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002yb · 5 months

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While Roy would argue that the leaky faucet in their apartment adds to its ramshackle, rustic charm, Jason doesn't share the sentiment. The persistent dripping is white noise to Roy, but for Jason it's an irritant. It's a reminder of home and a childhood Jason would rather forget - a too small apartment that was rundown and falling apart, all stained surfaces and broken fixtures because no one cared to take care of anything. Jason doesn't want to live like that again. It's why Jason does so much to keep the place up despite Roy's absence because it's not just a safe house - it's their home.

Which is why when Roy comes home and is greeted with that steady drip, he grimaces. The leaky faucet is something Roy promised to fix months ago and promptly forgets about between so many other responsibilities, but he resolves himself in that moment: today is the day.

Guilt and shame are strong motivators and Roy feels an ample amount of both if only because the place looks as good as it does. Everything is clean and smells fresh in a way that makes Roy feel at ease and yet here he's left Jason to suffer with a faulty sink.

The old saying of, 'happy wife, happy life,' crosses Roy's mind and while they're not married, Roy resolves that he needs to do better by his partner. If not out of love, then certainly because Roy isn't sure he could withstand being at the forefront of Jason's provoked ire.

It's not a hard task. Challenged as Roy likes to be, he finds enjoyment in the straightforward nature of the problem and the clear steps needed to resolve it. Compared to the other work he does, it's mindless and it's something of a relief.

That he's going to get brownie points with Jason is an added bonus.

Jason, who walks into their apartment that's been empty for months while Roy has been tied up with Justice League missions and bureaucracy to find his partner on his back, crowded into the cabinet beneath their sink finally making right on his promise to fix the damn plumbing. Jason, who sees Roy following through and preens about it because the poor kid is all crossed wires and fucked up associations about the men in his life taking care of shit like this. Jason, who comes home and straddles Roy's hips like he's done so often in the past, casual and alluring - the menace.

It takes all of Roy's willpower not to react. For as often as Jason tries to seduce Roy, Roy has been painstakingly mindful to not take advantage. Making Jason happy and flirting around is one thing; letting him believe he has to pay Roy back for fulfilling a promise Roy made months ago and forgot about is another.

"You gonna help?" Roy asks instead.

"Depends on the plumbing." Jason quips, grinding his ass back against Roy to tease him and-

Bang!

It feels good until it doesn't. Roy sees stars for too many reasons and all he can think is that this was karma coming to bite his ass for 1) not fixing the sink sooner and 2) being tempted by the vixen that is Jason Todd.

The weight on his pelvis is gone in an instant and Roy groans in disappointment. Just because he won't come on to Jason doesn't mean that he doesn't enjoy when Jason tries to seduce him. It's his guilty pleasure, fuck!

"Shit, are you okay?" Jason asks through an incredulous laugh, dragging Roy out from beneath the sink by his calves. Roy goes easy, one hand to the bump on his head from hitting the pipes beneath the sink. Jason looks both embarrassed and sheepish and Roy can't say the kid has ever looked more gorgeous than in that moment, hovering over Roy with cool fingers pressed to the swelling bump just beneath the edge of Roy's hat. "My bad," Jason snickers, knocking his knuckles just shy of the hurt.

Roy makes a face at him and, just to tease, torments him with a lighthearted taunt: "Kiss it better?"

The mood has come and gone though, so all Jason gives Roy is a smirk and a pointed kiss to his own hand before he smacks it over Roy's head.

"Maybe after you finish with the sink." Jason says, gesturing to the broken pipe, courtesy of Roy's forehead. Roy turns his attention to it, lips pursed because wow, fuck. That's another trip to the store.

"Since it's your fault-" Roy says and Jason scoffs. Still, when Roy holds out his hand, Jason hoists him up. Roy smiles at him, easy as anything, "-come get the parts with me."

Roy loves the work he does. He's happy to do it, but he's missed this; he's glad to be home.

#royjay #jayroy #words #some sort of au where there's romantic tension but jason has a bit too much going on and roy is tries to be responsible but is also thirsty #and jason is aware of this and sometimes uses it but other times nah and other times still gets insecure about where the relationship stand #this gives big age difference vibes #and now all i'm thinking of is barely contained sleazy roy and small no lazarus jason #my new favorite trope:#is it bros being bros or a ship setting sail?

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seagull-scribbles · 1 year

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what if they where T4T?! What then?

