Xynnietheslut - ↺ ﹏ ﹒ Fae 📰 ✶

miracle worker

(Gwen's undying love for Ben is one of the most interesting parts of her character, because the way she goes about protecting him amplifies her savior complex more than anything. Ben comes first, doesn't matter if it's innocent aliens or her own family. They've been through so much together that she would rather the world burn than let it take Ben from her. i dont like the way gwen's written post 2006 series, but her massive savior complex is my favorite addition)

What you see when you step into the Slytherin common room.

school festival arc 2.0

Okay y’all, some ‘Why The Plumbers Ain’t Shit’ in a nice, easy to understand list

11-yo gets thrown into maximum security adult prison (’but achi he is Powerful’ and power limiters are fucking canon and shown to be able to render even him managable)

14-yo is not only accepted into the Academy but becomes a full fledged Plumber (hello child labor)

In fact multiple underage teens are accepted into the Academy and become full fledged Plumbers

Magister comes to Earth to investigate allegations of vigilantism, finds trio of teenagers fighting off invasion, makes no move to help them with it (which is, if later episodes involving invasions are accurate, his job) beyond deputizing them and fucking off

Man actively tells his grandchildren to recruit other children to fight off an invasion rather than get in touch with other Plumbers even within their family and soon ends up running the system (nope, that’s not a sign of bullshit, when someone recruits children for war over involving other adults and is rewarded for it)

Man is fired from Plumbers? Entire family can no longer turn to law enforcement when needed

Plumber steals from Plumbers? Fire him. Investigate no further, not even to find the stolen items.

Plumber official walks into base, admits to performing illegal experiments on children and making them into child soldiers using Plumber funding in front of God and everyone? Do nothing until his victims wreck his entire shit

Plumber official has gotten his entire shit wrecked by the victims of his slavery and illegal experiments? Sentence his entire team to life imprisonment in hellscape dimension with no trial, no judge, take all evidence, never speak of matter again

Teenager sacrifices his sanity saving the galaxy, becomes dangerously violent? Have his younger bestfriend murder him, insist it’s the only option

Department of Inhuman Resources

Insta-portals to the hellscape dimension are standard enough issue that nobody questions implanted memories or reports of them being used on criminals without an arrest

This despite it being shown that the hellscape dimension is a deathtrap that can kill you quickly and that entrance does not alert anyone to come looking

Law enforcement agency with no known governmental oversight and their own Black Ops group

And that’s off the top of my head. If you think of anything else, please feel free to add.

I was rereading poa and got carried away

Little spoon Talis❤️

Moments in Harry Potter that hit right in my heart. In Prisoner of Azkaban, when Severus has his wand against Sirius's neck and says "Do I detect a flicker of fear?"

That moment, when he finally got the upper hand against one of his abusers and said *It's your turn to be afraid*

Can't help but see a parallel to the start of the story when Harry aims his wand at Vernon and says "Try me."

These two moments, facing off against your abuser and taking the upper hand, these two moments here.

“Close your eyes.”

mark/eve development if it was good

let them slow-burn it all throughout season 3. if they aren't a couple yet, what does it really rob us of? a montage of romantic moments, of which there were about three? the invincible inc. arc, and even then it only being specifically about them getting a house together? conversations on the rooftop where she behaves like his therapist and he shows very little interest in her inner life?

for starters: future eve does NOT tell mark that eve loves him and needs him to give her an answer. this was terrible for her character, and that's even acknowledged in the show, so i cannot fathom why this was necessary to get them together. a meaningful look would have conveyed everything that needed to be said

instead, mark sees future eve - beaten down by time, but always resilient - and thinks, wow, she looks so sad. she doesn't want to admit it, but i know her. i want to do more to be there for my eve, my friend eve, in the present. we're in a unique position to understand each other, but that doesn't mean we always will, so i'm going to make an effort

things we could focus on to show mark falling for eve gradually: her interactions with oliver, and how she's able to get through to him better than mark can sometimes. her desire to keep up with "mundane" things like taking classes to be more responsible with her powers. her actually disagreeing with mark, maybe on something big, and him realizing how much he values her opinions. her being in both worlds with him, the hero and the civilian, and how that gives him the ability to share it all with her fully. show don't tell. please

show eve's perspective, too. her wondering if it's right for her to feel something for mark when she's so close with amber, when mark has so much on his plate... she needs to be sure, too. she doesn't want to feel like they're only together because it's easy. maybe she could have a non-specific conversation about it with her new friend from college

when mark is being attacked and thinks he's going to die, we should see him thinking of eve. not just eve, though. maybe brief flashes of everyone who's important to him - and eve is one of those people! don't just have him say that he thought of her, because it feels cheap, and that she's the only one he thought of, because it feels unearned

...but he gets in his own head about why he saw her that way. does he want to protect her the same way he does his fanily & friends, or does he just want her close? maybe he started seeing their possible future together and it felt different, and she didn't look so sad as she did in that abandoned earth, and he doesn't know how to tell her any of this?

when eve is attacked by conquest, that's the breaking point. that's when mark has to confess to her, if she's even able to hear it. he's realized just how important she is to him and in what way - and eve, who has had time to really think about her own feelings too, is able to reciprocate. in near death and rebirth, in vulnerability and openess, they finally come together. a new beginning. now they know