#i really can’t deal with this

[charl3ss]

Kaz and Inej obviously get married one day because she’s religious and Kaz wants the tax benefits + he wants to make her happy, and I just know when that day comes Kaz takes HER last name

#he’d still keep Brekker for business dealings but other than that it’s Ghafa baby! #I can’t see Inej changing her name (nor would Kaz want her to) and he doesn’t really have a name to claim #since he’s disavowed Rietveld and Brekker is the bastard of the barrel all the way through #but Ghafa……. #six of crows #betsey rambles #kanej

[yashley]

It’s easier with people around you. To make you feel more like you.

#critical role #ygifs #cr2 #yasha #honestly what's the point in gifs when your heart can’t wrench from the crack in her voice #anger is an emotion I know how to deal with because thats where I live just. just. completely. #the way that grief is the soil of rage will never not be with me #yasha not being present for the majority and yet her entire character arc and growth being so powerful and purposeful I just #their love never leaving her even when she was lost and their love embracing her back just as fiercely #loss and grief and guilt and loneliness and rage and c2 really said we will keep you still and your hair will grow white again

[estrellami-1]

If I Should Stay

Part 1 | . . . | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9

After pizza—and after El wakes up and eats her own pizza—everyone gathers around again to listen to Steve and Robin. “So I think by now we’ve proven we’re from the future,” Steve says. “We’re here, four years in the past, because a lot of bad things happen, and if we can, we’d like to stop those things from happening. The big one, and really the recurring problem, is a guy named Henry Creel who essentially took control of an alternate plane of existence we call the Upside Down.” He motions El over beside him, and she goes gladly, tucking her feet up onto the couch as she leans into his side, trusting him to hold her up. He does, sliding a protective arm around her shoulders as he says, “He’s also One.”

He watches as one by one the lightbulbs come on. “Oh, shit,” Dustin whispers, and Steve doesn’t even call him on it, just nods.

“Beyond Henry, though, there are creatures in the Upside Down that can and will kill you.” He rolls his eyes fondly at the boys. “For some inexplicable reason, you came up the names, so they’re called demogorgons, demodogs, and demobats. Demogorgons are what took Barb and Will, but they both got away. That doesn’t mean they’re safe, though. Like El said earlier, Barb was safe in the moment, but it’s still a very dangerous place. There are vines everywhere that are connected to a hive mind. You step on one, and Henry knows you’re there.”

He continues telling the story, Robin interrupting when there’s a detail he misses. It’s silent when they finish. Finally, El speaks up. “So, it is… my fault?”

“No, El,” Steve says softly. “None of this is your fault. Things out of your control happened that made you who you are. Those same things created all of this.”

El frowns. “So I am bad? Like One? Like the Upside Down?”

“No,” Mike says sharply. “You’re good, El.”

“He’s right,” Steve murmurs. “You made yourself good.” He pokes her arm teasingly, and she smiles, leaning back into him.

Steve looks around, catches Nancy’s eye, and sighs. “Nance? A word?”

“Steve?” Robin asks.

He shakes his head. “I’ll yell if I need you,” he promises, rubbing her head as he passes. She squawks and bats his hand away.

“Asshole,” she mutters, and he laughs as he disappears down the hallway, Nancy in tow.

They end up in a room Steve thinks was meant to be a study. “You have questions.”

“Understatement of the century. There’s just one that’s really bugging me, though.”

“Us?”

“Yeah.”

Steve sighs and leans against the wall. “On Halloween, Tina throws a party. We didn’t know what we do now, about the Upside Down, and you were still looking for her. I was an asshole, self-centered and unhelpful.” He blows out a breath, crosses his arms, and looks away. “You got drunk, called me, and my love for you, bullshit. Left. I tried to talk to you the next day at school about it and you couldn’t say you loved me. I was still hopeful. I’m a romantic at heart, y’know? I thought maybe if I could be everything you needed, if I changed enough, if, if, if…” he shakes his head. “So we stayed together. I tried. You slept with Jonathan Byers, then broke up with me.”

