#the scattered and the dead

[kwadlayns]

Good detectives do what they need to in order to solve a case. 💀🔎✨

[mirellapryce]

Today's stupid thought - Charles showing his parents to Edwin and Crystal, then pointing out an urn on the mantelpiece and just saying, "That's me :D"

[mountainsoftreatos]

My headcannon is that part of the Infamous Puppy Debacle was that the puppy, playing by itself while the boys were out, accidently crashed into their office mirror, causing it to tip over and shatter. When they managed to get back - using a different mirror across the street - they found the puppy trembling under the desk surrounded by the shards.

Edwin insisted their new mirror be securely attached to the wall, and THAT is the reason why he has to stand across the room while Charles is looking for the book he wants in The Case of the Dandelion Shrine.

[sillylittlerebelsblog]

I call people “darling” or “my love” the way a sunflower leans to the sun naturally, like an instinct. Something in me recognizes something in you and it just feels right. It slips out like a giggle or a breeze, and no, it’s not an act. I’m not putting on airs, I just happen to believe that kindness should be casual, and affection, freely given. I’m not pretending to be some charming southern fairy sipping sweet tea on a porch swing. I just really believe people deserve to be called lovely things. And in that moment, you were my darling. So why wouldn’t I say so?

[sthilarions]

Not sure what this means, I’m just handing it out here for y’all to do with as you see fit

Much has been made, of course, of Charles and Edwin’s red/blue symbolism. Fandom does love a red/blue dynamic, after all.

But the thing is, blue and red symbolize something else, in the show - much more explicitly and with more emphasis, in fact: Heaven and Hell.

Charles and Edwin are the colors of each other’s afterlives.

It’s made pretty explicit, in Edwin’s case, in fact. Edwin is theoretically the blue one, but visually, he’s actually generally gray. The one time he is fully visually blue is in the attic when he’s being lit up by the blue light of Death coming for Charles - he is literally blue because he is the the color of Charles’s afterlife.

If it were just that, it would be pretty clear what’s being indicated, symbolically, here: Edwin is Charles’s Heaven (and psychopomp). Charles turns away from blue-Death-celestial-Heaven towards blue-Edwin-Earthly-Heaven.

But it’s also very true that Charles is strongly associated with red, and red is clearly marked as the color of being taken to Hell, and I’m not sure what that means, to be honest.

All I know is that Charles is Edwin’s fated afterlife and Edwin is Charles’s and that’s a lot.

[fisheito]

what sort of twisted powerplay is this

[heyaritou]

[fictionadventurer]

I guess it took seeing an entire season for me to really get The Chosen, because now that I've seen all of season 1, I'm impressed. I've got issues with the (slow) pacing of individual episodes or about certain character or plot choices, but on a structural level, it's so well-done.

The season starts and ends with episodes focused on a woman who has suffered for years in a life of sin, is rejected by all good society, and is saved when Jesus sees her and calls her to a new life. With Mary Magdalene, He keeps his work secret, and doesn't even tell her His name. With the woman at the well, He tells her straight-out that He's the Messiah, and He wants her to spread the message.

The main season-long character arcs center on two people who are living comfortable lives in authority positions, who are baffled when they see Jesus' miracles, obsessively search for the truth, and are eventually called by Jesus to follow Him. Matthew's story shows how Jesus conflicts with Roman authority, while Nicodemus' shows how He conflicts with Jewish authority. In the end, Matthew instantly leaves His life and follows Jesus without hesitation, while Nicodemus is the one who rejects the call and stays in his comfortable life.

It's there, it's good storytelling, I love it.

[starbuck]

“No, I don’t want news… There’s no news about this song.”

— John Darnielle while attempting to google the lyrics to “Store” on an audience member’s phone

[rizuuspoetry]

You said sorry as if the word mattered more than this bond between us,

as if sorry will not only erase your mistakes but as well as my feelings for you,

as if all this mess , pain , hurt and ache will be erased just from a word 'sorry'' by you.

Because it can. Because I loved you enough that it can.

But why is that, because it can, is causing me so much distress,

Is it because that is the only thing that can be given by you?

Is it because that is the only thing you're capable of offering but not love?

That my ''i love you'' will never meet their ''i love you too'' back?

That my efforts will go but never to be reciprocated back?

That I'll always reach out to you first but never to meet you halfway?

That all I can do is shout at the top of my lungs,

and expose to the world of how far my love goes for you

but only to be met by silence at your end?

Is that it? The fate of my love?

Destined to be a lover girl but never to be loved back?

To be left on her own and to suffer till the end?

So this is how every unrequited love ends,

It never ends to be exact but maybe now I know ,

that the remains of our love, the ashes left by the fire,

never leave their places, just the wind carries it next to them,

so that even though I'll not exist for them anymore,

but I'll will watch over them until their last breath.

Because what is love, if it is not selfless till the very end?

-Rz

[vespula-acadica]

I so badly want to study the genetics of tlt universe

[whoa-axel-chill]

For anybody wondering why the dps shitty romcom plot summary is taking so long, THIS is how I am planning it:

(This post is meant to serve both as a sneak peek since it's taking so long and as an excuse for why it's taking so long)

[isuggestwishcraft]

Thinking again about the game and its end fight and do you guys think bigfrin could be classified as a black hole or as a supernova

[stevetwisp]

ZEE AND JINGLEBELL IN THE YEAR 2024

[sthilarions]

Asexual Charles Rowland who died a virgin (because he went to an all-boys school, of course that’s the reason - so what if most of his friends got up to things in town or on breaks). He liked looking at fit people, still does, and he liked kissing, but he just never happened to get around to doing anything else. Not for lack of wanting to, of course - of course! Just… never happened.

After his death he did try a few things but it just felt… wrong. Felt sort of like nothing and sort of, if he’s really, really honest with himself, like he remembers nausea feeling. He puts it down to ghost limitations. He can’t feel touch right, probably can’t feel anything like that right.

And then he’s with Edwin. And he can touch Edwin. He can feel Edwin. And every second his skin is against Edwin’s, it sings. So surely it must work, now?

It doesn’t.

Edwin’s hand creeps up his thigh, and it feels the same as it did on his hand (wonderful - but not special, not different, and he knows it’s supposed to feel different somehow). Maybe he just needs to go further? But as he’s moving against Edwin, and feeling sort of like nothing and sort of like everything (skin against skin still sings) and sort of like nausea, he thinks, ah. I guess it still doesn’t work, even ghost to ghost, even with someone I can feel. I guess ghosts just can’t do that.

Until he looks into Edwin’s eyes. And he realizes Edwin isn’t feeling nothing and isn’t feeling nausea. Edwin’s eyes are pupil-full, black and shining, looking up at him with feverish heat and naked pleasure.

Things Charles doesn’t feel.

Can’t feel.

And he’s run out of excuses for why.

[2-faded-memory-2]

i may be 3 days into my pathologic run but by god i can still draw fanart