#soulmates godddddd

[ahappyphjl]

it's 15 years now.. and the next "big" anniversary will be 20 (5 years might sound like a lot but 2019 was 5 years ago so....) and i FEEL FAINT for some reason.... that's TWO decades?

[realbeefman]

finished community rewatch and managed to delay the post-finale hysterical sob sesh for 15 whole minutes by staring off into the distance and dissociating

[imjustcryinginthecorner]

it’s literally so easy to make most songs about TLT. mentions god? perfect. hell? even better. angels, heaven, souls, sin, forgiveness, any biblical themes etc are greattttt content. ghosts, haunting, death, graves, sickness? you fuckin BET. memory, forgetting, the past, change, childhood?? oh my godddddd goldmine. soulmates? well yes of course don’t even get me started. even the ocean, the earth, etc. yearning, missing, heartbreak obviously. *taps box set of series* this bad boy can fit so many goddamn themes and motifs in it

[danhowellz]

GODDDDDD like phil didn't have to like dan back!!! there was always that chance that dans spamming of phils mentions could have been for nought!!! dan could have continued commenting and replying to phil for months and years and phil didn't have to do anything. he didn't have to respond, he didn't have to then form a friendship with dan and move in with him and live with him for over 10 years and be his real best friend soulmate companion through life but he DID!!!! he started talking to dan back in 2009 and through some weird twist of fate or cosmic force or whatever the fuck was in the air it sparked something so WONDERFUL just because phil made that conscious choice to reply to dan or whatever and become friends with him god i hate gay people so much they're insufferable

[yeonzzzn]

The ghost face poem has arrived ~~

In the darkest depths of night, they meet

A crazy killer and an insane girl, their love a twisted feat

They'd burn the world to be together, soulmates in sin

Unleashing chaos, a bond forged in blood-soaked skin

He is a madman, born of shadows and despair

With eyes as cold as death, a heart beyond repair

She is a wild child, dancing with demons in her mind

Their love a deadly dance, leaving devastation behind

They roam the night, two souls bound by fate

Leaving a trail of destruction, sealing their cruel fate

A love so twisted, so dark and unforgiving

They'll stop at nothing, their passion ever-living

They kill without remorse, their love a deadly game

Slaughtering any who dare to stand in their way

The world is their playground, a canvas for their sin

Each death a testament to the darkness within

But in each other's arms, they find solace and peace

A twisted kind of love, a bond that will never cease

They are two halves of a whole, dark and insane

Bound together forever, in pleasure and in pain

So let them burn the world, let them tear it apart

For they are a force of nature, a tempest of the heart

A crazy killer and an insane girl, their love a wicked flame

Forever entwined, in madness and in shame.

- Haze <3

I ALWAYS LOVE YOUR POEMS OH MY GODDDDDD THEY ALWAYS HOOK ME IN

SO MUCH TALENT. WORKS OF ART. BELONGS IN A MUSEUM.

[accirax]

initial thoughts on DCAS episode 9

woah, how strong is Tess/how weak is Aiden? i guess it's probably that Tess is jacked. non-digital art supplies are heavy.

he truly is the worst dad ever. no wonder Fiore constantly faceplanting never raised any alarm bells for him. it does make him being so worried about Fiore being attacked by the scorpion/alone in the dark in S1 all the sweeter, though :) (or all the more fucked up, from his son's perspective.)

WHERE THE FUCK DID YUL GET KAI'S SHIRT FROM SHKHSLKJASLDJASLD. i guess the last time we saw Kai he was shirtless so i guess his shirt must have wound up somewhere???

this makes sense, kind of. although, i maintain that Grett's actual gameplay in S1 was ATROCIOUS. anyways i love supportive Riya!!! just like Alec and Riya, this is a really fun pairing that i hope they expand upon more.

this was just by unabashedly being himself, i imagine? i can't picture Yul supporting Grett being herself, no matter what her true self is. he's too appearance-discriminatory for that.

thank god it's not another split personality plotline; i've had enough of those from other series.

top 10 photos taken seconds before disaster

WHEN WILL YOU LEARN? WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES?!?!?! (/ref)

something about Aiden saying "sexy" really caught me off guard. anyways, woahhhhh whaaaaat oh my godddddd i can't believe Tom's boyfriend was fake!

yeah... because cops never lie 🤨

this really is therapy: the episode, huh? it's fine, i like the character work. also, Trevor's feelings reveal! this was pretty obvious, especially once they showed it in the trailer, so i'm not at all surprised. what i am surprised about is that we didn't see any of Derek and Kristal getting a drink or playing pool this episode. did it just happen off screen, or was it canceled/postponed? i'm sure Kristal's reaction will have some kind of effect on how Derek takes the news whenever Trevor decides to tell him.

