#pretend I know what I’m talking about

[the-teddy-bear-butch]

I present to you: the greatest au, Goncharov Ronance au

So ofc Nancy is Katya. Literally, they are one and the same. We love gun wielding, emotionally repressed, badass lesbians in this household.

Robin is Sofia! She and Nancy have just,,, so much tension through the whole fucking thing like Katya and Sofia. And Robin in that cocktail dress!!!

Steve is Goncharov, our tragic hero who destroys himself. (I’m writing this from Katya/Nancy’s POV tho, sorry Goncharov)

Eddie is Andrey, and I’m enjoying the idea of him in an eyepatch.

Nancy and Steve were married, but obviously they have their respective homoerotic partnerships with Robin and Eddie.

Katya’s father dies = Ted Wheeler dies, score!!

Ofc the boat scene with Ronance!!! It’s incredible!!! Nancy bleeding out, almost dying while Robin whispers sweet nothings and tends to her wounds.

The apple scene! The tension is red delicious, come on. And don’t even get me started on Nancy protecting Robin.

Nancy threatening Steve feels like retribution for the movie theatre scene in Stranger Things, even though the doesn’t happen in Goncharov. Let Nancy Wheeler threaten to shoot people 2022

God, I know Katya dies and betrays Sofia but,,, I’m a soft bitch and I’m changing it. I’m thinking the betrayal still happens, but instead of burying our gays, Robin comes back because she loves Nancy and saves her, and then they end up forgiving each other.

Just. Ronance in Mafia suits!!! Tell me you see the vision!!!

The Beer Scene? Enough said.

Oh, and Argyle is ice pick Joe because it’s funny.

Oops I accidentally ignored the main characters, but come on, Katya!Nancy and Sofia!Robin deserve the spotlight

Not to mention the clock symbology matching up so well with Vecna’s clock!

[ohbuggy]

She’s just a girl~

[stuckinapril]

By God I am never consuming any celebrity product ever in my life. Never

[alluralater]

take a shot if you're a white person who has thrown an online tantrum after being called out for your privilege. take a shot if you're a white person that doesn't apologize but instead says "you're twisting my words." take a shot if you're a white person that will do everything except apologize to people of color and/or vulnerable groups, comparatively as if you're trying not to pay out insurance after getting into a fender bender. take a shot if you're a white person who drops a rancid take online and doesn't take responsibility for anything but instead you call yourself a victim of attacks, as if people know you well enough online to know your character rather than simply judge you on the basis of your actions. take a shot if you're white and you pretend the entire world is out to get you when really you're not as oppressed as the groups you choose to hurt and you use your white tears as a defense toward any further criticism. take a shot if you’re a white person that calls the criticism of your actions “drama.” take a shot if you’re a white person that can’t stand being excluded from things because you’re used to being allowed into every space on account of your privilege. take a shot if you’re a white person that cannot stand to be criticized. take a shot if you’re a white person that pretends you’re the only person who deals with and understands dysphoria because you as a white person are never wrong, just misunderstood and everyone else is attacking you and lying about you and everyone in the world must completely hate you and everything is about you always even when you are specifically talking down on a community and/or a vulnerable group. take a shot if you as a white person pretend to create a safe space for criticism but instead lash out at anyone and everyone and weaponize your following for validation and reassurance/mob reaction with your white tears whenever anyone does criticize your actions. take a shot if you as a white person imagine that a bad day means you can say anything you want and not need to apologize for it. take a shot if you as a white person center yourself as the victim more frequently than you center yourself as someone who inherently has privilege. okay now take a seat.

[dark-elf-writes]

Hi I knew the reunion with Gilmore after the dragon attack would hurt but I didn’t know that VAX IS HOLDING HIM ON HIS LAP BEGGING ANYONE TO HEAL HIM. That added to the first thing he sees after opening his eyes being Vax and saying he always knew Vax would be the one he saw in his final moments and I am weeping like bitch

[mistergreatbones]

I prefer “Mary and John were normal people” so so so SO much more, however,

Time traveling Dick Grayson: I kinda… don’t join the family business? I mean I still use everything you taught me! Just for vigilantism instead?

