#theyre so fucked up but theyre so good for each other

[blorbocedes]

☕️ the overtake of maxiel by lestappen as the primary max ship

I think it's more interesting to analyse this with what's happening to carlando slowly being overtaken by landoscar as primary lando ship slowly and the tldr is ships change when dominant perceptions of the character changes. (obviously all the ships listed here are still hugely popular, nobody felled off, I'm talking about a change in trends)

when DTS first came out, daniel was already primed to be the star. he was the personality, he was funny, handsome, likeable and the story of future world champion vs talented young teammate the team is prioritising is compelling. max, on the other hand, was this young and brash, hungry for winning at any cost, seemingly asshole but then surprise he has a tragic childhood backstory and what he really needs is to be loved (cock in hole) to fix him. if you watch the teammate compilations from that era, maxiel just makes sense. max who is 😠 on DTS, is googly eyed giggling at everything DR says even when it's not funny. how can two guys who are so competitive on track yet have such a great relationship off track? they gotta fuck it out. prime rpf time.

carlando while less competitive has that same teammate narrative, older guy falling in the role of caretaker while the younger guy is socially awkward, anxious baby with their inside jokes (cabron) to be fixed with love (🍆🍩)

the reason why dando never popped off the way maxiel and carlando did because they already had each other's archetypes. lando already had the older teammate top with carlos and daniel already had the younger teammate to charm with max, so dando never got to get big before lando started beating DR and DR wasn't a competitive teammate so the narrative was a lesser one

come 2022. max verstappen is reigning world champion. DR has not only not won any, but is currently flopping at mclaren. the influx of new f1 fans after the whirlwind of a season that was 2021 and DTS's popularity has exploded. and max's competition now is the pretty boy from Ferrari. the narrative of DR fixing Max who is 🥺 from bad parenting tag my behated just doesn't add up. That story is already from 3 teammates ago. Max is now the guy to beat, he's the guy who is winning. He's big, broad, confident and dominating the grid. I will give lestappies credit here, they ran such a potent propaganda campaign that if you were a new fan in 2022 you would totally believe that charles in Ferrari is obviously going to win the championship next year and not this is a freak ferrari good year. Now charles is the 🥺 one with an even more tragic backstory and looking so beautifully devastated after ferrari fucks up his races he was supposed to win, monaco! he is now the new hole 2 be fixed with love and max is the top now.

here's my hot take. lestappen probably wouldn't be as big if max had a more fandom approved fuckable teammate for a consistent amount of time. pierre and alex and checo in 2021 were teammates far too short to really get its own standing and compete with maxiel. and fandom never bit on chestappen because once again, daniel already filled that older teammate for max role. (and there's a whole thing ab beauty standards and perceived femininity and popular yaoi ships mirroring m/f dynamics)

why carlando is still going strong is because carlos and lando still frequently hang out, he was at his family's wedding, his dad praises lando all the time so new fans can see there's a whole boatload of lore to dig in. maxiel don't party in the same circles or hang out v much, so to a newer fan charles winking at max after pole is easier to get into.

but the surge in landoscar popularity is because lando's now certified frat boy DJ and now oscar is the younger, super competitive teammate who has a kind of crush on lando, they're both cute! now oscar is the kind of socially awkward always sleepy one, while lando's partying with the whole grid. the lestappen and landoscar appeal of the theyre Equals and "idiots in love" shedding off their previous wide eyed anxious virgins in f1 characterization for the new era, as their perception by fandom grows so does the ship

*obvious addendums: does this mean every maxiel ship is top daniel? no ofc not, but it was the popular narrative to the point writing bottom daniel was subversive

I personally enjoy lestappen as switches but the more they follow bottom charles/top max as canon the less I idgaf it

