#V. THE BATTLE IS EVERYTHING

[sparring-spirals]

"my soul shoots out of my ass and straight into hell" not even top 10 in Most Horrifying Visuals From The Last 5 Minutes, due to. well. Events In The Room.

[mewtwo24]

You know idk if it's just me being oblivious af but mxtx sure does enjoy putting her protags through the trolley problem when it comes to her works huh /j

[powdermelonkeg]

Beat the first half (I assume it's half) of Inscryption. It took me about 7 hours, even knowing what things did and where powerups were (watched a few Markiplier videos before deciding I wanted to play myself).

Talked my roommate (@too-many-blorbos) into trying the game. She beat the first half in 2ish hours.

She did not die once on the final boss.

Also a fun fact, where it took me ~12 tries to beat Ganondorf in TotK, WITH my best gear, she ALSO beat him in one go. Without flurry rushing because she hated the timing of it.

My roommate's gaming skills are cracked.

[dittolicous]

i dont get hpw people can make jokes about biden being shitty right now, when its nearly guaranteed that its either him or trump who will be president.... and trump becomimg president again is just.... horrifying? like legitimately really fucking scary????? im terrified thinking about biden not doing well, not because i like biden (i do not) but because the other option is basically. a nuclear bomb.

its all fun and games until we have no one who can get enough votes or power to go up against trumps corruption. and im so fucking afraid of how we'll joke ourselves right into our graves

[deus-ex-mona]

such is the tale of a ✨chronically online hypocrite✨

[ccaptain]

post a playlist of 5 songs for your muse. ( picking H:SR Kaeya specifically )

i. burn brighter. - lansdowns

ii. when legends rise. - godsmack

iii. country song. - seether

iv. battle! sada & turo (pokèmon scarlet/violet) - vetrom

v. glitter & gold. - barns courtney

tagged by: i stole it... teehee tagging: @predvestnik (chelb or kaveh) @dupliciti @daybreakrising (vautrin), @resolutepath (welt or if u have a muse ur feeling in particulary pick that one) @snowtombedstar

[quietwingsinthesky]

Very strange to me that the longer supernatural went on, the kinder it was to John Winchester and the uglier it made Chuck.

There’s something very. I don’t know. “Don’t blame your father, your father never did anything wrong. Blame God. Blame this thing that’s been secretly making your life worse this whole time, pulling the strings, controlling you and everyone around you.”

And the further we get into the show, the more Chuck becomes a Writer, rather than it being about God as a Father. (Never completely losing that aspect, obviously, just like Chuck was always a writer, but one of these parallels clearly superceded the other in terms of importance to the story.)

[honeydots]

:3ccc

[strnza]

eliza  can  barely  keep  her  hands  off  him.  there's  something  special  about  johnny,  something  different  -  something  intangible,  something  familiar,  something  grander  than  all  the  would-be  playboy  facades,  something  so  perfectly  real  and  present  in  a  world  of  ever-changing  normal  ...  he  is  her  safety,  he  is  her  moral  reminder,  he  matches  her  where  she  is.  (even  if  what  she  is  is  a  hopeless  mess  with  the  best  of  intentions.)

"maybe  we  should  make  t-shirts,"  the  suggestion  only  brightens  her  smile  all  the  more,  "freak  one,  freak  two  -  helps  if  we  get  lost  in  a  crowd."  she  eagerly  leans  into  the  next  kiss  -  eliza  drops  johnny’s  hand,  only  to  hook  her  hands  together  over  his  shoulders,  pulling  them  closer  -  maybe  she’ll  stay  like  this  a  while.  memorizing  the  way  he  feels  against  her  skin.

only  when  eliza  needs  a  breath  does  she  rescind,  pressing  a  quick  kiss  to  johnny’s  cheek  before  musing,  “i  mean  …  i  could  find  a  few  ways  to  exploit  the  whole  ‘human  torch’  thing.”  she  taps  a  foot,  pursing  flushed  lips  and  keeping  her  hands  wound  behind  his  neck  -  let  her  tone  be  explanation  enough  that  she  is  very  much  teasing.  “you’d  be  real  good  at  warmin’  up  an  old  cup  of  coffee  …  a  personal  night-light  -  i  do  get  cold  pretty  often,  y’know.”

CONT.    /    @eueclid    🤍

[peachblossomdrama]

Battle of the Writers ep 3 Part 2/4 finally has eng sub!!

tbh I started watching for TutorYim & MarkGem (I have a big soft spot for the 1st gen DMD boys, so I'm v excited to see Mark in this role). I only skimmed the premise on mdl, so going in, I thought BOTW was going to be more about the whole plagiarism thing and have a sort of enemies to friends to lovers approach, but after this ep (& actually watching the trailer) it seems like it's just part of the set up for the long lost connection that Shan & Obaun have (and now that I get that that's what they're doing, everything else became a lot easier to follow)

The story within the story does make the show feel a little all over the place (I'm watching the cut version on youtube, not sure if the iqiyi version is uncut & would make it flow a little better?), but the scenes for the novel are gorgeous and I like that their writers groupchat is shown as the 5 of them sitting around a table in their pajamas

I like the novel that they're writing (though the way the five of them are just winging it makes me feel a little crazy). I've been watching cdramas longer than I have Thai bls and I love the fantasy/historical/xianxia/wuxia genres. They're drawing on certain tropes and character types, but adding their own twists (w/ the sci-fi approach & the influence of the Thai bl genre) and I just really appreciate what they're doing with it

I would say this series is definitely worth watching, whether you do so week to week or wait to binge it once it's finished.