#TMNT #TMNT 2012 #casey jones 2012 #that episode where Casey said I liked being a girl really expected me to ignore the comment?#no #raphael hamato #2012 raph #rasey #I mean you don’t have to ship them to appreciate the concept #idk raph has short trans man vibes I love him #toxic masculinity is him trying to act the part in a house of males #he’ll get over it dw #though I do like cos man raph dressing as a fairy princess and having feminine qualities #I also love trans man raph struggling to accept his more traditionally feminine behaviour #especially when they are only exposed to these gendered roles through old media #these two go out and beat up transphobes for a romantic date x #Raphs not got any trans stuff on because he doesn’t need to explain who he is to anyone his family knows #oh I tried so hard not to scratch and bruise them up too much #but I still can’t draw people #sorry Casey’s heads too big I’m learning #really like the shades of green on Raph though #also Raphs names always been raph splinter was a ninja he doesn’t know how to sex frenshly mutated pet turtle tots #OH QUICKLY I AM LOVING LATINA CASEY SO MUCH #these two spray paint graffiti in every ally and drop one trans or personal cultural significance reference in each #trans casey jones #trans raph #lgbt hc

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riacte · 1 month

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so hey guys i finished dungeon meshi yesterday and i'm still thinking about it

#ria.txt #i spoiled myself so at first i was like 'this is bonkers wtf are they doing in those last few chapters?????'#but then it was like. yeah. i see #love those ch when it's just clearly putting the squad into Situations #also. izutsumi #what i really liked was how tightly the protagonist and the deuteragonist were wound up in the overall themes #the plot the themes the conflict the characters it was very neatly connected #hence i am also now accidentally invested in whatever going on between laios and marcille #not just platonic not romantic not enemies i just think they work well tgt and deeply care for each other its great watching them develop #it's the leader + most trusted advisor / anxious girlfailure + the annoying freak she's somehow attached to vibes #haha that rabbit chapter with marcille. hahha i was like what the fuck man. it was funny and then boom whump [tears streaming down my face]#those shapeshifter chs were sooo much fun esp seeing other chara's perceptions of each other. stealing that #the changeling ones were great too elf senshi is the fucking funniest he looks sooooooo unserious #marcille's evolving perception with death starting with saving falin and saving the squad and her nightmares of outliving everyone-#-and her dad and her 'temper tantrum' and UGH when at the end she said she was fine with falin not coming back.... WAAA. OUGH.#i think dunmeshi handled the trope of 'prophecy of chosen one becoming king' pretty well and it makes sense why laios is the protag #the worldbuilding is so thoughtful as well i liked seeing different characters with different worldviews interact #very solid and well rounded series wooo #the main 4 has such a fun dynamic together #anyways. dunmeshi au.....#more like borrowing the worldbuilding bc charas are too nuanced for a one to one comparison #ren is like some prince of his own species but he's like 34th in line and no one cares about him so he fucks off to eat monsters #which is why he's both snobbish AND a total freak when it comes to his food taste #false is originally in for the money from ren and plans to scam him but unfortunately the cringefail swag captures her #martyn is Obnoxiously Clueless and thinks he's smart but he's not. he's resourceful but also pathetic and crazy #stress cant cook but she thinks she does so everyone goes (≖_≖ ) when she picks up a pot. they delegate her to killing and chopping duty #the mvp is iskall who keeps on saving everyone's asses and somehow has resources for everyone #i think ren is actually aware false is going to scam him but he has too much money to spend anyway and he thinks shes cool so he lets her??#and somehow she doesnt take the money and run. and goes back to eating monsters w/ the party. everyone is crazy

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eldritch-thrumming · 7 months

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no offense but steve and nancy’s talk in the woods in season 4 was hands down the worst thing stranger things has ever done

#ok i am not being objective but i just saw a gifset of it and like #major cringe man #bro get it together what ru doing boy #like i get it nancy is cool and brave and whatever but like #does heterosexual love and romance have to be the sun which we all revolve around #major ick vibes #rancid vibes #and this is not even me being a steddie shopper or like an anti stancy shipper it’s just like u were in high school lol #and u grew and changed into diff ppl and like u didn’t even really like each other all that much to begin w #idk idk let nancy go out on her own without any of the boys pls i’m begging #and also let steve and robin become the codependent idiots they deserve to be #true love doesn’t always have to be romantic pls straight ppl i’m begging u to see that platonic love is just as serious and important as #straight romantic love pls i’m on my damn knees

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lokiusly · 19 days

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delulu hours: if lokius were to be the steggy of this multiverse saga, what would be THE song that plays at the end?

