#there's always an incomprehensible fiasco along the way

[ithnkperhapsyouvegotthewrongshop]

#i mean#eventually they had a romantic evening together over some wine in low lighting#but it wouldn't be aziraphale and crowley if they hadn't gotten into some incomprehensible fiasco along the way#and that's why -- say it with me everyone --#we love these two idiots

@nieded you get it

fic writers: and after the Blitz scene they went to the bookshop together... and had some wine in low lighting... and danced to a slow romantic record...

the canon: and after the Blitz scene they prepared for a performance at the West End while being TAILED by NAZI ZOMBIES

[chrysalizzm]

!!SPOILERS FOR JANUARY 4TH FESTIVAL STREAM!!

disclaimer: i can’t talk about everything because i have final exams next week and really should be studying so i can’t exactly go back and watch all the vods; i watched the entire thing from ranboo’s perspective and his acting was immaculate good on him. everyone that i discuss in this ramble are, of course, their characters, and not the actual ccs.

holy shit holy SHIT i cannot THINK brain go brrrrrr

okay i need to split this up because i physically cannot disentangle the jumble my brain and emotions are in right now my mind is just a pile of scrambled eggs

predictions??? or well thoughts about tomorrow

one of the things i thought of right away was clingyduo losing their last canon lives together, though this is on shaky ground because i seriously doubt “season two” (for lack of a better word) of the dream smp would end so quickly after season one, and because tommy and tubbo are both such huge catalysts for events happening on the smp, this seems pretty unlikely (they’re both too important for them to end up as a casual death for the sake of moving the plot along, there are a lot of other characters who aren’t on their final canon lives or even some that are that might die if the writers really wanted that bit of oomf, though i don’t really think it’s necessary for any perma-deaths to occur tomorrow). that said, i think toward the end of the smp storyline, or at least once it’s hit a steady storyline or has been around for long enough, it might be really poetic for certain things to come to an end with clingyduo dying together - it ties up the first arc of the dream smp, how everything began, and now how everything ends (this is how the world ends, indeed). also, tommy kept bringing up the fact that he and tubbo are on their final canon lives, and while i think this is mostly just a “bait the audience to subvert expectations at the last moment” move (as happened today kind of with tommy joining tubbo’s side), it’s interesting to hear that particular half of clingyduo contemplating his own mortality.

i think there’s a pretty low chance of niki joining dream and techno, despite my wishful thinking because i think she’d be a great asset to those two in making the l’manberg side falter emotionally and because she’s excellent at organising her thoughts and presenting a really solid argument, something that both dream and techno are just kinda okay at. we saw from niki’s argument that she has torn loyalties - plenty of characters do, but she’s pretty unique in that neither of the reasons she’s fighting for line up that much with techno and dream (i also like that niki’s the one who comes out and says outright that her loyalties are torn because she doesn’t like tommy). she clearly makes the distinction between fighting with tommy and fighting for l’manberg - she’s fighting for l’manberg - and for her, l’manberg outweighs all else. that’s the reason why she’s fighting on tommy’s side - because she knows that dream and techno will destroy what she’s fought so hard to keep whole and safe all this time, throughout the time she’s been on the smp. enemy of my enemy is my friend, all that.

pandora’s vault. MATE. it’s huge and we all know it. i think it’s possible that dream wants to throw everyone who opposes him into the prison - it’s large enough and secure enough to accommodate - but i don’t think he will, because current dream (and i want to make a distinction between current and early dream, because they’re so polar opposite that i’m inclined to believe something’s going on behind the scenes, probably associated with the book schlatt gave him, shoutout to dr3 @dr3amt3am3 on twitter for writing an excellent analysis of dream’s character) is motivated around causing chaos by using everyone. think eris from greek mythology when she tossed the golden apple between athena, hera, and aphrodite - he dips a toe in the water and all the fish fucking jump. he doesn’t need to make the mess because one little push and everyone makes the mess for him. so, no, i don’t think pandora’s vault will be used to imprison all those who oppose him. i know a lot of theories have been floating around about whether it’ll be tommy or phil or techno - those three seem to be the top contenders - and i think i’d like to plump for tommy, who’s probably the one dream wants to see suffer the most and is capable of causing the most damage - after all, look at him rallying the people of l’manberg with just a few sentences after he spent the last month condemned by them.

there was probably more but i have sbi brainrot now let’s move on

wherein i become an staunch techno apologist

i may be on tommy’s side, but i don’t agree with his reasoning or how he acted today. yeah, i said it. yes, he’s been deeply traumatised since election night, arguably even further back, what with being the sole witness as wilbur spiralled and watching his best friend get brutally murdered and being unable to stop techno from razing the nation he helped plant the seeds of to the ground and seeing wilbur get stabbed by their father and exile, gaslighting, panic attacks, this kid needs a goddamn break. but i vibe with techno’s ideals and actions a fair bit more than i do tommy’s. the fact of the matter is, technoblade has always been completely transparent about why he was doing things the way he did them and what they were for (with the exception of a few lies of omission to tommy about what he wanted to happen to l’manberg). from day one he’s made it clear that he’s an anarchist and that what he wants is to abolish the government, and he genuinely believes that anarchy is for the greater good. from techno’s perspective, he’s not wrong - every single problem on the server can be traced back to some form of government or political turmoil, from l’manberg’s fight for independence to this latest festival fiasco. furthermore, when you look at it from an unbiased perspective, techno’s only ever really been used and discarded. he hasn’t instigated any conflicts on his own; he usually gets roped in by whoever’s running the movement, used as a weapon/items cache, then immediately thrown aside as the winners of the conflict establish exactly the opposite of techno’s beliefs. i have a lot of things to say about techno’s role in the smp because i get all angy about it, but for something zingy to leave you with - have you thought about how tommy and wilbur said “we have the blade” - a weapon, not a person?

