#she cannot

[galaxysharks]

Shout out to Madison for being the kind of ex that skips angry jealousy and jumps directly into being the best/worst wingman.

Like they see through your bullshit but they also know all your secrets.

Aka: oh God the gf and the ex are talking......and it's definitely about me....

Aka: a war on two fronts.

Ex.

At Maddox and Jet's apartment

Madison: sooo, Ash, what'd you do to make the first move?

Ashlyn: how do you know I made the first move? Maybe in between being a boss on set Maddox created an elaborate scheme to woo me.

Madison: Please, Gadget initiating a date? Ms. Woman of the Woods is a workaholic princess, and a big scaredy cat.

Ashlyn: ....Princess?

Madison: Urban Dictionary, I'll give you $20 to look up that definition right here.

Maddox: yo Mad? How's this for Princess? Get out of my house!

Madison: oh come on Mad, I'm just teasing. You're cute when you're flustered. Am I right though? Was Ashlyn the one who made the first move.

Maddox: ..... technically you were....

Madison: Me?! You mean the Balloons? Girl we've been broken up since before Halloween! Were you at least planning something for her?

Maddox:...….....

Madison: Gadget

Maddox: I was a little busy meeting the exacting demands of a hyper-artistic and pretentious director, thank you!

Ashlyn: wait a minute..... Before Halloween? But you picked up her phone on college outreach day!

Madison: yeah well, the last time Maddie got the flu, she overworked herself until it changed into a severe cast of pneumonia and she had to spend the rest of the summer in the medical cabin. I live like an hour and a half out from here, so I figured I would bring some soup and keep her from dying or drowning herself trying to shower. I thought you were calling to check up on her.

Ashlyn: No! I WAS CALLING TO ASK HER OUT!

Madison: See! You even though we might still be together at that point! Now that's initiative!

Maddox: I hate this......

[vogelmeister]

re reading parts of goud that need to be cut and i don't think it is entirely realistic merel would be writing in english at age ten.

[murrrays]

thinks about poppet intensely.  how is she supposed to see the deaths of two (2) people as early as a toddler and then be normal abt her powers.

[suppositionvacuum]

One of my favourite things is when a cat sits with its paws in front of it and looks so intense or when they close their eyes to sleep and they look all scrunched I just think it’s really neat

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[eternallovers65]

The way she takes of the high heel but is still on tip toes, how she waves around and the car drives itself, the barbieland sign with the hearts around, the pink slide, the glittery posters and the perfect descriptions

SHE'S EVERYTHING HE'S JUST KEN!!!!!!!

Greta you did again!!!!!!

[5ftboy]

"We eat people."

[girlpog]

“We need more evil women.” Bitch you thought Skylar White was in the wrong 😭

[cymk8]

her own moonlight

[babydarkstar]

honestly no wonder harrow forced ianthe to lobotomize her so she could save gideon. listen…LISTEN…if i was a secret-war-crime cult nunlet princess worshipped by my entire planet and the only person that (barely) kept me in check was my childhood nemesis—a butch a year older than me, towering over me in stature and physical prowess, and so hot it made my teeth hurt from how hard my jaw clenched in her presence, who wielded a two-handed seven-foot sword and had irritatingly huge biceps and told very lewd stupid jokes and also learned how to wield an entirely new weapon and be my bodyguard with startling accuracy in three months—only to have us finally learn to trust each other because we got invited to a magic murder mystery and then before the bubble burst i spilled the worst secret about myself that i was born because my parents murdered an entire generation and tried to Kill Her along with them and she just wouldnt die, and i told her this expecting a swift death i believed i deserved, only for her to fucking cradle me in her big butch arms and kiss me on my forehead with her soft butch mouth and just. forgive me for a shameful weight ive carried my entire life and then MAKE AN ACTUAL NECRO/CAV VOW with me despite every evil thing i have done to her……to have her tell me, in the end, bleeding and broken after putting up the most beautiful and glorious fight of her life, that she understands purpose and she understands duty and she knows loyalty more fiercely than ever now, that she knows who she is to me, that there is no her without me….to have her backed into a corner and make the ultimate sacrifice…..for me…..to recite scriptural wedding vows of eternity to me in her last wisps of soul-consciousness…..if i thought there was even a snowflake’s chance in the pyre that i could save her by turning myself into her very own locked tomb, i’d be begging ianthe tridentweirdius to crack my skull open and turn me to mush too, goddamn. i understand you harrowhark girl you don’t have to explain a thing to me. god said you couldn’t undo the lyctor’s bond bc it’d kill you. you told god and his angels that not even a lyctor’s bond could outshine the power of female spite and lesbianism and they didn’t listen. they didn’t believe you. but i heard you loud and clear and i was 17 and hormonal and hopelessly romantic not too long ago unlike those fucking dinosaurs and i’m saying it’s valid it’s what i would have done and really everyone should be thanking you for not being worse and more wretched about it, all things considered

[finleycannotdraw]

I JUST THINK THAT. THEY.

