#im thinking about them constantly

[gaygummy]

I get gayer every time I think about Crowley and Aziraphale.

[kumamooko]

Originally wrote this for a movieverse lava one-shot for Ao3 ...but i decided to share it here because i don't think i'll finish the full thing

However, i love how the first part turns out <3

Word count: 808 words

Kinda ooc, but enjoy anyways 😁💖

“I like you too.”

Kai never thought he’d ever hear those 4 words ever in his entire life. Especially from someone like Cole.

It felt like yesterday that they first actually met. Kai knew a lot of people in high school, constantly circling around groups with new friends every second. The only person he never got around, however, is the black-haired guy who sat on the left seat in front of him during Math. The lone wolf tends to blast his headphones with loud music, moving away from any kind of social interactions. His bulky exterior and quiet nature gives off an ‘intimidating’ aura, which makes it much harder for anyone to approach. The teachers didn't pay much attention to him, as he constantly got above average scores, compared to Kai's up-and-down average scores in certain classes. Despite the guy’s ‘too cool for school’ persona, that didn’t stop Kai to at least be a little curious about it.

The Secret Ninja Force has only recruited a couple of teens that showed potential to protect Ninjago from the evil Lord Garmadon, who attacked the city daily. It made Kai wonder what part of him chasing a local man for a loaf of bread with roller skates showed potential to something honorable like a ninja, but it's still a cool opportunity nonetheless. It was a bit rough for the first few days of settlement, first time meeting each other and all. Especially learning the fact that they’re teaming up with Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon, the most hated kid in Ninjago, to fight his own father who has been terrorizing Ninjago since before day one. They all come around eventually, understanding that Lloyd is just a normal teen like them, just with a bit of teen angst and massive daddy issues. You can’t not feel bad for him and his mom, at the very least.

Sticking around with Lloyd Garmadon got its perks, one of them being avoided like the plague. Kai is doing fine on his own activities, but it took him a while to realize that his sports team are talking about him behind his back.

It doesn’t really matter, because all Kai needs are his new masked friends he fought alongside with, one of them is… well…

His name is Cole, Cole Brookstone. Despite the bulky exterior, the brunet comes to realize the soft and relaxed look the guy kept on his face. His eyes, gentle and his voice, incredibly soothing. The brunet didn't find him 'intimidating' like what the people at school say. In fact, he finds him… kinda cute actually, which is a totally platonic thing Kai has to say about his fellow ninja-mate. 

Hanging out with Cole is always the highlight on any given day. They’re always paired up during missions defending the city, spending even more time chatting through the communicators on the Fire and Quake Mech. The two even joked about building a 'Fire Stone mech', that is able to support the both of them.

Before he even realized it, Kai's smile started to get more lopsided whenever he locked eyes with Cole during class. His hand is always itching to comb his gelled hair neatly whenever Cole comes around between classes, smirking whenever he sees him. The way his spirit lifts up whenever he hangs out with Cole after classes. He is constantly thinking about all the ways he could get Cole to notice him. Maybe he’ll show off his reputable skills on the ice rink, and in that way, he could get Cole to skate with him!

It doesn’t matter what anybody says, as long as his eyes are on him. It really can't be helped.

Kai loved every little thing there is about him.

The way he took off his headphones to listen whenever he or their friends had something to say with full attention.

The way he tied his hair up messily during their missions and hot days to avoid his adorable face getting too sweaty.

The way he smiled sweetly whenever they hangout, the kind you rarely see when others are around as if it's only for him to see.

The way he made him feel loved and cared about, more than anyone in the whole world.

Kai's down, really bad.

…and Cole felt the same way.

Kai doesn't know what to do. His heart is pounding so fast that he couldn’t keep up, almost falling in the process. Luckily Cole’s hands are there to hold him, intertwining with his scarred hands. That sweet, rare smile unable to leave his face, accompanied by the redness on his cheeks.

“So, um, this weekend, do you wanna…  hang out, maybe?” Kai asked. His thumb glided over Cole’s big hands, appreciating each curve. It feels really calming. “Just the two of us.”

Cole lets out a soft, satisfied sigh.

“Yeah, I’m free.”

[transjarlaxle]

need to start holding press releases for my oc/canon content . none of yall give a shit but the discord dms can only handle so much

[mtridactyla]

the gwen spideypool dating to gwen spideypool qpr pipeline

[somefink790]

the absolute GRIP butterfly soup 2 has on me. and it hasn't even been out for 24 hours

[lostandbackagain]

how do you even stay in love for over a decade with someone you haven't seen once in that time period I'm honestly asking

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[strangertheories]

I really despise the Marvelification of Stranger Things, because all the interviews nowadays are constantly referencing how fast paced and epic and big the finale will be but the reason people fell in love with the show wasn't special effects or long episodes; it was the plot, it was the characters, it was the mystery. Stranger Things 1 may have been a story about a government conspiracy and a monster, but that's not why we stuck around. The show can throw amazing CGI, Russians, a battle within the American army and an apocalypse at the audience with the biggest budget known to man but if they forget to ground it and keep it central, it'll just get lost amongst a plethora of other "epic" blockbusters. We want Steven King, not Avengers.

