#**Its Complicated(tm)

[yanguazalie]

These dolls were mailed to me with no return address. They feel very... warm.

[wraithsoutlaws]

drew my arrogant adventurer turned farmer boy who has a ""complicated"" relationship with balor

[bvckbiter]

occasionally i remember that cursed line from wottg about annabeth being surprised that percy can comfort her and it makes me want to torch disney hq down hashtag notmypercabeth or wtvr

[jamiessecretoh]

My hot take that Theo WAS inlove with pippa and just because his love for her was born out of his mothers death doesn’t mean he didn’t love her. The reality is it wasn’t feasible or healthy in any way. A part of Theo’s (many) problems is that his grief causes his love for one person to bleed into another. He compares pippa to his mother, and his loss stops them from having any vaguely good relationship because he can’t see her as her own person.

But this isn’t the only person that Theo does this too. There’s many times in the book that he compares Boris to his father (Especially after his death). To me the difference between his relationship with pippa and his relationship with Boris is that he has the ability to see Boris as his own person and he doesn’t connect Boris too a time where he wasn’t traumatised and he still had his mother. Theo believes that having a relationship with Pippa would fix all his problems. He idolises the possibility with obsession, but what he’s really longing for is his life before the explosion. Funnily enough he doesn’t do this with just Boris and Pippa. He also does this with Kitsey as well.

there’s multiple moments in the book that you can see his grief from losing Andy bleeds into his relationship with Kitsey, his grief from losing him makes their relationship move fast, as Theo often laments in the book how much time he wasted not getting into contact with Andy. He wants the closest thing to him, and that just happened to be Kitsey. Am I saying that Theo had romantic feelings for Andy? Absolutely not. What I’m saying is that Theo allows his love for people he’s lost mix with people who are still around. he doesn’t just do this with love interests (Pippa, Boris and Kitsey) He does this with Hobie and Ms.Barbour as well, in a way that’s easier to comprehend as he views both these characters as parental figures

anyway in conclusion: he loves Pippa for all the wrong reasons and not for who she is, or what she wants/needs.

[radioactive-yuri]

My silly headcanon is that Jonah didn't know that Elias was a trans man (without bottom surgery) when he did the weird possession thing so he just went "Wait.. Where's my dick?? Why didn't I know about this??" And the eye went "Dude don't be transphobic"

this doesn't really go against elias' canon gender presentation, but i do like it. it's fun.

[galedekarios]

altonaufein & relationships 🌙

i saw this making the rounds on twitter and wanted to do it for my drow son.

i would like to see more people do it so i'll be tagging (with no pressure, of course):

@voliialpha, @lairofsentinel, @shibepetter, @rahabs, @thenightsong, @leopardmuffinxo, @utopianoverlord, @lokorum, @galfreybaenre, @poreyneel, @hawke, @zahra-hydris, @carusti, @fuzzy-set, @inkberrry, @polygone-moi, @bg3, @bigbraincel

🖤

[cosmik-homo]

I do think Alfred would keep the name if she transitioned because. Like. And continuing the way we see both Sartan and Patryn react to Alfred as a Mensch Name first and foremost. Is she going to pick a Sartan name? Her feelings about that heritage are very complicated and it's far from a good idea to do anyways because well she's workking in the labyrinth and it's all touchy enough without announcing her sartan-ness that more loudly. But she's not picking a patryn name that's ludicrous and probably disrespectful and she doesn't have strong emotions about any of those anyways. So what, go search for a mensch name? She already picked out a Mensch name. That she likes. And makes her feel understood (the bare human(e) struggle depicted by Prufrock was there for her when nothing else was). And, crucially, that really nobody around is all that familiar with as a name. Because it's so Human. so it's staying.

[blazingflareon]

idk i just kinda went fuck anatomy only vibes lol

[rotten-pest]

(Question, would you guys want me to sort of pretty up the doc and post a link to cotesias fake quest? It could be used as potential thread inspo if so desired)

[sing-me-under]

I’ve always hated how media needs to be “palatable.” I think it’s annoying because people and situations irl aren’t always “palatable” either. Hell, more often than not, real people don’t fit the narratives touted by media, and that creates unrealistic and often misleading expectations.

[alteredsilicone]

Human Albrecht would be a slightly better father than Orokin Albrecht because he would feel a sense of responsibility for Euleria, but sometimes he'd get caught up in work and leave her to her own devices for too long.

Cue little Euleria wandering around Loid's estate and finding Loid lounging somewhere, so she goes to sit with him and talk to him. Then he calls a servant to bring some fruit since Euleria is hungry (she wanted food but Papa was too engrossed in work to pay attention to her so she wandered off).

Cue a TERRIFIED Albrecht running through the Loid estate asking all his servants if they've seen Euleria. Until Loid and Euleria show up and Albrecht nearly loses it.

Euleria remembers these events surprisingly fondly - she doesn't see it as neglect since she always had Loid's servants or Loid himself around her. Plus in the swap AU she still reveres her father so Albrecht can do no wrong. Accompanying her father as he works was just part of Euleria's childhood, with all the ups and downs it entailed.

Similarly to the canon (though I guess headcanon-canon), Loid's affection towards Albrecht also channels through his fondness for his daughter. Loid sees human children as a curiosity - his servant's families live on his estate, so he can see how parents and children interact.

Servants have a different dynamic, the kids are definitely held on a tight leash and don't interact with Loid that much (and when they do, only by adhering to all customs of etiquette), so Euleria wandering around and striking up a casual chat with Loid, not realizing who she is talking to (an Orokin), is very amusing to Loid.

[iztopher]

on that note. a week or two ago i swapped out some info in my about to list my gender as genderqueer as a super low stakes way of feeling it out lol

ive spent pretty much my whole life w/ my gender on a sliding scale from "agender" to "gnc cis girl" and while i definitely still feel more connected to the former than the latter rn i like. really appreciate genderqueer as a term that captures every stage of that

[dapperrokyuu]

Hating the Four Levels Below arc but also enjoying it because it's made hateable with intention. Truly, "Wow, this place is a freakshow. I dont respect literally any of you people."

[dhampir-dyke]

IVE FINALLY COME UP WITH NAMES FOR THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN MY STORY IM SO HAPPY

[locked-into-eternity]

«on todays episode of “heart and mind can only get along when theyre looking after the one person they dont hate”»

[frostedturquoise]

Sometimes i feel bad for being super verbose and using too many words for something i could of explained in far less or when i could just get to the point or be verbose and say a lot but miss crucial details due to over twenty year long well worn habits of it being The Safest Way To Talk About Anything in person for over twenty years to the point it just affected both IRL and online communication.

So, you know, if you ever want clarification/curious as to what i meant on a thing/i habitually never mentioned something in passing but mentioned around the thing feel free to ask if you want to know because even if i am more likely to be embarrassed about long worn habits theres only a less than 5% chance it was intentional and a 95% chance it was just habit.

Feel free to ever ask about it (in asks/messages/ect) because it would probably be good for me to talk to more than just the same people i know IRL over and over again anyway whose habit of 'rarely gets invested in conversations they did not start personally' and choosing to skip 50% of the details because 'im fucking over this is shit if they are listening they will ask' is the easiest way to get around this shit.

Also sometimes clarification is important because sometimes in the moment i just compile sentences in weird fucked up ways because having three wildly different languages with very different structures forced down your throat since before you were even properly school aged can fuck up your sense of language in unexpected ways. Especially once they expect you to suddenly drop everything you earned because it 'wasnt cute any more' when you took advantage of said skills to learn more than the person teaching you rather than idk take the potential parenting bonding activity for what it was.