#he liked her before her redemption

[dreamsy990]

imagine roxas sora and ventus all being roommates. the shenanigans they'd get up to.......... riku goes to sora's apt one day and is like 'why are they here' and he's just like "??? they live here??????'

do you think they'd count as other people. or would only ventus and sora count. bc roxas is just sora.

sora forgot to put roxas down on the lease and so hes gaslighting the landlord into thinking roxas and ven are the same person

#also ofc ven and roxas count as their own people #thats literally the whole point of roxas' character #i am not going to disrespect my beloved by saying hes not his own person #when that is his core struggle #anyways i think this is a fun idea #but im too much of a sucker for sea salt family stuff for me to really think roxas would be roomies with sora and ven #i think the dynamic would be funny though!! #we got ray of sunshine; clinical depression; and The Horrors #with guest appearances from least straight straight man #brought back my sora and roxas watch mlp headcanon #its one of soras favorite shows #roxas' favorite character is starlight btw #he liked her before her redemption #hes pretending to like the show ironically but he greatly enjoys it #also ven is the worst kind of person (a morning person) #i think ventus wakes up early makes a healthy breakfast and goes for a morning jog #like a monster #(i love him) #soras just trying to keep shit together #and by that i mean keep roxas from killing riku every time he shows up #the cereal brand is a reference to the kh2 manga btw #where axel gets roxas food to try and cheer him up and the brand is heart moon #still not sure exactly what food it was #doodles #shitpost #roxas #sora #ventus #riku

[bleedingoptimism]

It’s a little after eleven when Eddie finally manages to get Tarja to bed. It’s hard for her without her plushie. And really, Eddie is very thankful having a hyper-fixation with her toy seems to be the only ‘consequence’ of having divorced parents Tarja seems to have right now. He always worries if having two homes and constantly moving between them is good for her or not. Especially with Tommy being Tarja’s other dad, but against all odds, he’s good to her. So their kid is doing just fine. She’s happy. And if she’s happy, Eddie is happy.

He’s getting ready to open a beer and relax when there’s a knock on the door. He smiles, assuming is Steve bringing Toothless over and almost knocks his beer to the floor when he opens the door.

Steve looks… well he looks amazing, dressed to the nines. Must’ve been date night. But his eyes are red and puffy, his face covered in dark blotches, and his lips are swollen like he’s been biting them too much.

He’s hugging Toothless to his chest and he smiles at Eddie when he sees him, but he looks so sad it breaks his heart.

Eddie throws the beer behind him, sure it will land on the couch and cradles Steve’s face between his hands, “What did that asshole do?

Steve leans into his touch and shuts his eyes for a moment before sighing and stepping away from him, walking inside and sitting on the couch still holding Toothless like a lifeline. 

“Nothing, he was just-” Steve shakes his head and chuckles darkly, “He’s just so mean,” 

Eddie drops to his knees in front of him and dips his head to look Steve in the eye just like he did that day in the park.

“Break up with him,” he says.

“I can’t.”

“Tommy doesn't deserve you, Steve. You are worth so much more than what that asshole makes you feel. You deserve better. More. Everything,” Eddie pleads, placing his hands on Steve’s knees and squeezing, “If it’s because of Tarja, we’ll figure something out, ok? Lots of people keep in contact with their parent’s significant other after they break up” He rushes, the speech he didn't have quite prepared last week coming out of him in a single breath, “We are friends, right? So you can still visit and see her. Visit me. You don’t have to stop being a part of our lives.” 

Steve is staring at him right now like Eddie just gifted him the moon and he’s so beautiful it’s kind of hard for Eddie to keep eye contact, but he squeezes Steve’s knees again to ground himself and does. Steve needs to know he’s very serious about this. About him.

Eyes shining, Steve takes a deep breath and nods slowly, a tear falling down his cheek that Eddie follows with his eyes and watches until it hides under Steve’s v-neck shirt.

“Hey, even I didn’t put up with Tommy's shit for Tarja’s sake and I birthed her,” he jokes awkwardly, trying to make him laugh and feels like doing a little victory dance when Steve snorts cutely,

“Okay,” he hiccups.

“Yeah?” Eddie smiles back at him, relieved.

“Yeah,” Steve sighs, “Fuck Tommy.” And drops back on the couch, looking exhausted, “Can I stay here tonight?” he asks in a whisper, like he’s afraid Eddie will say no. As if.

“Yeah, of course,” Is what he answers, and has half a mind to invite him into his bed but knows it’s a terrible idea. So he lends Steve his favorite flannel pajamas and sets blankets and a pillow on the couch and they say their goodnights.

And if he does a little dance when he closes the door to his room, no one is there to see.

In the morning, Steve stays for breakfast. And attempts to kill Eddie by making his heart explode, cooking it himself from scratch with Tarja’s help, who is so happy she won’t stop running around the kitchen making Toothless fly and sing about ‘happy family breakfast time’.

