hi have a lil collection of zack/chris fics i finally got around uploading yayy
all rated mature but its the all-smoke-but-no-fire type of stuff. theres implications but no actual act. read the tags that are probably lacking but i cant brain at 4am anymore ough
If I had a nickel for every favourite character of mine with an arc of "professional put together academic -> World's Most Tired Man" who felt suicidally guilty over the fate of his coworker(s) one of whom had an obvious crush on him, ends a season on a cliffhanger of getting blown up point blank, and will probably only survive this because of bonding with a supernatural force, I'd have two nickels, which not a lot but weird it happened twice etc.
I don't bother to explain the cute guy I drew the cute girl all over is actually a lesbian to people cus it gets tiring after a while having to explain it every time and some het women don't gaf and are gonna keep using lesbian anime characters for their "me and him 💕" thing they got going awn
i hate how zanechan invalidates the ro'bros arc from s1. ik its a really minor complaint but it's always bugged me.
like, the whole point of the robros trilogy was zane learning that he isn't obligated to make his parental figures happy at the expense of himself and zianna finally realizing that she's been pressuring her kids to live the life that she thinks is best, and resolving that, as long as they're happy and safe, she's supportive of their life choices (mostly in regards to zane since it's the fake zanemau arc and he's the furthest from her idea of gaining a big social crowd and settling down with a cute girl willing to pop out seven grandkids for zianna to spoil).
and then zanechan happens and zianna gets the perfect daughter-in-law. kc has a big social group that zane is forcefully integrated into by virtue of dating her. kc and zianna share a lot of interests (romance, baking, sewing, zane, etc.) and mannerisms. kc's a meif'wa from a big family so she's more likely to give zianna all seven hypothetical grandkids. etc.
it's not necessarily bad that kc and zianna are so similar, but it does make zianna ultimately right in the end and makes the whole arc feel kinda pointless. it retroactively turns zane finally standing up for himself into a stubborn refusal of the single solution to all of his problems. and i don't like that it feels weird and icky.
ik jesson probably forgot about the ro'bros arc by s5 but still...
Womble is getting braver at walking outside a bit!! We have been practicing going from my place to my mums place (directly across the road) and once he gets started he’s not too shabby!!
Not pictured is me sitting on my mums driveway tempting him into playing with a wand toy and ample treats to make distant passing car noises less scary
just read the newest chapter of one piece and i'm having a moment because "the first one to be called pirate" made think like huh. that puts some... emphasis on the word. and oda does do kind of hyper-literal worldplay sometimes. and pirates in one piece don't really function like irl pirates. is... is there something going on?
so.
i knew kaizoku is "sea robber"
i just learned zoku is also rebel/insurgent.
like. of course. of course. of course that's what that is.
[pericky; a look into ricky's head during their meeting.]
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"I'm glad you came, I wasn't sure you would." The wine pours, the sound of it drowning out the missing word in that sentence: back.
Of course, is the response, and the part of Ricky that's spent twenty years tearing itself apart to understand why vibrates with relief. It doesn't matter anymore. Of course, of course, he thinks giddily along with the words. He never needed to wonder why Pericles wasn't coming back in the first place; he was always going to.
I'm happy you invited me, and of course he thinks again. A lifetime of pretending he wasn't always going to either falls away. However harsh and lonely the world has been, all's right with it again; and the shy voice of the boy inside him that he's tried so hard to kill says, so quietly, I missed you.
Then I had a turning point: an encounter woth a rabbi named Paula Reimers who came to speak at Wesleyan. She claimed it was forbidden to imagine God as a mother, because the mother-God would love and forgive us too much. We would have no morality, and we would all become pagans. I knew from my reading that goddesses around the world had severe as well as nurturing attributes. I knew it was wrong to claim that a female God couldn't make laws. I knew it was wrong to say God couldn't appear as a woman. And I knew her dismissive words about religious traditions that revered goddesses were simplistic and bigoted. I was especially angry when [she] waxed eloquent about her personal experience of having God as a male lover. Why couldn't I have God/dess as a female lover?