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[mikanferno]

Prompt 1: Favorite OC

i drew both teddy and vee haha i couldnt decide,, love these siblings so much for real (also ted's playing on techi's phone)

[lucabyte]

messier doodle pages feat. mostly loop because i'm thinking about the body horror of it all... amongst other things.

... at least one of those things being. hey. unrelated to this doodle page. how many months was siffrin travelling with the party? It wasn't that many, right? How many loops would it take before they'd've been in the house longer than they had even been with them? Much to think about!

[menlove]

now & then by the beatles -> lyric video

[waitineedaname]

I was thinking about this post comparing sqh and jgy, and then this chart happened. this is less about what they're Actually like, and more about a combination of intentional persona + public perception of them

[studioboner]

Oopsie shouldnt have said that!

[fullscoreshenanigans]

(The Promised Neverland Art Book World)

Ah yes, one of my favorite genres of baby full score trio pictures: Isabella being openly affectionate toward Emma and Norman in front of Ray while being hands off with him.

(Chapter 2 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 165 | Chapter 170 | Chapter 177)

[mirrorofliterature]

people accept that the jedi order was a powerful institution and therefore flawed challenge: impossible

like.

the clones: don't go to war. maybe investigate their origins a little better. (obviously Palpatine orchestrated this all, but it's not like the Jedi council couldn't have acted differently).

anakin's mother: just free one woman, not invade a whole planet. they have shadows. also, did cleigg really 'free' shmi? situation is a bit suspicious.

treatment of anakin: the whole council scene in phantom menace. letting a literal nine-year-old into a war zone. anakin should have gotten different treatment because he's a traumatised former slave, not because he's the chosen one.

like. all I am saying. is that the jedi order was flawed. not evil, not deserving of order 66, not solely responsible for anakin's fall, flawed.

and by moral absolutism I mean that they're very set in their ways.

that's kind of a huge part of the PT. the senate was corrupt, the Jedi order had stagnated, all the chips fell for Palpatine but one man isn't responsible for widespread corruption and stagnation.

I am a death to the author person. so. I also did do literature. like. just because Anakin eventually became evilTM doesn't mean the Jedi order was a 100% perfect.

[waspgrave]

now there was no reason for lucanis to be given purple johnny silverhand as a plot point and then never have the purple johnny silverhand utilized except for maybe 3 or 4 times in the game (if you saved Treviso, otherwise it's twice) and dialogue. Dialogue where he pretty much just says weird and funny things and occasionally gets scolded like a dog which is entertaining sure but there is Literally A Demon In One Of The Companions Why Is This Not A Bigger Deal

[trialsofsaint14]

[micky mouse voice] wuh happen

[altruistark]

i don't see erik as a weapon, though other ppl tend to wield him like one. he’s a man doomed by the narrative and his own trauma, stuck in a constant cycle of hurting the people he loves over and over again. accidentally or otherwise.

[dayurno]

hiii dayurno could you tell me more about raven!jeremy? it's such a new idea sounds very interesting!!!

hiii of course! buckle up. long story and also a collab with ao3 kevjean :3

well first of all let me say that in this au jeremy is not part of the perfect court or in fact even close to it at all. he’s a sub striker with a high jersey number who did not see much playtime during his career as a raven and was on the lower end of the raven spectrum skill-wise. this is important to tell you because the fic doesn’t start with jeremy in the ravens, it starts with him dealing with the aftermath of the nest getting dissolved and losing every bit of his hopes and dreams after sacrificing everything in his life to make it in eau—it starts with kevin salvaging the last dregs of jeremy’s college career by recruiting him for the foxes for his last year, even though jeremy, as an ex raven, hates him (and jean) for what they’ve done both to riko and to their team

ok good. so set the scene. jeremy is miserable. the ravens already didn’t like kevin and jean to begin with, isolated as they were from the perfect court. now jeremy lost not only his team but the lifestyle surrounding it, the ideology of the ravens, his partner, and his career prospects. he doesn’t have the eau raven title anymore and he can’t use it to get himself in the line of sight of most pro team recruiters. he gave up a family (that didn’t love him much, but still) and a trustfund for this. kevin day leaves the nest, jean moreau follows soon after, and their king kills himself. Do you understand how much jeremy hates them? kevin and jean were perfect court, were untouchable, didn’t even know or care to learn his name as a sub striker with not much under his belt—and then they left and destroyed everything jeremy had worked so hard for without even thinking about him. without remembering him at all, in fact.

