#twirling hair around my finger

[dingdongdick]

"I shall endeavour to be the very best of guides"

[blindluck]

i didn't wanna reply over there cus this ended up getting rly long but there's this post by @shitpostingperidot and @marvelsassbutts about carol and maria's GNR concert in 88 and my brainworms got to making up hc after hc now all i think about is how that could've been the first time they got together despite mutually pining and coparenting monica for like 4/5 years or so anywayyy

idk if there's like a screenshot frame of monica's sword file or smth that shows her birthday in exact terms so i might be going on abt nothing here but listen

mcu wiki says she was born around june/october of 1983

it also says carol and maria met in their first year of AF academy "shortly after turning 18", so that's either late 1983 or early 1984, bc carol's birthday is late 65

which means monica was already in the picture by then 🥺🥺

what i'm thinking is maria got pregnant at around 17/18 and her parents took care of monica for the first year or so when she enlisted bc why wouldn't they

but as soon as she lands the test pilot job and starts making bank they're like "i love you so much and i'm very proud of you now here's your child go be her mom"

this is like in their 2nd or 3rd year of flight school so it catches everyone by surprise, and ofc higher ups use it as excuse to subtly and passive-aggressively ground maria on paid vacations and maternity leaves

obviously she sees right through the fake benevolent facade and overcompensates by not only refusing benefits, but taking on even bigger workloads

which then obviously gets her drained and exhausted and ofc carol notices and worries

she's been trying to give maria space through the whole ordeal but there's a line between giving you space and watching you get put through the wringer without doing anything

so she finally corners maria like "hey i know this is fucked up but maybe you could find another way to stick it to them without slowly killing yourself in the process can u pls just give me a call when it's too much to handle i am begging on my knees"

("my best friend, who supported me as a mother and a pilot when no one else did")

maria does slow down a bit but she still hesitates to call for help, until one particular hard night she cracks and carol gets there at flying speed to do chores and dinner and take care of monica while maria (a single mom in her early 20s who is also an overworked test pilot) finally gets some goddamn rest

(after changing monica's diaper tho bc apparently carol can't help with that)

from then on carol pretty much moves in with them

maria starts slowing down and taking care of herself and getting her due leaves and relying more on her parents and friends and she loves monica so much and things are so overwhelmingly good right now...............except for this one small carol shaped situation

they've been roommates before, you see, and maria is very aware she's been in love with this goobster for a minute

but she's also a black single mom in the US air force she really doesn't have to make things harder on herself so she's been trying rly damn hard to keep carol at arm's length for both their sakes

carol too is very aware that she's in love with maria and probably has been since forever (she's not super in touch with her feelings to pinpoint when the gears shifted, plus thinking back on it she can't rmbr a time when she wasn't in love with her yknow)

but "maria has a kid she's straight" (wrong) and also carol is very insecure (canon) so she's afraid of rejection and doesn't wanna ruin the friendship and she'd rather have maria in her life as a friend instead of not at all

even if it breaks her to wake up literally next to the love of her life every single day and not spill her entire heart out

especially bc maria's mask slips sometimes, mostly when she's drunk (even if just a bit tipsy) or when they share a particularly emotional moment (quite often tbf, considering how close to dying the very nature of their job gets them on a regular basis)

fast forward to 1988

carol and maria pretty much live together and monica loves auntie carol to pieces and their hearts are both so close to exploding they might actually die for real at any given moment

now to finally tie back to where this whole thing started: carol brings home tickets to a GNR concert, maria stares at her dead in the eye like "bitch this is 500 miles away" and carol's like "oh..........................road trip? :D"

you'll never guess what happens there

one year later, carol's missing

presumed dead

[cipheramnesia]

Oh, uh, h-heyp

LESBIANS LESBIANS LESBIANS

Do you think lesbians are fuckin Beetlejuice or something? You can't just chant it three times and summon them.

[softiedingo]

[httpiastri]

https://twitter.com/mclaronz/status/1807060390519648580?t=BDumRCrF0YGQx8cOKBk3YQ&s=19

Imagining this face after other things.

don't even........ i will scream

[weirwoodsugar]

she was literally so hot and interesting for this.

[roanofarcc]

hot girls haunt the narrative!! hot girls are dead before the story even starts!! hot girls only exist in the rose-tinted memories of their best friend who really wants to kiss them but can’t!!

[androgynouspenguinexpert]

he can make it work with nine fingers probably

(cw for blood and miscellaneous injuries)

[hellspawnsparks]

lovely & happy (& gay!) idogs

[hurricane-heatt]

thinking about this video…

[romanceddawn]

rivalshipping with yugi walking into kaiba's study and it just looks like this pic but with yugi everywhere, and yugi's just like "wow….he really does like me 🥹"

the stalking actually raises yugi's self esteem and kaiba doesn't understand it but hes just glad yugi's not mad at him

[perdvivly]

I had a dream that you were getting up to some real avant-garde posting in the dream world. as I drifted off to sleep tonight, I thought "wow, I can't wait to see perdvivly's dreamposting"

so, congratulations on the strength of your psychic power

!!!!!!!!!

It’s so good to be acknowledged for my dream posting. I feel like the whole dream series was some of my best stuff to be honest.

[yogurthoopsart]

yo it's the trans foxy artist, I saw you on Reddit.

huh. that was fast. I'm surprised you found me even when i didn't put a watermark in the images. i hope everyone on reddit also thinks Roxy being trans is canon (<<<< already assumes everyone thinks trans roxy is canon) (<<< unwell about fictional robots)

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

trying to decide in my head whether sasha keeps that one strand of hair out of place on purpose or if he tries to gel it back with the rest of his hair but it just comically bounces out of place every time .. given one of his psychonauts 1 idle animations is him trying to flip it back it’s probably the latter. my failgirl <333

[corvidcall]

do you think Epic: the musical is going to keep in the part of The Odyssey where Odysseus pranks his grieving dad for no fucking reason. i hope so

[tozettastone]

I think it would be fun to make a modern akatsuki AU in which Deidara's post-defection career is just cage fighting. Like he leaves Rock, goes out into the wide world, and is faced with the problem all early career freelancers face ("connect service with paying customer??") and lands in an underground cage fighting situation because if he had to, like, work at a 7-Eleven, he'd kill someone. It's fine. He's A NINJA. He can cage fight.

I can't think of a place where his specific combat skills would be LESS useful than in an enclosed space and surrounded by spectators he's not meant to injure.

He'd be so mad all the time. And that's how I feel about my job! And it's probably how you feel about your job! Who doesn't know that specific professional "were it not for the rules by which I get paid, I would slay you where you stand" feeling?

You would also get the amusing payoff from this where he'd pick up his first contract job through his cage fighting professional network (hey, it's like LinkedIn for hired thugs) and he'd be like: 'Finally. An opportunity to do what I do best. Art.'

And then whoever hired him would get to realise in extravagant textual detail that they had done the hired goon equivalent of bringing a flamethrower to kill ants.