#single life goals

[kbsd]

john and gale in stalag luft iii // "violet hill" for @swifty-fox

if you love me, won't you let me know?

[groenendaze]

these make me feel emotions i dont quite understand

[orchid-n-petals]

So I've already shared parts of this on a discord server, but I have to scream about Ketheric Thorm on here as well. Obviously spoilers about the character under the cut! It's a long one.

The entirety of act 2 is about him, right? Jaheira, Shadowheart and numerous other NPCs shit on him for his fickle faith. First Selune, then Shar, then, as we meet him, Myrkul. You hear about his changes of faith on a whim, you hear that he's the person responsible for the shadow curse, he is painted as a villain, plain and simple.

You can figure it out pretty early on that Isobel was resurrected and that she is his daughter; the detail as well that he wants Isobel alive is so on the nose, it gives him away completely but there are still a few questions that remain unanswered, mainly about his faith.

And then you get to the mausoleum and the picture assembles; this entire tragedy, the death of hundreds if not thousands and the complete ruination of a landscape was all, ALL because you had this absolutely wrenched, heartbroken father who had lost everything and nobody answered his grief. He was left woefully alone, the Goddess whose daughter his daughter was involved with did nothing to save Isobel.

Imagine outliving your wife and your daughter. Imagine dedicating your life to fight the Lady of Loss, your Lady of Silver's enemy, and then be left so completely alone and in silence with your grief, with your loss. It's so, so poetic how and why he turned from Selune, and it's so understandable as well; he broke. His spirit completely broke. He couldn't deal with that void of having lost the only two important people in his life, seemingly undeservedly so. He was going mad with this and a lot of his ire was likely targeted at Aylin who, in his eye, represented Selune; she's literally her daughter, after all, and it was implied that even before the deaths of his family, he sort of saw Aylin courting Isobel as Selune taking his daughter from him, despite his service. This relationship was clearly not seen by him as a boon of "giving his daughter to the Moon-maiden".

His ways in the past clearly didn't spare him from tragedy and having to cope with it (which he clearly didn't, he snapped under the weight of his grief). He was clearly angry and unable to do anything, furious and helpless, which is a dangerous combination. A good part of his first change of heart must have been fuelled by a sense of revenge.

But then Shar didn't provide any balm to his aching heart either. If you read his letters in Grymforge and in act 2, he is so focused on enacting the will of Shar because he believes that healing lies in oblivion. Everything would be easier if he could just forget, if the damn world could just forget, if nothing was remembered because without Melodia and Isobel, nothing was worth remembering.

Then came Myrkul. Literally the only god who was not only able, but WILLING to give back his daughter to him. Imagine spending your all, EVERYTHING you have to serve two gods who would not give a single shit about the greatest suffering in your life. You were basically nothing, your loyalty didn't matter for shit, everything that was taken from you amounted to no recognition whatsoever: you should simply cope and seethe. Your grief will not simply go unanswered (which is not inherently antagonising) but ignored.

And then comes this supposedly evil entity who can alleviate your pain just like that, snap of a finger and it's a done deal.

I am so serious when I say that I believe Ketheric's main incentive was to extend Aylin's immortality to Isobel as well. You can read in her diary that she feels a taint after having came back, and there are things not even Selune can cleanse, but at this point, Ketheric doesn't care about Selune, vengeance is secondary if not tertiary, he's done that war during his Shar years and what did it give him? Literally nothing.

He doesn't even care about the fact that Isobel is still her cleric. He cares about the single most important fact: Isobel is back. Life is worth living again, there is something for him, and it was not Selune or Shar who gave it to him but Myrkul, and for this singular gift, he would raze the world for the Lord of Bones. Like people can clown on him for being disloyal but the man has the loyalty of a dog bonded to its owner.

He is powerful and is willing to go to insane lengths for crumbs. What is raising a single life for a god? Nothing. It has happened and it will happen again. But Ketheric will go to the ends of the earth to serve the single god who actually listened to him. The one god who didn't ignore him.

He knows that what he does is not the morally upright thing! He is so insanely self-aware that allying with Orin and Gortash and doing this entire plot with them only to then betray them is morally reprehensible at the best of times, he knows that people hate him, etc-etc. He was a Selunite at one point and he's not stupid. He just doesn't care; it could be literal Asmodeus and he wouldn't care as long as he got what he wanted, no matter the price.

He is probably the only one from the three of the chosen who has complete clarity over his situation, he almost sways (if you pass the check during his confrontation), he is not an inherently evil man blinded by power.

But he is inherently loyal to those deserving, and as of the story's standing, completely broken by his grief. In his eyes, at this point, the only one deserving loyalty is the one who actually listened to him. Isobel lives. It doesn't matter that she hates him, that his entire life has fallen apart, that literally nothing else that is good has come of it, because Isobel lives.

I don't think he regrets a single thing. His consciousness might tear at him at the end, but I believe he would do everything over again, exactly as he did, because in the end, his daughter was brought back. Because what would a grieving, broken parent give to bring back their child? Everything. Absolutely everything. And it's such a simply given answer, no second thoughts, no doubts.

