#she has declared it

[homeforclones]

The difference between Season 1 and Season 3 of the Bad Batch

Season 1: Omega: Crosshair, can I have a hug? Crosshair: The audacity??? Of this Child??? Nothing would revolt me more than to show any kind of weakness to sate your neediness. Season 3: Omega: Crosshair, you're getting a hug. Crosshair: The charity??? Of my Sister??? Nothing would give me more joy than to be hugged by the Literal Angel that you are, though I am a lowly worm.

#the bad batch #tbb #tbb season 3 #tbb spoilers #tbb finale #the bad batch season 3 spoilers #the bad batch season 3 #the bad batch spoilers #tbb crosshair #tbb omega #soft crosshair #good brother crosshair #omega #crosshair #crosshair deserves a hug and he gets a hug #one of my favorite things about the series is the way he learned to love her more than anything #i have one critique about the finale but that is not it #how am i supposed to go on without them #how is life supposed to have meaning when I do not get to see war hardened men adore a little girl more than life itself #season 3 omega is the type to see that you need a hug and then you get a hug #she has declared it #ugh i just love them #and i love how crosshair just doesn't hide that he adores Omega #he tried for approximately one (1) episode and then he just gave in

[jq37]

Adaine texting an, "I love you" to Aelwyn and then deleting it to force her to use divination spells to see what it said is so fitting for their dynamic. Like, yeah, love isn't earned, but open declarations of that love are. Fetch, bitch.

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #adaine abernant #aelwyn abernant #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #aelwyn is the queen of this though #aelwyn couldn't cough up a straight up ily when she was literally dying lmao #she can't just say love you miss you she has to declare adaine her nemesis #she didn't even say a straight up ily when adaine said it first she just villain laughed about it #(which is aelwyn for ily too obv) #i see right through you bitch

[jey-draws]

Out of everything that could've possibly made me want to draw I was not expecting it to be a tangled series. But... cassandra you stole my heart

#digital art #fanart #tangled #tts #tangled the series #cassandra #tw bright colors #listen shes just. relatable #and a very tragic character #and i like her design #and disney princesses has never been a trope for me but im here taking part and its literally just for. cassandra #the staff 'purposefully made her as gay coded as possible' (their own words) and yeah. shes lesbian i declare it #apparently thats what was said anyway but it might be a white lie

[steddieas-shegoes]

cw: mentions of scarring, canon-typical violence, flashback (not graphic), minor body horror (again, not graphic, mostly just emotional feelings about scars)

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Everyone gave him weird looks when they walked in, quickly schooling their features when they noticed he was awake and watching them.

He didn’t know exactly what that was about.

They had him on a lot of good drugs.

But eventually he got weaned off them, and he noticed the pull of bandages on his side, and his arm, and his neck, and his face.

He was still unable to get out of bed. Still couldn’t even reach his arms above his chest for more than a few seconds.

But he damn sure reached up to feel the cloth and plastic surrounding his cheek. How had he not noticed for days? How had no one bothered him about it?

Maybe they had and he just didn’t notice. The morphine was one hell of a drug.

Wayne was soft, patient with him. Saw him touching it, saw the way his eyes filled with tears. He’d never been particularly vain, hadn’t cared much about what he looked like to others, but this felt bigger than that. This felt like he was changed in a way that everyone could see.

Add it to the list of things people could bully him for.

He cried himself to sleep, Wayne’s hand in his, silently comforting in the way he’d always done.

When he woke up again the next morning, he was alone.

It was the first time he’d been alone since the boathouse.

He could swear he heard bats outside his door, screams coming from the attached bathroom, flashes of someone dying on the ceiling.

He felt the sharp sting of teeth puncturing his skin.

He felt hopelessness creep into his bones as he gave in.

Maybe this time they would finish the job.

“Eddie!”

Steve Harrington’s voice broke through the thoughts, panicked enough to bring Eddie back to his hospital bed within a second of hearing it.

“Shit, are you okay?” He continued, hand brushing against Eddie’s bandaged cheek.

Eddie nodded once, closed his eyes, leaned into the touch.

He could blame it on any number of things if Steve felt weird about it. The morphine, the flashback, the loneliness.

“You’re okay, Eddie. I promise. Won’t let anything happen to you,” Steve whispered.

Eddie believed him.

He fell back asleep with Steve’s hand gently cupping the mangled side of his face.

If Steve could still touch him there, then maybe it wouldn’t be so bad.

