#the best bro in history

[akai-anna]

me, at hattori heiji, with endless amount of affection: i love you

[nicjeann]

brent spiner star trek casting orgin story is so fucking funny like they really saw this hilarious goofy musical theatre guy and then were like “let��s cast him as the robot” for shits/giggles and then lives were changed.

[laurrelise]

steve blackman, when you were deciding that it was crucial for five to have a fucking romance plotline with his brother’s wife did you also find it crucial for five and said brother to have several sweet heart-to-heart moments throughout the season just to lead to them dying with a deep hatred for each other

[actualbird]

nobody asked but whenever i discuss mariluke AUs with my friends, there nothing is funnier to me than making luke realize hes bi very late. like marius figured out he was bi very early on in his life and hes proudly out and everything, meanwhile luke will be staring at marius' lips 90% of the time during an nxx meeting and he'll think to himself "hm maybe marius' lip gloss interested me? weird" just THE most nonsensical rationalizations because it never occurred to luke that he could be bi. like marius will be taking luke on courting dates that are devastatingly romantic and flirting with luke with obvious non-heterosexual intent and then luke, extremely slow on the uptake, will get home and google "do i like men quiz"

[swagglessmoth]

One of the things that I LOVE about Shadows Blinding and marks it as one of my favourite fics ever, is the relationship between Sakumo and Kakashi.

Lots of spoilers (obviously)

In most fics, Kakashi’s feelings towards Sakumo aren’t really explored in a complex way. Mostly they go as far as him missing his father, we see his grief and loneliness deepening with each lose of a loved one over the years, until as an adult he heals and grows to understand his father’s decision and forgiving him. Which is completely okay! I love those fics, I love the progress as we see Kakashi healing over time. But most that I’ve seen don’t usually dwell into Sakumo’s suicide that much and the heavy impact it would have on a child at that age, that would later follow them to adulthood. Choosing instead to focus on the impact either team Minato or team 7 had on his life (which, fair, it is A LOT, but you get my point).

In Pesto’s (author) interpretation, things go a bit differently: Kakashi does miss his father, but at the same time he still deeply resents him for what he did, just like he did when he was a kid and trying to not be like his father. Except he hasn’t exactly grown out of this bitterness. For scarring him for life and leaving him alone at such a young age; for sending him to what’s essentially a cult, leaving him trapped with a family he’s not familiar with; for leaving such a deep mark, that even if he tries to escape him and the clan, they’re in every little part of his life. Such as his most signature quality, his mask, only existing because Kakashi reminded Sakumo of his brother. He hates all of this.

This Kakashi never healed from what happened, so caught up in all the deaths happening around him that he never really had time to even process it. He doesn’t even allow himself to miss his father because of all this resentment, and that’s not something that just goes away. This is why I love his relationship with Kosuke, the way Kakashi wishes he’d allowed himself to miss his father despite what he did like Kosuke does. (OH AND THAT SCENE THEY HAD AT THE END. KOSUKE MISSING KAKASHI IN SPITE OF THAT HE DID, LIKE HE MISSES HIS FATHER 😭😭😭😭😭 OUGHH IT’S SO SADD ❤️‍🩹🥀⛓️🚬🐺)

That sense of hate is engraved in him, and it is amplified by the fact that Sakumo giving him that seal essentially made him loose everything he’s known and loved once again. His whole world is destroyed, the people he loved have forgotten about him (also they are dead) (and let’s not even mention Obito). All this time he’s had his team as a source of light at the end of the tunnel, something to fight for. But he’s lost that, and with his clan that’s basically a cult and that wrinkly bitch Nana running around ruining everything, he really has nowhere to go. That one split-second decision, even if done in good faith, ruined his life.

«Tou-san fucked up» indeed (or however the quote went I don’t wanna look it up)

YOOO THAT’S WHY THE SEQUEL’S GONNA BE FIREE 🔥 🔥🔥🔥 Kakashi expecting to come back to a wasteland and being prepared to start digging graves for his dead friends (everyone bro) and instead finding an alternate-timeline Sakumo. We’re getting that deeply awkward and uncomfortable father-son bonding YEAHH 💪💪

Oh and don’t even get me started on this new timeline bro. How baby Ino appearing in the epilogue implies that this is at a point in time shortly after what would’ve been the Kyubi attack (we don’t know how Kannabi went so idk if it even happened) Rin and Obito would be around 14, 16 max. And Minato and Kushina would be around 22-24. Kakashi here is like 30, he is NOT getting his team back. And that’s without counting that with Kakashi dying by birth on this universe, there would be another kid in his place. Knowing that no other kid their age was jounin at the time, they might’ve not even been assigned for the Kannabi Bridge mission or at least done it with Minato, which already elevates their chances of survival.

