#unless something dies

[morganbritton132]

Eddie follows up his Tiktok of an old home video of him sick with a current video of him sick. He’s congested as hell and his voice is practically gone when he croaks out, “Don’t marry teachers. They carry the plague.”

“It’s allergies. You have allergies.”

Eddie coughs pathetically and then pans the camera over to the other side of the bed. Steve, who will get a fever if you look at him too hard, has his back to Eddie.

Eddie is not reaching for him but Steve says anyways, “Don’t touch me or I will melt like a spider made of people.”

“…What does that even mean?!!!”

#unless you experience the giant spider made out of your neighbors…you tend to forget that part over the years #Eddie remembers that Steve and Robin got tortured. the fire. that Max’s brother died. and something about the mayor #he occasionally forgets that Hopper died during the summer of 85 so sometimes he forgets the mind flayed #eddie munson tiktok saga #eddie munson #steve harrington

[aroaceleovaldez]

It's honestly wild to me that ToA went through so much trouble to emphasize the fact that Will did not magically fix all of Nico's problems and was explicitly not Nico's only doctor.

Only for TSATS to have Will fix all of Nico's problems and have Nico be entirely reliant on him the entire book and literally helpless without him and LITERALLY have Nico's problems be magically removed.

#pjo #riordanverse #tsats crit #nico di angelo #solangelo #it doesnt make any sense too cause. in HoO we KNOW Nico was fully capable of handling himself in Tartarus #we already knew he was explicitly on his own. we know he had it worse than Percy and Annabeth did #because we are explicitly told that Nico saw Tartarus' true nature the ENTIRE TIME versus Percy only getting a tiny half-glimpse of it once #and Percy acknowledges that he would not be able to withstand actually seeing Tartarus more than he did without just dying on the spot #and Nico was down there for as long as Percy and Annabeth at least. on his own. flying blind and explicitly having it worse. #so it doesnt make sense to totally retcon Nico's ENTIRE experiences with Tartarus to make him sopping wet and pathetic about it #needing to be helped and only being down there for twenty minutes and crying the whole time #and then all of the book he's literally functionally helpless without Will for some reason. despite being in his element. #could not get more in his element than being in the Underworld. my guy literally lives there. that's his HOUSE. that's his YARD. #and he's still just totally sopping wet and pathetic in Tartarus the second time around #like im sorry. no. we literally have previously established canon indicating this is absolutely not the case #that is not something you can retcon. that is an entire major event. it was not glossed over. #unless you are doing time travel and it's a canonical retcon a la Homestuck im sorry the events of TSATS just could never occur #(not to mention Damasen is just never acknowledged in TSATS and him and Bob were absorbed by Tartarus the god and ergo dead in HoH) #(so Bob and Damasen are like. *Gone* gone. they didn't just die to be reformed later they got ERASED.) #(and Nyx sure as hell isnt gonna be the one to have Bob trapped for whatever reason. definitely not cause she hates light/change/whatever) #(nyx is literally the mother/sister [depends on version - sometimes a mitosis situation] of the personification of day? and sky?) #(and FRIENDSHIP? and the nymphs of sunset? sometimes also CHEERFULNESS? and THOUGHTFULNESS? and old age) #(ah yes the mother of concepts such as love/friendship and aging and. day. would HATE [checks notes] love/friendship changing and light) #(she INVENTED THOSE) < anyways thank u for coming to my aside rant in the tags #in parenthesis to indicate this is an aside/tangent rant. anyways i have so many problems with this plot. it just DOESNT WORK #on NO LEVEL DOES IT WORK AT ALL WITH ESTABLISHED CANON

[gooperts-gunk]

im so crazy over the tragedy of everything q!bbh does being under a demon pretense even though he's a fallen angel.

do u think he just accepts the demon label because it's easier. do u think he believes it too, and catches himself in his thoughts with "oh, right. im not exactly that". and maybe he believes that he did this to himself? do u think what he did was to protect himself or someone? no matter the fall, he still has so much kindness to give and his brain just isn't wired the way a natural-born demon would be, he can't hold back instincts when time demands it, maybe that's why he fell in the first place.

and when he's finally bad, not good, it's treated like the end of the world, without empathy on why he would act out. do you think this keeps happening? the same scenario, multiple times, every timeline? he has to be used to it. so he has to take it in stride. he's good until he lashes out under extreme pressure, and suddenly he's called demon. and once again he's what heaven made him out to be. what he made himself to be, his brain would ruthlessly provide...

i don't think he wants to be that, though he hides secrets behind secrets of which neither identity is a home... but i don't think he wants to have to change, either. and i don't think that's wrong of him.

