#I AM LITERALLY GNAWING AT THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE

[kelin-is-writing]

I might look calm, but my mind is STILL HERE!

[bucksslut]

Sebastian Stan | British GQ

[xxylan]

I let out the most ungodly noise what the freak

[sashisuse]

hm… thinking about childhood best friend!suguru…

you saw him for the first time when you moved away from the city after the unfortunate passing of your parents. your grandmother stuffed you into her car and drove off, taking you to a little town where doves were stuffed into cages so that they may never spread their wings. you are sad and lonely on the day you move in, and right away, you spot a gloomy looking boy your age watching you from the window of your neighbor’s house. despite everything, you smiled and waved at the boy next door. he seemed surprised at first, but he smiled and waved back.

(you don't think you would ever regret smiling at him, no matter where you would wind up twenty years from then.)

you properly meet him only a few days later, when you are looking for a quiet place to sit outside of the house. he is there, too, and you approach him with the same smile you offered him days prior. you introduce yourself to him and ask him for his name.

“geto suguru,” he told you. suguru stared at you for a moment after that, observing you silently. you would come to learn he often did that. “would you like some tea?”

(you don’t think you’ll ever regret accepting his invitation, either.)

in that miserable town filled with miserable people, you and suguru just clicked and stuck together. you two were practically conjoined at the hip, despite the fact that suguru had a reputation for being so strange. you never minded or understood where that came from. you heard from your grandmother, who spoke with suguru’s mother from time to time, that he was just a strange boy. that he made stories up and blamed things on ghosts. that he was unfairly gloomy and difficult to raise. you never understood why people were so mean to him. he was quiet and polite, the best friend you had ever had. you followed him everywhere, and that made you a bit strange, too. but there wasn't a single thing anyone in the world could say that would make you not want to follow suguru around. you would follow him to the end’s of the earth if he asked. he was your best friend, after all, and you were his.

you both could talk for hours and hours about anything and everything. books, movies, tv shows, games, school... you laughed together and played together and that was the way it was. the way it was always supposed to be. you and suguru. suguru and you.

you remember the day everything changed oh, so clearly. the cold weather nipped at your nose while the air felt dry and cold in your lungs. you were trailing a bit behind suguru as you both ventured home from school. he was looking off at something in the forest but quickly diverted his attention away. the action did not go unnoticed and your eyes moved to the forest as well, trying to see what suddenly made his expression sour.

your feet stopped moving the second your eyes laid upon the thing in the woods. it stood out amongst the gray and brown of the cold trees — that strange, ugly beast. it twisted and curved in what should have been an impossible way with seven eyes, each of them oozing some green liquid.

"suguru?"

your fearful cry of his name caught him off guard as you reached forward, grabbing at the sleeve of his sweater. he looked at you in concern. you looked like you want to cry and he hated it. he hated that you looked so fearful, that you sounded so fearful. he wanted nothing more than to make it better, than to fix the problem that he wasn’t even aware of yet.

"what is that thing?" you asked with a quiet whimper.

suguru almost didn’t believe it at first. up until that very moment, he had lived his life hearing that something was wrong with him. something was wrong with him, because he saw things no one else could see. monsters, ghosts, creatures — whatever word you wanted to use. he saw them. his parents never understood. they seemed more disturbed by the fact that suguru never grew out of it, rather than the words he was saying. instead he kept it to himself. he learned to lie about it, so his parents stopped looking at him with such disdain. and at some point, maybe he began to lie to himself. maybe he began to believe that he was driving himself crazy. that he really was just seeing things.

but in that moment? in that moment, when you, his best friend, the one person in the world who had never once looked at him like he was strange or treated him as such, were seeing it, too?

you saw it. you saw it, too. you saw the monster. he’s not crazy.

he was not a liar.

and then, none of it really mattered. not when he snapped back to reality and realized just how scared you were. he couldn’t have that. he couldn’t let that happen. what kind of best friend would he be if he let you hurt like this? you saw them, too, which meant they wouldn't leave you alone like they did most people. they never left suguru alone once they realized he was watching them. so, he decided. he decided that from then on out, suguru would be your protector. because he may be young and he may not fully understand the concept of love, but suguru geto understands that he loves you. he loves you so much that he cannot bear to see you hurting. he loves you enough to decide he will bear it for you, and if he cannot take it all away from you, then he will still be right by your side to bear as much as you will let him.

by the time you are both teenagers, you have both become acutely aware of the things you could each do. magic or perhaps superpowers. you both had your theories, but you couldn’t think of any superhero that had to eat monsters and get sick from the taste of it. you would hold suguru’s hair back as the contents of his last meal threatened to come back up after he had to eat one of those things. suguru would hold you up as your vision blurred and darkened, as your body grew tired from the strange abilities you had. but you did these things to protect one another.

to take care of one another.

