#i do not know how to be brief

[heliumcake]

a little hopeful. And that would hurt him so much, because even if he still doesn’t think Mike could love him back, there would be that ‘but what if’ that can drive you crazy. so besides him fixing Mike and El’s relationship because he loves them, he wants them to be happy and he thinks this is what they want, I wonder if he might see it as a safety net, too, because, like he said, sometimes it’s better to know for sure it can’t happen, instead of hoping and getting hurt again and again (2/2)

yeah i think you are right, and you make a really good point about will not wanting to get his hopes up. like i think what’s happening is that will has been scared of losing mike for a while now, but every time he loses him he can’t help but to remain a little hopeful.

it starts in s3 when mike stops hanging out with the party too much and is always worried about el and completely focused on her. will gets jealous, but still trusts that things can go back to the way they were, that his relationship with mike would too (he also believes mike holds the party together. if mike’s not there, everything falls apart). so he keeps insisting that they play dnd until they have that fight and he realizes mike is “growing up”, that they are growing apart, and that no matter how much he might want to, he can’t stop it.

then they move to cali. even though will is still scared he lost him and is that same fear that doesn’t let him reach out, he hopes that there’s still a chance. he can’t give up on mike. so he makes a painting for him and waits for him excitedly at the airport. and then mike gets there and completely ignores him. i believe will doesn’t know mike has gone back to playing dnd and that he’s changed (or rather that he decided he didn’t want to or had to change, “grow up”, so he embraced his interests and identity as a “freak”). as far as he knows mike is still the same way he was in s3. so he loses that hope again, only to get it back when they have the heart to heart, which is why will decides to take the painting with him.

i think at some point during the trip and seeing that mike still worried about el and their relationship and nothing seemed to have really changed will probably decided that he couldn’t keep getting his hopes up like this anymore. i don’t think he ever believed he would like stand a chance romantically? but more like he wishes and hopes things could go back to how they used to when it was just the original party. from his perspective it probably looks as if mike just completely moved on from all that and from him though, and the fact that he doesn’t really know what happened during his fight with el helps in supporting this theory. truth is, will doesn’t know much about what goes on in mike’s and el’s relationship at all. he truly believes they love each other. and because will does still care about mike and cares about el, when he decides to give him that painting he’s giving up on whatever hope he had left for good. because he thinks his feelings can only get to mike if they came from el. like he’s scared mike might not appreciate it otherwise.

#i had to type this whole thing twice i hate tumblr sometimes #but yeah i didn’t mean to make it this long either #i do not know how to be brief #byler #will byers #ask

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Assisting Acquaintance Acquired.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen ning #wei wuxian #Ignore how Wen Ning's hair looks here because I messed it up. Let's pretend he just sported a different hair style for a brief moment. #I am not exactly great at consistency but I am trying very hard to work on that (immediately messes up again). #Absolutely *love* how Wen Ning clearly remembers and admires WWX...who does *not* recognize him. #This is the best day for Wen Ning and it means *nothing* to WWX. A painful one-sided crush made worse. #It is bittersweet to realize that we care about someone more than they care about us. Sometime we pour love into a relationship- #-with someone who just can't reciprocate. It isn't always a conscious things either. Some people just aren't aware we care. #And painfully - so painfully - You can't make them aware. No act of kindness or gift or self sacrifice will make someone care about you. #You can martyr yourself for someone and they will continue on unchanged. #I think a lot about the parallels between WN and LWJ. Not foils - just reflections. A theme repeated. #People who give so much of themselves to someone who doesn't have the capacity to give any part of themself away. #I will die on the hill of 'Wen Ning would be the love triangle romance if that trope wasn't being avoided'. #And to be honest - thank the stars above that is the case. I do not know any good love triangles in media. #We are skipping some of the sad Jiang Cheng content because I really want to finish season 2 before May. #Sorry JC emo moment lovers...I'll deliver another time.

