#i enjoy a happily ever after

[wizardlyghost]

so funny to me that moriarty paints an enormous and exquisite oil portrait of joan from memory, has joan's other nemesis murdered for daring to intrude on her territory, and joan has the audacity to tell sherlock "the difference between you and me is she's not in love with me". girl, there is no heterosexual explanation for what is happening here.

#joan: *defeats moriarty* #jaime: that's hot. *adds the third ever name to her 'under my protection' list* #sherlock holmes joan watson and jaime moriarty as an ot3 is a terrifying and fascinating prospect #if all three of them were to live in the same house they'd either kill each other or solve every murder in new york history in like a week #i do enjoy the idea tho. the three of them living in the brownstone with jaime's daughter and kitty (sherlock and watson's daughter) #happily and chaotically ever after #elementary

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

Me after watching Betty and Simon’s love story: Aww they’re so cute together! I love them so much omg

Goes on tumblr: “Simon is selfish for not going on the bus with her! And their relationship is toxic.”

Me: I’m uh… going to. Pretend I didn’t see this .

#fionna and cake #adventure time #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #not gonna lie that was a jarring experience #I took Fionna’s comment about the bus to be because of her naivety #like ‘oh so obviously you went on the bus and had a happily ever after adventuring #but he obviously couldn’t go on the bus #that’s not how life works. #like he doesn’t have anything on him he’s not equipped to go on that trip RIGHT THEN #Instead they took a moment to enjoy the skyline and the mundane and existed in each other’s presence because they make each other happy #so like. idk

[were-all-just-stories]

titanic (1997) + letterboxd reviews pt 3

pt 1.

pt 2.

#we all remember their art gallery right #RIGHT #what are you talking about of course they lived happily ever after #people on letterboxd are funnier than I will ever be #so enjoy another series of their musings on titanic #rose dewitt bukater #rose dawson #jack dawson #titanic #titanic 1997 #jack x rose

[incomingalbatross]

I have a groundbreaking concept.

A wedding episode/story where nothing unusual goes wrong (or even NEARLY goes wrong) and the audience and characters both just get to enjoy this big event without it going off the rails at any point.

#this is not inspired by any particular case just by my general grumpiness with the way Wedding Episodes seem to pan out #i don't WANT something to go dramatically wrong! i don't want the wedding to be called off or end up cobbled together out of the wreckage! #this should be a great opportunity to show your characters' bonds and love for each other--both in the pairing and the community around the #also i just hate seeing people's hard work and plans wrecked and do you know how much work goes into a wedding?? #i WANT to see the dress and the cake and the flowers and the reception that they worked so hard on actually come to fruition #but probably most of all and especially. weddings ARE supposed to be the start of a Happily Ever After and if you've done your job right #then the characters getting married should have MERITED that #the plot can continue after sure. but i want them to get One Nice Day for the start of their new life. marriage deserves celebration #and domesticity! marriage deserves the domesticity of an episode where everyone successfully enjoys a really nice party after the wedding!

[thetarttfuldickhead]

Uh, so, I saw this kickass piece of fanart by @thwipped and whoops, innit:

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If caught and asked about it, Jamie couldn’t have explained why he did it.

Actually, no. Scratch that.

He could have explained, probably. He just wouldn’t have cared to.

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The way it goes is this:

He’s been with Richmond for a couple of months and haven’t those been the longest fucking months of his life, because yeah, ‘course it’s fun being the best fucking player on the team, ‘course it’s fun hearing the fans chant his name, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo, and getting a bit of rest from his dad ain’t bad either, but Richmond is a shit club with a shit manager and the only fucking bright spot—

Well. That’s turned out to be shit too, hasn’t it.

At least Jamie’s killing it, at matches, at training, every fucking time he steps onto the pitch. No one can fucking touch him, dominating yeah, and today’s been a good day for it too, what with the photographer on the sidelines snapping picture after picture for some promo or other. Jamie didn’t pay too much attention to the details, just made sure they got him from his best angle (every angle’s his best angle), and that’s that, until a couple of days later when he walks past Hopkins’ (or Huggles’?) empty office and sees the photos spread out all across the desk.

And well. ‘Course he steps inside to have a look. Bound to be a bunch of him looking fit as fuck, right, and who doesn’t want to see that, and maybe he can grab one for Keeley, bet she’d love it.

There is a bunch of him looking fit as fuck, no surprise there. Difficult to choose the best one really, they’re all fucking brilliant  (‘cause he’s fucking brilliant), and he’s deliberating between an action shot of him about to score one of the prettiest goals this sad fuck of a club ever saw and a shot of him afterwards, chin raised against he blue autumn sky like a hero out of a movie or something. Gorgerous, innit.

