#and he won't let anyone see it

[maybebi47]

going insane about fabian

"can I talk to her? i just want to say hi. *click* mama? mama?"

"bill "papa" seacastor! can you hear me? its your darling boy! papa?"

"i put on the loudest podcast, so it feels like there is someone else in this house"

"i have many ideas for more parties next week, maybe something longer like a sleepover"

[devondespresso]

barista!eddie drawing a pentagram or whatever with the table cleaner while closing and accidentally summoning demon!steve, who's absolutely stoked to see a cozy little coffee shop for the first time

[celestialrealms]

Fun fact: In Barbatos's intimacy storyline in Nightbringer he ends up living with Solomon and MC at Cocytus Hall temporarily. Here's a highlight from his 40 intimacy call:

The way he makes Solomon sit in the corner. 😭 You cannot convince me he didn't raise this man.

[hamartia-grander]

Me: *fucking around at camp, talking to everyone because I'm bored*

Withers out of nowhere:

[flowercrowngods]

i don't know how to be merely acquaintances when we used to be friends. or i think we used to be. i don't know how to yearn for a simple hello when you've been heaping your affection on me months ago, and i don't know how to talk to you when you won't say anything. when suddenly it's all about me. you know i have nothing to say, you know my brain is void of everything but horribleness and i cannot tell you about my day because i don't even know about my day. i cannot tell you about my day when i know you won't listen, when i know you'll apply your philosophy to my world and don't believe me when i say that everything is terrible. i don't know how to be the person you seem to think i am, or the person you want in your life. i don't know if you want anyone else in your life now that you're in love and sappy, found another recipient for your affections, leaving me empty and wounded and yearning.

you said you missed me. said it many times, while i was gone. now i'm back, have been back, and i wonder how you missed me, why you missed me, when you won't talk to me. i think you mistook missing for worrying. i think you mistook caring for a feeling of obligation. i think you like missing me more than talking to me.

and i think i can't breathe with how much that hurts

[paimonial-rage]

alhaitham analysis

When you first meet Alhaitham, he comes across as someone that has a negative EQ. He's curt, rude, and critical. And yet the truth is surprising? Like looking at his character quest and how he basically emotionally manipulated the whole hive into revolting, this man is very emotionally intelligent. You can honestly see it in a lot of his lines too. When he speaks about people, yes, he may sound like he's simplifying or trivializing things too much, but he's not wrong. He understands people. He knows how they work. It's just that he views emotional labor as too much of a hassle majority of the time.

Spoilers below the cut

You can gather a lot about Alhaitham through Kaveh's character stories. Like while it may not seem like it, Alhaitham is genuinely trying to help Kaveh. He points out to Kaveh that the source of his problems isn't luck, but his sense of impractical idealism and inescapable guilt. Some may say Alhaitham lacked tact when saying this, but it was kindness on Alhaitham's part. Once someone can acknowledge the truth, no matter how hurtful, they can then make the needed changes for the better. When they met up again years later, Alhaitham asked him, "How has realizing your ideals gone for you?" This wasn't done out of a sense of pettiness, but to solidify the truth once more. It was to help.

I think if you don't know someone that operates in this way, Alhaitham's love language may be difficult to decipher. His words may seem cruel. It may seem like he's trivializing your problems. But to speak truth is to show that you're not a lost cause. He has proven he won't abandon you along the way. After all, to speak truth, no matter how hurtful, is to show love.

[5mcsinatrenchcoat]

Whyyy are people surprised about the whole "devil on your shoulder" thing. While it is obvious that Solas is a tragic and complicated character who's not without reason and is in his right to believe what he does, he's still the antagonist. A lot of us sympathize with him yes but the game is still (allegedly) about regret and fixing mistakes, not about being right.

Like I'm genuinely, unironically sorry to every Lavellan ever who wanted nothing more than follow Solas and help him tear down the veil, but so far it's clear we'll be playing against his ideals. That's the set direction of the game - to change his mind/stop his plan at all costs (whichever you chose), and every attempt to sway us will probably be framed by the narrative as him luring us to the dark side. I'm not saying it's a 100℅ good thing or something, I'm just saying that's probably what it'll be like.