He might not even get to meet team 7 personally. They’re babies rn and he’s a complete stranger to the village, a stranger on Kage level might I add (I don’t think it’s too far fetched to say that, he’s VERY powerful now, and he did become the sixth hokage without this power-up so 🤷‍♂️). They’re NOT letting him near the babies bro ❌😿

He’s alone with his father (whom he kind of hates and doesn’t know) in a world that doesn’t know him AT ALL. We have all the time in the world for group therapy, Kakashi’s gonna be demanding ANSWERS. Or maybe he’ll say “fuck this” and become a kind-of-missing-nin-but-not-really-bc-he’s-not-from-THIS-Konoha that stalks the village to make sure his loved ones don’t die this time. Yeah, I could see that happening tbh.

Idk I’m just ranting, this is gonna be messy and I’ll love every second of it 💞

[smoothie03]

Apart from TeuTemp being a tragic duo, Francis and Gabriel are equally tragic to watch. They were something like cousins, but grew up almost like brothers. At least they had to be close and it was the one kind of relationship Gabriel could've called a "family". And their close bond broke apart in the last few decades before Gabriel's death.

There was much manipulation going on around Francis (influence of the Capetian court and their narrative of the story around the Templars and the papacy etc) and those two boys were just easily influenced teens. Their relationship couldn't withstand the mess that was going on during their time. And despite Francis' inner conflict and switching back in forth about who to trust and what is true, their bond was already doomed. It broke both of their hearts, changed the image they had of each other forever and even if Gabriel would come back in a Revival AU, everything would stay shattered between them. Even IF Gabriel would maybe forgive him if he knew the full story around Francis.

Because in the end Gabriel would've still died at the hands of the man he called a brother.

[melit0n]

While we were in Athens, we got the chance to go to a couple churches (mainly Byzantine, some converted) and I wanted to show!

The first three are from a little Greek Orthodox one I stumbled upon while wandering around. I was absolutely enamoured by the fresco, as well as the little stained glass they had. I ended up having lunch nearby, and got to hear the singing from Nones (I think that's what it's called for Orthodox? Basically midday prayer), which was just...really calming to hear. Orthodox churches always have a certain way of singing their hymns that sounds so beautiful to me.

The fourth, fifth and tenth photos are all from a little church called The Panagia Gorgoepikoos (otherwise known as The Little Metropolis, while the cathedral, photos six, seven and eight, is called The Great Metropolis), and was built upon the ruins of a temple to the Goddess Eileithyia, who was the goddess of childbirth. The original temple's build date is unknown (as far as I know), while the Byzantine church there now dates back to the 9-13th century. Varying opinions on that one, lol.

Finally, the ninth is from inside The Agora, and is called The Church of the Holy Apostles, and is from the 10th century. Unfortunately, it was locked shut, so I just got to admire the exterior. There were swifts making a home in some of the cracked walls.

[hugh-despenser]

'edward ii was the first gay king of england' does he mean nothing to u?

[capriszn]

personally i loved arcane s2 more than the first, it was so so beautiful and memorable and visibly crafted with love!!!!! i cried constantly throughout eps 4-7 and held my breath for the final episode and yall can complain about pace and unanswered questions all you want, i don‘t really agree that these were actual issues.. and then it got gayer too so ofc this show is going down in history now as the best animated series since avatar but u didnt hear that from me ig

[wildflowercryptid]

potentially batshit headcanon, but i think it'd be funny if these two were related somehow.

[falllpoutboy]

giggling and kicking my feet thinking aegon being on a warpath post b&c because everyone’s gonna get whacked for being mia when it happened…

[seeyouonsaturn]

Experiencing microaggressions every time someone refers to Knockout and Breakdown as "best friends"

[nadasdirthalens]

girl remember ds9 the wire.

[marioboyy]

His tales cross multiple universes.

[shanghaigp]

combining the experience of being a red bull fan in 2022 (cheating scandal) and a merc fan in 2016 (4 years of being teammates makes a pair of best friends hate each other) by being a penske fan in 2024

[punk-o-ween]

i love my dad sm omg hes always fueling my hyperfixations and it makes me so happy i got to talk to him abt the machine guns (im talking abt like an INSANE ass yap abt their history mostly in tna) and we kinda just talked abt them like omg :-((((((((