#bittersweet reunions

[annemarieyeretzian]

fearne asking dorian “wait, what are you doing here? how did you get here?” and dorian telling orym “well, I got your message.” and the look on orym's face

(bonus: the joy on imogen’s face because she knows how much/what this means to orym)

#annemarie watches critical role #critical role #fearne calloway #fearne #dorian storm #dorian #orym of the air ashari #orym #dorian x orym #orym x dorian #dorym #otp: no debts between us #imogen temult #imogen #bell's hells #bittersweet reunions #c3e93

[bakersdaughter21]

Anthony Birch choking up as he narrates the end of his second campaign that spanned over 2 years, with 50+ episodes, carrying a story through 3+ generations, cultivating a following and a community of love and support and silliness, with his four friends and phenomenal players that helped elevate an already amazing story and concept…

just… that last episode. Those tears in his voice. It was like his child grew up before his eyes and is now going off into the world…

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #dndads spoilers #dndads season 2 #dndads s2 #dndads finale #anthony birch #matt arnold #will campos #beth may #freddie wong #man i got emotional #that end end scene made me so happy #that reunion #it was bittersweet in the best way

[anguishmacgyver]

#sam really said ✨daniel!!✨ #sg1 2x01 #i love her i love them i love this show ugh #stargate #stargate sg1 #othergifs #reunion #stargate sg1 2x01 #samantha carter #daniel jackson #jack o'neill #they really did everything by the book with this??? like??? THANK U FOR YOUR SERVICE #you can feel the bittersweetness in the air of like #we saved the world! #but oh my god at what COST #and then The Cost emerges from the crowd like heLLO #did he have to be at the back? #not really #am i grateful he was?? #REALLY GRATEFUL #hugs #comfort heavy

[veilkeeper]

"which do you prefer, pre or post amnesia durgetash" actually i prefer the haunting image of both side by side as perfect mirrors, because nothing has changed even though everything has. in case you were wondering.

#durgetash #legitimately that poll is haunting me i cannot choose #durgetash for me is so intrinsically about both #half the tragedy of everything on either side is that the other side of it exists #every victory and tender moment before the amnesia is made tragic and bittersweet by what comes after #the reunion and the outcome of gortash's offer for alliance is heavy with the weight of everything before #you have to have both sides to get the full experience of what makes it so *clenches fist* for me #mine

[dailykugisaki]

Day fifty-two | id in alt

She's reasonably pissed about being gnome height.

#dailykugisaki #jjk #kugisaki nobara #zenin maki #idk what nobamaki means anymore #honestly if they have a reunion it'll be the most unstable bittersweet thing you'll ever see #bc i personally think maki didn't really get to be shown Kugisaki at all #so honestly theyre both festering again

[wangxianficrecs]

Story of a Dream by Bamboo_Gden

Story of a Dream

by Bamboo_Gden

G, 1k, Wei Wuxian & Jiang Yanli

Summary: She tried to shake away any sad thought, this was supposed to be a merry reunion, after all. A-Xian had always been someone very especial to her. A solace of gentleness and kindness within a house so filled of grudges and hatred. She knew it was the same to him. Blood didn’t tie them, but they were undoubtedly family. Jiang Yanli pays a visit to her A-Xian to catch up with him. Kay's comments: Short and absolutely heart-breaking. A story in which post-canon, Jiang Yanli is given the chance to say goodbye to her A-Xian. It made me really sad, but it was also cathartic. These two should have been given the chance to have a final conversation. Definitely bittersweet though. I'm not really sure why this story is tagged as Yu Ziyuan bashing, because she's mentioned in like one line. Excerpt: “Is that lotus root and pork ribs soup?”, he asked with a hopeful expression. This stopped every unwelcomed thought of hers. His expression reminded her of the one he bore as a child. When he looked at her with shining eyes which believed she could easily hang the moon and the stars. He still looked at her like that. A-Xian had grown up and changed so much. Even so, he was still her dear little brother. A-Xian would never stop being her beloved little brother. “It is. Now that we don’t see each other that frequently I thought you would miss it.” Something flickered in A-Xian’s eyes. He seemed to be troubled about something. Jiang Yanli could see the hesitation and the struggle he was having. In the end, he smiled and said, “Of course I do, shijie, I miss it so much I even tried to replicate it. But it’s very difficult without the recipe.” Jiang Yanli didn’t fail to catch the rueful tone with which he pronounced those words. She thought about commenting on them. Instead, she accepted the offer to enter his room and sat with him on his bed. She looked around, everything was as she remembered. She looked fondly at the image of a couple carved in the headboard.