Trevor is an honorary member of the Magenta team :) also, i would've thought slip-n-slide was a copyrighted brand name. then again, i have no idea what they'd call it otherwise.

we see later that other people do miss their shots fairly frequently. thus, this is proof that Grett is 100% baller.

mad at her (/j) for this one because my first thought when Tess and Ally wound up on top of each other was "this, too, is yuri."

*adds one tally to the "Yul lines that made me laugh out loud" counter*

maybe they are soulmates

HKSDLKJDLFJSDF GET HIS ASS

THE GIRLIES ARE WORKING TOGETHER AGAIN!!! and for real this time!

mildly disappointing-- with the episode playing out this way, i was kinda hoping that it would have been Aiden instead of Tess. however, for as much as you can argue that Aiden is just an obstacle in the Jake/Tom plot, Tess was pretty much only acting as a counselor in the Gabby/Ellie plot. and, while you could argue that Tess still had more potential to be explored in her relationship with Ally, Aiden still has more potential to be explored in his relationship with Riya. the biggest shame, in my opinion, is that they're favoring Aiden and Riya, who placed 3rd and 2nd, over Tess and Ally, who placed 9th and 6th. i should probably save more of these thoughts for my next power ranking instead, but, these ARE my initial thoughts on the elimination.

and she doesn't even get her gf to see her out? what is this cruel world?! (/j)

this is a really great expression. Tom and Aiden, watch your backs >:)

overall, a really fun episode! we got some nice character check-ins at the beginning, followed by some enthralling strategy at the end. watching Gabby fully and openly devolve into villainhood is a treat. super excited to see where we go next! if you count Gabby in with the villains, we've got 5 villains versus 5 non-villains... will a merge pit the two sides against each other, or will we wait until there are 9 players left to create an even half? until next time!

[seaweedbraens]

I never thought I’d find anyone who procrastinated as much as I did but wow you must be my soulmate 🩵 the difference is you produce very high quality work and I produce nonsense covered in tear stains xD

i am such a horrible procrastinator but im usually not THIS bad omg, idk wtf happened this week

tear-stained nonsense shshhsjaka thats EXACTLY what this chapter is!!!!! im at 50k and ive got like 2 sections to go GODDDDDD

[sugawarassoulmate]

I started a soulmate au way way back that I never finished but it more or less explored what the term soulmate meant and like. A group of people who purposely avoided soulmates. And ultimately the main couple (were supposed to) get together on their own like fate vs forged. I never finished it and I’d be so embarrassed to read it now BUT I think you could do something interesting with it regarding bb!aki and reader. That especially hurts kei hahaha. Like reader and kei are “soulmates” but they’re like. No I love aki. Literally defying fate to turn that boy down

oh my godddddd wait bestie that's actually really beautiful??? like a legit soulmate au where the person is ACTIVELY fighting against their fated lover or whatever holy shit

reader being SO in love with aki that they literally reject kei?????? bro??????

[sapphoherselz]

#oh my GODDDDDD #i love you kevin day

#u tell 'em who's the boss of them

poopoo-heads

#well actually it's dan but yk

#ik SOMEONE (it's seth) got a boner over that

PDA (defending your shit team on twitter bc only u is allowed to degrade them)

#yk what. i hope wymack and seth did get to

have some drunken nights together to babble

nonsense at each other.

#truly a father-son bonding time

#i have no words

#dadmack is an irrefutable truth

#sunrise. abram. death. dadmack.

#AND THEN FOR THE FINALE U HIT US

WITH CUDDLING NEILAARON

#gotta go daydreaming about them now

goodbye.

"well actually it's Dan but yk" LMAOOO it is indeed Dan!! let's say the have split custody and that they both pay child support and let's call it a day!! love the little jevseth sneak!! I see you AND appreciate you, babygirl 👀👀

I was having a good time then I remember the one part in the extra where wymack was grieving bc of Seth and now my day has gotten worse!! man I do wish that wymack was his usual dadmack w him too!! (more than I wish is a "I know that" cause no matter how much of an asshole Seth was Wymack out-divas all of them!!)

