#thoughts for the void

[idkanymoreokay]

I have so many thoughts on the friendship between Flynn and Cassandra, I could write a million essays on it. But something that has really jumped out to me during my current rewatch is the way these two just easily understand each other without even trying.

They talk without having to verbally communicate most of what they're saying. They don't even seem to be aware of the fact everyone else in the room is looking at them in confusion because they can't hear the unspoken parts of the conversation.

They bounce ideas off each other so easily, instantly pick up on each other's trains of thought, and practically finish the other's sentences or ideas.

These two neurodivergent geeks, who never had anyone in their life truly grasp what goes on inside their head, suddenly found someone who knows and it's like they instantly latched onto that connection.

Cassandra also has her very close friendship with the other LITs, and Flynn has his relationship with Eve, but it's their friendship with each other that lets them both explore and indulge the parts of themself that other people just don't understand.

Cassandra is definitely the one out of the LITs that is most like Flynn, both in her skills as a Librarian and also in her personality and how her lightning speed thoughts tend to get translated into her words and interactions with others. (Which is a whole other topic I'd love to dive into another day.) But, yeah, it makes so much sense why they have no trouble at all understanding each other.

(Edit: Nope, that was supposed to be the end of the post but I have too many thoughts that need to be shouted into the void. Their friendship is very important to me. So...)

Jumping back to the very beginning - During the first two episodes, Flynn is perpetually annoyed by Ezekiel and just kinda ignores Stone. But Cassandra… He's absolutely fascinated by her from the moment they first meet. He takes a minute out of their incredibly urgent life-and-death mission to discuss her being a synesthete and geek out a little over the fact she has an eidetic memory like him. And Cassandra's immediate reaction of "Yes, wow" is like she can't believe someone is capable of immediately understanding what's going on inside her head and is 100% okay with that and not at all bothered by her being "different".

And then they get to Stonehenge:

And I think this is the moment Flynn really starts to appreciate how brilliant Cassandra is, and how very much like him she is. Flynn is a fairly competitive person with a genius brain like no other, but he doesn't get upset or offended when she takes over the calculations, and even carries them out faster than he could have. If anything, he looks genuinely impressed. He instantly understands what information she needs and readily gives it to her so they can continue solving the puzzle. They immediately settle into this easy back and forth, this rapid exchange of information and clues as they work at putting together the pieces. He's able to talk to her in a way he can't talk to anyone else. It's probably been a long time (if ever) since he's interacted with someone who can keep up with him.

Even after Cassandra has betrayed Flynn -- causing him to lose his home, the only family he had left, his best friend, and potentially his life -- he instantly accepts her back on the team and even sticks up for her when the others object. At this point, she hasn't apologized, shown any indication of remorse, or had a chance to make amends. And it doesn't matter to him. "She had her reasons" - and that's enough for him. He lets her out of the cell and immediately wants to hear her plan for stopping the Brotherhood.

And I think this is the moment when Cassandra -- similar to Flynn's realization at Stonehenge -- suddenly realizes that someone else can grasp her thought process. That someone understands the way her brain works. That someone is capable of following her trains of thought and not getting lost in the ordered chaos of her mind.

Just look at her smile!! She is trying to get across what she wants to say, and she's so used to having to break things down for others and still not being understood, and here's someone who instantly picks up what she's trying to convey. Look how utterly happy and excited she is when he gets it.

I love how much they appreciate each other's genius. I love how they can communicate on a different level. I love how much they genuinely care about each other.

And I absolutely love that it's through Flynn that Cassandra manages to have her moment for redemption, because he's already clearly demonstrated that he's the one member of the group she doesn't have to prove herself to.

I just... 😭😭😭

I love that Flynn has zero people skills and a very weak grasp on the concept of friendship and yet he meets this brilliant, weird, amazing young person and pretty much instantly connects with her. Because, like her, he also spent most of his life invisible and now someone actually understands him and is already so important to him, even if it's a while yet before he'll really fully understand the concept of friendship.

I love that Cassandra has spent most of her life feeling unseen and never truly accepted by the people around her. And then she meets someone who immediately sees her and understands how her mind works and appreciates and trusts her, and who introduces her to this life of mystery and magic where she can use her talents to save the world… and she already knows that he's important to her even if she doesn't realize just how much her life is going to change because of him.

