#the drama!!!!

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

“I have no idea what Ryan has planned — if indeed he has planned anything.”

- George R. R. Martin

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literally everyone else in the life series: yeah haha we're just vibin with friends. might make a few little digs at watcher stuff but its all in good fun--

martyn: the gods are real. they are eldritch, immortal beings who are insatiably devouring any ounce of entertainment they can get out of us. we are but playthings trapped in their endless games. there is no escape. they hate scott smajor specifically

[wttcsms]

blunt, brash, and often times described as barbaric on the field, knight!atsumu is rough around the edges. while he does maintain the code of chivalry, he can't stop from speaking up when someone of a higher position makes a snide comment about him, he chews his food obnoxiously, and is one of the only royal knights who earned this position through merit and not class — atsumu comes from a poor commoner family up in the countryside.

and yet — you can't help but be fascinated by him. sneaking glances at him when he's on the training field, assigning tea time in the gardens when you know he's on guard duty for that area; the fascination turns into affection when he is promoted to be one of the knights officially assigned to protect you. the two of you end up engaging in a secret relationship, and right when you are about to reveal the truth to your father, the king, that you have given sir atsumu your heart, the king makes two announcements: your country is going off to war + atsumu will be needed on the battlefield, and you are set to be betrothed to a nearby kingdom's crown prince in order to secure a strong alliance for this war.

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

Neverending life or something, similar to last life, but with more lives. Instead of up to 6, like last life, its up to 15 or something. Above 10 is dark green, above 5 is green, 2-5 is yellow, 1 is red. But each life you only have 6 hearts instead of 10. Boogeyman still applies, but a successful boogeyman kill gets you an additional three hearts. And trading lives still applies. But, the big twist is, you can also trade lives with eliminated players, and essentially revive them from the dead. But if you're a green life and you revive someone, that means they are a red life until they get another life, so you could revive them and then they could immediately kill you if they wanted. Just think about the drama!!

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Imagine being on your second to last life and bringing your beloved teammate back from the dead, only for them to kill you and take you out of the series instead…

[voxmilia]

Accidently made this run Much Worse than intended, in universe

Confessed to Ryker

Immediately next day did the Everlasting Darkness fight

Alice, relieved at not dying and also saving the town, asks Ryker on their first official date the following day

First date goes Badly (without spoiling)

Unlocks Basara's Hideaway that night, which involves tailing her secretive new boyfriend

Alice heads to bed, not wanting to Ryker to find her out; she does not sleep well

[burninblood]

WTF WAS THIS X-MEN 97 EPISODE WTFFFFFF!!!!!

[softquietsteadylove]

Hey hey! Love your doctor au!

My request: two patient coming in but they are highly aggressive and hallucinating very badly and suddenly They start attacking Thena. Lucky for her Gil sees this and protects her!

"Hey!"

Heads turn as one of the ER beds starts rattling. It's the last in the line, and Thena's voice travels out to the rest of the room as she tries to restrain her patient.

"No! No, they're everywhere!" It's a young male, late high school or perhaps early college age. He's tall, well built. He and the patient next to him were picked up in a convenience store parking lot on some form of substance.

Thena tries to hold his arm still. She wasn't even as far as getting blood pressure when he started thrashing. "Take it easy!"

"No! I have to get out of here!" The kid starts flailing even more, maybe not even aware of Thena yet.

"Oh my god," Ajak gasps as she sees it, waving to the security guards stationed closer to the main door, "help her!"

The two rush over, but the kid is full of adrenaline, and the other one needs restraining too, up and screaming about locusts in the air vents.

"Thena!" Ajak runs over to her but skids to a halt. The patient is hallucinating, high on adrenaline and whatever else, in no state to be approached, that's for sure.

"Don't," Thena grunts as she tries to get the kid's hands off her face as he begs her to shut off the air in the room. He grips the collar of her scrubs, "provoke...him..."

Ajak looks around the room, but it's been a quiet night. All their interns are on other cases or on break. Even then, she doesn't know if any of them would be able to overpower this particular patient alone. "Where's Gil?"

The other nurses are already scrambling for the check in log, seeing if he's in the building or on a run.

"I'll even take Kingo."

"Gil's checked in as of 7 minutes ago."

"Get him here!"