It’s actually hard to tell if she’s happier to have her plushie back or that Steve is there. Eddie, on the other hand, knows exactly what he’s happiest about. Death by tenderness. Is that a thing? He amuses himself thinking about a couple csi’s with sunglasses saying it, 

“He died because he witnessed something too cute,”

“Ah yes, death by fondness. I’ve seen it before.”

After, Eddie walks him to the door and Steve smiles sweetly at him, and holds his hand, squeezing it once before letting go, “Well, see you. I guess,” he says bashfully and there’s a moment there, a second where time stops and Eddie thinks he should kiss him. Wants to kiss him, needs to kiss him.

But he doesn’t. Because Steve is still dating Tommy, and just because he said he was going to break up with him doesn’t mean he wants to start something new with Eddie.

Eddie himself called him his friend for the first time last night for christ sake. ‘Fucking chill’ he thinks to himself.

🧸

And then a week goes by without hearing a word from Steve. But Eddie doesn't hold it against him.

At first, he figures he needs time to think but then he starts to wonder if he really is going to break up with Tommy. Four days in, he gets paranoid about it. Maybe Steve got brainwashed into thinking Eddie is bad for him. Maybe Tommy told him Eddie was putting ideas in his head, that he shouldn’t talk to him anymore… With him telling Steve to break up with his boyfriend and all... 

He’s well aware of how manipulative Tommy can be and has seen the way he belittles Steve to keep him around, so he knows it’ll be hard for Steve to actually go through with it.

And he can’t exactly show up at Tommy’s and steal Steve away, no matter how appealing the idea might be. The only thing he can do is just think of Steve, wish him well, and send him strength to do what he needs to do. At the end of the day, it needs to be his decision. His choice.

As Tommy’s week with Tarja approaches he starts getting more and more anxious, wondering if it’ll be Steve or Tommy who picks her up.

When the day finally arrives, and the doorbell rings, Tarja runs to open the door and Eddie peeks his head through the hallway.

“Daddy!” Tarja screams.

“Hey, Tata! You ready?” Tommy says and Eddie steps into the hall to greet him too.

“Not yet!” Tarja chuckles and Tommy smiles at her,

“Okay, go get ready. I’ll wait here,”

Eddie walks to the door and leans on the doorframe, “Hey,”

“Hi. Long time no see,” Tommy says and then adds, “You look great,”

“You don’t,” Eddie answers, because it’s true. He looks like shit. Greasy hair, bags under his eyes, chapped lips, wrinkles on his clothes, “What happened?”

“Steve broke up with me.” 

Eddie’s eyes go wide and he smiles, he doesn’t even try to hide it, “He did?”

“Don’t smile, fucker,” Tommy says but there’s no heat behind it. He knows he deserves it.

“Sorry,” Eddie says, not sorry at all.

“Stop,” Tommy whines because Eddie’s smile is actually getting bigger,

“Sorry,” he repeats and then clears his throat, “Did he tell you why?”

“Because I’m a horrible person,” Tommy groans.

“Hey, the first step is to ad-”

“To admit it, yeah, yeah. I know” Tommy interrupts him, groaning again.

Eddie sighs, and punches Tommy’s shoulder lightly, “Look, Tommy, I’m just going to say this because, well… you are pathetic. You need to do better.” And then he points to his back, to where Tarja’s disappeared to get her stuff, “She’s going to grow up and realize you are an awful person and she’s not going to want you in her life. And I’m not going to dissuade her from it, because I already don’t want you to be in mine, you know that, right?”

Tommy looks at him seriously and then nods once, fast and hard. Like he gets it. Like he agrees and is determined to change. And Eddie hopes for Tarja’s sake he is. But knows, deep in his heart, that either way, she’s going to be fine.

“Also, just a heads up. I’m in love with Steve and I’m going to ask him out,” he adds in a rush when he hears Tarja running up behind him.

“You are shitting me,” Tommy whispers, shocked and clenching his teeth.

Eddie laughs, “Nope,” he says, closing his lips loudly around the P.

“Eddie,” Tommy warns him like he’s waiting for Eddie to say he's joking.

“What? I hear he’s single,” Eddie smirks.

“You motherfuc- Hey Tata!” Gathering Tarja in his arms, Tommy drops the subject but he glares at Eddie as he kisses Tarja’s cheek goodbye and murmurs ‘unbelievable’ as he’s leaving. Eddie closes the door and starts laughing at the look on Tommy’s face.

He needs to call Steve.

He tries a couple of times but he doesn’t pick up and he starts worrying Steve might not actually want to talk to him, and then there’s a knock on the door but Eddie, too preoccupied with his anxiety, opens without looking, thinking Tarja forgot something.

