#laughs shit that plot ...

[darthstitch]

I've always wondered how the story would work out if a young Christine Daae meets Erik as the Opera Ghost, NOT as the Angel of Music.

This is a kid who's grown up on fairy tales. She should know that the first rule is always to be kind. Kindness and courtesy and respect can be a surprisingly effective defense against the scariest creatures. Christine is all of these things by nature, except when curiousity gets the better of her.

But that's for a different story and in a different universe. Over here, Christine gets to meet the infamous Phantom of the Opera as a young girl, just beginning to leave her childhood behind, just still enough of a child to believe.

So maybe when she accidentally runs into a tall, dark, forbidding figure with his elegant gentleman's clothes and opera cloak and white mask, she doesn't scream or run or faint.

Maybe she drops him a cute little curtsy, wobbling a little because unlike her best friend Meg, she's not a born ballerina. Maybe she warbles a little greeting, "Good day to you, Monsieur Opera Ghost."

And maybe that's how it starts.

Erik makes friends with this adorable little girl who doesn't scream at the sight of him. He's utterly charmed by her and she's the first person, in a good long while, who gets to learrn that the Opera Ghost isn't really a ghost.

He gives her his name.

(Ironically, Le Fantôme forgets what the old tales speak of when it comes to the giving of names.)

Maybe the two of them end up making mischief together, the Phantom and his petite fantôme, pulling off ingenious pranks and silly, harmless tricks. Maybe Christine starts adding to the ever growing store of Opera Ghost tales, with all these gloriously lurid details that she manages to relay with an absolutely straight face.

Erik, in his usual hiding places in the Opera House, is hard set not to give the game away by helplessly chortling at his petite fantôme's imagination. At one point, one storytelling session is broken up by the little ballet and chorus girls screaming in delighted terror because Erik couldn't stop himself from laughing.

(He had to throw his voice for that, so he wouldn't give away where he was hiding.)

Christine grows up, of course, and Erik doesn't develop the weird crazed obssessiveness that grew out of a desperate love - this is not that universe. For him, she's his dear petite fantôme - a friend, who, against all odds, isn't going to be ripped away from him through some tragic twist of fate.

(He has so very few of them, you see. Sometimes, he's not even sure if THEY think of him as a friend. Opera ghosts can't be choosers, though.)

Things start changing, maybe, when Christine is nineteen and she's starting to dream about being more than just singing in the chorus. Erik is only too delighted to have nurtured the development of her original sweet childish treble to the glorious instrument that it was now. They've often sung together, the two of them - her high sweet ethereal voice chasing after his own resonant tones, blending in harmony.

(One of their favorite pranks was to sing haunting melodies in a near-empty theater, simultaneously scaring the life out of the skeleton crew working at night.)

Some things are meant to happen, no matter what the universe, and Christine Daae steps in as an unlikely substitute for the temperamental La Carlotta. She brings Paris to its feet with her rendition of Elissa in Hannibal.

Christine gets asked, of course, how on earth did she suddenly bring out That Voice,

She only smiles. "I was taught, of course, by my Angel of Music. Who else?" Mischief and mystery are dancing in those blue eyes.

There's a funny little lurch in Erik's heart at the way she says "my Angel of Music."

He hasn't a clue why.

[jacqcrisis]

I think my favorite thing in rewatching season 1 of arcane...other than, you know, jayce and viktor meeting, 'what were you doing?' 'I dunno, science???', viktor calling Jayce's ass out with that 'you signed your initials on every page', Jayce being so goddamn precious about his partner, Vitkor just tagging along with Jayce in his counselor duties like a jilted wife watching her husband slowly lose himself to his new job and the Other Woman, Jayce's absolutely BONKERS decision to smith shirtless like that still boggles the mind and is the best character decision ever made-

But!! My favorite thing is when I think it was Mel asks Jayce where Viktor is and Jayce, in the most 'I'm not bothered by this but I absolutely secretly kind of am' tone, says 'I don't know, he just disappears sometimes'. Like goddamn, you were just cavorting around with the Piltover elite and getting your guillible ass led around by your dick by Mel, but god forbid Viktor go somewhere without you. How many times has Viktor come back from doing his own shit to Jayce just a little pissy he wasn't included in the field trip? Just a little, just a tiny bit offended that Viktor didn't invite him cause you know, he just invites Viktor literally everywhere every time and Viktor could extend the courtesy but it's fine! He'll get over it. Again.

And then Viktor is immediately not in Jayce's line of sight maybe a day later and Jayce is throwing up his hands like 'Ugh! Guess I'll just hang out with this lesbian I just met and go kill a bunch of miners and maybe even a minor >:('

Amazing. Spectacular. No one's doing it like Jayce.

[beanghostprincess]

thinking about zoro kissing luffy's cheeks. like. just that. luffy being all silly and zoro violently and loudly kissing his cheek in the wettest, and most aggressive way ever because his captain is just too cute. and then the dude goes away to sleep or smth because he just had the urge to kiss luffy all of a sudden.