...you collapse atlantis ONE TIME and all of a sudden YOU'RE the bad guy and SURE it was FUN but REALLY now,--

#lots of expansion on this in tags beware #this is a draft from 2:40AM the day before i just felt something within me and i needed to write about fallen angel q!bbh angst NOW #this post is brought to you by q!bbh in purgatory and post-purgatory i will never forgive you purgatory 1 #no one can bear to have a healthy conversation about q!bbh's behaviors let alone TO q!bbh. BUT IF Q!BAGHERA WASN'T STUCK ON THE ISLAND... #i miss u bbh + baghera interactions let me see u soon pls #he isn't impossible to communicate with ur just not jiving with his autism right u can get through to him i swear BUT TOO LATE he DIED #now he doesn't remember!!! (unless that part of the library is recovered) u lost ur shot!!! (ur issues with him will rise again) #now every time bagi goes “'cause he's a demon” with bbh i go OH MAN SHE DOESN'T KNOW IT'S MORE... it hurts how flippant it is sometimes #because WE KNOW OH MAN WE KNOW IT'S MORE and this concept of him being fallen adds SO MUCH CONNOTATION to EVERYTHING he does #it isn't just DEMON THINGS it's GOD MADE ME THIS THINGS and i just can't wait to know WHY what did you DO!!! #your instincts are to be nice though cautiously detached when your life restarts so WHAT DID YOU DO IF YOU ARE NOT INHERENTLY BAD??? #goopert talks qsmp #qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo

[nayruwu]

went back to try and count our dead shinya flashbacks!

number 1, chapter 54

number 2, chapter 99

number 3, chapter 110

number 4, chapter 113

number 5, somehow also chapter 113

number 6, chapter 131

so that means six and counting!

#unless i missed something in which case please tell me #i am once again crying over the fucking artstyle... #it was fine last chapter but that was the little ones #they just don't seem to be affected #anyway. did you guys know shinya died? #owari no seraph #seraph of the end #shinya hiiragi #guren ichinose #gureshin #other people collect postage stamps or pretty rocks #i collect dead shinya flashbacks

[flareboi]

what if purple never calls him dad

#what if the word ‘dad’ is something purple doesn’t like. #what if it carries a bad connotation for them and a bitter reminder for mango. #family doesnt always have to look like one thing yknow? i dont think those two would have a traditional dynamic in that way #maybe purple does consider him their parent. they just dont call him ‘dad’ unless its in third person #and theyre fine with that and so is he #king is his father figure yes but he’s also a mom. a big brother. a sister. their dynamic just isnt captured in purple calling him ‘dad’ #maybe his name is the best way they can say it. the best way they can appreciate him #because for purple a father is someone who hurts you. someone who leaves you #i think ‘purple calls him dad on accident’ is a cute idea #but honestly it would make more sense if they called him mom on accident instead. or if it happened when they were afraid. not comfortable #(this is presuming orchid is his mother and navy his father based on the pronouns used in the react vids iirc) #because why would purple refer to someone he sees as a parent with the title of the one that presumably did not raise them? #and on mangos end #i think u can kinda tell who in this fandom has never lost a loved one in how they characterize him #guys. grief doesnt leave. it never leaves. #you just learn to live with it!!! #mango is not okay just because he has a new kid to take care of. i would know this my bio mom passed and i have a stepmother!!! #she does not fill that void and i do not expect her to because it cannot be filled. but she brings a lot new to ease the pain and is a #wonderful part of my life #the same thing here #mango will never ever just .. go back to how he was #he will never be the same since gold died. and thats okay #purple will not change that. they will merely add something new #their dynamic can be beautiful and nontraditional and a showing of how grief can change you #it doesnt have to be ‘replacement dad and replacement son’ #its so much more #oke. tag rant over #fett rambles #ava #uhh should i tag the chars

[artemis-the-author]

I've seen people blame Percy for Bianca's death. I've seen people hate on Nico for how he reacted and the things he did in TLO. I've seen people hate on Percy for how he reacted to the whole thing in the Underworld.

