#helluva mood

[sadhornydemons]

[crimson-phantom-designs]

I heard folks wanted to see Stolas in the depression robe.

He looks so done with everything.

[plumomi]

*sigh* yeah

update: the spawn

[demisexual-in-distress]

I B E G YOUR FINEST FUCKING PARDON????

THATS A TELENOVELA

U UNCULTURED SWINE

[sabrebash]

my grandma had a cattle ranch

[callmekatydid]

There are two kinds of people (and I am both of those people)

[angelshizuka]

Caring father who can be forgetful, because he's going through an extremely stressful divorce right now my beloved!

Teenage daughter who's rightfully upset for feeling forgotten and impulsively acts on reckless ideas my beloved!

Father and daughter duo who aren't perfect, but are always trying and love each other more than anyting my beloved!

[tealvenetianmask]

I had a think, and this is an ouchy and complicated one, but I have to share it.

We see Stolas's disrespect for Blitz (based on social class/race) in their first night together in The Circus . . . and he's not fully conscious of it, but it's not quite oblivious either. The TLDR is that I think he likes the power gap at the beginning, or at least, he finds it comforting.

Look at this adorable happy guy.

I saw some discussion recently of how trusting he is of Blitz very quickly in this scene, and how that might stem from Blitz asking him what he wants, which Stella never did . . . and, yeah, I think that contributes to him being so excited here, along with just being very into Blitz and the whole scenario (these ideas are really well explained by multiple people here).

He's willing to be tied up by a near stranger, and that might seem like a giant leap of trust, but also, in a sense it's really not. The difference in power makes that trust a smaller leap. Stolas KNOWS that he's much more powerful than Blitz and can stop this at ANY TIME. And I don't mean he'd have to obliterate the guy (though he could). He could literally portal Blitz outside and evaporate the restraints. At any time.

And he doesn't immediately decide to go for it when Blitz asks what he wants. He's all in when Blitz starts taking charge and acting without his permission. You know, while trying to incapacitate and rob him.

Okay, you might say, but Stolas isn't thinking about the power difference, and trusting someone to call the shots in an intimate situation STILL requires a lot of trust.

Here's the thing- I still think that the sense of safety stems at least in part from Blitz being an imp. Throughout a lot of Season 1, Stolas is still referring to Blitz by variants of "impish little plaything," frequently, and I can't help but think that's part of the appeal.

Stella is very likely less physically/magically powerful than Stolas (indicated by her lower status), but she holds SOCIAL power over him.

Blitz holds no concrete power at all in this relationship. I don't think we can fully separate the safety Stolas feels with Blitz that first night from this fact, and . . . well, it's better to address social class late than never I guess . . . But early on, there is literally nothing Blitz can do to Stolas. On the surface.

But wait . . . there's that "first ever friend" thing . . .

And I think that's what it comes down to. Being intimate with Blitz is safe, because he's just an imp. But being intimate with Blitz is MEANINGFUL from the very beginning because Stolas feels an emotional connection.

Safe and meaningful come together and lead him to romanticize the fuck out of this. And that's what causes him to fall ass backwards into deep romantic love and put himself at risk for being hurt in a brand new way.

[fuzzandfeathers]

I got seized by the desire to try and make human smolitz but I have very little experience drawing children so I just did whatever felt right and I kinda like how it turned out!

[inkwyvern]

Mood of the day:

Aka the "I've been working all day and people won't leave me alone" face

[ruumiinlaulaja]

Happy christmas / sinsmas / whatever you celebrate 🎄

[that1notetaker]

These two should and will meet in my dreams.

[sciencelizard]

Ozzie and Fizz being so NOT in love

S02EP06, OOPS

[akirathedramaqueen]

No rest for the wicked

What often keeps my mind occupied and worried for the last couple of... weeks, or even months, maybe, is what might happen to Stolas's relationship with Octavia in the near future.

We know something bad is brewing. The trailer gave us enough information to freak out but learn nothing from it. I think though that I have found yet another foreshadowing, and I am sad I did. I was not sure if I should post it since predictions and speculations are not quite my style, but fuck it, I’ll roll with it. I want you to suffer with me <3 Besides, after yesterday's @tealvenetianmask's wonderful post about Stella and how society enables her behavior, and my rambly reblog, which delves more into Stolas's relationships with Octavia and how they are affected, I decided I need to let it out of my system.

So, you see... while I believe this screenshot is our last hope for us, the Stolitz nation—that these two dumbasses will have ANOTHER chance to talk properly...

It implies that something arguably worse than their breakup is going to happen. Something on the 'whole palace is in ice and Stolas is in immediate mortal danger' level of 'worse.' Something bad enough to make them forget all the shit they’ve gone through with their disastrous miscommunication and unite to face a common threat.

Andrealphus.

Something that would make Stolas to leave quickly and forcibly. Run for his life. Disappear, sweeping off his trail, without Octavia knowing...

And let her think he ran off with Blitzø.

Are you gonna run off with him and leave me behind? Go away, where I can't find you?

Make her run around the palace looking for him and not being able to find him. Because he isn’t there.

Daddy! Daddy... I had a dream! A really bad dream! I was looking all over the palace, and I couldn't find you anywhere! You weren't there!

And the worst part is that it would make her assume the worst: that he left her behind just for a weird red dickhead.

Why?

Because Stolas's relationship with Blitzø has caused a rift between the prince and his daughter.

Because he, unfortunately, has never told her what kind of mother Stella is, or what she has done to him. She is left to believe everything was okay until that imp came around, seduced her father, ruined her family, and wrecked her home.

Because Stolas grew distant and forgot about the important stellar event he promised to show her. Was he wrong for it? Of course not! Stella made everything to throw him off the rails completely that morning. But Octavia still has the right to be upset.

Not to mention that she’s nowhere to be found since that night in Los Angeles… Why isn’t she around? Is she resentful toward him? Is she being kept from him? Or is he keeping her at arm's length because of the assassination attempt and his deteriorating state of mind? What happened?

I can already see how Stella and Andrealphus could use all of it against Stolas, grooming Octavia and simmering her in hatred for him. Bluntly lying about true reasons Stolas fled.

Stolas kept silent about the abuse he survived, hoping to protect Octavia and let her live a perfect childhood. But instead, she won’t have a single soul to support her, since Stolas will be chased off and hated. By her. Surrounded by vultures who now prey on her, who have couped her father and forced him to break the solemn, earnest promise he made to her.

What?... No! No, no, never! I'd never do that. Never...

How fucking tragic is that?

[awallflowerdraws]

ah yes my fave character trope: anxiety-ridden jesters

[lindentea]

there are... just.. so many parallels between my two favorite BPD-coded characters. because obvious reasons. so here's my Blitzø/Ed Teach mashup. self-fulfilling prophesies, yaknow...?

y'know when you're spiraling into "i am a monster and all i will ever be is a monster" territory and you start believing all the ppl in your life that have ever told you that you're basically nothing more than a rabid dog...

sharing fanart (moreso than just art in general) is still terrifying as fuck!! plz be gentle. of course i'm looking at this and only seeing everything i hate about it, everything that makes the impostor syndrome go for the throat. but i worked on this for 21 hours already just in the last like five days and i think i should prooooobably do anything else with my downtime now.

(of course, what's even more terrifying than receiving negative feedback is receiving zero feedback at all...)