#fandom wank #☕️ time #blorbocedes ask

[johnslittlespoon]

hi sorry i can't stop thinking about your leaving!bikeriders au aaaaaa

big tough intimidating gale and his sweet little puppy boyfriend is just *chefs kiss*

but also just the potential for the future of these two is driving me crazy

john's always been a little smaller than gale, or just the fact that he's so pretty thin and lanky makes him seem smaller in comparison

but the years go by and suddenly he's got a couple inches on gale and he's beefy as all hell

gales loves it

gale gushing to his biker buddies about his baby bucky and then this brick wall of a man walks up and theyre all like holy shit

and bucky never loses his puppy tendancies, he just kinda becomes like a big dog that doesn't know his size, draping himself all over gale and almost crushing him in the process

and also gale with a little white in his beard im going insane

au post | STOP IT THIS MADE ME SO <33 i loooove this (also it won't let me add a 'read more' without messing up the images so forgive this wall of text lol)

just the thought of them growing so close and their lives intertwining over the years, sorting through their issues, getting over every hurdle and going through so much together. gale in a suit bringing flowers to john's college graduation, john getting a part time job despite gale's protests because he wants to help out but also so they can take a celebratory vacation together when he finishes his exams :((

they meet when john looks like this sweet little thing in his second year of college, early 20s, shy and still growing into gangly limbs:

and then suddenly a couple years have passed and he's graduating and he looks like this twunky frat boy (gale realizes somewhere in the first few months of living together that john's vision is absolute dogshit and john's just been writing it off as a lack of focus lmfao so he forces him to an eye doctor):

and part of gale feels a little bit sad when john doesn't have to tilt his chin up to kiss him properly anymore because yk it's like watching a puppy grow up lol but mostly he's just. insane. about his boy. he's in love with his brain, and getting to see him grow confidence and become at peace with himself over the years only makes him more infatuated (and he'll be damned if he doesn't go a little crazy at the feeling of muscular thighs beneath his hands when he's got john pinned down) <3

gale's friends going a good chunk of time without seeing john during his last year of college because john's so busy juggling part time and cramming for his final exams, and when he finally does show up at the pub or biker club or whatever just before summer, there's jokes about "what the hell have you been feeding him, buck?" because that is not the lanky awkward pretty boy that had been hanging off of gale's arm the summer before. although john's absolutely still the same personality–wise, still crawling into gale's lap whenever he can, making gale carry him to bed, loving to sit on the floor by the couch between gale's legs so gale has to lean down to kiss him. :')

maybe john gets an internship after graduating and ends up working part time at the mechanic shop instead of his old part time since gale can give him whatever hours he needs to balance the internship and income (i'm pretty sure that's what i'll have gale's job be, running a car and bike shop, because yk it just checks out). john does a lot of heavy lifting and physical activity working there and bulks tf up and it makes him feel so much more confident in himself and gale would lose his mind at the way john's work shirts stretch across his broad shoulders hsdgdskhj !?!

and oh my god yes salt and pepper beard gale. john would go fucking feral over him, catching himself staring all the time, as if he doesn't already do that enough. they both become more and more attracted to each other as time goes on, like they keep waiting for the 'honeymoon' phase to end but it just doesn't, even through whatever conflicts and fights they go through, even once they fall into routine and domesticity– they're just as crazy about each other sigh.

thx. these two are gonna live rent free in my head forever. i love them so much and i haven't even written them yet fml. ALSO THANK U FOR UR OTHER ASK WITH ALL THE BIKER INFO!!! i will absolutely msg u if i have questions ur a life saverrrr omg. i screenshot and saved that ask to my drafting doc bc god knows i'm gonna need it SJKDJG ur awesome <33

#leaving bikeriders au #just wait till i draw art for this au i'm gonna end myself #making myself wait until the dog fic is done and this one is actually started but #it'll happen eventually #johnslittlespoon asks #johnslittlespoon brainrot #buckbucky

[angsty-prompt-hole]

all of the pre-relationship bracket for an oc couple of your choosing

Oh the Haven/Liam brainrot is hitting me hard now so I'll do this for them.

How did they first meet?

Through supremely funny circumstances ngl. Liam had just ruined all of his close relationships because he had let an eldritch abomination possess him so that he had the power to go after the serial killers that had killed his sister and a handful of other people, and eldritch energy tends to linger, so he kind of reeked of eldritch.

Haven was visiting a friend of hers who just so happened to live in the same building as Liam and was friends with him, a woman named Fred (she will come up later lmao), and Haven sensed the eldritch energy radiating from Liam. She has a bit of a history with this particular creature, so she stormed down to his apartment, kicked the door in, and threatened to kill him before Fred stopped her and explained the situation.

What was their first impression of each other?