he hates them!!!!!!!! desperately. With a passion. getting recruited for the foxes and by kevin day on top of it all is humiliating, but it’s the last chance he has. jeremy arrives in palmetto an angry hateful mess made ten times worse by kevin’s constant criticism of him, unaccustomed with normal life and without a partner for the first time in four years. he’s volatile and destructive and he has nothing to live for. exy is the only thing he wants and it doesn’t want him back. :) kevin steps in and takes jeremy’s game from him much like he did with neil, both out of desperation because the foxes are a mess now with the addition of their freshmen, and because, while jeremy isn’t really anything to write home about in terms of skill, he’s far more ambitious and disciplined than the average fox. jeremy hates kevin but can’t afford to reject his help. thus begins the most convoluted raven partnership to ever exist

jeremy hates kevin and has a non-negligible wish to harm him whichever way he can, but he’s also a raven that escaped the nest all on his own. he latches onto kevin immediately, the two of them becoming partners in the raven sense of the world while clashing Often and Intensely with each other both on and off court. their relationship gets more and more volatile the more jeremy goes out of his way to get under kevin’s skin, resentful and so angry at what the perfect court’s done to him, while kevin sinks his feet in and pushes jeremy way past his limits in his training. basically they are a match made in hell :) lots of hatefucking and jealousy and violence and the one murder attempt ensue as the foxes try to navigate this destructive, hopeless version of jeremy that wants to die and take down as much as he can in the process, up to and including kevin day. they’re together every second of the day and jeremy hates him for everything kevin took from the ravens, but he also depends on kevin’s training and presence to feel like a person again. it’s a really big mess basically that is eventually made worse (and better) by kevin and jeremy starting to sleep together to get the adrenaline out raven-style. and that’s all without jean coming along, which he will eventually

[mikanferno]

super proud of this...

[andy-clutterbuck]

[virsancte]

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[ancientbygone]

unraveling for each other [to the benefit of no one]

[desceros]

Why did you call the fic "Ataraxia"?

I remember I studied that word in philosophy years ago, doesn't it mean something like serenity or calmness?

-trenchcoat

excellent question, tc! thank you for the excuse to lore dump hahahaha

you are correct! ataraxia is an idea in several different schools of thought, like stoicism and epicureanism. it represents the release of emotional disquiet to achieve something kind of like a mental tranquility.

i always pictured that the early part of a relationship with villain donnie would be quite tumultuous. he’s a difficult person to be with, romantically and sexually. he’s mean and cruel and possessive and jealous. the insert-chan for this au is strong-willed and almost attracted to him against your wish. it’s like. man. out of all the guys that snag your attention, it’s this guy?? this guy?? the annoying guy who gives you troublesome gifts and blows up your phone with messages and has a hissy fit whenever you ignore him??

it drives you nuts how someone like him just has you wrapped around his finger. you hate it. you hate how much you like him. you hate how good he feels. how good he makes you feel. oh if only you knew he’d felt the same way before giving in… that giving in would feel so so good…

this fic, which takes place a few months after you start having sex with donnie, is the story of when you finally realize that you do have romantic feelings for him. the moment you realize that this whole time, for donnie it’s never been “just fucking.” you aren’t just a toy to him, some little plaything he uses to distract himself. you’re his partner. his romantic partner. he loves you, and you love him. and so you shed the hesitancy, the reluctance. in so doing, you achieve a kind of ataraxia, and the life where you and donnie are equal begins.