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novelconcepts · 2 years
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They do vulnerability with Mac so well, and in such careful doses. The soft reverence in the way she says, “They had tons of clothes” breaks my heart. So does the confidence in her mispronounciation of “chic”—a beautiful little reference to comic!Mac being a reader, often above her grade level, but feeling like she has to hide it. This kid has so many layers, and she wants so badly to keep anyone from seeing that, because in her world, every layer offers a new chance for someone to slice in deep. Prioritize tough. Prioritize cajones. Don’t let them see you’re smarter than they expect. Don’t let them see you wish you had more than your brother’s hand-me-downs. Don’t let them see you’re dreaming of getting out in a thousand tiny little ways. Let them remember only the brash outer surface, the one that can’t hurt when they don’t like it, because it isn’t really you.
Contrast this with the desperation in her voice when she thinks it’s all going to be erased. The panicked apologies. The hitch in her smile: “Let’s be honest—you couldn’t [forget me], even if you tried, right?” She knows there’s only so much road out ahead of her; she’s seen the stone in the ground. And she’s begging them—with that smile, always play-acting, just a little—to tell her again she’s more than just a tough little shit-starter. To tell her she’s worth remembering. That they will, even if she can’t stay. If I’m going, that moment says, I want it to be when you three can see who I actually am. I want friends. I want to be remembered. I want to matter. It’s all built to with such careful detail work over the season, and I am desperate to see more of it in the future.
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zeb-z · 7 months
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The thing about Forever and Bad is that they don't know how to deescalate, and they start at 100 straight from 0 every time with each other. They will spend hours arguing about semantics that don't matter. They will go to the extreme ends of pranks (which as fun as the audio remixes were, spending hours trying to find the source was literal hell genuine psychological torment). They will go for the throat just to antagonize the other.
So no, I don't think Forever knows a thing about Dapper or the other eggs whereabouts. He just knows better about the way Bad operates, the way he lies and deflects. He's familiar with his crafty words and how he turns a conversation on its head. He knows that what Bad is being accused of is entirely likely, that he is not who he usually is when the eggs are around. And he knows that Dapper, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is who Bad cares for most of all.
This isn't something he can argue hours about, to chip away little by little like he usually does. For both the safety of the worker, because the longer they're locked up surely the worse off they'll be - and for the safety of Bad, who if he wasn't under extreme watch by the Federation, he certainly is now, after Tubbo very loudly accused him in his Federation office.
He goes for the throat, immediately playing a trump card that he knows Bad won't just brush off or ignore, because as much as Bad can be unpredictable, Forever knows that Bad cares about the eggs as much as he does. As questionable as his morals are, as slippery as he can be to pin down, Bad has always placed the eggs as the highest priority - and he needs Bad to have no choice but to be honest, or to knock him off guard enough that he'll give him something to work with.
Is it fair? Maybe not. But when has Bad ever played fair with him?
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apollos-boyfriend · 13 days
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i now understand how the qsmp grew to be like That so quickly an egg player ran up to me a while ago and i instantly knew i would die for them no matter the cost
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softquietsteadylove · 26 days
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Proposal AU
Thena takes care of a very exhausted Gil!
Something sweet and soft 🤭
Gil groaned, trying to turn his face away from the light.
"It's almost over."
He blinked, finding his nose buried in a head of blonde brighter than sunshine. He could have just nestled in further, which was damn tempting of course. But he groaned, adjusting in the...hammock?
"You know, you're actually quite lucky," Thena continued in a whisper. Her fingers ran through his hair. "Had I not joined you here, I'm sure your mother or sisters would have no trouble awakening you for what is actually our own party. But with me in here as well, everyone thinks we're too wrapped up in pre-marital snuggling to bother you."
"You're doing an awful lot of talking for someone determined to let me sleep."
She gave his cheek a poke. "I know very well you're awake. You stopped snoring."
"I do not snore," he grumbled, moving his head so she could pull away and look at him. He pouted.
"You snore a little," she broke it to him gently at least, poking his lip back into place. "But I'll forgive you because you're so exhausted."
He yawned completely reflexively, but he at least pressed it into the shoulder of her cardigan. "How long?"
"A couple of hours."
That scared him. He jolted, not that it did much in their hanging basket arrangement. "No."
Thena nodded, though, confirming the statement that had sent fear shooting through him. "Just over two hours, assuming I found you relatively close to when you fell asleep."