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padfootswhiskers · 1 month

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i haven't read DH in years and years and idk if it's because i'm older now or what but i am legit distressed reading about lupin's reaction to tonks at the end of the seven potters 😭 (the s2 tenth doctor of it alll......!!!!) he is so fucking scared and angry, and harry's outsider pov (that isn't very good at picking up on romantic cues) is such a good way to describe it. idk. it's been hours since i set that chapter down and i'm still thinking about it!

#maybe because i know he's going to walk out on her soon lol #damn it lupin just let her love you!!#why does this particular romantic trope work so well on me WTF. the dw s2 ep 3 school reunion vibes are too much #has anyone ever written a tenrose/remadora meta #remadora #remus x tonks #dh live blog #hp live blog

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eastgaysian · 5 months

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#i think im gonna go with the first cutoff point and neaten up the edges and Poast maybe today or tomorrow #as is known all roads lead to wyllstarion but i'm iffy on tagging it because it's not really. About wyllstarion. there are vibes but #idk if they'll even do anything romantic. i love to make some fuckers experience weird complicated tension in complex circumstances

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eddiezpaghetti · 3 months

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going off of your BEAUTIFULLY worded post(s) about byler being inevitable and treating queer characters with respect, do you think they will explore byler's sexuality with a sex scene or just keep it to a kiss? Or perhaps another kind of scene?

Honestly...I don't feel like a sex scene is likely? Not because they're too young or anything. There have been sex scenes between people Will and Mike's age on the show before--thank you Steve and Nancy--so that wouldn't be the issue. Nor do I think it would be an issue with them being a queer couple.

My prediction--and I could be wrong; this kind of depends on how the rest of the season goes with regards to the main action plot--is that Will and Mike are going to get together at a climactic moment. Maybe leading up to the final clash or during it. And sex scenes really need time to breathe. Steve and Nancy had sex at the beginning of Season 1. Jonathan and Nancy had sex in the middle of Season 2. They had time.

But I think, if the writers waited until the final season of the show to make this couple canon, it's because it's important. Not a romantic subplot, but plot. I think, in some way or another, the romantic plot and the action plot are going to be intertwined, and they're going to climax together. You know, like they're having SE-- There'd just be no comfortable place to fit a sex scene at the height of the action. Like, imagine trying to fit a Lumax sex scene when they're in the attic at the end of Season 4. It just doesn't go there. They got the cute little doodle scene instead.

I very much think Mike and Will are going to kiss, though. I'd be shocked if they didn't.

So basically what I'm saying is...I feel like Byler is going to be too important for a sex scene to happen. I could see a scene early on portraying some sort of sexuality, particularly from Mike's side, to show to the general audience that something is happening, that it's not just one-sided. For instance maybe they'd have to change clothes in the same room for some reason, a la Joyce and Hopper in S4, and Mike would look just a little too long before turning around. But a full-blown sex scene...probably not?

The more specific stuff like this gets, of course, the harder it is to predict, so I'm a little less certain about this prediction than Byler simply being canon, but, yeah, gun to my head? Kiss, absolutely. Sex, probably not.

#byler #anon #meta #Will's disappearance was what started this whole thing.#He's been at the heart of it all from the very beginning.#It makes sense that he'd resolve his romantic plot in the same instant the whole plot was resolved.#Like--you know that part in S4 where everyone starts fighting back at once?#Nancy's shooting Vecna in Hawkins. Hopper's slicing a demogorgon in Russia. El is fighting back in Vecna's mind.#And it's just rapidfire switching between all of them?#Yeah imagine that but one of the things they're switching to that's kicking Vecna's ass is Mike passionately kissing Will.#That's BASICALLY what I expect. Probably not exactly literally that but the same kind of vibe. It's going to be PART of the barrage.

