#and instead it fizzles

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Ok fuck it I’m so sleep deprived I am going to parasocialize on main:

Champagne Problems came on my playlist when I was in the car this morning and it struck me that “you told your family for a reason, you couldn’t keep it in” kind of parallels how much wedding/marriage imagery was all over the Lover album with her telling the world she was ready to marry this person and in turn everyone expecting it to happen imminently but then by evermore we started getting all the relationship breakdown stories because no one was celebrating anymore 😵‍💫

[popfizzles]

just saw a post about buneary's famously low friendship level and was suddenly reminded about my lopunny Jericho who I glitched into evolving by hating me so much

[roots-symphony]

what's so interesting is that agatha and nicky clearly had their cons well-oiled, and at the end it seems they even started turning their song into a part of it as well, like i don't think that was the first time nicky sang that song for an audience and they used it to lure witches (i do think it's the first time that it /technically/ didn't work), and how after nicky died it continued to gain popularity and be so well-known it became a legend, and along with that agatha being known as the only survivor of the road and people (like billy) seeking her out to walk it or just for knowledge of it. and i think that had been the idea when they first started using it as a con. making it so they no longer had to travel and scavenge, using it as a lure to bring the witches to them in order to keep nicky alive, but only one small misstep and rio got him anyway

and then thinking about how lorna, who had a generational curse placed upon her family that is going to kill both her and her daughter and who desperately wants to see her daughter survive, heard this song and created her own version to use as a protection spell for her daughter and, like agatha did before her, she made her version so well-known and so popular that years and years after death it's still protecting her daughter, until ultimately her daughter was finally able to use it to break the curse and save herself

idk just.. they're like two sides of the same coin, or distorted mirrors of each other

agathas love was so powerful and so strong that death gave nicky time

lornas love was so powerful and so strong that the ballad gave alice time and even freed her

if nicky hadnt been taken that night, could it have eventually freed him as well? rio said agatha used the dark magic of the darkhold to hide herself from rio, so was that the end goal? they'd continue to lure witches to both keep nicky alive and to have agatha become powerful enough to forever keep them hidden?

[helenvaughans]

[mayonaisalspray]

Maybe I just need to make a new dragon character for my portfolio. Maybe that’s what I need

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I have no words to express my delight with this episode!!!! WE’RE SO CLOSE IT IS HAPPENING!!! (But i also cannot get over the Tommy of it all, how he’s back to calling Buck ‘Evan’, and in the bar he called Eddie ‘Diaz’?! The Eddie who was all “do people call you Diaz?” “Not if they want me to respond” my god did he do the name thing to Eddie too??)

YEESSSSSSSS!!!

For the record I think Tommy did that just as a symptom of his jealousy - so if he did call Eddie that it would only be once or twice. It might even have been subconscious, to create distance with Eddie in his mind.

The Tommy of it all was fucking hysterical to me, a delight, I was dying the whole time, truly THEE funniest way they could've done this to us. I had a blast.

[unfortunate--moth]

WHY ARE SO MANY THINGS HAPPENING!!!!!!! (2 things)

[ch3micallyinsane]

Is it bad that I don't want anyone to come to my birthday.

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Okay, I'm calling it. The November vibe is going to be Shadowstruck.

[sirmanmister]

Real life has been kicking my ass lately so you know what that means!

“People don’t come out of that place alive.”

“I can imagine.”

“You’re going to kill him.”

Two soldiers stood on the end of a vertibird catwalk, watching the vehicle beside them warm up. One dragged on a cigarette and narrowed their eyes at the other through the smoke.

“I ain’t gonna kill him, Rhys,” Damien said. “He volunteered to come with me.”

“Because it’s his duty to babysit you,” Rhys shot back. “Danse is a good man, but he’s an even better leader, which means he isn’t going to let any member of his squad head into the Glowing Sea by themselves. He’s the type of man to die for something he believes in, and he believes in the Brotherhood. Not you.”

Rhys gave Damien a long, withering look, nostrils flaring like the very sight of Damien in an orange flight suit enraged him.

“Think about what it is you really want in there,” Rhys said carefully. “And then think about it again and decide if it's worth the life of a good man.”

Damien’s slight irritation at Rhys’ continued badgering rose abruptly into something far more pronounced. Damien could handle not being liked, but Rhys was toeing a very delicate line.

Damien’s intentions behind joining the Brotherhood were no secret, and Rhys was one of the few that knew more about them than anybody else. He’d seen Damien at the police station, biting back tears when they couldn’t give him any help with Shaun; he’d been in the room when Damien had met with Danse and Maxson and exchanged information on the institute for a place within their ranks. Rhys had known the stakes from the start.

“You’ve got a problem with the way things are, you can take it up with Danse,” Damien said through grit teeth. “I’m going in there with, or without his company.”

“You’ve got a deathwish.”

“Wanna join me?”

Rhys scoffed incredulously and gave Damien a pitying look. With a shake of his head, Rhys turned and marched back down the catwalk.

[dye-it-rouge-et-noir]

I am a little indifferent to the future of a several decade long series (James Bond) ever since creative rights got bought by Amazon. Even if they produced the best pieces of media in the franchise, I am here with my film from 1997 and that's fine with me

[lacnunga]

i think people underestimate the importance of being social in your teen years bc, forget grades, that shit can ruin the rest of your life

[popfizzles]

Cuphead gets his cards read.

[nenoname]

i'm ngl i feel like a lot of people are just saying 'the stan o' war wouldn't work out' because they just want ford off the boat so they can ship him with fiddleford or something. like come on didn't we watch the same show . the same ending . it pains me that fandoms are so obsessed with shipping all the time.

god im so far from the gf shipping circles that that being the reason why some folks are resistant to them living on the stan o war didnt even occur to me lmaoooooo (plus if they want to ship, they could at least accept that long distance relationships is perfectly fine)

the reason i tend to see is "oh the stan twins havent been on good terms for that long!! it'd be a disaster just because of that!!!" but there's an implication that they spent months planning out their trip with both of them getting closer with soos, which emphasises the importance of family idk

[brainfilehasstoppedworking]

Playing Pokémon White just bc my bf has been getting me into it again with his rambling

[osterby]

A hilarious and not untirely unforeseen problem with having gotten back into writing:

I'm at my most creative and productive when I'm kind of tired, so the best way to get something written is to do the first draft after bedtime, and then edit and polish after a good night's sleep.

Except I get carried away and end up staying awake bashing out words and not sleeping, which is something I haven't actually been able to sustain since I hit my thirties. I can't actually pull 24 hours of creative giddiness out of nowhwere and then just sleep it off in one night anymore. I have to sleep or I'll be miserable for the next week, and whatever youthful vigour used to let me stay awake and active when I was tired is long since fled.

I am going to have to find a way to channel that slighty sleepy creative rush into well rested hours.