing the ritual, out of perpetuating the cycle of abuse that was forced on him, and instead show him a better way forward? and he experiences true actual freedom for the first time in centuries, and he hesitantly decides that he wants to keep going forward with you??

UGH!! i just, i care about astarion so much!!!! i am absolutely head-over-heels-stupid in love with him and the way he's written and i will never fucking get over it, oh my god, help me, i'm DYING