#alys answers

[waifuofbath]

9 and 10 for the pathologic ask game!! <3

9. What stresses you out the most about pathologic?

Trying to actually save everyone and not die in the meanwhile. I know it is silly, but I genuinely care about these characters, even the most minor ones. And I feel terrible when I have to kill any of them, whether it is actively or they die out of my incompetence.

10. What about the game brings you the most comfort?

For a game that is painted by everyone as so bleak, much punishing, I actually find it super hopeful? Of course, the whole situation sucks. The endings, both in Classic and what we have of 2, are far from perfect. But this game is the perfect encapsulation of the phrase: Life finds a way.

Even in the bleakest of circumstances. Whatever it fucking takes. And if it doesn't find it on its own, YOU will find a way for it to continue.

And I just love it.

[amelie-isnt-french]

Protocol is actually just us Magnus Archives fans rapidly descending into s2-Jon-levels of paranoia. Granted, just like s2 Jon, we have reason to be paranoid, but it's still hilarious to see us all collectively scaling the walls of our enclosure while frothing at the mouth over our theories.

Jonny and Alex are playing us like a cheap harmonica and I'm so here for it

[hungharrington]

thinking abt steve holding my hand during sex. the fact it’s literally canon still has me prancing around and giggling like a fiend

literally 🥹 if i think about it too much i actually go insane because it speaks so much on his character- esp when he’s like presented as ambiguous to whether he’s a good or bad guy at this point in the season!

but god he’s such a baby he just wants to hold hands while he makes you feel good :’) it probably means he’s a big softie and like loves to nudge his nose against yours, nuzzling against your own while he rolls his hips into yours expertly and then loves to swallow the little gasps you make with a kiss — loves loves loves asking you open your eyes, his lips scraping against your own, “show me your eyes, sweetheart,”, just so he can see them when he’s making you feel good, he just adores seeing how you look when you moan and come apart beneath him. definitely the type that loses it when you start whimpering “i love you’s” to him, his thrusts stuttering and then increasing in speed and force, spurred on by your words— his own whimpery i love you caught up in a searing kiss cos he can’t handle it at all— and whines loudly when he realises that your words and your hand holding his, the other curled into his hair so lovingly, is gonna tip him over the edge

[chronicowboy]

manifesting a s7 bi buck confirmation where the 118 are on a call and the victim/their friend/Random Civilian is getting annoyed makes a comment aimed at buck & eddie about "straight white men" and they both look offended then eddie says "do I look white???" and buck's like "do I look straight???"

how the others react (if at all) is tbc at this stage

i'm a sucker for inappropriate whisper arguments in the Absolute Worst of Situations so now all i'm seeing is eddie whipping around to buck when he says it with the widest doe eyes any human being has ever achieved and oblivious little buck waving the vic/friend/civilian off like "it's fine, could happen to anyone, you know" and then eddie's like "uh, yeah, it did, you're not straight?" and then it's like for the GA oh no are they going to do a kind of internalised homophobia arc for eddie where he re-examines his entire friendship with buck after finding out he likes men and yes he is going to re-examine his entire friendship with buck after finding out he likes men but it'll be the opposite of internalised homophobia (externalised homoeroticism)

[devirnis]

Buddie. Straddling your partner's thighs.

Please and thank you!

it's a sliding into home kind of day

Rating: E Relationships: Evan Buckley/Eddie Diaz Word count: 3.1k For @tizniz

Eddie’s eyes still don’t leave the television. Frowning to himself, Buck cranes his neck to get a look at what could possibly be more important than him coming home after covering a tragically Eddie-less shift. A baseball game evidently is the answer.

(read on ao3)

[stagefoureddiediaz]

honestly maybe it's just me but buck is literally repeating the same steps as with natalia and taylor as with tommy. they meet, he has a crush, go on a date, it's awful and the date leaves, they then come back, then try for real. Like it sounds like even though Buck is off the hamster wheel in regards to his sexuality he very much is still on the hamster wheel when it comes to repetitive mistakes when it comes to his relationships.

Hey Nonnie

I woudn't say that at all. Yes of course there are some similarities - there always will be - between Buck dating Tommy and the Buck who dated Taylor or Natalia. But the reality is they are worlds apart.