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Steve came by every day, sometimes in the early morning, before visiting hours officially started, sometimes well after Wayne had left to get some sleep. He always smiled when he walked in, a genuine one, not the one everyone else gave that was so fully of pity and pain he couldn’t bear to make eye contact. He sat down on the side of the bed, not the chair like everyone else, not scared to be close.

And every single day, without fail, he would run his finger along the edge of Eddie’s bandage on his face, watching his own movements and cataloging any changes.

Eddie sat quietly, still, scared to put words to anything happening. Scared to tell Steve what it meant to him to have someone acknowledge his pain in this way. Scared to think Steve could mean anything by it.

It was easy to pretend Steve was doing this because he cared.

Maybe he did care.

But he didn’t care the way Eddie wanted him to, needed him to.

So he stayed quiet, still.

He watched.

He fell asleep while Steve talked about his day, the kids, what Joyce made Hopper do around the house.

He woke up alone most days, but that was okay, because Steve would be there eventually.

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“You ready to get that thing off?” Wayne asked, gesturing to the bandage.

“Oh. Today?” Eddie suddenly didn’t want to ever be without the bandage. Removing it meant he’d see what was under it.

It meant seeing how much that place had ruined him.

The pull of the stitches hadn’t been as obvious with the pull of the bandage masking it.

But now it’s all he felt.

The nurse smiled at him as she put some antibiotic cream over the area, saying he would probably still have to keep it extra clean for the next week or so while the stitches did their job.

Wayne smiled at him in the way that meant he didn’t really want to smile at all, but knew Eddie needed him to.

Steve didn’t come.

Eddie didn’t sleep.

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He woke up with panic in his chest and a silent scream in his throat.

He woke up with Steve’s hand on his face.

Gentle, soft, but a strong comfort.

“Promise I washed them first. They said we have to be careful about germs,” Steve said quietly.

“You don’t have to. I know it’s…it’s gross. It’s ugly. I’m ugly.”

Steve shook his head. “No. Not gross. Not ugly. Alive.”

“Steve-“

“You’re alive, Eddie. You could have your entire face held together by staples and you would still be a miracle. You’d still be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”

Well, Steve’s charm wasn’t an exaggeration, was it?

He wasn’t even sure if the skin barely pulled together could blush anymore, or if the heat that should be on his cheek was burning on the outside the way it felt like it was on the inside.

“It’s gonna be awful when it heals. I saw it in the mirror.” Eddie could feel every stitch in his jaw, the few that spread across the corner of his mouth and bottom lip, the ones that were nearly up to his ear. “I’ll always have a crooked face. The scar will always be huge. It’s all anyone will see.”

“Then they aren’t looking.”

Eddie bit his lip, eyes searching Steve’s. “But you are.”

“No. I’m seeing. There’s a difference. I see you. I see what you’ve survived. I see the mark it left on you. I know it wasn’t just the scars that cover your skin.” Steve leaned his head down, touching Eddie’s forehead with his own. “We all have them. And we’re all still here. Your heart’s beating. That’s all that matters to me.”

“Who knew you were so good with words?” Eddie smiled sadly.

“Robin says I’m just good at not having a filter.”

“She’s right as always.” Eddie wrapped his fingers around Steve’s wrist, turning as slowly as he could to kiss his palm. “You’re not scared of it.”

“No. Are you?”

“I’m scared that you’ll change your mind when it’s always there as a reminder of what happened.”

Steve kissed his nose, making him smile for the first time in what felt like years.

“I’ll have the reminder that I got you out of there. That no matter what, the bats couldn’t finish the job. That you were stronger and you made it.” Steve let his hand drop, but quickly laced his fingers with Eddie’s. “I know it’s a lot to ask of you to trust me, but will you? For today?”

“Just today?”

“I’ll ask again tomorrow.”

“And what? Every day after that?”

Steve smirked.

His eyes were glistening with tears, but Eddie could tell it wasn’t sadness or fear.

“If that’s what I have to do.”

They hadn’t even talked about feelings, not really. Nothing that made any sense to Eddie, nothing that they could define. A part of Eddie was still convinced he was in a coma and dreaming this entire conversation up.

But even the nurse had noticed the way Steve watched him, how he touched him, how he fought for him. She said he’d been a firecracker from the moment he carried him into the hospital, dripping blood on the tile, staining the halls with his demands for help.

Wayne said he barely left his side the first day, only doing so when the doctors had told him they would call the cops if he didn’t.

Erica even noticed how things had changed between them, stating that she refused to watch her babysitter and the only DM she had respect for make out.

But Steve held Eddie, made him feel like he could get out of the hospital bed and live a life that wouldn’t keep him running. Steve was there.

Steve might even love him. If not now, then some day.

