#to love is to be changed or whatever

[kestrel-of-herran]

Do you think Mark and Helena can work?Reintegration isn’t guranteed to work but I am expecting it to kick in at some point.They did some teasing for it in after season press as well.What I am asking is do you seem the work out in romantic context?Like I get markhelly but outie Mark isn’t a particularly empathetic or loving person.I don’t see him sympathising with Helena even if he knew what she’s been through.Also “love transcends severance”isn’t something I am going for here.Look at burving,Irving likes Burt on the outside as well alongside the feeling that carried over.So I am having trouble picturing him ever understanding Helena let alone feeling something for her.

ohohohooo am i glad you asked me this because i do have thoughts on the matter, and most of them have to do with the nature of narrative.

in short, i think mark and helena aren't suitable for a lasting relationship in this place of the story (end of s2), because they will develop into becoming the kind of couple that are compatible and endgame in the long run.

think of mark s and helly r in the first scene of s1 e1: do they seem like they would ever work out? she's determined to get out of lumon and his biggest concern is his first day as department chief going in the worst way possible. they had to go through a lot of development -- helly learning there is a reason to want to stay in lumon through forging connections with mark and the mdr team, and mark opening up to rebelling against the system through helly's influence -- that transformed them into the kind of people who can and do have an enduring romantic relationship. but if we go back to s1 e1 and freeze them there, how could we have predicted the amount of development they'd undergo? how could the kiss at the end of the first season have prepared us for the intensity of the love scenes and their emotional development in s2? or if we look at mark s and helena eagan at the start of s2, how could we have predicted they would fall for each other? the lumon heiress and an innie?

likelihood depends only on the amount and direction of development characters will undergo, and that in turn depends on the writer's interest in making something happen, and imho markhellyna is about to happen in every iteration because the characters will grow and change together in a way that brings them closer to each other. mark scout and helena eagan falling in love can never happen solely because of love transcending, as this is a cop-out for mark scout -- he can't surrender all the work of growing to his innie and then just absorb the result, he needs to be actively participating in the story and changing through it, the same way helena was when she opened up to mark s and tried so hard to make him laugh and shared her most vulnerable truth with him.

but it's in this first meeting that we've frozen mark scout and helena eagan right now, a place in the story from which all development will start but which can only give us subtle clues about their natural compatibility without telling us anything about how moving through the story will change them. and we've already seen they share the same basic characteristics that pushed mark s and helly r closer in the first episodes -- a dark sense of humor, mark matching hellyna's boldness beat for beat. outside of this interaction, we've also seen they share a jadedness with the world, a tendency for harshness just because they can be mean. but this is only their starting line. the magic happens through the journey.

[soranker]

98 lovemail doodles >_<

[clouvu]

Obsessed with their friendship 🫶

[the13thstar]

forever soulmates & travel buddies

[ravmycupine]

Vampire will feyt me! I trusted u to protect Ford!! but you did not! 🧛🧛 . . .

BONUS AFTERMATH

Specifically based off of @dark-lord-of-awesomeness's Venus Vampire Trap Stan its so good go read all of it

[doodleswithangie]

more from my au, in which stan and bill have a reluctant agreement to build the portal (x)

bonus thought: they always tie in their card games, because they both know when the other is cheating and when the other is letting them win

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Image one: Stan wears his Mr. Mystery outfit in the Shack, complete with an eyepatch and magic 8-ball cane. Bill nudges him, saying, "Ooh, eyepatch? How flattering!" Stan snarks back, "Can it, cyclops."

Image two: Bill and Stan float in a mindscape similar to Ford's, except they're playing cards on folding chairs and drink Pitt Colas.

Image three: In front of the broken portal, Stan sits on a toolbox with Journal 1 and other documents scattered in front of him. Bill hovers over his shoulder.

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[lizardkingeliot]

I'm rewatching 1x07 for the millionth time and losing my mind over this little moment where Lestat silently signals to Louis to turn the page, and for just a second when they cut to Louis he's totally lost in Lestat's gaze before he manages to snap himself out of it. He just immediately tumbled into that well with no bottom the instant their eyes locked together...

[murrpa]

what happened in honda odyssey stays in honda odyssey💋

(bruh i struggled so much with this for no reason😭)

[roryfrommybabysittersavampire]

I think one of my favorite little details about spike's character is how he treated drusilla. he wasn't just "patient" with her disability, he actively treated it as just another thing about her to love. he verry rarely coddled her or tried to get her to be more present in a situation when she wasn't capable. (I can't think of a single time that he did but i feel like there were some when he was already upset at other people?). he learned to understand what she was saying even when it sounded like nonsense. when she was upset he comforted her, no matter how often it happened. when she started dancing he danced with her.

and we see in buffy 5x20 that it wasn't just his love for dru that made him act like that. when tara was incoherent and opened the window in the van, he didn't just immediately forgive her for burning him, he never got upset in the first place. he yelled, of course, because he was hurt, but as soon as willow started apologizing and trying to explain he just nodded. because it's no biggie! he already understands. some people are just like that, and he doesn't see accommodating that as the big deal that the people around him are making it out to be.

[wilsonmybeloved]

heard we were fiddlestanning

you know the drill..

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[xxplastic-cubexx]

graph

bonus:

[klance-daydreams]

PLEASE read where the apple falls by @jupiters-junipers!!! you will actually just never be the same. like ever.

[thejadecount]

To anyone who wants to talk shit about bad story/character development in Deadpool & Wolverine CAN SHUT THE FUCK UP! I CAME TO SEE 2 HOURS OF DEADPOOL MAKING META & SEX JOKES AND HAVING HOMOEROTIC TENSION WITH WOLVERINE AND MARVEL DELIVERED EXACTLY THAT

[littlenastieswewhispered]

“buffy ended the show single :)” ok but only because her current love interest just DIED!! (he near quite literally died in her arms! in sacrifice for her!) her last words of the entire series were telling him she loves him and then saying his name in admiration. she isn’t single; she’s a widow.

[saccharind]

from Prokaryote Season by Leo Fox

[arsenicflame]

Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?