#Intelligent Drive

[catboysooyoung]

Just read the recent arc (chapter 120+) with Braun and it's driving me crazy fr. Craziest situationship breakup ever and Braun having a Lestat level crash out over fumbling thee Kim Soleum that it's bringing out his peak petty gay side so bad. Gets broken up with and his literal world comes crashing down on him. (Understandable tbh.)

And then. And then.

As if it's not enough, Kim Soleum gotta hit us (and Braun) with that gentle curve ball??? I know he's a good and virtuous guy despite his claims so far, but fuck I didn't expect him to be this gentle? I know he's sincere, but I didn't know it was to this extent??? He's aiming to turn this into the most amicable breakup of the century. And he does this by actually leveling with Braun, trying to have a genuine, sincere conversation with him.

Even when he's being sassed, Kim Soleum responds with empathetic understanding. Even when Braun makes bad faith assumptions about Kim Soleum's intentions and perspective, Soleum gently corrects him, and even praises him honestly.

A commenter points out that this is one of Kim Soleum's greatest strengths, his sincerity. Because sure, he's doing this because he wants to escape, but he's also doing this with the earnest desire to settle this breakup amicably, because he truly and sincerely appreciates Braun as a friend, an equal. That even after all of this, Kim Soleum still tries to understand Braun's perspective, tries to find common ground between them and tries to rebuild that connection with him.

Kim soleum for example, comes to understand, that he really can't change Braun's nature, that is, he can't "fix him". He doesn't look Braun in the eyes and tell him "Look at me, this isn't you!" Because he knows that this is Braun. The darkness entity that looms over and destroys with no regard to human morality is Braun. But he appreciates Braun, nonetheless.

He is still willing to reforge their connection, rebuild their burned bridge and this, of course, understandably, touches Braun, and soothes his anger, reminding him of all the fun times they've had together, as truly Good Friends....

I've never really understood the appeal of self shipping before (more power to those who do it), but now.... Fuck. I want to get broken up with by Kim Soleum so badly.

[dreadfuldevotee]

"The Vampire Chronicles characters are exercises in the cycle of trauma and abuse and how they are capable of complex emotions and receiving and giving love and empathy alongside all the horrible shit they do to one another" and "Anne Rice herself was a bigot and had some shitty personal beliefs and just because the genre is Gothic Horror doesn't mean you ignore the way those ideas bleed into the writing. Not all commentary is good commentary" are two sentiments that can and SHOULD co-exist, what the fuck are we doing.

[wisteriagoesvroom]

all the PR training in the world could never beat the feral gremlin racerboy outta this man

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[abyssal-ilk]

vivienne and solas struggle to get along because they are in direct oppositions of each other's beliefs. vivienne is proof that change is possible for mages in the current state of the world and represents a hope for future change without wiping the slate clean and solas is proof that mages can prosper outside of a circle without restrictions or being on the leash of the chantry, templars, nobles, men, ect. send tweet

[im-kinno-hello]

and if i made a comic about them making a blog for the weird demon dog they found in the woods just because they are being brainwashed by it and it told them they need to spread the word of what word they don’t even fucking know?

[yupekosi]

ohhhhhh Sandra-Lynn Faeth my beloved. she's everything. she's a high school dropout. she's a messy bitch. she's a MILF. she's divorced. she's in a polyamorous situationship. she shagged an archdevil. she went from a single mother of one to the semi-legal guardian of a 9 teenagers, one adult, 15 cats and a gryphon. she's had multiple affairs. she lives in a haunted house. she tells Fig not to smoke and immediately takes a drag off her cloves. her taste in partners is absolutely inscrutable. she's even bisexual. truly who is doing it like her

[cherryflavouredvoid]

writing two-bit is like yes his father was an alcoholic yes he has a natural distrust of older men because of it yes his father was the first person to give him a drink when he was a child because he thought it would "shut him up" and the joke is actually on him because being a teenage alcoholic and a yapper are not mutually exclusive

anyways I'm 6k words into putting two-bit in a jar and just shaking it really hard in the name of character study :)

[turtleblogatlast]

Imagine the boys getting cursed to bear witness to “some of the most negatively impactful things in their lives” and they’re terrified, thinking it’ll be stuff like the invasion or Shredder or something-

Only to be met with multiple scenarios of their family. Saying offhand, but hurtful things. Doing hurtful things. Lots of scenarios that were inconsequential to everyone but the one most affected.

