#that's how she connected the dots

[existingingrey]

When Ha Seol saw them together for the first time she probably thought she had to act as a buffer between the two (nudges JW to listen to SC)

Then she saw them being overly familiar with each other

Then realized JW was living with SC

After that she suddenly stopped talking to Goh Jeongwoo in front of Noh Sangcheol...

.....addressing SC instead.

[theoldkyokodied]

One wedding and three funerals

Background paintings under the cut

[silverhalla]

Back at it again with another theory: What if Lucanis’ betrayal wasn’t a betrayal at all?

(obviously, spoilers below the cut)

During The Wigmaker Job, we have some dialogue between Illario and Lucanis about their position within both the Crows and the Dellamorte family. Illario wants Caterina to step down so he can take the coveted First Talon spot. Lucanis reassures him that his time is coming, to which Illario makes a snide comment about whether his cousin would ever go against their grandmother’s wishes. When they continue the conversation after the job, Illario states that Lucanis is the potential heir, that he’s her favorite, and that he’s unlikely to say no to her. Lucanis doesn’t argue, only insists that he doesn’t want to be First Talon, and that he hopes she’ll see reason before that. It’s mentioned again in Eight Little Talons - Caterina favors Lucanis. It’s well-known enough among the Crows that Viago and Teia discuss it in front of her (not on purpose, but she doesn’t deny it). He’s her prodigy through and through.

In the opening scene for the Lucanis quest in Veilguard, Caterina is poised, as you’d expect of the First Talon. She’s certain that the body they buried wasn’t her grandson, that it had been altered with blood magic. She doesn’t pose it as a theory, though: she poses it as a fact. It could, of course, merely be her confidence, but there’s another very unusual aspect to the scene – everyone else discusses how Lucanis was clearly betrayed, that someone must have sold him out in order for the Venatori to capture him. Caterina is the only one in that room who never speaks on it. She doesn’t ask for justice, doesn’t mention vengeance, never acknowledges that her grandson was sold out by someone he trusted – perhaps because he wasn’t. 

What if, when Caterina comes to him with a plan, with an impossible request, he’s still her favorite prodigal grandchild, and he still does whatever she asks? She’s had him tortured before as a child, has tortured and starved and beaten him herself before, because it makes him stronger and more resistant to it in the future. He says in The Wigmaker Job that he used to hate her for it, but now he understands. He justifies it. All Crows justify it, because they have to - if they don’t, then the cruelty wasn’t for survival’s sake, and their suffering meant nothing. Perhaps he doesn’t even question it. When Caterina tells him that she has a job for him, he takes it. 

What if the contract has a caveat? Sure, Calivan must die by his hand by the end of it, a little treat for a job well done, but what if his primary mission is reconnaissance, is discovery? The Venatori are using blood magic to torture and corrupt prisoners. It would behoove the Crows to find out what it entails and how to resist it, before it’s turned back on them. It would have to be someone so deeply, unabashedly loyal to her that when she asked them to infiltrate a Venatori prison, expecting torture at best, their own death at worst, they’d take the job anyway, no questions asked - someone Caterina can trust, certainly, but also someone who has never once said no to her.

And Lucanis has always been a loyal grandson. 

[owari-no-suffering]

shoutout to lan wangji and luo binghe for being endlessly tormented by their love interests' mixed signals, reaching their breaking point, and then proceeding to never be normal about their (always reciprocated) crushes (turned husbands) ever again.

[noahtally-famous]

funny how the reason mk got eliminated in s1 was bc she couldn’t resist taunting julia (calling her a buttknuckle which made julia realize she’d been watching the confessionals), and how in a sense it goes hand in hand with whatever they had going on in s2. they just can’t help being in each others orbit lmao

like mk rlly just loves to rile julia up huh? staying under the radar? pfft not when the opportunity to make fun of julia is on the table

[autumnoakes]

okay but like.... does anyone else get the feeling that prometheus knows something that melinoë and therefore the player doesn't? ngl i haven't fought prometheus for a hot second but some of what he says to melinoë.... he calls her "agent of change" and i do think there's more to his allegiance than what melinoë or anyone else for that matter seems to think.

[coquelicoq]

does. does lee jihye still think yoo joonghyuk and kim dokja had a baby together. when she finds out about biyoo is she like master how do you feel about your baby daddy having a baby with someone other than you? do you want to talk about it? master? hey master where are you going?

[purple--queen]

The wine bottle had the name "Rioja" written on the label. Rioja

[oneroomjestershow]

wait he's innocent it was the rats

[jackshiccup]

that scene in ch 38 where astrid is all, ‘no wonder why hiccup likes you’ as a passing comment straight to jack’s face and it completely flies over his head was so wauuuughioiahhoouuiaeuaguu… especially bc afterwards, jack goes off on an emotional spiel about how much hiccup means to him, how he’s afraid of hiccup knowing how he feels, how much he wishes with all his heart that there was another way, how he would give up everything if it meant staying with hiccup and how much it crushes him that he just can’t — i was plucking my hair out my follicles one by one bc how can someone be so oblivious at the fact that they are so obviously at the deep end like (to quote hiccup) thor almighty, jackson overland frost you are in the trenches

[liquidstar]

it must have been so confusing tutoring subaru from a lugnican perspective, like, how the hell do you invent an entire syllabary all on your own and still be completely fucking illiterate

[heavenb3nt]

Anyways. Academy era designs

[death-of-cats]

😨😬 tfw you realize that if Theon did get the captain's daughter pregnant, then she and the kid are likely in Oldtown..... exactly where the Crow's Eye is headed...

[imogearne]

maddening...............

[ennard-is-near]

Elizabeth isn’t afraid of the animatronics, even after her brother dies, because she knows they’re harmless on their own. In her head it’s Michael that killed Evan, not Fredbear. Fredbear was just an innocent, non-sentient victim in the whole thing. All she has to do to protect herself is make sure that nobody lays a finger on her and she’ll avoid meeting the same fate as her brother.

But when Elizabeth dies it doesn’t even occur to her that it could have been her someone else’s doing. Even as William figures out that she possesses the robot and starts apologizing and scolding her for going near the thing she doesn’t consider that he was involved. Because her own dad wouldn’t ever hurt her, he loves her so much. It must have just been Circus Baby that killed her, that’s all.

[missus-paint]

there is something to be said about how Roses robotifcation mirrors what scratch did to snowman

but i lightly doubt that was intentional if . at all