finally unpausing my MASH rewatch and we are starting with Sons and Bowlers so if I get even more insane about Hawkeye and Charles. you know why

headcanon that jason reads to cass. well, it started as him reading to cass -- she got to work on her literacy, and he got to share his favorite books with someone -- but it kind of isn't just cass anymore.

tim was the first to join them. he'd sit at the end of the couch and listen. jason's got a good voice for reading, very calm and measured, and having that sort of steady, relaxed sound in the background made tim feel comfortable enough to fall asleep to the sound of his brother reading.

damian, oddly enough, was next. he walked into the library one day, fully prepared to dye tim's hair purple or something while he was asleep, but he came across jason reading aloud and short-circuted a bit. he didn't get read to growing up in the league of assassins, so the concept was pretty foreign to him. but he kind of liked it. so he sat down in one of the chairs and listened.

dick's Sibling Bonding Radar just went off one afternoon and led him to the couch in the library. tim was already asleep and damian was settled into the armchair, entranced, so it was cass that made eye contact with him and put a finger to her lips, telling him not to interrupt. not that dick was going to -- he was already stretching out on the floor, careful to be absolutely silent so as not to disturb the peace.

steph, kate, duke, and barbara don't live at the manor, but every time they're in the house during this self-imposed quiet time, they'll find a spot on the couch or the floor to listen. in the kind of life they have (the one where you dress in kevlar and spandex and go out at night to punch people) (or during the day to punch people) (or you run an enormous computer to help the people in the kevlar and spandex... okay you get it) it's nice to have some quiet time with their family.

Come back home when you have some sense

You can throw your life away just not at my expense

You’re not the son I raised

Prompt:

Damian and Tim are trapped together in a cave system.

That itself wouldn’t be too bad (or too out of the ordinary) if Damian hadn’t been injured in the initial collapse.

Now he’s alone, with their comms transmitting and receiving nothing, with the pretender he’d been trying to kill on several occasion.

And Damian is only all too aware that grandfather’s “favorite detective” would have every right to kill him in retaliation. And the perfect opportunity to get away with it.

something something undertale establishing laughter/humor as a way to disguise helplessness. something something sans' character being built up as a prankster and a comedian. something something the moment where we see him laugh the most (both in dialogue and in sprite) is the genocide fight....

something something

why am i so. obsessed with the concept of a sneeze scenario with like. V/ox kidnapping L/ucifer.

like. L/ucifer just lets it happen. he could break free at any time he's just bored and wants to see what they'll do. but then he ends up like... being allergic/sensitive to... idk, either whatever it is V/al smokes or like, some room fragrance the V/ees use or whatever

and like, he can't just let himself sneeze. he'd probably end up accidentally breaking out of whatever they've trapped him in if he did, and he doesn't want his little damsel in distress act to be done and over with so early, this is fun

too bad he sucks at holding back-

I’m sorry if my question has like a very obvious answer (that I obliviously failed to pick-up on, while reading your marvelous story), but what exactly did Pete mean when he said that Goose was his first?

its so funny you ask this cause I was just writing something about this yesterday. No there’s not really an obvious answer because i was trying to keep it intentionally vague. I feel like (tho i have my own thoughts) outright saying anything too bold about Mav & Gooses relationship is… idk it feels kind of morally questionable to commit to paper because of how it positions carole. Carole is already SUCH a tragic figure in both movies (and in the fic i wrote): she lost everything, she is to blame for the emotional turmoil of TGM, and yet she gets written out of the narrative (FRIDGED!!!) & is never given a chance to explain herself. She has no agency in the story anyway, she is literally just a scapegoat. So no matter whether Goose was the first man Mav ever slept with, or Goose was the first man Mav ever loved (both of which are 100% valid readings, and both of which would’ve still occurred during Goose & Carole’s relationship), it’s still CAROLE who’s getting fucked over here. AGAIN.

(Also? I have no idea if I’ve been reading this scene wrong this whole time, but the whole “Goose, even you could get laid in a place like this” / “I’d be happy to find a girl who’d talk dirty to me” feels… not good. Feels bad. And the $20 bet—are they both partaking in that? Isn’t that how bets work? Whoever gets an on-the-premises lay first gets $20? Or is he just betting MAV can’t get laid? Bet aside, I don’t know—the whole thing just makes me sad on Carole’s behalf. She is 100% the most tragic character in the franchise already, this casual “wish i were with a girl who’d talk dirty to me” just makes it worse)

But Goose was definitely Mav’s first SOMETHING. Even canon-goose knows mav isn’t straight (“of a lady this time”). I was kind of trying to insinuate that my Mav confessed he was in love with/at the very least LOVED Goose to Charlie, and that’s part of the reason she left (“Of course I loved him, of course” / “He didn’t know who he was and neither did she”) but yeah there’s no easy answer. Up to you. Do with all that info what you will.

im aware at this point the prologue is wrapping up, especially with bjorns upcoming death and after where askeladd pretty much scolds thorfinn abt not seeing a future for himself besides killing askeladd, but also with all this going on, i feel like i've forgotten that askeladd's a bad man. at this point, askeladd's working hard to secure canute on the throne in order to protect the kingdom of wales. he's fine with bloodshed as long as the big picture leads to peace concerning his home country where his mom was. i see all this and i feel like i'm not seeing him as complex, but more that i forgot all his prev bad actions, esp w how the manga strongly portrays him as likable, not even in a forced way like how i felt snake was shown or him getting a "redemption arc". idk if its bc the manga feels very fast-paced, or the anime showed more scenes where they pillaged before showing the main plot, but this guy that lead a group of looting, raping, murdering people never really made me feel conflicted?

i wanna compare it to vagabond, where that one guy with the chain sickles made me very conflicted the entire time he was there in his last arc. i dont even think takezou/musashi had a revenge element in vagabond (?) and the sickles guy didnt even do anything grand like try and die for his country's peace, but i dont think i ever strongly sympathized with thorfinn and felt overwhelming disgust for askeladd? when not even that long ago he murdered an entire village during the winter and just dumped them in a hole. im just not quite sure what im supposed to be feeling here, or if i am supposed to sympathize w thorfinn or what, i feel like askeladd was too likable from the get go maybe??

