#At least someone wants to talk to me

[jikigo]

you ever just see a post and just

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[inbabylontheywept]

I was walking out of the Walmart today, and a car passed me, and I got this incredibly vivid impression. It wasn't really in words, but if I had to put it into words, the two key points would be

a). I needed to watch that car and

b). That I needed to be careful, because the driver of the car was a massive bitch.

It kind of took me by surprise, because I really had no reason to be beefing with that car, and I also hadn't really had an impression like that since I was religious, which was in my teen years. Right? It'd been a decade since I had a little voice whisper in my ear, and I'd basically written it off as nonsense.

Anyway, I watched the car, because The Spirits or whatever were very insistent that I did. Car drove fine, went into the parking spot, inched forward, and right when it should've just stopped, the driver gunned it for some reason and it ran into the curb and cracked its bumper.

So, the driver got out, and she went to the front of the car to check that yes, she had cracked her bumper, and then she turned to look at me. The parking lot wasn't empty, but we were the only two people standing in that row, and I'd probably been staring at her for tenish seconds now.

She demanded very angrily to know why I hadn't warned her of the curb. And I could have said I didn't know you were about to gun it or is it my job to help every stranger park, or even could you have even heard me, inside your car?

And all of those would have been fine, but I was really, really busy digesting that I had somehow communed with Mormon Jesus again for the first time in fifteen years, and that the communion had mostly been there to let me watch someone park badly (?), so what I responded with was:

"Because it was foretold."

And I can't tell which would be funnier, if she went silent because there's not much to be said to that, or if she went silent because in Utah, she might actually believe me, but we parted ways without more words.

I'm still kind of digesting this myself, actually.

[tuttle-did-it]

You know, it's genuinely sad to me that aging favourite character actors no longer have any fun murder-mystery tv shows to guest-star as murders on.

[l4tchk3y]

Redraw of a cat meme. This is how I see baby Espio......

[confuzing]

My Super secret AU were Airplane and Cucumber Bro live in the same apartment building but don't figure that out until the entire building and it's tenants get transmigrated into Proud Immortal Demon Way post realms merging.

It's super secret because the stuff that's interesting to me is the apartment residents banding together to figure shit out. If I wrote this we'd probably be 20 chapters deep before any known PIDW characters showed up, and Demon Lord Luo Binghe isn't showing up until after the retired electrician grandpa and the engineering students (apartments were near a college so there's a bunch of students in the building) have figured out how to make their own solar panels.

(Also this is secretly about giving Mu Qingfang a happy ending because his canon PIDW situation is Real Sad- he shows up at the apartment and adopts the small gaggle of med students and starts a clinic.)

(Also he might start a lil cultivation school because a bunch of the residents got brand new shiny spiritual veins when they transmigrated and they have no idea what to do with them.)

Ok I gotta stop talking about this.

[biblically-accurate-dca]

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[allastoredeer]

It's kind of funny to think that when Lucifer points out to Charlie that they have the same blood, it's clear that Lucifer has golden blood due to being an Angel, while in battle we see that Charlie actually has red blood, probably due to being the daughter of the first human/sinner woman, which ironically makes her even closer to Alastor just on a visual level.

Another thing I love about that song is that Lucifer stresses that he will support her, but always focusing on material things and the use of his power. While Alastor, the manipulative bastard who knows everyone's weaknesses, brings out all the bonds and emotional support he's given Charlie just by being there from the beginning, how they've become friends, how he makes her laugh with his jokes, he even hugs Niffty, and all that "corny" stuff is what Charlie really appreciates, but she has no interest in material things.

Ooooh! Good point about the blood! In that aspect, she could be more closely affiliated with sinners than Lucifer or the hellborn.

Also, that's what I REALLY love about Alastor and Lucifer's song, because your right! Lucifer is focusing on all the things he can get her. Material items. Which is exactly where he went wrong.

Charlie is the princess of Hell, I'm pretty sure she has no problem buying anything. Lucifer may be able to snap things into existence, but that's not what Charlie wants. It's not what she needs.

Alastor, on the other hand, is observant as fuck. He was with the Hazbin crew for only a week before he pegged Charlie's daddy issues.

It is also very interesting that in this photo Lucifer is in the spotlight with his back turned to Charlie, and Charlie's body language is so hurt and closed off, she's literally on the brink of tears. I'm just saying, I don't think we give Charlie's feelings about her and Lucifer's relationship more credit. We tend to focus more on Lucifer's emotions and that is such a shame because LOOK at her. Charlie is not okay.

Charlie wants connection, support, and community. She wants someone to be proud of her. She wants someone who is reliable and involved.

And Alastor knows that and, when you think about it, he HAS done that.

Look at Charlie's face when he tells her he's happy to "fulfill all her bizarre request."

