#i hate u distance

[dearbraus]

i hate living so far away from my friends, i want to make them soup and play their favourite music together and watch the sunset together :(

[dragonsjuicebox]

i hate distance so much

[yellowyani]

through your eyes i see a smile you bring to me. to your joy, i tether. not a lot, just forever.

[inkskinned]

i hate how commodity and capitalism has ruined so much storytelling . i hate how sequels and prequels and whatever else all ring like merch sales; i hate that i as an author have to include any social media following i have as a marketable trait; i hate that everything feels like a xerox of a copy of a dream of a memory.

i hate that my nostalgia has been turned into profit. i hate that companies fear consumer backlash so no real commentary may be made; i hate that companies care more about quantity over quality. i hate that so many artists and creators are being overworked to the point of complete collapse rather than being allowed to tell the story their way. i hate that every point of representation has to be fought for. i hate it i want us all to go back to living in a cave .

when you sit with friends over a bonfire and the night is getting long and people start telling this slow, almost hypnotic story - in this quiet voice, like they don't expect you to listen while they say the most fucked up shit you've ever heard - that is storytelling. who cares if the punchline is car hand hook door. storytelling has always been about community, about us all sitting in the dark, choosing to fill the silence while the last embers are dying. we forgot that storytelling is spellwork. hallucinating together, our breaths held, waiting for the ending we already knew was coming.

[cryptiduni]

“white mourning.”

[rewritingcanon]

how dare you not make scorbus extremely emotionally codependent on each other HOW DARE YOU

[maybebi47]

i almost dont want to watch next weeks episode in fear of a finality on trackerbees, you know what i mean? i know its over i know they are doomed, they were doomed from the start. but just the thought of kristen having to say goodbye to tracker. again. its killing me.

[jrueships]

pretty privilege in general is a terrible tool. but when the racism that it's ingrained in really has a platform to activate, it's just absurd .

[sidetongue]

here he comes!!!

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Anders buddy i have barely done anything 😭

[minthara]

ok i'm gonna say it. the fact that u all trust one anonymous (presumably) straight dude on reddit on his opinion on what the dreadwolf companions are like. LMAO.

[homosexualyuki]

the pjotv sally jackson slander is so weird to me because i feel like the change from the book counterpart actually makes a lot of sense considering the situation shes put in. in the books sally is this nurturing, generous, and self sacrificing mother. the ideal mother if u will. but thats not to say that she isnt like that in the show as well. she obviously cares about her kid, from his schooling, to his safety, to being preoccupied with his sense of identity before he realizes his place in the world. all in all, tv show sally seems to have the same priority as book sally: keep her son safe.

regardless, i agree that shes not the same as her book counterpart because it would be so stupid to claim otherwise. however the traits that were added onto tv sally provide a level of realism that the books didnt have. in her situation (a young poor single mother with a neurodivergent demigod kid that she isnt provided the resources to protect him other than sending him away), her stern somewhat “cold” attitude makes sense, her frustrations make sense, and i truly dont understand the disdain her actions have garnered.

[grahamcarmen]

[laesas]

did you ever make a post about pete not liking tankhun ? i know you mentioned it a few times in your tags but i don't remember seeing a post. (i share your opin ions.)

I definitely toyed with the idea of meta or a gifset but I didn't ever make a full post! I love unrequited love and I ESPECIALLY love the extremely rare platonic version which Tankhun and Pete absolutely nail in my opinion!

There are loads of moments where Pete's smile drops around Tankhun very quickly, or he insults Tankhun behind his back. Instead of laughing things off like Arm and Pol, he almost has a wincing fear-response to Tankhun, which we don't really see at all from the other bodyguards.

I think that Tankhun likes to think of himself as being close friends with his bodyguards, and he does genuinely show a lot of open affection for Pete and eventually concern for his safety. But I think ultimately for Pete, Tankhun is just a part of Pete's job, and over time resentment has built up until he thinks of Tankhun as one of the *worst* parts of it. I definitely don't think he resents Tankhun enough to hurt or endanger him, but that's about as far as it goes, there's certainly very little love there.

Something about that dynamic is just particularly brilliant, especially when combined with Pete's eventual defection from Tankhun's side to Vegas'. He chooses a man who has beaten and tortured him over a man who showers him in affection and throws parties on his return.

I utterly adore Tankhun but I think as a character that's grown up in a gilded cage, he doesn't really understand that what Pete needs is a sense of his own autonomy rather than being dragged to "fun" "lets cheer up Pete" parties that Tankhun has demanded on his behalf. At least with Vegas he *chose* to go back, he handed Vegas the ropes, let him lock him back up again. Even before he develops feelings for Vegas, Pete has clearly felt like a subhuman pet for Tankhun and the main family for a long, long time and I think ironically Vegas acknowledging Pete's humanity is the tipping point for him.

I think even without their nascent romantic love as a factor, Pete would always choose Vegas. Because despite the threat of suffering, he offers a sense of freedom that Tankhun's gilded cage does not. It all makes for an incredibly interesting betrayal, and makes Pete choosing Vegas over Tankhun all the more pointed. By choosing to be Vegas' pet, he chooses to be human.

[theladyfae]

once again thinking about how ram says 'leela jaisi koi nahin' like it's being punched out of him. he yells at god about it. lists her virtues and hates himself so much for it that you know he resents her too. for daring to love him and listen to him and give him the chance he asked for and let him drag her down because deep down he fears he does have that infernal trait in his blood and that he will end up hurting her irrevocably despite how hard he works not to. and then later when its clear they couldnt undoom themselves, that it was foolish to even try, that it wasnt ever going to be sustainable when he can't even break free of the role he's been assigned enough to reciprocate in the way she deserves, he sings along to the chant in ram chahe leela as if their love is the biggest joke of all, because at that point it is.

[jgracie]

to the person at edexcel who thought it was ok to make physics paper 2 my LAST exam i hope ur pillows r always warm and ur charger is always broken