Nancy looks horrified. “Steve-”

He shakes his head. “I made my peace with it. And maybe this makes me an asshole, I dunno, but Nance, I can’t go back. We’re okay, we’re friends, but I can’t pretend I still have feelings for you. I’m sorry, but we both know I was just convenient for you.”

Nancy takes a breath. “So that’s it?”

Steve shrugs helplessly. “I don’t know what you want me to do. I tried and got my heart broken for it. I moved on, found someone I think I can really be happy with, without changing who I am. And for the record? It gets rocky for a second, but I think you and Byers are it, too.” He smirks. “Plus Mike likes him better than me.”

Nancy rolls her eyes. “Oh, well, if Mike likes him better…” they both laugh, and she looks at him. “No more feelings?”

He shakes his head. “We make much better friends.”

Nancy grins lopsidedly. “And Robin?”

Steve snorts. “Purely platonic, I promise. Neither of us want anything else with each other.”

Nancy looks at him then. Studies him. “You’ve been through some shit,” she decides. “But you look happy.”

He smiles. “I am, for the most part. I know who I am.”

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#stranger things #if I should stay #steve harrington #eddie munson #eventual steddie #nancy wheeler #past stancy #robin buckley #platonic stobin #eleven #Steve and eleven #yallll this one. this one was hard to write #please believe me Steve does NOT hate Nancy #he’s not even really upset anymore #but he’s GROWN and MATURED and knows he can’t do it anymore #he’s making such a mature decision!!!! #also no Nancy is not okay but she’ll deal in her own way #Steve knowing who he is can be something so personal TO ME- #like listen. he didn’t know who he was for a LONG time #which means he let himself be whoever anyone else needed #which is NOT healthy #he’s doing SO MUCH BETTER now #I love him #starambles

[broflovski-brah]

it’s kinda funny how almost every character with albinism in media is always portrayed as a villain. as if that isn’t feeding into every stereotype out there.

the only protagonist i’ve found with albinism in media was in a book where the girl turns out to be a witch. which is arguably on the level of bad as the evil albino stereotype.

idk why this bothers me so much. nobody knows about albinism and it’s not like it’s actively discriminated against. but i wish there was more media where more normal people had albinism instead of the PWA turning out to be an evil villain or a witch, they turn out to be a normal person with normal struggles. like give me a story about a character with albinism trying to navigate the world on their own terms, trying to fit in and such WITHOUT using stereotypes.

like yes. i know people being ignorant towards a certain condition isn’t the worst thing in the world. maybe i have no right to complain about it given the other tings that are happening in the world that kinda trump issues like this. but it’s still an issue. the fact that people believe these things is just sad to me tbh.

another thing that bugs me is when people refer to us as ‘albinos’. like not everyone hates that word. some PWAs are okay with it. i just say it because it’s shorter and easier to type out than ‘person with albinism’ but even in media seeing the character being referred to as ‘the albino’ makes my stomach turn. people use the word ‘albino’ to refer to animals; most of the time. the word itself can feel dehumanizing sometimes, in certain contexts. for me it’s better to say person with albinism. it’s putting the person before the disability and it doesn’t feel as degrading.

anyway. my inbox is always open if you have questions for me about how to write a character with albinism. i know nobody is gonna see this or care but i just thought i’d say smth.

#skipper speaks #albinism #slbino #albinism awareness #writing help #this is really important to me #any reblogs would help tramensously #visual impairment #visual disability #disability #ableism #stereotypes #i know in this day and age u can’t even be complaining about people saying hurtful things about people like me in media #and spreading said stereotypes given that there are actual groups dealing with a lot worse #and i feel bad complaining about it #but it needs to be said #i guess #idk

[theminecraftbee]

[writing found in a floating temple belonging to an unknown player on a distant server. while there were no signs of life in the temple, there were signs of life in the caves below it, including some rusted armor sets, complicated machinery overgrown by birch saplings, and a small robot with a tag on it that read “lil buddy” and a battery clutched in one of its claws. despite all attempts, researchers could not find the portal that is normally found by those players taken in by the vault gods, though given the presence of an altar, it is certainly nearby, and the area has been quarantined until that portal’s location can be ascertained.]