pov jiang yanli, post-canon, pov outsider on lan wangji/wei wuxian, bittersweet, bittersweet ending, reunions, families of choice, jiang yanli deserves better, sad wei wuxian, goodbyes, good sibling jiang yanli, cooking, comfort food

~*~

(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

#May 2024 #Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #Wangxian #MDZS #Kay's Rec #Story of a Dream #Bamboo_Gden #short fic <15k #Gen #pov jiang yanli #post-canon #pov outsider on lan wangji/wei wuxian #bittersweet #bittersweet ending #reunions #families of choice #jiang yanli deserves better #sad wei wuxian #goodbyes #good sibling jiang yanli #cooking #comfort food

[brandwhorestarscream]

Masterpost of AUs

As promised, here's the (wip) masterpost of all my AUs. In alphabetical order with a short synopsis, and the tags are all on this post so you can easily search them up :) if there's any I missed, please send them to me so I can get them added! If the laat tags aren't alphabetized that means I need to get on my laptop and move them around lmao

Bittersweet Reunion AU

TFA AU wherein the jet twins are Starscream's offspring specifically produced by the autobot government, and their finding out kicks off an entire domino effect storyline

Blitzbee Baby AU

Exactly what it sounds like. TFA Bumblebee gets Blitzwing sparked up and neither of them realize until he enters emergence

Cross Dimensional Shenanigans

- Umbrella tag for anything that involves more than one iteration of transformers interacting with each other

Cross Dimensional Starblitz

- How the CDS started. Focuses solely on TFP Starscream and TFA Blitzwing’s weird friendship

Cryptid Seekers AU

- Everything is the same except seekers are terrifying cryptids. Nuff said

Cybermorphs AU

- An AU in which a group of warframes working off planet accidentally stumble into an ancient, buried xenomorph nests, and come back to Cybertron bearing what becomes the first generation of cybertronian-xenomorph hybrids, aka the Cybermorphs. Features a lot of world building, Cybermorph Queen Megatron, a lot of fun alien biology, and some angsty MegOP among other ships

Cybertronians Are An Invasive Species

- No war AU wherein cybertronians are an invasive pest species that have moved onto earth and cause the most havoc

Cybertronians Are An Invasive Species: The Soap Opera

- Takes place in the invasive species AU, but specifically is about a goofy soap opera created by humans with the bots as the inspiration

De-Extinction AU

TFA, the autobots have finally run out of stored Allspark energy and, seeing as the artificially created population is completely sterile, are now an officially endangered species. Their only chance at salvation lies with the decepticons and their ability to produce "sparklings"... whatever those are 🤭

Hindsight AU

- Aligned continuity. Arcee goes back in time in an attempt to stop the war with the help of Vector Prime, accidentally creates a much worse world. Goes through several crazy timelines, currently on the Self Imposed Exodus.

