#And the searching each other's eyes

[velvet-pumpkin]

"Well, uh, that was rather direct."

Just over 3 months to go after waiting forever.

Disclaimer: We are a Polin stan over here, as well as all Bridgerton book couple stans here. Happy with whatever we're getting, so any negative opinions on ships/seasons/etc. will be ignored.

[reunitedinterlude]

phil spitting on dan <3 (1, 2, 3)

[petermurphysmugshott]

Why are Ballister's eyes so big? So he can see men better??? Thats kinda gay.

[janewayintersection]

i honestly love the Big Damn Hug during the j/c reunion, because to me, a Big Damn Kiss (while delightful in its own right) requires strong romantic tension building up to it. it's usually really good for passionate goodbyes, amongst other scenarios, but to Me, that just doesn't fit the vibes of their reunion. instead of a more passionate, tense moment, it's one of sheer desperation and joy. they can't believe they finally found each other. it's been years. they sincerely can't believe it. a tight hug just feels so much more raw, idk how to explain it.

a kiss can come later - they have a lot to talk about and a lot of personal business to settle - but for now, it's just overwhelming shock and relief - it's you. i can't believe my eyes. you're in my arms. you're safe. you're home.

[seleneprince]

I have a problem

I'm falling on the rabbit hole of the batfamily, most espeficially the x reader fanfics and headcanons, and it's turning into a hyperfixation that's consuming me. I'm not even joking, i've been these two last days obsessively writing in my mind a full au of yandere!batfam x neglected!reader (yes, it's the most common and everyone has seen it already but HUSH). I hate my brain. I'm not even that deep into the dc universe, haven't been in several years. I'm team Marvel ffk

The worst part is that it's not even a deeply defined plot, like my current proyect. I just have the vibes and random scenarios and headcanons about the mc, and a bunch of cliches from all the batfam x neglected! reader put together in a mix. My arcane playlist isn't helping either. And recently I've played Watch Dogs Legion again and it's only giving me inspiration for this au.

So warning: Maybe I'll post a few things about this to get it out of my brain, because I can't be the only one suffering here. Don't worry to those who follow my other writing, I have no intention of abandoning it (not when I have already everything planned), but it's going to take slower than anticipated.

[faaun]

we sang in the aeroplane over the sea tgth ☆

[gd-dollopole]

I know we already said this, but the sexual tension in this scene is insane (“A Servant of Two Masters, 04x06”)

Honestly, every scene in BBC Merlin that involves Merthur has sexual tension in it, but gay people can’t simply kiss.

No, they have to pine, despair, stare at each other lovingly and with longing for years, and then share a firm pat on the shoulder (or a ‘thank you’).

When there has to be sexual tension between two homosexuals, one of them is always about to die.

It’s almost a rule (without the almost).

I love how well played the characters here were. You can literally see Arthur was thinking about it (oh, you know what I mean), but he is too insecure, and Merlin cares about Arthur’s insecurity. And it’s the fact that their desire always showed when they actually realised they cared about each other that makes the sexual tension even better (it’s the hurt/comfort all over again).

Another example of being desperate over one another, happens when they’re in the same caves as Agravaine, and Arthur tells Merlin not to go, and they have the audacity to eye fuck with an audience (and the future queen of Camelot behind them).

But the tension always happens when Merlin and Arthur are scared for the other.

Merlin and Arthur realise that if now is the moment one of them is going to die, none of them has ever had the courage, or rather, the good sense, to kiss the other, or caress the other, or just confess their feelings to each other, and instead of acting upon it, they regret what could have come of it.

I believe that’s why not even Merlin, the boldest of the two, too preoccupied at keeping the king alive, and therefore keeping Camelot secure, never tried anything with Arthur, who instead was too worried about the future of his kingdom to understand that what he felt towards Merlin was not brotherhood, but an urgent need to shag him.

I mean, the sudden silence, the brush of the back of Arthur’s hand on his own lips, the prolonged gaze, them holding their breaths?

I’m bloody insane over this scene, because Merlin could have stared at the hand surveying the wound, but Arthur’s fingers were just gripping his tunic, and Merlin started holding his breath in that moment, watching Arthur’s hand, because it had never been that close to his skin. Merlin stared at the fingers, grabbing the tunic, and they both knew.

Ugh, that’s literally what makes this scene so much better.

The fact that they both know they want each other, they just can’t do anything about it. (directors’ fault. I would have let them kiss on the first episode). Merlin, since he was about to die, or at least thought he was, was waiting, hoping to see if Arthur, at least then, would do something else beside checking his wound. *wink, wink*

Try to argue with me that the tension simply happened because Merlin thought Arthur realised the wound was worse than what it seemed, and to me, this is exactly the reason behind the tension between them.

These two were forbid their freedom, in their own ways.

The freedom to have a go at one another.

