#come talk to me about william

[toxifoxx]

truly at the end of the day its all about receiving validation

[true-bluesargent]

layton and nikita's vampire theme on strictly last night SLAYED so hard. i already had a crush on nikita but him as a vampire... delightful i really hope they win the whole thing

[impishtubist]

Wait, I wanna play this "what 3 things do you associate with me" game that everyone else is playing 🥺

[unproduciblesmackdown]

oh yeah the way mass effect made me think of portal which is surely what youtube was doing too in sliding me a portal related video which made me think of like ah yes that little harmonizing thing want you gone credits song does, another banger. then i was like wait speaking of secret losersongs filmed rehearsal videos just the other day was reexperiencing like code monkey's really a banger as well, the way that part of the chorus could have one line end on One Pitch then the next line end a half step up but Doesn't & that pwns actually. then going hang on and they're both jonathan coulton. they're All jonathan coulton (adding in: wow just like will putting still alive on his off the shits jared kleinman a.m. pump up playlist)

[lil-grem-draws]

My beautiful MCs! They are both ancient magic users, Will being at Hogwarts from the begining, Elland comming as a 5th year student. Will was Elland's companion in Hogsmeade when the troll attack happened and that's also when (following Elland's use of ancient magic) they discovered that Will also wields it. From that point on they went through the trials together. Elland was the one mostly fighting, confronting Dark Wizards and protecting Will while Will was the sneaky puzzle guy and talk-to-people guy, he's a spoiled pureblood that can't even run for longer than a minute, let alone fight haha (he's great at flying though, worthy material for a seeker!). Feel free to send them owls if you want to know more haha

Will is very open to other people but can be manipulative under certain circumstances, and even calm kind of threatening if somebody is being nasty to him or Elland (his protection mechanisms really differer from Elland's). He wasn't sorted in Slytherin because of his family, he's just a cute little cunning and ambitious cookie, nobody in his family has even been sorted into Slytherin before. Pride is probably the only thing that wouldn't fit him from the list of typical Slytherin traits. Elland is a true Hufflepuff: loyal, fair, hard-working (not in regard to homework though), patient, modest. You wouldn't call him awkward (unless crushes, but even then he'd power through it like a champ, there's plenty of Gryffindor in his as well) or soft (he is perfectly fine with making difficult decisions).

Elland would never use dark magic. Will knows the forbidden spells, but wouldn't use them either, he's too resorceful, there are always other ways. But if it's not about the unforgivables he might consider it, just as long as it's legal or in a moral gray area. Will can get very emotional and doesn't handle life threatening situations well, while Elland can deal with that but not with his school work stress or his crushes. Will is an outstanding student, always taking too many classes at the same time just to keep his options open, Elland has regular grades.

Spoilers for the game ahead: both were present in the finale, Professor Fig dying hit Will so hard he couldn't even hold his wand really, just collapsed next to him weeping while Elland was trying to contain the power all by himself. Will is a sensitive cookie and he's not ashamed of it. Elland is the one bottling things up because he needs to make sure others are taken care of first. Boys dissagree on what to do with the power in the final repository: shaken by Fig's death Will wants nothing to do with it, it should be locked up, he trusts the Keepers, Isadora did not know the kind of harm she was causing, her approach to the issue was not thought through but rather lead by her emotions. Elland agrees with Will about Isadora but believes they should study this power to see if they can use it to their benefit someday. In a safe environment, of course. You'd probably expect this to be in reverse, but who knows, maybe with time Will will side with Elland, especially as they both discover new ways to use ancient magic.

Their wands:

[bravevolunteer]

VERSE — MOVIE ( CONTAINS SPOILERS & CANON DIVERGENT, tw for canon-typical themes & suicide mention )

just to get straight to the point : it's mainly canon divergent in the sense that i will be altering details in order to make mike an afton. do i think this is going to happen in the movie timeline? no. do i think it's more likely that they're going to explain the oddly personal kidnapping through mirroring the emilys? probably. but it's MY michael afton blog and i can put on my tinfoil hat as much as i want about it. of course i am willing to adapt based on other's info / preferences but given that this isn't my main canon anyway it is meant for those that are interested.