For starters Tommy didn't leave because the date was awful, he left to give Buck some space to do a bit more figuring out - he said so himself that his what he was doing. He chose to leave the ball in Bucks court, understanding this was a big new thing for him and that it wouldn't be right to continue anything until Buck was ready. Buck then contacted him when he was and they met up and decided mutually to give things ago.

This is very different to both Taylor and Natalia - both of whom left after something big had happened in Bucks life (Eddie being shot and Kameron popping up out of seemingly nowhere) and then they were the ones to come back - to chase after Buck.

Look we can have whole conversations about the chasing being chased aspect of things but the long and short of it is That both Taylor and (to a lesser extent) Natalia, Ali and Abby chased Buck in one way or another and when it suited them. Tommy has never chased Buck - he shot his shot, sure, made his interest known, but he hasn't once chased Buck. Buck has always mistaken things for him doing the chasing (he is an very unreliable narrator) becuse he gets invested fast and so pursues things. His mistake is moving to fast - falling to quickly for people.

This is the major fundamental difference with Tommy, who is older and wiser and settled with who he is and what he wants. He also has the understanding of being queer and coming out later in life - of discovering that part of yourself that has been hidden and the fact it might take Buck a minute to figure out things.

The other big thing for me is the level of honest Buck is being here - this isn't something we've seen before in this way. He has been completely up front with Tommy when it has been important for him to be so (I would argue he did do the same for Natalia but that he was more forced into it by circumstance). That coffee they had was a very very clear example of that, he sat down, appologised and laid his cards out on the table. He's told the two most important people in his life that he's bi and interested in Tommy and yes maybe going to a wedding is a bit fast, but he also knows most of the people there so he's not walking in to a big unknown in t hat respect and he has a lot of goodwill with the firefam at this moment after flying them to the curise ship so they could rescue Athena and Bobby.

In all honesty I'm far more circumspect about Natalias behaviour as well - far more than a large portion of fandom was towards her. Did I like her as a character or for Buck, No I didn't, but she also didn't do all that much wrong in my eyes, her wanting to take a minute when presented with all that Bucks life is, to think things through before jumping into something is perfectly acceptable and healthy behaviour. The reality is that she was more interested in Bucks death than she was in his life and thats probably what brought her back - that itching need to know more about his death and what it was like.

But she came into his life when he was in a rough place mentally and it was never going to go well for that reason alone. All of Bucks girlfriends have that in common - they met him on the job and then come inot his life when he is having some form of internal crisis. Abby when he had just lost his first person on the job - making him emotionally vulnerable. Ali when he's accepted his relationship with Abby wasn't going anywhere a new guy had just started at work (yes they were getting on by this point but it is still new and an unknown) and his sister had just come back into his life after having had no contact for several years - and he knows she's in a fragile place. Taylor messes hm around but when she comes back into his life and wants to date him - Eddie has just been shot and he's looking after Christopher - he's massively emotionally compromised. None of these are good times to start a romantic relationship.

That isn't the case with Tommy - Bucks actually in a pretty decent place - yes the whole discovering he's queer could be argued as making him emotionally compromised, but he's being given the grace to do things at his own pace - in a healthy way - Tommy is letting Buck dictate the pace they go at.

We also have to remember that we are in a tv show - every single character who isn't a main (or to a certain extent a recurring) is there to act as a storytelling vehicle for one of the mains - their character traits are always going to be those which help get a main character from A to B, to move the story along and to make sure our mains learn something about themselves and their fellow mains along the way.

Abby was about getting Buck from being a bit of a clueless player into a long term (ish) relationship - about growing him out of his jock ways and getting him (and us) to recognise that he isn't a player that he wants real love and a long term relationship. Ali was about him getting over his first big disappointment - about getting hm to move on and about getting him his own place to exist. Taylor was about learning what love didn't look like, about how to treat others and showing him what he wasn't looking for and teaching him not to compromise on his morals. Natalia was all about Buck reconciling himself with his death and rebirth and as soon as he had done that, she was gone.

Tommy is about Buck discovering his queer identity, having a safe space to explore that and about getting him ready for Eddie - its why Tommy is soooo similar to Eddie - Buck will come out of this relationship (whatever form it takes) understanding who he is, and recognising what he wants is what he already almost has - Eddie.