[thatmightyheart]

caught ice-cream-nosed

(inspired by yusuke's p5s title menu animation LOL:

#persona 5 #shukita #persona 5 scramble #amamiya ren #kitagawa yusuke #p5s #kurusu akira #you may or may not know. i've been on a brief power trip gif-ing whatever catches my eye now that i've finally learned how to HAHA #to be clear i don't believe half the things i draw yusuke doing are '''in character''' per se #but they usually do make ME laugh. to myself. alone at my laptop #long post //

[muzzleroars]

violence, round one: the violent against neighbors (meet your maker)

#ultrakill #v1 #JUST an idea i've been kicking around for a minute #like. everyone is in hell #and so v1's creators must be in there somewhere too #all they can both do is share a brief moment of recognition though #the husks too far gone and v1's memory too corrupted #and then it kills them. and they're proud. #look at how far it's come. and think of how far it will go. fuck it up little guy lol #they built it and they could never know just how successful it could be #doodle tag #body horror cw #I KNOW they look like gummy bacon but still!!!!!! #(the binary around the halo just spells the same luke verse)

[kylejsugarman]

the fact that jane died there in the middle of the night is so fucking haunting to me. like beyond just the sheer sickening horror of watching her choke and struggle to breathe and eventually die stranded on her back while walt literally fucking stands there, watching her, fully equipped to help her and choosing not to, it’s the fact that she stays there. all night. going cold and rigid next to jesse, who’s none the wiser. maybe he resurfaced a few times from the heroin daze and hazily registered her presence next to him, her foot skirting against his, her hair draped across the pillow, and felt better before sinking down again. for a few hours, it was so quiet and peaceful. she might’ve even been sleeping if not for the chyme ringing her lips and the fishy coldness of her open eyes. she was drugged up and sleeping, but she was probably still afraid when it happened. she was all alone. that bullet-wound of a fact is so haunting, it’s no wonder that it totally breaks jesse. he left her alone, at least in his mind, alone in the dark. as john irving so succinctly put it, “tom woke up but tim did not.” jesse woke up but jane did not.

#syd squeaks #can u tell im having. A Moment #breaking bad #ask to tag #the brief period of time where they are dead but u dont know it yet is. how do I put this. the closest to hell u can get on earth #jesse pinkman #jane margolis #sorry for not being normal about this part of the show it will definitely happen again

[jesuis-snips]

LIES: Palestine is murdering civilians.

TRUTH: Palestine is expelling occupiers.

LIES: Palestine is attacking Israel.

TRUTH: Palestine is standing upon its rights in its own lands.

LIES: Hamas is giving Israel reasons to attack them.

TRUTH: Israel has already been attacking Palestinians without a reason for years. Every resistance counts and weakens Israel.

LIES: Israel is the victim.

TRUTH: Israel is suffering for its sins for the innocent children they have killed.

#free palestine #palestine #and here we are seeing hypocrite peoples posts and how Palestinians are wrong and terrorists #do you even know what you are talking about do you even know the history of these lands #i am sure that you don't bc if you did you wouldn't even dare to open your dirty mouth #it is very tragic how the whole world was playin 3 monkeys when israel was attacking and bombing and killing and raping Palestinians #none of you gave a shit #none of you said a word #ever since i know myself there was pain and blood and tears in Palestine #and the couse was always isarael #ever since i was a kid i protested israel in meetings and press briefings #i have seen the pain of my muslim sisters and brothers i have heard their screams for help #and now this shameless people coming here and saying Palestinians are wrong and they should have picked a more peaceful methods #hah don't make me laugh #what peace are you talking about #whose peace would be a better question actually #why is it okay when muslims are hurting and wrong when others are???? #there is hell for israel #it is the only place they can go after all #the bottom of the hell

[charcubed]

I NEEEED people—especially those with unfathomably large platforms???—to start doing just a tiny bit of internal evaluation before they log onto a blue website and say “I don’t want these queer characters to fuck in canon” or “I’d be fine if these characters never kissed again” or whatever.

This is a post about Good Omens and the prospect of Aziraphale and Crowley potentially having sex in season 3. It's a response to a tweet that I'm crossposting, but let it be known the above statement and this topic applies broadly across multiple fandoms too.

But anyway, in regards to Good Omens specifically:

I am seeing this take that essentially boils down to "Canon has now made it clear that these characters want to have sex with each other through subtext (i.e. Aziraphale and the ox), but I don’t want that to reach narrative completion because the idea of them having sex makes me uncomfortable or isn’t my personal preference” and it is, to put it mildly and delicately, A Very Bad Take.

