i remember this photo being taken and i said to michela if me and guqqie ever come out about our relationship i can show this photo because i loved it so much

got him off-balance!

TotK DLC idea!

The screen is black. You don’t hear anything for a long time. Then, faintly, in the distance, you can hear it.

Link. Link. Open your eyes.

While the line echoes familiarity, the voice does not.

Or. Well. It does. Because while it isn’t Zelda, it’s a familiar man’s voice speaking gently, so gently you almost don’t recognize it because there’s no way he ever spoke like this in the main game.

But he is now. And instead of a golden light being the first image you see before the screen shows Link awakening… you see gloom floating in the air. The image cuts to a Hylian waking up who… doesn’t look like Link from TotK?? He’s different, still small in stature, with slightly tanner skin, platinum light blonde hair, and red eyes. But… something’s wrong with his forehead. There’s a weird line on it.

This new character you apparently are gonna be playing in the DLC blearily blinks his eyes open, clearly groggy and too weak to really move. But then that line on his forehead moves a hair, it splits apart, and you realize it’s a freaking eye, red and yellow and it’s like the ones on gloom hands and oh gosh what the hell is it doing on his forehead—

Link realizes something is off and his eyes blow wide, his hands reach for his forehead and he screams in agony and terror, only for someone to scoop him into a hug to soothe him.

And suddenly you realize why that voice was eerily familiar.

It’s Ganondorf. He resurrected you from the era of the Imprisoning War. You, who have a history with him and his family. You, who he wants to protect, who he views as his kid, who he calls a prince and says he’ll keep you safe by controlling your body with his dark magic if he has to.

Welcome to Tears of the Kingdom: Hero’s Shadow.

You have to play a long gone Hero who was resurrected. Ganondorf, who is still recovering his strength in preparation for killing the current Hero, tasks you with finding your betrothed, his daughter, as well as his wife. They’re buried somewhere in the Depths like you were. He wants you to find their burial sites so he can use his secret stone to resurrect them like he did you, and control them as well. Which is doubly bad when you realize his wife was the original Sage of Lightning. He gives you free reign to wander once you go through a tutorial (he tests you to see if you’ve recovered enough strength), because he knows you love wandering and collecting things. Your own personal objective, however, is trying to help Hyrule from the Depths, to break free from Ganondorf’s control, because Link would rather set himself on fire than let Ganondorf resurrect and control the love of his life and his mother-in-law. Your best hope is to find shards of the shattered Master Sword to try and stab the eye on Dark Link’s forehead and break the control Ganondorf has on you. Until you can, though, the monsters are your allies, you can teleport across the Depths by manifesting out of the gloom created by gloom hands (just like what Phantom Ganon does), and the world below is your oyster. If you get too close to sword shards when gloom hands are nearby, Ganondorf can see your attempt and immediately takes control of your body, and no matter what button you press Link just walks back to Ganondorf’s location and stays there until you get a chance to try again.

You start with three hearts, all empty looking like when gloom hurts you, and if you get injured they just shatter. Whenever they all shatter, you respawn at Ganondorf’s location because his gloom hands came and rescued you from dying. The only way you can get more hearts is by collecting poes and offering them to the statues in the Depths. You can communicate with the spirits of soldiers, who may give you combat tips or info about the area. If you gain enough of Ganondorf’s trust, he’ll let you command monsters, and he might even let you wander the Surface (under his supervision) during a blood moon.

You learn of Link’s and Ganondorf’s history through discovering ancient relics/texts that trigger memories. This connection between you and Ganondorf stems back to time before the war, well over ten thousand years ago. Link was engaged to Ganondorf’s daughter, but during the Imprisoning War the family fought against the demon king. Ganondorf did love his family, but he loved power more. Link sacrificed himself, letting himself get mortally wounded to save Rauru from a killing blow. Gan held him as he died, and it allowed Link to both beg him to stop and stab him in the heart with a light shard. The shard didn’t kill him, but it was what Rauru connected with when he hit him in the chest, allowing him to seal Ganondorf away. Ganondorf still wants the world, but his love for his family is still present, though now twisted, so he thinks he can control Link and everyone else with his dark magic in order to keep them safe and in line. Once the threat of the current Hero is eliminated, the world will be his, and his family will be safe. As such, he treats you, Link, the player, like a stubborn child, reeling you in, but does so in a horrific way, torturing Link by controlling him.

You have to break free of this and stop him, and the only hope you have is the distant call of a sword spirit…

Scenes that made queer people realize they live in a world full of straights

This- I can’t please. This is beautiful. How was I ever able to live without this?

