#theme: reunion

[hp-fanfic-archive]

the horoscope by lirians Pairing: James/Lily Rating: T Word Count: 14k James stops momentarily to give way to a bunch of rambunctious teenagers on the pavement before he regains his step. Lily has come to a halt a bit further, waiting on him. “Horoscopes?” he asks as they move onwards. He’s relieved that any awkwardness between them is apparently gone. “How so?” “Marly sent me mine this week because it said I would meet someone from the past again,” she explains. “I’m still not sold on the idea of it, but isn’t this weird?”

[bingqiv]

it’s just the way that the doctor still tragically loves the master despite everything.

the master has destroyed their planet and violated their people in the worst way possible and yet they’re still intrinsically entwined for eternity.

the master is who he thinks about when there’s a chance he may die and the master is who he thinks about when he survives.

missy said “my heart is maintained by the doctor” and i do think that’s mutual. the doctor’s hearts are maintained by the master, they always have been and always will be.

[hitwiththetmnt]

lil campfire helpers!

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

Cabin #7 (7 Wonders of the Turtleverse)

[jymic]

Last time together

[narwhalandchill]

oh my fucking god i feel. SO stupid rn at How i didnt make the (super sane very normal just absolutely. Yes. Surely) connection earlier but uhh

so anyway im now like 89% certain that whatever the "traces" of the narwhal that remain on ajax and facilitate their (ever-growing) innate connection are like. an actually fundamental aspect of it (them?) more or less.

why? because if you consider its pov just for a moment. the narwhal was literally about to depart teyvat for good. it had nearly finished consuming the primordial sea and preparing to breach surface to finish the job by eating the french for the leftovers their human bodies were made from. its an interstellar voyager it does not linger on planets it devours. it goes glug glug and it leaves.

and like if it wasnt for traveler intervening its confirmed through narzissenkreuz and renes world formula that teyvat wouldve just been destroyed. no one could have stopped the narwhal not neuvillette not focalors not anyone.

so what was the one other thing it did right before going for that french brunch? calling for ajax. getting them reunited in the primordial sea. like all the possible implications aside bc theres many different ways to speculate on the exact reasons why and the nature of that link. the point remains.

it wasnt leaving teyvat without finding him.

like the narwhal is about to fucking Dip from this cringe planet and whatever part of it that ajax carries within himself his narwhal Absolutely wanted to be reunited with. what the fuck am i supposed to read from that. hoyo???????!??! answers?!?!?!

and its not only the calling from the narwhal side itself either bc this is ALL coinciding with the growth of a 'restless power' within ajax and his vision malfunctioning (the things celestia is literally confirmed to harvest energy thru to repair its damaged authority) and his connection with the narwhal reaching an actual conscious level (arguably subconscious n emotional too bc i find it Curious his mood is poor right as the narwhal is repeatedly described as positively malding to the point its boss fight mechanic is literally a rage meter). ajax' power is growing. his destiny is starting to shift and something is drawing him to fontaine... right as the narwhal is getting close to finished with the primordial sea. funny how it overlaps eh. how it aligns 🤨🤨 why are they orbiting each other like this (they should kiss)

(& not to even Mention how ajax just Happened to get that absolutely exponential and borderline unbelievable feat of power spike in extending his foul legacy endurance as massively as he did. while. within the primordial sea. with his narwhal. who had at that point all but incorporated the power of that sea into itself. i s2g if childe was getting passive home turf co-op bonus exp with a 4x multiplier automatically the whole 40+ days 💀💀)

[naneki-maid]

im so obsessed with The Apothecary Diaries rn for so many reasons, but my favorite plot development so far is how they managed to place so much mystery and dread behind who Rakan was, including his dubious reasons behind his interest in Mao Mao. similar to Mao Mao it sent chills down my spine every time his name was even mentioned, so it’s insane how he went from THAT to later being like one of my favorite/most sympathetic characters?? he was a terrifying villain now im sobbing over the mistakes he made, the happy life that he and Fonshen were robbed of. the writing is insane! it never ceases to amaze me. i haven’t taken an interest in manga in so long, but I’m so happy I chose this one to start up with again.

[livelaughlovecassie]

Blades 2 was good actually

[moongothic]

You know we all meme about how Luffy doesn't give a shit about his parents/Dragon, how he seemingly has no interest in learning about the man or meeting him at all, and like yeah that is a Luffyism

And for a long time I figured Baby Luffy would be the same too; that Luffy in his naïvete just accepted he must've spawned from the ocean itself into Garp's care or something, not realizing he should in fact have parents, thus Luffy's seeming disinterest in them

But you know what

Luffy did spend most of his early childhood alone

Sure, he had Garp, but it seems like Garp wasn't always there to look after him every day, he had his duties as a Marine too. Had Garp been there 24/7 all year then Garp would never have allowed Luffy to interact with Shanks (a filthy pirate) to begin with. So yes, Luffy had his grandpa, but not all the time. And sure, Luffy also had Shanks, but Shanks didn't spend all his time in Fuusha Village either, he came and went whenever he pleased too until his final departure when Luffy was just six years old. And yes, there was everyone else in the village too, people who cared about Luffy and were helping look after him. But Luffy's early childhood was one without a stable family.

It wasn't until Garp yeeted the child into Dadan's care that Luffy actually gained a proper family, where after months and months of trying Luffy managed to win Ace's trust and gained Sabo as a brother too. But as we know, by that point Luffy already hated being alone

All of this to say; Luffy growing up essentially orphaned would explain why he's so afraid to be alone, the way he clings onto people

In some ways Luffy's POV is meant to be the reader's POV, to some degree Luffy's feelings and thoughts are meant to be how we the readers feel and think about whaveter is happening in the story. Not a 100% by any means, but somewhat at the very least.