When he doesn't hear her, Eddie looks up from his ‘ignored calls’ screen to see nonother than Steve standing there, looking nervous and like a fucking dream with a bouquet of flowers in his hands. A fucking bouquet of flowers. For him. For Eddie. All different shades of red, because he knows is his favorite color.

Eddie just blinks at him a couple of times and Steve flushes even more and drops the hand holding up the flowers, scratches the back of his neck nervously, “This was stupid, the flowers were fucking stupid. They are stupid. I’m stupid, right?”

A laugh bubbles out of Eddie and he grabs him by the scruff of his shirt and pulls him inside. He closes the door once they are both in and slams Steve against it, crushing their lips together. Steve circles his arms around Eddie and holds him close, instantly returning the kiss with fervor. 

They kiss as if it were fate. They kiss until it's hard to breathe and Eddie pulls away only to kiss him again, and again, and again.

“Not stupid,” he murmurs between kisses and feels Steve’s smile against his lips.

Eventually, Eddie takes a step back and lets Steve into his home properly, “Hi,” he says cheesily.

“Hi,” Steve says back grinning, then he lifts up the bouquet again, which is now completely ruined by him still holding it strongly while they made out like crazy, and his smile drops,

“Shit,” he pouts cutely, god Eddie wants to eat him. He laughs and takes the flowers anyway, putting them in an empty glass bottle, because he doesn’t own a flower vase, because he’s a normal human being. ‘Who the fuck owns a flower vase?’

“Come here,” he says, holding out both hands for Steve to take and follow him.

Steve takes his hands but doesn't move, instead swings them from side to side, “Wait, let's talk,”

Fuck, yeah. They should. That’s a good idea. Fuck. Damn, Steven Whatever-The-Fuck-Is-His-Middle-Name Harrington and his sensible and very logical choice…

Eddie huffs exaggeratedly making Steve chuckle and redirects them to the couch, where they sit still holding hands, “Alas,” he says dramatically, “You are right, we should talk. I actually wanted to ask you out properly, not debauch you the second you walked through the door. Sorry about that” he lies, not sorry at all, again.

Steve blushes and smiles, drawing little circles with his thumbs on Eddie’s hands, “Yeah me too. I wanna do this right. Ask you out. Go on dates. I think we should take this slow,”

Eddie makes a face and groans at that. He doesn't want to take it slow. He wants Steve to move in right now or something. Steve rolls his eyes amused at his interruption and keeps going,

“I came here to ask you out the right way because I want you to know I’m committed. But we should think about how this will affect Tarja… and Tommy too. We should go out a few times, spend some time alone, and I want you to meet my friends and my parents and I want to meet your friends and your uncle too and just do this properly and-”

Eddie interrupts him with a kiss, he can’t take it anymore, he’s been dying to kiss Steve for months now and he’s so sweet and thoughtful it makes Eddie insane, makes him feel like he needs to ruin him, but in a nice way, like with devotion and love.

Steve lets go of his hands to wrap his arms around Eddie’s waist and hoists him until he’s straddling Steve. Eddie leans his elbows on Steve’s shoulders, and buries his hands in his hair, pulling and messing with it.

“Okay but have you considered having hard, hot, wet sex, and then maybe we do what you said?” He asks panting against Steve’s lips and actually feeling how that punches the air out of him.

He hugs Eddie closer to his chest and whines, “Yeah okay, we can do it your way,” and gets up, lifting Eddie with him as if he were weightless. Eddie squawks and laughs all the way to his room.

🧸

They spend the week together, talking, eating, drinking, laughing and fucking. Except it’s more than that because when Eddie is inside Steve, with his tongue, his fingers, or his strap, it feels like more. It feels like love. Like fate.

Steve, still determined to take things slow, doesn’t stay there all the time, going back to Robin’s where he moved back to after breaking up with Tommy. He actually brings her over one day and the three of them spend the afternoon together. Eddie decides they are going to be best friends immediately because Robin is hilarious and merciless. When Steve gets back the next day he kisses Eddie so good and hard his knees almost give out on him and tells him he has Robin’s seal of approval. Something he knows Tommy never got.

When the week passes Eddie says goodbye theatrically as if they were cross-star lovers in a bad soap opera and Steve chuckles and calls him ridiculous but kisses him so passionately that Eddie drags him right back inside and they say goodbye again a few hours later.

They had decided to wait until Eddie talked to Tarja about her feelings over Tommy’s and Steve’s breakup and whether she still wanted Steve around or not before having him over again.

But when Tarja gets back home she’s gloomy and silent. She hugs Eddie in greeting when she arrives and then spends the rest of the day lying face down on the floor and occasionally sighing loudly, obviously trying to make Eddie ask her what’s wrong.

And really, Eddie shouldn't find it as funny as he does, but he thinks about calling Wayne and telling him he gets it now when Wayne used to tell him he had too much personality.

