#Rigid Control

[dykedvonte]

Danse and Hancock work only after blind betrayal because it’s the equivalent of the one closeted person you kinda pity getting kicked out after being outted and you and your like 7 other faggot friends take them in and help them do a 180 on their outlook on life and personal style and get them to weed (possibly grape mentats in this case).

[muzzleroars]

Fallen Gabriel is so friggin cool, but I have to wonder how he would fight in his new form? How would he utilize hell energy, and would some trace of his original powers (Materializing weapons from light) remain? I’ve seen art of Gabriel wielding his og swords but now partially broken, so is it made up for the fact he is physically stronger or that he can imbue his swords with hell energy?

my idea is that gabriel goes through a lot of evolution with how he fights now that his wings have been taken from him - airborne combat is what he was most comfortable with and adept at, but he does have plenty of ground-based training he pulls on to reinvent his technique. initially, when met in his tomb, gabriel engages v1 much like the prime souls, with fast and brutal assaults dealt with only his body as his weapon as he's no longer capable of light materialization and his swords are sealed elsewhere. for a time, this is what he continues to do when he and v1 move forward together as even though he regains his swords, they are broken in the recovery process and burn his hands now besides. gabriel is left...weaponless, and he refuses to acknowledge his capability with hell energy until his demonic transformation completes. and in that, he rebels against everything he once was as a way of processing his own grief.

he fully embraces his hell energy then, corrupting justice and splendor into demonic weapons so they fit into his hands once more, and becoming a gifted conductor of his newfound power source. i'm certain he could use it to craft weapons as his light once did (as a fallen archangel, he is accordingly high tiered as a demon) and he even begins making bombs that v1 can use. he also likely raids hell to get his hands on the weapons that once belonged to the fallen angels all that time ago, as he seems to be a bit more partial to the physical weight in his hands now. in this phase, he is a vicious combatant, abusing his self-sourced energy until he's drained to tear apart any enemies he and v1 come across. he revels in the bloodshed as much as the machine does, and he relishes his fallen nature in defiance of a lifetime spent as a tool now discarded from its master.

this mellows eventually however, with gabriel achieving a peace in his new status and recognizing that while he loves battle, he enjoys it most as his art form, something he can engage in with grace and mastery above all else. it was once his way of connecting to god, and now it is his way of connecting to himself, the very core of who he is. and gabriel, while enchanted with blood possibly as much as v1 is, also values his poise and chivalry just as much. this is when his final battle style is acquired, adjusting to a much heavier, much stronger body that he dedicates himself to feeling just as light in as when his wings once carried him. it's difficult of course, he feels clumsy and his tail presents a terrible annoyance at first, but he actually takes to the challenge with great joy. he learns his balance, to use his tail as a counterweight (and weapon, given its size) and how to put all this raw strength into graceful maneuvering. he feels invigorated moving fluidly across hell's floors, in touch with his battlefield like he could never be in the air. it grounds him in a way he delights in, working closely with v1 to develop a horrifically cruel duet that gabriel turns back into a dance. he continues to take his broken swords in hand, but he keeps his hell energy constantly on stand-by now - i like to think when in battle, a ring of skulls replace his halo

[tamagotchikgs]

my period has come somuch earlier holy shit, ,,,,,,,,, but, maybe thats a good sign maybe thats why ive been doing so especially bad this past week or two o(-< hoping anyway,, ive been so anxious even jsut playing multiplayer games has me shaking so bad n i hate that so much i just wanna have fun man :( i just wanna b silly n be allowed to be social but im just. stuck in that brain fog of i cant see or reach anything in the world all i have is my brain telling me how everyone hates me n every interaction i have i can hear & see the person in my head reacting in all the worst ways n i know its not real but then. what if it is . what if it is n im in denial

[sophsicle]

Nah that James and Sirius kiss was 100% cheating 💀💀 even tho regulus said they’re not dating they are and you can’t just kiss someone else while dating someone even if you didn’t mean it romantically🤯 how is this any different then Remus and Sirius kissing while remus is dating Fabian? I think the only one here obsessed with cheating is you

it is sad to me

that this is how you think

but you are entitled to your opinion

[tuesdayisfordancing]

hyperspecific Keeley headcanon:

One of the ways she’s a kind of a shitty cook (not like disastrous, but her successes tend to be in the “yeah that’s decent” range) is that she refuses to preheat the oven for most things because her mom constantly criticized how Keeley did various chores and more than once back in the day Keeley was fucking hungry and had to wait for dinner while her mom did everything the “right” way, and preheating the oven got stuck in her hindbrain as a thing you do to suffer in the name of “correct”homemaking skills.

