#i did here lbr

[blindmagdalena]

really obsessed with soulmate au’s recently and it got me thinking… what if john’s soulmate was part of the boys? a girl trying to kill him with an entire group of people also trying to kill him… and he’s fated to her? could picture him finding out and just putting his hands on his hips while turning his back to her and doing that click chuckle thing. just in utter disbelief but it is definitely on track for fate’s little play with him and his life lolol

Oohhh, you know, I've never played much with the soulmate au concept, but this struck me just right because I can so clearly see the slow, building meltdown that strikes him when that reveal drops.

The mirthless laugh, shaking his head, the hapless gesture to the ceiling before his hands drop. "Of course. Of course it's you. Why wouldn't it be? I mean—Christ, it makes sense, doesn't it? Every single person who was supposed to love me has-has fucked it, so why—" he keeps cutting into this escalating, unsettling laughter. There's nothing funny about it: you're sure that you're watching someone lose the last shred of their sanity in real time. "Why would my 'soulmate'-", he says, miming big, dramatic quotation marks. "-be any different?" That manic grin has shifted into tight baring of his teeth, a vicious sneer. He closes in on you, stands so near you can feel the heat of his breath when he hisses, "I should put you in the fucking dirt with the rest of them."

It should be terrifying, but it's hard to focus on anything other than the glassiness of his eyes. The sheer devastating heartbreak of it all, telegraphed clear as day in the way he carries himself. His eyes flare red, sizzling up the tears before they can fall. "And then you really will be all alone," you say. Maybe it's the hopelessness of the moment, maybe it's the shock of learning for yourself that he's supposed to be your one and only, but you feel numb. Frayed in a way you didn't know you could be. The crimson light of his eyes disappears in an instant, revealing surprise, followed by a wounded kind of look, before that familiar seething rage returns. "We'll see about that."

#oh man i could get carried away with this real easy #i did here lbr #i guess it's up to the author just how connected soulmates are and how that kind of reveal happens #idk i'm a baby to the genre #but it would be very fun to write a situation where HL wants to strangle them just as much as he wants to snuggle up in their lap #they're at odds in every conceivable way but there is this soul deep pull to one another #coming to terms with the fact passion is the root of BOTH hatred and love #also the idea that HL was sincerely holding out hope all this time that his One Perfect Person was out there waiting for him wounds ME #only to be struck down by the realization that oh they ALSO want him dead #aaaaaaAAAAAAA #i'm sorry i'm so rambly today lmao thank you for the ask!!! i'm gonna have brain worms all day #darling anon #ask and you shall receive #homelander x reader #homelander x you #soulmate au #my writing

[andy-clutterbuck]

𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐲 - 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 | for @lovablcstar

#here ya go! #Andrew Lincoln #Simon Casey #Teachers #* #sc #A MESS™ #just A MESS™ #would have let him ghost me tho lbr #obligatory 'i would have put up with him too maggie' #F U Z Z Y #teachers did trash like no other #lips brought to you by Mattel #him in the afterglow drinking wine is forever my aesthetic #lets see if tumblr lets the gif of him adjusting the wedding vegetables go through

[yuridovewing]

im also kinda shocked at how many fans seem to think that mapleshade not going to the bridge was a deliberate stubborn and cruel choice when its most likely just…. a worldbuilding continuity error

#this was a team that hadnt worked with the old territories as much too #i think they read ‘’she tried to cross the river’’ and forgot there was a bridge at all #and like lbr- did YOU know the bridge was there before moonkitti ever pointed it out? bc i didnt #thats also how blue/oak did the kit transfer when the lake was frozen i belief. at least thats how its portrayed #in fan media #silvergray met there constantly. more ppl associate that with the border than a bridge #which like….. i dont know if it ever even shows up. if it does its very inconsequential #again theres the ‘’if i was orpheus i wouldnt turn around’’ element here too but lbr they forgot that bridge existed #these are the same people who cant keep the cast list straight

[slythereen]

max and lewis clapping for charles was cute, but i think it’s even more cute that they focused on him so much when they sprayed the champagne. like he was in third, which is the most “insignificant” place on the podium, yet max and lewis collectively made sure to drown tf out of charlie boy with champagne. he is just so loved <33333

really was just a charlie champaign bath up there which is so incredibly sweet and valid of them. like. now every time i think of the podium i'm like oh yeah, charles got cheered up by getting-boo'd-at champs (and literal champs lol) the first time he ever got boo'd (i think)??? sweet as hell.

