#Decadent Flavors

[wickedzeevyln]

Free of This Distance

My heart is calling out yours. One can hope never to reach the bottom of the cup filled with steaming coffee, lost in trance, luxuriating in a conversation wrapped in ribbons of evoking thoughts and decadent flavors. One second after another, the veil is peeled, unmasking secrets until they are naked and the heat floods the senses, charcoal eyes running against the seconds and face tightening…

[luck-of-the-drawings]

so REVENGE, HUH? or justice, if that makes you feel better. it tastes the same when cooked just right. 'I REALLY WANTED A BROTHER.' such a shame to burn a bridge you so desperately wanted to keep, especially when it wasnt even you who started the fire. especially when you hope that not a single fragment of that bridge ever washes ashore.[MAY IT ROT FAR FROM MY SIGHTS] an unfortunate loss! atleast he has his friends.

[rosesocietyy]

It'll never stop being funny how people can see something in fiction and recognize it's wrong but for some reason, can't seem to translate that to real life and see how those same things are reflected in their behavior.

y'all watch episode 2, you see Louis face horrific macro aggressions while trying to conduct simple business, you watch him rightfully get angry, you cheer when he kills the man for what is agreed to be a blatant display of racism. you watch him then explain to lestat what the man did and why he reacted the way he did.

and you clutch your pearls when lestat is dismissive, disregarding louis' struggles and calling him confusing, that he's too dramatic and he needs to get over the racism he faces everyday because they just can't keep having this argument about their differences lestat is tired of it! you question how he can be so flippant to a very serious issue that he previously claimed to care about.

But then you come on this tag, you see black people, frustrated and exhausted, calling out the racism they face, explain how harrowing it is, how isolating and sinister it is, and you roll your eyes, dismiss it and call it "fandom drama", we're overreacting and we should drop it already because we can't keep having this "discourse" over and over again, the carousel comes round again and you're tired of it!

I simply have to laugh

[gaysails]

toby schmitz being so normal on twitter about the black sails netflix launch. that's my forever girl

[riveranduin11]

Watching ‘This Is Where I Leave You’ and spending the entire time being annoyed at how fucking hot Adam Driver is.

Fuck me. He’s back on the screen and so delicious that it should be criminal.

[gladosluver]

more danganronpa merchendise you probably havent seen before (part 3)

the image quality on some of these isnt the best, partially due to them being quite old, but it can sometimes be done intentionally to prevent illegal redistribution

these three clear files/folders.... instant cop i fear

masking tape set

hand towel and mirror

sticker

damnnn i keep hitting the image limit.. next time i get paid i WILL be getting the udg one and a megumi ogata or sdr2 soundtrack cd.

[iamumbra195]

Hernandez twins Full Metal Alchemist AU where the twins try to revive their dad because their mom is so destroyed by grief that she barely even feels like their mom anymore, only to lose so much more in the process.

[puzzlebean]

If you think me drinking a different energy drink brand caused red bull to do badly this weekend and are mad enough to send me anon messages about it calling me horrible, then you really need to get help.

[foodlesoodlesdoodles]

Vampire Empire by Big Thief

[wis-art]

Girls just want to have fun (eat a big burger like the ones from USA)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im devastated. i got a microwaveable curry from costco and. its not good. Why

[bisexualpercyjacksons]

no wait wait wait hear me out about how the four beads is a truly devious and smart addition

so starting off with four beads from the dryad establishes a few things:

1. getting out of the underworld wasn’t something they really thought about yet (too many steps ahead, I also have ADHD I get it)

2. poseidon HAS thought of that problem and has made the beads in preparation to protect them

3. poseiden thought about rescuing sally when planning how to get everyone back safely, not just percy and his friends

2 & 3 plant the seeds (a long with the dryad’s words and hermes’ comments) that poseiden really does care about percy (and sally!). yes I know I know, bare minimum to care about your kid etc. but considering this is a show and we don’t get percy’s internal monologue it kinda makes sense to have a little more details that make poseiden seem better to the audience

