#c: like steel

[abessive-art]

I Prefer Thieves

[ladystoneboobs]

ya ever think about how the lannister sibs all have big secrets kept from each other, like huge life-altering experiences? jaime's is the most obvious, the most talked-about, with the full story of his kingslaying and everything he endured from aerys leading up to it. it's clear enough to me that brienne was the first he opened up to about that, including either sibling. they never asked, but unlike ned stark and the rest deriding him as kingslayer, their lack of curiosity is no offense in itself bc as tywin's other children they would never judge him for turning his cloak purely out of family loyalty. ned's assumption of jaime's motives is directly tied to his judgment of jaime, but it's the judgment that rankles jaime so. choosing your father's life over a king's is hardly the worst crime in itself. how can he explain all the other reasons without prompting when its not just about his crime but all his trauma too? is there any basis for that in his relationship with cersei, who always relied on him for comfort and consolation but seems less adept at providing the same to him? or even with tyrion, his only real male friend for years, but also his baby brother, the one he was meant to protect and take care of, who was only 10 at the time of the kingslaying? even to fully share all with tyrion years later, both adults, could be something of a role reversal, forever shattering tyrion's image of him as the strong invulnerable golden big brother by revealing his own broken inner child. jaime can't break out from those sibling roles and patterns, so neither can ever understand that part of him, never knowing the early life he had at court without either of them with him.

and tyrion, who trusted jaime more than anyone in the world before learning the truth about tysha, still could not confide in him freely even when all that trust was still intact. jaime must have heard some story of what tywin did to tysha to feel the need to confess his lie, but he def didn't hear it straight from tyrion bc imo there's no way he could still think confessing would help anything if he understood how scarred tyrion was by what he witnessed and esp not knowing that tywin ordered him to participate at the end. tyrion could reveal all that to bronn when they barely knew each other but not to his beloved brother, his first and best friend. how can the most abused child explain all his unknown abuse to the golden child, the big brother meant to protect him who couldn't always do so? how does he even begin to reveal the deepest trauma that happened to him when jaime wasn't in the room, esp when the story does start with jaime apparently trying to help him by fixing him up with tysha?

and then there's cersei and all her secrets. she always turned to jaime for consolation, or at least when he knew she needed it, but how many times did he not know? how personally could she confide in him as they grew older and their paths diverged? we know the first big secret was maggy the frog's prophecy, her first big scare, which came on the cusp of puberty, an experience she couldn't share with her twin bc he would prob just laugh and make a joke of it. in their first real scene together, in bran's pov, he mocks lysa's motherly fears and likens her to cersei. ("I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad." He laughed.) then he makes light of her marital discord, ("And whose fault is that, sweet sister?"), having no idea of the depth of pain she'd suffered from robert, beyond his infidelities. he later blames her for being robert's queen, not his, only thinking of how she managed to arrange his kg post, that power to forever tie him to her in secret, never grasping her lack of control in marriage, that "a queen is only a woman after all". in her pride it was hard to reveal all she'd suffered as a woman, but she also couldn't rely on jaime's response if he knew of her abuse, knowing he would kill robert and get himself killed too, only making her and their children's lives more precarious. she couldn't trust him to listen about securing the throne before dealing with robert or that as robert's victim it was her right to decide such matters, to choose his fate, not jaime's place to avenge her without her say-so first. all bc they were both too stuck in their idea of jaime as her sword, nothing more, with jaime determined to protect her and tyrion, always a bodyguard before he ever donned a white cloak.

something something tywin did his best to play his children off each other and the most effective thing he did to divide them was by setting jaime up as the golden child and family protector. the designated lannister sword only pointing at threats outside their house. a knight serving his family whose protection was always limited, who could never protect them from the person who first hurt cersei and tyrion and made them who they were at a distance from him, bc ofc he couldn't fight his own father, much less slay him with a sword.

something something maybe the reason that joff+marg+loras was a surer recipe for kingslayer stew than robert+cersei+jaime is all down to that tyrell lack of abusive structure. not that loras cared more about marg, was more willing to kill for her than jaime was to kill robert, but that there wasn't a chance of marg hiding her misery from him if/when her husband abused her in their shared household. it's not like he understood her to the point of mind-reading but when their previous royal marital household involved her bearding for his boyfriend then they prob had a pretty good basis of open communication. in that sense, the lannicest twins with all their sexual and physical intimacy still had less emotional intimacy than the tyrell queen and her kg brother.

[jesncin]

You’ve talked about Eradicator and (especially) Conner, but I don’t think you’ve said anything about Steel yet? He and his daughter are some of my personal favorites in the superfam, so I was curious. Especially since he and Conner were close enough for the latter to try to rescue him from Apokolips.

I love the Steels! I want to do more research on them before doing a take, so that's why I haven't gotten around to it yet.

Something thematically I really like about Superboy + Steel's dynamic is how they were initially contrasted against each other in Reign of Supermen.

