#there has to be at least doubled

[nick-close]

Also I’m not complaining but guys you have done so many song intros are you okay. You can do another easy one guys it’s fine. Freddie this feels like a lot of work-

[goodfellowe]

how we feeling baers

[clemnoir]

she’s reading a chat noir x reader

[afterthelambs]

Ushijima-Oikawa parallels with Kageyama-Hinata

To me, Ushijima and Oikawa are like a tragic parallel to Hinata and Kageyama. If Oikawa had gone to Shiratorizawa then he and Ushijima could've had the partnership that Kagehina had. But because he didn't, they will never know what it's like to make the other feel invincible.

Shipping goggles aside, the parallels have to be intentional (haikyuu is too well-written for it to be just a coincidence): Both Ushijima and Kageyama were framed as naturally gifted volleyball monsters. Meanwhile Oikawa and Hinata believed that they were just average (even though the people around them know that they have their own strengths). Ushijima was the one who kept winning against Oikawa, just like how Kageyama was always ahead of Hinata. Both Hinata and Oikawa went abroad to gain experience so they could finally beat their rival. Ushijima and Kageyama are both awkward, intimidating, and ASD-coded while Hinata and Oikawa are framed as easy-going extroverted chatterboxes. These pairs are literally so similar it's crazy. Look at them and tell me it's not intentional

It also makes sense when you consider that their playstyles are also complementary. Kageyama and Hinata were a good match for each other because Hinata needed Kageyama's precision and Kageyama needed someone agile to match his own speed. But Ushijima's only requirement is for the ball to be set high and the right distance from the net so it's easy to hit. And which setter is known for dedicating themselves to their spikers, giving them easy sets? Oikawa. They truly could've been a terrifying duo.

I think Furudate was trying to show what Kageyama and Hinata could've been if they didn't team up. They'd still be strong, sure, but not invincible like they were in Karasuno. (as opposed to the Miya twins, who were supposed to show what they could've been like if they had an equal from the very beginning)

But in the end it all worked out for everyone! They all got to play on the world stage together. Ushijima and Oikawa even had their reconciliation at the all stars match (still waiting on the Oikawa-Kageyama reconciliation please please please 👀). They're all happy so I suppose it isn't actually tragic. I just cant help but wonder what could have been if Ushijima and Oikawa learned what it's like to be each other's greatest ally. Hinata and Kageyama were so lucky to have found each other after all.

[onadarklingplain]

🔀 & DALEX

i started writing this AGES ago, and at the time, i shuffled by discovery weekly and i got fucking married - harriette

Daniel was absolutely not sulking, and if he was feeling off-kilter, it was absolutely not because the sight of George and Max having their first dance made it feel like someone was closing a fist around his heart, wringing all the blood out. It was dumb because he wasn’t even that cut up about the break-up anymore. It was more — it always sucked being the single guy at a wedding, the loner sitting at an empty table surrounded by sad, half-eaten plates of dry cake.

There was a certain pleasure in wallowing, in completing the part he was surely invited to fill — the poor ex-boyfriend, pining for the one who got away, the groom looking all the better for comparison. He was leaning into it, he knew, the vicious, bitter thrill of it, and he almost felt annoyed when someone sat down next to him. He didn’t need company, didn’t need entertainment. He had that in spades just watching the way Max’s face scrunched up in happiness when George twirled him around the dance floor. Like, he hadn’t even wanted to marry George, but could’ve been him getting fucking twirled.

“How do you know the happy couple?” the guy asked, interrupting Daniel’s thought spiral. “No wait, let me guess. You’re the weird cousin.”

Daniel laughed, smiled his most charming smile, and stuck out a hand. “You’re sitting next to the ex, I’m afraid. I’ll understand if you want to find a table higher up on the social stratosphere. I probably only got an invite because the weird cousin cancelled last minute.”

Amazingly, the guy actually looked relieved. “Oh thank god. I’m an ex too. I don’t even know why I bloody came, to be honest.”

“For me, the open bar,” Daniel said, even though it wasn’t the truth.

“It helps,” the guy agreed. “I’m Alex.”

“Daniel,” he replied. “I haven’t heard of you, so I’m guessing you’re—"

“Please don’t make me recount my whole relationship history,” Alex said. “It’s been every conversation I’ve had today, I swear, and everyone ends up looking at me like I’m the problem, for fucking it up. Like maybe Max is the psycho, has anyone thought of that?” Once Alex started complaining, it was like he couldn’t stop, voice getting louder until he abruptly cut himself off. “Sorry. I’ll shut it and let you drink in peace.”

“No, please,” Daniel said. While Alex whinged, he had started to lean in without even realising, and now he was resting all his weight on his elbows, giving Alex new consideration. “This is the first promising conversation I’ve had all day. All anyone wants to talk about is how sweet they are together. Like, I get it, you thought I was street trash, no need to rub it in.”