And then his eyes fall on a picture of Roy.

A picture of Roy fucking Kent. And. Like. It’s not even anything special, not like Roy’s actually doing anything in it, it's just a stray shot of him caught unawares with his shirt raised to wipe the seat of his forehead and he’s—

He’s. Uh.

Fuck. Jamie stares and he stares and he stares because for all that his old attraction to Roy didn’t survive five fucking minutes of actually being in the same room as the man, that’s just—

The shorts riding low on his hips. The dark hair trailing down and down, and the glistening drops of sweat on his forehead and Jamie can fucking smell him and that’s not sexy, is it, except it really fucking is, and those arms, and something unguarded and vulnerable and the real Roy Kent is a royal cunt but the Roy Kent in the picture—

He’s something else, isn’t he. He’s fucking fit. (Okay, the real Roy Kent is that, too, but it kind of fades in the face of him being an insufferable old twat and all that.)

Jamie grabs the picture. Doesn’t let himself think too much about it. Shoves it in his pocket and walks away, feeling it burn, burn, burn against his side.

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When Jamie was twelve his mum gave him a poster of Roy Kent and Jamie was over the fucking moon. When Jamie was twenty-three he met Roy Kent and Roy Kent glared at him with unmitigated disgust and okay, fuck you too, mate. You’re not even that good anymore, and still you expect everyone to fall at your fucking feet, do your fucking bidding and make like you’re the fucking king, and fuck that, the king is dead, old man; long live the king.

Thing is, looking at the picture now it’s not that hard to forget about the real Roy Kent (nasty bastard) and remember the Roy Kent (fucking legend) that looked down on Jamie from his bedroom wall and whispered encouragements in the back of Jamie’s head and, a little later, featured frequently in fantasies of a different sort.

Picture in one hand, cock in the other, Jamie wanks to Roy for the first time since he came to Richmond (and if it’s not all just the memories of the man he once imagined, if it’s a little bit tinged with dark looks and growls and Roy snarling his name like it’s an insult… Well. That’s nobody’s business, that.)

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He keeps the photos in the bottom drawer in his bedroom and he doesn’t pull it out a lot, ‘cause there’s Keeley and she’s fucking fit and the sex is mindblowing and Jamie doesn’t need to gawk at pictures of sad old has-beens to get his rocks off.  

Sometimes there’s a different sort of itch, though, and he scratches it. No big deal.

(He wonders sometimes, what the real Roy would say if he knew. Plays it out in his mind, all the different ways it might go. Cums as he imagines it.)

He thinks maybe Keeley would like the picture too. Not ‘cause she’d like Roy, she’s got way better taste than that, and she’s fun and she likes a bit of fun and if there’s one thing Roy Kent ain’t, it’s fun, innit. But he’s fit and all, and Keeley’s got eyes.

He imagines it, sometimes, the two of them getting off together over the picture. If Roy – the real Roy – wasn’t such a miserable old prick, he’d suggest it to her maybe. But Roy is such a miserable old prick, and the whole thing is way too complicated to explain, so he doesn’t.

Then Keeley dumps him and the dream was only ever that.

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They send him back to City. Jamie doesn’t understand. One moment he’s sharing a bottle of tequila with Dani Rojas and taking up the Richmond chant and Jamie’s not wrong and for the first time he wonders if maybe there could be something for him here, and the next he’s woken up by his agent and that same evening he’s back in Manchester like he never left, only the stale air in the house he bought with his fifth paycheck tells him he did, and the numb sense of loss as he steps through the door tells him he did.

It’s months before he gets everything from London shipped and sorted. Busy getting up to speed with everything at the club and all. It’s good to be back, really, a proper team, a proper coach, all that. Dad starts getting in touch again, sure, but it is what it is.

So yeah, it’s months before he gets all his stuff unpacked and months before his fingers brush over something familiar and he stands there staring down on the picture or Roy and it’s odd because it seems like only yesterday he first saw it and it seems a lifetime ago.

A rush of lust – Pavlovian, right, Keeley? – but a rush of something else too, rusted barb wire tugging at his guts, sharp and sickening.

He looks at it for a long time and then he puts it away and this time he doesn’t take it out again. That’s over and done with.  

(Only, he doesn’t throw it away either. Just lets it sit in a neglected drawer, ignored but never let go, like all the other things that must never be.)

