#what a great turn of events

[tennant-davids]

i'm sorry i'm so sorry i know i'm just a "delusional lokius shipper" but loki nervously fixing up his hair and jacket, making himself look good, before approaching timeline mobius??? that was a real thing that happened? and he didn't bother doing it for anyone else lmaooo??? staring at mobius for-fucking-ever as he realises controlling where he wants to be is about who he wants to be with, rather than where, what or why??? and we have another visit to the time theatre coming up where they're both crying?? i'm doing great, guys. fantastic, even. 🤡

#i mean at this point i object to even calling myself delusional #loki's really out there flirting and preening and having interrupted love confessions with mobius lmaooo incredible turn of events #like what is happening #and for boring people - yes i know i'm watching marvel no i'm not expecting any undeniable gay content yes i am having a great time tho!! #loki #loki spoilers #marvel #lokius #.txt

[capnclem]

in loving memory of jazatha christie. rip legend you didnt deserve to be betrayed by a group of people THIS stupid

#im not blind i know he should have had more conviction. like he fucked it a bit in the end play. #fair play to harry tbf what a great strategist #this time last year i was rooting 100% for wilf. what a turn of events. #the traitors uk #but mannnnn. #the traitors

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

A Tempest of Tea

first in a YA fantasy duology

follows a young immigrant woman in a fantasy Victorian city who runs a tearoom that doubles as an illegal bloodhouse for vampires at night

when their business is threatened, she gets a chance to save it by teaming up with her best friend, a rich girl with a talent for forgery, a vampire artist, and a mysterious city guard to do a heist to infiltrate high society and collect a logbook that may reveal the extent of the corruption in the city

fantasy city with a masked ruler, arthurian elements, themes of colonialism

#a tempest of tea #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #This has a really cool concept and worldbuilding and some fantastic characters! #I like the discussion of immigration and colonialism (I appreciate a story in this niche that’s not so white) #I like arthie and jin’s relationship and Arthie is a great character. #It definitely feels like the first half of a story - like is the arthurian stuff gonna come up more or is it just... #the mc is called arthie and has a gun she pulled out of a stone. Is there more to that lmao. it does end on a cliffhanger too. #The main thing I *didn't* like is that the middle kinda turns into…miscellaneous events purely to facilitate the characters being attracted #to each other. good for them I guess but i don’t care. #(I probably should have expected that based on the author’s other duology so that's on me I guess) #(the romances also feel on the older side of YA) #I also found that the audioboook narrator paused slightly too long between sentences. #I love having author interviews at the end of audiobooks! #which also directly called me out for guessing the obvious twist but not the multiple others directly after #(granted the obvious one I was like... genuinely confused whether it was supposed to be a twist bc I thought we already knew that) #also what's up with the coconut. lol. why that specifically

[bisaster-energy]

Merlin but Merlin loses it when Arthur dies and instinctively starts a time loop and every time Arthur dies it automatically resets...for angst purposes it could stay tragic..no matter what he does to change the past kilgharra was right. no one can change their destiny nor can they escape it. or by starting this time loop at all he's doing is preventing the rise of the once and future king so by staving off Arthur's death he's actually preventing anyone from ever really living again. a never ending story with one character aware of the narrative but powerless to change it. a puppet with a brain but no autonomy to put it to use. A tragedy of his own making instead the one prophesized

