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noivoom · 14 days

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So how we feelin' fellas?

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onehundredfallenpetals · 5 months

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I'm late but here's my piece for 11/20, I had a lot of fun with the concept

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brother-emperors · 8 months

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TRY AGAIN LATER

it's like. well. its several things.

(Plutarch's Crassus, trans. Warner)

and also this

(ibid.)

that compliment sounds like an insult, baby.

anyway, there's a fun kind of eroticism in being given everything, in taking things that aren't yours without any real consequence, in climbing towards becoming a Roman Alexander, only for one man to deny you, over and over and over again, at every turn. Sulla tried, Crassus did it better. who would put a butcher in their place? who else knows you well enough to do it? who else can match you step for step like this? doesn't it feel like a kind of intimacy, a kind of—

it's also about the 'even sulla kissed my sword/so you want me on my knees too?' innuendo was too good to pass up. that was actually the first line I wrote, I figured out the rest of this to justify making a comic with it

and finally! the sword line is referencing/playing off of Lucan's Pharsalia a little bit because it fucks hard

(Lucan's Pharsalia, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)

EDIT: oh, and that's a public domain anatomical illustration of a heart. you know how it is with love and hate.

#marcus licinius crassus #gnaeus pompeius magnus #tris homines #komiks tag #roman republic tag #drawing tag #its about how many ways i can create situations where i have crassus call pompey a brat #the subtext going on here is that pompey and sulla are in the middle of their political falling out #and pompey is like. okay motherfucker. and crassus is something that sulla had under his hand #but uhhhhhh. its not going that well for pompey. because sulla got there first #and left his mark #dont worry tho pompey you'll get him in the end. your descendants are going to marry each other #and name two of their sons directly after both of you!! fucking wild. LOVE it #can't get much closer than that! altho pompey did try something when he married publius crassus' widow #crassus himself however holds true to his statement of 'no one is ever going to touch me ever again.'#he's like. not alive right either so it'd be hard to pin him down anyway #too haunted. your ghosts your dead your ancestors have escaped your family house buddy

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uselessnbee · 5 months

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what i wish people would also explore more when it comes to Percy is the other side of his feelings about his mom about family and his childhood but this fandom is too afraid to paint Sally even in the slightest bad light (even if it's not bad just acknowledging her flaws because she's a human being and not perfect) that no one will touch on that subject. like yes Sally is the best mom but she also isn't and that's the thing! She isn't perfect! but she tried her best but her best still got Percy hurt and it isn't her fault at all but that's the tragedy of it. i want Percy's feelings about this explored. how he grew up with a loving mom but an abusive step father. how his step father would humiliate him and call him stupid but then his mom soothed him and told him he's not the things Gabe calls him. how Gabe would hurt him and Sally would be there to make him happy and loved but at the same time she stayed with him. i want Percy's feelings explored about how he knows his mother loves him but her absence still hurt him. she would work so much to have money to raise him she did that for him but at the same time it meant Percy was left alone or with Gabe. Sally gave up so much for him, she sent him away to protect him but at the same time he was sent away from his mom. she's the only parent he has because his father is absent and Gabe is not actually a parental figure at all but she's also often absent in his life too and that must have left him with such mixed feelings because it's not all black and white! Sally's love protected him but also hurt him. Percy loves his mom so so so much but there's also this deep-seated bitterness and hurt and anger he never let himself feel and then the guilt for having those feelings because his mom loves him he knows that and she gave up so much for him and she married a monster that abused her to protect him, he knows that but it doesn't make it hurt any less. the mess his emotions are because he knows his mom suffered for him and did it from her love for him but he still desperately wishes she never married that monster that he wouldn't have to have the childhood he had with him that he wouldn't have to live with the trauma he was left with. this all is exactly what makes their relationship so fascinating and also heartbreaking.

