#they're both so hot for each other

[booasaur]

Special Ops: Lioness - 1x08

[iamacolor]

Do you really like me when I'm weird like this? You're the one who told me this, neither of us are weird people, we're just those types of people.

A GOOD DAY TO BE A DOG - EPISODE 8

[errorkey]

wait i feel like i Need to say something re: the kantbison bondage scene in ep3 part 4

i've been seeing a Lot of people be like "yeah no that scene was really off-putting idk ://"... i think that was the point?

neither of them are actually in the moment. kant is very clearly not enjoying himself At All, and bison is inebriated (and drugged???) past the point of real comprehension.

but that's the thing – that scene isn't about the two of them having sex. it's about them trying to desperately get their hands on what they really want.

the show's established that kant isn't into this stuff in the least (as seen post-fadel's confrontation at the tattoo parlor), but he's willing to suffer through it, to grit his teeth and bear through the quite literal pain. he's willing to do anything, as long as he'll finally be able to get the evidence he needs to be free of these things forever.

on the other hand, we've seen bison state over and over how much he's wanted to do all of this, how he's never been able to find someone to actually hold power over. and now bison – younger brother, "never allowed to make a real decision of his own for even a day in his life" bison – is finally, finally able to take control over someone's life; something that's meaningful, something that matters.

that's exactly why i'd argue that the entire scene isn't meant to be "hot" or "appealing," but rather unsettling and weird (especially with the constant cuts to fadel digging(?) mysteriously in a field, but that's a whole other thing).

TLDR; kantbison's first time may have been passion and lust incarnate, but this one is so far removed from that. because, this time, neither of them actually care about the sex more than about what it means – a means to an end for kant, and a first glimpse at unadulterated power for bison.

[sabrinasprincess]

hannigram + eye sex

[many-gay-magpies]

god what really gets me about dead boy detectives and what i think i love so much about the show and the relationships in it is that like. the romantic and sexual relationships aren't portrayed as being more unique or important than the platonic relationships. they're all just RELATIONSHIPS.

charles and crystal's attraction to each other and eventual hookup isn't this big end-all be-all relationship that shatter charles and edwin's friendship and draws charles' attention away from edwin; it's just a THING that happens. they're just two people that care about each other and happen to also be attracted to each other, and a hook-up happens, then they decide that neither of them are in the right place for it and it's nothing awful. crystal kisses charles, but it isn't some big spectacle of her declaring her love for him; it's just her saying goodbye and that she cares about him, like her hugs with niko and jenny and her handshake with edwin.

edwin realizes he loves charles romantically and tells him, and charles says he doesn't really love edwin romantically BACK, but it's okay, because they still love each other so much in so many other ways that this one tiny difference could never change them—and it doesn't!! they're still just as close, still care for each other just as much, still SHOW that care for each other just as much. their relationship didn't completely end because edwin loved charles in a way charles couldn't reciprocate, but at the same time it isn't "solved" by edwin getting over it, because there's nothing TO solve. it's just another type of love, added to everything that already exists between them. and they have LITERALLY FOREVER to figure out what it means.

the relationships between edwin & niko, crystal & niko, and crystal & edwin aren't given any less weight for being solely platonic, just as charles & crystal's relationship and edwin's feelings for charles aren't given (that much) MORE weight for being romantic. crystal and charles' conflict in the closet is about EDWIN, about how they're BOTH his friend and BOTH want to get him back; it has very little to do with the feelings between THEM, romantic or otherwise. similarly, the weight of charles' and edwin's relationship isn't diminished in the LEAST by charles not reciprocating the romantic side of his feelings (or SAYING he doesn't reciprocate, at least—we can all argue about the legitimacy of that in the notes).

i'm sure there are more examples than this, as well as probably some examples that CONTRADICT this, but like... by and large, it feels like dead boy detectives is a show where all the relationships are given equal weight regardless of platonic, sexual, romantic, or familial status, and as someone on both the asexual and aromantic spectrums who has struggled time and time again with shows casting out the importance of all other relationships in favor of prioritizing romance, that is INCREDIBLY refreshing to see.

[smuddee-papabear]

Really need two massive demons to wreck me from both ends while making out with each other. I think that would fix me.

[originalcontent]

I can't find art of my ship anywhere so I GUESS that means I have to make it myself, here are some doodles.

