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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 3 months

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Laios's three Boy Best Friends. And yes, they hate him.

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #toshiro nakamoto #chilchuck tims #kabru #BF in this context could be boyfriend or best friend. The line is so blurry.#Chilchuck less so but whatever is going on between Shuro and Laios & Kabru and Laios is giving strong:#“dude if you were a girl I'd date the hell out of you”. And from the genderswap extra's that sentiment is canon for BOTH.#This was made prior to the translation of the Laios & Kabru & Shuro restaurant date comic and honestly I am just feeling vindicated.#I don't even know what to call this dynamic other than a situationship. There is so much going on between all of them.#Even on a purely platonic reading - the miscommunication and male yearning for friendship hurt so bad.#When we got the Big Hug scene in the epilogue arc I was whooping and hollering! Pure catharsis moment!#I also don't like hugs very much so I really felt it went Shuro ('hates being touched') went in for the bear hug.#Do not get me started on the agony of 'always lying' Kabru telling the truth (I just wanted to be friends)#and 'always believes' Laios thinking it's another lie and brushing him off.#I am once again supporting dungeon meshi day by posting art. Please watch dungeon meshi.#obligatory edit because I’m tired: YES. Chilchuck cares for Laios and him admitting it was a huge part of his arc #YES he is more just fed up with him that actually hating him.#I needed a third guy to be canonically done with his ass for the THREE WEED SMOKING GIRLFRIENDS reference

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elitadream · 8 months

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As soon as I began receiving asks about Junior regarding my body swap concept a few days ago, I knew I wanted to add him in a short sequence. 💙

I've considered many different scenes in which he would be included, but there was one in particular that kept coming back to my mind, and it was the exact moment he would agree to safely lead Luigi to "Bowser" (aka Mario). In this specific scenario, he would be mostly oblivious to what's going on, and would thus show palpable mistrust towards Luigi at first, who he doesn't really know and hasn't yet opened up to. But upon seeing how distraught the poor man is, Junior would feel for him and let his guard down. 🤲

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tornado1992 · 2 months

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Do you guys think that Sonic has scars?

Not like Tails’, definitely not like those. Tails’ scars are from ripping fur, burning flesh, badly healed broken bones, deep cuts, and stuff he doesn’t even remember, from before he even met Sonic and started fighting Eggman. So many scars. He’s covered in them, his fur hides them, so he’s lucky that his tails are the fluffiest part of him, that’s where he has the most scars, hes not exactly ashamed of his scars, they show what he’s survived, they show that he came through all that. But still, most of them are a painful reminder that he had to survive, not live, survive.

Now Sonic… Sonic has very few scars, almost none of them from fights or Eggman encounters, his dumb bots couldn’t ever dream of hurting him, he was way too fast for that, way too strong. So they’re not from those fights, no, they’re from something completely different.

All the baby fox fangs marks in his hands, all the deep scratches from tiny little claws in his chest and the back of his arms, all the little cuts close to his face, all of them.

Sonic is proud of those scars.

He’s proud of those scars, because each and every of those scars are a reminder that he baby fox that caused them survived, because every time Sonic bled because of that kid, it was worth it.

Because he tried to bathe him when he was more blood and mud than fur. Because he forced him to take medicine when he was sick. Because he hugged him every time he had a nightmare and wouldn’t wake up even if it meant he would instinctively try to hurt him in the process. Because he held him and didn’t let go even when he felt tiny claws digging and ripping in his skin.

Those scars meant his little brother still wanted to survive. Those scars meant Sonic did everything to make sure he would live.

He’s proud of those scars.

