#he's not a good person

[girls-againstgod]

...why the fuck do i keep getting darkling apologists on my dash

[troblsomtwins829]

Various doodles and sketches for the Raylor Fic (ETA: undetermined)

[icanbeyourgenie]

“ But I had a nightmare... ” - a sad Lyra to Aeron

❝Still. You shouldn't be here, Lyra.❞

His little sister looked at him with her big sad eyes and he knew he would give up. He always did give up when she came in his bed in the middle of the night because she felt safer sleeping in his arms. But he still had to at least pretend to be stern about it. Lyra was way too soft to live in this realm. If someone found about her need of reassurance she would be punished and rejected. He did remember his own fear of spiders when he was little, and how his mother beat that fear out of him by locking him in room full of spiders for weeks. It did help him manage his fear, but he knew that Lyra would not handle this kind of exposure.

As a good fae, he shouldn't care. But Lyra seemed to escape his rules. So when her eyes started to water, he sighed and opened his arms. She jumped in and they laid down, looking at the celling. ❝Tomorrow I'm putting a double lock on my door.❞ He said for good measure. It was probably the 10th time he used this threat now.

❝What am I supposed to do when I have nightmares?❞

❝Go back to sleep.❞

❝That's easy for you to say. You can control dreams so you never have nightmares!❞ Lyra pouted and Aeron chuckled.

❝Other people's dream only. But anyway, what was your nightmare even about?❞

The little fae waited a bit before answering. ❝...About getting casted away.❞

Aeron stayed silent. It was a rather realistic nightmare, it could happen. It will probably happen. Aeron saw people way thougher than Lyra get cast away by his mother and uncle. He usually barely interracted with his potential siblings or cousins, not until they were a permanent member of the family. But Lyra was really persistent.

❝You have years before it happens.❞ He finally said.

❝Years won't change anything. I'm too weak.❞

❝Xanthe too. He's still there, isn't he?❞

❝Xanthe can create weapons that would decimate cities.❞

❝Maybe you could too.❞

❝I don't want to do that. I don't want to hurt people.❞

Aeron sighed. ❝Then yes. You'll be cast away.❞

He ignored his uneasy feeling. It was probably just something he ate. Gentle and soft faes were a myth, because in the real fairy world, they didn't last long. A weak royal household would be an abomination. Right?

❝Not if you're king...❞ Lyra spoke soflty, but Aeron groaned as he put a pillow on his head.

❝Not that again. We already talked about it, go to sleep before I knock you out.❞ But Lyra was already propped on her elbows, looking at him with a spark in her eyes.

❝You could, though!❞ She was maybe weak but she sure could bother someone to death. Perhaps she should bring that up to Morgana. ❝It doesn't have to be the elder. Syrus was the oldest and yet mother is the High Queen! Everybody knows she favors you, and you're the one who has fairy dust. You, not Rhys. Not any of us. You could be high king someday.❞

It was true enough that he was the favorite, and that in the matter of succession nothing was decided yet. Morgana let Rhysand believe he was the heir, but she was too manipulative to be trusted. As long as no crown prince was elected, nothing was set in stone.

❝And then what? Change the rules, make everyone happy and nice with each other?❞ Aeron almost laughed. This was a child's dream. A human child's, not a fae's. ❝This is not our customs, Lyra. It's nothing more than a fairytale.❞ He could see the irony in that.

❝Don't you want more, though? I know you're better than that. Deep down.❞

Aeron didn't think he was - he was thriving just well amist all the cruelty and chaos - but he knew where Lyra got this idea. So he looked at her, putting one hand in the back of her head to make sure she listened to him.

❝You forget two things. First of all, I have absolutely no intention of being king. This is the most boring job in the world.❞

❝You'd rather keep being a pirate?❞

❝Yes, actually. I'd barely be at court if it wasn't for Mother. Which brings me to the second point: this debate is pointless because Morgana Le Fey will never abdicate the throne. She has countless years in front of her, no one can touch her as long as she has the Spectre. She's just using the heir title as bait to manipulate us and Rhys, Aldris and Euphemia are too blind or stupid to realize they're being played and moved around her board as she sees fit. I don't want the throne, but even if I did, I'd never have it.❞

❝But-❞

❝No more buts. You go to sleep now. And tomorrow, you'll get back on the training field.❞

The girl wanted to protest, but Aeron discretly moved his hands to make the dust settle directly on her face. She was yawning already, and her body fell on the mattress. She asked, before falling asleep: ❝If I get cast away, could I come on your ship?❞

❝I don't think you'd like it very much there either.❞ He answered, but she was snoring already.

Aeron got up and carried her body accross the castle, all the way to her room. She wouldn't wake up, this time.

The next day, he installed the double lock. She'd resent him for it, probably wouldn't even talk to him for a bit, but eventually it was for her own good. Lyra had to learn how to toughen up. The thing was, Aeron was quite sure she didn't have it in her...