Requests. Not just poofing items into existence.

We've already seen examples of Alastor being involved with the hotel and doing things that Vaggie and Charlie ask him to do, such as taking the egg bois with him, sitting in on Charlie's exercise's, making a commercial, building a new wall, dealing with clogs--and I imagine he's done a lot more over the 6 months that he's been there.

(Also, not to go off topic but Alastor's back arch oh my god??????)

Look at her face when Alastor say's that she's an "impressive young lady" and that they're all "very proud of her."

He didn't even need to say "I'm proud of her," it was "we're proud of her."

It makes me wonder when the last time Charlie heard those words. Did Lucifer and Lilith ever tell her they were proud of her? I looked through the episode transcripts, and there wasn't a single time Lucifer said "I'm proud of you", even after they rekindled their relationship.

I think it's something Charlie has wanted to hear for a VERY long, and hearing it from Alastor (who's as close to a father figure as she's had, I guess), I can't imagine how much that meant to her.

Also note Charlie's face when Lucifer interrupts them to request he meet her other friends.

Charlie wants emotional connection. She doesn't want Lucifer to come in and fix all her problems, she just needs a little help. She wants his support. She invited him to the hotel so she could show him what she was working on and how much things have improved.

And let's be honest here, Lucifer went to the hotel for purely selfish reasons.

He didn't go to listen to Charlie's pitch or even consider helping with it. He already said no about setting up a meeting with Heaven and he went into the hotel already believing it wouldn't work, with no intention of keeping an open mind.

He missed Charlie and went there only to see her, which isn't altogether bad! He missed his daughter. That's fine. But by all accounts it was a selfish decision that he made purely for himself. It was to benefit him, not her.

And I think, on some level, Charlie expected that.

So when Alastor swoops in saying all the right words, knowing exactly what Charlie wants (because he's been paying attention), knowing that she doesn't need material items but emotional connection, you know, I can't blame her for looking the way she did, and I'm not surprised it sent Lucifer head-first into a whirlpool of insecurity.

Lucifer went wrong by trying to "buy" (for lack of better term) his way back into Charlie's good graces. I don't think he meant for it to come off like that, but the whole basis of his "i'm a better dad than Alastor" argument is "look at all the things I can get for you," "look at all the ways you can benefit from my status" and "we're blood-related."

Whereas Alastor's was "here's all the things I've done to help and support you," "look at the times I've been reliable" and "you've already made a found family here, you don't need a biological one."

I'm sorry, but going by the song? Yeah, Alastor kind of beat Lucifer in the dad category.

Doesn't mean he's an actual, loving, and supportive father figure to Charlie LMAO, but by all accounts, he's checked the boxes.

[mintedwitcher]

Tbh I think it would've been a good ending for bobby at the very end of the show. Like season 20, peter wants to leave, they've thought this through, buck is ready to be captain, full circle to s1. It still would be kinda off because it's not the kind of show to kill a formerly suicidal character right when he *wants* to live - where is that hope they were always proud of? - but narratively, it would've made sense.

I just don't think they have any idea what they did making peter krause leave, killing the lead, disappointing a huge part of their audience, while their show had great ratings and everyone was centered around him. It's not like anyone gained anything. Chim could've been captain another way, maybe with bobby as chief, opening a new dynamic.

Now Athena and buck basically got killed alongside bobby because their relationships to him made the show from s1. I'd even argue hen and chim's characters were more *done* than bobby's on a personal level. And while they have had their love stories and marriages and kids and crises etc other characters are still on that hamster wheel. At this rate we'll never get to see buck (or eddie, what are they doing with him?) experience a real relationship before the show gets canceled and it just seems like a total waste when it could've been so good

😭😭😭 sorry for the rant

nonnie, as nicely as possible, I need you to understand, Peter wanted this to happen now. Peter has BEEN talking, since season SIX, about how he feels like he's done all he can with the character of Bobby Nash and how he feels like it's time to step away. this is not a case of the showrunner making a call and then just booting Peter freaking Krause out of a job. Peter is one of the executive producers on the show. he knew this was coming, he agreed to this, he WANTED this.

like it or not, Bobby was always going to die. that's how his story goes. having it happen now just gives the rest of the cast some freedom to actually change up without us having to go "oh if only we got season 21 so we could see how they Adjust without him!"

I get being unhappy with it, but this is the smart choice. also, once again - I've said this a billion times already but I'll keep saying it - the point in killing Bobby was not to "kill off the suicidal guy who just learned to live again". the point was that Bobby got to save his family. that's it. Bobby's number one motivator for the ENTIRE SHOW is saving lives to atone for the lives he took in that apartment fire. he's done it, he can rest now.

yes its sad that he just started being happy, except... that's not entirely true. he's been content since season 4, and with the exception of his backslide in season seven (for GOOD REASON), he hasn't been suicidal in years. he's already happy, he's content with his life, he loves his life and his job and his family - both the one he married into and the one he made at the 118. it's not like he's just overcome it. he's been overcoming it for years, since season two, and we've watched him do it.