Mike thought he knew everything there was to know about what happened to his family: what he was never told is who his real father was. He was too young to remember anything about William Afton before his mom separated herself from him entirely ( one night stand, breakup, what have you, i'm not picky- ), so he always thought of the father he grew up with as his dad, the reality never changed anything about that.

Until he was twelve years old and Garrett went missing, and everything fell apart. William followed the Schmidts there, taking Garrett in a targeted attack ( whether or not he was trying to grab Mike, took him out of spite, anything else is also flexible ). Everything grew solemn and tense, each of the Schmidts lost in their own individual grief. Slowly, they stopped having dinners together, stopped going out as a family, stopped being able to feel like things were normal. The grief and guilt only added to Mike's developing anger issues and depression. Although it wasn't on purpose nor with any malicious intent, his dad was the more distant of his parents at the time, serving as the first hint towards his biological parentage and simply because as much as he cared for mike, he was grappling with losing his biological kid ( think tse henry- well meaning but drowning in grief enough for the child to pick up on it ).

This is where Abby comes in, where the Schmidts have another kid in an attempt to feel like a normal family again. It almost seems to work, although there is still that underlying sense of collective grief. Mike was older by then, too ( while he graduates high school, he either doesn't go to college at all or doesn't finish it ).

Their mom dies and the brief sense of possible stability disappears again. It's when Mike is staying at home again for the funeral/to help with Abby that their father commits suicide, unable to take the grief. Mike has had custody of Abby since then.

The events proceed as they did in the movie, William's recognition of Mike in the office not only stemming from the kidnapping but the fact that it's his kid, although Mike doesn't find anything out beyond the fact that it's the man who took Garrett. There is potential for more hints towards this in past interactions with his aunt or birth records or even his dynamic with Vanessa, but for the most part this specific realization is left open.

Following the movie's events, he... does come home to his aunt in the living room. After reporting her death, Mike actually goes back to Freddy's one more time to get security footage in order to prove his innocence. Afterwards, he does his best to hold down another job to keep taking care of Abby in peace, but something about Freddy's gives him the sense that he'll come back to make sure nothing like this happens again.

[revvnant]

stewing over how mike wants william to hug him so bad but never asks because why would you, as a man, hug another man ( yes even your family ) and also because he keeps a tally of every time william said no and holds it against him and has made it such a huge thing in his own mind that if william did hug him he'd flinch and what i'm really getting at here is that michael can get to a point where he's so entrenched in a build up of small slights between big fights that he shoots himself in the foot and denies himself comfort, creating a cycle where he constantly craves william's affection but also refuses it every time it is offered, which makes william upset, which makes him offer it less, which convinces mike that his father doesn't love him, which makes him withdraw and refuse affection, which

[camellcat]

alright. god. I finally got to The Angels Take Manhattan.

okay, here's the thing: I was going in expecting to cry, right? but not really, cause not once in this entire show have I cried outside of something being related to rose tyler. but also, extremely attached to amy. I mean, seriously. she's my second favorite companion by a landslide.

so when I barely even teared up at rory and amy bloody falling together I didn't think it was gonna happen! I thought, oh, y'know, if this doesn't get me surely nothin' will. well. WELL.

suddenly rory is taken and amy is ready to go after him because it's amy and rory together as it should be and eleven is begging for her not to and then he says my favorite catchphrase of "come along, pond" but then he adds in that "please!" which utterly fucking ruins me (I mean, I'm already crying, yeah? this had me... oh man. sobbing might not even cut it. that shit fucked. me. up!) and then she says "raggedy man, goodbye!" and I've been got. I mean, I'm crying so hard I'm lightheaded. my sheets are soaked, my face is disgusting, my glasses need to be cleaned. I'm a right fucking mess.

this doesn't have a point I'm just so distraught right now. like. I just. I didn't. ohhh. I didn't really think I had it in me to care that much anymore! not about this! it's Doomsday all over again! GOD. I think I'll be a bit sad but ultimately fine and then I'm NOT. fuck! fuck me, man. amelia pond. I love you

[zairas-realm-gateway]

Shipping Analysis: Ashbert

I’m an avid shipper. I love to ship. I especially love to make crossover ships. But, most importantly, I love ships that make sense. Especially if its a crossover ship. It doesn’t have to be a canon crossover, I just need the two characters to make sense. I then like to explore the possible connection between the two (or more) characters.

