#i can't be contained not even by myself

[anistarrose]

colors of space and time

On the Starblaster, one could distinguish which twin dyed their hair recently by simply walking into the bathroom, and noting the color and intensity of the stain. But you would only need to if somehow, you missed them parading their new looks around that day.

Sometimes, they’ll bleach it at the same time, but Taako always dyes his pastel. He’s the more likely one to spring for cool colors, too, but always seafoam greens (on the beach world) and pale purples (on Tesseralia). Lup isn’t so reserved — she dyes hers a saturated, electric blue the year after the Conservatory, and when she pulls it back in a ponytail, it looks like flames fanning out behind her head.

They coordinate, but never by choosing the same color, their crewmates notice. No, they go complimentary — Lup goes violet while Taako goes blond, he goes green when she chooses red. Some of the time that she chooses red. She chooses red a lot, after all.

When did they dive into hair dye for the first time? When did they realize they liked the look of purposefully messy roots? Lup can’t recall the answer anymore — it must’ve been well over a century ago. Maybe two — Lup had lived so many lives, even before the start of the cycles. Sometimes the details of her early adulthood blur, let alone childhood.

But nevertheless, she knows the reason why it all started. To remind everyone looking on that though twins, she and Taako were different people.

(keep reading on ao3!)

[anxiouspotatorants]

Actually you know what I need to rant about this: while literati is technically a good girl x bad boy dynamic it is written so incredibly well and avoids so many pitfalls and stereotypes that it makes a good girl x bad boy hater like myself (I’m only half joking — I don’t think any trope is inherently good or bad but I tend to dislike most pairings with this dynamic) fall head over heels for their story and relationship.

So much of what makes the two of them work is the contrast between how others perceive them and how they truly are. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who understand who Rory is as a person (Lorelai, Lane, Paris, Richard and Emily to a certain degree for starters), but she's constantly met with the expectation that she just does good and is supposed to make everyone proud 24/7. Stars Hollow as a group especially are big on this, as seen f. ex. through how Taylor takes Rory's one comment about an inappropriate DVD and twists the whole thing into a censorship crusade and makes Rory its poster-child even though she wants nothing to do with it and tells him so repeatedly. But instead of hearing Rory disagree with him (like he would Lorelai and Luke) he assumes that she actually agrees with him - and why shouldn't she when she's the perfect sunshine paragon of good who would never disagree with her elders? Also her grandparents treat her as incredibly fragile and childlike, like she must be too innocent to ever do anything wrong and so whenever she does something it has to be somebody else's fault (usually Lorelai, but occasionally Jess or whoever else was present). Time and time again Rory is treated like something innocent and naive and weak — but not by Jess. He sees her as a person.

And it obviously goes the other way too. Jess is treated like shit by pretty much everyone else. Either people hate him unprovoked or very much provoked (he did do a lot of pranks in his first few weeks and while I'm a Dean-hater I'm not blind to how much Jess picked fights with him), or they’ve simply given up on him. He tells Rory himself that every authority figure he had back in New York gave up on him too, from teachers to principals to his very own mother. But Rory doesn’t treat him like a lost cause, she treats him like the smart, brilliant and asshole-ish teen that he is. By having faith in him she also often holds him more accountable than others. Where f. ex. Lorelai or the other adults just roll their eyes, Rory physically drags Jess into doing his shifts at the diner. While others write him off, Rory chews Jess’ ear out for not helping Luke more and for willfully making enemies out of the Stars Hollow adults.

They don't put each other on pedestals or below each other. Jess doesn’t try to make a sinner out of Rory and she doesn’t try to make a saint out of him. There’s genuine respect between them. They expect each other to have integrity and treat others with kindness and honesty, and the rest is good old chemistry and common interests.