Perhaps Luffy's lack of interest in Dragon isn't just "Luffy not giving a damn about blood family because chosen families are better" nor "Luffy is too stupid to understand where babies come from". Perhaps Luffy, who may have assumed he didn't have parents at all (as in "might've assumed they were dead or had intentionally abandoned him"), doesn't know what to think about the fact that he does have a father out there, one whom he has never as much as met. Because yeah, Luffy doesn't know why Dragon left him with Garp, why he never got to be with his dad. Should he be angry at Dragon, hate him for being left alone? Or did Dragon have a good reason for it, does Dragon wish things could've been different?

Perhaps Luffy's seeming disinterest in Dragon isn't because he doesn't care about blood family, but because much like us the readers, Luffy doesn't quite know what to make of Dragon, and figuring those feelings out hasn't been relevant to the plot yet.

[midnightnautilus]

Hey can we talk about the end of those UA memorial videos cause I HAVE QUESTIONS

[hairstevington]

Tagged by bestie @withacapitalp 🥰🥰

[youareunbearable]

I made a spotify playlist for one of my fav Silm fics of all time "A Thread Unraveled" by ScribeofArda on Ao3 or @theheirofashandfire here on tumblr

Summary of fic: "Maedhros wakes up again, on the first morning of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. Of course, nobody calls it that. For them, it hasn't happened yet."

The paylist follows the general vibe of the narrative: Maedhros' realization of the cycles, his struggles, his saving grace, and his determination to succeed in battle with his loved ones alive no matter how many times he has to get back up and try again. The songs genre is mostly: indie, folk, with some musical numbers thrown in because honestly, its not one of my playlists without a musical song or two

This is a brilliant fic so if you havent read it already i would reccomend! It's also an ongoing series and I've probably read the entire thing over a dozen times, its really become one of my favourite comfort fics/series of all time.

[sarcastic-bug]

yayyy, finally finished this :DDD (sorry I am late lol), the ultimate christmas set for tumblr mutuals and people I admire <333

-Nebula knight and Vega belongs to @miniiieevee

-Oneiro belongs to @pumpkinnkidd

-Castella belongs to @itsquakey

-Gibbous belongs to @blueberryfruitbat

-Pepino and Plum belongs to @pudin-jpeg

-Strike knight belongs to @kirbypurrs

-Valentine belongs to @das-a-kirby-blog

-Aster belongs to @deefighter2739

-Comet knight belongs to @kittenvirus

WOO got this, I know I am late, this is also for new year, sincemaybe I won't post a special for it. I wanted to thank to all of you because of this wonderful year (didn't draw my ocs since this year was already a gift lol <33), maybe didn't add the whole people I wanted, but everyone is so special for me, again tysm for this year (maybe not going to be active the next, but will try my best), hope you had a nic holidays, and also a happy new year (I repeat myself a lot sorry :]])

[kc5rings]

I hope in the event, Skadi gets to have it out a bit with Ulpianus, she deserves that I think

[violetspark14]

guess who got really ill and is drawing final fantasy about it (me)

[bthump]

HEY SO FIRST OF ALL I ADORE YOUR BLOG THX FOR EXISTING!!<3

second, do you think Miura fully ommiting Griffith getting tortured visually was intentional? I mean, Berserk never shys away from grotesque subjects (SA, explicit murder and much much more).

We did get Griffith's mindset, and how Guts was the one who was keeping his sanity through all this.

But we never got like,, Griffith crying, screaming, or anything really while he was getting tortured. It's like, they ommited the torture Griff went through, and I wonder why?

Because I mean, it's not that im a wierd sadist who wants to see that, it's more like, a lot of the berserk fandom ignores and neglects the pain Griff went through when he was tortured for over a year if i am correct?

And I wonder if it's because we didn't get a chance to see his pain through it and more of the aftermath.

I don't fully know where i'm going with this, but i wonder why explicit facial and physical reactions while Griff was tortured was kept away.

Could it be to shook us when we see his current state? or was it for another reason? I'm curious!

Thank you very much!

Honestly lol I think the Griffith-hating fandom would downplay it no matter what, there's no salvaging that side of fandom.

My instinctive answer for why Miura only really showed the aftermath of the torture is for the torture chamber reveal that it was worse than Guts ever anticipated. He, and a lot of the other Hawks, have this attitude that he expects to rescue Griffith and then everything will go back to normal for everyone, and they can all just pick up where they left off. I think there's a certain effective atmosphere created by showing Guts' optimistic denial while the reader is left to stew in ominous awareness that it's probably worse than Guts thinks (since we know about Femto already) without fully knowing how much worse.

And then yeah when they do see him and we can see that Griffith is beyond recovery, it is an effective, disturbing reveal imo that wouldn't have had the same impact if we'd already seen the state Griffith was in.

There's also the fact that in theory your imagination is worse than anything that can be shown to you - something a lot of horror relies on. Actually seeing Griffith screaming while being tortured eg would be a release of tension, like oh okay it's bad, but at least we know how bad now. Without seeing it we can imagine a lot worse than Miura would have narrative space to show, both in terms of torture and Griffith's emotional reaction. For those of us who care about Griffith at least, which is the intended audience of the story lol.

Thanks for the ask!

[tricksterlatte]

As a former cast member of the Disney World college program from hell (spring 2022 anniversary season at their largest store in the world), Steamboat Willie slasher horror is not cathartic with the new public domain, at least not to me. You wanna know what is? Trans lesbian phantom thieves Mickey/Minnie in which they get to say swear words and take down evil overlord Rob Paycheck