#i could get drunk...

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

#imagine you're a boy who's going to die. you're in love with the girl you've been watching from afar. you know your fate. #you just want to help her‚ but then there's the announcement and she's here in front of you‚ kissing you‚ risking her life for you and you #think‚ i could live and i could love. you think she loves you when she hands you the berries‚ when she puts them in her mouth. #then you both survive and you go back home and nothing is real anymore. you have nothing. no family. no friends. no love. just an empty #house. a drunk for a neighbor. the love of your life walking into somebody else's arms. you think‚ i survived the games. i could survive #this. and you also think‚ i should've bit down on those berries‚ should've felt the juice burst before i died. #and then the third quarter quell announcement rings in your ears and you think‚ she will live and i will die as i should have in the first #place. the girl you love kisses you on the beach and somewhere you heart stirs and your mind revolts and you savor every touch she has ever #given to you‚ in front of the cameras and off. because you are a tribute and you are always being watched and snow's presence looms and #you think‚ i know she cares. but you get taken. you get drugged. you get tortured‚ your mind altered. the girl is a mutt‚ a murderer. she's #everything you despise‚ your mind stirs. your heart revolts. you gain more awareness but cannot distinguish reality from fiction and you #have never known katniss' love. the war ends. you heal. you come home. you plant primrose for her. years down the line‚ you grow in love #more than you thought possible. but some days‚ you cannot tell fiction from reality so you ask the love of your life‚ you love me. #real or not real? and she says‚ real‚ and kisses you. #and you sigh and kiss her back and revel in this. a home. a life. a love. #lit #the hunger games #everlark #otp: real or not real? #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #text #tais toi lys #thgpost

[joycrispy]

I'm seeing some confusion out and about over the title A Companion to Owls (generally along the lines of 'what have owls got to do with it???'), so I'd like to offer my interpretation (with a general disclaimer that the Bible and particularly the Old Testament are damn complicated and I'm not able to address every nuance in a fandom tumblr post, okay? Okay):

It's a phrase taken from the Book of Job. Here's the quote in full (King James version):

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. --(Job 30:29)

Job is describing the depths of his grief, but also, with that last line, his position in the web of providence.

Throughout the Old Testament, owls are a recurring symbol of spiritual devastation. Deuteronomy 4:17 - Isaiah 34:11 - Psalm 102: 3 - Jeremiah 50: 39...just to name a few (there's more). The general shape of the metaphor is this: owls are solitary, night-stalking creatures, that let out either mournful cries or terrible shrieks, that inhabit the desolate places of the world...and (this is important) they are unclean.

They represent a despair that is to be shunned, not pitied, because their condition is self-inflicted. You defied God (so the owl signifies), and your punishment is...separation. From God, from others, from the world itself. To call and call and never, ever receive an answer.

Your punishment is terrible, tormenting loneliness.

(and that exact phrase, "tormenting loneliness," doesn't come from me...I'm pulling it from actual debate/academia on this exact topic. The owls, and what they are an omen for. Oof.)

To call yourself a 'companion to owls,' then, is to count yourself alongside perhaps the most tragic of the damned --not the ones who defy God out of wickedness or ignorance, and in exile take up diabolical ends readily enough...but the ones who know enough to mourn what they have lost.

So, that's how the title relates to Job: directly. Of course, all that is just context. The titular "companion to owls," in this case, isn't Job at all.

Because this story is about Aziraphale.

The thing is that Job never actually defied God at all, but Aziraphale does, and he does so fully believing that he will fall.

He does so fully believing that he's giving in to a temptation.

He's wrong about that, but still...he's realized something terrifying. Which is that doing God's will and doing what's right are sometimes mutually exclusive. Even more terrifying: it turns out that, given the choice between the two...he chooses what's right.

And he's seemingly the only angel who does. He's seemingly the only angel who can even see what's wrong.

Fallen or not, that's the kind of knowledge that...separates you.

