Sometimes a family is a gay teenage witch, his recently resurrected twin brother, the parents of the body he’s possessing, the ghost of his babysitter who kills all her covens, Death, a rabbit, a presumed dead witch who you don’t consider your mom, a bunch of scrap metal, and Patti Lupone

rio being amused by agatha's shenannigans.

#i think it's important to note that Rio doesn't just love Agatha#she /likes/ her#she finds her funny#like sure she likes to watch Agatha kill witches#but she genuinely has a fondness for her stupid antics#her fuck-you attitude#her sense of drama#and Rio is being entirely genuine about this#there's no one to lie to#there's real affection here and it's incredibly heartbreaking

thanks for the perfect tags @ennn

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Honestly, I don't understand the people who are bitter about the way Agatha All Along ended. I thought it was freaking amazing.

Agatha and Rio got to be angry and in love and epically drawn to each other. And petty as all hell.

We got a kiss (and Rio's face those seconds before Agatha kissed her and she felt it coming). We got to see the wounds Agatha left in Death. We got to see a moment where Agatha essentially forgave Death (even if she wouldn't acknowledge it to Rio). We watched Rio cover her grave in the color that meant most to Agatha. We watched how Rio gave Agatha the time to love her son (because even if the older Agatha refused to see it - because it hurt too much - she would clearly have taken that gift a second time if she found herself back in that moment).

And it wasn't even the end of them, because if you don't think Rio is going to keep pursuing Agatha's soul now that she's floating around as a ghost instead of coming home to her, you're wrong (you're just... wrong).

It might not have been a "happy ending" but it was freaking glorious.

Also, I know people have been saying that Nicky was referring to Rio when he said “mother wants me home” and Agatha looks terrified.

That’s not a new observation.

But what caught my attention on rewatch is that he goes to a river.

And Death’s name is Rio Vidal. River of Life.

I hate it here.

I love that Hugh Grant is an absolute maniac masquerading as an unassuming nebbishy posh kind of guy. If this was signed by anyone else I would say "that's a spoof, he didn't sponsor that" but it's Hugh Grant so I am 100% confident that it's genuine. This is the guy who talks about bdsm on the red carpet and payed a performance artist to blast yakkity sax on loudspeakers outside Westminster on the day Boris Johnson resigned. This is peak Hugh Grant.

This is from his recent Vanity Fair interview.

Everything about this is gold

few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

Someone mentioned on another tumblr post about how nobody complained that Agatha Christie wrote ANOTHER book about murder.

Write your story. Write it again. And again.

Okay but do you understand the TREASURE TROVE of reading a fic you enjoy and then looking at the author's page and discovering they have written multiple just like it?! That is the ultimate score!

I simply love the popular ships of One Piece.

You've got a dark humor traumatized goth beauty with a himbo cyborg. Then there's directionless setback to human evolution with way too posh ex-royalty simp. There's also a cunning red hair gay thief with equally soft gay blue haired princess. You also got the brainless sunshine who's somehow a god with the nerd who's literal incarnation of depression and assholeness.

But we also have a ruthless ex-warlord who tried to take over a country with a character who's voice don't match his aura. Then we have the presumed coolest pirate who's a simp for his childhood sweetheart who's afraid of everything but him and an ex-situationship goth who likes wine and sword.

We have it all.

This is an important message.

I will never NOT reblog this.

My father is a huge Beatles fan.

I sent this picture to him. Didn't hear from him for a bit.

My mother calls. "He's been dying of laughter for twenty minutes, what did you send him?"

Thank you Truffles

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

Seriously people, learn fandom etiquette. It exists, it exists for extremely good reasons, and it's been decades in the making.

You know the saying, 'OSHA regulations are written in blood'? Yeah, that applies to fandom etiquette. We didn't make this shit up to lord it over newcomers, these rules evolved as a form of fucking self-defense and by god we'll die on this hill.

So stop putting other people's fanfictions on KINDLE UNLIMITED!!!

In case you're unaware: that can (and will) get the writer and publisher a Cease & Desist and very possibly a lawsuit. Which they will lose.

Fanfic must be free or else it is breaking copyright — even advertising on a fanfic website is risky.

You do not own the copyright. You do not own the characters. You do not make money off copyrights that are not your own.

Who TF is putting fanfic on Kindle Unlimited??

Don't list it on fucking Goodreads either ffs.

did this morherfucker just make apples out of apples??

Yes. Yes he did.

At this point, he needs to just build the Witch's House from Hansel and Gretel. I feel like he's building to that lmao

”But He Loved, He Should Have Been Forgiven”

About Free Will, Responsibility and Agency: Lucifer and Dream as Foils

Did I finally jump on the Lucidream bandwagon? No, don’t panic (or be eternally disappointed 🤣), because that quote is actually from “Murder Mysteries”, a short story that also exists in comic form (drawn by P. Craig Russell). And while it isn’t officially part of the Sandman Universe (or even DC), I always saw it as somewhat of a blueprint of how NG (re)imagined Lucifer’s Fall. There is enough in Lucifer’s characterisation in the Sandman that makes it quite plausible as a sort of backstory, especially since it was written when the Sandman was still in full swing. But more about that later…

I’ve long wanted to write a meta about Lucifer and Dream as narrative foils, and since I’ve finally started clearing out my drafts, this was a good one to do right now because we are currently discussing “A Hope in Hell” in our community (join us!). Although I have to admit that this one is rather about what transpires when Lucifer decides to abandon their realm in Season of Mists...

When Lucifer learns of Dream's impending return to Hell to finally release Nada, it solidifies their own resolve to leave (I use they/them pronouns because of the show although comics!Lucifer is male presenting apart from the plumbing and also referred to as he/him). By the time Dream arrives, Hell is nearly deserted, with Lucifer basically expelling its last inhabitants. Lucifer tells Dream they rebelled long ago, and that they are not willing to “pay for that one action” anymore. And the most profound truth they share with Dream is the nature of ultimate freedom—the freedom to leave. This is also brought up many issues later, when Lucifer says to Delirium, "I told him, you know. I told him years ago… I told him that I owed him much for having given me the impetus to go. I told him there was always freedom, even the ultimate freedom. The freedom to leave. You don't have to stay anywhere forever.”

I just found the earliest email I ever sent from my email address, and it’s the funniest goddamn thing I can possibly imagine a fourth grader sending her teacher:

(Context - my fourth grade teacher was on maternity leave, and the state of the classroom fish tank was dire under the substitute teacher’s tyrannical rule. The class convened at recess, and decided to inform our (24yo, new mother) former teacher of the situation. I was selected as the duly appointed representative for this solemn communication.)

Further context: I am now a practicing attorney.

[thinks about it] yup that is indeed unambiguously a christological heresy.