Eventually, he lies on the floor next to her and asks. Tarja looks at him with big sad eyes and says, “I haven't seen Steve in a million years! And Daddy said he is not his boyfriend anymore! So I’ll never see him again and I miss him”

Eddie coos at her, “I’m sorry you miss him little dragon, but you can totally see him again! Would you like me to call him? Since he’s my friend too?” Already trying to strategize on how to tell her they are more than friends.

Tarja lights up and jumps off the floor and onto Eddie, punching the breath out of him, “Yes! Yes! Call Steve! Steve smiles more when he’s with you than he did with daddy anyway. Why don’t you boyfriend him instead?”

Well… that was easy.

He chuckles and shakes his head, “That’s a great idea sweety, go grab my phone,”

Tarja runs and grabs Eddie’s phone off the table and hands it to him, he doesn’t bother getting off the floor so she kneels beside him listening attentively as he dials Steve’s number. 

“Hi, handsome, you talked with Tarja already?” Steve greets him after it rings twice.

“Yeah about that, turns out Tarja talked to me, actually,” he chuckles, “Hi, by the way”

“Hi,” Steve repeats lovingly and laughs, “What do you mean?”

“She had this awesome idea!” he says winking at her and she covers her mouth with her tiny hands to hide her giggles, “That, since you are not with Tommy anymore, you should be my boyfriend instead,” he continues, voice going soft and chuckles when he hears Steve's breathless ‘oh’ on the other side of the line, “Come over?”

“Of course, gimme an hour? I'm with a client” Steve hums and Eddie whispers he’ll give him anything he asks for and hangs up.

An hour later Tarja is still lying on the floor, only now it’s with papers and crayons spread all around her when the doorbell rings. She looks up at Eddie excitedly and he nods at her, “Go on then”

Tarja runs to the door and opens it wide to reveal Steve standing there as beautiful as ever, giving Eddie a deja vu of the first time he saw him.

“Papa Steve!” Tarja yells and jumps up to hug him.

Steve gasps and falls to his knees with her in his arms and looks up at Eddie with shocked wet eyes.

‘So much for taking it slow,’ Eddie thinks with a smirk.

Fin.

☝️first part

☕🥐💕?

#stranger things #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #trans eddie munson #kid fic #i wrote something #i keep thinking about #you know how kid memories are weird and warped in your minds #i keep thinking about tarja being very much convinced that she is the one who got them to date just cause she suggested it to eddie #when she's older i mean #like they cannon convince her other wise she soooooo sure cause she perfectly remembers telling eddie to 'boyfriend' steve and that they #were not together before that #steve and robin think its hilarious #eddie hates giving her the credit #dunno if tommy gets a redemption ark but i imagine tarja and him have coffee from time to time and they catch up on their lives. #and tarja rolls her eyes a lot at him but he's not as bad as he used to be #its mostly like 'yeah yeah dad im sure tthings were different in your time sure'

[bonefall]

Maybe I'll make a post on this at some point but like, something deeply fucked up about TNP and Po3 that people have totally forgotten about is how badly they try to whine that "Tigerstar Had Good Traits :("

Firestar does it, Brambleclaw does it, and they keep doing this after it becomes this GRAND irony that Firestar almost gets Tiger'd to death in a fox trap because he was too trusting. Bramble gets his pity award of keeping deputyship and then cries to his son about how No One Saw The Good In Tigerstar :(

And it's wiiiiild that no one else in this fandom has done anything with the fact that Leopardstar broke the Warrior Code to appoint Hawkfrost, who had no apprentice, an extremely aggressive and warmongering Tigerclone who says things like "Tigerstar wasn't the worst cat to look up to." ONLY qualifying trait was being kinda like Tigerstar.

And she practically did that the SECOND Mistyfoot went missing. And then Leopardstar continued to be one of the most violent and xenophobic leaders through Po3, joining with WindClan to attack ThunderClan.

What I'm getting at is that like, a few years ago, with books like "Blackfoot's Reckoning" and "Shadow in RiverClan" it's like they suddenly decided to retcon in a bunch of "redemption arcs" in hindsight. They just pretended like there was this grand high reckoning with TigerClan, when there literally wasn't, and if anything that caused SERIOUS problems for the cast that the authors didn't fully acknowledge as such.

And now ppl haven't actually read the main series and are just working with their recent memory of all these retcon books.

But TNP and PO3 are still there, and you can go and see the ACTUAL timeline where Leopardstar is really not apologetic at all, and Blackstar is a useful stooge for the very next wannabe dictator that strolls in, in spite of the new side content that COMPLETELY mischaracterized them for their plots to work.

