#live off the floor

[zombetty666]

Shout out to musical Day Ones! Excited to support Cachada and their Residency this summer!

[kebriones]

She's yearning and contemplating.

[dear-ao3]

so i live in an apartment and we have a trash room on each floor where you throw your trash and shit and its 11pm and im like ok i need to take out the recycling, let me see if theres room in the bin (cause people over fill it all the time), and so i walk down to the trash room to check, right? and people will leave just shit theyre getting rod of outside of the trash room that doesnt fit in the room and anyone can take it and usually its like boxes that are too big and like the occasional shelf.

so you could imagine my surprise when i peek down and see a desk chair. a printer, still with paper in it. the handlebars of a children's bike. an entire ikea bag stuffed full of clothes. a broken table. and not one, not two, but three flat screen tvs.

i am concerned about my neighbors.

[general-cyno]

[bamboozled-distress]

jeph loeb MIGHT be a writing genius

[varpusvaras]

More Soulmate Marks AU stuff (a thing I will be writing later on because this is possessing me) is that Padmé and Anakin have matching marks. Palpatine sees these and fully believes that Anakin and Padmé are soulmates, especially since by the time Palpatine meets Anakin for the first time, Anakin and Padmé have already met each other, and with how taken Anakin is with Padmé, it's a safe assumption to be made.

What he doesn't know is (and what Baby Anakin doesn't mention because he at first didn't quite get the Marks either) is that while Padmé and Anakin have the same mark, they didn't fullfill each other's marks.

No, Anakin and Padmé are not soulmates.

Anakin and Rex, however, are.

As are Rex and Padmé.

When Padmé gets pregnant with the twins, it is Rex who takes her to her prenatal appointments, because if it comes down to it, they can just claim that Rex is the father. It would still cause a scandal, of course, but not as big as if people knew that the twins were Anakin's. Anakin rather likes this arrangement, because it keeps everybody off his back as well. They all know that Padmé is having an extremely healthy pregnancy, and they since finding out that it's twins, they have really put an effort into making sure that everything goes well, as Padmé is accessing all of the top-tier health care.

The thing is, that Anakin is still really, really obsessive.

He has it all planned out. He will carry out his destiny, he will end the war, he will get Rex and his brothers their freedom, and he, Padmé, Rex and the kids will live a happy life together.

He gets the dreams of Padmé dying in childbirth. They go to the doctors. The doctors run every single test and tell them that everything is absolutely as it should be, and with them all there for the birth, the chances of something happening are minimal. They will take every precaution, so if something goes wrong, they have every tool available to prevent things from escalating.

Anakin thinks that maybe the stress of the war is getting to him. But the dreams just keep coming, and they are so similar to the dreams of his mother, and he just cannot let them be.

The doctors continue to tell that everything is alright, and that they will do absolutely everything to stop anything from going wrong.

Anakin still cannot let it be. He analyses every part of his dreams, trying to see what could be the cause, trying to see the thing that connects all the dreams together-

Rex is not there.

He's never there, not in single one of the dreams. And Padmé looks so heartbroken, and she keeps asking after someone and-

Rex is dead.

There is not other option. In his dreams, Rex is dead, and Padmé keeps asking after him. She has lost her soulmate, and is heartbroken, and cannot keep going-

No, no, no. Anakin can't let that happen. He cannot lose Padmé, and he cannot lose Rex, and he cannot let Padmé lose Rex either.

If Rex is alive, then his dreams cannot come true. If Rex is there, then they cannot be real.

So Anakin becomes extremely protective of Rex, and every single battle is even more stress to him, because at least Padmé is safe on Coruscant, but Rex is not, Rex is always there, and Anakin needs to keep him safe, because if he doesn't, he will lose them both.

And he just keeps spiraling deeper and deeper, because he needs them, because losing one of them means losing the other as well, and he can't take it, he can't-

Then Palpatine offers him his help.

Anakin is so ready to listen. Palpatine is the Chancellor. He could do something, he could make it so Rex doesn't have to fight, he could make it so Anakin can have them both-

Palpatine tells him that he can help, if Anakin just helps him. And Anakin listens, listens to Palpatine tell him everything, listens to the solution he could have, and Palpatine just keeps telling how he can keep Padmé from dying.

But that's not enough.

If Rex doesn't die, if Rex is there, then Padmé won't die, either.

Palpatine keeps talking and talking and talking, and then tells Anakin of how the clones will help them destroy the Jedi, how they will be their army that brings the Empire to its fruition, and Anakin-

all Anakin hears is that Rex will have to keep fighting, that he won't have Rex, that Rex is forced to keep fighting, forced to be in more danger-

And right then and there, Anakin looks at Palpatine, and sees the enemy.

