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mellosdrawings · 11 months ago
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He's not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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randomness-is-my-order · 3 months ago
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one underrated moment of wei wuxian’s impeccable quick-thinking is when wen chao’s contemplating the torture and murder of wei wuxian and wwx is like *fresh* out of an unspeakably painful surgery and a highly traumatic experience, tired and exhausted and beyond the limits of any human to be coherent of thought and yet, he expertly uses wen chao’s inherent cowardice against him by suggesting that he will turn into a vengeful ghost and haunt him and even as he’s simulataneously coming to terms with his possible fate, his move does pay off because he gets into wen chao’s head and throws him off-balance. in a very roundabout way, just that verbal maneuver alone ended up saying his life.
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lilislegacy · 1 year ago
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annabeth as a gf is literally the embodiment of only i’m allowed to make fun of him
like if percy says something stupid, she’s the first one to call him an idiot. (sometimes accompanied by a loving eye roll, more often accompanied by a laugh and kiss). she can do it because 1) she doesn’t actually think he’s stupid. she’s seen him do some absolutely brilliant things that have saved their lives. she respects him immensely for his intelligence. and 2) she knows that he knows she doesn’t actually think he’s dumb. he quite likes it when she makes fun of him. plus, he loves how smart she is, and he isn’t threatened by it. so she can call him an idiot and make fun of him as much as she wants. she always has and she always will. he finds it comforting. in their own unique percabeth way, it’s one of the main ways she shows him affection.
but if literally anyone else calls him an idiot, or tells him something he said/asked was stupid, she feels her gut twist in anger. she immediately defends what he said and justifies it as a smart and valid comment/question, and then shoots the absolute most clever and utterly brutal insult toward the person who called him stupid. she destroys every ounce of self-confidence they had just seconds ago
don’t you dare call her seaweed brain stupid.
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stagefoureddiediaz · 1 month ago
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Bobby lives - and the proof is in the opening disaster!! (Plus everyone else’s arcs are there too)
This is a bit all over the place - but I’ve been trying to write it for days - but upfronts happened and well I;ve been a little distracted - but I’ve managed to pull it all together before 818 happens!
I’ve said for the last few seasons that the opening disaster of 911 always gives us clues at to what is in store for us throughout the season and I wrote a bit about it at the start of this season with some of the things I thought we were going to see based on the opening disaster with the various passengers on the plane and their arcs throughout the disaster being representations of what was in store for the firefam.
Now were at the end of the season and faced with the supposedly dead Bobby arc everything is becoming very clear in terms of all the clues that the opening disaster was giving us for the season and makes it very very clear that Bobby is not going to remain dead!
Going to try to keep this pretty brief, but let’s start with a quick rundown of what all the main characters get up to over the 3 episodes in relation to the plane and also the various key people on the plane.
On the plane we have the captain and copilot, the cabin crew, a group of sports students, Jem and his dad, the older couple going to visit their new baby grandson, the lady with a dog and the business man sat next to her and then also Athena and Dennis.
We also need to look at which passengers the fire fam are helping during the disaster
- Hen is helping out with high altitude pulmonary edema - business guy,
- Chim is helping Dennis with the athletic groups leg injury
- Eddie is helping the cabin crew with the unconscious co pilot.
- We also have Buck trying to get hold of Bobby and then ultimately going to the film lot to get him, separated from the rest of the 118 and ultimately from Bobby as well (when he goes to light the flares) before reconnecting with them once the plane has landed.
- We also have Athena making calls to Bobby but not being able to get through to him so leaving a message - while talking to atc and flying the plane - before she finally is able to talk with him with a little help from dispatch and she is able to bring the plane into land safely.
Each of the various passengers and crew on the plane are a representation of the firefam and what happens to them reflects a key point in their arc for the season, and the key members of the team who help them with that moment.