And Eddie could trust him today.

He could probably trust him tomorrow.

“Kiss me?” Eddie probably shouldn’t. The stitches tugged when he talked, and another mouth anywhere near his wounds was just asking for an infection.

But Steve would be careful. He knew what Eddie could handle.

It was barely a kiss. A graze of the lips at most.

But it was the best kiss Eddie had ever had.

At least until tomorrow.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #drabble #yall I am having thoughts about Eddie with a very large face scar and it led to this #I know people have drawn stuff before but I’m #I mean like what I am thinking is from his bottom lip across his entire jaw #to his ear and then down his neck #and it’s not remotely even or straight #very jagged when it heals because they weren’t really aiming for stitching it straight they just wanted to get it closed #also a firm believer that Steve has no filter at all and is SO GOOD at romantic declarations because of it #like he doesn’t edit anything #if he loves you you’ll know because he says I love you in all words except those at first #anyways wrote this during dessert for my besties birthday dinner so #not checking for typos hope there aren’t any lmao #if my phone autocorrected she’s probably wrong

[kurozu501]

do you ever just remember how one of the most effective things parvis said to get silence to lose faith in saria was essentially "do you really think she would ever choose YOU over everything?" and silence with her low self esteem really didn't believe saria would.

Then in the end saria really did choose them over everything, left her defense director job and her whole life up to that point behind for the sake of silence and ifrit. and silence still doesnt even know. do you ever think about that and lose your mind a little bit.

#turns out my pre lone trail jitters translate to reread the rhine lab manhua and lose my mind over it all over again #its one of those stories i could write multiple essays on #like silence's lack of self love #do you ever notice how in the final scene when she makes her big declaration about curing ifrit joyce and 'the many many infected' #she never mentions curing herself #how she runs into the flames looking for ifrit with no regard for her own safety during the diabolic crisis #even the funny gag moment with joyce is based on silence overworking herself and joyce pushing her to take care of herself #and here where parvis basically says saria would never choose you and silence instantly just accepts that as true #of course saria wouldn't choose her #even her big grudge against saria is anger on behalf of ifrit not for herself #this owl has such a big heart and so much love for everyone but herself #arknights #olivia silence #saria

[bananonbinary]

as a certified Diagnosed Autist(TM) i cannot stress enough that i am not only pro- self-diagnosis, but also pretty anti- legal medical diagnosis. it is, at best, a cruel hoop we have to jump through so privileged people will deign to give us what we need. don't fucking do that shit unless you have to, it was disgustingly expensive, fucking humiliating, infantilizing, and dehumanizing, and would probably actively cause problems in my life if i didn't have some really good allistic (-passing) people in my corner and also wasn't so fucking disabled that it mostly doesn't matter.

literally get that diagnosis if you need it for job/school accessibility shit or SSI or whatever, and otherwise dont tell the government SHIT about yourself. there is zero good reason for them to want that information. that's between you and the people you want in your life.

#as a side note: this goes for gender too #dont fucking get a special marker on your passport or whatever #trying to get ssi has made me realize how deeply cruel the system is #never reveal any vulnerability you have unless it's absolutely necessary #do not do this stuff for validation the government is not your friend and you should seek emotional fulfillment elsewhere #hm this post turned out a lot angrier than i meant #guess i'm still mad about how awful the process was #it wasnt even long it was just. so *impersonal.* #this woman talked to me for two hours. went down a fairly bigoted checklist. #didnt ask me my own opinion on much of anything. and then declared a bunch of her impressions as if they hold weight just bc shes allistic #like how i have 'identity issues' (am trans and dont want a romantic partner) #and thats just. my permanent record of diagnosis! this two hour conversation with a stranger! she doesnt fucking know me #we paid like $500 for that

[starmist]

I genuinely believe Naksu haunts the narrative. Her actions and existence as Naksu heavily impact the entire story. Her past, the life she lived and the shadow of it in Mudeok. But we don't actually know any of it because Naksu is not in the story.

Like. What she lost as Cho Yeong is something that we are never allowed to forget, the loss of her body, her powers, her freedom, and her impending death as a soul shifter hangs over Mudeok's head like guillotine.

All the while we don't actually know the Shadow Assassin Naksu, she died in the first episode, as soon as the story began. Other than training and killing (soul shifters) what kind of person was she when she didn't have to rely on another person else or hide or live as someone else? We don't know and we don't ever learn any of that.

Still, her absence is the plot, yet her former existence as Naksu influences everything; Yul's actions and what she was to him, Jang Uk's goal of returning her powers, the revelation of soul shifters to Park Jin, Jang Gang's departure, Jin Mu's accomplishments, the King's Star even.

