#this was so unnecessary dramatic

[puppyeared]

obsessive

[moderndaypandora]

Hob is going to come home one day two months into Dream's retirement (and seven weeks into their marriage) and Dream's going to be full Victorian maiden on the chaise lounge, arm covering his eyes.

Hob, who is not a fool: Want to talk about it, or want to be consumed by the agonies for a little while longer while I prepare dinner? You got groceries, right?

Dream: [horrible groaning dirge of assent]

Hob: I'm starting to get a little concerned, dearest

Dream: I went out to. Obtain groceries. And the woman at the till said 'enjoy your food'.

Hob: And you said?
 Dream: "My thanks. you as well."

Hob: My poor love. Have a kiss to ease the sting.

Dream: [accepting the forehead kiss as his due] I can't go back to that grocery store in this lifetime.

Hob: Understandable.

Dream: Can we fake our deaths tomorrow?

Hob: Give me two weeks to wrap everything up, then we can.

Dream: <3

[lunabug2004]

Ya'll probably know this by now given how much I post about it but one of my favorite pastimes is watching people react to Stranger Things. I bring this up this time because I've noticed a pattern.

People root for Mileven in seasons 1 and 2 with no problem (with the exception of a couple of reactors who took forever to pick up on it in s1 or just didn't like the idea of rooting for such young kids to be kissing). Esp s2 because everyone wants them to reunite and then said reunion is absolutely adorable.

However, by about halfway through ep1 of s3, everyone just seems to be so bored of them. Like nobody I've watched has ever really expressed the want for them to get back together when they break up. I realize this is probably partially because of the annoying nature of their relationship and the way their whole breakup is played off like a big joke, but that's actually precisely what I'm getting at. Why would the writers choose to make it so easy to stop rooting for the "main couple" of the show??? Just so they could have a comeback arc or seven? If Mileven is endgame, this will probably be one of my biggest hangups, esp given the way Mike was the brunt of the "joke".

One of the main reasons I always go back to Byler endgame despite all of my doubt is because of how the writers treat Mileven's relationship. It's pretty toxic and so it's easy to stop rooting for them or just the repetitive-ness of their story as a couple makes them boring. They wouldn't make the "main couple" the most annoying couple in the show if they were actually going to be endgame.

[kiisaes]

u ever just have some time to urself to think about bkdk (ur first mistake, bc u are now spiraling) and how it's the "[A] fell first [B] fell harder" trope and how that's like. more or less canon now. perhaps not romantically but how else are u gonna describe bkg's whole ... thing

[aaandbackstabbed]

[at Goldie’s funeral]

Scrooge: could I just have a moment alone with her

Other guest: yes of course.

Scrooge, leaning over her casket: okay, listen here missy, I know you’re not fucking dead

Goldie: yeah no kidding dipshit

[hephaestuscrew]

Listening to fiction podcasts with my dodgy headphones is so humiliating because when there's a long pause in what I'm listening to, I'm sat there trying to guess if it's for dramatic effect or a scene transition, or if my headphones have just decided to stop working.

[cebwrites]

in death (eternally bound)

oc x canon | AU word count: 0.8k

In a different, perhaps crueler, timeline - Shisui's unable to erase his existence completely and Kabuto successfully revives him during the war.

The results are catastrophic.

Even the strongest present members of the Allied Shinobi Forces are pushed onto their back foot, and, with the five Kage busy putting their efforts elsewhere, numbers of ninja dwindle greatly at the edge of his blade.

Merciful as he was in life, Shisui's autonomy was stripped of him upon reincarnation and now has to watch in horror as he cuts down friend and foe alike.

Shinobi old enough to remember the fear his name struck into their hearts on the field, shinobi young enough to only barely have heard of the Uchiha clan and what befell them, former peers from his own village, enemy shinobi that still felt the pangs of previous wars - the movements Shisui's body was commanded to perform held no prejudice.

Just as he's about to cut down just another terrified shinobi, frozen in place after witnessing the carnage Shisui had inflicted on the ninja around them, Shisui's tanto is blocked by kunai held in familiar hands and he's sent back a few paces.

Shisui looks upon the face he fell in love with all those years ago; the light in his eyes have dulled over the years, though they're sharp with experience, he's trying to stifle the pain meeting again here like this means. He recognizes that the man who stands before him on this battlefield, primed to attack, has seen far too much in his life, yet none of that makes Shisui love every part of him any less.

Even now, he wants to run into his arms and kiss the pain from Taeru's vacant expression, even knowing how his partner dulls his emotions for battle and how much more difficult that'd make it for Tae.

But he can't.

