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I am at last myself… with no ambition greater than to walk where I please and to breathe the open air. To die unremarked and unnoticed… and be free. You speak as if from a distant dream.

deusvmachina

I think it would have made for an interesting conversation if So Mi could have sensed the ICEbreaker from Reed that V got implanted with during the surgery—regardless of it being activated or not.

I imagine So Mi bringing it up during the days they were apart after Firestarter and asking: "So about that ICEbreaker..." and V replying: "Reed wanted it implanted during the surgery an' I accepted. Never plan to use it, don't worry. Was prob'ly what kept him from gettin' suspicious and flatlining me like he and Alex did with the twins." The resentment over the twins is still there, maybe she can pick up on that, too. "I couldn't do that to you." Could see this making So Mi cry.

deusvmachina

When you think about it, when Songbird is betrayed by V in Firestarter, there's moments where she's clearly not in control of herself. The Blackwall is influencing her and taking advantage of her emotional vulnerability stemming from her disappointment and hurt. I think that's why she lashed out so hard in that lab after the ICEbreaker was activated. She was like a terrified, cornered animal with everyone turned against her. Meanwhile, if V sided with Songbird in Firestarter, she's able to pull herself together a little better knowing she's got someone on her side. Just her and V against the Barghest, the FIA and then Myers. It's easier to carry the weight when V is with her. And then at the shuttle she decides she can't take the guilt and regret anymore and comes clean about the neural matrix. Probably expects V to turn against her now, to be angry like she has every right to be. Instead, V tells her she would have helped anyway had she known the truth. V doesn't call Reed. He would never do the right thing and so it's V that has to do it. So V makes probably one of the most selfless decisions of her life and decides that Songbird needs (and deserves) the cure more than she does. Knows that Songbird should be free after suffering for so long. Her heart was shattered, nay, crushed to pieces, but they'd already come this far. V isn't a quitter. She had no choice but to put Reed down and couldn't bring herself to regret helping Songbird despite everything. And I think she can never really get Songbird out of her head or her heart after she watched the shuttle being launched. Her life would never be the same after Songbird had touched it, touched her very soul.

soul mate

/ˈsōlˌmāt/

noun

plural noun: soulmates

In romantic relationships, a soul mate refers to an intense connection where both people feel deeply drawn together as if the affair was somehow destined to be. A soul mate can also be described as someone with whom you've experienced many lives together, often to fulfill a specific mission.

sapphointhe21stcenturyposts

the way that caitlyn removes the guards from the prison so that vi can get in and so that jinx can leave really shows how far she's come from act one. the most important part of that was the fact that she gave vi a choice. vi and jinx could have just left, and cait could very well have known that it's a possibility that she'll never see vi again.

and she did it anyway.

this was a literal and metaphorical act of letting go. she loves vi without conditions, respects her so much she's willing to let her do whatever she wants, even if that means she leaves her.

complete 180 from act one when she pushed and prodded vi into joining the enforcers and her mission, subtly (or not so subtly) disregarding her history and her values. i would have loved a full Conversation™ between them just as much as anyone, but these two have always spoken louder through actions than words and this was very much on brand.

caitlyn kiramman, the woman that you are.

qvert

The Aftermath

(More blood under the cut for @venomwrites specifically)

acousticmalta

🌙☀️

queso-blanco

My readers making connections and going crazy with the deep lore of my writing

Me who planned nothing and just typed out whatever random string of words my brain whispered to me today

pineapple-frenzy

Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei

Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best

iil-nonbinary-baby-bitch

If anyone wants a fic with this vibe Uncharted Waters by the-badger-mole on tumblr is literally this

It starts as a castaway forced proximity fic that turns very very sweet/dramatic

Here’s the Ao3 link 👍🏽

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

idontreadheartbeats

Also The Tea Server’s Wife by @bulletproofteacup! I will never stop singing its praises!!! 😭😭😭

n-moonbreeze

Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"

And I'm like...

A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?

B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.

C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.

Yall are wilding.

eeveethejedi

toastysol

Is anyone else a little insane about how many times v tells songbird "this is the homestretch" in other words "just a couple more steps cmon"

deusvmachina

I think it would have made for an interesting conversation if So Mi could have sensed the ICEbreaker from Reed that V got implanted with during the surgery—regardless of it being activated or not.

I imagine So Mi bringing it up during the days they were apart after Firestarter and asking: "So about that ICEbreaker..." and V replying: "Reed wanted it implanted during the surgery an' I accepted. Never plan to use it, don't worry. Was prob'ly what kept him from gettin' suspicious and flatlining me like he and Alex did with the twins." The resentment over the twins is still there, maybe she can pick up on that, too. "I couldn't do that to you." Could see this making So Mi cry.

pineapple-frenzy

Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara

They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them

But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd

The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>

swearingcactus

can we talk about how V gives other people second chances to live when he was only granted a second chance to die, and how little v is kind of a dying sunflower because he, too, is something cheerful that’s wasting away..?