#Really got me

[shepscapades]

Im so glad y'all are ALSO crazy about him

[alexturntable]

Carlos: I have very bad photographic memory

Charles: it’s ok

[beantown-boy]

Bizzare crossover. But Jammer, arr you describing Duskmourn but not insanely haunted?

[south-sea]

there’s something i’ve noticed in some people (myself included) in the sonic community where the relationship they have with maria always has this particular sense of grief about it

like we see certain types of art of her and we all kind of collectively lose our minds because it Hurts. but it’s a different kind of hurt with her than it is for characters we’ve lost in other media. it’s this kind of visceral kneejerk reaction as if we’re the ones who should be grieving her, either with or on shadow’s behalf.

maybe it’s just me, but i can’t really name another character who causes that kind of feeling? sure i’ve had other characters’ deaths absolutely destroy me before too, but with maria it really is different in a way that’s hard to describe. is it because her and shadow’s story is so much older than most others in recent memory, so it’s had time to really take root and become personal? is it because something about it strikes a particular kind of subconscious nerve that media rarely manages to pull off?

the grief isn’t really the world-stopping sharp pain of a fresh loss like it is in those cases, it’s more like a really old scar that hurts on rainy days or twinges when you move a funny way and reminds you it’s there. it’s always going to be there. it’s grief that ran its course without us, so the worst of it has already passed. we know it happened but we weren’t there for the injury or the stitches or the recovery. we’re just left kind of looking at this scar left over and wondering

we know maria but we don’t know her at all. she loved shadow, and she loved the earth so she would have loved us, and we love her, but it’s like the love of waking up from a dream of another life entirely and mourning the loss of all you had in it.

maybe that’s what it feels like to shadow. maybe that’s why we feel this way too

[toastedseavegetable]

our front porch: the train tracks

[scadaz]

im doing so bad every day got me like

[victoriousfidelity]

ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS AND I'LL GIVE YOU A CHARACTER ARC

romance / friendship arc

you started this story a little hard, or awkward, or stubborn. that's okay. it's harder than it should be to admit, but what you really want is love. that's what your story is all about - not just the act of loving, but the allowance of it. the confession that you do not want to fight or bleed or save the world, but to simply feel the way two hands fit so easily together. you will have two chairs and a table and you will shut your blinds, and you will say the word love without faltering. this is a happy ending, and you do not need to feel guilty. it hurts our hands to fight - never to hold.

TAGGED BY: stolen from @hexsreality ❤ TAGGING: @aidanwilde, @defenseonly, @inblueroses (for jet!), @emeraldxphoenix, and anyone else who'd like to do it!

[justashamwithwastedpotential]

Beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder 🐝 💀

[mildmayfoxe]

started a new season of survivor and very first introduction to new cast member is "puzzles lay down for me like lovers"

[sunflowercider]

LMAO???

[st-guliks-fnord]

O-oh

[james-p-sullivan]

the older i get and the closer i am to reaching 30, the more the people around me try to deny me my age. it’s a constant ‘oh you’re just turning 29 again teehee 🤭’ or ‘dont tell your SO that, he’ll leave you for a younger model 😉’ and i just???? hate it?????????

i spent my entire teenaged years fighting for my life. i crawled through the deepest pits of my depression to cling to the promise of a life beyond that pain. i was so convinced that i was going to die young, that i would never see the grace of my age starting with a 2, let alone 3.

so im going to turn 30, and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do to stop me from loving it.

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[hansoeii]

It was affection.

[neo--queen--serenity]

the man with a plan

[haarute]