For God’s sake, Arthur stared at Merlin when he was putting the crown over Guinevere’s head (“If he’d been you under this crown…”). There were so many moments between Arthur and Merlin where we recognise they wanted each other in that way (biblically for Arthur, because this man has never been touched, I swear) because it was forbidden.

I’ll never get tired of examining this scene. It was made on purpose, I know it was.

Imagine if we had to make a list of these moments… Ha, Ha, Ha. *starts sweating because there are so many*

[hyunpic]

HYUNJIN: …and its like snow at the beach

[hatters-workshop]

I remember watching Doctor Who at age 13 and hearing the Doctor saying he doesn't "do domestic". I didn't quite get what it meant, but I idolised the series and I wanted to be someone who would be wanted to take on adventures. I wrote fanfiction and always tried to maintain that idea, while not getting why the doctor said "domestic" like it was a dirty word. I thought it must mean the opposite of adventures. It must mean being boring.

But then he regenerated and he had christmas dinner with Rose's mother and my heart sang to see a happy moment after the fight. I wrote stories about them sitting in the library reading books and talking, and enjoyed giving them a moment of quiet and peace. I found myself coming back again and again to the moments in between where they just existed and it was peaceful and comfortable.

Now I'm 32 and I love putting work away and coming to sit down with the woman I love and make jokes about what's on the telly. I love playing with her hair. We take care of each other. I pick up her towel and scold her for leaving it on the floor. She scolds me in return for repeatedly missing the washing basket when I launch socks and t-shirts across the room. She warms up my side of the bed if she gets in before me and tells me the alarm has gone off 3 times if I'm still not stirring. I cuddle her into me and scratch her back and tell her stories to help her fall asleep. We go on walks and she helps me count squirrels. We remind each other to take our medications, to drink enough water, get up and stretch when we've been too still for too long.

I remember how a teenage me parroted this disgust at the word "domestic" because the Doctor didn't like it.

It doesn't seem too bad to me now.

[pepprs]

one year ago today i got some of the worst news ive ever gotten in my life so far. i am so lucky because the news wasn’t as bad as it could have been and also on the scale of things you could get bad news about it’s basically nothing like it’s not even a big deal compared to other things ive experienced let alone other ppl. but it was fucking horrible. it came out of nowhere. it defined the last year and it changed my whole life. there’s no point to making this post there’s no point in acknowledging it with other people around bc quite literally not a single person on this planet cares / is still hurt by it to the degree i am and im not saying that bitterly it’s simply a thing that is true of the situation. but i feel the need to acknowledge it on here not for anyone to sympathize or whatever but bc ive been documenting all the fallout of it on here / vaguing abt it multiple times a week for 52 weeks lol and i want this to be part of the record. but it’s like. damn. it’s been a year since it happened. but more importantly i SURVIVED this year. i survived. im still here. and even though im still wounded from it and can’t see all the good that came from it right now (though i am definitely aware of a lot of good that has come from it!) i am growing and changing. i might never fully heal from it (though maybe i will!) but one day this will not hurt as bad as it does. i am going to try to hold on to that.

[demigodofhoolemere]

To the guy on Facebook trying to insist to me that this woman named Jackie Lane is the same woman as the Doctor Who actress Jackie Lane…

… dude.

[whatkindofnameisella]

waiting for a hardshine moment in the kissing booth scene in ep 75 only for it to never come......................

[vixlenxe]

Here's the ship tag masterpost that I actually need to keep track of these, so please don't mind the @ spam!

『Fell for these Ocean Eyes ❤️ TiffaniexAkihito』 @thelazyeditor

『Been through Four Thousand Lifetimes; Searching for a pair of Ocean Eyes ❤️ TiffaniexDurante』 @diegesis-x-dolonia

『Standing tall in the Dark; We carry on Together ❤️ TiffaniexTobias』 @bloodylariat

『Bleed and Cried for a Missed Life on Each Other’s Shoulders ❤️ TiffaniexAuryn』 @tetsuwan-atom

『I don’t need a Monster; I only need You ❤️ VioletxNera』 @frznkingdom

『You are my Sanity in my Mind most Mad ❤️ VioletxHermes』 @strykingback

『I’m being Dragged down into Hell and you Jumped in to be with Me ❤️ VioletxTheo』 @diegesis-x-dolonia

『Out of Hell and into Heaven ❤️ VioletxOni』 @tetsuwan-atom

『Where the Moon goes; the Sapphire Star follows ❤️ MaxiexBowen/Madman』 @tetsuwan-atom

『The Pain of the Past fades with You ❤️ ElixMadman』 @tetsuwan-atom

『I'm Supposed to be your Ender; yet still You are my Savior ❤️ VioletxBowen』 @tetsuwan-atom

『The Universe’s Strongest Power Couple ❤️ VioletxAccelerator』 Legacy tag

『The World gave you Pain; I gave you Heaven ❤️ Goddess!VioletxBad Future!Leon』 @fctedivided

『You’re everything I Hate; yet my Heart holds only Love for You ❤️ VioletxEdward』 Self tag