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #sonic and tails #unbreakable bond #they are cosmic truth #they’re brothers your honor #those aren’t war scars those are honor scars #Sonic showing off the tiny claw marks with the same pride as if it was a huge beast what cause them #maybe even more #Tails does feel bad because they are a reminder that he hurt Sonic even if he wasn’t doing it on purpose #but Sonic doesn’t mind and even shows them of because they’re a reminder of how much he loves him #kinda mushy but it’s the true #wholesome sonic and tails wednesday #please tell me this counts as wholesome I’m the angst trenches and I can’t get out

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araekniarchive · 1 year

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Selected excerpts of Disco Elysium (2019), created by Robert Kurvitz and Aleksander Rostov

#webs #web weaving #excerpts #disco elysium #disco elysium spoilers #robert kurvitz #aleksander rostov #mine #sorry i've been so shit at doing anything on this blog recently; was really burning out at the end of term but we broke up friday #and i am just about alive enough to make something again #also i spent four of those five days binging this game so. have the bits that reached thru the screen and punched me in the face #theme: anguish #theme: love #theme: of course we will hurt each other #theme: truth #theme: beauty #theme: grief #theme: memory #theme: haunting

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chuthulhu-reads · 1 month

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[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]

Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Dunmeshi #though it IS really worth exploring the ethics of cannibalism in survival situations #The podcast You're Wrong About has a really interesting pairing of episodes #in the Donner Party and Flight 571 Crash episodes #Both about disasters in which people wound up eating their dead to survive #and an interesting connection they drew was that it wasn't the cannibalism itself #that destroyed the lives of the Donner survivors #it was the horror and disgust and societal rejection they got for having eaten human flesh #even the children who had no idea what they were eating were treated with revulsion #and this is clearly the response Senshi feared facing if anybody knew what he'd eaten #But Flight 571 like a century later #the survivors were faced with a lot of understanding when rescued #relatively little condemnation and revulsion #by and large commentators acknowledged that they did what they had to do #and sympathized with how difficult and painful it must have been #which is what Senshi gets from his party #Laios wants to figure out the truth because he knows it's hurting Senshi not to know #But at one point Marcille straight up says that none of them would think less of Senshi if he did eat dwarf stew #Okay so this is Marcille 'ardent student of blood magic' Donato #but Chilchuck agrees #anyway I think that would be a particularly interesting conversation to have in a cooking manga #how do you safely eat a dead friend when that's all you have to survive on?#what are the nutritional benefits other than 'better than starving'?#what are the risks? There's prion diseases and all sorts you can get #they write it off as eating the dragon part but they DO spend seven days eating Falin at the end #ARE there any in/famous cannibalism cases in this world?#Do peopel argue about whether or not it's cannibalism if a dwarf eats a tallman?#enquiring minds (mine) want to know

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bookshelfdreams · 6 months

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do it. gimme the Izzy straight-coded meta 👀

I feel like I need to preface this by saying that Actually, Izzy Is Straightcoded would be the inflammatory clickbait title I'd give this if it were written to draw traffic & ad revenue to my shitty website. So don't take that term too seriously.

There has been a lot of ink spilled about Izzy thinking he's in a story where one can only be subtextually queer. Some even by yours truly, but the more I think about it, the less sense it makes. What would be the purpose of queercoding Izzy?

In general, villains* aren't queercoded to show that men being attracted to other men is bad. It's often the outcome; but it's not why the trope exists. It exists because cishet people tend to be (and are encouraged to be) profoundly uncomfortable with gender nonconformity, and so, making a character gnc becomes a quick and easy way to make him appear twisted and untrustworthy. If he** can't even obey the fundamental rules of his own gender (rules that are inherent and unchangeable!) what other rules does he disobey?

Or: If a man is insufficiently masculine, he can't be trusted to have morals. The villain isn't gnc because that's an evil trait to have; rather, the gender nonconformity is a symptom of his evilness. Being evil is what enables him to embrace his feminine side, and embracing his feminine side is what others him and marks him as a villain.

This only really works when he's contrasted with a hero (or heroine) who is Doing Gender Correctly. The villain is foul to highlight how good the hero is. The Hero will be honest and straightforward, brave, physically powerful; the Queercoded Villain treacherous, cowardly, and physically weak. The hero is a Proper Man, a Good Person. The villain an Improper Man, and therefore, a Bad Person.

