#but he's not

[shijiujun]

Mr. Chen I-don't-know-how-to-woo-the-person-I-know-best Yi

[frownyalfred]

john constantine x alfred ......a veil has been lifted from my eyes. i feel like constantine would be lounging around wayne manor recovering after helping bruce with a mystery, and alfred would somehow ignite his daddy issues.

bruce is not happy. bruce is incandescent. bruce thinks alfred could do MUCH better, like martha kent. clark asks bruce to keep his mother's name out of his mouth because she is not about to wade into this water.

alternatively. martha kentxjohn constantinex alfred

why are you actually making this sound a little plausible, anon? (daddy issues are no match for one Alfred Pennyworth!)

[holy--milk]

btw this post kinda made me think about how, as both a JGY and SJ fan, i see both of them get similar yet opposite treatment from certain parts of their fanbases.

like JGY consistently gets interpreted to be much more of a prickly asshole and a ruthless murderer than he actually is, while SJ is often toned down into a Tough (but secretly caring) Teacher archetype with full disregard for his canonical blatant and cruel abuse of children (well, one specific child as far as we know, but he's a quality over quantity man for sure).

like maybe some JGY stans would benefit from switching to full-time SJ apologism instead of trying to mold their polite little customer service smile blorbo into an angry feral kitten with abandonment issues. and vice versa.

[whetstonefires]

funniest thing the novel-centered part of the mdzs fandom misrepresents to cql viewers is the whole Smol Twink Mo Xuanyu bit.

like i know the donghua is majorly at fault here but 'five centimeters' guys. you know how much that is in the imperial system, it's almost exactly two inches. the breadth of my index and forefinger stacked together.

just enough height difference to be casually noticeable, that's how much.

mo xuanyu was also a tall guy.

[serendipity0930]

I hate to break it to you, but if you're an spn Lucifer apologist, then you've been played by the narrative

[leighsartworks216]

K i feel like Astarion is the type to act like he hates cheesy love songs but secretly loves it when tav sings via la rose or i love you too much like that level of cheesey songs to him

Bard Tav serenading him with Somethin' Stupid by Frank Sinatra tho

[lu-sn]

Hi Lu 👋 Do you have any thoughts or insights on why Porsche gave Vegas access to Pete during the club scene with Pete?

anon it is quite possible that i have too many thoughts. i need to have my last working braincell taken away from me so i can chill tf out

ok! so let's lay the scene. you're porsche, and you've watched your closest friend at your very intense job come back from being probably-kidnapped and probably-tortured, probably by a man who betrayed you and your boyfriend horribly and tried to kill you not more than two weeks ago, and your friend cannot talk about it at all, and your friend looks like he's been mauled and also like he'll never be happy again

you also kiiiiind-of-sort-of were a really bad friend back, because said friend walked into this situation to help you and then you forgot about him and oops you also told your boyfriend not to worry about him and now look, you've given PTSD to a perfectly good pete and he'll never be the same

so you, porsche, feel extremely guilty.

the interesting thing about all of this is that we know porsche is a compassionate person. he cares about his friends! it's clearly bothering him that pete is so down! he offers to go fight the people who hurt pete!

and then he puts pete right back into the hands of the lying, cheating man who probably tortured him.

you just... you can't explain this away. no matter how you look at it, it can't be beneficial to pete, given what porsche knows about the situation. arguably if he knew more, he would know even better how vitally important it is to keep pete away.

this is the first real hint we get that porsche is willing to make sacrifices out of the people around him to get what he wants. it's the biggest neon sign so far that the mafia is corrupting him.

but here's why i love it so much — it makes sense. it makes so much sense. porsche has finally understood that he is trapped in some sort of decades-old web woven by korn, and that he cannot trust anyone in the main family to help him figure it out. this is the murder of his parents we're talking about. this is the event that sent his life careening off its path and changed his and his brother's life forever. it is a HUGE deal. porsche deserves to know the truth, and he can tell that the window on that is closing.

is it stupid for him to go to vegas, after everything that happened in ep10? yes. but it's the least stupid option of all, because vegas is the one person who is never on the side of the main family.

so he calls vegas (somehow — don't think too hard about how porsche reached him) and he grits his teeth and he asks for help.

and vegas, mind you, is currently in a hell of his own making. these are quite literally the worst days of his entire life — not that porsche knows that. so of course vegas seizes on the opportunity to ask for the one thing he needs most, which is just to see pete. that's all.

do we think porsche said yes immediately? do we think he hesitated, even for a moment, to think about why vegas wanted to see pete, and what kind of damage that could do to pete? did porsche fear for pete's life at all, especially given that from what he knows of vegas, vegas could be trying to do anything from imprisoning pete again to outright killing him?