SUNRISE ABRAM DEATH DADMACK CODE PLEQSEEE!! YOU'RE KILLING ME OEVR HERE!++ also not us both spending out night thinking about neilaaron bestfriendisms...soulmates behavior fr

the first one is heavily inspired by this one aftg artist that I follow pretty much everywhere (on social media I feel like that phrase was misleading somehow) and that I ADORE once they made a lesbian andreil where Andrew was doing some gym stuff w Neil on his back and I don't remember fainting but I do remember my life doing a lot better ever since that day so if I find it I'll link it!!

[n8nt]

@djgabzilla OH BOY HAVE I

BHBAUEBHAJ GODDD JUST... WITHOUT THE VAULT HUNTER PERSONAS....BARE AND GENTLE AND LOVING...CARDING FINGERS THRU HAIR...THUMBING OVER SCARS THAT TELL STORIES....WAKING UP TOGETHER AND ADJUSTING TO EACHOTHER’S QUIRKS AND SCHEDULES...AHUSGHAJHAKSKJ

[elliebirdwrites]

x

[gothmessiremade]

life is about kissing beautiful people........

[harryfeatgaga]

the way i too just let stuff pile up and then suddenly freak out and clean everything out and he said he does the same thing....like we're just soulmates let's face it already?!!😔😔😔

LITERALLY SAME GODDDDDD

[hqrbinger]

so, as you might know, searu wears jewelry. gifts of their beloved priest, they have rings and cross earrings.

so. about sharing jewerly with searu.

they don't really get why you want to wear one of their earrings at first, "it's religious, i do not see the appeal", until you convince them, and walk around mondstadt the entire day sporting their earring, and suddenly, the next day, they tell you you can wear some of their rings too, if you want.

there's something that just fills them with so much joy, seeing how you find beauty in carrying around parts of them, feeling as though this way, a part of them will always be there for you, even if you two are away from each other. maybe they just think you look really cute. who's to say? certainly not them.

KJAHKJASDLHSDFKLJSHDFKLJHEKLJASHSKDLJFHALKJSDDFHFSJKVMNBVCUIRIURYHA

OH MY GODDDDDD WAIT IM YELLING AND SCREAMING HOLD ON

if i had the chance to wear their earring...... omfg the JOY i would NEVER TAKE IT OFF OHMYGOD i hate tying my hair back but if im wearing their earring? where are my fucking hairties

and i love wearing rings too.... HEY..... HEY HOWLS MOVING CASTLE SOULMATE RINGS AU- *gets shot*

[ober-affen-geil]

ooooh for fanfiction tropes? What do you think about soulmates? and if you like them, what's your favorite version? like there's all sorts... timers that count down, tattoos of the first/last words, happy/sad ending, platonic, etc. <3

Oh my godddddd A+++++

I *do* actually sometimes look for soulmate aus specifically, so yes I love this trope. You're right though, there are a lot. I'm aro but usually if I'm reading fic I'm looking for a typical romantic happy ending. I very much enjoy something with writing, so first words or name, especially when handwriting is involved. I like it when the author plays with it a bit too, some world building around it or multiple partners or the writing turns red when X, etc.

[itsclydebitches]

Godddddd I'm so upset that I dislike yen this much, doing main quests in skellige and Freyas ppl were doing stuff and she again disrespected other cultures with Geraly being against, "I may be inhumanly beautiful" I know she's meant to be confident but wowww. She's not confident and worried for Ciri she just comes off arrogant and selfish and vain. Like, fuck.