#And All Three Lived Codependently Ever After. KinnPorsche (2022) : Episode 14.

the angst in your zombie au bREAKS MY HEART INTO PIECES (I LOVE IT VERY MUCH)

okay, okay, so!! if the kagebros got separated from reigen and teru when mob is still fine, i imagine that their reunion would be hEARTWRENCHING also, i'm a bit curious, would mob still be able to recognize teru and reigen? or would he thought about them as strangers?

(tbh, following your lore, i imagine mob would act a similarly like nezuko from demon slayer? but instead of little hums, his zombie sounds would more like babbling and incoherent mumbles :"D)

the reunion is fuckin AWFUL man it's SO gut-wrenching. both reigen and teru feared this for Months while looking for the brothers; pretty much the worst case scenario was that mob or ritsu or Both turned—a lot of humans prefer death over being a zombie any day, so the idea of ritsu or mob having to go through that and wander around aimlessly until starvation or smth else gets them,,,

it hurts them so much to think about. teru forces himself not to dwell on it and he's pretty good at that but reigen thinks abt it a lot and he's honestly not sure what scenario is worse. best case is that they're both alive and unturned, obviously, but what's the worst case? you'd think it's both of them getting killed, or turning, but reigen also knows that if One of them got killed/turned, the other would probably lose their mind, especially if they had to watch. the fact that they're kids makes this all three times worse and reigen has to act like he's Not worrying himself sick over the brothers while he tries to keep teru in high spirits

the reunion itself is rly fuckin gut-wrenching for them. they see mob from afar, wandered off just a bit from ritsu and tome who are just around the bend looting a place, and they book it bc ofc they do, it's mob!! but then they see how pale he is, and when he turns around they don't see that light in his eyes that's usually there and the red is dulled and dead looking,, teru almost moves in for a hug before he realizes mob looks vastly different when he Rly takes him in, and mob doesn't rly react too much besides staring at them blankly. the obvious answer is almost too horrifying to even consider, so it takes them a minute to rly,,realize what's going on

tome comes around the bend and shouts, cuz when humans and zombies mix it's usually guns pointed at zombie heads. ritsu comes running out after her and when he sees reigen and teru his thoughts go, in order: holy shit is that reigen and tero ohmygod oh my god they're alive they're alive ohmy god i could fucking cry, and ohmy god they see shige ohno oh no oh no

ritsu sounds like a lunatic when he pulls mob away from them on instinct and says that he's safe to be around and that he's "still him" and he's "not gone" and he's very aware of that. he's very, intimately aware that he sounds fuckin crazy, bc ofc he does, this is what all the crazy people in zombie movies sound like. but he doesn't care, he doesn't care if reigen or teru dismiss him as nuts—he has to make them understand that his brother is still in there somewhere

and yeah, they both kinda think that ritsu's lost his marbles a little bit, but while teru is focused on that and the fact that mob doesn't look like he's rly tuned into Anything that's happening rn, reigen is a bit more focused on the fact that both ritsu and mob look awful? they're both very skinny and very dirty, obviously barely scraping by. they're cut up and ritsu's jacket is basically blood and dirt with a little bit of green fabric mixed in. and just by the look in ritsu's eyes, reigen can tell, man ... reigen can tell ritsu is like.not okay at this point he's kinda lost it.

i think the most painful thing about this whole reunion in general is that later that night, when reigen and teru r finally like ok we get it he's,, he's still mob. we believe you (they want to believe him... [they Do believe him, later, wholeheartedly]) and they settle down someplace safe, teru asks how long mob's been like this. and ritsu has to answer "since we got separated" and they both have that to stew over while everybody else sleeps

they realize that ritsu likely watched mob turn, watched the entire process, and that process takes a long time. it's at least a week of deteriorating motor functions and cognitive skill, and the fact that ritsu stayed for that to keep mob company is .ough. and it doesn't end there bc ritsu obviously stayed after that too

given how these things usually go, ritsu probably did think about killing mob. it probably did cross his mind, bc that's basically what everybody's been told to do. kill them before they have a chance to do any more damage. and it's obvious that ritsu did not have it in him

ritsu not only did not have it in him to kill him, he didn't even have it in him to leave him there. the kid fucking took him with him. a zombie. and he's somehow made it work, for months. and the next few days are filled with watching him still treat mob like a brother and take care of him and gently steer him away from a bird he tries to follow down the wrong street.ritsu is as gentle and kind as he's ever been with his brother. and even tho they're both hungry and tired and barely making it, ritsu is doing a rly good job taking care of mob with what he's been given

the kid obviously wholeheartedly believes in a cure and that mob is still There. he's gone through the trouble to take care of him, and the grief of continuously seeing a loved one that many would consider effectively dead, to get him that cure. to get him his brother back. and mob doesn't seem to be in any pain or distress, so reigen and teru think that this path ritsu has followed is probably infinitely kinder than the mercy kill method they've been taught to do

i think they have a new respect for ritsu, after that reunion

Thomas Astruc: "Chloé never cared about saving people! She only used the Bee Miraculous to get what she wanted!"