AND THE LEWIS/MAX FRIENDSHIP... look friendship might be a strong word. but they are friendly more now and that's so precious to me. they can bond over their mutual pookie (charles)

#also i think max does respect lewis a lot and looked up to him in karting yaknow #he looks at him like 👀 all the time to see his reaction to his jokes #which lbr max does that to everyone but hes def not trying to play too cool to do it to lewis #babies. #sometimes baby is two men your own age and another man like a decade older than you #i had to go look that up btw #i did not know lewis was 38 #i thought he was like. idk. 32????? #it was truly really confusing to me when i first realized lewis is not part of the young generation #i was like wdym lewis and alonso are the same era #anyway #1644 you have rights here #charles leclerc #*oracles #max verstappen #lewis hamilton #mexico gp 2023

[saviourkingslut]

not to be about opera again but to be about opera again. as an art form it has the reputation of being super stuffy and something for snobs who don't know how to have fun only but honestly this was one of, perhaps even THE main theatrical entertainment for centuries. i wish people knew how hard these things can go and how engaging they can be. like characters kill and die and fight wars and (almost) commit human sacrifice left and right. characters fall in love they mourn they're ecstatic they cry they're furious it's an extremely dramatic and emotional art form! and i understand that opera does not appear approachable bc of the general conventions of the art form but i promise old works can be fun and engaging if you go watch them with some preparation beforehand (reading the libretto helps) - not to mention not all operas are old bc there are so many modern operas which engage with topical events! also the music slaps.

#le triomphe de trajan (1807) out here calling for a man's execution with this banger: #point de grace pour ce perfide; que tout sons sang coule sur un autel #(no grace for this treacherous man; let all his blood flow on an altar) #this is also annoying to me when people write historical fic and the characters treat the opera as this elitist thing #that they don't know anything about. #you know when they go to the opera reluctantly and then they have no idea what's going on on stage or who the composer is. #which is. very unlikely for anyone with the money to attend an opera in certain opera houses in the 19th c. tbqh #like im more of an expert on paris and vienna idk what it was like in london #but if you were decently (upper) middle class or nobility (esp in paris) you went regularly. this was like a whole social space too #i recently read a fanfic and one of the characters was like 'oh it's in italian. i don't know that' and the other character went like #'it's by a man called donizetti what did you expect' #(this was situated in 19th century london) #like first of all. donizetti was NOT a librettist he was a composer he did not write the text #and second of all. he worked on french operas ?? so did rossini. and spontini. #opera was an incredibly international art form. also bc productions would be performed in different countries all the time #(sometimes changed and/or translated but not necessarily) #and again like i said. this was one of THE main forms of entertainment. people were familiar with its conventions! it was well-liked! #ofc bc of the seating prices it was not very accessible to lower classes most of the time #but lbr most characters that get written into an opera scene in fiction are at the very least decently bourgeois lol #i wish people knew how to properly historicise forms of entertainment whose reputation has changed in the modern era #from what it was a century or more ago #very adjacent to people 'cancelling' old lit bc of 'bad takes' like idk how to tell you this but people thought different back then #completely different world view from what we have today. that does not make lit from that era irredeemable it is just from a diff. time #acknowledging that and reading the text critically but also still enjoying it are things that go tgt here #ok rant over (it is never over) #curry rambles

[icannotgetoverbirds]

god how the fuck do people go on diets, especially crash diets

i'm literally only forcing myself to be on a low-fat gluten-free diet out of medical necessity (the low-fat is temporary to prevent my gallbladder from sending me to the ER, the GF is permanent but due to a condition that makes me gluten intolerant) and it literally feels like a punishment, even though I know the worst of it is temporary and the rest is manageable otherwise with pleasant alternatives that might not be considered 'healthy' to people who do this shit on the regular to lose weight.

how fucked up on diet culture do you have to be to do this to yourself in an attempt to get a thinner body, especially when it doesn't even work 95% of the time? it's fucking miserable for me, how the fuck do they do it? i would ask how they do it without hating themselves but we already know the answer to that one. and like they can't even enjoy sugary or processed or 'unhealthy' food? how do you live like that?

