#such a beautiful premise

[spirk-trek]

S2E3: The Changeling .˚ ✧· ⋆

[cottagecore-raccoon]

The more I think about it, the more I think that Persuasion has my favorite premise of all of Jane Austen's novels

Anne Elliot as a character speaks to my soul. She feels tremendous guilt for a decision she made eight years ago. Her life is lonely, as she doesn't really have anyone she can truly confide in despite being surrounded by people. So she swallows her pain, the yearning she feels deep in her soul, and vows that if nothing else at least she'll be helpful.

And of course she is reunited with Frederick Wentworth (the one that got away) who seems to hate her now, and she just keeps going. She keeps being kind and supporting her loved ones while slowly carving out a life for herself. There's something about her classic heroism that just feels so attainable. I don't have Elizabeth Bennett's wit, or Jane Bennett's unwavering belief in the goodness of everyone, or even Elinor's constant composure. But I can be like Anne and just keep moving forward attempting to be helpful

Of course it all works out in the end, and Anne is finally surrounded by people who truly appreciate her, even if she had to wait an extra eight years. Others have observed the fairy tale quality of the ending, and perhaps that's why it speaks to me. The idea that if you just keep doing your best and being kind, you'll eventually find happiness

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

ORV is about enduring the horrors in real time.

(for @everyonesfavoritebastard)

[zytes]

something’s wrong?

[yayswag]

these drawings are a little love letter to the (now 12 years old??!) julads fic “rerooted.” the first one is kyle looking beautiful from stan’s perspective and the second one is them recording a tape.

[ao3fujoshevik]

"the Photographer's 'second sight' does not consist in seeing but in being there. and above all, imitating Orpheus, he must not turn back to look at what he is leading -- what he is giving to me!"

link click: bridon arc | excerpts from camera lucida (roland barthes)

[amplifyme]

"The most radical thing I ever did was love him, and I wasn't even the first person in this story to do that. But you can get it right, if you try. You will have hope, and you have been forgiven.

Forgiveness, which takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope, which exists in a future in which you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel."

Kaliane Bradley - The Ministry of Time

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

i cannot find the post/tweet atm but that post that's like "[a] falls first but [b] falls harder isn't about [b] loving [a] more, it's about [a] getting so used to their (apparently unrequited) feelings it becomes the dull press of a bruise, versus [b] getting hit with a Feelings Realization Truck and immediately going completely insane about it. if they don't get to marry [a] TOMORROW they're going to start BITING PEOPLE" and i put tags like "this is tedependent. to me" and i am STILL THINKING ABOUT THIS. RANDOMLY AND UNPROMPTED. trent falls in love with ted first: and the love stays, but it becomes a low, constant white noise in his life, a background hum he can almost tune out; it's a candle flame burning gently in his chest, warm and constant but it still burns when he touches it. the dull press of a bruise. the resignation and acceptance that these feelings will never be returned, the love that asks for nothing and just enjoys being near him. meanwhile sometime in post-canon fix-it land or something ted's minding his own business when the anvil of Wait, Fuck, Am I In Love With Trent?? drops on his head with a loud BONK and he wakes up with a metaphorical goose egg and the revelation that wait, fuck, he IS in love with trent. so trent's over here with the slow, soft violins, fine with his little gay tragedy, because it doesn't feel so much like a tragedy when he's surrounded by a community he genuinely feels accepted in, and he's okay with the fact ted will never want him like that. and then in the next room ted is BARELY restrained from simply kool-aid-manning through the wall to propose to him on the spot. he's gonna start biting people and shaking them around like a dog with a chew toy if he doesn't get to kiss trent crimm on the mouth STAT. no but silliness aside really i can't stop thinking about that feeling of just accepting what the future has in store for you, that you'll never have what you truly want, that there's no hope, but getting to a place where you're okay with that, and then the love of your life/guy of your dreams suddenly is like "okay so i've thought about this long and hard and it turns out i'm like, mega in love with you. thoughts??????" i think ted has no idea trent's in love with him in this scenario btw. he's just hoping for the best. trent's his close friend and soooo beautiful and wonderful and maybe they could go on a date? (vibrating bc he cannot say he wants to spend the rest of his life with this man on a first date even if they have been friends for years) . what does trent even do with that. also if ted proposed to him he'd say yes

[almayver]

The fact that the core of their relationship is “I wanna do things with you. I want to learn all about this world with you. I want to face everything with you, because if you are there it might not be so bad” will never not kill me

