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wigglebox · 7 days

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#idk i 1) understand jackles situation with a very mixed audience when he's solo #and 2) his answer was good? the confession doesn't need a resolution it needs reciprocation it doesn't need to get fixed #it doesnt even need to be addressed #reciprocation isn't having a sit down chat about what cas said in 1518 #he said it's understood and it is #cas just has to know but i'm p sure that will be fairly obvious in any continuation #idk im tired of these answers sometimes. not jackles giving them but some peoples responses to them #i get you don't like him and you're nit picking any chance you can to misinterpret him or not stop and think for 2 seconds about his answer #bc you're just ready to jump on this JACKLES IS HOMOPHOBIC thing like fam #no #also if his answer really was 'nah no more destiel fuck that' that would fly in the face of other shit he says #soooo idk

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skitskatdacat63 · 10 months

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"Bring on The Dancing Horses"(x) - Echo and The Bunnymen × Ferrari Drivers

#yes this web weave was titled 'Bring on The Prancing Horses' in my docs....yes im proud of that....#long post whoop!!! pls scroll back thru and listen to the song while doing so if you wanna experience it better :)#this was originally supposed to be an edit but i have no patience for that and im very happy w this!!#i daydream to music a lot and when i first heard this song i could only think of ferrari seb then sebchal then ferrari drivers in general #but this hurt me a lot to make(for several reasons)#one: AAAAHHHH IT MAKES ME SADDDDDDD!! now im only gonna be able to think of the myth of ferrari when i listen to this song #it rly hurt to look up the pics for this bcs it still feels sore to me and it makes me so sad #but at least i didnt have to watch vids! id probably burst into tears #two: fighting for my life in google docs trying to format the text hahaha... i refuse to use photoshop #special thanks to cofi (@sweatyflytrap) for giving me the idea to put the TPs for the lies lyrics!#its both funny and unfortunate that domenicali was the TP for both felipe and fernando #it would be a bit better if there was a different tp for each but ah oh well #also hehe changed the lyric a tiny bit for the Kimi part. in the og lyrics its Jimmy not Kimi but yknow felt odd to leave it as it was so!#other than that i really really ardently feel that this song fits the cycle of ferrari drivers soooooo well #the 'bring on the new messiah' at the end of the song PLEASE IT FITS SO WELL! with how they drop their prev golden boy for whoevers next!#also omg the way seb's verse is 'you're breaking my brittle heart' rather than "im breaking your brittle heart' HURTS DOESNT IT??????#i didnt included the original opening/middle verse. i def could make it fit but it wasnt a good opening for this post specifically #'Jimmy Brown made of stone' = kimi again. 'Charlie clown no way home' = charles of course!#anyways this is my magnum opus...but nah i really like it! ill only ever make web weaves w random 80s music i think hahah #ferrari #scuderia ferrari #felipe massa #kimi raikkonen #fernando alonso #sebastian vettel #charles leclerc #f1 #formula 1 #we do a little bit of f1 #normal posts that catie normally makes in a normal fashion

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stergeon · 5 months

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at some point i will figure out how to write the post-canon, post-empire edelgard autonomy fic of my dreams. it just feels like a very big task and maybe like with playing the dane, i’m simply not old and traumatized enough to manage it yet.

but my vision is thus: it’s set years (realistically, decades) after the end of crimson flower, when everything has gone as right as it can possibly go. fódlan is thriving. the social reforms have taken effect. the nobility system is nearly eliminated, if not entirely so, with titles made merely symbolic. social mobility, welfare, and prosperity are high. there’s an explosion in arts and culture and technology. brigid and duscur have gained independence; relations with sreng and almyra are much improved; heck, maybe they've even figured it out with dagda. in my most idealistic version, leicester and faerghus would eventually be ceded back to become autonomous regions, essentially disbanding the adrestian empire. rule is no longer hereditary, but merit-based. there's a roadmap for the future, and everything is on track—and more than that, people at all points on the power spectrum have already seen it bear fruit. with or without edelgard, it will be pursued. there's buy-in. they believe.

of course, it's not perfect—nothing can be—but edelgard's vision has been fulfilled. the people are empowered. humanity is free. fódlan has healed.

and somehow, she's had enough time to resolve her goals outside of politics, too. those who slither in the dark have been eradicated. edelgard and lysithea's second crests have been successfully removed, allowing them to live if not full lives, then substantially longer ones than they would have with their twin crests intact. who knows—maybe she finally gets around to having that wedding.

point for point, every item listed in edelgard's manifesto has been checked off. the ghosts of her past have been laid to rest. she can finally take off her crown. she can finally pursue the quiet, humble life she's wanted for so long. she can finally breathe.

