#I’ve had them on the brain for weeks

[vvitchering]

Kicking ideas around for the bobacobb fic I keep telling myself I’m going to write one day and I can’t get the concept of “fresh out of the bacta” Cobb struggling with his new mod arm to the point of mental breakdown out of my head. He’s staying in the palace, training every day, working to get used to it and get his old dexterity back, but it’s hard.

He’s struggling to see it as part of himself and that disconnect means he doesn’t always realize how much strength he has in it. He’s learning hand-to-hand, sparring mostly with Fennec but sometimes with Boba as well, when he accidentally hurts one of them.

Blocks a punch from Fennec by grabbing her hand with his metal one and he all of a sudden can’t release his grip. He crushes three of her fingers and would have snapped her wrist if he had taken a second longer to pull himself together.

She doesn’t blame him. Neither does Boba. They have a state of the art medical facility, she’ll be fine, but Cobb is horrified by this loss of control.

He spirals.

Boba isn’t great at offering comfort but he has to try. He finds Cobb slumped against a column in the hallway outside of their training hall.

“I’ve been a lot of things in my time, but I’ve never been frightened of my own damn self.”

“I have.”

Cobb has hazel eyes. Boba never stopped to notice before. Hard to miss now when they’re laser locked onto his.

“When you’ve gone through hell,” Boba says, “you come back changed. You realize you’re capable of things you weren’t before.”

“ ‘wasn’t worried about maiming someone with my bare hands before all this, that’s for sure.”

“You’ll learn to control it��“

“Yeah, well, what if I don’t? What then?!” Cobb interrupts, hysterics creeping into his voice. “Can’t let me loose with a weapon I don’t know how to use soldered to my shoulder. I didn’t come back changed, you brought me back wrong.”

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(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Boba: surviving the sarlacc made me a more compassionate and empathetic person. It taught me the value of things like mercy and forgiveness.

Cobb: I CRUSHED A WOMAN’S HAND WITH MY HORRIBLE METAL DEATH ARM THAT I DIDNT ASK FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE AND NOW IM TERRIFIED TO EVER TOUCH ANOTHER LIVING SOUL AGAIN

Boba: we’ll work on that

[doctorsiren]

AU where Ford did end up going to West Coast Tech and he ends up founding Aperture Science (and yes, this was all because Cave Johnson and Ford have the same VA)

[crystallizsch]

eepy eepy

[i-may-be-an-emu]

hehehe

[moon-beam-pie]

Someone's got their hands on the Hatchet handle

Swinging on the youth, it's a Hatchet scandal

Careful or your folks will end up a cannibal's plate

AND THEN I GET WHAT I SHIT

[rulesofdisorder]

a thing that i’ve noticed is that sometimes in fics (and in the general fandom) people change the spelling of zukos fake undercover earth kingdom name from “lee” to “li”. and i don’t know why that is, if it’s just because people just think that it should have been spelled “li” to begin with or if it’s more culturally accurate to spell it that way

but anyways i’ve been thinking about it and we actually see three people named lee/li in the show, one spelled “lee” and the others “li”

“lee” is an earth kingdom name (in zuko alone the earth kingdom boy that zuko meets is named lee and it is spelled “lee”)

“li” is a fire nation name (azulas trainers are named lo and li, there is also a captain under zhao named li, both spelled “li”)

so anyways i think that it would make sense if zuko spells it/thinks of it as “li” while people from the earth kingdom (jet, song, jin, everyone is BSS etc) assume that it’s spelled “lee”. so like in regards to fic i think it’d be fun and interesting to have multi povs where in zukos it’s spelled “li” and in others it’s spelled “lee”

also i think that it could have like symbolism and underlying meanings. like zuko taking a name that is fire nation but not. while he is also fire nation (prince) but not (banished) as he grapples with loyalty to the fire nation but also realizing the full extent of what the fire nation has done in the war

[themoonunderstoodmydadjokes]

Do I need to clean my apartment today?? Yes. Am I gonna instead, couch rot and turn my brain off all day??? Also yes.

[taonpest]

Listen. I had plans for them. I worked my ass off to deliver literally the best drawing I ever made in my life but I fucked up so you’re only getting a silly doodle now

[yaminerua]

nothing makes me feel more pathetic than when I’m trying to do a basic as fuck sum in my head and my brain is giving me absolutely nothing

not a single gear moving up there. Brain just clocks out when numbers are involved and trying to force it to figure out even the simplest calculations physically feels excruciating and exhausting

meanwhile my dad and my brother will be looking at me like I’m some alien experiment bc how can I be so stupid that I can’t do this shit in my head?

[tanabeth]

my brain is so fucking stupid. I was bullied in fourth grade, my friends were like “actually erm we don’t want to be friends with you :/“ on the second to last day of eighth grade (even though we were all zoned for different high schools and would never see eachother anyway). And because of that my brain is, as my therapist and mother (two different people,) theorized, “hyper vigilant for any perceived social ostrichaztion”. The thing is it’s fucking stupid about it. Sure it has the generic “uwu your friends probably hate you secretly” thing.

But it also. Like: I’ll see a post that is somewhat negative towards a thing I like or a trait I even remotely identify with (including stuff as vague as ‘nervous’ or ‘writer’) and I’ll be like “yeah that makes sense” or “I don’t agree but I also don’t care”. But then my brain will repeat the negative phrase on loop for like a week. And will trigger physical reactions (crying, shortness of breath, etc) in response to it. I’ve actually had public panic attacks over things I give 0 shits about because my brain is a fucking helicopter parent.

[lordsardine]

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[allalrightagain]

I cannot write an Alanna disability fic. I cannot.

[saturdaymournings]

ohoho boy tomorrow is gonna be so bad but yanno what I’m gonna be a brave little guy and I’m gonna treat myself to back to back bath days so it’s all gonna be good in the end. Today was so bad today was fucking dreadful but there will be a way !!!!! I have to remember the small joys I have to stay strong

[samuraisharkie]

*homer simpson voice* Marge I think I have brain damage

[zenosynnee]

Whoops, my hand slipped

[barley-st-band]

hey does anyone know how we’re supposed to survive it all. asking for a friend