[stromuprisahat]

And thus it was there at Casterly Rock that Princess Rhaena gave birth to Aegon’s daughters, twins they named Aerea and Rhaella. ... The maester at Casterly Rock who helped deliver the children tells us that afterward Princess Rhaena begged the prince her husband to take them all across the narrow sea to Tyrosh or Myr or Volantis, anywhere beyond their uncle’s reach, for “I would gladly give up my own life to make you king, but I will not put our girls at risk.” But her words fell on stony ears and her tears were shed in vain, for Prince Aegon was determined to claim his birthright.

...

When word of the battle reached the west and Princess Rhaena learned that both her husband and her friend Lady Melony had fallen, it is said she heard the news in a stony silence. “Will you not weep?” she was asked, to which she replied, “I do not have the time for tears.” Whereupon, fearing her uncle’s wroth, she gathered up her daughters, Aerea and Rhaella, and fled farther, first to Lannisport and then across the sea to Fair Isle, where the new lord Marq Farman (whose father and elder brother had both perished in the battle, fighting for Prince Aegon) gave her sanctuary and swore no harm would come to her beneath his roof.

...

... If Prince Aegon had truly been the king, by law his eldest daughter, Aerea, stood his heir, and might therefore claim to be the rightful Queen of the Seven Kingdoms…but Aerea and her sister, Rhaella, were barely a year old, and Rhaena knew that to trumpet such claims would be tantamount to condemning them to death. Instead, she dyed their hair, changed their names, and sent them from her, entrusting them to certain powerful allies, who would see them fostered in good homes by worthy men who would have no inkling of their true identities. Even their mother must not know where the girls were going, the princess insisted; what she did not know she could not reveal, even under torture.No such escape was possible for Rhaena.

Fire and Blood (George R. R. Martin)

Rhaena Targaryen, twice Queen, never ruling. Bold and smart, more capable than her brother-husband.

[mieczyhale]

thank you @ alice oseman for including the "explanations for american readers" at the end of the nick & charlie novella. truly a god-send bc it covers a few things / phrases i've been lost on and haven't found a simple answer for anywhere else

like no, i didn't need to know these school terms to understand or enjoy heartstopper, but i wanted to know and understand them and now i do

little joys

[meowstix]

thinking about it again though. what the fuck was v-force doing. i've never seen a season be both so boring and yet absolutely insane at the same time. it literally took them killing someone to get me to pay attention which is WILD considering they were, as i mentioned in the tags of that other post, pulling some real "IT SEEMS THE TWO OF YOU BITCHES HAVE COME TO A STANDSTILL IN TARZAN'S FOREST" shit. they could started the season with some riverdale-tier insanity and i still would have forgotten about it

[sxrgeantbarnes]

@peacereflected | prompt

He blinks, and then again, opening his mouth to speak before shutting it just as quickly. Keanu’s eyes are red— hell, half his face is flushed, and the prominence of the color around his nose speaks volumes. Bucky’s gut twists looking at him, every protective instinct in him blaring an alarm. His arms itch to comfort, to hold— an impulse he had thought long gone until it was pulled back out of his core by gentle hands. How much it’d be welcomed, he’s not entirely sure. He himself prefers to be alone when emotions spill over into tears, and he wonders idly if he should just turn around wordlessly and give him some space. 

It’s a stupid thought. Not a fucking chance.

“Hey.” He echoes casually as he puts a hand to Keanu’s shoulder and gently guides him back inside, Bucky’s foot shutting the door behind them. Privacy. A bubble for just them, no one needs to be poking their nosy little heads in. “Hey.” The words come out with feeling now, straight from his chest as wraps his arm around Keanu’s waist, pulling close as the hand on his shoulder moves up to cup his jaw. “Sweetheart. Do you wanna talk about it?”

[ziracona]

I’ve truly never found a better stall team frontliner FGO than King David. Like he’s just the whole package. No one is doing what he’s doing.

[howthesleeplesswander]

starter for @bitbrumal's Tsaritsa! || thanks so much for liking my starter call! (o´▽`o)ﾉ please enjoy this unhinged, battle-hungry maniac aslfkjdfkd I am so sorry for everything about him

Another mission complete meant another opponent defeated. Another inferior life taken: that of a feral beast, this time, but no less formidable for its lack of humanity. Could the same be said for the Abyss-tainted Harbinger himself? Smears of vivid crimson formed a trail to where Childe knelt before the Tsaritsa's throne. The same color stained his clothes, though most of it was not his own.

"The drake that's been hindering our supply lines in the North has been slain, Your Majesty," he reported with audible glee. Reaching into his coat, he withdrew one of the dragon's talons as proof of his orders fulfilled. Dried blood caked the wicked curve, the shape of it a perfect match for the tear in his coat and the puncture gouged deep into his left shoulder. Hot rivulets leaked down his arm beneath thick layers as he held out the talon as if it were an offering, but Childe showed no sign of pain. "Our agents will no longer have difficulty transporting their cargo."

The fist of his free hand rested over his heart: pious and loyal. However, the clenched fingers that formed it trembled with the thrum of the void in his veins. Restless. Howling for another fight.

More blood, more fighting, more death, let me k i l l—

When he dared lift his gaze to the Archon, that insatiable fire smoldered in the slates of his eyes. "Have you something else for me to kill, Your Majesty? I am your weapon to command."