Of course ofmd fundamentally rejects this. The shorthand wouldn't work, because ofmd simply doesn't think effeminacy is creepy. It's uninterested in moralizing self-expression; it just lets people be how they are. There's a wide range of expressions of masculinity on this show, and none of it is inherently bad. People are allowed to be hypermasculine, flamboyant, and anything inbetween, can express their gender in whatever manner they want, and it's all fine - as long as they are authentic about it. Be however you are, but be yourself, and this is what Izzy fails at. The repression marks him as a villain. The strict adherence to what he thinks a Real Man Pirate ought to be like. He's very preoccupied with enforcing a traditional (and toxic) masculinity on himself and others. It's no coincidence the characters he antagonizes the most - Stede and Lucius - are also the most effeminate ones. And I know, I know anglophones have a much more casual relationship to twat and cunt, those don't nearly feel as uncomfortable for y'all as they do for me, so I don't want to assign too much significance here, but he is the only character who constantly uses this kind of language, and also the one who uses the most gender&sexuality based slurs (as far as I remember).

All of this while being clearly, obviously queer himself! I do not feel like I need to explain this; his flustered reaction when Lucius asks him if he's ever been sketched speaks for itself. The fact that he meets Stede and immediately slices his shirt off of him, speaks for itself. And so on.

Izzy isn't straightcoded in the sense that the story wants us to believe he's exclusively attracted to women. Much like a queercoded villain doesn't need to be shown to be attracted to men (and can even be shown to be attracted exclusively to women!) to still be queercoded. He's straightcoded in the sense that he's a stand-in for restrictive and toxic gender roles that society enforces on people. He buys into the idea that there's a way of Doing Gender Wrong, and this is presented as a tragic character flaw. Something he has to overcome to be able to do the thing that actually marks a hero in this show: express himself authentically.

Part of why I found his death so moving is because it enables him to set right the toxicity he spread. His rehabilitation arc was about himself; about finally allowing himself to be, accepting love, accepting community. His death was about taking responsibility. About fully recognizing the hurt he caused. Looking death in the face enables him to finally abandon the last shreds of that toxicity, to apologize and be granted forgiveness. In the end, he was not beyond saving, and the harm he has done will be healed.

*Izzy is introduced as an antagonist to both Stede and the central romance of this romcom. I'm not gonna debate this; if you disagree, fine, but you clearly have such a fundamentally wrong different view of the show that it's pointless for us to try and convince each other.

**of course Queercoded Female Villains exist s well, but they are a whole different can of worms and less relevant to this discussion

#okay now that i typed this all out i realize that i just basically keep writing the same izzy post over and over sorry for that #but i spent too long on it not to post it #i do not remember who said it but i saw a post a few days ago along the lines of #izzys death reads like the fantasy of a repentant abusive parent #and i think theres truth to that #may also read like the fantasy of the kid of an abused parent #finally the person who hurt you is able to apologize and you can part on good terms #but also wont have to deal w the fallout #i write as my grandmother who doesnt speak to us is probably dying idk #anyway!#i hope this is somewhat interesting #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #thoughts #anonymaus #message

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argayle · 1 year

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willel are not the best friends fanon makes them out to be. they are siblings. will eats the last of the eggos and el has a meltdown on him. el steals will’s good paints and he refuses talk to her for three days. will is chilling in his room listening to music with the door closed? not anymore. el has barged in, stuck her tongue out at him, and left the door open. el hogs the tv. will hogs the bathroom. both complain until jonathan drives them to the shops. el might use her psychic powers to trip will’s bullies, but she also uses them to steal his blanket when they’re sitting together on the couch.

but mike and el? those two are best friends. Mike and El are the ones that sit on the floor by El’s bed, talking shit about the stupid people in their classes. Mike is the person who lets El play with his hair. Will? Wear nail polish? Never. But the makeover El gives Mike behind closed doors… it’s eye opening, to say the least. But that’s pretty much the extent of their “girly” activities. Mike complains whenever El pulls him out of the house to go on nature walks or slouches around the driveway while El naively attempts to entice him into a game of pickup. It never works, and they end up sitting in the grass, and Mike gets a sunburn.