[gunsatthaphan]

GMMTV Outing 2024 out of context (not that it would make more sense with context) - part 2

[4me2knowandyou2wonder]

I want a fic where ghost casually traumatizes people by telling them his past. Maybe it’s out of character but I want it nonetheless.

Someone: “Why do you wear the mask?”

Ghost: “It starts at age six—“

*four hours later*

Someone: *quiet sobs of horror*

[etirabys]

thinking about getting sexiled on short notice in my freshman dorm (worst case: coming back from a shower to find door locked & hair tie around the doorknob) and how ludicrous that seems to me now. "a fundamentally unserious way for people to coordinate around sexual activity"

[hallasimss]

give me chance anọchikwena ụzọ i kwụchikwee m ụzọ, na aga m ajamụkwa gị, kpowaị!

[mirrorhouse]

how willing would daniel be to let things lie and move on with his life after recovering from his whole ordeal in 1973? he met a real life vampire in a bar, followed him home, got an incredible story on tape, got bitten, blacked out, and woke up in a drug den — without the tapes of the vampire he knows he recorded. he remembers where the interview took place. he's got the scarring bite on his neck that proves to him it was real and not just some drug-hazed fabrication. so could he really just... go on living his life after that? knowing what he's seen and heard? maybe he'd find his way back to that apartment eventually, because he wants his tapes back, because he can't let a good story go.

[fumifooms]

Namalin

Namari x Falin

Easy short rarepair spotlight post for prosperity~ This one I didn’t think of on my own for once, I don’t know if it’s just I forgot the decided-on ship name or what but I remember seeing really nice art and a couple posts about it that I can’t find again 💔 Namalin warrior you are out there and not forgotten ty for making me see the light

I like that Namari’s critical of Falin! I have a whole character analysis on Falin if you’re interested, but it’s generally well noticed that people around Falin idealize her a lot. Laios, Marcille and Toshiro all put her on a pedestral of ultimate goodness in the world, a saintess if nothing short of perfection. Sounds like Chilchuck felt sort of creeped out by her vibes, uncomfortable because he couldn’t read her, so unlike Namari it seems he preferred steering clear of her rather than debate opposed ideologies like he usually does. Makes sense if unlike Namari his issue is with her cryptic aura rather than the stances she does show. "… The dungeon is no place for soft hearts" my ultimate namalin scene <333 It’s fun because while this scene is there to show us a lot of things, mostly to establish Falin’s characters better as it’s the first flashback of her we get, the conflict in it is more than anything else Falin vs Namari in how they contrast and clash and approach situations differently. Namari wants security in swift effective violence and thinks Falin too soft for her own good when she prefers a pacifist approach and promotes compassion even for the "undeserving" in Namari’s eyes. Falin steps between the battle ready Namari and the ghost, fearless. Falin effortlessly gently exorcises the ghost without one step back, quickly. Falin proves someone wrong. Falin proves someone wrong.

I love thinking of Namari being surprised when she learns new aspects of Falin. I like Falin having the power to shape people’s views on her. With Falin ships the most fun part for me is usually that point where Falin/the relationship becomes a clean slate: the person realizes they haven’t been seeing all of her, realizes there’s more of her they hadn’t noticed or that she hadn’t shown, that there’s change, a shift in the views on each other and the dynamic a bit.

Namari often feels like an external view looking in to me… I need to make a proper analysis on her but like. I made a lamari post once (analytic more than personally invested rip sorry) and I go with the same Namari take here, I think she’s someone who tends to have an outsider view on people and relationships if that makes sense, she’s a coworker before anything else and she’s content staying at a distance, she’s not objective per se but she tries to keep feelings out of her choices and how she sees people (her lil arc on not staying to save Falin despite the existing camaderie but in the end asking to work for the Flokes more because she wants to stay with them). She’s serious no nonsense on the job but friendly off the job and likes having casual friends, but she’s not… She doesn’t really feel connected to the group. She’s so focused on doing her job, even if she does get impulsive and passionate and too assertive for her bosses’ tastes, so focused on working her reputation and life from the ground up that that professionalism and attitude limits her social life. It doesn’t help that her reputation makes her widely judged, so she probably enters social spaces on the derensive. The closest person she was to pre-canon as far as we knew was Chilchuck and even they have a very "coworker I get along with" dynamic more than friends, with a similar sense of boundaries, humor and world view. Also like canon says a few time, the party didn’t really try to get to know each other well pre-canon, didn’t hang out after work often no one knew where Marcille was from and no one thought that was weird (also how no one had the instinct to ask about Senshi’s past) etc, the notable exception is we’re shown Namari and Chilchuck hitting taverns together and having a grand time. Everyone’s fine with things as they are, they get along decent even if not everyone considers each other friends exactly. Where I’m getting at is that to me, it feels like she tries keeping emotional distance. Emotional distance from people in general being something which in my interpretation of Falin is also present, which would make it a theme and common thread interesting to explore imo. But yes like, Namari looking at Falin, and how everyone treats her, and being more skeptical, seeing her for what she is a little more, maybe even uncharitable. "Why is everyone treating her like she’s all that? She’s gentle sure but seems like a doormat to me" and then one day she comes running up with her mace ready to cave in someone’s face to protect Laios. So yeah… Keeping her distance but one day Falin offering her some gentleness that feels very too personal for someone who’s not used to being genuine and simply showing that they care… Them talking a bit which leaves her stumped and mindblown in a quiet way when Falin defies her expectations. Namari growing on Falin when she stays and decides to open herself up more, or when Falin ends up reading her really well like she’s shown to do with her parents and Marcille’s worries. She’s very attuned to worrying and why and when different people do it especially when it comes to when they worry for others, perhaps because she does a lot of that too, so I think she’d nail down how Namari does care for the rest of the party and it’d make Namari feel seen both in a warm validating way and in a scared naked way.

