#if only for a brief moment

[madness-of-void]

Can I Keep You?

It is here. The final chapter of this side fic.

Thank you all so much for joining me on this self-indulgent ride!

Special Song

[royalarchivist]

Technoblade: Man, imagine not winning a 1 v 3. Couldn't be me.

Every MCC with Technoblade was memorable, but MCC 5 will always stand out in my mind thanks to Techno's infamous 1 v 3 fight! Here are some highlights from that event in honor of the man himself.

Happy Birthday, Technoblade! Thanks for all the laughs.

[kittykalliarts]

For decades, the blank vision that Iudex Neuvillette wears near his heart has been subject to much discussion in Fontaine. Nobody remembers who it had once belonged to or why the ancient dragon protected it so jealously. It is said that if the Chief Justice would to stare at it for a long while, it would be sure to rain right after. Oh, how beloved that person must've been.

[harvestmoth]

mind crab but. again

[segretecose]

in case you haven't noticed i delete. i'm a deleter. i don't preserve and i don't want to preserve. have you seen that post? no because i deleted it

[crazyness-overpowers]

i think i need redemption s3 to have a parker and eliot mind meld moment, specifically in a con. a moment where things are going to shit and they know they’re the ones who have the only good way out of it, but do not discuss what they’re doing, just act. i want to see that connection that they have (that they’ve always had) and i want it to like. confuse harry. awe bree. make sophie smile. etc. should be loud in how quiet it is.

[borgialucrezia]

"These hands have seen too much... of blood and sin to join two such tender creatures."

[yamikakyuu]

Viktor is looking at Mel and smiling in the last scene he's in, in s1. She was the only one who supported Jayce's peace treaty and basically got everyone else to vote for it. Viktor in this moment fully believes he will die seeing Zaun be free because of those two people.

I'm unwell, this show I can't.

[ruporas]

all I wanted was to save them... (ID in alt)

[cook-a-little-chicken]

Tom's flawless Lady Macbeth!

"and then! I want you to pick him up, and dash his head against the wall! Repeatedly!"

[randanopterix]

Hangman spending months trying to destroy Swerve and once he succeeds looks back with an incredible grief

[genericpuff]

whenever a physical fight scene shows up in rekindled and i get to let my OG action-drawing skills come out of the depths

[mochi-kitty]

I remember when Young Justice Dark Crisis first came out and the Bart tag was Flooded with people saying the new comic was awful, it had horrible characterizations and blatantly ignored the lore. Well after a couple of years I’ve read it and I can safely say IT WAS ASS

Truly, truly, I definitely went in with a bias but on god I could not stand this comic. 5 pages in and I was ready to stop reading. At first it feels like it was written by a YJ hater who was forced to write a story for the core 4 for the Dark Crisis event… then the rest of the comic feels like it was written by a Cassie super fan who got hired by DC official to publish their weird justification fanfic. The millennial humor, I wanted to gag. I’m gen z so maybe that’s why but wow it was so cliche written. Just insult after insult after insult to the characters and to me the reader. It almost topped Bart’s “You’re the best Mr. West!” Line from Flash vol.6, almost.

[outlivealie]

There are many lines and moments in The Wicked Years that live rent-free in my mind.

One such scene being Rain's reunion with Glinda at the end of Out of Oz, and there's the last thing* Glinda says to Rain:

“Oh, Rain,” said Glinda, when the girl was almost out the door. “One more thing. About Tip. You may think that a story should have a happy ending—” (p. 544).

Rain interrupts before she can finish what she is saying, not wishing to discuss it, and stating aloud that she isn't looking for happiness or an ending.

Now with Maguire's writing holding a tendency towards multiple interpretations, or purposefully left vague enough to leave it up to the reader (as his almost constant refusal to clarify attests to), I don’t feel too bad in viewing this with a Gelphie tilt. Though considering that Glinda’s dialogue and thoughts almost always turn towards her, I don’t think that is too unrealistic of me.

So, what was the rest going to be?

All things considered, and with her previously trying to console Liir - while mentioning doing the same for Elphaba - it stands to reason it would have been her trying to do so again (despite being well aware none of them will accept it). Perhaps to say that not all stories have a happy ending, even if you think they should. Considering she is led to say this in regards to Rain and Tip, it is not a stretch to assume that she may be thinking of herself and Elphaba and what she may have once envisioned for the future.

Naturally, the lines directly before this one are Glinda bringing up the possibility of Elphaba coming back – which is by now a common rumour/belief amongst people:

“... Maybe Elphaba will come back one day, or maybe she won’t, but in the meantime I have known you. That will see me through, I do believe.” Elphaba is not coming back, thought Rain, but she couldn’t bring herself to say it. Not to an old fool like Glinda.

A part of Glinda still hoping, perhaps, for that happy ending in whatever shape it may be. Even with all the decades that have passed since Elphaba's death, and even more since their original parting and the end of whatever they did have. One could even say that she is still... holding out...

Then Elphaba does come back. Maybe. In death or a dying hallucination or something altogether quite impossible.

And, considering what follows: now I haven’t read the Another Day trilogy (yet), but have it on good authority that the ambiguous endings for two couples are now happy endings. At least for one, the end for the other now a hopeful one. So maybe, just maybe, something apparently impossible did happen - which is another discussion entirely.

*I know some people believe it is Rain releasing Glinda from her cell at the end, and I won't dismiss other people's theories, but that is not one I believe.

[starmocha]

I don't always have to be sad to post caps of Zayne. Sometimes (Always), I just want to look at his hands. 💁‍♀️

[lynxfrost13]

LSTR-S2301 and the maintenance tunnel ARAR are best friends to me even though that Elster was only on sierpinski for a seemingly brief time, they’re bros who fuck around on the clock during work. I think Elster was probably more willing to put extra time in however she’s also very “okay you’ve given me a list of tasks I did them. They’re done and done well. That’s it, my time now.” Whereas I see Ara being more of a slacker (very valid of her) or at the very least just a bare minimum type of gal when it comes to work.

Idk I tend to imagine them fucking off in the middle of shifts to go find weird lonely corners of sierpinski to hang out in. They don’t even talk half the time but they love it.