#we'll go

[ask-chad-things-blog]

babe, cupcake, sweetie, darling,,,,,...,,,,;;,,,,,,,,me and ben need waffles

Ask Diego, I’m in class, Klaus. 

And Ben doesn’t eat!

[ahdriking]

I LOVED your meta about CP1. I agree it is excellent. The way Pacat shows how much Damen isn't seeing is brilliant, even if you don't grasp Laurent's past or that he knows who Damen is. I found the resolution in CP3 too quick and clean as well. I'm frankly also not a fan of the turn into goofy fluff. I wish Pacat finished CP3 before Penguin picked it up and she tried to make the book appealing to a mainstream audience.

I agree! It definitely feels like the direction of cp3 took a very,,,, almost maybe calculated turn towards being as appealing as possible to as many people as possible, which of course came at the cost of a lot of the more heavy and intense theme that the original book is so ‘notorious’ for. Again, I have so many lofty ideas and hc’s for how cp3 could have gone if we were given the pay off the narrative set itself up for in the first 2 and even the beginning of the third book, but unfortunately that’s just not what we got, and that’s fine i guess, i still love the series after all. There is a part of me tho (a bitter crabby old part admittedly) that wishes capri had stuck to its roots and maintained its heavy and controversial tone and themes all the way thru, right to the end, simply because the way the series ends kinda... softens? everything that comes before it? If you know what i mean? When Damen and Laurent get their lovey dovey no holds barred absolutely scott free and neatly resolved ending that is almost spoon fed to them, it essentially invites an audience that isn’t necessarily geared at all towards the first book or the themes the series was founded on (aka slave kink). The natural result of that is a very dicey and divided fandom, and people claiming that skipping the first book entirely is fine because its idk bad? and because the more important thing is the relationship, not the narrative. There’s no problem with loving the third book, i’m glad if you do, because it’s fine to have literary discourse and have different opinions and still at the end of the day share a mutual love for a thing that we disagree on, but it’s very easy to draw a correlation between capri’s sudden newfound and spotlighted platform and the massive tonal shift of the books. 

I’d actually be really interested in hearing the thoughts of the people who were around when capri was originally posted on LJ, and what they thought the series was initially, what they thought it would become, and their ultimate opinion on what it eventually did end up being. I’m sure there’s heaps of differing opinions on it, that’s the nature of literary discourse :’)

[splitcomplementarya-blog]

i can't believe u have a psyduck

“And I can’t believe you still haven’t won a Pokemon League.”

[selfdstruct]

i'm going to bed but i've been thinking about this gifset all day and how different their reactions to the holiday are. how differently they both remember it.

in dean's eyes he was doing the best he could for sam, giving him the best christmas that he was able to as a child himself. he didn't know what he was doing, and all he could do was steal small things that wouldn't land him in jail and leave sammy alone. it wasn't much, but he thought it was enough. sam sees it as dad forgot about us again, it sucked because dad wasn't there. dean was already used to it. sam still had hope.

dean really wasn't thinking about himself much at all then, down to eating less so sam had more. he was younger, he was growing faster, it was what was fair. it's wild how dean was a better father to sam than john ever was, but sam took a really long time to even think about the fact that dean gave up everything to try to give sam as much of a normal childhood as he could. the childhood he wanted to have. but yeah. wild.

[alotofboring]

Chasms - We'll Go

[realmimeswearmakeup]

@mute-mime

do you want to fight me

[fellforastraightgirl]

She didn't want me to go home after the bar closed. That's understandable.

What I wasn't prepared for, was her, snuggling up against me and holding my hand during the afterparty.