This is rhetorical (and I do not expect or particularly want an answer), but: explain to me how and why queer characters who are unavoidably visibly queer (aka 2 "man-shaped beings") fucking on screen wouldn’t be a net positive, especially when you can indicate how canon has set it up.

Presumably, some people say things like this because ~they want to see them as visibly ace.~ Okay. But by some of these people’s own admission, there IS more evidence in canon now to indicate these characters crave sex with each other (vs arguing otherwise)... yet people would rather that be ignored/erased all for the sake of them feeling comfortable or feeling better about what canon shows or doesn’t show explicitly??

I’m sorry, but—speaking as an ace person, to be clear—your personal preferences for the story shouldn’t / don’t affect anything here. There’s too much in this.

Yeah, I understand on a personal level not having “representation.” I almost never see myself or my unique experiences and identity reflected in stories. And yet, I also understand that that doesn’t change any story or the world in which we live. Things like this are not said in a vacuum.

Any queer characters having sex on screen IS a net positive. It is rare and impactful, and openly calling for or hoping for otherwise when canon points to its potential is a detrimental alliance with purity culture, whether intentionally or accidentally. Because we live in a Goddamn society!

Who knows (other than Neil Gaiman) whether Aziraphale and Crowley ARE going to fuck on international TV. None of us do! But the subtext right now blatantly says they’re starving for it. And you don’t have to like the prospect of that, but honestly? We SHOULD get to see it play out. There’s no truly legitimate reason we shouldn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Whether you "prefer" it or not.

And my ultimate hot take is… if someone balks at the idea of that or doesn’t understand the importance of it, despite even seeing the subtext… then they should perhaps unpack that? Just a thought.

Truly the way fandoms are managing to hit either “subtext doesn’t count :/ ” or “let’s keep it to subtext so it’s ‘open to interpretation’ :) ” nowadays depending on what corner one visits is MADDENING. Whiplash-inducing. Surreal. And so much nonsense you can’t pick where to start.

So! I do genuinely hope I'm not kicking off discourse but I felt this Needed To Be Said (and on more than one site). Because posts like “even if they never kiss again, we’ve won <3 “ make me want to be like…

These characters are YEARNING. Do not doom them and us to it. For once, we can reach for the stars and maybe–against all odds–pull them down. Embrace it!

---

[Update: after more discourse has occurred, I have somewhat elaborated on this further, from the POV of the significance of the queer themes in Good Omens and more specifically how they center illicit pleasure/desire]

#good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens season 3 #neil gaiman #aziracrow #ineffeble husbands #I'm OVER ITTTT. #this is the delicate version of this rant. trust me. I tried to keep it chill for the sake of posting on main #char writes things #PS adding some brief tags now that the discourse has Escalated: #Mr Gaiman can be pedantic on the internet and pretend by omission he's never heard of subtext all he wants. #it's not what his story is saying and I do actually think he DOES know how to do stories. so. love & light to whatever his deal is. #(what I mean: do not come into my house & try to say 'neil said the ox scene isn't sexual.' inaccurate + that's a whole suitcase to unpack) #(I have now written about All That at length elsewhere with exasperation but it doesn't need to be linked in this post lol.)

[clowndotgay]

got a couple asks for another graham + flint render the last week so consider those fulfilled thumbs up emoji. i imagine the lit team card (if it were to be real) would be a silly yugioh exodia type deal, the card is split into 4 (i made sure the card design would work when cut up like that) so each card would be one member of the team. i guess you get to play the OCLO if you play them all. [pulls out a ringing flip phone from my pocket] hang on, my agent is trying to tell me something. uh huh? these are trading cards? not playing cards? you couldn't "play" an OCLO? okay

#toontown #ttcc #firestarter #pacesetter #graham ness payser #flint bonpyre #Dude i dont know how to tag this one. Whatever... #skelecogs #prr #winston byrd #the whole lit team i guess??? #i dont know if its obvious but i have never fought the lit team. or the regular CLO. but i want to. very Very Very bad #kilo kidd #mundie mudsnapper #courtney case #barry brief #litigation team #sorry for tagging their legal names its just what i prefer doing #cdg render

[blinkpen]