I asked Idona to save me the other day.

It feels fickle; it feels like the sort of thing I only said because that’s what one ought to say to gods, when they want something from them. “Save me, Idona.”

They did no such thing, but I didn’t expect them to. I knew them when they still demanded blood sacrifice; now that they merely demand challengers at their altar instead of anything so obvious as the blood of their enemies, it can be easy to forget how malicious they had once seemed. It’s easy to forget that asking things of them had once ended poorly.

Perhaps that’s the Paradox that they are showing me; I had asked Idona to save me because within that Paradox, they would build a mine. That a blood god now offers mines and blacksmiths to me instead, in a place I can design to access myself—well, it’s easy to forget how I once knew them.

It’s easy to forget how often their challenges killed me once, too, back before I knew the trick to finish them quickly. The Gods had seemed just as cruel and capricious as always when I’d simply failed to find enough of the chests they’d laid out and they punished me by causing my health to steadily fade away.

That rarely happens anymore.

You see, yesterday, I killed a wither with a single hit from my javelin and a single hit from my sword. As I flew home, a nether star clutched in my feelers, I felt very little. It was hardly a challenge compared to the vaults; I don’t know why I’d expected more.

The gods have challenged me; I have risen to that challenge. I sweep through vaults, their minders at the side of my head, until I find their altar to bow at, find their altar to make promises of being the challenger they’re looking for at. I know the tricks to find my way around a vault, after all. I spend more time there than the overworld.

I wonder if I’m becoming arrogant, actually.

Even without my armor or sword, I’m too strong for the endermen I used to accidentally release from my farms. I hit them once and they die; if the punch doesn’t work, a javelin or a cast spell will. With the endermen, it’s fine.

With my parrots or dogs—

I have Lil Buddy now. He can’t die because I’m not meant for the overworld anymore, I don’t think.

I wonder if that, too, is the Paradox. The gods are gifting me unlimited power. I step into a vault I have designed myself, under their guidance, and I pull untold riches from it every time. The gods are gifting me strength, which I can call from an altar at any time. No threat can step near me without either being poisoned or scratched by the strength of my blade.

But I have not had a pet that is not made of metal in—I don’t know how to count days any longer. Time passes strangely inside of vaults. It is Wendarr’s trickery. I simply know I haven’t since I was level 70, and that feels like ages ago.

That’s about when I realized perhaps I am untouchable to that which I want, too.

Maybe I should ask Idona to save me for a reason that was not me, desperately trying to seek out their altar for jewels I hardly need these days; maybe I should ask Idona to save me from sacrificing more than I can give.

I know them, though. I’ve known them since they’ve demanded blood.

They won’t.

And one day, I will give them everything, and I will thank them for it. The one god that even they worship above all others, after all, is greed, and that is an altar I cannot simply stop going to.

#vh talk #vh logs #vault hunters #a bee fic #I was playing vault hunters tonight and DID ACTYALLY SAY ‘save me idona’ #and it was a joke but it made me think #so here! some fanfic of my level 95 sona realizing that they are untouchable these days for better or worse. #me realizing that I am currently REALLY USED TO being a late-game rpg player that deals ~150 damage an attack with regularity #me realizing how untouchable that makes me to. anything that can’t punch through 115 armor points and like 300 DPS #late-game vault hunters is wild man.