or the idea of Percy having weird mixed feelings after Estelle is born because that's his little sister and he loves her with his whole heart and would do anything for her and wants only the best for her but there's also this little jealous monster deep down that wonders why she gets to have a loving mom and a loving dad and a happy normal life but he never got that. why does she deserve it but not him? why couldn't he have that too? doesn't he deserve that too? he was just a child too so why why why??? and then the guilt of feeling that way too it makes me want to scream. emotions are fucking messy and they can be really ugly and they can make you hate yourself and there's no way Percy's feelings aren't a mess when it comes to this and i want to see it explored so badly!

and with Sally too! her feelings about Percy because she did so much and tried her best but sometimes unfortunately your best isn't good enough and it still got her beloved son hurt and she hates it and feels so guilty but she just has to live with that but she can't help to wish it was different. that their lives would be different. better. normal. she can't help but to wish she didn't have to do the things she's done, didn't have to suffer so much just to protect her child. can't help to wish she didn't have to worry so much, didn't have to be so scared about Percy, didn't have to be terrified that one day he won't come back home to her, that she won't be able to hold her son anymore because he will be gone, she just wishes he didn't have to suffer so much, she just wishes and wishes and wishes

and i just wish people weren't so afraid to explore this because it's so heartwrenching and yes if you want something do it yourself but unfortunately i cannot write nor am i able to handle this topic in a way it deserves so i am left only with rambling about it on here thank you

#i am not trying to victim blame or anything i love Sally and she did her best and didn't deserve any of the crap life gave her #but there's just something so tragic about the fact that she married a vile man and suffered abuse to protect her son #just for her decision to hurt him anyways just in a different way but the only other option would probably be Percy ending up dead #so she can't really truly regret it but she just wishes those weren't their only options #that she didn't have to do this just so that her child could stay alive #thinking about it makes me go feral #they had no choice but to suffer there was no way for their lives to be without this much hurt and trauma and it's terrible #and they didn't deserve it but there was so much love too #but the horrible thing is that that love just wasn't enough to save them from all that pain and i need to be sedated bye #percy jackson #sally jackson #pjo #hoo #percy and sally #percy jackon and the olympians #whatever you do don't think about a six years old lonely Percy sitting in a corner waiting for his mom to come back home from work #and he knows she loves him but he misses her so much when she spends so much time in work and that hurts #don't think about a ten years old Percy being sent away to a boarding school and he knows his mom loves him #but what if she's sending him away because he's just too much? or not enough? and what if she doesn't want him anymore?#and he knows that's not true but what if?#i'm thinking it #okay i think that's enough

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whoopsiesnodaisies · 10 months

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Hate to say it, but I am a Severus Snape hater

I've had a crush on my friends, and they dated someone I didn't approve of... but I never called my friend a slur cause of it

#marauders #marauders era #james & peter & remus & sirius #dead gay wizards #fuck snape #if you like him that is fine like you do you #you're all gonna be like “but what about Regulus he's awful too” yes so true great point #but Reg doesn't know any better and Snape does know better like Reg was raised to hate muggle borns or else he'd literally be killed #Snape has no excuse though imo and I can't justify the way he treated Harry afterwords either #like if you really loved her then take care of her damn kid

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bericas · 7 months

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sceo weekend 2023 (day 1) → identity (what do their identities mean to them? to each other?)

the problem with liking is the conflation of desire with similarity. ↳ claire schwartz

#sceoweekend2023 #twedit #sceoedit #teenwolfedit #sceo #ok hiiiiiii #for my tags #tw #scott mccall #theo raeken #okay so this is about. where the lines blur. the venn diagram of who they both are #a true alpha is a miracle and the first chimera is a monster #both are made by sheer force of will. neither is rly supposed to exist. how were they supposed to exist together. how could they exist apar #so theo is a killer and scott is killed. but who desires what and who is satisfied and who is rotting #scott tells liam that he can't let him kill him and then tells theo he has to kill him himself. theo kills scott and looks miserable #theo killing scott frees scott and traps theo. the only alpha who can exist outside of being an alpha is a dead alpha #the only chimera that escapes the doctors is a dead chimera. or else a chimera with dead doctors (but we haven't gotten to that part yet)#their roles dictate how the part is played. they both have to conform to their roles. they do not exist outside of them #so obviously theo is not allowed to win and scott is not allowed to die #what is a shadow but the place where ground meets body. so theo would always get him on the ground #how does a shadow exist without the sun and body to cast it. so scott would always get back up #is this making sense to anyone but me #stiles can leave town and lydia can go to college and malia can go to paris if she really wants to and so can isaac #and jackson and ethan can go to london and etc etc etc #but once in the town neither scott nor theo can really get away from it. scott because he's scott and theo because scott is scott.#the story revolves around scott and theo revolves around scott and not even death allows them to escape the narrative #this is the crux and core of them both

