#my five cents

[fiftyshadesofredandteal]

shoutout to selfshippers who depend on their f/o. who can't ship them with others because it hurts to imagine them having another partner.

shoutout to the selfshippers who are touch starved or lonely, who can't bring themself to love anyone like they love their f/o. who rarely ever (or never) crush on others because their love for their f/o is too strong.

shoutout to those who print out pictures of their f/o, have them as their wallpaper, imagine them next to you, draw and write about them. who treat them like an irl partner.

shoutout to selfshippers who don't just like their f/o because they're "your type," or they're attractive. shoutout to the selfshippers who have a deeper connection with them than that.

shoutout to the selfshippers with many f/os, and the ones who only have one or two.

shoutout to the selfshippers who kin characters from their f/o's source material, even if it creates some weird rarepairs. (i've been there.)

shoutout to the selfshippers who hate what happened to their f/o in their source material, and to those who love every direction it went.

shoutout to selfshippers with quote unquote "weird," f/os, or nonhuman ones. shoutout to selfshippers who are open about that fact, or who are nervous to tell others about it, even other selfshippers.

shoutout to ALL selfshippers.

you're great.

and remember, no matter who you are, if you fit all these boxes or not, your f/o(s) love you very much!

(PRO//SHIPPERS DNI, THIS ISN'T FOR YOU)

[susannaius]

The best sequence in the history of evaluating possible scenarios.

Person of Interest (2011-2016), 4x11: If-Then-Else

[piratesofthedarkwidesea]

Okay erm... episode 1x05 is certainly very visceral and also very complex and I’ve already seen a lot of interesting thoughts about.. 

I just wanna concentrate on a very small thing and how I read it, and it’s Daniel slapping Louis. Because to me it was very very clear that that slap was a desperate (and very obvious to everyone in the room) attempt of Daniel trying to pretend he has any kind of control over the situation. Because he very clearly has not. Louis could literally tear him apart without lifting as much as his little finger and he kinda knew all along but that scene is when he really *got* it like rationalized it and he was freaking the fuck out about that. 

And Louis and Rashid also understood that for what it was and therefore let it slide in a “yeah let’s all go with the pretense the human can defend himself in any way, shape or form here” when he very very clearly can’t? Like let’s all take a deep breath and pretend it’s fine / nothing of that happened.

Which says nothing about Daniel being an asshole but... man was frightened to death there tbh

[nambnb]

Pissing Contest between Achilles and Agamemnon

After the whole sorry affair with Briseis, Achilles is like “What stake DO I HAVE in this stupid war?” and Patroclus might answer him “Nothing, save for winning fame and glory, which you covet and won’t get otherwise. And if you were to go home, I couldn’t follow you, as I was one of Helen's suitors, so I had to swear an oath to help getting her back, should she get stolen away from her husband.” And Achilles, remembering that little tidbit, likely slings his arms around Patroclus and growls and glowers for the rest of the day.

[800db-cloud]

is this anything

[renthony]

We are several days from pay day and I need $50 in order to go pick up medication before then. I fucking hate how often I have to do this (like, jesus christ, my pride is shattered), but here are our household pay links if anyone can help at all:

(No pressure, thank you in advance, I am so sorry I have to keep doing this, aaaa)

PayPal: @ chaosqueer Venmo: @ chaosqueer CashApp: $ chaosqueer

We also have a household wishlist for things (including groceries) that would improve our existence but that we haven't been able to afford.

[ashmp3]

red velvet “chill kill” / sympathy for lady vengeance, shiori matsui, yasunari ikenaga (1965), takato yamamoto (death and the maiden), sharp objects

[julescarstairs]

I, personally, love the rhythm of the TWP book titles. They almost have a fairytale feel to them?? Like the Knights of the Round Table, or The Sword in the Stone. Things like that. Whilst they don’t read exactly the same, the ‘beat’ of the titles has an uncanny, storybook touch to them — which, if TWP is going to be loosely inspired by Arthurian Legend, makes sense in its own accord. The Last King of Faerie, The Last Prince of Hell and The Last Shadowhunter all sound like legends you’d hear whispered among patrons of the Shadow Market, or something, which is something I really like about them.

