That post that's like "stop writing characters who talk like they're trying to get a good grade in therapy" really blew the door wide open for me about how common it's become for a character's emotional intelligence to not be taken into consideration when writing conflict. I remember the first time I went to therapy I had such a hard time even identifying what I was feeling, let alone had the language to explain it to someone else. Of course there are plenty of people who've never been to therapy a day in their life who are in tune to their emotions. But even they would have some trouble expressing themselves sometimes. You have to take into account there are plenty of people who are uncomfortable expressing themselves and people who think they're not allowed to feel certain ways. It also makes for more interesting conflict to have characters with different levels of understanding.
fiddauthor and jayvik are fundamentally very different ships in many ways but "outsider scientist blinded by ambition gets sucked into an unholy machine of his own creation meanwhile his cosmically disturbed boyfriend starts a cult because he can't come to terms with the innate fallibility of his own human mind and body" is a suspiciously specific niche to fall into
tfw when the tragedy is tragic :(
May the fourth be with you!!! 💫✨
bold of movie studios to think anything live-action could be an improvement on the original animated material
I WISH IT HAD ALL BEEN DIFFERENT!!!!!
Father and son quality time…in the hospital(? I've been thinking about these two making up for lost time and memories.
you know those fics where S2 Jayce meets S1 Viktor and falls to his knees and cries, yeah, i'm normal about them
honestly the suitors should’ve known they were fucked when Penelope issued the challenge bc not only does she say my husband’s old bow instead of my old husband’s bow (basically saying that she doesn’t actually want to remarry) but Jorge also has the emphasis on husband, reminding them and us that Odysseus is still out there
waiting
those are the important bits, really
summary speedrun
what if we were both SCIENTISTS and saved each other from SUICIDE and worked in close quarters for a DECADE but our project turned out to be EVIL and one of us got involved in POLITICS while the other got involved in DRUGS because he is DYING and one of us got EXPLODED and then RESURRECTED but left to become JESUS while the other was transported to another DIMENSION and had to endure narrative PARALLELS before vowing to KILL his friend because he came back WRONG and what if we ended up ASTRAL PROJECTING and finally ACCEPTING OURSELVES all while saving the world as PARTNERS??? WHAT THEN??
yeah sometimes things get really painful but have you considered that sometimes you're the hissing, starving cat in an alleyway and the world is the soothing shushing that coaxes you into the warmth because sometimes, you can't always see how the scary thing might be the thing that heals you
no one's mentioned how viktor has his cane here even though he's not even standing and it's jayce's hallucination/fantasy
jayce meant it when he said he loves viktor wholly, not excluding his disabilities, and that he thinks viktor's imperfections are beautiful and admirable
viktor's cane, and therefore his disability, is a part of him and not something even jayce's subconscious could cast aside as he was losing his mind. his high opinion and adoring perception of viktor has always included the parts of him that viktor himself views as flawed and shameful
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