Like I understand why some want him to succeed, I really do, but I also fear people might be setting themselves up for a disappointment. And the impending fallout of it all scares me.

[silvertws]

I was road down memory lane today so I drew the Protector's guild symbol on my hand using eyeliner. :DDD I think it looks good for a first attempt... Even though the quality of the picture sucks :'))) I wanna do all the other guilds as well even tho Grimshade is kinda complicated to draw on my body with one hand... Since my hands are shaky af.. I will draw them on paper next time and use them as a way to make the outlines better :3

[bericas]

let's have a toast to the good life; suicide before you see this tear roll down my eyes.

[2c75ff]

Is there any feeling of betrayal Seventeen has towards his twin for where their respective lives have ended up and how distant their relationship is now? Did he once assume they were more alike, more similarly "damaged", than they've ended up being? I feel like there might be a part of him that wonders why she was able to adjust to a conventional, mundane life and he wasn't.

It's...a little complicated.

On one hand, it's not like he wants Eighteen to have a bad life. They might not be close, and they might not have ever really seen eye to eye in terms of their respective temperaments, but the fact remains that, given their wildly isolating and traumatic shared history, there are things about each other that they both just get, in ways that no one else ever wholly will or can. The kinship between them isn't defined by blood alone. That's what he thinks, anyhow.

On the other hand though, there is absolutely a weird, bitter little kneejerk impulse in him that sometimes does the spiritual equivalent of looking Eighteen's new, cushy, domestic life up and down and going, 'so…did this happen because you organically fell in love and decided that starting a family was what you wanted to do? Or did you just shrug and passively let 'wife' and 'mommy' become your new thing because that gave you a sense of meaning faster and easier than being alone and having to decide proactively who and what you wanted to be would have?'

It's not fair of him to feel or think those things just because she's gone and done something with herself that he wouldn't have expected before and that he still doesn't quite understand. He knows it's not fair of him. While he doesn't resent her for wanting to find satisfaction, he does feel some kind of way over the fact that (from his perspective) she essentially just pruned him from her life as soon as something easier came along. She was never exactly the emotionally demonstrative sort in the first place -- (and, in fairness, neither was he) -- so, perhaps more than betrayed exactly, what he really feels is an occasional, tangled, amorphous little squeeze of 'I don't know what I expected', ‘cool, glad I know exactly where I stand; thanks for that’, 'I didn't even do anything to you', and ‘must be nice being a cute girl that can always rely on someone else wanting to take care of you and treat you like you're valuable, huh?'

Mostly though, he just kind of tucks that feeling, whatever word(s) one might use for it, into a box in the back of his mental closet and doesn't waste his time thinking about it too much. It just is what it is, and at this point it's not really his business anyway.

[sorrygotthesesacks]

Kalim would be the funniest, most earnest, "whatever we need to make this happen" wingman for Silver. A fancy dinner's normal with these things, right? I can get you reservations anywhere! Theatre? Sebek has been to see the opera and he likes to read, right? I can hook you up with tickets! How about a party? A party is always a good idea, no exceptions!

Unbeknownst to Kalim (and also unbeknownst to Silver and Sebek), Silbek have been in a long term relationship. They just haven't realized it yet.

[doomed-era]

one day i'll be able to tell you where gboh link and zelda's friendship goes...ONE DAY...

[lady-harrowhark]

Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir / A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle

[sysig]

Homesick (Patreon)

[bestialitybestiary]

I've just realized they did that to Peter two times! They made him guilty of what he's done when he wasn't in his right mind/conscious of his actions. But Jackson was clearly a victim, hm?

[taylor]

still reeling over the fact that almost 2 months ago the guy i was talking to (not dating, but definitely 'seeing') took another girl TO MY AND MY ROOMMATE'S APARTMENT to FUCK HER ON OUR AIR MATTRESS while i was ON VACATION THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY

honestly. how do i get myself into these situations