#sophie i am SO sorry

[autisticcharactershowdown]

BRACKET 3, PART 2, ROUND 2

[jameszmaguire]

I love how BBC Ghosts once a series is like 'and here's a new flavour of Robin being the most tragic character you will ever see' and it brings me to tears every single time

[sophiethewitch1]

Ooh to see Tim Drake begs as you told him that you want to break up with him.😔😌💕 ( I don't want to just see him cry- I want to see him full on sobbing- promising to do better, just please please please don't--)

He's absolutely pathetic! it's one of his most endearing traits really. While he does his best not to look like a desperate fool in front of you, it's never been more obvious than when he's clutching at you, white-knuckled and tears slipping down his pink cheeks. Pressing his face into your side, his blubbery words even more muffled. God, he's so noisy! Please shut him up!!

[leverage-ot3]

okay I’ve seen a lot of posts about sterling just being crowley and. guys. the implications just hear me out 😭😭😭

bending lore slightly here BUT let’s say crowley’s body was once inhabited by a human and crowley is possessing the body (maybe he kills the initial inhabitant bc he doesn’t care)

but he still has the guy’s memories. he doesn’t bother keeping up appearances with his ‘ex wife’ because he is too busy building up his hell empire. BUT for some reason he can’t quite identify, he still feels something towards his ‘daughter’. he lets the divorce happen and doesn’t feel the need (or desire) to fight for custody, but he can never quite forget her, to cast her out of his mind for good

some hijinks ensue with the leverage team. it’s mostly because even a grind culture demon wants some off time every once in a while, and for him the insurance investigator stuff is more of a hobby. interacting with the leverage crew is very low stakes for him, and honestly, quite amusing. they aren’t on his level power-wise, but that ford character gives him the mental exercise he hasn’t experienced in, well, he can’t even remember

he can feel their frustration and anger when they learn he has become employed by interpol and feeds off it. it’s great, and relaxing in a way he is never able to achieve while conducting hell-related business

one year he gets wind that olivia is in a really bad situation associated with his ‘ex wife’s’ new husband. he’s selling vital hardware to terrorists, and while that might actually be the kind of chaos he would normally support or be entertained by as the king of hell, something feels wrong about letting olivia stay anywhere near that man

he calls upon the body’s adversaries. he wouldn’t admit it, even under duress, BUT he feels slightly fond of them. nate for the three dimensional chess they play, sophie for her ability to charm and disguise, parker for her chaos and slightly unsettling nature (it’s the autism swag and being bad with human interaction but he doesn’t know that lol), hardison for his unapologetic intelligence and eliot for his hardened violent past and take-no-shit persona (he’s fun to tease)

they perform exactly as he expected, right into his carefully crafted plan. and then olivia is under his care and things get more complicated. he keeps her FAR, FAR away from anything related to the supernatural (heh). no one can find out about her, ESPECIALLY not those imbecile hunter brothers (if for nothing else than the embarrassment in revealing he has a weak spot)

not sure how to work it into this post but I also want to add that somewhere along the way he develops feelings for nate and sophie. the frame up job is near and dear to my heart and you can’t convince me that isn’t fighting as flirting behavior. his interpol persona is more of a side hustle so to speak, but he finds it fun (relaxing, even) to fill that role. there aren’t any obligations of other demons, bothersome hunters, or anything like that. nate and sophie are low stakes, except, they aren’t, really. they make him feel things he can’t ever really remember feeling. his heart beats fast when sophie sat in his lap and cradled his face, his hands sweat when nate gives him that certain smug look. he’s exasperated by the way they can run circles around him like no one else has ever before. they annoy him and get under his skin in a way no one else can and it’s infuriating. but also not, at the same time. maybe he likes it

and then the long goodbye job happens

hear me out and suspend your belief here for a second, because I can’t remember if crowley supernaturally knows when ppl die/are dead or not.

so nate is in interpol custody and the interviewer is obviously out of her depth. (most people are, when it comes to nathan ford.) he walks in and pours the man a drink, but he’s fuming. somewhere along the way he came to care about the team. hell and suffering is literally in his (official) job description, but he can admit (only to himself) that he admires what they do. it’s not for him, not anything close to where his passions and interests lie, but he respects their drive and purpose. he is also aware enough to acknowledge that they are a family, a group of misfits that never belonged quite anywhere except to each other.

and nate fucking blew it up, ruined it, because his vice is being so obsessed with the end game that he is apparently willing to let his team, his family, the people that anchor him to reality, die because the ends supposedly justify the means.

not this time. not to sterling crowley

he is enraged. he can admit within the confines of his mind that he cares for nate, for sophie, even for the other three (though nate and sophie have somehow made it a hierarchy where they are more important to him. which he will dissect later in private. maybe.)

nate let them die, he let sophie die, and for what? the black book? hell below, crowley would have made things easier somehow, if he knew that this was where nate’s sights had lied. he would have prevented this somehow. he wants to have prevented this. he doesn’t want any of them dead and is too afraid to check and verify because that would make it real. the idea of sophie (or any of them) somehow making it to hell instead of heaven would probably break something in him he might not be able to repare fully.

