#or stalemate

[question-why-not]

Yeah, the only way he’s beating her is if he successfully lures her into a trap. Which is (at least in UTRH) very much his style in general, note.

"Red Hood vs. Batgirl who's winning the fight" There is no fight. Have you forgotten who we're talking about here

[ofswordsandpens]

I fear that "fire bending didn't come easy to zuko" and "zuko isn't a prodigy" (both true) has somehow snowballed into "zuko is a bad or at best average fire bender".... which simply isn't true, especially by the end of book 3

[suntails]

stalemate

[obihoebikenobi]

Logan sits in the middle of their tiny fucking couch, legs spread as wide as he can manage in his jeans, arms tossed over the top, just so Wade has to squeeze in right next to him if he wants a spot.

Wade knows exactly what the fuck this is and makes a whole damn show of it, shoving his ass into the space between Logan and the massive throw pillow by the arm of the couch, rubbing the sides of their thighs together, whining about how Logan takes up sooo much space.

Then Logan bitches about how Wade could just go sit in the ancient chair across the room, the one covered in a layer of dust, knives, unwashed clothes, and cocaine residue.

Neither of them move, no one concedes, they just sit there with their sides pressed together, pretending they aren't stiffly cuddling up next to each other.

It's awkward and tense and turns them both the fuck on though no one's gonna admit it, because they'd rather uncomfortably flirt than have a mature conversation about the obvious as fuck cock outlines in their pants they can both fucking see.

[pocketgalaxies]

JUST MAKE IT DIE, OR YOU WILL TURN IT ALL TO ASHES AND BLOOD

[venusaur-propaganda]

Drawing Venusaur with every Pokemon pt. Slither Wing

[corvus-frugilegus]

Illario's grab for power is so emotionally complicated I can't stop thinking about it.

Like there's the favouritism and the loneliness and the need for love and connection that I think the title has come to represent. Because favour is maybe as close as the Dellamortes come to talking about love.

(Love is still there, it's fucked up and twisted in a lot of ways but it's there. It's hard for any of the Dellamortes to acknowledge this. But they're family and that means something to all three of them. Family is important to them).

But also for so much of his life Illario hasn't had very much power or agency either. He doesn't get to make big decisions for himself much like Lucanis, he doesn't have a lot of influence on the trajectory of his life because of Caterina's influence. Lucanis is the favourite. In that family dynamic Illario probably has the least power of the three of them.

So taking the reins of his own life and cutting that deal with Zara? The cost of losing Lucanis breaks his heart, but for the first time he's the one deciding the terms in which he lives his life in a big and meaningful way. It's not just small rebellions. It's reaching for what he wants and for once in his life feeling like he's the one in control. He's the one with the power.

And honestly? I can't fault him for wanting that. For not wanting to feel like he's at the bottom of the Dellamorte barrel anymore. For wanting his life to mean something, if only to himself. He isn't wrong to reach for power. There's nothing wrong with wanting to change the imbalance he's lived in.

It's the hubris of it that sets him up to fall into Elgar'nan's hands. Lucanis is back. But Illario can't go back. Illario can't give up what he's sacrificed so much for. Can't go back to being Dellamorte the lesser with no say in his own future. So, of course he doubles down, kidnaps Caterina, and makes a deal with Elgar'nan- the way he sees it he's backed into a corner and has no one but himself. And at this point in the story he's not wrong. He has no idea what Lucanis has become (Other than not dead! Which was the plan!)

It's interesting to me how what I think is Illario's own desire to live on his own terms is... In a very horrible way the thing that ultimately leads to Lucanis also beginning to ask what it means to live on his own terms too.

Having Lucanis killed was heartbreaking and terrible. But it's also the very thing that breaks the cycle the three Dellamortes are living in. Illario is the one who, in a way, decides that what the three of them are doing is unacceptable and starts them on a new path for the first time in roughly 30 years.

Illario having the ambition to reach for what he wants, is what sets both cousins free from a long-standing cycle of abuse. It's just also a profoundly twisted and cruel process.

[chaoticsuffering]

gaius being so done with merlin and arthurs nonsense and beating around the bush he just locks the two of them in a broom closet and says he'll let them out when they've shared their feelings

[backpackingspace]

Penelope: odysseus darling....I'm not judging but why are you strapping knives, money, and an emergency pack to your chest? Is something happening? Should I grab one too??

Odysseus, not explaining anything: I'm not taking any fucking chances I've learned my lesson the last time she caught me off gaurd I was 17 it's not fucking happening now when we're married. I know better

Penelope who speaks odysseus: ....lady Athena attacks you in middle of the night?

Odysseus: YES it's so rude of her

Penelope, internally: don't laugh don't laugh don't laugh: should have just been a weaver instead, then lady Athena would just show up demanding woven battle scenes and new capes.

Odysseus: incoherent screaming

Later that night

Athena: Hey hey penelope I'll give you the power to see colors you can't even imagine and the threads to go with it if you get rid of that survival bag.

Penelope, not even hesitating: deal

[sthilarions]

Bear with me here because I’m thinking this idea through as I type it and also this is rather gory/borderline body horror so scroll away if that bothers you

Runes/enchantments/spells written on Edwin’s ribs - but there’s no magic way to make them appear there, they have to be actually manually engraved

Edwin’s pain tolerance/history of being torn apart in much worse ways means he thinks this is totally fine. Just apply a little iron to get him solid (and in possession of internal organs such as a skeleton), get the necessary tool, peel -

It’s right around the word “peel” that Charles stops staring in horror and starts throwing things, and Edwin never gets to the genius part of the plan, which is that once the iron is off, his ribs go back to being not-really-real, just part of his spectral after-image, as it were, which means it’s impossible for anyone to break the enchantment without destroying him entirely, as it’s now part of his soul.

The problem is, though, that Edwin can’t get the angle to do the engraving himself. (At least, that’s Edwin’s problem. Charles seems to have some other one.)

The matter is dropped for multiple decades, until after Port Townsend.

Because the enchantment Edwin wanted, you see, was a planar binding curse. Locks the enchanted item - in this case, Edwin - onto the earthly plane, so it can’t be taken whether by choice or force to any other… such as, for example, Hell.

And now Charles has seen Hell; and he knows what Edwin meant, when he said Hell was far worse than getting a bit of body art; and it’s getting rapidly harder for him to disagree.

[poisoned-pearls]

2nd year dance

(taken minutes before flo and rook got into a physical fight over their gfs being the queen of the dance)

[valkyurii]

there are two types of elden ring fan:

the normal one

and then this guy

[3-2-1-annihilation-station]

one of my favorite death note moments is in the musical where L and light are singing and then misa bursts in with a dramatic passionate declaration of love towards light and he just completely ignores her and keeps singing with L like damn poor misa but man if that isn't funny and accurate to the series as hell

[eelshrimp]

death note if it was a really elaborate littlest pet shop video

[tiredandoptimistic]

THE most autism4autism married couple. I love how they're so casually domestic, and Henry is always going out of his way to support Charlotte (even though he gets lost in his own head a lot). I also really like that Charlotte can be such an angry character. The way she's treated by the Clave is deeply unfair, and she fucking knows it! Henry is a lot more at peace with the casual disrespect towards him because he agrees with it, but Charlotte gets mad and punches walls. And that emotionality never detracts from her ability to be a leader. Charlotte's feelings are always under scrutiny because she's a woman in a position of authority, but she's still able to feel them openly in the privacy of her home.

[breadhalfburnt]

You better make it hurt.

[alt version under the cut ^_^]