#willel #byler #down with mike/el friendship erasure!#i’m a bi mike truther and i think the REASON mileven isn't working is ironically because mike loves el #but even though he loves her #he can't figure out what feels so off about their relationship. like he likes girls. and he loves el. so what's the problem?#the problem is that they're best friends but he's never seen boy-girl friendships and is trying to force himself into a role that is just #unnatural to their actual dynamic #basically i don’t buy the interpretation the mike was intentionally lying during his monologue #or that mike feel he doesn’t really know el because they jumped into a relationship so quickly #because there is LOVE there. it’s just not romantic. and he doesn’t want to hurt her.#he’s afraid that if he’s not the perfect boyfriend or if he hurts her with the truth then he will lose her forever #anyways just my thoughts

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gayvecchio · 1 month

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Frannie, you are in over your head. Meaning? Meaning, guys like him don't marry girls like you. That's fairy tale. And girls like you get hurt, and guys like him don't even know it, and that's life.

#due south #ray vecchio #francesca vecchio #benton fraser #oof the way you can see the truth of this hit ray so hard #good for frannie for saying all of this and sticking up for herself because ray was being an unfair jerk #especially since he was projecting his own fears and insecurities about losing fraser and taking it out on frannie #ray's behavior here only makes sense to me if he's acting out of jealousy #because he doesn't seem the type to get involved in his siser's love life (unless she's being harmed in some way)#and what he says about fraser directly contradicts what we know ray actually thinks about him #i can't imagine ray sees fraser as the type to 'love 'em and leave 'em for lack of a better phrase. he knows he's not like that #ray is the one in over his head and worried about being left heartbroken (and not being good enough for fraser to stick around for)#if fraser was involved with frannie; ray loses ever getting a chance with him either way whether it works out or not #if the potential relationship worked out ray would have to sit by and watch the man he loves be with his sister #and if it doesn't work out (which it likely wouldn't lbr) he loses his frienship as well because it would never be the same after #and the fact remains that fraser will likely go back to canada one day and leave ray behind #and not realize just how much it will hurt ray when he goes #AND FRASER IS LISTENING TO ALL OF THIS #HE'S JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLASS #THE PERSON RAY DREAMS ABOUT #SO CLOSE BUT STILL OUT OF REACH #i can't with them #frannie is the only brave one here i love her #ds30below

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throttlegainwell · 2 months

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Thinking about that fine line Jonathan walks re: Lonnie's impact on Will. Wanting to insulate Will from Lonnie's rejection and soften that blow as much as he's able, but not wanting to give him false hope and feed a dangerous fantasy where Lonnie has a place in his life.

Because who wants to look into those big, sad eyes and tell their little brother that Dad doesn't love him? That he will never care, and that Will is nothing to him. But he also wants Will to be prepared, and he doesn't want to lie to him. He respects this kid and he wants to impress that upon him--the world may not, but Jonathan will always respect his intelligence and ability to think for himself, and he will nurture that, would never hamper it even supposedly for Will's own good.

So he makes it about conformity. There's a life lesson in that. It's not just that Dad doesn't give a shit--it's that Will should be true to himself because fuck everyone who doesn't see it that way.

#jonathan byers #will byers #stranger things #i dunno jonathan knows that lonnie sucks and i think it's hard for him to see will pining for this horrible person #(or more like the idea of him maybe--the chalk outline of fatherhood that he represents)#who's damaged jonathan so deeply but more importantly (to him) hurt everyone he cares about and left so much wreckage in his wake #so there's a part of him that wants to prepare will & build up that armor the way that jonathan has for himself #and that's gotta be a tough instinct to supress (because lonnie has instilled so deeply in jonathan that the world is a dangerous place)#but he never ever *ever* wants to strip will of his innocence and hope so he knows he can't #and that's the narrow set of parameters he's working with #don't tell will that dad doesn't give a shit about him (but if he figures it out on his own then be there for him and don't deny it)#don't tell him dad's a piece of shit & not worth it--just redirect until will realizes that he doesn't have to care #all the while he's thinking #'no he doesn't love you but so many people do and so many will'#wishing with all his heart that that would be enough #he's so careful how he talks to him--because the truth isn't kind but jonathan can be #child abandonment tw

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rainywithachanceofstars · 1 year

