#sorry for the little rants my brain is scattered this is what research does to me /j

[cathymee]

Telesforo NO-

It drives me mad why they keep the locket so much ;-; that they made Juli a dang servant (that the family/Tatang Selo does not want to do)

This is also the chapter of: Juliana Slander and well... Why are they arresting Tatang Selo?

Since i cannot understand much.... Simoun selling at Tales' den is well... just why?

This is just... foolish. Unless he is framed.

MY FRIEND I AM SO SORRY FOR ANSWERING SO LATE OMG ;-; just went through a busy month as i am about to graduate in my current year and had no time to pop back in here huhu but i've gathered my 2 brain cells now except whatever i wrote here isn't coherent at all

also first off the fact that this chapter is called merry christmas...u wanna beat up rizal w/me

aaaaaa i was screaming at simoun the entire damn chapter!! injustice really drives people to achieve justice and/or retribution in ways they see fit, and to achieve it with fury and vengeance is what simoun wanted to happen for all filipinos which is so fookin dumb like !! YOU BETTER STOP. and to think i had classmates before who cheered him on for exploiting the unprivileged and the oppressed like this bc "haha the indios' rebellion go brrr" but shits on activists and people who hold leftist political ideologies now by red-tagging them,,,, wild. like look around!! see what state we are in right now for people to be desparate enough to rebel and oppose the clowns, murderers, and the thieves in power. WILD.

juli's servitude still makes my heart hurt even now too :( it's just all so fucking cruel for all of them involved. selo just loves her granddaughter so much it breaks his heart enough to want death over seeing juli suffer being a servant instead of being the rich maiden, comfortable and well, that he had envisioned and wanted her to be…juli just loves her father so much that she tried all the plans and ideas she was offered just to earn money…juli just also loves basilio so much that she thinks she wouldn't be good enough for him but is at least comforted by the thought that she didn't sell the locket that he gave her as a sign of her loyalty….crying in the club rn. i understand why it's so frustrating at a logical standpoint tho because selling the locket would really really help them & basilio would give 0 fucks about the locket as long as juli and her family would be safe and well arrghhh I FEEL SO FRUSTRATED OVER IT AS WELL

juli slander INDEED literally she deserves so much better!! I WILL FIGHT ALL THE FUCKING FRIARS FOR HER

(another thing: do you think rizal forgot about sinang being really close friends with maria in the noli LMAOO bc the way he wrote sinang in this chapter has me raising eyebrows like sir. she was mc's cousin & bestie. we know it's been 13 years but come on…)

and they were supposed to arrest tales, as tales did commit murder but since he wasn't to be found they arrested tatang selo. (also Tales wasn't framed :( he intentionally left a trace behind because, well, vengeance. it's a sign and a threat to the authorities. :') )

i literally do not think there was any law out there at that time that states that they'd arrest another family member if the one who committed a crime wasn't present?? i mean i know like it was a colonization thing and the filipinos were heavily, heavily oppressed but i was thinking about if there were still any laws involved in this that i don't know about. does this make sense.

though granted the only thing we learned at school about laws in the spanish colonization era was the polo y servicio & nothing else, and to dive into the criminal laws in the Philippines in the 1800s at 12 AM is very tempting but i can't because i don't have the brain cells for it. i'm so sorry 😭 but even if that was validated by the law - which grants executions anyway?? actually??? and the system was GREATLY unjust and unfair towards Filipinos??? why is this mind-boggling sorry i'm very stupid HGSHGSHGAH - that was still unjust, tyrannic bullshit. and i wanna fucking fight simoun for being delighted at all literally fuck him

ANYWAY 😭 Simoun sold jewels there because that was the disguise he took on when he arrived in the country - he's a rich jeweler dude who tagged along to the Philippines because he's the Captain-General's closest friend (and the one who influences him to do bad shit, like what he details in ch7), now he's just. frolicking around. selling his stupid jewels when he knows most filipinos literally cannot afford his trinkets. a taunting figure of wealth and power just fucking shit up in the background

[asnowingfandomofashes]

Chris/Claudia Teen Wolf Headcanons

First of all, it was really early morning when I wrote this out and I’ve not done much editing. I included the note while typing this that “the sun will rise soon - and I’ve had no sleep.” I also tend to ramble a lot at any time of day, for any reason. So please forgive the very long post and over-explanation. 

