i cant rant abt this on tiktok they want tof ucking kill me but holy shit is anyone else fucking tired of how many people behave as if ian being bipolar is the end of the fucking world? like there are so many fucking edits where its ian exhibiting BD traits with mickeys reactions and shit and its so fucking annoying as if mickey didnt STAY WITH HIM? not just that, fucker, he dealt with ALL of that and found out why and he did his fucking DAMNEDEST to help EVERY FUCKING WAY HE COULD hello what is wrong with you why are you using the stupid fucking "i dont recognize you anymore" sound SHUT THE FUCK UP ‼️ FUCK. mickey CHOSE ian WITH all of his symptoms FUCK you guys FUCK off jesus CHRIST
Leon: please stop
Gwaine, twerking on his bed: Come good sir Leon! Shaketh thou bossom!
Elyan, dancing in his boxers: Alexandria play "thy wenches are not loyal"
Lancelot, pointing to Gwaine's legs: Thou witch shall not revealeth thine ankles! Conceal thine ankles, wench!
Gwaine, curstying: I belongeth to the cobblestone pathways good sir!
Leon, under his blanket: We literally have patrol tomorrow
Percival, jumping on his bed: but sir, it is hot wench summer!
Elyan, shaking his hips: Mine hips do not bear false witness!
Leon, crying: can we go to sleep? Please?
thoughts on ian’s face in the “sorry im late” scene in 5x8 (i think it’s 5x8)
my thoughts are that i am going to start crying and never stop. my additional thoughts are:
so he's in bed, right? he's been trying mickey all day, meanwhile mickey has been going through his own process at home. but ian is thinking that he might have finally pushed mickey away for good - or scared him away. so he's in bed, eyes shut - probably not sleeping, but just laying there. shutting out the rest of the day. he hears someone behind him and his eyes kinda open. it's when he hears mickey though that his breathing picks up and we go from this:
to this:
like it's so slight, but like. the little flutters and the way his eyes start to move 😭 there's life left there. i feel like...... in moments like this, it sometimes feels like you might just lay there until you're dust. it's all over. the life you knew, the life you wanted. and yet - here he is again. and i think ian is genuinely surprised. this is where is starts being surprising to ian that he could be someone to come back for.
anyways. he turns around as fast as his medicated body will let him. we don't see his face when he first sees mickey, but we see it when he says "sorry i'm late." and it reminds me of the scene in 4x11 where mickey says "what you and i have makes me free." like it makes me insane. in both of these moments, his face just drops into something so young and so vulnerable.
like???? he's a little boy! and here is someone standing in front of him - someone he he has ALWAYS WANTED to stand in front of him - promising to be there. that he knows ian needed him. that he's here now for whatever might happen. reality is so warped these days but here he is.
and you see it land??? you see ian exhale and settle in a way he probably hasn't in a while. things are not okay. they're not okay!!! and they won't be for a while. but in this little moment together in this room where he grew up, he can breathe out the grief. he can share it.
mickey moves to get in bed and ian just makes room, like he always has. but he never blinks. doesn't dare take his eyes off of mickey. it's like he's scared mickey might change his mind, or dissolve right in front of him. is he even really there?
and there's another layer of disbelief here. another layer of grief. mickey milkovich is crawling back into his bed to hold him, and it's like this. it happened like this. everything he's done and suffered and been made to face comes down all at once. he's tired, he's scared. he's sorry. mickey has finally seen the worst of him.
he looks away, and mickey chases after him. i think it's important to mickey here that he lets ian feel him. something about that tactile, grounding comfort. and mickey won't look away either, it's too precious. ian's safe, even if nothing is the same.
and it's here, in these quivering lips and drawn eyebrows...... this is the release. his body and his mind have been through a lot in the last few days. it's as close to cathartic as ian really gets for a while. it's not long before the walls go back up and he's angry. but right now, he brings his hand to hold mickey's wrist, and he lets himself be held.
now.... this face:
this face fucking haunts me. i cannot name this face. what is he seeing here? i imagine it's so hard to see past this moment, into a future he can't name. it's like he's simultaneously feeling mickey there and also completely isolated. i can't explain this face. can anyone else explain this face???
either way, he closes his eyes against it. and you can assume that rest is coming.
There’s a magic reveal fic where Arthur finds out and makes Merlin wear a magic suppression bracelet with a lock on it in order to stay in Camelot. He makes him wear it because he’s scared Merlin will get caught using it and that his father would kill him. Obviously the bracelet makes him deteriorate until he almost dies and then Arthur let’s him take it off and they actually communicate.
It’s super angsty but really good, and I have spent an entire day looking through my history & specific tags to find it, but I can’t!! If you know what fic I’m talking about, please share the link or title!!
So I was thinking, what does Other Bill do when he gets (semi-forcefully sent) back to his universe, what happens? How are the Pines holding up? Does he take out his anger on them? What happens to Other Dipper? Does Other Bill take his anger out on him cause "hey, that's got the same face as the bastard who got me sent back here"? Or does that dubious honour go to Ford because he helped send original Bill back?
Other Bill is going to be sulking and licking his metaphorical (and a lot of very literal) wounds for a while, so any fury isn't going to be immediate! Plus, Other Ford got confirmation that some of his wards against Bill work pretty effectively, so they have a layer of protection! Combine those facts, and it's gonna while before any bloody frustrations can be thrown on them. Also, there's a chance Other Bill goes and tries to bother someone else in a sort of sour grapes attitude.
However. I do think it'd be funny for Other Bill to inevitably come storming back to take some of his frustration on those Pines, and for Other Ford and Other Dipper to sort-of tentatively try and reach our Bill for a little backup. Send an immortal being of infinite energy to kick the ass of an immortal being of infinite energy kinda thing.
Mostly because I don't think Bill's going to pick up the interdimensional call. That task would fall to the other occupant of the Fearmid's master bedroom.
My hottest take for SQQ/SY is that hes suuuper AroAce and doesnt realize that because he thinks being asexual is not thinking nor participating in sex at all. So he can’t be ace when he wants to have sex sooo badly, and he reads het smut so obviously!! Hes a straight man!! Even though he not once ever actually feels attracted to any of the CANONICAL MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. He talks about people like they’re paintings and hes the critic about to ruin a career. At one point he actively censors tits because he labeled all women in the world off limits from himself because they’re LBHs future wives, even though thats not how sexual attraction works. I think at one point in the Skinner scene he actively apologizes to his disciples for showing skin in his head and compares it to seeing your math teacher half naked, ignoring the fact that hes in one of those fan service scenes from an anime. HE. FUCKING. NEVER. ONCE. NOTICED. BINGHES. FEELINGS. UNTIL. THE. KISS. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! MY MANS IS FUCKING AROACE OF SOME SORT, LOOK AT HIM. LOOK!!!!!!!