#otp: i can't help it

[anghraine]

It's 11 PM, but one of my favorite little Darcy/Elizabeth moments happens while she still hates him and thinks he's a depraved monster, and I find it really entertaining.

It's during the Kent section, when Darcy calls at the parsonage and finds Elizabeth alone. During a longer, awkward conversation in which they both deeply misunderstand each other, they have this tiny interchange:

[Darcy:] “This seems a very comfortable house. Lady Catherine, I believe, did a great deal to it when Mr Collins first came to Hunsford.” “I believe she did—and I am sure she could not have bestowed her kindness on a more grateful object.” “Mr Collins appears very fortunate in his choice of a wife.” “Yes, indeed; his friends may well rejoice in his having met with one of the very few sensible women who would have accepted him, or have made him happy if they had. My friend has an excellent understanding—though I am not certain that I consider her marrying Mr Collins as the wisest thing she ever did."

So: they are in Mr Collins's house. Darcy tries to re-start the conversation with a polite nothing about the house. Elizabeth agrees about Lady Catherine's micro-managing, but can't resist the chance to make a sly jab at Mr Collins (who is not present) to Darcy (a genuine villain, as far as she believes).

Darcy's reply looks a bit like an attempt to redirect the conversation into safer waters (they can agree that Charlotte is cool!). But although his remark is only somewhat related to what Elizabeth said, I think it's a natural follow-up in his mind because he is also insulting Mr Collins, if more subtly.

He could have praised Mr Collins's judgment in choosing Charlotte or just said something nice about Charlotte; he doesn't. Instead, he suggests that Mr Collins's choice of Charlotte was a matter of good fortune—or chance, as Charlotte herself would say!—on Collins's part. Darcy and Elizabeth both know Collins is a fool and that his choice of a woman like Charlotte says nothing about his judgment, only about his good fortune. (Elizabeth has even better reason than Darcy to know how much Collins ending up with Charlotte was lucky for him, but Darcy can see it anyway.)

Darcy's phrasing gives him some plausible deniability, but I think he's generally quite careful with his wording and the implicit insult to Mr Collins is not accidental.

Elizabeth, I think, takes this exactly as intended. She's not at all confused about where this tangent came from or offended by it or anything. She readily seizes on the new line of conversation as encouragement to keep insulting Mr Collins and his appeal to women with functioning brainpower.

Elizabeth is pretty scrupulously polite in general, so I kind of love that she just starts venting about her absolute contempt for Mr Collins and the Collins/Charlotte marriage to Darcy in the middle of a tense and weird conversation in Mr Collins's house. And I love that Darcy, who is otherwise more or less dog-paddling his way through this conversation, is like "yeah, your friend seems really cool, that dumbass is lucky he accidentally chose someone with a brain."

Elizabeth: "Right? And, let me add-"

(Is it a bit of an asshole move on both their parts in the context of that scene? Yeah, I think a little. I also love it! Please trash-talk obnoxious hosts in their own parlours for the rest of your lives.)

#anghraine babbles #deep blogging #i'm feeling a bit 'don't explain the joke' about ... well. explaining the joke. but it's still funny to me! #darcy and elizabeth are genuinely good people but sometimes they can't help statler and waldorfing it up #austen blogging #pride and prejudice #jane austen #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #otp of otps #sidenote: i don't think darcy and charlotte really interact 'onstage' #but i find it interesting that charlotte (who does not like men) sticks up for him multiple times #and is the one to deduce months before the pemberley scenes that darcy is generally different than she's known him #meanwhile darcy is oblivious to charlotte trying to further his romance with elizabeth but is like ... good vibes tbh #charlotte lucas

[tenthrees]

You made it all yourself?

#i can't stop watching this scene #help me help me help me #good omens #good omens spoilers #goodomensedit #ineffable spouses #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #azicrow #mine #* #neil gaiman #michael sheen #david tennant #otp: I need you

[ineffably-human]

The day Guillermo slaughtered a theatre of vampires, Nandor looked up and actually saw him. 'My name is Guillermo de la Cruz' burned like a silver knife in his brain. And that's the day Nandor started rooting for him.

Making him a bodyguard, insistent that's what he was. Watching him so carefully. 'Push back. Break the rules. Talk about yourself. I can't do it for you. If I do it for you then you've already lost.' Guillermo slapped him and his eyes lit up. Guillermo fought him, and he only wanted more. Guillermo said 'I can kill you whenever I want, I choose not to,' and it's what he was waiting for.

