#because its funny and vulnerable

[desiredrivcn]

@badrcputation because putting these two together is a brilliant idea trust

feeling the gloved hand on his cheek and the soft kiss on his forehead, sunday knew his wings were flinching out of control in shyness, the cold breeze from it hitting his face somewhat. looking up at the director as his hair was moved, golden eyes soften a bit as he ignored the radiating discourse he still did not adapt to when it came to being around the other and sighed.

"you are a busy man, i cannot keep relying on you to keep me from my woes..." he muttered, guilt clinging to him. he can hear the vulnerability in his tone, can hear the softness and solemnness in each word, and it warmed him, but sunday was a man full of guilt of his actions and it showed as he lowers his head.

"...is there a way to remove guilt from actions influenced by others, but still spearheaded by yourself?"

[tomurakii]

I like bloodweave. Okay. But I DON'T like the version of them in fanfic where Astarion is a dick and Gale is like. Whining and pleading for him to be emotionally vulnerable (or just. Nice to him) prior to the relationship being established. Because that is just not accurate. Gale needs the player to express interest in him during his weave-teaching scene before he even considers hitting on them properly. Gale is entirely resigned to his fate and needs someone else to pull him away from it. Gale only starts being sweet and romantic and devoted after you accept his love confession and give him hope for the future. Gale says fuck all and then slinks away to cry privately if you break up with him.

Like he isn't chasing after people lmao. He isn't dropping to his knees and crying about anything much less this dickhead he met a week ago. He is overwhelmingly passive about literally everything personal to him up to and including his own death (provided there are no casualties/there is a good reason) until after the player expresses that they care about him. Astarion is not doing that in any of these fics.

Like Gale is friendly and a dork and doesn't wanna get murdered but he fully has a suicide plan. He thought the artefacts would help him survive but he didn't believe he'd ever truly live again. If Gale confessed and Astarion said/did like one (1) mean thing afterward Gale's romance is closed off forever. He's wandering into the forest to cry. He's killing himself immediately. His fragile ego and self worth can't take it. You have to understand that when we joke about him being pathetic it's not bc he's like. Sopping wet and chasing people down and begging for a scrap of attention. It's because he craves affection but would literally rather die than ask or even hope for it until someone else forces that hope back into his serotonin-deficient tadpole brain.

[lemodoe]

thinking a lot about how the outer rim planets Feel Different. something about nureyev, constantly traveling, bouncing from one planet to the next.. it has to take time to adjust to. completely different gravity, completely different Materials that make up everything. it has to be like the feeling of being in a different climate times a Billion. the way the world feels and moves-or noticeably Doesn't Move-around you. having to adjust to it every time. having to learn how to exist over and over again. i really like that.

[moonshynecybin]

been on an old press conferences binge and we talk about how marc always zendaya laughs at everything vale says and does but vale is almost equally bad… definition of “i laughed at his jokes so he’d let me hit” except horrifically enough i think he genuinely finds marc funny???? and that’s how you know it was true love because marc is many things but funny is towards the end of the list. and this doesn’t really stop after sepang like the amount of times he tries to hide his smiles in his collar or behind his hand or under the rim of his cap is. sickening.

i was actually thinking about this the other day in the sense of like. this is what kind of fundamentally makes them work as a couple for me... because there IS obviously this sort of high melodrama inescapable falling out that is horrible and nasty and ten years on clearly dogs their steps and circulates in their brains over and over like someone has turned the washing machine on high, AND they both have a twin ruthless streak that makes their interactions with the competitors around them (and each other) calculated and tense and occasionally explosive, plus they have this joint wagon-sized reputation for being little assholes who dont really care about how certain aspects of their actions effect others (AND EACH OTHER!!! the callousness of someone who knows that they are more powerful than someone else, either in terms of speed or media control). BUT. they are also both just really, deeply, genuinely silly. like they are goofy. marc tiptoes out of his box so you dont hear his clown shoes squeaking kinda guys

and crucially its not an artifice! its not purely a performance !! though it can certainly have elements of that, its just. i mean most of the time when we see them interacting with other people (and for a bit, each other) theyre laughing ! hard ! or at least smiling, and while they go about it in different ways (vale more classically a prankster vs marc just wiggling his body in a semisexual manner) they both love to make other people smile and feel that sort of positive attention and be this object of delight to others. and for a brief time the person they wanted to delight the most was each other, and what makes it REALLY crazy is that it didnt go away overnight and they both have to DEAL WITH THAT.....

[yellowjackets-1996]

(do you love me like that?) you're a reckless driver (I'm a reckless driver) and one day it will kill us if I —

[cowboycannibalism]

yay got a sticker from therapy because I had a mini breakthrough! downside is the revelation that I make myself hard to love and to truly know and the only person who can fix that is me 🙃

[ranvwoop]

I don't have any strong limbus ships but i have become endeared to a concept of hong lu / meursault incredibly low stakes relationship . This is both some level of societal expectations on both of their parts, Hong Lu seeking just the novelty of going on dates and Meursault being like well . dating is something a guy my age should be doing. i am meeting expectations. But they're succeeding and they Are indeed going on nice dates and nobody ever talks about their feelings (Potentially nonexist or existent, it ultimately doesn't matter for this setup)

[toestalucia]

i have only one more month + however many days to make completely obviously wrong dad theories

[thingsmethinks]

Talking to [leftist/socialist/progressive/whatever] white people as a brown girl is always an experience

[boyfriendyke]

i love how the whole Point of enkidu was to like. be gilgamesh's buddy and make gilgamesh calm the fuck down and shit. and he does sort of. but then later on enkidu's like. YOU HAVE TO KILL HUMBABA YOU HAVE TO KILL HIM NOWWWWWW. enkidu what the fuck. thats not very chill

[rosebudbl00d]

personally i think sharing music is one of the most unseen forms of intimacy

[sharksliveontrains]

daniel ricciardo saying charles leclerec is the most likely to get married in the vegas chapel. like okay. what do you know

[kameonerd566]

Opened up my notes app to make a list and this sent me into hysterics

[bitter-sweet-coffee]

there’s a difference between saying “i’ve been a fan of x longer than you and therefore i’m better because you’re a poser” and “you have completely missed entire decades of fandom history that explicitly counteract your claims and it’s really funny seeing you say things that are just historically untrue”

i’m the latter lol. and i’m making direct eye contact with the sonic fandom

[spagheddiesquash]

oughhhggg. the desire to start doing things that will likely improve my quality of life versus the fear that ill look stupid for trying and people will think less of me

[saywhodidwhat]

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