... but can she?

edelgard is nothing if not driven. her intelligence, vision, and sheer willpower allowed her to plan and execute a revolution against two countries and the most powerful institution on the continent, all while she was still a teenager. as royalty, her life was never truly hers even before she became heir to the adrestian throne, with all the additional baggage of survivor's guilt and the desire for vengeance and her need to ensure nothing that happened to her can ever happen to anyone else, ever again.

so what happens when that drive has no outlet? what happens when someone who has been constantly in motion, constantly working and planning and preparing every spare second of every day since she was fourteen years old, suddenly has to stand still? what happens when someone whose hands have been bound for so long—first literally in the dungeons of enbarr, then by the weight and responsibilities of her crown—is set free?

being edelgard, she would step away from the throne, no matter how hard it was for her to give up control. she's always been focused on the endgame, and she knows that if she doesn't let go, she'll be setting the wrong tone for fódlan's future. she's too devoted to that endgame to cling to power much longer than she needs to, though i could see her making some excuses and trying to iron out just a few more things to buy herself some more time to mentally prepare before she's done for good.

but who would she be then? who is the woman without the crown? what becomes of a machine once it is no longer needed, when it has made itself obsolete? what about when that machine is a person with legs and arms and an innate unwillingness to gather dust on a shelf?

what happens when you get everything you want? what happens when all your wanting has been for others to thrive, and now you have to want only for yourself? how do you discover who you are when you've spent decades being everything for everyone else? how do you find meaning again? how do you find purpose?

after a lifetime of devotion and passion and movement, how do you learn to sit with yourself, and be quiet, and be still?

gosh, i would love to meet her. i would love to pick her brain. but boy, i do not envy the work that girl has to do.

#sterge.rtf #fire emblem #fe3h #edelgard von hresvelg #realistically edelgard is not getting all of this done in her lifetime. but that wouldn't keep her from stepping away anyway #'cause a funny thing happened to edelgard during the crimson flower route: she learned to have faith again.#so even if she couldn't check every box and fix every societal ill she'd still be able to pass the crown to the next ruler.#maybe not without fear. but with confidence. with optimism. with the belief that she's leaving the world better than she found it.#she'd have faith in her people. faith in the future. faith in the groundwork she's laid. faith in the systems she's put in place.#faith that her vision will be carried out with or without her.#and that faith would allow her to eventually let go.#i so love edelgard pulling a george washington and saying nah i'm good on power. peace #though unfortunately i could also see her pulling a teddy roosevelt #and saying nah i'm good on power. peace. wait what are you doing. you're ruining it. you're bungling everything. i can't believe this #and making several (failed and increasingly insane) attempts to get back into politics #who is the taft to edelgard's ted tho. i don't want to do ferdinand the disservice of saying it's him even though i think it's very funny.#it's literally the opposite of his character as taft notoriously sniffed roosevelt's farts for a long time #until he finally pulled his head out of the guy's ass and realized there are other smells. such as the sewer. and garbage.#smells which he pursued quite happily much to ol ted's chagrin #meanwhile ferdinand does not think anything of edelgard's ass except that his is definitely better-looking than hers #(he's wrong on so many levels but you try telling the guy that)#in fact ferdinand has always taken great joy in pointing out all the things that smell better than edelgard does #which gives him an instant up on mr Take-Advice-From-Theodore #all this to say i think ferdinand von aegir would have been a much better president than william howard taft. that's just my opinion.#i'm getting off the rails in these tags idk what's wrong with me #sorry for equating your blorbos to long-dead american politicians everyone. i know this is a cardinal sin #also please don't take this to mean i think positively of washington or roosevelt or taft or whatever.#i hate all dead old white guys who ever held a modicum of power #i just had a hyperfixation on american presidents when i was in grade school and unfortunately now my brain works like this

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daydreamtoropova · 8 days

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I'm the [tumblr] person who overuses comments in tags.

[tumblr] autosaved my tags even though I used them once.

Look in the tags and have a laugh.