Nandor stands at the train station, feeling awake for the first time in months as he considers all the variables. The normal bite won't be enough, not for a Van Helsing. He'll have to drink someone right away, just to be sure. Will it feel the same for him, to hunt a human the way Nandor's watched him hunt a vampire? Maybe if they do it together. Maybe there's a lot that Guillermo can do very easily, if they do it together. Maybe there's a lot Nandor can do, very easily, if-

(...he's not coming. Well, familiars have balked at less.)

--

It's such a genuine surprise when he reappears. Why everything happened doesn't matter, exactly; Guillermo doesn't fight to get any of it back. He's so angry, so ready to leave, and by all rights Nandor should let him. But all he can feel is the instinct to stop him. Perhaps if he has actual love in this house, something to fill the void... Maybe there's one more thing Guillermo can do for him before his exit.

It's a strange year. Guillermo is not in his service, so much as he's a friend charged with service. His mind is so pulled in different directions - raising the Colin-creature, helping at the club, buying his gaudy new clothes that aren't vampire-like at all. Talking on the phone, sometimes in the other language he speaks, sometimes in secret whispers Nandor doesn't try to figure out.

If Guillermo doesn't want him to know, then he doesn't. He can't begrudge him a life outside this house anymore. It's like Guillermo has remembered how to be human.

Maybe he has. Nandor takes him to fight, wants to see that fire in his eyes again, but Guillermo only wants peace. They never talk about him becoming a vampire. Guillermo doesn't ask once. At the wedding, Guillermo promises to always be there when Nandor is afraid. Nandor wonders what 'always' means to him.

When he meets Freddie, things click into place a bit. Nandor is happy for him, truly. Suspicious, of course - this is a stranger in their home, one who clearly doesn't know their secrets. But such a kind and engaging stranger. And intriguing, like a little secret corner of Guillermo Nandor has never been able to reach. Nandor has been so lonely lately, he keeps getting everything he wants and yet he's lonelier than ever -

Nandor fucks up. Nandor fixes. Or does his best, anyway.

Guillermo goes to London one day, comes home with a look in his eyes like something broken. They don't talk about it.

Guillermo is back to dusting. He sits beside Nandor and smiles, placid and friendly. 'So, what's next?' But he doesn't ask. And Nandor can't ask it for him. That's not how this works.

--

And suddenly, Guillermo is a million miles away. Suddenly, Guillermo would rather be anywhere than with Nandor.

He talks about being a vampire for the first time in a year, but there's a strangeness to it. A wariness. When they laugh at the idea, he doesn't push back. There's no fire.

Something is wrong, honestly wrong, but Nandor can't bring himself to think about it seriously. Guillermo still runs from even the thought of their orgies. (So it can't be what he's thinking of, can it?) Their first big crisis as a household in a while, their bodyguard is nowhere to be found. (Is he a bodyguard anymore? A familiar? A lot more like Laszlo's familiar, these days...)

'I'm not going to be around forever.' Well, fine. He can survive that. He's survived far worse, and so has Guillermo.

And Guillermo is not just here right now, but is alive right now - wonderfully, blessedly alive - and Nandor won't be forced to think about his death for a while yet.

The one thing he knows for sure is that Guillermo would never do anything to hurt him, to hurt any of them. And maybe that's why it never worked out. You have to do so much more than survive, to be a vampire.

-- When everything that happened becomes clear, when his rage fades to anger fades to acceptance, there's still responsibility. Responsibility to his familiar, responsibility to his friend.

And when Guillermo's heart is too full, and spills over whatever bloodlust he had, Nandor wishes he were surprised. Guillermo has iron in him but it's been forged into a shield, after all this time. There are no little leftover bits Nandor might have helped him shape into a pair of fangs.

Guillermo can feed a family, or defend one, or defend himself. But he won't kill unless he has to, and his own survival - or his own happiness - is not a 'has to'. Fine. Guillermo has fought for him. Nandor can fight, too.

His own anger still needs a more constructive place to go. So he looks at Guillermo's wretched sire - who never even wanted to be a vampire, and then made a vampire so thoughtlessly. Who hasn't come to see Guillermo, who couldn't figure out how to help him, who doesn't even know that he's in pain.

Nandor drives a stake into the heart of a vampire. And it feels good.

Maybe now, he can also be angry at himself a little less.

#i can't believe nandor's choices about guillermo were deliberate while *also* never intending to help him or give him what he wanted #but i love the idea of nandor actually seeing guillermo all this time #never *completely* and not always in the way guillermo needed #but still always watching him out of responsibility out of love #fandom: wwdits #otp: nandermo #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #nandermo #i am a meta gremlin

[cinnabon-sweetroll-tiramisu]

Merlin: "Stop rubbing my arse!"

Arthur: "I will when I receive my three wishes."

