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Klaus: [reading a map] Christ, it sure is a barren featureless dessert out there, isn’t it?

Diego: Other side Klaus

Klaus: [turning map over] Oh.

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Steve ‘did it hurt - a little’ Rogers

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Diego: if we're talking about discovering new powers.... I can breathe underwater now

The others:

Luther: how-

Diego: someone tried to drown me

Diego: it didn't work

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… the show is never explicitly clear about how the hargreeves kids see each other.  they call each other siblings, but is it because they view each other as such, or they’re just calling each other that to pursue some kind of normalcy?

(it’s the latter. but the show’s kinda inconsistent about that: vanya says they weren’t a ‘real’ family, and klaus thinks similarly. and we sure as hell know allison and luther (at the least) don’t think of each other as siblings in any other context than siblings-in-arms, but allison very much treats vanya as a sister in the traditional sense.)

so much of the Discourse™ is because the fandom at large thinks of the hargreeves kids as adopted siblings who were adopted to form a family, rather than a group of kids who were adopted as a means to an end, in order to get them in the same place to be trained, who were then raised as though they were in a boarding school.  

the situation was complicated, and it lead to each of the hargreeves seeing the others in a slightly different way. each dynamic is unique. the problem is, we don’t know who feels what about who, and that context that we’ve been told about via Word Of God (’we grew up knowing we weren’t related, and being raised in a coed boarding school environment, and because of the trauma and isolation, we had no one but each other, and we refer to ourselves as siblings because there simply isn’t a word for it’) hasn’t been explicitly stated in the show. i mean a lot of this is very much the fandom skewing black-and-white on an inherently gray issue + tumblr purity culture working its magic, but the show didn’t exactly help. it gestures to that truth, but never comes out and says it.

at this point, it’s too late to suddenly whip around and go Well They’re All Wholesome Platonic Familial Siblings, because… we’ve already had an entire season’s worth of romantic subtext between horrance, kliego and fiveya, and a full blown positively-framed romance arc with alluther, and it’d be especially cruel to just snatch that away from them, because all those relationships are tied into that strong theming of It’s Not Too Late (to find love and acceptance and to be together). if they suddenly pull the plug on that, the implication is ‘surprise! it *is* too late! fuck you for believing us when we said it wasn’t!’ 

like, this is the story you wrote. own it and keep going with it.

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100% real convo in the ice cream truck

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So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history. 

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service. 

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What makes you think it’s okay to watch Hannibal given its subject matter?

sometimes i watch television shows for entertainment purposes.

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do you ever have that one canon character you liked just fine in the canon, but the more you see of their fans, the more you come to just kind of … loathe them by association? like, a pavlov’s reflex of cringing every time you see their name or face

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You can identify a fake redneck by their passionate support of “blue lives matter.” Real rednecks have been in at least one physical fight and/or high-speed chase with police officers and would do it again

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If Luther started watching Star Trek TOS with Klaus

They’d both ship Spirk.  Luther would draw horribly cheesy but cute fanart of the two where the most thing that gets implied is… them sleeping in the same bed and Kirk has his shirt off (Luther likes drawing Kirk with his shirt off for no reason) while Klaus writes the most smuttiest fanfic imaginable and sometimes he shows it to Luther and Luther just blushes reading the tags but they support each other anyway.  I know I made a post about Luther and Star Trek already but I’m too tired to search for it now and I just want these two to have a hobby together.

#The Umbrella Academy #luther hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #tos

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A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

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y’all I do not motherfuckin CARE what you think, alluther is a solid ship and I will die on this hill. Everything about it is precious. Idek how many times I’ve rewatched the dance scene, because that was beautiful in SO many ways, but this scene is heart-wrenching and their dynamic is so complex and well-written throughout the series. Stg, if they nuke this relationship in S2 I might just stop watching entirely.

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(requested by @wereworldsurvivor )

#alluther #I love them #I might love them more as a couple than I love them individually #but the jury's out because I do love both of them a lot #not gonna lie #I definitely cried the first time watching this #allison hargreeves #luther hargreeves #they're precious #I really do not understand how people can hate Luther after watching this #watch it again Luther antis #I beg you #I was once one of you #and then I watched the show again and managed to pull my head out of my ass

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i think something a lot of ppl dont understand is that the effects of trauma are not immediate. its not like you’re fine and then the event happens, and then everything falls apart. yeah, that CAN happen, but so often, that is not the narrative i see. 

depending on the event, you may even brush it off the first time it happens. sometimes its not until it reoccurs that it hits you. because if it happened once, it was only that, your life moves on, but again? whats to stop it from happening a third time? a fourth time?

depending on the event, it may not affect you until someone asks about it days, weeks, months, YEARS later. you push it down and decide not to feel anything about it and maybe you even forget, at least on the surface, but it takes only a word to break the barrier you’ve set

depending on the event, you may not even know it’s trauma until years have passed and you’re crying on your bathroom floor. until you meet someone who calls it trauma. until you read someone elses story. until you’re begging your mind to please, please, let life move past that point

depending on the event, you forget entirely. there’s nothing there. nothing happened. and you live like that until something digs in too deep and the floodgates break. 

yeah, some of us break down right after it happened. some never go through the dormancy. but god, thats not everyone. im so tired of hearing “but you were fine!” so WHAT? so what if you were fine? you arent fine now and thats just as real a response as those who are impacted in the direct wake of a trauma. dont let anyone ever tell you otherwise.

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Vessels designed specifically for screaming

Babak Golkar, Time to Let Go, 2014

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Okay I know I already rb this but in the bonus...it's obvious they're more incredulous about Kenny's mom thinking they're FIVE's dads than they are with the suggestion of them being in a romantic relationship and I will die on that hill

hargreeves + being utterly and completely disgusted by the idea of romantic relationship between any of them acknowledging allison and luther’s romantic relationship, using luther’s romantic feelings as his motivation, talking about said relationship without any judgement whatsoever, not being weirded out by it in the slightest, and generally being totally 100% okay with it all

bonus: diego and klaus + being mistaken for a couple, never trying to deny it and clear the situation, flirting after:

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thank god for urbandictionary or I’d never know what anyone was talking about