#I just wish people could be more critical of this #And im not entirely anti-retcon. Mind you #But I am here because i think these retcons make them WORSE characters. It's BAD for a character to GET a book with a redemption arc and-- #Then they don't change at all and act like totally different people later in the timeline #And Leopardstar is the worse one between her and Blackstar BECAUSE she has sooo many active choices here #Im confident in my choice for BB the more I think about it. Leopardstar's dismantling of the bonehill was good #But it works better as a tragedy imo with the rest of the series in mind #That for a brief moment. A fleeting whim. She could have changed. #But she never did. #And Blackstar who was FAR less repentant at the time DID eventually turn around. #At the end of the day one of them appointed Hawkfrost as codebreaking deputy. #And the other did not. #And I think it's fucking bullshit the way that Leopardstar's retcondemption implies that Hawkfrost was just so tricky he mislead her #The old and experienced leader who had been fooled by a tiger before and was soso sorry for it. Just got tricked. #Like fuck off. She never had a redemption. Stop trying to tell me she did 15 years later #She's a girlboss who empires too close to the sun in pursuit of power and drags everyone down with her #Not a sad weepy smolbean #Bone babble #Warrior cats analysis

[marrfixated]

Hi. Priya being adopted by Alejandro and Noah. Bye.

#no reasoning or context here #welll maybe a little 😇 #I just think Alejandro and Noah balance each other out in how much work they put into things #Noah is the youngest of many sibling so probably knows something about feeling neglected and that need for independence #Alejandro grew up with a drive for perfection and insecurity when compared to his older brother #I think they’d make her feel loved and never too pressured #also I think they would love for her to go to med school #like yes girl escape the terrible reality tv life #Noah did a lot of reality tv so her could also help talk with her about that #also why did they drop the whole Priya going to med school thing? that was really important to her character #also Alejandro is super athletic and Noah is not so I think it’s good juxtaposition #and Alejandro being really good with people #but Priya not #and he would have a redemption sort of arc #Also Priyemma! because I talked about the parallels before #conflict with strategy and feeling with your teammate #original post #Alenoah #td priya #td Noah #td Alejandro #total drama #total drama 2023 #total drama island #total drama reboot #Noah td #Alejandro td #Priya td #Alenoah and Priya AU #rambling in the tags again teehee

[friendrat]

The problem with the church today is that so many "Christians" do not actually believe in redemption.

#unironically christian #i say this because of all the people who make comments about people's testimony #like saying they don't believe that only fans girl who was saved and baptized was really saved #like... reading through the comments it becomes clear that the “Christians” don't actually accept her #like... my brother in Christ... your good deeds are as worthy as my used pad #that is straight up in the bible #you are not better than her and you do not deserve redemption more than her #her salvation is between her and God #and yes... you say that time will reveal her fruit and you are correct #but guess what #ananias was called to extend a hand to paul *before* his fruit showed #and he was a frigging serial killer who was out for ananias's blood the week before #you do not get to pick and choose which converts you get to except #you are not God and thank heavens for it because if you were we would all be doomed #*deep breath* #i am just so sick of this... farse... that Christianity has become #Christians need a wake up call #oh! and and when you act like its impossible to accept that she could be saved you belittle God's power #you call into question Jesus's blood and it's ability to cleanse and if that is false your salvation is worthless! #also also you go against the things clearly written in the Bible while wearing the title of Christian #which means you are misrepresenting God's nature and intentions which means you are breaking the command to not take the lord's name in vain #wow... i thought i was done at the deep breath... guess not😅 #rat rants

[kraviolis]

Belos: I’m going to raise Luz as my daughter and ensure that she remains pure and loyal to me.

Also Belos: I’m going to let the 7-years-old clone of my brother take care of her I’m sure he’ll be able to do that.

you joke but thats LITERALLY his entire thought process at first. he's so isolated and arrogant that he couldnt possibly comprehend the idea that luz wouldnt see him as her father despite the fact he literally told hunter he was going to be her older brother and never once encouraged hunter to see him as anything but an uncle.

i attribute this to the fact that philip is an orphan who only ever knew his blood brother as his only caretaker, so he sorta took having a brother for granted and didn't realize that was something you could want rather than something that just Is.

(also caleb was the only person philip ever truly knew + loved and even well into his 300s he never once picked up a child psychology book and realized that Perhaps His Worldview Was Skewed Because Of That.)

he literally like. could not comprehend the idea that you could even choose your own family outside of like. being adopted by someone. thats the other thing with him being so annoyingly christian in this AU, he was taught that your blood family (esp yr parents) is always the most important thing in your life & you should always be grateful to them no matter what.