Liam was honestly just kind of bamboozled at first. This woman had just broken into his apartment and threatened to kill him, but also she was kind of hot in an unhinged way, and she was the only one who didn't treat him like a fragile glass sculpture because of what he had been through.

Haven kind of just looked at Liam and went "oh...oh he's pathetic and fucked up...I must have him." It was also very weird for her to find someone who wasn't scared of her, and that kind of infuriated her.

Did any of their friends or family want them to get together?

Oh my god Fred shipped these two so hard she could tell they liked each other and she did literally everything in her power to put them in situations where they would be trapped alone together. And considering she had taught herself magic, there was a lot she could do lmao.

Liam's found family (a group of young adults he had kind of sort of adopted: Nicholas, Patricia, and Annie) had varying opinions on this. Patricia did NOT like Haven at all, Nicholas was down with helping Fred plan her shenanigans to get them together but he didn't really have a strong opinion about it, and Annie secretly kind of liked Haven, but she was too scared of Liam to really tell him she approved.

Haven's phoenix Fenris also very much approved of their relationship, but only if he got to third wheel because he likes to be in the center of EVERYTHING.

Who felt romantic feelings first?

Definitely Haven. She will deny it forever and always, but she definitely felt attraction first.

Did either of them try to resist their feelings?

Haven fought HARD against her feelings. She had had a lot of bad, traumatic experiences with relationships in the past, and she was TERRIFIED of entering into another one. One of her past relationships had been a manipulative immortal serial killer, one of them had been killed by said serial killer before she could admit her feelings, and her last non-one night stand had ended with the other person breaking up with her because they were scared of Haven's intensity.

She crumbled almost instantly when Liam showed a single crumb of genuine affection towards her though.

If you had told one of them that the other would be their soulmate, what would they think?

Haven: What the FUCK are you on about?? That's bullshit. No one likes me that much.

Liam, very hopefully: Wait, really?

What would their lives be like if they had never met?

A big part of their relationship arc is that they would both be so much worse off without each other. Liam was quickly on his way to drinking himself to death because of how he damaged his relationships with his found family and the trauma of everything he'd been through, and Haven would have probably turned out ten times worse had Liam not become what was basically her morality pet.

Haven did have other very important relationships that might have kept her grounded (like her two children she basically adopted, Fred, and her phoenix Fenris), but none of them were romantic, and none of them ever got to know Haven as well as Liam did. Even if it hadn't been romantic, Liam was able to get close to Haven and help her heal in a way no one else had been able to do in centuries, and it was crucial for her in so many ways.

#answered #vacantgodling #i love these two so much #theyre so fucked up but theyre so good for each other #thank you for the ask!

[ruporas]

soft (and some bittersweet)

#trigun stampede #trigun #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #i think they both spent majority of their lives in solitude and ofc vash went town to town and made friendships promises and etc along the w #way + he had his home and whatnot in the long years he's been alive but he still just seemed so lonely. #in prior versions of trimax he had friends at home at least and maybe he mightv made some but luida and brad are basically just his #guardians in this adaption. like brad used to be a homie.... vash watched that little dude grow up.... and jessica too.... but he doesn't #have that in this adaption. nor a town like july where he had grown close to the townspeople and shaped that tragedy to be closer to his #heart. and wolfwood spent years fighting under the eom and doing shit under their jurisdiction when we saw him so adamantly try to reject #and fight back against that fate. i dont think he had a second at all to get familiar with townspeople or even care to #so its just these two lonely ass souls and vash immediately seeing the good in ww and points it out #ww who is under orders again to be involved in vash's business but he's also SO touchy about it bc vash is so careless and lack that self #regard and also just is not seeing the world that ww is seeing. but then vash helps him and saves him by sharing a piece of what /he/ sees #and it fucking. rescrambled ww's brain for a sec. HE GAVE HIM HOPE!!! he gave him hope!!!! and in turn ww gave vash hope too and its #all done in like 3-4 eps. there's so much fervent attachment in what they managed to give each other in such a short time #but theyre limited to the contract to the inevitable confrontation with knives - so while theyd want to give into that chance to love this #person who managed to give them smth special they just can't at all #ruporas art

[arsenicflame]

stede is 'oh this place has something related to my interest i must go in immediately' autistic and izzy is 'if we deviate one inch from my plan for today i will murder someone' autistic

