#i am a glass case of emotion

[buckttommy]

"I love liking you"

[theirbutler]

[ 𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙳 𝙼𝙴𝙽 𝚆𝙷𝙾 𝙲𝙰𝚄𝙶𝙷𝚃 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚂𝙰𝙽𝙶 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝚄𝙽 𝙸𝙽 𝙵𝙻𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃, 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙽 - 𝚃𝙾𝙾 𝙻𝙰𝚃𝙴 - 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚈 𝙶𝚁𝙸𝙴𝚅𝙴𝙳 𝙸𝚃 𝙾𝙽 𝙸𝚃𝚂 𝚆𝙰𝚈 ] i will love you 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 - no matter how far you roam, no matter how far you fall. my hands will be here to catch and to hold ; to lift you up and mend your wings. i will not falter where once i failed. [ 𝗗𝗢 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗚𝗢 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗟𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 ] / grief, guilt, love, loss and reconciliation feat. @greatfailure

[hellsingmongrel]

Goddamn, Trigun Fam, you guys are just determined to fuckin’ kill me with these reincarnation AU fics, aren’t you???  I literally cannot start reading one without devolving into a blubbering mess before things have even started, how do you guys always do it???  I’m going to turn into a fuckin’ mummy if I keep crying this hard!

[calpalirwin]

BABYPAL IS ONE YOU GUYS!!!

[cattfeine]

I love you so much @musingsinmoonlight 💙💙💙

[digdugg]

people are pointing out that steve is checking on her through the rearview mirror and my feels.

[emmanelson]

He did. She did.

[rovermcfly]

no YOU'RE unreasonably emotional about david tennant's return to doctor who

(link)

[theplantbish]

Starting the new year with my heart full of love for Jere Pöyhönen

[olliequeensrecedinghairline]

Something about Barbie I really love is how perfect the casting was (I'll only go over a couple)

Margot Robbie was absolutely impeccable, hit all the right moments, and while I loved the joke where she said she's not pretty enough to be Barbie, with the narrator responding that "casting Margot Robbie might not be the best choice to convey this point" I feel like there's something deeper behind that

It's a long held stereotype in Hollywood that actresses are past their prime once they hit 30, they are no longer starlets and abandoned, with Margot Robbie being 33 she's right at the point that she would be considered too old

Greta Gerwig said her first and most deliberate casting was Ryan Gosling, which seemed to upset a lot of people, saying he was too old, but with both main characters going through existential crisis it makes sense for a man in his 40s, especially since he plays the classic Ken, one of the oldest models

I'm very happy my girlfriend was there to explain some history to me in how there have not been many Asian Ken's out there and would be a fairly recent addition, so using Simu Liu, who is the new Hollywood it boy, as the main opposition to the aging Kens insecurity about Barbie's interest in other Kens was very clever

As a mother America Ferrera has personal experience that she brings to the role that feels so personal, plus with her biggest role as Ugly Betty, the main character of a show about fashion and challenging traditional beauty norms is very fitting

(plus the fact that her movie husband is her real life husband was a nice touch)

Will Ferrell

[mamapyjama]

I’m almost certain that little Izuku came up with ‘Dynamight’. Like, imagine them playing pretend as Dynamight and Mighty Boy, the hero wonder duo!

This story withholds info for a reason, and everyone but Deku knowing the name means it’s significant to him.

“Your alias represents your desires… your ideal self”, “you’re the last one I’m telling…”

Seriously. His closeness with Deku is ‘the embodiment of how he wishes to be’, and he literally only wants Deku to know once he thinks he’s worthy of it!?

What if this was the real reason they fell out. They’d always wanted to be heroes together, and Deku being quirkless destroyed that. Kacchan distanced himself and convinced himself that he didn’t care, he was better off alone.

He couldn’t use that name while they were apart but mending his relationship with Deku allowed him to want to be that hero again. Deku’s Dynamight. 😭😭😭

[ageless-aislynn]

Aislynn's Jumble of Random Thinky Thoughts on Halo s2 ep4 "Reach"

SPOILERS, but of course

Cpt Admiral Keyes went out like a total badass. I really do hate to lose him but I'm glad he got a better send-off than he did in the game (Halo: Combat Evolved). Seeing him with a pipe was an awesome little callback to the game, IMO. (Though smoking is bad; don't smoke, kids! 👎😬😉)

The fact that The Powers That Be took Silver Team's Mjolnir with them as they ran like cowards evacuated but abandoned actual Silver Team is the most realistic bureaucratic part of the episode. 🙄

I suspected Louis wasn't going to survive but him losing Danilo and then choosing to make that stand immediately after was both heartbreaking but bittersweet: he couldn't live without his beloved and his sacrifice gave John and Riz a chance to escape but also ensured that he didn't have to live long without his beloved. 💔