#tw diet mention #tw weight loss mention #anti diet #anti diet culture #those tags may seem contradictory but remember i am only doing this out of medical necessity #and the medical necessity is not 'lose weight' it's 'keep your organs from fucking murdering you' #/nm that sounded way harsher than it needed to #byrd is fat #byrd chirps #body positivity #body positive #fat liberation #fat positivity #fat positive #fat acceptance #but yeah no i would literally rather have to deal with medical discrimination than eat like this for any significant amount of time #bc like. i already do anyways #it sucks shit but lbr here eating like this wouldn't solve the problem even if it did make me thin #it'd just make it not my problem at the cost of extensive misery if that #tw diet culture #diet culture

[kay-is-dying]

ah yes mommy knows best

#rhea ripley #here's the mommy clip for anyone and everyone who wants it #I would say this did irreparable damage to my brain but lbr there's so little brain left already & none of it is undamaged like I'm a goner #Like I lost half a hemisphere just seeing her the first time. The whole frontal lobe fried the first time she called herself papi. This? #Yeah the little bit that's left is cooked too like she's got my ass fr #the judgement day #wwe #monday night raw #wwe monday night raw

[todayisafridaynight]

Yayoi Dojima should've stayed Chairman. Sure there'd be no further games w/Tojo drama b/c they'd have gotten they're shit together but she deserves to kick their asses.

no but actually let that woman stay in charge !!!!!! LET HER COOK

#snap chats #yayoi if you gotta have daigo here at least make him like. idfk patriarch of the dojima family then fuck it #i just think yayoi wouldve been the best chair woman ever #no im not biased im right and my supporting argument is that she married sohei #ok she's resilient she's a soldier she's based #yakuza 3 conflict who ? dont know her see daigo wouldnt even have gotten shot #yall think yayoi woulda sold kiryu's land. 💀💀 #PART OF ME SAYS YES BUT PART OF ME IS LIKE 'does she respect kiryu enough not to do that or' 💀💀 #either way kiryus gonna start swinging #yakuza 4 conflict dont even exist if mine didnt neck himself. yayoi prob woulda told katsuragi to kick rocks #daigo too friendly that his problem yayoi knows how to throw hands and when not to #yakuza 5 plot its like. My Son's Missing Mine Find Him #mine has to drag daigo back to the tojo kicking and screaming #'no mine please i have to repay this debt to my high school classmate who barely remembers me :((((((' #mine's not having it daigo needs to get his priorities straight and now he's gonna hear it from him AND his mom #top ten cringe son moments #yakuza 6. tojo aint even involved in y6 lbr LMAOOOO #and yakuza 7. i mean that can go as it did thats like The One Time daigo did something smart #and i reckon yayoi prob woulda come to a similar conclusion as he did listen he had to get his smarts somewhere #no matter how limited they seem sometimes hes smart #i rambled too long jfc anyways Stan Yayoi

[bacoose]

its been so long since i've been in the rvb fandom that it always surprises me how many of y'all also rb the rvb stuff kajsdfgh I know a good chunk of you are from that time but still damn y'all watched rvb too?

#I did say like rvb at first #but lbr here...we're all begrudging fans

[dredshirtroberts]

Guess who earned a gold star (in the form of 3 total suckers hell yeahhhh) in not fainting at the doctor because they took my blood :D

#it was a close call lbr here #My favorite part of almost fainting is when everything sounds like it's coming through six layers of glass in order for me to hear it #btw that's a sarcastic favorite pretend i did air quotes around it #still got 3 suckers #i'm down to two now but i gotta have Real Food and also Water in order to fix it #i'm so sorry to my phlebotomist because i knew i was dehydrated going in there but didn't think it'd be that big of a deal #and she *was* able to get all of what she needed from me but yeah i am aware i was the problem here lmao #i did warn her first though at least xD #doctor's testing for all sorts of shit to make sure we knock out the easy answers #here's to hopin'