#stede wandering off into the forest to look at bugs was not on the schedule or any of izzys contingency schedules #new thing i think would fix izzy: a clear fucking plan #in the nebulous reunion timeline future i see izzy researching every port town they are gonna stop in HARD so he can figure out everywhere #stede + ed might possibly want to go and plan several routes for the day to keep himself calm in the inevitable chaos #(and yet somehow every time stede finds something he missed and they still go off script anyway) #(he tries to go separately around port from them one time and its a fucking disaster; someone gets stabbed; so he just resigns himself to #incredibly stressful port stops) #its not like stede + ed mean to do it!! theyre both awful for it individually and they just feed off each other #its ok because theyre very good at letting izzy have the deck Exactly how he wants it and scheduling as much big picture stuff as they can #with him #(when stede realises theyve been the cause of like. 65% of izzys stress they finally agree to let him redo the rigging as an apology and #they suddenly realise watching him buy the supplies that hes just as bad as them in his own way) #(he absolutely terrorizes the rope guy but they have never seen him so relaxed as when he was up there redoing all the lines) #nyxtalks #ofmd #izzy hands #israel hands #stede bonnet #you can pry autistic izzy away from my cold dead hands

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Lights Out dream team - scribbled Silly Style. low quality, even

#theyre hanging out <3 #with the horrors AND each other <3 #its taken some deliberation but these are the first four & the ones who spend the longest time in the dark together #frank wakes first. then poppy. then howdy #the rest im still kinda Thinkin on who wakes when #im thinkinggggg eddie-julie-barnaby? or eddie-barnaby-julie... i have several Factors to consider #scribble salad #wh lights out au #but anyhow frank poppy wally howdy quartet lets gooooo #i like making characters that arent typically associated with each other Interact #like its usually frank + eddie or julie / poppy + sally / wally + barns / howdy + barns #so its fun to think about these four only having each other #their Main Besties are all still in dreamland #OH FUCK YEAH PLUS HOME LMFAO #i keep forgetting about home im sorry. lock me up boys #well its not like home can join them on their adventures (horror journeys) #and its kinda. not on good terms with wally. which means its not on good terms with the others. #but anyway at this point in the au wally is very happy to have more friends #so is frank! finally New Conversations! #im thinking that his and wallys relationship was starting to strain a little by the time poppy wakes up #so its good for them to have Other People #big friends! cozy friends! #they are Extra Big bc the illusion of their reality is shattered! they are their base selves! #no more mind reality twisty to ~keep them in frame w/ the smaller puppets~ for the show #so poppy/howdy/barnaby are all nearly 8 ft as canon prescribes #and all of the others are 3-4 ft (also as canon prescribes) #an Adjustment for sure <3

[lollytea]

I need to watch Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure to reach my final conclusion on if she's even attracted to men

#girl help i keep thinking about sharpay and ryan being each others only friend growing up #theyre not very good at interpersonal relationships #romance is foreign to them. they dont care about playing romantic interests because they only view romance through the lens of theatre #fake. not real. an act to entertain an audience. so they dont understand why it would be weird #neither of them have ever kissed anyone #sharpay likes things that make her look better #because her whole life is a performance #so she wants troy because hes a shiny accessory to her #thinking about hsm 2 where once again when she tries to perform a romantic song (with troy this time and not her brother) #she still barely fucking looks at him #all of her attention is on the (nonexistent) audience #and ryan. ryan hm #ryan usually performs alongside sharpay #its usually an in universe performance. theyre on a stage. theres an audience #and all of his attention is on pleasing that audience #an exception to this is during the gay baseball song #where theres a different kind of audience BUT #ryan barely looks at them #most of his attention is directed solely to chad #talking flirting teasing being cocky and annoying but clearly addressing him directly through most of the song #first time this has happened with ryan. take that as you will #ANYWAY i can see sharpay as completely uninterested in romance but she hasnt realized that about herself #and she THINKS she wants it. because she sees it as glamorous #or maybe shes a lesbian i dont know #she might be a lesbian #the deciding factor is sharpays fabulous adventure #if she has chemistry with the guy in that movie then shes just repressed and clueless #if she doesnt shes aro #or possibly lesbian

