#to put their plan in motion

[mistninja]

Tengen should have been evil

[throwntotheair]

The idea that Dirk and John both share a flash with "Rise Up" in the title...

But for John, his is "John. Rise up." Note: he - him - John, not his role but him as a person. And it's not formatted as a command. The WV/Mayor was grieving his windy boy. This was a plea. For John specifically.

And for Dirk, his is "Prince of Heart: Rise up." Note: it's not about Dirk, it's about his role that he has to play. It's about the stuff he has to put in motion. It's less about him and more of what he can do. And this one is formatted like a command.

I feel like the Always Sunny guy with my massive conspiracy board - like!! LIKE!!! Do you see what Im saying? Do you say what Im seeing???

[chirpsythismorning]

Joyce staying at the cabin with Hopper and El to keep them safe bc no one in Hawkins knows they’re alive. Will, Jonathan and Argyle staying at the Wheeler's bc they have more room and presumably aren't in danger like the others.

OH WAIT there's a witch hunt for the Hellfire club, which means all the boys are in danger from the townspeople. OH WAIT the boy who came back to life has returned from the West, the same boy whose assumed death jumpstarted this small town's curse in the first place! The same boy who apparently everyone and their fathers knew was gay...

THE END IS NEAR! THE GAYS ARE RESPONSIBLE!

+ Time jump early somewhere in between.

Now picture how that would look in an 8 episode story format, leading up to a final battle lasting about 2+ hrs, and that's loosely how s5 is gonna go down.

[yuesya]

I know that Heien Shiki and Yuzuki didn't have any children but hear me out on a heart wrenching thought I had.

They have only one child. A little girl that doesn't survive past four years old. (Maybe the same condition as Yuzuki?) The loss of her makes Shiki and Yuzuki unwilling to try again. By sheer coincidence either with a single character, the sound or meaning in her name; Tsumiki also has that in her name.

Just imagine Shiki waking up in the modern day(maybe looking forward to finding Yuzuki?) and one of the first things she learns is that her vessel shares part of her lost daughter's name. Like logically she knows that Tsumiki isn't her daughter reborn, but yet...she can not allow this girl to be harmed.

Also did Kenjaku know what they were doing when they choose this girl as the vessel? Do they dare to have the audacity to mock Shiki's dead baby like this?

Oh yikes, there would definitely be extra angst points in this AU if this was the case.

It would also change up the situation -previously we have Shiki being Not Interested in Kenjaku's games or fighting anyone, she just wants to see Yuzuki again. But if we suppose that 'Tsumiki' (/or some related name) was the name of her dead child then I think she'd definitely have a bone to pick with Kenjaku. Which begs the question of why he would think that this is a good idea in the first place...

Supposing that Kenjaku knew exactly what he was doing... one can only surmise that he deliberated intended to draw Shiki's ire. Hm. Possibly to orchestrate a Sukuna vs. Shiki encounter again and benefit from the results?

[thedeafprophet]

stories of the relationship between an engineer and a sentient AI you will always be real to me

[mayonaisalspray]

What do you think Drebber was feeling the moment he pulled the trigger on his crossbow.

Do you think he felt enthralled, the happiest he’d been in years? Do you think he pulled the trigger with a poorly concealed grin on his face? Was he excited for it all day? Smiling to himself for reasons no one could ever guess?

Do you think he was angry? Do you think he channeled ten years of hatred into the crossbow bolt that set his plans in motion? Or do you think it was a quiet rage that had simmered in him for years? It isn’t easy to carry an intense hate in you for that long, so maybe this plan renewed it in him.

Do you think he was nervous? There was a large crowd after all. Someone could have seen him and started a panic, or he could have miscalculated something and gotten a bystander hurt. He was already past the point of no return, which meant he had no choice but to do it. Not that that thought would have made it easier.

Maybe he didn’t feel anything at all. Maybe he was just going through the motions of his plan. I wouldn’t be surprised. Pain and joy and nervousness could all get in the way. He had hurt so much in his life it could have simply been easier to box it away for a later date.

[zeebreezin]

If you have anything you can share about what Shaw's been up to I would love to hear :D

SEE I wish he’s been up to much after completing nemesis … but honestly once he realized he was done, he’s been stuck in a bit of a slump. The horror of the fact that is is absolutely his life now and there is no grand dramatic martyr complex end that will mean he’s forgiven for what he’s done (and continues to do) has definitely hit. Aside from throwing himself into work with the Game and passionlessly funding this railway, there’s not much to talk about :( the poor guy’s in a lurch in terms of major development, so I’ve mostly been furthering some relationship stuff. He got his heart broken two days before his birthday!

[jesse-cosay]

"That's not in character because-"

I don't care. I am projecting. Let me push my worst insecurities onto my favorite characters so I can learn to love The Self.

[collegeboysam]

Hi!! Are you still interested in Lucemond?? I’m obsessed with your Hotd fic!!