I am fucking annoyed.

Percy, fourteen years old, saw this child, and promised to do his best to keep his sister safe. He never promised to bring her back alive. Only to do his best. Percy did not put a bow and arrow in her hand, Percy did not choose her to go on the quest. Percy came up with a plan to defeat Talos, a plan he would follow through himself, but Bianca insisted she do it, because it was her fault Talos was even attacking them (make no mistake, I am not blaming Bianca for anything, either. This was a bunch of children having to choose between bad and worse).

Percy, fourteen years old, just had to tell a kid his sister, his only sister, is dead. Percy, just back from a quest where he saw two people die, really die, for the first time, is given the responsibility of breaking it to Nico that his only family is dead and gone. They had a kid tell another kid about the other kid now having no sister. Not Chiron, the only real adult, not one of the older counselors who've probably had to do this before. No, they had someone who is still reeling from his own grief break the news.

Percy, fifteen almost sixteen, on the brink of a war he's convinced he's going to die in, just got betrayed. Percy, who is under the constant stress of making a choice that will either lead to destruction or safety, just got betrayed. He is not in a state of mind to consider the variables, to consider what Nico's thought process was. He is a child with the weight of the world on his shoulders (pun not intended), all he sees now is betrayal.

Nico, ten (eleven, twelve? The timeline is weird) years old, made Percy promise that he'd try his best to bring his sister back. To Nico, that's a guarantee that Bianca is coming back, because this amazing, strong, boy already saved them once. He cannot conceive that Percy's best may not be enough.

Nico, ten years old, just found out his sister is dead. Percy (amazing, beautiful, strong, perfect), lied to him. Percy got his sister killed. Percy promised he would bring her back, and then he didn't. It's all Percy's fault, and Nico hates hates hates him (he tells himself he hates Percy, because if he doesn’t then what kind of brother is he? If he doesn't hate Percy with all the hate he has, then is he a good brother to Bianca? Bianca, who left him the first chance she got, who abandoned him.)

Nico, eleven (twelve? thirteen?) years old, just got promised information about his mother. He just has to bring Percy Jackson to the Underworld. He already wants Percy to come down and get Achillies curse, this will just be a detour. But then his father locks Percy away and Nico exhausts himself putting all the guards to sleep so he can get Percy free. But when he does all he gets is a sword to the throat, and later Percy telling him to stay in the Underworld to convince his father to join the war. A dismissal disguised as a war strategy.

And Bianca. Bianca was twelve, and she had to take care of her brother. Bianca was twelve, and she was given the responsibility to be a parent. Bianca wanted to be a child, not a parent. So no matter how much she loved her brother, no matter how much she wants him to be safe and sound, she joins the Hunters of Artemis. She can finally be free, and she takes the chance no matter how much it pains her to see her brother draw away. So she picks up a little gift for him, on her quest, the only figurine he does not have. But then the little gift gets them attacked, and, ultimately, killed.

These are children. These children, presented with circumstances and choices and challenges an adult would break under, are not stable enough to consider every thought, every variable, every circumstance that surrounded every decision made by others. They're under constant stress and pressure and they cannot do this in a 'sensible' way because there are things happening to and around them and they are not stable. Especially at those specific moments.

#pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #nico di angelo #bianca di angelo #trauma all around #if i got something wrong tell me #I'll probably correct it unless it's bullshit

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Do you plan to create an account/be active on any other social media platforms?

no <3

#been there done that Deleted all of them but this one! #if tumblr dies yall are Never seeing me again lmfao #unless something tumblr-esque pops up that i can fathom using <3 but i doubt that! #ive looked at all the current options and its all kinda Meh #rambles from the bog #I WAS BORN IN THIS HOLE. AND ILL DIE IN THIS HOLE. #keeping up multiple platforms is a Huge drag #and honestly tumblr is the only one ive ever genuinely enjoyed using #especially since instagram got so. So.

