#watch him pretend he's not interested

[raijintosworn]

There is peace in silence if one looks for it. The rhythmic chopping breaking the silence is like a heartbeat. It’s soothing. It’s a respite from the constant hustle and bustle of the rest of life at Garreg Mach. Not that he minds it, but he’s enjoying this moment. He’s sure his partner-in-slicing is feeling it too, as he’s been silent beside him.

Or at least, that’s what Ryoma thought until he opened his mouth. He furrowed his brow.

“I disagree,” Ryoma says. “It may be faster, but it’s far more dangerous. Did you know it takes the same force to cut a carrot as it does to cut a finger?” He looks down at the vegetables. He supposes it could be rather tedious to cut all these by hand. It could be kind of fun to grab a sword and try to cut the vegetables that way. But it wouldn’t be responsible. Responsibility may be boring, but Ryoma is boring.

Yes, he sees Shiro’s point about him being a boring nag. He also isn’t about to change that.

“And don’t you think this is rather relaxing?” Chop. “You should try to get into the rhythm of it.” Chop. “It isn’t so terrible.”

im number two on the fruit ninja leaderboard. get on my level.

[triglycercule]

killer being like "yeah i know every single little thing about horror and dust" (because he watches them as a part time hobby (freak) (find something better to do)) and then he acts surprised when they do something that he wouldnt expect them to do in his little predetermined absolutely perfect concept of them

like what do you MEAN horror licks spoons clean when he's using them so he doesn't have to get a completely different one for the main course and the dessert. what do you MEAN dust has a lisp even though he speaks fluently and uses even more complex words than killer himself. horror knows how to sew and he often patches up their things without either of them noticing?? dust always wears oversized and clothes that cover him up just because he finds it comfy?? what??? out ra geous???? these guys have small little quirks to them that killer doesn't already know about???? killer immediately wants to know more. so he can expand his internal profile of them of course. not for any other more endearing and sweet reason. not at all,,,,,,,, (:3)

[peck2neck]

YES i miss him NO i am not normal about it

[dq9]

on one hand i do like eduarent bc theyre an interesting dynamic between the subtly obsessive freak and the naive arrogant fool esp in regards to how they interact and play around each others mere presences but on the other hand i think makoto should be allowed to skin laurent and eat his innards raw with zero legal repercussions

[aerithisms]

rotating the pub scene from 73 yards in my mind i think there is so much being said there about wales and welsh/english tension that is so interesting and is going so under discussed

[vaguely-concerned]

I've been trying to figure out a dynamic between neve and rye that I find more compelling, because right now there's not much of anything there for me to sink my little teeth into. but I think I've landed on something delicious with the idea that especially after minrathous gets fucked, rye looks at neve and sees myrna -- someone he feels he keeps letting down horribly no matter how hard he tries not to and can't quite achieve the approval of/connection with that he wishes so it's better to just pull away completely and disengage rather than stay in that unshifting shame. neve is (very understandably) measured and distant with him after what happened, and he's flashing back to his student days of myrna gazing at the perpetually hungover heartbroken heap of a person of him on the other side of her desk every time he missed the deadline of a paper or project like '...can we at least both agree that this is. a bit disappointing. especially considering your potential.' (and him all smudged black eyeshadow and numb ruefulness being like 'sure that's a very kind way to put it myrna thank you'.)

aside from the 'if I let him get too deeply into this he'll go the way of brom and it'll be all my fault (again)' element, neve thinks rye is dismissing her and her city/being a bit callous in the same way he was after varric's death (listen. how fucking wild must rook's reaction to losing a beloved mentor seem to the rest of the crew who aren't seeing the blood magic paper doll ghost varric the whole time, especially those who got to see them interact. you WOULD think 'there's something wrong with this guy. putting the job first is one thing just not seeming to react at all is another this is fucking freaky', wouldn't you, especially after seeing the warmth in that dynamic in action beforehand.) perfect storm of two people who grit their teeth and turn inwards in pain deciding that not talking about it is their best bet (NEWSFLASH: IT ISN'T) lmao

(rye spent his last year of watcher training on a mostly joyless bender and then got it together enough to finish the eternal orb project last moment in a fevered near-sleepless week instead of the half a year that was intended. emmrich is both astounded and distressed to hear this. "a week? but -- but that is an astounding accomplishment rook!! and also why in the maker's good light would you ever do that to yourself?" ("well you see there was no one to stop me from doing it like that but me. and under those conditions these things tend to happen".) rye was working through/looking up stuff around transitioning and doing every kind of OTHER high level watcher research through that whole time, but ultimately he's an excellent watcher and a terrible student, at least under traditional methods. adhd from here to the fucking moon. touched by something akin to divine inspiration in moments of high tension that pulls all the threads into one coherent unbreakable cord, a bit of a frayed mess in most other settings. in our world he'd be dropping out of a masters program at the very last hurdle in this moment maker bless and protect him)

[aq2003]

bro why did no one tell me how good don juan in soho was <- talking about a play like 10 people have seen

[egregiousderp]

Had to stop for a moment at work thanks to the sudden realization that thanks to the Mouse Droid fic, it’s canon that Eli Vanto is exactly Tarkin’s type, and that makes his promotion process So Much Funnier in Thrawn.