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brucewaynehater101 · 23 days

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Alfred Pennyworth Angst AU

Every single Wayne kid has made the joke that Alfred isn't human. Despite raising Bruce and all of his kids, the man hasn't aged a single day. He's as weathered as he's always looked with not a single wrinkle more. He completes endless tasks (cooks, cleans, chauffer, medical aid, comm assistance, coordinates for events, does laundry, gardening, and more) with perfection. He doesn't tire, besides a dry comment about aching bones, and he has never failed to have the house in order.

Batman can do the impossible and unthinkable, but Alfred is subtle. His unnatural abilities are only apparent when one takes the time to actually think about all the responsibilities he has.

If asked directly, he would deny his otherworldly tendencies with a sarcastic remark. Yet, he would humor questions about his past. The retired serviceman and retired actor would sometimes indicate just how he became so proficient at preparing a meal or tailoring. It's not obvious, but he did not acquire his skills over only a single lifetime.

This is why, when the Waynes die off one by one, Alfred is still there. He himself grieves, but he does his due diligence to those alive and passed. He cleans, he cooks, and he offers his presence to his loved ones.

When the very last Wayne dies, Alfred is still found within the Manor walls. His job is easier now with only himself to wash and feed, but it hurts more. Pain, unlike any he's felt before, constantly ravages his body and mind. He's in agony, but none who would see the old man could be able to tell. Those who knew better, who could see the slight squint of his eyes as the internal screaming it is, are long lost. To those around, the butler maintains his unflappable appearance. He merely toils away at the stubborn rose bushes or the unruly carpet. He keeps his charges' house in top shape despite knowing they will never come home again.

#dc comics #dc universe #alfred pennyworth #I'm being mean to old man alfred #forever old alfred #dc au #alfred can't die and he's the only bat that can't (fuck canon)#which bat was the last to die?#which sibling had to attend the funeral of all their other siblings'?#who permanetly died first?#do you think they waited for them to come back and only realized they wouldn't when another family member died?#do you think they then had to grieve the true loss of two family members at once?#did they give up on bats ressurecting or did they wait after each death for their loved ones to return?#alfred be like “my family is dead but at least the linens are pressed”

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yeonban · 1 month

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I miss the days when J/JK was good

#tbd.#* ooc. / posts.#Mild shade but WHAT is Gege even doing with this arc helpp 😭😭😭 I lost it when he pulled MIGUEL into the fray #Like you CANNOT be serious. You can't #I don't mind character deaths since it raises the stakes but when 99% of the cast is dead or dying you need to back up a little #I saw a meme on twt that said 'strongest sorcerer in history vs strongest sorcerer AVAILABLE' & I burst out laughing BC WHY IS THAT SO TRUE

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vegaseatsass · 3 months

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Every time I see another theory that puts Perth on Non's side as his witness protector or his mafia escape artist or his BROTHER !!! or his boyfriend (no one has this theory. This is an agenda of me myself and I) I go a little more feral. Honestly I'm just a teething snuffling raccoon creature at this point

#now i do think tan is new it just makes sense #but wouldn't it be fun if he were actually just like phee's bestie #a fwb here to help out a homie he sometimes kisses #maybe tan is really named tan #and perth is an unnamed character BECAUSE his real name is a spoiler!!!#i love this theory ty tumblr user koddyroddy #that said i will gladly settle for perth as non's new on-the-run boyf yk in case you haven't heard me say it yet /manifests manifests #i get on my high horse about ppl who get too attached to their theories and get mad at dff for not being what they made up in their heads #lol AND on my high horse about people who want most of the cast to be better people than they are #but here i am like perth is gonna be a character who is 1. important 2. aligned with justice!!!!#if i want it enough it will be true!!!#first to go from thc for not crying enough but does that mean he can't Act? Hmmmm??? does that mean his character can't rock our worlds????#i ask you!#dff #dead friend forever #dear diary #dff spoilers #dff the series spoilers