I particularly love how in so many of their scenes (especially pre-relationship) when they spend time alone they just get to be these goofy nerdy kids. They argue about controversial authors and dig through records shops and eat hot dogs and make fun of each other and try to make each other laugh. It’s not just sexual chemistry as it too often is in a dynamic like this (and often uncomfortably sexual when writing teenagers - looking at you Gossip Girl), and not just well written intellectual chemistry — they have platonic chemistry too. A hell of a lot of it actually.

While I don’t think ASP wrote them through a purely deconstructionist lens on the good girl x bad boy dynamic (if she did plan on writing the dynamic at all), there is something to be said about how where many around them treat them like stereotypes they treat each other like people. To so many people, Rory is a perfect small town princess, a little miss sunshine with booksmarts for days but too delicate and sweet for anything with grit and weight. To a lot of the same people and many more Jess is a pathetic brutish and maniacal lost cause, hell personified in a chainsmoking leather-wearing teenager. But to each other they are actual human beings. Kind and mean and flirtatious and scared and reckless and smart. Rory really thinks that with the right motivation and mindset Jess can be the kind who does (and at the end wrote) incredible things. Jess really believes that with a little more practice and support to step out of her comfort zone she can be the amazing journalist she wishes to be.

They don’t have this stupid «we’re so bad for each other but we can’t stay away» thing that too many trope users rely on and don’t even justify in the plot. Everyone else might think they’re not fit for each other, but they knew they were each other’s person from the very first day.

[hazelek]

I finished reading System Collapse.

And it ended with Murderbot saying "yes" to ART!!!

🥳🥳🥳🍾🍾🍾

This book is a gift, thank you, Martha Wells 🙏

[guntapon]

me: ok that’s it. i am at my limit. no more high school bl dramas. no more enemies to lovers. no more secret crushes. no more bands or serenades or guitars or drums. i don’t think i have it in me to sit through it all again

my school president: 

me: .............. okay fine ONE more 

[aaronwarner]

little anti miraculous rant here, sorry

So, we all know by now (S5) that Adrien is a sentimonster. That’s no secret. And the fans that were so intent on theorizing this for years must be so happy to say “told you so”, but... can we talk about how much bullshit all of this is?? Because it IS bullshit. With the logic presented throughout the latest seasons about the sentimonsters, it retcons the adrien/felix sentimonster fact and just makes for a shitty reveal that doesn’t make sense. And people defending this, calling it a “good plot twist” just-- *starts laughing hard and loud*

[futurewife]

I love you a.drian chase

[patchyworx]

[jewishcissiekj]

*refreshes the open tab with the Asajj Ventress tag for the Nth time this day* fuck my life.

[savageboar]

i have to keep telling myself it'll get better. my life will get better. i just have to live long enough to see it.

[lazyexceptwhencooking]

[benkeibear]

👀👀👀👀 I won't lie. I completely forgot lol but I knew I was supposed to read something and I couldn't remember what! I shall definitely read it

Just- just look at him! (Under the cut bc tw gore, dna experiments and other VERY weird things I wouldn't know how to tag)

Also starving anonymous spoilers lol

That dude >>> I love him. He's so funny. Hes a scientist and his wife was dying from radiation so he played with her dna which made her live on but she turned into whatever the fuck this is bc the lemur dna evolved. Yes he tongue kissed her in that form. In front of her father.

And my baby boy fumimaro who's in the sequel and I love him so dearly. He's so mentally insane while being the most relatable character?? A TRAUMATIZED LITTLE HAMSTER

[barbedwire-and-chokeslams]

Debut of Head, November to Remember '97

[bruhstation]

sometimes the influence casa tidmouth has scares me. didn’t expect people to know it outside of tumblr (and my twitter friend circle) lol

[miodiodavinci]

biting and attacking past me for being lazy with this .oto and only .otoing half of each sample so they could move on to the immediate gratification of hearing the vb in action

[theinternetisfulloftrash]

@dylanmischief gets here in less than 48 hours and we're gonna vibe so fuckin' harrddddd!!!