The page goes out for active paramedics to triage. Ajak goes to the patient that security did manage to wrangle and gets a sedative into him. She looks at Thena every few seconds, anxiously keeping an eye on her situation of trying to talk down the more nervous one.

"You'll choke if you don't close your lungs!"

"Thena!"

Thena claws at him as his hands close around her long, slim neck. It's easy for his palms to press into her windpipe. She claws at his hands, his face--anything she can reach.

"Get off her!"

Gil charges over, barrelling towards them. The kid still doesn't blink, but Gil wastes no time, with no concern for being too rough with a patient. He grabs the back of the kid's neck, making him reflexively reach to stop whatever is causing his pain. Thena drops to the floor and gasps for air.

Gil throws the kid with one hand--tosses him like a doll into the wall behind them.

Thena draws air into her lungs desperately, coughing and sputtering as she holds her sore throat. She feels Gil lean down to her, his hand on her back, enclosing a safe space for her as she regains her bearings.

"Thena, hey, look at me," he whispers. It's gentle, as is everything with Gil, but she can hear the urgency in it. He's scared. "Please, Thena."

She pulls her head up to look at him, although the blurriness in her vision is a red flag. She blinks at him, feeling his hands on her cheeks. He pulls her closer to him, letting her lean against him. Adrenaline drains out and the heaviness of fatigue replaces it.

Gil holds her head under his chin, his hand on her arm and the other arm around her back.

"Everyone okay?" one of the security guards leans down to ask them.

Gil's glare sends him a step or two backwards. "Where the hell were you?"

Before security becomes the next target of Gil's undeniable strength - and surprisingly frightening temper - Ajak comes over. She puts a hand on Gil's shoulder, meeting his eyes to ask permission from him.

Reluctantly, he loosens his hold on Thena. It's enough for Ajak to pick up her fallen stethoscope and use it for herself, listening to her heart, listening to her breathing. She touches Thena's neck ever so gently.

"I'm fine," Thena protests, but it's a little wheezy sounding, and Ajak can see the redness where bruises will form in all shapes and colours.

"Fine my ass," Ajak glares at her, and finds that even Thena knows better to argue with the mother hen of the ER. She pats Gil's shoulder, "take her to the bus to get some cold compacts on that neck. I'll handle things in here."

"But-"

"Thena," Ajak snaps her fingers and points at her, silencing the doctor completely. Ajak nods them away, taking Thena's stethoscope with her. She'll get it back after Ajak is satisfied that she's been cared for.

Thena sighs, feeling Gil close in around her. She presses a hand to his chest, "I can walk, Gil."

He looks at her desperately, and her heart pulls.

"Really," she whispers, at least allowing him to help her to her feet. Her knees have a little bit of a wobble to them, but she's the Goddess of War, and she doesn't hobble away from anything.

Gil keeps an arm wrapped around her on the way to the ambulance, passing Kingo complaining to Ajak about what 'I'll even take Kingo' meant. "Hey."

Kingo notices Gil walking by, notices the ghostly silence of Thena hovering beside him, and notices them on their way to their ambulance. He nods.

Thena sighs again, testing the tenderness of her neck for herself, "I can't take the rest of the night off, you know. We sent all those damned kids home because it was so slow."

Gil shakes his head, guiding her gently by the shoulder to the back of the vehicle and holding her hand as she steps up into it. "If only they'd been able to tell us what they were on. We could have known they weren't marijuana high but something more dangerous."

Thena shrugs her shoulders as she takes a seat on one of the benches, "these things happen."

"Yeah, but it happened to you," Gil argues with a deep set frown, pulling the doors closed behind him as he sits next to her, "that's the problem."

Thena moves silently, letting him turn her back to him in the small space. He pulls at the collar of her scrubs gently, afraid to so much as brush his fingers against her already damaged skin. "It could have been worse."

"Sh," he whispers, collecting her hair out of his way oh-so gently, "let me work, Doctor Thena."

She puffs through her nose in a soft laugh, turning her head to let him continue his examination. She can feel just the tips of his fingers travelling around the bend of her neck and the curve of her shoulders. She lets him turn her again, keeping her head angled as he examines the front damage.

Gil tugs her shirt as needed, although there's no hint of blunt trauma anywhere even as far down as her clavicle. He runs his fingers along the prominence of the bone, casting shadows along her ghostly pale skin.

