#they've been through ENOUGH

[javisfreckles]

i am feeling unwell about Taash saying that everyone they love dies if Harding falls

[romanticatheartt]

And that's why I think Rhysand won't be high king because as he said to Amren he doesn't want to be

I 100% agree.

I was actually talking with @nestastits a couple of days ago about this subject and we get to this point that sjm just wanted to play with the idea of Rhys and Feyre being HK/HQ but she also made it clear that it won't happen.

She had a weak moment of imagining Rhys as High King but in the same chapter she shut that idea down. Also she wanted to prove that Nesta's power is her own and hers alone. Even her sword didn't answer to Rhys power so it's obvious if he's going to be a High King it's not going to be with Nesta's power.

Rhys can be a High King, he has the potential. I also think he's going to wield Narben (pls pls pls😭🙏) so he's capable of becoming a High King because he's literally a royal. He's Fionn, the last High King, descendant so it's his right to be one. And Feyre has all the 7 courts power and is connected to all of them, she's also used to be a human so she's related to the human realm as well. But there's one tiny problem:

Rhysand doesn't want to be one and he also said Feyre wouldn't want that either.

I mean I don't know guys, I think he doesn't want to be a high king... lmao

But this plot won't happen either way because Prythian had a High Queen recently (Amarantha) and they hated it. They don't have a good experience with it so even if the person is just and right for this title no one would support this idea.

[thestreamweaver]

I am so pissed... SO PISSED!!!

I read in an article about the new X-Men 97 that "Ororo and Logan won't be together in X-Men 97"...

WHY!!?? They are literally the best for each other! We all know Scott and Jean are good for each other, Gambit and Rogue, Charles and Lilandra, but why is it when you have a couple that has a deep connecting, bonds built through friendship, trust, camaraderie, respect, understanding, and real love (not just this surfacey stuff everyone's obsessed with now 🙄)

Is it just because some people think that it's wrong to have a black woman with a white man?? I can think of a term for that... is it because it's pretty much the beauty and the beast scenario?

If you read the comics then you know a few things...

1st, yes, of course they have their issues, all friends and couples do.

2nd, they ALWAYS come back to each other no matter what, even in death they find each other (spoiler, sorry, not sorry 😁)

3rd, they ALWAYS bring each other up from the darkness. No matter what, they're there for each other. They're always pushing each other up, always encouraging each other to be better.

4th, their chemistry is one of a kind... you can do anything to either one of them and you can guarantee that they'll mold themselves back together, one way or another.

5th, They're beautiful together! Both literally and metaphorically. They compliment each other. He's the edge to her softness, she's the voice to his conscience, she's the flower of mercy where he's the claws of vengence. She's air and water and he's fire and earth. The yin to the yang in so many ways...

6th, with him, she's herself, letting herself go in ways she wouldn't otherwise, and same thing for him. They're free to be themselves with each other, they're not expected to be anything else or act like anything else.

No matter what they're portrayed as they're perfect together... it is what it is... and that's not going to change any time soon.

I just wish Marvel and the fans could let them be happy together for once 😔

[sailingfireshipz]

I'm really trying to have a positive & optimistic outlook on this season teaser but am I the only one that feels like the last 2 seasons have been heavy enough? Like I'm all for dark themes but can that be S14? Can S13 just be rainbows, bliss & a fucking baby!? Because I just KNOW this "darker theme" is somehow going to impact #Stellaride & I'm over it! Pick on somebody else AN I BEG of you.

I'm open to all perspectives, so please let me know if I'm being dramatic, but I just don't trust that this doesn't mean more BS for my pookies to navigate.

[batgrldes]

I am thinking so many thoughts right now of what we could possibly see this season premiere. I'm thinking this is a flash back to bathena's honeymoon and the boat capsized. Bobby and Athena are trying to help save people but Bobby gets tossed overboard. He washes away, possibly amnesia, then we flash forward to present time, they still haven't found him. Buck and Athena are trying to lead search parties while others are telling them to let him go. I can see Natalia trying to talk Buck out of it and accept his 'death' but he won't hear it. Eddie understands and doesn't tell Buck and Athena to stop searching. Meanwhile, Bobby is out there somewhere trying to remember, but only gets flashes. He hears Athena's voice, sees Buck in passing travelers, the number 118 popping up everywhere. Maybe this lasts for three episodes or maybe the entire half season! It would make an epic mini series season. Mix in the Madney wedding that also symbolizes two loved ones coming together, finding each other.

