#no it’s not as good as the source material and that’s fine

[dollible]

soap dispenser doll

the thing stays perfectly Still despite everything, but you know better.

you open up the porcelain like the cover of a book and read the gears inside. you’ve worked the source material, tempered it, conditioned it. you can see its eyes saccading momentarily each time you enter the bathroom, hear the tick-tock of its escapement speed up a fraction of a second. but that’s fine. you were not building a timepiece.

in the morning, you put the toothbrush back in and reach out with the palm of your hand, feigning distraction. almost as you touch its neck, you pull back and shoot a quick glance at it to see its eyelids flutter in blissful anticipation, then Stillness again. you can almost hear the dismay in the clockwork.

stupid needy bitch.

come afternoon, you saunter in buck naked, radiating the chutzpah of a winner, sit up on the washing machine, prop yourself up and hum.

“what a day, huh?”

the dispenser stays Still, looks straight forward, never moving.

“that was someone from work I took out. to dinner, that is. we really hit it off these last few hours, but you’ve heard.”

tick. eyes forward. tock.

“I wonder if you recognized the voice. but probably not. name’s Zoe, maybe that sound familiar?”

and there it is. a tiny hitch in the rhythm, a perfect mechanism straying from its conductor.

“I’m probably calling for the wrong kind of memory. here, maybe this jogs your gears.”

you raise your right hand, still slick and sticky, and clamp it over the doll’s mouth, part its sculpted lips, give it a good whiff of the scent.

it doesn’t turn to look at you, never recoils, never visibly reacts, but you can feel the delightful horror as you feed on the delicacy of its despair.

“right. but back I go, it’s rude to keep a lady waiting. just, uh, almost forgot why I came here!”

you lunge like a cat, give its neck a good squeeze and clamp down for a few seconds, and the thing definitely does not see it coming. its clockwork speeds up, crests an invisible hill, then plummets down and slows and slows, falling towards a forever kind of Stillness.

as the tempo reaches a dangerous adagio, you grab it between its legs and squeeze like you’re milking a stone. its gears seize, and for a hot second you fear you might have broken another toy; and something inside it skips and grinds, and it explodes in a delightful overclocked staccato. the body of the doll almost topples over as the conditioning kicks in and it rights itself, unthinking.

all while you wash your hands with a pathetically tiny dollop of lavender-scented lotion, humming a discordant non-tune to yourself, completely out of its rhythm. rub a little soap in the wound.

“appreciate it, love. see you tomorrow. or maybe not. might sleep over tonight.”

as you leave and receding aftershocks squeeze the last drops of pleasure chemicals out of its thinking substrate, you swear you can see it shudder. ∎

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

Lera Abova is so passionate about Robin that it fills my heart with joy!

And I know that some vocal parts of the fandom that have already complained that she's the nationality that Oda gave her, now also complain that she wasn't a fan of One Piece before her involvement with the show. But does it really matter?

Yes, some actors ( like Emily and Mackenyu ) were huge OP nerds years before they joined the show, but some others discovered it through their casting on it and that's also fine??!! What it matters is that now she's familiar with the source material she's truly gets Robin judging from her interviews and her IG story. The more I listen to her talking about Robin, the more I know that our favourite archeologist is in good hands!

[applecherry108]

Guess I’m starting a tag bc I cannot be stopped.

The AGONY of the faint leitmotif of “leaves on the vine” while iroh talks about how he owes Zuko 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[heavens-aesthetic-kitchen]

Hello, someone call 911 because we got ROBBED

[dumb-alek]

Say what you want about SNW but I REALLY loved the way in the episode where Pike sees the future where Jim is not the captain of the Enterprise lil glimpses we get of him having just insane professional chemistry with Spock.

Like across realities and in different universes, Kirk sees Spock across the room through a video transmission and calls him impressive. It's like a jolt, bullseye, and laser focus towards eachother before they even meet in person.

They instantly agree and see eachother's point of view. There's SPARKS. I genuinely felt watching this as if they were the only people in the room (and I feel like the camera work in that conference room helped with that - purposely).

Not to mention Jim's full body turn he does when he watches Spock leave, which to me definitely betrayed some kind of interest on Jim's part.

I get being mad at comphet Spock, (though TOS did comphet Spock also so 🤷) and I think if snw went in a slightly different direction with Chapel they could do something interesting and canon-compliant, which is a shame.