[summertimemusician]

Linktober Day 7

Sky(loft)

*throws rose* For the First lovers.

Soft and sweet drabble with just the barest hints of tragedy, and more set on Skyloft than anything but I'd say it counts.

This chapter was brought to you by me getting emotional about the First Hero and his fate again due to the rain, the fact I believe all Links deserve to have love and appreciation but specially him. And the fact I think it's an absolute CRIME that we don't get anything more on him and that he and Sky don't get to have what Time and Twilight have, no I'm not bitter Nintendo I just want to talk, y'all can't just keep giving us like four Links before the actual heroes and then expect us NOT to want to elaborate with the crumbs we are given. If you ask me First and Sky deserve to interact and for First to have closure.

Anyway, as always can be read as romantic or platonic, up to y'all, and can be read in or outside and LU context, I just use Sky and First for simplicities sake but if you don't gel with LU then feel free to interpret this as something else, this is all highly self indulgent before I pass the heck out lol

If there was any place in Sky’s Hyrule that you could confidently say you adored with all of your heart and soul, Skyloft would be the most likely pick.

Even so high above it all in a way that would have you catastrophizing had you think too hard about what could happen if anyone ever accidentally fell from the isle even with all of the knights trained to not allow that to happen, you’d be lying if you said that it’s a wondrous mix of empyreal beauty and the comfort of safety and the wonder of touching the sky, a true breath taking haven that could soften even the hardest of hearts with time. Fitting of the warmth of the reincarnated goddess in Sun and the vast nature of Sky’s kindness, for all you knew he could be as frigid as the title of Godslayer demanded.

Looking at the way First let himself be tugged along the isle as soon as they’ve arrived in Sky’s land in a tour just reinforced that notion, you couldn’t help but chuckle a little. First was one of the harder Links to read, even more so than Time or Warriors, but looking at the way the stars of his azure eyes brightened with the fire of life hearing Sky talk about life in his home and about the many people made you feel so, so warm, like finding a nice sunny spot for a afternoon nap.

What could you say? First was such a wondrous person, calm and charming and perfectly polite and oh so kind in the way you knew all of your boys were. If there ever was someone who embodied chivalry and the ideal side of knighthood, he’d probably be the one to come to the forefront of your mind, and you’ve been insatiable for his happiness ever since.

When he first arrived to the Chain, he was as cold as the howling blizzard winds, heart a cold fort left in ruin and remade as best as a single man could for the sake of remaining kind, to do the right thing no matter what, it was a sentiment you knew far too well in your other boys, but specially so in First, who tried so, so hard to distance himself from getting attached. But who you knew loved the sight of the sky, as cold and numb it was in it’s distance, whom cared so so much he would driven himself into an early grave just to make the Surface a safer for the people who’d shunned him, whom after a long, long period of adjustment and effort from the Chain, allowed you to hold him close as he shaked from nightmares at night, allowing you to chase away memories of being held up by cold chains until the impression of them became one with his skin and subconscious, of being entombed and imprisoned in uncaring stone and iron to starve alone, being bitten at by hungry, crawling rats all because he wished to keep his people safe, made sure he could tell that your presence was tangible and real through telling stories from your world and singing him into dreams even through the fortress’s that was his stubborness. Trying your best to make lilies bloom on what looked like a most hopeless winter.

The day he actually chuckled and smiled, safe and healthy and alive in the presence of the Chain felt like the biggest victory you’d ever had.

He deserved to know love and to be loved as much as any of your boys, something real and tangible and that was actually properly reciprocated rather than used to justify an end. So seeing him being able to visit Skyloft with his descendant with a whispering, hidden smile was more than enough for you. And you can’t blame Sky for being equally animated about it, bless his heart, always wanting his people to be happy, always so, so kind, wanting to bring some solace to the older hero but being carefully attentive so his mood was still good

After all they went through they deserved it.