(Possible tag game?) @author-of-the-year @jenumarts @thonethatflies620 @iamunabletothinkofablogname @ all my mutuals

#yeah i would've done something about it but now it's too late #he is not happy to be there.#why torture me like this #why all are my favorite characters evil???#like bro why does it sound so ominous #“fedora kink” bro wtf #why is the universe so cruel #you're that mutual that i don't even know why i followed you #and i never played deltarune so idk why i am even doing this #why can't i have them #i like to imagine that humanity wasn't started by adam but by lucifer bc why not #uh is it not normal to chew on nonedible things?#damn i can't do russian or italian because those were already done #also pigeons? damn when i'm at a city i usually chase them #oh my goodness i love this #this is why i love this deer man <3 #i love this deer man (aroace ically)#the autism is autisming #goddamn my femboy obsession is acting up #why is everybody i see autistic these days??? wait i think i might be neurodivergent nvm #nah cause why is he trying so hard lmao #don't ask me how i know #so i usually stay up late on my computer until i'm tired enough to finally go to sleep and not wait hours in bed doing nothing

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raayllum · 8 months

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in honour of this post, tags on another of mine i cannot remember that talked briefly about Rayla's issues, and that I've talked about Claudia and Callum's moments of being hypocritical, now I want to actually talk about Rayla's hypocritical tendencies cause it's something S4 and S5 made a fun little consistency - let's dive in

Rayla can sometimes ignore (or react indignantly to) other people possibly having their own reasons/justifications because she's tunnel visioned into only thinking about her own justifications as uniquely warranted

Let me explain

The first time I noticed this was in 2x03, mostly because it was one of those moments that made me laugh even though it's not trying to be funny because

Cause Rayla, honey, you know you lied to them too ("lying and hiding the truth aren't that different") - and Callum forgave you for that and is still your friend. Why would Claudia and Soren be any different to him? (And they are, but not the point of this point).

Now, unlike Soren (who is the person they're primarily discussing), Rayla didn't lie outright, but she did lie by omission - much the same way Claudia did. And Rayla has known her own motivations all along - probably worried they might give up on their mission if they knew (especially at the start), and she doesn't want them to hate her, and most of all by this point in the show, she didn't want to hurt them ("I'm afraid of hurting him" / "when you care about someone, it's hard to hurt them").

This made sense to me in terms of Rayla being good at being initially (often times rightfully, sometimes not so) indignant on her own behalf. She is able to justify herself and does so often, both angrily - as the next examples will show - and more neutrally ("How could I take his life?"). She defends herself both physically and personally to Corvus ("I didn't kill anyone"), she smarts at Callum when he (rightfully) tries to push at her ("I don't have to explain anything to you"), and is mad at Ethari when they initially talk ("Yeah, it's me. Surprised to see my face?"). This initial defense of herself doesn't usually persist and typically gives way to self loathing ("I can fix this" / "I don't deserve your trust, not yet" / "They're right to reject me") but it is there at first and is usually her first reaction, which is very fun.

However, this coupled together with the other two instances arc 2 brings up in terms of her being kind of a hypocrite makes it a pattern, beginning in early season four. (Callum also isn't at his best in early season four, saying he doesn't want to talk about stuff and then bringing it up the next episode to take a jab at her - but he's still dealing with the fallout of the problems she caused, so he absolutely gets more of a pass. As always, see my In Defense of Callum's Narrative Lens from way back in the day if you're interested in more of how his perspectives are portrayed.)

Because gee, Rayla, I wonder whose fault that is? And again, it does make sense that she's angry - she's spent two years just wanting to be with him with none of the messy complex heartbreak he had to go through because she was the one who made the choice to leave. She expected him to at least shout at her, not ice her out completely. And again, we see that initial indignant streak fade when he reiterates he wants to go, and she looks down disappointed, but accepting of it (and puts whether she'll stay or not in his hands, too).

Since she had a good reason for leaving, and it's what her parents did, while she expected anger, she also wants affection and love. Isn't her justification enough, in some ways? Shouldn't it be? And while Rayla wrestled back and forth with this, it's clear she does think that it should be (even if both seasons show she's starting to realize just why she was wrong).