The group of sports students are representative of Hen and the Wilson family, the leg injury is the injury Denny gets when he is hit by the car and trapped against the wall of the house. Dennis has to improvise a knife in order to save the girls life, and this reflects the fact they have to improvise a field transfusion for Denny to save his life. It is Chim helping with this incident on the plane, in the same way it is Chim helping Hen when it is Denny injured.
The older couple are Maddie and Chimney - we are told that they are going to visit their new born grandson - who is mistaken for a girl by the woman with a dog. This is telling us Maddie is having a boy, but that it will be mistaken for being a girl - which is exactly what we have seen happen with the pregnant Maddie arc. This couple also have all the things needed to help the businessman who has a high altitude pulmonary edema who we’ll talk about next.
The business man is paired up with the woman with her dog who doesn’t like men. Originally when I wrote about the plane disaster, I thought the woman was a representation of Buck and the business man being a representation of Tommy (I was also of the opinion that Eddie was the dad with Jem and that’s why I didn’t think he was part of the concept here) - with the woman’s dog who doesn’t like men symbolising Bucks animosity towards tommy when he meets him in 704.
However, now I have more context from how the season has played out, and understand more about what is being foreshadowed in other parts of this opening disaster, I feel I was in the right ball park, but a little off with my thinking so I’m revising what I think here to have the business man be a stand in for Buck and the woman a stand in for Eddie.
There are many reasons for my thinking this - not least the man having a pulmonary edema being a call back to Bucks own pulmonary embolism. We also have the woman being dismissive of the man’s attempts at conversation - which we see happen between Buck and Eddie to varying degrees throughout this season (not that Eddie is dismissive of Buck but there has definitely been a shift in their dynamic since Buck came out - its subtle but Eddie is low key pulling away and less open with Buck - has been shorter with him - which to me feels a bit like its an intentional play into Eddie slowly becoming aware of his feelings for Buck and trying to hide them). We get Eddie being ‘dismissive’ of bucks feelings and behaviour at the firehouse around the Gerrard of it all and later on around his boils and the billy boils of it all, as well as further animosity when Eddie chooses to leave for El Paso.
This is all reflected by the way the woman is dismissive of the business mans attempts at conversations and the way she puts the screen up between them before the flight takes off. The screen being put up is a metaphor for the distance between Buck and Eddie when Eddie goes to El Paso - they are both still there, but they are effectively no longer visible to one another - only through a screen!
It is Hen on the phone who helps the woman save the businessman’s life, along with the various items the older couple are able to provide to assist. To me this is showing us that it will be Hen, Maddie and Chimney who ultimately help and support Eddie and Buck - which again is exactly what we see playing out this season - Hen talking to Eddie in 817 about Bucks list and about him getting a job offer in El Paso, as well as her comments and support through 8a and the Christopher of it all.
Hen is more focused on talking the woman through things, while the older couple are providing the things that will help - which is reflective of the fact Buck has received his help this season from Maddie and Chimney (and Josh) in a more physical sense than Eddies more verbal help from Hen.
Their help comes in the form of a nebuliser and viagra - which are both metaphors for Tommy - temporary assistance and the viagra especially is a play on fakeness - that Tommy is all about sex and there isn’t much else there - no emotional connection - it is effectively a mask for ED. It’s a play on Tommy providing support etc as a helicopter pilot rather than as a boyfriend - he was intended to be a boyfriend but is actually more useful for being a pilot and the erection is basically a temporary side effect - Viagra doesn’t increase sexual desire it just creates an erection through physical stimulation - it’s essentially fake and purely physical requiring no true emotional connection - the implication being that bucks feelings for Tommy aren’t real - they are purely physical and are masking (haha that episode title had more than one meaning 🤣) his actual feelings -which he needs to discover - at the same time Eddie does - which is why the woman and man and the dog are shown connecting at the end when they’re off the plane - exploring/ the beginning of something new.