#i could have worded it even worse but i wanted SOME hyperbole and amusement factor #and you have to be brief obviously #zoetrope #its more like ripping random creatures from other dimensions and Immediately just throwing them out to cause havok #because the pain and suffering caused delights it #suffering from whatever the Agent does and when the Agent itself gets inevitably and brutally slain bc Agents don't get the rez #some are malicious but half the time the Agent monsters know even Less about what the fucks happening than the native mantledwellers #some are just doing what is natural to them and it is how do we say Less Than Congruent with conventional reality #[necrin voice] this is great i love this sh... what the fuck is that little dragon doing. he fuckin around? better make sure he finds ou- #[gets hit in the head with a frying pan by a lesbian covered in spikes]

[bumblingbabooshka]

Chakotay being a person who (while of course being willing to follow orders to a point) ultimately puts what's morally right and wrong in his eyes over Starfleet protocol while Tuvok is shown to be a person who will follow Starfleet protocol (and more accurately Janeway's word) over what he personally thinks is right is something that could have been so interesting if the three of them were actually shown as a triumvirate instead of it usually being Janeway-Chakotay and even then mostly just Janeway.

It would be an opportunity to explore more about the Maquis v Starfleet dynamic, about how Chakotay & Janeway's different leadership styles work and don't work with this new crew and with different people, to interrogate what exactly Voyager should look like - to incorporate more leniency and Maquis tactics into its operation so that they really do become a blended ship instead of the Maquis simply becoming subsumed into Starfleet. It'd also give more opportunities to let all three characters shine and introduce more moral quandaries that they can have differing ideas about and how does that affect them? At one point Tuvok is willing to go against Janeway's orders because she wants to do something but can't due to Starfleet protocol. In another episode he also follows Janeway's orders to assist in killing an entire ship of people despite that being against both Starfleet protocol and certain moral standards because she feels strongly that they should. He protests this but once she rebukes him he doesn't object again or attempt to stop her (like Chakotay - though they both know at that point that she's crossing lines). This sort of implies to me that he's much more loyal to Janeway herself than he is to Starfleet as a concept. Meanwhile Janeway is shown to be staunchly and strictly Starfleet - adopting the code AS her moral compass a lot of the time. She sometimes has to go off-script due to the nature of their situation but most of her decisions are made depending on how Starfleet would feel about it. If she wants to do something but Starfleet would disagree, she rarely if ever questions Starfleet protocol and instead will go with what it says is best even if it's painful on a personal level. She also tells Tuvok in the episode aforementioned that he is "Her advisor, her moral compass" and having a moral compass/advisor that's either a bunch of rules written by the space government or a person who is mostly just going to agree with you no matter what they actually think and not challenge you if you rebuke them isn't the best idea. Enter Chakotay. Chakotay's willingness to disagree with Janeway and not back down is something I wish had been shown more. When he says "I don't care about logs or reports or whatever - I care about person to person shit. I care about what's right and what you're doing is wrong." it's something that could be so interesting and so necessary when contrasted with the other two. A good example is of course 'Equinox' but also 'Manuevers' where he goes off against literally everyone's orders and friendly advice because he feels responsible. And that's important - he's doing it because he feels responsible. That's different from Tuvok (who doesn't feel) and Janeway (who would most likely try to find comfort in protocol) - because Chakotay feels he's responsible and that he needs to protect the crew since he (in his eyes) is the one who put them in danger. He's a person who's shown to be willing to go against everything anyone says in order to do what he feels is right if the wrong is too great to allow. Voyager if these three were actually allowed to argue and be equals and figure out how to work together as sort of a microcosm of how this new blended crew is going to be able to fight and work and band together.

#st voyager #Chakotay #Janeway #Tuvok #bea actually wrote a long rambling post instead of rambling in the tags of a deceptively short post???? My God..... #Tuvok is NOT a guy who's gonna ask the hard questions...Chakotay IS!!! #I can see how Tuvok was more effective as an advisor in the alpha quadrant - I see it my mind's eye #All he would have to do really is prod at Janeway and remind her of protocol or tell a brief story and she'd be like -sigh- you always know #what to say old friend <3 but in the DELTA quadrant???? #He's literally just as out of his depth as Janeway is and obviously becoming less preoccupied with actual protocol and more loyal #to her herself <- Another interesting concept!! & understandable. What's the logic (one might ask) of following Starfleet protocol #to the letter? Starfleet isn't around. I honestly don't think Tuvok would be following it if Janeway didn't put so much stock in it. #BUT Janeway's around. (His friend) The Captain's around so he'll follow HER and if SHE'S following Starfleet then he will.

