#they are each other's anchor

[fluo-skeletons]

oh hey guess what

skeletons being friends but like the weirdest fucking possible way right. "oh they are friends, must be a nice clean whimsy time " WRONG they are both not normal about it. like wow he is the brightest star in this universe. but the guy in question kills people. hey I'm friends with you but putting you on a pedestal on the level of sainthood. which is extremely fitting because the qualities most people like about you come directly from your suffering. if you asked for my soul i would deliver it to you just because you asked. also now that you're here let's engineer a barely nonlethal death trap in the town square. it will be very fun.

[mayhemspreadingguy]

Lost boys

[cemeterything]

the thing about jontim for me is that it's such a "by all rights neither of us should even be alive when better people than us who deserved it more are gone, but if anything happened to you i would kill everyone in this room and then myself because you're all i have left" ship. survivor guilt codependency feedback loop.

[lucabyte]

Hmmm just gonna spit this headcanon out in text post form since A. I don't think I could exposit it well enough in image form and B. It's not actually textually/thematically substantiated and I don't like actually staking my stuff on just vibes alone*

But anyway. I'd say it's pretty evident that all the islanders forgot their names, right? King obviously. Because why the hell else would he do that, but also Siffrin No Middle Names No Last Name.

They're 'pretty sure' they've 'always' been 'Just Siffrin' 'as long as they can remember'. It's a pretty cruel twist of the knife to say that they don't even get to keep their birth name as a memento, which is why I'm saying as such.

My utterly unsubstantiated claim is I think it'd be cute to say that Sisyphus *is* the name Siffrin initially picked, assuming the myth of King Sisyphus is recontextualised as idk, just a play or something in the setting. But I like the idea of Siffrin going 'oh shit 🫵 he's just like me fr' at a tortured fictional character long before the irony kicks in.

As for how Sisyphus -> Siffrin. I think that chronic mumbler and emotional doormat Sif just did not correct people who misheard the name during their time travelling, and went through enough places with incompatible phonologies (pronounceable sounds in the language) without ever really writing it down that it just got kinda. Changed until it was unrecognisable, and Siffrin just went with it until the earlier pronunciations slipped out of their swiss-cheese brain. And they just kinda don't remember any of that.

Also, something something the horrid realisation that Siffrin also named themselves after a King. Just not as blatantly.

*(though I think there's something here about Siffrin, a guy from a belief system that seems to thoroughly disincentivise autonomy and self-motivated choice continuously having their hand forced to make changes/choices they don't want but have no choice but to... It's not solid enough to really back this up tbh, but it informs it.)

Anyway.

[beastologist]

One other reason why I'm more inclined toward Buck & Tommy? They understand each other's line of work, but they are NOT working in the same firehouse. They WON'T be constantly attached to the hips all day at work and outside of work. Just like Hen, Bobby and Chimney do have their significant others outside the 118 firehouse, I would prefer for Buck to have a significant other outside the 118 firehouse, too. Remember how Hen basically said Buck doesn't have anyone outside the 118? That's a potential difference and improvement Tommy could make for Buck.

[whumpypepsigal]

Shadow and Bone s02e03: “No one's ever smart enough to look for the real one.”

Translation: She’s his strength, his weakness, and everything in between. She’s the only one capable of getting through his armor. She’s his light through the darkness. His savior. His support system. He loves her and he would die for her. She’s the real one.

[beaulesbian]

Shanks always said that if the path to what you want seems too easy, then you're on the wrong path.

[newathens]

posally

[loving-jack-kelly]

something something jack and davey both thinking they were acts of service love language types because they were both so deeply insecure in themselves that they needed to feel useful to feel loved. and something something both of them finding for the first time with each other that they don't need to provide utility to be loved. and something something this spilling out into the rest of their lives as they make each other better and push each other to grow.

[kseniaallis]

The concept of anchors in teen wolf always fascinated me. Because it’s not the same for everyone. Someone connects to negative emotions, pain, suffering, anger. Someone attaches to happy memories and joy. There are those who connect to mantras, philosophical ideas, and beliefs.