[evilesbiautism]

The most common argument you'll hear against self diagnosis is that people will fake being [X] for attention. But every disabled person, physical or otherwise, knows this could only work in online spaces - the world was not made for us, and brandishing your disability as a badge of honor that gives you ~special privileges~ is such a funny idea.

Like, honey - that doesn't happen. No one gets anything from being disabled. Maybe extra accommodations if you're lucky - but nothing else. And the internet isn't as important as you seem to think - eventually it just feels hollow.

Ask disabled people how often they had to fight to get diagnosed so their medical needs could be met and their complaints would be heard. Doctors are just hardwired to delay this as much as possible.

I knew I was autistic since late 2018 - I got an official diagnosis 4 months ago. Knowing yourself and how you can make your own life easier is a lifesaver.

And this isn't even going into how many *cons* there are to a professional diagnosis, like being met with disdain at best and denied services at worst.

I don't care if a 16 year old who self diagnosed after taking 1 online quiz about autism is wrong. And honestly I think it's weird people treat this 'issue' with so much hatred.

[justaz]

merlin’s secret being a visual thing. when he is around arthur or gwen or leon or morgana or [insert whatever character here] merlin seems pale and thin, almost like a ghost or an apparition. when the sun lands on him he reflects it like a corpse, he eyes seem dark and dull. he has this ethereal beauty to him, this otherworldly visage that leads many to believe he is of fae blood. he just doesn’t seem to be 100% human. but when he is ONLY with lancelot or gaius (cough or gwaine bc gwaine DEFINITELY knew) merlin is heartachingly human. merlin shines in the sunlight, colors are brighter and more vibrant around him, and his smiles are wide and his laughs are boisterous. he takes on color and leaves everyone wanting to know him. but when other join in or interact with the two, merlin shifts before their eyes so quickly and suddenly that they aren’t sure whether or not what they saw was a trick of the light. the idea still leaves them wanting more and wanting to see the merlin who is just so full of life but that merlin only appears for a small select group of people. merlin who has a guard so high that it has an effect of other’s perception of him.

[caramelldansenu]

[blackbatcass]

im sorry for being obsessed with dick and cass as if it’s my fault. what if we were the only two people to truly understand batman and his mission but in very different ways. and we were siblings. and we were both insane

[introspectivememories]

too many of you guys think nico is the loser and not lewis for letting the divorce go on for so long. like they're both losers about each other. emotionally constipated idiots who can't talk about their toxic homoerotic friendship that imploded on itself like 8 years ago and are now making it everyone else's problem. yeah nico's on television or in beer gardens talking about lewis all the time but like every other month some reporter is like "lewis, what's your favorite moment in your career?" and lewis no hesitation is like "oh man, karting, y'know? everything was simpler then" and then spends another six months skirting around nico's name. like this whole thing they're doing in the media isn't some kinda extended foreplay for them. they're both still pressing on the bruise to make sure it's still there!!! every few months, they're literally just asking on public television, does it still hurt for you like it does for me? and like clockwork, someone will release new information about them or one of them will say something about each other (in my heart, he's still my best friend/yes... and teammate) and the answer will remain the same, yes, of course, always.

[turtleblogatlast]

One of the earliest examples of Leo’s “I’ll do my own thing to accomplish our goal without discussing it with my team first” is in episode one. It’s super, super quick, and ultimately inconsequential, but it subtly sets up a great precedent that I think is very interesting.

When the boys need to grab the medallion from Splinter without Splinter noticing, Raph, Mikey, and Donnie huddle together with Raph taking the lead in trying to devise a plan to get the mystic device. Meanwhile, Leo slinks away and grabs the device by clocking the situation (by knowing his father well enough to predict his actions - something he does with each family member multiple times in the series) and making a move on his own.

It works out perfectly fine, and is ultimately the best move, and it’s honestly okay that he didn’t consult everyone for something so small when it’s such a non issue to get it, but it nicely sets up how this tends to go in the series, including how it goes in the movie.

To be honest episode one is actually really good at setting up a lot of things for each character in the long run, this is just one example that caught my attention, as small and unassuming as it is.

[junotter]

All the jokes about Ken and horses are good but I just wanna say it's such a good parallel to how actual young men get swept into misogyny and the patriarchy.

Like they're told to believe it means men get to be cool and manly and have this power but with that comes extremely rigid commands of what they can be as a man and a cycle of self hatred for never matching those gender roles perfectly. Patriarchy tells men that if they just do exactly what is expected of them, then they get all the "cool stuff" that comes with. That doesn't work though when there's only a small group that actually gets that power, but men will keep trying to fit into those roles in hopes that they can.

In the end there are no horses or the myth men are told, it's just endless cycles of self hatred and ingroup fighting.

[5hrignold]

happy sunday