My Halo vehicle fangirling was cranked up to 117% 😇 here, with me pausing the show to yell, "WRAITH, IT'S A WRAITH! I love hijacking those things!!!" and then "SCORPION! A SCORPION TANK! Aw, man, I do BUSINESS when I have a Scorpion!" *wistful, lovestruck sigh* 💖 Please imagine my dad's 🤔⁉️ face during all of that, lol! 😇

John, my beloved, and Scorpion tank, my beloved... 😍🤷‍♀️😇😉

I was legit upset that Kai was gone the entire ep, not just 'cause I wanted to see her, of course, but because it seems an awful lot like she abandoned her team and that just doesn't seem like her at all. I know last ep she was very torn and upset about John and not really believing what he was saying, but also not wanting to narc him out, either. When she finds out what happened to Vannak, I think she'll blame herself for not being there and, honestly? I think she should. (Same as she should feel bad about not believing John, evidence to the contrary.) Not saying she could've prevented any of the bad stuff, of course, but she wasn't there when Silver Team desperately needed her and if they don't have her feel guilt over that, then that's really going to be OOC for her, IMO. 😔

And then of course, the "two" of the "one-two punch" from this ep... Vannak, nooooooooo! I was completely not expecting to lose him here but I really should have, considering we're straight up doing a version of Reach's game storyline and, as we all know, Noble Team didn't make it out of the game alive (other than Jun).

And yet still... Vannak! Not when he's just learned to love animal documentaries and feeding the birds! The big guy had so much more living to do!!! 😭😭😭 I'm going to really miss him and I'm going to completely ignore his death in any fanfic I ever again write, I'm just saying. 🤷‍♀️😉

Are we feeling like Soren will be getting a place on Silver Team, at least temporarily?

Okay, so I was a little surprised but in a good way over how hard everything about Keyes hit Halsey. She was genuinely kinda tongue-tied at seeing him, then her absolutely screaming at his death and her sobbing... I wasn't expecting that sort of reaction. She really did love him and I wouldn't have thought that before this episode.

I feel vaguely like John's ex just kidnapped his current girlfriend, lol. Also, I keep staring at Makee, thinking, "Is her hair a different blonde? Is she dying her eyebrows or something?" more than anything else so I really need to get over that, lol! Annnnnd I could kinda ship her with her Arbiter but nobody should be surprised at that 'cause I can ship a character with a mop that has a wig and googly eyes on it if the chemistry feels right to me...

I could also see not-Thel!Arbiter as being a suuuuper jealous boyfriend trying to prove he's better than Makee's ex... *shipper glasses, I has 'em at all times!* 😜😉

Since Makee didn't let her Arbiter (whose name is escaping me at the moment) go ahead and kill John, one wonders if it was because she does still have feelings for him or if she just needs him for some later nefarious purpose. And why does she need Cortana? I'm still wondering if we're going to get some sort of "evil" Cortana ala Halo 5 since her new look reminds me a lot more of her Halo 5 look.

This is a still, not GIF, from Halo s2 Cortana's new look, so you don't wonder why it's not moving. 😉

Halo 5 "evil" Cortana.

And you can see s1 Cortana in the GIF right above all of this.

Annnnd my favorite version of Cortana...

Halo 4 Cortana, whom I imprinted on as my very first Cortana, so this is her definitive look to me, what can I say? 🤷‍♀️😉

And bringing things back to the episode once more, I also had a game fangirling moment when John yelled, "Frag out!" as he lobbed the grenade. My dad soon learned that the marines tend to yell that as they're lobbing frag grenades in the various games, too! 😎

Ooo, and almost forgot John's absolute panic eyes when Keyes called him forward during his inspirational speech, lol. Poor Chief, d'aww! But that was a really great moment to show people that Master Chief isn't a robot, he's a flesh and blood person, and I think that was used to great effect in this moment. 💖

In summary, this episode had me

💖

[celluloidbroomcloset]

This has definitely been remarked on before, but....the lines in "La Vie en Rose" where Ed looks at Stede as the fireworks go off and the curtains close are:

Et, dès que je l'aperçois

je sens en moi

Mon coeur qui bat.

Or (rough translation):

As soon as I notice him

I feel inside me

My heart beating.

I mean....Christ, man.

[herefortarlos]

I am in my Tarlos feels tonight and cannot recommend this video enough! A beautiful reminder of their journey and why Tarlos is so easy to love.

[1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt]

For Jim

“We are all hostages to what we love. The only way to truly be free is to love nothing. And how meaningless would that be?” - Q (Picard S2E05)

“There’s had been the touching of two minds which the old poets of Spock’s home planet had proclaimed as superior even to the wild physical love which affected Vulcans every seventh year during pon farr.” -- Jim Kirk (Star Trek TMP Novel)

What a joke! Vejur was everything that Spock had ever dreamed of becoming. And yet Vejur was barren! It would never feel pain. Or joy. Or challenge. 