Secondly, I’m never going to write this because I never end up writing anything, but I would love to read other peoples’ versions of this, so if this in any way at all inspires you please, please, please, send me a link to read it when you post? (Alternatively, if this sounds in any way familiar and you know of a fic with similar plot, I’m also always looking for fic recommendations to read.)

Warning for when you get to the actual scenes: somehow wayyy more angst snuck in as I was typing it. 

(I’m also sorry for tagging under the read-more but I gotta give credit where credit is due, and I never would have thought of any of this without a few inspiring posts. :X )

Okay, so I’ve seen the whole Christopher Argent Appreciation Week post going around the Teen Wolf fandom, so that’s partly to blame...

But this can also be claimed to have been inspired by the awesome @inell who asked for Chris shipping prompts. My first thought was, of course, Chris/Stiles/Peter. However, Inell does rare pairs, so my next thought was something like “Don’t waste an opportunity: What’s something you’ve never seeN - gasp!!!!! Chris/Claudia!!!” 

[ I swear it came entirely from left field of my brain, interrupted my own thoughts, and utterly shocked me speechless - thoughtless? - for like a minute. ] 

I almost rejected the idea immediately, however, because I can’t imagine Claudia not being with the Sheriff. ... But then my brain once again piped up with a “What if it’s before she meets the Sheriff?” And so I had my prompt, I was going to type up an ask and send it to Inell’s tumblr... And before I could even reach the keyboard to ask for young! Claudia/Chris sappy stuff, my brain was whirring away and throwing plot bunnies everywhere to scatter and start planting angsty scenes and implicit headcanons into all my thoughts. So, it’s a bit too detailed for a prompt (and much too long to send in an ask), but thought I’d share anyways and hope people enjoy it. 

[ As a side-note, I’m normally one who is quick to turn away from a fic if it starts out one ship and uses the relationship as nothing more than a stepping stone to another ship. But I realized today in this little bit of brain-storming that sometimes a ship might not fit to be a lasting one for a “forever” relationship with the characters, but it doesn’t mean the ship wouldn’t have interesting dynamics and a lasting impact on the storyline. (That being said, now that I’m typing this I’m also curious to see what sort of an interesting story might come of Chris/Claudia getting together while young, then later inviting the Sheriff into their relationship for a lasting Chris/Claudia/Sheriff Stilinski relationship.) ]

Anyways... on to the actual headcanons/scenes now. 

So first of all, Chris and Claudia are high school sweethearts. The single most perfect, happy, sappiest couple you can possibly imagine. Chris may have grown up in a not-normal, very hardened family... But Claudia just makes everything so breathtakingly beautiful and happy. She’s far too easy to love.

Unfortunately, Chris is a hunter... or at least a hunter-in-training. He goes on trips with his dad all the time. And, of course, there’s often talk of moving away - and he knows it’s coming, they never stay around too long. They’re together for a while... - a couple of years maybe. And they don’t fall out of love, so much as... They just know it’s not going to keep working. They still love each other; they promise to be friends. Long distance best friends, because Chris is always going to travel.

Claudia meets the (then) Deputy Stilinski. And she falls in love. She still loves Chris, they’re still best friends, but she’s not in love with him anymore. Chris... Chris is complicated. But he has Victoria now. And she’s also from a hunting family - she understands, she knows, she was raised to the same life as him. It isn’t love at first, it’s just a means to an end - a way to get their families off their backs. But he does love her eventually. In love with her, though? He doesn’t know.

Claudia and Chris start drifting apart. They still care for each other, but they haven’t seen each other in years. They restrict themselves to phone calls. Their feelings haven’t lessened, but the time between calls grows longer. Claudia still calls Chris when Stiles is born though. She calls him a lot around then actually - the first two years or so, she’s always calling her best friend to rave as only a very proud, very happy momma can.

[ Years later he’ll remember these calls, and think about how proud she was of her son no matter how trivial a thing it was as he first toddled around. ]

CW for this bit: Angsty feels, Character Death, Funeral

When she gets sick, she calls him and he knows something is wrong - but she doesn’t tell him. Not that first time. Or the time after that. Or the time after that. 

