#he fucking killed those two

[crystalelemental]

Sycamore: “Lys, you can’t just kill people like that, you promised!”

Lysandre: “Please, Augustine. They’re Team Rocket. Do they really count as people at that point?”

Sycamore: “…”

Sycamore: “Yes.”

Lysandre: “Ugh.”

Sycamore: “How many people have you killed without me knowing?”

Lysandre: “Again, it depends on what counts as-“

Sycamore: “All of them!”

[phoenixkaptain]

I love the relationship between Ra’s and Tim in the Red Robin run because it reads fundamentally as an unrequited crush. Between an old man who is so rich he will never spend all his wealth, a man who is considered to be charming in the same way a snake is, a man who is more powerful than the majority of other villains just on the strength of his legacy alone.

And.

A seventeen-year-old boy who has not slept in three days since the last time someone drugged him, has not showered in three weeks unless you count being thrown into a river, has not cleaned his room since he was three and his parents still payed attention to him.

And when I tell you which one has the crush on the other, that’s it, that’s the ultimate punchline, DC may never reach these peaks of comedy ever again.

[rouge-the-bat]

this is so fucking funny. akechi double texts me to meet up just because he REALLY wants to tell me how much he fucking despises my guts

[marragurl]

Not the first to say it, but damn can’t believe Galladay really went from toxic yaoi to doomed tragic yaoi.

Alright fellow Galladay trash, where’s the modern AU fix-it fics?

I need to see Gallagher single dad with Misha plus their dog/cat Sleepie falling for entertainment company CEO Sunday. Don’t ask me how they met, fuck it, throw in bodyguard AU Gallagher who works part-time at a bar, boom there that’s how they meet, idk I’m making this up on 3 hours of sleep.

You’ve heard of slow burns, now get ready for Galladay blaze it.

They’re speedrunning the relationship from hate -> annoyance -> mild disgruntlement -> weirdly vibing -> ok wow never knew I needed that in my life -> Sunday is way too ok with spoiling Misha -> ok so we got married -> alright we’re dismantling the government now -> Sunday went to jail for 5 minutes for attempting “peaceful” world domination, don’t worry we (Gallagher) forgave him -> Sunday’s stepping down as CEO to run a coffeeshop idk look someone get him some therapy -> Robin is president now while she still goes on tours -> Misha won an engineering competition while this was all going on

Bottom line: Robin is out living her best life while Sunday is in the back somehow having the most insane week of his life. I have no other notes for her here except that she is happy, and successful, and is Sunday’s last remaining brain cell. She and Misha are having some fun Aunt/Nephew bonding times while Galladay are accidentally-on-purpose committing multiple war crimes.

No, we don’t have time to unpack 2.2 and all its trauma, we cope with modern AU :)

[sharksandjays]

mmmmm its something about how jason and tim are the two most tragic robins for me...

[kacievvbbbb]

I feel like I need to know more about Todo and Yuki’s relationship as mentor and mentee. Like they seem the same flavor of person which is very different from what gojo and megumi have going on.

But also Yuki is very adoptive “dad” coded in the way geto’s relationship to the twins is very adoptive “mom” coded.

In that Geto seems to take on primarily a caretaker role than a mentor while Yuki is more a trainer and life coach than she is a caretaker. Which is something you don’t really see given to female characters in anime.

Like Todo lives by her words and fights by her example. Everything he knows about jujutsu she taught him and Todo’s a very skilled and violent fighter and that reflects back perfectly on Yuki’s own fighting style. It’s so very anime mentor it’s insane she is just introduced to us as Todo (this absolute menace’s) teacher before anything else. I’ve never actually seen a female anime character be introduced this way.

in contrast to Geto who serves as the caring parent who was tragically taken from the girls violently and too soon and the girls wish to honor him and live how he would have wanted them too despite the ungodly situation they find themselves in. Which is such a stereotypical anime mom trope it’s almost funny. He even fits in with the still very much in love with and still speaks highly of the father that abandoned the family in hopes that the kid will one day understand and forgive them. He is essentially the mom from Full Metal Alchemist.

Gege that fucking deranged cat actually flipped the script on us and it’s so interesting which is why it’s so frustrating how little we actually end up getting off yuki when all her little scenes point to such an interestnn in character.

She is introduced as one half of a crazy dynamic that we never actually get to see put to screen and that’s such a shame. Because Yuki is such a welcome addition to the tropes of female characters we need more female “dads”

[sexynetra]

Yeah you could say it was a good weekend 🥰

[tswwwit]

You're amazing and I love this world you've create. And I love overanalyzing your Bills through the details you've left in your stories. (I've anonymously sent the few theories that I was like 95% confident in and it brings me joy receiving author approval 🤗) This one I haven't figured out so I thought I'd just ask. How similar are other Bill and pre Dipper Bill? And at what point did they diverge?

That's a very interesting question!

Hmmm. At this point they're quite different Bills, but exactly when that started is a good question.

But it definitely goes back further than just Meeting Dipper.

For one, the whole 'world conquering' attempt on Our Bill's part failed miserably about, what, 40ish years ago? After which he had all those decades to sulk and stew in said faceplant of a plan. Meanwhile, Other Bill likely already had his conniving fingers in his own chosen terrestrial pie at that point. He wouldn't get ALL the way there for a while, but hey - he did get what he wanted!

So there's a period of time there where they were already starting to go different ways. What with Other Bill being successful in his plan, while Our Bill got Totally Exiled until an adorable accidental summon opened up a path - those different end states are the result of a million little different decisions they made. Whether they went to this party or that one, the ideas that they pursued on whims, the specifics they wanted for Earth, etc.

