#and soooo important

[flowerflamestars]

Timeloop au snippet

“Honestly,” Lucien murmured, soft bird song painting the air like colors existed that weren’t silver, like he’d been thinking about beauty or wonder or anything but her living, this glorious, quiet place he’d brought her, “I have nowhere to go.”   No point in lying to her.   No doubt she’d see through him.   Even wet, even rasped from her throat, Nesta’s laugh had a sting to it. “Bullshit. You’re heir to three Courts. You’re the only faery of any rank the humans will treat with.”   Just Lucien and Jurian, trying to help with what had only been harm for so long Lucien let every insult, every horror, slide right off him.   “Not so much,” Lucien admitted. “Not anymore.”   “Anymore what, Vanserra?” She’d gone sharp, suddenly, stillness a razor edge.   “They tried to kill me,” Lucien sighed. Breathed. How could he blame them? Who was he to say that a thousand years of slavery didn’t deserve recompense? That Hyberns machinations had been repaid? Lucien was High Fae. It wasn’t the fault of mortals he’d tried to bury his own losses in a quest to help them. “A few times. I’m no longer welcome on the continent.”   “I’m not a project,” Nesta hissed, deathly. “Because you need something to do with your bleeding goddamn heart. I’m not going to fuck you. I’m not an Archeron you can have.”   You had to be a body, to bleed.   Lucien felt like more magic than person, most of the time. Caged in useless goddamn bones, had been so useless-   “Funny,” he admitted, hollow, honest heart pounding away, because he was just flesh and blood, fire and fervor, and he wasn’t ashamed but he was so, so, so tired, “I can’t fuck anyone.”   It unwound her, just a little.   “There’s potions for that.”   And just as sudden as she’d taken him off guard the first time, every time, forty eight insane hours and her devastating, endangered delight- Lucien laughed. “Not for losing your mind every time someone touches you.”   Nesta’s grip on his wrist disappeared so quickly it might not have existed at all. Might never had been, had Lucien not turned, looked up from the floor to her white, furious face, shadows beneath her eyes deeper than bruises.   “You’re fine,” Lucien murmured. “I”- he had to swallow. Stop. Breathe as he’d been teaching himself just to fucking breathe. Stop himself from saying something as deranged as the fact that a woman who’d drowned in his arms less than two nights ago felt absolutely safe, to him.   Lucien was a very fine liar, could manage most of the time, but Nesta- whirling in his arms, dying in his arms, stopping his fucking heart, all silver fire-   Nesta Archeron was something else entirely, and it was not the time or the place to even think it.   “I’ll tell you,” Lucien said, slowly. “And you tell me. Please.”

[stuckinapril]

Do not think that violating your boundaries for other people is selfless!! If anything that would eventually lead to nothing but resentment towards the people you violated those boundaries for. It comes back to bite you in the ass sooner or later. It’s not the grand gesture you think it is. The more firm you are on your boundaries, the more intact you keep your mental health, and so the more emotionally available you are for other people. True selflessness comes from knowing what you have to do for yourself in order to give to other people, not from excessively pleasing only to end up feeling bitter and dismissed

[beybuniki]

this definitely happened

[mizandria]

nobody even bats an eye at all the misogyny and all the hatred towards women in classic literature and nobody mentions it when you discuss it in class and you slowly start to become familiar with it and it becomes something so casual and so regular to you that you don't even bat an eye when it happens again and again and again and the cycle goes on

[vamptits]

little ms malpractice snoopy redraw

[nextstopparis]

sorry but the way merlin tells arthur that girls prefer pretty things like jewels and stuff and arthurs solution to that is to BEJEWEL A DAGGER is hilarious. any other person wouldve been like oh fuck i shouldve gotten her a necklace and hes like wait the dagger is too ugly???

[maomango-doodle]

Playing around with the color wheel WEEE

[halemerry]

Sometimes I'm still just struck by the realization that that happened. Like. Having a set of characters undeniably express their feelings for each other like this? When they didn't in the source material that so many people read and saw the subtext of anyway? Getting to be right? The Ineffables being a validation of queer subtext not being a reach or seeing something that isn't there? And being something visibly on screen in a language that is undeniable to even those who are trying so hard not to see it? And it having it done in a way that both puts such importance on that kiss without having it overshadow the entirety of their relationship or being something that invalidates aspec takes on them? It's so. I'm just. There aren't words for it.

[snoopysnose]

She's like this because of us.

YELLOWJACKETS

[technovillain]

relevant to a conversation i had abt how these 3 get invested in the campers' trading of random items

[katribou]

frye is a big sister!!!! 💛💛💛 x

[lvnesart]

do you think they made out during the archon war

[ryuvnosuke]

i would die for atsushi i would kill for atsushi if he tells me he's cold i would set someone on fire. whatever

[redrobin-detective]

Something I wonder about Simon and Betty's relationship is how long they were together before the whole crown ordeal. But they were engaged, you say. My aunt (in)famously met my uncle and had a ring on her finger in 8 weeks. We've seen that both Betty and Simon were both weird outcasts, crazy determined and a pinch insane. I would not be surprised if they decided they'd met their one true love and got engaged super quick.

My point being, Betty's shifting to revolve around Simon and Simon's rose colored glasses of their relationship feels very much like New Love. They're people who love each other and love being a couple but still haven't quite figured out how to coexist together, as two people in a partnership. I feel like if they'd known each other longer, lived together longer, some of the issues we're seeing would have probably self resolved.

I don't think their relationship is toxic nor is it totally perfect. It's two lonely, most likely neurodivergent people in a relatively early relationship still figuring out how it works. Everything that happened afterwards: the crown, the seperation, the time travel, the magic/madness/sadness just exemplified issues they had both as individuals and as a couple.

[sizzy-ling]

August telling Wille that his brother would love him no matter what because Wille was the one person Eric loved the most in his life, knowing that Wille was gutted to learn of Eric's involvement in August's initiation will forever be my Roman empire

[countryfriedcatboy]

rdr1 is just. so fucked up when you add the context of rdr2. like arthur makes it his mission to save john, to give him a chance with his family and he succeeds!! but john looks back. he goes to avenge arthur which ultimately brings the pinkertons to his doorstep. the fact that after everything and all he drags the gang through dutch finally gives up. and he doesn't even have john kill him. he gives up on his own and he tells john that their time has come. the same way arthur tells them that it's over for the gang. they both tell him that it's done and he needs to go on. that he needs to let go of them and the "wild west" and it all culminates in john's message to jack and abigail. to go on. he'll catch up. they just need to let go.

also the fact that arthur and mary have this conversation first. that john and abigail wear arthur and mary's rings. dutch's murder of heidi mccourt and jack's eventual murder of ross. john's murder of micah. etc. etc.

the themes of redemption and the ultimate vicious cycle vengeance brings are so well done it makes me wanna puke