#but it wasn’t fair

[gregmarriage]

have come to the (pretty obvious, actually) realisation that i want all the affection and intimacy and nice things about a romantic relationship, but not the complications and stress and actual serious shit that also inevitably comes with it.

[theminecraftbee]

incidentally for the people who aren’t zedaph watchers I have to express just HOW MUCH the crevasse is a step forward for zedaph building. season six he. didn’t have a base really if I recall correctly. in season seven he had an undecorated cave he put silly machines in. season eight he at least DECORATED but it was sure still a hole in a mountain. season nine it was a base he did a BUILD with! still a hole in a mountain. season ten is a STEP UP it’s a hole with NO MOUNTAIN REQUIRED,

[vvitchllng]

In addition to Everything Else that happened this episode, I can’t stop thinking about the moment where Laudna asks him why Seedling isn’t enough why he wants This sword and Orym’s whole demeanor shifts and he looks Laudna dead in the eyes and says you’re right why Would you reach for a darker power.

Orym and Laudna are the characters with the most interparty conflict and they’re the same!!!!!!! At their core their strongest motivation is their drive to protect the ones they love at the cost of themselves if necessary. We see it all the time with Orym throwing himself in front of his friends over and over again, making deals with fae to try and keep them safe. And we see it all the time with Laudna and Delilah, where over and Over again she lures Laudna with the promise of being strong enough to protect her friends, to keep them safe. We saw it again tonight when Delilah manipulated her to get the sword by telling her it was a danger to Orym!!

Both of them looked at the power that caused their pain and decided to take it for their own, to use it to protect their loved ones instead, because if it was capable of such devastation against them, it was capable of delivering that same devastation to their enemies. Laudna asking why seedling isn’t enough (why he isn’t enough, the frustrated self-deprecating response “I have Push-ups!”) and Orym returning the question because Laudna Does have her own power separate from Delilah, she just doesn’t think its enough for what’s coming!!!

They both lost their families, but where Orym had the rest of his family, a purpose, a home, Laudna lost Everything and only had the voice of her murderer as comfort in the cold. So now they’re both taking on the power that destroyed their lives, but Orym can be rational and willing to have a discussion about doing so, while Laudna absolutely Cannot do the same because of how entwined she is with Delilah (with Delilah quite literally guiding her actions in addition to the years of psychological manipulation and abuse), and so they’re the same and yet so utterly different that they keep coming up against this fundamental inability to understand the other’s position because despite the same underlying motivations, their responses are so different.

Why would you reach for a darker power, why can you not understand why I’m doing this, why can you not see I’m doing this For You. Distorted reflections of each other wanting to be understood and at a loss when faced with the differences between them, what a fucking dynamic.

[hellspawnmotel]

had a dream there was a kh kart racer. kingdom karts

[st-hedge]

It wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card that I’d draw V again. Anyway I’ll go ahead ramble in the tags

[zukkacore]

[alison bechdel voice] it’s like a 1950’s lesbian pulp novel…

[mixedup-sideblog]

Ok don’t get me wrong I loved S5 but my fucking GOD - AM I A JOKE TO YOU TDP?!? - HE’S STILL IN THAT GODAMN FUCKING COIN…

[novelist-becca]

Once again, I hate hate hate it when certain people that saw TOH judge Luz based ONLY on how in episode 1 she brought fireworks to school and let loose live snakes and spiders.

And just boil her down to that.

[iheartbookbran]

i cackled before the season came out and everyone was freaking out about the brothel scenes because they wanted demi!Colin and now the possibility was lost forever, when it was precisely the brothel scenes (+ the diary bit) which cemented demi!Colin to canon prosperity!

[incandescent-liveblogs]

Also I’m in love with the way this story does worldbuilding. I love worldbuilding anyway, but TTO:U is a phenomenal example of how to just say things and let your reader pick up on them.

For example, I first latched onto “pre-Neocambrian” as a fun little word challenge, since I saw it was taking root words for New and Change and leaning on the way we categorize dinosaur eras. It was a fun little puzzle!

And then I felt even smarter for realizing the word I’d been skimming over as scifi-speak, “preneek,” was a shortening of the proper term Aspen uses, the pre-Neocambrian.

So then it becomes a character study: how Aspen, publisher of four successful novels and holder of at least one doctorate, uses clinical and accurate terms, vs Tal, genius in kes own way but definitely more prone to using slang, speak differently about the same thing.

I just… so much about this makes me go heart-eyes, and I haven’t even talked about how I had to verbally enthuse about floating forests and their genetically modified inhabitants to my poor partner.

[herebecritters]

Courage

[cripplepunkbarbarian]

I just think that if you asked Fabian his sexual identity he would very confidently almost defensively say he’s straight but also later that night he will be laying in bed staring at the ceiling thinking about it so hard he gives himself a stress induced nose bleed.

flags under the cut o7

Riz: aroace & aeregender

Kristen: nonbinary transmasc & lesbian

Fabian: questioning

Adaine: cupioromantic & lesbian

Gorgug: bi-recipromantic & gender apathetic

Fig: genderfluid transfem & bisexual

[stinkypeanutbutter]

Mike banner . Again . Pls help me

[spooksicl-e]

hello victorian!holmes nation

edit: happy public domain day!!!! husbands!!!!!!!!

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Okay the funniest and best choice I have seen in the one piece fandom so far is to look at the required token pervert character who hits on any woman he sees which is unfortunately a staple of basically all long form animanga and going ‘that’s a closeted homosexual actually.’ So true besties, he reaaaaaally appears to be overcompensating for Something.

[mifflebat]

“ legacy “

@scatterbrainedbot ‘s rat sons au !!! happy birthday dude !!