#feelings!

[dramalove247]

OMG! Did not put those together and probably wouldn't have caught that until a rewatch! Apparently Qin wasn't just feeling down because of his family. With hindsight, that scene is both painful and beautiful because Duang was there to offer comfort without any explanation needed. 😭😭😭

[fortytworedvines]

In the light of the beacons

This little piece of post 6x06 fluff goes out to all the gifmakers, particulary @owlsie-hoot and @my-little-random-world, for all their hard work over the past 6 weeks!

Gradually, the gathering around the beacon diminished. Tris and Charlotte left, arms around each other. James hauled a protesting Jimmy off home to bed.

Siegfried watched Mrs Hall watching the fire, the dancing flames flickering shadows over her face.

“Why don’t we sit?” he murmured, and drew her to a comfy looking patch of grass on the edge of the hill, where they sat on the slope, their own beacon behind them and the fires over the distant hills in front of them.

Mrs Hall stared out across the distance for long, quiet minutes. Siegfried was content to sit in the silence. There didn’t seem to be any need to rush, any more.

“I were proud of you today,” she said eventually, and turned towards him, moving imperceptibly closer so that their shoulders brushed. “With Tristan.”

She smiled at him and the fire cast sparkles in her eyes.

“And I,” he said, after a moment, the words catching in his throat, “meant every word that I said to you today.”

He was close enough to her to hear her breath hitch. And then she brought one gentle hand to his face, cupped his cheek, stroked her thumb gently over his skin.

She was luminescent in this light. He leant into her touch, wanting.

“Audrey,” he said quietly and her thumb stilled, “you are the light of my life.” He held her eyes with his and in the red and gold and orange, he read her feelings for him, written clear. He cleared his throat. “If… if I might be so bold…” he trailed off. He’d never been good with words and these ones were momentous. But he didn’t need to say them. She read him, as she so often had.

“Siegfried,” she whispered, and then she closed the tiny gap between them, brushed her lips carefully, searingly, over his.

She drew away, not far, still close enough that he fancied he could feel the flicker of her eyelashes on his skin.

“I love you,” he said, opening himself up completely and offering himself to her.

She laughed, a quiet, beautiful sound. “I love you too.”

He put his arms around her then, held her close, and she sighed. “This is perfect.”

“You are perfect,” he replied.

She lifted her face to his. “Kiss me again?”

He chuckled. This time he cupped her cheek, learning the feel of her skin. When he pressed his lips to hers she was trembling and he held her tightly, kissing her with everything he had.

“I never want this night to end,” she said quietly when he finally drew away.

He twisted his fingers into her curls, luxuriating in them. “But when it does, the rest of our life will begin.”

[squilko]

[crocodilejames]

[yespumpkindoodlesthings]

I love Aldis Hodge to bits and I'm hella excited to see him get a high-profile role like Cross and hope it's a massive success, but I also need someone to tell me exactly how gory and violent this show is, because I really cannot take gore and torture at this moment. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find a reviewer who does an accurate violence-level assessment. Everyone's all spoiler this and spoiler that. Le sigh.

[sapphoshands]

i loved this show so violently and i'm having a lot of feelings right now so: some unformed thoughts under the cut

okay, i adore the road being billy's creation, and BOY that gives agatha's line 'are you sure' to billy a whole lot of weight. she really did know from the beginning! smartest witch in the room - she even fooled rio!

i continue to love literally everything about agatha harkness, not least that three seconds after giving birth she's already using her beloved child to up her con game

kathryn hahn broke my heart SEVERAL times throughout these two eps. just oh my god.

i do think agatha will make an EXCEPTIONAL ghost, popping up in the most awkward of places at the worst of times

lots and lots of great bits. lots. i'm not going to enumerate them but there really were some spectacular moments.

okay one more: jen and agatha. god. the emotions both of those women went through.

do not love:

why didn't we get more setup of agatha and rio's backstory? why has rio been chasing agatha?

they literally had, what, sixty years together before nicky? that's it? like i get that it was a bad breakup but that bad?? and agatha hasn't seen rio since 1756? like!

honestly feel pretty duped that it did end up being ALL to set up billy. like i really did think they were doing something different there. i really did.

i loved a surprising amount about the nicky story (as someone who generally does not like stories about kids and motherhood) but it did feel a little cheap how quickly agatha gave up after just hearing his name

also i still think that ending did not thematically align with the rest of the show, which went so hard on the strength of the coven and the divine fucking feminine, you know? not the young white dude!

that beautiful scene with the dandelion seed, agatha's insistence it will be a longgggggg time before she dies, and then sudden pivot. like. i would like to read the marvel notes.

why did killing agatha balance anything to do with billy and tommy? especially if agatha has become a ghost?

how did rio feel about killing agatha? why didn't we get anything on that?

agatha says it wasn't billy who broke her out of the spell but we don't get anything on that?

also i just. i just don't love ghost agatha. i know i went all terry castle on it already but there really is something about the possibilities forestalled there. i have already seen a few interesting posts about how that could still play out with her getting reincarnated in the future but ugh, why? why as the end of her own show did we get her demotion to intangible sidekick?

i also got baited so hard. convinced myself she wasn't dead when billy heard her at the end of ep 8. convinced myself billy was trying to reincarnate her (until i made out all his latin). what the hell.

[abigailspinach]

F: Yes, and that’s why in fandom you can write forty, fifty AUs of the same pairing, because people are expecting the core part of the relationship that gave them the feelings in the first place and you can just transplant that, and that’s what a good AU is about. It’s about saying, “Well, let’s take the core of the feelings and we’ll just dress it up in a nice hat.”

M: And I wonder if this is part of why we see some of the fanfic romance tropes that are unique to fandom that kind of boil over into Romance-world sometimes a bit later on, but they’re just so off the wall. They’re just weird, but amazing. Like… I dunno, like, omegaverse [pronounced in the English style, aka oh-mee-ga-verse].

AJ: [Laughs] That is the cutest way I’ve ever heard that say’d in my life. [pause] Said.

A: Yeah, seriously.

M: I’m… I’m sorry?

F: So… the thing with omegaverse [also English style] is that—

A: OH MY GOD YOU SAY IT TOO, HAHAHAHAHA! [AJ cackling in the background]

F: What???

AJ: We’re the Americans, we’re just like, “What?”

M: They say ah-MEG-uh-verse—

A: Oh-meh-ga.

M: —in America, and it’s hilarious.

A: Americans would say it oh-meh-ga-verse.

F: But that just sounds like a transformer?

M: Oh MEHG uh? What…

AJ: I mean, yes.

M: Yes, it’s like a giant…

F: [Monotone robot voice] Oh-meh-ga-verse.

M: Oh MEH ga? I can’t.

F: No.

M: Listen to us having cultural exchange.