he yells at nate- he’s angry. hellfire burning in his heart because everything is ruined. the deaths aside (however hard it is to set them aside in his mind), nate will not recover from this, not ever. this will be the start of the end, he is sure. a miserable, guilt-ridden existence where he drinks himself to death and nothing will save him. it plays out in crowley’s mind in a thousand different ways that are beyond painful to conceptualize, even in theory.

the story starts to unravel and there is a game afoot. a solemn, miserable, infuriating game because the con is still in session because parker is alive and in the building- which sets another fire alight in his chest. ‘parker even know you got hardison killed?’ he rages for her grief when she finds out. he knows it will double when she finds out eliot has perished, too, because he isn’t fucking blind.

but nate is a brilliant man, lest he forget too quickly. they are all alive, and somehow still the entire crew slips through his fingers. he’s not even angry (he never would have been- he doesn’t actually try too hard to catch them. it’s about the game, not the consequences). he lets them keep the black book because he’s fucking exhausted and honestly, they more than earned it.

‘now we’re even. tell sophie to drive carefully’. they will never be even, not really. crowley would never admit or agree that being human is the superior state of being, but that have made him feel human in a way he doesn’t actually mind. they keep him on his toes and match him in a way unique to them, they remind him that there are other things than the realm of hell. not necessarily bigger than hell, but maybe just as important in a different sense.

watching the van drive away, something inside him settles. when he walked into the interrogation room that day he thought this was the beginning of the end. it’s not the end at all, not an end to anything. it’s a continuation of their story. maybe, he thinks, a beginning to a new era in it

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

I find myself funny and I’m making it everyone else’s problem.

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF SHENKO 1/?

The end of the world has a way of reminding you of all the things you forgot to say do. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (2021)

[baeshijima]

sometimes i find it so funny when ppl dont properly tag their works for the reason of “oh, but then others won’t be able to see my work!” or “but if i tag it then it will spoil the twist!” (usually a darker or more… questionable twist, for a lack of better words) and so on. but that… that is literally the whole purpose of tagging? so that the ppl who have the tag(s) filtered because they dont want to see it just. wont.

like dw, ur work will reach ur audience one way or another bc theyre either following u, see it rbed on their dash, or they dont have it filtered; tho that will also have ppl who dont want to see it exposed to it so, for the love of god and the sake of our sanities, pls just list the warnings beforehand like it really isnt such a difficult concept to grasp ???

and bold it, especially if it is in the small text. the whole purpose is for it to be easily visible for the very reason that it can be avoided by readers who dont want to read it. idc if it ruins the aesthetic bc the lack of proper tagging ruins my already declining sanity :]

[spacerangersam]

truly tragic that there’s no sophie x humphrey fics that cater to my specific needs of them meeting in a universe where they’re not married and sophie’s a highway man who, while trying to rob humphrey, gets caught in the middle of his assassination attempt and deciding that’s just a bit too nice to lose his head, saves him, and the two have to go on the run and learn to work together to take down Humphrey’s attempted killer

[variousqueerthings]

me: yes eleven seasons to depict a three-year war could be considered overlong and there’s an argument to be made about the exhaustion felt in the later seasons, especially as the messaging became blurrier and the actors visibly aged into their late 40s, but there’s a lot to take from the structure about the repetitive nature of war, trauma, and insulated environments, the way it wears down everyone until even the most idealistic don’t know how to interact with good and bad and in/sanity anymore, and there’s an inherent tragedy to never letting them leave, until the very idea that there might be an end is itself a form of horror, an exhalation, or some kind of death-

me: only eleven seasons of hawkeye? my good friend hawkeye? my buddy hawkeye whom we love to see? my baby boy hawkeye who is experiencing the horrors? why not fifteen twenty hundred seasons of hawkeye? why not ageless hawkeye who is forever trapped in the repetition and never grows older and grows older and older at the same time? more hawkeye stuck forever? I wanna see hawkeye? no more hawkeye? maybe i’ll just rewatch season one

[souporwholock]

She move on my castle till I Howl

[holly-mckenzie]

There was a time when I would have married you, Tom Jones, and lived beneath those lucky stars and fresh air and kisses.

TOM JONES (2023) ｜ Episode 4 directed by Georgia Parris

[songsofdelusion]

ive connected the dots

guys new theory soph's pops is fallon vacker

has this been covered before? ik we've gone thru basically every eligible male in the pool of possibility - every time we have a new man introduced we have miss sophie girl looking at him like rory gilmore "are u my new daddy uwu"

HOWEVER we did not consider the possibility!! of the great^13 gramps of her (maybe?) boyfriend at the time!!!

that would be a heckuva plot twist lemme tell you,,, and it would achieve shannon's goal of throwing all of sophitz shippers' hopes and dreams into the middle of a london road and getting them run over by a bus.

gosh i love when im writing a run on sentence and i forget what im saying halfway through so i try to fix grammar but i also dont know what im saying

anyway thank you for your time keeper tumblr

(keeper tumblr after reading this: you didnt connect shit

me vibrating with glee in the notes: ive connECTED THEM)

[sophiethewitch1]

I just finished catching up to what we want

And like

That scene with Dick finding reader

(Them? Us?) In his room Absolutely

mortifying idk how she felt comfortable

enough to ask him for help after that.