There's SO MUCH more I could say about their friendship, but I should probably channel some of it into an actual blog post at some point. For now, here's some cute moments I grabbed while getting the screenshots for this post:

[katerinaaqu]

If y'all think that Clytemnestra didn't care at all about Agamemnon I have to remind you her lover was Aegisthus. AEGISTHUS! You know... the illegitimate child produced by Atreus's TWIN brother with his own DAUGHTER? Like how many probabilities do we have that the dude didn't look like a possible copy of a younger Agamemnon? And he was the "Agamemnon she wanted" aka someone to assist her in a common purpose and vengeance?

Food for thought

[spoonerise]

Astarion is a magistrate. He went to law school.

[escyn]

Your body is a stellar map: evidence of thermal expansion, creation driven by the heat of passion, both yours and His.

on ao3: Explicit; Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings; jayvik; viktor as a god (jayces god), Multimedia, NSFW Art, Drabble, Second Person, more poetry than prose; blasphemous thoughts

[ruidrones]

on hands and knees begging for enakasa trust rank

[cyanbugremix]

Gahhhhh a random old guy said something to me and i'm always confused and dont know how to respond to people saying random things to me, other than laughing or shrugging at what they say dhkajdgskkahdkakdjksks

[kaipendesarapen]

i love how the most well-articulated fic I've read is porn. the words used to describe how character b is sucking character a's dick is like how Shakespeare would've written but modernised. i could vividly visualise how they're fucking and i'm honestly eating that shit up.

[siampie]

FIC IDEAS

The Detective and the Devil

Here I am trying to get into the groove to write a new chapter for one of my WIP on fanfiction.net, and Matt demands a new fic.

So, a while ago @djarinbabysnotes posted a fic idea for a Daredevil fic that involves a detective. A sorta enemies to lovers kinda story. Which did seduce me. And I read a story on FF.net written by cocotiks called Murdock and Knight, really good story by the way (had not been updated since 2019 sadly) which had ideas already brewing in my head.

Now, I have this idea stuck in my head of a detective getting involved in Daredevil's shenanigans but also dealing with Matt Murdock. Both parties don't really like each other, so enemies to lovers trope. Might be slowburn. And I think, it'll be OFC rather than reader. Not sure about that, yet.

I don't know when it'll be written but the idea had been turning in my head for a while. Just needed to talk about it.

I had already written something similar for Batman begins called the Detective and the Bat, not really good. I have gotten better overtime but still, I could have done better.

Anyway, just needed to do some thougts dumping on this one. The title is definitive though, this won't change.

PS: it won't be as good as Murdock and Knight

[vikramsharma007]

[cilil]

One of the coolest things you can do if you have a uterus and menstruate is sync your cycle up with the moon. Raise your arms to the sky and summon the forces of death and darkness as the blood moon rises and you get ready for a sacrifice to the blood gods.

Also don't worry, blood sacrifices are not a gendered thing so the energy you channel is as womanly, manly, non-binary, agender etc as you wish.

Rise with me, brothers, sisters and siblings. Blood for the blood gods.

If uterus gotta do what uterus gotta do, we might as well have fun with it.

[motte-the-goblin]

Maybe it's not that I don't know who I am or who I want to be.

Maybe it's that the two don't correspond.

And maybe it's that I have to let go of who I think I should be and embrace who I am.

[ruidrones]

hey out of curiosity how do you guys feel about prsk ocs

[idk-what-im-doing-ahhhhhh]

If my mom keeps insisting on getting our puppy blue/green toys and things because “he’s a boy” I’m going to crash out

[mermaidgirl30]

Hi, it’s me again. Just wanna say please don’t give up on writing. Even when you feel like no one sees your work, even if you don’t get the amount of notes you wanted to reach, even if you think no one is reading. Keep writing, keep posting, don’t give up on something you love. Don’t be afraid to rec your fics to others. I promise you, there are others that are so happy you post your work and they love reading it! I know this platform can be very discouraging and can be negative on the mindset, but never think for one second your work was for nothing 🩷 I just know someone needed to hear that today 🩷

[quillandquotation]

I'm often at times left to ponder on with my thoughts alone for long which sometimes leaves me to be afraid of the many possibilities if I somehow someday act on it

-Yahvi Shah