[glimblshanks]

The thing about TNG is that the space aliens and moral quandaries are always like, the least insane part of the episode

#star trek tng #star trek #tng #watching Loud As A Whisper right now #because I wanted to know more about sign language in the Star Trek universe #and anyways I'm only 15 minutes in and I have notes #1) Picard saying 'cluck cluck cluck' to Riker was so ??? #broski who talks that way #2) your mission is to pick up and shuttle an incredibly important diplomat #and you're telling me the mission briefing didn't include the fact that he was deaf??? #3) I absolutely don't believe that Riva is some exceptionally talented peace negotiator #because every interaction he has with another person makes me want to punch him in the face #4) His initial interaction with Geordie is like... some abled persons weird fantasy of how disabled people interact with each other #You're telling me this guy is deaf. has deaf parents. and still reacts to other peoples disabilities like they're brand new? #5) The Universal Translator Isn't Universal If It Doesn't Translate Sign Languages #6) Why does Picard act like he's never met a deaf person before??? Do they not have deaf humans in the future?? #anyways I understand that this was probably a pretty progressive episode for it's time #but it ages weird #like the world building seems very poorly thought through

[crocswithoutsocks]

I've been having major ttcc brainrot (i am literally incapable of thinking about anything else) so here's my toon. His name is Sir Biscuit Weaselchomp and I will protect him with my life.

#toontown corporate clash #ttcc #ttcc oc #my art #toontown #I've never used tumblr before am i doing this right? #on that note welcome to my blog! #im not briefed on tumblr etiquette so if i do/say anything bad let me know so i can get my act together #if you see me in toontown come say hi! #i might not respond though I'm bad at social interaction #oh no im rambling now #when i figure out how to shade properly i'll be unstoppable #as long as ive also figured out anatomy colour theory how to draw backgrounds what line weight to use you know all those minor things

[therizino-ao3]

Hermit Horror Week 2023

Day two: Environment

Summary: xB wants to support his friend, but there’s something about his base that feels wrong. He can’t bring himself to leave, no matter how much he knows he should.

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Contains: unreliable narrator, a character being non-consensually drugged (implied + in a magical way), loss of free will (strongly implied), panic attacks, fairy folklore, suffocation mention, weird time shenanigans

“So dude, have you seen my base yet?”

xB looks up from the diamonds he’d been counting, “Hmm? No, I haven’t. You’re doing like, mushrooms or something, right?” So far, his and Hypno’s business has been doing great. They’ve been getting quite a few sales lately, to say nothing of the IOU collection they’re racking up. They’re making bank.

“Yep! Like a mushroom forest, mystical land kinda thing,” Hypno takes the diamonds xB hands him, “You should totally see it! I’ve finished the main mushroom and a bunch of decoration around the place, it looks so cool.”

“I’ll take your word for it. I’m happy to head over now, if you want?”

They head over there by foot, instead of by elytra. It’s… a little weird, but xB doesn’t mind, he thinks Hypno wants to show off the custom lamps he’s made for the path. It’s quite atmospheric, he’ll admit, with the towering dark oaks letting only small puddles of sunshine hit the ground, and the glowing fungi beckoning them forward. It’s magical.

They seem to walk for ages, wandering down the twisting path. At one point, xB turns around, just to see what’s behind them. There’s nothing. It’s pure black, no sign of the pretty little lamps they just passed. xB swivels back to Hypno, about to voice his concerns, but Hypno starts talking about dye farms and making concrete and xB just kind of forgets about it. It’s not too much of a concern, anyway. The further in they go, the more xB realises how safe it is. Like, initially he was super concerned of a creeper crawling out from the forest, with how dark it was outside the path, but he actually hasn’t seen a single creature other than them. He can’t even hear the birds sing here. Hypno must have done some mad mob-proofing.

Eventually, the trees open out and he looks at Hypno’s hard work and instantly his stomach drops. His mind is screaming at him to get out. He needs to leave. His heart is thundering. His eyes squeeze closed. Then, he feels Hypno’s comforting hand on his shoulder and it’s all okay. He blinks a little and looks up at his friend.