“Oh! There you are, I was just about to show First to the waterfall, want to come with?”, Sky snaps you out from your thoughts, touching your shoulder with a gentle smile.

“Unless something is ailing you, you did look quite deeply in though.”, added First, soft as the warm breeze on the isle in the sky.

You shake your head, smiling as you take First’s offered arm, an instinctive motion when he wished to be close but wasn’t quite ready for any other touch yet, and Sky’s hand in yours, which he swings with a hum, ears twitching, how precious. “Not at all, lead the way.”

As Sky leads you along, and you catch the ghost of a smile in First’s otherwise stern countenance and you take in the warmth of the late afternoon sun in Skyloft and the soft, eternal spring breeze. You think there’s quite a bit you’d give to keep witnessing these moments indeed.

The road to recovery was long and arduous, but you’d be there, and you knew the Chain would do their best to be there too.

#linked universe x reader #First Hero x Reader #I have so many emotions about First and the fact he died not knowing if his work was enough or not #He deserves more love and closure from all the trauma tokens he has stacked #Also really missed opportunity to have more of Sky and First interacting round here #you can't tell me that in a different situation with the right setting First wouldn't have a soft spot for Sky #Who is just a sweetheart in general when not being a gremlin #Something something sleep deprivation is keeping me from psychoanalyzing First's situation and I have so many thoughts about him #I want a game about this guy #and also the 10k hero and the hero of men or one in the drowned timeline. #heck at this point I might just write those adventures out myself /h /j #... unless? lol We'll see what the sleep deprived muse says after Linktober #summer writes linktober 2023 #summer writes

[thronealigned]

iomedae girl i think you're inheriting the wrong things. girl i think there's a cycle

#also something about how iomedae was originally a paladin of arazni and galfrey was originally a paladin of aroden #and the hand of the inheritor was originally a servant of ragathiel #i've gotta get my hands on the original wotr adventure path books at some point #because the wiki does Not elaborate much on the circumstances of ttrpg-galfrey becoming iomedae's new herald #it just says she does it #nor does it elaborate on what happened to inheribro either #inheribro is a nickname i picked up from reddit. sorry #i'm assuming though it's the same as in the crpg- he's a miniboss and then either dies or is healed but doesnt return to his station #(unless youre on the angel path in which you Do convince him to keep being iomedae's herald) #well i mean it's in past tense i guess that's clear enough #anyway idk where i'm going with this. just a thought i had.. endless stream of servants replacing each other #my bet's on iomedae dying in the godsrain stuff btw this is mostly why. if i were writing it i couldnt resist #especially with arazni being the new addition to the core 20!!!! not that she'll be directly replacing the dead god like iomedae did aroden #but still. you understand you see the vision. i'll be sad though not getting to see what arazni & iomedae's dynamic as both full gods would #be.... not especially attached to any guess though i'm not suuuuper invested in pf2e #or pf1e/the actual ttrpg in general. on account of not being a ttrpg player (as much as i would like to be) #i just read the wiki & archives of nethys & the paizoblog stories #anyway goodnight for real #sorry the image formatting sucks btw

[monstersqueen]

...i would need to check but i think no version of the princess ever mentions ending everything without also mentioning a new beginning

#myposts #for info 'there can't be something new unless the old one dies' is. a little bullshit. #last i check parents not all die as soon as they have a child. #slay the princess #/transformation/ is both the end of something old and the birth of something new #but not everything new happens at the price of the end of something #...and i guess. not all endings happen for the sake of something new

[bloodydeanwinchester]

hmmm not sure how i feel about this but i just counted and the only seasons that i could think of that didn't have either a dean death, very near death, or dean trying to find a way to kill himself were s4 and s8....

#in s7 i counted going to purgatory as a near death because technically he didn't die but he was thought to be dead for a year #s1 faith and s2 in my time of dying are near deaths #3 5 6 9 11 12 13 and 15 all had actual deaths #and s10 and s14 both had dean trying to find a way to die #so that just leaves s4 and s8 unless im forgetting something from those seasons too #this is one thing that makes me so mad about the ending they gave him. how are you going to take the dude who just spent 15 years either #dying or trying to die and then give him a “happy ending” where he dies???? it was honestly the least interesting ending they could have #given him #like jackles said when dean lives THAT will be good tv #cw dean's death #tw suicide

[aroaceleovaldez]

Thalia's color is ultramarine, Jason's color is cyan, Percy's is teal, Bianca's is green, Nico's is olive, and Hazel's is gold.