[essektheylyss]

As a person who has been wondering where that dunamis potion ended up literally since the moment it disappeared into Essek's less-than-reliable hands, I have one thing to say:

VINDICATIONNNNNNNN

#critical role #cr spoilers #yes i finished the episode yes i am metaphorically holding a gun to the heads of two beloved npc love interest alchemists #boys. what the FUCK did you expect here #I'm literally not kidding for the record I've BEEN FUCKING ASKING #unreal that no one ever followed up on it. also unreal that theres no way yeza and essek dont work together on alchemy bullshit on weekends #like there's NO way #lbr this is mostly Essek's fault but yeza. bby. you MADE the thing

[lisbonsteresa]

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#and it makes me HAPPY i feel insane #the way it was the thought of losing her that spurred him into action but not even losing her romantically just losing HER #just 'waking up knowing that he won't see her' #the threat of losing her romantically led him to pull the blue bird; the threat of losing HER led him here #and the here paid off; even if it wasn't romantic he finally said it; he was finally honest and 'you can't imagine how good that feels' #she outright rejects him and he's still so...happy isn't the best word but...at peace? settled? content? #he needed to get to this and once he did he couldn't keep it in anymore and he just keeps saying it and it's with this #wild sort of joy and excitement almost for the sheer fact that he CAN say it and how happy it makes him #(and then where does that leave lisbon though i have yet to finish the episode i'm suffering so much like WHAT a scene #he just said what part of her (most of her; all of her lbr) has wanted to hear from him for a LONG while and what does she do with it #i'm so worried but i'm still also riding the high of this scene that was so fucking EXCELLENT) #tm

[ssaalexblake]

it's funny bc, i was thinking about that letter baby peter capaldi wrote about wanting to be an actor to help the doctor when he got older, and how when he was the doctor they dug it up again.

Then I thought how, it's unlikely anybody born somewhere between like 85-95 would ever have that happen to them bc said sentiments would probably have been posted online when tweens or teens, and people born between said years were taught the dangers of the internet and would have been conscious of anonymity.

Then i thought how, people born after that in the years of facebook's normalisation campaign to have you put your whole name and face and personal details online means that we've probably sprung right back round to being able to dig up stuff said as children or teenagers and say it on tv.

I know i, on one of my 'you'd never know it was me bc i practiced internet safety' accounts, when i was 14, spoke about loving doctor who on the internet. Was probably obnoxiously 14 and sappy about it. Would bother me if it got out. Account still exists. I could become the next doctor and you'd never know, though.

#i know kids in those years sent stuff into magazines but. as one of those kids in those years. i was not a dw fan bc #it really wasn't On tv #and kids born in 85 even weren't gonna be old enough before it got axed lbr #even if it Was on #so why'd they be getting a magazine #idk i'm rambling but it's a complex salad of circumstances of it being off air and the ages of actual internet safety #my niece (10) is being taught internet safety as part of the basic curriculum now. #i suspect there will be a bit of another turn in trends once this generation gets a bit older #(when i say i could become the next doctor i mean in an au where i don't hate acting and actually did that thing and tried to become #one of the 28 actors we have here in britain) #.. basically i think statistically it'd be far less likely they'd dig anything up on Gatwa who was also born in said internet safety era #not impossible. but far less likely.

[izloveshorses]

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#i did it i did it i did it #i made another purchase for myself #an irresponsible one asdhklf #but besties i am gonna look at derek in the flesh again and. no one is gonna stop me #all month i've been circling around in my house like 'might book a flight to nyc. someone tell me no. someone stop me <3' #and no one did ahskjldf #so ! #here we are #i'm trying to justify it by planning meetings and stuff for my Career™ but lbr #we are sad and watching the mans be a little slutty will make us smile a bit #and not to mention my museum adventures <3333 #personal #tbd

[aeide-thea]

[witcherposting ahead—nb that this is all totally lighthearted and it's fine if you feel differently!]