Everything is about her existence but she doesn't actually exist at all anymore.

#before anyone disagrees she declares naksu dead in ep 5 or something and tell yul the person he knew no longer exists in ep 19 #naksu is dead but the shadow of her hangs over everything #what could have been and what wasn't is mourned in nearly episode #alchemy of souls #also im not saying one life is better than the other but there is always this sense of loss in mudeok that is never forgotten by the story #SHE DESERVED TO LIVE AS HERSELF #Also for me its the tragedy of all of it that makes the show so good #like dont get me wrong im certifiably insane over the romance and would be very happy with the ending offered but even the then the best pa #*the happy ending #is that #she escaped the circle of tragedy shes been trapped in #and has so many people that she loves and cares for now and how those ppl care for her just as much #this post is brought to you by: my mutual and i finally finishing our rewatch

[patriamrealm]

I’m an absolute sucker for feral behavior (the idea of someone instinctively going: this is my child now, is too much of a good idea), so I have a question about aspects-

Does the person’s aspect effect their behavior to a degree?

Say, someone with a fire based aspect would get instinctively jumpy around water, even if it wouldn’t effect them that much. Or something like someone with a Braixen aspect would be interested in sticks and picking out the right one/collecting them.

(Also on a slight side note I’m now thinking about Ingo having a slight brain freeze and equating Akari to a Litwick and going: ah yes, baby ghost type, must feed some souls for her to grow strong and healthy!)

The aspects do yes! Well to a certain degree, noises, growling, snareling, whistling are all parts of that and it's usually minor things and most the time people don't have any idea that they're doing it.

Things Like Emmet having the absent minded urge to drown his food, he regrets it seconds right after doing so most the time.

Or you get things like Gaeric burring himself in the snow and sleeping so hard and so still people have thought he died.

You also get some aspects lining up with Chandelure occasionally carrying litwick from one place to another and Cyndaquil clinging to it's parents back. This results in both Ingo and Akari not phased nor noticing just how often she gets a piggy back ride from him.

Or they also deal with more significant moments such as deer in the headlights moments. where they can just freeze depending upon the aspects they have like Mai having aspects of something very deer like.

#pokemon!aspects #submas #ingo #emmet #sabi #gaeric #mai #zisu #akari #mai is so not used to other people wondering around during the night with their lanterns #she has declared lanterns her greatest enemy

[dykedivorce]

THE WHEEL OF TIME | 2x02 "Strangers and Friends"

#the wheel of time #twotedit #lan mandragoran #lanraine #wotedit #moiraine damodred #moiraine sedai #i loveeeeee that. she knows that he knows that shes pushing him away on purpose and yet there's nothing he can do about it except #watch how far she's willing to go to cut him out of her life and how much harm shes willing to cause him to protect him #he knowssss the whole time he knows and he cant do shit!!! shes a wall shes unapproachable even to HIM #easily top 3 breakups of 2023!! #we were never equals is devastating to hear on lan's side but it's succhhhh a declaration of love im going to cry about it #SHE THINKS SHES BENEATH YOU LAN!!! LAN LISTEN- OH MY GOD HE HAS THE AIRPODS IN HE CANT HEAR US #wheel of time #mine #divorce tag

[bunnieswithknives]

You are SO right

#dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared #two of us AU #two of us!Electracey #art #digital art #doodle #she has so many novelty sunglasses #i'm declaring it right now

[michyeosseo]

I am always indebted to you.   – It will cost quite a lot.

Honey Lee and Yoon Sa Bong as JO YEO-HWA & JANG SO-WOON

KNIGHT FLOWER (2024)

#kdramaladies #kdramaedit #kdrama #knight flower #honey lee #yoon sa bong #밤에 피는 꽃 #may those who celebrate have a lovely international women's day x #a dedicated otp layout for the y2k follows hoho #(the puppy is cute-ish if one is into that sort but they're more ~my style~ + our titular heroine has two hands) #a slowburn realization yet such specific hit for me #was that time jang sowoon straight up declared commit to my lady's emancipation or gtfo she's so real to jo yeohwa like that ok #like what do you mean the merchant guild leader and the widowed lady slash vigilante not only are acquainted #but has partnered to save others since their fateful meeting #she pledges to give her All and she need only ask #having understated banter while they're at (the very open secret) meetups at sowoon's private quarters #yeohwa plops herself there sans knocking every night #quirky '대행수~' this; sardonic '아씨...' that + occasional lip slapping then The Ledger waltzes in before convo ends #the damsel trope check so very important despite well the rush of it all #someone anyone please write that glossed over aftermath >.< #OH AND THEN HEARTY FINALE BREAKFASTTTTTTT #the suggestive whispering i would have to make that gifset separately as well whew Hot Hot Hot #honey unni said in the post-drama interview she's most excited shooting scenes with sabong unnir because she's bringing it every!time!