The fact that the woman puts a (rainbow) towel over the resulting erection and hands over her dog to provide comfort - a dog who doesn’t like men, yet warms up to him and happily sits with him is a metaphor for Eddie’s queerness - we keep being told Eddie is straight in the same way we’re clearly told the dog does not like men - and we’re shown it when the man tries to pet it. The implication being that we’re going to see Eddie figure it out and in the end be happy with a man. The idea that Buck and Eddie are going to discover their mute feelings for one another in the aftermath of everything this season is clearly laid out and is hinting at them Ending the season moving into a new tentative phase of their relationship - we are shown them having been separated for a good chunk of the plane disaster arc - reuniting to deal with the fire etc on the plane towards the end - foreshadowing their separation through 8b reuniting at the end of the season in a work context - Eddie returning to the 118 and helping with the building collapse.
Jem and his dad seem to kind of represent all of the mains at various stages of the season and specifically their interactions with Athena - the way they all ultimately support and assist her throughout the season. Then we have the captain and the co pilot. The captain gets quickly sucked out of the plane never to be seen again - she is Ortiz - a brief flash and then gone, while the co pilot is Gerrard. The copilot is knocked unconscious, regains consciousness and then has a heart attack before ultimately being revived and got off the plane.
This mirrors the coming and going of Gerrard. Copilot gets injured and is a bit out of it - a reference to Gerrard nearly getting taken out by the circular saw blade. He then manages to direct Athena how to put the plane into autopilot - a reference to Gerrard helping the 118 bring down Ortiz. He then becomes unconscious - reflecting Gerards time on Hotshots - he is away from the 118. He then wakes up and is prepared to take back control of the plane before he has a heart attack and we spend the rest of the time on the plane with the cabin crew and passengers undertaking chest compressions on him. This is reflective of his return to the 118 to keep them functioning in the aftermath of Bobbys death - the play on the 118 being on life support until it can get a permenant captain - to hospital for full medical treatment.
Then we have Athena and Dennis who are Athena and Bobby - Dennis being Bobby - his assisting Chim on the plane with the surgery on the girl who is part of the party representing Hens season arc - creating a shiv and then being the one to do the surgery is foreshadowing Bobby in the lab having to improvise and undertaking surgery on Hen under Chims guidance while he quarantine’s himself.
It’s worth pointing out here that we get a flashback to Emmett’s funeral - a full police funeral with a grieving Athena and a voiceover of the last call for Officer Washington - it’s clear and obvious foreshadowing (even more so in retrospect) that Athena is going to go through the same thing in the present day - losing a partner to the job. Weve obviously just watched this foreshadowing play out with Bobbys funeral.
We’re also shown Athena overcoming her residual trauma from losing Emmett through the use of that flashback/memory and by explicitly showing her forgiving Dennis and being able to move past it. - let the past be in the past and be at peace. This is an important moment for her because that trauma has influenced her entire life up to this point.
Athena making peace with Dennis and that trauma from her past - a past that shaped her future is foreshadowing Bobby being able to get to a place where he is able to let go of his own trauma - around losing Marcy, Brooke and Bobby jr in the apartment building fire and his own culpability in that event - something he has carried ever since and something that has shaped him and his future - with his book of lives saved and his intention to end his life once he has completed the mission he set himself of saving a life for each one lost in the fire.
In the lab we are shown bobby reaching a place where he wants to live - that he is no longer suicidal and has found a new purpose and reason for living. This is key in connection with Athena choosing to bury Bobby in St Paul with Marcy, Brooke and Bobby jr - it is a moment symbolising Bobby making peace with his past and choosing to move forward (even though it has come at as part of his apparent death) it is his past and his trauma being buried in that coffin.
The other key part of the Dennis being Bobby and foreshadowing Bobby being alive is the fact that Dennis is being chased by the FBI (fake or other wise) before they get to the plane - a time when the motivations of the people supposedly in positions of authority is questionable and they can’t be trusted (remind you of anyone in the contagion arc? The military and FBI perhaps?!)
