Be Careful Out There Child, The Devil Has Many Ways Of Tempting One To His Side.

“Be careful out there child, the Devil has many ways of tempting one to his side.“

paper valentine au:

My best friend died six months ago and now she’s with me all the time. materialising silently out of the shadows, creeping closer, reaching out.

Blair could never drop anything, not when she was alive, and especially not now that she’s dead. Sometimes I think that the whole reason she’s still here, she’s weighted down, anchored by all the things she couldn’t let go. 

I have to believe that, because the alternative is that she’s here because of me, which is just blatantly not true. I am not the kind of person who gets haunted by anything.

Rilaya + dateagirlwhosuggestion posts 

penelope and schneider for the ask meme

who’s the cuddler: Schneider more than Penelope, who really likes *being* cuddled. But she’s not opposed to cuddling him when he needs it.

who makes the bed: I think Penelope does, out of habit, until she realizes Schneider’s kind of a neat freak and actually enjoys the process. Then she enjoys the extra few minutes with her coffee every morning while he takes care of it.

who wakes up first: Between her years in the military and her years as a mom, Penelope’s internal alarm clock is unavoidable. So she wakes up first a lot. But Schneider goes through periods of new interests and enthusiasm for life that have him out of bed before the sun, some weeks. When Pen gets up first, Schneider always follows. When Schneider gets up even earlier than her, Penelope groans into her pillow and buries herself in the blankets and refuses to rise until it’s actually morning…or until he brings her surprise breakfast in bed, which he does sometimes just for fun.

who has the weird taste in music: Schneider, though he insists Penelope is really the weird one for being so stuck in the past and unwilling to branch out into underexplored genres. Penelope tries to be supportive and listen to his new discoveries for the first few months they’re together. But between ‘zouk’ and ‘neurofunk’ and something called ‘catstep’ that she’s pretty sure has nothing to do with cats, she reaches her limit quickly. They limit music playing while they’re hanging out to things they both like, and take turns choosing what to play in the car.

who is more protective: Penelope is more loudly, aggressively protective in all situations. Schneider would never want to seem like he doesn’t think she can handle herself, when he knows full well that she could beat HIM up if she needed to…but in his own quieter, anxious way he’s as overprotective as Penelope is in her most intense moments. He’s just more likely to throw money and lawyers at a situation and try and defuse things first. (A couple of times when he wanted to keep Penelope out of it he maaaaaay have punched a racist asshole in the face and then thrown money and lawyers at the situation afterwards. He’s not proud of that but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Pen is proud of him for it and thinks he doesn’t know.)

who sings in the shower: Both of them. Schneider thinks he’s a rock star and Penelope stops teasing him about it as soon as she realizes it’s a soft spot. Penelope thinks she’s a pop diva and Schneider likes it when she wakes him up to sad 90s ballads.

who cries during movies: Penelope cries sometimes, Schneider cries almost every time. Pet movies, buddy movies, dramas, romcoms…he cries, and he doesn’t care who knows it.

who spends the most while out shopping: Schneider. And sometimes they fight about it. Eventually they work out a compromise on the money stuff, but Schneider’s not usually someone who looks at prices and does math, whereas Penelope tries to bring her own drinks to restaurants. So it’s always going to be Schneider who spends more.

who kisses more roughly: I mean, define roughly. Penelope can be more forceful, and more likely to take over–but Schneider is incredibly enthusiastic because he’s kissing PENELOPE and also when he’s half-asleep and not really thinking about it he’s less likely to be gentle…so I think it depends on the moment. 

who is more dominate: Penelope. I feel like this is a rare fandom-wide consensus among the shippers. Pen, no question, and Schneider really likes it that way.

my rating of the ship from 1-10: About a 15. This ship is so nearly canon while also being not canon at all that you will get sucked into it and not be able to climb back out. This OTP is the tol & smol trope, the hold my flower trope, the friends to lovers trope, the slow burn trope, the found family trope, etc etc. It’s almost TOO good. But only almost. :)

“For example, Joan’s rape on Mad Men, which is a show that depicts sexism but is not itself sexist. The scene was not at all titillating; it’s part of Joan’s story, but not her whole story by any measure; it illuminated aspects of the characters’ society that were otherwise unexplored; it was not primarily a way to manipulate or provoke other male characters into some kind of action; and the show neither forgot nor dwelled on the idea that Joan is a rape survivor.

“…Gilly’s assault wasn’t there to tell us anything about Gilly, it was there to tell us about Sam; Sansa’s rapes aren’t teaching us about Sansa, they’re teaching us about Ramsay, even though we already knew he was a terrifying monster person from a whole family of terrifying monster people.”

Margaret Lyons nails it exactly. Exactly. These scenes aren’t about the lives of the victims, they are only there to provoke men into heroism. Fuck that noise.