(this is another factor into why he keeps making grimwalkers. in his own twisted viewpoint, it's him giving caleb another chance. and another. and another-- at least in this specific characterization of him.)

philip thought that him adopting luz would mean she would immediately be eternally grateful to him and call him father and the whole nine yards. but he forget to actually express that expectation until it was too late (aka until he heard her call him uncle for the first time)

honestly, hes not MAD about it. he's just sorta :( about it bcus hes not actually insane and can still logically think like "she did say she had just lost her real father to an illness its perfectly reasonable for her to not want to replace him" (he doesnt think it outloud but he also enjoys living thru her vicariously

but also later on as she gets older it gets to a point where he's like "ok its been years now why isnt she trying to replace him yet" bcus he thinks its a normal + healthy part of the grieving process to replace the person you lost (figuratively or, in his case, Literally)

#qna #anonymous #little lamb au #toh #also luz is sort of catholic in this AU bcus she was raised like that #as in camila + manny would take her to church on sundays and she did sunday school sometimes and they'd encourage her to pray #but they never like. enforced it on her. it was more of a cultural thing for all three of them than a spiritual thing. #but belos is DELIGHTED when he hears baby luz praying out loud before bed on her first night in the castle #he tries to casually ask her about it like 'what is this God can you explain it to him' #but then as he listens to her little five year old explanation of God and Jesus she drops enough hints to make him realize #'Oh Good Lord She's Fucking CATHOLIC?' #'god truly is testing me by guiding this lamb into my care but no matter. no child is beyond redemption' #cue belos trying to push her more towards protestantism by attempting to have religious debates with a fucking. five year old #who has no concept of religion beyond 'jesus died for my sins which means i shouldnt lie to my abuela about taking an extra empanada' #sorry i love belos forgetting that religion exists up until luz arrives in the demon realm #and then he realizes Oh Fuck Thats Right. Im Doing This For God & Jesus Not Just For Fun #and then suddenly remembers everything his pastor from 400 years ago ever said to him

[running-in-the-dark]

I just watched episode 4 of Leverage: Redemption and maybe it's just because I've had a few days to calm down, but, I like it a lot more now!

I like Harry, he's interesting and has a lot of potential (and he's not Nate). I really like Breanna. she's so cute! her interactions with Eliot are my favourite. when she saw him fighting someone for the first time 😍 so adorable. love her. also very relatable reaction.

Eliot is so so soft now. I love him.

#she's his kid now. #also I seriously hope his hair gets better soon! what is up with that. I mean I get it - my hair does that if you try to straighten it at #that length. but damn boy it looks baaad. #just let the man have wavy hair oh my god #I mean it's fine straight if it's longer but. not like this #anyway ugh he's so freaking sweet now. it's killing me. 😩😍 #leverage #leverage redemption #eliot spencer #and! parker looks like herself again. it sounds so mean but her face really unsettled me before 😐

[stevethehairington]

reading runaway max is just drawing a little frowny face in the margins every other paragraph basically 😞

#MAX MAYFIELD I LOVE YOU SO MU H #she has had the roughest life my god give her a BREAK #PLEASE #also in reading this my hatred for b*lly has been EVEN MORE solidified. like it was already rock fuckin solid before but good GOD #he is SO MUCH WORSE #i am once again baffled that people can look at him and think he has ANY desire to be better or change #this man has ZERO remorse for anything #and god the way max describes him SMILING and LAUGHING and looking positively DELIGHTED every time he is actively causing harm #SERIAL KILLER BEHAVIOR!!!!!!! #he does not want nor deserve a redemption arc #n e ways. enough about that rat bastard (derogatory) #max mayfield is SO GOOD and i am once again floored by how much i love her #runaway max #stranger things #max mayfield

[bitchesgate3]

mizora fans are the only safe side of the fandom for me

#from most safe to less safe #mizora tag i can enjoy evil woman and the occasional hate post #but she deserves that and it doesnt overrrun the tag #m*nthara tag is ok but some fans see her as more evil and more masc than i see her as #weird to me - cant relate #love Lae but the shadowzel hatef*cking ruined my engagement with other fans of hers #mystra tag i instafollow mystra-defenders #instablock mystra haters #literally on sight #because i read the whole post in the tag and i deserve compensation #mystra aint on the same level as c*zador #shes a pompous bitch who withholds blessings not a fcking p*mp/ tr*fficker #love shadowh*art but shes disrespected constantly and stripped of personality in the fandom to be: the woman #i dont follow the tags of the male characters anymore because the amount people will woobify them is legit unsafe #man puts a bomb in his chest because he couldnt take no for an answer #but people want to say “poor baby girl” the fuck? #man is just stupid and a tad scary #honestly sexy but i would be mystra 2.0 if i got with him #larian woobified ast*rion by removing the nuance on whether or not he deserved redemption #fandom performatively “likes” w*ll only when someone makes a big enough stink about him #i feel bad for actual fans because they love something that isnt actually there #his writing literally removes all agency for him #larian infantalized a grown ass black man to constantly be humiliated and removed the rightful anger he had in EA #i need people to admit that the writing is bad and IS racist and enables people to be racist in being dismissive with him #sometimes i do dip into the ast*rion tag tho because those artists know how to draw s*x with women #like those girlies have had s*x before and know what they want and they are so right for it #the wlw art in this fandom has no idea how s*x works #or its so male gazey and prnified it legit makes me squeemish

