This piece of paper will bring us together again!

The Magician's Apprentice // Boom

# marital bliss

2.08 | 3.01

The Moon and the President's Wife // BOOM

Bonus:

lucy + comforting tim

#ear (+ sometimes neck) kisses my beloved

phil: definitely still experiencing my 343 years of bad luck (2024 // 2015)

The promise.

The faith in that promise.

1. i'll give you the sun, jandy nelson/2. the bear (2022)/3. right now, gracie abrams/4. The haunting of hill house (2018)/5. I don't love anyone, belle and sebastian/6. rabbi joseph telushkin, jewish literacy/7. sucession (2023)/8. electra, sophocles/9. the bear (2018/10. sisters, holly warbutton & to my younger self, britton.

We are, all of us, stardust, held together by love for an instant.

Trigun Maximum vol. II ch. 4 + vol. VII ch. 2

HEY NIGHTOW TURN ON YOUR LOCATION I JUST WANNA TALK

You've gotta wonder what kind of person Manny Noceda was; He's one of two people who informed so much of Luz's character, her grief and posthumous relationship with her father is reflective of the creator's own experiences, it's foundational to the story itself in how Luz chooses to honor her parent and keep his memory alive as she learns to keep living for herself, too.

I already wrote a fic briefly exploring on that, but let's talk about it more: Obviously it's not always so clear-cut between parents and children in real life, but I guess you could see Luz as the culmination of Camila and Manny. So one could use this as a means to work backwards with Manny, to see what parts of Luz she didn't get from Camila, but from her father.

I imagine Manny as someone very confident, brash; He doesn't back down from a challenge. But I also think a part of him doesn't want to be seen as weak, less capable, conceding to others. Manny isn't going to let other people bully him around and he doesn't want Luz or Camila to be hurt that way either. If Camila passed down her fear to Luz, Manny passed down his thoughtlessness; So he might have that same headstrong tendency to sweep others along in his need to prove himself, and in his well-meaning need to help them prove themselves.

Did it ever frustrate Camila, who would sometimes be more worried about just surviving by fitting in? Maybe they both balanced each other out, just as Luz balances out these different, seemingly paradoxical parts of herself. Did he not want to appear weak like Luz, particularly with the context of his illness? Did Manny try and hide that, prioritize his loved ones, just as Luz later did, maybe even internalized from him?

I can't imagine how scared he was, slowly dying; Particularly when it comes to his wife and daughter. He's going to leave them behind. He wants them to be safe so badly. He wants to see Luz grow up and become the person she wants to be. He wants his family to know that it's okay to be themselves, that they're everything. But Manny isn't sure if he's getting it across in the right words, if he's saying it properly. He needs to make the most of his time.

I can see Manny as someone loud, energetic. Eccentric. Luz gets her odder mannerisms from him, he's brimming with this earnest, delightful energy that's so hard not to like. Did he immigrate to the U.S., or was he the child of immigrants? Grandchild, even? Did he and Camila resonate together over their ancestry as another reason for feeling alienated from the majority, where they were? How did they feel about their own families, did they also worry about having to choose between two worlds? Did Manny fight tooth and nail to survive, because us weirdoes have to stick together?

Did Manny have anyone else to tell him to stick up for himself, or did he have to figure it out himself? Was Camila one of those people who helped, and vice-versa, did they both reassure one another? And when Manny was gone, Camila just didn't have the heart and confidence to keep saying that to herself. Was Manny still scared for his wife and daughter when he died, or did he dare hope in his final moments, just as he always dared to live as himself in life? I wish Manny could’ve gotten to see how his loved ones would thrive, and all of the people they’d meet and befriend.

Burning Desire - The Magnus Archives / Burning Low - Adventure Time / Sun - @hurgleart

cassie and cas, cassie and cas, cassie and cas, first love last love bookends. spinning them around in my mind. literally his first and last love nearly having the same name. the coincidence of it all. the symbolism. the contrast. his first love that sparked quick, burned bright and fast. lasted only a few weeks but is no less significant. in those few weeks with cassie he felt he could build a whole life with her. VS the literal slow burn building of dean and cas' relationship over the years. dean's attraction to cas maybe sparking fast but the slow build from allies to best friends to seeing cas as essentially his life partner. two loves so different but still so so significant to dean, his first and his last. his cassie and cas. literal bookends. i'm emotional abt it.

2x12 || 6x09