The ultimate mood, anon. My Witcher fandom life would be so much easier if I enjoyed Yen ... but I just do not lol. Remember how I mentioned that things were going to get even worse than her stealing and using a potentially dangerous artifact? Yeeeaah. She also resurrects Ciri's friend to torture him for information, all while destroying another sacred garden to get the power to do it! It's not even a "She's so evil and I love it 😏" situation for me because the game tries so hard to convince us that she's still The Best. Geralt's sexy soulmate, Ciri's adoring mother, the baddest bitch around who gets things done and does it with an effortless confidence... all while ignoring how horrific her actions and attitude are. Oh sure, other characters speak ill of her at times, but considering how much Geralt is written to adore her, no matter what you choose, that's all undermined. I love morally gray/evil characters, but I've never enjoyed them when the text refuses to appropriately acknowledge that side of them. Nothing is more frustrating to me than a story that frames disliking a character as the unambiguously wrong thing to do, especially when the text is piling up reasons to dislike them and, as a result, ignoring or shrugging them off their actions as not that bad. Yen is a rather extreme example of that for me. Despite her attitude, her choices, and other characters outright going, "Why do you like her?" the story as a whole works under the assumption that it's correct to like her anyway because Geralt loves her. And he loves her for... reasons.

They do meet before the wish, but only just. Major "The Last Wish" spoilers in this paragraph, so feel free to skip. Basically, Geralt and Dandelion run into trouble with a djinn, he goes to Yen for help since she's a sorceress (first time meeting her), he instantly falls for her because she's gorgeous and such (there's an elf there who is also madly in love with Yen. Men just... fall for her, instinctually), she heals Dandelion, Geralt agrees to pay her, but Yen has already decided on the payment she wants. She takes control of Geralt's mind and forces him to attack the town to seek revenge on those who have insulted her, resulting in him waking up in prison awaiting execution for "his" crimes. Meanwhile, Yen has gone after the djinn for herself because power/trying to regain her ability to have a kid. Geralt escapes, finds her failing to master the djinn (an attempt which btw has endangered the whole town) and despite what she's done to him, Geralt tries to get Yen to escape with him. She refuses, set on capturing the djinn even though it's obvious she can't. So as a last resort he uses the final wish to bind their fates together, saving Yen from the djinn in the process. Aaaaaand then they have sex.

So yeah, their rocky relationship is one of the main reasons why I can't enjoy Yen. For some their tumultuous history is evidence of realism, for me it's evidence that they're not actually very compatible and they're only together because a) that's the fantasy trope: protagonist men get together with the hot sorceress and b) because the magic is literally ensuring that they can't escape one another. I mean, canonically their fates are tied together by magic and canonically they spend about 20 years swinging between passionate love and fearsome fights... but there's supposedly no connection between these two things? No chance at all that they keep coming together because magic is drawing them rather than because they actually want/should be together? I wrote a meta a while back about the short story where they meet, which includes a present day scene where Geralt is criticized by another character — Nenneke — for running out on Yen. Thing is, he tries to explain that he left because she was "too possessive" and this is... flat out ignored. By both Nenneke and the fandom. There's a strong trend of ignoring Geralt's words in favor of a pro-Yen interpretation of events. He says he left because she was too possessive and she treated him like ____ — he's not allowed to finish the sentence and say what she treated him like because Nenneke interrupts him, saying she doesn't care about his version of events. Major yikes imo! She turns a claim of being possessive into Geralt not being man enough to stick around. The fandom likewise turns this into a case of Geralt getting cold feet and running out because he's a bastard who hates commitment. Likewise, Nenneke and the fandom claim Geralt is trying to get Yen money as a way of appeasing his guilt for leaving, he claims he's doing it simply because he still cares for her — even if he doesn't want to be with her — and knows she needs it. Geralt's words are frequently dismissed, in the same way others characters' opinions of Yen are dismissed. Any mark against her is treated as either a lie, or a convoluted claim that they don't really know her... never mind that an understanding of why she may act this way doesn't excuse the behavior itself. (Plus, the whole "Yen had a horrible upbringing, so of course she struggles being kind" perspective always fell flat to me when so many, including witchers, had horrendous upbringings too. The whole point is this world is a mess and most everyone suffers). It's supposedly true love, yet if someone came up to me and went, "I magically tied my fate to this woman to keep her from getting herself killed and we've spent the last couple decades having what many would term a rocky relationship, to put it kindly. I left once because she was too controlling. She once cheated on me. I likewise hooked up with others during our frequent breakups. A mutual friend used magic to get me to have sex with her — also while my lover and I were broken up — and though I view it as a dumb decision I'm happy to forgive her for, my lover is ready to commit murder because again: possessive. A lot of the time we're only a family because of our daughter. I once thought she'd horrifically betrayed us both. She didn't, but it says something that I was so ready to believe it, huh? Hmm? Permanently separated? Of course not! I love her. We're destined to be together after all :)" I'd be like, "Uh... you sure about that, dude?"