(Whoooo-eeeeee, tormenting loneliness!!!)

Aziraphale is the companion.

...I don't think I need to wax poetic about Aziraphale's loneliness and grappling with devotion --I think we all, like, get it, and other people have likely said it better anyway. So, one last thing before I stop rambling:

Check out Crowley's glasses.

(screenshots from @seedsofwinter)

Crowley is the owl.

Crowley is the goddamn owl.

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #there's probably a few thousand words more I could say about this but. I think I'll just hang the implications deliciously aloft for now. #something something tfw the embodiment of all your worst fears and self-doubts shows you the only real kindness you've known for centuries #you can't help but love him and you can't help but fear him but above all you TRUST him the way you're supposed to trust God but don't #brrrrrrr #do you think Crowley would vibe with being an omen of spiritual devastation or do you think he would get drunk about it #good omens meta

[nocofamilyau]

man how messed up is he? (3/24)

#noco family au #total drama #total drama noah #total drama cody #total drama noco #noco lore #sorry for the long wait ill try not to goof off as much when it comes to arcs #hopefully I get this one done somewhere round early feb #got too many ideas for this damned au #but yea also I like how everyones going on about the last few reboot eps #and like im like hey guys look at this its drunk noah look at him #but other than that the last few episodes were just meh #priya and Caleb thingy could have not dragged out for that long #winner was good though #very based #reboot season was very hit or miss #but when it hit #it hit HARD #idk

[patroclusdefencesquad]

why does she put up with them

#because she Loves them #i want to see them get drunk together #also alternatively they could swap lines #the witcher #incorrect witcher quotes #geralt of rivia #yennefer of vengerberg #geraskier #geraskefer #jaskier

[assiraphales]

fuck it. fantasy old western au where zoro is a bounty hunter chasing down outlaws & pisses off the wrong sheriff at a saloon (axe hand morgan). he’s sent to the stocks, hours from dying from heat exhaustion under the hot desert sun, when young upstart monkey d luffy (in search of a stockpile of hidden gold that infamous outlaw gol d roger hid in the mountains) enters the scene guns literally a blazing

#zolu #one piece #I’m in arizona rn on a trip and I’m feeling inspired lmaoooooo #the outlaws are still themed like buggy still wears clown make up just vintage styled #nami is a bartender who swindles unsuspecting drunks. dreams of mapping the country and going to the west coast #sanji cooks in an abandoned train that zeff converted into a restaurant but he dreams of accessing spices and veg he can’t get in the deser #usopp lives in a mining town and kayas parents own the mine #there’s a bit of magic nothing as crazy as the devil fruit powers but there’s ghosts who roam #Native American mythos heavily influences the lore #monsters are real (the sheriffs are supposed to protect the town) #I could go on but I won’t lol

[unexpectedbrickattack]

Drinking Buddies :)

#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #pizza tower vigilante #gustavo #peppino #vigilante #alcohol #drinking #heehee giggly <3 #assume they were both waiting for their ride home dw <3 #pep can handle hard liquor and vigilante cant u_u #but both of them get so bad and silly as soon as they reach a buzzed state #im thinking of that cute album art for the ost that has peppino doing karaoke #hes just SCREAMING into the mic and vigilante is like waow....this tugs at somethin close in my soul..... #and vigilante just starts monologuing LOUDLY when hes wasted. Peppino is kept entertained by this :) #i forgot i wanted to do catty old men but old men being silly was all i could think of last night #get funky get sillay #also also i am looking back and rereading the comic for mistakes #and pep is just a very silly and affectionate drunk hes like #*crying softly* 'i love you....u deserve good things....*hugs them* *passes out in their arms* #when hes still buzzed but sobering up hes like pleasantly warm and vibin #hes throwing out ilu to anyone who will listen #'i told vigi i love u n g'night and he . and he he made. Cheese Bubble. :)' #'thats really nice peppino :)' #'AND I. gugh. I love u too Gus! and i. uhm *tugs at bricks fur* Brick :) and i love brick!' #'we love you too pep :)' #':) *passes out*'

[flowercrowngods]

It's unreal. The light is streaming in through the windows, the curtains still drawn to block out the midday heat, tinging their living room in golden hues that match so well with the light grey fabric of their new sofa.

