#I almost kept it going

[chloesimaginationthings]

I love Michael Afton's story in FNAF..

[inkskinned]

sure i find you in my hair and under my pillow and in the car. but i know in my heart you are picking me out of your teeth. i know i am burning through your sundays, sticking to your ceiling.

i hope i'm in every bitter cup of coffee and every candle wick and every bath. i hope my shadow flickers under your door so the empty hallway i have left behind is a swift dart of nothing more. i hope you find me in notebooks and stop signs and fleetwood mac - like i am marginalia on your life, i want my fingerprints burned into your days like acid.

i loved you, and you know i loved you, and for the rest of your life i will be the person you broke. for the rest of your life i hope the shame of that runs like a cattle dog, bites at your heels. i hope every time your cup is full or the moon is a toenail or a cat is purring or a laugh is in your belly or the sky turns pink while the sun is setting - i hope you remember that someone loved you, and you crushed them in your palms. you extinguished every future i lit. i hope that haunts you.

i hope you never fucking forget it.

[dreamerdagn]

my tears of the kingdom experience so far

[corpsentry]

pick your battles

[bigfatbreak]

Does Chloe tone down her direct bullying/harassment of Marinette after that day to just the dead mom jokes out of guilt, or is it more that Marinette now being homeschooled means Chloe just lost access? Also, does Lila try the whole lying/sabotaging thing on Marinette and just fail or does Marinette just not care?

Lila has no reason to sabotage Marinette because Marinette isn't threatening her little empire she wants to build. In fact, she really wants Marinette on her side BECAUSE she's not apart of the school, so she doesn't need to keep up an elaborate web of lies! She can just try to befriend a talented girl who makes AMAZING food and try to get freebies~

meanwhile, with Chloe, things got really complicated after the pool incident...

Tom was not in the mood to put up with this crap.

[hvneymelons]

For Dante, maintaining close friendships - and fruitful ones at that - meant the world. There was a large portion of him that wished he could simply love them all equally and distribute himself so that they could each hold a piece of him. It was hard being out in the world of music, something that he hadn’t put much thought behind until he was back at home. Life on the road was ever changing, and fast evolving, meanwhile here everything felt as though it stopped. Time moved slower and yet so fast all at once. It was disorienting for someone like him. It probably also didn’t help in the matter that he returned.  More often than not coming back home was like a guessing game. Who’s still around? Who’s moved on with life? Who’s having kids? Who’s this, and who’s that. The questions were never ending, and then there was trying to figure out who he was to them after. If they had been friends upon his leaving, did coming back maintain that friendship? Did they somehow become acquaintances now, and were the inside jokes still intact? To him, walking out of Blue Harbor encapsulated the town in a small bubble and froze it in time. Yes, life went on, but unless he kept in contact with everyone he knew then they were just frozen until his return. Dante hated the alienness of it all.  “No.” he said, surprising himself even, “I don’t know.” Dante hadn’t really thought about being on the road for a while since coming back home. Making music, always, but physically going away once more he didn’t know if he had it in him. If that was a life that he still yearned for. He had everything that he needed at home; His grandpa, his pretty girl even as they weren’t speaking to each other much, his closest of friends. Music would always be a part of him, but he didn’t need to be traveling all over in order to do what he loved. It’s something that his grandma had always said to him growing up but he never fully understood until now that she was gone. The thought was depressing when he put it that way, because if he had listened to her, he could have spent her last years at home with her. Her last moments even.  Dante shifted over, laying his head near Ruairi as he aired his thoughts. “I keep wanting to do something, but I don’t know if it sounds crazy.” He went on to explain how over the last few months he had been meeting with different industry affiliates and setting up meetings for his own research. Opening up an indie record label based out of Blue Harbor to further aid the exposure of local artists not just in the town but neighboring cities as well. He’d set up shows and help in producing and writing music as well as partnering with the likes of MOREMUSIC Studios. He had an entire plan throughout, just waiting to be put in motion. “A little ambitious, huh?” he asked, glancing sheepishly at his friend.

"I'm the sore loser?" Ruairi sputtered, laughing as he slung an arm across Dante's shoulders and pulled the other man into a half-hearted headlock and several obnoxious kisses pressed into his hair for a handful of seconds before he nudged him away and allowed Dante to right himself at his own pace. It was easy―whatever was between them was firmly rooted in a solid friendship and Ruairi relied on that fact to comfort himself when he wondered how their relationship might shift as he got serious about other people. He imagined it wouldn't change much but he'd never looked at his relationship with Dante―with their flirting and teasing and general level of physical affection―to mean more than the fact that he loved the other man deeply in a way that worked perfectly well for them. He'd have said the same about all of the close relationships he had in his life―whatever an individual dynamic might've been, it was unique and special to him and he was reluctant to let anything change it.