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licorishh · 5 months

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*FONTAINE SPOILERS*

Y'all laugh at the fact that Tartaglia randomly falling into the Abyss one day as a kid ended up being the catalyst for Fontaine's eventual predicted destruction but all this means is that from the start Tartaglia was intended to fall into the Abyss and become a Harbinger and thus has always been doomed by the narrative

#genshin impact #childe #tartaglia #kind of helps line up his story i think #gives it more purpose than just “he fell in a hole by accident and that hole happened to be the frickin pits of the underworld”#doomed to fall into the abyss and wake up the whale. doomed to be trained by skirk and become a harbinger and eventually meet the traveler #DO YOU SEE WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS #i'm honestly so so curious if they're gonna have him start to doubt his values eventually #i am desperately hoping he has a moment where he has to choose when we inevitably fight the tsaritsa #AND HECK I HOPE HE STICKS WITH US #i really don't want my boy to be SO doomed by the narrative that he frickin DIES >:(#people say he has a lot of death flags and that's kind of true but i think he's safe since he's a playable character #i know playability is totally different from the canon versions of the characters but still #it'd be quite strange to play as a dead guy who doesn't exist anymore and has no further value to the story #can't believe i'm gonna have to wait two frickin years for snezhnaya. unfair #anyway who's excited for the interlude chapter and the inevitable dainsleif comebaaaack

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moonpaw · 1 year

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people who actually believe that theory that usopp will die to prove he's a brave warrior of the sea is so ridiculous when oda can't even kill a giant who was in a flashback 22 years ago

#one piece #one piece spoilers #one piece 1066 #egghead spoilers #if it wasnt for the fact that ace's fruit respawned i wouldve doubted all this time he was probably still alive even with a hole in his #chest #wano was kinda different but even then the characters that died were like. side ones and not as impactful #and even when they did my reaction was so delayed because i was sitting there like: ok so when does he get back up i know he's gonna #then the graves are shown and i was just like ''ohhhh you were serious. they actually died oops''#theres absolutely no way oda would kill a STRAWHAT #a main character #and for sure not usopp who has the best character development in the entire series lmao #i would say usopp's dream already came true but i think it will for sure when he goes to elbaf #that's been his goal his little garden and i cant wait for him to see it #but yeah this is a happy little pirate anime and as luffy keeps saying #he can't become the pirate king without his whole crew #ok maybe saul isnt a good example here when he's gonna be important/already is important #but i can list so many others: lolas dad; bon clay; that mudman's brother and crew; enel?? literally?? shouldve DROWNED?#kalifa by all means SHOULD be dead at the bottom of the waterfall but i think that was just an oversight by oda #(she was on the upper level of the tower of justice when it fell0 #who else. i know theres more #you get it though

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deepwithintheabyss · 1 month

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Jason telling everyone who'll listen that actually his autopsy scar isn't an autopsy scar but him getting

a) his ribs removed so he can suck his own dick

b) getting his guts rearranged so he can take monster cock no problem

c) a bomb in his own stomach that he can either 1) pull out dramatically when needed or 2) explode like his helmet when needed

#the abyss speaks #jason todd #still not a fan of the scar #but I think if he has it he should make up th ewildest lies #some of which c) might be even true #bruce asks him how he passes airport security and Jason looks him in the eye and says “I'm dead I can't fly”#as if he couldn't fake good enough ID's

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moongothic · 7 months

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God I wish I could remember what Oda once said about mothers in One Piece... I can't remember if it was about Luffy's mother in particular or moms in general, but he essentially joked about how you'd have to be A Really Horrible Mother to allow your child to go off and become a pirate (dangerous business no loving mother would allow)

