#( it's from June I forgot to post this

[hedgerlogs]

what do you think they talked about on that 5 hour car ride

[grriib]

Sketchbook pages

[lanabenikosdoormat]

I need to put yall on the Calamity Frost twitch streamer arc that takes place between 3 and 4. It’s canon and crucial to the lore, to me

Mavis @spacestationmicrowave is a genius and should be given a million forehead kisses

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[latinokaeya]

rr is so bad with timelines and ages literally would hazel not be 14 already by the time of son of neptune. am i the crazy one here

[acquiescest]

irt the lrb what would you say if i said liam & noel spent new years 2023 together in paris

what would you say if i said liam bought the house in france (the one with noel's name carved into the walls) in march 2023 and that month noel talked about wanting to spend several months in paris

which could mean nothing

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

Wow. Gabriel really hates his future daughter-in-law

[front-facing-pokemon]

[entitybear]

recent chibis ive drawnnn 👍

[beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep]

happy birthday to the one character i know the birthday of, cyno from genshin impact. its also my birthday btw he stole it.

[skips-corner]

🚬 late night glam shot 🌃

[luckiestplartt]

guess who finished the ace attorney trilogy!

[rosemirmir]

Watching through OOO again to show it to some friends irl has made me appreciate Eiji more than I did before. Which was already a lot! He is still my favorite main rider for many reasons.

I've been thinking about the scene with the unicorn yummy going after Eiji, and his dream being so big that it couldn't handle it…

Especially since Eiji talked about how he wants to nurture his dream slowly in the same episode. It's just so good at showing how Eiji simultaneously has no desire but also immense desire within him at the same time.

Eiji desires nothing, yet also he desires to help others, and to have the power to help others more than anything else. Meeting Ankh made him realize this desire of his.

But in the mix of all of this he also carelessly throws away his life because of his lack of desire inside. (It's really hard for me to articulate it, so hopefully that made sense.)

Seeing this show again I can see both the lack of desire inside of him, that his trauma locked deep into the deepest recesses of himself, making him a prime vessel for the purple medals.

But also the hints of the fact that his desires are still very much there. But they are locked away deep, deep within him. His trauma seriously severed the connection he once had with his desires.

Which I can say with some experience without getting into detail, yeah, trauma can do that to a person. It makes Eiji feel especially real as a character to me in that regard. That's something that really impresses me about how he's written, the trauma he is grappling and how it affects him feels so real.

Eiji is just SUCH a good character. Man I love him so much. He speaks to me in a way that just, hits incredibly close to home and I love his arc and how he comes to cherish his own life more by the end.

Beginning the path to healing after everything he has dealt with, and learning how it is okay for him to want things again, how he can be allowed to want and desire things once again after it being sealed away for so long.

I love revisiting a piece of media and enjoying even more things about it, and seeing new things with a new lens and my appreciation deepening further. It's good.

[thethingything]

ended up clearing a bunch of stuff off the bed to make it easier to sort stuff out later and I think I feel worse now because our room looks different in a way that for some reason is triggering flashbacks to stuff from years ago and I don't know why

[francesderwent]

him: the thing I would recommend for you is All Creatures Great and Small. I think you’d really like that. James Herriot is great.

me: yeah, my college suitemate really likes it and has been trying to get me to read it for years. The only thing stopping me is like, he’s a country vet, but…what happens? if he was a country vet who solved murders I’d be there.

him: …you psycho, it’s nonfiction!! 😂😂😂

me: 😑……right. I forgot

[lucalicatteart]

Poll adventure (paventure? lol) Day 16: read the small story tidbit below the poll for more details, OR just vote based on initial impression

(✦ see past poll results + further information HERE (link) ✦)

Yesterday's poll decided that The Adventurer should offer to help the travelers with their broken wagon.....

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After much internal deliberation (and some zoning out staring at butterflies), The Adventurer decides it would be best to offer his assistance. Technically, he IS still following his goal of not getting distracted, because theoretically it would make his journey much faster if he were able to catch a ride on a carriage. So really, this is all an ultimate big brain genius strategy for maximizing efficient travel.. Or, at least that sounds like a good enough justification to him.

Gathering up all of his social courage, he approaches one of the travelers fiddling with a broken wheel near the far end of the carriage and meekly asks if there's anything he could do to help.

The man was so focused on his task, he seems initially startled to look up and find someone near him. "OH..! Oh, uhh.. help? With the wagon?", he smiles pleasantly, gesturing towards a few wooden boards that are just out of his reach, "Sure, kid. If you could just hand me th-"

"Apologies, but we actually won't be needing your assistance, stranger." A taller man, surprisingly almost matching the stature of the Adventurer, suddenly slinks out from somewhere behind the carriage, sternly placing himself like a barrier in front of the man working on the wheel. Wheel Guy nervously averts his eyes, making himself smaller, silently resuming his work.

The Adventurer tries his best to maintain composure against the weight of the tall man's bitter gaze, but can't seem to muster much of a response "Aeughh,,, uh… b-but, h- Bu--HHHh,,?.."

"Look, disregard whatever my father told you, he's old, never has any clue what he's talking about. It'd be best for you to simply move along." ('Father'? They don't look alike at all, and seem to be nearly the same age..)

"W-well.. he.. he didn't really tell me anything, I me-hhH,,.. I mean, I literally just got here, s-so...."

"Good. Even more reason to be on your way."

Placing a gloved hand firmly on his shoulder, the tall man begins to motion the Adventurer away from the wagon, but a strange noise interrupts, echoing from inside. Perhaps some sort of animal sound? Or a person faintly yelling about something? Or… both?

"WH-wHggg… whAT was t-that???!!" The Adventurer immediately stops in place, pausing to listen as the tall man keeps trying to push him ahead.

"I didn't hear anything, stranger."

"No, t-there.. was dEFinitely, UHH, a-"

"Likely something in the forest."

"Wh--aah... d.. do you think it was an animal?"

The tall man continues a dramatic struggle to 'subtly' drag him further down the road, whilst the Adventurer mindlessly digs in his heels, too distracted to even notice he's being so strongly prompted to leave.

"Many animals do, indeed, exist within forests. This should not be suprising."

"...It's just.. ..eughh… s… so weird…"

"I assure you, it is not."

"I-it really sounded like.. like it came f-from insid-"

"Yes, from inside the forest. Now, please, if you would.."

The noise interrupts again. It's definitely someone, or something, in some sort of distress.. And definitely from inside of the cart.

"wHoAAGH, aa!!! T-tHat's NOT from the f-forest, that-"

The tall man fully just shoves him now, sending the Adventurer toppling across the dirt, clumsily rolling and landing just past the other side of the carriage. A mother and young child who seem to be part of the traveling group simply stare down at him with empty blank gazes, wholly unconcerned about helping him up.

As the Adventurer fumbles back to his feet (still confused as to why he was even pushed in the first place), the tall man looms by the carriage, diligently watching to ensure that he leaves.

"Travel safe, stranger."

Despite his initial obliviousness, the Adventurer begins to piece the situation together as he stares back at the man, now fully convinced something suspicious might be going on...

…What should he do next??

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Additional Information

the adventurer's current main quest: follow his map to reach the abandoned castle ruins and see the rare animal specialist about the mysterious egg he has