"Thena, no," he groaned again, attempting to drown himself in the fabric suspending them off the ground. "No, no, no--my mom worked her ass off for this party, I can't have been asleep for that long."
"Sh," Thena hushed him from those soft lips again. She was being awfully tender with him. "I told her that I was the one who lulled you into sleep. If anyone is to blame, it's me."
He whimpered, though. "I'm a bad son."
"On the contrary," she had the nerve to laugh at him when he was upset. "You are the son who cooked every morsel of food at this party. If you happened to spend most of it in a hammock with your own fiance, I can't imagine she would have anything to say about it."
Well, she had a point. He did cook all of the food. And Ajak was always telling him to try and relax - with Thena - more. He sighed again, unfolding his arms from around himself and resting one over the curve of Thena's waist. "Guess I can't argue with that."
"You haven't missed much," she informed him. "Ajak announced how pleased she was for us."
Gil snorted, pulling Thena closer to him as a breeze rocked the hammock faintly. "That wasn't what she said when I first told her. Nearly took my ear off demanding to know why I hadn't said anything until now."
"You have a lovely family, Gil."
He opened his eyes again to look at the woman in the hammock with him. Some of their relatives had arrived early for this party. They were distant, some more family friends than anything. But it was certainly an escalation to their little lie. They were having to do couple-y things more often. A 'love you' here, a 'missed you' there. A brush of his hand over her shoulder--that kind of thing. He smiled, "are you actually in here avoiding them?"
Thena didn't deny it, which was basically a confirmation. She slid her hands up his chest and nestled her head closer again, approaching a position to tuck it under his chin. "Your mother knows a staggering number of people."
Gil chuckled, tucking her against him so she wouldn't have to close the gap herself. She happily accepted his invitation, practically settling into him like a cat in a sunbeam. "Sorry I left you to handle them all yourself."
"I gave up rather quickly," she lamented. "Said I had to find you to ask you something for the wedding. It worked to help me avoid anyone for nigh on half an hour."
"We're both bad hosts."
"Indeed," Thena agreed, not seeming all that upset about it. She sighed, her hot breath hitting his throat. "I'll apologise to your mother later."
"I'm pretty sure you can do no wrong in her eyes," he assured her. He had just had a pretty solid nap, but it was way too comfortable to continue lying there with Thena to even think about trying to roll out of the swaying hammock. "You'll be her first daughter-in-law. To her only son, no less. An eldest son I'm pretty sure she was getting worried wouldn't be settling down at all."
"Hm."
"Hey," he called to her before she could slide down that slippery slope of regret. He rubbed small circles in her back, "don't worry about it."
She didn't say anything else, but one of her hands slipped around his side and to his back, clutching a fistful of his shirt. She pressed her face into his shoulder.
He sighed, ready to settle into sleep again, feeling the familiar position of Thena cuddled up to him. He was nearly there when he heard a grating voice getting closer and closer.
"Yoohoo!--lovebirds?"
Gil kept his eyes closed, not in the mood for his showboat cousin who probably wanted to make some dramatic speech about them or drag him up in front of everyone.
"Gil, mom's lookin' for you!"
Thena stirred but he cradled the back of her head with his hand and held the small of her back. "It's a trap."
She puffed out some air at his joke before whispering, "diabolical."
"Very," he whispered back, eyes still closed.
"Here they-oh!"
Gil resisted the urge to tell his brother - in every way that mattered - to fuck off and not wake his fiance. He held Thena firmly, determined to appear asleep.
"It's so sweet!"
"Let them rest, you two--Makkari, put the stick down!"
His youngest sister was no doubt about to poke him in the face with it. His sweet and elegant mother had raised a bunch of animals.
He only cracked his eyes open when he heard them padding away, complaining why he got to skip out on the party duties, like entertaining guests and cleaning up as things started coming to a close.
"We can't sleep in here all night, you know."
"Why not?" he grinned, immediately pulled back into the little world that was the high sides of the hammock bending around his weight. "It's comfy."
"I would hardly call this lumbar support," she argued, although he was pretty sure she wasn't that far from dozing off herself. "And what if it rains?"
"We're in the trees, it's fine," he laughed. They weren't exactly in the depths of the wooded area surrounding the house, but they were away from everything else enough that they weren't the easiest to find in here.
"Gil," she scolded, but made no attempt to get up, or even separate herself from him.
