#we can be mended

[starryyvenus]

What do you mean four gets with Christina??? What happened to “if you die, I die” like what?????? Like I understand if he heals from tris’s death but getting with someone else???? That’s also her best friend?????? That’s just to far like he does not need to be with someone else at all like I read a fanfic where the love interest dies and the main character doesn’t get with anyone else at all he grows old and eventually dies like it’s literally possible for four as well it’s just so completely stupid to have four end up with someone else especially tris’s best friend

[not-someone-you-adore]

Tris dies. She dies. She's no more.

WHAT? WHY? WHYYYYYYYY? WHY DID SHE HAVE TO DIE? and four's reaction to her death? im heartbroken.

then, four starts dating christina afterwards??? like wasnt the bombshell of tris's death enough?

like why do you have to do this? who gave four the right to date christina out of all people? geez, now i wish christina had died in insurgent during that ledge situation

[wasyago]

Can you draw that snail? You know the one who got out of Grian's power and started to eat Gem's lighthouse?

little guy <3

alternatively: big guy.

[elodieunderglass]

[toovirgins]

sick of seeing reports about paul mescal playing paul mccartney in the upcoming biopic. they should’ve cast me (a beautiful woman)

[celtrist]

SLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD BUT NOTHING TOO OBVIOUS (I would've waited a week but this one is pretty vague spoiler wise so...): I feel like most people might think she was being unfairly harsh in part due to her being a teenager and not understanding things. But I also think that's partially not giving her enough credit. I personally think she's very right in her actions, if not a bit melodramatic. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It is very clear Stolas LOVES Octavia, but his loving and caring about her does not make him a good father. As viewers, we haven't been given any reason that Octavia should forgive Stolas. She seems kind of absent in his life and we've seen him prioritize things like Blitz over her (they make it a point several times in the show with the Asmodeus song and Lulu Land). They've kind of kept alluding to how Stolas does, in action, love Blitz more and doesn't pay enough attention to Octavia. And the show doesn't put a lot of effort into showing him trying to be better in this. He SAYS he is, but actions speak louder than words (and in a show, it's 9/10 times better to show it, not tell it). There hasn't been a moment in the show that shows Stolas putting in effort to mend his relationship with Octavia when we know it's important to him. And granted, yes, they have only so much time and episodes. But by the same token, there are episodes they could've not done (cherubs and Fizzaroli episodes) that could've put focus on Octavia and Stolas' relationship. Stolas' and Octavia's relationship feels more important than the day in the life of Fizz (and I like Fizz and his forgiving Blitz adds to that story, but we didn't need to see his life with Mammon).

If they want to keep hammering in the issues between Octavia and Stolas, then they also need to show the two mending (or bonding) on screen for it to feel fair for Octavia to forgive and trust him. We can't just say "off-screen stuff" as a resolution when this relationship is consistently shown to be rough and needs work. It's like if a show kept showing a couple being terrible for each other, but they keep mentioning stuff they did off-screen that tells us the relationship is good. That's not good writing! And while I have plenty of critiques for Helluva's and Hazbin's writing, I don't feel like they'd try to pull the "they solved it off-screen" thing. I don't think they'd be SLOW about it, but I think they'd at least show us on-screen stuff with it.

While I do think Stolas was in a difficult situation, you can't deny he's not a very good father (he wasn't even aware of her interests until the Lulu Land episode). Like, he can love her all he wants, but if he's not there for her, he's not there. And we haven't been given many reasons for him NOT to be there for her. You can't really name a lot of things Stolas has done in recent times for her that we've been allowed to see. The only part of their relationship we've seen is that they do care for each other but it needs work. I think it's obvious she's gonna forgive Stolas, just in part because he does genuinely want to do better by her and they DID have a good relationship when she was younger. And I think that's a good route to go with it (especially if they make a parallel of Octavia forgiving and trusting Stolas while Barbie chooses to keep hating Blitz).

I feel like people can be a bit lenient on Stolas because he's depressed and was in a loveless forced marriage with a woman while being gay, but I don't think that's fair for a character like Octavia then to have her feelings brushed off. Like there's certainly wiggle room to be sure, but it shouldn't mean we should ignore his actions and forgive him for everything he does. Stolas did do wrong and it makes me happy to see that there are consequences to his actions (good or bad). We've seen him keep flirting with Blitz over spending time with his daughter. These are things we DO see on screen. I do think Octavia was harsh, it's not like I don't (like with her reaction to the pills), but we as viewers haven't been given much reason for Octavia to forgive Stolas so easily. We haven't seen them have a good relationship really. Hell, we haven't even been shown them having a BAD relationship really. But the times we do get, it often shows the rough, bad side of it. Yes, she's 17 so her emotions are a bit wild and everything, and while I don't think she fully understands all the complexities, I also don't think she's a baby. Like... she's not an idiot. Teenagers have the capability to understand some of these things, she's not 5. Octavia wasn't JUST upset about the pills, she's upset because the man who said would always be there for her kept leaving for the imp he had an affair with. She's upset because he keeps being dishonest with her. Stolas has done far more for Blitz than we have seen him do for Octavia. I think the pills and that he's never told her about them was just the final straw of everything.