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(There’ll be a time, some years later, boxes packed and moved and unpacked and an old photo slipping to the floor and

what the fuck is this?

and

what’s that, babe? oh my god, you look hot! fucking hell! jamie, where did you even get this?

and

when did you get this? i’m still playing here

and

uh, well, you remember that photo shoot they did for the promo just a couple of months after i joined richmond?

and a raised eyebrow and

yeah?

and a shrug and cheeky grin and

yeah, well, picked it up for darts practise, didn’t I

and Roy snorts but he’s smiling too and

figures you’d be shit at darts

and

what are you on about, man, i’m aces at darts… ooh, because there’s no holes in it you mean, yeah, no, you’re right, you’re right, i’m shit at darts, fucking terrible

and they’re both smiling now and Keeley is too and Roy notes how it’s clearly been handled a lot and what were you doing with it really and the glint in his eyes says he knows but Jamie tells him – tells them – anyway, in great, great detail.)

#this got angstier than expected #but all’s well that ends well i guess? #the moment i saw this fanart my mind went STRAIGHT to jamie (and keeley!) enjoying - ahem - it #arguably this piece was also influenced by mickey milkovich and the picture he kept of ian gallagher #which is super fucking sad so maybe the sad factor of this wasn't THAT unexpected actually #but after angst comes happily ever after! #at least in this household #royjamie #royjamiekeeley #jamie tartt #roy kent #my stuff #ficlet

[lizzzardwizard]

Fine. I'm about to say it.

svsss is mxtx's best work.

#svsss #ive only read through the third volume #but it seems like vol 4 is mostly happily ever after and some side stories #so i can say i do think svsss is the best #i LOVED tgcf and when i reread it im sure ill say tgcf is the best but #scum villain #scum villain is on another level #i did enjoy all three series but svsss blew me away

[usertimothee]

hi richonne tumblr! ahead of the ones who live finale i just want to say that no matter what happens i have so enjoyed getting to know so many wonderful people on here and even becoming dear friends with some of you.

and if this is truly the last time we will ever see rick and michonne onscreen, i want to thank danai gurira and andrew lincoln for so beautifully portraying and always, always fighting for rick and michonne grimes and their love story. it has been the pleasure of a lifetime watching their beautiful relationship unfold on our tv screens.

#the walking dead #richonne #the ones who live #rebekah stop talking #'no matter what happens' i mean them reuniting with judy and rj and living happily ever after #but for real #it's been a wild ride and i've so so enjoyed every moment of it #danai gurira #andrew lincoln

[tortoisesshells]

34. stars; for maggie and joe.

Maggie Evans hadn’t asked for much in life, and had let much of what she wanted pass her by: little trinkets she couldn’t afford, friends she had no time for, Joe Haskell, who’d never looked her way, until – Until he had. And then, crushingly, he hadn’t. If there were solace in knowing why Maggie was too far gone to feel it – seeing that thing’s teeth in his neck had made her throat own ache, and heart go light, as though she was scarcely tethered to life at all. Joe said he had to answer the door, after the knock came again – if she could only get him away from here, just as she had thought, those horrible weeks in the Old House, that if she could just run far enough away, she could be free of Barnabas – She took hold of his bedside lamp. Mouthing her silent apologies, thinking desperately of the moon and stars over a balmy sea, of some place in the world where no one had ever even heard of Collinsport – Maggie brought it down on Joe’s head with a dull thud.

send me a number and two (or more) characters, and get a five sentence drabble!

#god if i think to hard about how bullshit the end of 599 is i will start barking. frothing at the mouth. biting. #oh? maggie figured it out? maggie put it all together? finally can get some justice for everything barnabas (and jules) did to her? #could save joe from following the same path even if they're done forever? #lol no. this is no longer the 'women possess brains and agency show'. #BARK. BARK BARK BARK. #ahem. #anyway. #please enjoy five sentences in which maggie evans performs percussive maintenance on her ex; outwits a warlock; and escapes thru; #an open window. i hear she and joe got married in vegas and set up in a nice little coastal town in cali. they never went back to; #collinsport and lived happily ever after. <3 #fic #my fic

[adaines-furious-feast]

One thing I love about Gerard is that he does seem to be genuinely in love with Elody. He knows Elody is probably in a very dangerous place and while it's established he's a very cowardly character, he still wants to find her and help her. Maybe by sending someone else, but help her all the same. And yeah, it might be because he's still holding onto the idea that she's his "true love" but Gerard obviously doubts if Elody still thinks that. He tells himself Elody still loves him because he needs to convince himself. And it would be easy for him to say "I'm turning back into a frog because Elody wasn't The One" and decide to look for another true love. But he doesn't, because he still loves Elody.