[enbysiriusblack]

i feel like dorcas and marlene would both idolise each other a lot. like i know a lot of people see it as marlene being a loser lesbian obsessed with her goddess girlfriend. and i veryyyy much agree with that.

but also it's the same way round with dorcas. dorcas is ALSO a loser lesbian obsessed with her goddess girlfriend.

marlene is awkwardly social, doesn't think before speaking, rants for hours about obscure subjects, failing most of her school classes, dresses very masculine, does not get social queues/norms. and dorcas is extremely attractive, a quidditch prodigy, extremely talented witch, gets tops marks in most subjects, gets social queues/norms.

but also dorcas is socially awkward, rarely talks to people, is an outcast in her house and has no close friends for most of school, also dresses very masculine, has 0 sense of style. and marlene has a close friend group throughout school, does talk to people, has style, is very talented in non school related ways.

[lord-squiggletits]

On the MegOP fandom trend of saying "Optimus should apologize to Megatron"

(Speaking specifically for IDW1, though it applies to a lot of MegOP especially ones that do continuity soup with heavy reference to IDW1)

I was talking to a friend in DMs and they mentioned a common headcanon/fanfic trope that I also concurred with, and both of us said it's something that bothers us: a common take in the MegOP fandom goes basically along the lines of "If Optimus had just apologized to Megatron, the war would've ended" (or other variants including "if he'd tried harder to understand Megatron/work in collaboration with him").

And firstly, this is incorrect for a number of reasons:

There were attempts at peace negotiations during the war, but they fell through. So Optimus WAS trying to work with Megatron to the point of participating in formal diplomatic meetings.

Optimus tried multiple times on page to convince Megatron to just stop fighting and work with him for peace (Autocracy, Chaos Theory) that Megatron rejected. Given that these on-page examples take place at the start of the war and at the end of the war respectively, it makes sense that Optimus asking Megatron for collaboration is something he was trying/willing to do the entire time. So again, Optimus was always willing AND ATTEMPTING to work with Megatron and find a joint solution

Even before the war when Optimus was still Orion, he was very explicitly inspired by Megatron's writing and names Megatron as one of the people who "opened his eyes" to the wrongs of Cybertronian society. So how is it that people claim "the war went on for too long because Optimus never tried to understand Megatron" when OP literally named Megatron as one of his biggest idols, thus implying that OP does understand Megatron's ideals

But the primary purpose of this post wasn't to defend Optimus, actually. Even though I personally think Optimus did plenty (dare I say, everything) to try to end the war, there are some who may still think otherwise, so instead of arguing about whether Optimus did "enough", or who should apologize to whom, or who "deserves the blame" for starting/continuing the war, I'd actually rather talk about this:

No matter who is most "to blame" for the war, it's my firm belief that neither Megatron nor Optimus would even expect/demand the other to apologize to them at all.

On Megatron's side, he would never seek to judge Optimus negatively for the decisions to the point of saying "you wronged me, apologize." Whether it's evil Megatron who doesn't care about atrocities and revels in an opportunity to expose Optimus as a hypocrite, or post-war/Autobot Megatron who knows that his own evil actions are irredeemable, the idea of Megatron judging Optimus and demanding an apology for the war specifically strikes me as out-of-character. Why would Megatron demand or even want an apology from Optimus when Megatron knows fully well that he has his own sins to bear, he prolonged the war for his own selfish/material gain, and that he is responsible for an untold amount of suffering? Demanding an apology would imply that Megatron sees himself as the wronged party and Optimus as the wrongdoer, but by the end of the war, Megatron is too aware of his own part in the war to ever demand such a thing of Optimus. Even if he DID think that Optimus was "equally to blame" for the war (which he doesn't/wouldn't, btw), Megatron's own feelings of guilt would prevent him from trying to seek the petty satisfaction of the moral high ground or making Optimus beg for his forgiveness.

Additionally, Megatron knows Optimus very well as a person: he knows that the position of leadership is full of "loneliness [and] agonizing self-doubt" for Optimus (Chaos Theory) and that "when Optimus hurts others, he hurts himself" (MTMTE). Another reason that Megatron wouldn't demand nor want an apology from Optimus is because Megatron knows Optimus so well that he already knows that being a war leader fills Optimus with immense guilt and suffering. Given that Megatron knows about Optimus' self-doubt and guilt, why would he even need an apology when he already knows how much Optimus regrets the war and desperately wishes/wished for it to end?