"I don't think that's weird," he said with a shrug, shifting so he could look at Dante without having to crane his neck at an odd angle. He found himself smiling as he listened to the other man speak―allowed the comment to settle between them for a few beats before he nodded, "I reckon it was always gonna feel a bit different once you settled down here, love. You were gone a while and y'know― the more things change, the more they stay the same and all that. D'you miss it? Bein' out on the road and stuff?" He asked, tilting his head so he could look at his friend curiously.

He hadn't been the most adventurous person in the world to begin with but when Fionn was born, Ruairi hadn't spared a second thought to losing out on traveling or doing anything at all that wasn't throwing himself into being a proper father to his son. He imagined they'd be able to travel together a bit more now and Fionn was happy and Ruairi wasn't in a hurry to tour the world if it meant leaving his son behind for any reason. It wasn't where he'd imagined he'd be in his life but he'd not have changed it for anything. If anything, it made him appreciate his friends that much more―all of their varied experiences and points of view and everything else―it was just another thing to love about them; another thing to love about Dante.

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Bedhead 🐮👅

[dandeleon]

it mcgucket monday (da WHOLE family here‼️)

[detectiveposting]

my stages of watching columbo

1: hahah hes just a silly detective ;)

2: columbo is actually a cunning manipulative liar that hides his true persona behind the facade of a slow and clumsy middle class detective

3: hahah hes just a silly detective ;)

[daily-odile]

1,,,, 100 days,,,,,,,,, and 800 followers,,,,,,,,,,,,,

From the bottom of my heart, thank you everyone.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cloud-ya]

my reaction to sonic 3 post credit scene but as shadow because I had my very cool shadow hoodie on lol

[townslore]

ohhhh. Ouuhhh. learning how to draw and stylize them is so much fuckjng FUN,

(pro/ship dni)

[kingprinceleo]

just kinda a thing i wanted to say since ik i have younger artists following me (its applicable to everyone really, but very important to form care habits as early as possible) i read about others artists experiencing pain from overworking and i always thought to myself, i wouldnt let that happen to me, im real young, i still have time before i have to worry about really damaging my body

but your body really doesnt care, if you push yourself, if you ignore the pain, its going to fuck you up. maybe for the rest of your life please god take care of yourself when you draw, write, game, literally anything. stretch your wrists, fingers, dont keep your elbow in a locked a position for too long, especially dont lean on your elbows. get up around every 45 minutes, drink water, eat food, use the bathroom, stretch your whole body and your hands again. walk outside and let your eyes readjust your body is trying to communicate with you for a reason when you start hurting, please listen to it, be kind to yourself, you deserve it

[gigglesandfreckles-hp]

okay so full transparency: i've never really read much fic. i don't have a ton of free time set aside for creative/recreational purposes and the time i do have, i use to write because that just fills me up a lot more. however, i made a commitment to consume more fan-created work in 2024 and i succeeded in that!!! there were still periods where i wasn't able to read much, which has lead to an ever-growing tbr, but i wanted to take a moment at the beginning of this new year to share a hodge-podge of some (completed) fics that wow'ed me this year. a great deal of these are several years old and likely 'old news,' but i got to experience their magic for the first time in 2024 and want to spend some time showing them some love!!! in no particular order:

in losing grip by @keep--driving - 2024 was the year of me learning to love a good second chances au. this fic has all the trope-y goodness you could ever want, along with toe-curling kiss scenes, the perfect kind of humour that makes you squeal into your pillow or porridge or wherever you find yourself, and characters that you just love and root for so easily. i especially loved her take on james and lily's mums and the ways they navigate the world with and beside their children. i read a large chunk of this fic on my kindle as i pushed a stroller this autumn and i will forever associate it with peace and calmness. i'll be re-reading it soon!!!

i love you (ain't that the worst thing you ever heard) by lizardcookie - enter: the other trope i fell in love with in 2024—failed friends with benefits. the way this fic deals with grief in such a poignant, devastating, incredible way had my jaw on the floor. yes there is sexy jily, but there is also giggly jily and insecure jily and scared jily and earnest jily and oh mannnn this is the good ish. the small detail of lily coming around to sirius and james both through her help with the flying motorbike. i love the minute breakdown of lily's thick walls until they come tumbling down and james is right there, waiting, as he always is, patient and Good.

i would drink a case of you, darling by treacherous_talks - one of the tags on this fic is "a good old fashioned 'lily and james get together fic' because there aren't enough of them" so obviously i was in from the jump. this magical fic does such an excellent job at highlighting exactly what it means to be a teenager with a crush on another teenager who you think has a crush on you but you're not completely sure and so you can't ruin it because what if you're wrong. that is such a jily sweet spot i don't often see done as well as it is in this fic!!!

