#but please relish in this

[whim-prone-pirate]

how many times does neil gaiman have to specifically refuse to Word-Of-God anything before y'all take the hint—

he is the biggest supporter of fandom that there is, his own and in the broadest of senses. "is [x] canon?" is such an easily answerable question given that he has answered it twenty five times on one tumblr account. so, to reiterate, again, on his behalf:

book canon is stated in the book. tv canon is shown on screen.

anything that neil has said about his own characters outside of that specific and clearly laid out guideline is considered his own headcanon and opinion. there is no wrong or right version of aziraphale or dream or coraline. however you have decided to personalize these characters to help you love them does not make them any less real. Your Crowley is yours, and he is just as real as Neil's Crowley.

stop worrying. genuinely. you don't have to go searching for canon in the various gaimanverses because it's all been laid out in front of you since inception. you're all fine.

in neil's own words (possibly paraphrased as i don't have the post in front of me): "your characters are safe, and no one is going to take them away from you." not even neil.

[sol-thorne-shitpost]

Still reading the Odyssey. How have I never seen anyone bring up a headcanon that Odysseus becomes scared shitless of the ocean after finally coming home to Ithaca? I'm talking mental-breakdown inducing phobia.

The man has spent TEN YEARS lost at sea. Each time he reached land, Poseidon was here to try to drown him. His twelve ships with six hundred men sunk. And later on, when Alcinoos' men sailed him back to Ithaca, Poseidon sunk that ship too. It just never ends. Odysseus has seen hundreds of men, friends, die at sea, he's been whipped by waves, choked by salt, he faced Charybdis on his own, nearly drowned more times than he can count, all of this to finally reach home knowing his journey has drowned hundreds of innocent people.

I'm telling you he'd never heal from that shit. After he finally reclaims the throne of Ithaca, maybe Telemachus mentions that some of his father's old friends are still waiting for news of him, that Nestor has no idea he managed to go home and that Menelaus weeps whenever he thinks of him.

So Odysseus agrees to follow his son to Pylos and Sparta, having to sail across the sea once again, and although the trip goes smoothly it's a living nightmare for Odysseus. The moment the ship departs, he prays Poseidon with all his might, begging him to spare his son. He can't stop puking and crying, choking on his own erratic breath, hallucinating and going paranoid. For a few days Telemachus really thinks he's fallen ill. The trip back is just as terrible and Telemachus has no idea how to comfort his father or to make him understand that the seas are safe for him now, as well as for all the people who travel with him.

Yet another reason why Odysseus needs to spend the rest of his life in a Penelope/Diomedes sandwich hug, I rest my case.

[ybcpatrick]

everytime i think abt that post with the stuffed garfields that's like "to be loved is to be changed" i get so deep in the sauce and end up staring at my twenty-one year old pooh bear and the mint condition duplicate i bought a few years ago. like yeah.

yeah, to be loved is to be changed.

and isn't that so wonderful?

[sharkgirldick]

"Not to be autistic about it, but-"

No, no, please. I insist.

[trans-opossum]

Amphibiuary day 12: Eat!

[industrations]

HO HO HO MERRY JITTYMAS

To kick off the festivities my fellow lawnchairs @imdamagecontrol @alarainai and i have written a very extremely cursed lovely christmas fic

If at any point you ask yourself "what is going on" or "why does it low-key have plot" just know that we do not know either

We present a lawnchair original:

The Jitties

[isalabells]

[puyopuyo]

happy penis friday milk puyopuyo

happy penis friday!

[plaintoast]

us above water

in one hand, a photo of you asleep this morning in the bed we shared but define as mine. below that, the atlantic nearly invisible through the window i lay my head against. i risk the press of my thumb to the wiry hair along your knuckles for just a minute longer. maybe another minute after that. everyone else is asleep but i know i will dream of my head pressed between your shoulder and chin and wake missing you before we go our separate ways, so i watch the sky. it fades into early morning blue, the ocean visible once more. it reminds me of the dry shine of my mother's eye catching mine, our fingers intertwined at the table across from my brother's discerning gaze. not soon, but in a future we can talk about now, we take every flight together and i am not afraid who sees us touch. for now we relish the novelty of only keeping half a secret. you awaken as we fly into the risen sun, and i am blinded by the soft set of your smile, the sleep-struck grey of your eyes. i have not yet pulled away my hand from yours.

a poem inspired by @msmargaretmurry's this is for keeps in the head above water 'verse. becky, thank you for bringing this matthew and leon into the world. not only is the story a gift, it led me back into your fandom space, where i am constantly thrilled to be. i hope you enjoy this work you brought out in me!

[industrations]

I am so used to u interacting with ur partners that I thought I followed all yall and borderline panicked in my halfawake state that they deleted their accounts bc I didn't see em in my followed tab 💀💀

Wait do people think we’re actually together?💀

Actually no ur right we are @alarainai and @imdamagecontrol my spouses, my loves, my one true people

[cluelessmoose]

C 'mere Wind I've ANGST to share

Oh boy guys I've been thinking and you know what THAT means

So, to start, let me just say that Wind's character design as a young teen could very well just be rooted in the fact that in the games he's based on he is very young, so for continuity's sake JoJo just continued the theme to add a little variety in the character set. Which is smart, and good, and I want more and worse for the Chain than that

An important question to ask is why on Earth Hylia would ever choose a hero that young to go on this adventure? Clearly, going by Time's age, she can take them from any point in their timeline, but she notably didn't take Time after Majora's Mask when he was mentally an adult but physically a child still, fresh from his adventures and arguably a better fighter than he would from being semi-retired on a Ranch for years. And yet for some reason she choose Wind as a kid, still, which just-

Doesn't make sense.

Because Wind is strong, and a good fighter, and clever to boot, but he could be better. He's not fully grown in LU, hasn't yet reached his full potential in terms of speed, strength, reach, or any of the other myriad of ways an adult body is undeniably better suited for combat than a 14ish year old's is. As good as he is now, he'd only get better as a fighting hero as he grew up

So why wouldn't Hylia grab him as an adult, in the prime of his fighting ability for this very dangerous, all important quest to save all the timelines?

She couldn't.

Why else? Why else would she choose a weaker form of the heroes she's selected? A kid who is experienced but still caught in all the downsides of a still growing body, all the physical shortcomings of youth.

Why, except that there is no older Wind to have taken instead.

I raise you this: Wind dies young. He dies before he ever hits 15 in his timeline, and you can take from that what you want- that he gets back and is killed, or that he never makes it back from this adventure with the Chain at all.

Such an innocuous detail, Wind's age, and the Chain has never wondered at it's significance.

It's almost better, if he dies back at home. Because its either that, or the rest of the Chain looks back and realizes exactly why the Sailor was so young, realizes that if they'd stopped to wonder, to notice and question, then maybe they could have changed it, stopped it, saved him-

The grief would be plenty sharp enough without that, I think.

[teacuppigdog]

all the adverts on tumblr these days are trying to get me to go out and date people. like. actually I came to this website to be a weird recluse

[cheekydogs]

I decided to mix it up a little for my outing today and give Wee Hen a day off :)