#the world is built for two

[not-me-underc0ver]

Peter introducing Tony to his coworkers after Tony mistakenly walks in during Peter's shift (he thinks Peter was working solo): "Yeah, this is my friend, Robert."

And when they're like: "He kinda looks like Tony Stark."

Peter just laughs and pats Tony on the arm: "Yeah, he gets that a lot! Funnily enough, he's actually a mechanic!"

And people just go with it. Because what makes more sense.

Peter Nobody Parker is friends with THE Tony Stark OR Peter knows a guy that looks like Tony Stark.

[alusart]

"too in love to think straight,all alone or so it seemed, but there was strangers watching, and whispers turned to talking, and talking turned to screams"

Wonderland - taylor swift

[sunforgrace]

sorry I know it’s 2023 the show has Been over but on any other show. your best friend confesses their love for you and dies. the very act of confession is what kills them because its their moment of true happiness - just telling you they love you - so the act of confession, of loving you, becomes happiness for its own sake and sacrificial death all at once.

on any other show. perhaps this would not insignificantly impact the character who was confessed to and would be further addressed in the text of the show. as you do when such fundamental worldview changes are introduced to characters that they now have to reconcile with along with the loss. perhaps this would even be a subplot, an arc to their character development. on any other show.

on the show where - just two seasons ago - said character Did have an entire arc and subplot dedicated to mourning the loss of their best friend who was killed in the context of battle, without any added significance such as. I don’t know. telling the other they’re in love with them which is the very thing that kills them. after the audience is deliberately shown that the character mourns for them in a distinct way compared to other characters, who mourn him as a close friend or paternal figure. which perhaps would beg the question: what is the distinction then. and the answer is: don’t worry about it. You Are Watching Supernatural

[leafpool-loves-ashfur]

guys we do realize Splashtail ISN'T an atheist right? we know the definition of atheist?

[yesloulou]

Podium | Belgian GP 2023

[gilears]

Time moves forward and only forward, relentless. Didn’t you learn last time? You can’t make it stop.

And when it has gone past, a sequel to Over & Through. Coming December 26-31.

[anathemafiction]

Slowly but surely, Romanus is starting to use more Latin...

- - - 

The back of your neck bristles. "A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi," you whisper to yourself.

Ahead, a cliff, behind, the wolves.

[azulhood]

Another random thought. You know the idea that ghosts aren't aware of the passage of time? What if we take that and apply it to Danny Phantom? Now losing track of time isn't that uncommon, it's pretty easy to get lost in what you're doing then look up and see that fifty minutes have passed. But what if it was longer than just minutes, or hours? A situation I could see happening is Sam, Tucker, and Danny get separated and lost in an unfamiliar forest. Danny stumbles across an old ghost town filled with, you guessed it, ghosts. Most of the ghosts would ignore him and go about their business, but not the kid ghosts. The ghost kids are thrilled at the sight of someone new and want him to play with them. Danny of course agrees to play with them, but only for a little while because he has to go back to looking for his friends. Time passes. Eventually Sam, Tucker, and Jazz find him playing with the ghost kids and Jazz immediately hugs him. "Where the hell have you been!? We've been looking everywhere for you!" Danny gets confused. "What are you talking about? We've only been separated for a couple of hours, tops, and when did Jazz get here?" The three get real quiet then Sam tells him "Danny...You've been gone for six days."

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Hold on something's just hit me.

If everyone in the Plex were to believe that Gregory dropped Cassie at the end of Ruin to keep himself from being found, whether he did it or not, wouldn't that make Roxy to one most able to understand him?

As Mimic's guard dog, surely she would know the lengths you have to go through to keep that fucker trapped. A whole team of Raceway construction workers went straight to their deaths down there. Roxy won't let the Raceway be repaired and re-opened in order to keep people safe. She's probably been able to see Mimic and its victims through the floor this entire time, she knows what it can do and what it's done, even if she doesn't know the full extent of it.