Merlin: "Arthur, I'm a warlock not a genie!"

#lol sorry I can't help giggling at what I wrote 😂 #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #cinnabon sweetroll tiramisu #arthur x merlin #merlin x arthur #bbc merlin #bbc arthur #merlin incorrect quotes #merlin prompts #incorrect quotes #my otp forever #otp incorrect quotes #merthur incorrect quotes #incorrect merlin quotes #prompts #merlin prompt #merthur prompt #otp prompts #medieval husbands #medieval husbands arthur and merlin #they're gay for each other #they're gay your honor #they're husbands your honor #merlin emrys #king arthur

[aceghosts]

Rooney Shepard (They/Them): RELIC AU

There are stranger things I've learned on the outside Separated by an open door I find it hard to reach the end of my timeline Salivating 'cause I wanted more Is this the end or is this the beginning? -Too Close/Too Late by Spiritbox

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#cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #cyberpunk2077edit #cp2077edit #cyberpunk 2077 OC #nbvnesdays #nonbinary oc #commander rooney shepard #I won't let fear compromise who I am #OTP: It always comes right back to you #v: cyberpunk 2077 #myedits #I'm still kind of finetuning the Relic AU in my head #but what I have so far is that even though Rooney didn't participate in the heist and really know about #but V calls them when they are heading to DeShawn after the heist #as V needs Rooney's help and they know (or hope) that Rooney can get them out of this fuck up #Rooney takes the Relic and tells V to lay low with some friends from their days in the military #and in the end Rooney takes the bullet meant for V #Rooney and Yorinobu still reunite the same way they do in Rooney's canon #but there is absolutely the extra layer of 'oh fuck i can't tell him about this' #and in this universe V still works with Goro because I don't think he would let go of Saburo's murder so easily #and I like to think that Rooney thinks of Johnny more as a teammate as time goes on #like even though they butt heads a lot #Rooney still feels responsible for him #and the two start to get along better #but Yorinobu is absolutely the one thing they cannot agree on #anyway #thanks for listening to my fucking unhinged ramblings in the tags #I don't think they make sense #but I can explain it more in an actual post if you want

[whitedahlia13]

2x01 || 5x19

#stydia #stiles and lydia #stiles #lydia martin #teen wolf #Omega #2x01 #The Beast of Beacon Hills #5x19 #parallels #sleepy stiles #cutie #let's forget about the forehead poke #and focus on the fact that she can't help but admire him for a minute #that's my otp #remember I love queue

[theswordnthepen]

Now that we know Ed kept that robe, do we think Stede didn't know that Ed had kept it until he saw him wearing it that morning or or do we think that maybe just maybe he found it while cleaning up the cabin and maybe just maybe when he brought Ed back on to the ship after the dinner with Anne and Mary and he decided that Ed needed some extra love and care and maybe just maybe talked him into stripping down out of his clothes to get comfy and maybe just maybe wrapped him up in that robe all nice and safe and cozy as a bug in a rug.

ANYWAY.

#ofmd #otp: you wear fine things well #i think i need professional help after all this #god now i wanna write it #but i can't #i already have 3 other wips i'm working on #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #our flag means death

[dylanconrique]

ya know, whenever tim does finally meet lucy's parents i sincerely hope that like the gentleman he is he insists that he cooks for and host them all so i can witness him getting increasingly more upset with the way they're berating their daughter, to the point where he just can't take it anymore and practically throws their asses out, because like hell you're gonna talk to her that way, not in my house!!

#*carly catalogs #can't help but picture him yelling out abruptly like 'ENOUGH!' standing up and tossing his napkin down #ordering them to leave if they don't have anything nice to say to they're only daughter #and giving a lil speech about how remarkable she is and how they should be more than proud to have a daughter like her #i'd like to think that lucy wouldn't be too upset about it either cause like..... #i don't think she's ever felt brave enough to really stick up for herself against her own parents #and we all know none of her past boyfriends would ever have the gall to say something to them either #tim would feel so bad lik 'i'm sorry but i couldn't listen to them talk to you like that' nd 'no thanks for standing up to them for me' 🥺💕 #the rookie #tim bradford #lucy chen #chenford #otp: you know me so well

[the-p-in-lgbtqa]

Hanahaki Disease is The angst trope

Soulmate AU is The fluff trope

Omegaverse | A/B/O is The smut trope

#as an angst lover i can't stop writing hanahaki help #fanfic writing #fanfiction #fanfic #ao3 writer #ao3 #ships #gay ships #otps #steddie #byler #stony #sambucky #stucky #hannigram #ineffable husbands #destiel #janto #sterek #drarry #tododeku #bakudeku #kiribaku #iwaoi #kagehina #calliette #harilvy #geraskier #can't think of anymore #narlie

[musicmyxiii]

Am I constantly rewatching the Zoey102 trailer since 4AM just to see Quogan and repeatetely stop and replay their moments in the trailer?

