Whisper in your ear, as I take you to my world, that you can still come down. You can still let go of my hand, forget this place. High on risk, your eyes never left mine, your cherry lips never uttered words of doubt. You never wavered for a moment and now I know it, baby. You would go into fire for me, but I will never make you hurt, only hurt the ones who try to harm you. This intensity that you feel rushing through your veins, burning your skin is only power, a drug like no other, and we're (the only ones) crazy enough to take it. Before you, no one ever survived it, no one ever wanted to go the whole way. The ride makes them dizzy; but me and you, it makes us alive. Hold onto each other as we go higher and higher, it's freedom, it's all ours. Your breathing steady, your heart never skips a beat. They only burn out because they burn, we just breathe this, we just live like this. You are another one, for sure. The only other one. 

//

Slowly... There was never really slowly. It wasn't rushed, it's not our style. You like to be your own and you like that about me too. I just kind of looked at you and knew that whatever I do, you will match, even surpass. I felt safe because you were so.. I don't know how to describe it, you enter a room and you shift the energy. You said you liked the feeling that it didn't work on me, it was just an exchange. I thought the same thing about you. When I watch you walking towards me on the street, everything is blurred around you, only you I see clearly. In your eyes I saw a fireplace and it made me want to come closer, it made me crave their warmth. You'd never make me feel like I should leave, so I would stay. Maybe we both feared sometimes our time would run out, so we took the stupid clock off the wall and crushed it. After that, time didn't exist for us. Once you half-woke from a dream, you were covered in sweat and called us by different names. Tomorrow you said you travelled to one of our previous lives, you were married to some man and you saw me from an olive garden passing in a chariot. You said I was royalty, married to a blue blooded woman that I didn't love. You said I wanted to give it all up to be with you, but you wouldn't let me. After that story, I ordered the most expensive olive oil I could find online and when it arrived we lathered each other in it, then held each other and cried for a long time.

//

Every day that you're here, I touch immortality. I used to oscillate between wanting death and fearing it, but because of you it became past tense. I died the day I met you and every day with you is the afterlife. Or was I dead before and with meeting you I came alive? All I know is this love transcended the material forms in which we exist. When we are apart sometimes I will take a blank piece of paper and just scribble down something to tell you. Then you will run into my arms at the end of the day and the first words to pass your lips would be those words I wrote, proving once again what I never really doubted for a second: you and I, we're from the same star.

-Katarina

Hardly Coincidence

“Can I ask some questions?” “Of course, Pete. Fire away. I’ll answer what I can.” “How old were you when you got your blank soul mark? “I was almost eighteen. I woke Rhodey up in the middle of the night because I was convinced I was having a heart attack. Mine’s here,” he said, touching a spot below his left collarbone. “And how old were you when you met Pepper?” “Not until I was 34,” he said with a sad smile. “Honestly I had given up on ever finding her, and my life was just a long string of bad decisions at that point.” “Title of your autobiography,” teased Peter. “Hey, stop stealing my jokes,” Tony mock-glared. ------------------------ Once upon a time, Tony and Peter found out they were (platonic!) soulmates. This is a story I’ve been wanting to write as a companion piece (a prequel) to From the Same Star and Cracks in the Soul (which is still ongoing), which are both set 9 years later than this. It makes a tiny bit more sense if you've read the first two stories (2nd is ongoing) but it can be read by itself.

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.” ― Emery Allen

Flufftober 2022's Prompt #18: Soulmate AU @flufftober

I actually started posting this on Ao3 a week or so ago so I could get it to the point in the story where they actually find out they're soulmates by the time this prompt hit. So if you've already been reading, Chapter 4 just got posted, but this is the first time I'm posting this story here on Tumblr. Should be updating at least once a week.

Every remake of a game should come with a copy of the game it is remaking that is compatible with modern hardware but otherwise untouched and I'm not even exaggerating this should be mandated by law. If you're going to attempt to recreate a piece of art you have to give people access to its original context otherwise it becomes the only context and makes the previous version simply a superceded product

Idk man im havin a moment

I love it when pre Original Trilogy era shows how much effort went into making the Death Star. It took decades, literal decades, and it took so much money and so many people and it was such a secretive thing and it’s staffed by millions because it’s the size of a small moon.

