#our second chance

[elfcow]

"Honest" Brute: "I know, Milk Tooth. I can't wait either"

Our Psychic Girlfriend that Lives in Our Head That No One Else Can Hear: "He seems rather... strange."

[bizarrelittlemew]

i was hoping to make a post like this under happier circumstances, but here goes.

as some of you know, everything with the cancellation and renewal campaign has happened right on top of the worst part of my mom's cancer treatment (plus the show was cancelled on my actual birthday 💀). i won't go into details, but it's been tough. lots of ups and downs, mostly downs, luckily ending (for now) on as much of an up as circumstances allow. the whole thing has been weirdly tied to the cancellation for me, kind of amplifying every feeling. the grief got mixed up, and there was so much of it - mourning the loss of the kind of future i thought i'd have with my mother and the time we might not get, mourning the end of a show that means so much to me and is such a big part of my life. different types of grief, sure, and of different magnitudes, but in one big ugly swirl. i sort of had a breakdown right at the start of february, and it was because of news about my mom, but it morphed into my brain telling me everything i'd ever written was shit and wanting to delete it all. stuff like that, spilling over.

anyway. i was holding off on writing this post to see if the show got picked up by someone else. but i still want to say it. because what also spilled over was the support and community from this fandom, and being in this space (despite the rough times and high emotions) helped me through it, because of all of you here. whether we talk regularly, or you left a comforting reply or simply a like on one of my posts about having a hard time (i tried to keep them few), or wrote a nice comment on a fic, or said something funny or nice or insightful in the tags of a gifset, or was active here (or on twt) in any way, talking/sharing/creating stuff about the show - THANK YOU.

you all helped me through all the ups and downs, and i am so grateful. thank you for being here, listening, distracting, helping me feel some joy despite the horrors. i love you and i love this incredible show and all it has brought and will continue to bring and inspire, and although it should go without saying, i'm not going anywhere. just do me a favor and give yourself a big ol' hug from me, and know that you made a difference for some random guy on the internet (but in reality for many more, and for this fandom as a whole, just by being here and being you) 💕

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

The monarchy jokes are funny, but idk what y'all actually expect to happen when the King dies. We just get another one. They don't actually have any real political power, they're just overpaid shitass mascots. Y'all gotta direct some of this energy at Rishi Sunak

[say-hi-intrepid-heroes]

In a complete hypothetical, if there was a Rat Grinders' season and the intrepid heroes were playing them who should play who?

probably no one will agree with me on most of these but these are just the vibes i get from the finale

Kipperlilly - Siobhan

Oisin - Ally

Ruben - Zac

Mary Ann - Emily

Buddy - Murph

Ivy - Lou

[introspectivememories]

buggy, dreamily sighing: did you see marco today?

shanks, warily: yeah? why? we see him like every other month?

buggy, immediately gushing: wasn't he soo cool? like the way he transforms and those muscles! didja see his muscles, shanks? he could probably pick me up with one hand....

shanks who has just realized that he never wants buggy looking at another man who isn't him: .....yes... cool

[mydairpercabeth]

Ppl we gotta let go of the second book love interest and realize that Xaden and Violet are the endgame

[distant-screaming]

our dating sim is so so insane because it looks you directly in the eyes and says love is easy. it's so so hard. you have to trust. you can hurt someone without meaning to. you will not be able to take it back. you can make it better. you have to trust. you can love someone for everything they are. you will find what's right for you. you can love and love and it will not be the solution. you will not heal through love. it will help. you have to trust. love is there even when the person is not. you have to trust. you have to wait for the answer you cannot run away you have to plant your feet and trust.

[skoulsons]

“Joel was wrong it should be Ellie’s choice”

Yeah, it should be Ellie’s choice. Because she’s a child and this is everything her journey has been building up to. She should know all the risks that could come with and what it ACTUALLY (apparently, considering they did no scans or nothing???) takes to make a cure. She should be told everything. But if they kept her alive, she’d probably ask questions that the fireflies would not be willing (or able) to answer, hence keeping her under and not telling her. They were scared. They didn’t know what the hell they were doing

But think, for a second, that he’s the not the one who ‘took it away’ in the first place. The fireflies took Ellie and knocked Joel out. They did not tell her what this would entail. They got her under, somehow, and had no intention of waking her up again. They took away her choice and any agency she had WAY before Joel did. They were going to murder her in cold blood with NO certainties

Is what Joel did morally wrong? Yeah, I mean he killed a ton of people, that’s terrible no matter what way you slice it