[mommyclaws]

It will be awhile before I can draw out what I have in mind, but for your thoughts. Unrequited Bluestar x Goldenflower

[spirk-trek]

Contact Fanzine | Pat Stall, 1979

[rosesradio]

pjo fandom: some fics out there are really disgusting! there are fics where luke wins the war & kidnaps percy to use as his personal toy! I mean, who is so fucked up to even be into that??

me: yeah that’s…so horrible…where uh…where’d you say you found these fics? so i can block them, obviously…do you have like a link or…? 👀

[shadowuserannie]

Accidental Brother-Sorry, Babysitter-Acquisition (Fic WIP)

Premise: After finding a kid outside his shop covered in mud, with no name, no parents, and completely nonverbal, Pigsy begins searching for who the kid is.

Tang suggests praying to the protector deity of children, Nezha, for luck in the endeavor.

They are not special.

And Nezha wasn’t even totally completely utterly lying to himself!

The little child nicknamed “MK” due to a firm lack of knowledge on any actual name (short for another nickname in itself, monkey, which had come from the scholar deeming the child similar to an excitable monkey, which was not at all irritating) truly was just like the rest Nezha had helped investigate, to find real names and homes and birth parents.

…that sounded stalkerish, which it both was, and wasn’t.

As a deity often prayed to for aid regarding children, Nezha prided himself on being able to provide satisfactory help. Throughout the centuries, prayers regarding lost children with no trace of the parents, or any homes, or even a name were thankfully rare but not rare enough.

And so Nezha helped. He would pry into dreams, cast seals and tracing spells and-on some occasions-when he was well and truly stuck at his guarding position he’d summon the simian from his imposed self-isolation within his spring-summer mountain paradise. Because even though he despised Sun Wukong, anyone with eyes who bothered to properly look could see the choice of the other pilgrims to reincarnate weighed heavily on the Monkey King and fed into the imposed isolation.

So astral projecting to him, masking concern with insults and veiled threats to help along some investigation? It truly wasn’t hard, and Sun Wukong had mellowed out enough that Nezha no longer felt the urge to lacerate him within a minute.

While guarding his half of the Samadhi Map was a task Nezha had resigned himself to for eternity until some being sent him to Diyu-or Realms forbid sent off his paranoia by reassigning him-sneaking away was something he did when he could get away with it. He still had prayers from home and public temples, and failing mortal parents to send a scathing dream-astral-projection to, and families to tie to his temples’ programs to receive financial aid, and-and-

(Sometimes he wondered if they had wanted him stuck doing nothing but standing in front of a piece of enchanted paper for eternity so his legacy would die, so his temples would burn again, and worship and power would whittle to nothing. Because perhaps he found a sort of kinship with Sun Wukong, more than the warriors who spent their time whispering instead of training, of being a demon child the Heavens wished to control.)

(Azure Lion had a point, but where he lost his power Nezha merely manipulated his status so his help could continue instead.)

Children needed help. Simple as that.

And so MK the monkey kid was nothing special-because Nezha had assisted thousands of children before him, and would assist thousands more in his eternity.

[dndspellgifs]

Unbreakable Majesty

class ability

College of Glamour Bard

[featherymainffins]

Can anyone who knows Uglies explain what the hell changed that just 10 years ago it was considered great and groundbreaking and now I see nothing but people saying that it's dumb and uninspired and has no point or meaning?

[uncanny-tranny]

I think when people talk about things like desirability, they can miss the deeper point of why it can be important to analyze why people are seen as undesirable. It isn't just that a type of person is just... not hot... but often, it's the dehumanization of a person based on marginalized features.

For instance, I had a conversation with somebody about disability portrayal in media, and we had agreed that, historically, disability had been portrayed as a horrific ordeal. However, I think they missed the point as to why the "undesirable disabled" character was so appealing to a broader audience. The idea that disability is other, inhuman, and something that depersonalizes somebody from society is partly why those ideas were and are prevalent in mainstream media and culture. It is the idea that "nobody likes you. Nobody needs you. Nobody wants you" because of the person's marginalized body or experience or whatever it may be.

It isn't some superficial "oh why aren't I seen as pretty by everybody?" It is the knowledge that you are portrayed as undesirable in this way because it is a way to separate you from everybody else. It isn't about beauty, nor is it a selfish desire to be wanted by somebody. It is the desire to be seen as a person - an equal, regardless of who desires you or who does not.