"Mom wouldn't let that happen," he reassured, although it made her go quiet again. "Fine, just a few more minutes."
"Five, not a second more."
"Deal," he smiled. She sounded like she did when they were at work. It felt so far away, they'd been here so long. Not that they didn't deserve the break. And Thena had even more paid time off than he did. He was pretty sure she never took a day off.
Unless she was sick. In which case he would rush home from work and cook up his most healing chicken soup and noodles for her.
Thena didn't stir as he pressed a kiss to her cheek. If anything, she nestled closer to him, "five minutes."
"Five minutes," he repeated, moving his lips down her cheek, closer to her lips. He didn't close the distance quite yet, but Thena didn't pull herself away either. And he didn't need the next five minutes to make his decision.
It was chaste, just the barest brushing of lips against lips. It was like a peck. Thena didn't make any sudden moves or any sounds at all. Only she could lie perfectly still and straight postured in a hammock. "Was that your attempt at bartering?"
He grinned, their heads still too close to really see each other, breath mixing and lips twitching to meet again. "Depends if it worked."
"No."
"Fine," he conceded, moving his hands to her cheeks. He gave her another little peck before she tucked herself into the crook of his neck again. This was just another couple-y thing to add to the list, apparently. Not that he minded.
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Me: It’s funny usually Orym hangs in the back and lets others do the talking. Yes he has the closest link to VM, but after Keyleth anyone could be doing the talking and he gets pretty far in Percy’s face while still trying to be polite. 
Orym to Percy: What did your friends do?
Pike: You can do a dangerous ritual to try and--
Orym: I’m in.
Me: Oh it’s the survival’s guilt. The survivals guilt is eating him. He will do literally anything to get Laudna back because the coin chose him instead and he’s not going to rest until she’s back with them. 
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fruit-teeth · 9 months
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Post on here: people need to be kinder to fat men and stop calling them creepy or weird or gross etc…
Me: yes, I agree!
Same post:…because if you’re not nice to them, they’ll become misogynistic incels!!
Me: ummmmm okay never mind you lost me there
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supemaeve · 2 months
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This is not directed at anyone specifically but I always find it interesting how if one of my gifsets features HL or SB people will make any kind of comment about liking the characters or just general comments about them with no issue, which is fine.
But then I will make one that features Stormfront, like the last one I posted, and people always feel the need to preface with "I absolutely hate this character but...", "This character is despicable and awful but..." when talking about her, even if they're gonna say something general about what's happening on the gifs or about the story.
And this doesn't happen only on my gifsets, obviously. I've seen it in lots of places but it happens a lot and I think it's funny how it only happens with her. It's like you have to justify yourself first in order to make a comment about something you find interesting about the character or even just a general comment or opinion about her . But that doesn't happen with the others...
I don't know, I've just noticed that you can like those two guys or WB or anyone else in the show who's done terrible things all you want and say so with no issue, but if you're going to even allude to finding SF interesting you have to put a disclaimer...
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anothermonikan · 3 months
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I wanted to see if I could beat Rain World from (Basically) (I backtracked the chimney canopy so I made it harder for myself) beginning to end in one sitting and I think if I had started earlier I definitely could've! 8 hours. it's 1AM. I'm near the gate where you can get back the Chimney Canopy after exiting Five Pebbles. I've had enough Rain World for today. I'm eepers
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mechawolfie · 4 months
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i love rping as ocs in games.. so fun putting them in situations which in turn helps flesh them out.. we've learned that gin (my catboy tav) loves kids and despite his anxiety Will stand up for them & their safety..
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magiaveneno · 1 year
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im going insane seeing black sails ppl all talking about how racist ofmd is in comparison to black sails like the show where main charas literally own slaves and partake in the slave trade? the one that raped a black woman on screen? the one with the all white creative team?
everyone agrees black sails has issues with antiblackness especially in the earlier seasons. it's something that has been discussed AT LENGTH in the black sails fandom, even though the show ended like 6 years ago, i don't know where you got the idea this isn't talked about all the time. we talk about season 1 and how badly it handled max's arc all the time. we talk about the issues and plot holes present in the maroon arc due to the writers being all white all the time.
the issue most people have with ofmd is that they CHOSE to set a fun little sitcom in a time and era where you can't separate it from issues like slavery, colonialism, etc. they CHOSE to take a real life slave owner and turn him into a cute gay guy for people to idealize.