Once the plane is landed and we see the fake fbi agent chasing Bobby, Athena and Dennis to the parking lot and culminating in Dennis taking the bullet to stop Bobby from being shot. This is all foreshadowing the death of Bobby arc - Dennis is Bobby and Bobby is Chim - Bobby basically taking the bullet for Chim (by giving Chim the antidote). Dennis was in a kind of witsec scenario - related to the little black book that people in positions of power and influence wanted kept quiet. The same can be said of the Lab scenario - the military and government is going to want to keep what happened in the lab quiet - they will want to ensure that the public don’t know how close they came to this new strain of CCHF getting out and becoming a new pandemic, especially without an antidote.
Dennis survived the bullet he took and to me that is suggesting the same thing is playing out here with Bobby - that he’s basically ended up in some kind of government witsec place having made an agreement with the military man on a private radio channel (they made sure to show us various moments when people were able to communicate privately) which will allow the development of the antidote and for research to be carried out on him to determine the full parameters of the strain of CCHF Moira created (or whatever random reason that doesn’t actually make sense that Tim has come up with to explain it all away) and will eventually get to return to his family - as we saw Dennis getting to do in the hospital - making me think we’re going to get some form of Bathena hospital reunion!!
The opening disaster episodes always reveal sooo much information about the season and I am more convinced than ever that Bobby is alive! If this plays out - I will be in Tim minears walls!!!
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basilpaste · 1 year ago
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sometimes you have an idea thats like 'wow would that be fucked up or what?' and like. yeah. it would be fucked up.
VERY IMPORTANTLY: not canon. this is not canon to osis. but think about lock in your brain. it is so mentally well does not feel crippling guilt over the fact that it gave up.
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aelswiths · 1 year ago
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Aelswith & Aethelflaed (aka Aelswith being so proud of her baby girl) in 2x03
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fisheito · 7 months ago
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You know who you remind me of? Helga Pataki.
Please tell me you (or somebody else) gets the reference 😂
anon u turned my world to static with that namedrop
on the list of things i did NOT expect to happen ,because hUH??: someone dragging [hey arnold] into my tiny nuca inbox
#feesh answer#yes. yes i get the reference. . .#BRUH YOU JUST SHUT MY BRAIN DOWN FOR A SOLID MINUTE. I HAD TO SYSTEM REBOOT.#DON'T YOU CASUALLY UNLOCK A DEEPSEATED MEMORY LIKE THAT. put my waves out of wack. WOO!!! WILD!!!!#tho helga to be fair was what the millenialish kids would cal..l. a 'bad bitch'?#she put up with a lot#and despite all the suckage around her.. she still manages to be her clever ambitious passionate self#go helga go!!!! get what you want girl!!! i hope life treats you better!! you deserve several breaks!#when i first watched hey arnold#i didn't really care about it. it was decent background noise after school or whatevs.#helga was weird and creepy at best#when i got older... i somehow stumbled back into the show#and became obsessed with it. watched everything all over again. watched the movie i never saw#NOW....WITH THE WISDOM OF AGE..... i understood. i was UNDERSTANDING. really appreciated the show more#and its characters of course.... finally understood how messed up the pataki family was fo realsies#anyway. after that initial BLASTED BURST of unlocked memory vault . with the nostalgia. and the facts of me watching it twice#i return to reality: this ask. which is currently comparing me to helga#and i laugh maniacally because i don't know how else to react#my second urge was to punt anon out the window so they can land in a conveniently placed bouncy castle and atone for their crime#their crime of. making me embarrass myself with .myself#but i DON'T punt anon because. well. *gestures to the ask*#falls back dramatically into my armchair#what am i supposed to do........ i can't really escape the allegations can i...#sighs dejectedly . surrounded by my own posts
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everyryuujisuguro · 8 months ago
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howlingaround · 2 years ago
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I made a storyboard comic thing about the Pistol Possum from Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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Explanation:
Theres a fan theory that the Possum is the secret identity of Judge Doom (which is canon to me, the comic backstory is meh)
During the making of the Roger Rabbit movie, the idea was thrown around about Judge Doom being the hunter who shot Bambis mom
I combind the two cause i like the idea that the Possum got a taste of killing toons and developd an obsession, which is why he came up with the Dip
Dont know how building a highway makes sense tho
EDIT: i forgot so say - they obvisouly cut this scene in the final Bambi film, wouldnt get past censors otherwise
But Possum is never on screen anyway, which is probably not clear enough in the panel scribbles
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bloomingonionbitch · 1 month ago
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(i really recommend celebrating teacher appreciation week by making manicotti and taking two gummies and doing word searches!!!!)