OS×BB AU

A TFA storyline wherein Omega Supreme wakes much much earlier than canon, becoming truly self-aware and sentient. He and Bumblebee form a connection and Things Happen

Shadows House AU

- Exactly what it sounds like. All of our favorite bots and cons are parasitic fae members of the Shadows Family. Megatronus is plotting to bring it down from the inside. Lots of secrets and spooky stuff

Subnautica AU

- Starscream and Skyfire (and sometimes the other seekers) stranded on the terrifying hell planet, 4546B

Terran Task Force

- An angsty AU that involves GHOST getting their slimy hands on the Emberstone and making legions of their own little terran warriors

The Repopulation Project

- A dystopian future AU wherein the autobots won the war, and in an effort to save their species from extinction, implemented the repopulation project. It warped and twisted over time til the war frames are kept as nothing but livestock to be bought, traded, and harvested. In an attempt to change the horrific conditions of their present society, Optimus gambles by having decepticon high command reborn in the hopes that they'll be able to overturn the huge mess he made

Unicron Reborn AU

- Technically an AU/what-if of the 5th timeline of Hindsight. Unicron is killed and later reborn as a sparkling on Cybertron; Megatron adopts him. Later gives rise to The Spawn

#amnesiac Starscream au #bittersweet reunion au #blitzbee baby au #cross dimensional shenanigans #cross dimensional starblitz #cryptid seekers au #cybertronians are an invasive species #cybertronians are an invasive species: the soap opera #de-extinction au #hindsight au #megop twins #OS×BB AU #shadows house au #subnautica au #terran task force #tfa rodimags #the repopulation project #unicron reborn au #Megastar Vosian Political Drama Extravaganza #cybermorph au #reincarnation au #tfa baby boom

[sersi]

as a connoisseur of scrappy fictional men suffering, it is such a tragedy that, after being denied the experience of witnessing teenage ezra struggle through being alone in an unfamiliar galaxy surrounded by his enemies, we have now also been denied the experience of witnessing adult ezra struggle through making his journey home alone and surrounded by his enemies 🤡

#and ALSO given the likelihood that any future seasons of ahsoka or ezra appearances in other mando verse shows #will probably have some level of time jump #watching ezra in the very beginning stages of realizing that ''home'' isn't the same as it was 🥺 #like i loooooovvvveed hera and ezra's reunion scene #but also i want to see the bitter half of the bittersweet!!! #elysia says stuff #ezra bridger #ahsoka tv #ahsoka spoilers

[nixknacks0-0]

Thank you for writing "Bittersweet Reunion"! I enjoyed it immensely and it has definitely found a place on my list of all-time favorite Roudise stories! And thank you for offering to answer readers' questions about it! Here are a couple (hopefully, not too many) I've been wondering about:

This is really basic, and possibly it was mentioned in an earlier chapter and I just don't remember, but what age are Louise and Rudy supposed to be in the story?

I would love to know where you got the idea for the story from or what inspired you to write it? As I mentioned in my comment on the last chapter, to me Louise and Rudy feel like the least likely of the Belcher kid friendships to fall out of each other's lives, so I'm curious what led you to think of a story starting from the premise.

In the second to last chapter, Rudy explains that reason he left town was because he needed to get away from his parents. I know you started the story well before "The Amazing Rudy" aired and I was wondering if that episode- where we see Rudy's mom for the first time and see more of his relationship with his dad- changed your view of his relationship with his parents or led you to change anything about how that part of Chapter 11 was written? (Of course, there's all sorts of things that can happen in parent-child relationships between the ages of 9 and 18 that could explain why older teen Rudy would feel the need to get away from them.)

I loved the way you wrote the older Pesto twins in Chapter 3! I find the Pesto twins to be the hardest characters to imagine aged up versions of (I actually decided not to write a scene with them in it for my Roudise wedding fic when I realized I was still writing them like they were 9). I was wondering how you came up with the ideas you did for them and if you had any additional ideas for them that didn't make it into the story?

Similarly, where are there any ideas for any of the other background characters that you weren't able to work into the story but would like to share? (Feel free to ignore if this will spoil other stories you are working on.)

Thank you for reading it, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it! And don't worry, I'm happy to answer all the questions (⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)

1. Louise and Rudy are in their early to mid 30s in this. I really wanted to capture the vibes of people can find love at any age (vs Gene and Tina who in this au find love in college and right after).