[amongthezinnias]

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride to the OG pairing since 2009. 🏳️‍🌈

Bonus:

(part 2 here)

#most of these are fuzzy but i still feel like i got some great stills of brosenthal #i can’t even pick a favorite. maybe the package deal one #or the library card one #or the consequences of my actions. what can i say i love the graveyard scene #i do not support jkr and consider the musicals to be pretty far removed from her scope #anyways how do yall feel about gay love piercing through the veil of death and saving the day? <3 #starkid #avpm #quirrellmort #brian rosenthal really gave one of the best performances of the trilogy in the graveyard scene imo. #‘​‘no… i didn’t see the end‚ because YOU were watching it while you were on the back of my head‚ SUCKING MY SOUL!!!!!’’ #long post #mine

[indigosprite]

#khr #why can’t you just be normal #I deal once a year #khr meme #I really wanna know what fashion is being referenced

[figofswords]

wow I didn’t think reblogging that tea post and then seeing people’s tags would deal me such strong psychic damage. come over I can fix you I can find a tea you will like. “I don’t like tea” how can you say that as a blanket statement when there are so many vastly different kinds of tea. head in hands

#‘it’s like coffee but not good’ #while a cup of black tea does have a great deal less caffeine in it than coffee #it also has a stimulant called l-theanine which is NOT found in coffee #and the more complex combination of the two stimulants hit your system much more slowly #which is why tea doesn’t give you jitters like coffee does #anyone who’s like wow I need my coffee to survive but I hate that it makes me nauseous and gives me heart palpitations and bad breath #to you I say. wean yourself off coffee and onto tea!!!!!!! #but WAIT I can keep going. nauseous? ginger tea. sore throat? peppermint contains menthol which works as a numbing agent #green and black teas are both very high in antioxidants #chamomile and lavender do both have a calming affect #BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TASTE I hear you say #IT TASTES LIKE GRASS. try a floral tea or a black tea or chai or Thai tea #ITS SO BITTER you’re either steeping it for too long or the water you’re using is too hot #not to sound like I’m fucking uncle iroh or something I just apparnerlt have strong thoughts and feelings about tea #I can’t handle ppl going ugh I hate tea and it’s like. overbrewed lipton in microwaved tap water. #anyway MY favorites are jasmine and lavender earl grey #and currently I’m really into this corn silk tea my brother bought me at h mart #it’s like gen mai cha but even more #congrats for making it this far into my tea rant tags. if you comment your tastes I can give you a personalized tea recommendation

[sableeira]

okay but does anyone except for Mori and Fukuzawa know that Yosano is exempt from the ADA member switches to PM deal? Because if Fukuzawa kicks the bucket and nobody knows about the true conditions that could cause some real problems for the future.

#did I miss anything?? does any other Ada member know about the deal??? #I’m genuinely asking because I can’t remember if the deal was talked about again after it was mentioned the first time #surely fukuzawa told someone else about right?? #but it feels like there wasn’t really time or reason for him to bring it up to anyone #Fukuzawa dying would cause problems in general #the effect on Ranpo would be tremendous #the members wouldn’t be able to control their power like they used to (especially a problem for Atsushi because he never really learned to #control it without fukuzawa’s ability) #I’m being hypocritical here (kinda) because I’m begging for some proper consequences in bsd for a while now #but once proper consequences seem more likely I’m being a little bitch hoping they will all manage the situation without issues #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd spoilers #bsd 108 #yosano akiko #fukuzawa yukichi #mori ougai

[averagemrfox]

Gonna need rwby fans to get with me on this one

#rwby #greenlight volume 10 #but more genuinely I know how exhausting it is to continually see shows you love get the shitty end of the deal #when executives at corporations decide the only important thing is their profit margin #but even if y’all can’t make the energy to get your hopes up god I really hope yall don’t stop creating and talking about rwby #it’s just (and I know I’ve said this so many times now) hope is such a core value to the show if not THEE core value

[honeyby]

The way that we’ve just come full circle since Mountain Glenn…Weiss, Blake, and Yang being the ones who are sure of who they are and what it means to be a Huntress while Ruby’s the one struggling to find herself. And it’s in part because they’ve been challenged on what it means before.