[mooncheese3]

just like you

day 7

#mamajiuweek2022 #original shen qingqiu #shen jiu #little palace master #personally i think theyd rock the world if their goals aligned #theyd bully sqh into helping them in terms of allies #supplies money etc #poor sqh #lpm latches onto sqq as a parent figure the second she meets him #she declares him her new mum #she then has a little meimei #ningyingying is the meimei #theres an initiation process for it #courtesy of lpm (eldest child) #mingfan can rot somewhere hes not the eldest fuck him #lpm says that

[thelien-art]

My favorite bird of all time

#she wasnt a bad parent she was just to young #tolkien #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #elwing #silm art #tolkien art #digital art #my art #ngl her and earendil are probably one of my favorite ships #theres just so much in it #the young and reklese love #and the tragic of war as well as earendils own doom if i can call it that #it will probably also be out before amrodandamras #im convinced earendil has some davyjonescurse over him #like he can only step on land each tenth year just for the angst #and she cant land on his ship but she can fly beside him #im thinking that ill do that dtiys and that i wont draw something specific for it but ill make some pieces for it now and post them slowly #and when i start the dtiys ill put the chosen drawings into one post with a declaration it has begun

[breakandbuildfiction]

Looking Into All The Destroyed Souls

After learning that one of the things that made Pariah Dark so evil was his willingness to destroy a ghost’s core, basically killing their very soul, Danny demands to be kept aware of anyone doing anything similar. And sure enough, there was a dimension a hop and a skip away where apparently thousands or even millions of souls were killed EVERY YEAR. Clearly, something was seriously wrong over there and Danny wants to know what the Hell is going on and put a stop to it.

#Danny Phantom #Hazbin Hotel #DPxHH #DP x HH #Ghost King Danny #Destroying souls is fucked up #Danny goes to Heaven to ask about it #He doesn’t like what he hears #And Emily isn’t happy to learn about Extermination Day #Or she already knew and is happy Danny agrees with her #It depends on when Danny shows up really #Danny dares Sera to kick Emily out of Heaven #Or declare war on his people #He has an army too #And he’s willing to let Emily live in the Infinite Realms #If she wants to #And doesn’t want to go live in Hell with Charlie #Danny and Emily become friends #Danny and Adam become enemies #Danny and Lute too #Moral debates

[andthebeanstalk]

Betty is so relatable I would do the same shit for my wife

#simon petrikov #original #at #the moment where she declares that she's jumping into the future to save him. just pure save-husband impulse #and maybe she made the wrong choice but I felt the emotion in my gut and that's good tragedy baby #I would do the same thing and then be in the future and realize I probably fucked up but also what else could I do but #devote my entire life and sanity to saving her after I have destroyed every other option?? #it's not healthy necessarily but a fucking apocalypse happened and her wife is in eternal torment. what else could she possibly do?? #I'm just obsessed with the attitude she has towards saving him and how it turns from joyful heroism to unhealthy obsession #I have a much healthier relationship with my wife. but also she's never been driven mad by a magical crowd for a thousand years! #and Betty did it!! y'all can argue about whether Ice King was better than Simon and I think he must make peace with every part of himself #but it is extremely consistent in the original series that being Ice King is basically this existentially horrifying Eternal torture #so the fact that someone who loved him decided they would save him from that at all costs is very sad and very beautiful #beautiful because no one deserves to suffer forever. tragic because she was far to willing to take his place if she had to. #betty grof #fionna and cake #golbetty #golb #*driven mad by a magical crown #you forgot your floaties #edit: upon rewatching every episode with betty in it i will say i don't think i would be so hellbent on murdering the person she had become #betty does act selfishly and it makes her character more compelling #but i like to think if my wife went banana-pants ice-king-level bonkers i would be able to love that version of her too #but who's to say whether this story would be the reason I responded differently? #it's a good story

[petewentzisblack1312]

we need more black women in the writers room because we need more cringefail terrible black women characters but they will not be well written if someone who isnt a black woman writes them

#dils declares #im over strong black women. #give me a black woman who gets splashed by a passing car right after getting her hair relaxed #she has beef with a 12 year old and shes losing #the eponymous bitch in 'damn bitch you live like this?'