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linddzz · 4 months

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Being the stronger one in the couple while also being a full foot shorter is the best. The real life dwarf/elf couple vibes. The physical comedy of picking my husband up and his feet are still scraping the ground. The confused people at stores when I'm the one who's picking up the big heavy bags as an ongoing theme of us existing as proof positive that you can have an m/f couple that still makes Straight people clock and get confused that something Not Normative is going on there

#the dwarf/elf vibes of us are always doubled by him getting very foppishly affronted by me doing something uncouth #anyway husband is asleep im posting romantic shit dont tell him #also it is VERY funny when I pick him up #doubly hilarious that i am not unusually strong #he has the muscle density of overcooked spaghetti and legitimately medically weird joints #the number of times ive explained 'we are a very obviously queer m/f couple“#and then people meet our partner and go 'ok this makes sense now'

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tsuchinokoroyale · 1 month

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How are you not someone's wife already???

I’ve licherally got no room for a man like where’s he gonna fit??

Not to mention…

#the real tea is that my brain operates purely on vibes and gets locked in very hard #if I’m interested in someone I tend to stay interested in them forever #but by the same coin if someone doesn’t strike my interest immediately they can’t do much to change my mind #I wouldn’t consider myself a romantic at all but all of my long term relationships began with sparks flying #I have changed my perspective on people before but only on a friendship level #my current fwb is a good example he’s poly so he left the door open for our fwb sitch to evolve if I was interested #and I def considered it for a long while but while he’s very hot and I get along with him great as a friend we did not have sparks #and trying to cultivate romantic feelings for him just didn’t happen much to my own dismay #he’s truly great I really don’t see where the disconnect between us is #I’m trying to therapy my way through this just because I get incredibly frustrated when I don’t understand something about myself #but I’m also really not too panini pressed about it love will come and go as it pleases #I got soooooo many baby to lovins in the meantime 😍😍😍

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infizero · 6 months

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i cant phrase this well but infinity train book 2 is for the aroace transgenders. lake transgenderism is obvious but nothing in my life has screamed to me queerplatonicism as much as lake and jesse like their qpr readings are off the fucking charts

#infinity train in general is for the aromantics. i've talked about this before (very poorly) but the way it handles romance #as in ''there rlly isnt any theres just characters and they interact naturally and sometimes that involves things that read as romantic''#tulip has 0 romance in her story. lake and jesse as stated before have crazy queerplatonic vibes.#grace and simon is probably the most romantic it gets and thats literally barely anything.#and ryan and min ofc have the classic homoerotic childhood friends thing going on.#its literally so good i dont know how to describe it but just. i think its the fact that like i said they're not treated as ''romances''#you can absolutely read them as such its very easy to. but theres nothing explicitly romantic about any of it #there's no discussion regarding any of these guys about crushes or dating or whatever. they just exist #its not necessarily the absence of romance. its just the removal of the label romance. i love it so so much #serena.txt #GAH i still feel like i didnt explain it properly. idk its really one of those things you just kinda Feel watching it

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carcarrot · 3 months

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poll blog that asks "did you understand x sparks song?" and the options are "yes, but only lyrically" "yes, but only emotionally" "yes, both lyrically and emotionally" and "no, i dont understand it at all"

#dont make me make it . (i might make it)#the way im defining those options is like.#understanding it only lyrically means you get like whats going on in the song story but you dont vibe with or understand the emotion of it #like you get that my way is about someone wanting a chance to do their thing but you cant relate or understand that emotion. i guess #and only understanding it only emotionally is like oh i get the emotion here. but what the fuck is going on #like oh i get the yearning emotions in sherlock holmes but what the fuck does that mean #understanding them both is like ah i get whats happening and i get the emotion too #for me thats like popularity. the songs abt someone whos out with someone they like and etc and i get the yearning romantic emotions #i dont understand it all means you just dont get it. youre at a loss #for me thats like uhhhhh . idk tarzan and jane maybe i dont know im sure im forgetting more incomprehensible sparks songs

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allbluedepths · 4 months

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Queued post for later: A bit swamped with working school graduations this week, but it does give me time to scribble down fluffy, plotless ficlets. Here’s a snippet of one that’s just Shanks and Benn hammock cuddles to make me happy, haha.

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They *really* didn’t both fit in their old, thin hammock anymore, but like hell Benn was going to ask him to move.

His fingers gripped the sides of the hammock, an attempt to hold it steady as Shanks squirmed around, settling in like a dog on a warm bed.

“Just— almost there—“

“Captain. You’re gonna tip us over.” Releasing one hand, he wrapped his arm around Shanks in a firm grip, pulling him snugly into his chest. “There.”