Thena's breath hitches.

"Sorry," he whispers, not asking if it's his cold hands or if it hurts or if it's just a sensitive spot for her. He moves back to her neck, with clear marks already of where those hands had closed around it. He hovers his fingers near it but doesn't dare make contact. "Hurt?"

Thena stays quiet, and she's obviously thinking about lying to him about it. But he brushes his thumb along her jaw and she deflates, "a little sore."

Gil nods. He can imagine it's sore; it's going to bruise something awful, that's for sure. He reaches into a drawer and pulls out an ice-gel pack. "You should get something on that to help the blood flow."

Thena smiles, letting him press the cold against her neck for her. She sighs faintly at the relief of it, her hands coming to rest on his wrist as he holds it for her.

"Really scared me, y'know."

She opens her eyes, and he has that same heart wrenching look on his face. He looks like a puppy left out in the rain. She imagines she goes tender in the eyes as well, leaning her cheek against his hand on her neck.

Gil reaches up with his other hand, brushing her hair away from her face. "I've never been so terrified as when I saw him holding you like that."

Thena's eyes drift down between them. She can't imagine what it would have been like for him to arrive on a scene like that. She remembers the fear that had gripped her during the car crash incident that had Gil fainting in her ER. She...could have handled that better, in retrospect.

Thena's eyes flutter as Gil pulls her forward, pressing his lips to her temple (the way she had done for him that time, and then run away and refused to talk about it).

"You know I'm not leaving your side for the rest of the night."

Thena smiles, half-encircled in his warm, strong arms in her half-turned position. Their knees knock together, but she turns her smile into the inside of his wrist to hide at least some of it. "You have a job to do, Gil. We both do?"

"Kingo will cover for me," Gil says a little more easily, and Thena lets out a faint laugh this time. It's still a little thinner and gaspier than he would like, but it's still her laugh. "You said it was a slow night. And you have - what - seven more hours? I'm not letting you do that alone."

"Ajak is in there alone now, I have to get back to her!"

"Okay, okay," Gil pulls away with a lopsided smile. He lifts the compress, checking if it did anything. The redness of her skin has improved at least a little. "Okay, fine, I admit it's pretty surface. No need for a full on neck brace or anything."

Thena claims and savours her victory.

"But you still shouldn't strain your voice tonight," he continues as they both stand to go back inside. "Let Ajak or me do most of the talking. And I'm filing a complaint about those security numbskulls."

"Don't file a complaint," she scolds him as he helps her down from the step at the back of the bus. "HR will drag it on and on and on."

Gil frowns, his hands settling on her hips as he keeps her with him for a second longer, "I find their failure to do their jobs pretty serious, Thena."

She shakes her head at him, resting her hands on his hips to match his posture. "It's their job to protect both patients and staff, not me specifically, Gil."

He pouts at her.

"Don't look at me like that," she smiles, slipping her hands away but tugging at one of his belt loops to pull him with her again. "I'm already letting you follow me around for the rest of shift. I can only make so many exceptions for you."

"You?--making exceptions for me?" Gil scoffs as he walks in beside her, "you're lucky I haven't thrown you over my shoulder and walked out with you."

"You wouldn't dare."

"Don't tempt me," he whispers, shrugging off his work hoodie and laying it over her shoulders. She looks at it but he puts his hand over it, not willing to accept it back for the rest of the night, "Doctor."

[mistninja]

NOT HER FATHER?! !?

[louisinart]

ok omg stranger things anon here ready to spill details: so there’s two new characters introduced in the second season, a young teen girl + her jackass older stepbrother and like… he’s a HORRIBLE person, he’s entitled and has anger issues, he’s racist and tries RUNNING OVER his stepsisters black boyfriend, beats another well beloved character within an inch of his life, etc etc etc he’s just all around dangerous and vile

they tried redeeming him by implying his dads abusive but… id argue that doesn’t excuse how crazy violent he is towards the other characters. in s3 the writers decided the best direction to take his character was… make him get possessed??? and do even more horrible things? but like now hes ~scared~ because it’s getting out of his control, but he’s still doing awful stuff 😭

and the season ends with him essentially sacrificing himself to save the other characters in this big emotional scene where his stepsister cries over him and he’s forgiven despite how beyond awful he’d been to her in every scene they shared….. yeah. not great. and i say this as someone who enjoyed his character in the previous season! i thought he was a dick, and he sucked, but he was interesting. alas any potential for an actual character arc of some sort was just. completely thrown to the side for a predictable and boring trope

i'm SCREAMINGGGGGG you weren't kidding that is the WORST iteration of that trope i am shocked

thank you so much for sharing i literally was on the edge of my seat reading this you're a fantastic story teller