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#buddy daddies #kazuki kurusu #miri unasaka #buddy daddies 1x10 #for the better right?#just had to get this off my chest #as a child who prized access to my beloved people and routines and familiar places more than anything #i would have been absolutely DEVASTATED to find out that not only could I suddenly not go back to the place I had been living #but I would never see my parental figures who had been raising me for almost a year again #and not only that but they LIED TO MIRI about it being a SLEEPOVER to get her to go!#yeah four-year-olds wouldn't necessarily understand everything that makes that situation necessary #but they deserve to know in the larger sense that they're leaving so they have a chance to say goodbye #considering that Miri has already been sent away and rejected by one parent and that we've seen her abandonment issues before #I hate that they chose to spare the feelings of the adults by concealing the truth from Miri #it WON'T be 'easier on her' to hear that her papas told her she would have a sleepover and they will never come to get her #and she will never see her room or her clothes or eat Kazuki's cooking or play games with Rei again #it's not even a clean break! Misaki said she was going to keep Miri at the same daycare!#in worrying about Miri's safety and avoiding public meltdowns the adults are hurting her ability to trust in them #it never feels good to be manipulated like that no matter what the reason #but enough about me projecting #in which I babble to the world #memes

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 4 months

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Bare skin, bare feelings.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #blood #Imagine coming off as homophobic to your crush so bad he weaponizes a strip tease against you.#LWJ is just having a storm of bad emotions. His tummy hurt real bad and he was just trying to be brave about it!#WWX is just trying to be a good bro and heal his friendcrush. It worked but not for the reasons he thinks it did.#LWJ's shyness is also hilarious here considering they have bathed together before. Literally nothing there he hasn't seen before.#Granted it was a few years back and before he was left to stew in his feelings.#LWJ is more focused on his pride than being responsible and reasonable (getting is wounds treated).#His arc really is about accepting that he can't be perfect. That there is importance in being honest and vulnerable.#The tragedy is that he realizes this way too late.#Pride is the worst sin because it destroys your ability to protect anything other than the smallest crown in the world.#When everyone is gone and you are left alone - was it worth it to feel safe and protected from showing your flaws?#Control over oneself is in conflict with connection to others. You cannot pick both.#Hanguang-jun appears to us as a 'perfect guy' but the truth is that he is the version of LWJ who is done with *needing* that validation.#And this time - He can properly reach out to those he wants to be close with.

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brookheimer · 1 year

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roman roy + “waste sonata” by sharon olds

#i know this will get no notes bc no one cares ab random poem parallels but like. y’all #read this fucking excerpt . it is so painfully roman it hurts #like it is honest to god my roman manifesto. this is roman #succession #roman roy #logan roy #sharon olds #succession spoilers #i need someone to go insane over this with me it’s been driving me fucking mad #‘his love the goal of a quest’ “he was the god of love and i was a shit’ ‘whatever was inside [me] was not good it was white stink bad #manna’ ‘i was demonic but at least i breathed out from the sour dazed scum within my fathers truth’#‘well it’s fun talking about this’ ‘i have learned to get some pleasure from speaking of pain’#like?!?!?!?!()#literature #poetry #long post #100 #casey shut the fuck up about roman roy

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thepictureofjune · 2 months

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Noah Temel: undertones of an unlovable, uncertain kid.

— a quite sad character study

The reason why we need Noah to break down is because we care for him! Lemme explain in four acts.

Emotionally traumatized or just a red flag?

Noahs Inability to love Colin

Yes, Noah wants him gone (and maybe it's needed too)

Nolin Endgame?

Disclaimer: this is 100% my characterization, feel free to disagree with anything said here.

Noah giving Colin false hope numerous times and then complaining about it (red flag or emotional trauma?)

We know this. Colin confessed his feelings with the kiss and Noah stated, very clearly, that he isn’t in love with him. Then he proceeds to spend time with Colin, smile at him, joke with him, etc. Colin voices his opinion on that in the end of s26, saying he cannot be just friends.

At the start of s27 Noah goes back to acting like that didn’t happen. They joke again, they touch, some even may say they flirt. And obviously that is bad and Noah is in the wrong for giving Colin false hope if he has clearly stated that he isn’t in love.

The explanation I came up with for that: Noah views himself as unloveable and even if loved, it is never permanent and always temporary.

He grew up with divorced parents and as a child you kinda automatically believe that the love your parents have for each other is forever. You are supposed to be the result of that. You grow into their love. The love your parents have for each other is the first love you grow up with and it is going to somehow determine your view on love in general, so obviously if someone like Noah grows up with his parents breaking up and moving on, how is he ever supposed to believe that love can be something permanent?

