The tonal shift between X and X-2 is SO funny to me. Yuna's boyfriend "died" and she decided to take her cousin and find a lesbian to make the girlboss-iest treasure hunting team ever

no offense intended really but this genuinely must be coming from someone who has no experience around cattle. there's a huge difference between putting an animal out of its misery humanely because it will absolutely suffer and die a slow painful death and comparing this to disabled people is just so ucky to me....

Crimes Drabble - Trystan x Lilah

Happy Birthday week, Dani!!

Warnings & A/N: No warnings. Lilah belongs to @storyofmychoices. The quote is actually “I said I liked it. I didn’t say I wanted to kiss it.” from In a Lonely Place.

“Ruby, not tonight,” I sigh.

My drink is smoky and the amber color reflects against my hand as I raise it to my lips. I close my eyes and savor the burn that trails down my throat. It’s smoother than my usual. Uncle Tommy left the good stuff at our table.

A birthday gift, for my favorite niece, he had said.

I’m your only niece, I had chuckled.

That’s why you’re my favorite, he had teased back.

Ruby’s playful tone pulls me back to the present.

“I only asked if you had, you know, any plans with someone tonight,” she grinned.

“My plan is to enjoy this bottle in peace and try not to think about the case load waiting on my desk for me tomorrow.”

“But you’d like to have plans with him tonight.”

It’s a knowing statement rather than a question.

“I admit to wanting quiet. And that will only be achieved by keeping him over there with Luke and you quiet.”

I give her a teasing pointed look.

“I have only question,” she waits my reluctant nod before asking. “Will tonight end in a kiss?”

“Ruby!” I groan.

I throw in an eye roll for good measure and but I can’t stop myself from looking over at him.

I try to keep my features schooled as she leans further across the table and just grins her silly grin at me. I seem the look before. I’ve seen the same body language. Hell, I’ve used the same techniques in the interrogation room.

She’s waiting for me to break.

“You do know that my profession, right? You know I can read tones and between the lines? I know all the tricks in that playbook.”

“I don’t know what you mean,” she smirks and keeps her focus on me.

I sit back in my seat and sip my whiskey again and smirk at her over the edge of my glass but not before my eyes dart in his direction again.

“As I suspected,” she chuckles. “You like like him.”

“I said I liked him. I didn’t say I wanted to kiss him.”

Not my finest defense but it will have to do because I’m unable to deny anything as he smiles that infuriating smile and walks over to me.

taylor swift wrote all the young dudes, no one believed it was really her, and then she wrote the great war to prove them wrong. 

Baldur’s Gate 3 - 11/? - Palmarosa - Astarion/Raphael

Title: Palmarosa Rating: Explicit Pairing: Astarion/Raphael Tags: (Check AO3 for the full list) Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Deals with a devil, Contracted sexual slavery, Bad BDSM etiquette, PTSD, Communication issues, Flashbacks, Trauma recovery and Retraumatisation, Dark and disturbing themes, Blood consumption, Minor character death, Canon typical violence, Dominance/submission, Top Raphael, Bottom Astarion etc.

Summary: (Set post-game / end-game) The love of Astarion’s life has disappeared to go live in the daylight with the druids, and Astarion is stuck in the darkness once more, yearning for sunlight with every fibre of his being, while bitterly reflecting on all the things that were denied to him in the end - love, sunlight, the option to kill thousands of people and become a near-god…

Raphael knows Astarion’s desperate, and comes to him with not one, but two horrid contract offers that Astarion loathes and dreads in equal measure - but the prize at the end of both are too good to turn down, and he’s become too cynical to care about how much of a good idea it is to give his body to a devil for a month or two, because really, comparatively, how bad could it be?

Palmarosa (Baldur’s Gate 3) - Raphael/Astarion - 11 - Orange Blossoms and Sandalwood

In which Raphael treats Astarion to dinner, and a little pornographic theatre, and finally closes in on his slow seduction with rather more success than he's had so far.

people saying that from rev2 on claire hates kids piss me off

What can you even say to this?

TWs for death, child death, blood, and things of that nature. I’m not sure what other tags would help

if the duffers really wanted mileven endgame then why did like the entirety of their season three plotline happen

showing mike struggling to be honest with his girlfriend and balance time with her and his friends? showing eleven being much happier and better off without him? making them intentionally obnoxious and having their break up treated as comic relief?

