#just to be safe.

[babygirlificationn]

[otiksimr]

Unfamiliar Flesh

[nartml]

You know what actually grates on my nerves about Sam and Dean?

They almost never hug. It drives me up the fucking wall.

Every time my little brother and I so much as teeter on the edge of a fight I need to hug him.

Every time I see that lil guy wake up I need to hug him and kiss his cheek and forehead, before ensuring that he knows that he's the biggest pain in my ass.

So when I see Sam and Dean going through the shit they go through while almost never hugging despite giving each other daily heart attacks?? I feel ill.

In season 5 after all that internal conflict, and after that terrifying alternative future of what would happen if they did, in fact, stay away from each other, when Dean gave him the knife back and they still didn't hug I felt a PHYSICAL ACHE IN MY SOUL FOR THEM TO HUG.

And it's a general thing, when I read/watch a scene where characters that are dear to each other either go through some sort of near-death-i-almost-lost-you-and-my-mind experience or after they resolve a major internal conflict don't hug it out I feel so irrationally pissed off.

I personally could never.

[threedotsfromstardom]

[n-pq]

"[...] And besides, there’s no such thing as fate.”

They lived in two entirely separate worlds.

based again on the gift of silence.

[iiryoku]

I apologize up front for my negative view on Jade.

[thesean]

some more ninjago doodles

[atopvisenyashill]

what do you think of the possibility of a jon/arya/gendry triangle?

unless gendry is gonna have a thing for both arya and jon, i don't buy it.

i think when arya and gendry meet again, there will be some sort of romantic angle. i think it's very clear from our last glimpses at gendry that he really regrets separating from arya because he thinks he left her to be captured and married off to ramsay, and i think there's the added guilt there of him feeling like..."i should have just told her i loved her back." i know she doesn't quite say she loves him but i think that direction they gave maisie in the show, where when she says "i can be your family" "no you would be milady" that she should say it as if she's saying "i love you" is essentially the conversation arya and gendry are having in the book as well (just not so straightforward, because sometimes tv simply needs to spell it out in a way a book doesn't). arya is telling gendry, in a roundabout way that she likely doesn't even understand (i mean...she clearly doesn't understand, she's young enough to get she has like A Bond with gendry but not so old to imo realize that what she's feeling is a crush) that she loves him and she wants him to keep traveling with her because of that. and gendry is telling her, essentially, that love is not enough.

for gendry, i think there's a few things at play there - there's the class issue which is the biggest number one factor and it's something he can't ever get around, and gendry is older and not so sheltered and gets that even if arya has good intentions, like as not he's going to be making armor for her husband and not actually living with her the way she naively assumes they'll get to do until the end of time. but beyond that, i think gendry is very aware of arya's crush on him and isn't sure how to handle it. i think he recognizes the weird age gap but it's also like...it's close enough that they consider each other "peers" essentially. think of like a high school freshman and a seventh grader. they were peers in middle school, and now all of a sudden the high schooler is "inappropriate." how do you handle this as a child? do you even understand why this boundary exists? arya doesn't see it but gendry clearly does and i think that's another factor - he is interested but he feels it's taking advantage (because it is!) to encourage it. so his rejection of her, while not textually romantic, is still a romantic rejection and they both know it. but now he's heard she's been married to a man even older than he is, and this man is raping and abusing her constantly, and gendry is thinking "i should have just gotten over myself and went with her."

but if there's a love triangle (i think it's not likely because arya was meant to be much older than she is now, and that's one of the things george has since cut and is struggling with), it's not gonna be between arya, gendry, and her brother. i just don't see any evidence that either jon or arya feel romantic anything towards each other, nor do i see the point of this relationship specifically going romantic. you have the same issue with arya/gendry which is the age gap being deeply uncomfortable for one thing, and i don't think i could ever get over this specific one because jon and arya grew up together. they are best friends. it's much too jaehaerys and alysanne for me. "oh they think of each other all the time" yeah i also think about my cousin constantly that doesn't mean i want to fuck her! it just means we're very close!! do we think oberyn wanted to fuck elia?? do we think ned wanted to fuck lyanna??? no, i think it's much more likely it would be something between gendry, arya, and edric dayne. he's closer in age, he's involved in the riverlands plot that arya will be rejoining soon enough, both he and gendry are in the brotherhood, and there's a lot of anti parallels between the boys - being castle raised vs raised in flea bottom, being high born vs being base and low born, ned's very name being a potential clue to the lyanna mystery, gendry's entire existence being a clue to the twincest reveal, etc. do i think it's still likely to happen? no because george cannot slow his plot down to save his goddamn life and i do think the youngest starklings (rickon, arya, and bran) are the ones who are going to suffer the most there. i think it could have been real fun though, i'll miss the idea of arya being in a love triangle, i think she deserves some normal teenage drama after the shit she's been through. alas.

[velcryons]

why are people in the tags so fucking obsessed with turning c.orlys into a shitty husband instead of the victim of shitty writing

[disciple-of-frost]

I may have done a thing.

(Etsy Link)

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

x. hiatus/break-up era boys 😒.

[stromuprisahat]

Do you think Shu Han dissecting Grishi is inspired by unit 731? I know she said Grisha are based on Jewish people, and it would make sense thematically for medical horrors to be done to Grishi. But to make the evil scientists specifically East Asian given how infamous unit 731 is-idk if it's a reach but the vibes are off. I don't think I need to explain how bad it is if LB really did stick a RL atrocity done by the imperial Japanese government(who was allied to Nazi Germany) to Chinese and Russian citizens to her China-inspired country

I wanted to say no, and point out LB's lack of research on anything, but auntie wiki says:

Unit 731 was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes committed by the Japanese armed forces. It routinely conducted tests on people who were dehumanized and internally referred to as "logs". Experiments included disease injections, controlled dehydration, biological weapons testing, vivisection, amputation, and standard weapons testing. Victims included not only kidnapped men, women (including pregnant women) and children, but also babies born from the systemic rape perpetrated by the staff inside the compound. The victims came from different nationalities, with the majority being Chinese and a significant minority being Russian. Additionally, Unit 731 produced biological weapons that were used in areas of China not occupied by Japanese forces, which included Chinese cities and towns, water sources, and fields. Estimates of those killed by Unit 731 and its related programs range up to half a million people, and none of the inmates survived.

... and yes, that looks like exactly the kind of thing she would use with utter lack of understanding or sensitivity of approach.

I've always thought she split up German Nazi methods between Shu and Fjerdans. One gaining Mengele, the other mostly systematic extermination. After both duologies we know Fjerdans like cutting and biochemistry too, perhaps even more than Shu. I'm not sure if Japanese experiments were its inspiration, but impregnating Grisha, while getting them addicted to enhancing drug would fit the description above.

[arielbeaumont]

So you do call him father? Or does he make you call him something else? Master? Supreme Seeder?

"Father, yes, or 'sir' if you're groveling. It's less about paternal affection, and more about authority, you understand; to call him anything else is to be punished. I expect his current crop of youths is the same, though I should very much like to see his face if one of my brethren were to try out Supreme Seeder. Good way to lose your head, but it would certainly be entertaining."

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

I’d rot in hell with you.

[tuherrus]

someone somewhere probably already drew this but here's the centaur kiss anyway