Hello! I hope I won't sour your mood with this ask but I have been thinking a lot about your gay dogs this month especially.
I'll just try to keep the context short but in general I'm someone that has accepted being romantically undesireable. It was hard but in the end I have built my life just around me, my humble family and at this point in time I don't even think I have the time for a partner. And considering that it's the love month and a lot of people are preparing to celebrate it with their SOs I assumed that, actually, this is a thing that I sort of have in common with Machete.
From the miscellaneous lore on your profile I see Machete as someone that also has kind of rejected love. That also has built his life around his job, possibly hobbies, his family or mentors (depending if we're talking about canon or modern au). Who kind of forgot that relationships are a thing and that people bond with others in that way. Well, at least he did until meeting Vasco.
I just love thinking about their awkward beginnings. Machete being 100% sure that Vasco is just joking, maybe even sometimes teasing him (in a friendly banter type way) or just explaining to himself that all that kindness and interest is just him being a very considerate friend. And then we have Vasco that just tries to be subtle, as if he was trying to pass a fawn without it noticing and running away, but also with time gains confidence and tries more risque moves. Vasco being all smug and Machete being flustered when their hands or shoulders or tails brush in passing. And then when both are sure of their feelings we have Machete who has to choose between God and his love. Who, at first, unwillingly accepts that divine wrath will be worth their brief love.
I just love your boys. I swear they are all the love supply one might possibly need
Thank you for such a long and thoughtful message! I don't know why you thought you might accidentally sour my mood, I'm utterly delighted whenever I hear that someone has been pondering my little guys (rotating them in their head, as they say), and when they go through the trouble of sharing their findings and conclusions I'm so happy I could crawl up a wall.
I think you deciphered Machete's inner workings very well, especially those of the original canon version. The concept of love is of course prominent in Christianity, so even as a kid being raised in a religious environment that discouraged overt displays of affection and close personal bonds, Machete wasn't completely alienated from it. But it has always been a nebulous, unperceivable and unattainable thing for him. When he was old enough to lock down his career choice he readily accepted he'd never have romantic relationships, spouse or a family, and I think he must've been too young and socially inexperienced to think of it as a significant loss. Either he consciously blocked out the need for companionship by studying and working like his life depended on it, or he didn't really consider that being genuinely befriended, appreciated and loved as a person instead of a respectable and competent authority figure was even an option for him, at least not until Vasco came along.
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kim is such a funny little guy like he emphasizes how little the rcm salary is when you ask about it (5500 reál annually- 460/mo) but here he is with his nice electronic sports watch and his little instant camera and his fancy revolutionary cosplay for plainclothes and he's living in the GRIH which can't be cheap and he's got his fancy little mnemotechnique notebooks which are like the moleskine of elysium i guess and his fancy little ballpoints that he does NOT want to share with you which i bet is because they cost him like a week of salary. and this is the rcm he's not getting stipends for supplies or watches or housing or probably even the gas for the kineema. poor as fuck but he is going to buy himself his little treats god damn it. if he lived in our world you know he'd be out getting himself a $9 vanilla soy milk half caf dirty chai iced latte every morning on the way to the station and eating instant noodles every night to claw out room in the budget for it
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Rayner is a good fucking character and I hope we get more of him in the Starfleet academy show. And honestly that seem likely, with the friendship with Tilly that they kinda "teased"
But then everytime that Star Trek pull the "hot-headed character with a soft side", I fell so hard for them : Bones, Kira, B'elanna, all in a pretty different ways. Odo, La'an and Michael are another side of the trope (they're kinda taking the opposite path if that make sense? Compare Kira & Odo or Rayner & Michael)
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CREATIONS OF 2023:
Tysm to the incredible @edteachs for tagging me! 💖💖 I'd never done this before either and had so much fun not just looking back through my gifs but getting surprised by which ones took off!
JANUARY
most popular: Daniel Craig and Hugh Grant talking Knives Out
favorite(s): Owen in Me, You, and Dupree and Lokius + definitions
FEBRUARY
most popular: Tom and Owen behind the scenes of Loki S1
favorite: Bliss
MARCH
most popular: Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan celebrating their Oscar wins
favorite(s): Owen on Jimmy Kimmel Live and TenSimm + being themselves
APRIL
most popular: Aziraphale/Crowley incorrect quote
favorite: John Cusack and Minnie Driver in Grosse Pointe Blank
MAY
most popular: Doctor Who 60th anniversary trailer
favorite(s): Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs and Owen in Paint
JUNE
most popular: Aziraphale/Crowley + same energy
favorite: Lokius in S1
JULY
most popular: Aziraphale/Crowley in S2 + touch
favorite(s): Owen as Father Kent in the Haunted Mansion trailer
AUGUST
most popular: Aziraphale/Crowley 2x04 // 2x06
favorite(s): Mobius in the Loki S2 trailer, Aziraphale/Crowley + smitten
SEPTEMBER
most popular: Good Omens S2 // Staged
favorite: Loki cast in the S1 blooper reel
OCTOBER
most popular: Lokius + Live TVA Reaction
favorite(s): Lokius + reflection, Loki 1x04 // 2x02, Lokius + magic
NOVEMBER
most popular: Lokius in the S2 finale
favorite(s): Don + did you know he's single?? He's single (w/fit check bonus), compilation for Owen's birthday
DECEMBER
most popular: Tom on some of Owen's S2 improv
favorite(s): Lokius in S2 + color, Loki and Mobius looking at the other
Tagging @llokilaufeyson, @safedistancefrombeingsmart, @too-funky, @alwaysanxiousrobot, and @sannapersikka of course only if you feel like it as well as anyone else who wants to join and please feel free to tag me if you do, love seeing everyone's creations 🥰
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