#the bittersweet ending that was promised

[nartml]

Trust and believe that it ain't gonna be pretty if season seven comes and anything touches my baby Soren or Corvus or Amaya or Janai or Gren or Rayla or Callum or Ezran or

[a-hazbin-reader]

i love angst when im in the mood for it BUT I LOVE ANGST EVEN MORE WHEN THERES A HAPPY ENDING AND YOU GAVE ME THAT THANK YOUUUU

I WILL NEVER NOT GIVE YOU GUYS A HAPPY ENDING

[hiroyildiz]

I recently finished 'Song of Achilles' and these are some of my favourite quotes:

1-"And perhaps it is the greater, after all, to be left on earth, when another is gone. Do you think?"

-Chiron

2-"I will tell you a secret." "I am going to be the first. Swear it." "Because you're the reason. Swear it."

-Achilles

3-"If you have to go, you know I will go with you."

-Achilles

4-...He started to speak but I was too quick for him. One of my hands went to clasp his knees, the other reached upward, to seize his chin with my hand. The pose of supplication. It was a gesture I had seen many times, but had never made myself. I was under his protection now; he was bound to treat me fairly, by the law of the gods.

"Tell me where he is."

-Patroclus

5- I think: this is what I will miss. I think: I will kill myself rather than miss it. I think: how long do we have?

6- ...As for the goddess' answer, I did not care. I would have no need of her. I did not plan to live after he was gone.

7- ...I could not bear it. There was only one thing I could think of. I turned to Achilles and seized the front of his tunic. I kissed him.

When I let go again she was staring at us. Staring and staring.

I gestured to her bonds, and back to the knife. 'All right?'

She hesitated a moment. Then slowly offered her hands.

8- ...It was easy to stay with them long and late, until I heard the creaking of the chariot, and the distant banging of bronze, and returned to greet my Achilles.

9-"So which of the suitors would you have picked?"

I shoved him and he laughed.

-Achilles

10- In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood, like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun.

[theflyingfeeling]

hiiiiiii, yesterday I was thinking of Allu choosing to stay at a hotel instead of at Olli's place because he doesn't want to see Olli being all lovey-dovey with his partner, doesn't want to have dinner with them even if it's just take-out, doesn't want to be there at all knowing that Olli will most likely spend some time at night with him, sitting on the couch and chatting about anything that crosses their minds, but then he'll go to bed with someone else to maybe spend the night in ways that Allu could only dream of

in his fantasies it's just Allu and Olli, he would be the one cooking because Olli's terrible at that, they would have a nice dinner by candlelight, then a glass of wine while sitting on the couch and maybe he would confess his feelings for Olli, who maybe feels the same way, maybe they kiss (slowly, like time doesn't exist while they're together), maybe they end the night sharing Olli's bed for something else than just sleep, and maybe he wakes up with Olli spooning him, their bodies naked and so close that leaving the bed is not an option anymore

but he knows that is never gonna happen, so staying at a hotel and maybe crying himself to sleep because he can't have Olli in the way he wants to is the best choice here 😭

(what if this also happened the week he went to Oulu after the tour was done? my heartttt 😭😭😭)

sorry for the angst, have a lovely weekend 💗💘💕💖💕

why are you doing this to me 😭😭😭😭

just to make it extra painful, can we throw in some mixed signals and general confusion, because there are times Aleksi could swear they're "having a moment" (maybe they shared several of those the last time he was in Oulu and has been losing his mind over them ever since, staying in his studio until stupid o'clock replaying those moments over and over again) or that Olli is low-key flirting with him (especially when Olli's a little tipsy) and he gets his hopes up even though he knows he shouldn't because Olli is with someone else and whatever Aleksi thinks they might have between them is nothing else but Olli just being his charming self and those "moments" they shared were most likely just Olli zoning out randomly while staring at Aleksi's lips for some reason and it means NOTHING that he caught Olli staring at his ass when he was trying on the BC sweatpants (Olli being Olli he didn't realise Aleksi could see him via the mirror)

and yeah, that's why he looked so blue and lonely in that mirror selfie 🥺 thanks for this I shall cry myself to sleep just like Aleksi in this horrible headcanon of yours I hate you (said with so much love it'll drown you <3)

[bastardlybonkers]

lost light ending was so good...ik some ppl probably didnt like it or thought it was a cheap way out but personally i love it

[tweedfrog]

Ok so I finished queen charlotte and I actually cried at the ending so here's a list as to why I think its the best bridgerton series of the lot

- actual high stakes

- refreshingly different romance lead couple (I love seeing older ppl in love we should see more of that)

- felt more grounded historically so people's behaviour made more sense in the time period in which it was set

- every MC didn't have the same ending/version of happiness which feels realistic (why are we now 3 for 3 seasons in the main bridgerton stories where the HEA is married and babies ever after??)

- side plots didn't cut into the screen time of the main leads

[lisbonsteresa]

thinking about this a lot lately

[nani-nonny]

Ch.3: Leo Come Down Pt.2 - Leonardo Come Down

Whelp. Casey Jones you poor, poor child I’m so sorry for your loss. (No one died don’t worry.) We get a glimpse into Casey’s past with Future Leonardo and the outcome of the battle! The boys definitely don’t hold back this time hehe.

Bonus: Me @ Casey’s memories of Uncle Leo

Bonus 2: Me when LCD readers finally catch me

[br1ghtestlight]

listening to a song titled "this is not a love song" on repeat while working on my tina x jimmy jr fanfiction is definitely a good sign

[wheelercurse]

I don’t know if Jonathan and Nancy are ending up together (probably) but I do know they aren’t going to the same college. They will follow their dreams.

[selkiehello]

I wrote another PoL fic 👍

[madamescarlette]

nothing like staying up aggressively late to finish a book that you don't realize till halfway through is kind of infuriating and wrong and yet you have to see the end so you can close the lid on the fury vs. the healing joy of going off to read a book and then reading it all in one sitting because it was glorious and exactly suited to what you needed to read at that moment!

[theunspokenvoid]

Sometimes there is no happy end, and that's okay.

The story is what mattered the most.

It's the little moments, we will keep at heart the most.

[bihastuff]

finished the promised neverland manga and I feel empty right now

[megaclubdiolis]

柄本 佑 || 「光る君へ」 (2024) · 第四十一回 「揺らぎ」 ​​​

[onewomancitadel]

On the note of tragic romance I was discussing earlier, tragic romance has a time and a place! It's not something I seek out - it's painful and I have to be tricked into it - but I fully understand its employment and that there are lots of flavours to it.

Jonas/Martha hits the perfect balance of bittersweet. It's transcendental, literally. There's no other way to tell that story on the basis of the themes and tone Dark sets forward.

Really my imaginary opponent is that type of person who insists redemptive romances and happy endings are overdone. In my experience trying to search for it, it is simply untrue, and it is absolutely not true within popular culture. That is of course if you accept that happy endings to begin with constitute some sort of monolithic storytelling structure to be vanquished and by necessity stories must reflect reality 1:1 (because happiness doesn't real I guess; cynicism is not closer to reality lol) and not one of many ways you can answer your story and reward the audience... it's all about appropriateness. And the mythic elevation of a story. Sigh...