#i love my problematic son

[c1tyhaunts]

So ya boy is remixing Ricky's / Jacket's interpretation just a wee bit - I've often compared him to a brick wall: an emptyman without a personality to speak of. Ricky barely exists outside of the day to day, only feeling alive when on the rush of his spree kills. Ricky's an everyday person, invisible in the crowd.

But, that's not true; in reality, Ricky's the boy next door, and although the traumas of war and PTSD haunts beneath the surface of the man's hollow appearance, he does have masks he dons as well to ignore cope with his issues.

Ricky, day-to-day, is the suburbia dream of what a young man should be. Ideal masculinity; quiet, relaxed, polite. He'll walk the old ladies across the street, he'll offer a hand, albeit lazily, and he's casually cool like he was built like it. This breaths normal; he feels normal here. His state of existence is hollow and low energy.

Then he dons the mask, and he's back to Jacket. That's the implacable man he truly is. More machine than human, acting strictly off impulse & instinct. When he's on his spree kills, murdering Russian gangsters without question, he sees it like one of his football games - one wrong move, and he loses. And with a winning streak like his, baby, he's not going anywhere.

Then comes the remnants of that, Ricky, on the high of adrenaline, let's the true colors fly. The cockiness, the selfishness, and the aggression - all clear as day. It's when he smiles like bared fangs, ready for another fight to win. Reckless and rude, that's the feelings he loves; all until it dwindles into nothing, and he's just hollow again. Empty, empty, empty.

[levemetal]

Nine of swords

Will I make a full watercolor tarot set for svsss on a whim? Who knows. Tune in next time for random experimental mediocre art.

[emptyportrait]

aerys’s raw hatred of anyone else who thinks they can hate on rhaegar other than him is unbelievably funny to me. he said only i get to bully my boy, anyone else can fuck off.

[victorie552]

Kind of a weird AU but hear me out:

Finwe marries Indis, right? Most controversial thing Finwe ever done and that includes leading elves from their ancestral home to a new continent to live with gods. Silmarillion says that it happened because he fell in love and I believe it BUT what Silmarillion doesn't tell you is WHEN Finwe marries Indis. I saw posts that say the canon is inconclusive and Tolkien probably changed his mind a lot, and half of what of what Tolkien wrote is thrown from the window by fandom, so.

Anyway, one of the versions said Feanor was at least a teenager when Finwe/Indis happens (I think). What Silmarillion states is that Feanor married VERY young by elven standards, and that Nerdanel was below his station (classism? in elven society? apparently!).

Last thing before I get to the main point: Fingolfin marries Anaire, a Noldo lady, who I saw often enough written as a noble or a court lady, perfectly fine that, no idea if that's canon. And Finarfin very much marries Teleri princess.

...I don't know guys, it feels very convienient. For princes to fall in love with exactly the kind of women who would be approved by royal court and strenghten political ties with other elven factions. If it was anything else than silm, I would call political marriages.

Time for crack: based on what I wrote above I propose an AU where it was FEANOR who was supposed to marry Indis. For politics! Vanyar are the most important faction in Aman! Let's marry into that!

But the MOMENT Feanor became an adult and they could process with courting without making it creppier than it already is, Feanor runs off to elope with his coworker and there's nothing they can do. Well, that's what Finwe tells Ingwe when Ingwe rages about it to him.

Finwe loves Feanor, he wants him to marry for love, and that's exactly what happens. But, uh, all Vanyar are pissed that there's no political marriage when they were promised one (they mad cause they look stupid now), and, well. Finwe decides to bite the bullet. For his son.

It's not true of course. But imagine family dinners after that.

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Imo Jason is “irredeemable” by default because I don’t see what he needs redemption from.

[vividvexations]

sonny saying jay park isn't included in the worldclass debate is SO REAL

[sunny2ply]

Happy (late) birthday to the tweets 🎂

[amedetoiles]

“in that case, can you show mercy and spare his life? after all, you are family”

“his dead father is his family”

“didn’t your father ever love you”

“never”

THERE WAS NO REASON FOR THIS EXCHANGE TO BREAK ME LIKE THIS I AM WEEPING

[predictablychaoticart]

Happy Pride! Rarely end up lucky enough to have the energy to do a specific piece for it, but I really wanted to this year. And of COURSE it had to be my delightful disaster bi rogue, lol. Man's a trainwreck, and I love him for it.

[ae-azile]

Post your problematic fave who you will never defend because you like that they are master gaslighting manipulators who have perfected their facade and you wouldn't have them any other way, even though the vast majority of the fandom hates the character. I'll go first. 🩵

[toytulini]

name some canonically nonbinary characters why dont you

[rogueshadeaux]

A fun little character sheet to celebrate 100k, featuring stats and dialogue yet to appear in the published work! Thanks for sticking around so far, and I can't wait to share even more of my babies with you all!

Stick around for more from inFAMOUS: Erosion and its efforts to not only tie off the story of the Conduits, but to answer the single question everyone's been asking since Cole MacGrath zapped those on the bridge to the Warren -- why exactly do Conduits exist?

[maddie-grove]

I don’t have a bad opinion of the Heathers musical, generally, but it does annoy me when people attribute plot points to the movie that are musical-only.

[hauntingblue]

If I was funnier and had the time, I would write a batfam fanfic that would actually be a very bad telenovela where everyone is terrible and dramatic, the worst ships ever thought about happen and they all fight to get bruces inheritance or want to be on WE or something like that. It would be like wfa but with completely opposite vibes

[velvetineblue]

hi it has come to my attention @somewherelon3ly is h*ter0phobic, pls cancel them, i have receipts

[oldmannapping]

One of my favourite fic tropes is “drugged and loopy on truth serum”.

Normally-stoic characters acting wildly out of character and professing the innermost feelings that canon has implied but is too chickenshit to address? Or fixing toxic canon dynamics because fuck it, fanfic is for dreamers?

Chef’s. Kiss. Mwah mwah mwah, mutherfucker.

Eg:

Bruce Wayne: “I love my sons so much. Even the large murdery one. He was just my tiny little guy, and now he’s so big and problematic but that’s just more to love.”

Or characters dropping absolutely horrific bombshells about canon traumas and giggling like a teenager drinking their first Bacardi.

Eg:

Tim Drake: “I’m so glad I made all those League Of Assassins bases go kablooey. It prolly killed hundreds of people but pssssh I wasn’t ready to be a dad to Ra’s babies.”

Drunk-seeming, loopy, hilariously honest and oblivious character rambles are my jam.

If anyone has any recs, throw them my way.