But there are also those who connect to loved ones, because they are something that makes them vulnerable, human. They are those who calm with a heartbeat, gentle voice, those who can reach the deepest parts of the mind with words, whose single presence can pull the shift, anger, impulse and instinct back and make the supernatural being feel at ease.

And when two supernatural beings are each other’s anchors? It means they connect to other not because they are a dose of the humanity they lost, not the reminder of the human part of them, but because they know they can trust each other because other will always have their back.

[morethanwonderful]

Also feeling insane about how Tom and Shiv both want to go back to the points in their relationship where each of them had power over the other.

Tom goes to Shiv on the stairs of her dead father's home and reminds her of when she was vulnerable and fell in love with and relied on him. He hearkens back to a time in their relationship where she was going through a hard time and he supported her, because that's what he wants again. Being the rock supporting Shiv through a storm gives him irreplaceable power there, even if he's nothing but good to her in the process.

Meanwhile, when they had the divorce talk in 4x1, one of the reasons that Shiv cut things off so quickly was that she wanted Tom to reach out and ask for her. If she said "it's over" and Tom tried to fight for her, then it would have been him begging her and her making the decision. It would have given her power over him again.

But I think Shiv recognizes Tom's ploy at the wake, and she pushes him away rather than fall on him, and Tom doesn't let himself beg when she tells him it's over. Tom wants to be her rock again and Shiv wants to be in control of someone subservient, but Tom's sick of subservience and Shiv refuses to be weak or reliant on him. So they're both just grasping at what the other one won't let them have.

[hoodie-buck]

—here it is, my first thiam fic! if you love idiots in love involving being each others anchors and hoodies, you’ve come to the right place 🖤

rated: t | words: 5.9k | read on ao3

summary:

Mason put his hands out in front of him like he did whenever he was about to go off on a tangent about some new information, Theo readying himself.

“Look, you’re an asshole, genuinely. And I still don’t know if I can ever forgive you for everything you did—but… you were there for him. You were there for Liam when he needed it.” Mason scoffed. “God you two are so dense!”

Before Theo could ask what he meant, Mason threw his hands out with exasperation.

“You’re his anchor dude. Go—ground him, or whatever it is werewolves do.”

He was Liam’s—anchor? It was an idea Theo couldn’t even begin to wrap his head around.

If he thought back on everything, sure, he could see it. But Theo wasn’t good, he wasn’t built to help, to ground. He was only built to destroy. What did Liam need him for anyway?

—or—

Theo picks up on Liam's odd habits, making it his personal mission to keep the beta grounded. It has absolutely nothing to do with him being Liam's anchor

tagging my thiam wife and a few that seemed interested <3 @honestlydarkprincess @thewolvesof1998 @wikiangela @daffi-990 @santadiazz

*if anyone wants be tagged in my future liam content just lmk!*

[urjustaguyonahorse]

he would die for her and she just thinks he's the most incredible thing she's seen in her whole life and the gods could only try to tear him from her cold dead hands again

[nitw]

serizawa being all like "i have little experience in relationships of any kind due to my sheltered past but being in love sure sounds nice :) anyway do you wanna hear about my boss? he's so cool~" and reigen being canonically bitchless always + showing no interest in the female clients he's popular with + questioning the importance of sexual attraction and marriage + actually feeling insecure about his struggle with emotional vulnerability deep down and thinking no one could possibly like him back for who he is..............

so anyway yea they're both somewhere on the aroace spectrum and gay for each other

[raekensarcher]

thinking about the way that theo likely has a horrendous relationship with touch and he probably only associates it with pain and bad things and being torn apart and having pieces of himself stripped away little by little and i just wanna vom actually. he’s never known hands that were kind and gentle. he’s never known safety in someone else until liam and i actually am going to flip a table

[pinkbeastie]

well hello, but wasn’t this their whole relationship?