#a bit

[girlslimbo]

atp im ready to push half my friends away or just distance myself from them i really dont want them to watch me get worse or feel like its their fault

[saffronish]

Ahhhhhh here we go again...

15x02 -

Dean: "Nothing about our lives is real. … Maybe you can pretend that we actually had a choice. I can’t"

Cas: "Dean. You asked what about all of this is real? We are."

When I first saw this scene I always thought that Cas had meant "we" as in everyone living. "We" as in you me and everyone else with free will. Or maybe even just Cas and his immediate circle of friends and family. I knew about the parallel with Sam/Eileen (which honestly made me go crazy when I first realized) but I didn't think further then that. Now I realize that when Cas used the pronoun "we" he meant "we" as in the mixtape "we." Just you and me "we."

It's actually kinda poetic, in a way. One of the first things Chuck tells Cas is that he's not in this story (4x23). Later in 15x17 Chuck says "you know what every other version of you did after 'gripping him tight and raising him from perdition'? They did as they were told! But nooottt you."

So in every different universe that Chuck created for this specific story Castiel stayed in heaven. He never rebelled. He never fell. He saved the righteous man from hell but continued to follow his orders.

Cas never helped Dean in 4x23. Their relationship never developed from season 4 onwards because it wasn't written. It wasn't part of Chuck's story.

So when Castiel says "we are" he means that everything he and Dean have shared together throughout the 12 years, the good and the bad, was real. It wasn't controlled by Chuck, it wasn't created by him. Chuck had nothing to do with it. He even hated it.

Now adding all this to the very blatantly romantic Sam/Eileen parallel from 15x09 ("I don't even know what's real anymore" kiss happens "that was real") it just becomes so much more obvious that that whole scene with Cas and Dean was so utterly about them and them only.

They are real... they went against Chucks plan

They created their own path and wrote their own story

It's so damn beautiful my god

Now I'm getting emotional

*sobs*

[siaslash]

What if Alastor yawned like a cat...

[jestroer]

Is something wrong?

[nogitsunbaemoved]

Billy is dead. He’s dead and gone and Steve and Max are going insane, actually, because Steve will trip over a crack in the sidewalk and hear manic laughter, Max will be listening to music and hears what she thinks is “this is a terrible fucking song, shitbird” in her headphones over the song, Steve keeps waking up at night to the smell of cigarette smoke, Max keeps hearing an engine rev in the distance.

Finally one of them breaks and just screams “Billy you piece of shit, you’re dead!” and all the lightbulbs in the room smash, they hear the Camaro roaring in their ears, and someone is screaming so loudly the walls shake.

Billy isn’t quite dead and gone, yet.

[niks-minion]

You know what? Never mind. Just look here and feel better.

HE LOOKS SO GOOOOOOOOOOD🥲🖤

[alleesaur]

[Artfight 2024] [15]

divine metallurgy

for devogamer // (artfight link)

[bucket-of-cheese]

[16] in a valleygirl mood 💅

[qprstobin]

While I do think Steve feels bad when people bring up that he used to be an asshole, I honestly don't think his guilt complex is as big as fandom makes it. I think he's too proactive to really dwell on guilt that much? He breaks up with his friends and cleans up the graffiti literally within a few hours of the fight. He goes to Jonathan's house to apologize for what he said later the same day. He bought Jonathan a replacement camera for Christmas only a month later and tbh Steve wasn't even in the wrong for breaking the camera. He apologized to Dustin for going too far with his silly threats literally the moment Dustin stops him.

It's honestly a little depressing seeing all these fics where Steve is overcome with guilt to the point he self isolates from those he's closest to/avoids those he feels guilty about when he is one of like THREE characters who is actually characterized as being good at apologizing and emotionally competent. This emotional maturity is arguably one of his defining traits!

[rexomi]

Something something. Making Solas a liar in Veilguard actively brings back a problem they fixed working on Inquisition.

On December 20 2019 VGS posted an interview with Trick Weekes about their work on Solas. This whole sentence is a link so its large enough for mobile but also disclaimer this is before they changed their name so deadname warning.

Here's a transcription I found here which is where i took the screenshots above. Since I know not everyone has 40 minutes to listen to an online radio interview.

I however highlighted the main point since most of you are not reading the screenshots anyway but skimming through. Rant under Read-more. Also bc i try to not be too negative on people's dashs but also i wanna ramble some more.

"But he lied a lot more. And it really weakened his character."