He may believe Colin loves him but him showing up at the start of s27 like nothing happened and then ending up fighting with Colin proves that he thought it would have passed by now, that there would be no way Colin could still be in love with him but he is. And it doesn’t make any sense to Noah.

Noah's Inability to love Colin and his ability to lose a friend.

Noah needs a friend and Colin wants a lover and they are both fighting for that in a very similar way. Noah cannot lose Colin because, as he has stated numerous times, he is the only person that makes him want to stay. Noah never wanted to be at Einstein and there is still a big part of him that would rather be somewhere else but Colin, who has fought since the start to be his friend, makes all of it better and Noah cannot lose that because he realized he has to stay at this school.

“I need you. As a friend.” And he quite literally does! Even if for us, as the audience, it's hard to hear him say that. This is not about Noah not loving Colin, this is about love being something complicated for Noah, whereas friendship isn’t, at least it isn’t supposed to be. Noah needs Colin to be uncomplicated, he needs him to make sense.

Noah loves what he and Colin have, as Colin is quite literally the first person he asks to help him with this very important thing right when they meet each other again and Colin is the only person he opens up to. Colin is quite literally the only person Noah talks to without there being anything that beneficial behind it. Colin is his friend and Noah loves him for that because it is, after all, their friendship that made Noah want to stay. It's their friendship that feels normal.

And when you have something that means so much, that is the most important thing to you, obviously you would not want to ruin it for your own benefit. Even if Noah is in love with Colin, I doubt he would, in this position, ever admit to it because it would mean losing the only thing that matters.

Why did Noah tell him to leave then?

Panic. And because he meant it. Noahs parents vowed to forever and still let each other go and perhaps never fought for one another. How is a possible relationship with Colin going to be any different if he is already one foot out the door? Loving Colin is a guaranteed loss in Noahs eyes.

Noah wants Colin to leave solely for the reason that they cannot function together when he stays. Noah will never allow himself to love Colin and Colin will never stop fighting for Noah to admit his feelings and it will destroy them, it already has.

Nolin isn’t going to be canon…

…not like this anyways. There is too much fighting from Noah’s side and even if he stopped that fight in the next episode and suddenly confessed all his hidden feelings, I would hate for Colin to accept it because he’s been through hell because of this. He has waited, he has hoped and he has, most definitely, suffered because of Noah. So Noah has to come to terms with that first, he has to come to terms with not only his own feelings but also the ones Colin has. He hasn’t done that before, he has clearly never taken a moment to consider that Colin wholeheartedly and truthfully loves him because after all, he keeps forgetting it. Noah needs to view himself as someone that is capable of being loved, even after years of being proven wrong in that regard.

In order for these two to ever get together and be actually healthy, Noah needs to lose Colin first because right now, Colin is all he has, all he still has, even when they are fighting.

It’s in the way Noah acted when he hadn’t seen Colin in so long over the summer holidays, how suddenly there was touching and flirting and how we were all sure Noah was just one step away from kissing that boy. There was also the big reveal of Noah’s home situation because these last few weeks he has been dealing with everything wrong in his life and there was no one there to help him.

“Du bist der einzig normale Mensch für mich hier.” Somewhere between the summer holidays and school starting again, Noah at least realized that he needed Colin, that Colin was his safe haven, his place to rest, his only tie to happiness. Now it’s time for him to realize that again.

He lost Colin once and now it might even be his fault that he will lose him again. Colin came back for Noah even after Julia asked him if he wanted to stay with her. He came back because he wanted to know how Noah felt and well, Noah told him pretty clearly, no?

Because this is his way of dealing with love; by destroying it.

Noah just probably didn’t realize how his own choices and his own words will destroy him soon enough as well.

Conclusion: Noah Temel I hope you heal from everything that happened to you. You’re just a kid, you're not supposed to suffer from what your parents couldn't give each other.

#schloss einstein #nolin #noah temel #writing this hurt but i needed to get my truth out #i still fight for nolin endgame tho like these boys belong together they just need to get their feelings straight #manifesting noah breakdown bcs he needs it

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lozislaw · 1 year

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A not so new SOT creek one-shot of mine, ‘The Study of Sedatives in Invasive Species’, is out on Ao3, originally a part of my one-shot library but it’s still my favourite so it needs it’s own spotlight.