Yeessiiirrrr!! 🥰🥰 sometimes i forget i don't talk much about hotd or asoiaf here, i keep it mostly on discord and twitter (wich is locked lol) so in my mind I feel like I'm openly talking about it all the time and then I remember like ohhh wait right on tumblr I don't post about it as much (mostly bc I don't really know many people in the fandom here? which is sad.)

Also thank you sooo much! 💕💕💕 Holding your ask close to my heart 🥰 it makes me really happy that you like the story because I fucking love writing it, I'm having the best time with it!

Please know I'm constantly thinking about updating, it's in my mind 24/7. The chapter has been done for a while, but I have an issue called my stupid fuckassjob that I hate 😭😭 it's been a nightmare lately, I never have free time anymore. Since english is not my first language I have to go over the chapters like...twice or more before I post them to do corrections and whatnot, and because of my job I haven't really had time to sit down and read and correct grammar and mistakes properly (the chapters are a mess before go over them rip 😭)

Sometimes I worry that it looks like I won't update "you may bury my body" anymore or something, but that's not the case at aaaaall, I swear. I enjoy writing it too much and I'm excited for the upcoming parts. Plus at this point I know I'm writing more lcmd as soon as I finish this fic, because I have too many ideas about them bouncing around in my head. Endless possibilities when falling for the one they were fated to hate doesn't fix either Aemond nor Lucerys, actually makes them worse, but that's somehow even better <3

[ctrl-alt-deleting-yr-face]

okay to those of you who saw my last rb and care about my stupid guilty gear au. i NEED to rant right now. Massive long winded about bedkari (aka bedman x hikari, my stupid ship that’s part of reverie of rebirth) under the cut. Be warned they’re so toxic yuri

i just realized. The cornered pray analogy exactly how the dynamic between Romeo and Hikari is. The lamb preparing for their slaughter specifically is. Exactly them. But the thing is… The roles are swapped in a way.

Romeo, of course, has sheep elements. Those are a huge part of his design- Even in his canon story as well. He’s a lamb being led by a shepherd. He’s naively being led along by Ariels, she calms him when he rebels or lashes out against her, and she led him all the way to his eventual slaughter. He’s the lamb.

But with Hikari, he gets to be the shepherd.

Hikari is a yokai. She’s powerful. I wrote her to be powerful on purpose. She could be fatally wounded and survive, not even batting an eye due to her lack of pain receptors. Which she does. Right when she first meets Romeo. He tries to kill her, and yet she’s unfazed. She doesn’t care. She didn’t feel anything, and she knows she wants to be near him no matter what. All that’s important is pleasing him.

Basically all Hikari knows is Romeo. When she first met him and emotionally latched onto him, she had only recently awoken and still had all her emotions. All her emotions were developed around Romeo’s guidance and treatment of her, which basically just meant being his little assistant, aiding in his war crimes, and associating joy with his slightly harsh treatment.

All Hikari knows is showing her neck and stomach to Romeo.

When comparing the specific animal motifs of both Romeo and Hikari, it’s really fun to see the contrast. Hikari has the designs element of the predator animal, while Romeo has motifs of the prey. However, those roles are swapped in terms of their behavior. Romeo is abrasive and only begins to show care towards his yokai companion after months in his presence, while said companion innocently follows his commands and accepts anything he throws her way- Naively believing every word he says like it’s gospel. A little cat blindly loving the cruel shepherd. It’s a beautiful parallel that honestly was not intentional.

The sheep bares its teeth and bites into the neck of the two-tailed cat.

[imminent-danger-came]

Macaque: "No that's you! You're the one always running off! Looking for more power or more sources of immortality—you're the one who wouldn't quit while we were ahead!"

In a moment of "I'm getting really sad about Macaque and MK parallels", I just keep thinking about how all MK's wanted to do was quit while they were ahead, but he hasn't been able too. He's been pushed and pushed and pushed at every turn. His journey "is just beginning", and "forever's a long time"—there's been no choice for things to stay the same. I wonder if truly Wukong had a choice either. "You ever wish things will just stay like this, like they are right now?" "Psshhhkkk where's the fun in that?"

[yifftwiceplz]

thats actually what me and karkat plan to do is join an active but doomed session of sburb to use the sacrificial slab on prospit theres usually one for the players there rose said it could work when we talked

[smidgen-of-hotboy]

"I may have said things to you that I invented Pete, but I have never lied to you."

relistening to junoverse, specifically nureyev lore heavy eps, and thinking about how honesty is the biggest thing Nureyev values. thinking about how he doesn't want to lie to Juno, he'd rather not say anything or run away. thinking about how he flits between aliases and how he comes back to being Peter Ransom.

[docnefarious]

@cerullean || ♥ (accepting!)

At the sound of the sudden and very unwelcome intrusion, the robot whipped around violently to face whoever had dared to disturb him at such a crucial moment.

"HEY!!!"

"I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING HERE! Do you know how RUDE it is to disturb someone when they're working!?!"

[angelsdean]

jensen as dean in 15x20 grinning to himself smugly on that fucking bridge bc he knows he just retconned that entire stupid-ass 40 yr drive and saved the damn multiverse while sam was just chillin' in the 'burbs in a bad wig w/ his blurrywife and kid.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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