“Is everything alright xB?” he’s frowning.

“Yeah, I’m just- I felt on the verge of a panic attack for a second there but, now it’s all gone,” his face feels a bit wet, is he crying?

“Are you sure? We can go back if you’d like, I don’t want to continue if you’re hurt,” Hypno looks concerned.

“No, no, it’s all fine. It might be like, hay fever from all these mushroom spores,” he says. As he says it, he knows it makes absolutely no sense, but he wants Hypno to stop worrying.

“Alright,” Hypno seems to buy it, his tone becoming more playful, “You know, you can just admit you’re jealous of how cool my base is, xB!”

“I am not jealous, we all know, out of the two of us, I got the cooler base. M’kay?” he smiles, feeling a bit better. They’ve crossed over a barrier of tiny mushrooms in front of the path, seeming to circle around the whole area. Inside, there’s a field of beautiful light green grass, home to all sorts of fungi Hypno’s been cultivating. They’re mainly red and white, with some brown, but they’re in all sorts of different shapes and sizes. Throughout the area, there are fairy lights and lanterns and fireflies and they all glow in the darkening dusk sky. When they left Horse Head Farms, it was mid-morning, xB remembers. It’s funny how fast time passes.

Most of the mushrooms seem decorative, but the larger ones have been made into buildings. There are cute little doors carved into the trunks and signs that say things like “Storage” or “Farms”. One particularly thick and pretty mushroom has been decorated a lot, he assumes it must have been Hypno’s starter base.

“I can’t believe you’re living in Smurf village, dude,” xB giggles.

Hypno punches his arm, “This is not a Smurf village! It’s a fairy realm. Get it right, xB.”

xB’s mouth feels dry. He knows that word. Fairy. Right now, he can’t think of what it means. He nods. He looks at the giant mushroom in the centre of the base.

It’s obviously the centrepiece, towering over every other mushroom. It’s incredibly beautiful. Hypno leads them to the front entrance. xB feels sick looking up at the gills of the mushroom. He can almost imagine the microscopic spores floating down, filling their mouths, suffocating them. Spore particles would probably be good to add, the movement would make the build more dynamic. He’ll tell Hypno later. Hypno drags xB into his home. The wooden staircase looks very nice, Hypno’s done a pretty good job on the spiral. They run up it together. The air smells sweet, almost sickly. After a very short tour, they come back outside - Hypno hasn’t finished the interiors yet. He’s surprised he was allowed to leave, he thought Hypno would trap him there forever, not that he’d mind.

Hypno is looking at him, “So what do you think of my base, xB?”

xB thinks. He thinks about the amazing lights and the vibrant colours and the magical aura. He thinks about Hypno, who’s one of his best friends, who has worked so hard on this base, who xB would do anything he asks him to do. That’s weird, he’s able to realise. He likes Hypno but Hypno is also sometimes very annoying, and other times, xB just likes to mess with him. He wouldn’t do everything Hypno wants. He thinks about all the people willingly signing their IOUs. Is xB willingly answering Hypno’s question? Not that he has any choice, he has to answer it regardless. He wonders if Hypno’s human. He always assumed he was, not having any visible non-human traits, but sometimes the signs are more subtle. He’s thinking too hard.

“Hmm, it’s alright,” he says, “My base is still better.”

#i'm sick so sorry if this one is a lil worse than usual #i know the prose is weird anyway lol #xb (under hypno's control): i am still better than you #i had so many ideas of different bases I could do for this one #but I decided Hypno S8 because I never see anyone talk about how he lived in a mushroom base the same season he stole souls #cmon... the potential #hermithorrorweek2023 #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fic #fanfic #xbcrafted #hypnotizd #horse head farms #unreliable narrators #panic attack #brief but I'm tagging it #therizino writes

[allonzy]

the gang is getting ready to fight vecna in season 5 and nancy is loading her guns and will just casually asks her to pass him one too and while jonathan is not surprised (because he was there when lonnie was forcing them to learn), mike just freaks out.

i would pay to see that, seriously.

