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the holy grail types of fanfic

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so obsessed with them

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non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

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Mothersssss

📷 Repost from @audramcdonald IG: Agnes and Dorothy having a grand time on a different timeline where they are besties. 😜❤️🙌🏾

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I love you artists, I love you fanfic writers. Thank you for making life that bit more tolerable.

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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Downton Abbey really is the best show. You can watch it alone. You ca watch it with your friends. You can watch it with your grandma. It’s sweet. It’s funny. It’s dramatic. You can watch it seriously. You can watch it snarkily. You can watch it and learn about how a great Edwardian house was run. There are great characters. There are characters that we all love to hate. There are pretty dresses

It is just the best show

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The Good Wife 30 Day Challenge

↳  Day 24: OTP

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i do that too HAHAHAHAHA

Do you also watch Steve's music slideshow of Eve once a day, or are you normal?

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Corlys & Rhaenys — physical touch

Corlys pulls her close to ease her worries and comfort her. She puts her hands on his chest, perhaps in a subconscious attempt to speak to his heart, to reach him, or in defence. He holds onto her shoulders to ground her and make her listen. She puts her hand over his mouth to silence him and make him listen. He covers her hand with his own, perhaps to kiss it.

It’s about communication, it’s about making the other listen, signalling what is important to them.

They appear as a unit and of course, Corlys is proud to have Rhaenys by his side.

After Laena’s funeral, a discussion about inheritance. Another attempt to make Corlys listen, by connecting physically. It’s a bridge between their differing opinions. A reminder that they are a family, a team. We’re in the same boat, we both lost. But Corlys pulls away, figuratively and literally, denying Rhaenys access to his vulnerability. He struggles to share his grief with her, and Rhaenys feels alone in her suffering.

Possibly, this is why she pushes Corlys away when they find “Laenor”. Corlys’ first instinct is to comfort Rhaenys with his touch, to hold her, to protect her, but she refuses him.

Corlys returns home with severe injuries after being gone for six years. Rhaenys is deeply hurt, having been left alone with her grief when she’d needed her husband, the only person who understands her pain, her loss. And yet, as soon as he wakes, she puts a damp cloth on his forehead, initiating physical contact. When he tries to sit up, she puts her hand on his chest. He takes her hand, holding it tight. He tries to connect with her through the physical when he knows her emotional barriers are up, she’s bitter about his actions, rightfully so.

This scene doesn’t need many words. They’re in each other’s embrace, as close as they can be, connecting with every part of their bodies. It’s intimacy, and perhaps the closest they have physically been in both seasons. They’re on the same side, there for each other (at least momentarily). It’s about being present, keeping war and death at a distance just for a few minutes, although not from their minds. Just Corlys and Rhaenys. Husband and wife. Feeling whole.

There’s a divide between them, and yet they try to cross it in multiple ways. Corlys feeds her, Rhaenys caresses his hair and puts her hand on his shoulder, Corlys grabs her waist, Rhaenys puts another hand on his shoulder, he pulls her even closer, he takes her hand in both of his and presses a kiss to it. All desperate attempts to hold on to each other, feeling the other slip away and trying to remind them that one is here, even if not in the way the other wants and needs. There’s pleas, apologies, reassurances, love.

I think this scene has the most physical contact in both seasons (aside from the bed scene).

Even here, with a heavy weight hanging over them and a difficult conversation to be had, Corlys takes her aside, touches the small of her back to bring her in, to bring her close, even if he avoids the topic and gets defensive verbally. They only have each other and their grandchildren left, so much loss, so much time apart—he needs her close, even if he can’t show his vulnerability let alone speak about it.

Overall I just think that for Corlys and Rhaenys communication happens a lot through touch, even if they sometimes fail to speak openly. There’s always a truth in their gestures, like a secret language, they understand each other through it. Rhaenys also does it with her grandchildren. It’s how they express their affection. I might be off with some of my interpretations, or missing something, but that’s just my thoughts. :)

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Too beautiful

oh look it’s the beautiful people

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"undoing this character's death would take away his sacrifice and character arc" girl I don't give a shit. I'm bringing him back through the power of ao3 fix-it fics and there's nothing you can do to stop me x

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There’s a difference between giving up and letting go… (Isobel & Lord Merton, Downton Abbey S5)