but do we think porsche maybe, possibly, connected the dots, though? that he heard vegas asking for pete and thought of pete refusing to talk about vegas and thought "they love each other and they're both hurting"? because that would be a decent reason.

i will be real with you, anon: i don't think he connected the dots. not before he actually sees vegas in person. and maybe there, in the alleyway, he clocks that vegas is emotionally compromised (the way vegas's voice cracks when he asks about pete??? JUST END ME AHHHH). but he still doesn't know anything for sure about pete's feelings. pete hasn't mentioned vegas by name even once.

i want to think he hesitates, when vegas asks over the phone. and then he decides to ignore his hesitation, despite vegas having the worst track record of all time, and tells himself that it'll be ok — that he'll just let vegas see pete once, just a short visit, and he'll stop vegas from doing anything too crazy, and pete will be ok. pete might even need it, he thinks. maybe pete will feel better afterwards.

i don't think he consciously makes the decision to prioritize his needs over pete. i think he's actively remaining in denial about how badly this could go! he's going to go through with it no matter what, and so why would he bother cataloguing all the consequences when they're just going to make him feel worse? instead, he'll make himself feel better by punching vegas, and then telling vegas that vegas better not hurt pete again, and then he'll feel absolved, just a little.

and again, to his credit, i think there's a very good chance he understands how much vegas cares for pete after the alleyway. and maybe that on its own makes it okay that he left vegas alone with pete UNSUPERVISED. but all of his actions up until that point? they're selfish.

pete walked through fire for porsche — and porsche looked pete in the eye, grabbed him by the shoulders, turned him around, and sent him straight back in.

[marvins-linguinie]

eddie: how are you?

dustin: oh, im great, actually-

eddie: no, i said how are you?

steve: me..?

eddie: yes. not anyone else, you.

steve: im.. im okay, i guess. it's been a few years since someone's asked me that.

[sisaloofafump]

Don't talk to me, I'm thinking about Clark Kent and the inherent tragedy of a weapon who only wants to heal

[onehundredandeleventropicalfish]

do you ever just think about the relationship between daniel dream and the corinthian mark ii

like, it's explored a little in nightmare country, which is probably the main draw of that series for me, but i hope we get to see it a lot more by the time the series is done

because like. everything that happened at the cereal convention is a huge defining moment in how these two interact, both of them remember it clearly and how they felt at the time and it was definitely traumatising for at least one of them if not both

and also it happened before either of them were born

the most impactful thing you ever experienced and you weren't even present for it

like. im just fascinated by the idea of how this relationship, for morpheus and mark i, was originally so full of pride and admiration, which got soured by hate and rivalry and disappointment and anger and all the negative emotions that ended in

and both of the new versions remember feeling all of those things, they know exactly why and how their predecessors got to that place

but they weren't there. it wasn't them.

and also - both of the new versions were made, by morpheus, to be better

corinthian to correct all the mistakes he made the first time round, and daniel to be all of the things dream knew he should be, but couldn't, as morpheus

it's another thing they share, that they both have this other person hanging over them, that they each met only briefly, but at the same time, one of them is that person, and the other has known him for over 3000 years

and that person, however they feel about him, wanted the two of them to fix everything that was wrong.

should they? can they? are they better versions of the originals, or different people entirely?

these new versions don't have the same pseudo parent-child relationship the originals had, because daniel didn't create the new corinthian. the new corinthian did in fact look after him as a baby, so they're almost on equal ground. there's no pride, but therefore no hate. does the rivalry even make sense, then? and if that rivalry ended long ago, if the new dream and the new corinthian succeed in working together, is that because of any choice they themselves made, or just choices morpheus made?

and just. the amount of legacy both of them have to fight through when it comes to each other, they're some of the few people in the universe who could understand exactly what the other's been through, if they can ever get past everything bequeathed to them in order to see that

but that legacy is a complicated beast to tackle. and i wonder what that does to both of their senses of identity

[madwheelerz]

What if Mike and Max have the same/similar trauma responses ie pulling away ("He's been like that all summer" s3 vs "Your like a ghost" s4, "We're not kids anymore" s3 vs "People change" s4)

[mysteriousblindcrow]

[wildskissed]

Eve killed the guy that betrayed and tried to kill her...but what if she didn't...? What if he was in Baldur's Gate?

[negrowhat]

Despite Pat being together with Jeng he's still one of the hardest working people in that office and he's been that way since day one. How quickly haters forget that he was doing their work AND his.

[allroseshave-their-pricks]

Sock ghost is back and better than ever - this time leaving The World's Largest Tupperware and a Bag of Bones in the freezer

[trixiedragongirl]

Astrid: I think I'm falling for you

Hiccup: Then get up