#( is this entirely self indulgent ?? yes )

[wouldntbehim]

mix: firstprince (taylor's version)

[lovegrowsart]

it's pretty wild to me that people don't see that aang running off to save katara in CoD is his luke in empire strikes back moment, where he runs headlong into his want and attachment and he's narratively punished for doing so and not learning his lesson - aang runs after katara despite guru pathik's warning, like luke runs after leia and han from yoda on dagobah despite yoda's warning; similarly, as a result, things go to hell in ba sing se like they do on bespin - aang enters the avatar state before he's ready and gets killed, and ba sing se falls to the fire nation, luke fights vader before he's ready, loses a hand, and symbolically commits suicide after vader tells him he's luke's father.

the difference between their character arcs is that george lucas and co. actually went thru with luke's hero's journey and understood the fundamental difference between attachment and love, whereas I don't think bryke understood this difference and then dropped this from aang's arc pretty much completely and replaced it with aang digging in his heels into his want and attachment and he gets rewarded with energy bending from a lion turtle, the avatar state from a random pointy rock, and his forever girl from the self-indulgent white men that couldn't bring themselves to give their hero a compelling character arc that meant he might not have gotten everything he wanted at the end.

[ebysse]

after work..

[bradshawsbaby]

Bradley Bradshaw is the Teacher Husband™️ who runs errands for you, picks you up from work, and absolutely spoils you rotten, and you cannot convince me otherwise 🍎

[obsessed-with-timeloops]

The Magnus Archives spoilers but I keep thinking about Jon and Martin landing in the ISAT universe when the fears arrive but like. Right after post loops. So it ends up like:

1) They save these two weirdly accented guys (where one of them clearly has been stabbed holy shit) only to possibly be immediately told that they just got a bunch of evil gods in their world (oops)

2) Jon's eyes absolutely have color when Knowing things or using Eye powers in general.

3) The loops 100% count as a statement and Jon is purposely trying not to be alone with Siffrin so he doesn't munch on their trauma

4) Triple ace solidarity ruined by the knowledge their world is doomed to be plagued by fear gods U.U

5) Martin: "Jon did the fears turn this world black and white" Bonnie:"what's black and white?" Martin: "what" Bonnie: "what" Isabeau: "No but seriously what's black and white." Odile: "I think they're implying that colors exist in their world." Jon: "I see. Colors are apparently unnatural to this world." Martin: "Like that one Lovecraft story?" Jon: "what". Martin: "You know colors beyond our comprehension and what not?" Jon: "I- I suppose??" Bonnie: "Hey! Could this Lovecraft guy be from our world?" Mirabelle: "Wait no. These two just arrived here??? Unless time messed up too???" Jon: "Trust me you do not want to claim him."

6.a) Jon looks at least 10 years if not older than he actually is. He also probably can get along better with Odile anyway. Plus with different universes as backgrounds, the lack of general knowledge around his age wouldn't be obvious. Cue the moment where Jon is asked how old he is and the absolute AWKWARD silence when it's clear that both Jon and Martin are basically Siffrin's age, give or take a few years.

6.b) Bonnie: "Is 30 years old different in your universe? Are you about to die?" Jon: "From embarrassment, perhaps."

7) General discussion/argument/existential dread regarding the Fears and how they interact with this world. Honestly the gang may never forgive Martin and Jon for doing this to them. Even if they do everything they can to help them. They get more sympathy once they find out about the Eyepocalypse and the absolute hell Jon in particular went through. Doesn't mean they have to like it.

8) Siffrin finding out about Jon's knowing powers and asking him if he can Know the name of the island in the North. Jon tries. Then he starts screaming. His eyes are red. Siffrin doesn't ask again.

9.a) The horror and dread knowing that not only is their mission not done. It can't be ever again. And this time, especially if Jon and Martin's story is true... well, the King wasn't easy, but at least he was a person. You can't exactly fight a distorted universe. Their happily ever destroyed forever.