GX Finalized-Subs!89 Preview - Cries from the Dark

getting actual scene ideas for the whole 'the girl still exists in termina as an expulsion of the god of fear + hungers hope+contentment ragnvaldr+friends had instilled in her and is now augusts weird kind of kid who snuck onto the train w him bc she wanted to see le'garde' idea. head in my hands

yeah so about ichinose.

if there’s one thing harusono is gonna do it’s give characters identifying marks

like I really don’t think there’s anything profound to say here it’s just like. ahhhh I’m sending you psychic beams you’ll understand. basically I’m wondering though The hell happened in the year since this happened

gayass..

I still think it's hilarious that in Meteors AU, literally every single person knows about the haunted pile of robot spaghetti that is Tangle, except for Roxy. Who has been unknowingly visiting them and staring them right in the face, for literally years now. She has no idea. Fucking Cassie's dad Eddie knows about them. The Sewerhell guys know about them. The fucking horsies probably know about them. DJ, who is too big to get anywhere fucking near Tangle knows about them.

But not Roxy. It's a mystery to everyone. Half of them think it's a denial thing or willful ignorance. They're completely wrong she genuinely has no idea they're there. Tangle has willfully made their presence known to so many of the others and have tried a hundred times over with Roxy but she just. Has no fucking clue.

If it's haunted, Roxy doesn't know it exists. That's just how it is. She can see Glitchtrap pulling puppet strings on Vanessa and the others, but she can't see the spooky spirit spaghetti. This isn't even just Meteors. She just has no idea. The guy is like glass that gives her a headache, she can't see them but wow does her head hurt after staring into the darkness outside the pizzeria for a minute. Strange. Weird, even. Bizarre, perhaps.

Why does everyone keep freaking out at the shadows?? There's nothing even there. If there was? She'd know! Even in Meteors with her almost complete blindness in the dark, she'd know! Roxy knows everything that's down here and nothing gets past her without her knowing! They must be seeing things smh smh such overreactors smh

still chewing on the idea that joel is turning jimmy into a toy. thinking about how there are only two things you need to know about jimmy: that he’s the sheriff, and he is not a toy. thinking about how those two seemingly irrefutable truths could be upended in a matter of weeks.

a man who’s body is no longer his own, who hides away from the world in shame, and he’d hide away from himself if he could, too. a deputy who cares too much, who calls out his failure to take care of himself in words that feel all too much like an attack. an election, one last punch to strip jimmy of the last piece of his irrefutable identity. and then, who is he? what is left?

I’m a musician and I recognize the need for practice BUT JESUS FUCKING CHRIST DOES EVERYONE IN THIS HOUSE HAVE TO PRACTICE THEIR INSTRUMENTS AT EVERY HOUR OF THE DAY

I’m trying to get shit done and the constant noise is sucking the life out of me. The man finished the whole upstairs himself for his instruments and didn’t even think of soundproofing for recording purposes. I haven’t even found a place yet and I’m already looking at soundproofing.

what did you think of orison this time around babes

ahhh thanks for asking!!

I actually didn't remember anything about this episode from my initial watch other than the major plot points so it was kind of like i was watching it again for the first time, which was great.

I am always wary whenever the x files do follow-up episodes on its most famous villains (i am a noted "kitsunegari" hater), and although I don't think an "irresistible" follow-up was completely necessary, I am for the most part a fan of the way it was handled, plus the direction from rob bowman was absolutely striking, especially in that final sequence.

the scene where scully is fighting off pfaster is so visceral and desperate. I kind of hate that scully is constantly being retraumatized in this show by having put in bodily harm over and over again, but sadly I guess in a metaphoric way it is realistic bc we can never know when trauma is going to resurface in our lives and how it is going to affect us. but it is upsetting to think about how her traumas have compounded on her since the beginning of the show: her pfaster trauma is compounded from duane berry, jerry schnauz from pfaster, and ofc pfaster comes back again just when it seems like she's been able to move on from these traumas (or at least hasn't be retraumatized in that particular way for a while)

it's also devastating that the final scene doesn't really provide scully a real sense of closure, but again it is sadly more realistic. my one complaint with this episode is that I've never really understood orison's connection with pfaster and why they implied that pfaster was a demon, especially with regards to the ending. one of the things that worked so well with "irresistible" was that donnie pfaster WASN'T supernatural at all. he was only a man, but still, as scully says at the beginning of "orison", "just plain evil". scully’s fear that it wasn’t god working through her that made her murder pfaster (the implication being that it was her own innate capacity for evil) i feel like works so much better when pfaster is also just a man. an evil man, but decidedly human

i stayed after school but im leaving already. some random kid showed up and was there for a while so it wasn’t a good time really. and when i only get to stay after until 3:30 it hardly makes anything better than going home. i just feel bad for imposing myself