[youaremysunshine-court]

The saddest thing is the witcher could have portrayed healthy found familial relationship in a non-traditional way, but they went and forced yennefer into the role of mother, geralt into the role of father, completely did away with jaskier, and didn't even bother to consider that every single witcher in Kaer Morhen could be considered ciris father, but no, there's a husband and a wife and a child and that's all there is to it

#witcher #the witcher netflix #geralt of rivia #jaskier #yennefer of vengerberg #also yennefer is historically NOT a good maternal figure for ciri #it was so ooc for geralt to just completely forgive her at th end of s2 #like i have never had a child but i do have nieces and nephews and they are very dear to me #and if anyone pulled that sort of shit with them i would hunt them and waterboard them not cuddle them on a battlement jesus christ #also the fact that like the witchers are relegated to uncle positions is so fucking dumb #a girl can and should have 20 dads if she wants #bc like kaer morhen is basically a commune right #so they good have given us some good non stereotypical family vibes maybe some polyam #but they ruined it #they gave us two people who could barely stand each other forom the time they met and a lady who traumatised this guys daughter #and they were like nah its fine theyre gonna live happily ever after #WHERES THE FUCKING BARD #IS HE LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER #also fuck socially acceptable family dynamics and fuck netflix and fuck whoevers writing these godawful scripts (fuck henry cavill?) #and fuck the last episode for that unsatisfactory scene where they just cuddle up on a fucking roof like yen didnt give ciri trust issues #for decades to come #if i was geralt i would have slit her throat then and there #nothing comes before children #i was gonna be done here but its so narratively unsatisfactory like they havent seen each other in a year(s?) and his loyalty is with her #instead of his own daughter??? #the man who prizes morality and justice over everything else?? is fine with dragging a literal child into her need for power?? #what. the fuck. #okay im done #it could have been good but netflix fucked it the way they do everything so #fuck you netflix

[feline-evil]

Never gonna be over how unutterably pathetic and in dire need of ANY kind of companionship or friendship that doesn't revolve around their band the entirety of dethklok are. I love these horrible idiots who are so devoid of any real connections outside of themselves that they will latch onto anyone unfortunate enough to get too close to any one of them! And GOD help anyone they latch onto!!

#jay talkin #metalocalypse #im thinking about the doubles episode where they just seem genuinely happy to have 'friends' #who arent like. industry people. these men are so starved of any kind of connection #and it takes them four seasons a rock opera and a movie to realise they can find that in each other lmao #also thinking about how quickly any of them bond and become really intense abt anyone in their life #aka: NATHAN TOWARDS ABIGAIL. oh dear poor abigail oh dear #but also toki to damn near anyone and this goes for the entire band tbh as well they all do this at least once #and yeah its mainly cuz 10min eps mean u gotta progress stuff fast #but also holy shit. charles these boys want friends so bad u gotta set em up on playdates or smth #maybe it'd get some of their dumb stupid idiot energy out and they'd be better behaved. well. no they wldnt but... u can dream #i do think theres smth to be said that yeah all of dethklok are cool theyre metal superstars they r good at what they do #theyre also fucking prophesised saviours too and theyre also incredibly dangerous idiots and terrible ppl #but never forget that they are also. so so SO pathetic and isolated and dysfunctional #these men have not lived in the real world in decades and are disconnected and unsocial and spoilt and u can see that this does impact #the way they interact w the world! they need like. anything other than the band in their lives hah. they do need to pal around #im glad they find that in each other eventually!! #i dont want 2 sound like im babying them or infantilising them these r grown asshole idiot men but like. listen these shitheards r lonelyyy #everyone in their lives is like. assigned to be there and is set as beneath them in a class and workbased system #they dont rlly have ppl who r just there cuz they like em. outside of fans. and fans arent rlly a real connection yknow #their only connections come via work networking sex and violence and worship baby!!!! its fucked up!

