#fablelike

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i don't like you right now, cassandra sandsmark. no number 1 spot for you.

tim, kon.....and cassie, i guess: hmph. he is not picking between the three, and you can't make him.

cissie king jones: cue an explosion of heart emojis.

greta hayes: we stan a former ghost girl.

jinny hex: women with guns, amirite? badass to badass respect.

TIME FOR SOME POSITIVITY!

send 🌲 and i'll recommend a blog with thought-provoking headcanons.

@callmeteor i think aster has some excellent insight on cloud strife fr. they really seem to consider every little detail of his personality and mannerisms, and presents them exceptionally in their headcanons. and the length of them??? it's like a mini novel. the brain be braining hard when hcs get that long.

send 🌙 and i'll recommend a blog for my favorite character.

@heartwilled gotta be my favourite claude von riegan i've ever come across. nox really dives deep on claude and wonderfully expands on the parts of him we only see lil bits of in fe3h. i am hanging on every word, every thought. he feels so fleshed out in nox's writing, i just wanna chew on him like a dog toy, you know???

send 🪵 and i'll say a positive thing about my own blog.

positivity for the dash

🌸 : your favorite original character

okay so i literally forgot that @corpatrem's ben is an oc???? ben has become such an integral part of my dana that i cannot imagine the two of them not coexisting together in any universe. ben absolutely is dana's son through and through and no one else is going to tell me otherwise. tj brings such life to ben that he feels so real and the way that dana and ben have slotted together so well it's just absolute perfection that i cannot stop talking about

🌈 : a blog that always brings fun vibes

@hesjustcarter is always a delight to see on the dash. when they aren't absolutely devastating me with thoughts about carter, it's all the happy, funny, goofy vibes that always makes me smile. they put so much dedication into their carter too, there isn't a single aspect of him that they haven't considered and i love hearing about all their thoughts when it comes to him.

🏆 : a blog that deserves more recognition

@frthestars deserves so much recognition. since i came back to tumblr, they've just been this absolute constant presence on the dash that i appreciate so much. i always know they're going to be there in hand with amazing replies and just always being there no matter what. they deserve all of the recognition and love in the world

😭 : someone whose writing always hits you emotionally

‘ you’ve got to be shitting me. ’

if it wasn't one thing, it was another. he could hardly make sense of this terrible day, moving about the ruined police station in a terror induced haze. he really has no time to to sit and rest and take stock of his situation, moving on autopilot and growing number with each passing heartache. a flash of recognition and a break from the dread comes at the call of a human voice, a real talking voice, and one he recognizes from a chance meeting hours earlier. and when @fablelike finally comes into view, leon takes several stunned moments to just look at her. after hours of unimaginable horrors and putting bullet after bullet in humans zombies seeing her again was like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

❝ claire ?! oh my god ! ❞ not for the first time tonight, leon's body turns to autopilot once more, feet go from frozen still to a run over to the woman, a bit of light returning to his eyes as a smile grows on his lips once he was face to face with her. ❝ oh man, you're a sight for sore eyes. ❞

having endured what felt like an eternity , his mind wanders through the room , flooded with couples dancing and the typical chatter of the ton . and there , on her own , like venus herself reborn of seafoam ; violet . he smiles , making his excuses to part from dull conversation . effortlessly , he glides through a sea of bodies and the eyes of ladies desperate for his attention like vultures in a desert . he smiles , closing his proximity to her before he makes himself known .

❛  lady bridgerton , i am troubled to see you alone at an event such as this .  ❜ his voice was like silk ; smooth , inviting and irresistable . he yearns to touch her , to feel her soft skin and the thud of her heart against his . marcus knows how to charm a lady of the ton , but violet bridgerton was something else , a celestial beauty . his heart races , his ribs feeling like a prison to his emotion . ❛  may i offer you my company ?  ❜

❛⠀ never, ❜⠀he says, the reply leaving his lips with such swiftness, the doctor doesn't have a chance to catch it and snatch it back. not even his great, ancient time lord brain and match his desire to spend forever running hand-in-hand with rose tyler.

good old earth stretches in front of them through the tardis's doors, her mother's flat vaguely visible behind a sprawling oak-tree. another visit to her mother. he usually went along with her, grumbling half-heartedly all the way to the door, never making a move to escape, human domestics not so bad when they were with rose. but the tardis was the one grumbling today — she'd swallowed something strange in the time stream, and they won't be going anywhere until he's sorted that out.

ty flor for sending this u angel... i've split it into three parts bc i'm odd❤️

how deeply does gwen regret chasing after torchwood that first day?

personally, i don't think she regrets chasing after torchwood that first day. i think when we meet gwen in series one, she's naive, she's got this superiority about her because she's the only one in the hub with a "normal" life and she leans more into her heart and emotional intelligence into the job at torchwood. i think moving into series one, gwen's on a trajectory of accepting that she's messy, she's no better than the rest of them (as much as she thinks she is), she makes mistakes, she has an affair and runs away from her life because of the thrill and the excitement it brings. the affair with owen showcases that, she upheaves her life for the thrill and the chase even if it's only temporary. gwen becomes more complex as the series progresses, she becomes more impulsive, she hardens, becomes colder and thinks she's better than having a normal life. torchwood becomes gwen's personality, she craves the high and she doesn't want to be a housewife or a boring ordinary person walking through the streets. in series one, gwen feels that she's the good egg and she's the one with good intentions, but she's selfish and catty. she's reckless and emotional, she gets too invested because she feels that she has a moral superiority.

