#and whilst THEY don't care

[backjustforberena]

what I really loved (yet another thing to be quite honest) about that fireplace scene between Rhaenys and Corlys is that nothing is said out of anger. There’s no anger in either of them, not really. 

Also: Steve Toussaint’s face when he’s saying that line about this brief, mortal life!!!

[konigsblog]

crazy, how the majority of my haters are either hypocrites, or are just straight up LYING. lmfao, i've written rape before and i apply appropriate warnings, but i've never ever written PEDOPHILIA. 😬

their username on tumblr is @asgardswinter, they have continuously mentioned me on their blog. it's literally creepy and clearly obsessive, lmfao, and lying about me writing pedophilia is real fucking weird considering they don't apply any further context or include any evidence to back up this claim...

i'd appreciate it if you reported their twitter account or blog for like harassment 😮‍💨

[squishiefelix]

ah yeah because everybody suspects Rachel the cheerleader to be dating Mickey the basketball player in their little besties squad, everyone's gossiping about it 'did you hear about Rachel and Mickey? They're totally a thing' only for the pair of them to be totally unbothered, waiting for the perfect moment to reveal Rachel's dating Ema and Mickey's dating Spoon

[chocmoon-latte]

Another reason why I think Hancock would have a crush on the Sole Survivor besides the obvious fact that you're out here helping the people of the Commonwealth, or how he thought you were an innocent vault dweller who needed protecting, is the fact that he's finally got someone he can be emotionally vulnerable with. Being the mayor of such a dangerous place like Goodneighbor means he needs to keep up a reputation to match it. There's no room for him to be soft or emotional in a place like this.

He's happy when strangers know who he is for having reputation that precedes him for being deadly because it eliminates any chances of someone out there possibly getting the idea that he might actually have a sweeter, more caring side. That's one of the main reasons why he even killed Finn in the first place. But he WANTS to be able to express softness. The problem is just that Goodneighbor isn't the place to do it, and a lot of the kinds of people you find in the Commonwealth in general aren't really the greatest types to be emotionally open towards anyways. In a world like this, it's something that could very easily be held against him.

He tells you that it's lonely being mayor and that he's running out on the good things and people he's got. He tells you that he's always been the one telling others to keep the emotion out of relationships in the past, but here he is being open and emotional with you. He says that everyone is entitled to some softness, himself included… but after he opens up to you about running out on the good things in his life, he asks you not to tell anyone else. Not necessarily because of the fact that it's personal, but because of the fact that he's afraid of word spreading around about this more emotionally vulnerable side of him and that people will think he's crazy for it (and as a side note, let's be honest, we've all seen how society on a larger scale views emotionally vulnerable men as weak).

A lot (not all) of his contradicting ideals when you first meet him make so much more sense when you look at him through the lens of a man desperately trying to conceal and repress the more sensitive side to him. The way he just lets you get away with so much during The Big Dig questline, even if you take your time to do every little thing against him. It's obvious that he doesn't really care all too much about punishing you - he just likes knowing he still has the power to make people frantically scramble to please him, because it helps uphold his reputation.

If there's one thing Hancock hates being more than anything, it's being powerless and weak. His biggest traumas come from how he was unable to protect the ghouls in Diamond City from being exiled or protect the drifters in Goodneighbor from being abused by Vic. If people in the Commonwealth knew there was a softer side to him, a large majority of the more dangerous organizations, especially the ones operating in his town, would consider him weak. If Hancock was considered a weak leader, then he wouldn't be considered fit to protect the innocent people that he so sworn to protect.

It's always baffled everyone how Hancock doesn't show any sadness when it comes to the death of Fahrenheit or finding out his brother was replaced by a synth and killed years prior, but I'm starting to wonder if we've been looking at it the wrong way this entire time. Maybe Hancock's lack of being visibly upset over them had nothing to do with Bethesda making poor writing decisions (they kind of do tbh), but had everything to do with him repressing his emotions.

