#it would've been soooo good

[mrs-nate-humphrey]

this might seem a little random lol, but what do you think of the chair and dangina parellels, dan and blair both seemed to be attracted to georgina and chuck because they could be mean and not have to be nice all the time.

i love any & all parallels! i think that's interesting & would be a very grim kind of arc, if georgina ends up making dan feel as ~tied down to her as chuck made blair feel. (i even kind of reference this in my fic "just a yellow lemon tree," in which dan's married to georgina. there's a conversation in chapter 2 in which dan asks blair why she left chuck and the parallel is meant to be implied there.) that said, from what we saw in canon, i wouldn't say it's the exact same. there's scope for the evolution of dangina to get to a chair level, but we're not quite there yet. lemme elaborate:

you know blair's whole speech in s4 about "what's mere happiness in the face of this great love we have?" to chuck? that... that's kind of the first thing that comes to mind for me when i think about chair. chuck & blair's whole dynamic is fucky because they're both so obsessed with an image of each other - blair wants a big romantic love that's all cinematic and exciting, and what's more blockbuster than good girl gone bad and her love fixing the heart of a local ruffian? chuck on the other hand wants this infallible caretakery woman to an extent where it feels like a replacement of his missing mother figure, and he doesn't want blair to Leave him so he'll do anything and everything to keep her there.

honestly more than dan & georgie, c/b reminds me of serena/georgina. we don't see serena before her party girl days but i've always imagined georgina to be the major "bad influence" who got S into many of the dangerous situations she was in, and i could see serena being into georgina because of how georgie dared to defy all societal expectations.

that said, i like the idea of unhealthy dangina as a sad ending for dan. where he ends up stuck with her and she's all he has left, and she's obsessed with the goodness in him, and he's with her because who else would have him? i think that specific dynamic/ that type of endgame would definitely parallel chuck/blair.

i know i'm not the only one who's into this, back when the fandom was more active many others shared this headcanon, i think. i've read a lot of really good dangina fic that has that sort of depressing, defeated, fucked up vibe to it, but right now the only one i can recall is this gem by secondaudrina.

anyway, i hope that answers you!! i think canonically the way c/b & dangina are, they aren't on the same intensity of fuckery, even if there is that common thread, because chuck & blair are kind of ... worse. but there is scope for that evolution to happen. like dangina have the seed for that kind of dynamic. chair is already watering the whole damn garden of it. you know what i mean?

[iletyougo]

we (i) deserved a pirate episode with twelve....

[violetsmessofthings]

Thinking about how good s3 of The Wilds could've been if it hadn't got cancelled 😭😭

[hisirdouxcasperan]

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022), dir. Joel Crawford

[sun-marie]

What I really think media with ensemble casts, especially those in a traveling group of some kind, are missing are big, blow-out arguments between the group. Especially when there's a conflict of interests, I am such a sucker for when two or more characters disagree so strongly that they realize very little is actually holding them together as a group, and wonder if it's time to go their separate ways.

I feel like a lot of video games, specifically, just kind of assume once the traveling band is "complete", it's forced to stay together until the player expressly permits it, but I don't really find that very compelling and a lot of times it feels more like they're relying on some kind of immediately strong bond that hasn't really been earned. Which is a shame, because in my opinion one of the best ways to strengthen that bond is to have the characters disagree and argue. Maybe they realize they're only being superficially held together and so they temporarily split up, only to then realize how much they've come to care for the others in the group. Then they reunite, make-up, formulate a plan to go forward, and boom, the group bond is that much stronger. Or maybe they don't even split up, and maybe they never learn to like each other, but they decide whatever cause their working toward is more important. Something else, bigger than them, is holding them together.

It just feels like a lot of potential is going to waste to just skip straight to the intense found family bond, without earning it.

[gojoest]

saw a boy so pookie i started crying

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

I listened to TTPD all the way through on a long drive today (probably my 4th time) and I have a lot of thoughts about privacy and photography and safety. Not sure how to approach that topic on tumblr, if at all. But all of that to say, I feel a little bit ill thinking about the remaining vaults 🥴

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

WAIIIITTT me thinking my sunless ground writing is bad and then revisiting seventh virtue where the writing is like this except probably a little "worse"

[takecouragelover]

Haruno, Nanae, Double House (ダブルハウス) / Yaedi Ignatow, I Feel A Little Jumpy Around You: Paired Poems by Men & Women; from 'We Were Love', ed. Naomi Shihab Nye & Paul B. Janeczko

[earl-grey-crow]

✨pond theories✨

[kuiinncedes]

we had a beautiful, magic love there (sad beautiful tragic - taylor swift)

[infizero]

alright as of right now i am officially starting to watch sonic x. wish me luck on actually getting through it all and also feel free to threaten my life in my asks if i dont keep watching it

[rotisseries]

what’re your thoughts on live action zelda movie? i assume they’re not positive !

so glad you asked! my plans for the premiere will be a suicide bombing at nintendo hq! hope this answered your question!

[princessnijireiki]

Matt Smith really said "what if Patrick Bateman & specifically Tom Cruise Lestat had an English baby" and Jared Harris said "what if I was his papà & left silk bathrobes lying around my NYC penthouse for Lestateman to change into when we have little charged gay conversations about how 'he was (re)born different & it's not a curse' in my living room with the Pepto Bismol pink walls & leftover furniture set pieces from Auntie Mame," and Sony/Marvel took those geniuses & stuck them in Morbius

[radio-4-is-static]

有心論 / Yushinron | RADWIMPS

誰も端っこで泣かないようにと 君は地球を丸くしたんだろう？ だから君に会えないと僕は　隅っこ探して泣く　泣く

誰も命　無駄にしないようにと　 君は命に終わり作ったよ だから君がいないその時は　僕は息を止め　待つ

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You made the world round So that nobody would cry in a corner, didn’t you? So when you’re not here, I look for a corner and cry and cry

You gave life an end So that nobody would waste it So when you’re not here, I hold my breath and wait

[noxtivagus]

I'M CRYING THE 6.3 TRAILER IN THE LIVE LETTER 😭