Eddie should probably snap out of it and head over to the windows, open the curtains and let the light in, and with it the warmth and fresh air of a surprisingly wonderful day.

It's March, he hears the echoes of Steve's giddy voice a week or two ago. Everything's better in March.

Eddie didn't agree then, and he's not sure he agrees now, but he must admit there is something magical about this moment.

Still he remains rooted to the spot, leather jacket heavy on his shoulders, his hands hidden in the sleeves of it, just in case this really is a dream. Just in case someone will come in and snap him out of it, take away their couch and leave an eviction notice.

It's dumb. But Eddie doesn't deal well with things that are unreal. Things that he knows aren't meant for him. Things that he knows he only gets in this one play-through of his life, while millions of other Eddie Munsons are out there in parallel universes who never get to even lay eyes upon a couch this nice. Let alone buy it. From their own real adult money.

It's a corner sofa, the fabric light grey, and he remembers it being harder than it looks. Solid. Just perfect for both their fucked up backs, scar tissue pulling if they sit wrong for too long, phantom pain and muscle aches coming in hot when all they want is to just relax and enjoy a lazy evening.

Eddie bites his lip, trailing his eyes along the pristine fabric, the pillows lining the back of it, the flawless stitches keeping everything in shape.

They have a couch now. A sofa.

It's so fucking unreal.

He drops to the floor right then and there, sitting with his back against the wall, and never once taking his eyes off their sofa. It feels important to look at it for a while. It feels important to wait for Steve. It feels... It feels like maybe he'll ruin everything if he goes and sits on it now.

And it feels really fucking big.

At some point he hears the front door opening, their lock going so smoothly now that Steve fixed it with some graphite, and the sound makes Eddie smile. That's another thing that's unreal. The key barely making any noise, the lock not rattling, the door not creaking and cracking. Eddie pulls a strand of hair between his lips, the smile feeling too silly for this room, for this home, for everything he gets to have now.

For all the tiny things that matter now. All the tiny things he gets to have, turning the key's smooth slide into an allegory of everything he ever wanted but never dared to hope for.

The slide of curtains, the click-click-click of the window handle being turned to let the air in. The breeze of fresh spring air dancing around his nose.

It's all a little much. It's so fucking addicting.

And then Steve. Socked feet coming to a stop beside him, a hand landing in his hair, a voice that's so endlessly warm and fond and maybe a little worried sounding from above him, "Hi, angel."

"Hi," Eddie says, tearing his eyes away from their couch to meet Steve's. The sunlight from the windows hugs him, making him glow. Eddie smiles. He smiles and smiles and never wants to stop.

Steve hums as he leans down to press a kiss to his forehead, and Eddie weaves his arm through Steve's legs, holding onto his knee.

Everything feels a little less silly now. Like every time Steve doesn't question his little moments of sitting on the floor and just staring at things.

"We have a couch now," Eddie says, because it feels important to point out. Because Steve isn't looking at it.

"We do," he hums. "I got the call earlier. Thanks for helping with that, baby."

Eddie nods again, leaning his cheek against Steve's knee and trailing the couch again with his eyes. It looks brighter now that the curtains don't turn the room into something out of a sepia-type movie anymore.

Steve's hands comb through his hair, massaging his scalp a little with his nails. It's nice. It's warm. It's pretty.

And it's so unreal.

"I'm twenty-four," Eddie says then, and some part of him wants to carve that into the fabric. He won't. But maybe he should carve it somewhere else. "And I own a couch. It's a little crazy."

Steve comes to sit down beside him, their shoulders pressed together and he links their hands, resting them in his lap after a brushes a kiss to Eddie's knuckles.