The contented sigh brushing against the thin fabric of his shirt made him huff, more fondly than frustrated. If he had known two decades ago that Shanks would still be clumsily climbing on top of him, maybe he wouldn’t have encouraged it, or instead found a calmer way to do so.

(He wouldn’t have. He knew that. Shanks knew that — the lax smile and the tension seeping out of his frame said so.)

#one piece #red haired shanks #benn beckman #akagami no shanks #written with my usual platonic-ish captain-first mate vibes in mind but #bennshanks #in case you’d like to read it as romantic go for it #ficlet #WIP

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literary-heights · 2 years

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love of my entire life

#oh romantic killer #it was really good but what the fuck was that #romantic killer #anzu hoshino #no this show was very beloved very funny going to be honest very scum villain i am not immune #i really liked all the characters very dearly #i mean like. all the. all the good characters #also thinking about kiss him not me because similar vibes or whatever #specifically saying scum villain was reverse kiss him not me which was the most real but awful thing i’ve ever said #sherlockfucker30

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foundationsofdecay · 25 days

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Thinking again about this post that @a-s-levynn made a while back, as well as @moonchild-in-blue's and @tonguetyd's comments there, about Vessel and the mask's own identity and the idea of the person Vessel used to be before meeting Sleep, this nebulous Him that we hear in intermissions during rituals, was "cocooned" inside a body that was no longer his and is experiencing this all as a spectator, and that Vessel kills the current version of himself that he's become, a spiritual suicide of sorts. How that was done so that He, without the influence of the mask and by extension Sleep, can move forward and start anew even after being irrevocably changed by what He's seen, and Vessel finally obtaining that "redemption, eternal ascension, setting [him] free" that was described in "Ascensionism".

I'm especially thinking about the funeral pyres reflected in Sleep's eyes. This could imply the fates of past vessels of Sleep, or it could imply that Vessel is dead in all ways but physical, or perhaps it could be a promise of Vessel's demise, burned alive and left to turn to ash - or are "those eyes like fire" and the raging flames within doing much, much more than that?

To add a very belated addition to the discussion, I want to bring up something regarding the lyric "I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre." In fact, it is going to be the focus of this entire post. In continuing with this idea of the death and rebirth/resurfacing and possibly rebuilding of the self, and identity fractures that I described in great detail in this post on "DYWTYLM", it's important here that I start off stating that there's two underlying assumptions that I'm making, which first is that He and Vessel are both the insect at first, their own selves tangled as noted by Levynn but capable of separation under the right circumstance, like a fantastical version of plurality where they can separate physically while still being connected as parts of a whole. My second assumption is that Vessel meets his death voluntarily, and Sleep is involved, regardless of whether or not Sleep is actually the one to do the job.

I'm using these as bases because in my interpretation of this theory, Vessel has to die, and that even though the two of them connected in mind and soul and often body, He is ultimately able to survive and live on, which requires physical distinction. This separation is in accordance with descriptions in the same song we've been discussing of Vessel fighting back against Sleep. Vessel, who used to fight Sleep's enemies "to let them know that they contend with [him]", now turns the blade against Sleep, his new enemy that he faces for Him. Perhaps this is a show of both his anger and his newfound devotion, a final attempt to damage Sleep to whatever extent he can while he has the chance, not with any hope of surviving but to give Him the best chance to carry on, since Vessel knows firsthand how much Sleep struggles in a weak enough state.

Describing Him and Vessel as a winged insect is a very interesting choice, which is what I ultimately want to focus on here and dissect. What kind of insect would that be, I wonder? I don't recall if there is official artwork depicting that, but without anything official as reference there's a near-infinite number of possibilities to choose from - flies, mosquitos, cicadas, bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, beetles, the list is endless - all with their own symbolic interpretations and impacts on this original theory and extrapolations. I would need an entire separate post to go over all of that, though - imagine examining just the different eyes that vary from species to species! - so I'll just go into one possibility and leave the rest as an open question.

One major question I have about this winged insect, and about Sleep, is this: Does Sleep still have eyes looking in other directions like we had seen several times in previous songs, or is Sleep's attention all on Vessel now, "[taking] aim at him for once" like he used to ask for?

See, there's an inherent contradiction here, going back to the labeling of a pyre. Sure, it's said to be for a funeral, but it's never explicitly stated who it's intended for. Not only that, but we also questioned at the end of the first paragraph if there is something else to be said about the fire and its behavior, what all Sleep is doing with it and plans to do with it. That's the thing about fire - perhaps it's been created and cultivated for a specific purpose, as part of a funeral in this case, but when you take a look at how Sleep has historically behaved, and the kind of language we see used to describe this behavior and motivation, there's other themes that comes up that give Sleep's fire another layer of meaning.