9.b) I could see a physical confrontation happening... if Jon didn't look so absolutely devastated. If he didn't say "do what you will with me, but please leave Martin alone" and Martin yelling at him for being a self-sacrifical idiot. It just sucks so much all around. But it would have been easier if Jon and Martin were bad people. But they're not. Just... broken people doing their best in a broken world. And to do their best to save their own world, the family has to work with them.

9.c) Jon and Siffrin are also idiots with martyr complexes that refuse to talk about their feelings solidarity. Shame that Jon can't help but want to eat Siffrin's trauma cause they probably have a lot to talk about.

10) Funnier note, the slow realization that Jon and Martin in an rpg world. Martin figures it out first and Jon is just. Flabbergasted. Especially when they find out the magic system is rock paper scissors.

11) "rock paper scissors transcends the multi-verse. Neat!" (Later Martin asks Jon if gun is secretly a fourth hand symbol. He does not know and will not Know. He refuses).

12) I think at one point they're gonna have to deal with the fact that statements don't exist in this world. Either Jon gets too close to taking Siffrin's statement or he's going to tell Martin the facts: there is very little way Jon can survive without being a predator. He is an avatar that needs something to fuel his existence. He doesn't want to hurt anyone else ever again. Unless Siffrin wants to write their statement down or someone else does... even then there's no guarantee it's going to be enough.

13) Perhaps wish-craft can save Jon. Maybe. Maybe not. But. The party tells them about wish-craft anyway. It's the one hope they have to fight against this new horror. Maybe it can help Jon too to get out. (Everyone deserves that chance).

I have no fic with this, my fixations are simply crossing over briefly. Hope you enjoyed the ramblings.

[dracocheesecake]

Kai named his second son Tian Sha- "Ferocious Spirit from Heaven"- because he and his wife played a game of Xiangqi over who would name the baby and he won.

"You know he's a calf and not an action figure, right?"

"Well, one day he'll be a bull who needs to strike fear into his enemies: that's the perfect name to do it."

"...You just wanted an excuse to use that name."

"OOGWAY WOULDN'T LET ME NAME OUR ARMY THAT, IT'S A COOL NAME I'M USING IT NOW."

[easy-revenge]

the way mello would walk into matt's shithole of an apartment at 2am after his dealings with halle or sth to find matt shirtless over the bathroom sink, half burned cigarette hanging from his mouth as he inexplicably shaves his face at this hour while playing the most obnoxious music ever and honestly good for them both

[skullsandcorals]

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[divinekangaroo]

a home painted bright with blood and thorns - Ch 1/5 - pettiot - Peaky Blinders (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

After the S4-S6 election/marriage, pre-S5. Some months into Tommy and Lizzie's marriage.

This frequently absent father and husband considers that he often does his best work in extreme circumstances: time pressure, resource constraints, situational uncertainty, high stakes, and gross emotional wounding. He knows what to do, doesn't he?

No matter what sort of internal spiralling disaster cascade he's busily ignoring inside. No matter what badly considered spur of the moment decisions he makes to get through the moment that he might pay for later. No matter what—

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Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark, Charles Shelby, Ruby Shelby, Frances, Various Shelby Household Maids, Charles Strong, Cyril the Dog | Domesticity, Intimacy Menstruation, Bodily Fluids, Bodily Solids, Bodily Functions, Babies, Lactation, Mental Health Issues, Repression, Abusive Families (Past), Attempts at Communicating, Trying Hard, Family Trauma, Family Feels, Nail-Biting, Household Dynamics, Absent Father, Avoidance, Deflection, Trying Sooooooooooo Hard, Distress, Comfort Sex, Dysfunctional Family

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[goodmorninglovelies42]

Inspired by inlovewithnight’s stalker fic, I started a bullet journal last month and I’m devoting one page to fic ideas that maybe I’ll actually write one day 🤞

[umbratheshadowfamiliar]

One thing I find incredibly interesting about ZSakuVA and his series 'The Nobel Trials' is actually the character of the listener.

