#im nothing if not very predictable

[katsigian]

I've only just made him but oh my god do I love him - I'm calling him Callistus, long for Cal ⚔️

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Sebastian Vettel(ft. Mark Webber & Jenson Button)

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

ok so like objectively yes ed did things wrong but not only do i personally feel no negative emotions about any of that, i swear it would make more sense tonally with the rest of the show to NOT make a huge chunk of s2 be about ed facing the consequences for and redeeming himself from the marooning/pushing lucius overboard/izzy toe thing. like if im wrong i’m wrong and it’s whatever but i really really think the focus will be more on ed’s internal emotional state and how his choices were informed by trauma and how he’s going to learn to heal more than it’s gonna be like, Ed Learns It’s Wrong To Maroon People And Force Feed People Their Own Toes. like if anything i think it’ll be Ed Learns That He Deserves To Be Happy And He Also Realizes That Marooning People And Force Feeding People Their Own Toes Is An Unhealthy Coping Skill That Negatively Affects His Mental Health And He Learns New, Healthier Coping Strategies. like i think the focus of coming out of the kraken era is going to be almost entirely on ed’s feelings, and any mention of how his actions harmed the rest of the cast will be brief and/or it’ll primarily be played for comedy

which yes irl this would kinda suck to have some guy respond to getting his heart broken (and other stuff) by killing and maiming people and then have his whole journey of self-discovery be solely abt him and not any of the people he’s hurt. HOWEVER a biiiiiig part of the humor of the show is that the characters are experiencing some very real and very relatable self-esteem issues and insecurities and vulnerabilities, and all of that is placed on a backdrop of comedically gratuitous pirate violence. like this is a romcom and ed is basically going through the classic emotional beats of the romcom heroine getting her heart broken and eating a whole tub of ice cream and crying in her room for days before becoming cold and distant and “love is dead” edgy, only the joke is that bc he’s a pirate his “love is dead” romcom era includes some people actually literally dying. izzy and the crew all just happen to be in the blast radius for this joke, and while we as fans might love and care abt those characters too, the plain fact is that ed and stede are the main characters and the other characters’s feelings or storylines or internal motivations simply do not matter nearly as much to the show as theirs (with the exception of maybe jim, and also maybe olu depending on how s2 goes). and that’s literally just how romcoms work. this sort of “protagonist bias” is like, a core part of this kind of story.

and there’s nothing wrong with not vibing with the story because of that. if season two comes and goes and you aren’t happy with how the show handled the consequences of ed’s actions in e10 that’s fine, nobody has to feel any specific way about this show. but if i’m right and this is how s2 plays out and some of y’all don’t like this, the problem is not that ofmd is bad. the problem is just that this is not the story you wanted or expected to be told.

i DO think, tho, that there’s something very powerful abt a character like this being a queer indigenous man. he’s a gay romcom protagonist and narratively speaking his feelings trump all. this is a queer romcom that uses gratuitous slapstick violence as a punchline and where the queer main characters are allowed to get violent and unhinged about their feelings, and at the end of the day they ultimately get a pass bc it’s a gay romcom and the show is about them. like literally that description itself is more than i could’ve ever dreamed of from any tv show ever, and THEN you’re telling me that one of the main characters is indigenous???? it’s been a year and a half and s2 is right around the corner and i swear to god i still can’t believe this show actually exists. we don’t GET shows like this, we don’t GET characters like this. ed teach is such a fucking blessing of a character and i love him with all my heart.

[sea-buns]

One of the people on chilled's team is one of the top mc event players (places an average of 1st in a very similar event) and a lot of people are ranking the team higher bc of him (he is also new to this event though so people are not placing the team as high as they would otherwise)

Right and I get that. And granted idk how good Oli and Kara typically do, or how much one players point count can affect the entire team's placement.

But I mean. This is Chilledchaos we're talking about. Team TIES consists of people who play minecraft for a living.

I don't know if you've heard, but Chilled said yes to participating in this event despite not even knowing what type of competition it is. He has absolutely no clue what happens in MCC. I watched this man ask chat what the second C stood for. I watched him look at his calendar live on stream and put his hands on his head in distress as he goes "It's in eight days?!"

So yeah y'know I wonder if it can really make enough of a difference that they breach last place. Red can do okay point wise but it means nothing if the other teams do even slightly better cuz all 4 of them know how to play the game.

Like I said, we are in for a fun time not a winning time lmao

[unoisveimved-un-proffesional]

freaking it on the living room floor twitching dead cockroach style. Amen.

[simple-and-cozy-life]

I've been so stressed from the changes happening in my life that I forgot that, even though this is going to suck, God is going to get me through this transitional time. Eventually, I will have the stability that I need and I will have a family.

Life will persist and so must I.

[absenthearted]

FIC: BITE THE HAND THAT NEEDS YOU the quarry | travis/laura | work-in-progress

“You’re still the best option I got.” “More like the only option.” Travis exhales. “Yeah. That, too.”

Post-game. All the counsellors die except for Laura, she chooses not to shoot Travis, and Travis locks her up again. This is what happens after.

[coloursofaparadox]

hnnnnnnnnnnnmmnn its overshare on the internet o clock

[wilderlingdev]

Heyy, could you answer 🌿 and 🌞?

Love you story btw

🌿 who is your favourite character you've ever written?

ok this one is pretty hard.... but probably valerian from my regular/linear novel wip. he's SO chaotic, very vain, sometimes cruel and selfish, but very vulnerable too & with very relatable wants/fears. he's the closest thing to an antihero i've ever written (or will write... since i only have a half finished "zero draft" of this story) and i just adore the way his mind works and the relationships he ends up developing.

🌞 favourite character from current wip

ok, for briarheart it's probably nima. i know we arent supposed to have favorite ROs but well... they are mine. they are a bit like valerian since both are /very/ messy (even though nima is harmless in comparison.... very confused/lost instead of very selfish). i love how vulnerable they are but also how unpredictable they can be as well.

since im also working on fantasy romance wip rn (regular/linear fiction, not an if, im posting more about it on my writing blog) there's also loifa, who is a lot like valerian and nima. in fact, a venn diagram of my current favorite ocs would look like this:

i have a very obvious type anon 🥲 they even look a bit alike lol

thank you so much!!! i hope i can update briarheart soon <3

[seilon]

by no means do i regret cutting off my dad but. sometimes i remember experiences with him that are so novel i wouldnt ever replace them. specifically i am thinking about how he’d play this country song sometimes that i have no idea how he found about gay interracial cowboys in love. i never asked him about it. i think about it often

[sunsrefuge]

also if anyone Actually sees my tags on elf’s art: yes! i am dead serious!

[orcelito]

Tales of Arise is the game of all time

Proof: this face on Dohalim ^

Also these scenery pics I took. This game is really beautiful

[faerociousbeast]

I FUCKING KNEW IT

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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[dumbkiwi]

extremely funny that i find that a bunch of my izzy mutuals on twt are all following the cazador astarion accts

[fabdante]

everyone is lucky that a certain ship has not crossed my dash, causing you all to have respect for me still