[greenglowinspooks]

To be honest. DCxDP where the reason Danny meets the bats is Ace the Bat-hound

Like, just think about it for a second. Danny is in Gotham for college, or maybe he just moved out to find a city where having mad scientist parents isn’t actually that unusual.

He can see ghosts.

The ghosts know this.

Now he’s getting harassed left and right by spirits trying to get closure. Fine, whatever, most of them are a one-and-done type deal, and the amount of ghosts trying to get his help steadily decreases.

Except for this one very stubborn dog.

It just keeps showing up and leading him to crime scenes! He doesn’t know how many “anonymous tips” he can call in to the cops before they trace his phone! And this dog, this incredibly good boy, will not stop trying to help the city. He’s never met anyone with such a strong sense of justice, let alone a dog. Can dogs even have a moral compass?

And so Danny just accepts the fact that Ace isn’t going anywhere and becomes his reluctant sidekick/dedicated medium. He leans into the whole thing, dressing up in a mix of traditional magic-user attire and accessories that pay homage to the ghost dog.

He becomes somewhat well known. The psychopomp detective following around the shadowy figure of a German Shepard? That’s unusual! That’s weird! I mean, it’s not the weirdest thing in Gotham, sure, but he’s a new vigilante and he’s got a ghost dog that people can only see when it’s around him. Someone’s gonna notice.

Damian, as Robin, is the first to reach out to him.

Ace doesn’t know Damian but he does know a Robin, and while this isn’t his Robin, he’s still friendlier than usual. Danny’s panicking because oh god the bats are here and also is this kid gonna steal my ghost dog, Damian is absolutely delighted by Ace, and Ace is just happy to see a Robin again.

Damian decides that the psychopomp isn’t a danger to anyone, and there’s no reason to put this encounter into his reports, really, and perhaps Danny can help with some of his cases in the future.

Danny is sweating bullets because Damian basically tells him that he’ll keep him secret as long as he gets to play with Ace. Ace is happy that he’s finally getting some bat affiliated crime-fighting assistance.

And so, Danny is now both Ace AND Damian’s reluctant assistant. At least whenever he’s in trouble, he can always call a middle schooler to help him.

(Is Robin even in school? He’s out patrolling damn near every night, and he stays out late as hell. Does he have a bedtime? He should.)

Eventually it gets to the point where Damian is going over to Danny’s house. When he first sees it, he has a damn bitch you live like this moment, to which Danny responds that not everyone has the money to afford a nice place. Damian counters that he could at least take the time to clean up, and Danny replies that he’s working, going to school, and being a vigilante assistant to a ghost dog, something’s got to give.

Danny nearly has a heart attack when he checks his bank account the next day and sees that someone transferred him 10,000 dollars.

And so they get into a routine. Danny and Damian fight crime with Ace at night, and occasionally Damian stops by during the day to play with Ace and have Danny help with his homework.

(Damian is smart enough to do it on his own, but some of the instructions are written incredibly confusingly, and he would never admit to needing help to his family. Danny is just glad that the kid is in school and cares about his education, blissfully unaware that he’s basically emotionally adopted him.)

Damian is used to being in Danny’s company.

Eventually, when going over a case with the family, Damian absentmindedly remarks that he’ll have to ask Danny about some of the clues that they might be missing. Nightwing asks who he means and Damian makes a face like he just swallowed a lemon.

Cue shitstorm.

Who is “Danny?” Why is Damian willing to ask for help from anyone, much less someone outside of the family? Does he know who Damian is? Has Damian been compromised? What the hell is going on?

Damian now has to explain that Danny is the psychopomp with the ghost dog who he might have met hunted down while on patrol and conveniently not mentioned, but he’s not a bad person, really, and he lets him play with Ace, and he’s been quite helpful on certain cases due to his ability to talk to ghosts.

Bruce insists that the family meet Danny. Damian, hoping that he won’t just skip town the second he hears the news, relents.

Danny is surprisingly eager to meet the bats, considering his earlier fears.

Damian, blissfully unaware of what’s coming, sets a time and place to meet.

Once everyone is there, he gives Bruce the earful of a lifetime.

Robin is in middle school! Danny knows that there’s no way to stop the boy from going on patrol, but you could at least shift his schedule so he gets enough sleep on school nights! Does the Bat even know where he is half the time?! (No) And why isn’t he comfortable asking his family for help with both cases and homework? Did they ever even notice how much time he was spending at Danny’s house? If Danny was a bad person, he could have seriously hurt the poor boy! Shame on you!

