#ls;accepted

[captainsupernoodle]

just rewatched the runaway bride and oh wow donna literally being dropped in the middle of the doctor's post-rose sulking in some random nebula and getting the full spectrum of him loving the genius of humanity and seeing a time he's never seen before and re-wiping out a mother and her children who were planning on eating their way across planets with a blank face and making it snow for a person he just met to make her day a little better. she tells him he scares her and invites him in to eat dinner with her family in the next sentence. augh.

[scarletiswailing347]

discliamer since i havent really done that for these kinds of posts and i feel like this one is worded in a more demanding way than i usually do: any post of mine regarding what the ccs "should" do is less me actually wanting them to do what i say and more me speculating on the kinds of actions that they could take, not cause i think im smart or tactical or anything but because this is my idea of what fun is

im watching the tower vod rn and i think the only real way to deal with minute and jumper at this point in the server is to. not

like it probs wont be satisfying to the PlayersTM considering the kind of ppl they are (proactive, confrontational, plays along with the spirit of the server, self-focused morals) but considering the kind of ppl minute and jumper are (reactive, avoidant, prioritizes survival even if it means not great content, normative morals) i think its the only real way to engage with them when it comes to this kind of recursive conflict

like everytime they confront one another it keeps circling back to this moral debate regarding the ethics of killing ppl on fucking Lifesteal of all things and i highly doubt its ever gonna stop (at least for this season) considering none of the new members have really been traumatized the lifesteal way, i dont mean regular smp trauma like war and betrayal and all that jazz cause theyve already got that, i mean Lifesteal trauma: the realization that everything is a cycle, that good and evil doesnt matter, that feeling of hope shattering over and over again, that realization that in the grand scheme of things your ideals dont matter and the only thing you can truly hope for in the server are teammates and allies that wont backstab you, and that even then thats a tall order

so back to Not dealing with jumpertech, i dont mean forgetting what they did, i mean actively avoiding them, acting irrationally scared of them even when theyre being civil, fully putting them in the role of big scary villains, basically still putting what they did at the very forefront but acting like its an insurmountable trauma, planting doubt in their status as heroes, continually being the aggressors just cements in their minds that yes they are the heroes and that yes they are doing the good things

like whether the PlayersTM like it or not this is an unstoppable force vs immovable object kind of situation except the unstoppable force has more to lose by virtue of having a goal that can easily be tided by the immovable object

and i do think they can pull it off, they can lose a fight and lose so much that it breaks their spirit, like jumpertech have both been in kings, they both know how determined at least zam and mapicc are, surely it would be really offputting to see someone youre so used to seeing never giving up to do just that

[purrincess-chat]

"If Adrinette broke up, who would you wanna see get together next?"

Yall are the biggest bunch of wild salty Sallys. We spent 5 seasons waiting for some shit to happen with the love square, and now people want things to go back to the way it was??? But actually worse??? Like, yall realize Adrinette breaking up would make the square worse, right? Can this fandom pull its head out of its ass? Grow the fuck up. 🙄

[soolagna-meow]

With Vivienne Westwood departing this Earth of ours, all my grief seems to pour out for Ai Yazawa.

[trkstrnd]

six seasons and one episode of 911 in and we still have not referenced our true form: soap opera bitches

[afro-elf]

Hey there, Kendra. Just wanted to say...I'm so sorry about T*noch H*rta and also J*nathan M*jars. It seems like the new faves are always the first to disappoint.

like on the bright side i Just learned about their existence so it's not, like, a major loss to my personal brain space but on the other hand what if i blow up the film industry? what if i tear it apart brick by brick? famous men are soooo annoying.... SOOOO annoying....

[safesoundxswift]

i just need one scene of tk and carlos having a private moment together after the wedding ceremony then i promise i will never complain about anything ever again.

[punkinpiemanic]

Just when i think i get out of me emo phase, Frank does something like breathe and I’m back in it. HELLO?? is no one going to talk about these??

[lire-casander]

#30 accepting & living with their quirks

accepting and living with their quirks original prompt list here

TK has learned to live with Carlos’ quirks just as much as Carlos has learned to live with TK’s. He isn’t sure how much his peculiarities can affect Carlos’ life, but he thinks they can't be as frustrating as Carlos’ tendency to double-check and even triple-check everything.

It's not only the lock when they leave the house, or the faucets in both the bathroom and the kitchen. It's not only that Carlos sends three different emails to the hotel where they will be spending their honeymoon asking for the same thing with three slightly different wordings to make sure he gets the same reply every single time. TK has accepted that Carlos is wired that way, and there's little he can do to change it — and he doesn't want to change it. The quirks make Carlos who he is, and TK loves all of Carlos.

But the triple-checking of security measures has reached a limit in TK’s opinion. Carlos spends at least twenty minutes before going to bed checking that the alarm is set up, that the extinguishers are fully equipped, that Lou The Second's terrarium is completely locked, and that there's no way the lizard can escape. And that TK can understand — the innate fear of disaster that has always loomed over their heads can take its toll on anyone, even stoic police officer Carlos Reyes. What he can't understand is that Carlos checks everything even when TK reassures his fiancé that he's already done the rounds.

And that stings. It feels like Carlos doesn't trust him with security, and at times TK thinks Carlos might believe that previous disasters had been TK’s fault — the fire, Lou The Flesh Eater blending in with the environment.

When he bites the bullet one night, after having begged Carlos to stop checking things and go to bed, he breaks down and ends up voicing his fears. But Carlos’ response steals the words out of TK's throat.

"It's not that I think it's your fault," Carlos says, pain in his voice. "It's because I know it was mine. We almost died once and it was my fault. I should have checked it."

"So what, you're now making up for lost time?" TK manages to finally say. He cringes as the words leave his mouth, but there's no way of taking them back.

"I'm trying to keep you safe," his fiancé mutters. "It's my job now, and I've failed at it before."

"Hey, hey, baby," TK says as he approaches Carlos and hugs him. "It's my job to keep you safe now, too. And that's what I'm trying to do, okay? You've checked the extinguishers twice now. They're fine. Let's go to bed."

In the end, he convinces Carlos to follow him to the bedroom. But he remains awake for hours after that, thinking about how mistaken he's been about Carlos’ motives. He hasn't been extra careful because he thought TK wasn't being careful, but because he wanted TK to be safe.

And if that isn't wedding vows material, TK doesn't know what else could possibly be.

Right before falling asleep in the safety of Carlos’ embrace, TK makes a silent promise to his fiancé.

I'll always take care of you the way you take care of me.

[acanthemp3]

finn drawing nana daiba in 2020 vs 2023....... its crazy how u think ur just running in circles skill wise until you actually make urself look back and see how far youve actually come <3

[mianimasenpoeticus]

More on this poem here.

[godisasimp]

Aww he's so sweet while I'm beating him up like the loser he is

[crowskullls]

If anyone has any Minutetech headcanons please share them with me please please please ple

[gefiltefished]

okay okay

I know, I'm always kvetching I KNOW

but I still think it's incredibly unfair that I just ate a pretty damn delicious meal that I know didn't have anything that should have triggered this reaction in it

and yet!! big ass hive on my bottom lip and the gurgliest of upset stomachs persists........

[ninacarstairss]

i can’t even say i’ve seen the wedding cause i was TEARING UP FROM EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PORE WHAT EVEN WAS THIS FINALE

[laniidae-passerine]

well anyway it was always a better choice to be a Barry HBO girl. that’s where my peace lies