#I DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO CRY OR

[oblivions-dawn]

Anyone: I can't wait to read your writing I'm so excited!!

Me: AUUGHUUGHUKGHKUGUHUGHUUAHGAUAGUAHAH

[hadesoftheladies]

god, compiling the stuff for this video has gotten so bleak . . . how can women even live like this? i'm tired just fucking learning about it. holy fuck.

[overtake]

Lando Norris being a geography legend (and believing his nation just opted out of their continent?)

[sunshines-child]

oh hi nico how'd you get here

[sonik-kun]

Seeing Jiang Cheng antis assume things about his fans under his tag is not only just downright icky, but it is also reminiscent of the gossipers in MDZS which I find to be equally hypocritical as it is laughable

[vaguely-concerned]

I'm obsessed with purple hawke's relationship to god. that scene when you side with the mages and talk to bethany, and she's finally reached the certainty that she is as the maker made her and that it must be good, she must be good, because the maker is good. and her older sibling is just standing there hollow-eyed and haunted like 'oh. I was just thinking that god is not only indifferent to human life and suffering but actively, deliberately cruel and malicious and that all of creation is nothing more than a stage stained with an eternity of blood and grief where we act out our tragedies and tear each other apart for His entertainment. actually. but maybe you're right. who's to say'

[somegrumpynerd]

What kinda style do you think Nightmare would paint in? Like do you think he'd have something more classical? Maybe realism? old timey stuff? Or impressionism maybe, I feel like he'd enjoy painting outside

I wanna hear your thoughts on this!

Hm yes yes, I definitely have thoughts about this (<- failed their art exam and very quickly googled painting styles lol)

If I'm understanding what I've read right, I think he'd be into realism or impressionism, I can see him spending ages on lots of little details in a picture. I could definitely see him painting outside though! It's easier to just set up in a secluded area than get anyone to look normal while the king of negativity stares at them for a few hours lol

It kind of goes hand in hand with the idea that he documents aus as a hobby as well I guess, like maybe he tries to paint little scenes of certain aus that stick out to him or just to keep as reference in case anything happens to them. Maybe Horror has a little painting in his room of his snowdin to help when he gets homesick?

He definitely doesn't have several paintings hidden in a closet somewhere of his own au before the incident, with a big tall apple-filled tree and a little yellow flag around the trunk and two yellow and purple dots nearby that are probably just a mistake didn't mean to add those don't read into that

Also not that I read your tags on that post but imagine him trying to do a family portrait. First problem is none of them will sit still. Okay that's a lie Cross probably would stand completely still for hours he has royal guard training, but the others are definitely not. I give it 10 minutes at most before Killer's annoying Dust into trying to kill him, Horror probably forgets what they're doing after an hour and starts walking off and has to be called back. At the end of it all he miraculously has a painting but immediately gets hit with "hey wait this is just us!! why aren't you in it? D:" as if he was supposed to go stand behind them and paint himself somehow??

About a week after he hangs it up, he finds somebody has drawn a little cartoonish version of him and taped it onto the painting like he was in it too and he pretends it doesn't make him as happy as it does.

[mespinozart]

Writing a fanfic with the proper use of the phrase "Xie Lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry"

I'm tired of seeing people using it indiscriminately. There has to be some sort of base.

[beepborpdoodledorp]

Ingo vs Ingo brawl in the PLA Masters update or we riot

[the-ninjago-historian]

*sobs*

[someobscurereference]

ive been rereading your ffxv fic "im trying hard to take it back" for literally four years now. please end my suffering and tell me how gladio feels. please. PLEASE. (but only if u want ofc)

(fic) Short answer: Gladio feels insane guilt and spends a lot of his life trying to make this up to Prompto. In the process, they deepen their connection as friends and do begin a relationship probably around the one-year mark of endless darkness. <3

Longer answer: (implications of abuse/violence tw but no worse than in the fic itself; just what others assume to be true even if it's not in the context of this specific fic)

Gladio is a secret romantic at heart who has always envisioned meeting his soulmate, but he's also duty-bound and duty comes first. So even though he reads romance books (amongst other types of books too) and indulges in his head a bit as many people do, he's often put his duty to the crown first and foremost in his mind. He also didn't imagine his soulmate was anyone on this trip and thought perhaps the person he may have been fated to meet died in the assault of Insomnia. Even if they were a refugee, they can't be a priority to him at this moment. His priority has to be Noctis.

Prompto has obviously grown on him over the course of their road trip, but there are aspects of them that don't 100% mesh (as is true with every realistic relationship). That said, Gladio never in a hundred years would want this moment of (understandable but out of line) frustration and anger in the wake of Luna and Altissa to be a permanent mark on Prompto's face. He's genuinely horrified and disgusted with himself for a long time after this and spends most of his life trying to make it up. He feels like a dirtbag about it.