We see in the tentacles chapter that she’s someone’s who’s very protective and looks out for her peers in a tough love way. She’s overbearing but it’s because she wants everyone to have the best chances. I like that she’s very confrontational and somewhat pushy and rude, but it’s tough love, it’s protective care: asserting herself to better protect and defend. The opposite of Falin’s type of care, quiet and self-sacrificial devotion. They’re barbarian x healer but they’re also bodyguard x bodyguard in their attitude and role. … What I want for them is slow burn slice of life of being coworkers and slowly getting to know each other better, pretty fluffy, but god, put this way they’d have the potential to be such a hot layered mess of insanely mutually devoted codependence… Falin taking a hit for Namari and Namari being scarred by it forever, lots of arguments about it, my god.

I like that she’s the fighter to Falin’s healer. I looove thinking of scenes of Falin healing Namari, necessitating touch and like, a moment of slowing down and sitting together in silence, too intimate, the perfect opportunity to connect that neither truly want to take until one day they do. I love how onesided I imagine the relationship would be at first. Again, as per my interpretation of Falin, I think Namari would have all these little observations and opinions on Falin meanwhile Falin really doesn’t think of Namari much at first. So Namari thinks a lot about Falin and thinks she’s got her pinned down but hasn’t (not that she’s fully wrong, she’d have credit and confront Falin on some of her flaws like the doormat thing), while Falin is very passive about Namari and doesn’t think deeply about her or anything but she read Namari’s insecurities and logic well. Not unlike how Laios was the one who seemed to understand Namari’s way of care the best in the party in the tentacles episode, and how he was very understanding of her choice and reasons. In Falin’s case it’s more like, the objectivity of passivity… She cares about Namari less than Laios who generally seeks to form bonds, so her lack of investment allows her a neutral perspective. In that way another parallel with Namari that I’m drawing, except Namari lets feelings from her opinions seeps in more… Onesided beef my beloved. I’m going insane save me this post was a mistake. I think Falin takes the crumbs of friendship and love where she can without expecting or asking for anything more than what’s offered, and I think her relationship with Namari (or anyone really) would start out the way it did with Marcille: the other takes the initiative and they end up spending time together, Falin is friendly but unattached until the bond gets gradually and wordlessly strenghtened through regularly spending moments together. So! I think Namari would need to take a lot of the first steps, which since again she’s confrontational & argumentative and doesn’t hold herself back on that front that could spark a lot of conversations I think. Ooor since Falin cares about Namari less than Laios and Marcille she allows herself to be bolder herself lol. Or also circumstances force them to spend time together like dungeon party getting separated shenanigans.

I think their personalities match cutely, I think falin would try to protect namari like she does others but also Namari simply doesn’t need protection, just support. And I think they’re complementary in that way that Namari’s friendly but also won’t sugarcoat things, and I think if she takes an interest in Falin it could go from there and she could develop some understanding of her and idk like an intrigued crush….

Namari wants stability & security & to, like, not be judged and rejected and exiled lol, to find her nest her pack the place where she feels good and wanted in. I think having a fitting partner would help in that (similarly to how the found family with the Flokes seemed to. Oh another parallel, Falin’s top priority is protecting Laios her brother and what Namari are a family figure) and I think Falin would fulfill that cozy protection and that warm ‘being seen and not judged’ feeling. But also Namari would run up to her and yell about her trying to sacrifice herself ever.