Not that Geralt doesn't make his fair share of mistakes in the relationship — he absolutely does — but I don't think it helps his case that he's immature in other ways and, frankly, that he's a very strong, badass witcher. It's easy to turn the hints we get about their relationship into a simplistic "emotionally naive man can't give the poor woman the commitment she wants" situation. Given Geralt's status as the badass fighter of the tale, it's likewise easy to dismiss his admissions of her being "possessive" and his general discomfort. He's the man. He's the witcher. If he's making any claims about how Yen isn't treating him well, they must be excuses, or exaggerations, because real men, especially physically powerful men, would do something about that — a something that's not sneaking out in the middle of the night. A lot of people read Geralt leaving as the ultimate proof that he's an immature bastard who doesn't deserve her. I read him leaving and think, "What were you trying to get away from? What was going on that made you think you could only leave by sneaking out without a word?" To me, that doesn't read as someone who felt safe, comfortable, and respected enough to do anything but slip away and try to wash his hands of things. And I'm not just pulling this "Geralt is at least somewhat afraid of Yen and isn't comfortable establishing boundaries with her" reading out of my ass. When Yen wants Geralt to kill the golden dragon for her and he refuses, saying he doesn't care anymore, his thoughts are:

He expected the worst: a cascade of flames, flashes of lightning, blows raining down on his face, insults and curses. There was nothing. He saw, with astonishment, only the subtle trembling of her lips. Yennefer turned around slowly. Geralt regretted his words.

And everyone is like, "See! Yen has improved so much. Geralt nearly made her cry, but she's supposed to be the bad guy here?" Meanwhile, I'm going, "Uh... anyone want to unpack why he expects fire, lightning, insults, curses, and blows to his face for telling her no? Why he's astonished that she wouldn't use her magic against him? Anyone think that Yen refraining from attacking Geralt when he refuses to murder on her command is a pretty low bar? No? Just me?"

Geralt and Yen's relationship makes me uncomfortable and a great deal of that discomfort derives from how much of the Witcher fandom shrugs off the fictional warning signs. I mean, I post primarily about RWBY. We watched a man in that show try to sneak away with his kids when his villainous wife planned to use them for a eugenics plan... and the fandom still blames him for that, refusing to admit that he was in an abusive relationship. Because that doesn't happen to men, right? I'm not saying it's the same for Geralt and Yen, simply because they are written to be soulmates. An abusive relationship was, quite obviously, never the authorial intent. However, I am saying that the a "This isn't a healthy relationship" reading is there, it exists as an interpretation, and both the story and fandom's tendency to dismiss it is something that hasn't helped me enjoy Yen's status as an otherwise well written, complex character. Their equality supposedly stems in part because they're both so flawed, yet each time I see a list of Geralt's supposedly equal faults they're... lacking imo. "Geralt bound himself to Yen without her consent." Yeah, to save her from dying from the djinn she was trying to enslave, after she refused to leave, while her actions threatened a whole town. "Geralt ran off without a word." Mmm hmm, anyone care about why? And my personal favorite is a scene you may not have gotten to yet (or may not get depending on your choices), but suffice to say, Yen is supposedly justified in physically attacking Geralt if he dares to challenge her in any way. That's the main takeaway across the fandom: If Yen is pissed off, you must have done something to deserve it which, in the relationship deliberately written to be "stormy," is something that sets all the alarm bells in my head off. Honestly, it kinda makes my skin crawl to go, "Geralt didn't deserve that" and get responses back of, "Yeah he did because he [insert basic human action here]." The Witcher world is hard and cruel, absolutely, but that doesn't mean I personally enjoy seeing an equally messed up relationship presented as something that's enviable in its flaws. "That's actually true love because the magically bound man who often expresses discomfort with his lover, written by a male author with a very iffy perspective on women, says it's true love." Crazy theory here, but... maybe it's not?

Idk, lots of rambling on my end tonight! For me, Geralt/Yen reads as something rather tragic which, in a canon that unironically upholds the relationship, and in a Yen-adoring fandom, doesn't make enjoying her character any easier. I keep coming back to Witcher 3, the comics, the show, even the books going, "Maybe I'll like her this time?" but nope, still trying lol.