I cannot express how much all of the added information makes it so much funnier that Luke blew it up.

Luke destroys literally everything Palpatine built. He blows up the Death Star, which was referenced in universe as early as the second movie. He blew up the weapon of mass destruction twenty years in the making. And he blew it up pretty much directly after it’s first and only successful attack. It was operational for fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes that Palpatine had the thing he’d been building for longer than Luke has been alive, and Luke blows it up. First day retirement, but first hour retirement.

Luke convinces Darth Vader to turn back to the light side, a feat thought literally impossible by literally everybody. Sidious clearly doesn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming. Vader’s betrayal was not in his plans, nor was it something he was prepared for. Sidious is a powerful Force user with all four limbs while Vader is a man in the tin can Palpatine put him in. If Palpatine had seen Vader turning coming, he would not have allowed it to happen.

Luke literally should not even be alive. Palpatine almost definitely got Padme out of the way on purpose, and he almost certainly was trying for her unborn child as well (there was way too big of a risk that a cute liddol bebe would bring some humanity back to Anakin, and Palpatine did not want Anakin to have any humanity) Luke living is literally the first step in Palpatine’s ultimate downfall, especially once Vader finds out that Luke is his son. His very alive son. His son that is not dead, despite Palpatine claiming Anakin killed Padme. Implying that Anakin killed Padme and she posthumously gave birth. But, she didn’t give birth on Mustafar, which was the last place Anakin interacted with her. And once the mother dies, you have to get those fuckers out fast or they die too.

I imagine Darth Vader piecing all of this together is that meme with all the math floating around his head, because how could Padme have died by his hand and then given birth like two hours later?

Luke killing Palpatine is what ultimately leads to the dissolution of the Empire as an omnipotent entity. Luke killed the Empire. Luke spends a good amount of his adult life killing Empire remnants. We see that in the Mandalorian, since he’s so recognizable that Gideon immediately knows he’s fucked just by seeing an X-wing. We read it in Legends’ continuity, where Luke terrifies Imperials because he can walk into their changing room and stand in their for a minute and they don’t even notice.

Luke destroyed Palpatine’s life’s work. Everything Palpatine spent his whole life working towards, and Luke kills all of it. He blows up not one, but two Death Stars (he may not have pulled the trigger on the second Death Star, but without him, it never would have been destroyed). He convinces not one, but multiple Sith and Dark Jedi to return from the Dark Side. He is the only reason that Obi-Wan Kenobi, the biggest pain in Palpatine’s ass ever born, lives long enough to make it to the Death Star.

Palpatine went through so much effort. And just when he had finally won, when he finally had a weapon capable of destroying entire planets with a single blast, making it impossible for any planets or peoples to go against him, Luke shows up nineteen years late to the Jedi party with space Starbucks and a droid twice his age and almost singlehandedly destroys everything Palpatine ever had a hand in creating.

Luke manages to become even worse than Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate thorn in the side of politicians, and Luke doesn’t even understand any politics. He wasn’t trained in diplomacy like Obi-Wan and Leia, no, he’s a farmboy who left home for the first time in his entire life, just this morning. And he is the one to destroy the Empire.

If they rewrote Star Wars and had it entirely from Palpatine’s perspective, Luke Skywalker would be his greatest foe. Luke Skywalker would be the final boss. Luke Skywalker is the antithesis of everything Palpatine believes in and he is the one character that Palpatine cannot predict. He isn’t as moldable as Anakin, he doesn’t respond to threats very well, he’s apparently impossible to kill via Force lightning (still the funniest scene of all times, the progression of Palpatine’s face falling and him looking like “what the fuck??? Is this kid rubber??? I’ve electrocuted him eight times???”), his unwavering faith in his father’s goodness makes Darth Vader want to be a better person, Luke Skywalker is the big bad of Palpatine’s story and—

There is nothing in this world that is funnier than someone’s biggest antagonist being Luke fucking Skywalker. Luke Skywalker, who saved the galaxy with the power of love and who shouldn’t exist, by Jedi rules and by Palpatine’s own attempts, and whose best friends are literally droids, which Palpatine canonically hates!

