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Can someone who can write long stories do a shizaya Dungeon Crawler Carl AU?

#durarara #shizaya #izaya orihara #shizuo heiwajima #drrr

transitranger327

Basically every conversation between Luthen and Mon:

mxgicdave

what do i sacrifice

thingsidowanttorememberalways

EVERYTHING.

tsunflowers

the thing with romance for me is that you need to convince me through behavior and dialogue that the characters enjoy spending time with each other and seek each other out. even with enemies to lovers a foundation of mutual respect goes a long way. you can be like "he's the youngest ever general of the dragon slaying guild and I'm secretly a dragon, but he's the best swordsman I've ever fought and our sparring matches are the only thing that make me feel alive ever since my family was killed." if he implies something similar then bam, you have a reason for the two of them to hang out even though one of them knows it's dangerous. you can't be like "he's a dragon slayer and he's mean to me all the time but the flex of his arms when he swings his sword is just too sexy." it does not matter how many times you have your protagonist say "I shouldn't be drawn to him... but I am" if you never show a real moment of connection between them that draws them together

tavina-writes

AO3: is down for scheduled maintenance

Me, who knew it was down for scheduled maintenance: when will my husband return from this perilous war.

source for ophelia painting.

tavina-writes

Despite knowing that ao3 is down for maintenance guess who opened ao3 this morning and went shockedpikachu.jpeg when the "we're down for maintenance!" status appeared.

C'est moi.

If Pirates of the Caribbean came out now ao3 would have been full of Will/Elizabeth/Jack and Will/Elizabeth/Norrington

#pirates of the caribbean #will turner #elizabeth swann #jack sparrow #james norrington #Pirate polycule

thesunpersists

loth-creatures

:DDD FINALLY FINISHED MY SABINE COSPLAY YIPPEE WAHOO 💥💥💥💥💥

This was well over two years in the making and def still needs some minor adjustments but it's done enough to play with!!

The armor is entirely eva foam held together with super glue and prayers and I hand painted the whole thing which took 500 years and made me cry. No stencil only shear force of will. I watched maybe one mando cosplay tutorial and improvised from there, so let's just say it has some quirks. I had no idea what I was doing and it was a labor of spite. And totally worth it!

Thank you to my friend who took pics <3 there will probably be more in the future, I'm always looking out for good locations ^^

#star wars rebels #sabine wren #star wars cosplay #Magnificent #beautiful #gorgeous

carys-the-ninth

"Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it:" an investigative journalism series

gwen-daria-deactivated20250720

Din Djarin: I’d die for this kid

The entire Bad Batch: we’d do anything for Omega

Jod: I’d literally kill any of these kids for a dollar and crisp beverage

meruz

predictably i love skeleton crew. i love annoying children

edit: sorry added a meme

cogentranting

What's interesting to me about Jod and his relationship with the kids by the end of the series is that it's so in-between.

It's not "actually I've come to care for these kids and I will give up my plan to protect them" but it's also not just that he's evil and doesn't care about them.

He does betray them and he does a lot of harm. He threatens them and their families and their home in a very genuine and traumatic way. He brings destruction and danger down on their home. He does not make the turn to help them or side with them against the other pirates. He stays on his course, stays a bad guy.

But at the same time, as much as he threatens them (in the pirate horde, in the ship and on At Attin) and their family, he doesn't actually hurt them. (in fact I think the only ones we see him actually physically hurt are 1. SM-33. 2. The werewolf pirate guy 3. the supervisor droid). And I don't know that the threats are empty, but he's certainly very reluctant to actually enact that violence, and his plan might not have fallen through if he had been more willing to hurt them. He's not willing to stop for the sake of the kids, but he'd much rather get through his plan without harming them. And when he KB is falling and he thinks she probably died there is real fear and regret in his face. He didn't want that.

All of this is an outpouring of his misguided worldview. Because again, Jod isn't a villain who can't recognize right and wrong. He knows what Good is, he's seen it. But his problem is despair so he believes that Good is not worth it, and is not powerful enough to make a difference. And because of that he becomes the manifestation of the cruel place he believes the world to be. The good in him is THERE but its not strong enough to really change him, but it's because his despair doesn't believe it can be. And so he becomes the very thing that made him-- he watched his mentor/parental figure killed in front of him, and he stands there threatening to do the same thing to Wim and Fern.

But he doesn't, because he isn't quite the villain that the Empire represents. Even though the difference doesn't come from him actively making a choice for Good, it does come from there being Good still in him, even just in the form of hesitation. Good is still powerful even when he's denying it. And then little ember in him is not what saves the day--that's the kids and their families and the New Republic. But it is there and it does mean that even though he stays a villain there is that moment of Wim calling out to him, there is still that spark of hope that Jod can be saved one day too.

disasteracesstuff

Finally. Someone who understands Jod the way I do.

Yes, Jod is bad, but he is not evil. And I do think a small part of him actually does care for these kids, but he won’t even admit that to himself because the pain of loss that he experienced is too great.

I think the strongest evidence for this is the way he spoke to Wim about having no attachments. “Alright, here’s what you do,” he tells Wim, “Forget ‘em. Your fears, your parents, your anxieties. They’re what you call “attachments” and they’re the last thing you need.”

Like many people, the first time I watched this scene I just thought Jod had a misunderstanding of what the aJedi meant about not having attachments. But after hearing him talk about his past, I realized it’s not that he misunderstood it’s that he uses it as a defense mechanism.

He chokes up a bit when talking about his Master before he suppresses those emotions and flatly tells Wim that she was killed in front of him. But it’s clear to me that he loved her and after 28 years he has still not fully recovered from the pain of watching her die. Instead, he just pushes that down and tells himself to forget about her even though he can’t.

The good that’s in him is there because of his Jedi Master, but it is also overshadowed by her death.

The only way I see Jod being redeemed is by him fully healing from that pain of loss and changing his perspective of the galaxy. I really hope we get to see it.