Then, as established in the previous paragraphs, Optimus is too full of guilt for his part in the war (both before it started and in being unable to stop it sooner) to demand an apology from Megatron. Again, demanding an apology would put Optimus in an implied position of moral superiority and/or victimhood, but Optimus doesn't see himself as morally superior or as a victim (or rather, he sees himself as being responsible for these bad things happening and internalizes this as a duty to do better/fix wrongdoings). In other words, Megatron and Optimus both share this view of themselves and each other: Their hands are so dirty, and they both feel such guilt over this, and they know each other well enough to know that the other feels this way as well. Because both of them feel blame for the war and are acutely aware of their own flaws/part in suffering, both of them feel far too responsible for the war happening for them to ever blame their archnemesis for "not trying harder" or "being responsible for the war."

Hell, if you even look at the socio-political climate of Cybertron before the war started, neither Megatron nor Optimus were the ones who put this conflict into motion. The corrupt legacy of the Primes, Functionism, class issues-- all of these things existed before Megatron and Optimus did. Even once they started doing things like writing about social issues (M) or fighting against the Senate (OP), both of them were "underlings" in sense that they weren't leaders:

Megatron's writings may have inspired the Decepticon movement, but that movement existed as an independent entity with its own leaders and speakers long before Megatron became the "official" ruler of the Decepticons. He wasn't even the leader of the 'Cons until he took control of the gladiator arena and the nonviolent sections of the Decepticons were (presumably) subsumed into the underground, exploitative battle culture that Megatron created.

Optimus-as-Orion was a police officer to start, but even once he started going against the Senate, he mainly worked in collaboration with others like Senator Shockwave and Zeta (later Zeta Prime), who he either saw as his idols or who were literally superior to him in rank due to government/military structures.

So with this in mind, even from a social level, while Megatron and Optimus may have been "catalysts" of a sort that caused the war to escalate to an outright planetary/galactic level, the scenario is too complex to solely lay the blame for the war at either of their feet. I'm not confident in saying that Megatron/Optimus would explicitly think of this when talking to each other, but what I'm trying to say is that M/OP were just catalysts in a long chain of brewing tension that exploded into a war. Even if one could claim that one of them "started" or "escalated" the war, the social issues that caused the war and the positions of power that allowed them to become leaders in the first place were falling into place before either of them actually BECAME leaders.

In other words, this shared fate of being the final reaction that exploded a societal conflict into outright war... Megatron and Optimus both have that in common. And because of this, I really don't think either of them would even think to ask the other to apologize because they're both in such similar positions, with such similar feelings of guilt and responsibility, that they understand each other's feelings without words. To demand an apology would be akin to taking that shared vulnerability/guilt and stepping on it, attempting to claim that one is right/superior and the other is wrong/inferior, and that the inferior one needs to grovel and take responsibility for the bad things that happened.

[brainrotcharacters]

caught myself in 4k giving heart eyes to the screen (rewatching Wade and Logan duke it out in the Void)

[daughter-of-lethe]

I'm at the airport rn, waiting for my gate's numer to come out on the board, before boredom gets the better of me, here you go some Nessian smut.

It will be very short.

Warning: smut, smut smut.

Read at your own risk, you can read this in AO3 too!

Cassian found Nesta immediately, she was reading, wrapped up in her reading-blanket like a burrito, as she does when she's cold, Nesta was reading in their bed.

A quick glance to the cover confirmed that she was re-reading one of her favourite books, one about a hitman falling in love with his target, a spoiled and heartless girl. Nesta heard him getting closer and give him the I'll cut your dick if you interrupt my reading now.

Without a word he climbed up the bed, pulling the burrito-Nesta in his arms, warming her up. It took a few minutes before Nesta's beautiful figure emerged from the blankets. Like a mermaid emerging from the waves.

From the way she placed the blankets over herself, Cassian got that she wasn't wearing anything, that she was naked underneath them. The bat smirked, he would risk it.

Nesta resumed her reading while Cassian's fingers gently began smoothing her long golden-brown braid, his eyes were fixed on his mate.