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby9 #we’re also seeing how their post-Beacon journeys have impacted them #Weiss Blake and Yang got to heal and deal with their issues #Ruby…just kept going #she’s never really addressed her problems #and I can’t wait to see her find herself

[unholy-boi]

deeply underrated duo. i think they should have hung out

#my art #fern the human #fern mertens #betty grof #magic betty #adventure time #fionna and cake #atimers #in my heart of hearts this is canon and we just never saw it #but i think that like. fern would go to Betty because she seems like the only person in ooo to be studying how to fix curses and fern wants #to fix his shit. betty takes him in only because it could be beneficial to her research #given that the grass curse is a NASTY ONE #and it’s holding his body together and affecting his mental state and ability to control himself #so betty is going to run like. every test she can on this boy #fern will go along with it because he’s desperate #and eventually #because fern kinda feels like he has Nobody he gets attatched to Betty and might even start seeing her as something of a mother figure. lol. #which is fucked up!! because betty has no interest in being this kids mom and she really only wants to use him for research but now she #can’t get rid of him and he’s still Useful obviously so she just kinda has to. deal with it #Does anyone hear me. please god.

[avirxy]

beauty and beast au but Claire’s the one cursed because she’s the only one I can see literally pissing a sorceress off enough to get cursed. (If we’re going off the original movie Jim would probably offer them a hot meal and a room for the night, knowing him he’d make everything super accommodating)

#are we seeing the vision or have I lost my mind #Jim would literally drop everything to help this literal hag who waltzed through the door #Claire would..not be doing that #bonus points if the witch is Morgana then they’re throwing hands #I could see her trying to offer a deal like say she’s after Claire’s magic and sevitude or something and when she refuses boom Morgana #curses her and everyone else that’s in the ballroom at the time #And because it’s Morgana she’d probably make the curse super difficult to break #so like by the time she’s 18 if she doesn’t agree to serve Morgana when the last petal on the rose falls she dies with the rose #so Claire’s kinda given up on hope cuz she’d rather die than give Morgana her magic #Barbara’s a traveling doctor so her and Strickler set off to another town for a trip and get caught in the snow storm #and they get locked up for entering the castle and trespassing #Jim goes after them because they don’t come back the day after #instead of Claire keeping them there though I think she’d just give all three the chance to leave with some pressing from her friends #Jim ends up rethinking his decision due to the fact that Toby even as a cursed object can’t for the life of him keep a secret #when he hears the castle is under a curse he’s immediately interested in helping #even if Claire really just wants this nosy human boy and his parents to be on their way #oh shit I think I just wrote another au #trollhunters #tales of arcadia #jim lake jr #claire nuñez #toa #jlaire #this was just chillin in my drafts for awhile

[anthyies]

kind of a milf. reblog

#my brain can’t make metaphorical compositions anymore it’s out of juice but i still want to draw. so #lee sookyoung #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #esha.txt #mycreations #WHO’S EXCITED FOR KDJ LSK ISSUES TIME IN THE WEBTOON IN A FEW WEEKS #i think in about two episodes? we’ll get the kdj has died message? #oh i didn’t properly ref the webtoon so the mask is off a bit but it’s fine #i think she’s a fascinating character btw… like i always think about how her actions w/ kdj are reproduced by him. agh agh agh <- sounds of #me taking damage. also like the way she’s. not just a mother you know? the scene where it isn’t just kdj who can help reconstruct her storie #s. there’s a lot he doesn’t know or understand about her and a lot she’s kept hidden from him Including the big thing. Hehe. That’s soon #Can u believe webtoon onlies don’t even really know kdj’s deal yet…

[rip-rbg]

judy hale deserved so much better

#honestly what the fuck #i’m still really disappointed honesty #i can’t give myself days #i gave myself hours and i can’t get over how unhappy i was with the ending #to take the most deserving character and literally KILL HER #CAUSE FUCKING WHY?! #literally the wordt thing i can’t even deal with it #i waited two years for judy to die i fucking can’t #dead to me #dtm #judy hale #judy x jen #jen harding