[lacomandante]

This scene in Rifles made me LAUGH out loud because Vivar has been trying SO hard to convince this priest about Sharpe and then Sharpe is casually about to blow it all to kingdom come in his usual manner. This was all I could picture Vivar doing internally

But honestly this is Vivar to Sharpe 75% of this book LMAO

#;ooc #;my art #(i had to draw this i've been thinking about this for ages. i love sharpe hes so stupid sometimes) #(VIVAR: ALTO ALTO ALTO!!!! LIEUTENANT SHARPE ARE YOU TRYING TO BLOW UP MY EFFORTS) #(sharpe: uhhhhhhhh sorry......) #(like sharpe KNOWS theyre arguing over him and he IS NOT MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSION DO /NOT/ REVEAL THAT INFORMATION TO A PRIEST!!!!!!!!!!) #(not until after you take santiago at LEAST) #sharpe #sharpe's rifles #don blas vivar #blas vivar #(also this is vivar when they have that heathen bastard conversation multiple times its SO fucking funny) #(sharpe and vivar BARELY tolerate each other for a while)

[birdricks]

been thinking about this dialogue again.

#rick and morty #ooooooohhhhh. two sides of the same coin. #this ep is super fucking good btw in terms of beth characterisation #i was talking abt it w my sister last night #likeeee up until this ep the beths have been mostly competing. whos more real. whos more cool. #the two conflicting aspects of beth that led to her being cloned in the first place fighting #but they eventually come to not only tolerate each other but love and appreciate the ways theyre the same and the ways theyre different #ik its like the joke of 'haha self love to the extreme' but it rlly is just a big metaphor for self love #also to bring this back to jerry. lol #interesting that space beth claims to dislike jerry but beth points out the hypocrisy in that those exact traits #are things space beth loves about her #much like how beth herself likely has disdain for jerry becasue she recognises parts of herself in him #alsooo beth calling herself out in her destructive tendencies #gawdddd this ep is so good #i rlly wish we cld get more beth centric eps bc shes super interesting #ALSOOO this is the ep we get the insight of young jerry thinking it an honour to be torn apart by beth. ouch

[b4kuch1n]

I lied I think it’s fun to draw animals sometimes

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #team sonic #hey. still dont expect more sonic stuff okay. this is an exception #(I say as I immensely enjoy scribbling these animals) #man. Im mad how good these designs are tbh theyre so (clenches fists) theyre so! scribbleable! #hate that! dont like that dont like how much fun it is to draw them! #also I made amy spiky bc I want to and I can. and also shes a hedgehog #gods. thinking abt it sonic designs cater to me to such a disgusting level... the cartoon gloves... the big shapes.... the varied footwears #it's like psychonauts raz was so fuckign fun to draw. but here it's the whole cast #it's fucked up! it's entrapment!! I didn't consent to this!!! #next time they give any of the characters a big coat I'm sending sega a strongly worded letter. they cant do that to me #well. here it is anyway. genuinely these all took like an hour each I drew them as breaks inbetween work #(an hour for me is equivalent to other artists' fifteen minutes btw. I'm not fast at all I just don't know when to stop) #well. that done. back to work now #I am actually so excited abt the current one lol its just also gonna be a pain in the ass to coordinate #but I really wanna do well with it. go crazy go stupid baku!! #have a good night! a good pair of boots is worth the money but only if you can tie the strings together & wear it on ur neck in emergencies

[brainworms-all-night-long]

I'm sorry but it's late and I'm noticing some deep multiversal parallels here and I'm not explaining myslef

#sonic prime #underverse #across the spiderverse #only one of these did not accidentaly destroy their universe while high over the head thinking he was actually doing a good thing #ok I will sorta kinda explain because I literaly cannot shut up today #theyre all mutiverse stories(kinda. you gotta squint a bit at sonic prime) #and each of the ones pinned down fucked up the multiverse one way or another #which the black yellow and blue one doesnt like so he will proceed to beat the shit out of or just straight up kill the other #on paper these are all the same scenes to me #those who get it can sit at the cool kid lunch table #error sans #cross sans #miguel o'hara #atsv miguel #miles morales #atsv miles morales #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic prime season two #sonic prime spoilers

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i only just found your au and i need everyone to have a happy ending so badly im gonna cry ;-; sally is gonna be so freakin upset when she wakes up for real and sees she decimated barnaby.

oh, Barnaby already has his arm stitched back on when she wakes up! and really, even if he didn't, that'd be the Least of her worries. she wakes up into a Real nightmare - partially of her (unintentional) making