Mary: I’m… not sure I’m surprised or not

Dick: really?

Mary: well… you always did love Robin Hood. I should have known you would try your hand at the whole “steal from the rich, give to the poor thing.” I mean, you are my son after all.

Dick: um.

Mary: you stick it to the man. Right, Dick?

Dick: uhh well you see-

John: it’s okay sweetheart, we support you as long as you’re happy, right dear?

Mary: oh of course I am! I would still love you even if you became… oh I don’t know what, John help me out

John: a walking corpse enslaved to the bourgeoisie whom’s every emotion and individuality has been torn away leaving nothing but a shell who knows only violence and obedience

Mary: right- what?

Dick: yeah I’ve been meaning to ask-

John: -about Aunt Harriet? Because I’ve been wanting to ask about what Aunt Harriet’s been up to!

[carefulfears]

thinking about scully sitting on the floor of mulder’s apartment just holding him as he wept after his mother’s death and after she told him through tears that it’s time to stop. it’s time to stop looking for his sister.

and how she had already told him that once, seven years earlier, a month into their partnership, when she chased him out of a police station and told him to stop running after his sister because it won’t bring her back.

she called after him to just stop, because she’s the scientist, and that’s the logical conclusion that she had reached.

except later that night, he told her why he does it. that he’s been closing his eyes and walking into that room, thinking maybe, when he opens them, his sister will be there, since he was 12 years old. “every day” of his life.

and she never told him to stop again.

until seven years later, when she rocked him on the floor, and then the next day was asked “why do you want to bring all this back up now?” and answered, “someone owes it to mulder.”

so she started looking. she reopened files, she tracked down records, she went to his mother’s house to dig through the trash. she confronted CSM about what he knew, she flew to california, she held hands and prayed.

she looked at mulder and said “it hurts me to tell you this” and stayed steady in the truth anyway. she listened to him read to her about a 14-year-old girl’s pain, held his hand and told him to get some sleep. she stayed up, kept looking, and found it. “i got it, mulder. i couldn’t believe it when i saw it. it was like it was looking for me.”

the police report from when samantha ran away.

she read the hospital records, went to the home of the nurse who signed the intake report, asked him if he wanted her to go herself.

she left him by the car and walked up and knocked, asked about a patient in 1979. she listened as the nurse described how “you couldn’t forget her or how frightened she was. scared for her sweet life.” and the man who came for her, who wouldn’t put out his cigarette.

earlier the day before, she had been told to just stop. “word of advice, me to you: let it be. you know, there’s some wounds that are just too painful ever to be reopened.”

and she had responded, “this particular wound has never healed. and mulder deserves closure.”

after seven years, she knows now, that you can’t just stop chasing. she knows how heavy grief is, and she‘s seen the effects of carrying it alone. of walking into the worst night of your life every day, eyes closed, hopeful.

you can’t just stop, and you can’t really have closure, but you can help someone carry it.

and ultimately, that’s what made this the end of the road. sometimes the heaviest burden of grief is feeling that pain is all there is left of someone, and that alleviating it would be to abandon them.

scully’s right, this wound has never closed, but there’s freedom in shared remembrance and shared dedication. she doesn’t ask him to stop until he’s ready to know the truth, and she’s willing to find it. she doesn’t ask him to rest until it’s safe for him to, because it’s not forgetting samantha. she knows and she remembers.

[theymademesignup08]

I have a question for the book readers, would you say that Luke Castellan haunts the narrative? I love those kinds of characters and he really gives those vibes.

