#I am rotating them in the microwave

[endercasts]

me, a person who has a tendency to happy cry, when my casters are cute on camera

[seaofadventure-a]

Its just the way that Roger found Rayleigh and immediately called their meeting fate and the way they were captian and first mate for over thirty years and the way they were Gol D and Silvers and the way they called each other partners and the way Roger told Rayleigh he would never die and the way Rayleigh was crying but let his captain go because he knew that was what Roger wanted and needed and the way Roger lived his last year without his partner and the way Rayleigh didn't go to Roger's execution and how it was the day he laughed and cried the most and the way Rayleigh lived!! For so long!! Without Roger and just waiting for Joyboy's prophecy to pass and the way—

[orbitalbeetle]

Nim the Prince who fell from the Sky !!

yet another oc for Welcome Home :]c

[velnari]

templars of the white glass

(twitter)

at some point during my gideon re-read last year i became so obssessed w/ the eighth house,,,

[soullessjack]

the thing with claire and jack is claire is a wounded animal who hates stability because her own was destroyed and jack is a cornered animal who wants stability because he’s like born unstable or something and they both want what they think the other has and in this essay I will

[pressdelt]

HAPPY HSY DAY

when your birthday is on april 1st, something like this is bound to happen

[cozylittleartblog]

who's your favourite lancer dad?

if you mean "who is your favorite character that happens to be in the lancer dad club" its The Big Hot Computer Wife, and that's almost surely the intended question, but if you mean "who is your favorite character to parent him" it is actually, by exactly One (1) point.... rouxls

because i love queen, i love her to bits and pieces, but for all her Mom Energy she is still actually new at the Mom thing. she has some stuff to learn beyond search inquiries and algorithms. and that opens up to all sorts of delightful shenanigans and the relationship To Be Built There is so wonderful, but rouxls has been here, by any canon or non-canon measure, longer than she has, and i think there is a very sweet bond between a naive, terribly lonely boy with a neglectful (sometimes worse) father and the prideful, terribly lonely idiot who has been put in charge of him, who Had to be there when nobody else was. and of course, this idiot caved. it feels like when you look at who they seem to be as characters, they mutually need each other, and i just think that's a really sweet kind of relationship.

... queen will catch up of course, really it's a learning experience for both of them as rouxls was the same brand of Clueless Idiot she is, he's just ahead of her on the board. he's got notes, she can borrow them. maybe they can study together.

comic relief characters can be really deep actually. or maybe i dug this hole myself. but either way, it’s there

[rosmarinys]

something something rosamund not getting a flashback in episode 1 bc she never did anything before her life was a blank canvas onto which the fairies placed a story on her and fit her into a role that suits the story they were trying to create something something how do you create agency when you don't even know you

[lakesbian]

five FUCKING am and i am too busy being autistic about alec vasil to sleep. aisha & alec is a fucking nuts good character dynamic to just Casually Slide Into The Background. and the thing that’s REALLY fucked up and evil about it is that it genuinely would not work any other way. their narrative would not Work if they were not constantly in the narrative background because they as people are defined by being in the background. alec is traumatized in this very specific way that means he’s fully aware he doesn’t really know how to be a person like everyone else. he’s fully aware that something fundamental everyone else has was taken from him long ago. so despite the fact that he dresses incredibly ostentatiously, that he loves being pampered, that he wears a little crown, that his power is at its most fundamental level the ability to force other people to obey and prioritize him, he intentionally makes himself a background character in other ppl’s lives. because on some level he knows that if he Doesn’t, if anyone pays too much attention to him, they’re going to notice that he is incredibly fucked up and has just been ad-libbing his way through trying to be a vaguely decent-ish person distinct from the gaping soul-wound the first thirteen years of his life left him with. 

and then you have aisha, whose. (okay my aishanalysis is still somewhat unformed but i Will pay even more attention to her and conduct some proper Scientific Aisha Studies on my upcoming reread.) but anyway then you have aisha, whose life has been defined by either being ignored and dismissed or targeted with entirely the wrong kind of attention. her defense mechanism is that Nobody Fucking Notices her, and her biggest problem is also that Nobody Fucking Notices her. she’s in a constant struggle between the trauma-induced tendency to very literally make herself disappear by default and between the fact that she Wants to be noticed, she wants to have people who pay enough attention to her & care about her enough to give her autonomy, she wants to have people who see her as her instead of as an object of annoyance or desire. and despite the fact that nearly everything she does is a simultaneous cry for both attention and autonomy, she still ironically fades into the background, constantly dismissed by those around her as an irritation just in the way enough to be occasionally noticeable.  