You can tell this happened during the game. Solas lies only once within Inquisition. He says something he can't be vague about and you push him so he lies, badly. He usually tells the truth vaguely. Typically Solas lies no more than Blackwall.

I fully believe that if in Inquisition your inquisitor figured out that Solas was Fen’harel and asked him bluntly to his face he'd confess. He might even be impressed. But why would you ever start to think that. No one assumes that their coworker is actually Poseidon regardless of how much they love the beach and ocean.

He hides in your expectations.

You can't ask him about being an ancient elf or being Fen'harel of myth because those aren't very probable. They're astronomically low to be truth within that universe. And outside, no one finished DA2 and went i wonder if one of our next companions is the Dread Wolf. Sera said, impossible things can't be surprises. He doesn't have to lie so when the truth comes out it's becomes obvious on a second playthrough.

They then actively bring back a problem they fixed in Inquisitions development. That they were open about fixing. That having a character that outright lies to you makes you have no intention of even hearing out the character. It retroactively undercuts Inquisition bc i see people trying to find Solas' lies in it when they aren't going to find any beyond the court intrigue.

It undercuts any lore we do get from Solas bc people dismiss it outright as being a lie from Mr "I abhor blood magic". I feel like shaking people's shoulders like no, dont do it.

They retconned him guys i have proof from 2019.

And its like if you hate Solas is this even satisfying? Like that's not Solas. His motivations are gone (that's a whole other post) and so is his core personality trait. It's like they went here's the Dreadwolf but during the ten years they replaced the smug asshole who was insufferably right with a 20 yo senior chihuahua that doesnt have any teeth.

My favorite villains are those that tell the truth. Because nothing hurts more than the truth. Can you imagine if he told you the truth. If he told you horrible things that you dismissed as lies to only be true. Wouldn't Varric’s death have more weight if he told you Varric was dead only for you - for everyone - to see him in the Lighthouse. If it was a spirit who took his shape to help you or even because it saw something worth reflecting in your memories.

So you dismiss him until it's revealed near the end oh he was telling the truth and you have an oh shit maybe he was right about other things but its too late to try and stop any of the truths he told you which could be from allies/companions betraying to stuff about Ghilan'nain and Elgarnan.

Like the only way to redeem Solas was to listen to him and by going out of your way to address problems he sees and you can find the alternative to tearing down the Veil by a series a little puzzle pieces throughout the game.

Have it be he will only listen to you if you listen to him. That he'll reject your other solution bc why the hell would he trust you if you couldnt extend the same.

Like Solas couldve been a great villian and he should've been great for both the haters and those that liked him. Not only the romance but for those who became his friend. Like i keep coming back to if i hated Solas would i be satisfied with Veilguard.

And the answer is no because that isnt Solas.

Tricking him has no weight bc he's an idiot in Veilguard like not even in the ending bc doesn't notice you switch the dagger around like right in front of him but none of his actions make sense. Ppl have mentioned the regret prison makes no sense for Elgarnan and Ghilan'nain bc they don't have regrets.

Attacking Solas has no weight because he literally needs the shit kicked out of him by a dragon for it to even begin to work. They literally need him to be at deaths door before its realistic that Rook could take him in a fight.

Redeem has no weight bc of the massive retcons to his motivations. They had to retcon the post credits scene bc even if Flemythal went hey i don't want you to do this Dai Solas wouldve went okay but that doesnt solve my other problems with the veil including the corruption of spirits and the fact its in literal shambles so i guess is still coming down.

I'm just disappointed. By the end of Trespasser they had a great villian and they just tossed it to the side and reverted him and people are arguing about a character who's sole defining trait in Veilguard is a problem they solved before Inquisition launched.

Basically we can sum it up with a screenshot.

[enumchase]

uhhh enjoy whatever this is i guess

[paper-lilypie]

I'm pretty sure I posted this as a post but I have really god-awful memory issues and Idk how Tumblr works, so, here 😈🙏

for your runaway bride AU

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD?????? THIS IS SO FUCKEN CUTE

Y/N IS SO ADORABLE LOOK AT EM ALL MUSHY

LOOK AT THE BAKER TWINS

SHITLIPS. REVOLUTIONARY.

[meiinoe]

trying to make my way into a new fandom by posting full rendered fanart

[ruderubicante]

It could have been anyone, even him.

[loganslowdown4]

Thomas slowly repeating outfits from other videos/photo shoots feels like he’s making these outfits the sides official ‘casual’ wear and I love that.

I love that they have go-to outfits that isn’t their main clothes