One of my favorite crossover ships (and current obsession) is Ashbert. The ship consisting of Ash Williams (Evil Dead series) and Herbert West (Reanimator series).

They’re a bit of a rarer horror ship. Not as much content for them as they deserve. 

Now, I want to take a bit of a look into why I believe they have the qualities of a good ship. There are a few key pieces that I feel guides them together into an understandable, oddly loving ship (despite Herbert’s low empathy).

1. Resiliency 

The first thing that really brought the two together for me was just how resilient the both of them are, in both body and spirit. To understand why this is important, one needs to know a little more about bout of them. So, we’re going to start with Ash.

Ash has suffered many horrors at the hands of the deadites (demons from his series). Counting both the TV show and the original trilogy of movies, Ash has lost several lovers, his sister, his father, several friends, his job, and his home. The deadites have tortured and tormented him ceaselessly. Violated his sense of self multiple times. Pushed him past the edge of mental break several times. They have forced him to kill his possessed loved-ones countless times. Everyone he gets close to or cares about dies.

This is where Herbert comes in as the perfect ship partner. 

Over the course of the first 2 Reanimator movies, Herbert has “died” twice already. The movies set up very definitively at the end that Herbert is in a situation where the audience believes Herbert has died. Only to have him come back grumpy as ever in the next movie. Herbert is the very definition of cheating death. He can and will weasel his way out of just about any dire situation. He openly mocks death every day and gets away with it. It is his inability to stay dead that makes him perfect for Ash. 

Also, there’s the fact that honestly not much phases Herbert. No matter how creepy, fucked up, or weird a situation is, Herbert just isn’t shocked. Even when attacked by Dr. Hill’s flying head, he was mostly just annoyed. So seeing people randomly be possessed and mutilated by demons is not going to disrupt or hinder Herbert’s life in any way.

Moving to Herbert’s side of things, Ash’s resiliency brings the same benefits to Herbert. The scientist is eccentric and a loner. He doesn’t get along well with most people and his work is highly dangerous. He also has attachment and abandonment issues. He has all of one friend, Dan, who constantly threatens to leave him and is unhappy with the conflicts that come with Herbert’s work. Dan constantly worries that the work will get them in trouble and they’ll lose their medical licenses. Plus, working with extremely powerful reanimated corpses is dangerous.

But the thing is, none of these things are a concern when it comes to Ash. Life for Ash will never be “normal” again. So, the threat of something as easy to kill as reanimated corpses isn’t going to be a problem for Ash since he’s used to killing demons. While seeing the dead being brought back to life is creepy, it’s not going to be enough to chase Ash away. He isn’t going to get scared and want to abandon ship. He’ll just deal with the problem (probably zombies) and go on with his life. This would keep Herbert from getting anxious that Ash would walk away like Dan always wanted to do.

Both men would bring various forms of comfort to the other in the way of being unbothered by the other’s reality.

2. Domesticity

Now, I feel for a lot of people, the word “domestic” is not what they think of when they think of Ash or Herbert. And they’d be right. and that right there is the problem.

Both Ash and Herbert want quiet lives. They don’t want to be bothered. For different reasons but those reasons complement each other.

Ash wants a quiet, stable life because his was stolen from him by the deadites. He wants to just be able to go to work at S-Mart/Value Stop and then just come home to relax. No deadites, no nonsense.

Herbert wants to be able to do his shift at the hospital and then come home to his nice quiet lab to work. He doesn’t want to be bothered by unnecessary interactions with people he doesn’t care about.

Herbert makes the kind of money to have a nice (if creepy) house to live in. This stationary life style is something that Ash’s mental health would benefit greatly from. Ash works short shifts and is oddly organized in his own chaotic way. He’s also fairly good at entertaining himself. This would allow him to keep up their home in a way that allows for Herbert to work without interruptions.