The big 3 kids make a color gradient in order (Zeus [sky] > Poseidon [ocean] > Hades [underground]) hope this helps

#pjo #riordanverse #thalia grace #jason grace #percy jackson #bianca di angelo #nico di angelo #hazel levesque #''but Nico is purple'' that'd ruin the color scheme/pattern though also Rick is wrong #they're all cool tones and Nico specifically is especially not a warm tone #if anyone's purple it's Jason or Hazel cause theyre roman so they get the shirts as accent colors #and Hazel is warm-tones anyways so she could be purple if she wanted to be but she's gold #all of Nico's warm tones are desaturated browns and tans #which does not work easily with the purple. you'd have to make it pretty magenta/red and at that point it's not worth it #he can have some maroons/burgundy as a treat but that's about it #plus he's mostly underground - trying to make purples work with both grey/blue (stone) *and* brown (dirt)? plus skeletons (grey/yellow)? #you're not gonna have a good time unless you tweak a lot like heavily towards green or something. just make Nico's color green #anyways hi i heavily associate characters with colors frequently

[pochapal]

"the endgame had never been finished" meaning......kinzo died before he could put this plan of his into motion?

#umineko liveblog #kinzo acted hastily and failed to 'win' over nanjo in the end #meaning that the Something was neither exposed or buried before he died #the 'rushed' part is giving me pause because what could kinzo have rushed? #unless of course he didn't plan on the 1986 family conference being the day he spun the demon's roulette #but then given Everything we need to read all post-prologue kinzo scenes as dubiously authentic #which. actually. this is all leading to a very worrying conclusion specifically about kinzo's role in the epitaph ritual #no tvs in the study........his chess game unfinished.....surely this doesn't actually mean what i think it's implying #because why else would these killings even happen and be involved with the epitaph succession riddle if not for kinzo #like this is obviously his machination but. the metaphors are doing a good job of distancing him #unless this is another way to clue in on the 'dead all along' thing which still hasn't been Actually Confirmed True #ie kinzo had other plans but died before he could amend them so genji is acting out the Kill Everyone part of his will instead #but that leaves the question of what kinzo's unfinished plan is and what the 'rushing' actually means. a lot to consider here........

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

Rick Sanchez peak autism moment in episode 3x02: when he’s having dinner with Beth and the robot kids and he keeps telling them things like ‘dial it back Summer… by 15% and increase dynamic movement by 3%’ and then when Beth starts crying he tries to console her and then tells her ‘try crying 15% less’

#rick and morty #rnm #rick sanchez #beth smith #beth sanchez #autistic rick #autistic rick sanchez #honestly what a mood #i have literally no idea what to do when people are upset #or like i just can’t get the words out? #also this episode is actually pretty good #there’s just something about the vibe of it i’m not that keen on for some reason #i think the romance between summer and haemorrhage? #so i rarely rewatch it unless i’m doing a complete rewatch #but i always crack up at ‘aw geez my sister died in the spaghetti’

[ai-higurashi]

Daisy Duck 4C?

Love her sooo much

#ai's random art #daisy duck #expression requests #the app that I usually use to add the expression refs died on me so we're gonna be working on 'trust me bro' rules from now on #gonna be queueing the rest of requests but this should be the last batch unless I missed something #also the short hair in the first one was just for placement bc I couldn't remember what direction the curl was #and ended up looking too cute to change it

[capn-twitchery]

ok yeah silly cartoon glasses is absolutely the move

#well it's absolutely the move unless i do something frankly ridiculous. like remove their glasses. but that would be silly #they kind of look like they have silly big bug eyes which is hilarious to me #twitchery #wips #FRANTICALLY POSTINH THIS BEFORE MY LAPTOP DIES