But we do see this hypocritical tendency of hers perhaps pop up most prominently in S5 with Nyx

Again, in Rayla's head, lying and stealing the key wasn't perhaps the right thing to do, but the better thing to do than burden Callum with what she was going through / to be open and vulnerable. It makes sense why she'd do so - and her shot at Nyx gets a tiny pass cause she's technically sticking up for Ezran - but it still falls back on Rayla leaning too heavily on her logic / independent streak to justify actions that are actually counterproductive to having healthy, wilfully open relationships.

And this is something I love about TDP. Even when the characters are genuinely making the worst possible fucking decisions they ever could (hi arc 1 Viren, Claudia and Karim constantly in particular) you completely understand how and why they're justifying those decisions, and Rayla is no different. Doesn't mean they're right, doesn't mean it's not logically stupid or fair or whatever, but it's emotionally consistent, and that's what matters most in the end. And now we have a fun little consistency to add to the pile

#in that vein of 'ezran can steamroll others bc the emotional solution is so obvious to him /#he suppresses the hell out of shit' spirit #tdp rayla #characterization #mini meta #analysis series #tdp #the dragon prince #like i love rayla but she's so full of shit sometimes lmao #analysis #like rayla really is a character where one of her core flaws is both #a lack of grounded self awareness amid too much self awareness #bc sometimes she's on the right path about her actual flaws (lying & leaving)#and other times she's so off base it's like girl what planet are you on this is Not one of your problems #steering her into the pile of actual flaws lmao #also why callum is good for her #'nah you're good. but that other dumb shit you did? jc"

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last-flight-of-fancy · 2 years

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made myself emotional thinking about how smart sora actually is and how little credit he gets for it just because he struggles with stuff like math

#ITS RELATABLE OK #you can't math and everyone immidietly goes 'lol ur dumb'#'haha he counts on his fingers' yeah so do i. you gonna call me dumb too?#because i've heard it before and you're wrong. i'm unlearning that shit and i'm not dumb. i'm smart as hell actually #thirty years of thinking i was stupid i think i've earned the right to say 'nah yknow what. they were wrong. i'm not.'#the prioritizing of mathematical smarts over every other kind drives me nuts tbh #artistic intelligence? emotional intelligence? kinetic learners? there's so much more than just math #sora is SO GOOD at a lot of things!!#he's incredibly intuitive and emotionally intelligent #and he is probably a legit genius in terms of like... learning things on the fly #never gonna get over him learning lingering wills moves after fighting him (presumably) once #he learns to fly the gummiship- and probably would have done fine that first time if donald hadn't taken offence #(it also should be noted that i don't think sora's ever *wrong* in his numbers*. it just takes him a while to get there)#(* except six hearts but uh. there's probably more going on there. like memory loss. again)#stop talking to yourself flight #kingdom hearts #'he can't keep up with the plot' bitch WE as the audience can barely keep up with the plot and we have the benifit of seeing all of it #do remember that sora is running on about a third of the information we have at any given time #anyway sora isn't dumb he just has adhd and that's the hill i'm gonna die on

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hailsatanacab · 1 year

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oof owie hello it’s chapter 17!

#dpxdc #danny phantom crossover #danny phantom #danny phantom fic #danny phantom batman #idk what to tag this with any more ugh #anyway here's chapter 17 #you know when you're like... i'm fucking sick of looking at this here take it!!#that's where we're at with this chapter #hopefully the last chapter of the frantic 'let's add more chapters to this!!' bunch #still got way more to write tho aaahhh #also danny spends like 8 pages just being like 'nah i'm fine don't look at me i'm doing alright!! 👍'#while very obviously not fine #ugh there should have been more editing done on this and i'm SORRY #but i also really want to get to the next chapter because that's going to be fun!!!!#anyway i'm going to sleep #hope you all enjoy!!!!#thank you love you good night!!!! kisses you all on the forehead mwah #night!

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notetaeker · 9 months

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Wow I was so unappreciative of my own accomplishments when I was in college. I'm trying to put together a portfolio and it turns out I wrote 5 whole news articles for the school paper ???