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dw-flagler · 1 year ago
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fuck. I was writing this emma barnes fic and I've come to a realization. For a period of exactly seven days in 2009, Emma Barnes is a completely different person from the one in canon. Like, I always knew that meeting Shadow Stalker the second time shaped her as a person, but it's genuinely shocking how utterly different the road of her life could have been.
Like, for my fic I had these two paths I was struggling to pick between, which I'm calling Wire and Cloth, as a joke about imprinting (see neither is good but one is distinctly better than the other), one where Emma ends up being kidnapped by the ABB and one where she ends up as shadow stalker's apprentice. But.
Look, here's a line from Interlude 19: "What got her, the nebulous idea that haunted her, was the impact those scenes had.  There were so many defining moments, so many crises, big and small, that shaped the people they touched.  The biggest and most critical moments were the sorts that wiped the slate clean, that ignored or invalidated the person who had existed before, only to create another."
Like, yeah, she's talking about triggers, but what's getting to me is how empathetic (in the literal "I can relate to your pain" sense) and compassionate she sounds. Like. Emma shuts herself in her room for a week because she's incapable of dealing with the horror of knowing that hundreds of little girls are going through what she did every minute of every day. She can't deal with it.
This emma, who only exists for a week, is haunting me. She's just--It's just weird!
And the Emma who exists for the rest of the story, for every section except for less than half of one chapter, you can see the remains! She's there! Emma recontextualizes her existential despair at the enormity of human suffering, something she only really understood in abstract until now, as Sophia's predator/prey philosophy, right? It's so easy for her, because it gives her a way to explain it. There's predators and there's prey. It already slots into her worldview. Like (and I'm really just harping on about victim blaming today aren't I?) those girls who suffered like Emma did, they suffered because they were weak! It's simple now. There's two kinds of people, the ones who are hurt and the ones who hurt, and all Emma has to do to make sure that she is never hurt again is to be the one who does the hurting.
But for seven days, there's that ghost. The kind Emma Barnes, who doesn't want anything like what happened to her happen to anyone else. It's not as narratively interesting, I get that. Who wants a worm character who's all peace and love? That doesn't make for a mentally disturbed teenage girl doing horribly violent acts, and that's what we in the worm fandom all want to see. But still she haunts me.
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sylvanas-girlkisser · 9 months ago
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Okay so, once I oushed past the glacial opening, and the fact that Wren and her LI have no chemistry, I am actually enjoying this book.
Like its not high art, or anything special wrt. worldbuilding, but i did manage like 50 pages today.
That being said, pretending the witches plan isn't complete shit is kind of the buy in; and i would have an easier time agreeing to that if: Wren showed any kind of competence at the mission she had been training for her whole life.
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thedogofchristmaspast · 10 months ago
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i haven’t been able to read the book of bill yet but seeing everyone talking about it has brought back my bill cipher obsession from 2017 that i’d thought had died 4 years ago. So i’ve just been sitting here Brainrotting about what characters from my interests would make a deal with him
for dt. i think gingi would be stupid enough roger would be gullible enough and randy would be desperate enough to make a deal with him. but bill Would Not make a deal with them unless directly summoned/as a Very last resort. they lack any usefulness to him. but he would think gingi’s whole thing is very funny and cool
norm would try to shoot bill on sight (and fail, of course, bill being a being of pure energy, but the message is the same). karen would not give less of a shit, get outta here, i’m trying to paint a horse. oliver would think bill is RAD AS HELL and try to ask him out. i could see him taking a deal for that reason alone. this guy is gnarly why wouldn’t he wanna shake a triangle demon’s hand?!?!