Damn that Yakushi. Damn him and Orochimaru's twisted jutsu to hell.

Once this was all over, and everyone was rotting in the ground where they should be, Shisui would drag them both there if it was the last thing his fractured, beat up soul allowed him to do.

The battle is tense, filled with so many words held back by wavering restraint and grief; Tae's able to keep up with him but just barely, only with the help of his fellow shinobi and years of being at Shisui's side, memories that gnaw painfully at the edges of his heart with every blow.

Somehow, they manage to force him back between his monstrous attacks and fending off other poor, reanimated souls in the periphery. But Shisui was doing much more damage than everyone could tank, and even Tae's stamina was starting to wane.

In a last ditch effort, a plan was proposed.

While others kept Shisui busy, barely being able to withstand the sheer power of Shisui's Susanoo, Tae erased his presence - remaining hidden to prepare his final attack; a fuinjutsu that would bind them both and give everyone enough time to seal Shisui away.

The orders in control of his limbs made Shisui drive the tanto into his assailant's side before either realized, but that didn't matter - the plan was fully in motion now. Quickly, Tae formed one-handed signs as he trapped Shisui's arms and seals began to inch over both of their bodies.

Shisui was partially grateful that the Edo Tensei did not grant him many senses - just the bare minimum required to fight - the grief he'd have to die with for the second time, knowing the warmth of his lover's blood draining out onto the ground below them while Tae desperately tried to stop him.

The pain would surely turn him into a wraith.

This technique doomed them both; ironic how they were together so briefly in life but would be bound forever in death as the jutsu would slowly eat away at their bodies and souls, leaving nothing left.

The fact that Shisui wanted to cry so badly but was incapable, his body struggling against the one person he wanted to be held by after so long of wandering aimlessly after the Naka River, now that he was back in his arms but only in this twisted perversion of life and death - made him crave it more than ever.

As the seal overtook more and more of their forms, restraining movement and binding both men for the beginning of their eternity, Shisui used the last of his time to confess everything; his fears and hopes for a proper reincarnation, for a full life lived together, just how much he loved Tae and wished he was able to be at his side like he promised all those years ago.

Tae's only response, feeling his mind start to ebb away, was that there was no way he was going to let Shisui go somewhere he couldn't follow anymore, and wherever they were headed now, damnation or not, would be together.

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A little later on, once the Allied Forces developed a way to neutralize reanimated shinobi; Hyou wanted the earth to swallow him whole when he heard the details of his brother's sacrifice.

[shredsandpatches]

I don't think any production of Doctor Faustus staged in modern times has ever included this scene, and omitting it is absolutely the correct dramatic decision, but I think about that last speech on a surprisingly frequent basis

[threedaycharter]

i love when people follow canon but then i also love when people interpret characters wildly out of character because sometimes it is entertaining and i feel like i am watching a telenovela or k-drama adaptation of my favs

[immortalsins]

if a muay thai instructor doesnt let u wear handwraps as a 'ground rule' since they're aiming for 'wrist conditioning' and when i ask if its a problem that i still do he says 'haha. Yes' is that a major concern yes or yes

[kiwiaok]

how does one write about infinity? I only have access to all the things finite. I am restricted by words, by languages, by my abilities. how do I overcome this? how can I write everything when I still know nothing? perhaps all I can do is try, gather all the stardust I have on my fingertips, and sculpt it into a shapeless clump of clay in my palms, breathe life into it until it flickers back at me, and then say: "it's everything" because it will be my everything.

[dmmdconfessions]

[Image text: am i the only one who thinks the sex scenes in the bad ends are unnecessary? im probably not the target audience but like?? i'd take an extra regular sex CG with its fluff and occasional dubious shenanigans rather than the ptsd-inducing scenes of my 2 favorite characters stuck in the void screwing each others genitals to bits or someone's ham-fisted acrotomophilia fetish (only exception is koujackoff's bad end. cum aoba is best bad end aoba.)]

[mariaiscrafting]

Maybe Minecraft is itself a tree that's grown rotten. Or maybe I've simply outgrown it.

(I had a mental breakdown in the tags sorry)

[countthelions]

Here is what it looks like when you make a post. The little bar above the keyboard is how you decide what kind of post you make.

Honestly dont know how to get to your archives though, but that just might be bc im stupid lol. Hopefully this is sort of what you wanted to know???

Ahah the archives I thinkkkk still aren't on mobile actually,, I remember now having to go to firefox to explore there. But this!! Plus your other comment is very helpful 💕it looks like its all actually very similar to the version I'm in (which is 27.8 apparently, took a While to find that on my phone omfg)

[spacecrows]

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