[daincrediblegg]

Truly devastating to want to jump into an AU for your canon x oc/si ship when you haven’t even scratched the surface of your main fic for them yet 😪

#lady terror/francis western au my beloved #with sufficient elements combined from ravenous deadwood red dead redemption and true detective #not to mention that fucking hozier song it will come back is fucking stuck in my head at all times #put me out of my misery man I can’t stand it #look I just want that sheriff crozier pining in a saloon #even going so far as to be taken upstairs by one of the girls there but stopping it all before it even starts bc he really needs *her* and #he knows it. pays up anyway and tips his hat respectfully as he goes #but he wouldn’t dare get his hopes up that a fine lady like miss sinclair would take up with an old cowboy like him #sofia didn’t and why should she she has so much ahead of her what with her exploits in her father’s business ventures #he’d just tie her down #except he’s wrong bc he’s shown himself capable of letting her be herself. trouser-wearing and all on their search for that band of outlaws #and suspected cannibals up in those mountains who have been pinning things on the natives that SHE knows and has befriended and wants to #protect from the law. and she’s damn crazy for putting the bounty out and for going along with him but SHE DOES #and she can take care of herself but neither does she want to be alone and she chose him #he’s one of the only people who sees that in her #I’m gonna go cry about it cranky frog style now ok goodnight everybody

[icharchivist]

So I'm finally getting to reading all the valentines stuff (for the chocos), and one of the new ones I got is Freezie. It has Tomoi and Freezie, and I thought it'd be really cute! I was very wrong. It was so sad and I thought there was a really sad angsty story to it, so I went to read it again but accidentally clicked the first one... wow the whiplash I got. Like, wow...

oh my gOD LMAOOOOO

see "i feel like i just read a fanfic with an amnesia tag that i didn't see" is actually exactly what happened and i'm not even kidding.

Clearing stuff out of the way first, no, Tomoi and Freezie aren't related at all. Similar designs, yeah, but not related.

Anyway you literally did miss a tag and it's this one:

Freezie's unit isn't a canon unit.

See, one thing that defines the Lowain Bros (ie, Lowain, Tomoi and Elsam), is that they have a really, really big imagination. There are a couple events as well as a couple units that are completely, and i really mean COMPLETELY, them making shit up for a laugh.

They make themselves the heroes of some crazy stories that absolutely make no sense whatsoever, and they roll with it, and some units push it as to make their fantasy playable. (another similar unit completely based on their fantasy is Lady Katapillar and Vira, a Water unit where Lowain imagines Vira going completely Mad Scientist by creating a robot of Katalina to destroy the world. It is how it is).

you'll find some events of the Lowain Bros doing this shit in the side stories, it's the event "Let's Hang!" "Table for Six" and "Walk on the Wild Side".

And it's worth noting that Tomoi has a massive crush on Freesia, who's one of the main antagonist of the Main Plot Storyline. Freesia is a no nonsense allowed woman who is ruthless and would destroy anything and anyone on her path. Tomoi has big heart eyes for her.

They also, never, canonically met.

Freezie's unit is based on Tomoi having an elaborate fantasy in his brain where Freesia, or rather, Freezie, as to distinguish her from the real Freesia, gets a redemption by hopelessly falling in love with hom. And as is , i do think to recall that in the fantasy, in order to offer her this redemption, there is an amnesia storyline.

So the storyline of the vday lines is that Tomoi is sharing with the Lowain Bros what he would imagine his imaginary relationship with Freezie would be like during vday, which includes her being lovey dovey, her being caught back by her past, her trying to leave him behind.

It's really nothing too serious in general, Tomoi is just like that.

.... but that is probably the wildest possible way for you to be introduced to the concept of the Lowain Bros's stupid AU, and in general the Fantasy tag on gbf.

The more you know?

#A lot of Fantasy chara aren't made up about the Lowain bros just to be clear #ex: Fantasy Sandalphon is just 'Sandalphon but before his redemption arc' #Fantasy Aoidos is 'Aoidos before he got Amnesia' #but then we have like Fantasy Lunalu which is 'Lunalu's self insert OC for her fanfic of this story she loves' #or Bowman who is huh. Ayer's alter. who ended up getting an unit of his own. #so! yknow! Fantasy! always beware the Fantasy tag and esp when the Lowain bros are around #the more you know! #ichareply #ichafantalks gbf #pandapillow

[perenlop]

mlp nextgen dynamic currently in my brain is that trixie and starlight are divorcebians who keep getting back together even though starlight is clearly pining for sunburst and trixie is just projecting her unresolved gay crush on twilight onto starlight and doesn't realize it yet. unfortunately they have a kid.

this is very much up to change though because i don't know what starlight is doing in my personal au at all