And just... My vague memory of that comment is living in my head right now, because truly, if Crocodile somehow is Luffy's mom, truly nothing would make him a worse mom than

Literally trying to murder his child and beating him to near death multiple times the first time they actually meet

Going so far to stop being a mom that he became a dad instead

#Moon posting #Honestly I can't help but to feel that if the theory is true I don't think Crocodile has any positive feelings about Luffy #Like I don't think he'd see Luffy as his child or. Anything #Like the vibe I get is that Luffy to him would be nothing more than something from a past life he wants nothing to do with #And a past version of himself he wants buried dead and forgotten #Like think about masculinity- both in general but also in the terms of OP's story #The way some cishet men react to the mere concept of Trans Croco and the way they're ready to dismiss him as a ''real man''#Like. Fragile Masculinity makes it so that if you aren't performing your manliness at 1000% at all times you aren't manly #That's why it's fragile. It's all or nothing. And so if Crocodile was FtM many would see him as just the F. They'd just ignore the ''tM''#Crocodile did not seem like he wanted to be associated with Iva-chan or any of the newkama AT ALL #If he is trans then he is fully stealth. He does not want to be outed. He does not want to have his manhood questioned.#His past could instantly be used to turn him into a laughing stock. He'd have to deal with transphobic attacks and misogyny #So if he just wants to live his life in peace then he could just see his past as a potential threat to his future #Anything about who he might've been could be used against him #That includes the husband he divorced. That includes the child he abandoned.#They aren't anything to Crocodile but something he wants nothing to do with.#And he's willing to go so far as to kill that child to tie up any loose ends #Which sounds horrible but he did attempt to kill millions with a massive bomb so like #Yeah. Sir Crocodile ain't winning Dad of the Year award anytime soon. He does not give a shit about his son.#Crocodile looked at Shinji Evangelion and figured he could have a worse father-son relationship. And he's winning that contest #Of course this reading is absolute bonkers and I doubt Oda could write a trans character with this kind of nuance #It just makes sense to me alright #And I have brainworms #And if I'm being realistic I only think there's a 30% chance the Crocodad theory is actually canon #Trans Croco in general get's a 70% because. You don't give this guy some Secret Beef with the Magic HRT Person like that #Again I just think it'd be fucking funny if he was Luffy's dad #It is 6 am I am not proof reading any of this shit

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angorwhosebabyisthis · 24 days

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[pericky; a look into ricky's head during their meeting.]

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"I'm glad you came, I wasn't sure you would." The wine pours, the sound of it drowning out the missing word in that sentence: back.

Of course, is the response, and the part of Ricky that's spent twenty years tearing itself apart to understand why vibrates with relief. It doesn't matter anymore. Of course, of course, he thinks giddily along with the words. He never needed to wonder why Pericles wasn't coming back in the first place; he was always going to.

I'm happy you invited me, and of course he thinks again. A lifetime of pretending he wasn't always going to either falls away. However harsh and lonely the world has been, all's right with it again; and the shy voice of the boy inside him that he's tried so hard to kill says, so quietly, I missed you.

#sdmi #scooby doo: mystery incorporated #pericky #ricky owens #professor pericles #anyway fucking end me actually. lay me down to die #i said i was gonna write more pericky and by fucking god i did #the 'why did you do this to me' to 'oh thank god you didn't actually do this to me' pipeline of abuse folks 🥲#which like. their last conversation is yet another devastating example of ricky finally standing up to pericles' bullshit Too Late #ricky denounces him in the strongest terms he knows; based on his own feelings and opinions and the way he sees the world #(which: even then he can't bring himself to say 'i don't love you anymore')#(the closest he can get is 'i chose you and i can't take it back; the only way i can imagine not loving you is if i never had at all')#and pericles tries to go 'nyeh nyeh whatever i don't care' (and does a real bad job of pretending he is not obviously hurt lmao)#and ricky doesn't try to understand his logic; he doesn't try to reconcile a world where pericles didn't *really* mean to do anything wrong #his response is MAYBE YOU *SHOULD* CARE.#pericles' view of the world and what's right and acceptable are warped and *wrong* and he's the one who needs to get his shit together #'you shouldn't have abused me you shouldn't have killed cassidy you shouldn't have murdered a child in cold blood'#that is MASSIVE and i think it is really telling that pericles' response is to shut him down with force instead of trying to argue any more #and that in the end is the real true fucking tragedy of it all #ricky is making huge strides one after the other to take back his freedom from pericles emotionally #....and materially it makes no difference to improve his situation in the moment; because pericles doesn't have any less power to abuse him #he never has a triumphant moment where he Overcomes His Abuser and Breaks Out of His Control #there's nothing he can do to fight back until pericles is too Literally Dead to control him anymore #it is one of the rawest depictions of the reality of abuse i've ever seen and just. God. i love it so much #(at the same time i REALLY want to explore a version of events where he got the chance to expand further on that growth)#(the 'all witches are selfish; make all things yours; i have a duty' speech from the wee free men comes to mind)#whosebaby makes things #whosebaby writes #SDMItag #dyn: when i die i want you to die too

