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Thank you!

"I made you fam when I greeted your whole parentsBut later, I realized they ain't teach you what no sharin' is"

-Alone (Doja Cat)

I've had "best friends" whose family I knew and later it would turn out that they were just very toxic people. That didn't know how to not be the center of attention and everything was about them.

i think this is my fav lumity moment in the finale bc i love how you can tell they've been together a while by this point just from the way amity kisses her cheek without any hesitation and luz instinctively puts her arms around her even tho her attention's on the others

What can I say? They're my favorite.

one really important thing about Aubrey and Sunny's swingset scene (and their other interactions on One Day Left) is how it establishes Aubrey as a realist in contrast to Kel and Hero's relentless optimism and Basil's despairing attitude. like don't get me wrong, Sunny really benefits from Kel and Hero's sunshiney cheer, and his bond with Basil will always be important too. but Aubrey is the person who straight up says "you've gotta let yourself feel your feelings, the good and the bad. you've gotta eat. you've gotta go outside. life sucks and it's never going to be easy, but you've just gotta take it day by day and be patient." and it's frustrating to see people say that Aubrey didn't do anything for Sunny or that she only caused trouble for him... because after Sunny spent years living in his own head, he really needs a friend like Aubrey who is just completely real and candid with him.

How much of me is me? (Patreon)

past meets present 

idea courtesy of jazzyblusnowflake :]

I was fine with forgiving Greta Gerwig for splitting up Barbie and Ken and just believing that the two would reunite eventually, but today I remembered that this isn't the first time she breaks up a canon couple.

In 2019, Greta (at least implied that she) also broke up Jo March and Friedrich Bhaer, my literal OTP OF OTPS.

I get that the way the story in Barbie (2023) plays out means that Barbie and Ken's breakup makes sense and is almost something necessary, but it's really sad to me that Barbie is portrayed as never having loved Ken despite the fact that, oh I don't know, they were literally made for each other.

Once that is added to the Jo/Friedrich thing from Little Women (2019), I'm starting to think Greta doesn't believe in love 😔

How to instantly ruin a male character's design:

Give him an undercut

How to instantly improve a female character's design:

Give her an undercut

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What do you think like, before becoming knights of faith, would be the funniest incident that Lucifer can be able to embarres his four brothers to V1 and V2 all the while gushing how cute and innocent they were? (If you count newborn Michael trying to scare him the second after being born.)

i actually have this little headcanon that lucifer liked to give the angels "creativity" projects because they're not naturally inclined to make the way he, god, and humans are, but he thought it was a good way for them to experience the joy of forming something from scratch (as well as give them a deeper appreciation for god's many works). so he once asked the archangels to make their own little animals for heaven. this assignment absolutely stumped gabe and mike so they worked together, combining their ideas....which was basically. cool eagle and cool lion. they argued back and forth about how to smash them together, until mike remembered he's the big brother and lucifer had told him plenty of times he has to sacrifice for his brothers when necessary.........so they made a griffin, letting gabe's eagle have the head. lucifer thought it was so wonderful when gabriel proudly presented their rudimentary drawing to him (and god was so happy to see michael support gabriel that griffins became a reality of heaven and then eventually in the garden). which is a great moment for them!!! except. lucifer inexplicably manifesting this original drawing to show v1 and v2 as he recounts a story that's a little less "our creation was so pleasing to the father he made it a reality" and more "they worked together so good on their little macaroni art for dad that he put it on the fridge"

(v2 thinks it's just so sweet how mike was nice to his little brother while v1 can't believe all this time gabriel too made a spore creature)

Storytelling is an ancient practice and it is such an inherently human thing to come up with stories to share them with others.

Fiction changes lives - as it has changed mine - and it is an immensely valuable tool for expanding your perspectives, learning more about the world, and just having fun.

And if I have to defend fiction from people one more time -

Sometimes it annoys me that Show!Lucy is so...afraid, compared to Book!Lucy.

She runs from that Cold Maiden, where Book!Lucy would have stood and fought. She panics and simply thumps at the trap door in the Bickerstaff Mansion, where Book!Lucy would have used the flares at her workbelt and her rapier to buy herself some time. She shuts the iron doors at the mill, where Book!Lucy drew her rapier and ran towards the screams.

But then again...

Show!Lucy is 16, and has only been an agent for 3 years. Book!Lucy might be only 13 or 14 at the start, but she'd been an agent for at least 5 years when the incident at the Mill happened. Book!Lucy had pride in her identity as an agent - instilled in her back when Jacobs was sober and a good supervisor - and a good 6-7 years of experience before the Bone Glass case, whereas Show!Lucy is still scraping by on her 3 years of experience, and hasn't had a real opportunity to find pride in being an agent yet.