And I know you all are thinking:

"Umbra... It is a self insert listener..."

But just hear me out.

Zaros, as a very far leftist, embodies most of the beliefs that I hold true in my day to day existence. About opening everything to the public and providing better education, healthcare, food ect to all.

But the thing is we aren't Zaros we are essentially elon musk's kid. Granted the listener's mother does seem very kind but that kind of wealth and the established listener's character makes them seem unnaturally callous. Which quite frankly they are.

But that's no fun to me.

So instead I have been coming up with the most petty and slightly devil's advocate counterarguments to every single claim that Zaros is making about this listener. Also as well as considering why the listener acts the way they do. I plan on making this in a list because I find this so entertaining. It will probably be called something like #Zaros' listener's character study.

This post I'm mainly use as a PSA to say that this is merely a character analysis. Zaros, while he does have his flaws, I objectivly agree with politically so far in the series (Ep 2). This is all a bit of banter and I hope you all can enjoy as much as I do!

Umbra 🕯

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Can't explain how funny an Odasaku and Adam duo would be. I know it doesn't work in canon but I think people who haven't gone through the narration in both Dark Era and Day I Picked Up Dazai understand how objectively hilarious Oda is without even trying to be. Add that to Adam's general weirdness and you have, I think, the set-up for an entire buddy cop movie, except it's an android who eats gum and thinks pretending to be a pigeon and telling android jokes are good ways of interacting with people (he's right actually) and a mafia member who refuses to kill and responds to events that would have any sane person quitting their job and moving out of the city like it's a passing breeze.

Imagine them working together. Imagine them investigating. They both think the other is entirely normal and connect over having to look out for their respective self-destructive teenagers they bonded with.

Said self-destructive teenagers are watching them from a distance, baffled and horrified, because neither of them is responding to anything in a remotely normal way.

And if they had the slightest bit more self-awareness, they would know that is literally exactly how everyone else, including the two men they are currently judging, feels about the two of them when they interact in any capacity.

[hyesims]

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[cowboyskeletons]

thinking about my au where after the trial the dads are actually just transported into another universe where jodie was transplanted and they replaced their alt-universe selves.

so there are small details that the kids notice (except for nicholas) that are kinda... off, but it's not big enough of a shift to notice until reminiscing about childhood memories and like it doesn't matter (it does matter but that's only half of the story)

point is that without them, their home universe kinda crumbles, as the narrative is about Them and why even exist if there's no purpose? so everyone kinda just fades away over a short span of time (thinking around a week) as the world loses its flavor.

....buuuut nick's still there.

because the dads are The Dads, right. it's their defining characteristic. they need to have children to be dads (if the child is dead it doesn't matter, just needs to exist in the universe). the children are... kind of like anchors.

so if their children stopped existing, what then? well, it was a simple solution-- they got linked to the new verse kids. done done. new anchor, continued existence, "forever" relevance, hoorah.

only problem is that glenn doesn't have a kid. and he's not a dad anymore. so like, what's the point of his being there? nicholas is technically completely unrelated to him. in the new verse, it's said that he's darryl's friend who's just. there. in-auniverse and in a more meta concept sense, he really shouldn't have been there.

(eventually, glenn won't need an anchor anymore because of the relationship he develops with nicky but for now he needs a weight to assert his existence in the narrative)

erasing him from existence kind of goes against the court ruling because then why all the shenanigans. so he still has an anchor, though the new universe is unaware of it

so nick is still there.

nick is... not fully what he used to be. he seems overall the same, but he's in a sort of... stasis? like the most obvious effect is not aging but there are mental effects too. his and glenn's relationship and place in the world can't really change, so he doesn't.