I am curious to see what he thinks of it

all though 👀

She still called him through a mix of desperation, still there idol worship, general erratic unpredictable behaviour, and a subconscious wariness towards Tim who was really the only other option lmao. Also Dick immediately assumes this is all a very strange trauma response which like... He's right. That is what it is.

[crymeariveronceagain]

OKAY OKAY OKAY so me and my friend used to have this headcanon that Sandor secretly had a daughter and he was a single dad and that he would be forced to have tea parties with his little goblin daughter and she would put these bows on his ears and he tried to train her but she’s really sensitive and aghdjdjakdkdjjdjsjsjs just single dad Sandor please help

oh my gosh

single dad sandor im screaming lmao that's cute

Sandor's wife died in battle, a glorious credit to her nation, and a power to her people. Goblins don't mourn deaths in a traditional sense, because grief is very commonplace for a nation of warriors who constantly fight for the good of all.

This happened when their daughter was barely a year old.

So, Sandor instantly became a single dad.

His daughter is named Junha. She's seven, now, and since Sandor is on a mission, she lives with his parents. They're very nice people, if a little strict, but she loves them.

But he goes to visit her on every off day he gets. He misses her terribly while he's gone, and always looks forward to seeing her.

One day, Sophie asks where he goes on his off days. His eyes get a little shiny, and he starts talking about Junha. He tells her about how cute she is, and how good she is at art, and at parkour, and he tells her she's a little behind in some of the more intense parts of training, but he has no doubts that she'll get caught up super quickly.

Sophie asks more questions, and soon Sandor has his wallet pulled out and is showing her pictures of his daughter, a little thing with curly black hair and deep, big eyes, holding a sword that's way too big for her, clearly yelling something.

The next picture is of her in a flower-petal dress, wearing a thin metal crown, and Sandor sitting across from her, having a tea party.

Sophie giggles, and Sandor turns orange, as goblins do when embarrassed, and puts it back in his pocket.

Sophie smiles at him. "I never knew you were such a softy."

"I'm not," Sandor answers, as fierce as he can. "I just love my daughter. Any good man would."

"That's true," Grady responds, from the other room. "There's nothing less than powerful about a man who loves his daughter."

Sophie snorts, "I guess," she says.

"You guess? It is a complete fact!"

"Oh, no, I know! I know!"

"Do you?" Grady asks, poking his head into the room. "Because otherwise I will be forcing you to admit that I'm amazing."

"I do!" she yelled. "Jeez, I came out here for a good time, and honestly, I'm feeling so attacked right now."

Sandor snorts, turning away. "Well," he said, "Now you know where I go on my off days."

Sophie nodded. "Tell Junha she's welcome to visit whenever, by the way!"

Sandor blinks, and nods.

But he's smart.

There is a danger around Sophie, there is a danger around him. Junha is safest at her grandparents'. He does not want her here. If anything would make him stop protecting Sophie, anything at all, it would be his daughter.

Even bodyguards have their priorities.

[natequarter]

SOPHIE FOR THE ASK GAME

One aspect about them I love: she's very stabby, and i like that in a woman. also, everything about her fascinates me, and i love listening to her speak french. english can be a bit of a nightmare sometimes

One aspect I wish more people understood about them: she and humphrey were in a complicated, difficult situation, and there was no right thing to do for either of them - it would have been better if she could have befriended humphrey, but it's also perfectly understandable that she never did. humphrey had legal control over her - he could have been abusive, and got away with it. he didn't, but he could have, had he wanted to.

One (or more) headcanon(s) I have about this character: it would probably make more sense for her to be from the north of france, but (especially in a modern setting) i like to headcanon her as coming from the south of france

One character I love seeing them interact with: hm. this is difficult to answer, seeing as the only person she interacts with is humphrey, but i do love seeing her interact with humphrey, so we'll go with that. the moment between them in the bone plot where she thanks him for helping her and then goes 'moi... joyeuse'... his little smile... and her desperately trying to save him. and calling him a good man. they may not get on, but there is affection there. she's the only one who's allowed to insult her husband, thank you very much

One character I wish they would interact with/interact with more: the easy answer here is humphrey (him being, well, the only character she interacts with), so let's go for something more interesting. annie! putting the two of them in close proximity would be nothing short of a nightmare. sophie's a diehard catholic, annie's… well i don't buy that she was a committed puritan at all, but it drives sophie absolutely mad, so she'll stick to it. they're both strong-willed and very stubborn women and if they got stuck together in death sophie would definitely stab annie to shut her up. they should kiss too. oh also shoutout to molly who should definitely kiss sophie

One (or more) headcanon(s) I have that involve them and one other character: in life, she would irregularly sleep with humphrey. they were both so lonely, sometimes they did take solace in each other - they were drunk, or they were miserable, or they were in the right place at the wrong time. it was ultimately meaningless, and never went anywhere... but it was something to do

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[marivenah]

» a soul that's born in cold and rain knows sunlight, sunlight, sunlight « — insp.