Everything about this is hilarious, this is the funniest thing in all of media, Palpatine loses absolutely everything to some backwater farmboy who fucking likes droids.

Prompt 266

Back on my Danny & Ras frienemies/rivals/maybe-lovers-nobody-can-tell-their-signals-are-very-mixed train. 

See, Danny has gone through time a lot. Often. It comes with being Clockwork’s charge-son-thing and honestly he finds it fun. And several times he’s used this time travelling to get some training in. Enter Ras, stage left, also a teen at the time and also learning swordsmanship from the same person. 

And they… utterly despise each other. They would kill the other for an apple slice, if the other one would die! But also, only they can kill the other, as it is obviously their right! 

And well, they keep running into each other. It has been a hundred years, surely the other would die by now? But of course their rival would live through utter spite. Probably to spite them specifically. 

The amount of times they have ended up sparring- trying to kill each other or not- the moment they see the other is actually ridiculous. But time is also passing. And… Danny understands, not having another to talk about things people are forgetting, or have already forgotten. 

How they ended up actually talking without a murder attempt was a long story that included a demon, a dragon, a pair of fae, some bandits, and a lot of alcohol, but it happened. And then it happens again. And again, and now it’s just kind of normal to share a drink after their spars, talking about things that no longer exist, and things they miss. 

Sure Danny can go back in time again, but he knows better than to do it willy nilly. He’s matured, he’s been an adult for a hundred years now, he knows there’s consequences for messing with time, even with Clockwork’s blessings. 

The first time they got married was technically for an undercover assassination. Well, Ras was there to assassinate someone, Danny was there to grab an artifact that should Not be in the realm of the living. And they got divorced after, it was fine. 

They just, also got married again when they met a few years later, for another job. And… okay, so maybe they have gotten married over a dozen times now and only divorced like half of those times. Half of those were for the bit or while drunk! 

And even if technically they’re married or shared a bed, it’s not like they're exclusive! As Ras’ daughters’ existences attest to (adopted in one case or not). They don’t exactly have a label for their relationship, despite others asking for one or trying to put a name to it themselves. 

Now Danny knows Ras isn’t exactly a good dude, or at least on the side of ‘good’ as he’s a literal assassin. But he also knows that good? Bad? Rather relative. He had gotten labeled as a villain when he was just trying to help all that time ago after all, and really who was he to tell someone else how to live their life? 

Which brings him to now, where he’s run into his old frienemy-rival and his youngest daughter. Who has a braindead teenager and a small toddler. Which is fine, really- but also, Talia dear, why are you using a brain dead teenager to guard your three year old son? 

…

Okay, Talia dear, Ras (Derogatory), why are you using your brain dead son and grandson to guard your younger son and grandson? Do you not have the Pits, which you were soo proud about Ras? Yes, he will spar with you, but for Realms’ sake, heal, what’s his name? Ah yes, go heal Jason and he’ll actually stick around for a few years, deal? Good. 

In the end, I’d do it all again. You’re my best friend.

unknown, coffeepeople on tumblr, ribs / lorde, mid90’s (2017), us against you / fredrik backman, war of the foxes / richard siken, radio silence / alice oseman, the morning star / anne carson, my friend / hayley williams

what the fuck. get them away from eachother

✨Mute✨ October 2, 2023. Titled before I started reading Franz Kafka’s the Castle (I started Letters to Milena 1st however while reading the introduction the author pointed out the story the Castle as the fictional translation of Franz & Milena’s relationship & it is it’s own book so it’s not featured in the Complete Stories book I have. So, I felt the title Complete Stories was a tad misleading because it’s more so select stories. Anyway, I felt I had to have it to truly understand how Franz internalized & in essence romanticized their affair) but in the introduction…

😳 Synchronicity

sorry jopson i know this is your moment but she's just so pretty here :(

These two, man… (X)

Yuki, Ue, and Kazuna; Harajuku, October 2004

For you there is nothing in this world i wouldn’t do🪽🦚

These two… I had so much fun with their in game interaction in 2.1 did not expect for them to be each other’s mirror in every sense of the metaphor. One aspect they are similar is both loving their families above their own lives, which sounds incredibly romantic and tragic. Can’t wait for more of these two.