I also wanted to emphasize that Louise has a very established life at this point, she's taken over the restaurant, she has friends and weekly hang outs, she isn't necessarily looking for anything romantic to happen, but sometimes it happens anyways.

I just think it was interesting to explore a budding relationship between two people who very much know who they are, as opposed to younger people just figuring out who they are in life.

2. This story actually started with me thinking about how I really wanted Louise to take over the restaurant when she's older, and things kind of grew from there.

Another thing I really wanted to explore is this sort of abandonment issue Louise has. That's not quite the words for it, but I always got the vibe that she cares so strongly for the people in her life and hates when they have to/choose to leave, which ended up being a really interesting dynamic to explore when coupled with her figuring out she's in love.

3. Rudy's parents seemed to me the easiest vehicle for his moving away. We've seen how Sylvester acts (even though he cares, he obviously has his own problems, as illustrated in the House of 1000 Bounces and The Kids Rob a Train), and in earlier episodes Rudy talked about his mother caring very strongly about his safety and "hating fun".

Obviously that seems to change as the seasons go on, and especially with The Amazing Rudy. I did consider changing the story at that point, but why Rudy left was kind of woven throughout the story, and I realized that it's fanfiction. It doesn't have to be 100% accurate to canon, and the story probably wouldn't be 100% accurate even if I did change it.

I did love seeing how much his parents actually care in The Amazing Rudy, and I think it was a really great episode to analyze the inner workings of our favorite asthmatic boy.

4. My portrayal of the Pesto twins is 100% inspired by @tallgirl14, whose work I saw on TikTok. She's got some really great comics of the kids in high school, and she illustrates the twins as these sort of trouble makers because anyone who is friends with Louise for so long has to be a little crafty.

I sincerely recommend you check out her work, her art is so cute and makes me squeel every time.

Once I had the personality, it did take a little work to figure out where they would be and what they'd be up to, but I really liked the idea of them being restaurateurs with Louise, and even having a fake rivalry to draw business. Of course, leaning more into real Italian food than their father, even taking a trip to Italy to reconnect to their mother's heritage. Don't remember if I did write that into chapter two or three, but that's my favorite detail about them for sure (⁠´⁠∩⁠｡⁠•⁠ ⁠ᵕ⁠ ⁠•⁠｡⁠∩⁠`⁠)

5. I did actually do a lot of thinking about Millie's character, even though she is barely in the story. She's definitely a regular at the restaurant, coming in for coffee every morning and afternoon, and she works as a detective for the police.

I'm still a very acab person, but being a detective just fits Millie's personality, and honestly the way she can be a bit obsessive and a little less than moral fits the cop vibe to me. She's also backed off of Louise a little, and the two have managed to foster a reasonable level of friendship, though Louise is still wary to invite her to things because she flat out doesn't trust her.

The other background characters I absolutely adore are Tammy and Jocelyn. I always ship them, and I thought it would be a cute cameo that they show up to trivia night and just have fun drinking and giggling with each other rather than taking the game seriously.

Thank you so much for asking, and I hope this answered all of your questions (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠) I don't think I have any other Roudise on the backburner (⁠´⁠；⁠ω⁠；⁠｀⁠) but if you choose to reas any of my other upcoming stories I hope you enjoy just as much as you did Bittersweet Reunion!

#bittersweet reunion #bob's burgers #fanfic #writing stuff #roudise #ama #andy and ollie #this was so fun #it was really really fun to go into detail on some of my decision making process #i really am glad you liked the story

[kuedrawnunder]

Ever since Max arrived at Mayview he has constantly been threatening to cry, and I'm sure the day he actually does, is going to hurt, badly.