They're different characters. And honestly, I like it -- the characters were aged up for the show, but it wasn't just their ages but the world around them and all the background and growth that goes with that. Book!Lucy would have been a very different girl if she had become an agent at 13 instead of 8, I'm sure, and it's nice that we get to see that What-If played out on screen.

can you elaborate on how yata and fushimi and sukuna are foils I see a lot of simularities between the three of them. Sukuna is put there to show how much fushimi and yata has grown

I do think Sukuna is definitely intended to be something of a foil for both Fushimi and Yata, a ‘what could have been’ if the two of them never grew up and changed. Obviously Sukuna being an actual kid he’s going to be childish but both Yata and Fushimi have a lot of childish elements to their characters (Gora once referred to Fushimi as ‘someone who stopped maturing in middle school’ and Yata and Fushimi were literally created to be a ‘personal and childish’ conflict over the Slate), and for Yata in particular a lot of his growth is tied to him becoming less impulsive and more mature. Yata and Fushimi both as middle schoolers are a little chuuni, talking about how they’re going to take on the world and don’t need any adults, and Sukuna himself seems a lot like that — it’s just that in his case he found a King rather than a friend, and believes he really can take on the world because Nagare’s there.

There’s also the way Sukuna sees a lot of things through a childish worldview, that you’re with jungle or against, that points are most important and winning is a must, that everything is just a game and he’s the best player. This actually lines up nicely with certain parts of Yata and Fushimi’s characters: Sukuna sees people as either part of jungle or an enemy, just as Yata used to see things in the black and white of Homra or enemy, and Yata’s growth is that he begins to see the nuance even to the point that he tries to understand what Fushimi sees in the Blue clan. Sukuna’s focus on winning points reminds me a lot of how Fushimi quantifies things (0 or 100, and I think it’s not just Yata that Fushimi necessarily sees in terms of positive or negative and no on between), and Fushimi’s growth is to stop seeing that black and white of pleasing or not. Similarly Sukuna only focuses on winning, much like Fushimi puts a lot of self worth on what he can do and where he can succeed (LSW, the way he takes the loss to jungle so hard because if he doesn’t bring results than to Fushimi it means he’s a failure and has no place to belong), but Fushimi’s whole final stand in jungle before Yata comes for him is Fushimi realizing that sometimes you need to fight even when you can’t win.

There’s also really the way Yata and Fushimi both decided they didn’t need adults and didn’t want to grow up, and Sukuna who looks down on all adults except Nagare and the jungle members. Fushimi in particular says a couple times in LSW that he doesn’t want to be a worthless adult and even that it’s okay if he dies young, because after all his only experience with adults is his trash family. But when faced with Sukuna’s attitude I think Fushimi sees really how childishness isn’t any better, and by growing up and working with Yata properly the two of them are able to overcome Sukuna’s single-minded childishness. I feel like having the two of them face Sukuna was definitely a purposeful decision, showing how only through their growth can Fushimi and Yata overcome that childishness that keeps them apart and finally move forward.

I feel like BG3 is everyone's new Skyrim. It's a game all of us will come back to every few weeks, or months, or years, starting new characters and getting into mischief. I don't think I'm alone in saying that if larian decides to keep making DLC-especially if it's new companion and or romance paths-I would play/buy every pack or path.

I also feel like they could do what the .hack series did and make a sequel game where you're already whatever level/you could input your stats and continue on in a new adventure. I can't imagine the coding hell you'd have to go through to copy over EVERY choice/path you took in BG3 but I'd LOVE to go on and have a domestic life with whoever I decided to romance or have a kid with them that I could take on adventures.

Idk, I just love BG3 so much. I hope the team makes another game in the same fashion, I don't care how long it would take.

idk if you’re still doing the fanfic title ask thing but if you are, mattdrai + neutral zone

i feel like this would be a sweet, funny little story where they have their bye weeks at the same time and coincidentally wind up on vacation at the same resort. big romcommy vibes. more of a @bropunzeling style joint than my own usual style, but i would do my best 😂

obviously leon's there with connor, third-wheeling with him and lauren, since they're coming straight from the all-star game. matthew, also coming straight from the asg, is flying in to meet up with some friends — maybe brady's bye week was before the asg, but robby thomas, or some florida pals, or whoever are there. mostly i just want him to be free of familial obligations so that he can let his freak flag fly.

anyway, the all-star weekend was good for everyone involved — let's say this is set this coming year, so no one was thrilled about going to cold toronto and losing out on three extra days of real vacation, not like florida, which was basically just extra vacation, but it was fun enough. neither the pacific or the atlantic won; none of our main cast here became the main character of the weekend, but there were some fun moments. matthew and leon didn't really talk during the asw, didn't really talk during last year's asw (although, to be fair, matthew was very busy playing host last year), because the thing is, they don't really have any reason to interact now that they're not in the same division.