he's like an ice sculpture now metaphorically-- fading like the rest of the world, but his process is slower because he's connected to glenn and he's still important to the story. he has approximately until the s1 finale until he starts getting into the danger zone. the worlds aren't exactly synced up time-wise, but time shifts and flows and the universes drift so there's never a concrete ratio-- usually worlds sync by story beat but. yea

so he's just wandering the world as it breaks apart. he's the only reason that it's still there, actually-- it becomes weaker as he does, as it loses its purpose completely.

by some chance, nicholas manages to contact nick then Stuff Happens.

cue shenanigans, primarily with nicholas and nick but several other people come into play too like glenn and jodie and morgan

(yes nick still dies in the end but there is Closure with the family okay. can't spell closure without close. do you get it)

[spiderwarden]

Epilogue Romanced Gale outright saying he would do godly favors for Minthara, is chef kiss.

[dracocheesecake]

He Who Picks Up His Son When He Falls

A One-Shot from an AU where Kai and Oogway were never ambushed and Kai actually had time to settle down and have a family. Oogway realizes what kind of a father Kai is, and more importantly, why young children are called 'toddlers'.

It was a gorgeous Spring afternoon, the perfect afternoon to have tea out in one of the courtyards of your brother-in-arms and co-warlord's vast estate, Oogway thought; Kai, on the other hand, saw it as a nice opportunity to sharpen his skills with a bo staff, and a secondary one to take a short reprieve from the rowdy bunch of calves he had spawned- demons, Oogway liked to call them, though affectionately, for all of them were as dear to him as if they were his own; Still, there was no doubt that their mother and the nannies would have their hands full with them today.

It had been a fine afternoon well spent. Now it was winding down. Kai and Oogway were just talking, Kai holding his staff on his shoulders with his wrists. Oogway took a sip of his tea- and then noticed a flash of movement in the corner of his eye. He glanced over and saw one of Kai's calves- an escapee- toddling clumsily along, little hooves stumbling on the courtyard stones. Inevitably the little one tripped and landed on his chin.

The calf's chubby face flushed, eyes welling with tears. Tiny sobs started breaking and building. Oogway spat out his tea and prepared to get up to help him. Kai saw Oogway start, paused, and then turned, catching sight of his son on the ground.

But instead of helping, as anyone would expect of a half-way decent father, Kai tossed his head back and laughed boisterously at his son's misfortune. Oogway wanted to scold Kai for it, and was indeed about to- but then Kai put down his staff, went over, chuckling to himself, and stood the calf back up on his hooves. The calf sniffled, and Kai bent down to his level, wiping his eyes clean with his thumbs.

"Shh, shh," Kai murmured, "it's ok. No crying. You're not hurt. It's ok. You're tough."

He turned his son around and gently nudged him away. "Walk it off, back to your mother. There you go. Atta boy."

The calf continued to sniffle, but was already walking again with a more steady gait than before, little chin held just a little higher, and the tears had stopped. Kai nodded with an approving grunt and picked up his staff again along with the tail end of their conversation. Oogway's anger vanished in an instant. He poured himself another cup of tea, smiling.

"You'd think the son of the Maker of Widows would have learned to walk by now," Oogway said. "He has big hoofprints to fill, after all."

Kai snorted in amusement. "He does, but that won't be happening anytime soon, if he keeps tripping and landing on his face." Kai chuckled. "That's just the third time today."

"Well, at least he'll have the assurance that his father will always pick him up when he falls."

The edges of Kai's ears flushed, and his muzzle turned a slightly darker shade. He looked away.

"For now, until he learns to stand and walk on his own."

"And he will," Oogway said.

Kai smiled again, chest swelling with pride. "And then, maybe, he'll be able to fill in these hoofprints and collecting names for himself, like his father."

Oogway laughed. "Here's a start: Chaoxiang, Who Falls Flat On His Face."

"Hey, that's my son you're talking about. Only I'm allowed to make fun of him."

"And only I'm allowed to make fun of you, Cleaner of Snotty Noses."

"That's it: go pick up another staff. I'm going to beat your ass."

Oogway smiled and placed his cup down. "You can certainly try, He Who Laughs When His Son Falls."