#paranatural #Manifesting Max bawling his eyes out at a bittersweet reunion #Kue talks

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

fic where both of the stan twins are ghosts. the entire fic is about them haunting random abandoned buildings they find (and also haunting the niblings but in a more friendly sort of way) and studying anomalies they couldnt see/interact with before. not even death can stop ford’s drive for studying anomalies

for some added angst, ford unwillingly ends up possessing someone/something for a short while. he does not like it.

#you might be wondering what category they are #well that’s easy. category 13 #gravity falls #ford pines #stan pines #either they go together or ford dies first #purely because stan is always first to go in other fics and itd be cool to handle how he deals with losing ford again #(and their reunion is even more bittersweet as a result)

[annemarieyeretzian]

matt narrating dorian seeing all of bell’s hells and “you see your friend, fearne,” and “and you see orym.” being the last he narrates,,, thank u for my life mr. dungeon master matthew mercer sir

#annemarie watches critical role #critical role #matthew mercer #cr cast #dorian storm #dorian #fearne calloway #fearne #orym of the air ashari #orym #exu trio #big spoon medium spoon little spoon #dorian x orym #orym x dorian #dorym #otp: no debts between us #bell's hells #bittersweet reunions #c3e93

[corishadowfang]

I want the Union Leaders to reunite (at least temporarily) not JUST because I want to see them all together again, but because I also want to see Ven go up to Brain with the biggest shit eating grin and go, "Hey, Great-Grandpa! :)"

And then just watch Brain short-circuit.

#kingdom hearts #khux #brain: no. put those words back in your mouth right now #this thought started out as bittersweet musings on reunions but got silly very quickly

[better-call-mau1]

Been listening to the Hamilton soundtrack again, and I can’t get over how perfect the tone of “That Would Be Enough” is for Sabine comforting Ezra after he finds out how long he’s been gone and how much he’s missed:

Look around, look around

At how lucky we are to be alive right now

Look around, look around

[…]

Look at where you are

Look at where you started

The fact that you're alive is a miracle

Just stay alive, that would be enough

[…]

Let this moment be the first chapter

Where you decide to stay

And I could be enough

And we could be enough

That would be enough

#is it too late to petition for the Ahsoka series to be a musical? #because that would SLAP #imagine Force Ghost Anakin delivering a tragic melancholy soliloquy of sadness and regret and shame #Ahsoka gets a solo about finding her own way in the galaxy #Chopper and Jacen get something goofy and fun (with some bittersweetness from Hera in the background) #Sabine and Ezra have a tear-jerker duet #and several reprises that end with them on the comm tower balcony together finally celebrating their happy ending #now I want to listen through all of Hamilton again and see what else there is #but this might be my favorite track #the whole number gives me Sabezra vibes but these parts in particular stood out for their reunion #sabezra #sabine wren #ezra bridger #ahsoka series #ahsoka show #hamilton musical #hamliza

[baeshijima]

okay so ive now made it into an actual wip, but am faced with a dilemma

do i do hcq banners (and if so, which filter….) or do i go with the good ol jing yuan banner since it is technically a sequel of the jy longfic….

(for clearer view. kinda.)

throwing up why must i be indecisive and make a poll for my indecisiveness

#sophie talks : of reunions and bittersweet heartache #help i just have 3 draft copies with those three banner set ups i cant do this #watch me stare at it blankly and never write the fic (looks away from my mountain of wips waiting to be written) #ngl i do kind of like the second hcq one but ourgh…. i like them all for their own reasons…..

[generouskittentidalwave]

SO THERE IS SOMETHING BETWEEN ODYSSEUS AND DIOMEDES THAT IS HARDLY MENTIONED AT ALL AND I GOTTA BRING THIS UP BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT

CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE CLEAR PARALLELS AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEIR JOURNEYS?? HOW THEY ARE SO SIMILAR YET SO DIFFERENT AT THE SAME TIME??

Okay so let's break this down

Diomedes had to leave his own kingdom and go on his journey to start a new kingdom of his own because his wife was unfaithful to him. This was punishment of him getting willingly involved with and attacking the gods and this was the later consequences of it. And as a result he was kicked out of his kingdom and had to learn to make peace with his past enemies and start new again because of it.

