#straightaway

[guerrilla-operator]

Lungfish // Straightaway

They all shouted Hallelujah When the jackpot burst wide open Likewise straightaway for a long time They came on in insurrection When the jackpot exploded last night Likewise straightaway for a long time They joined hands to fool the foolish While the jackpot was brimming over Likewise straightaway for a long time They stuffed the gift down their pants While others were deprived of their last fair chance Likewise straightaway for a long time

[fruitpunchnoice]

[markantonys]

my show-first friend has been reading the books for the first time in the wake of s2 and is now on TFOH, but unlike me when i first dove into my readthrough, she knows nothing about the general Fandom Opinions™, so every now and then i like to drop a relevant bad Fandom Opinion™ on her and be vindicated by her utter bewilderment

and even this was after i undersold it by being like "oh a lot of people think he's dumb / think he's the worse brother of the two" i couldn't bring myself to say "he is the #1 most hated character in the entire series" because that would sound completely insane to someone who is normal djkfjg and would create some very false expectations for her about gawyn's future actions (shoutout to my pre-reading prediction that he was going to murder morgase and fight elayne for the throne or something, just based on the sheer vitriol i saw towards him). i WILL be interested to see if her opinion of him changes as she goes along, but he made it through the coup unscathed in her esteem and she's also thus far been all in favor of him becoming egwene's love interest, and i'm sure his upcoming onesided homoerotic rivalry with rand will amuse and delight her rather than annoy her, so i have high hopes!

[red-moon-at-night]

"and when thou sawest him thy fancy straight became thy Cypris; for every sensual act that men commit, they lay upon this goddess, and rightly does her name of Aphrodite begin the word for "senselessness"; so when thou didst catch sight of him in gorgeous foreign garb, ablaze with gold, thy senses utterly forsook thee."

— Euripides, The Trojan Women (translation by E. P. Coleridge)

[lukamodric]

oh he enjoyed this one so much i can tell

[aurorangen]

Look who's a teen now!

[johncon]

"Oh, Johnny~" A familiar low, raspy voice echoed in the penthouse of Lux, the subtle sound of hooves meeting floor following it as Astaroth knocked on John's door. At least the demon was decent enough to not barge in.

@d3vils-in-th3-d3tails

The doorway was tall enough for Astaroth to step through without bumping on the frame, and there came a soft click as the door eased open. This may be Lux, Lucifer's home, but Constantine's room in the place was decorated to suit some of his tastes- dark, rich colors coating every wall, floor, and furniture piece. Everything was also sized up, just a little, to be more comfortable for its visitor. The magician was sprawled artfully on a lounge at the foot of the bed, two hefty bottles of alcohol and the appropriate glasses for each perched upon a small end table nearby. However, he held an open bottle of whiskey instead of a glass in hand, which he used to toast the demon upon seeing him before tipping it back. A smirk rested on Constantine's lips when he swallowed and plunked the bottle to the dark hardwood floors. "Glad to see you've made it," he crooned, a mixture of almost mocking and more genuine teasing combined in his voice. "Well, come in and have a drink or two with me before we break the bed. Got a head start, as you can see."

[frodo-baggins]

guys i need ideas for a tolkien-themed name for my first car

[contagious-watermelon]

y'all i don't think it counts as aro representation if they never actually show it in the source material

[whistlingstarlight]

Not to be a vampire apologist but I too would be pretty pissed if a bunch of kids broke into my home, killed my brother whilst he was sleeping and then kidnapped my sister(?) and youngest brother. Might wanna cheeky bit of vengeance y'know?

[xorphiicheartd]

Hatefucking as a result of a physical fight between two characters who got sick of trying to argue their point/broke composure bc someone just HAD to hit a rlly sore point only for them to switch shit up halfway bc one/both of them got turned on by the altercation partway through and the other IMMEDIATELY saw it as a way to get a leg up on the other person so eagerly went along with it >>>

[fruitpunchnoice]

My therapist: "They were pigs? And they ran into the water?"

Me: "Straightaway into the water."

Therapist: "I think they drowned."

Me: "No, they triumphed!"

[lovemadethemdoit]

me writing jake pov: jake is an idiot and if he let himself, he‘d know it

me writing bradley pov: bradley is an idiot and he knows it

[iftitah]

my boyfriend has such a good relationship with her sister it makes me jealous. he teases her, she buys all the clothes he wears, he borrows money from her, they play fight all the time. he says that his sister saved him he almost worships her. i guess thats what i wanted to be for my younger brother; a god, someone he could look up to but i call my mother and playfully tell him he never never talks to me and he says why should he i never listened to him. i didn't know i was so cruel. i was so busy being a teenager i forgot i was an elder sister too. and im not sure we're siblings according to however they define. if i didn't know him, id never have known him. there's nothing we share in common. he tells me he hates almost everything about me but says i guess youre a better sister in comparison to all the sisters of my friends. he's just a stranger in my house living together because we were birthed by the same woman. and i could rip out my heart for him and hed still say i didn't ask you to. i used to hug him all the time forcefully, squeezing him near me but he'd struggle and shout at me to get away but this time when i left home after diwali, he didn't push me away and for the first time ever he hugged me back. and today i hurt someone, so i remembered him because a part of me knows i used to hurt him all the time.

[john-gosh-darnielle]

let me ride

where the dragonflies glide

[teaandinanity]

Man, the thing about very twisty mountain roads is that sometimes you come around a bend and there's just an Unexpected Object In Your Fuckin' Lane, right there.

This happened to me THREE TIMES coming back from the grocery store.

The bicyclist was insane, speed limit is 55, there's fuckall visibility and apocalyptic grades that HAVE to make your whole entire leg want to fall off, lanes are narrow, there's no shoulder and nowhere to go if a car does decide 'fuck sharing the road'. The guy coming the other way who slowed down so I had to almost come to a stop to wait for him to pass before I could slide halfway into the other lane to go around said cyclist with actual clearance rather than running them over had me like 'sir why have you chosen to make my life harder and worse. FOOT OFF THE BRAKE. MOVE.' Cyclist was on my side of the road going my direction so I'm not sure what his damage was or if he was just choosing violence.

The turkey was cute but also I hope it moved because immediately after I saw it I saw a truck coming the other direction around yet another blind curve.

And then I came around a bend to the mail jeep half in the other lane and a goddamn hauler truck full of logs fully in MY lane coming towards me and I went,

'This is the universe telling me I should drive less and appreciate being alive more, huh.'