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[masao-micchi]

Teacher Grace living his best life on erid

My PHM art here

[cityelf]

Left is MY FIC, right is the ACTUAL BOOK QUOTE IT WAS INSPIRED BY

(Mask context: masquerade ball / cinderella au)

It has been doing numbers EVERYWHERE and I only found out from this lovely person who commented on Ao3:

So yeah I guess if anyone wants to read an 8 year old Song of Achilles fanfic written in a fever dream after watching Into The Woods, be my guest

[dilf-din]

I shit you not, one of my friends got engaged and used this for their caption yesterday 😭😭😭

Should I tell her 🤭

[cityelf]

NOOOOOO OH MY GOD LMAO

[chosenofthegods]

That is a new level of containment breach

[penumbralwoods]

every time someone realizes they dont have to pick between being a boy or a girl an angel gets its wings btw. and also extremely loud cheering can be heard in the distance from me specifically

[silvercarinae]

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[cloudabserk]

well. it’s sort of a horsegirl movie situation. one where movie star ryan gosling is the wild untameable horse. and puppeteer james ortiz is the horsegirl who says I Can Change him he Needs me. but it’s also sort of a harry styles fanfiction. in which movie star ryan gosling is harry styles and accomplished puppeteer james ortiz is plucked out of the audience and sold to one direction. so that harry styles doesn’t go insane.

[hollanderthoughts]

"your life is yours to mold" oh nooooooooo oh no oh my god. oh fuck me. no. oh my god. oh im so fucked dude.

[grimark]

also i feel like i need to post the occasional disclaimer that’s like I REALLY LIKE THIS CHARACTER A LOT I PROMISE I’M VERY FOND OF HIM i just enjoy giving him a hard time and dissecting his flaws and also smiling happily while he gets scurvy etc. it’s fun for me, you see

[grimark]

the people have spoken. i will beat him more.

[agentrouka-blog]

I love Carl's introduction. It's such a great establishing moment.

Ryland Grace has made it all the way to his bike with Eva Stratt at his heels, so her trusted security team has correctly assessed it's time to move in the cars, and Carl is approaching off-screen.

Grace comes out of the little "I don't know why that makes me such a nut!" rant, and there Carl is, stepping up into frame exactly next to Stratt. Tall, broad, unimpressed, unmistakably a force to be reckoned with, unmistakably a trusted professional.

But also a nameless goon at this point. An extension of the threat Stratt seems to represent to Grace. A depersonalized tool.

Grace clocks the cars, his presence, the unfolding situation, instantly and incredulously. And he does something clever, something he always does, which is to call attention to the absurdity of the unspoken threat by trying to force the situation into a normal mold.

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name."

Turning Eva's nameless goon into a person with agency. Trying to force a relationship that hinders coercion.

Ideally, this would force them all to acknowledge how abnormal they are acting and retreat a little to keep up the appearance of normality. Or admit to what they are doing by refusing. Either way, the ball shifts out of Ryland's court into theirs.

Neither happens, though.

Carl sees exactly what he's trying to do with that and interrupts him mid-question. "Carl." And then keeps staring at him the same way as before. One word, and we already know so much about him.

He is not a nameless goon. He is an individual named Carl.

And he fully supports what is happening there. Because nothing is normal and it's stupid to pretend that what is happening isn't happening.

So yes, while he bonds with Grace over silliness and is the astrophage-coparent and instigator of Carl's Hypothesis... he is also entirely introduced to us as the man who will wish Grace the best of success on the mission while he's being sedated on the ground. Because Carl has a personal opinion about what is at stake.

"Sun's really dying, isn't it?"

"Yeah."

[lestatbf]

'i could fix him' well i could sexualize his failings

[fish3s]

thanks guys

[silvercarinae]

rumi…

[possessable]

it's fine i don't even need to be part of social groups or friend groups anyway (giant hole appears in my chest spontaneously) ? what's that

[2022dirt]

Outlines of two alligators that slept through the rain.

[deceasedcardinal]

[valtsv]

not getting enough sleep: i need to die soon to prevent something unspeakably evil from hatching

getting too much sleep: every desire i have ever had is grotesque and infantile. when i am killed they'll cut me open and a wave of putrid waste will spill forth and all who smell its foulness will know i was never worth saving.

[mirrormirrorcrystalball]

Ninjago MIGHT be the only show I know of that took 15 years and 19 seasons to explain what the main protagonist's power he's been using since s2 actually is.