Tommy is also about helping manoeuvre Eddie into questioning himself - another reason why he is so similar to Eddie - Eddie needed to see a gay version of himself - and with Buck to actually start thinking about himself and who he is and what he wants.

So all this to say that Nonnie - Buck has very much got off that hamster wheel and he is very much not making the same mistakes over again. I'm very excited to see how it continues to play out and I'm overjoyed with how the show is handling telling this story.

[wishfuldivine]

gaz walking around with his collar acting like nothing is amiss meanwhile one of his boys is losing his shit… good food. great food. the world is at balance.

Gaz walking around wearing one of their hoodies (you can choose whoever) with sweater paws because it fits a bit too big and his tight black underwear.

He was too busy trying to do his own chores and was unaware of the other basically salivating. A very apparent tent in their pants and trying so hard to keep themselves from grabbing him.

His ass just.. looked phenomenal.

And fuck, that collar. It looked beautiful around his neck. So beautiful that the need to rip it off with their teeth was becoming a damn must. He looked mighty sinful.

It went along like that for some time until they couldn't handle it anymore. They practically devoured him deliciously.

[taeminie]

Say that again. You think I don't dare to? Hey! Say it again. You're always like this.

ROOMMATES OF POONGDUCK 304 2022, dir. Teddy Hwang

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

currently thinking about how the dream eater symbol is bigger than rikus actual character symbol on his track plate in MoM

like. both sora and roxas have their character symbols as the larger icon, and a token of friendship as the smaller one

but for some reason on rikus, the dream eater symbol takes priority

like. does that mean his identity as a dream eater is more important than his own symbol? the one that most likely represents his entire character arc, given that its a heartless symbol w/o the cross???

[waifuofbath]

3 and 9, whichever fandom you prefer :3c

Ok so, let's go with Patho because we all know this is the fandom I've been moving the most in the last few years.

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

Ok cannot remember exactly if it was on tumblr or on twitter, (I think it was on twitter) but I still feel like that reaction image of Michael Rodent gouging his eyes out when I think about it.

Which was a take that described Block as a fascist.

I'm sorry like... What??? Are we playing the same videogame???

Even if we disregard the context and the references (Hello, Russian-esque Army in a setting that looks vaguely early 20thC) , what in Block's whole character makes you think he is a fascist??? That he is part of the Army??? That he is wearing a long coat???

Seriously, he is trying to save the most people possible. Both in Classic and 2. IN 2 HE EVEN OPPOSES MARK DIRECTLY IN HIS PANTOMIME BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE HAD BEEN SENT THERE TO SAVE PEOPLE AND SEES IT IS NOT SO, THAT HE MIGHT NEED TO KILL THOSE PEOPLE HE THOUGHT HE WOULD SAVE. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK A FASCIST WOULD DO THAT?

JUST WHAT?

9.worst part of canon

I'm gonna say it IMHO: The Kin being so underdeveloped, not even as characters but as a whole concept.

I get it might be out of certain monetary constraints or maybe other stuff that escapes me.

Still, IPL have a gold mine right there, conceptually speaking. And they have barely tapped onto it. I say this as a person who lists Nara as one of her favorite characters. (I think she actually has a depth a lot of people in the fandom seem to pass by.)

Where are my Kin Elders? Are there no companions of Taya's age that she could have around? I'm not even asking for more variety on the Herb Brides but... idk just tell me how their thing goes? What about those of the Kin who have been in close contact with the Town (Like the dancer in the Broken Heart or the Worms that work in Vladito's well)? Do they hate it or maybe have they grown to love it and they feel as displaced as the townspeople do in the Nocturnal Ending? WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF THE KIN? I WANT MORE ON BODDHO AND SUOK AND BOS TUROKH!!!

Thank goodness I wrote a lot about it (If anyone's interested I shall share links) but man. Something more in canon would have been so good.

[maehemthemisfit]

omg dont get me started on kazuha hc’s-

one thing that i think about (for totally not personal reasons) is how he genuinely does not care what size his partner is. whether they’re thin or thick, he would find them beautiful :,)

big loves, itty bitty loves?

You'll forever and always be cuddle-size 🥰 big spoon or little spoon he doesn't mind.