in series two, we see a more mature gwen but still messy. we see her taking control and we see the stakes higher than ever before. when jack decides to go after the doctor, gwen takes the lead and i think secretly deep down, she always wanted it. but she becomes more used to the trauma, the blood and the violence. i can't remember which book it's in but there's an extract about gwen finding the death of an alien they encounter funny. i think in series two, gwen is on the cusp of losing her heart and her humanity. it's interesting that jack has to constantly remind her not to let her life go, because he can see it. i would say most of series two, gwen is becoming someone she doesn't recognise. i think meat and adrift are two big pivotal moments for gwen, meat brings her fiance into the mix and her life starts to bleed but adrift shows her how torchwood can really ruin a family and can do everlasting damage. the conversation she has with rhys about kids is really the turning point for her, i think this is when gwen becomes more consistent as a character. i think adrift, we see a shift in her that sets the tone of her next trajectory.

the deaths of owen and tosh definitely have an impact on her, and this is the first personal loss gwen has faced in the series. it's interesting that she tells jack that she can't go on especially after the events of fragments and exit wounds. she took charge when jack was kidnapped and managed to devise a plan to help the city of cardiff. i just know she loved it, she can be quite needy and constantly seeks reassurance until series three. i would say, the deaths of tosh and owen begin to make her question her choices at torchwood and why she's there. the losses of her friends significantly impact her to the point she has to go away and drink heavily. i think it's the first time she seriously considers if this is what she wants to do forever, but there's still a feeling of that she's a survivor.

series three is more of an interesting path for gwen as a character, she's soft yet tough. this is probably my favourite interpretation of the character because she's more consistent with who she is and is able to make quick decisions that don't backfire. she's not as reckless and i think this is the first time gwen starts putting other people first. i quite like the quote in day five in the car when she's with andy and rhys:

It’s Torchwood. That’s what did it. They give you retcon and chemicals and radiation and God knows what. Bloody pill didn’t stand a chance. That’s what Torchwood does, you see. It ruins your life.

but she doesn't mean what she says. she's reactive the situations around her particularly after the loss of ianto. gwen suffers throughout series three because she learns she's pregnant, gets hunted by the government, loses her friend and the other man she loves, leaves her after he killed his grandchild. but she still remains resilient, when ianto dies we see gwen reluctantly give up until jack reminds her of ianto's family, thus doing something for the first time that isn't self serving.

in the audios, she rebuilds torchwood from the ruins again so gwen wouldn't do that if she didn't regret it. i think she seeks the thrill at first and then she develops her motive to actually genuinely wanting to help people.

will the pros ever be enough to outweigh the cons?

the pros will always be enough to outweigh the cons, which i think we see throughout miracle day. even though she's outgrown her dependency on jack, she hasn't outgrown her dependency on torchwood to make her life more exciting:

Because you know what the worst thing is of all? Of all the shit we have seen, all the bloodshed, all the horror—do you know what is worse than all of that? I loved it. I bloody loved it. And I’d keep telling Rhys I was sorry, and I’d say to little Anwen I’m sorry. But I loved it so much. I knew things no one else knew and, oh, I felt so special. And when we lost people, it was so so big. And I could say it was worth it. ‘Cause the bigger it was, the more important I was. And the more people we lost, the more that meant I was a survivor and I was better than them.

it's so interesting that she becomes so hardened in miracle day, but i think she becomes a better person for it. she's consistent again, she's more level headed and thinks about others over herself. the cons of the job are loss, the deaths of owen, tosh and ianto do weigh heavy on her and especially when she brings death back to the world and kills her dad as a result. she knows she must sacrifice her family in order to restore balance back to the planet, she's aware of the risk and acts on her word.

it's interesting that compared to series one, she feels morally superior because she feels she's better than the rest of the team. but in miracle day, she's actually acting out of the best interests of the people and not herself so i would say the biggest pro is gwen becomes more of a rounded and thoughtful person by the end of miracle day. and she actually respects and trusts in rhys, she doesn't allow their relationship to suffer as a result of torchwood.

will her view on the job forever be balanced thanks to her support outside of it?

to some extent, yes. rhys is a huge part of her life and that's why meat is such a pivotal moment for gwen and rhys as a couple because she allows him into her world. she doesn't retcon him. gwen is protective that rhys can be involved in torchwood but only to a certain extent. she doesn't ever want him to kill or injure another person or being, she's the one who tainted the family by becoming torchwood. however, she doesn't regret it. she only regrets it when something backfires or if she's personally targeted.

Have you got what I’m saying to you, Jack? What I’m saying is, No more! Because I know exactly what you’re thinking, Jack. “She won’t do this, not really. Not my Gwen.” “No, Gwen, she can’t hurt me. Gwen loves me. She’d never harm me” and well this is about my daughter. And I swear for her sake I will see you killed like a dog right in front of me if it means her back in my arms. Understood?