『Survived on Spite; Lives for Love ❤️ VioletxXaos』 @prettyboywarrior

『I’ll teach you to make Room for Darkness in your Heart ❤️ TiffaniexRokuro』 @tetsuwan-atom

『Two Terrible Troublemakers ❤️ IvyxAuryn』 @tetsuwan-atom

『Your Heart; Your Soul; That’s What I Adore ❤️ RusexSakura』 @akumanoken

『You Lived and Died with my Heart in your Hands ❤️ IvyxHaurchefant』 @diegesis-x-dolonia

『A far reach from Home; but I feel I belong with you ❤️ ZenxYiska』 @diegesis-x-dolonia

『Beauty lies in the Eye of the Beholder; and you’re my Goddess ❤️ IvyxYua』 @petiteamores

『A Hero’s Love… Higeki o Motarashita ❤️ IvyxRayos』 @prettyboywarrior

『The Dahlia's home in the Fern's Heart ❤️ TiffaniexG'raha』 @s1lxcs

[guitarnacle]

I've seen rocky horror so many times and somehow only just noticed Tim curry and Richard O'Brien at the wedding at the beginning??

[yujateaandpi]

Hi guys! Yujatea here! If you enjoy my work, I’d like to please ask for a moment of your time to consider helping this family I’m supporting! Shaima is a mother of four children, Abdul Rahim, Walid, Majdi, and baby Amal. Shaima is struggling to support her children since her husband disappeared, and needs urgent help with providing food and resources for them, especially as winter sweeps through Gaza! This family’s fundraising campaign (@familgazaamal1) is completely vetted and I’m trying to use my platforms to raise awareness on their behalf. I’ll be opening my commissions to raise funds for their campaign so keep your eyes peeled! I’ll also post their fundraiser link in my highlights as well! Thanks guys! Let’s do our part to reclaim kindness and uplift each other!

Here's a message from the family:

In Gaza, where conflict looms over daily life, children’s dreams remain a ray of hope. Abdul Rahim, a young boy, dreams of becoming a famous artist, using his drawings to tell the world about the beauty of his homeland. Walid, on the other hand, dreams of playing football in a big stadium, representing his country despite the obstacles around him. Majdi, a cat lover, dreams of becoming a kind person and helping children. Majdi, who dreams of opening an animal shelter to care for animals in Gaza. Even in the midst of war, these children cling to their dreams, believing that one day, despite the difficulties, they will achieve their goals. Their dreams are not only about personal success, but also about shedding light on a world filled with darkness. These dreams symbolize the resilience of Gaza’s children, showing that hope and determination can survive even the most difficult circumstances.

In the heart of the ongoing war, Shaima lives with her four children, constantly struggling with pain and waiting. Her husband, who was once the source of security and happiness, left a long time ago, facing the challenges of war far from them. Every day, Shaima makes earnest efforts to keep life going despite the hardships. She strives to provide food and shelter while trying to instill hope in the hearts of her children, who are still waiting for their father’s return, a father they know little about other than his absence. Her four children, despite their young age, carry great hopes in their hearts. The eldest, who everyone sees as the "little father," dreams of their father returning to embrace them as he did in the past. The youngest, on the other hand, wakes up at night searching for his father's voice, wishing for his return to feel safe again. Shaima's dream is every mother’s dream in this war: for her husband to return safely so they can live together again in peace and security. She dreams of the days when her husband filled their home with joy, and she prays for the end of the war so their family can reunite once more. Yet, amid the destruction and tears, hope remains their strength. Shaima knows that her patience and resilience are what keep the family going. Despite the difficult days, she continues to resist, dreaming of the moment when her family will be whole again, with her husband and the father of her children back home.

[a-sip-of-milo]

Hey, you are not an embarrassment for not knowing how to do certain household chores/basic self-care. They do not come naturally to us. A lot of it takes practice! Maybe you had a neglectful guardian. Maybe you had one that was very coddling and never thought to teach you. Maybe you haven't lived in a place where these things were available to you or needed. Doesn't matter. It's okay to not know and far more common than you might realise.

That said, this website provides very simple instructions on how to do everyday tasks such as making your bed, using a washing machine, cooking different foods, washing dishes, taking a shower, etc. All you have to do is use the search bar to find the task you're struggling with, and it'll come up with what you need + other related how-to's:)

If you're having trouble navigating it, let me provide you with some examples:

How to clean dishes by hand

How to make your bed (with visual demonstrations of each step!)

How to fold clothes (with visual demonstrations of each step!)

How to take a shower & dry yourself off (also provides ways to shave beards, armpits, legs and genitals)

How to shave legs, armpits, beards, pubic areas, etc. (a more in-depth guide)

How to mop the floor

How to sweep the floor

How to swallow pills

How to make small talk

How to make eye contact in different situations (or how to avoid it while still looking natural)

It's also perfectly okay if these don't help or aren't appealing to you. Unfortunately, nothing helps everyone.