poison of trust by soopsiedaisies - not a jily fic! gasp! in fact, it's remus and sirius (not wolfstar) who are actually not usually as compelling a relationship as some of the other marauder era possibilities. but this fic made me eat my words because it is delicious. the part that i literally included in my ao3 bookmark and that i think about all the time is when remus tries to accuse sirius of equating harry and james and sirius says, oooooh i have chills thinking about it, "i dare you to finish that sentence." YES guarddog sirius black! his position as sole protector of the potter family will never not be important to me and this fic highlights that in such a unique and compelling way.

bad day wall by @apalapucian - there's nothing i could say about this incredible fic that hasn't been said, and recently, but truly—jayne is such a phenomenal wordsmith. this has a dash of 'texting fic,' but make it canon compliant and so beautiful it makes you wanna diiiiiie. the blackevans is unmatched, of course. but james's head-over-heels-ness for lily also has to be mentioned. i love every single one of his batty contributions to the bad day wall as he mopes and wades through all the chaos of trying (and failing) to get over lily evans.

The Guide to Becoming a Better Man for Lily Evans by bronzeagepizzeria - the shirtless james potter agenda is quite special to me, which needs to be stated right out the gate, really. the shirtless james potter who is shirtless on purpose just to get under his dream girl's skin agenda is an ascension i have yet to come back down from.

Of Chrysalism by @maraudersftw - i shall give you this, line, dangling on a stick as a perfectly buttered and garlic'ed (??) carrot, enticing you to cast your cares aside and come read this fic: "He’s spoilt, and persistent, and endearing, and she’s hopeless." like??????? yeah. okay. sure. i'll pretend that i'm capable of returning from that in this lifetime. but actually: james "my feelings matter, too" potter is so important and i love the agency this fic gives him!!!

Scenes from a Hogsmeade Pub by @bcdaily - i think i read this years ago. perhaps. idk i was basically a baby when it was published in 2012. but i recently stumbled upon it (again? maybe?) and just absolutely devoured it. this is quintessential jily to me, in each iteration, as they grow and learn each other and finally, finally, finally choose each other. each of these scenes is so carefully crafted to showcase really important moments in their relationship, but does it using really unimportant moments, which is genius. it's the grand fromage of showing, not telling, and this would absolutely be the first week assigned reading on my syllabus if i got to live out my dream as a professor on jily.

say goodbye to my heart tonight by spinawren - my bookmark for this was literally just "SQUEEEEEEE" and i don't exactly know what i meant by that, but i think it's more eloquent than anything i could come up with here. the premise of this fic is genius: james and lily repeatedly having 'one-night stands' with each other until they realise they've accidentally started dating. but james potter's devotion to being in lily evans' presence is what makes this fic belong on the top shelf!

Bluebird by ocean_away - whewwww, this fic knocked me back in a way i didn't expect. it's a second chances fic of a different calibre all around, but what stands out to me the most in this particular fic is the way james and lily are both shown to so seamlessly grow. they begin as two broken, purposefully hurtful individuals (read: teenagers) and become young adults who choose goodness and each other over and over, even though it's not easy. i feel proud of them, when i read this fic. what a labour of love for our favourite couple.

The Way the Light Looks by @stonecoldhedwig - i have nothing more to say about this fic than this: BEST KISS SCENE I HAVE EVER AND WILL EVER READ!!!!!!!!!!!

Whispers in the Dark by @yallthemwitches - okayyyy so it's difficult to choose just one of tay's fics, but this is such a stand-out to me. friends to lovers!!!! james "but i've never lied to you" potter, i want to kiss you on the MOUTH! he's so earnest, so pure, so "no actually i just wanted to see you" when he has no business being such a sweetheart. honourable mention: the beyond-precious proposal scene at the end.

Love is Complicated by @theesteemedladydebourgh - this fic feels like sitting in the most beautiful library in the world watching rain trail down the ornate, darkened windows—and then the hottest professor on earth walks up to you and snogs you without preamble. except it's made better by the fact that he is somehow both james potter and an indiana jones variant? listen. just read it. then squeal and kick your feet with me, okay?

Sunshine in my Eyes by monroeslittle - another fic i devoured on my kindle this year (but definitely not during standardised testing at school when i was supposed to be actively monitoring teenagers for academic integrity and technically signed an oath that i locked all my electronics in the closet). ahem. this is some of the most rewarding angst i have ever read, which is genuinely some of the highest praise i could ever bestow on someone. lily going to james for lessons on how to kiss and the entire scene that follows will follow me forever. they're so endearing and sweet and did not deserve all they went through. but. angst with a happy ending xx

[dooblebugss]

FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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