And they’re all scrambling, desperate to make sure the others don’t look too deep into it haha it doesn’t really bother them- but they all know the truth. Because they’re all in the same position here. It wasn’t on purpose, and they all know it wasn’t on purpose, but it still hurts.

It’s almost a relief, that they’re going through it all together. That they can apologize for mistakes, and accept that they’ve held onto hurt too long when they could have dealt with it sooner.

And that’s how they break the curse, reversing it into something different, as they’re told that before it leaves them for good they’ll bear witness to the most positively impactful things in their lives. And now they think they’ll see some of their best victories, some of their grandest adventures-

The scenes they see then are of the same cloth as their negative ones. Simple scenes, ones that most wouldn’t remember. Times where someone managed to make someone else smile, times where they were just so content to exist by the other’s side, times where they were just happy being there with their brothers, their family.

It’s the little things that go the farthest, because that’s what you experience the most in life. And they’ll mess up again, of course. Things happen, and they’ll never really know how their actions and words will be taken. But through the good and the bad, they’re family.

Besides - turns out, there’s a lot more good.

[hermanlowelillyrobertchamberlain]

HERMAN LOWE LILLY ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN

[limeekak]

I see people saying that Soren is “dumb” but for me it's quite the opposite. In my vision he would be that person who is simply intelligent and skilled with practically everything

everything he approaches he can learn quickly (especially when it comes to something corporal) and that's a great trait about him. I think sometimes he just has trouble understanding things and concentrating, but when he wants to, he wants to.

When he was young, he pushed himself to reach that level, but nowadays, he just does it as a hobby and it's become commonplace in his life, so he studies often when he can. It's satisfying for him (and at least helps him feel better about himself)

[willosword]

☹️

[animentality]

a beta reader left a comment on my manuscript that was basically:

"this story is a waste of my time."

and it's like....

i have thick skin and all, since i've been working with beta readers for a long time, but...

ouch.

thanks, i guess. helpful.

[subaru-meteorlight]

Thinking about kieran with porygon z got me in a chokehold you’d think he’d know right. He’d know. That its evolution is effectively a corruption. Pushing porygon2 to upgrade beyond its limits until it’s corrupted and broken. Much like himself. He’s purposely corrupting his pokemon/his self. He’ll do anything to get stronger, even if it means losing and destroying himself in the process. Absolute dumbass. Just be normal and run eviolite porygon2 bruh

actually looking at his champion team is driving me insane?? Bro has prankster screens and drizzle+hurricane/thunder+helping hand. All these pokemon with their HA (not to mention the 6Vs tho that’s a given for most of the dlc anyway). Incineroar. Dragonite with tera normal in the files tho he never uses it (normal being a common tera type for espeed dragonite) Also replacing poliwrath with politoed is FOUL lmfao (if you’re insane and delusional like me you can spin this into something about restarting and rewriting his image, throwing away his weak self) (also he brings poliwrath back during mochi mayhem so like. )

and iirc besides gym leaders who terastallize their ace into their specialised type, kieran is the only one who terastallizes his pokemon into a type different from hydrapple’s og types? Why fighting tho. The only advantage I can see is to resist bug and hit ice with fighting tera blast??? There are better options for hydrapple’s tera type but if you say so buddy. Point is he’s one of the only ones who doesn’t use a Pokémon’s default tera type which is interesting, he’s not just going tera orb yippee (blank soulless stare) but actually. Y’know. Utilising the type change aspect of tera types.

[hektor-world]

May be one day we will meet, I MISS YOU

[aqualotic]

I know the kids like soft Sonadow and that has its time and place but I need more of Shadow impulsively kissing Sonic with blood staining both their teeth after a viscious fight, after which they proceed to not talk about it for a wholeass decade.