Thanks for reminding me!! His eyes were fucking brown!!!!
"Talking About the Future With Your Vampire Mate" is fucking sad mate what the actual hell. i cannot believe we just moved past this???
Sam is actively suicidal, this man has a suicide planned and he's not changing his mind. He is going to kill himself. He looked Darlin in the eyes and told us that no matter what we choose, even if we turn, that he's going to leave us via suicide.
and im like so mad because its a good story choice i think, choice and control and consent are such major parts of Sam's character, him being able to finally decide something in his life is thematically poetic and is beautiful but What The Fuck. WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!! This hurts so bad its so fucking sad what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck. this is a fucking TRAGEDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's so good and its so bad and i hate it and i love it and his eyes were fucking brown................
it just broke that israel has seized 1,977 acres of west bank land for settlement, which marks the largest land theft since 1993. west bank raids are also seeing an all-time high, with a a reuters article stating a series of israeli raids raised the palestinian death toll in the west bank to 10. there are palestinians being abducted as well, a lot of whom are children. the west bank is slowly being eaten up by both israeli settlers and raids, but this is barely being covered by mainstream media.
Although I can honestly see both sides of what the fandoms been saying about the recent Sam developments I think it’s important to remember that Sam and Darlin are both extremely traumatised characters. Their relationship isn’t going to be ‘normal’. Their coping mechanisms, their timing with events, everything to do with their relationship is different to one of non-traumatised characters if that makes sense?
There are definitely a lot of ways to look at how they handle things, like how Sam being ready for sex and biting with Darlin were both after life-altering events. Would it be nice for them to come to these points in there relationship in a ‘healthier’ way? Yes it would.
But that’s literally not how their brains work. I’m not trying to patronise their characters. Their actions are still their actions, they are grown adults and shouldn’t be minimised to just what’s happened to them. But the things they’ve gone through aren’t just side story’s or plots for comfort audios.
Trauma scientifically changes the way your brain works, it can literally change who you are as person. And for Sam in particular he’s canonically never been in a healthy situation besides his relationship with Darlin (and the Shaw pack).
So if the way they do things kinda seems off to the average folk, that’s normal. Sam literally says ‘it’s not weird, it’s us.’ It’s how THEY handle things.
There’s nothing wrong with disliking it, with wishing it was different or with completely enjoying it. But I think it’s something we don’t keep in mind in this context enough.
I’ve been an avid Sam fan since he got a playlist on the channel and even to me some things seem rushed or ‘strange’ but that’s because I’m not the characters, I haven’t gone through what they have, and in some lights it’s kind of refreshing to see how relationships between different people with different pasts can develop. Instead of a character going through something horrendous having a cry about it and then going back to their old self.
26. Wild Card! A fun fact about the fic of your choice!
I have the entirety of ‘Swords Sails And the open sea’ planned out on a google doc. It’s incredibly deranged and hard to read. Some fun snippets from this doc are:
I’m not strong enough for the character death tag ):
They cuddle and its ok. But its not, I’m a liar cus the next day they fall off the ship.
“omg you almost drowned r u cool?” And they be like “uhhhhhh”
Funny cut out to Gavin walking past (he locked them in the closet with caelums help cus I can)
Fl is like “wow were so cool for getting these people together but like Vega is still here” and caelum is like “yeah”
ima give that angst tag a run for its money ((::<<
Gavin walks in to see them breakin down in a not sexy way (don’t ask)
Anyway Gavin pulls up and they talk. And fuck.
Omg if this plane crashes and this is the thing people get to read they are gonna be very confused. (I was writing this all in a plane and the turbulence was AWFUL)
Gavin goes big fish aswell, its like a Pokémon battle in sword and shield lol.
“omg son! Look at you! Come to mommy and we can destr- I mean save the world!”
and he’s like “yeah I think the author gave my mom a redemption arch” and I was like “mayybbeee (((:”
fl is like “yuh, I got like 4 bfs now lol” and he’s like “omg slay!”