#... whatever it is he needs to win

[seasicksilver]

good old times

[bitchthefuck1]

It's kind of funny that Kendall and Shiv are both equally delusional about their ability to charm people for business and somehow think they can do it even though they choke almost every single time, whereas it's like the one thing Roman is consistently good at despite being the "least legitimate" option.

I think part of this comes down to the fact that Shiv and Kendall both have very clear ideas of the versions of themselves they're trying to be and the images they're trying to project, and they're trying so hard to be seen that way that they end up coming off as a little desperate and off-putting. Meanwhile Roman "knows" that there's something wrong with him and he's worthless, so he doesn't get sucked into the trap of trying to force people to see his idea of himself and instead molds himself into whatever he thinks the other person wants from him because that's the only way he can compensate for "being him," which works very well in the short term but also means he's the least capable of maintaining any relationship for very long because he has no sense of self.

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

idk if this counts as a bad traffic idea but you can have it anyway

double life au where joel and scott are soulbound and joel just kills himself immediately cause he’d rather be out of the series then ever have to do anything that benefits scott smajor

This is my favorite example of the "guy who HATES the other guy with a PASSION he wants him DEAD he wants him to SUFFER" vs "guy who is normal" dynamic.

But honestly? What a raw thing to do. Joel is so right for that. King,

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

The idea that GRRM is anti Tolkien is particularly funny because ASOIAF is sprinkled with rather intricate (and even passionate) homages to LOTR. And I can’t help but think of how Tolkien’s Fellowship, more specifically the Hobbits, may have inspired GRRM’s Night’s Watch. Jon Snow, for starters, is in many ways a combination of LOTR’s Frodo and Aragorn. And in the same way that Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are unexpected heroes in LOTR (because who looks to a hobbit as the face of an epic adventure?), Jon the bastard becomes the leader of a ragtag of socially disenfranchised men (in the form of the NW) who are anything but heroic. Sure there’s the odd knight or noble in there, but the NW is quite full of criminals and the very worst of the social order. The hobbits aren’t the strongest or the sharpest but they become the face of the fight against Sauron. And the NW, while being severely undermanned and under-equipped, has become the main force that stands against winter. GRRM even adds a love letter to Tolkien’s Sam Gamgee by adding his on Sam - Sam Tarly - who acts as a moral compass and counselor to Jon, in the same ways that Sam Gamgee is key to Frodo’s journey. And just like Frodo, Jon gets his very own pair of jokester friends, one of whine is even named Pyp. So it’s all very beautiful and nice, and we should talk about it more because it’s super evident that GRRM is a massive Tolkien fanboy. But I do have to say tho, GRRM’s take on Gandalf is exceedingly hilarious just because Melisandre is famously very bad at her job.

[dazednmatthews]

i’m so genuinely dead fucking serious when i say this picture is my roman empire and i think about it at least six times a day

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Tsc 2 should end with the Trojans winning the championship just like how tkm ends with the foxes winning

[banalityofambiguity]

“You can’t make a revolution in white gloves” people always seem completely unwilling to do literally anything they’d feel bad about in the name of their politics. Like they’re fine fantasizing about just killing everyone they don’t like, but if you ever ask them to do anything actually productive in politics they’ll whine about how unfair it is that they have to go vote for someone they don’t 100% agree with.

[redladydeath]

Kind of OOC idea: pre-canon Alastor getting into a “Hell’s Greatest Dad”-style pissing contest with Valentino over Vox. He’s not even truly interested in a relationship with Vox, he just wants to win.

[jamiethebee]

Ghost king au is fun and all but I love the comedy of Danny just being some young ghost who doesn't even have to kill his opponents, he just captures and releases them instead like:

Danny: leave Amity alone!

Ghost of the week: You can't tell me what to do!

Danny: Yeah but I can make you >:(

and after a fight montage proceeds to soup them up

Like, he's so strong it doesn't matter if he permanently deals with them because they aren't that big of a deal (obviously we know that's not canonically true but it's a fun idea)

[nightmaremybeloved]

do u think the wider mcyt sphere ever gets tired of being so negative towards dteam and friends. i dont even mean their fanbases atp because i have good friends in those fan spaces that are NOT going to waste their time getting angry about dream existing. so like whats up with these cc's that seem to think they'll burst into flames unless they show how much they REALLY dont support dteam at every avaliable avenue. its so cringe.

[missgalindaaa]

“Dennis is asshole. Why Charlie hate?”  “Because Dennis is a bastard-man!”

SOME THINGS I LOVE: [4/10] Friendships  Charlie Kelly and Dennis Reynolds, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (2005-)

[lloydfrontera]

have i already talked about alicia knowing damn well the frontera family is actually stronger and more powerful than the royal family and the only thing stopping them from being a national threat is that lloyd has zero political ambition? if i have im sorry but i need to talk about it again like imagine the frustration. like this guy who came apparently from the middle of nowhere has at his disposal what seems to be the world's most powerful knight, a fucking bone dragon that acts like a puppy around him, has made friends with elves and orcs and even dwarves, has apparently swallowed an ancient divine artifact and who keeps doing stuff that by all means should be absolutely impossible. and he just wants to chill. he doesn’t even want to work for the royal family he wants to go back to his home and live with his parents and his knight and maybe go visit his little brother sometimes. it apparently doesn’t even occur to him that he’s probably the most dangerous person on the continent and that he could probably defeat entire armies and conquer a few kingdoms if he so wanted. he just wants to relax. i would be murderous.

[idontparticularlyliketoast]

Mal 36 theory: There is definitely some aspect of John’s Deal with Kayne coming up here. John was being very jealous and surly about Arthur needing other people to rely onto, but it sounded like more than that; like there was some reasoning John couldn’t quite vocalize

[ryanthel0ser]

*at Capcom's door*

Mr Capcom I promise you I'm so excited for the anime and seeing Dante but please do not forget about Nero, we just got him back

[l8tof1]

saudi21 was madness in every conceivable way.

[mokkkki]

hello my very favorite writer in the universe that could go word for word w dostoyevsky and emerge victorious 😇 can you please tell us more about your upcoming spideypool fic? as many details as u feel comfy with!

hi gorgeous! so so sweet of you but comparing me to dostoyevsky, the greatest writer i have ever had the pleasure of reading, is highkey sacrilege and such a high compliment that i have NOOO idea what to do with it. and as for my new spideypool fic, timeless, i literally do not need to be prompted - that fic is my baby and i am so excited to start posting!

so, i don't want to give anything away, but here are the basics: our boys are in their mid-thirties and have been best friends and crime-fighting buddies for six years. peter has been devastatingly, pathetically, painfully in love with wade for six of them. and wade, heartbroken and miserable in the aftermath of a messy-ass divorce with vanessa, has started crashing on peter's couch, and peter finally gets to take care of him. this is your run-of-the-mill, one-sided (or is it?) pining, recovery, realization, tension, flirting fic, except for the fact that when rising supervillain victoria von doom decides to redeem ancient knowledge, wade is sent 2000 years into the hellenistic period of ancient greece.

where he meets agnessa, an incarnation of his ex-wife and the love of his life, and decides to give his marriage another try.

surely agnessa's OTHER suitor, a doe-eyed, awfully-familiar face, won't present a challenge whatsoever...