He'll sprawl over your chest and hug you to sleep just to keep his arms around you. (Y'all don't lie, plus sized people give some of the best hugs)

You have a little more weight to you? More places to kiss!

You're a bit on the skinny side? You can wear his clothes.

Stretch marks? Beautiful 😍

Small chest? Loves it

A bit tall? He'll wrap his arms around your neck to kiss you or ask you to bend down (or use his anemo abilities)

Headpats and forehead kisses for the short cakes

No matter how you look he'll cherish every part of you, and kiss and hug all you insecurities away if you have them. Him and his flowery words of reassurance ❤️❤️❤️

[hungharrington]

can we leak our dms and discuss sexy sweaty runner steve bc i feel like everybody deserves to know what we know 🫡

him coming home in his lil runner shorts and a hoodie and he’s all flustered and sweaty 😵‍💫 try not to jump his bones challenge failed immediately!!

ali stoppppp 😩 like. i’m literally gonna lick the sweat from him, give him a goddamn sponge bath with my tongue and there would be nothing that could stop me. and oof if he’s sweaty enough it makes his hair is all funny, some of the sweat making it flop and stick together in little bits tehe <3

coming home from a run would go smth like this: enter steve, he’s tan, he’s sweaty, he’s wearing the worldest tiniest shorts again just to give a heart attack to every milf on the block when he goes by and calls out, “morning mrs. callahan!” all polite. he knows what he’s doing >:) he wanders into the kitchen to grab a glass of water where you’re sat, picking at the end of your breakfast. he can feel your eyes on him as he drinks, downing a whole glass of water and refilling it immediately, to down half of the second glass.

taking a breather, steve pulls his hoodie up to wipe the sweat off his face and water from his mouth and you have to quietly inhale a mouthful of drool as his tummy is exposed— rippling wildly as he tries to catch his breath. you fail to contain said drool and steve looks up just in time to catch you wiping at your mouth a little. he smirks, the bastard, and starts shucking off the hoodie— not even trying to hold down the shirt beneath it. it’s a show of tan skin, moles, and his hairy chest and you’ve somehow managed to clench yourself thighs tighter by the time he wrangles it off.

“i’m…” he starts, eyes looking you up at down. he licks his lips. “gonna have a shower. care to join me, sweetheart?”

you stand up instantly and steve snorts a laugh, completely endeared by how eager you are — loves to know that he’s so wanted by you. he plants his hands on his hips and wiggles his eyebrows at you, running his hand through his hair quickly. “okay, race you to the bathroom? go!”

he doesn’t give you a second, sprinting out of the kitchen and flying up the stairs, his runners high just making it easy as pie. he’s halfway up the stairs, when he hears your “steeeeeeeeeve!” and it just makes him grin, beginning to shed his shirt, dropping it carelessly in the hallway. his blue nike cortez’s go next, one after the other. “i’m getting naked!” he calls back, then laughs a little when he hears your feet thunder a little faster on the stairs. and you know, for someone who’s just been running for the last hour or so, he seems to have plenty of stamina in the shower…

[gamergirl929]

I know that many of us are upset with Ashlyn Harris at the moment, but I do NOT in ANYWAY condone threats of violence, or violence towards her in general.

[devirnis]

“acting like they’re cold” for the physical affection thing :) ?

a little of that human touch

Rating: G Relationship: Evan Buckley/Eddie Diaz Word count: 1.5k

Buck closes his book and places it on the coffee table, pushing himself up a little more as Eddie trudges over to him. “Couldn’t sleep either?” Buck asks quietly. Eddie mumbles something unintelligible through a yawn. Buck chuckles. “I’m sorry, what was that?” Eddie shoots him a glare but there’s no heat behind it. He wanders over to the far end of the couch and Buck moves his feet out of the way so Eddie can sit down. “Woke up and you were gone,” Eddie murmurs, pulling Buck’s feet into his lap.

(read on ao3)

[theghoulboysblog]

I had an ask inquiring about the origin of this clip a month ago, but for some reason when I went to post my response, it deleted 😭 So for that person, and anyone else who might happen to be wondering, it’s from an episode of Are You Scared? on the Watcher YouTube channel called, “Are You Scared of The Grabber? • The Black Phone.” 💛💛💛