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nobodysdaydreams · 1 year

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I normally dislike crossovers between franchises. No hate if that's your thing, it's just not for me. However. The idea of a TMBS x ASOUE crossover intrigues me, not because I'm interested in seeing the orphan genius kids interact (although that would be cool), but because the fact that both Show Curtain/Nathaniel Benedict AND Count Olaf are both canonically insufferable theater kids who keep getting beaten by groups of children has such ridiculously high comedic potential it would be a crime not to consider it.

Not because I think they would team up. Oh no. They both need to be the center of attention at all times. I also feel like Nathaniel was the type of theater kid who bossed the other students around, treated every high school performance like there were talent scouts coming specifically to see him (and insisted that all inferior actors that made him look bad needed to be cut from the cast), and was also on math team/in science club (and bragged about his academic accomplishments constantly), whereas Olaf was the type of theater kid who was late to every rehearsal, didn't even try memorizing his lines until the night before the performance, and was constantly in danger of being expelled and kicked out of the production because he refused to do his school work. They would HATE each other (and frankly, so would everyone else in the drama club because they both throw tantrums whenever they aren't cast as the lead, as they both insist they are the most talented student in the school).

#Nathaniel would think Olaf's musical numbers are dumb but would still insist on doing his silly magic tricks #Olaf can't tell the Benedict twins apart (but insists he can) which leads to a series of comedic mishaps #Jeepers and the grey men vs. Olaf and his theater troupe would be interesting. A true battle of incompetence.#Olaf kidnaps SQ trying to get ransom money and SQ's like “Not to be that guy but do you know who my father is? You're a dead man walking.”#Unrelated but I feel like Violet would have a field day with Garrison's inventions and notebook #asoue #asoue netflix #tmbs #tmbs disney #mbs #mbs disney #a series of unfortunate events #count olaf #nathaniel benedict #ld curtain #dr curtain #the mysterious benedict society #mysterious benedict society

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ace-trainer-risu · 11 months

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I've been reading the Witness for the Dead books by Katherine Addison and I just love Thara Celehar so much. Firstly, all Thara does is Go Through The Horrors and drink tea. every day this man wakes up, puts on an ugly coat, suffers The Horrors, rides the tram, and then drinks some tea about it. not necessarily in that order.

secondly I love that this man fully considers like, "A friend said nice things to me" or "a nice man tried to gently flirt with me" to be equally as bad a Horror as "a ghoul tried to eat me" or "I was beset by ghosts eternally reenacting an ancient war crime." maybe someone being nice to him is worse, even. the emperor was kind to him one time and he's never recovered.

#b/c the thing is that deep down thara thinks that he deserves bad things #so when bad things happen he can be philosophical about it and be like Oh. I Deserved This #and obviously that's horrible and sad and not true but at least he like understands bad things #but when anora is like Hey I Care About You or Pel-Thenhior is like oh I like to talk to you #its immediately like error input not understood thara.exe has stopped functioning #hm. i love him.#like it hurts me that i can't buy him a decent coat.#like the CATS the symbolism of the CATS #squirrel posting #reading things #the witness for the dead

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