[woolieshubris]

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[nyancrimew]

he's back at it, yet another serious death threat has hit car hammer explosion man

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

in case you were wondering how things went down at the pokemon world championships this weekend:

-during the top 8 of the TCG masters division, chilean player fernando cifuentes was running a gimmick deck that consisted exclusively of four iron thorns ex and a whole ton of control-focused trainer cards in a strategy that either completely shuts down opponents or shits the bed entirely

-through skillful play and some good luck, fernando made it through 2 days in a tournament with over 1100 players to get to the quarterfinals

-fernando lost 2-0 to ian robb, who was running regidrago vstar (widely considered one of the best decks in the current format)

-in an overexuberant victory celebration, ian did what can only be described as a jacking-off gesture, on a stream with tens of thousands of viewers run by a company with very firm player conduct expectations

-the judges determined that this warranted a penalty of game loss, but for some reason, rather than applying it to ian’s next game in the semifinals, they applied it to the one he had just won in the top 8

-(it should be noted that the prize money for making top 8 is $15k while top 4 is $20k, so this jerking gesture cost ian robb $5,000)

-nearly an hour after fernando came to terms with his loss and the end of an impressive run, he was told that he was to get back on stream because he’s now playing in the semifinals due to winning by default

-the player he was up against in the semifinals was playing a deck (miraidon) that happens to get shut down hard by iron thorns’s gimmick, so fernando wins the semifinals

-said player, jesse parker, had notably had an undefeated run throughout the whole tournament up to this point, and likely would have continued that streak had his intended semifinal opponent not gotten a game loss penalty for miming a lewd act on stream

-meanwhile, the other semifinal winner is japan’s seinosuke shiokawa, running a deck (roaring moon) that players had largely written off as underwhelming months ago

-the grand finals are on the following day, so saturday evening was abuzz with a lot of people baffled by the absurdity of the situation

-come sunday afternoon, the grand finals are set to begin, with fernando cifuentes running iron thorns and seinosuke shiokawa running roaring moon

-it should be noted here that the roaring moon deck doesn’t rely very much on abilities, so iron thorns’s gimmick has very little effect - this is basically an even matchup

-fernando wins the first game of the set, and seinosuke wins the second

-the third and final game of the set is a bonafide cheek-clencher, with both players reaching a state where a single KO will win the game, but fernando manages to clinch it at the last minute

-and that’s the story of how a guy pretending to jork it led to the first instance of a pokemon world champion who also lost the quarterfinals

[loverboybrightsideghost]

i'm a big fan of tv shows where they do an episode from the POV of a side character and they're living in a completely different genre than the main character

[junglejim4322]

The thing that is interesting is if you have any semblance of personality you will definitely encounter people who viscerally hate you and obsess over you for years and you will not even remember their name

[haroldhighballjordan]

sometimes I randomly think about the time a girl posted in this girls only Facebook group I’m in telling everyone how she broke up with her boyfriend and he lied saying that he lost the spare key she gave him, only to then break into her apartment when she wasn’t home and steal the cat they’d adopted while they were together, but then he denied having done this and she didn’t really have proof that he took the cat since he wouldn’t let her come into his place and look for it. And then another girl saw this post and knew her ex-boyfriend, and she was like “girl. I used to hook up with your mans back in xxxx and I still have his number. If you want, I’ll hit him up and get him to invite me back to his place and see if your cat’s there.” And the OP was like “bet.”

So this woman hit up homie dog, asked him out for drinks, went home with him, slept with him, and then woke up in the middle of the night and TOOK THE CAT. Like she had only said that she would confirm if the cat was there but then she took it upon herself to steal this woman’s cat back. Like she full on Trojan horsed this man and then hit up homegirl like “I got the goods. Where you wanna meet.” And then the two of them posted a photo of them together with the cat to the group.

And I just think women supporting women is so beautiful.