#the COMFORT

[cats-obsessions]

Anyways I’m going to get emotional if I think too much about Durge’s self talk like “wretched thing, pull yourself together”. Combined with their confessional letter to their father, fucking begging forgiveness because they feel fondness, I think it’s very clear Durge has some experience and expectations of disdain and punishment from others. They’re a wretched thing who failed their god only a little and felt fear. And some of that thought follows them even without memory. Even Balthazar wrote that Durge would have wished to die after what happend to them- all while calling Durge “it” and “thing”- “feral thing”.

And then there’s Gortash who is so happy to see them. He’s not mad. He should be mad they failed him. They failed the plan. They let their guard down and Orin got them. Sure he doesn’t intervene, how could he without destroying Durge’s chances of gaining their fathers approval again and risking his own soul and the fate of Baldurs Gate? He’s not sugarcoating what happened, but I honestly think Durge would describe it as humiliation too. I just wonder if he was the only person to offer Durge that kind of grace to not blame them or try to threaten them into compliance, to still call them an equal. He could hate them, but he doesn’t.

Durge thought of themselves as dangerous, but did they ever consider themselves worthy?

[killapunchaw]

@inkspottie today's chapter was AAAAAAHHHHH. Takahide, takahide, takahide ... well i´m going to sleep.

[softie-rain]

Do you too carry a copy of The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes in your bag whenever you go out because you have anxiety and just knowing the book is there makes you feel better and when it gets real bad you read Sejanus and Coriolanus reunion in District 12 or are you mentally stable

[my-little-random-world]

IRENA 𝒂𝒏𝒅 ALENA | Zlatá labuť (The Golden Swan) — Season 1 Episode 7

[dykiebratzdoll]

Medical Students, Gerard Dillon (1916–1971), c.1949, from National Museums NI

[sandinthepipes]

The way merlin and arthur always say "let's go home" to each other whenever the weekly trial ends

[angeart]

help writing elegy is making me emotional and now i want to cry

[aeroknot]

whenever my dad would check in on my dungeons & dragons campaign he would listen with a smile and then unironically say “i think it needs more dragons”

well, dad: we met and made friends with a dragon last session, and he owes us a favor now, so we’ll probably see him again. i miss you. i hope it makes you happy.

[daughterofzeus-the-novel]

Helen x Eris Excerpts

Her smirk could slice me open, and I might thank her for it.

I’d always been told the blood of gods ran gold.  Perhaps Eris was closer to a mortal than I thought.

“Hera, she–”  Eris wiped the blood from her mouth.  “She does not like what we are doing.”

“Bless me with child,” I whisper.  “Prove her wrong.  Prove them all wrong.  Please.”

“I can’t.”  She tears away.  “I’m barely a goddess.  Barely a monster. Wasn't even invited to that stupid wedding."

“Want a bite?”

I jolt.  “I’m sorry, I–”

“It might kill you.”  She propped her chin in her palms.  “It might not.  Who’s to say?”

“Do you prefer me in this shape?”

I shrink.  “Change back.”

“No.”  Her smirk is wrong, so wrong on Cassandra’s face.  “I don’t think I will.”

and finally

“You gave me courage.  You gave me hope.  But you took so much from me I don’t know myself anymore.”

[dreamwatch]

I know it’s the poor relation in fanfic, but I read Mpreg. There. There you go, I said it. I like nearly everything in fanfic, no trope is off limits, and if your tags are followed by a Dead Dove warning I’m in there like a fucking truffle pig, but yeah. Mpreg.

But you know what I don’t see enough of in Mpreg? Most often Mpreg is treated as common place in the universe it’s set, but wouldn’t it be cool if it was actually really rare? Like, it’s known to happen, but fuck you’re going to be looked at and treated like a freak for it, you’re going to be othered for it in a big way.

The level of angst, the potential for hurt/comfort, I mean… it’s just fucking delicious, isn’t it?

Protective Steve Harrington going absolutely feral.

What, who said that?

[girasolreves]

I love how great Florence looks when dressed casual too.

[counterprtsx]

Song of the day

I need your love, I need your love

Because I'm not sure if I'm enough

To keep the rain from falling down

And washing away the solid ground

[elegomez]

once did this with my partner and confused him into thinking I had fallen. I didn't explain and I still don't think I have.

Yeah unexplained supernatural experiences are cool, but have you ever been 9 or 10 years old, having a sleepover at a friend's place, gotten up at night to go pee without turning the lights on, and then heard something coming up the stairs before you see the creature - a long-limbed, gaunt but distinctly humanoid figure dashing up on all fours, who then spots you in the dim light, as mortified as you are horrified, stands up to walk like a human, heading silently into his room without saying a word?

And that's the way you learned that some people like to go up stairs on all fours like a dog when nobody's looking, and that your friend's 15-year-old brother is one of them.