#I think they're in a polycule

[van-iira]

Hiiro has the same unfortunate thought I had when watching Battle, and has a crisis over this. Lucia is forced to deal with this.

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[kittyscabin]

miscommunication

[lifeandtimesoftrying]

I just watched "Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" (S05 E03), and something that really appeals to me about the Keiko/Miles/Kira ship is that Keiko and Miles are very much part of a family in a way that Kira's never had. Kira grew up in a refugee camp, believed her mother died when she was 3, joined the resistance when she was 12--effectively, due to the occupation, she never got to have a childhood like, say, Molly has.

While Miles has plenty of war memories of his own, and I assume that's at least somewhat affected Keiko, all of that happened when they were adults so they still had that reference of what a good childhood looks like. Miles still views Ireland as a home, and when he goes back there, he is going back to both a family and memories that are good. (I don't think we've explicitly gotten similar information about Keiko, but I'm chalking that up to her generally not being present in the show as much.)

Kira, in contrast, has never had a home in the same way. I doubt she'd go back to the refugee camp to reminisce, and she was constantly moving during her time with the resistance. When DS9 starts, Bajor has been free for less than a year, and Kira's living on a space station designed by Cardassians, serving under a Federation officer. She is proud of Bajor as her home, but she doesn't have a home on Bajor.

Furthermore, much of her relationship to Bajor itself is either based in the past ("Bajor used to have freedom/sophisticated technology/important artistic achievements/etc") or the future ("what does a healed Bajor look like; should it join the Federation; what will be its role in trade"). This is also reflected in the romantic relationships she's had so far. Vedek Bariel represented the ancient religious traditions (albeit in a more progressive way). Shakaar represents the forward march of the government, especially with how his political career would go against his caste pre-occupation, which is touched upon in S04E17 "Accession."

All in all, Kira's view on her life is rarely ever in the present, which is a fantastic contrast to the O'Briens. They have a daughter who is young enough that every few months she has a new development; they regularly make a point to be romantically (and sexually) close to one another; while Keiko is far from thrilled about their location, they intentionally make it work where they are. Their jobs also contribute to this. We mostly see the DS9 crew resolving crises, but dialogue implies that a lot of Miles' time is actually spent repairing small issues when they pop up, and Keiko goes on a whole expedition to study flora, which is governed by the seasons.

Kira carrying their baby entangles her in that same mindset. Her being pregnant demands that she pay attention to where she is then and there--she's always physically reminded of her condition, which keeps her locked in a fairly narrow timeframe. Plus, her moving in with the O'Briens means that she must get used to their daily rhythms. Kira's self-proclaimed lack of imagination impacts this as well. I love it as a character trait, but it raises the question of why she's that way.

My theory is that some of it is innate, but it was exacerbated by the trauma she experienced as a child. Childhood is often characterized as a time of great imagination and creative exploration, and Kira just... never had that. I can't find the precise quote, but when she is asked (I believe by Sisko?) if she ever had any daydreams, she responds that she'd dream that the Cardassians would leave Bajor and let the Bajorans live. Her attitude towards the Holoprograms lines up with this as well; she sees little point in doing something that isn't actually happening. For her to find value in something, it must be real--it must be useful. She used her one fantasy to turn herself into a soldier. And, pragmatically speaking, there is very little that is useful about romance, or candlelit dinners, or banter that leads to innuendos. So what happens when she's confronted with them?

[hey-heigo]

was suddenly possessed to draw this future foundation togiri from my post

(shoutout @to-nae-giri for their character style exploration sketches which really inspired how i drew these two lol)

meanwhile, makoto:

[komsomolka]

fandom loves to joke about how caleb must have covertly disliked zayne all this time because he sees him as love rival. and while i think those kind of insecure attitudes are not out of question with caleb i find it way more interesting to imagine how zayne probably witnessed a lot more vulnerable sides of caleb than mc because caleb felt he had to constantly project strength in front of mc as they grew up. and caleb despises himself for those weaknesses and by extension zayne for knowing about them but also can't help but start to relax more around zayne :)

[bogkeep]

the murderbot show is actually kinda fun and good??!?!?????

[animangalover-writes]

I got bored.

For those occasions when the straights can't fathom why you ship The Gays™

[francy-sketches]

Tbh I think I'd be a lot more into stannis if he wasn't bald. Like I'll see stannisgirls raving about how tragic and cringefail he is and I'm like that sounds great in theory however he's bald. gross

[misty-memories09]

I...I...I can't find the fic I was writing for sabioba, I'll literally start crying bro what is going on nooooo😭😭😭 the heavens and earth is against me like i swear I opened it a while ago wdym that it's gone??? I'll try recovering it or maybe rewriting it but atleast I have a few screenshots of it so it's not completely gone but I am now rather depressed, I feel like writing an opposite of love letter to Google docs. A hate letter. Also, the fanfic writer curse is real (other than what I just said), I got sore thighs and it hurts so bad bro 😭😭😭

Here's some sabioba chibi for the mean time as I try to cope with my failure :

Ship so rare that you all just know eachother (there's three of us damnit 😂).

[offorestsongs]

"I know it sounds stupid, but... would you teach me how to kiss? You're about the only person I can ask!"

prequel/context for this

[yourplaceinaugust]

i need 50 several thousand word fics about either a post canon au or a modern au where Jack is starting kindergarten and for the first month or so it's either Cas or Dean picking him up from school and then they both get super busy and they keep having to send various family members to pick him up and every time the teacher calls Cas or Dean and is like "there is a strange person trying to take your child home" and they're just like "nah that's just his other other father's wife's son"

[romanceddawn]

yugi and atem in a post canon scenario always going to hang out with bakura and ryou at their apartment and stay the night, and it happens so much that ryou is eventually like "why dont we all just buy a bigger place together?" and everyone tries to play off how bad they want that but they all agree to

when they're actually looking for places, its starts out as just a big apartment like 'oh haha just a starter place until all of us figure our lives out and go our separate ways' but somewhere along the line they've all decided they may as well get a house instead because why not if they're all putting money towards it, and then they settle in and make it so much their home that they all agree it'd be silly to leave, they may as well just spend the rest of their lives together there haha its no big deal (it is such a big deal that they're all separately trying to figure out if they can do a 4 way marriage)

[roses-field]

stardew valley mod where stanley is a custom marriagable npc so you can kiss him daily and he gives you little trinkets he finds. is this anything

[read-write-thrive]

how much would I need to fuck with Niko and Monty’s genders to ship them

[janetfraisersmassivestrap]