So when he gets to travel with YOU the player, who has no prior knowledge of him, his reputation or past (and you aren't just another citizen he has to put on a show for) he feels like he can let his walls down around you. He's allowed to be emotionally vulnerable because he doesn't have to pretend to BE someone for you, and in turn, he feels like he doesn't have to run anymore.

(That was a lot sorry but I tend to get my thoughts out better in the form of long ramblings. Honestly there's so many ways he can be interpreted though, but I guess this is just somewhat of an analysis/me theorizing a little)

[johannestevans]

idk it's tough as hell to explore your feelings when it's like. either you feel all of them viscerally and it's hard to unpick what they belong to and what the triggers or inspirations are and how they link together or what the processes behind them and all the rest

and then on the other hand it's that thing of like. oh how much am in intellectualising these feelings? how much am i getting so focused on the potential processes behind these feelings, so much so that i'm not feeling them, and not considering the visceral aspects of them?

like autism makes ur own feelings hard enough even without trying to get into other people's feelings, what they're doing, what they were thinking or what their motivations were, etc, and then it's just... A Lot

idk i try give ppl as much love and grace as ever possible bc it's just like, even when someone's being the worst cunt in the world, there's normally a reason for it. no one does what they do for no reason, and very few ppl are truly like. acting out of sadism or a desire to do harm to others - more often than that ppl are just thoughtless or self-centred, and i know there are reasons for that as well

[zedechemist]

— CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM.

a compendium of songs that stirred zahi headcanons + vibes.

Side A. CHEMICAL.

TRACK 1: moondust, jaymes young TRACK 2: assassin, au/ra TRACK 3: supermassive black hole, muse.

Side B. EQUILIBRIUM.

TRACK 4: beautiful crime, tamer TRACK 5: nocturnal waltz, johannes bornlöf TRACK 6: death stranding, chvrches

Bonus.

TRACK 7: starman, david bowie

+ extras.

@astrorahi

[impandgnomes]

tbh I feel like Cartman being a homeless drunk was kind of a copout

like Cartman is either going to be the most weirdly normal dude who cringes at the worst actions of his younger self - whose empathy kicked in and most likely even makes amends for his past - or is the wildest karmic Houdini of a criminal. There's no inbetween.

[shopcat]

mutuals exempt of course bc i don't even see it from you guys but my god are dunmesh fans the most annoying people on earth how do you have a superiority complex about reading a damn manga 😭

[transmascpetewentz]

why the actual fuck are terfs n tehms weaponizing the deaths of gay men in order to tell people why you aren't allowed to say queer, ackshually

[lawful-evil-novelist]

Honestly as much as I think Nalfein hated Zak, I also think their relationship was routinely the closest Nalfein ever got to having a parental figure in his life who cared about him beyond what he could do for the House.

Actually in retrospect that might've actually made Nalfein's resentment worse.

[venacoeurva]

I did not think there was possibly faster speedrun for “how quickly can I actively dislike the fanon for this pairing” that could outdo some modern takes on some of my decades-long rarepairs from other things, but here we are

[aefensteorrra]

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[lovvelorrn]

twitter swifties are the most vile, horrible and despicable people i've ever met

[apocalyptic-dancehall]

reminds me! on my twt (which is quarter-dead and not worth following /srs) i've been poking at that horse (claptrap's middle name)

[melvinthedepressedrobot]

when you mention to somebody that in your personal DA canon your Inquisitor is 16 and they start condescendingly sending you screenshots about what age your character ‘should’ be and all the ages of the companions like you’ve not been hyperfixated on this game series for the better part of smth like 13 years, rabidly researching every little detail to craft your own story within the world

[andrew3garfield]

not that anyone cares but i just need to report that i've finished the first season of riverdale and have already started season 2 ♡ i honestly cannot believe it will ever be bad. idk especially if it turns out to be super camp. anyways