Another fun thread to explore: post-canon guilt for not having gone to save her. Sure, they weren’t close, but they had some nice memories, didn’t they? Namari cares, and it stings despite herself when it feels like people think she doesn’t. Oh it wasn’t a lost cause after all, oh it’d have worked out, oh I could have stayed loyal and it wouldn’t have compromised myself in the end. Wanting to apologize to Falin, or just ahnging out with her and sharing a moment after she wakes up. And tangent but that’s interesting to think about… Narratively, I think the purpose of Namari and Toshiro in the story, beyond strenghtening the theme of "seek to understand what is different from you and promote unity despite them" and fleshing the cast and worldbuilding, is Toshiro’s purpose was being a foil & tool in Laios’ arc (trouble connecting with people) while Namari’s was being and a foil & tool in Marcille’s arc (standing up for ideals without being out of touch with harsh realities and needs). They are the conflict that push our protagonists to grow— and they explore different ways of dealing with a situation or topic, different ways of growing into themselves on that end: Laios needing to listen to others more and Toshiro needing to focus on voicing himself more to be able to connect, Marcille needing to learn ideals sometimes cost too much and Namari needing to internalize that ideals are sometimes worth risks (not only to be able to find a reasonable but fulfilling life balance, but also to get in touch with their compassion: Namari restricts her own too much and Marcille is too harsh on people she deems to be breaking values, like Namari not risking her life and career for a friend with no promise of success, or even like how Namari is harsh on Falin’s way of doing things : too gentle, too soft, too idealistic) (similarly to Chilchuck’s arc with Marcille too, and he also plays a hand in advancing that arc in the Namari chapters). We are getting far from namalin sorry ummm preview for future analyses like Toshiro’s contrasting approach to grief and accepting loss.

More post-canon namalin! Thinking about a timeline where… Namari is fond of Falin finding herself and going off to do her thing. "Finally!" she thinks. If she’s still for hire, maybe Falin would want her to come along, either as guide or bodyguard <3, she knows Namari has a lot of good avice on a lot of things to give, plus they’ve worked together before. She hires Namari and they travel for a bit. Travel would do Namari good too I think, even if her end goal is to settle and I think Falin’s would be too eventually. Seeing sights that light her wonder for the world and going places where people don’t know her story, don’t recognize her face or her name. Them, feeling free. Finding a companionship that feels uplifting instead of stifling or charged. Namari having been too in her head about reputation and social games and money that they hit the roads and spend time in nature and it’s like, woah. I’ve been living in a small world with made up rules.

Ahh yes romance, Namari and Falin kissing after 3 years of not really knowing each other despite seeing each other every day then 2 months of wanting to spend more and more time together until they’re an inseparable duo! Workwives. I want them to stand next to each other during campire time and Namari cracks little jokes and Namari laughs. I want Namari to gift Falin a bug caught in amber and for it to be their wedding/promised to each other thing.

TLDR

Rowdy but levelheaded barbarian x gentle healer that will also cave your face in with a mace I like it…… They’re an interesting duo of mixed stuff. Protection being your purpose and what you’re worth for, literally being a meat shield (Laios, Tansu), finding your individuality recognized and validated through a growing bond with the other. Sticking around as a love language. Also bug immortalized in amber and it being beautiful.

Nevermind this wasn’t short. Um! Anyways.

[shitty-check-please-aus]

PSA for all drivers in the city of Chicago! There are red octagonal signs at a lot of intersections with the word STOP on them- when you see these signs, that means you should try and use this fun pedal next to the gas called the "brakes" and not attempt vehicular manslaughter with every pedestrian you see! There are also large lights at some intersection- when the top light, the red one, is lit, that means the same thing.

once we master this skill, we can talk about a cool trick for signaling to people (including pedestrians trying to cross the street) that you're going to turn. This tool might be a little tougher to find if you've got a BMW, Audi, or Lexus, but we can find a way to work one-on-one to make sure you can use it. However, it's also important that we learn how to not use it when we're not turning.

[danwhobrowses]

Well Critters it's Bells Hells Live Show Day! That snuck up on us quickly didn't it? Felt almost like a few weeks ago that they announced it!

Alas, being across the pond (also tomorrow's Father's Day in the UK) I will have to wait for the VOD, sitting here with my usual Thursday night doses of anticipation, imagination and anxiety, but I hope all that are attending have a great night. So much can happen, so much stuff I want to happen too but ofc some things are long shots - anyone who looks at my feed can tell what I want to happen let's be honest, and there'll be dress up and whatever beyond extra entrance Sam has planned to make his anticipated and grandiose return.

So sing the intro loud, tag your live spoilers just in case, do creepy whispers if Laudna performs a Sending, tell them to stop it if they sneeze, and most of all enjoy the show!

[miamiuh]

i just noticed that the only time eren opened his eyes throughout his entire rampage was to look at mikasa when she entered his titan's mouth... he wanted her to be the last person he saw before he died 🙃🙃🙃

[qwakque]

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