#from both perspectives

[twistedapple624]

Idea for an alternate ending:

Merlin gets Arthur to the lake in time and manage to save him.

They spend the night by the lake just talking, like they have been for the past few days, and realise that neither of them is ready to return to Camelot. For various reasons. They decide to take to the roads instead, just disappear, together.

Eventually their (few remaining) friends start to worry and the queen sends out her knights searching for them. Maybe Gaius points them towards the lake and maybe the knights find a neat pile of Arthurs belongings nearby, like his armour and cape (To heavy to carry and to easy to identify) and just assumes the worst. They knew Arthur was injured, and now presumably dead, but where is Merlin? Perhaps the grief was just to much for him? Perhaps he went home? But Hunith hasn't seen him either.

They are both gone. And life moves on.

Until a few months later when rumors start reaching the castle, about two heroes helping people throughout the realm. A fighter and a sorcerer working together using their skills to take out different threats from low life bandits to magical creatures attacking people.

No one really suspects anythingat first, but Gwen sends out her knights to find these two heroes. To confirm the rumors and if so offer a reward for their bravery. And maybe see if they would be willing to join forces?

It's not until Sir Leon hears a description of the two that he start to wonder.. A blond sword fighter with blue eyes and a regal nose who talks like a noble? A dark haired sorcerer also with blue eyes and a wide infectious smile? And they are constantly bickering and insulting each other? It couldn't be? Could it?

Trying not to get his hopes up Leon still doubles the search efforts.

No matter what they do though the knights seems to always be one step behind the two. Always gone before the knights reach the village or town they just saved. Missed them by a few days, a few hours down to mere minutes.

Somewhere along the way Leon hears about The Kiss. Told by an eye witness who saw the blond grab the warlock by the front of his tunic, haul him in and kiss him fiercely for almost getting himself killed (again, the idiot <- Arthurs note).

And suddenly things are making alot more sense. Why they never came back. Why they are staying away and don't want to be found.

He never tells Gwen. Or anyone. But that is the day Leon starts pulling back, cutting down on the search. Telling everyone it's not worth it, it has been over a year ( several years?) and there are more important things for the knights of Camelot to do then chasing ghosts. It's better if people start moving on with their lives instead. They are not coming back.

An undecided amount of time later Leon finds himself drinking alone in some random tavern in some random town, in an unknown part of the kingdom. When two cloaked strangers sit down uninvited at his table. And as he looks up their hoods fall back to reveal two very familiar and very dear faces.

Merlin grins widely. 'We heard you were looking for us?'

[theraggedygirl11]

I wanted to post something about my fic/wip like two days ago, but the boys destroyed my plans with everything they had going on in London (not complaining tho)

I already said that my fic it's a Hades X Persephone. I wanted to reveal who's the Persephone in this universe...

*drum rolls*

...Bojan!

It all started from a specific photo from a gig they had in November (maybe in Poland? I don't remember)

Plus, his surname helps a lot, since its meaning is literally "little flower" lmao and in one of the latest translated interviews he talked about his plants at home and the fact that they all died because he was away because of concerts all around Europe

I won't reveal who's Hades, at least not for now. The only thing I can say is that there will be three different people romantically involved with Bojan and his quest for finding his Hades.

The world building is quite complex and maybe I will share it in the next week to give more context.

[akanemnon]

It was super effective

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MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm re-reading the Discworld series for reasons, and honestly the most relatable part of reading these as an adult is how many of the protagonists start out being tired, used to their little routine and vaguely disgruntled by the interruption of the Plot. Sam Vimes wants to lie drunk in a gutter and absolutely doesn't want to be arresting dragons. Rincewind is yanked into every situation he's ever encountered, though he'd much rather be lying in a gutter too. (Minus the alcohol. Plus regretting everything he's ever done said witnessed or even heard about fourth-hand in his whole life.) Granny Weatherwax is deeply suspicious of foreign parts and that includes the next town over; Nanny has leaned into the armor of "nothing ever happens to jolly grannies who terrorize their daughters-in-law and make Saucy Jokes"

Only the young people don't seem to have picked up on this---and that's fortunate, because someone has to run around making things happen, if only so Vimes and Granny and Rincewind have a reason to get up (complaining bitterly the whole time) and put it all to rights. Without Carrot, Margrat, Eric, etc. these characters don't have that reason; they're likely to stay in the metaphorical gutter and keep wondering where it all went wrong or why anything has to change.