anyway what i'd started to say before tumblr ate my post was that like. disclaimer that my approach to netflix witcher canon is that i fully reserve the right to cherrypick, because some of the changes they made were good but others were character assassination, and that obviously i get that if one isn't cherrypicking one does have to actually Grapple With Certain Things 🏔

but like. that said—the more 'Geralt Must Grovel for Weeks and Probably Scourge Himself, Look at What He Did to Poor Sad-Eyed Woobie Jaskier' fics i read the more i'm fucking grateful for the tiny handful where jaskier's just been like, yeah, i never bought that bullshit tbh, he was lashing out and he owes me an apology for sure but a single angry outburst does not in fact scupper an extremely well-established relationship of literally twenty years' standing in one fell swoop???

like i just. idk. imagine remembering that jaskier's a cheery irrepressible little shit and not actually as crushably low on self-esteem as all of us are. of course that would probably require *netflix* to have remembered that, so, you know, no actual shade to anyone who's been projecting that onto him! but just like. idk. they're obviously not siblings but they honestly do have that vibe in certain ways and it's just like. did you never say something overdramatic and shitty in the heat of a fight with yr sibling growing up and then after taking a bit of a breather just like. make a rueful face and apologize for yr respective roles in winding each other up and move tf on, without having, like, a whole extended OTT reparations process where you tell them repeatedly how perfect and sinless they are and how you know you're a miserable worm who doesn't remotely deserve their sunshiny presence in your life but would be so grateful if they could, possibly, somehow, see their way to forgiving you despite yr essential unworthiness—

#anyway. i think there are like. MAYBE like three of you reading this blog who give a shit abt this fandom‚ lol #so i'm mostly just talking out loud to myself here‚ which is fine‚ what's a perblog for if not that #but it's just like. yeah on the one hand you don't just get to yell at people without apologizing at all #on the other hand like. some relationships are strong and elastic enough that one (1) snip is not going to cut them #even a vicious one! #also like. jaskier DID handle that convo clumsily lbr. like. obviously geralt was not Justified but. #if i'd just had a vicious breakup and somebody came bumbling in making loud awkward small talk about it? jesus. #anyway. really ultimately this is just a 'have consumed much too much witcher fic and the Patterns are starting 2 irk me' thing #but it's just like. sometimes things are conflict between two imperfect people #and not a Good Woobie and a Sinful Meanie #anyway. time 2 go reread Sekrit Mutual's fic in which they actually keep in mind the fact that jaskier is a selfish gremlin #who despite himself really does love geralt and as a result is like. constantly torn between his nature and his urge to do right by geralt #but like. fundamentally he's a buffoon and a popinjay who yaps aggressively and then runs back behind geralt's legs #and joey batey leaning into his Soulful and Romantic side (that he does also have) doesn't actually erase that about him‚ nor should it! #anyway. this post is careening all over the place but i think it's just like. exactly the same weird terfish moral binary #that ppl have been talking abt with like. gender and kink and a whole range of things #where like. you always have Victims and Perpetrators #and so jaskier has to be like. the femme bottom victim which makes geralt the macho perpetrator totally undeserving of sympathy #and it's like. actually they're both imperfect people and neither one fits very well into their society's idea of what a man is #and what if we actually examined them as individuals rather than tropes and also remembered yennefer was fierce and interesting #and what if ciri weren't‚ like‚ a manhattan private school girl with her brows done while we were at it #getting a little overambitious with my wishlist there though i know

[greedbent]

no listen you guys you have no idea how hard it is to resist also writing wylan here bc

#〣♚{ ooc } #bc what? you might ask #bc nothing it needs no explanation #big scary crow man and his fluffy criminal-in-training ?? we get both flavors #and both flavors are delicious #i feel like wy would be my “i'm so sorry about him--” character #that is desperately needed lbr #me 🤝 wylan out here apologizing for this dramatic bitch every time he opens his mouth #i love the crows sm i just am not satisfied no matter how much i get of them #cut to me writing the entire gang at this rate wakemeup #consider this: a complimentary wylan van sunshine for everyone who has had to deal with kaz #it's a prize for putting up with this bastard :| #in all seriousness tho if i ever did exercise the option he'd be a sideblog to this one so nothing MAJOR but #steeples fingers and stares vacantly