#define-lying

[foundfamilywhump]

Since we’re sharing niche whump tropes we like - I love when someone the whumpee isn’t particularly close to ends up in a caretaker role. Especially when they end of being protective of the whumpee, despite being fully out of their depth in this situation. Think: the neighbor you’re friendly with but don’t really know, a family member’s best friend, or a friend’s parent, etc. Someone the whumpee doesn’t have a bad relationship with, but only really knows peripherally.

The caretaker is only temporarily in this role, until whumpee can be reunited with their Person, but I love the blurring of those relationships, the response to seeing someone who needs help and not hesitating to offer it. It’s also the sheer panic of being thrust into something they’re not prepared for, but knowing that someone else needs them to be calm and cool and provide that foundation until things are alright again. It’s about the vulnerability! It’s about love! It’s about the care we owe each other!

YES OH YES THIS IS GREAT!!!! i love this sort of thing for the potential of it. like. not a bad relationship but a tangential relationship. it's something i'm writing about in a fic right now actually, and gosh it's so fun.

it reminds me of a bit in grey's anatomy right where the main protagonist's romantic interest decides to take it upon himself to take care of her best friend while the best friend is in a like. really fragile state of ptsd following a serious trauma. and he tells her at one point like. i would not have picked you to be part of my life. but [protagonist] did. you're her family and that makes you my family too. it's a concept i'm obsessed with. love by association. the way you love a cousin you've never met, or the friend of your child who's treated them well but has been very far from you. it's so good.

and then in a whump context it's a doubly compelling dynamic because of the risk taking and vulnerability inherent in allowing someone to care for you when wounded and traumatized. the sheer panic from BOTH of them - can i do this, can i take care of this person and also can i do this, can i trust this person. is their goodwill towards the person we share in common enough to earn me this kind of grace. etc. the vulnerability! the love! the care we owe each other!!! it obsesses me thank you.

[altschmerzes]

🌹🌹 baby Jamie has been on my mind a bunch this week

MINE TOO he's always in there tbh

from chapter nine -

“So,” he says, remembering the scene he’d witnessed earlier, the girl leaning over and taking the phone from Jamie’s hand, introducing herself as Jamie’s girlfriend, “you and Ella… what’s her last name again?” “Bird, Ella Bird, and no, not us. Whatever you meant there, not us. We’re not… ugh, no.” Jamie looks completely weirded out by the idea, his nose wrinkled and his lip curled in a sneer. It seems far from the usual teen aversion to admitting they’re sweet on someone. He seems to find the whole idea genuinely ludicrous, and it doesn’t sound like it’s covering up any truth. “Oh, I just heard her at the park today, with your dad on the phone-” The sneer carves itself deeper and Jamie’s shoulders heave in a sigh. “That wasn’t- Ugh, why are you everywhere?”

[zannolin]

As the resident Siblings Guy, I need to know how you feel about Robbie & Miguel (also thanks for convincing me to finally get around to watching s5)

i think there is so much potential there but i wish it didn't have to be accomplished via jarmen baby. basically. it's like they're SUCH a wild dynamic can we just have a moment to breathe and examine them without the karate or girlfriend rivalry in the way and—oh, no. nope, there's another kid in the mix now. oh well.

[icarusbetide]

the real tragedy isn't that we don't know for sure what the old white men looked like, it's that we don't know what their voices were like. "strong" "pleasing" okay bitch i want to know exactly how obnoxious adams sounded and i want to hear him read his own letters out loud like an audiobook so where do we go from here

[nillustre]

facial features headcanons ~

[koetjingwarrd]

You're my baby, say it to me...

[lindalofbroome]

jaslief doodle for the soul

[nat20composure]

Need you guys to know rn that @nat1volition and I's personal hc for relationships in BG3 consists of:

-Saf (Dark Urge) x Astarion x Halsin

-Shadowheart x Lae'zel

-Wyll x Karlach

And Gale x Volo. I am being 1000% percent 1000 serious about it and I need you to understand it is because they are both each other's worst nightmares.

[junotter]

Lily Gladstone snub honestly insane. Not even a film about indigenous murder with a heavily white pandering bend and Martin Scorsese directing can win. How tf are indigenous creators ever going to reach that level? How will stories about indigenous joy gain widescale recognition. The Oscars say nothing about actually quality but they certainly represent the hegemony... America still is scared of its bloody past and present.

[musubiki]

recently thinking about the tcwg episode where mochis mob spell finally starts running out. apparently its maximum possible usage is 10 years (which they find out from pom) and appearently tiramisu put it on her too soon,,... when they ask her she says "Oh...you were such a cute kid I didn't want to wait too long!!" while pinching her cheeks, and suddenly theres a few more people at school who are like "Hey...I never really noticed but...Mochi is kinda pretty, huh?"

for the people who start to notice, they chalk it up to "Maybe she hit puberty late...?" or something, but regardless she has 1 or 2 more people actually ask her out, and lime starts to realize how much it bothers him

[renesassing]

happy pride to my dykes, my faggots, my trannies, my queers. my siblings-in-arms. my extended family. whether you're out or not or only partially. i love you all so goddamn much. i hope life will be kinder to us all.

[altschmerzes]

🌹 Can I request some moment of comfort? (First time sending an ask, but I’ve loved your writing for a long time now <3)

YES i love comfort i love writing comfort. one of my biggest Things as a writer is leaning into hurt/comfort and wanting to like. balance those things in Equal Measure And Intensity. if that makes sense.

