#and also...emotionally healing??

[febrilepenguin]

Hey, I dont know if anyone's mentioned this already, or Im dumb and just missed people talking about it, or if it was really obvious so no one said it, but the radioactive pool where the First Stoats mutated themselves had a wolf skull and a human skull laying at the bottom. And according to Aabria, the First Stoats had wolfish qualities and also flat human-like teeth. So I think whatever creature dies in the pool has its genetic qualities added to the radioactive soup, and whoever survives dipping in it gains those qualities as well.

Which would mean granny Ava would now have some wolf and human qualities as well? Maybe not as intensely as the First Stoats, but still.

Terrifying.

[hmsdoodlin]

Wouldn’t it be fun and epic if Heart created Apathy himself?

It obviously originally started as a grave for Mind, a 6ft hole with barely enough room to hold your hands out. But then the Juno incident happened, and suddenly the world warped along with it.

Soul bound his wings and threw him down, a heavy rain preventing him from climbing out. After a while he begins to dig, he doesn’t know why (even to this day) but he can’t help but wallow in his own grief and ‘accept’ this punishment. Everyday it got deeper and deeper, by the time he was too weak to dig anymore it would do it for him, eating his anguish and him alongside it. By the time he took his own sight it was practically a cave, his life seeping into the soil and feeding the earth.

It only starts to heal alongside him, filling up day by day until it’s just a small grassy dip in the soil at the end of Concord. At first glance it looks natural, but it’ll never quite be the same.

[mooredmisery]

Dean has only ever been able to achieve prolonged physical closeness through sex, and Cas has been touch-starved since his creation, and I think that cockwarming is the solution because it would allow them to experience intimacy in a way that's close enough to their current understandings of it (sex and possession) as to not trigger their feelings that they're undeserving of normal affection.

[shirojikimattari]

Take your healing

Guess I'll die 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠⁰͡⁠ ⁠Ĺ̯⁠ ⁠⁰͡⁠ ⁠)⁠ ⁠ㄏ

[thebearincorrectquotes]

Carmy: Hey, Syd and I were thinking of getting a big paintball game together.

Nat: Oh, Bear, why does she want to shoot you?

Carmy: She doesn't want to shoot me.

Marcus: Who doesn't want to shoot you?

Carmy: Syd.

Marcus: No, that doesn't sound right.

[teyrnacousland]

I think it's fun that different characters give a different time period for how long Rook was in the Fade Prison. Both because everyone's perception of time is different (and gets weird when you add grief to the mix) and because it means we can headcanon how long it took each specific Rook to get out of there based on how well we think they'd have managed their regrets

[lollytea]

Huntlow situationship gives me such intense brain termites you don't get it

[luvnakaharas]

mori still doing the trade deal even AFTER everything that’s just happened would be the funniest thing ever

[d8tl55c]

me: waiting for shoe(s) to drop

Personified Alan Becker YouTube Icon: oh... buddy...

[memento-morri-writes]

heads up, seven up + last line tag

This is a combo of a heads up, seven up from @oh-no-another-idea and a last line tag from @writeouswriter. It's the end of the snippet whose beginning I posted for my last tag game. (Quite a bit happened in between, though.)

Though it had been years since he’d climbed the rigging, it came back to him easily, his body’s memory of six years of sailing guiding him up to the small basket-like platform near the top of the mast. A member of the crew sat inside. As Rook’s head came into view, she started, eyes wide. “Get out.” She nodded and hurriedly clambered over the edge, scurrying down the rigging towards the deck. Rook sank onto the floor of the crow’s nest, tipping his head back until it touched the low wooden wall surrounding the platform. Closing his eyes, he breathed in, then out, forcing himself to slow down. He wasn’t sure if it was the gentle rocking of the ship, or the wind on his face, or the sun on his skin, or simply the distance from the deck and all the gloom that hung over it, but slowly the tension faded from his body.

There's WAY too many words in that last sentence to tag that many people, and I already tagged 9 people like 5 minutes ago, so I'm just going to make this one an open tag!!

[rystiel]

yesssss give me the doctor punching walls you’re so normal and healed and amazing at processing your feelings now <3

[owlfacenightkit]

I like this guy :D

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

I need to scream about this event (Friends Like These) because I truly was just. Not expecting the impact it would have--I don't remember if I read this one in Japanese???

I've only gotten the first two stories so far but I just.

Jeanne and Mozart are of course, as adorable as ever; there's no question about that. But Jeanne dropping this line:

"It galls me to sound so much like le Comte, but I am grateful to God that I met you."

I. [prolonged error 404 sounds]. I'm not sure there are words to convey the simultaneous endless wheezing laughter but also AWWWWWWWW energy that consumed me in milliseconds. Wildly oscillating between "LMFAO ah yes, sentimentality? Disgusting I'll drink to that (blasts Bring Me To Life)" and "BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM DEEP DOWN AND HE LOVES YOU WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH."