rip community house ;-;7

yeah no it was almost definitely dream. tommy gains nothing from griefing the community house to that extent, especially not in this political climate (i know the argument can be made that he didn’t have to grief george’s house either, but that doesn’t have the connotations that the griefing of the community house does. no matter how reckless tommy is, i don’t believe that he’s stupid). dream has more to gain at this point from destroying the community house than tommy does, and this shows the audience a lot about current!dream; we know it’s true, now, what he said when he threatened tommy: “i don’t care about anything, actually.” he doesn’t. he said himself that the community house is the most sacred thing on the server, the oldest build, the first and only thing to have remained since the genesis of the dream smp, and so for him to have been the one to destroy it where he’s been so careful to preserve things from the old days of the smp (his pet fish, the community house, spirit) - shocking, the difference between early!dream and current!dream. he’s actually willing to go to literally any lengths to take tommy down, even at the cost of things he once valued above all else. interesting stuff. ((shakes the smug green bastard /smp)) TELL ME WHATS IN THAT BOOK YOU FUNGAL PIECE OF SHIT

applauding the smp members

because WOW that acting was SO FUCKING GOOD special shoutout to niki and ranboo because they fucking NAILED IT

okay i’m gonna go lie down and think about african lit for finals now thanks for reading this incomprehensible babble

[pinguinosentado]

Valentine's day is near! How would Eira and Serana celebrate?

Full disclosure, I thought this was just a fun prompt until I realized it actually was just around the corner. Time may have meaning but doesn’t wait around to see if we appreciate it.

First, Serana has a mild panic. Serana has never really been in a serious relationship before, she has no idea what is normal for the holiday, and so when she sees this coming up she starts wondering if she needs to do something big. She becomes uncharacteristically nervous because she wants to get this right and ends up spending way too much effort subtly probing Eira for clues about what she might like to do that day.

Eira and Natalie used to have their own things, which were always low key but very appreciated by Eira, but she isn’t sure how Serana wants to do things. She sort of assumes they’ll figure it out together and prepares a few different ideas. No big deal.

I think it ends up being a bit of a fiasco. Eira goes out of her way to get a lovely meal ready, picking out different foods and wines from different parts of the world since they aren’t able to travel like Serana wants just yet. She even digs up some old folk tales from Skyrim that seem like her kind of stories. On her end, it’s a muted testing of the waters with thoughtful gifts that show she loves her.

Serana ends up blowing a large amount of money hiring a bard to sing to Eira in the morning but spends too long trying to find a good one and, out of options, hires the only one she can find that isn’t already booked. Lurbuk arrives early and rouses the two in the prescribed manner, at which point Serana realizes her mistake. She hides her mistake for years, a lie aided by the incomprehensibly bad performance which Eira took for the bawling of a wandering drunk.

Having failed in this grand gesture, she moves on to the second one, which is the presentation of a rare gift. An old story told of beautiful ice crystals from the planes of Oblivion that gleamed like frozen sunlight and were prized by all who knew of them. A worthy gift, she thinks. So she creates her summoning circle and opens her portal, eager to retrieve these frozen flames for her love. What comes through the portal is a gorgeous, eight-foot-tall prism of beautiful ice and frozen flame. Once more, she realizes her mistake as it crashes through the dining room table on thick, icy legs, and the two are forced to duel a particularly incensed frost atronach with nothing but silverware.

After this, she feels horrible and vows to make it up to an increasingly concerned Eira, who at last manages to sit her down and explain the intricacies of a committed relationship and the different ways in which love might be shown between two women. Love languages, surprising no one, were not a subject of much discussion in Castle Volkihar. Eira shares her gifts, they spend the day reminiscing and walking along the shore of the sea, and, at the end of the day, Serana is persuaded not to rearrange the stars to spell out Eira’s name.

Thanks for suffering the long answer and for asking such a fun question!

[altarfated]

5,4,3,2,1. ness doing a caesar thought dump. dont read this, lmao bc it’s probably gonna b incomprehensive as fuck. but basically i was thinking about the contrast between jojo and caesar’s friendship / relationship, ect and when it boils down to it caesar is a much more serious person, like his focus is on completing a task kinda thing? and when it stems down from it and i get thinking about his past, the way he had all that misguided anger towards his father and in the end, couldn’t even say or do anything to help him / wasn’t even recognised by him in his dying breath. like, man that fucked him up, all of that anger he’d held onto was mixed now with grief, a frustration at literally not being able 2 do a single thing to prevent it ??? like all this big ol anger energy he’d held onto, was ready to throw @ his father, is suddenly transformed into a type of focus that pushes him to follow in his father’s footsteps and train to become someone who can help destroy the stone masks. joseph brings a whole different breed of energy to the table and it’s one of the reasons caesar finds him almost insufferable to begin with. because in comparison he is rather care-free, he ends up dragged into this whole stone masic fiasco and his first thought is probably something along the lines of, this guy is a complete imbecile who is going to end up holding me back. he’s not taking the whole ordeal half as seriously as caesar is and often has bizaree strategies when approaching things.  it’s one of the reasons he’s always so bewildered by the way jojo operates, it’s just he has this way of thinking that is not narrow but almost pin pointed ? his way of doing things involved a whole lot of pride and quite possibly a sense of fate? if his father and his grandfather fought the masks and it befell him, who was set upon this journey by the father he had hated all this time without an actual warranting ( i mean, he had no idea until it was too late ??? )  but yeah. jojo kinda helps open his eyes to this otherside of himself that he kinda just shoved into a corner bc he had no need for it, it couldn’t be part of who he was at the time.