#the irony was so delicious

[chaos0pikachu]

lol yuan was really like "yes I AM in love with qian but this ain't about him"

[umihoshi]

couldn't find my favorite scene of Lost Small World anywhere, so guess I'll have to do it myself!

"Yataaaa~~....."

[maegalkarven]

In light of Alicole reveal, let me just say that I will absolutely LOSE my mind (in the best possible way) if the reason Daeron was sent to Oldtown is because he has brown hair.

[sugarpasteltmnt]

PASTEL WHEN I CATCH YOU PASTEL-

DONT THINK YOU CAN JUST DROP A NEW CHAPTER AND PEACEFULLY GO SLEEP AFTERWARDS AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED

(though sleep is important I hope you slept well :))

where was I-

oh right

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

THE PARALLELS-

ok you put the brothers parts in the same order that Leo stole their masks in. Not only that, you put them in the same spots where they first encountered each other. This- th- ow. it's 4 I'm supposed to be awake in an hour don't do this to me.

Neon Void is now running around in my head again I hope you know. J- that chapter was amazing I don't think there are enough words in the English language to express how amazing this whole fanfic has been.

Now allow me to curl up in a dark corner and just. cry about what I just read.

TEEHEE TYSM

[therighthandofvengeance]

do you enter the dreaming, or does the dreaming enter you?

[keitheaverage]

Vexus in an episode of MLaaTR: One day, XJ9, you will join the Cluster Family!

Me, a Jenny/Vega truther:

[vaguely-concerned]

:) foreshadowing is a literary device —

[sporesgalaxy]

my dad took me to see the latest black panther. black panther has so many good characters i wish it wasnt burdened by the rest of the mcu LOL. anyways I thought it was pretty cool <- has been absolutely obsessed with prince Namor since i was 9 and talked to my dad about him nonstop after the movie for like an hour

[redheadedfailgirl]

Heaven help us, my hyperfixation on cooking and baking and doing things that go in mouths n make people go mmmmmm is back. Anyone dating me is going to think I have a feederism kink but I swear making tasty food for beautiful women just makes my brain go zoom

[jupiterjunebug]

I think they should do a promo spot of the bucks trying to have a vent sesh at hangman abt how horrible and unfair it is that kenny chose jericho over them and adam just looks them both in the eyes and pops the maximum amount of ibuprofen for his weight class and goes yall know i almost died, right?

[raayllum]

So I talked about this in relation to Soren forever ago in regards to what makes a good redemption (or restoration) arc, at least traditionally. One of the core factors was the person going through said redemption arc must have something to sacrifice. They can’t just switch or change their mind out of convenience. 

In Soren’s case, while he defects also to protect himself, there’s still a lot he’s personally and politically sacrificing. He loves his dad, but knows he can’t stay there any longer, and has to sacrifice that relationship. Even worse, he has to leave Claudia - which is a true sacrifice, as their relationship is still quite strong (and we see in S4 how much he’s missed her). Then there’s also the fact that Soren shows up to the dragang at the Storm Spire with “we’re doomed.” He brings information, he doesn’t think they’re going to win this, and he’s left behind family members he still cares about. 

Which is to say: just like I kinda thought Viren picking up his staff was almost like a relapse, I also think it’s crucial because of what the staff symbolizes. Power, and dark magic, yes - but also his path forward to live. 

We see plainly in S4 that Viren is in a weird spot with his mortality. On the one hand, there’s a part of him that wants to live but at the same time, there’s another part of him that doesn’t - at least, not enough to actively pursue it. There’s also the layer of trauma in which he was holding the staff when he died, on the cusp of seemingly accomplishing all his goals - goals he’s willing to discard in order to prioritize Claudia, even if that means only living for a month. 

The staff - dark magic, Aaravos - almost took him from his daughter permanently, but are now the only things that can restore him to her fully. Viren wants to live. Sacrificing that is what’s on the line. 

His life.

