#totally understandable

[sukugo]

yuuji so kissable. mahito tries to kiss him. toudou kisses his locket with yuuji's picture inside. gojo basically almost kisses him when they first meet. he just has that effect on people

[objectum-culture-is]

objectumplatonic culture is not letting anyone handle your vinyl records because they are FRIENDS and if anything happens to them i might cry - 🪓🖤

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[parfavar]

[allstarthrills]

There are so few times I’ve genuinely cried at figure skating results, but there’s no way I could hold it back. While we all would’ve liked it to be in better circumstances, Amber Glenn being national champion is so deserved, I couldn’t be prouder. Congrats champ 💕

[svechsdoll]

every man questions himself when he catches a glimpse of Mat Barzal

[phantomoftheshoppera]

Rereading Immortal Hulk and the funniest thing is that Jackie totally accepts that Walter was possessed and is just concerned with how long it’s been

[piganatur]

Jaewon: I mean it’s more comfortable to teach the same gender.

Yoonwon: There is no such thing when it comes to surfing.

Jaewon: Anyway, I want to take on the boy.

*40 minutes later*

[suzansmile]

Saddest rejection scene in kdrama is hospital playlist. When ik jun gets rejected season 2 end of ep 1. You can feel the pain and hurt. My heart broke for him

[bluebellhairpin]

Crying bc the events of Pacific's Rim are literally happening right now. January 8 was the day Mako and Raleigh fought those kaijus in the Hong Kong double event. January 12 is the triple event where they close the breach. In two days we cancel the apocalypse.

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Mel's protection should have saved Viktor too, and she's trying to figure out why it didn't

(Editing to add: see this post for details on the Mel's armor/shield theory)

S2 ep1 shows a circle of protected stone where Mel and Jayce were during the explosion. My theory is that Mel's magic armor activated and saved them both. It seems like it casts a sphere of protection around wherever Mel is.

The center of this circle is not Mel's seat - it's Jayce's. She ran to Jayce to save him.

No other Councilors were in range of Mel's protection, so they all got hurt or killed.

But Viktor was, in Jayce's words, "right next to" him. He was easily within Mel's circle of protection.

1) Viktor tried to run and mistakenly left the circle of protection. But are we meant to believe that Viktor, close to dying already and using a crutch, would have outrun Mel?

2) Viktor's augmented body clashes with Mel's

Why does Mel try to touch Viktor in episode 1? It seems like a throwaway moment, but not even Jayce touches him in this scene. So why Mel?

She's curious. And possibly, feeling responsible. She's wondering why her protection didn't work.

Is this Hexcore brand of the Arcane trying to reach out to Mel? Or trying to defend itself from her?

Mel was trying to protect both Jayce and Viktor, which is reflected in how she holds Jayce as well as Viktor's cane when she promises to protect Hextech:

But if, for example, Mel's magic is Solari in origin, and Viktor's is from the Void - or the Arcane equivalent of similar opposing forces - then it's possible that their magic rejects or hurts one another. So Mel's circle of protection either rejected Viktor, or was what hurt Viktor, and not the explosion.

[gallus-rising]

i have been hovering near having 69 user subscriptions on ao3 for over a year now and that's literally the only number on my stats page i care abt. i've been going back and forth between 58-64-ish for so long and i'm sooooo scared i'm gonna miss 69

i'm currently stable at 63 and check regularly for any changes. i feel like if i ever hit it i need to do something to celebrate. finish and mass post every wretched thing wasting away in my smut folder maybe

[lily-s-world]

Odysseus really pulled out the "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me" card on a god!!!

[teaboot]

Social anxiety level: Chatting with someone experiencing a schizophrenic episode and becoming increasingly self-concious of how I'm just saying "That sounds really stressful", "I've never heard of that but it sounds scary", and "You must be pretty worried about that" over and over again

[ms-demeanor]

I don't care about data scraping from ao3 (or tbh from anywhere) because it's fair use to take preexisting works and transform them (including by using them to train an LLM), which is the entire legal basis of how the OTW functions.

[abyssalzones]

it's really hard figuring out your gender and sexuality when it's the 1970s and you can't just google "am I transgender quiz"

[cosmicgamer]

The way Luz's thank you drawing got rejected by the person it was for when she thought she finally found someone who wouldn't make fun of her for her eccentric behavior, that she is worthless..and then the drawing does get recognized, that it's beautiful and why would it get thrown away. She was finally understood (I am in shambles help-)