#I thought it was around 2 honestly #and also there was an article abt some event I came up with ?? that I had forgotten abt #nah ppl rlly need to find themselves on the floor to appreciate things they did before #I rlly saw myself as such a failure... I remember crying infront of one of the office counselors when they asked me if-#-i was excited abt graduating and I literally was like I feel like I don't deserve it because I've accomplished nothing #what a horrible way to be feeling #I'm sorry to my old self for living like that. man. 'gifted' kid struggles tbh. it makes u so. ungrateful and also feel miserable abt ursel #for absolutely no reason while everyone is telling you that you're fine and you're doing great #and instead of being comforted by that like a normal person. it starts giving u some bad imposter syndrome and need to live up to expectati #anyway. alhamdulillah that I am not like that anymore. Alhamdulillah Allah gas given me some peace #I often get nostalgic abt those times but it's also good to rmember the bad parts of those times too lol so we don't live in the past #💭.txt

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snekdood · 6 months

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ive been disillusioned with a lot of the left for a while, it's nice to at least see that other ppl see it now, though the reason why kinda fucking sucks.

#i used to think i could trust ppl bc of pride flags in their profile or them being trans or whatever #and then i put allll of my trust in that community not realizing theres a Multitudes of types of ppl in it #aside from even the fact some trans ppl can be nazis- some trans people- as much as it might make us look bad to admit-#are also predators and abusers and want to lie to you and use you for money and sexually abuse you and dump you like trash #and then accuse you of doing everything they did @u@;; ask me how i know!#so on the one hand im happy ppl see it now- it's not that leftists or queer ppl or feminists are better ppl- ppl more worthy to trust-#they're just as diverse and as good and as shitty as any other demographic of people.#you're gonna find shitty people everywhere. obviously you're more likely to find predators on the right but that doesnt mean theres not #plenty on the left too.#at a certain point calling yourself 'on the left' doesnt mean much aside from idk. thinking ppl need basic human rights?#and even then its apparent that some leftists dont think that. so who can say. maybe you wont misgender me? but nah- you will #if i disagree w you or if we get in a fight- i've seen plenty of leftists do this.#i just think the term is useless now.#i think the left is about to fracture into different groups at this point #anyways be weary traveler of ever putting all of ye trust into any group of people.#its possible to like ppl and enjoy being around them and still not fully trust them. and if something tells you to gtfo? you should #also putting all your trust in a group of ppl is a one way ticket into possibly joining a cult on accident #or at the very least a culty friendgroup

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sleepanonymous · 6 months

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Does this man know? Does he know I'm obsessed with the scale lengths of his bass guitars? (or really any specs in general lol)

#sleep token #iii sleep token #iii #worshitposting #nah he has no clue #i'm just being silly #but also my good sir #‘ means feet and “ means inches #you're telling us that bass is over 35 feet long 🤣🤣👁️👄👁️#i’m never getting over how tall this man is i’m so sorry

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agirlking · 2 years

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To the shock of absolutely no one (certainly not me) all of Jacob's bad actions are "human" and "sad" and "he says sorry" and Emma's a horrific toxic nightmare bitch whose every single breath has the most malicious of intents.

#the quarry #he trapped a woman who rejected him with him by force to try and change her mind #i actually don't know why i need to explain which one of them does something worse in this scenario #not that emma ISN'T toxic but SO IS HE AND TO A MUCH WORSE DEGREE #and he's IN THE POWER POSITION #for the record #jacob apologizes or can apologize so i'm willing to give him another chance #but i'm not going to dress up or go out of my way to quote unquote humanize what he did #irregardless of him having relatively (ish) harmless intentions #what he did is profoundly not okay #fandom's tendency to hold women to a much higher standard is WELL documented #he's not a himbo #good of heart and dumb of ass? nah he's one of those #anyone pulls up on this with some nonsense is immediately getting blocked #i'm not arguing with more of you #it's very obvious you're biased one way #see also him pointing the gun at Nick #flying into a jealous rage at Nick #saying nick isn’t a ‘real man’ for not banging Abby #Jacob radiates toxic masculinity #anti jacob custos

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tswwwit · 2 years

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hi ik you don’t really do prompt rn but could we have some soft billdip hcs/drabble (or as soft as these two can get)? i’m a sucker for the way you write them and your works have genuinely helped me through the past weeks. even if not thank you for your works bc mmmm idk how you do it it’s just *chefs kiss* (:

Have some soft headcanons, then!

The first time Bill and Dipper took a bath together wasn't.... really a bath, per se. They'd probably run afoul of some supernatural skunk thing and had to soak in tomato juice, bickering about whose fault it was. The times they actually bathed together usually ended in water fights. Dipper half-drowned a couple times; Bill plays rough.

They've since settled down a bit! These days, the times they sink into one of Bill's hedonistic baths in his pyramid are pretty relaxing times to chat and flirt with each other.