I just can't get over how Jeanne says exactly one thing about liking another person and he's like, 'ew dad gave me cooties >:///// how dare he subject me to the mortifying ordeal of hope.' Jeanne I love you. Jeanne I would die for you. Middle schooler with well-meaning stepfather who begrudgingly accepts his kindness and grows for the better, but would rather perish than admit it. I never knew I needed this found family dynamic so freaking bad until I started playing this game. 11/10 I could watch this forever

More Shenanigans below the cut, + the Shakespeare and Comte Event Story:

Also a sidebar because I just can't help myself, I know I've talked about it before but: Mozart and Jeanne's friendship is so endlessly precious to me????? I love how Mozart is so NO I'M NOT NICE REEEEE (turtles) and Jeanne is like :> bestie. It's so damn cute watching Mozart squirm at being exposed for being sweet and Jeanne just truly grateful someone cares about him?????? How much Jeanne and MC dote on Mozart despite being together, how it only strengthens their friendship? Literally I'm over the moon, nobody touch me I'm tender!!! Jeanne deserves to live peacefully without being a tool of the state/bad actors!!!! Mozart deserves to be loved and happy without being defined by his musical success!!!!!

LIKE. Not to be dramatic but I could watch an entire saga of these two being friends and being adorable. Fresh serotonin every single time. Did I know Jeanne was going to share his food? Absolutely. Did I expect MC to think ahead and pack two lunches? Absolutely not. Was I delighted both times? Beyond what you can imagine!!!!!!!

I'm going to stop here at the risk of repeating myself over and over but wow. Jeanne's capacity to see to the very core of people, for better and worse, and how it lets Mozart be meaningfully seen. Mozart's recognition that Jeanne can mean well to a fault, worried that he might be taken advantage of--and how Jeanne can build trust with someone for the first time without being afraid. Can you hear me wailing and bawling

Naturally, I acquired the Comte and Shakespeare one next. Now, I'm gonna be honest, I saw their names together and went "oh dear God. What am I walking into. Why do I hear boss music????" But I gathered my courage (more like I'm just too feral not to gather info abt Comte, but I digress) and experienced something that left me literally on the floor because I just. Did Not Remotely Expect This Series of Events.

So like. It starts off by being pretty normal and cute and I'm like awwww baby boy (oh he's a little fked up actually) giving gifts to dad. I'm sensing an ulterior motive but right now just let me have this. Also adorable that Comte is struck dumb by it, that's really cute I'm taking notes. And then. I was hit with the veritable ANVIL that was these next few lines:

deep breath Okay. Where to begin.

I LOST IT at the implication that Will was like. Holding back from ending Comte's entire life with mere words. WILL????? WILL P L S??????? (lowkey wanted to hear the roast snickers) Why am I sensing a pattern that Comte loves spicy people??? Love this for me

I also started losing my shit the second MC was mentioned and you could just hear the record scratch/kill bill sirens. Comte really out here like "son say WHAT about MC." I can't get over how he's always so ready to throw down for both MC and Sebas at any moment. Anywho, naturally I come to the conclusion that Will was just trying to one-up Comte to mess with him by giving MC gifts. It was the one thing I did anticipate--and, fool that I was--thought it rendered me safe from what happens next.

DEAR READER. DEAR READER I WAS SO WRONG. I WAS SO TERRIBLY WRONG.

BABY GIRL. BABY GIRL ON WHAT LEVEL IS THIS NORMAL BEHAVIOR. I'M LITERALLY CRYING RN?????? THE FACT THAT I CAN'T TELL IF HE'S JUST BEING SILLY GOOFY OR HE LEGITIMATELY MEANS IT OR SOME COMBINATION OF THE TWO????????

Mans out here like "I lost everything in the war (literally) let me spoil my girlboss dream gf in peace. Vlad took everything in the divorce let me have this pls." I just. The mental image of him chasing Will around the house. The potential implications of him doing this to protect them both (I love you Will but you have. Problems). The HILARIOUS AND DUBIOUS qualifier when he says "dressing up MC is nearly my entire reason for living." Comte I love you more than life itself but that does not make this any more normal. What are you doing my beloved vampire jkhlhalfdhjfg 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Also an honorable mention moment, because it was endearing:

Just the img of him wandering around with sparkly eyes and toting home little trinkets for everyone??????? He's so cute, that's the most grandpa behavior I've ever seen. I was chortling when Will was like "sir you made me sit in that cluttered carriage followed by another carriage full of stuff all the way home IT'S TIME FOR REVENGE (affectionate)."

I also love how Comte is like "Do I have a problem? Maybe. Will that stop me? Only when the sun cataclysmically swallows the earth."

Literally half of the members of the house are like "why are you like this" and he just heeheehoos his way out of it. How does he keep getting away with it. Can you tell I love him. Dazai isn't the only clown in this house honks Comte's nose

[thebirdandhersong]

Wowwww what a DAY

[infinite-protagonist]

omg he has vitiligo he so pretty 😍😍

“Thank you!!”

>[He rubbed at the back of his head, trying to soothe the lingering ache there.]

[transryanguzman]

tumblr dot com loves to explain to me in condescending ways how platonic love is just as important as romantic love and how platonic relationships shouldn’t be put on the back burner for romantic ones but boy oh boy are they also quick to tell me how it’s time for x to learn not to depend on y for abc now that y is in a romantic relationship.