#so that it doesn't work on the first try maybe morgana remembers and interferes or #maybe future Merlin is a sort of apparition that can only act if his old body lets him. he talks to past him like a ghost or demon even #so what he's saying directly contradicts kilgharra or gaius so present merlin probably distrusts him like crazy #merlin becomes another old annoying person in his own ear #who he doesn't even know if he can trust #OR he ends up sending arthur back by accident and arthur is in the past trying to fix shit #and this CHANGES something because now there's warnings of a great ending of all things coming for Camelot and by extension albion #and arthur knowing about Merlin's powers after keeping his knowledge to himself (cos he died RIGHT after learning about the magic) #finally understands the burden merlin had without having to try and understand based on Merlin's summary of an explanation alone #he understands morgana and mordred even nimueh like he GETS it gets it #anyway time goes on canon events are rewritten and the 'great evil' rips a giant hole in space and time and it turns out #future merlin was the cause. because he was smashing alternate realities to pieces looking for arthur is desperation #not knowing where the hell he even sent him breaking any known laws of time and space and reality consequences be damned #arthur cannot kill merlin. he cannot do it. not even for Camelot #so this can be angsty too like merlin loses himself completely in the search for arthur (paralleling the og timeline where Merlin ends up #singularly focused on Arthur's safety instead of his true mission) #and it literally swallows him and their entire known world up #or they get through to him. arthur AND past merlin. seeing that past him was able to diverge from the set path. live more for himself #than just arthur or for the sake of camelot be a PERSON outside of that. and have knowledge that he DID change arthur's mind. #not just as a useless deathbed confession but as something that actively changed and SAVED albion redeemed him of the mistakes he made and #proved that arthur is the man the KING he told every antagonist he was #future merlin sacrifices himself to destroy the black hole he made and it's like that future never even was. #just a bad nightmare you can't really remember. #just thinking about Merlin god bless #bbc merlin #fic ideas

[dutybcrne]

Kaeya doesn’t intend to ever get married. Due to him being Khaenri’ahn, if it’s not having to keep that fact from them ( especially with how devout the Mondstadters are to Barbatos ), it’s the fact that he fears what would happen to them and any children they may have, should Celestia become aware of them. He can’t trust it won’t end terribly for them, and will always be left fearing they’ll be used against him or hurt bc of him.

#hc; kaeya #//One for him too nfbdb #//Ive mentioned before if he gets convinced to marry; he would prefer any wedding a VERY private event #//He will be Adamant abt it. he will concede anything and everything to his partner. but THAT is nonnegotiable #//In all honesty; he’d want the location to be at Dawn Winery over anywhere else #//That’s HOME. there’s his FAMILY. even if it’s been ages since he’s actually been able to call either such #//But his heart remains with them #//To share that with his beloved; he would consider it a great gift #//But then there’s a matter of convincing Luc abt it; which he is sure he would never agree to #//Kae would want to follow all Mond’s traditions; even if he really does want to incorporate Khaenri’ahn ones #//but he doesn’t know enough abt them and researching might draw more attention on it than he’d like #//If anything; might only ever include their first dance to him singing a Khaenri’ahn wedding song for his partner #//Acapella; unless he can get Venti to play along #//Marriage definitely isn’t in his plans; tho he’s willing if his partner is; but raising a family DEFFO is more what he wants #//Hes deffo the kind of person to want to adopt/raise children even without a partner #//But again; he’s still worried what Celestia would do in response to him having a family #//And wonders if he’d even be a good enough parent; if he could live up to what Crepus love had given him #//To grant it to THEM in turn. he’d give his very life for them. would LIVE for them. would even overthrow Celestia for them #//& that scares him. he doesn’t know WHAT he’d do if anything happens to them. even at cost of himself & potentially everyone else #//Mans would fucken get Mond heckin Nailed again in his grief; it’d be That bad #//Clothar would have NOTHIN on him

[scribefindegil]

haunted and vexed by how non-Classical time travel is >:(

#i want to have little 1-2 sentence descriptions of the events of the other books in my fake epic in the academic introduction #and all the rest of them are easy #heist narratives are eternal #classics is full of evil sorceresses #book 5 works great as a journey to the underworld #book 7? being cursed with madness for your hubris is maybe the most Classical thing you could possibly do #book 8? the evil sorceress again plus 'died and turned into a very distinctive flower' is SUPER classical #(clone resurrection is much less so so idk if he makes it out in this version. sorry Arty.) #but then there's the goshdarned time travel #i do not know what to do about the goshdarned time travel #artemis phaulos

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

hi

you are not morally obligated to give platform to every voice that makes you feel guilty, ever

guilt does not make you a good person, that's not how anything works

thanks for reading I sincerely hope you can also comprehension

#politics #philosophy #ok to reblog #personal #sfw #I'm not gonna talk about what prompted this just know that I just saw a very bad take oozing with guilt being reblogged like great wisdom #idk if you're glorifying guilt or just succumbing to it but I'm begging you to think for more than a second first when discussing genocide #I don't care about your fandom takes but if you care so much about current events could you maybe put in the effort of thinking first? #is that too much to ask? #I'm gonna sleep now please don't make me wish I turned reblogs off #tw genocide mention #cw genocide mention #tw current events #cw current events #and the following don't fully apply but it's what everyone is gonna think seeing it and better safe than sorry #tw Palestine mention #cw Palestine mention #tw Israel mention #cw Israel mention