I don't think it's fair to say "Octavia doesn't know better" when she's 17. The show has hammered in the point that his actions have not = how he feels for Octavia very well. That, or just neglected to show any good bonding moments between them or anything that didn't involve Octavia having to forgive Stolas (as any Octavia episode had Stolas ignoring her and then saying sorry. Which would maybe be fine if they showed more to their relationship outside of that).

Rambled more than I thought I would for the series I have way less interest in, haha. But I don't really care for the "Stolas did nothing wrong" attitude I see some people have when Stolas has done things wrong. He was in an unfortunate situation to be sure, but he can still do wrong things (by all accounts, him cheating on Stella was wrong on a moral level). I LIKE Stolas' character too btw, and I like how messy he is. But I feel like a lot of people are gonna brush off Octavia's view as "she doesn't know any better" or just that she was being unfair about everything when I don't think that's fair to her. She was harsh, yes. I think the pill thing she doesn't understand entirely, but she's 17 not stupid. And there's more than just the pills that Octavia has reason to be mad about concerning her father that I think people don't wanna acknowledge. Maybe I'm talking nonsense though? I don't know, I really haven't been convinced about some of Stolas' actions, even if again his situation was messy/complicated.

[borgialucrezia]

"This, dear sister, is a gift for you like no other" "For me?"

[chicago-geniza]

Calmly noting for my own records and posting for accountability that it's nigh impossible not to resume at least some disordered eating "behaviors" and thought patterns when your state-mandated, welfare-limit-imposed grocery budget is $292 a month and groceries cost approximately One Million US Dollars

[pushing500]

Goodbye, Angst; we hope you had a good time staring at the wall in the laboratory. Mechi cordially invites you to never return. xoxo

Mechi is excellent at childcare

I distinctly remember looming over my parents' bed in the dark and waiting for them to wake up when I was little. I bet it's much creepier when it's not even your kid doing it, just some random child who wandered into your house.

I bet Mechi hates being called "Mr. Jones"

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[dollya-robinprotector]

I know I have a habit of always keeping things to myself… But why am I still surprised when people don’t know what I know?

[italicized-oh]

okay but. the way that the teachers in fantasy high are also tropes from the same teen coming of age movies that the kids are. like. no wonder we're out here finding so much to tap into w apparently little canon info. like true, in d20 canon, we've only got a few lines of dialogue for jace and zara and porter and eugenia and henry etc etc

but in the larger canon that fantasy high as a whole is building on, we have plenty to work with. im too tired to list examples rn but i know they're there. they're the intertexts for any fic that expands fantasy high beyond what we see in the dome. what i wanna know is if we're building from tropes of teachers or of students, or if we're creating frankenstein's tropes whenever however we feel like it

[alicentalicent]

This moment in 1x02 probably led Viserys to choose Alicent to marry him.

This moment in 2x04 is when Alicent's doubts really start to sink in, her purpose and her duty, tied to Viserys, start to crack.

(It's fun that the dragon wing breaking is also a nod to Sunfyre falling later in the episode)

(I also like to think that Alicent breaking the dragon could foreshadow the part she will play in being the force opposing Rhaenyra's duty in the following seasons.)

And then we get Alicent saying this. I believe this is the first step in the much-needed processing of what Viserys did to her, I really hope we will get more of this in the next seasons.

[bismuthburnsblue]

finally cracking on with the first of the two skirts that need refitting!

so this skirt started out as a fabric rescue from a failed project quite a few years ago, so it was never particularly well made- more sewn with frustration than anything! i ended up really loving the silhouette though & its become one of my favourite pieces to style. its a full circle skirt, but cut with a big waist & gathered up for about 4 inches at the back, emulating victorian walking skirts.

ive already rehemmed it, but the zip and waistband have annoyed me since i first did them (it was before i really got my head around how i wanted to do this style of waistband- the hook and eye never really worked 🙃) and now... well its significantly too big, so its finally time to fix it!

heres the plan:

the waist needs to come in about 4 inches, so im going to remove the entire waistband and readjust the gathering to take it in to the correct size. while im here im going to replace the zip with an invisible zip & just... fix that whole situation.... then ill reattach the waistband, fixing up the ends & leaving an overhang to add a hook and bar!

i might also FINALLY try and really get that crease out of the front

[riacte]

❄️🏁Just between us, do you remember it all too well? 🏁❄️

Hurriedly (and I do mean hurriedly) grabbed a few screenshots <3 BRR you are so beautiful and big and ambitious and so glad to see it finished <3

[boag]

To this day my one big qualm with the Riverdale Heathers: The Musical episode is that when Veronica sings Lifeboat they cut out the belting part…. It’s the climax of the song it’s so important to really feel it