Spock laughed again. Then he saw Kirk’s face. He reached out weakly and found Kirk’s arm, then his hand, and took a startled Kirk’s hand in his own. “Jim,” Spock said.

McCoy looked his astonishment at the visible and unashamed emotion on Spock’s face as he clutched Kirk’s hand.

Kirk returned the pressure and brought his other hand to cover Spock’s, holding it between both of his, signaling Spock that there was no shame in either giving or in answering fully.

“This simple feeling . . . “ --- Spock struggled for strength --- “. . . is so far . . . beyond Vejur’s comprehension . . .” -- (Star Trek TMP Novel)

With stunned understanding, Kirk stumbles to the door, sees Spock on his knees, hands blackened, face cracked with radiation lines and scars.

Spock shakes his head. With a feeble hand he reaches the intercom button: filtered communication.

KIRK: Spock!

SPOCK: The ship -- out of danger?

KIRK: Yes --

Spock is satisfied; he fights for breath --

SPOCK: Don't grieve, Admiral -- it's logical: the good of the many outweighs --

He almost keels over. Kirk has tears streaming down his face.

KIRK: ... the good of the few...  

SPOCK: Or the one.

He props a hand on the glass to support himself. Kirk's hand reflexively goes to match Spock's on the other side of the glass --

SPOCK: (continuing) I never took the Kobayashi Maru test -- until now. What do you think of my solution?

KIRK: Spock...!

SPOCK: I have been -- and always will be -- your friend... Live. Long. And. Prosper.

Spock falls. Bones and Scotty react.

KIRK: No...!

SAAVIK'S VOICE: (intercom) Admiral, you've got to see this! There's new life -- a whole new world, a Genesis world -- !

But Kirk is past hearing or caring. He is huddled up against the glass, destroyed. Bones looks on, helpless. -- (Star Trek: TWOK Script)

KIRK: Even if there's a chance that Spock has an eternal soul . . . then it's my responsibility. MORROW: Yours? KIRK: As surely as if it were my very own. Give me back the Enterprise! With Scotty's help I could... MORROW: Out of the question, my friend! The Council has ordered that no one but the science team goes to Genesis! Jim, your life and your career stand for rationality, not intellectual chaos. Keep up this emotional behaviour and you'll lose everything. You'll destroy yourself! Do you understand me, Jim? KIRK: I hear you . . .I had to try. MORROW: Of course. (as Kirk leaves he is joined by Sulu and Chekov) SULU: The word, sir? KIRK: The word . . . is no. I am therefore going anyway. SULU: You can count on our help, sir. KIRK: Thank you, Mister Sulu. I'll need it. -- (Star Trek: TSFS Script)

SAREK: He entrusted you with his very essence, with everything that was not of the body. He asked you to bring him to us . . . and bring that which he gave you, his katra, his living spirit. KIRK: Sir . . . your son meant more to me than you can know. I'd have given my life if it would have saved his.

SAREK: Forgive me. It is not here. I had assumed he mind-melded with you. It is the Vulcan way . . . when the body's end is near. KIRK: We were separated! He couldn't touch me. SAREK: I see. . . Then everything that he was . . . Everything that he knew . . . is lost. KIRK: Please wait! . . . He would have found a way! If there was that much at stake . . . Spock would have found a way! -- (Star Trek: TSFS Script)

Picard: You’ve brought him home, then?

Spock: Yes. I know it is illogical, and yet . . . he did the same for me. And at such a terrible cost. How could I not be equal to his sacrifice? . . . I have no regrets. -- (Spock Reflections: IDW Comics)

For Jim - Spock

Theirs is my favourite love story of all time. 

(Source: Spock Dedicates his autobiography to Jim -- Star Trek: Picard)

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Spock Reflections Scans Part 1: Spock Remembering Jim | Spock Reflections Scans Part 2: Picard's Message For Spock |  Part 3: Spock Carries Jim Home to Iowa | Bonus: The Kirk Family Farm + Spock's Visit   | Bonus II: T’Pring Confronts Spock Circa TMP  

Source: Star Trek: Spock Reflections Comic Series by IDW (personal scans)

[simfestation]

So I decided I was solution-focused with my growing list of game issues. I started by removing some mods I know directly impact those areas of the game. Then I went ahead and added 3gb of CC. And now my game won't start. I'M SO GOOD AT THIS brb on my way to send DOESN'T WORK UPDATE I'M A MORON AND IT STARTED There was just some delay between EA app closing and the game opening lmao.

I might go post DOESN'T WORK on some Patreons anyway, just to be sure.

COULDN'T BE ME

oh my god what have i done

I DIDN'T INTENTIONALLY INSTALL THIS, AM I HIGH (i'm not mad tho)