as for like, Actual deals: mingus i see as more of a gideon-like situation, where the deal doesn’t include him possessing her (though it would be a good disguise for the eyes. Hrm.) because it doesn’t need to, she just wants him to fix callum and then she’ll do Whatever with her power that he wants, since she’s already willing to do it herself. BUUUUUUUUT speaking of callum…i think back in the day he’d have Definitely taken a deal. he is so Stanford Pines coded, honestly. the Oddness the Great Minds of the century the Paranoia. fiddleford and milt Does anyone see the vision. AND THEN THERE’S EVEN MEMORY ERASURE but the memories are still In his Head just unreachable. i have lotsssssss of thoughts on this but it’s getting late…i might draw something with it tomorrow……….(by which i mean maybe today because i actually wrote this post last night but the internet cut out before i could post)
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cellody · 2 years ago
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Late Sinful/Sweet Sunday: Does your OC enjoy food play in their entanglements?
It is a rare treat (pun intended, d'ohoho)! There are only a few things he'd allow let alone feel anything from, though, and all would only really take place during foreplay. (The main activity almost never has added toys or twists since it takes concentration to keep his weak, jumpy heart from being overwhelmed.) Grapes are a fun, royal-esque, flirty option and for something more viscous upon the actual body, he favors a bit of honey.
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teaboot · 2 months ago
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Yeah Mr. Darcy’s proposal was a complete turd and a half but you gotta understand. You got your life together. A good career, stable income, retirement plan, all that shit together. And you meet this girl. And she’s everything. Clever, outspoken, funny, calls you on your bullshit. Grade A cutie, right? And she doesn’t go out of her way to spend time with you but she’s nice, and sometimes you catch her looking your way in a way that makes you think you might have a shot.
But her family. Holy shit.
First off, it’s p much ALL women, and mostly UNMARRIED women, which at this time means of something happens to her dad then you’re financially responsible for like. Four grown ass adults, potentially forever
Because mom in law is DEFINITELY gonna need someone to take care of her when dad in law kicks it, and they have like. NO money. So already you’re accepting that if all goes well, you’re gonna be one random old bag’s retirement home. That’s expensive and exhausting, yeah? Imagine asking someone on a first date knowing that if they say yes and things go good her high-strung chihuahua mother is gonna move in with you. IMAGINE.
And girly’s other sisters. Well, one is a sweetheart, yeah, so she probably won’t be an issue, but that still leaves three more, and two of those ones are INSUFFERABLE. Never went to school, dumb as rocks, spend cash like it’s toilet paper
And while one of the two is young still and might grow out of it the OTHER one is actively torpedo’ing her entire family’s reputation by wandering off with random dudes and chasing ass. She’s never gonna work, she can’t build connections, she’s a fucking sinkhole, and she’s being led on by the same goddamn con man ass leeching tit who’s been bleeding you dry while telling anyone who’ll listen that your family is full of ratty thieving bastards.
