Now that Gloria Swanson and Jean Hagen are both here, the real question is: who would win the Hot Vintage Silent Star showdown between Norma Desmond (Dark Windows, Salome) and Lina Lamont (The Royal Rascal, The Dueling Cavalier)
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*cackling hysterically* Percy’s attitude towards Nico is so funny. He’s protective of him. He shouldered a great prophecy for the kid, after all. But he doesn’t trust him. He wouldn’t let him die either. He does blame Nico for lying to him, though. He holds Nico’s betrayals against him at some point, and then he tries to befriend Nico anyway. And all it does is to hurt Nico even more. It feels like vain ha ha ha HA HA HA HA———-
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dog beds are actually very comfortable which is why they dont do much for me as a physical whump trope (ive literally fallen asleep snuggling with my dog on his bed) BUT i adore it as an emotional whump trope because people WILL think its weird and its definitely humiliating and dehumanizing if a whumpee is forced to do it which is wonderful whump
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ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT but only because you asked in a silly little way. Y’all liked this post here huh I can’t believe tumblr is finally gonna nerf me on sight
You know the drill, they’re happy and safe and comfortable sometime in the future, Andrew was right Neil’s clothes do look good on his bedroom floor, and also in his laundry hamper, and spilling out of his dresser drawers, and he’s going to get out of bed just before Neil gets back from his morning run in time to make them both coffee, and he’s going to pretend to be annoyed when Neil teases him about how much sugar he puts in his, we GET IT. But I know why you’re really here 🤨😂
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thinking about the disconnect between cesare and lucrezia in “the prince” after cesare’s failed at murdering alfonso and lucrezia has to clean up his mess, and she asks “is that all i am now, brother, borgia?” with such disgust and he just doesn’t even hear her because he’s too focused on her mixing the poison and realizing that by being with her he won’t be corrupting her because she’s already a “professional” like him, like the assassin he was ready to send in to finish the job to keep her hands free of blood. meanwhile lucrezia is ALREADY making up her mind that she wants a love outside of HIS love for her because the way he loves her is selfishly and all consuming and overly possessive and makes her feel sick because some part of her still feels like god is in the room with them when he’s near, but now i think she understands that not to be true. and he was right to ask “god or the devil?” ACTUALLY maybe the disconnect begins before this….when he’s just run alfonso through with his sword and lucrezia comes rushing down the stairs to find the aftermath and cesare thinks he’s going to convince her it was an “accident” or perhaps it begins when lucrezia tells him “i am tired of my husband, of life, the only thing that never tires me is you”. yep this is when it begins i think!! right there. because of this he underestimates how much guilt lucrezia will feel if something happens to alfonso by cesare’s hand. how much she will come to resent being born a borgia, being loved by HIM.
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Thinking about what fears the sides would become avatars of in the magnus archives...
In some ways, Virgil is the hardest to pin down. He's anxiety, the embodiment of fear itself. He has associations with spiders, with darkness, name any fear and you could find a way to fit him into it. But in some ways he's the easiest. With all the cognitive distortions, not knowing how much of his fear is rational and how much is his anxiety spiralling out of control... the Spiral is the obvious choice for him.
Logan would think he was smart. He'd think he could avoid serving one of the fears at all. He'd do as much research as he could, try to figure everything out, ask questions to anyone he could find. He'd think he was smart, and that would lead him right to the Eye. The Beholding. Ceaseless Watcher. Logan thrives on knowledge, he lives to learn as much as he can. He'd be under the Eye's influence from the very beginning.
Remus would love the Desolation. Destruction for the sake of destruction. Mindless, pointless, and utterly cruel. But he wouldn't give into it, not completely. For him, it would also be the Spiral, but for opposite reasons to Virgil. The Spiral is the fear that what you perceive isn't right. The line between imagination and reality blurring. That's what Remus is all about, really.
You might think Janus would be part of the Stranger, what with the whole imitating people and taking their place. Perhaps the Spiral, with it's associations with deceit. And I do think he'd have a certain appreciation for both. But no, he would be an avatar of the Web. Because Janus likes to be in control. He needs to feel in control, or he's lost, and he would definitely not want to be controlled by someone else. The Web would be his worst fear and his saviour at the same time.
Patton wouldn't want anything to do with the fears, but when has that ever meant anything to them? Patton lives for other people. He likes to make people happy, yes, but he also keeps himself going through his connections to the other sides, Thomas, and Thomas's friends and family. He also has a bad habit of isolating himself, not connecting with other people when he needs to the most. When you think about it there isn't really anything for Patton but the Lonely, is there?
Roman is the most difficult. He's an actor. The Stranger and the Lonely both have associations with the theatre. But when you peel back the layers and see who he truly is, you see someone afraid of becoming insignificant. Being ignored, overshadowed, overlooked. That could be the Lonely, but also the Vast. The fear of being so, so small in a vast, infinite universe. It's not all skyscrapers and the endless expanse of space, it can also manifest as a feeling of insignificance on a much more personal level. Which is something Roman definitely deals with...
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