#imagine mike being all #WILL WHAT THE HELL AND NANCY YOURE SUPPOSED TO TAKE CARE OF US NOT HAND HIM THE GUN WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU #ONLY FOR WILL TO TAKE A PERFECT AIM AT SOMETHING NEAR THEM TO PROVE HIS POINT #AND MIKE STANDS THERE GOBSMACKED #AND HE STARTS LOSING IT AND GOING #HOLY SHIT YOU KNOW HOW TO FIRE A GUN WHAT ELSE DO I NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU WILL WHAT MORE ARE YOU HIDING FROM ME #and the shot lingers on will for a brief moment bc duh he's hiding his feelings and sexuality from him #but now is NOT the time #and nancy and will ask mike to get behind them #all of this happens before will's powers are revealed ofc because once you have powers who needs guns am i right ;) #byler #stranger things #st5 #nancy wheeler #mike wheeler #will byers

[o-wyrmlight]

I'm having way too much with this chapter that I was struggling on just yesterday. What the fuck. Holy fuck. This is what happens when I read a fanfic with a great narrative voice that I adore. I just start going off, I guess. This means Kim's going to be very inwardly opinionated and vocal in Chapter 6.

Anyway whoo Chapter 6 preview for A Toast To The Pigs, a fanfic where Harry didn't lose his memory in Martinaise and still has to solve the case. This preview skips the next chapter:

“…I lost you there, didn’t I?” Harrier asked, sounding disappointed. “Somewhere at the end.” Kim lifted his eyes from his notebook. He stopped flicking his pen in his fingers to push his glasses back up from where they were sliding. Harrier was watching Joyce Messier, a brow raised and a half-crooked grin plastered on his face. Some offshoot of that odd expression of his. Joyce Messier smiled apologetically, shaking her head. Ah. Joyce Leyton-Messier. Kim had almost forgotten entirely that she was there. She really was committed to just listening to his theories and not sharing anything. What was it again that spurred Harrier to share absolutely everything about his theories right here? Rather than somewhere he and Kim could go over in private? Wasn’t this supposed to be confidential? These were just theories. Perhaps it didn’t matter. Perhaps it was another can-opening. All right, big man. Wet dog. Can-open away.

#disco elysium #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #wyrm writes #a toast to the pigs #so far this chapter is now at 10k+ words #depending on how much longer i'll spend on joyce i might split the end of chapter 6 into chapter 7 #because i want to do an hdb chapter summary with joyce and the subject of like #the end of what i currently have of chapter 6 #(each chapter summary is a brief 2nd person hdb pov) #shit's subject to change you know. this is first draft shit. lookit them go #anyway this is fun. they're having fun. I'M having fun. kim's excited. can you tell #did you know on desktop you can drag and drop the tags that you wrote #i didn't know that!!! i just found that out!!! by trying it out!!! so cool

[segernatural]

what is castiel's greatest regret?

link to panel is here, timestamp: 20:54, images below cut

when he was god he could've fixed the world but failed to

'he harboured his feelings for 10 years without actually sharing them, and waited until he was about to die to share his affections'

he never really patched things up with his angel brethren in heaven

he never actually felt like he belonged on earth

(likely connected to above but) he had very few friends

he had a very, very limited wardrobe

as cas looks back on his life, it's probably nothing but one giant sweep of regret

misha did book-end it with:

"Well, I think, in the big picture, Cas... the thing that I like about that character is that he always tried to do the right thing, always tried to do what he thought was good and righteous. And sometimes he made mistakes, but that was always his North Star, and I quite like that about him."

#this went in several directions. but it is very interesting to think about. #i use a destiel lens bc i often do #but its really something. to think about cas regretting not saying something sooner. and i think its a testament to how the confession went #because there were very legitimate reasons for cas not to say anything. but now. after. after the dust settles after the words are out. #after he sees dean hear it. he wishes he said it sooner. #because he knows hes not gonna lose him. fuck. and they couldve had something. #if only he didnt. stop himself. over and over and over again. #10 years. a blink in the eye for him and yet. everything. every moment. every time. i should've said it. i should've told him. #but i didn't. #at the very least he did get to say it. and save him one last time. but they could've had years. fuck. 😭 #sorry but also. the 'waited til he was about to die' cause he knows what itll do to dean. itll fuck everything up. itll break him. #(in hindsight he knows this now) dying is already enough. but leaving dean with that. with instead of 'we never...' it was. 'we almost' #'we did. for one brief second we did' #spn #destiel #char speaks #15x18 despair #favourites