#camomility

My vision for a version of the ending I desperately want to see has always been “during the final chorus, the lovers and Despina look at one another, all very visibly have the mutual realization that Don Alfonso manipulated them into cheating/enabling cheating on each other for no fucking reason, and encircle him menacingly. The curtain falls on all five of them united in cathartically kicking the shit out of him. Bonus if his expression indicates something like ‘yeah, this sucks but I’m aware I kinda deserve it’.”

i fully support don alfonso getting the shit kicked out of him because honestly fuck that guy LOL. i would jump on that stage and join in brother. i'm also conceptually a fan of that production in the midwest(?) recently where the audience got to choose-your-own-adventure for the ending (stay together, couple swap, or divorce). really fun spin on things and lets the audience engage actively with whether the show's plot "resolution" as writ works or not.

but anyway i think my problems with cosi are sort of with enough of the work that just restaging the finale on its own isn't enough to "fix" it for me. i think the show's premise itself is too cynical, but still tries to be sincere, or at least get you to feel sincere at moments where it absolutely does not jive. like, in the second act, i'm supposed to feel sorry for the boyfriends when they're beefing with each other over their gfs being unfaithful? motherfuckers that's YOUR fault! i don't feel bad for you you played yourselves. and i cannot stand the boys being on any kind of high horse at the end while the girls are beating themselves up for doing nothing wrong in the face of being cruelly gaslit and manipulated by their loved ones. also, the fact that the entire thing takes place over, like, two days is just too absurd to take seriously.

Things you said when you were scared (Codywan): 

It was hard to think past the pain, but a familiar voice, one he shouldn’t have been hearing, kept dragging at Cody’s attention.

“…dare give up on me now, Cody! That’s an order!”

Good soldiers follow orders. But it had been a long time since Cody- CC-2224, to his fellow stormtroopers- had been a good soldier, and sometimes older instincts kicked in. He managed to get his eyes open, the face hovering over him floating in and out of focus. 

Obi-Wan. General Kenobi. He looked far too old, as if he was aging at the same rate as Cody and the few brothers he had left, but there was no mistaking that face even with the ginger hair bleached to white.

Pain shuddered through him again. Maybe his brain was finally shutting down and causing him to hallucinate.

“I have a ship. I can get you out of here. Just stay with me, Cody.”

It was nice, as far as dying hallucinations went. Impossible and impractical, but that had been his General all over.

Warm fingers ghosted along his cheek, gone almost before he could register it, and then he felt himself being lifted.

“You’re even heavier than I remember,” his General complained.

Cody would have smiled if he could. How had he gotten shot, anyway? He’d been coming off duty and turned the corner to see-

Something jarred painfully in his chest and a small moan escaped him.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. I was planning to let him kill me.”

Vader. Yes. Vader had been fighting... had been fighting... Cody hadn’t even realized he’d drawn his weapon until he was firing it. Vader had deflected the shots, of course, and the gawking troopers had suddenly sprung into action to defend their Lord of Nightmares.

“We’re almost there. I’ll get you out of this, Cody. I’m so sorry. I should have gone back for you. As soon as Bail told me about the chips I should have tried to find you and the others.”

Cody let the words wash over him. It was nice to think of his General trying to rescue him. Just like old times. Just like Before. Stupid Jedi, trying to protect him instead of the other way around. He tried to take a breath to tell him so, but it wouldn’t come. The pain was getting worse. Something hot and wet splashed against his face.

“I had the most hopeless crush on you back then,” his General admitted. “Did you know?”

Cody’s eyes snapped open again. He hadn’t realized they’d closed. Was Obi-Wan crying?

“Ben!” Someone else shouted. “Hurry up!”

There was a snarling growl. Cody realized he could hear blaster fire now, too. Quite a lot of it.

“I don’t care,” the other voice said. “Just get them!”

Another rumble of sound and suddenly Cody found himself being lifted higher as fur brushed over his exposed face.

“Be careful with him, Chewbacca,” Obi-Wan warned. “He saved my life. Again.”

There was an argument going on. Too many voices to keep track of. Too much pain, too. He tried to slip away from it.

“Please, Cody,” that familiar old voice begged. “I can’t lose you again. I still love you.”

“Yes.”

He managed to get out that one word, at least. Yes, he knew Obi-Wan had loved him; it had been hard to miss. Yes, he had managed to save Obi-Wan’s life again, though it didn’t make up for the time he’d tried to kill him. Yes, he’d hold on for a little longer, though he couldn’t guarantee how long it would last.

Someone was trying to use a medkit on him, but what he felt next was a soft, scratchy kiss on his forehead.

You want a perfect storm in Ernmark-land? Combine equal parts:

poly relationships

cold-weather cuddling

scaly humanoids getting all sleepy in cold weather

and I’m pretty much guaranteed to be happy.

SIOF does not.  There aren’t too many chapters left of this story, and they’re gonna be dealing with a whole lot of stuff that precludes even the discussion.  Does it come up in Witness me later?

Yes, definitely.  I know pretty much right how that goes, right down to the when and where and such, and I could probably tell you, but then I would be spoiling it.  LOL!  I will say that the genesis, the possibility, of such things is in SIOF, though, not only emotionally -- as in, them dealing with their old wreckage some -- but also more literally.  However, I bet no one will guess how.  XD

Obi cares, he has wanted to step it up to sex, but he’s also the reason the topic has never come up.  It doesn’t even occur to Maul to bring it up, because 1.) mentally messed up guy battling depression and c-ptsd and whatever else and 2.) cut in half, a lot of the physical precursors are nonexistent.  So, it’s Obi-Wan who would have to bring it up, but he doesn’t do it because 1.) massive concern about consent issues and 2.) he cut Maul in half, talk about a lot of guilt.

Right, I… think I remember that post?

So, basically, from what I can remember of it: no, I did not reblog that post uncritically. I was in fact extremely skeptical of some of the points it made, like the one you mentioned. 

However, I also am recovering from getting four of my wisdom teeth extracted, which means that not only am I on antibiotics, painkillers, and icepacks, I can’t take my adhd meds, which means I have a large time processing large blocks of text. And remembering to tag things. And exerting energy expressing my opinions, which is fucking exhausting, especially on this site.

So yes, I should have, I don’t know, mentioned in the tags or some shit that I didn’t fully agree with the post. However, I … wasn’t really expecting people to be reading something I offhandedly reblogged yesterday and then being “shocked” that I would reblog it.

Like… ugh, yeah, that’s a big problem with that post, I majorly disagree. I should have mentioned that I didn’t agree with it. But I am having a pretty bad week, and sometimes these things slip through the cracks. That person has some pretty good advice about how to argue things further down in the post; I was lazy.

I am not familiar with this canon except from your posts, but... what? How DO they urinate? Do they only have a urethra down there and nothing else?

that’s the answer that Aram (the dm) gave us. 

other suggestion from us fans were “elves are magic and therefor never need to use the restroom” and “elves sweat it out but because their biology is so different from ours, they don’t smell like piss.” 

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Also, the island that they were on 100% has other restaurants and hotels and taxis and stuff, I can only assume that none of the attendees thought to actually try and ask a local what kind of other acommodations

there were nearby – because they were afraid that the Scary Natives would try and take their handbags or something, presumably