(and thank you so much, i'm so delighted and honoured that you've enjoyed it <3 i hope you continue to!)

anyways!! so this is from the queerplatonic jamie and dani fic loneliness into loneliness, a little farther on from this clip that i posted earlier. jamie's had a Really Rough Day, he told dani about some really difficult stuff, and now they're going to sleep. to summarize the other clip, jamie had started to panic a little but he's settled more now, though still feeling pretty fragile. another slightly longer one (i have zero self control lmao) so most of it is under the cut!

The fact that he knows that Jamie feels that way - fragile and afraid and like he might shatter into pieces and disappear - and has seen him like that often enough that he knows what to do about it, how to talk to him and how to touch him to help, wrap Jamie in his protection when Jamie has none of his own to cling to, is wonderful and horrifying at the same time. Dani knows more about him than anyone ever has. Jamie has shown it to him. He let Dani see the mess inside him on purpose, see it and know its shape. It’s an ugly thing, he knows, and he feels suddenly and powerfully horrible for letting anyone see it, let alone Dani. “Sorry,” he says, muted and guilty. His inhale hitches faintly, and he says it again, “Sorry.”

“Please don’t be sorry.” The response is warm and sad and Dani’s hand soothes slowly down and back up Jamie’s chest a few times before coming to rest over his heart once more. “You haven’t done anything wrong.”

“Feels like I have.” The mumbled admission is barely audible but Dani seems to hear it anyway. Jamie feels him turn his head, resting his cheek against the stretch of skin at the top of Jamie’s spine, the very highest point of his back. “I know,” he says, and the warmth and sadness both are stronger even than before. “But you haven’t. I promise.” The sound of the voice so close to his ear and the way the words rumble from Dani’s ribcage into his own make Jamie shiver slightly. They’re so close to each other at this point that it’s like they’re nearly fused into one person - which is another thing that Jamie doesn’t understand. Why anyone would want that when there’s so much rot in him. When Dani knows that it’s there. “I love you,” Jamie says, nearly lost in the pillow. It’s all he can say at this point, the only thing that even comes close to summing up what he thinks and feels. What this all means. He purses his lips and tries to breathe out slowly. It’s supposed to help him calm down when he gets like this - breathing slow and calm, in and out, in and out. It’s tough when it feels like his lungs are the wrong size to fit in his chest and it’s difficult to get air all the way down where it needs to go. “I love you too,” is the response. It’s easy and simple, like Dani hadn’t even had to think about it. “Very much.” And it’s like some tense thing in Jamie snaps and he can breathe again.

[zannolin]

I’ll bite - got any past Shazam fics or fic ideas you feel like talking about??

god there's so many. there's still supposed to be another fic in the aftershocks series btw finally dealing with the whole "billy being kind of freaked out to transform" schtick i accidentally created. oh yeah. that was an accident. or like, it was intentional but the series was not and then i went oh no...i've created Plot Elements i must Deal With And Resolve. oops. haven't gotten around to that one yet.

there's the marilyn fic that i think about every day where essentially it's like, what if i wrote The most self indulgent scenario about marilyn deciding she wants to look into how billy's doing (maybe it's because she does care. maybe it's because she feels guilty. maybe it's because she saw footage from the invasion a couple months back and can't shake a Feeling she's got. who knows!) and it's essentially just a story about sometimes you grow apart from people and it's better that way. like the story does not need this. but maybe i want to be bonkers about growing apart okay like it's just my Thing that i do in every fandom at this point.

@blusandbirds and i have created the most unhinged convenience store au that exists entirely in our DMs and i'm just letting you know that it exists and i think about it a lot.

there's the werewolf au where it's like, the normal events of shazam (2019) but instead of superheroes billy gets chomped by a werewolf and it's a series of increasingly ridiculous hijinks while freddy tries to figure out how it all works and if there's any kind of cure. moth has heard about this one so much and the reason i haven't written it is i actually don't know what happens in the middle or really the end. head empty only this

also have a Mighty need to write a fic about them growing up and going to college.

um pre-existing fics. i have forgotten everything i've ever written i need to reread my own fics. happy to take questions about them tho.

[trainingdummyrabbit]

ok but nothing really reminds you youre neurodivergent like being alone w your parent(s)

[epicdogymoment]

gender and sexuality labels are so fucking hard how am i supposed to know how what i experience (already hard to pin down) compares to what "normal people" experience (completely unknown to me)

[tommyssupercoolblog]

to be honest? I've never even understood the rationale for fake-claiming in any context. There are millions of people, more dying and being born every day, and you really think we can invent enough genders, identities, disorders, words and categories to cover every possible type of human that's ever been born or will be born in the future???!! of course not, there's gonna be people who fall outside of the boxes we have because there can never be enough boxes. like there physically cannot be enough boxes.

"but they're weird and cringe that's how i know." buddy. buddy come here lean in close i have a secret for you, crazy girlie.

*whispers* everyone who isn't neurotypical, ablebodied, cishet, and fitting the beauty and societal standards for their culture, is considered weird by default. and EVEN people who ARE fitting of those standards can ALSO be weird in other ways. you can't tell me someone isn't lgbt or isn't plural or isn't autistic because they're "weird" when everyone is constantly being called weird anyway. being plural is weird to people. having NPD is weird to people. having skitzohphrenia is weird to people. Being a boy who likes girly stuff is weird to people. being a lesbian is weird to people. having no legs is weird, being fat is weird, there are always going to be people calling other people weird and cringe. you simply CANNOT use "weird" or "cringe" as a basis to judge validity. you just can't???

I literally do not get it like how does that work how do you like...think that you can tell if someone's faking something. what do we have left here, like, tone of voice and body language? autism is a thing and anxiety disorders are a thing so we already know that can vary and be untrustworthy. you literally can never tell as an outsider looking in??!