#sometimes I make myself cry

[thedevilinmybrain]

do you ever think about he fact that louis and harry learned a whole other language because they weren’t allowed to speak to one another? also, the absolute queerness of using their hands to communicate?

[adoroborosgoth]

While its true that meta that over analyze every tiny detail of the content rarely ever go anywhere in the long run. And I 100% agree. I try not to speculate too much because I know it wont matter in the end.

BUT. Those posts and meta etc that dig into things. Are what keep the fandom going. Either when it's during a long wait for a new season or a show has ended, but the fans aren't ready to let go yet. (hannibal fandom) Those posts will be the bread and butter of the fandom for years to come because it keeps a conversation going.

Either through good or bad opinions of said metas and content, a conversation is a conversation. Fandom cannot survive on fanart and fic alone. It takes people talking about the media to keep it alive. Even if its just some silly thing that wont go anywhere.

Once the metas stop and the theorizing ends the content will trickle down to a drip and then any old post you see, no matter how insane it might sound, will be a light in the dark. Because you'll just be happy people are still talking about your favorite thing.

The thing about "everything is meant" is... that was said for S1.

I don't think I've seen it used by the cast/crew for S2. And part of this is because the strike was happening (and also Twitter is dying) so we have a lot less interviews and behind the scenes stuff for S2.

I see people pointing out so many small inconsistencies and going "everything is meant!" and like. Sure. Maybe some of these things are Clues.

But this is a season that had a very tight budget, and lost a lot of it to Covid precautions. Covid also limited where and how they could film. These budget restrictions severely cut down on the planned run time. We went from planned 55 min episodes to 42 minutes-- that's a full hour of screentime lost.

So yeah, I think S2 probably had continuity errors in a way that S1 didn't. I don't think Neil Gaiman is lying about the clocks or the Bentley(s) to throw us off. I think there probably just were errors that they didn't have time or money to fix, because most people would not notice. I'm sure the crew did their best! Little details like the tiles on the sink show us they put in a lot of effort. But you can't catch everything. Neil Gaiman is very good at working within the limitations of TV. He has told us some of the workarounds they had to do in S1 - the scene with Crowley at the bar was originally planned to be at night, in St. James' park, with Aziraphale's face a reflection in the water. The Globe scene was originally supposed to be full of people, but they couldn't afford the extras, so we got Crowley making Hamlet famous as a favor to Aziraphale. Now it's hard to imagine those scenes any other way. I fully believe that he (and the cast and crew) made the show they wanted to make, to the best of their ability. And probably there are some little clues and foreshadowing that will make sense only in the context of S3. But I would be cautious about fixating too much on tiny details or minor inconsistencies.

[philyuri]

not to demon post but like. sometimes i think about the "friends" label and the fact that it's a little bit of a haha in-joke but also... i mean. when dan said he didnt have a best friend for the first 18 years of his life he meant it yknow. like i do think that out of all the possible labels he's used, soulmates husbands arch enemies furniture who the fuck knows, best friends is amongst the most meaningful... if you never had a best friend and then met him and he stayed in that spot for fifteen years the fact that he's also the love of your life can maybe be just a bit of a bonus.

[daily-reminders-that-ur-enough]

There are often two choices in a situation: there is the easy one that will make you feel comfortable at the moment, and the hard one that will make you feel better in the long run.

It is always up to you to decide which choice is which. You have autonomy, you are allowed to make a choice that feels easier. So often, there are situations that feel unwinnable. Situations where one must pick between "do this thing that will kill me slowly, or do this other thing that will kill me slowly". And that sucks. And I am sorry.

In the moments that you know the difference between the easy choice that will ultimately make life feel worse, and the choice that will suck at the moment but ultimately make you feel more free, remember the difference between the two. It's up to you to choose which one you pick.

I'm just here to tell you that the choice that feels difficult, be that leaving (home, church, an abusive relationship), or working through (telling someone about your working conditions, your struggles, deciding to let other people help, deciding to recover) is possible.

You are strong enough to make a choice that feels better, even if it is the more difficult option at the present moment

[realbeefman]

i cant blame armand for anything he did because if there was a picture painted of “me” immortalized in the louvre for all to see, a pale imitation of who and what i once was, and the only!!! other!!! guy!!!! in 500 years who considered me worthy of immortalizing saw me through a particular and flattering lens, froze me in time exactly as i truly am, froze me in love, i think i probably wouldve done anything to keep him too. wouldnt have mattered in the slightest that his shots always centered a ghost

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Charles is never beating the "reverts to petty & competitive twelve year old when losing" allegations after going back to calling Max by his last name on the radio yesterday because Max lapped him lmao

[marclef]

today's a special day.... in celebration of my 800 Follower milestone, i've decided to finally share some writing with everyone! i've... never been brave enough to share my writing online, besides a few very close friends, so i do hope you enjoy it!

but, it's a little backstory stuff with Peppino, Fake Peppino, and Eyhm! a Chef and a Kitten's first meeting with a strange creature... i hope everything goes well...

(i am nowhere near brave enough to ever make an ao3 account... a Google Drive link will have to do 😅

and some EXCEPTIONAL art the wonderful @pizzabox-box made based on it!!! (and if you aren't already following them, you need to do so NOW!!! 👇)

[levforfakes]

you mean literally just remus

[emlovessid]

@jegulus-microfic february 4, old, 139 words

“Do you ever feel old?” Regulus asks one morning, tucked under James’ arm in bed.

James looks up from the Daily Prophet open on his lap to look at his husband, “Not often. Though if I think about the fact that Harry is going to be a teenager this year, I might send myself into a spiral.”