She starts calling more often, but she’s so very different. Things don’t quite add up between each of her calls. Eventually, she lets it slip. He gets off the phone with her that night and researches all he can about the words - the diagnosis - she’d whispered to him, half hysterical. 

...He stops taking her calls as often. The guilt eats him alive, but her ravings are getting worse and he can’t handle it. When her home number changes to a hospital number and she informs him it’s permanent, he finds a case that’ll take him far away from everything and everyone and be too damn difficult to risk thinking about anything else.

When he finally gets a message telling him about funeral arrangements, it’s left on voice mail in a hollow voice with a sentence claiming it to belong to Claudia’s husband (Claudia’s husband was always alive in her stories, not dead and empty, but this voice is the furthest thing from alive that he’s ever heard. He’s almost afraid he’s gotten a message from a ghost or maybe a zombie. - No, he knows the real ghost haunting him is in his head and not on his phone, but it’s easier to pretend.)

[ Maybe Chris never goes to the funeral. He hasn’t seen her in years, and it’s a travesty to have your last memory of someone be of their corpse, not her life. But maybe he goes anyways. Maybe he stands in the back of the crowd, begging whatever higher powers there may be that no one recognizes him. Avoiding even looking in the direction of her husband - or fuck, her kid. The kid she was so proud of. Maybe he goes, but spends the entire time not looking. ]

CW: More angst, ambiguous feelings (I swear this part wasn’t angsty except for a single line... until I started typing and it wrote itself in.)

Chris is a hunter - he compartmentalizes. They move back to Beacon Hills. He sends Allison to the high school he’d met his first love. He doesn’t think of her. He ignores it when the Sheriff’s name is too familiar. He pretends it’s just any other town.

When Ally first mentions her new friends and the people she met, he has a bit of a shock hearing that name. The Sheriff’s son was in the same classes as his daughter. He pretends he didn’t recognize the first name, and the second holds no significance. 

When he realizes there are wolves at the high school and his daughter is hanging out with them, he worries a bit. What if?... 

When he realizes who the wolf is, all he can think of is Allison is dating a werewolf, and Claudia’s son is involved with werewolves.

[ He nearly chokes on the irony. ]

When he sees Stiles for the first time all he can see is a boy in danger and reminders of Claudia. Reminders of a dead woman. 

[ A woman he loved? Or a woman he was still in love with? He didn’t know if it was regrets. Or if it was guilt. Or if it was fear. He shoves it down and compartmentalizes.]

CW: conversations with a headstone/tombstone/the dead, bittersweet ending, Peter/Stiles mention

After the nogitsune, Chris goes to visit Claudia’s grave. He sits down and tells her about things. 

[ After everything, he thinks he has at last finally found at least some closure with her. Maybe not with the more recent things that have happened in his life... He still can’t hardly think of his daughter. But he can do this - he can talk to the first person he fell in love with, the woman who was always his best friend. ]

He tells her how strong her son is, how she gave birth to an ‘awesome’ kid who had her heart. He tells her she should be so proud. 

“And I know not to tell you not to worry. I know as parents we have to worry about our kids. But he’s going to be alright, Claudia. He’s so strong. Stiles’ is going to be alright.” 

He tells her about Stiles and Peter. He talks about how she probably has watched the things Peter has done lately. But then he tells her about how “You knew him though, remember? He was that kid who...” 

[ Because maybe they all went to high school together. Or maybe she was a few years older than Peter, but worked at a bakery or a coffee shop that all the teens frequented. Maybe she was friends with Talia and heard all the rants from the annoyed older sibling. Maybe it was all three. ]

But teen! Peter’s antics were enough that all these years later, people remembered them. And still found amusement from them. So he reminisced to her, about the guy her son is now dating. And he knows if she was here, she’d know exactly who it was within the first couple of stories. And she’d have so many more stories about a young Peter Hale than Chris has, even all these years later.

P.S. - I have actually read fics where Stiles and Allison are siblings and there’s either implied or stated past Chris/Claudia, but it’s always ‘off-screen’ with Claudia always already being dead.