But it will ultimately mean nothing if the staff - dark magic, Aaravos - is what may take Claudia away from him. 

[iturbide]

I find the things where Robin IS Grima in some way (literally or reincarnated, etc) to be kind of funny because its like yeah, you succeeded in bringing your god back but you also made them their enemy XD

In all fairness, depending on how you view Grima's relationship with the Grimleal Cult in the game, this is true whether it's a possession scenario or a reincarnation one.

[girlspecimen]

i am so truly obsessed w the breed of new age hipster that just wears normal ass clothes in muted colors and takes random pictures of themselves w their buddies but its like with a sort of shitty camera and it gets posted with a brief esoteric caption. like i truly love how cool they think they are i wish i could live that way its so chuunibyou

[flamingthespian]

can you imagine harboring a hidden infatuation with your superior for years and then you’re at their death bed trying to muster up the courage to confess your romantic feelings and among their very last words they hit you with “you’ve always been like a son to me”

[shallowseeker]

re your carmen-silvia-amara post: i was talking to a mutual about carmen the other day and we were discussing where her name comes from. and i suggested the opera carmen and she suggested the model carmen electra. and now you suggested carmen 1983, which is very interesting!! that carmen has this pop culture track of being the hot and fun ideal woman. i don't think it's a coincidence they picked that name for her 👀

It's also a portmanteau of CAR-MEN. Two of the things Dean loves the most. 😏

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I kid, I kid. I love this, though @fivefeetfangirl. Lots of pop culture swirling around this unobtainable idea of the proper dream-girl, huh?

The model Carmen Electra (and, idk why but that makes me think of Elektra by extension):

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The opera CARMEN (1875)

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Carmen 1983 - (A dancers' troupe take on the opera; vibes like Baby & Swayze from Dirty Dancing but with their real lives taking on the ironic beats of the opera)

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There are so many takes looping back around to the Carmen opera. And another 1984 Carmen based more closely on the opera you mentioned, too, for what it's worth. :-)

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Interestingly, Sylvia Jones functions as a reverse of the opera Carmen. Connor is her Carmen, who she kills out of jealousy. (And narratively, the Dean-and-Cas unit, like I said in this ask, functions as a committed, non-idealized foil to the Dean-and-Carmen ideal!)

On the flipside, Dean functions as Chuck and Amara's Carmen. Chuck, according to Lilith, was psychosexually obsessed with Dean. And Amara, according to Chuck, "wanted Dean to care about her, but humans let you down every time."

In the end, the things Dean cares about are the things Chuck specifically wants to kill. Friends, family, romantic attachments, comrades, you name it! He only resurrects them if (a) Dean becomes too uninteresting without them or (b) it can lead to further torment.

In season 11, when Chuck wraps himself in Dean's dead-guy robe and overfocuses on Dean's skin-deep performances, we see that, in parallel to Amara, Chuck doesn't really know Dean at all.

(Compare to Mary and Jack, two others who get wrapped in the gray MoL robe, and who understand Dean a little too well. And of course, Dean wraps Cas in a similarly-styled gray blanket in season 11.)

To Chuck, Dean is just a symbol of psychosexual obsession. Dean is as ghostly and unreal to Chuck as the djinn-Carmen was to Dean!

ADDENDUM: Lily Sunder is Ishim's Carmen.

[thedragonagelesbian]

ive stumbled into breaking cyrus' oath a couple of times & wussed out of it bc knowing the full scope of the choice in question, it didn't feel in character (ie not telling arabella that her parents are dead-- after the game told me earlier that she wasn't ready to hear it yet), but now i've done it by using the special barbarian dialogue option when judging madeline (telling her she should've fought back & calling her a coward) and being complicit in he who was' bullshit and........ im kind of compelled by it tbh i think there is a tension between cyrus becoming less trusting & forgiving and his oath of devotion, and i love a narrative beat around penance (even if... the actual mechanical price of atonement really boils down to just some gold)