[susannaius]

The greatest offence of them all: the presliced tesco cheese. (At least I hope it is presliced and not processed. Poor Plagg, where is his camambert?)

[laconicaddict]

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[symphonyofsilence]

Do you ever think about how high Five's hopes must have gotten when he didn't find Ben's corpse among the corpses of the rest of his siblings when he first jumped into the apocalypse before he read Viktor's book to find out that Ben has died years ago?

& do you think about how he didn't get the chance to live the remaining years with him & say goodbye & he had last seen him mere hours ago-if it even took that long- on the breakfast table, alive and kicking if only a bit uncomfortable?

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Was about to sleep when I was hit with an epik angst idea ooo boy

[lepusrufus]

I play this shit too much

[saintchaser]

good morning! today i want to talk about james potter.

(note: this is solely based on my interpretation of him, thr very same way other writers write james in their own way. this is the essay on how i see him, as a person, a writer, and someone who relates to him, and i am not implying that my characterization is better than someone else's; just my five cents on this!)

we're all aware of the general fandom consensus and characterization for him; sunshine boy, always willing to help everyone around him, never has any sort of problems and is often see through the prism of his relationships.

to start off with my last point, with him being seen and characterized through his relationships, i think it is tied to the fact that he, himself, sees himself that way. the relationships that he has with characters are often strong and intense, either like or dislike, and therefore, said relationships take a toll on him. he always surrounds himself with people, in order to not be alone with his thoughts, and have the time to see deep within him not what the world sees him to be, but what he really is, as imperfect as everyone else.

i also consider james to be the kind of person who runs away from his problems, and this is one of the fundamental differences that he and sirius have (while sirius confronts his problems — and the fact that he ran away from home is not running away from his problems, but actively confronting them. he ran away from home, his home life being a problem, which is exactly confronting it — meanwhile, james never confronts his problems because he's scared of the feelings that might be triggered in him in that case, he's scared of how deeply he feels things, and therefore he like busies himself with other people's feelings and other people's problems in order to not work on his own.).

this also plays into euphemia and fleamont's funeral. james was more focused on comforting the people around him about the death of his parents and not sitting down and thinking on his parents' death and allowing himself to grieve, because he was scared of the impact that it might have on him. (he had a son, and he had to be strong for him; which is also the tying himself to his relationship and putting other people above himself, his feelings, and his needs). after he did sit down on his problems, he started taking more missions and becoming more rash and being more reckless in general as a coping mechanism, which, in turn, hurt him.

moreover, him running away from his problems and helping other people instead of himself often times leaves him seeking something else in order to protect himself and to make himself forget everything he's thinking about; in some cases it may be quidditch, music, pranks, and, sometimes, more dsngerous things. he's a man of stability, in this regards, so therefore i don't thìnk he would do something as dangerous as to put the lives of himself and others in danger. (we see this with the prank; sirius is the one who takes rash decisions, james is the one who puts everything back together.).

james also suffers from savior complex. the criteria and definition for it is as follows "they only feel good about themselves when helping someone, believe helping others is their purpose, spend so much energy trying to fix others that they end up burning out", and "a savior complex, or white knight syndrome, describes this need to “save” people by fixing their problems". i see this more often than not played in jegulus fanfiction, but this behavior of his expands to other characters, too.

last but not least, and this is something i only see being talked about with sirius, respectively regulus, is the pressure put on one's shoulders to perform well when part of a circle of upper-class and talented people. his father invented multiple potions which significantly helped and improved the everyday lives of the wizarding world (i.e.: pepper-up). whether this pressure is put on by parents or yourself, the need to achieve as much as your parents did can both mess up the aspiring young person and burn them out. despite james being naturally talented, much like his parents, i feel like james definitely related to this pressure to perform.

so, in order to sum up; i believe that james potter, too, is a deeply complex and flawed individual, the very same way we believe of other characters to be. being a good person with a warm heart does not mean that one is always happy and that they are inherently a morally white character.