Beware: Lurking Pirate

Renée from Louisiana. ENFP; Slytherin.

[kosmogrl]

[wingleaderriorson]

“I’ll be right back,” I say, setting my cup on the table and wobbling a little as I stand. No more lemonade for me.

“I certainly hope not,” Ridoc mutters. “Or you’ll destroy all my fantasies when it comes to that one.”

ICONIC

[phoenixyfriend]

I think Modern AUs of Beauty and the Beast need to lean harder on the "since the morning that we came to this poor provincial town" line

Belle came from something that is not a small, economically shaky rural town! There are a few possibilities, but I choose to understand it as Belle being a City Girl, because I think I can make it funny.

This is a City Girl who moved here, and looks Generically Pretty, because she's just Different from the others (that's why she's the most beautiful girl in town). It's not necessarily that she is prettier, but small towns tend to have limited options, and a new look is an interesting one.

She reads so many books because she never got agribusiness classes in high school, so she isn't set up for small town life in terms of actually getting a job locally, and she tends to avoid other people and hide in her books because it's easier than people. Everyone reads into this as her being kind of stuck-up and snotty because she looks down on the locals.

Her dad is some Weird City Man Who Lost His Tenure For Blowing Up The Science Wing, so he's now the eccentric who had to move to Nowhere, Middle Of for the sake of getting away from a whole lot of Crap regarding his reputation.

The local dudes who all peaked in high school are joshing for a chance at Belle, because she's the Hot City Girl. They do all think she's weird as hell because she's got Political Opinions And Uses The Wrong Slang, and are very much of the opinion that there is a certain level of crazy that can be excused by being hot enough.

Cue "Dad gets lost, gotta go find him, agree to stay in the cursed castle because, well, gotta save Dad! And curses are a pretty extenuating circumstance to 'weird guy wants me to stay with him indefinitely,' especially since isn't asking for sex or housework while living with him, so... whatever. I still have a phone and Dad knows to call the cops if I miss a check-in."

Also in regards to the various servants, there are cult rumors. These days, live-in staff are a lot less common. Nobody's seen anyone from The Big House in ages, but the building still accepts food deliveries and puts out trash for collection, so someone must be there, so the only reasonable take on why they're out of contact is cult.

From the perspective of the town... she falls for that weird rich dude who lives in the foothills and has what seems to be a cult, which for the peaked in high school crew is very "Okay. You weren't that hot anyway, bitch."

The 'magic mirror shows that Belle is trapped by a monster' is actually just people going "aw shit, new girl got sucked into the cult, should we go check on her?" Her dad keeps saying that she's fine and hasn't said anything is really wrong, but everyone insists that she's lying because it's all Cult Bullshit.

After that whole mess is over, with the Beast and crew once again human and Belle clearly annoyed and reading the riot act to both the townsfolk and Adam, showing she's not fallen for any brainwash-y bullshit, she was just a pissed-off girl who decided "I can bully him into being a better person," which is probably a bad decision, but she's a grown-ass woman, so...

The cops are no longer trying to kidnap her back from the local rich eccentric (as opposed to the local poor eccentric, of which there are several, including Belle's dad).

The townsfolk decide by and large that this was probably for the best because Belle's apparently broken the cult situation? Somehow? And people from the big house in the hills are finally visiting town and proving they're alive again, so that's good.

It was never a cult, they just couldn't show their faces when the faces were furniture.

This turned into a bit more 'massive misunderstanding' with a heavy dollop of accidental Hallmark movie, but hey, we got there in the end. We all know I love a good genre mashup, and a romcom on one side with a horror on the other is basically how Disney did it, right?

Also I've been bingeing a lot of SNL and the actress I've got in my mind for this is Ego Nwodim.

[loveyourlovelysoul]

Abandoment wounds and how they may show up: - when we meet someone we are interested in, we are more concerned about how they feel for us than what we really feel for them - we have an hard time leaving relationships, even those that hurt us; we may even try to reconnect with an ex or a person that has made it clear they aren't interested - if we perceive the other as if they're lacking interest we think the fault is ours and feel bad about it (we may simply be different people with different interests and it's fine; or they may be distant for any other reason: they have a life and feel emotions too) - we tend to people please, give too much and too easily away; we may also accept to have our needs unmet just to keep a quiet environment and not upset the other with "our stupid needs" (so wrong! our needs are as worthy as the other's person; we are teaching them we're not worthy by doing this and not everyone can see this as a mental/emotional issue) - we may date people that we think we can fix or save, and find comfort cause we kinda have a goal and feel needed despite the whole relationship is prolly toxic and we're only ending up burning out and neglecting ourselves - we try to avoid difficult or serious conversations and avoid conflicts cause we feel we may upset the other person and they would like us less or even leave us (so we wear masks and don't allow ourselves to have deep and meaningful relationships that have solid bases) - we may have trust issues, not see the other person's intentions or not trusting their words and only worry they will leave us (spoiler: it may happen cause the relationship may grow tense and stressing for both of you... and mostly cause of your mind talking you with fear. So have a talk first with it and also about all your fears with the other person)

[ughhitsrae]

justice for harwin & lyonel

all the homies hate larys

[kristenbouchard]

babes is there anyone who isnt hanging on by the thinnest thread known to man rn or are we all just going thru it this week

[obiwan]

#The Man, The Myth, The Malewife

[supercollide]

the implications of leia being captured by the empire semi regularly as a child are hilarious because rewatching a new hope vader and his crew board this ship and it’s like THIS KID? AGAIN?!

[broodingredbird]

nothing will ever beat baby anakin saying "qui-gon sir i don't want to be a problem" and qui gon telling him "you won't be ani" being followed by numerous movies and shows where he was in fact the galaxy's biggest problem

[broodingredbird]

@husborth you're absolutely right, i apologize

[broodingredbird]

nothing will ever beat baby anakin saying "qui-gon sir i don't want to be a problem" and qui gon telling him "you won't be ani" being followed by numerous movies and shows where he was in fact the galaxy's biggest problem

[swprequels]

what every not-george lucas star wars content creator needs to understand is that anakin is the main character. everything in that galaxy revolves around him if you don’t understand this you are failing to grasp a fundamental aspect of that universe and your endeavors will flop thank you and goodnight

[husborth-deactivated20241109]

i had the earth-shattering (for me) realization the other day that if padme had agreed to go Fuck It, We're Evil Now when anakin offered the galaxy on mustafar, and they fucked off to kill palpatine, there's no way anakin would've retained the name "darth vader." you'd have a seven foot tall mean little salt and pepper shaker in his shambling iron armor and you'd have to call him lord amidala. lord fucking amidala. i know this is true, i am 100% positive i have correctly interpreted these characters in saying that this would happen, but could you fucking imagine calling darth vader "lord amidala"? christ. that's insanity

[starssoblue]

[sailor moon x nancy drew] ...i lied to the man that i love to save his life, and now i have to spend the rest of mine paying this terrible price.

[flythesail]

I think I've unlocked a new emotion and it's called getting nace and losing nace all within the span of an hour.

[haloblabla]

"My little princess"

[mmmmmmmmarvel]

The ABCs with the MCU

[taishaunas]

nancydrewcentral content creation challenge: favorite family ☆ nancy & her two dads