I'd guesstimate they started diverging anywhere from a hundred years back to a couple hundred. That's a minimum, though - it could be longer! Whatever it is, it's a quite a grip of time for humans - but not all that much for a Bill.

[lwiann]

Still so baffling to me how you cant completely ally with gortash as durge with all that history. For a game that lets you do some truly heinous things.

[y-rhywbeth2]

Continuing on that whole thing with Durge being able to say "knives" when Astarion asks how they'd like to die, and then him getting to watch as Bhaal kills Durge with knives, as per the dev/cinematic notes...

If you accept Bhaal and defend your decision, depending on what you say, Astarion will give his opinion that you didn't have a choice. Because as far as he's concerned death was not actually an option.

Except Durge can in fact pick that option that never for a split second did Astarion think they should or would seriously consider. And then die before his eyes in a horrible parody of a conversation he had back when such thoughts were still funny.

There's a few factors that we can attribute to him being a bit standoffish and dismissive immediately after Durge's resurrection; bitterness is one of them, because there's still that little voice in his head that points out that nobody saved him when he was murdered and subjected to two centuries of living hell, so why should anybody else get heroics? Meanwhile you die and Withers "waves his hand and makes it all better." Knowing that Withers is a god would probably just rub salt into the wound, because hey, apparently his prayers weren't good enough??

But also Durge picked death. They actually fucking chose to die. Relief that Durge isn't dead is probably at war with Astarion having their brutal murder imprinted on his brain and being Decidedly Unhappy about this particular decision. I wouldn't be surprised if there was an argument over it in the future.

I have this mental image of most of the party being happy about Durge's freedom back at camp/the inn while Durge sits shellshocked in the corner (even if they're happy, they just died, brutally; and you can play them as being unhappy about coming back) while Astarion is in a bad mood, taking the opportunities to touch them and sense their life energy and for once feel grateful for the hunger because at least it's a reminder that this idiot is alive.

[slymanner]

Shout-out to mr.cupcake out of all character's being the most terrifying and also VERY MAJOR CHARACTER OF THE MOVIE AT THE END DOING SOME MAJOR DAMAGE TO A CERTAIN SOMEBODY THIS LIL SHIT DID SO MUCH.?$?$?$?$?$?$?

[return-of-the-queen-au]

TW: Mentions of blood

as a man in armor fell down, limp and lifeless.

Blood slowly poured from his mouth, as the wound on his chest was draining his life from him through pain and suffering.

two shadowy claws were there, dirty of the red that gave life to men, letting some of the liquid drip. And drip.

two yellowy eyes stared, empty and unblinkingly.

the dead man was a knight, sent from a Kingdom not too far away from subcon, an ally, or was it his kingdom? Where his home was?

Oh, to be able to remember.

oh, to be able to care about it.

a grin appeared, slowly creeping and turning into a full smile.

a chuckle, maybe two. A giggle, and another.

shaky hands touching the ghost's face, completely smearing blood on each cheek.

a wheeze, a snort. Until a full laugh came out.

A loud, long laugh.

a laugh to mock the knight, a laugh to enjoy the pleasure in seeing so much blood, so much death in front of the ghost.

A laugh that could only belong to a crazy man.

a laugh that he always had, but hid. Because he didn't know how to show it.

He didn't had the right thing to show it. To let it out.

He never had the experience of killing someone, directly and so brutally it looked like an animal attack.

He never knew it would be so fun, so pleasurable. He never knew he liked it so much.

He never knew how much he enjoyed hurting others.

This was never for self defense, this was never a warning for other knights, this was never an accident.

This was his rebirth. this was who he always used to be, who he was supposed to be.

his mind slipping, his mind fully embracing the insanity that is inside of him and the cold, dead forest around him.

"Ahh....you fools." to no one in particular.

[bloomingbluebell]

y'know i kinda DO wonder if we're going to be able to bring those trapped in the house back to the crossroads eventually. it would be EXTREMELY neat if we could but at the same time there's hm. a not insignificant amount of bad blood between some of the people trapped in the house and some of the people in the crossroads lmao

[thosewildcharms]

smallville recap seasons 1-7. half of all characters who have ever appeared on the show are obsessed with clark. the other half are obsessed with lana. lex in particular is so obsessed with clark he becomes obsessed with lana by proxy causing all three of them to go completely batshit crazy insane about it. clark and lana are mutually obsessed with each other and make it everybody else's problem for 7 years. and it slaps!

[kqluckity]

how some people can look at Zhongli and Venti's dialogue during this Lantern Rite and interpret it as beefing instead of, you know, flirting truly blows my mind? like it's not just what they're saying, but also the way they're saying it. it's flirting, they're flirting. and even if they aren't flirting, that's obviously an inside joke? look at Venti's face when Zhongli acts like they're strangers, does it look like someone who can't stand the other and isn't willing to play along with the other's dumb idea? please. I don't understand how people can still think they hate each other even tho it's established that they're friends, not only through items lore and their own character stories (I really doubt someone like Zhongli would let a guy he hates forge his sigil, let him destroy his precious vase, let him pour wine on his head, and then yearn for him for 500 years bffr), but also in the first Liyue Archon quest Zhongli talks about "a friend from Mondstadt" who used to bring him wine all the time, and Venti has a "refined gentleman friend from Liyue" he wishes he could spend more time with. a friend he still visits often, so much so that madame Ping commissioned Tubby to make a Mondstadt-inspired house for the teapot with good acoustics so he could play inside with no problem.

[unloneliest]

mpreg abortion fic should be the next big trend. i'm dead serious i think it would heal something in the world