Reign of Supermen is all about how after Superman dies, a bunch of Superguys show up to take his title. Each of them have something missing that don't make them a complete replacement. Conner is presented to have Superman's "biology" but none of his character. Steel has no superhuman powers, but he has Superman's spirit, and that's what makes him the most worthy to carry the mantle (something I wish the animated movie adaptation incorporated more hrrrggghhh, justice for John Henry Irons!!).

If I was to do a take on their dynamic, this would all change! My take on Conner rides on the fact that while he is technically Clark's son, he doesn't look like Clark. So everything he does gets profiled and adultif-ied through racism. Conner would be enamored to see how an average person who looks like him chooses to take on that mantle. Not to mention, unlike Lex, John Henry Irons is a self-made man-of-tomorrow who uses his powers for good! Conner being, not just thematically of mixed heritage, but visibly mixed race as well opens him up to a much deeper connection with the rest of Superfam. So it's a change I'm really invested in!

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Hottest JJBA Outfit Bracket - Round 1 Match 8

[crees-a]

You're Sun and Moon are a cute couple. Who confessed first? :3

They just randomly decided to make out at some point

[martyrbat]

superman: the man of steel gallery

[ID: a pin-up of Clark Kent trying to get a haircut. He's in his Superman costume and is sitting on his cape in a salon chair with one of his legs crossed over his knee. On the floor is several pairs of broken hair scissors as the hairdresser breaks a pair of large garden shears in an attempt to cut his Super-mullet. Lois watches them from the sidelines with an amused smirk as Clark is looking down and is casually reading Detective Comics #692. END ID]

[crownrots]

↳ SIDE HOTD (2 /∞ ) 📜🏹 DYANNA THORNWOOD ── glass is only brittle until it breaks, then it's sharp. (x) (x) (x)

[hermitcraft-shifter]

BUTCHER VANITY by Vane Lily is c!Pungence's theme song. No, I will not elaborate. (I will elaborate and that's a threat.)

[madebysimblr]

Arturo: [deep inhale] I never have cheated on your mother. Nor would I ever be able to forget her. I would never try to replace her in your life either. That's not who Joy is.

Cordy: [huffs] Who even is she?

Arturo: I met her at the surviving spouses support group I go to. She understands so much of what I've been going through since Sadie died, she lost her husband almost at the same time.

Cordy: Don't you dare talk about her in the same sentence as Mom.

Arturo: Cordy-

Cordy: Clearly you KNOW this is wrong since you said she was your "friend." Why try to hide her if you don't have anything to hide!!

Arturo: I wasn't trying to hide her, I just wanted you to meet her before I told you everything. I thought you might have an unreasonable reaction.

Cordy: I'M being unreasonable!?!?!!?

Arturo: You are. Sadie died coming up on 4 years ago. She's gone. I've been feeling more and more alone-

Cordy: You're not alone! You have a ludicrously large family!

Arturo: I know, and I love you all dearly. But you're all grown up, off living your own lives and moving on... Am I not allowed to do the same?

Cordy: Not like this! In case it wasn't clear, you are not bringing her to meet my daughter. You know. The one named after Mom?

Cordy slams the door on her way out.

[echosong971]

Like a Fly in a Web

[hiislegacy]

azure-steel asked: "I revolt you, don't I?" for Sephiroth

"... Oh, Cloud... My sweetest puppet... You could never make me feel such a way." The question had actually caught him off-guard, as he's never heard the other say anything close to that before. Usually there was fear, hatred, and all the above emotions pointed his way.

For himself, though, he has only ever felt this compulsive need to be with the other, on so many levels of obsessive... All his thoughts, and all of his being was meant for Cloud. They were made for each other, and every encounter between them merely solidified this feeling. It was strange to even want him, as much as he did, thinking he was far beyond humanity's flawed emotions. "What makes you say this, I wonder...?" He just had to ask. He had to know what went on in that mind that he thought he knew so perfectly well.

@azure-steel

[abessive-art]

Whuh. what do you mea. Tpp is ending….. orz

[p2ii]

So many hc's about textured robot hair...

[myhyperfixationisback]

hey. what the fuck is up with Ratchet and Clank merch

[cheeto-flavoured-pasta]

Heartbreaking: Local Punk walks into thrift shop so confident he’ll find the perfect base for their battle jacket. Finds absolutely nothing and half of it is just kids clothes instead.

(it’s me I’m the local punk. I’m devastated)

[martyrbat]

superman: the man of steel gallery

[ID: a pin-up of Kara Zor-El, Clark Kent, and Kon-El all in their respective costumes. They're flying in front of a blue sky with white, fluffy clouds and birds behind them—the motion streaks of their flight being bright pink. Kara is to the left and has her arms outstretched at her chest as her golden hair flows behind her. Kon is on the right and has both his fists in front of him, over his head. They're both framed to be behind Clark, who's in the center of the page. He's cocking his hip to one side and is holding the end of his cape with one hand. The other hand is lifted to be at his waist and reaching out towards the viewer. His long, black hair also flows behind him as he gives a pout in a shampoo model-esque style. END ID]