“And they’ve only been together for what, six months? Insane. Like, we were literally dating for longer than that, and let me tell you, we were absolutely not ready to get fucking married.”

“But when you’re in love,” Daniel said, fluttering his eyelashes, but he could only keep up the facade for so long before he cracked and started to laugh again.

“So how long do you give them?” Alex asks, a wicked glint in his eye. “Be honest, I won’t tell.”

“Well,” Daniel says, pretending like he was thinking about it for the first time. “If Max can stand to live with George, he’s a stronger man than me. The guy is like — obsessive. I swear half our fights were about the fucking laundry. And he hated all of my friends. He never wanted to come out.”

“Max is a slob,” Alex said bluntly, but he didn’t look upset. On the contrary, he looked a little delighted. “Our living room was a shrine to every online purchase he ever made. I’m talking critical levels of cardboard. He literally never did the recycling. And he was just married to his video games.”

“George hated screen time,” Daniel said gleefully. “He was always trying to make me go on walks or play tennis or whatever.” It was probably bad that they were so happy about the sure demise of a relationship, but he wasn’t about to examine the feeling. Instead, he finished the rest of his free cosmo, letting the vodka drown out any pangs of guilt.

“Perfect,” Alex concluded. “They’re going to tear each other apart.”

“You know what would really piss them off?” Daniel said, the alcohol and camaraderie making him brave. It’s just, it was nice, the way Alex was looking at him, laughing at his little jokes — it was hard not to let a little fondness work his way into his belly.

“If we hooked up,” Alex said, finishing Daniel’s thought and nodding like it was already decided. “Just imagine the brunch dates we could drag them out on, and they wouldn’t be able to say no.”

“You’re diabolical,” Daniel said. “I wasn’t even thinking about brunch.”

“We could watch them fall apart in real-time, one Sunday pancake date at a time,” Alex said, the wicked grin back on his face. “And then we’d know for sure that we weren’t the fucking problem.”

Daniel was sold already, but when Alex raised an eyebrow and jerked his head toward the door, one hand curled around a bottle of table wine, it became impossible for Daniel to imagine saying no.

It turned out Alex was tall, and when they stood up, when he pressed Daniel up against the brick wall in the garden, music and light spilling out of the open doors of the hall into the still, dark night, it felt like he was looming over him. It was hot, honestly, the way Alex leaned against the wall with one hand, bracketing Daniel in, while he let the wine bottle dangle carelessly from the other. It made Daniel think about someone catching them like that, seeing them together, about the news making it back to George and Max, and before Alex even kissed him, there was a satisfaction simmering low in his stomach.

[sesamenom]

interesting how in the FA "beyond lay the wilderness of Dungortheb, where the sorcery of Sauron and the power of Melian came together, and horror and madness walked", then in the TA the Fangorn-Lorien-Mirkwood triangle of Weird Sorcery Forests exists between the domains of saruman, galadriel, necromancer-sauron, and radagast

[dekarios]

i’m looking at steam reviews for the new planet coaster and reading comments on them and the amount of people saying things near identical to this are insane

since when is a 1.0 full release expected to have bugs and issues ?? since when do we accept this ?? a full release is meant to have zero bugs and issues, actually. it’s not a beta, it’s not early access, it should be Finished, polished, cleaned up of all that stuff, ready to receive updates with new content if the devs choose. i’m just gobsmacked that decades of games being busted on launch has just led us to people finding it so normal it’s expected.

you shouldn’t expect games to be fully functional…. you should expect to buy them at full price and then wait weeks or more for the problems to be ironed out…. apparently. according to these people

what happened to demanding better man. what the fuck happened. why y’all complacent now

[fatedroses]

Jullus???

[lifeisstrange-incorrectquotes]

Amanda: I've always thought "happiness" starts with an "h," so why does mine start with "u"?

Max:

Max: I think you're dyslexic.

[raticalshoez]

i'm having hyperfixation drought so i did what i did best and created a crossover episode

[gayemoji]

did house just sincerely refer to wilson as being queer or am i brainrotted to the sun and back

[gingerswagfreckles]

The number of people who claim to not read the news because it's "controlled by Zionists" when really it's because they're just lazy is astounding.

[rennyrose]

Hi!!! First of all, I love love love your art style!! It’s so squishy and fun, it makes me want to cryyyy!! Second, I need u to know that u are The Livio Artist to me. I see ur blog name, or any of ur art, and I go, oh, that’s The Livio Artist!

Hhhhhh damn ya’ll I’m glad you guys like the goofballs- I hate to sound like a broken record but it does catch my feels when folks say they enjoy them

[ahalliance]

how is ETOILES the most normal person out of the French currently HOW DID THAT HAPPEN

[oacest]

"i've waited for a thousand years... for you to come and FUCK ME--!" (x)

[aroaceleovaldez]

Jason, Reyna, and Nico have one billion in-jokes about Mediterranean history between the bronze age to the renaissance that they find absolutely hilarious and no one else understands in the slightest. i know this in my heart to be true.