#side note i dont like how starlight gets treated in some nextgens but im also liiiiike....... i mean. i wouldnt make her a great mom either- #so i have no clue what to do with her sjdlkfjdslfjsdf i might not even put her with trixie. my thing is tho i want trixie to have a kid #she would have a kid named show stopper and be like ''this is my kid show stopper applaud for them right fucking now or die'' #and starlight is kindaaaa my best candidate for that but i also dont like the ship between them in canon #but also im changing starlight somehow in this au so she wouldnt do some of the more terrible things like sell her caravan #because im bringing back sunset in season 5 and shes gonna be the 7th character so where does that leave starlight #im so torn on starlight as a character because i dont want to be like ''she sucks bc she doesnt immediately become awesome'' #cause i like that shes still kinda toxic in season 6 i like that she fucks up and regresses sometimes i like redemptions that arent linear #its why i like discord in theory before he gets fucked up after season 4 #wait maybe i can make her discord's apprentice or something... would that be cool. would that be weird. is that anything #wait what if discord and starlight are divorced in this au

[ufolvr]

Look I'm a simple man. If the source material doesnt have an m/f couple i can weasel my way into, i do not want it

#hank and janet babyyy #im not talking about the comics dont. dont worry about it just d #ive been watching a bunch of avengers earths mightiest heroes and my god i want some of these guys. i need to chew on them #ah but they still did not manage to make tony appealing. sadly thats reserved for SHSS #i hope hank doesnt get That much worse in the show. i know about yellowjacket and i do not trust it #can we please please pleade have a pacifist whos adamant on redemption over punishment stay like that. please #please???? #i like that tony is the only one hes consistently at odds with and full of hate for #and janet is so cute. i wasnt sure abt her before bc she was so adamant abt being a hero and i Hoped her and hanks (early) #ideals would not clash. but shes so fun i love annoying women #ill get to the other idiots later just give me a moment #im using One oc for all of these bc marvel isnt important enough for me to make more than that #hes just very versatile #📡 incoming transmission 📡

[queerpotters]

I'e been fairly clear about the fact that I don't like Draco (I stand by this), but I will say his arc wouldve been far more coherent if he hadnt tried to actively capture Harry during the battle of Hogwarts. As it is, he made a few steps towards the beginning of what could be a redemption arc, and then ran 20 ft backwards, slapped someone on the head, and everyone reacted like he had taken steps forward. maddening.

Having him helping Harry would be out of character I think (even if you like him, you have to admit that Draco Malfoy's primary, most consistent and enduring trait is cowardice), but even that would work better than what happened

#jk r-on top of being an all around awful human being-is a horrible writer who would not know what makes a good redemption arc #if it shot her in the foot. and that is why snape and malfoy are Like That™. #related side note. theres honestly a pretty simple solution to the death eater problem with snape. #why not just have him have chosen to join the death eaters as a spy for dumbledore. #in the first place. #it doesnt fix all the problems with him (he still bullies children because of a childhood grudge) #but having him not willingly join a hate group does fix a damn lot. it doesnt even change shit. #sorry i dont care about these characters very much often but sometimes i do see the vague shadow of something nearly well written in them. #it is quite frustrating. to be honest. #not so fun fact in my recent reread of dh #did you remember that in the last sentence before the prologue #harry hopes his slave (kreacher) will make him a sandwich. what a great book series. #lyn.txt #draco #deathly hollows is such a mess rivaled only by books 3 (and arguably 6) #but at least poa is fun something dh rarely has going for it

[meteorwinged]

@thethirdseat || i offer to you bird words

Carefully, Meteion gathered Elpis blossoms between her hands, staring down at them on her lap. She didn’t–why?

“I don’t understand,” she said finally, voice low as she lifted her head to watch Lex and the others. “I don’t–how can they still hope? Even when there’s nothing left to hope for?”

#{you caught me in a moment of redemption; main verse} #thethirdseat #what if hades spent an extra like ten minutes just standing there with meteion while the wol and friends were prepping to go punch #her sisters in the face before he went back to being dead #she'll fly off after its fne

[viovio]

you ever feel so normal when people ask why amanda mercy-killed adam or go "SHES SO FUCKED FOR THAT" did im-gonna-free-you mean nothing?

#speak iza #BREAKING A TABLE AND ANOTHER ONE SHE KNOWS HOW FUCKED YOUR ENTIRE LIFE BECOMES AFTER A GAME!!!!! EVERYONE SHUT UP #it doesnt change you at least not the way johns philosophy claims it does. way before john even her worldviews been so cynical #that she views death as an escape/only redemption like we see her try so bad to help the nerve gas house party shes a good person but ouhhu #god. i love her and i love adam but people have to realize he played his part in the story already would LOVE for him to be alive #but theyre similar in that matter i love guys who are doomed. #lots of people point out amandas beartrap was the only test where she didnt have to physically hurt herself