even if you don't agree, black sails succeeded at telling an anti colonialist story, because it doesn't sweep these issues under the rug. they're at the center of the story. the cruelty of england, the treatment of slaves and black people (by the pirates themselves as well), the issues with white womanhood, the survival under civilization for marginalized groups, etc. yes, it could've done more, it could've been better, but again it's not like we don't talk about this all the time. contrary to popular belief people that actually like the show for what it is do not give a shit about """the gay pirates""" aspect of the show
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mishkakagehishka · 1 year
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Doing the laundry. Realising there's something deeply and inherently wrong with me. Shrugging and continuing to dig around for the Perfect Clothespin. Something something adulting
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boypussydilf · 2 years
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speaking of p5 opinions i dont like saw more stuff along the lines of “all the phantom thieves are bland and uninteresting <3 (implied exception of akira and akechi)” ghrgrhhrrgrrbrhrbrgfgenbrb r t gf rrgrgrhrbe woof woof bark etc
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biillys · 2 years
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okay i know we've talked about chrissy/[insert name here] and chrissy/[insert name here] and even chrissy/[insert name here] but can we please for a second think about chrissy/heather??? becos i rly fucking wanna think about them. thankyou
#idk idk idk billy and heather leaving work together and billy stopping by eddies place to get some green#heather coming up with him becos she can and she's pretty sure eddies terrified of them both#eddie looking shifty as Fuck when he answers the door and heather instantly zeroing in on the way he won't open the door fully#billy raising a singular eyebrow and eddie instantly caving becos he may be older but eddies like. fucking terrified of billy.#chrissy instantly being like 'please don't tell jason.' and billy being like 'the fuck is a jason?'#'isn't he on your team?' 'my boyfriend?' 'that dumbass that calls you bro all the time.'#billy looking confused as fuck until he hears heathers explanation; then he's all 'oh fuck that guy'#then: the fuck's my weed?#so eddie fucks off to find his stash and heather shoves past billy and tugs on chrissys arm until theyre both sitting on the couch#and is all 'so. what brings you to eddie munsons trailer on a thursday night?'#chrissy just being like. blindsided by the events of the past 5 minutes. but also maybe a little in love and maybe also in awe#heather: cos if you're having boyfriend troubles; i give great advice. i'm free tonight btw#and chrissy still being slightly speechless but agreeing anyway cos fuck yeah she'll go out with heather#heather turning to billy like 'okay so change of plans. you can drop me and chrissy off at the mall tho; thanks rat boi.'#and billy; who hates his fucking life; just being like 'yeah uh fuck no' only to then literally do just that#anyway! heather and chrissy just chillin and talking for hours and heather taking music control in billys car to lowkey try and impress her#and chrissy literally not knowing a single song but like. adding them all to a playlist on her phone as they go.#walking around and clicking in ways they didn't even know they would#hearteyes mutherfucker etc#so billy fucks around in his car for a while and starts texting max cos he's bored as fuck#but then like 3 msgs in; max is like 'i'm watching a movie with lucas; can you please fuck off' and billy's like. i'm a fucking loser now#then when billy picks heather & chrissy up; cos he's full on chauffeuring them; he can admit that#they're all like giggly and shit and billy's like wow this is the worst thing to ever happen to me#and then he's stuck third wheeling them for the rest of time. sometimes 5th wheeling if max and lucas tag along#max heather and now chrissy getting along so well is literally billy's biggest cross to bear in life#yall can keep your fruity fours or whatever okay my personal new fav dynamic is billy + heather + chrissy + max thanku#m#text
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axolotluv · 2 years
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Watched Hocus Pocus 2 last night 
Review: >:(
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redvelvetwishtree · 2 years
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Can someone explain what is wrong with the issue JK Rowling is raising in her recent tweets (and I guess this is the same issue she has always raised)? (An explanation that is not simply "let people do whatever" or a demand to just accept all the dramatically new and unconventional ideas woke people expect everyone to instantly agree with) Because whatever she's saying sounds like a valid issue in real, non-internet life... (and I've wasted my morning scrolling through the very toxic tag of her name on here without getting anything meaningful out of it except overbearing people demanding that everyone stops liking harry potter and fantastic beasts and nitpicking over small things to turn the perfectly fine HP books into super problematic pieces of literature)
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lesbiten · 2 years
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i think the reason i am so forgiving of all the bad writing of chibnall era is that im experiencing chronic “theres better versions of all of these characters in my head” syndrome
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