Then you have Odysseus, who just wanted to be back home with his wife and son, he didn't want to be part of any of this in the first place. And he ended up making a mistake out of his own hubris that although caused the attention and anger of Poseidon (similar to how Diomedes caught the wrath of Aphrodite), wasn't him going after Poseidon on purpose, moreso like an unintentional consequence due to his own foolish actions.

Now you might be thinking, they both angered a god, whether it was intentional or not, and they both had the attention of gods, and both were sent on a journey because of it. So, the real question is why did the gods choose Odysseus as their spotlight hero instead of Diomedes? Why did Odysseus get all the dangerous herioc tasks while Diomedes was more focused on the side in his own journey?

Well, while Diomedes was originally given the attention of the gods during the war, Diomedes willingly interacted with them and even fought with them during the war. Diomedes treated them with the same amount of respect as any greek would and he was given the same respect back (usually atleast), and whether he attacked them or not, it was all fair in the battle fields of war, and Diomedes even got help from Athena. He was one of the staple of a perfect greek soldier who kept away his hubris and respected and worked with the gods in different situations.

Odysseus, on the otherhand, is a pretty different case. Diomedes' view on the gods was the same black and white as all greeks viewed them. However, when it came to Odysseus, he really set in motion the idea of treating gods less as omnipotent figures and following their every word, to treating them more as people. The gods shifted focus away from Diomedes, the ideal greek warrior, and focused their attention on the soon to be greek hero Odysseus, the one who was a true hero despite being rather imperfect in his own ways. I feel that was because, and in my educated guess, he not only was a challenge for them compared to Diomedes, but he also showed a different kind of respect for them. Not your average greeks' undying appreciation and love for them. Rather, Odysseus had to earn their respect, and the gods in turn had to earn his respect as well. When he needed help he prayed for their guidance, but he also wasn't afraid to tell them in no uncertain terms to fuck off when they did something stupid or interfered with his own goal. It felt like all the gods chose Odysseus to focus on, whether it be for revenge, love, or guidance, and never let up afterwards.

While Diomedes was, and is even mentioned by Odysseus himself, to be filled with very little imperfections, Odysseus is the opposite. Diomedes, despite being the youngest of them all, was already well matured than all of them, most things just came to him, including the gods themselves, for a short period of time. Odysseus was none of these things, he had hubris at times, causing him to be selfish and prideful due to his young passion and boldness, however, Odysseus also had a kind and gentle heart along with a smart mind, which is probably a huge reason on why sometimes his emotions would overrule his reasonings. Odysseus was a good guy, probably the most morally good person greek mythology ever had, and he was dealing with real human emotions, mistakes, and actions, in absolutely horrible situations he was thrown into. And, after everything, he was the one person who taught the gods themselves that even they are only human as well. They are all only human. He brought them to that realization, even if they won't admit it.

I think both journeys serve as an important purpose for both characters. Diomedes had everything stripped away from him, having to run away from a fight and not just start new again, but learn to make peace with those who originally he saw as his enemies. Odysseus got the biggest reality check ever as well, as after gaining the attention of the gods he learned and matured and grew to become a true greek hero while also gaining horrible trauma because of it. While Diomedes lost it all and had to create his own place of belonging, Odysseus had to fight for 10 years to regain what he lost because that was his place of belonging.

And these two probably have no idea what eachother went through after all these years, and I swear to god they better have a reunion of some kind.

Anyway these are just my late night thoughts on it though, hope all you greek geeks have a fantastic day and night! ^^

#seriously these two need some kind of reunion #diomedes needs to see how much more mature odysseus got #it'll be very bittersweet though #odysseus #the odyssey #homer's odyssey #the iliad #homer's iliad #diomedes #epic the musical #epic: the musical #greek mythology