"Why's it crazy, angel?"

He shrugs, resting his head on Steve's shoulders and curling into his warmth some more.

"Most of my life I never thought either of those would happen, y'know."

Another hum, followed by another kiss to the crown of his head. Another smile.

"But you did it," Steve whispers. "You made it. And we've got a couch now."

"We've got a couch now."

Saying it out loud doesn't make it feel any realer. It only makes his heart race and his eyes prick.

"I love you," he says, finally looking away from pretty grey fabric to meet prettier hazel eyes. "I love you so much."

Steve leans in, kissing the tip of his nose. "I love you. Thank you for buying a couch with me."

And it occurs to Eddie then that Steve understands him. Sitting there on the floor with him, hearing his words and listening to those unsaid, understanding Eddie on such a fundamental level that it should be scary. And it is, sometimes.

But he's not scared now. Because they have a couch. And they have pretty curtains that keep the light outside and still turn the room into something magical. And they have a lock that only needed a bit of graphite to let the keys glide smoothly.

And they have each other.

They stay on the floor until Steve's stomach growls, and they eat dinner with their backs against the couch and Eddie's feet in Steve's lap. They hold each other close after dinner, just breathing each other in as the breeze blows around them.

In the end, Eddie is the first to sit on the couch, with Steve standing between his legs and giving him a scalp massage in silence. In the end, Eddie buries his face in Steve's stomach to hide the tears, and Steve lets him.

Because this is real. And he gets to have this. They both do.

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#steddie fic #steddie fanfic #steddie #steve x eddie #listen i have a couch now and if you know me you know that i get really fucking emo about the tiniest things #i fixed my lock with graphite btw when i was blackout drunk. it still fills me with so much joy #sorry tag list gang idk what this is but it wanted out #i could write fics/poems/whatever about the most mundane things until the end of my days tbh so today we have: couch #dio words #dio's steddie ramblings #the hurt/comfort is implied like you'll catch it when you reflect on the words but most importantly this is healing. and comfort. and fluff #and so much love and understanding it makes me wanna throw up

[stiltonbasket]

I was today years old when I found out about the Binghe cameo in MDZS...

#BINGHE WHAT WERE YOU DOING #why were you at an inn crying over sqq #svsss #mdzs #help im in tears #i picture sqq leaving to go do something with sqh #but the day trip turned into a 3 day trip and now binghe is Not Happy #he could go chase after sqq but he doesn't want to intrude on Friend Time #even though shen qingqiu would be happy to see him #and so he can do nothing but sob at an inn u_u #if this wasn't enough there's lwj getting drunk in the bg

[harbingersecho]

she should've been problematic at the club

#rvb #red vs blue #south dakota #agent south dakota #rvb south #mine #*24 #art #moden au bouncer/roadie/security guard south? 👀 #instead of the ai thing she's pissed off at north bc he's all 'so when are you going to get a real job? i'm just worried you're #wasting your potential :( there's a community college near me i could talk to the teacher to let you in :)' treating her like a teenager #'you're not going to want to be throwing drunks out of bathrooms when you're forty south just be realistic' and south's just 🖕 die. #+ AU where south says fuck pfl and becomes a mercenary/bounty hunter? maybe teaming up with sharkface? she could end up at chorus too? #maybe she could get an actual ch arc and finally get out of her brothers shadow + grow as a person?? idk guyss....shes got potential

[chessb0r3d]

i cracked the code.