Ugh! I am so crazy right now. It's wild how one little teaser promo ignites my brain like jet fuel.

[buckleyobsessed]

I understand why Athena got aggravated and walked away but I still hate that she did

Like Bobby opened up and talked to her and she still walked away

[strat0sfear]

i keep seeing people want Jaune to stay behind/Die and :(( you’d do that to tean JNR? AGAIN?

[chrollos-crown]

i can't, my heart 😭😭😭

them 💜

[egophiliac]

I know we're not on the Hearts chapter but, I have a feeling the SSR will be Cater? But also him having the tear animation, since I have a feeling his dream will be a bit like Ruggie's q-q

I'm leaning towards either Cater or Ace, personally! Trey and Deuce have kinda already had their character arcs -- though someone else did mention to me that they thought it might be Trey, because so far all the vices have gotten one. though that might just be coincidence. we'll find out I guess!

my red-string-on-corkboard theory is that Ace is gonna get his arc + UM during whatever goes down with Grim, so while I could be completely wrong, I think it'd be nice if it were Cater's time to shine! ...also I am VERY curious as to what his dream is gonna be. 👀 like, I don't think he's gonna be all angsty or anything, he's a pretty cheery guy even though he pretends to be more vapid than he is, but...what would he be like if he were less. y'know.

(also I kind of want him to get the focus just because I think it'd be a shame if all he got was a super-quick 'oh his dream is to have a billion followers or whatever, now let's go on to the next person'. c'mon Twst. give him some love.)

[gtswmeiko]

bungie

BUNGIE

BUNGIE

I THOUGHT WE AGREED TO LEAVE THE OLD GAY MEN ALONE

[apocalyp-tech-a]

Whoa. You just blew my mind with this analysis. 🤯 Wow wow wow. So true and so sad and heartbreaking, but so hopeful as well because they will overcome their failures and they'll all live as happily ever after as they can far away from the Empire. Right? RIGHT!?!? *begs writers* (I worry about the "bitey suicide capsule thingie" often, but Rex, BB, and all them know they have them, so I'm sure they'll stun him and pull it out before he can use it, right?!)

Ohh wait okay I get it.

In the early season they're all haunted by failure at the thing that makes them special.

The strong one who just wasn't strong enough.

The sniper who lost his aim.

The tracker who can't locate the thing that matters most.

The exceptional mind who's been brainwashed.

Which means in the end, we're going to see Hunter find her, Wrecker hold on, and Crosshair make the shot.

And Tech rip off the mask and tell Hemlock "I removed my bitey suicide capsule thingie a long time ago."

...right?

[userautumn]

"not all men" but not in a men's rights way, in a "it's important to remember that men aren't the only perpetrators of cruelty, abuse, and evil and that subconsciously or consciously training yourself to view men as inherently evil and everyone else as inherently safe inadvertently puts you in a position where you're both vulnerable to attack or harm from people you otherwise wouldn't suspect, AND causes you to limit the number of allies you might have in a time of need" kind of way.

[breezypunk]

POV: Your best friend is a dork. (I will not elaborate on who is the dork).

[batgrldes]

I am thinking so many thoughts right now of what we could possibly see this season premiere. I'm thinking this is a flash back to bathena's honeymoon and the boat capsized. Bobby and Athena are trying to help save people but Bobby gets tossed overboard. He washes away, possibly amnesia, then we flash forward to present time, they still haven't found him. Buck and Athena are trying to lead search parties while others are telling them to let him go. I can see Natalia trying to talk Buck out of it and accept his 'death' but he won't hear it. Eddie understands and doesn't tell Buck and Athena to stop searching. Meanwhile, Bobby is out there somewhere trying to remember, but only gets flashes. He hears Athena's voice, sees Buck in passing travelers, the number 118 popping up everywhere. Maybe this lasts for three episodes or maybe the entire half season! It would make an epic mini series season. Mix in the Madney wedding that also symbolizes two loved ones coming together, finding each other.

Ugh! I am so crazy right now. It's wild how one little teaser promo ignites my brain like jet fuel.