And if he dumps her after a week- WHICH YOU KNOW HIS BITCH ASS IS GONNA- you’ve got a SECOND UNMARRIABLE GROWN ASS ADULT TO PROVIDE FOR. And you KNOW she’s gonna be a tantrum-throwing little shit about it, and it’s not like you can lock her in the basement or something, you’re gonna have to bring her fucking. Everywhere. And give her an allowance and shit while she contributes zero, because again, she NEVER GOT EDUCATED AND HAS NO MARKETABLE SKILLS. She’s not even good to TALK to. FUCK
And you’re looking at this girl’s father like “please for the love of fuck get your spawn under control, marry them off, get them working on their résumé, learning to sew or be nursemaids or manage staff or SOMETHING, yall got no money and one foot in the grave” and that old man just laughs like “haha yeah, what can you do. lol”
So you’re looking to the mom and finally it’s making sense how she got that twitch in her eye and as MUCH as she is you’re starting to realize she’s the SMART one, desperately throwing her armloads of girls at random men like they’re a bunch of fucking lifeboats bobbing around a sinking ship, like yes Jesus Christ sweetly that life boat IS old and ugly and kind of boring but for FUCKS SAKE PICK ONE
And you look back at this girl who is ALSO REFUSING THE LIFE BOATS BY THE WAY and god damn it she’s still the most radiant thing you’ve ever seen so fine, fuck it, Christ alive, you’ll do it. You’ll shoot your shot. She’s everything you’ve ever wanted in anybody abut it’s not even just about that anymore, it’s about being her best fucking shot at a future, and even if she doesn’t like you all that much she’s still gonna say yes and that might break your heart a bit knowing it’s about the money but who knows, maybe it will at least be civil, or companionable, and even if she doesn’t LOVE you at least you’ll know she’s well and cared for
And so you’ll do it. You’ll take on the neurotic stress mess mother in law, the absent father, the broke ass wingnut no brain no money no future airhead sisters, the bad mannered relatives and the embarrassing behaviour and the impending future of sharing your entire shit with a clown parade of freeloaders, you’ll risk it all and accept the absolute certainty of financial ruin and emotional exhaustion for the rest of your whole ass life and you’ll make your own family deal with it too, you’ll do it, you’ll fucking DO IT, you stupid lovesick motherfucker
And so you go to this chick like “look. Your whole family’s a shitshow. You’ve got fucking nothing and you’re gonna die on the street. But for some reason- and I don’t get it either- I’ve fallen in love with you, and I wish I didn’t, but I did, so I’m telling you that whether you like me or not, I’ll give you everything. I’ll give you everything even if it’s the dumbest shit I ever done. Fuck my stupid Baka ass, I’ll marry you.”
And she looks at you- having heard or considered absolutely none of your months-long internal debate and monologue- and goes “The fuck did you just say about my family, you son of a bitch?”
And the shock of that is enough to jolt you back into a reality where you are able to actually hear and process what just came out of your damn mouth And yeah
Yeah, I think I kinda get it
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hayatheauthor · 8 months ago
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20 Flirty Remarks to Build Romantic Tension Without Being Overbearing
Feeling stuck trying to give your characters a good flirty one-liner that doesn't sound cringe/overdone? Here are 20 ideas/dialogue prompts for you (that I may or may not have stolen from my own books): 
“I must warn you: you have a dangerous effect on my heart rate.” / "You have no idea what you're doing to my heart right now."
"If I said I wasn’t thinking about you, I’d be lying. And I’m a terrible liar."
"You know, I could get lost in those eyes, but I'd probably trip over my words trying to find my way back." (could also double as description/inner monologue).
“I can’t tell if you’re really charming or if I’m just easily charmed.”
“You have a knack for making me forget what I was going to say. It’s kind of impressive/infuriating.”
“I think you owe me a drink. When I saw you, I dropped mine.”
“I’ve been trying to find the perfect excuse to hang out, but I keep forgetting everything when I’m around you.”
“I bet you get away with a lot of trouble with that smile.”
“You must be a magician because every time you walk in, everyone else disappears.” (The right character could pull it off I swear)
"I’ve been trying to think of something clever to say, but all my brain can come up with is how much I want to (kiss) you."
"I saw that little glance—you’re not as sneaky as you think."
"How do you manage to make even the most mundane things sound exciting?"
"You do this cute thing with your hands when you’re nervous, you know?"
“One more word, and I might just have to kiss you.”
"Finally, there's that pretty smile of yours. I've been waiting for it all day."
"You keep staring—should I be flattered?" / "Keep looking at me like that and I might start thinking you have a crush on me."
"Do you have any idea how fun it is to watch you try to keep a straight face?"
"I’m pretty sure you could charm the socks off anyone, but I’d like to keep mine on for now."
"If laughter is the best medicine, then I’m pretty sure you’re my favorite doctor."
"Is it bad that I kind of like the way you’re trying to mess with me?"
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