#there is SO much potential here

[troublebastard]

I've been thinking about Ghost

I've been thinking about Ghost surviving the betrayal and fire

Ghost surviving with extensive scarring

Ghost in compression garments for burn victims

now he has medical reasoning for covering up, with facial scarring the mask also becomes more than just anonymity with flair

are you guys catching my drift?

pls tell me your catching my drift. there is so much angst potential if your think about it

[spectrum-color]

Sorry for so many Chivalry options; there is so much potential there!

[somebluemelodies]

between the mystery twins bomb drop and whatever the hell is supposed to happen at and after the federation event, here’s to hoping we get at least one category 5 spiderbit moment

[tunemyart]

okay so i'm already past the juiciest kalicia parts of tgw and aside from my being really sad that the potential for their reconciliation (which it seems they wanted to arc out!) went thumbs down emoji, I'm so inevitably ahhhhhhhh about the roots and manifestation of kalicia at all! bc so much of both is down to kalinda's character - her mystery, her careful reservation and restraint in both her words and her bearing, her halting, repeated protests that she doesn't really have friends... with the implication, in saying this to alicia in various contexts, that alicia is an exception, and a big one at that.

how unfathomably huge an exception isn't more than hinted at in the subtext (which is there, sure! BUT) until that jawdropper of the way blake lays out what he's put together: how off the wall defensive and terrified kalinda becomes every time alicia or kalinda's friendship with her is threatened, and how that tell has led him to kalinda's buried past and how it was buried. and let me tell you i screamed when in the next episode's recap, which picked up at the precise moment of that very revelation, the line changed slightly - but dramatically!! - to be even more emphatic: "alicia. it's about alicia. that's what you care about more than anything."

uhhhhh??????

I don't know I don't know I don't know!!! but it was sure something to watch her spiral out of control while trying so, so desperately to keep a lid on it over the next few eps in a way that to this point, and without this layer exposed, might have actually seemed antithetical to her character... but it's not. why? bc it's alicia. it's what kalinda cares about. more than anything.

idk I'm just so feral about kalinda in this stretch of time, telling on herself in so many ways, none of which she would previously have allowed herself. shaken after the confrontation with blake, her first call is to alicia - just to hear her voice. she goes and talks to peter florrick, who correctly surmises that alicia learning the truth would destroy her - but only from the perspective of his own marriage to her. but you can see so clearly on kalinda's face and the things she's almost audibly restraining herself from saying - she knows it's going to be less about peter, and more about kalinda. and she's right. she hooks up with amanda rollins sophia russo, who if I'm not mistaken is kalinda's first onscreen woman lover, in what is 100% a reaction to the fallout with alicia, and - by kalinda's standards - loses her shit when she finds out that sophia's gotten married since she last saw her, that kalinda is, once again, albeit in a very different way, the person with whom a spouse is cheating.

but that's also the thing that I'm ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh about - bc kalinda has made exceptions for alicia. in friendship, of course - but holy shit, it's beyond obvious that kalinda loves her. and kalinda is very determinedly someone who does not do relationships, who doesn't want to let someone, anyone, close bc she's terrified of both being hurt and hurting them. so sex is practical. sex is fun. sex is no strings. anything else doesn't make sense to her. she and will have that conversation about how they're not normal, and will talks about being in the middle of an emotion and realizing he's not feeling anything, he's just acting. and as with so many other kalinda scenes, she says very little, but her scene partner manages to say so much about her, if only via holding up a (funhouse) mirror to her in their words, one that she acknowledges.

and so in light of all this, the idea of a kalinda/alicia relationship? in just what ways would alicia continue to be kalinda's exception? the thing that kalinda cares about - more than anything?

[writereleaserepeat]

Whumpees in captivity and their facial hair.

Feeling the rough stubble on their usually smooth face. Hating the strange sensation at first, but soon realizing it's the only way to tell how long they've been imprisoned.

Begging Whumper to let them shave. Whumper agrees, but Whumper is the one who holds the razor. They leave bloodied wounds across Whumpee's chin and neck.

Alternatively: Whumpee has always carefully tended to their facial hair, it's a point of pride for them. Whumper restrains them and shaves them down to bare skin.

Whumper mocking Whumpee's unkempt appearance. Whumpee crying as soon as they're alone, because those features have always been some of their greatest insecurities.

Caretaker can't even recognize Whumpee at first, because their beard and shaggy hair have transformed their entire appearance.

[aetherictree]

Reading Raising Steam, and I'm mildly disappointed that Sir Ptrerry, like so, so many fantasy authors, skipped straight from the medieval period to the industrial revolution with nothing inbetween.

Ankh Morpork and Sto Lat are on a plain, no? A plain is flat land. Flat land is ideal for digging a canal. There should have already been waterborne trade between them. And canalboats are far less odius to the neighbours than trains.

We need more authors to take a standard fantasy setting and sprinkle in a few, pre 1800 developments. Canals, potatoes, power looms...

[kaahmbem]

legend has it that the young witch circe and the once beautiful nymph scylla shared a complicated past...

[lotus-pear]

mourning black and the death of ideals

[bigchumpus]

They bring me so much joy ┌(˵༎ຶ ل͟ ༎ຶ˵)┐

[sophsun1]

9-1-1 – 8.06: Confessions

[leafwateraddict]

Couldn’t stop thinking about Dust being able to pass as Classic. So I had an idea where Dust replaces Classic in a timeline and steals(?) his partner.

He gets conflicted when he starts actually caring about you… But denial is an easy road to take when there’s seemingly no consequences to your actions.

The reveal i guess. Most normal reaction to learning your partners been replaced for god knows how long and you have no clue where he is.

Now that I think about it I might’ve gotten some inspiration from that one chapter of IJAG by @htsan (iykyk) only a lil bit tho

(Full rambling of the idea + extra sketch cuz i liked the expression) ↓↓

I originally wanted y/n to notice the differences instantly but i think it would be angstier if they didn’t and only noticed like months later >:3

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

mother can we keep him

[bohacowa]

Wing!AU where Sakura dyes his feathers

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Remember: The burning sensation is part of the process.

[suspensefulpen]

Darling is such a powerful word to me

Imo you use that word for someone you are truly, deeply in love with. This person is your world, your everything, you can’t live without them.

On the other hand, you use that word for someone you’re extremely possessive of. You call someone that and they’re yours for all of eternity, whether they like it or not. No one else can have them because they’re yours if they know or not is completely irrelevant.

Now, imagine Whumpee being called that by both Caretaker and Whumper…

[beetlethebug]

consider,,,a lucanis who is in love with emmrich, a spite who is in love with rook, a rook in love with emmrich, and emmrich who is in love with all three but wants lucanis, spite, and rook to get together because he feels he is not the type of man any of them deserve...

bonus points for spite being the one to realize just what sort of love quadrilateral is going on and is the one to get them all together.