I get why people are into Durgetash but honestly? Gortash and Tav? That’s my drug. Inject it straight into my veins.
Tav being essentially a nobody suddenly storming into the city he worked decades on subjugating, scoffing an Elle Woods-like “What, like it’s hard?” on the way into his coronation, and the man takes one look at Tav WHO HE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF BEFORE THE ABSOLUTE BUSINESS (which, in-game is months, if not weeks before the abduction) and goes: I’m gonna change my whole life plan for you. We’ll share power. YOU are my equal, let’s spend our lives together.
The fact that Tav is so intriguing to him makes me go FERAL, honestly
And then Tav, especially on a good play through, dares to get RUINED by a fucking edgelord Banite.
It’s the absolute enemies to lovers trope. There is no comparison, NONE
Sorry, but I have a very specific taste for submissive yanderes.
I like them a lot, they are a special kind of fucked up that makes me worry not only for the darling's safety but also the yandere's. Like, I'm not that fond of yanderes that try to please and do everything their darling likes, but the moment you can see their last bit of sanity depends on having their effort accepted it just kind of hits differently for me, and I know I'm being very specific with this and I'm sorry.
Like, you cannot help but feel grossed out when you see their bloody hand in the air, bone clearly visible while they happily say they got your wedding ring back from the trash shredder. It's so easy to see them turn into a nervous crying mess when you don't show them enough praise, or how disturbing is it to find their collection of little things you left behind: nails, hair, and used tissues. You know it's better not to say you found it, at least if you want to leave the house next week.
You clearly hate them, but they are also so pitiful in such a disturbing way, that you can't help but feel empathy for them.
Kaeya's vetting process for everyone interested in Diluc goes like this
Kaeya: Do you like Diluc?
Potential partner: Yes-
Kaeya: Not good enough. Bye.
He is literally just
But honestly, Kaeya even has a deal with Adelinde. If there is a letter that looks like a marriage proposal, it doesn't make it to Diluc. Adelinde forwards it to Kaeya would just burn it on the stop. Of course, a few get through, and Diluc writes them back and respectfully declines. And Kaeya gets annoyed when Diluc isn't harsher.
"You can't go easy on these guys Diluc! They won't get the picture unless you are!"
"It's not a big deal Kaeya. Most people still joke about me being married to the winery. So It's not a big deal."
Every time I see that G--gle phone photoshop commercial my heart is filled with infinite sadness, like, yeah it's cool you can have a good family photo, it's cool you can do that, but god, there is something to be said for the honesty of a family photo where you're blinking, or crying, or have ugly wrinkles.
What is too unsightly for you? Would you swipe-click-replace out the image of my cousin crying on our Florida trip family reunion photo? Would you remove the plastic snake I have clenched in my grip, which I still have to this day? Would you scoff at the wrinkles around our eyes and the strands of hair on our faces as we squint into the wind, the day before the massive storm? Would I remember it if I didn't have these reminders, if the picture was perfect and clean, all children in a row with perfect gleaming white tombstone tooth smiles? No tears. No plastic snake.
probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.
we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."
at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.
the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.
the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.
what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.
here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.
I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.