I really don't understand this hyperfocus on "oh but he was just starting to want to live again!" because like... no? that's not true. yes he had a backslide in s7, but recovery isn't linear, and backsliding doesn't erase the progress already made.

Bobby got to save his 118 family. he got to make amends with his mother and brother. he got to lay old ghosts to rest. and he got to go home to his first family. just like he's wanted since the beginning. his character motivation has been fulfilled, what else is there for him to do?

as a writer, I'm sorry, but this was the smart choice. you don't keep a narrative device hanging around once it's fulfilled it's purpose. Bobby becoming chief would've never happened because Bobby didn't want a paper pusher job. Bobby retiring never would've happened because he loved the job too much to leave it behind. if Bobby stayed on as the 118's captain, none of the 118 would've transferred or tried to rise above their current station because the show has entirely abandoned ambition for ALL of the characters.

you say you want 20 seasons of this show. you know how other procedurals manage to keep going for that long? they don't let their characters stagnate. they're a revolving door of mains and recurrings and guests. the stakes are always high because anyone can die, at any moment, which keeps the audience engaged and interested in watching, because they want to know who is going to make it to the end of the episode/season/series. 911 has failed on that front. TWO near cancellations in the last two years. we've only JUST gotten confirmation for season nine, and if they don't pick up the stakes, they're not going to get a tenth season, much less a twentieth. too much plot armour, the mains are practically invincible, no one is ever injured for longer than the episode wrap-up montage scenes, no one ever faces long lasting consequences, and no one leaves. that's a weakness in procedural television, not a strength.

tldr: killing Bobby was the right choice, 911 was floundering long before they did this, Peter was not "forced" to do this arc, and basically, this is what the show needed if it wants to continue to compete with longer running and more successful procedural dramas.

[clumsypuppy]

personal character design headcanons + brainrot

Note: the re-bound!au does NOT belong to me, it belongs to @chipper-smol I’m just not normal about it lol

[somegrumpynerd]

Okay I know I'm the most biased person about dadmare, but you can't honestly tell me that if Cross started to mention the way xgaster treated him and his brother as children - the way an adult bullied and belittled and abused them - that it wouldn't make Nightmare see red

[beaulesbian]

Some Lich!Emmrich & Rook romance endearments

[OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS AHEAD]

first official invitation to spend more time together in the gardens:

flirting over a dead body, literaly:

offering some reassurance to Emmrich:

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second date invitation:

some midst of battle dearest :

When being a Grey Warden and taking Emmrich on the Eruption in Hossberg Wetlands quest, hearing the blight:

the Emmrich & Harding trip plannnig, when romanced, you have a funny input:

Emmrich becoming a lich:

Ghilan'nain talking with Elgar'nan about who she wants to experiment on, Emmrich and Rook overhearing it at the Crossroad tree:

The EmmRook Fight™ ;-; (not complete) :

the Tearstone island tidbit of their fight:

with Rook back from the Fade:

Their night alone in Necropolis :))

+ the morning after:

the Lighthouse talk before going after Elgar'nan:

the last talk before the final fight in the Archon Palace:

and just before the Elgar'nan fight, if you take Emmrich up there with you:

*BONUS: one human!Emmrich replay, specifically trying to find out if their argument would be different when playing as Grey Warden, and there was finally one mention of it, thankfully:

(I definitely didn't get every line like this, I know I missed to make some screenshots during battles, there's few other variations of Emmrich worrying about Rook. But overall... Emmrich's romance, my beloved!! 😭🥰)

[son-of-avraham]

Some people at my shul are studying lashon hara so it's very funny to hear them talk and stop themselves by saying, "that's lashon hara 😦" and they'll literally just stop talking 😭😭😭

[meamiki]

Happy Anniversary In Stars and Time!! Have some Friend Quest based drawings :D

(These have specific quote picks related to them! And there's also a long ramble on why I like those specific quotes below if interested)

(And by long, I mean roughly 2k+ words of proper ramble total, so be warned before clicking keep reading this link right here to the rb!!)

[kiwioala]

idk how many ppl watch clowns pov but i don’t think clown necessarily intends on Betraying foolish, he’s said several times that he has some sort of loyalty to the kingdom, he just wants to manipulate/control foolish and his reign a little bit from what i've heard ^_^ however owen is a different story he fucking hates that guy and wants him Dead.

[royalarchivist]

[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]

Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?

[ Transcript continued ↓ ]*

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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.

Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!

Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.

* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.

[clumsypuppy]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way