ask anyone out there about a ship they like, and i guarantee you that none of them would ever treat their favorite couple like that

even for period typical ableism it still drives me nuts for karen to go oh poor matt how can he deal and get around as if he hasn't been blind most of his life at this point and living on his own by himself as an adult for his entire adult life after college and has also lived in the city his whole life like girl use your damn brain he can get around by himself just fine. good god. like take five seconds to use your brain. literally adult man who lives by himself if nothing else that should tell you he is fine and when he needs assistance has the knowledge and ability to go get it you act as if he can't even walk on the sidewalk by himself. he literally shows up to work by himself. it drives me up the wall sometimes how she sees proof of him functioning fine independently literally witnesses it on the daily and still thinks these things. like again foggy isn't great either bc again the period typical ableism (and just general ableism in the world outside of this period as this is a common attitude of viewing disabled people as helpless and unable to function even if they are people who do live independently (and im not touching on people who do need extra support and caretaking in this context. as this post is about these characters in the context of a story. so im talking about what we see there instead of any truly meaningful nuanced way) but the writing here is like. Particularly this way due to the time) he has a modicum more of understanding that matt is literally a capable grown adult man. literally told karen matt is a big boy who can handle himself and then karen went b-b-but you forget he's blind as if foggy hasn't known him for years of his life and is his best friend like PLEASE SEE HIM AS AN ADULT. I AM GOING TO GO INSANE. PLEASE RESPECT HIM IF YOU LOVE HIM SO DEARLY. AND EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T. JUST RESPECT HIM AS A PERSON!!!!!!

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there is no character who is a one-to-one parallel to evelyn clawthorne. she represents everything in the demon realm that drew caleb to leave behind gravesfield. if caleb had other witch friends that inspired him to do so there isn’t any time or reason to describe it in so much detail so all of it is encompassed in evelyn. textually, caleb left phillip to be with evelyn. but emotionally, he left behind a suppressive environment where he was always under pressure to be someone he could never be, in favor of a world where he can be himself and be loved for it. it’s like luz, but they expand on the people around her better because ultimately the show is about her.

eda is luz’s evelyn in that eda’s bird palisman initially lured luz into the human realm. she is the splitting image of her ancestor, and shows luz a whole world of magic that she had only dreamed of.

willow and gus are luz’s evelyn in that luz never had any friends while she was in connecticuit. when she meets them, she finds out that she isn’t alone. there are people out there who would be friends with luz for who she really is.

amity is luz’s evelyn in that she is the witch that luz fell in love with. luz’s other friends are already a reason for her to want to stay behind on the isles, but her love for amity is one more motivation for this. also the first time she met luz’s brother she beat the shit out of him just like the real evelyn did with her brother in law we love to see a girlboss winning

amity, willow, and gus are all hunter’s evelyn in that they show him he has a chance to leave behind the oppressive environment he grew up in. that even if he gave up everything he’s ever known, there will still be people who care for him.

flapjack is hunter’s evelyn in that he gives him an attachment outside of phillip. belos was hunters only family, but flapjack, a memento from the real evelyn, shows that even outside his family, there can be someone he cares about. who will love and support him no matter what.

luz is hunter’s evelyn in that she makes him question his worldview. he has been raised to fear wild magic, but luz shows him it’s not all bad. that she and others who practice it are not all bad. hunter’s hatred of criminals and wild witches, which he had adhered to, fell apart when he grew to care about someone within that group.

hunter is not luz’s evelyn. he supports her like the rest of their friends, but by the time he becomes her friend, luz had already fallen in love with the boiling isles and no longer needs additional reasons to want to stay. belos, while eager to blame hunter for lots of things, doesn’t think this either. he blames luz for leading hunter astray and blames the boiling isles for leading luz astray, but doesn’t care enough about the witches around her to go into specifics.

but to belos, hunter is his caleb. luz sees herself as belos, but she is belos’s caleb as well. he wants hunter to care for him like caleb used to. but he also hates caleb for leaving, so he hates hunter as well. he wants luz to make the “right” choice as the new caleb, to forsake the boiling isles and choose the human world with him.

but hunter and luz are not the perfect caleb that belos imagined ought to exist. and when they are similar to the real caleb, they are similar for the reasons belos killed his brother in the first place. so belos kills every single golden guard. he tries to kill everyone luz loves and get her on his side before trying to kill her as well. and all the while, he rages at all the calebs, and the entire island of evelyns, all of them leading astray the people he’s projected onto.

but phillip wittebane never bothers to think about why luz and hunter chose the boiling isles over him. he never wonders what about evelyn clawthorne and the demon realm was so appealing to caleb. and of course, he never wonders what he himself did that drove his brother away.

So, do you guys ever feel like your life is a social experiment🧍🏽‍♀️

. anyway after writing the tags 4 this post i told my research partner i will no longer follow his dreams lmao. still helping w it but i need to engage in research that i find satisfying

really just feels like the last four years of my life have been in pretty permanent stagnation, everything’s temporary and transitional, and i’ve been trying to fix it, but every time i do, something happens to make it worse

life after seeing people start waking up and stop idolizing elitism and celebrity culture, feeding their pockets while the working class and third world countries suffer..is the human revolution near?