"Stop that" there was not even an ounce of authority in her voice.

He could smell the exact moment she hit the good part in her book, her rising arousal smelled like the first winter snow and burning embers at the same time. He could feel that on his tongue. His cock twitched in his pants.

"You want me to stop, Nes?" Cassian threw all his cockiness in his voice. Nesta bite her lip, a clear sign she felt his tone. His intention. But she didn't answer.

So Cassian began teasing his lover, his hands gently caressing her shoulder, his lips leaving a trail of slow kisses all over her neck.

Nesta take a deep breath, closing her eyes, forcing her mind to stay with her, but then he hit that spot beneath her ear and Nesta couldn't help but let out a plea, she didn't want him to stop, neither admitting that a few touches from her man sent her to climax, but damn cauldron if she wanted those lips all over her.

"Please Cassian"

One of her hand going from the book to his muscular abdomen, tracing his abs with her nails, unhurriedly, one by one, his warm skin against her nails. Cassian groaned. "Please what?"

She can feel his calloused fingers going down from her hair, teasing the upper edge of the blanket. The words on her book were all the same, her eyes fixed on the same line for minutes.

Insufferable ass

Cassian leaned in, licking her lobe, making a soft whimper escape from her mouth, an invitation to go on.

"Answer" Cassian's deep voice makes Nesta's toe curl.

He found her nipple and began teasing it.

"More, please, more" Nesta panted and Cassian gave more to her.

Tossing aside the book, Nesta's attention focused on her mate, eyes burning with lust, while her hand went straight to his cock. She began pumping him hard, just the way he liked it, making his growls fill the room.

"Do you want me to stop?" She teased stroking him.

"If you keep doing that, it'll end quickly"

She smiled, a queen with endless power. Cassian took her hand, interlacing their fingers to stop her. "I am not done with you yet" he declared before adding "I've read that book"

"Why?" Nesta was lost in a haze of pure pleasure. The world was reduced to his hands playing with her breasts, pulling and stroking. He traced all the curves of her beautiful body, sending pure fire in her blood.

"To fulfil all of your fantasies" he found her wetness and began circling her most sensitive part, sending her to oblivion.

"Oh Cauldron, Yes" Cassian walked her through her orgasm. "Don't you dare stop" Nesta's hand began again pumping his long shaft. It took just a few kiss over his neck feel his own orgasm all over her hand.

When she was again able to think rationally, Cassian's last words sunk in. Something in her heart softened at the realization, a smile blooming in her face, her eyes searching for his.

"Cas-"

She couldn't finish, his mouth crushed hers and the hunger rose again. Cassian spent all night pleasuring Nesta, playing all her dirtiest fantasies and satisfying all her requests until she collapsed on his chest, seated and safe. Their breathings synchronized soon, as soon as the sun began to rise.

[king-spite]

so it seems the poppy war has become my absolute favorite series so ofc i'm losing my mind comparing every scene with my other favorite series (red queen) and making an unfathomable amount of headcanons

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

I think Slay the Princess is so popular partially because the *gets stabbed* "I'm in love" reaction is both intentional on the part of the developers and then they completely follow through on it.

[shuuenka]

I got this headcanon that I imagine Jiyan being about 23 yo (in canon it's said he was general by age of 20 due to sudden promotion basically and that the war happened about 3 years ago, so i think that pretty much confirms he's pretty young. So 23 it is.)

And Aalto i think would be around 27/28. He just has this vibe and I imagine being information broker and getting where he is now took a little bit more time.

So Aalto I think has some relationship experience - but these are just flings and some casual fwb that don't last long, because he'd travel around a lot. While Jiyan gives vibe of not being in relationship at all before, too many things in rapid succession happened that he surely didn't have time for dating then, and now that he's general he doesn't really either.

So it's funny to think about flirty Aalto that gets flustered by Jiyan's serious sincerity. It's not how any of his previous relationships worked, never long time, so he himself has completely new experience of being wanted and loved this way. Then you have Jiyan who's just intense as he is with everything, even more so with his loved one.

[mars-ipan]

some postgame doodles for pride month

[thegirlsarethriving]

just finished undertale. ok i see the vision. i now understand yall's Sans-to-Benrey obsession pipeline. and the Papyrus-to-Tommy Coolatta pipeline