But that is his child. I have little kids in my life that I love more than I can comprehend. You know what I’d do if their life was on the line like that? Whatever I had to to save their lives. You expect Joel to just sit there and say “yeah, go on ahead”??? Joel would not do that, not after what they’ve gone through and what they’ve become. He wouldn’t do it because he is a father. Because his child means more to him than some world that’s already twenty years deep into the infection. He loves her more than a world full of raiders, slavers, and cannibals that a cure couldn’t change the ways of

Marlene wouldn’t have compromised with him. He wouldn’t have compromised with Marlene unless they woke Ellie up and were able to run scans and things and Ellie agreed to let them do things that would NOT kill her. But that’s not how it went, so it came down to the extreme. Kill them all to save her. And really, you can’t blame him

[sisididis]

And while there are many characters in the Riordanverse whose tragic lives render me wax poetic, Bianca di Angelo’s will always take the cake. Bianca, who despite being an orphan herself, spent her entire life putting her younger brother first, and even after she chose a life for herself, she still died an older sister’s death. Bianca, who felt misunderstood by everyone, including Nico, for her decision to join the Hunters.

Bianca, whose innermost wish was to belong and be free of responsibility, while other children dream of innocent distractions like games and sweets. Bianca, who up until her last breath was guilt-ridden for putting herself first and thought of winning her brother back. Bianca, whose love for her brother was stronger than her fear of death. Bianca, who asked Percy to apologise to Nico on her behalf after she wouldn’t be there for him anymore. Bianca, who continued to watch over her brother even in death.

Bianca di Angelo is my Roman Empire.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

oh god wait. so if the episodes are "days" to the puppets, and traditionally, new episodes air once per week... then are the puppets only ever awake for one day per week? if that, cause wouldn't episodes only be about an hour long, probs less? so they're awake for however long it takes to film one episode, and then they sleep until the next.

and if Wally doesn't sleep...

[starflungwaddledee]

i wanna put your evil gala and my good gala in a locked room together and let them duke it out LMAO

alas rip to your galacta knight. if he has a shred of kindness or empathy at all he's a goner in there.

[arsenicflame]

so, this ones technically not a fix it because its still major character death but this is how i would tweak the canon story to give Izzy's death meaning and weight.

First of all, Izzy doesn't get shot by Ricky. The crew of the revenge may still be absolute rookies by Izzy's standards but even they know to take all the weapons off a hostage and unload any guns. Ricky still escapes and alerts the Navy, and our crew are running through the woods, down to the beach and Izzy is still falling back. For all his new prosthetic has helped his mobility immensely, its no good for running. Its clunky and dragging behind him and Ed and Frenchie and Jim and everyone keeps slowing down to make sure he's keeping up with them, but in doing that the navy are quickly catching up to all of them, they're being swarmed.

They break through the trees onto the beach, with more and more men coming up behind them. Izzy's struggling even more across the beach than he was in the woods, the hoof sinking in and sand shifting as he tries to run, and he stumbles. All the while Navy men continue to appear from all directions- and it hits him. That this is it. There's no way they will all make it out alive.

But he's Izzy Fucking Hands and even if he cant run anymore, he can still fight. He can fight for this crew, this family, these people who have given him so much, who have opened their arms to him when he was at his lowest, who have allowed him to feel free. He can still fight. He can buy them time.

So he turns, and draws his sword.

There was never any way he could win, of course. Even when he truly was the best swordfighter in all the Caribbean, fighting dozens of navy men at once would have been beyond him- but he can distract them, hold them off long enough the revenge sets sail. Its a glorious sight, one man against dozens, bodies falling around him as he holds them back. Its impressive to watch, and maybe, for a second, the crew allows themselves to hope. But then, he takes a cut to his sword arm, and another to his side.

And then he goes down.

But he goes down fighting.

Izzy Hands, who spent his whole life fighting dies that way too, fighting for the safety he spent his whole life searching for.

[utterlybrainwrecked]

*me, a warrior cats fan, pointing at an image of a literal black cat*

SHE JUST LIKE ME FR

[adhdvsautismbracket]

ADHD/Autism Duos: Second-Chance Smackdown!! Phase 1

Matchup 13

[jojotichakorn]

a korean bl will for real take a trope you usually aren't into and go "challenge accepted". and then execute it so flawlessly that it becomes the exception to your trope rule.

[ihatedean]

my poor boyfriend. he doesn't really get shipping and i think he thinks incest is inherently hot for me so every time we're watching something and there's attractive family members interacting he looks at me waiting for my reaction like "😏😏😏 c'mon i told you you would like it" while i sit there with a blank face</3 i don't think he fully understands why i HAD to say "wow old man yaoi. ugh speedrun enemies to lovers yeah this is good shit. oh god the silence. did you see that??" when we were watching........ chernobyl