[thetardigrape]

the whole fight between the Izzy lovers and Izzy haters is so funny for me because like. i'm both. i'm not neutral, i have very strong feelings about Izzy. i adore him. i can't get enough of him. i've written reams of Izzy fic. he's one of my fave characters. and he's awful. he's objectively terrible and villainous. he is a shitty person and a shitty pirate and everything he tries he fails at. what a twat. i want him to get laid. i want him to get rejected by everyone he's ever known. i want him to be redeemed. i want him to be killed.

[cassynite]

👾, 🎵🎶🎵 👀

Thank you!!! Here’s one from Sparrow's brother Isore's playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6aIDKjD8xOEEd6xcNnINw2?si=EzFMzTvNSuqHh5VsUoYrog

Isore has a very distinct way of viewing the world and with it comes a rather manipulative and cold personality. He is whatever people need him to be so that his own goals can be furthered in the long run, and most of his relationships are with the personas that he's constructed. He can get very attached despite himself, and with that comes possessive obsession.

[jewishbarbies]

Gale’s character gets too much hate!! Given the state of the world, readers should try to give the books another try with a new lens. I’m sure they’d appreciate him

um...no.

if you don't read the book and come away realizing how fucked up his actions were, not even god can help you. bombing children? killing innocent people just because snow did? "it's just war, it's not personal" that is the exact OPPOSITE of what people would root for these days. it's so fucking regressive. they're called WAR CRIMES for a reason. google them. even within the context of the narrative, gale was never meant to be seen as a good guy, and it's revealed to katniss just how fucked up he is as time goes on. hence her response: "I of all people know it's ALWAYS personal." he doesn't get enough hate, and if you disagree you're gonna have to just go away.

[cass-ass]

I wish I could talk to my ex again to tell him all the shit I wish I had said to him 3 years ago but didn't have context for til later.

Cause after catching up with doctor who I have found his criticisms of 13's seasons to be complete bullshit and kinda misogynistic.

[its-actually-minicika]

I'm just a hole for Aemond Targaryen in your last work. That's it.

And you can all judge me if you want but I do not care I HAVE NEVER EVER BEEN HAPPIER

You watched Euphoria? Okay, that explains why you like that specific Aemond so much...

[unhingedselfships]

Working on something and realized. Not a single one of my F/O's wouldn't hate my father. And for good reason. He's garbage.

[lesbxdyke]

I could think of no better way to share the news than this!

So when I was 17, my cat went missing and I'd given up hope of ever seeing him again.

Until on Monday, 27th of May, 2024, my friend sent me a FB post asking 'isn't that your mother?' about the person named on the microchip.

Here he is! 16 years old, and found safe, twelve whole years after he went missing!

Yesterday (Tuesday the 28th of May, 2024) I went to the rescue that had him, and I reclaimed my boy, renaming him Artie! (He'd originally been called 'Cat' because my mother and I couldn't decide on a name)

He's home safe with me now, currently inhabiting my bathroom and purring up a storm every time someone goes in there!

I'll be doing slow introductions between him and my current cat to give them the best possible chance of living in harmony!

Here's some pictures of Artie once we let him out of the carrier:

[brickcollector]

He is so orange

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[look-like-my-sound]

Saw a dad and his daughter cashing out at my work today.

The way she looked at him was sso sweet.

It made me wonder what having a normal family would have been like.

I wish my dad had been truly present in my life. He was there, he paid the bills, worked on the family car.

But he could never be bothered to get to know our lives. Told myself he was just too at the time, but now I wonder if he even cared? We're we just not interesting enough to show up on his radar?

...

I miss the person I thought my dad was.

[backpackingspace]

okay so post epic odyssey where odysseus and Penelope have surfaced from their room finally and he and diomedes are catching up I'm imagining the conversation going something like this

Odysseus: so then I gave up being merciful and became the monster.

Diomedes:....you tried being merciful?

Odysseus: Yes?

Diomedes: you did? You tried being a good merciful person? You?

Odysseus: Yah okay fuck off it was polties dying wish. I had to try.

Diomedes:.....90% of the war crimes in the Trojan war were suggested, planned out, and carried out by you. We literally stoned to death the guy you had a personal grudge against. We framed him for treason and stoned him to death. 70% of why Athena liked you was because she thought she knew all the ways to kill someone and then you'd suggest something insane and I'd see her taking notes. You literally gave Ajex a psyoctic break just being yourself.

Odysseus: shut up

Diomedes: I'm not wrong. Did you tell Penelope about your attempt to be a good person?

Odysseus: What? Of course I did. I told her everything.

Diomedes: did she laugh?

Odysseus:...shut up that's not the point

Diomedes: she did didn't she!!!

Odysseus: ANYWAY eurylochus wasn't appreciative of my return to monsterhood and he started causing problems so I

Diomedes: killed him? Yah saw that coming. No shit. I'm so shocked.