[princessg3rard]

FRAY CHEMISTRY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND <333

[stormtopia]

me when i open the gyomei x reader tag for hcs and they just dumb him down by saying “he doesn’t actually blah blah bc he’s blind…”

[diino8081]

ohhhh chat i saw a fanfic the other day and was like "oh yeah that's cool" and added it to reading list

i didn't realise it at the time bro

BUT THEN I DID

IT'S A FUCKING

IT'S A FIC WHERE POSSESSION

BUT NOT LLOYD MORRO

ZANE ECHO

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ABNORMAL

ME CREATURE

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[razsberrie]

HES DOING THIS TO ME ON OURPOSE THIS IS AN ATTACK

[mappingthesky]

oh and happy lesbian day in particular to my WIFE… the one and only tumblr user and ao3 phenomenon headgleeksana. the world is better because u are in it. we r unworthy of ur words and general loveliness. there is no one kinder and sweeter and more talented than u…. am gay for u if u couldn’t tell :3

[anxietybumblebee]

Other than the obvious overlap in monsters, I replayed the switch version of Link's Awakening recently and saw like. An uncanny amount of similarities between it and EoW. It's a given, seeing as they're both in the same toon Link style on the same device, but it makes you wonder why there are virtually no differences - other than, from what I've seen, pretty much just some monster names and colours (plus more recent additions to the loz universe, like lynels).

A LOT OF TEXT + ECHOES OF WISDOM/LINK'S AWAKENING SPOILERS BENEATH THE BREAK VVV

From the entrance to the final boss (LA left + EoW right)

To the dark monsters + the nightmare in LA (left + right respectively)

Not even mentioning the fact that it's the same Ganon (well, the nightmare version in LA, but the same guy as that Link has faced before) (LA + LBW on the left/top depending on your screen, EoW on the right/bottom)

The map styles aren't identical, but the mechanics + appearances are similar enough that I thought they were worth a mention, too!! (EoW on the left, LA on the right)

The similarities between Null/the rifts and the nightmares has me wondering if there was a deeper reason behind the similarities than simply being able to reuse models; we all know Nintendo isn't one to skimp on the graphics for new Zelda games (see breath of the wild + tears of the kingdom).

I had a couple of theories on this:

The first being that Echoes of Wisdom is a more drawn out dream, which I think is a more obvious conclusion. It could come about in a few different ways, though; either Tri and the golden goddesses are working to keep the dream going (fixing the rifts) and the people returned from the rifts have awoken, leaving only the no longer sentient bodies behind, or Null and the dark monsters are the nightmares, attempting to render the dream fully un-endable by turning it into void; with no instruments to play and no bosses to beat, the dream can't be ended. It's something of a pyrrhic victory for the nightmares, who honestly seemed to like having Koholint around, if just to torture its inhabitants.

The second being that Echoes of Wisdom takes place in the Hyrule where Koholint truly existed (or somewhere else that the Windfish has influence), somewhere out in the sea beyond our map, and the rifts are damage caused as the Windfish pulls more and more people into its slumber. It reaches across worlds, and sometimes people's bodies and souls end up back in the wrong spots (hence Marin's turning into a seagull in the true ending, and the people returning from the rifts completely lifeless, or missing things). In this case, the rifts would be the effects of the Windfish's slumber ripping the land apart (perhaps by the nightmare's influence as they want more and more in their domain, beyond the simple island of Koholint). Maybe Null is simply the main nightmare you fight at the end, trying to have an entire world as part of the dream, trying to stop everything from just looping like it seemed to on Koholint.

I'm having quite a few thoughts about this if you couldn't tell. I may be insane.

[alvojake]

it's safe to say im losing my mind pretty promptly.... I have been watching edits and clips of this all DAMN DAY 🤧😮‍💨

this man is so fucking fine and HIS ARMS??????? I JUST WANNA BITE. LIKE GEMME A NIBBLE. PLEASE. I BEG.

[yourchemicallyimbalancedromance]

Guys i am so so so very normal about american rock band my chemical romance

*watches Life On The Murder Scene again for the 10000000th time for like the fifth day in a row*

[steakout-05]

fun fact: Halfbrick as a company has been around since at least 2001, and they have some archives of their old website from that year as well! it holds some very obscure and interesting information about the company's history, including some lost media. some of their earliest known games that were made independently of other companies, such as Defiant, Farma Llamma and Turbelence, were either cancelled, seemingly never went past the drawing board or are lost.

something i find very amusing about this site is this blog post from the 22nd of March 2001, where they remark that the orange colour from their site has been banished. this implies that there is a much older version of the website that was coated in orange rather than this dark blue and silver, but that has since been lost to time. imagining a universe where Halfbrick never used their iconic orange colour is really weird...

(here is a link to the archive on the Wayback Machine.)

[mothpawbs]

fuckign.. gnawing at the bars of my enclosure listening to sleep token and thinking about billford. why am i stuck at WORKKkkkkk

[buckdefencesquad]

I am SOOOO bored at work someone please please please please please please save me from this suffering!!!!!!

[doyouknowwhoyouare13]

ABSOLUTELY NO BETTER THAN A MAN