#what better coping mechanism

[cruelplatonic]

my personal headcanon is the vees were unremarkable nobodies when they were alive. i just love it as a thematic throughline for them. they love to let the public of hell speculate on them being famed and acclaimed since before death, but the the truth is they were a d-list failed influencer that got by on cheap controversey and scamming, a broke junkie who burned every shaky bridge he ever had, and a worn-out broadcast production assistant with more rejected auditions and tossed out script pitches than he could count. nobody missed them when they were gone, nobody cared who they were until they were dead.

[the-unconquered-queen]

The cast of Blades of Light and Shadow and their Perfect Match types

Ever since I did my Blades/Elementalists attunement crossover to mark the anniversary of the Blades series, I’ve known I wanted to do something like this to mark the wide release of book three, and I love me some Perfect Match and the types system, so what better way than by incorporating that into a piece?

So the match types you see here are based on what we’ve seen of these characters up to book two, so any character evolution they may undergo in book three is not accounted for. You might also notice that, when deciding each character’s type, I went off of the core four traits instead of the match name or description, unless I needed a tiebreaker.

Finally, MC’s type is pretty subjective, as I’m sure everyone has a different idea of what their MCs are like, so for the sake of this edit set, Raine’s type is based on which traits she displays most in canon.

So, are you swiping right?

[realbeefman]

stacy is sooo interesting because she's in love with house but knows that they will never ever be able to have a healthy, stable, sane relationship because they're too similar so. she finds house-lite instead and marries him and. essentially moves on with her life! and is successful in this because she's a moderately well-adjusted person!

wilson, in contrast, never manages to escape the inevitable, in spite of his best efforts to find a house-lite of his very own, because he's an absolute fucking freak and ends up glued to house to the bitter. bitter end

[lazy--lillies]

Yknow what yeah maybe Bianca didn’t actually have to raise Nico after their mom died because they were put in the Casino where they were both looked after and were only there a week then immediately got put in a military school where they would’ve been separated and looked after anyway. But maybe they were also born into 1940s Italy where men are coddled and women are mummified from birth and she would have felt the pressure to look after him anyway. Maybe she worried about him like a mother, and felt that worry grow after their mother died, and maybe she was scared of it because she knew she would let it become her if she stayed near him. And she wasn’t ready for that, so she did the only thing she could think of. She ran.

[lavenoon]

"hi love you need better coping mechanisms and also maybe to leave the city sometimes because its stuffy and putting you on edge so will you come burn some marshmallows with me in the woods"

@naffeclipse I continue <3

*self insert is not a girl (he/ she)

og detective au by sunnys-aesthetic!

[thecatinthepurplepants]

just scrolling looking at what the crunchyroll algorithm would spit out at me tonight when I came across this category and uh

... the best huh? Aaare you sure???

Are you really, really sure about that crunchyroll???

[deoidesign]

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[mihai-florescu]

Ive been brewing a theory that people are obsessed with demanding media show them morally good things because we're replacing religion with tv shows and pop culture in general in our everyday life. From one story, one form of escapism that dictates our life and community seeking to another, humanity has always been the same. Or rather, there will always be forms of control to keep us occupied and distracted (at the same time it wouldn't be so effective if we weren't intrinsically wired to seek a distraction from reality, so i can't even blame people who "fall" for it. I think it's a natural instinct that helps people build a lens to approach reality through, to stay sane in a meaningless irrational world.)

[malifiquemakes]

When all else is gone, you'll have me.

[lycankeyy]

This is a random dark thing but I was looping Too Young again which is like The "fc!bf's negative emotions" song so idk why I'm surprised BFJQHDJ ANYWAY. A thing w fc!Pico is that he makes a lot of offhand jokes abt how like he Should be dead or making rly dark jokes about his near-death experiences just bc of the amount of shit he's been through and he doesn't really see a problem with it but I feel like after The Hanzou Incident BF starts saying similar shit and Pico's like woah hey wait a minute that's illegal you can't do that

[lesbiankoby]

still thinking about vergil more or less canonically haunting nero while ultimately being still alive… could be a fun idea to explore

[sleeping-at-sea]

I already knew the things Calypso did to Odysseus but honestly just listening to Love In Paradise over and over really just finally had it click and I realize how much projection I've done onto Odysseus and how most of it is honestly true and could most likely be true

[satomikristen]

Aid

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

Leonardo: Now, the recipe calls for 2 shots of vodka.

Dazai: *upends the bottle*

[angelsanddirtyrain]

cole cassidy is an angry man. he's angry at the world, at himself, at the powers that be, at the factions that keep fucking up this shithole of a planet at every turn of the way. his rage is deep-seated and all consuming, it would be justifiable for him to be endlessly bitter at the world that failed him and many others, his case especially starting far too early with his beyond fucked up upbringing, but we keep only seeing glimpses of this anger in his present self. his refusal to forgive himself and soldier 76 for what they did in hanamura is such an outlier in his voicelines that it almost seems like it doesn't belong in his oft lighthearted exchanges with the other heroes. it makes you ask that if this is really the case, why do we never see him lash out? he's more than enough reason to after all.

well, he's seen what unrestrained wrath has done to those around him.

he witnessed ashe fall deeper and deeper into the viper pit, her rage soothed only by the sweet release of vengeance. he was angry during retribution, angry enough to question why they weren't killing antonio to begin with, but knew deep inside that it wasn't the right choice. when he watched gabriel kill antonio, he watched as his mentor and the world he found himself beginning to find comfort in burned down right in front of his eyes. nobody came out of it victorious, only assessing casualties and fallout.

so when cole feels that coiled snake in him start to rattle, baring its fangs and hissing, when he looks down at his mechanical arm and starts to clench his fist at the thought of everything that's been taken from him, he sees gabriel and ashe's faces in the back of his mind. he sees the inferno of wrath that took away the closest things he had to family and the thought slowly unfurls the knot in his throat. he can't let that happen again, he thinks, not to himself. so, he lets the rage cool down, slide off him like water off a duck's back, and pops another bottle of beer open.

[theworstcreature]

I’m pretty sure ajr just yoinked the lyric “I hope I made you smile, it’s all I’ve ever wanted” straight out of my brain bcz thats literally my mindset 24/7 365