leon didn't think he'd miss it, but he kind of misses it. the battle of alberta isn't nearly as exciting now. matthew pissed him off a lot when they were younger, yeah, but he has always been fun to play against. the 2020 asg was the first time they ever had a real conversation and it wasn't a big thing or anything, but it was kind of a turning point in the somewhat one-sided animosity, and by the time the 2022 playoffs rolled around, they had developed this kind of almost-friendly (slightly flirty?) respect. matthew still pissed him off on the ice, yeah, but they had some laughs, too, at faceoff circles, between whistles. leon started to believe the people that said, well, if he was on your team you'd love him.

and then matthew got himself traded to florida, built himself a happy new life there, became the main character of the nhl, etc. leon's not not happy for him, but maybe, when he thinks about it in certain moods, he does prickle a little at how easily matthew left the alberta of it all behind.

meanwhile matthew figures they were all just glad to be rid of him. he's been having a great time in florida. a great enough time that it's mostly healed the sting of how his last season in calgary ended and how frustrating his career there was sometimes. there was a time in his life when he would have really, really liked for leon draisaitl to like him, but he's totally past that now.

anyway, due to a series of somewhat comedic near-misses at the airport, they don't realize they're going to the same place until they get onto the plane and they're all in first class: matthew, leon, connor, lauren. everyone's like uhhhhh ?? but matthew makes a joke, retreats to his seat behind them, puts his headphones on, doesn't make conversation except to charm the flight attendants. when they land, connor asks him where he's headed, if he wants to share their cab. matthew politely declines. he's not trying to be anti-social, he's just not trying to intrude on someone else's vacation.

but, of course, the resort isn't huge. it takes, like, a day for matthew's group to run into leon again — at the tiki bar on the beach, where leon is loitering even though lauren and connor are down by the water, because he's feeling particularly third wheel-y today. matthew had the right idea, finding a whole group to glom onto after the asg. all this to say, he's kind of relieved to see other people he kind of knows, even if it all feels a little awkward. but hey, they're on vacation. everyone can be friends here.

cue a beachy vacation montage of drinking and laughing and playing volleyball on the beach and splashing into the water — leon (and often connor and lauren — i feel like there are other wags around with matthew's group of friends) gets kind of folded into the group, and here on vacation away from all the hockey stuff, past rivalries, etc, it turns out that they just kind of click. they're both super competitive, even about dumb things like beach volleyball — but that's fun when the stakes are low, when they're on the same team. matthew's always checking in to make sure leon's having a good time if he's hanging with them while connor and lauren are off doing coupley things — he's always making sure everyone's having a good time, really, and leon starts to really get why his teammates in florida talk about him the way they do. leon is surprisingly funny and surprisingly affectionate when he doesn't want to kill you, and matthew keeps getting that old familiar feeling that he'd really like for leon to like him.

it's only like two days in when they get tipsy and hook up, which is probably a good thing, because it's so mind-bogglingly hot that if they'd held out until the end of the week and just did it once at the end, they would have both gone a little crazy not getting to do it again right away. cue all sorts of sneaking off to have all sorts of gross, sweaty vacation sex, and maybe getting a little obsessed with each other in the process.

the last night of the trip, the whole combined group of them has a big dinner on the beach and everyone just hangs out until late, long after the sun goes down. matthew and leon keep not-so-subtly making eyes at each other, trying to gauge when they're gonna sneak off to go wreck each other, but matthew is also a little in his head about this being the last day of vacation, because he's 100% sure this is gonna be a "what happened in bye week stays in bye week" situation, which is how it should be, anything else would be too complicated and make no sense, but he knows that despite knowing all that logically, it's gonna do a number on him to fly home alone after this whirlwind — whatever it is, with leon, so at some point he disappears, and after a while leon finds him sitting down by the water a little ways away, looking out at the ocean.

leon goes to sit with him. kisses his shoulder, but doesn't try to make conversation. he kind of thinks he knows what matthew's thinking, but it takes him a while to figure out what to say about it in a way that won't be too embarrassing if he's wrong. eventually he settles on, "we should do this again sometime."

matthew looks over, surprised. "you'd want to?"

leon shrugs. "i mean. it's been fun, right?"

and then they make out on the beach, and then they go back to one of their rooms and have sex, and then shower sex, and then morning sex, all of it increasingly clingy in a way they will not discuss until, like, sexcation #4 at least, but leon does kiss matthew's cheek when they part ways at the airport later, and matthew's friends tease him mercilessly about it for the rest of the day.

yknow, i think a lot of my annoyance with anti-aang discourse is that a lot of criticisms seem to act like they're marks against aang's character writing specifically, as opposed to the approach of the narrative as whole, which aang is uniquely representative of by being the main character. it just feels like some people are frustrated at the show for being reserved in its exploration of certain aspects of war, and they take that out on aang.

WHAT IF TROLL SKIN WAS AN EXOSKELETON

Sorry, I got ten words into a fic that required a troll to encounter a caustic plant and had to stop and spend the next hour working through the logistics of troll skin.