[read more break to not clog up the tag. I promise I get into the angst shortly]

all these little bits that imply poseiden really does want to be there for him but can’t, that he’s been watching from afar because he didn’t want zeus to find out he broke the pact and take his anger out on his son and former love (yes, love! this is the man/god that wanted sally to be his queen with him in his underwater kingdom!!!). I actually really like the idea of those posts about how he has been helping out in little ways over the years because. let’s be real for a second. NO WAY does sally afford that apartment AND have the ability to send percy to specialized boarding schools with the salary of a CANDY SHOP EMPLOYEE. I get it I get it, the gods are deadbeats, but I’ll admit I kind of like the idea that he’s been doing what he feasibly could without getting caught by making extra money appear in sally’s bank account or sm

making him seem (and possibly be) more sympathetic is another reason that fuels percy to change the system rather than join luke to tear it all down. he knows the system is bad but he sees hope and truly believes it can be changed for the better. that is something that can be saved, not destroyed

4. this is kinda irrelevant but I like that it is the dryad that agrees to give percy the pearls after poseiden says for him and his friends to go back to camp because she wants him to have a chance to change things. gives her a little bit more agency. (also y’all she’s SO pretty in gay but moving in)

so. four beads.

if we want to keep the dilemma and character growth that comes with there only being three beads and someone having to make a sacrifice, something needs to happen: one of the beads breaks or someone loses it

is it percy? who has realized they need four beads for EVERYONE to come back and is horrified that they now only have three, meaning either he himself or one of the most important people to him has to be left behind in actual hell in order for the world to be saved? think about the dread and self-loathing that would come from that

or is it annabeth or grover? where the horrifying realization is the same but now there is a gut reaction from percy to be upset with the person who loses/breaks it. he loves his friends and can’t stay mad at them but now they are in this impossible dilemma to choose who stays behind and it’s killing all of them. the impossibly guilt of the person who breaks/loses it knowing that it’s their fault someone doesn’t get to go home, someone has to stay behind in the underworld

and when does this happen? early on, and we spend the episode watching them all try to figure out the dreadful problem of who gets left behind. looking at each other thinking, I can’t leave them behind, I can’t. they’re my family. but we can’t leave percy’s mom behind either.

or does it happen right before they have the chance to go, and they all think everyone is going to make it and sally is in percy’s grasp only for everything to fall apart and now everyone is looking at each other thinking, who is going to have to be left behind? who has to be the sacrifice?

anyways, I think there is something truly devious about them KNOWING there NEEDS to be four beads and HAVING THEM only to have something happen and the option of everyone going home safe being ripped from their grasps

[fictionadventurer]

I don't want to wreck someone's nice fandom post of a fandom that I'm not even in, but I call bullshit on "Mulder and Scully were revolutionary for being the first time that a man respected a woman as a partner on a television show."

Remington Steele came nearly a decade before this (and was explicitly "reasonable woman partnered with crazy guy".) Moonlighting existed (not sure how well it fits the mold here since I haven't seen it, but my understanding is that it has a similar dynamic). Heck, The Mary Tyler Moore Show came two decades before this, giving us a woman who was respected as an equal by multiple men in her workplace. And the first two examples were heavily inspired by 1930s films, which proves this kind of male-female partnership has a long history within popular media.

I know it doesn't matter, but one of my pet peeves is when people pretend something is groundbreaking representation and ignore all the previous times we've seen it done as well or better over the years. A show doesn't have to be "the first ever" example of something to be good.

[rozecrest]

i’ve been struggling majorly with eating breakfast before work for a bit, so i asked my mom about how to make the cornmeal porridge she made me as a kid n last night she made a pot with me and i had to go to sleep for work so she waited for it to cool and wrapped the pot in foil for me and now i’m eating it and it’s good and my body isn’t rejecting it and i want to cry i love my mom

[doolallymagpie]

been trying to come up with a BattleTech “pitch” for fans of The Expanse, but honestly?

this is probably enough, plus the official “primer” document if you want actual information rather than just a bunch of pretty images and a banging soundtrack by Jon Everist (who I’m fairly sure admitted he wanted this piece to sound kind of Expanse-y)

or if you don’t want to click links or watch videos:

politics-heavy hard-SF space opera, thrilling heroics, (almost) zero easy answers to the dilemma of the day, main themes are “people are always going to be people” and “the end justifies the means, but there is no end”. obviously this describes both settings nicely.

one just uses that to explain why people are hopping into big war robots and slapping the shit out of each other.

[shu-of-the-wind]

going on my once monthly one-week hiatus until my uterus stops convincing me that i am a terrible writer and no one wants to read anything i have to say. she's a nasty bitch, is the uterus.

(also for those who may not know: if you have adhd and you also menstruate, your period hormones FUCK YOU UP. this has been studied. please prepare every month for absolutely RANK levels of executive dysfunction and brainfog.)