Also, Herbert doesn’t mind people he likes in his lab so long as they are quiet or curious about his experimentations. Ash is an extremely curious person with a fair understanding of chemistry. If Ash wants attention, he can freely get it from Herbert while also allowing the scientist to gush about whatever he’s working on.

3. Freedom

Ash and Herbert are both free spirits in their own, slightly fucked up ways. This means that they aren’t going to get in the way of the other.

Ash is a charismatic person who loves parties and people. He needs the freedom to go out drinking when he gets the urge or when he needs to cope (unhealthily) with his severe trauma. Herbert is not a partier or a people person. But that does not mean that he would try to stop Ash from going to parties and talking to people. Herbert will happily stay at home and let Ash do as he wishes. In turn, Ash would never urge Herbert into doing something he’s not comfortable with. If Herbert wants to spend his nights in the lab and experiment, Ash is going to respect that and give him space.

When both have had their fill of their individual versions of fun, the two will come together again in their home and be together. They will tell the other what events were missed but not condemn the other for not being present.

4. Support

Both men have gone through a lot. They can spot trauma when they see it. And while neither one of them could truly understand the details of what the other has gone through, does not mean that they would dismiss the trauma. 

While perhaps the happenings of either other would be considered odd or ridiculous, they would still be respected. Herbert has suffered loss of those he holds dear (rare as those people are) and could see how their loss has injured Ash. While the concept of magic seems ridiculous to him, he does believe that Ash has suffered greatly and respects that. Ash would never be able to understand why Herbert keeps making fucked up zombies but respects the desire to reverse death.

The two would do their best to support the other in their endeavors even if they did not truly understand them.

5. Protection and care

Both men need protection. That protection takes place in different forms.

Though Herbert is crafty and has a fair amount of strength, he’s still much smaller than most of the people in his life. This includes his many test subjects. While Herbert has good strength from lugging body parts and digging graves, he’s not very skilled in getting out of physically dangerous situations. He’s often hit, pushed around, or just straight up attacked.

Having someone who is larger, stronger, and trained in combat would be greatly beneficial to his wellbeing.

Ash needs a more mental and medical type of protection. He’s strong physically and even mentally, but he suffers a lot. In combat he takes a lot of damage from being stabbed, beaten, or literally tossed around. Herbert grants medical help. Also since Herbert is a registered doctor, he can get Ash into the hospital without too many questions being asked about Ash’s physical condition.

Also, the stability of having a home and a sturdy partner would keep Ash’s mental health from tanking into depression. A sense of relative normalcy, comfort, and companionship provides mental care to Ash. Which he needs dearly.

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While I feel that far more could be explored and expressed about these two, I feel these are the baselines for why Ashbert is a good ship. If you didn’t ship it before, I hope this post has at least opened you up to the idea of the ship.

You can honestly go even further with this as well. The conversation can evolve into how both characters are heavily trans-coded and how that would effect their relationship. The fact that they have different shades of gray in their morality can also be explored because they both have very different views on what constitutes right and wrong. Their mutual dislike of cops can also be discussed. There’s a lot of aspects to Ashbert and they deserve to be explored.

I hope you all enjoyed this analysis.

[innytoes]

Can I get 2 and/or 24 of the winter prompst for Willex please? They're all incredible!!

@michelangelinden

When they got their own house, one of the things they'd both been looking forward to had been Hosting Parties. Real, proper, adult parties. Because they were the adults now, even though sometimes it didn't feel like it.

Alex had known exactly what he didn't want. Formal dinners with proper posture, stilted conversations, itchy shirts and ties, trying to impress and one-up neighbours and people from church you didn't even really like.

Willie, on the other hand, had largely grown up with his Uncle Caleb, who threw the most over the top themed rich people ragers the world had ever seen. Though even with both their careers taking off, they didn't exactly have the money to hire dancing waiters and a champagne tower and an actual sloth for entertainment. But it served as way better inspiration than the parties Alex' parents had thrown.

Between Caleb's extravagant 'how the hell did you make it snow in LA' Christmas Eve party and You've All Been Adopted By The Molinas Deal With It Christmas, they'd decided to host New Year's at their house.