#happy endings... well... yes and no. depends on what act you look at #act one? no! actually things get So Much Worse in an entirely festive new way! #act two? eh! sorta! its more bittersweet than anything #act three and four blend into each other so much that three doesn't have an 'ending' #but the final act - act four... well. who's to say! im still workshopping what i want to happen #but i do know it's still gonna have at Least a bittersweet tinge to it #wh lights out au #rambles from the bog #there are consequences and not everyone Makes It. i dont like stories where everything wraps up perfectly fine #even if it hurts! i like it when things hurt in a good way. those stories where the ending is overall positive #but Enough Happened that its just... its an ache. looking at where someone used to be. you know? #my favorite shows and books and fics have ended with me smiling while sobbing bc it yes it Hurts but it was So Fucking Good #and while i wouldnt be able to handle rewatching/rereading due to Emotional Damage... #i think of them fondly and often and theyre Important to me #perfectly happy endings just rub me wrong. it always feels like there's something Missing despite it all being idyllic #i cant let my own stories - original or aus or whatever - have that kind of end #so if thats what people are hoping for! you've come to the wrong person and the wrong au! #i like to be kind but that rarely extends to my creative works! #i like it messy and painful and bittersweet and i like to be Ruthless with my creations with no compromise #sometimes characters need to fight. or leave. or die. or make serious mistakes. etc. #but anyway! anyway.... #i will say that there isn't a happy ending for Everyone. and for others it's... complicated. again - bittersweet

[broke-on-books]

Best thing about being a Scooby Doo fan: you can meet some of the nicest people with some really cool ideas and hcs, there's such an abiding love for the franchise, which on its own is just AMAZING, such a wealth of content to dive into, and I haven't even gotten into the fan REDESIGNS and aus and-

Worst thing about being a Scooby Doo fan: people irl in public will come up to you with some of the worst Scooby takes ever (Scrappy found dead in Miami, SDMI revolutionized animation, etc.) and you have to restrain yourself from getting into a fistfight with some rando acquaintance/friend-of-a-friend in public ALL THE TIME 💀

#THERES NO WAY THIS ONLY HAPPENS TO ME RIGHT #its constanttttt ughhhh #james gunn i fucking hate you this is all your fault 🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡🗡 #not the sdmi stuff but the REST #there should be a jail sentence for scooby crimes i SWEAR #also this one dude today UGHHHHHHHU #ive never even seen him before (apparently hes been in my math class this year?) but with all the seniors gone (save me bc i love a party) #there was like 5 ppl in math today (4 of them good friends of mine) and this dude would NOT let up with the scrappy sucks sdmi is awesome bs #like i was just like no i disagree with you every time he brought it up but like UGH. #i think scrappy got a bad lot and deserves a chance to be the best he can be and sdmi is personally unwatchable to me because of how mean #they are to each other/the relationship drama plots. whats not to get we dont need to keep hashing this #i didn't make it a big thing though bc i didn’t want to start stuff but ugh #the only ppl allowed to make fun of scrappy around me are my besties and even theyre on thin ice so like watch it bub #blah #scooby doo

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Half-drow Tav, seeing Astarian: classic good looks, white hair, red eyes. let me guess: you're half-drow?

Astarian: you could not be more wrong, but im delighted you were thinking of me

#astarian #tav #bg3 tav #tavily #she was so off base for the first couple days they knew each other #poor Tavily thought he was Like Her and she was hoping she could find some solidarity #she grew up in one of the better Drow Houses but like she's not just Half Drow she's also Half Elf #and the Drow *hate* Elves so like she's an abomination to them #only reason she wasn't killed when younger was that she is uncannily good with a blade #so she see Astarian and is like “oh you might be like me!!!” #poor sweet summer child no he is not #she's not fazed by the vampire thing as much as he thought she would be #ironically they do find solidarity together in that “their lives fucking sucked pre-tadpole” #as they learn each other's backstories they'll go to the ends of hte earth to protect each other #once Cazador is dead Tavily cuts off his head and heart to burn Just In Case b/c magic is weird #Astarian helps her break into her drow family's house in the underdark to assassinate her great-aunt #theyre both vicious fighters but in 2 different ways #Astarian believes in overkill and enjoying the slaughter and making it personal if thats an option #tavily is brutal and efficient and doesn't linger over bodies once theyre down