[dxxtruction]

"Louis acting like a pimp to Armand" And what is a pimp exactly? Quickly. And, oh so sexual trauma survivors can't engage in kink now without it being all about that? Pet names? They can't be submissive anymore? Consensually? Sexually healthy? Be serious. I'd hardly say there's much power difference between them during all this anyway, except that Louis is freer than Armand and it's been putting a strain on their relationship. Louis wants more from Armand, and less of this 'being his past' for them both, and so helping Armand with this could fix that. It's healthy to want to help your partners get out of a rough patch?

I mean, the whole exchange was very clearly set up as a "I want to help you" after such a great moment of vulnerability Louis feels just how much Armand is desperate for it. Louis called Armand so they could work out a plan together.

And the bit with the umbrella was Louis' way of asking 'are you willing to listen to me?' and Armand said yes by unfolding it. Louis goes on and explains, Armand is allowed to argue against it, but Louis makes his point. And then he gives Armand a way to make his own choice in it too. Armand's already decided 'I want you, more than anything else in the world', but Louis still asks after if he's sure of his choice, and with a name, Arun, that is the one of his fullest agency, running the point home. Honoring the situation Armand calls Louis Maitre - as a way of being like 'I'll do as you've said then'. To make this work he's going to have to give Louis some of the control, yes. But it's the first time such a role is ever established, and it was his choice to do it. So so what if they do it in a very suggestive way? They can't like doing that? I think it's them having fun.

I struggle to find how Louis is being overly domineering here when really he's giving and offering Armand the most agency he's ever had. Same with finding it manipulative. The manipulation was more earlier in the episode I think, when he was stringing him along, giving mixed signals. He's no longer toying with him like that. Louis might be pushing Armand, leading him on to make a decision, but he doesn't mean bad by it.

But back to this pimp thing. I find it frankly offensive that this is where people are going with this. I get it, but to run with it being the case is, on many levels, wrong.

Louis told us episode 1 this was the only sustainable line of work to support his family and keep their standing, at the time. It was never his choice to be doing this either but his blackness allowed no other options. He did what he did so his family could stay in that house and maintain all their same comforts. It gave him privileges most black men didn't have at the time that he wanted to maintain and even have more of. Anyway, it doesn't and had never defined him the way 'being good at running things' had. And in that case he just likes having that kind of control where he can get it, which makes sense.

The world is what placed that kind of role onto him of what he was allowed to be able to run, not himself. And on that he actually treated the sex workers he employed well and respected them enough to give them more opportunity.** He recognizes they don't have much in the way of options either.

Louis employed sex workers, yes, but he didn't subject them to abuse, (like how Armand was)*. He didn't oversee things in a way that would go against their consent (see; episode 1 again)**. Sometimes a job is just a job. And Sex work is work.

Armand's particular past with sexual abuses may strike a particular cord with Louis, given all that, but the very last thing either is thinking is that Louis' pimping Armand out here. This is merely their decision as companions, and had nothing to do with adding another line in a laundry list of selling Armands body out to people at the command of someone else. Armand rescinds some of his control to Louis' wishes, because he wants him, and he trusts him, that's all.

If you aren't allowing Armand that choice, and are doubtful it's fully his, you're putting him right back in the box of being defined by his abuses. Putting him back into that space where he isn't given any agency over what he does. (Which is exactly opposite of what the intent of this scene is for)*.

*: (edit) added for clarity.

**: (strike through) numerous people are saying I'm misremembering these points so disregard it. (Thought he was siding with Bricks, it was the other way around). (Technically one aspect of those opportunities were for getting around the law). I don't have a perfect memory, it happens. Let's not get mad about it. Doesn't change much of the point which is that Louis, now, Louis then, was always considering more about the running things and for stated purposes. So I guess I'd say he may only have respected the SWers enough sometimes for what allowed him to do that, and there are moments he certainly expressed remorse over the fact, but he has a great deal higher respect for Armand that is genuine. It's incomparable. Please read my added notes in the tags, it should address most other concerns.

[fckyouiwontdowhatyoutellme]

Every time I see someone talk about how ZoSan or any other ship is written "too soft", I think about this:

They deserve to be soft.

[Disclaimer: this poem is not mine, I would love to credit it but it's been sitting in the depths of a folder for years and I forgot where I got it from. If you know who created this please let me know]

Edit: @quote-tournament said the poem is by Sylvie J.P

Edit 2: the original post is here