Willie had gone all out with the decor, a mix of pink sparkles and holographic. They'd made a cute photo wall with a little help of Ray on the technical aspects. The living room had been re-jigged to allow for an amazing dance floor, and Flynn had let them borrow some of her sound system and had even contributed a playlist or two.

The food was all from their favourite pizza, burger, and donut joints, as well as some custom cookies from that one shop Carrie had told them about. They didn't have a champagne tower, but the pyramid of Weird Sodas looked equally impressive in Alex' eyes.

There's been a fire pit with s'mores in the back yard, sparklers for everyone who could be trusted with one (Looking at you, Reginald!) and at midnight, an amazing fireworks display.

The party hadn't stopped there, of course, and it wasn't until three in the morning that most of their friends had left or crashed in the guest room. Alex, too filled with nervous energy after their first successful hosting gig, had started collecting plates and dinnerware and piling it in the kitchen, going around with a garbage bag for all the leftover soda cans and food. Willie was outside makings sure the fire was doused and there were no stray fireworks on the property.

He'd just filled the sink with soap and hot water when two arms wrapped around his waist, a cold nose pressed against his neck. "Are you seriously going to wash all these dishes right now?" Willie asked.

"They need to be done," Alex said. It wasn't like he was looking forward to it or anything. In fact he was kind of dreading it. But that was what his mother had always done and...

Oh. Yeah, fuck the dishes.

Willie gently placed all of the plates into the water, before grinning. "Let's just let them soak for a while," he said. He propped his phone up, and it started playing something nice and slow. Before Alex knew it, he was in Willie's arms, swaying with him. This was much better than frantic clean up because the house needed to look perfect again as soon as possible.

"I love you," he said, resting his forehead against Willie's. "We rocked this party."

Willie let out a breathy chuckle. "Heck yeah we did," he said, before leaning in and kissing him.

The dishes could wait. He had much more important things to do right now.

[sandsstorms]

teen-a-day challenge | part 4 ✌️🤘

@dizzywhims prompts

all my teen-a-day challenge

my teens

[spring-lxcked]

evil evil man but he can't date sb who doesn't enjoy physical affection from him because he's so damn needy. he sees his partner sitting down and he either has to be in their lap or as close to them as possible. even if he falls asleep next to his partner not cuddling, they'll still wake up with him half on top of them. kisses as greetings and goodbyes and because he's bored and yes there's a 43.25% chance he'll try to turn it into a makeout even if they're busy with something. partner is like "you're distracting me" and he's literally rubbing his face against theirs like "no i'm not." and he'll start this shit in the pre-dating """Platonic""" phase too if the person will let him and he likes them enough.

[bravevolunteer]

michael brainrot but i am just too eepy to articulate any of it properly

[sapphosboy]

Ellie Williams is so full of rage and fear and childlike excitement. Like the perfect representation of all of that anger and curiosity you have as a little girl, and not knowing what the fuck to do with it. She’s just a young girl in a fucking terrifying world, which is something that is so relatable. She perfectly represents feral girlhood. 

[skoulsons]

Game spoilers but for scenes we’ll most likely get tomorrow

Joel saw the life ahead of them that they could have. Jackson. How the community had electricity. How his brother and sister-in-law run it. How he can be close to Tommy again. How he can live like the old world. Within a community, his brother, and his daughter, just like Before. He saw it all laid out right in front of him down the hill. Right after he pledged that “we are going our separate ways.” After he planned on probably going back to Boston (or maybe staying in Jackson idk) after leaving Ellie with Tommy. After he tried convincing himself “you’re not my daughter. And I sure as hell ain’t your dad.”

But he saw what could be. How Tommy told him “there’s a place for you here, y’now.” How, no matter what happened with the fireflies, they had a place to fall back to. A home. A place to live together and be the family they never thought they’d be. For Ellie to have a life, a family, she never had. A father, an uncle, and an aunt. A support system around her and a taste of the old world. A good life. And Joel saw that from that hill. He saw their future

[rickybutlersays]

currently thinking about how Spock was always the equivalent of a black cat in every sense.

and when Leonard was dying, he stopped reaching out to William which worried him a lot.

"cats often withdraw and prefer solitude when they are gravely ill. hiding is a way to protect themselves."