[the-casbah-way]

i never ever cry in front of anyone ever but there was this boy i was OBSESSED with in primary school when i was like seven years old because he was the fastest boy in the class and he had cool spiky hair and i always thought it was a crush until i came out and realised it was gender envy of some form and today my friend out of the blue told me that i look like him and we looked at his instagram together and i actually do. i look almost exactly like him. and i cried like an absolute wanker because i’ve been so miserable my whole life being perceived entirely the wrong way and i went home today and looked at myself and realised i look like the boy i always wanted to be when i was a kid. and whenever i feel bad about myself i get to remind myself that i look like him so i shouldn’t feel bad because back then i couldn’t have ever dreamed of getting to look like this. and t will only make it better and even though the idea of starting it is still so scary to me i keep having moments like this that make me realise how good it’s going to be even if some of it will suck. i always focus on all of the ways my transition has gone and will go wrong and i forget that it’s going to go right in a lot of ways too

[fabiotheguitar]

saw tags on @lottieurl ‘s post and now I find myself also asking the question what does saira think about gay marriage. she hates straight marriage because of its patriarchal origins and family trauma ofc… does it extend to gay marriage? is she talking about the Islamic concept of marriage or the social/economic model of marriage? does she distinguish between the two? does she know that there are imams who do gay marriages? does she know she wants to get gay married? to amin-

[figofswords]

they are currently tear gassing my former classmates four blocks from my apartment. the encampment was there for literally like two hours and as soon as the sun set state troopers in riot gear moved in and started tear gassing and arresting people on the grounds of “unlawful assembly”, in a public park on a public campus of the university these students pay to attend, that I paid to attend not even a year ago. I’ve been getting university alert texts calling it a “violent protest” because a handful of students threw water bottles at these cops in their riot gear, and because they don’t need a real reason to arrest you, and because they can say whatever they want and do whatever they want and get away with it. they’ve been setting off the emergency sirens periodically, a thing I’ve only heard them do before in the event of an active tornado. there are ALWAYS christian fundamentalists on campus harassing students with megaphones, but we can’t doing anything about that. there’s breaking and entering and violent crime and sexual assault all the time but we can’t do anything about that. a kid died from hazing two years ago. multiple students have died from being hit by cars in the last few years but we don’t have traffic cops helping regulate things. but I’m just saying things we already know: the cops aren’t here for us. they’re here to uphold fascism. the university isn’t here for us. the government isn’t here for us. no one in my generation will be able to afford a house since there’s no money to excuse student debt or fix the economy, but somehow there’s money for more cops, more tear gas, and more weapons to fund israel’s genocide. I’m not at the encampment because I’m a coward and my fear of getting tasered is stronger than my desire to help. but god I’m so fucking angry.

[strandnreyes]

ending season 4 on two vastly different deaths that majorly affect Owen and Carlos. both sides, now. the director directing shift-less and abandoned. a Owen-centric episode and a Carlos-centric episode. walk with me. WALK WITH ME.

[buthearmeouttho]

if I was part of middle earth (pt. 5)

Aragorn: ai, heru Elrond (hail, Lord Elrond)

Elrond: ai, Aragorn, ion nan Arathorn. I eneth melloneg? (Hail, Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Who is your friend?)

*insert detailed conversation I’m too lazy to type out and translate for you)

Aragorn: and she speaks elvish, at least some.

Me: no I don’t:)

Aragorn:

Elrond:

Aragorn: I watched her do it- you know what, we have a bigger problem.

Elrond: yes, it seems so. I agree she does not come from this world… are you sure it was elvish you heard her speak?

Aragorn: yes, I’m sure. She was muttering curses.

Me: :)

[ahalliance]

i love when the us election year rolls around every four years and makes it the rest of the world’s problem

[couthbbg]

gonna be so serious….. I’ll be an am34 fan for life let’s get that out of the way but if the leafs tr*de mitchy…….. I’ll be a fan of whatever team he ends up on and like leafs who?? never heard of em

[lucreziaces]

thinking about the quote where françois says lucrezia is the one who makes the first move…..