Thinking a lot about how Simon himself is, in essence, a walking ship of Theseus. At what point between Simon and Ice King did he become a different person? The crown changed him, sure, but it mostly just scrambled what was already there in his brain. And we know that even after becoming “himself” again, he’s been fundamentally altered by the experience. Ice King is still with him, even if the crown isn’t.
also yall we need to step back from the harryvision and understand that kim, at his core, is a loser (affectionate) like everyone else. so much out there wants to portray him as limitless patience, great cook, super organized, good handwriting, nice tasteful living quarters etc and that's fun to contrast him to harry but well i am here to RUIN that we need to take off the du bois glasses and appreciate kim for the weirdguy that he is. he has horrific fits of road rage and harry genuinely fears for his life riding along with him and witnessing the generational curses this man is capable of unleashing upon the stupid little fucks that cut him off on the 8/81. he has never had the time or space or budget to learn to cook so he lives off deli sandwiches and butter noodles and the occasional grab-and-go fruit. he writes so much so frequently with such awful handwriting that he has invented a new form of shorthand and the moralintern is contacting him to create a cipher system for them. he has no resources to furnish and maintain a nice flat so it's like a slightly gentrified r/malelivingspace but with a table for his sewing machine and there's scrap fabric and thread and half-pinned half-hemmed pants strewn about the place. there are absolutely a bunch of shitty mockups of his old wirral character in the backs of his notebooks and he hasn't played it in years but if he ever picks it back up then his minmax high int high dex definitely-not-a-self-insert sidhe artificer is READY. everyone add your weirdguy kim thoughts NOW 👇
The sea-longing thing really gets to me. Legolas longed for something so deeply that it was like life had a hole, and yet if he sailed before the fellowship had died his life would have still had a void in it. That chapter had to be closed before he could sail. And then also he took Gimli with him because he had no intention of leaving Gimli to a past chapter of his life. Gimli was always meant to continue to the story with him, and elf heaven was not going to be heaven without him. Gimli had to be present or the void would still be there. I think about this. A lot
I keep coming back to this moment. It broke me to my core. Anyone who has lost someone, knows the darkness, knows the death of the world you once knew, the loss of the person you once were. The more time passes, the more the memories of them disappear, and it all becomes a blur. They can be in your dreams one moment and gone the next. Time and circumstance steal and dissipate the connection you once had. It makes you feel like you’ve lost them over and over again.
You find yourself searching for them in other people, places, or things. You temporarily win the battle with your internal thoughts, feelings, and disconnection, by finding solace and peace in these lifelines. They help us to live, to survive another day, without them. It can absolutely destroy you if there is nothing left to hold on to❤️🩹.
When Michonne put Carl back in Ricks’s hands, she literally breathed new life into him. She gave him a connection, a lifeline for him to hold on to. I felt this! I know this!! It encapsulates grief/ loss so well. Beautifully written and acted! ♥️
every time theo ends up saving liam’s life it’s by pulling him to safety from behind… something to be said about liam silently trusting theo enough to give him his back (and theo’s unspoken willingness to have it even at the expense of his own safety).
wait, so if the pizza is Emmet's in that one post... (cute art btw to both of you)
But this makes me wonder if Ingo and Emmet have different preferences on their pizza.
Like Emmet loves Alolan Style Pizza (with plenty pinap berries)
While Ingo is a pepperoni cheese kind of guy.
(I picked these for the twins because from one site I found one is the most liked kind of pizza while the other is the most disliked. Kinda fits their whole opposite from each other aesthetic)
( also Elesa loves her pizza verrry spicy and with lots of veggies)
I like to think that if their preferences in pizza are very different it could lead to Ingo recognizing that the flavor isn't his favorite (probably far from it) but it gives him a comforting familiarity anyway since the flavor is associated with someone he deeply cares about.
Even with memories gone I think some things, such as flavors or even music go beyond memories and resonate with feelings.
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Thank you!! I love @mismefancy ‘s addition haha
And oh yes, I definitely think they have different preferences! My discord actually talked about this exact thing a few weeks ago (for something I’m writing off a prompt that I will admit is actually very very close to this scenario)
But yes, Ingo and Emmet have different tastes when it comes to pizza preferences, and probably have had to eat their fair share of the other’s favorite (and I like your headcanons for their favorites! Elesa’s especially; she would love spicy).
Ingo would have a hard time putting into his thoughts why he feels so weird about this pizza that Akari brought him. He does not like it, yet something about it is very nostalgic and weirdly comforting to him. He might initially chalk it up to just missing pizza in general.
Kalina is the most interesting character to me because of all she has going on…
she is Cassandra’s familiar, she is simultaneously a pet and a friend and a servant and a family to a goddexx that is simultaneously her owner and friend and creator and parent and her god and reason to be—Kalina’s relationship to Cassandra is hard to put a name or label on (since what does being a familiar even mean?) but the bottomline is that this cat loves her deity enough to put everything and everyone on the line for her…
And adding in that she is a child of divorce. So to speak. I am extremely normal and haven’t been driven mad by the detail that baby itty bitty kitty Kalina was at Cassandra’s wedding to Ankarna and is remembered to have been toddling after her as she walked down the aisle…
The boy looks over at the other who is swiping on his phone repeatedly his cheek pressed to the counter boredly as his own friend, Tommy wouldn't be up for several hours.
"You realize refreshing your chat every .2 seconds isn't going to make grian text you magically right?"
Joel frowns and looks over at Tubbo, narrowing his eyes.
"I know that but there's still a chance," he said, not breaking eye contact as he continued to refresh the chat, "I'm just worried about him. He hasn't texted me in days. Days!"
He threw his hand over his heart, clutching his non existent pearls and sighing. He placed his phone in his pocket and rested his head against his hand.
"But, you're right, I shouldn't be worrying this much."