#two opposite ends of the spectrum :))))

[falling-skyzz]

[greghatecrimes]

This had no business being as funny as it was

[wawataka]

made these edits for the age swap au. dies

[grimfantas]

you don't need morals, you need someone like you who can understand

[igotublue]

!!! Adds to the pile of cow man

[chootaminute]

two of them (two of them)

[lostsyren]

why do you think Sofia (OBX) didn't go to college?

I think it was financial reasons, that’s the most likely explanation. Perhaps she had to provide another form of income for her family, which we see in s4. She’s an older sibling of four, so maybe her parents needed the extra cash. She could’ve put off college for a year and now she’s stuck in her job or something? Anyone else have any theories/headcannons?

Also just want to talk about Rafe’s classism here– he rolls his eyes, he’s unsympathetic to her. Rafe had college handed to him on a plate, which he messed up (since he’s literally 19 in s1 so he’s most likely a drop out). And instead of working hard and honestly for his money (like Sofia does), he took the easy and immoral path, spurred by his greed. And it’s his greed that leads him into this mess. His greed incited him to put a hit on his father (scared of losing the gold from the cross, Tannyhill, etc…)

He writes off Sofia’s “wrong move” because he can’t relate, whereas Sofia endeavours to help/understand his situation, despite him barely giving her anything to work with.

[orangechickenpillow]

Ironic that I finally got around to watching Castlevania just around the height of my bg3 obsession. All I have to say is-

Unfortunately there is a trend

[ofmermaidstories]

there’s something so bittersweet and lovely about fanfic, at it’s core. it’s so impermeable, because it’s so individual. fics don’t get finished. fics get lost because they were typed out and sent to friends, in the 70s, and somewhere along the way someone packed it up in a cardboard box and their kids shuffled it to the attic. websites go down. archives get built, but then people lose faith in the story or the canon or the creator and delete them. you read it at like, 3am, and can’t remember the title months later when you look for it again.

the tiktok these comments are from was lamenting about the loss of a favourite fic—it (the tiktok) had 85k+ likes, and over 700 comments, mostly similar to these. people talking about downloading fics to read on a tablet only for them to disappear the next day. using the wayback machine and combing through results, just to find something they loved. i think it’s sweet because it’s so human—how easily we love something, and how easily we lose it. i used to print out my favourite fics, as a kid—i still have a binder of them, buried under yearbooks and the old journals i kept during those topsy turvy preteen years. i could tell you the overarching plot to a Cardcaptor Sakura fantasy AU i read (and loved; it became my personality for months afterwards) but i can’t remember how it ended, or if it even did. i finally broke down and signed up for an account on AO3 specifically to bookmark an old, old fic that i had read somewhere else, years and years and years ago and found again on AO3 only because i accidentally stumbled on the author here on tumblr (i had only found the fic in the first place all those years ago because of a playlist). i used the same shade of lipstick for years purely because a fic i really liked had the main character apply it (it was a limited edition one at the time; i bought my first one from a ebay seller in the UK at double the retail price, lmao) while the love interest watched them, but i can’t remember the name of it, only how it made me feel (and how, for years afterwards, i would wear that shade whenever i felt like the day had something promising to it).

one of the first anon’s i ever got, in the early days of this tumblr, was someone who asked me if it was okay if they downloaded surrender—and of course it was. of course it is. there was a point, during the final stretch when i was trying to write the last chapter, that i almost lost the entirety of what i had written for that fic—and i mean, it was on AO3 by that stage so it would’ve only set me back a chapter or so, but it goes to show how fragile things can be. how sometimes fics only last in tiny ways—because of the unfinished PDF file someone downloads. The patchy memory of someone’s who’s jumbling it and three other fics together. Because someone wore the same shade of lipstick you mentioned, off-hand, for years afterwards.

(this is a love letter to the silent readers; the silent savers. the lurkers. fandom and the internet at large is made of lurkers (eighty-five thousand likes. seven hundred comments). people who saved fics and waybacked them and will reread them, even uncompleted. telling each other we did a good job, that we liked this or we liked that is wonderful, and fun, and a great (and important) way to build a community and has also given me my current friends—but sometimes something you make will matter and live on in a way you will never, ever know. and it’s just how it is. it’s part of the fun and it’s part of the charm. it’s just how we work as people.)

[closed--meadow]

Kaveh and Kakavasha both being cursed by luck is personal to me...

[incorrect-green-lantern-quotes]

Thinking about how Teen Lantern's introduction makes the Earth GLs a family that consists of a bunch of adults with one kid.

Complete opposite of the Batfam, where Batman is the singular adult with a bunch of kids.

[possiblyawesometmblr]

I’m here to hear more about the lesbians (/hj), but seriously CAN WE KNOW ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT JUNIPER?

stronk

for real though, i like to think she's extremely perceptive. like almost scarily so. she balances out rowan's near blindness

[franzsiska]

'ruthlessness' and 'thunder bringer' competing for who can put odysseus through the most amount of trauma <3

[moe-broey]

ROSADO IN FEH LET'S GOOOOOOO 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[valkyurii]

when i see someone put both radahn and malenia in s tier on their boss ranking list

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

the best kind of antagonists are the ones where you hesitate to even call them a villain because in another world, if the cards had fallen slightly differently, if the perspective of the story had been altered just slightly they could have been the hero. the ones whose shade of moral gray comes so close to the protagonists you're rooting for that you can't help but feel the loss of their potential when the confrontation comes, where you know they're just a victim of circumstances out of their control. the other best kind of antagonists are the ones who go "here's how this works: i fuck around and the rest of y'all idiots get to find out"