[57sfinest]

actually i do want to make this a post. it’s so interesting to think about harry from other people’s perspectives, especially if they’re people who were around him before martinaise. because the thing about harry is: he’s a spectacle. there is not a single person left to him who genuinely *cares*. but there are people who take an interest for interest’s sake. harry is the car crash that people can’t look away from, and it’s such a rich lens to view him through.

let’s exclude jean, judit and trant because there’s already enough you can say about them as the sole remaining members of the major crimes unit. think of the other officers who worked at the 41st. whether they worked in c-wing with him or not, they were exposed to him. they had to be around him in some capacity. as a lieutenant, he was “responsible” (i use that term loosely) for overseeing a number of subordinates under the rank system. 

like put yourself in the shoes of a patrol officer at the 41st. you know harry as, in a word, unstable. a deeply unreliable man of extremes with alarmingly few personal attachments to keep him in check. he’s also practically untouchable as long as he keeps getting results, which he does, at a cost. so there’s never any point in formally complaining about him- he’s never going to be corrected or fired, so you just do one of the following: 1) keep your mouth shut (if you’re polite or playing it safe), 2) only bitch about him out of earshot (if you’ve got something to say but you’re nonconfrontational), 3) start shit with him but in a “playful” way that is secretly sincere (if you’re ballsy/have known him long enough), 4) or start shit with him for real (if you’re jean, or have a death wish). 

and the thing about the last two of those options- *especially the 3rd, which seems to be the favorite of his fellow C-wingers*- you have to know him VERY WELL to pull it off without ostensibly getting your nose broken (or worse). you have to know his moods and his triggers and what exact cocktail of bullshit he’s displaying that day so you know where the line is for this particular shift. whoever figures it out first passes it along to everyone else- hey, you can fuck with him about dating today, but don’t bring up the drinking or last week’s case or he’ll go ballistic. and it’s just like... he’s a specimen. you may not know him on a personal heart-to-heart level, but you know him the way a zookeeper knows their tigers, or the way the falconer knows their hawk. you know when to feed and when to back away with your arms up. it doesn’t make things better, but it stops them getting worse. (for you, anyway).

then martinaise happens and if he comes back- his instability is still there, but it’s not the same. you don’t recognize the way he’s acting. maybe some things are not as bad as before, but all of it is different and it’s impossible to get a read on it. you have no idea how to approach him now, or if you should approach him at all. there’s a new layer to his unreliability and it’s somehow even scarier than before. there’s a tiny tiny calm in his storm, finally, and you don’t know when it’s going to break or what’s going to break it. you hear he’s finally actually kicking the booze and maybe you just scoff and move on, or maybe you let yourself root for him. really it all depends on how long you’ve known him, how many times you’ve seen him *try*. how sympathetic you are to his conditions and how patient of a person you are. how many times he’s hurt you (because that number is rarely going to be zero). no matter what, you’re going to be left wondering. you don’t know how much of him is gone. you don’t know how much is going to come back. you’re not sure how much of each you *want*.

[sonics-loyal-dog-muttski]

the Archie Werehog arc is SO superior for actually doing something beyond a shallow reskin transformation for Sonic, and actually leaning into the whole WEREWOLF thing. I remember reading those issues and losing my mind bc it was literally everything I had ever hoped for ever since I had played Unleashed. bc I mean like. He’s running on all fours he’s going AWOOOOO and he’s got a growling and more aggressive voice and effect (even if he’s not intending it). and ur gonna tell me ‘nah he just Wasn’t Affected by the Dark Gaia energy even though he fucking transformed and got a direct fucking exposure’. not even A LITTLE different??? ur telling me he’s not even a little feral, it doesn’t even have to be NEGATIVE man just let him start barking. Archie version said ‘yuuuuuup he went fucking UNLEASHED for REAL this time’. I mean it started to lean further into the game version where the Werehog just made him look different and not fast anymore and nothing else but those first few issues were fun (also the Wise Old Mystic Man teaching Sonic the art of Honing His Energy or whatever was lame imo. They should have struggled with it longer). If nothing else I feel like in any version Sonic should have been written to be a little more upset and out of his element to have TOTALLY lost his speed, yknow the thing he bases his whole outlook on. I don’t want it need the whole thing to be like that just yknow. sprinkle some inner conflict in there instead of only at the beginning and end

[sherlock-is-ace]

Once again focusing too heavily on the science of it all while watching Masters of Sex lol I'm too asexual for this

But like Bill fucked his chance of having a really interesting study!! I know he wanted a control group first, and for the 50s that meant cishet men and cishet woman having penis-in-vagina type sex. But if he really wanted to study human sexuality and what the body goes through and all that he had the perfect chance!! In just one episode he got a woman who could only reach climax by being spanked, three gay men one of which was a bottom so Bill could have added anal sex to the study.

But nooo "we don't want deviants"... What a fucking idiot lol

It would habe been so interesting to see and compare the different things that make different people reach climax. And see if the reactions are the same or not both in the brain and the body. I know that it was revolutionary at the time to find out that an orgasm from clitoral stimulation was the same as one reached through penetration, but he could have had researched more ways.

As I said, I'm too asexual for this show ajfnjdfn it feels like a nature documentary to me lol

[baura-bear]

GODDAMNIT I looked up John Basilone to see how to spell his name but the first thing that came up was “DIED IWO JIMA 1945” and now I gotta pretend I didn’t just see that cause I’m literally in the middle of watching the episode where he’s about to be redeployed

[jellogram]

Dude Cody Ko is about to go down hard in like, the next 48 hours tops

[hexslvt]

not to be dramatic but i just saw my ex in a twitch chat of a streamer i showed her and now i feel sick to my stomach 🤡🤡🤡

[cressthebest]

it’s one am and neither me or the spider are supposed to be up. so i let him escape alive once he promised not to tell my dad i was eating grated cheese straight out the bag.

[infizero]

every time i so much as think about that scene where light looks at porn magazines while scowling i go into hysterics its genuinely the funniest thing i've ever seen