Maybe...

#Quogan #god help me I'm so obsessed #they are too cute #i can't wait a month #it's funny how i completely forgot about the existence of this movie for months #and then i see one post here and i can't stop obsession #please send help #true otp #WHY ARE THEY STILL SO CUTE #even five sec of them is enough for me to freak #I mean have you seen his arms around her?! #and literally almost every scene with them in the trailer they are touching each other #I'm going crazy #quinn x logan #logan x quinn #zoey 101 #Zoey 102 #quinn and logan #logan and quinn #childhood otp #nickelodeon #paramouth+

[impossiblesongs]

Doctor/River + TTTW quotes → “You’re more…” selfish, I think, but I say, “… younger.“

#doctor who #river song #fourteen #time** #otp: you watch us run #14river #btw i'm trying very hard to not use caps where 14 is clearly bonding with donna in the 60th bc i want to be respectful #like in this case it can't be helped the caps fit better but hopefully i can manage to pull it off overall???

[girls-are-weird]

[ID: young royals season 3 official poster featuring edvin riding as wilhelm and omar rudberg as simon, revealing release dates for the first few episodes on 11 march and for the series finale on 18 march. End ID]

i was hoping for an earlier march release, but i'm not going to say no to netflix releasing the season ON MY LITERAL BIRTHDAY! best birthday present EVER! 🥳

PS: DAMN, that poster is HAWT! 🔥

PS2: i hope the final ep is by itself because it's longer. 👀

#young royals #young royals 3 #young royals S3 #young royals season 3 #wilmon #wille and simon #hi there otp #wille x simon #wilhelm x simon #simon x wille #simon x wilhelm #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! #I CAN'T STOP STARING AT IT SEND HELP

[tenthrees]

Aziraphale & Crowley + food

#good omens #goodomensedit #ineffable spouses #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #david tennant #mine #I would be lying if I said aziraphale enjoying food didn't help my mental health #he just loves food so much and he doesn't have to eat why can't I be like that #ineffableand #ineffable and #otp: we can run away together #myedit #go* #*

[lavellenchanted]

Curious to know what you'd write for a Zutara AU!

Oooh, okay, so I did start a Zutara post-canon AU once years ago that had Katara coming to the Fire Nation as the new Water Tribe ambassador but if I was writing one now, well, I feel like they would be perfect fot a You've Got Mail inspired AU, so imagine:

Katara owns a small boutique cafe that her mother started, that sells traditional Water Tribe teas and food and has a small but loyal customer base that's enough to keep it going - until suddenly signs go up informing everyone that a branch of popular chain The Jasmine Dragon is going to be going up around the corner

She goes to investigate and has an unfortunate run in with the Deputy CEO, and son of the owner Zuko, and they immediately take against one another and Katara voews she's going to take his shop down

She enlists her friends' help, including the friend she's been talking to online for months, who she only knows by his username The Blue Spirit

Zuko is both nervous and excited to finally meet the mysterious Painted Lady he's been chatting with, but is distinctly less thrilled when he gets to their agreed meeting spot and sees the woman who verbally eviscerated him just a few days ago and is leading a campaign to prevent his shop going up

He's desperate to get the shop up and running because of the pressure his father and sister are both putting on him, but the more he gets to know Katara as her real the self the more he starts to wonder if he can really keep standing by their unethical business practices or if he might be better off helping her take them down and working with his uncle to reform the entire company

send me an AU and I'll give you five headcanons for it

#in this au katara would not actually go out of business bc I hate that plot point in the movie #zuko would instead help her win #thanks rose!!! #I can't believe I've never actually posted anything for zutara I really should #ask game #zutara #otp: sun and moon

[hellfire-fist]

Every time I accidentally see a post of a ship (with Zoro or Luffy) I dislike, I just comfort myself with the thought, "Oda gave zolu matching scars", and then life is great again.

#I can't help it sometimes #I'm no saint 😌🙏🏻 #zolu #one piece #zoro #luffy #otp #ship #roronoa zoro #monkey d. luffy

[breezypunk]

"just maybe.. we could escape the world and create our own little safe haven.."

#cyberpunk 2077 #oc: vaughn leblanc #goro takemura #otp : golden hues #takemura x v #male v #virtual photography #my screenshots #queue mean the world to me #- #am weak for these boys <3 #10/10 would give the world for them #Lots of kissies for them cos I can't help myself :')