That said, Prompto runs away from him in this moment and they need time to calm down, just as the fic shows. Noctis goes after Prompto, just like in canon. Prompto falls off the train and has his Despair Arc just like in the DLC, now with the added despair of "well, in addition to being a clone, my soulmate hates me. And in addition to the mark of inhumanity on my wrist (barcode), I have a giant hand print of him literally Shoving Me Away on my face. Forever."

Aranea: Well, do you want to die about it. Or do you want to live.

Prompto, eventually like in canon: Live, I guess. But it will be excruciating.

Aranea: That's what living is. We do it anyway. Your friends love you. Get off the floor.

He fights his way through his issues and gets rescued like in canon. Gladio probably tries to talk to him when they all catch up again, trying to apologize, and Prompto tells him to hold off on that for later.

Then, of course, Noctis is eaten by the crystal and "later" becomes much, much later as they evacuate and try to survive in eternal darkness. (Though they also can't Not think about it because it's a giant hand print. On Prompto's face. And every person they meet has Something To Say about it, for better or worse, whether they knew Prompto before or not. Prompto cannot escape it, and when Gladio is not doing Crown Duties he feels he must do in Noct's absence, he's with Prompto, so he also Cannot Escape It either. Even when the person speaking is unaware that Gladio left that mark. It's almost worse when they don't know, but when they see it's Gladio, who is such a big guy who seemingly hit Prompto and left that permanent mark there, some of them get nasty to him and some back off out of fear. Both are horrible. The guilt is eating him alive.)

Eventually, enough time passes as the dust settles that they do Talk About It. Gladio apologizes sincerely, for the 500th time. Prompto's like, "Well. It's not like you could have known that this would be The One Time it happened." And then cracks a joke about their soulmate mark being a Prompto's hand print on Gladio's ass from a butt slap in another life, which does help the tension somewhat. (The more Gladio tries to apologize, the more Prompto grows sick of hearing it, so they just have to move on and keep going, as he's learned to do.)

They grow closer over time, especially because there's not a lot of people who have survived to this point and even less later on. They do get together romantically, both because they do like the idea of soulmates (for different reasons) and also because they're living out of each others pockets for years, so there's an affection and dependency that develops there. Also, teenage Prompto always thought Gladio was really handsome and teen Gladio thought Prompto was cute and sincere for a pipsqueak.

When they are out together on dates in normal settings surrounded by strangers after the light returns, Gladio will receive dirty looks for the rest of his life from strangers who see the hand print on Prompto's face and immediately (correctly) assumes it was out of anger rather than a funny accident or something. (Edit: Some people will assume there is a funny story attached. Gladio will not know what to say to this. Prompto will play along.) He will learn to live with this. Prompto is really grateful Gladio is with him despite everything.

[justslowdown]

Hard to tell, even when you've experienced both, whether you've fully integrated, accepted, and are at peace with the role an event plays in your life... and when you're incapable of working through it right now, so your brain's neatly packaged it up.

I think I've had a lot more of the former than the latter lately. To the point where the latter has been bubbling up and demanding I integrate it. That's been going well. But death coming as a surprise throws things off.

It always feels strange to talk about how gutting it is to lose a pet, when people are losing human loved ones. But Spooky, my cat, was with me through all the independent steps in my life, and helped me through things I didn't think I could do. It's going to be different without his unconditionally purring, loving, floppy sweet presence when I need to center and ground.

[lipuunpapikulupunasa]

i wanted to buy a nice lingerie set online but i just checked and they don't have my size </3 bigger boobs problems </3

[floralcrematorium]

okay okay I know I hosted that "what does the F. in Alfred F. Jones stand for?" poll months back, but I am still thinking about it...

also I know this could only really work in humanverse FACE fam content, but I really love the idea that F. stands for Francis. my favorite thing is that both Arthur and Francis got to pick one first name and one middle name (don't ask me Mattie's, I don't know what Arthur concocted to follow Matthieu). Francis naturally names Alfred after himself

but that leads me to another thing

nyotalia... same situation with Alice and Marianne. Amelia gets stuck with Frances

why? why, you ask?

I don't care if it's 1p or nyotalia, you're going to look me dead in the eyes and tell me Arthur and Francis/Alice and Marianne weren't huge fans of Princess Diana, whose middle name was Frances? try again.

[arctixout]

the quality is absolutely horrible but OH MY GOD?????????

[oksanas-sun]

first of all, she looks so so soft and gorgeous in this, omg, and second of all, it's both funny and lowkey freaky that her feelings about maternity are exactly but really exactly what oksana tumblr describes eve's feelings as in oksana fics?? like wow