and like. they do both stay in the background for pretty much the entire story. aisha develops significantly more than alec because she didn’t get fucking smote, but none of the circumstances that led to their background positions ever change enough for taylor to get a full grasp on what either of them are like beyond their roles in the peripheral of her life. she sees aisha as an annoyance to rein in. when alec dies and aisha says that “the best part of him would have killed his dad, too,” taylor not only doesn’t understand what she means, but dismisses the idea without a second thought. it’s taylor’s story and they’re just living in the background of it.

but. despite the fact that they are background characters and they Remain background characters. they do find each other. boy who is intentionally side-charactering himself so that no one notices how fucked up he is meets girl who really does not want to be a side character but is anyway, and they see each other in a way no one else sees them. they spend vast portions of the text connecting in the background, with that connection alluded to only through one-off lines and sparsely connected details. and that connection does eventually become so important that it results in something extreme enough for everyone else to notice--alec killing himself for the slightest chance that aisha might live--but the events leading up to the moment alec steps out of the peripheral for aisha? never explicitly detailed, only alluded to. there’s the outline of a love story going on there and it’s kept private solely because no one cared enough to watch. there were parts of alec that only aisha saw and there are parts of aisha that only alec has seen, and isn’t that beautiful? but the only reason that’s true is because nobody else ever saw either of them, and isn’t that fucking tragic?

genuinely fucking deranged character dynamic. background pairing defined explicitly and entirely by the fact that it’s In The Background. i am So mad that we never get to yank the curtain back and find out precisely what was going on back there, and i’m equally obsessed w/ the fact that we’re forced to just watch their shadows thru the curtain instead, because both of them are characters defined by the fact that the curtain is there in the first place.

(obligatory endnote i say ‘love story’ but ‘love’ is not an inherently romantic word etc etc. when taylor says she doesn’t know if it’s romantic or platonic but they’re Together, that’s true. i have my own takes on what mix of romantic and platonic their relationship is but the only part that’s really important is that they’re Together. as per usual, the details are kept solely between the two of them.)

[tokkias]

oh worm more MMA fighter!natsu x teacher!lucy headcanons because they occupy my brain

once her students find out who she's married to, lucy does not see the end of it

there's only a handful of students in her classes that keep up with MMA who all thought it was just a weird coincidence that she had the same last name as natsu until he shows up to bring her something to her class one day

from there word spreads that she has a "famous husband" and some of the students are super skeptical that he actually is until they google him

"oh my god he has a wikipedia page. that means he's famous for real"

"oH MY GOD LOOK MRS. DRAGNEEL IS ON HIS WIKIPEDIA PAGE"

since high schoolers love to gossip, word spreads to other members of staff and that is when lucy knows she will never catch a break, even in the staff room

her students beg her to let them watch videos of his fights in class but obviously she's not going to let them do that because they have to finish reading pride and prejudice

at the end of the year, as a reward for good behaviour (and because she was sick of being hassled for it), they dedicate an entire class just to watching videos of natsu's matches and they cheer for him as "mrs. dragneel's husband"

lucy is the most popular english teacher not just because she's the kindest of the options, and definitely the best at her job, but also because she uses natsu stories as an incentive to get her students to behave/work harder, and it's weirdly effective

when the youngest of her students who first found out who her husband was graduates, she thinks she will finally be free of it until her new class comes in and one of the students is like "hey my older brother told me your husband is an mma fighter" and the cycle begins anew

lucy has two genres of students: ones who are obsessed with natsu, and those who are obsessed with their cat, happy

she'll pretend to be annoyed by it, but she thinks it's really sweet that her students like natsu and she likes telling stories about him because she has a lot to say

the stories range from sweet to wildly embarrassing, and her students think it's so cute how soft she gets when she talks about him

[silvers-starrway]

Silver and Shadow meeting up in the future, but for Silver he last saw Shadow like, maybe yesterday or some other small time scale while for Shadow it's been well over a century since he saw Silver.

The difference between Silver having barely changed at all while Shadow has watched his friends grow old and die and yet Silver is here with him now.

[thehappiestgolucky]

Brains actually obsessed with them. Teeny tiny girls and one(1) giant

[perce-jpg]

haimaposting is a full time job and brother i’ve never called in sick . discord highlights

[americankimchi]

obsessed with the idea that in another world shen jiu would just be the cang qiong sect’s extremely bitchy second in command who acts like a royal pain in the ass to everyone but closes ranks SO fast once someone else is rude to anybody from the sect like FUCK you those are HIS annoying little brat disciples/peak lords and only HE’S allowed to be mean to them

[archi-pelago]

going a little nuts. imagining Marika only turned gold when the golden star buried itself inside her, the same way Radagon turned red with the giant's curse - the idea that it was happenstance, it was luck, it was a curse, Marika just happened to there when it fell as a small girl and without it she's just a woman and always has been

[kennabeth]

love love love the antaris being Scared of Death and Resigned to Death and Eager for Death respectively