Nightwing is mortified that Damian didn’t trust him enough to tell him about any of this. Red Hood is laughing his ass off, because yeah Danny is making good points but he’s also chewing out the literal Batman. Tim is recording the whole thing. Steph is delighted by the absolute gall of this Danger Twink™️, and already planning to add him to several groupchats. Damian is more embarrassed than he’s ever been in his entire life.

You, he points to Nightwing, did your academic life feel supported when you were a Robin? Nightwing is too stunned to speak. Red Hood, eternal shit-stirrer, says that oh, we all prioritized patrol over our education, that’s just how it is. Red Robin actually dropped out of high school to avoid distractions, did you know that?

Danny honest-to-god shrieks at this.

He finishes his angry rant and leaves, everyone too stunned to stop him.

And as it turns out, Tim wasn’t the only person recording the whole thing.

The entire internet is blowing up with Psychopomp The Danger Twink™️’s rant. People are taking sides. Things are getting messy. Red Hood literally admitting on-camera to previously being a Robin is somehow not the main focus here.

Eventually someone connects some dots from the video, as well as stories circling the internet about the psychopomp. A ghost dog named Ace, who is the literal only reason that the psychopomp is fighting crime at all, which seems incredibly fond of Nightwing and Robin.

A crime-fighting dog who wants constant attention from both the current and original Robin.

Oh my god, Ace the Bat-hound died and became a crime-fighting ghost.

And, somehow, that’s still not the strangest thing going on in Gotham.

[bronzebtch]

[ lay ]  –  for the sender’s muse to lay next to the receiver and lay their hand in the receiver muses’ hand. ( from Aemma )

rhea have never shared her marriage bed with anyone.

no, that chamber was left unattended ever since her husband has denied her. now, whenever he does reside in the keep of house royce's ancestral home, he will be guided to a whole other wing, and an apartment all for him to do with him as he wishes — after all, like ghosts, he is never here long to do much of any lasting image. his white hair a figure flickering in the shadows which one oft see in the corner of one's peripheral vision, but he will be nothing tangible to touch. nothing solid.

rhea, for the most part, remains quite childishly in her childhood chamber. it is only efficient, she believes. it is the only solution she could have come up with upon such blatant rejection. plus, it has in it all the thing she knows. the marks where she and her brother once carved on them their heights, the view of the hills to which she's witnessed her whole life growing up, the carpets, the ornaments, even the size of the chamber is all too family. why would she let it go ? ( even though she must one day. even though her maester and house council is already advising her that the master chamber will be hers to occupy, regardless the consummation, for she is their lady. she is their lord. )

on this childhood bed, the only one who has ever had the grace to climb onto it would have been her dearest sister. she is not surprised now that, years and years later, it would be their cousin. for a moment, rhea aches at he possibility of them growing up together. rhea thinks the mountains suit queen aemma much better than a dragonback would, though she would never say it aloud. ( for as much as aemma is her dearest good-sister, she is still a targaryen. and all rhea has known of them is that they burn, is that they'll hurt. ) no, she only squeeze her cousin's hand right back, smiling a tad tearfully. though no tears, she suspects, shall fall.

❝ i could scarcely believe your time here at runestone is ending. ❞ a pause, rhea lets the delicate confession hangs in the air. ❝ i will miss you - and young rhaenyra - quite fitfully, i fear. you must promise me, good-sister — you must promise me that you will be safe. i am ... sorry i could not return with you. ❞

the intimacy of hands.

[lgbtlunaverse]

"Marcille hates all of Laios' freak traits but loves them in Falin" is honestly a really good joke but... you guys do know it's a joke right?

It's such a funny one I honestly find it impossible to get mad at even when people mistake it for an actual truth about the characters but JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR

THIS is how marcille reacts when Falin is predictably just as enthusiastic about eating monsters as her brother was.

That is not the face of a woman who thinks this trait is lovely and endearing as long as it's exhibited by the girl she loves. That is the face of a woman who is taking 7d8 psychic damage and yet knows deep in her heart she won't like Falin any less for it.

The way young Marcille reacts to Falin eating berries Marcille can't recognize but Falin knows are safe is pretty similar to how she reacts to eating monsters years later, albeit with more fear than disgust. The difference in her relationships with Laios and Falin isn't just that she's attracted to Falin, it's because the Touden siblings, while similar, are in fact different people. Not just genderswaps of each other.

Also, I think you all already know this, but just to say it: she doesn't actually hate Laios for any of his freak tendencies either. He's one of her best friends. She's just a lot quicker to be outwardly exasperated with him while she's quieter about it with Falin.

[ficwip]

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