Regulus groans, “Merlin, don’t remind me.”

“Why? Are you feeling old?”

“Hm, not old. Just, older than I ever thought I’d be,” Regulus says quietly. “Back when we were at school and we first got together, I never could have imagined that I’d make it through the war, let alone that we’d make it to the point that we’re about to have a teenager on our hands.”

Lips pressed against Regulus’ forehead, James whispers, “Me either. But I’m so glad we did.”

[i-just-really-like-renga]

Y’all I’m freaking out. Im rewatching sk8 again and just had a Revelation. I though it was kind of odd the first time I watched episode 8 and Langa asked his mom if it was ‘going to be sunny tomorrow’ but I never really gave it much thought until today when I watched it again and I remembered someone saying Reki’s name means sun and I-

He’s not asking his mom about the weather. He’s asking her if Reki is going to come back. I. Am going to be sick.

[kirby-the-gorb]

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

[jakes3resin]

Just how long did it take for Bucky to talk to anyone about what happened to him before he got to the POW camp?

At minimum the man has a concussion from all those hits to the head, not even counting the inevitable infection he probably gets from not having his wounds cleaned or looked after beyond wiping some of the blood off his face. So there's going to be a certain amount of time where he's just Not All There (different from later on when he starts slipping), and that will be a while. I've had a concussion before, and they're tricky to heal from. Your thoughts are jumbled and fractured. Depending on the severity, you can't always tell what's going on or what order everything goes in. Your brain needs time to heal and put itself to rights.

It would make perfect sense that no one has the complete picture about what happened to Bucky for a very long time because they can't even ask him. He's too sick for a while. He rambled some when he was down with his concussion/fever, but you can't put stock in the words of man with a fever that high (at least that's what the boys tell themselves when Bucky starts rambling like a mad man about German towns, prayers that get you killed, and not burying him yet) so the full story gets buried.

And that's just so much. The boys all probably told their stories gathered round their bunks at night, about bailing out and getting caught by a German patrol or something, but when they all turn to Bucky, all hoping he'll give them a grand old story that will quell the fears those fevered ramblings gave them. Because Bucky is always loud, always talking, trying to bring up everyone's spirits and acting like their big brother. Except Bucky just sits there, mouth shut and blue eyes tortured, and suddenly everyone knows that there's more. That those fevered tales weren't just nightmares crafted from thin air but reality. Not just reality, but the very tip of iceberg for Bucky.

But Bucky doesn't tell anyone, not for a long time, and I can see that driving everyone, particularly Buck, wild. It's hard to watch someone you love suffer knowing you can't do anything. You have no idea what happened, so where do you start helping them?

Anyways, Bucky deserves the world, and I'm gonna go curl up into a ball now

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Read one of your asks which is how I found out that Cherik have a COMIC CANON LOVECHILD WHAAAAAAAAAT

you will address onslaught correctly alright that is their canonical love/hate mpreg brain baby child

[honeycreammilkshake]

i wonder if, in another world where sukuna had said yes and yuuji did take blobkuna back with him, they would watch movies together.

sukuna criticizes all of them and seems to be into only the mindless slasher or horror ones (the gorier the better) but one day yuuji puts on something more serious. sukuna complains the whole time as he sits in yuuji's cupped hands, but then the brat stops arguing with him suddenly and goes quiet during the sad part of the film.

it's not the film that moves sukuna. he didn't even bother to pay attention enough to really know what's going on. but for some reason, when yuuji starts crying, hot tears that drip right down on sukuna, the former king of curses can't look away and he doesn't realize until much later that his own eye is wet as well.

he denies it. he makes fun of yuuji for crying. maybe he even licks yuuji's tears off his wrist just to be gross and rile him up. but he can't stop thinking about how close he felt to yuuji in that one moment, almost like they were sharing bodies again, and maybe he would like to go back to living inside of yuuji. if only to make him cry instead of the movie doing it. or maybe he just likes feeling yuuji's emotions. maybe being inside of yuuji is the closest he can come to feeling those emotions for himself. because maybe it's not such a weakness after all.

[rainofthetwilight]

honestly, when i first saw sora's backstory, i didnt react much, but now im noticing everything and its just really sad to think about

see this little kid who was full of hope? see this girl, that was just an innocent kid full of life, having that one role model that every kid had in some point of their lives?

this girl was then stripped away from everything she loved the moment she realized the truth, that this "role model" of hers was abusing poor innocent creatures, that their people have been brainwashed by this so-called emperess she actually used to follow, having your own parents shun you and take away everything you had and isolate you just because you knew the truth, and said truth wasnt just something bad, no, it was a fucking nightmare to think about, imagine taking that all in at 10

if the merge never happend, she would've been stuck in that sucker of a realm her whole life. she wouldve never been able to continue her childhood, her love for tech, nothing just absolutely nothing. she wouldve been locked away and alone forever, she wouldnt even have her own family by her side

the fact she didnt even hesitate to leave when the merge happend is heartbreaking, she was so fucking young, and was treated so poorly by everyone. imagine staying like that for probably months. she even named herself after that freaking dragon to respect her.

and as someone who actually experienced what sora had to endure when i was a kid, being shunned by my family for nearly a year during that time, i just have to point out that:

ana and sora are two completely different charcters.

when ana left, she became sora. a completely new person that was an ending with a new beginning, seeds that became remenants.

I know alot of people will disagree with me and say that lloyd had a tougher backstory, or maybe harumi, etc, but every charcter experienced something the other wouldnt handle, making no tragedy rougher than the other

i have nothing else to say but..damn