But after finishing the 1st season I really do feel the show only gets better (when they lay off the one liners a bit and focus more on the honestly pretty cool episode ideas they have), and it looks like it's done with love, attention to details and understanding, overall, what star trek is. (Which I can't say about some other star trek media cough cough).

But most importantly, at least for the sake of this post and for the sake of the ship that started modern fandom culture, I feel like they understand the gravity of K/S.

Now, I'm not deluding myself that they're going to 'get together' within SNW, if it's to keep with the tos timeline even in the slightest. And as much as I enjoy the show, it doesn't seem likely for it to be breaking any new grounds. Besides, at this point in time it would make no sense, considering there's no space for them to be together in TOS until season three at best. Any alternatives would either be either out of character, or simply upsetting (such as an on and off relationship, a breakup, things I don't want to think about 😞)

HOWEVER. They already made a hint Chapel is bisexual, and while they do try to generally keep with TOS canon - they diverge from it only when they think they are the point A from which they can get to point B, which is TOS. I don't always agree with their vision, but I can respect it. So I wouldn't be that surprised (though ecstatic) if they hinted at at least at Kirk being bisexual, here and there.

And in TOS canon Spirk is inescapable. If we ignore the romantic interpretation, which is already pretty hard to ignore, then in their capacity as soulmates - a part of canon that's impossible to ignore. And with as little Jim and Spock as we got so far, I think they understand that.

In SNW keeping Kirk and Spock apart messed up the whole timeline! You could say that Spock dying is what really messed it up, but we can clearly see the episode we've seen in TOS from a different perspective and things went south the moment Chris started to act. Both Kirk and Spock are there - both the same as in the regular timeline, in their respective duties. But they're not together and them not being together is so bad for the universe that Chris has to go back in time to tell himself to die (well not die but suffer from a horrific accident).

And if it doesn't feel extremely monumental, soulmate level shit idk what to tell you

[navree]

"can we stop pretending the evil stepmother trope is bad and boring" oh my FUCKING GOD just reread the book!!!! just reread the fucking book!!!!!! if you want the book canon so bad it's right there, go read it!!!!! you've got to have it in your possession since you talk about it all the fucking time and i'd be astounded if someone this fucking pressed hasn't actually read it!!!!!! the change to rhaenyra and alicent's relationship has been known since they first cast the fucking show!!!!! it's been there since episode one!!!!!!! if you don't like it don't watch the show and just REREAD THE FUCKING BOOK!!!!!!

[thelastspeecher]

the roommate and I finally started watching the PJO show and we're gonna be doing one episode a day to stretch it out (bc binging isn't the best way to watch a show) and also bc the episodes are looooong and I kept pausing to voice my Thoughts as a PJO Expert Fan

but anyways it's making me think about my PJO AU, which I love~

[wekillitwithfire]

its a unique kind of pain when you get really into something with a small fanbase and not much recent fanart, and you find a really cool piece from a really good artist and you just love how they interpret and draw the characters and you're obsessed with it and you can't wait to see what else they have in store, but then you go to their blog and you realize that the drawing was just a one-off 'i watched this show (etc.) recently and thought it was kinda cool" and they're very unlikely to make anything else for it again

[upside-down-sock-drawer]

And if I made a long essay post on why Harry Potter actually sucks what then

[fr0gleggs]

How do you like something normally. Asking for a friend who has trouble with being unable to like something without obsessing over it for months who has also seen The Horrors (TM) of parasocial relationships.

[youssefguedira]

i've said the same thing like a billion different times in a billion different ways. however. my opinion on the diabolik trilogy can be boiled down to. i don't know if they're GOOD. but they have PERSONALITY. which in the age of paint by numbers mcu whatever movies. is all i want from my movies

[waywardsalt]

anyways if you like linebeck as a silly pathetic wet meow meow dilf then go and watch tiger & bunny

[camelspit]

hey. maybe you shouldn't write a book review if you haven't even finished the fucking book. btw.

[wretcheddthing]

whether or not joel was right is quite literally a ten year old debate.

he was btw. ik it’s hard to come to that conclusion when all nuance has been stripped from the story and spoon fed back with training wheels for surface level moral character analysis.

[iwasjustdrinking]

I feel like I’m the only one who thinks they totally fucked up Daisy Jones and the six

[imwritesometimes]

I think the huge chunk in the middle of my wip notebook that is just manic notes, outlines, time lines, entire chapters complete with edits from the last (almost) year that I abandoned should idk... have the decency to tear themselves out and set themselves on fire