Chloé: "Ladybug, I fucked up so badly! I want to save my father and tell him I'm sorry!"

lowkey obsessed with the domestic college stommy au that lives in my head

Thee should watch kinnporsche maybe then he’ll feel more comfortable crossing the line between a bodyguard and his charge

i lingered around the office this evening and caught my crush on his own and then we went for drinks to gossip about our teams and he paid for everything 😱

On the Doctor and companionship

I am currently rewatching season 2 of modern Doctor Who while also watching the 60th anniversary specials, and what devastates me about the Doctor is that they never allow themself to get too close to anyone in fear of losing them ("that's the curse of the time lords"), always changing topics or running off with someone else when things get serious.

But when it does happen and they lose someone (Doomsday, End Of Time, Angels Take Manhattan, to name a few...) they are left utterly devastated and heartbroken anyway.

Because you can't stop yourself from caring about someone by denying yourself to be vulnerable and close with them. All that does is denying yourself moments of joy in between moments of loss and loneliness.

And for all the thousands of years the Doctor has travelled the universe, they still don't get that. They still deny themselves that happiness, probably as punishment for some thing or other, and it breaks my fucking heart.

In the 60th anniversary specials we (finally) get a little bit of the Docter letting Donna in (or rather, her persisting and reading the Docter like an open fucking book), but in the moment the Doctor has been most open and vulnerable with her, telling her they missed her, even looking for physical affection, it turns out they were decieved and it was an impostor talking to them!!!

We get to see the Doctor letting out their frustration over that, perhaps for the first time, in a moment where there is no one around to fool or pretend in front of. (Cue me crying my eyes out)

In conclusion: someone give that daft alien the biggest hug imaginable and force the Doctor to let themself be loved.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Cleaning objects is so sensual. I feel like such a pervert having to touch theyre most... intimate, places to dust them down. Especially considering those nooks and crannies usually take the longest... Trying to pretend I'm not turned on to not look like a creep to her, but also it is very hard not to be, especially when you have to put the q-tip deep inside. Fuck man.

- j

don't you think it's funny that harwin is like ... physically speaking anyway ... the male version of alicent (younger alicent that is) ... like he's taller than rhaenyra, he has long curly dark hair and brown eyes, his smiles are soft and so are his eyes when he looks at her-

like rhaenyra be so fr you have a TYPE

also i would like to know your thoughts on how alicent feels about their lack in height difference when they're adults coz i think it's endlessly hilarious that she suddenly no longer has the height advantage and i think it infuriates her like "how dare you how dare you become taller than me Rhaenyra Targaryen now i must master the art of looking down at you from an inch below you"

it is very frustrating to be at the perfect shoulder-head-resting level and never be able to rest the head 😡😡😡

Had Sisko and his awesome parenting/love of kids on the brain and then read a post about Prince Zuko from ATLA and suddenly my brain was all, "What if Ben could just universe-jump and adopt all the kids from all over the multiverse who needed it?"

And as of now my brain has imagined him showing up six months post-canon, fully-Prophet-trained and accompanied by:

Zuko and Azula (ATLA)

Seto, Mokuba and Noa Kaiba (YGO. And Noa's contained in a PADD or something because he's basically an AI.)

The Ishtar siblings (YGO)

Ryou Bakura (YGO)

Son Gohan and Piccolo (Dragon Ball Z)

The Baudelaire siblings+Kit's baby (Series of Unfortunate Events)

Jon Snow, Arya Stark and Daenerys Targaryen (ASOIAF)

All the Animorphs. All six of them (he snatches Rachel from the moments before her death because time is not linear and fuck this whole narrative for dooming these babies! And the rest goes from there).

Demona (Gargoyles)

That's enough for a baseball team, right?

I mean, he's gonna take them back home (if they want to go back), but not before they've gotten some decent parenting. And learned to play baseball. If they don't already know.

Made a silly little guy