And if Dipper's very sick or injured, Bill might even pick him up and set him in a warm bath, while taking charge of all the scrubbing down and rinsing of the pitiful mortal. While grumbling a little, but still!

Bill can cook. The trouble is getting him to stop adding ingredients that 'make things interesting', or go more along demonic culinary tastes - But he could, theoretically, make a decent meal. This is an uphill battle, since Bill's convinced following human recipes is boring and dumb. Dipper may even win it one day.

A fun fact that Dipper may or may not have learned by now is that Bill can purr! For the same reasons a cat might - calm, content, and relaxed.

However, Bill also hasn't done it in forever. For that kind of thing to happen, he'd have to be really content - to the point where let his guard down completely. Which I don't imagine he's done in basically.... eons? For all that he's had happy Party Times and pleased Winning Times and even Chill times, it's pretty impossible to ever really stop watching your back in the demon realm.

But say. After a great day. One where Bill's just won something, he's done something clever to pat himself on the back about, and he gets to chill with his husband in bed while Dipper rubs his back - just a calm, domestic-ish hangout where they're chilling - Dipper might feel and hear that rumbling start up. To his great surprise.

(And Bill's. He genuinely can't remember the last time that old instinct kicked in; it's unsettling.)

Here is what I imagine a triangle purring sounds like. It's more big-cat-like in the human body.

#answers #Is the third headcanon in here blatantly self indulgent? Yes #Am I one day going to write it? Also probably yes #Seems like good snippet material #I also invite you all to picture the first time Dipper was really sick or hurt #And Bill hauled him into the bath and just. Took charge of the whole ordeal #Didn't have to move anything that hurt and just shut his eyes and soaked it all in #The relief at feeling *clean* and no longer gross. A brief respite from feeling pained and sick and tired.#He's still exhausted but this is genuinely *nice*#With that good good feeling of having someone rub their fingers on his scalp and the warm water #The close touch. Being taken care of. Feeling good for a moment and knowing it's proof that Bill *really* -#Dipper started crying a little. Not much. Like a hiccup and his eyes teared up.#Which greatly alarmed Bill in the process. He's. Very not used to tears except in the respect of sad/fear/hurt #Wondering what the hell he was doing wrong. Crap. Is his human broken?? Shit.#Nah Bill he's fine he's just a lil overwhelmed. You're doing great #I again refer back to that ask I once got: How sickly sweet can you make these two idiot?#JUST WATCH ME

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rollforjackass · 10 months

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realizing that a lot of the famously mopey poets like tennyson, keats, and byron all came about in the same century that crowley took his long-ass nap. what if aziraphale was influencing the creation of sad yearning poetry for a full century because he missed crowley

#'i wandered lonely as a cloud' being an aziraphale-inspired line hits me full in the chest #don't get me STARTED on byron #'in secret we met / in silence i grieve / that my heart could forget / thy spirit deceive'#'if i should meet thee / after long years / how shall i greet thee? / with silence and tears'#oh my goddddd aziraphale you're gay and lonely we get it #every poet in the 19th century listening to a drunk aziraphale pine for his love who's left him like 'write that down WRITE THAT DOWN'#of course byron was also just. Like That Anyway #or......hear me out.......fabled nightmare houseguest and resident simp lord byron IS aziraphale #even better he's crowley who woke up early and doesn't know what to do with himself #nah i like aziraphale being a muse for a bunch of sad boy poets so much better #.....unless #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #oxly hollers

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softquietsteadylove · 8 months

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We need more dressage AU because it’s a great story! 😁

What if Thena comes to the stall and hears Gil angrily discussing with another rider how it’s not okay what kind of hurtful and abusive methods he uses on his horse? And how he can’t let him continue to train with his horse since it got nasty injuries? 😳

"I'm telling you to take today off, he needs to rest!"

"I don't pay you to give me advice, I pay you to groom my damn horse!"

"You don't pay me at all!"

Thena picked up her pace from a brisk walk to a canter. She didn't like the sound of whatever was happening in the stables, and however it involved Gil.

"I pay the club fee, which pays your salary, stable boy!" the rider in question pointed out in a very haughty and yet also incorrect way. "So as far as I'm concerned, either you fit him with new shoes, or I'll find someone who will!"