#believing dirk is the worst guy because its what dirk thinks of himself #ignoring daves bisexuality and think hes a gay man in denial even when he explained hes bisexual #believing john 'im not a homosexual' egbert is explicitly straight while he makes out with his mcconahey and cameron posters more #than he kissed women(literally only once) #believing that rose is an edgy psyhcotic little bitch when she was neglected. she speaks elegantly to cover that shes silly and a total ner #and how did people forget that rose also writes gay wizard fanfiction. reads Wikipedia. and her beautiful artstyle as a result of neglect #(and by neglect meaning having SO MUCH TIME to draw) #jake wasnt into dirk. he also told di that he didnt like how brobot getting touchy with him during strifes #but as part of the repression 4(prospit kids). he refused on changing the bot settings #what jane said about roxy being better when she was drunk. it was fucking sarcasm. its the least insane shit you could say to a best friend #all the kids have issues and of course people get mad over a girl being sarcastic. #when KARKAT said THE SAME THING to rose when she was drunk on the meteor nobody bats an eye #trolls are just grey humans that are bugs. he doesnt get an excuse for being an alien. humans were made from KARKATS BLOOD #jade isnt all silly girl and is so FULL OF HATE towards the trolls. she called karkat a fuckass (VERY FUNNY) to do her a favor #“jade would rather have punched karkat in the fact then had a pleasent conversation with him.” #“she viewed the trolls as rude mean and cruel. and even thought that nepeta was just making fun of her. #despite it being that nepeta just wanted to roleplay and have fun." #dred.loki #I HAVE YET TO ADD MORE. THESE ARE JUST NOTES #homestuck #chss

[marihem]

@fransweek 2024

Day 4: Lazy

What a messy evening...

#my art #frans #sans #sans x frisk #frisk x sans #fransweek 2024 #roommate banter au #frisk #sansfrisk #fransweek #frisk is tipsy but they really should get up and at least put together the trash #and go to bed #but then sans lies down on top of them just because he could #is he drunk? or just asleep? #welp guess they'll just have to sleep like this #too tired and lazy anyways #future frisk and sans will take care of the mess tomorrow #also i was planning a comic for this prompt but i got too Lazy hah-

[57sfinest]

no honestly did jean genuinely not realize that the car in the ocean was a suicide attempt?? did he really think harry was THAT drunk or was he willingly misinterpreting it so he could shift any sympathy away from harry? because i can absolutely see jean seeing it as a suicide attempt but deliberately choosing to frame it as an irresponsible accident resulting from harry's alcoholism, because that way no one will be like "oh shit harry tried to kill himself?" and they'd instead join jean in condemning harry for his addiction

#tbh i feel like jean deliberately framing it as a Harry Drunk Moment incident is more consistent with jean's behavior and stuff #suicide attempts might even now get harry some sympathy but drunk driving won't #and jean's goal in the ending is to make sure harry gets as little sympathy and forgiveness as possible so he can ditch him #i imagine jean has seen a lot of harry's suicide attempts or at least ideation in the past #so it seems unlikely to me that he wouldn't see that wreck for what it is #and if he didn't i feel like that would be out of denial so he could feel more justified in treating harry like shit for it #sorry i love thinking about how to make jean even worse.❤️ #kiwipost #jv meta #AND I'M A JEANLIKER so no one send me shit. ive had enough woobifiers in my inbox already

[knightingale]

Not that it really matters but the thing about the Darry Trial™ in AGoT that I think so many people get wrong is that Sansa was protecting Arya when she said she didn't remember what happened by the Trident. Lets say Sansa told the truth in that scene; she'd necessarily have to include that Arya hit Joffrey with a broomstick, because he was cutting Mycah's cheek for hitting Arya, and that's what led to the fight that had Nymeria biting Joff. But if Sansa said this then Arya would be wrongly seen as the guilty party.

Like, these people didn't care that Mycah was killed, so why would this room full of nobles and mostly Lannister knights care that Joffrey cut him on the cheek? They'd most likely view the situation as their Crown Prince chastising an impudent peasant for hitting highborn Lady Arya Stark. So Arya attacking her "defender" over this could be seen as an unjust (or even an irrational/crazed) assault on the future king. Don't get me wrong, I think Arya was totally right to beat Joff, just like Dunk was right to beat Aerion for the same reason, but their classist and sexist nobility isn't going to view the situation like we do.

