The islet murder confession scene is SUCH a bad look for harry and kim and we should talk abt it more. it's so uncomfortable. they just snap into Cop Mode and forget how to act human. leave grandpa alone pigs
Basically Nikolai and Shatov's conversation in the last parts of the first chapter
tagging people l can think of who's read/reading The Possessed cause l am obsessed and in need of more content: @girlatreus @karamazovanon @viiinz @alyshkas @t4tstepantrofimovitch
What's a fact and/or headcanon for Osiris that you wanna share with the class
ough this is something quick and easy i can pass out without needing to draft a wholeass essay on it, i'll bite
Osiris has OCD, that we can extrapolate from canon, but one of the intrusive thoughts he must have suffered from with was not picking up or holding any small animals/children for fear of accidentally crushing or burning them if he lost control. He never would, ofc, but the nature of intrusive thoughts is basically that your brain goes 'hey wouldn't it be fucked up if this thing happens' and then shows it to you in explicit gory detail, so logic hardly matters there. Sagira was one of the few small living beings that he had no problem with grabbing because the fact that she was his soulbonded partner + mechanical in nature meant that him accidentally hurting her was nigh-zero. Even his own paranoia couldn't convince him otherwise
I like to think that as of late, he's begun to work on getting more confident about this with Saint and Misraaks- holding pigeons, letting Eliksni children climb up onto his shoulders, petting cats. But it's something that he's only just now beginning to let go of, and it's not because he's lost his Light- it's because hes learning to trust that when others say they have faith in him, its because they have a legitimate reason for it
one of my favorite ways to write parkner is to have their intellect take charge in the face of intrigue and feeling magnetized towards each other and rather than being pushed forward by emotion they both rely on their stem brains to analyze one another and solve the puzzle of who each other are but then in the process of them picking apart each others puzzle pieces to examine and understand them their puzzles become connected pieces somehow fitting with the other puzzle and before they can even fully process what is happening they’ve become so intertwined with one another that they can’t imagine not having this conglomeration of a puzzle together
they don’t need one another, per se—they certainly could separate their puzzles and become singular and life would go on—but they like how their pieces fir together better than how they fit on their own and the picture they make when their puzzles are combined is just so much more appealing. that “i could live without you but why the fuck would i want to do that” sorta love. that “a relationship only makes sense if being in that relationship makes your life better than when you were alone” kind of awareness, you know?
Oh no. James Gunn called Damian Batman's "actual son". That bodes poorly.
He also said the series is gonna be based off of grant morrisons batman run you know the one that's meant to have dick as batman not Bruce yeah no I've got absolutely no hope for any of that
When your friend needs you to be there to comfort them, but you have no energy for serious conversations and so you're stuck wondering if youre being a selfish asshole or if youre justified in not wanting to be the one to sort their problems out