#On the Exhale

[foldingfittedsheets]

A phrase that’s always stuck with me was my friend Lia way back in middle school talking about sleeping too close to someone else. It was a big negative for her when she thought about cuddling, “You’re just breathing in their out air.”

I cannot explain why those words carved themselves deeply across my brain but they did.

When I’m too close to people and I can feel their breath I’ll deliberately breathe out while thinking, I don’t want your out air.

It is an act of love for me to be close enough to someone that I don’t mind breathing in their out air.

Every person I have told this phrase to has come back and informed me later that it lodged deeply into their psyche too. So here you go, Tumblr. Out air. You get to think about it now, too.

[coutureicons]

angela bassett as bernie in waiting to exhale (1995)

[saydesole]

Her Vibe is 90s R&B

[ranticore]

while i'm still in the dnd mood i present my big orange priest, you know the one. bottom pic is a few years old now

[charkoal]

The drop of blood that falls from Caitlyn's mangled eye like a tear is such a masterful detail. She's so physically, emotionally, and mentally beaten down that this little animation could be symbolic of so much. Is it to represent her physical pain, the amount of suffering she endured to try to atone for her sins? Is she thinking of Vi, how she very well might bleed out before she gets a chance to see her again, how she'll just be another person Vi has to lose? Is she thinking of her mistakes, how she will never get the chance to right her wrongs if she dies in this moment?

We only see Caitlyn cry in the first episode of this season, when she breaks in Vi's arms. She's had to hide her emotions so much, evidenced especially in the intro where she appears to be stepping onto a stage. We see her take a deep breath, steel herself, before she slips on her mask. Her eyebrows lift, she flashes a fake smile, tries to look every bit the composed Kiramman she's expected to be even while she's dying inside. (Also if you look closely, for a split second it looks like you can see the outline of her scar across her left eye, perhaps foreshadowing?)

There's just something poetic about Caitlyn bottling her emotions until she bleeds, how she isn't allowed to cry until her tears turn to blood.

Also credit to @arcanegifs for Cait's intro shot. I pulled the post-battle gif from Google so if anyone knows the proprietor, please let me know!

[aaa-people]

You left the DSMP fandom? I didn't. It's had me in a choke hold. its had me in a choke hold its had me in a chok

[roughridingrednecks]

AlphaLufty

[shkika]

AUGH I love VV1 so much!!! I’d love to see a wholesome bonding moment between the two of them, possibly they were questioning their identity and started to get worked up but then they coaxed themselves down

Little reassurance before they make their way to hell.

[min-play]

making a tv head cosplay tutorial is out!

[since-times-long-forgotten]

gay panic but I’m aroace

[platoapproved]

armand + preparing to tell louis about his past

[blkinfilm]

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

Instagram: blkinfilm

[namtanlovesfilm]

burnout syndrome (mock trailer) | not me (2021)

dir. anucha boonyawatana

[stevenrogered]

When I watch it, it makes me feel really emotional. It’s such a release for Buck and this, quote unquote, “Oh!” moment. And it is this moment of not just release, but relief. - Oliver Stark

[zu-is-here]

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