For fire doesn't just burn, it consumes. It has an endless hunger, latching onto anything it can grab hold of that can fuel its existence, taking and taking until there is nothing left. There's a sort of joy in that, a celebration, bursts of light and sound coinciding with the addition of more fuel, greater the more powerful that intake is over time and growing wide and tall in the most ideal circumstances. When the fire is weak, a breeze could snuff it out, but even a pinch of smoldering ash can manage to survive and grow into something that can lay waste to forests and home and towns, nearly apocalyptic when watching it as it razes thousands of square miles and jumps across roads and rivers. It, too, can rush and flood you, and swallow you whole.

Before Vessel, He discovered Sleep in a state like that smoldering ember. Yet, with the fuel of His initial deal and Vessel's inception and overtaking of Him, with every ritual bringing worship in greater numbers and greater fervor enabling rapid growth, this is what Sleep has turned into. This is what Vessel must face, not just a powerful God but one that he fed and nurtured into this state. The fire in those eyes is extreme, but it's also not eternal. It can still be deprived of that which feeds it, and if that were to happen, even be extinguished. There's hope in that.

Throughout the story, we see Vessel always coming back to Sleep, despite the flames that threaten to lick at his skin and singe and burn. Instinctively, perhaps even compulsively, he returns to this source of light and love and fear and wonder, the flame that grows each time he's fed by Vessel's worship. Examining one of the possible winged insects, his behavior is like that of a moth, drawn to the aura and essence of this God that desires him and hurts him in unequal measure.

Recall how one of our basic assumptions is that separation between the two is possible, despite how entwined they've been from the start even as they've been drifting apart. This coexistence and indeed codependency with Him is all Vessel knows, it's quite literally his entire life next to Sleep. If you consider the admission that "it's been two days since the mainframe went down and [he's] still messed up" as a reflection of the breaking down of the connection between Vessel and Him, which we've been seeing accelerate over time in songs like "DYWTYLM," with this "life like wires," severing those wires is all it would take, messy and painful as it would be.

No longer would we have "the mouth of the wolf, the eyes of the lamb," but that'd turn out to be the key to Vessel's victory, even as it sealed his fate. It's clear that Vessel would eventually get too close and be brought down by those eyes, but this time it was deliberate in a way that is fueled by something completely different than any self-destructive behavior he exhibited in the past, and it paid off. That lamb survived, by no means unscathed but still not lost.

The one thing that remained the same, persisting throughout their parallel existence that transcends life and death itself, is memory. The autumn leaves, the rain, the night. The lights of his eyes, his grin. This grief that accompanies it will never go away, will never grow any smaller, but He can break though the walls that are closing in on Him, keep running forward, become something new. Most importantly, He has to do it for Himself. He'll be alone, but the memory will always be there, knowing Vessel is just an inch apart from Him, on his own continuum.

#okay this went WAY off the rails and it suddenly had romantic vibes at the end? that's just what euclid does to a mf ig #sorry about the direct username tags orz i wasn't sure what the best way to credit was #(yes i plugged my dywtylm post again no i am not ashamed. i like it a lot so it's going in there)#sleep token

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redpandarambles · 5 months

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There are many valid critiques that can be made of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary episodes but I also want to take a moment to appreciate the fact we got good trans/NB rep and a storyline involving someone being content to just live out their days with their best friend.

In a climate where the UK Government still refuses to acknowledge asexuality and aromaticism as sexual orientations, where every day they make it harder for trans people to exist, where they are desperately trying to return to the days of Section 28 (don't say gay) and refuse to ban conversion therapy...

... it was just pretty awesome to have RTD and the entire cast and crew raise a middle finger to all the homophobic/transphobic/racist assholes out there and create something incredibly queer in one of the most watched TV shows broadcast on one of our biggest broadcasters.

I don't know about anyone else but I really needed that.

#doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #doctor who spoilers #trans #non-binary #the aroace vibes were real #ten and donna meant everything to me growing up #and to see their relationship not fall into a romantic trope but to be full of so much platonic love #i needed that as much as I needed to see Donna ready to go to war for her non binary kid

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