And as we learn later, the punishment for striking a royal is to lose the hand that struck them. Do I think Robert would've cut Arya's hand off? No, of course not, but I'm sure that Sansa thought her sister would be punished in some way if she confirmed that Arya had hit a royal. We don't actually learn that Robert thinks the whole affair is no big deal until after Sansa has spoken and with further context we know that Sansa is frightened by Robert... so ya'know.

#plus we have multiple cases of sansa covering for arya in agot so i dont think its ooc for her to do it again in a high stakes situation #nor is it ooc for arya to bad faith sansa/not understand that sansa is covering for her and lash out like she does here too #you could also make the argument that sansa was drunk and genuinely didnt remember what happened #which would help explain why she changes her story multiple times later on #but i wont get into that here #old hat i know - sorry if im not making sense its late #ive just never understood fandoms majority opinion on this scene

[mctreeleth]

Related to but hopefully not spoilling the new episode of Game Changer: one time I decided to do a Dimension 20 drinking game where I took a sip every time Brennan said "you see..." and I had to stop after 3 minutes because I literally couldn't keep up.

#Game Changer #Dimension 20 #Brennan Lee Mulligan #he says it at the start of basically every sentence #you could probably even get drunk just by only drinking for ''you see he says...'' #because that also crops up a LOT #but I never see it included in any drinking games or bingo board type lists

[eerieechos]

“Are you two DRUNK right now??”

#not enough midnight burger fanart out there so I’m doing my part- here are my favorite idiots #not platonic not romantic but a secret third thing #midnight burger #caspar midnight burger #ava midnight burger #ava maddox #midnight burger podcast #Caspar x ava #podcasts #audio drama #fanart #caspava #they are giggly drunks who enable each other’s idiocy #i absolutely cannot get enough of them #Ava gets really touchy and Caspars that guy who’ll be like ‘does anyone dare me to do *inset stupid thing* #and everyone else is like ‘dude nobody’s daring you to do anything’ and he’s like ‘wow I can’t believe you guys are making me do this’ #ava wears glasses but they’re in her pocket or somethin idk I didn’t want to draw them #pose is referenced from mellon_soup cause I could not for the life of me draw correct anatomy tonight #and I needed to get this drawing out of my brain and on to paper STAT #I have GOT to stop drawing the knuckles on the hands #it looks fucking terrible and yet I keep doing it it’s like a curse #artists on tumblr #traditonal art #sketch #art #drawing #my art #we open at six #my stupid aro ass when I realized that they’re probably meant to be romantic in the show: 👁️👄👁️ #<<that’s me coming out btw 🤪 thx for reading the tag ramble

[oh-surprise-its-me]

I’m really drunkso I think that Jamie really likes soft things but never lets himself have them.

Like his dad threw out childhood stuffed animals when he was back in Jamie’s life. And Jamie was crushed so from that point on he literally never let himself have anything.

But once when he was with Roy and they had Phoebe over she passed out animals to them for story time. Jamie ended up with a bear in a rainbow tutu and a skull shirt.

Phoebe fell asleep and Jamie just kept holding the bear. Roy watched and when he tugged Jamie back to his room he still had the bear.

From about that day on Roy would notice when they were out at shops that Jamie wouldn’t really look at any of the stuffies. He couldn’t figure out why until they went to Georgie’s house and he saw that there weren’t really any around. He made some guesses and figured it out and Jamie begged him not to think he was stupid or childish.

Roy of course didn’t think that, he was mostly furious at Jamie’s dad and planning on how to get Jamie a good first stuffie- he took him to a place that sells jellycats and told Jamie to pick out three, one for Phoebe, one for himself and one for Roy.

#jamie tartt #ted lasso #fluff #headcanon #roy kent #phoebe kent #roy x jamie #roy kent x jamie tartt #royjamie #Jamie has trauma he needs to work through and Roy is going to help him #definitely could be read as not romantic but it’s romantic to me #roy also gets him a weighted dino plush bc jamie loves when roy lays on top of him #I am really drunk