Synopsis:

“Because you’re here to mess with me, like always. Can’t a guy surrounded by birds and moss and unconcerned about the rest of the moronic kingdom live in peace? Fuck!”

Tweek has never understood why the rest of the kingdom has such a problem with his way of life. He’s not barbaric. This dizzyingly frustrating thief is the one who brings out his most feral counter-measures when he smirks, like he knows what filthy things cross his mind alone out here.

Which is why he thinks the thick ropes binding him were absolutely called for.

This art is so so misleading, there isn’t a fluffy moment in the story. But I can dream.

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vicciouxs · 24 days

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@tricoufamily duo challenge !! meet arlo and asher🐎

dynamic: the gruff loner and the child they've somehow adopted genre: western & crime

s i m⠀o n e : ARLO KELSEY [ 35 yo ] ⠀trait: kind ⠀hair: ginger and medium length ⠀extra: scars

‼️ Arlo is a former police inspector whose career went down the drain after being accused of stealing evidence in a murder case.

s i m⠀t w o : ASHER MURRAY [ 12 yo ] ⠀trait: mean ⠀hair: ginger and medium length ⠀extra: freckles

‼️ After the strange death of his mother, Asher has no choice but to move in with his uncle in Chestnut Ridge.

#after both sims came out the same I had to make them family #in truth #asher is not a mean child #he is just hurt because no one seems to be trying to solve his mother's murder #btw there are two genres because I accidentally took two screenshots but theyre both fine with the plot 😔😔#tricoufamily duo challenge #my sims #oc: arlo #oc: asher #show us your sims #the sims 4 #ts4 #sims #sims 4 #the sims #ts4 screenshots #simblr #s4 simblr #the sims community

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Are you doing anything particularly interesting with Sagewhisker or Raggedstar?

(also I love somebody else who appreciates Stormcloud, should've been a pov, I mean the Firestar parallels-)

Erins stop neglecting your side characters challenge. Stormcloud gets done soo dirty ://

Anyway!

Yellowfang’s Secret is getting redone into Brokenstar's Cataclysm. Much as I love Yellowfang, Brokenstar is getting suuuuper reduxed in BB and he needs to be the POV so I can tell his story. She has the opening and the rest is him.

What I want to set up in that opening, though, is at least a little bit of how hard people have made Yellowfang’s (Shroompelt at the time) life. Raggedstar isn't AS bad as he was, but their relationship was still pretty volatile. Sagewhisker pressured her into the role, just like canon.

I don't regret gutting YS though, to be honest. The original book is pretty freakin' miserable exactly because of Sage and Ragged, without any catharsis for how much torture the main character goes through. I think it works a lot better as an opening, thematically.

"Here's the culture which Brokenstar is being born into. See how his mother is absolutely miserable under this system, being forced to give up her child, pressured into her position. Happiness is offered between friends but there are deeper issues here that love won't fix."

So even though I'm pretty fascinated by Sagewhisker and think the fandom really sleeps on how terrible she is, I'm planning to use her as a minor but emotionally significant character.

And RAGGEDSTAR is going to be explicitly used as the father who Brokenstar loved very much, but someone he is willing to kill in the end. His enabling is also going to get exploited by Runningnose and his schemes. He's a major supporting character in a different way from YS.

#Better bones au #Brokenstar's Cataclysm #I strongly feel it works best this way #Because the simple truth is that Sage and Ragged don't really get comeuppance. Not for their actual shitty behavior #For other things. But not for how they hurt Yellow #AndI think a large part of what makes YS such a miserable read is just that #I think a different rewrite could fix that thougg #Connect Broken more to the things that ruined Yellow's life and make a tragedy out of her having to put her avenger down #For the sake of the clans as a whole #But that's not what BB!TPB or my whole rewrite is really about. Yknow?#I'm not writing a story about how clan culture needs to be protected from change. It needs to be torn down. It needs to be fixed.#So just showing how awful sage and ragged were to yellow in the opening works best instead of... Lingering on it #for lack of better words #bone babble

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