#I don't even blame him for being more concerned about balls than war #I think about how growing up I was always told to do well in school and uni and I'd have a good life #But life doesn't work like that #Gerard did everything right and was trying to enjoy the life that was promised to him #And it's not *fair* that the war happened when he did everything right #And he wants Elody to enjoy the Happily Ever After too #dimension 20 #neverafter #Gerard is a good egg

[jennycalendar]

little darling, the smiles returning to the faces

little darling, it seems like years since it’s been here

#faith and the witch tag #jenny calendar day #jenny and faith #calendiles #fuffy #OH BOY OKAY ART TIME IN A BIG WAY #i have two more lined up for today! enjoy some beautifully colored happily ever afters #from my most important fic babies ❤️❤️❤️❤️ #ANYWAY. #celiart #jenny calendar #rupert giles #buffy summers #faith lehane #xander harris #willow rosenberg

[lioriel]

Day Thirty-one: Happily Ever After

#sisters grimm #puck goodfellow #The Council of Mirrors #Puckabrina #Epilogue #Sisters Grimm MB #Michael Buckley #Sorry Bradley #The real Happily Ever After here is that I fixed his stupid hair #Like seriously what were they thinking #Also I think he'd wear his crown. Because um... Yeah. He's Puck. #Also I didn't draw the full stained glass because I didn't feel like it. @_@ #It seems I really enjoy dramatic lighting #Anyway. I'm done now. All 31 Days. I did them. ALL OF THEM. #Hated at least half of the pieces #learned a lot along the way #10/10 Would do again #my art

[wildflowercryptid]

so many untapped potential friendships in eah... darling & cerise... farrah & cupid... cedar & lizzie...

#girls who have to hide aspects of themselves & challenge their society's gender roles... #girls destined to aid others towards their happily ever after but struggle with potentially never attaining their own... #lizzie & cedar aren't as heavy as the other two i just think they'd enjoy being artists around each other and sharing ideas #lizzie would appreciate cedar's honesty when it comes to her designs i think #i have more friendship ideas (a lot of them w/ darling) so i might add to this #ever after high #mj.txt

[h3xrts4-me]

i really like the idea of mike getting a cat and it doesnt matter when but im convinced mike wheeler wants or has had a cat in his life and ive decided that he should have one after the apocalypse is over and he and will move out of hawkins and they got a cat and a dog because theyre both literally opposites attract idk what to tell you

#cant deny it #mike gets a cat #and will gets a dog #and they move in together #somewhere completely different #and they live happily ever after #and the cat and dog get along #and will and mike just get to sit and enjoy their lives now that they dont have to deal with vecna and the upside down and hawkins #i need byler to be happy at the end of season 5 #you dont understand #its necessary #stranger things #byler #yeah

[micdixart]

Listen, i just need to know, are you making sangskier doomed bc you enjoy the angst or bc you think it's cringe to ship oc's w canon characters? I really hope it's not the latter bc it's not cringe at all, sang's the best and he deserves the bard TAT

aw no it's not that! i just think it makes sense looking at the characters, at the end of the day i think jaskier loves Geralt and will always return to him. He can fall in love with others along the way but geralt will always be his final choice, and i think Sang would know that and just enjoy the time he does get with him

#i know it's sad but at long as jaskier's happy sang is happy #tho at the same time he's an oc #so if you want to imagine him and jaskier end happily ever after you are totally free too because i also enjoy that uwu

[spookywriters]

Won't name the genre because I don't feel up to dealing with any randos who feel the need to be deliberately obtuse about what I'm saying but:

Sometimes I want to take some people aside and say "Hey, maybe this isn't The Genre for you, that's okay. What isn't okay is you continuing to engage with it and then complaining when it does what its supposed to do, or does something you personally don't care for and calling it bad or Problematic™ for doing so"

#the problem with engaging solely in one kind of media #or to weirdly puritanical beliefs #is that people don't seem to understand 'not every story ends happily ever after' #or 'this genre is meant to elicit certain feelings from you and its not bad for doing so' #and then get upset about it instead of like...just going elsewhere #or unlearning these weirdly ingrained ideas about what all media 'should' be doing #but also sometimes people just...keep engaging with media they don't like #and complaining about it and its like... #dude there's a lot out there you almost certainly WOULD enjoy #why not do that instead of continuing to go for things you don't like #and know you don't like? Are you catholic? Is that why you insist on suffering for no reason? #ANYWAYS #people who have known me long enough will know what specific genre I'm on about #(partly because I have kinda had this complaint before lmao) #but I dunno keeping it vague like this makes this point fit other genres too I'm sure

[sagesfandomspot]

Yeah so this week's episode of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is probably my favorite of this season so far and tbh I did not except to cry multiple times for multiple reasons in one episode buuut I will probably be watching it again before next week's

#I've actually really enjoyed the season so far #i feel like everything has been pretty realistic even if things aren't the happily ever after we had hoped for #the palladinos have always been good at writing complicated characters and complicated storylines #and they continue to do so #the marvelous mrs. maisel #tmmm