Nobody can tell me that this man is fickle. Nobody. This man was willing to burn the world to the ground, create a Boudica destruction layer all by himself for the one single thing he wanted. For any God that would listen.

I don't know, I just have a lot of thoughts about his character.

[rockoblanco]

been sober for 4 days so far & it’s been hard but slowly falling in love w/ my sober mind and excited to see how far i can go ❤️

[happyk44]

To me, children of Zeus are natural strategists in the same way children of Athena are. But the difference is that Zeus and his kids have multiple plans and contingencies if a plan fails at a certain point and needs to shift gears. So like they employ Plan A and get all the way to stage four of the plan when suddenly there's a deviation from expectations for whatever reason. So they shift gears from Plan A1 to Plan A2, which accounted for this deviation and continue on.

Athena and her kids, however, come up with one solid, somewhat broader plan and refuse to deviate from it at all unless there is literally no other choice, in which case they will improvise quickly and efficiently to accomodate the change and get back on track to the original plan.

[tennant-davids]

all cut/edited/changed kenstewy moments in season one

1x03 lifeboats (first coffee shop scene - stewy says "they don't love - you" in the scene)

1x06 which side are you on? (kendall casually slandering stewy and humping victorian dolls, apparently - he can do the funnies too!!)

1x06 which side are you on? (kendall and stewy 'exchange a look' but they don't in the scene that we get to see)

1x08 prague (slightly different greeting between kendall and stewy than the one we saw)

1x08 prague (bar scene - different dialogue to the actual scene. stewy adds 'and us' to his 'follow the money' comment, no 'i love you, man'.)

1x09 pre-nuptial (two lines cut from pub scene)

1x09 pre-nuptial (kendall is just on his own in the background until nate goes to him in the episode, no conversation or stewy)

1x10 nobody is ever missing (extended conversation before kendall says 'that was really hard' after delivering the bear hug letter)

i'll add to this if i find any others, otherwise all other scenes pretty much aired as written give or take a bit of paraphrasing, improv etc.

[3416]

the more i look at mitch's stats, the more i'm fucking cackling at the idea that people think trading him is all but confirmed............ like girl this organization would be proving itself absolutely incompetent.

[star-racing]

I think having all the alteans be dead at the start of Voltron was a missed opportunity tbh, I know they were going for a sole survivor thing but I think it would've been so interesting to actually see Allura as a leader of her people for literally any amount of time

[error404vnotfound]

i have reached the conclusion that i only enjoy romcoms when they are fanfiction

[ladykissingfish]

*after being reanimated* Deidara: Danna? You ... you look so different ... Sasori: *looks down at himself in disdain* Apparently death has restored my human body. How awful. How positively unartistic. Deidara: *reaches out and timidly touches Sasori's skin* This is crazy ... I never imagined I'd get to see you like this. You're so beautiful ... Sasori, blushing: T-thank you, brat. *looks Deidara up and down* I see death has done little to still your ethereal beauty, as well. You look as radiant as you did the last time I saw you living. Deidara: D-danna ... Sasori: May I ask you something? When I was a puppet, I always imagined what it would be like to kiss you, as a human. If you don't find it too troublesome, can I -- Deidara: *interrupts him with a kiss; a few seconds later he pulls back and makes a sound of disgust in his throat* Deidara: Holy Gods, Sasori! The inside of your mouth tastes like rotten worms! Where the hell did they bury you at, in a swamp? Sasori: Like you're one to talk?! You hair is crawling with cobwebs and God knows how many insidious pests! Deidara: You asshole; all this time dead and you still don't have any fucking manners! Sasori: Neither do you, you insufferable brat! Deidara: Sasori: *Deidara throws himself down on top of Sasori and the two roll around on the ground, wildly making out* Kabuto:

[xxm1ch3113xx]

Once again watching porn where the skinny cute girl lays down and lets a fat man pound her throat. I just know she water fasted for over a day to have that pretty spit be that clear and dribbling like that.

[dramaticallytrue]

if i went on big brother said i was kissing girls and theythems and then my identity was discounted as a queer person in the bb tag because i don't explicitly Declare Bisexuality/Queerness....i'd move on and know that that person is not someone who has met my corner of the gay community that literally talks like that :)

[vexx-the-egg]

> Dies

> comes back wrong

> Dies again

> Comes back RIGHT this time. Turns out comming back wrong was actually the much needed push for them to not only put there needs first and understand there own inherent worth but also to find what they really want in life and broaden there horizons.

[cloud-makers-make-pollution]

One day when I have a partner and we’re adults we’re going on a stargazing date this is beautiful

[not-so-terrible]

Konoha: Wow, it’s so great our double agent within the Uchiha Clan has the selfless Will of Fire, completely cancelling out the possibility for trauma, repressed emotion and deep love to trigger the Curse of Hatred and cause them to sacrifice the many for the few they care about. We can relax and leave it all to him :)

Itachi, trapped on a burning clifftop, wrapping Sasuke in duct tape in preparation to throw him over the edge: ~ I will kill our friends and family to remind ☽  you ☺ of ♬ my ☮ love ☠ ~

[kinokoshoujoart]

this is the ideal man. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like