"He wouldn't need new horseshoes if you hadn't have driven him into the ground!" Gilgamesh argued, not one to be intimidated by some rich boy. "You're not feeding him properly, you're letting him knock into hurdles that are too high, spraining his joints, it's gonna get him hurt!"

"It's a horse!" he spat back in Gil's face. "It's supposed to jump hurdles, that's the whole point of this place!"

"What is happening in here?!"

"Ah," the rider turned to her with an unfortunately familiar smile, "Thena, my lovely."

"Eros," she scowled, walking over to Gil's side, "what are you harassing Gil over?"

Reminded of the problem at hand, but also wanting to keep up his more charming charade, Eros shook his head. "Nothing to fret over, my love. The stable hand seems to be questioning if he should fit Pip with some new horseshoes. I insisted, but-"

"Eros, Gil is right," Thena told him in no uncertain circumstance. She put her hands on her hips, "Pip has been training nonstop and you're bound to run him ragged at this rate."

Eros kept an even expression on, but the faint twitch in his eye betrayed him. "Pip is a trained animal, my sweet. I'm sure he can handle standard training."

"It's past standard," Thena argued in the horse Pip's defense (despite the way he, like his rider, liked to invade Olympia's personal space). She shook her head, "Pip hasn't had a single afternoon off this week, and he's eating half the calcium Olympia is. You can't go on at this rate."

"I-"

"He," Thena corrected, holding her palm up to stop Eros before he could get even more on her nerves. "He can't go on at this rate."

"Thena," Eros tutted, "I know Pip is not a champion to Olympia's degree, but that is the purpose of pushing him."

"There is such a thing as pushing too hard."

"That's what I'm saying," Gil huffed, also crossing his arms.

Eros gave Gil a much - much - more derisive look. "Listen, mate, it's one thing for Thena and I to discuss our horse care. It's your job to carry out what we want done, isn't it?"

"Actually," Thena glared, even taking a step forward. "Gil is the expert, far exceeding our knowledge. If he had advice about your horse, you should be listening."

"Thena-"

"We're lucky to have a caretaker who actually cares about our horses' health!" Thena moved from speaking firmly to raising her voice, taking another step into Eros' space. "We know about what our horses can do, but he knows about what they shouldn't! He's the one who mixes their food and sources the ingredients and grooms them and cares for their hooves! We wouldn't place in anything if not for him!"

Eros blinked. Thena was leaning forward but far from face to face with him, given their difference in height. He did step back, though, and straightened his riding jacket. "I didn't realise our stable hand had such a devoted ally."

Thena narrowed her eyes at him. She refused to rise to his hackles; she refused to be an 'Ikaris' about this. "His name is Gilgamesh. And officially, his title is stable manager!"

"I see," Eros conceded, and yet still sounded like he was saying something condescending. He straightened his cuffs with their shimmering gold button. "I have no desire to be on your bad side, mi amore. So I will be off. Please, do as you see fit Mister...Gilgamesh."

Thena and Gil both watched as Eros strode out of the stables as if he had won something in their petty little argument (over his horse no less!). She huffed, "such a prick."

Gil snorted in the middle of trying not to laugh too loudly. He nudged her arm with his elbow, "I'm not allowed to say it...but I can agree when you say it."

"Agree all you like," Thena murmured, still glaring in the direction of the exit until Eros was assuredly out of sight. She huffed and uncrossed her arms. "He's always that insufferable too."

"I feel bad for Pip," Gil rubbed the back of his neck as he started moving towards the stall where said horse had overheard everything (and not attempted to come to his rider's defense once).

"I don't," Thena deadpanned, and Gil did laugh outright this time. She smiled, "it's not his fault, it's Eros' influence on him."

Pip was a brown furred and somewhat mangy looking horse, despite his rider's immaculate coif. He turned, immediately flipping his tail and whinnying.

"Olympia isn't with me, you menace," Thena immediately shot down the horse's excitement to see her horse with her.

Pip looked forward again, as dejected as a horse could look. He huffed.

Thena rolled her eyes. Both Eros and Pip loved sidling up into hers and Olympia's personal space to try out their charms, limited as they were. "Honestly, get those aged shoes off of him, leave them off. If Eros complains that he's not practice ready I'll handle him personally."

Gil chuckled, retrieving the necessary tools to pry up the horseshoes that were a little overdue to come off. "I would love to see that."

"I think everyone would, honestly."