She's willing to sacrifice her Raceway and Salon to keep people from finding Mimic. Her pride and joys, basically her whole reason for being built in the first place. They're not worth the risk to her.

Whether Gregory sacrificed Cassie to keep Mimic trapped or not, surely Roxy would realise some sort of similarity. She may think doing that to Cassie was too far, she may think he's a monster for even considering it and she may feel as though nothing could justify what he did... But there's a part of her that gets it. The absolute terror that comes at the slightest possibility that Mimic could escape. She gets that sacrifices have to made, fuck she's made those sacrifices herself. She would never have sacrificed someone for this, that's why she ran headfirst at Mimic instead of just sealing the exits again, but there could be that tiny little part of her that feels the need to constantly to remind her that Gregory was trying to do the same thing she was.

The key difference here, is that if Gregory had done it, it would fall in line with almost everything else we've seen him do. The sacrifices he makes, are of other people, and not himself. He sacrificed Roxy, Chica and Monty to upgrade Freddy for his safety and possibly the safety of Vanessa. If he also dropped Cassie, then he's once again sacrificing someone else for the sake of his own safety. Not like he has that much else to lose, but I'm drawing comparisons here.

Roxy on the other hand, sacrifices herself. She sacrificed her Raceway and her Salon for the benefit of both herself and others. Unlike Gregory finding himself in a hopeless situation and hurting others to get out of it, Roxy was given this job (probably) and chose to give up what little she has in the world to keep the situation from happening. Even when Cassie deactivates her and ends up face to face with Mimic, Roxy jumps straight at it to buy her time to escape which could have easily killed her.

So now you have Roxy, who unfortunately does understand Gregory's choice to drop Cassie (if she believes he did it which yeah she probably does) but has absolutely no sympathy for him. She couldn't care less about him. There's potentially a fearful little voice in her head that she's the same as Gregory that fuels her anger towards him even more. She hasn't ever sacrificed someone else to keep the Mimic at bay and she's been doing it for fuck knows how long, what gives Gregory a free pass? Maybe if he hadn't stolen her fucking eyes she would have been able to stop the whole thing from getting that far anyway!

I'm not saying this to frame Gregory as a villain or anything. I don't think he dropped Cassie and I still think it was entirely Freddy's fault for what happened to the others in SB. I just think this is interesting from a character stand point. The one person that could understand the choices they've made to keep Mimic from escaping is each other, but they're both too hateful of each other for it to affect anything... If they were ever to settle their differences, I think it would have to start here. The only common ground they share, is the one thing no one else does.

But Gregory didn't even fucking do it so I bet that goes well lmao

[namari-hime-moved]

Hello there! I’m your doppelganger!

[rinaforreal]

Can you believe the outsider to East High and the outsider to the theater found each other and built a sacred kind of home? Together? Forever?

[not-me-underc0ver]

Tony and Peter walking.

Tony: OH MY GOD

Peter panicked: What?!

Tony pointing at something: THERE HE IS! THAT'S THE FUCKIN GUY

Peter: ?

Tony still pointing: That's the fucking guy behind all my problems!

Peter: Tony, you're pointing at your reflection.

[drinking-with-cupid]

Poor baby overworks himself all the time </3

[lode-builds]

This may be odd for me to say Lode, but I would really like to see your type of industrial builds crossed with organic matter? Like a human eye dominating a factory as part of the architecture idk. Your stuff is just super inspiring lol

ur so right and I've been playing around with that idea just haven't gotten to it! I love the idea of doing something skeletal like something built around a giant pile of bones or ribcage or something. also have wanted to make like a giant robotic somethingorother for ages (less organic but ykwim).

[danmeichael]

i need to work on my chengxian fics....

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

Flourish AU - Dragonheart Pirkko - Durmond Priory

Champion of the Caustic Elder Dragon

"Lasting change isn't gentle. It's harsh, abrasive, and inescapable. Either we'll adapt or we'll die trying."

"A better world starts with deciding what we're prepared to lose."