[wherela]

It appears I'm on my way to become a youth leader. I completely wouldn't have expected this, but God works in mysterious ways I guess

#the entirety of my teenage years there was nobody else my age in the church #but now that I'm a little older we suddenly have like 15 teens? #but the thing is: none of them know (knew) each other #so I really felt in my heart that I should organise sth for them cause I def would've wanted someone to do that when I was like 14 #so I invited them all to my house for boardgames and made an event of it #and it went SO WELL???? #I really felt in my heart that I should do this but I was also really nervous #but it went great and I am so thankful to the Lord!!!! #turns out praying for an event to go well really works #(what I didnt mention is that I've been involved in youth ministry for a while now just not through my local church cause we had no youth #and I had some other older friends come as moral support so that I'm not organising this alone) #I'm just really pleased with how it went and think this might be sth I continue doing #mine

[crow-caller]

Reaper’s Creek is a requirment if you’re someone who likes bad books and is online. I usually keep to my obscure weird books, but I was very intrigued by the odd mystery of this very bad book. Onision is... bad (hot take), but when I read it I was very surprised I had a different take than I’d seen from other reviewers.

You see, Reaper’s Creek... um............ I think it’s more than just a youtuber imagining godlike powers and altering reality so he can kill god. I mean it is, man, it super is, but I think we might need to give Onision more credit. Ugh, sorry I typed that. But what if I told you the bizarre choices and immature view of the world in this book might not be because the author is weird, and might be because our lead is an 11 year old kid from an abusive home blindly given unlimited power? Yeah, the more I talk about it with commenters, the more I think we’ve all been wrong about Reaper’s Creek.

....or not, because well, it sucks ass. If the text is meant to be a slight horror, a story of a child unable to grow and given the gift to live out his every whim, it still is an utter failure. After all, if every person who reads the text misinterprets it as just a cringy self insert power trip, you have failed as an author. Also it’s just super poorly written in general, but I’m just talking narrative here

#I stayed up until 4am answering comments and talking about it w people #and like. oh my god. I didn't realize it for ages but. i think its more self aware than we thouht #someone pointed out to me 'i wish i was special and god and chosen and could rewrite the world and be with my true god mom who loves me' #is the exact kind of escapist fantasy an 11 year old from an abusive home has. and it clicked like. shit. IT IS. and suddenly this book... #well this book starts to feel like a very poorly done answer to 'what if that abused kid did turn out to have godlike ultimate power' #esp as the book starts with onision confirming its based very much on his life and thoughts and it's very clear it's lifted from real events #the not supernatural stuff that is. and onision idk for sure but it sure isnt subtle he probably didn't have a great home life #so this book as not a god complex for him but rather a god complex for his childhood self makes waaaaay more sense #and may indeed be intentional in some ways

[quitethepirategal]

._.)

#oh my gods today is going to suuuuuuck #bro so my boyfriend's best friend is getting married right #cute venue great couple #um #they never hired a wedding planner? #they still dont know where to put all the tables and chairsnand stuff? #and #AND #turns out the WHOLE EVENT takes place in this TINY WOODLAND GARDEN #75 people packed into this little place in 99 degree heat from noon to ten pm #the parking lot can only hold like 26 cars #bro they.... did NOT think ANY of this through #i should have known it would be so poorly planned bc the groom only let my bf know what color the suit needed to be 4 days ago #holy shit #moral of the story i dont CARE how layed back your wedding is HIRE A MOTHER FUCKING PLANNER #{ mobile }

[leolingo]

uhm. actually now that the intense part is over im not really sure i Loved that. lmfao

#discourse #< eh? #idk the reveal with the book showing up at cellbits doorstep was so anticlimatic #and the twinsssss thing #with all the jokes about it it just feels so meta like maybe its just me but it feels almost like a crack plot point lol #so obvious? great acting from the ccs but wow what a Not Surprising turn of events #guess ill need time to really process it #kit.lb

