#suspend disbelief or whatever

[halobolts]

i write a whole line in quality time calling out how you can't get clubbed over the head without brain damage, and a year later i'm writing a fic where luce gets clubbed over the head and is fine. i may be a hypocrite

[ardentpoop]

no wait one more thought.

you guys are too charitable/soft in your interpretations of how dean would’ve treated sam just before he left for stanford. it is clearly established in canon that dean usually took John’s Side when he and sam clashed bc dean was the “good son.” yes dean tried to mediate but he also always justified john’s behavior to sam (like sam later justifies dean’s behavior to jack)

why do you think dean’s resentment wouldn’t have been surging out at sam daring to Leave Him Behind when that is time and time again how dean speaks to sam abt stanford to his face. dean is incapable of prioritizing sam’s perspective over his own pain lol it was never sam making a desperate bid for autonomy or wanting a better life for himself it was always sam selfishly Running Away and Abandoning his family. john and dean were of one mind on that one. samndean’s arguments just before sam left would’ve been RANCID - equally if not more so than sam and john’s.

[lost-in-fandoms]

It's 3 am and I couldn't stop thinking about this post

"It's going to be fun, Maxy!"

When Daniel claps his hands the sound echoes up the stairs, making the whole building seem weirdly larger, the circular rooms swelling with it.

Max drops one of their bags on the floor, nose curling at the damp, slightly moldy smell permeating the old walls, eyes sweeping over the entrance. There's an old pair of plastic boots under a chair, feeling more ominous than it should.

Before he can say anything, Daniel is in front of him again, hands on his shoulders, expression surprisingly soft for someone who was bouncing off the walls a second ago.

"Thank you for coming with me, Max, really," he says, all sincerity and wide brown eyes.

Max doesn't say I've never learned how to tell you no, or I would do anything you asked me to, and especially not if you had asked me to marry you for real instead of to get the job, I would have still said yes, but still feels himself soften, blush threatening to betray him.

He doesn't know how to answer without sounding pathetically fond, so he doesn't, shaking Daniel's hands off of him. Missing them immediately.

"You, of course, should have picked me up before taking me inside," he jokes. He's expecting Daniel to move towards him, arms already raised, so he avoids him easily, laughing and darting towards the stairs.

"Are you calling me a bad husband, darling?" Daniel's voice curls around the pet name, saccharine sweetness making each syllable longer, but Max's heart still skips a little with it, unfairly uncaring of the joke and lie of it all. He can hear Daniel start climbing the stairs behind him.

He hurries, barely looking at the rooms he passes through, until he's at the top, panting, opening the door leading to the walkway outside.

The sea is breathtaking from here, wide and terrifying, even when placid like this, and Max doesn't dare actually stepping outside, nor does he think about approaching the metal steps leading up to the lantern room. The wind shoves water spray inside the room, immediately hungry for the dry haven of the lighthouse.

"If you wanted us to be panting and sweating, I had better ideas for newlyweds that involve less stairs and more..."

Daniel doesn't finish his sentence, sliding up beside Max and looking outside too, words stolen by wonder.

Max knows that it has hit him too, just then, that this is where they will be living for the next three months. Just them, the light and the sea. It's at the same time exciting and terrifying, nerves sparking down his spine, making him shiver.

Before he can say anything, or step back, Daniel has wrapped his arm around his waist, tugging him close.

"We're going to have fun, yeah Maxy?" an echo of earlier, warped to softness.

Max just hums, giving in to the indulgent pleasure of leaning into Daniel further, making himself smaller to tuck into his side, cheek against his shoulder.

Three months in a lighthouse with the guy he has been in love with for forever and who he accepted to marry for a job requirement. Three months with his best friend. Three months in a very limited space with the most restless person he knows.

Max isn't sure he would call the perspective fun, but it's not like he can go back now, not like he would leave Daniel, ever, so the only thing he can do is nod and hope it doesn't end in fights and heartbreak.

"We are."

[shanastoryteller]

I'm curious since you've been reblogging Suits stuff -- did you watch/get into any other USA network shows?

oh god i watched basically anything usa network put out for a while

white collar

cover affairs

fairly legal

psych

in plain sight

common law (rip it could have been so good)

burn notice

i didn't watch royal pains or mr. robot consistently but they were still on the radar

i think the only big one from that time that i didn't get into was monk

[phannibal]

they need to come up with code words for when they’re fucking cloned or body swapped or whatever like girl this has happened at least five times at this point

[miabrown007]

sometimes twists in stories get you by being smarter than what you expect from their genre.

[pondslime]

reworking the porn ooga booga hehehehehehe-fic concept into something that could exist slightly out of the realm of purely porn logic

[spider-man-2o99]

i don’t think we talk enough abt how when miguel first got his Spider Powers it was at least partly because his coworker genuinely tried to murder him on a whim just for being. like. kind of annoying at the workplace. utterly deranged and iconic behavior from aaron here

[butchdykekondraki]

the reason kondraki never let clef watch draven when he was a child isnt because she didnt trust him but because she knows him far too well to ever allow him to parent someone even temporarily

[coquelicoq]

you can read an andy weir novel that features your area of expertise. but watch out

[caterpillarinacave]

I’m not even kidding when I say the biggest roadblock to posting any NATM fics right now is the fact that I do not know ancient Egyptian

[softmeetssofter]

all the murders in this building and we still don’t have cameras in the hallways or by the elevators???

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Jason, especially in that one Teen Titans comic, often complains about the lack of pants he has. And I'm haunted thinking about that at all times

[leafatlaw]

Going through the parkour civ tag is making me realize some people have never allowed themselves to earnestly enjoy mcyt content and it shows

[ayaitch]

I kind of want Horizon 3 to be Captain Planet-ish in the way that each member of Aloy's group can line up with one of the GAIA functions. Think about it...

GAIA -> Aloy (obviously the Captain Planet main powerful one)

Apollo -> Beta (the super smart one)

Demeter -> Zo (obvious plant life association)

Aether -> Kotallo (obvious sky association)

Hephaestus -> Erend (you know, because of the giant hammer and building stuff)

Artemis -> Talanah (goddess of the hunt)

Poseidon -> Aratak (not necessarily about water (but ice?) and more of his warrior-like nature and I also just needed to shoehorn a Banuk in Aloy's group somewhere)

Minerva -> Dekka or Sona? (for the goddess of wisdom and war association)

Eleuthia -> IDK here. Teb?

Hades -> RIP, N/A

Edit: I didn't include Sylens because I had made the assumption that Guerilla will write him out of the plot for the next game. If they don't and just recast him, then Sylens will be Minerva.

It just feels like a fun idea.

[labyrynth]

honestly the thing that baffles me the most about all the disney “live action” remakes is that they won’t touch the live action adaptations that not only existed long before their remake plans, but have been WILDLY successful!!!

the theater/broadway adaptations of beauty and the beast, the little mermaid, and the fucking LION KING??

disney, you already own all of this material. why are you dumping money into mediocre remakes when you already have the exact thing you’re looking for, but better??