............well, that's not quite true. You get the sense that Vetinari knows how much certain people hate the Plot. And as the person sitting behind the metaphorical lighting board of Ankh-Morpork, he takes no small pleasure in forcing the Plot-haters specifically to stand up, and say some lines.

[loveletterworm]

This drawing isn't very literal...cuz that wouldn't really make any sense at all...

[mangio-formaggio]

the thing about spuffy that makes them so unique is that one minute they're in a screwball comedy where one is a wonder woman and the other is a muppet. and the next minute they're the most tragically beautiful erotica full of sadness only seen in a french arthouse cinema.

[laswells-ashtray]

Soap, Ghost, and Gaz are so used to knowing Nik as a pilot that the day they see him beat someone fucking bloody without so much as blinking there's a wave of realisation that washes over them. They all want a turn with the Captain's boyfriend. Each of them wants a chance with Nik in bed.

Then they look at Price, the sheer want in his eyes and the obvious hard on he's making no effort to hide as he stares at Nik.

And suddenly, they're all considering if there's enough room on that bed for three.

[ceaselessims]

TMA being about how oppressive structures force you to become monsters and there's not much you as an individual can do to stop it

while TMAGP being about how your individual active role in oppressive structures shapes and defines those structures and how the system can only get worse

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 12: Beware the Grapes of Wrath.

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[discords-morgan]

If Clark as Superman has been in the public eye for only three years .... and Bruce has only been Batman for about two years ..... do you think Superman popping up and doing genuine good was the final push Bruce needed to take up the mask .....

[sugar-petals]

k-pop shower thoughts: we all have a bias somewhere somehow but if you were in a group and they were the non-famous one would they stan you back?

[upslapmeal]

[thimblings]

sun and sea

little sun

elgara

marisol

[jackklinemybeloved]

I could write an essay on Ame’s witchiness and gender… the way she was abandoned for causing too much chaos and should “know better” at age five, how her natural self is something she should be afraid of and keep in check, the difference in personality between a seven year old Ame who doesn’t have to perform gender for anyone vs. an adult Ame who is trying to fill a role in the community and as a result is much more subdued and maternal when talking to the people of Toma, making an effort to “be kind” because any expression of rage was seen as dangerous, “she’s not a girl; she’s a witch!”, her knowing that she is different from her maternal mentor and feeling like she is failing at her responsibilities, her instincts and ways of thinking constantly being put into question by those around her, particularly Suvi who had never felt uncomfortable in the role she was born to fill.

(deep breath)

her veiled explanation of the coven of elders to Keen being “a council of women who recently decided whether I should remain a part of it” (even as she’s obfuscating she emphasizes being an outsider in a group of women), her feeling like an outsider in the binary world of humans vs. spirits (which Eioghorain this episode says is not as clear a binary as humans make it out to be), how often she is accused of being too brash, too impulsive, too much, too foolish, and you should not be this way.

anyway. I have a lot of feelings on this aspect of Ame’s character. for reasons.

[crabsnpersimmons]

"Do your best today! I'll be waiting here when you get home, starlight~💕"

had two busy days of work outside of my cave and the only thing that kept me going was the sight of my housewife/househusband Eclipse waiting for me at home

that is, the sketch of him waiting for me to finish drawing him 😂

starring @starriegalaxy's Eclipse from her Fear Factor AU/House Husband AU

[lockwoodshitposting]

The crazy thing about the Lockwood and co show cliffhanger ending is that if someone who hadn't read the books asked "wait wtf is in that room!?" and u replied "a dead person!!" even that major spoiler doesn't fully account for just how fucked the situation is