[the-casbah-way]

it sucks living in a city where there are no faggots and the only gay scene takes place exclusively at night in clubs because i just have to hold out for pride every year. that's the only time i get to dress how i want. it's the only time i get to be a sick little freak. it's the only time i get to be surrounded by gays. i spend every other day just feeling weird and sad and very much not at home in my own body and there's only one day a year where it doesn't entirely feel like that

#that being said. most recent pride wasn't great because i didn't get Into It this time #i still had a good time because i was with my friends but it was like. hanging out separate from pride yknow #i didn't go full out or do any of the things i would usually do at pride. i had zero gay sex for example #it's so hard being sober and far away from the centre of the city because there is just nothing !!!!!!!!!!!! #since i stopped drinking and going out late my Gay Scene Existence is just. it's not there anymore #my friends all go to drag shows at night or trans club events and it's like what do i do though if i don't want to do that #when is it MY TURN to dress in nothing but a harness and fishnets #when is it MY TURN to hit on strange looking people at the bar

[biteapple]

i think in the new place im going to get a little night light that im going to wall-mount special on an outlet cause these night terrors are getting pretty fucking severe and constant

#i also need like an overhead calm-down kit for the bedroom. not quite sure what to put in there #i'd get sprays but a lot of those aren't cat friendly and i need to look into something thats like soothing for people for bedtime- #but not overwhelming or dangerous for animal #im going to have to take a large fucking hiatus from the logging my life events document because it turns out #when you log important life events in as much detail as you can possibly find you start remembering more #which causes the demons to appear in your room again. great. #had to call out of work today because of it. could not sleep for the life of me last night

[fortune-maiden]

I am so torn on Fire Emblem Engage

some aspects of it look really cool but it just doesn’t feel like the Fire Emblem series I fell in love with

#don't mind me having a moment #something something changing gamer philosophies? #awakening onwards just haven’t felt right to me #aside from Fates Conquest and even that had some issues (beyond the obvious I mean) #maps have very little variety and events #resource management is a non issue now #and while it is nice that all characters are usable #it also feels a little bland #but also I’ve been heavily spoiled by Vestaria Saga #which has great map design and challenge #and finds ways to make every character shine even if not in stats #I also just miss having the entire focus be on clearing maps #do we really need these expansive bases? #with a bajillion mini games and dating sim elements? #no please put your focus into interesting map design and using maps to tell stories #the sad thing is when I think about what I liked in 3 houses I have to say the monastery or the supports #because it sure as hell wasn’t the maps! #I want a genealogy and Thracia remake so bad but I’m also terrified of how it would turn out under the current IS #from story design and gameplay perspectives #Shadow Dragon was an example of a terrible remake #they then got it right with New Mystery #Gaiden did a lot of things well but a lot of things… not so well……. #one of which being the plot and characterization changes #on another note really wish Tellius could be made available on modern consoles #that was peak FE and is remembered fondly for a reason #even RD with all its terrible plot decisions had very fun maps

[oldtvandcomics]

Hm such an interesting looking book. How about, I, as somebody who doesn’t know a thing about Yuri, but does have an SI in queer representation, reads it as an introduction to the genre. I’m sure this won’t take me down any unexpected paths or rabbit holes or anything.

#coming from the same person who thought that doing an online class about the history of superhero comics was a good idea #I mean it was #but it also turned out to be a kind of life-changeing event #so you know #innocent looking essay collection #what could possibly go wrong #I'm like 40 pages in and so far it's great #already learned a lot #books #book rec #Yuri #lesbian #Japanese literature

[hotmess-exe]

ugh. it's so tedious when one of the main characters in a dating sim is just... not written to be likeable. i'm not talking about bastard love interests or enemies to lovers or etc. i'm talking about understanding what the narrative is trying to show me and it failing to make a character likeable enough to justify their behavior in the first chapters of the game. idk i love me an asshole. i love me an evil villain. i don't have the right words for this lol

#it just feels like bad writing i guess is what it comes down to #if you're dropping me into the middle of so many events and a bunch of lore #and then a main character/LI who has a great deal of exposition knowledge is being a dick about it at every turn #and you can't avoid them because they're important to the plot #like #i #want #to #stop playing #!! #just thoughts #if #and this is coming from someone writing a game where the two first love interests are literally murdering people #and force you to help them dispose of bodies #in CHAPTER 2 #i think or at least hope i know an asshole main vs an unlikeable one??