[raayllum]

thinking thoughts on how aaravos doesn't want control so much as control is a means to an end for him but hm. more thoughts on this later

[stillunpainted]

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is wild because it is the straightest game I have ever played but at the same time it is the gayest game (that isn't like. something literally about being gay or centered on a mostly lgbt cast) I have ever played. Does this make sense

[sxlphie]

Nineteen might still mean young and inexperienced in many facets of life, but the developmental milestones between now and being fourteen has certainly changed my perspective on Final Fantasy VIII in many ways. The uncertainty surrounding making your own choices into adulthood and how rocky that transition is for these characters hits closer to home right now

[toastsnaffler]

I slept rly deeply last night even tho it took me a while to get to sleep but I think that was bc I had acid reflux and I'd been playing videogames too late not anything else.... still only got 6 hrs but doing pretty okay all things considered 😚

[buffyspeak]

seelies seem to have a really interesting place in the downworld/shadow world has a whole. they’ve been shown to work more closely than other downworld factions with shadowhunters in the past (early season one springs to mind), but they’re certainly no totally trusting of or trusted by the shadowhunters, so not all this is to say they don’t face any discrimination. valentine being willing to make a deal with her when he hates downworlders so much seems so strange… except for the fact that seelies have angel blood AND demon blood. with his (obviously very wrong and distorted) ideas about purity of angel blood, does that make him trust her more? is this interaction a microcosm of the shadowhunters perspectives on seelies in general? much to think on.

it’s also not lost on me that warlocks and seelies are both born with magic and into the downworld as they are. there’s intergenerational trauma attached to the history of warlocks (and i’m VERY curious about seelies on that front), but there’s no trauma associated with the transformation. they’re never ripped away from their lives the way that werewolves and vampires are.

[sangrefae]

i Will say it's kind of wild that people are so willing to accept marcille + laios's flaws and understand that they're complicated and nuanced characters while kabru and ESPECIALLY toshiro are torn down and hated for.... being complicated and nuanced. wonder why that is 🤔🤔🤔

[skiitter]

I’ve noticed in fic it is pretty standard to just be respectful towards Din’s beliefs in the Creed which i think is kinda interesting because, while she was rude about it, Bo-Katan was right in that the Children of the Watch very much is a cult. And he is indoctrinated into that cult. The fact that he is to follow this rule so blindly, and yet is shunned as an apostate for doing something to save the foundling who’d be left in his care like, that’s an impossible situation. There was no way for Din to win. Either leave the helmet on, fail the mission with fucking bill burr or take it off and move forward. And when Luke shows up, while there was no threat to Grogu if he left it on, it is just so strange to think that he has committed The Ultimate Sin just to let his son see his face? It’s a strange metric of control to exercise over someone. It’d be one thing if it was a choice that Din made, that he had agency over but it is another thing entirely to banish someone from his way of life for choosing to want to do something for his son. and like the Armorer told Din he was, effectively, Grogu’s father. I just!!!! it bothers me. I did not grow up religious, nor do I believe in any religion or faith so it is probably lost on me the significance there. maybe i’m being insensitive. idk. It is just strange that the Watch is treated with reverence by the fandom and no one ever really looks at it critically. 

[caffeinatedopossum]

Suddenly realizing I've had seizures before :0 but this was just the first one where someone who knew what it was was there to witness it (my girlfriend)

That's so cool and definitely not terrifying /s

[butchlifeguard]

on my soapbox again but. not every opinion should be an identity because then every dislike turns into oppression

[divinekangaroo]

That was the face of a man who is all too well aware of what the internet does to the parts of his self surrendered to the public domain, and who is likewise aware that his children are also aware

[normalbrothers]

tommy's "should i treat you like a kid again, keep you away from guns and ropes" when arthur asks him to protect him from himself after he's killed that kid is such a thing when it comes to the framing - arthur having killed a, well, literal kid, the fact that finn (around the dead boy's age) witnessed all that (and tommy's angry and repulsed "your brother killed a boy") and how it's conveniently intermitted by the introduction of michael (just 17 years old at the point) - there's something about hyperresponsible adult tommy and responsibility-avoidant eternal child arthur (but that he isn't a child!!) that's really painful to watch