#i’m an empath

[ugliestbimbo]

I got this demented ass idea that I’m not sure I should write. I don’t wanna go into details but like let’s just say I put Kalim THROUGH IT. Like this mf cannot catch a break yall that’s the type of shit I’m brainstorming. Like TWs galore I mean. Every existing traumatic experience in existence would be projected onto him just ‘cause I kin him. But still romance. because I’m a slut for traumatized people getting the love they deserve. Kinda obvious what ship…I might post the snippet I wrote here, but idk

[transphilza]

i have a feeling ranboo said something about lore

[annakarenina]

CANT HEEEEEEEEELP THE WAY I KEEP IGNORING EVERY OMEN!!!!! EVERY OMEN!!!!!

[major-comet]

the biggest problem with tos’ episodic format is that the episode usually ends pretty quickly after the conflict resolves and then they never really talk about it again - no matter how intense or harrowing it was

which means that we don’t get to actually *see* the interpersonal fallout of bones being diagnosed with and cured from a previously-incurable terminal illness (that he didn’t even want to tell jim and spock he had), and then just four episodes later drugging them so that he can go be tortured (and likely die) instead of spock, and so jim doesn’t have to make the choice between them.

did they talk about it? beyond just a standard debrief and a “never fucking do that again bones i swear to god i mean it this time”? did they make it the captains’ quarters for the debrief, only for mccoy to be pulled into a crushing, trembling hug as soon as the door shut while jim tried to assure himself that bones was still here, was still breathing? spock hovering nearby - a hand gently coming to rest on his shoulder?

why didn’t mccoy want to tell them about the xenopolycythemia, anyways? to try and hold onto a few more normal-ish months before every time they looked at him their eyes would be filled with grief - mourning a man they hadn’t yet lost? the same reason he ran away; to spare them what he went through with his father?

only for him to immediately turn around and throw himself back to the wolves to (almost) die right in front of them anyways

i don’t really know how they handled it. whether they talked about it and attempted to soothe the hurt, or just resolutely tried to bottle it up.

but i do know this: spock eventually came back from gol because jim simply (though accidentally) called out for him in a moment of need. bones only came back because jim personally drafted him back into starfleet

[doctorsiren]

“Sometimes when magicians vanish, they leave something behind…That’s how Trucy became Trucy Wright…my daughter. To be honest, I was pretty lost those first few days. Thinking back on it, it was a pretty dark time in my life. But Trucy…happy, smiling Trucy…she was my light.”

[gayboober]

so i’m sensing that the dash is excited about wilbur lore

[thedailybullshit]

“Shuri is stronger than me bc I would’ve accepted Namor’s offer to burn the world down.” Nah, bro. Shuri is stronger than me bc if somebody killed the last of my family, I wouldn’t have spared them no matter how right about colonizers or how kind they’d been to me previously or how hot they were. & I certainly wouldn’t have had the strength to carry on, let alone lead a nation.

That’s where Shuri’s strength comes from, not from rejecting Namor’s proposal.

[failbaby]

[montymollusk]

man. the idea that some people walk around in the world with functionally infinite money and there’s still so much fucking suffering is bananas to me.

do you know what i’d do if i suddenly had a billion dollars? i’m walking down the street and paying off the medical debt of everyone i see. pass by a grocery store? oops, bought everything inside and now the food’s free! people experiencing homelessness get to be first in line to check out, just so i can give them the keys to their new house. i bought every hospital in the country and burnt down their billing department— same with the insurance companies, but they don’t get to rebuild. every single public school just got an anonymous donation big enough to revive the arts department, and give every kid in town free meals until they graduate from college. which, by the way, is also free.

the absolute most that money is doing for just me is like, getting a really big tattoo. and i’m still tipping the artist 1000% just because i can!!

what in gods name would anyone even want with all that money, if not to make the world a better place???

[the0retically]

Thinking about Ava Ferin, thinking about Lizzie and Jay and their fight and how they just both love her, thinking about how her death was the catalyst and it was the tool to start the war, thinking about how she’s just a girl, but she was a navy officer, but she was a friend, but she was a sister and she didn’t deserve what happened to her

Thinking about how unsure Jay was at the start of joining with Chip, but now she knows where she is is correct and her sister would’ve been on her side

Thinking about how devastated Lizzie must’ve been at that bar in Allport when her and Jay were finally getting along but then all she could see for a moment was Ava and was struck with the loss of someone she loved

Just, god her impact on the narrative is so encompassing

[notaplaceofhonour]

“overzealous”? “the occasional broken window or offensive slogan”? girl hwat

[coquettejohnny]

i cant hate anyone in the outsiders ever bc i can sympathize with all of them in some way

[annakarenina]

sometimes I think I’m fine and then remember the bridge in ‘you are the only exception’ by paramore exists and I’m like nvm

[milesfingers]

One thing I LOVE about the Outlast fandom is how some of us treat Eddie.

That is, you see Eddie, a psychopathic, insane, abusive, barbaric, inhumane, misogynistic, delusional serial killer, has horribly killed and mutilated a lot of women (and men) to make the Monster of Florence envious in order to find the "perfect wife", and then there are us fans who we have practically adopted him.

He is our little potato, our fluffy bf, our little innocent and affectionate meow meow that poor thing just wants to be loved. That vibe there. When I KNOW that a character like him in other media would’ve been hated. And it's so damn paradoxical and funny that it drives me crazy.

[autumn-may]

“You and I, we stand by the light only to cast shadows and beget darkness; you with Eraqus, me with my sister. And when that light disappears, we lose our purpose and are swallowed by the void”

[taylorrepdetective]

This is something I’ve been curious about since I first stumbled down this rabbit hole and was trying to puzzle out if I thought Taylor really would fake relationships (this was in late 2017, so with joe) and one of the things I couldn’t understand was how people could so easily believe that after what happened in 2016 (breakup of her longest relationship to date, rebound with Tom, cancellation that apparently made her suicidal, her friends suddenly showing themselves to be traitors) that she could not just fall in love with joe but absolutely trust him unquestionably enough o write New Years Day 3 months in. And it wasn’t just NYD, but a lot of songs she wrote in fall 2016 that had a forevermore feel to them (is this the end of all the endings, trust him like a brother.) I simply chalked it up to people being a bit young and rooting for love and not really thinking, and them only knowing Taylor as this over-dramatic lover of love. But now seeing it happen again almost exactly the same (betrayal by her father figure business partner, betrayal by the man she though for sure that she’d marry, betrayal by the man she thought was the man who got away who also made marriage promises) and within weeks she has now fallen in love with another man who so so perfect for her that she would just trust him like a brother and fall into the marriage promises AGAIN. And not only that people will believe it, because yeah, she knows her audience, but also that people don’t side-eye this and say “you know what Taylor, maybe it’s time for you to be single for 5 minutes and just like, think about why you keep falling for these men that can’t give you what you want and work on yourself and your constant need to be hopelessly and forevermore in love all the time. Maybe there’s a different issue here?” Like. They think they are her friends, and this is what friends do for each other. I would be so worried about her getting into something YET AGAIN that seems too good to be true. But instead (because they aren’t her friends, they are her audience, enjoying the romcom entertainment of it all) they cheer it on.

Without a second thought. Without really a first good thought either.

Anyway, as always, fascinated by the insight into human nature of it all.