[wu-wakfu-undertale]

Re-watching wakfu for the first time in years and s1 Yugo was so silly???

dude discovered he could make portals at will and his first thought after actually acknowledging it is "i can do so many cool pranks with this"

[sesamestreep]

“requiem for methuselah” crazy ass episode for many reasons. Kirk is being fully insane, like I don’t actually think, even controlling for how quickly and easily and readily he seems to fall in love with anybody at the slightest encouragement, that he’d go that bonkers for that android woman he just met while everyone on the ship was this close to dying, but that’s neither here nor there, because in the background you’ve got an equally but much more subtly insane episode for Spock, who extremely uncharacteristically admits to experiencing an emotion (or nearly experiencing, whatever) and that emotion is ENVY of all things. And then spends the rest of the episode warning Kirk away from this new love interest (something that doesn’t usually happen, even when Kirk has very inadvisable love interests) and is, in the end, the person who accurately identifies that Rayna’s competing love for Kirk and Flint is ultimately what overwhelms and destroys her with the most killer line in maybe history???

And then to wrap it up we get an equally uncharacteristic sort of denouement scene (TOS loooves to cut an episode off right after the actual climax, leaving little time for falling action or character reflection, or to stick a sitcom-y button on the end where the gang all smiles and laughs at their misadventures and everything resets to zero, which is not a criticism, it’s just the style of that era of tv, honestly) where Kirk is literally miserable over Rayna’s death (again, kind of unusual for a lot of his love interests, he tends to be able to move on pretty quickly) and Spock goes to see him and he falls asleep right in front of Spock (also odd) and then when Bones comes in to give the final word on Flint, Spock waves him off from waking the Captain (tender) and Bones gives him that awful speech about how it’s sadder that Spock can’t even imagine the love Kirk felt for this random android woman than it is that Kirk lost her in the first place (debatable but also rude) and how his great tragedy is that he can’t love at all like they can and how all he wishes is that Kirk could forget about all of this and move on. AND THEN, to have Bones leave and Spock go over to Kirk and very gently, tenderly, reluctantly touch him and put his hand to his forehead and tell him to forget and HAVE THAT BE THE END OF THE EPISODE??? What am I supposed to do with that??

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Well, at least Fukuzawa got his wish granted, I guess.... he's finally inside Fukuchi <3

[goldensakuma]

i am in. Immense Pain

[bookshelfpassageway]

i'm gonna be the one insufferable bastard on this earth that liked everhood 2, huh

[amorfista-of-izalith]

Ralph still loves taking care of plants and is into birdwatching I'm so sure of it

[airenyah]

[10thmusemoon]

Ask game: Sect Leaders Suitors.

Tried my best for this lol recently my creativity just went down so I don't have many good prompts to give.

cw omegaverse

Oh lmao I might steal this title for one of two fics I have already started.

One of which being an omegaverse au where yqy presents as an omega right before they ascend and now there is a scramble to marry him off. The night he presented he went to QJP seeking SJ to claim him and SJ, despite wanting very badly to, had a paranoid fit and did the responsible thing and dumped him on Qian Cao Peak for them to deal with. I haven't decided if SJ is an alpha or an omega pretending to be an alpha, either way, it was an aggressively horny night of regret for him.

Then at the following peak lord meeting yqy is noticeably absent, the sect leader brings up his presentation and how, traditionally, in the event of the QDP head disciple being an omega the first pick of potential spouses will come from the ascending peak lords before opening it up to other sects. The sect leader is very matter of fact about it, the other peak lords are a little exhausted having to deal with yet another thing before ascension, and their head disciples are actually pretty horrified. YQY is in heat and here they are talking about marrying him off!! Without him!!

"Please submit your proposals to my chief of staff for review."

"Shouldn't Yue-shixiong have a say in this?" It is rare for Qi Qingqi to speak out of turn, that she does so now sparks an interest in the other peak lords, some leaning forward in their seats for a better view.

The sect leader's eyes narrow, an uncharacteristic smile playing at his lips. "Qi-shizhi's concern for her martial brother is commendable, however, in light of recent incompatibility with his first choice, Yue Qingyuan has turned over the decision to Qiong Ding's head office."

and this is where you think, oh muse, so predictable! now it's time for SJ to angst and wallow as the tragic romantic lead of this fic! WRONG! This fic is about Qi Qingqi and her determination to 1) root out whomst the FUCK rejected yqy for being an omega 2) find a suitable match for him amongst their martial siblings and if that fails 3) MARRY HIM HERSELF in iconic wlw mlm solidarity.

I think, to shift the world accordingly, her peak has the highest concentration of omegas but still opts to have a very op alpha peak lord "for their protection." I think most of the hall masters would be betas for respectability reasons there too.

Sj is, of course, still wallowing in the background but in such a sketchy way that QQQ is thinking "god anyone would be better suited than him"

[nebulastarss]

I'm still so unironically upset about the minecraft movie

[vivitalks]

rick is such a coward for writing three books about blitzstone's epic love story and then trying to set up a romance between hearth and inge

[feverdreamsandlucidnightmares]

I really could be your fake wife that died for the plot though. This is a service I can provide

[gu6chan]

will say about the dnd party im part of one of the characters is, according to their player, inspired off nifty from hazbin hotel and it shows (negative)

[cakemoney]

riz is the child of sklonda who is dating gorthalax who is the father of fig whose mom is sandra lynn who is dating jawbone who adopted adaine (and aelwyn by extension i guess) and also jawbone's daughter's ex-girlfriend who lives with him is kristen and also fig's other dad gilear is dating hallariel whose son is fabian. and then there's gorgug, who i'm sure thanks various sundry gods every day that neither his adopted nor his biological parents have any relation to any of his classmates