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[rosesfromthedeep]

Some Boys - Deadwind (Sakari Nurmi) Well, this is what I call a great character-study! Nurmi is one of my favorite male-characters ever and this is an awesome tribute to him. I hope we learn more about his past on season 3. Thanks, robotmango, once again, for your marvelous job! Plus, you always pick the best songs! ;)

[entirelyaccurateonepiecequotes]

Robin, crouched down in front of her flower box, examining the pattern of insect bites on the lower leaves: I'm going to fucking kill whoever did this. I'm going to kill them for you. Don't worry, babies. I'm going to murder every single son of a bitch who got a mouthful of you. They'll die screaming.

Usopp, unseen by Robin on the other side of the plant area, tending his own box: Oh, okay. You're talking to the plants. Okay.

[pallasperilous]

Here’s my latest fanart for a fantastic fic: Fearson’s Floating Cigarette by @robotmango (orange_crushed on AO3).

Set in the world of professional stage magic, where Cas is a virtuoso children’s magician and Dean is a rising star in the high-stakes stunt scene, it only seemed fair to pay tribute with a faux-vintage magic show poster. 

(This is all hand-lettered, by the way, because I am nothing if not bonkers.)

Fearson’s has to be one of the mostly purely gratifying, sweet Dean/Cas stories out there – a perfect little gem of a love story that really stands out amidst the towering rock piles of Epic Destiel Mega-Angst out there (please note: I love Epic Destiel Mega-Angst). It was tough choosing just one of @robotmango‘s stories to start with; it’s been months since I first read it, but I’m still incandescently furious at the seamless brilliance of Highwaymen. (Like screencapping-individual-sentences levels of enraged.)  Likewise Apocrypha will make you feel some things about Sam and Ruby, and Fata Morgana is the Bela Talbot redemption fic you didn’t know you very much needed. The list goes on. Anyhow. I’m a fan. Thank you for the stories!

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steve rogers watching the honeymooners after supper, not even bothering to comment on all the domestic violence gags. "gotta fit in," he thinks, and wakes up screaming

steve, shakily, at 4am: i... i think i’ll try that therapy stuff now

bucky: one the one hand, hooray, but on the other hand, what the FUCK were you dreaming about steve

steve, mumbling: shag carpet....tv dinners.... shoulder pads....oh, god. Oh, God

[yeahcoolduck]

robotmango

  umbrella academy is fun, but i feel like it...

@yeahcoolduck “a pattern Americans don’t whine in” you are SO RIGHT! i think what i’m reacting to positively is that out of all of them, klaus is the most obviously fucked up? everyone else is playing it like they had a “distant father” and a tough childhood and he/his character is like actively damaged by being part of a team of kid supers who KILLED PEOPLE GRUESOMELY??? like we’re not just dealing with silent dinners here, but the plot/characterizations are not there.

The KILLED PEOPLE GRUESOMELY thing, holy shit!  That’s another aspect of the wonky world-building, where everyone responds to things as though they’re all working at Macy’s, but meanwhile, not only do people casually travel to and from the moon, twelve year old children can extrajudicially execute culprits of non-capital crimes in full view of the public and be celebrated for it.  

So yeah, as you have it, Klaus is the only one reacting as though there was something fundamentally fucked up that fucked him up about the Umbrella Academy, while the rest of them are like “well, Dad was an odd one for sure, but hey, whose parents didn’t fuck them up at least a little bit, amirite?  overall I’d rate our childhood 7/10.”

It doesn’t bother me that the characters are barely critical of Dad, but that the story itself seems barely critical, except in the case of Klaus.  We don’t see the rest of the characters dealing with particularly harsh fallout of having been raised the way they were.  They mention it sometimes.  Frequently, even.  But saying “Dad fucked us up” and actually being fucked up are two totally different things.

But then I feel I have to somehow address the central issue of Vanya, whose issues from their upbringing are supposedly central to the story. Yet, her issue for most of it was that she wasn’t allowed to commit acts of gross violence.  Again: I’m okay with the character feeling this way, but it’s that the story itself seems to think that that, in and of itself, is the problem: that her father alienated her and made her feel like she wasn’t special.  Meanwhile it only pays lip service to the concept that the ways in which the others were considered special was deranged.

To sum up the story, it’s Vanya feeling alienated and “unspecial” that causes the apocalypse, and not Reginald’s ongoing legacy of insane violence, of which the world of UA is utterly uncritical.

[radio-charlie]

@robotmango  said: there's nothing stupid or selfish about wanting that. and certainly nothing weak. it's completely human. and i hope you can find something, someone, a way to live, that really makes you happy. ♥️

thank you. you’re always so nice to me, it makes me crumple inside but ina good way. i want to tell u not to waste ur time on a loser like me but itsalways feels so nice and warm to hear from you. i hope all the kindnes u pour into the world comes back to you tenfold. u are a great person and deserve nothin but a happy life. 🍄💫🐧

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just picturing steve and bucky ripping through a hydra base. entrails on the walls. steve stops to pull a nice ham sandwich out of his bag. "gotta take care of yourself, buck," he says sweetly to the eight foot tall sawtoothed horror whose ears he's petting

After their arcane experiment was successful in creating their own pet lycanthrope, what Hydra failed to account for is they didn’t really know how to control him. They tried everything they could think of: verbal commands, choke collars, shock collars, cattle prods, muzzles, curb bits, drugs, catchpoles, and numerous combinations thereof. Every success they had was tenuous at best.

The one surefire way Steve found to calm werewolf!Bucky down is one that Hydra never would have dreamed up: petting his head and scratching behind his ears.

[rosesfromthedeep]

To Build a Home (Karppi/Nurmi) All these news about the season 3 of Deadwind (or Karppi, depends on how you wanna say it) have made me really excited and I have checked frequently if someone has made new content about these two (my favorite Finnish-ship and one of my true OTPs in general at the moment). When I saw this, I bawled my eyes out! :’) I know they are facing many challenges right now, but I truly hope they sort things out, finally express their feelings properly and can get some true happiness. They deserve it, dammit! Thank you, robotmango, for making this! I wish that you would make one of season 2 as well.