#Skipper;

[freakinbads]

-Madeline Albright

I don't want to make you the villain! Why does everyone think I want to villainize them! I don't hate a single one of you! And I should! I should hate every one of you for what I was put through by you because I was a child who should have been cared for! Instead, I was fueling poisons into my body in a desperate need to feel complete, to have a family that had been taken from me! But I don't! I don't hate any of you! At all! I never ever got the chance to grieve my parents, let alone Sejin and now Hera! Do you understand that?! I have no one! Not an aunt, not an uncle, I am the last person in my family! There is something so inherently scary and lonely about being the only person in your life! I'm allowed to be upset!

"My life hasn't been mine since I was seventeen and you think you have some sort of ownership over me?!"

[moonperished]

[timebranded]

Its literally to no one's surprise that Nicole has been playing with Skipper and Bridger. The little duo together was by far the cutest thing she's ever seen in her life, and she can't help but just be enamored with the way they interact!

But of course, aside from letting them have bonding time, her real intentions are Skipper's trainer who's been busying himself with work once more. Motioning for Skipper to come to her, she hands him a box. Gently whispering for him to be careful, she tasks him with bringing it to Lucas. It's a cupcake for a treat, and a friend ball hoodie that was neatly folded up and wrapped in tissue paper.

This is the best Lucas Day ever! Not only did Skipper get to have fun with his trainer and the other Pokemon, but he got to see Bridger and the Good Human!! Most of his day simply consisted of playing with the two; even on a day like today, Lucas is a busy human.

Which is why the Good Human gave the gift to Skipper, right? To give to Lucas? Skipper would do his best to do that!

And he did! When the present is delivered to Lucas, it's with minimal slime on the box. None of it touched the contents! Yay!!

Lucas really is a smart human; he notices the box in Skipper's hands straightaway. "What's that you got there, buddy?"

Skipper hands over the box, and Lucas opens it. He carefully takes out the cupcake, and marvels at the hoodie he pulls out.

"Oh, wow! Thanks for this, buddy!" Lucas exclaims, a big smile on his face. Skipper made a happy noise in return. "This is from Nicole, right? Do me a favor and give her a big hug from me in return?"

"Quag!" Skipper could definitely do that! And off he goes, to give the Good Human the hug that she deserves!

[summerlovedfm]

probably friends, possibly lovers, but definitely not nothing. Those were the three thoughts in my mind the first time your path crossed mine. When I saw those eyes for the first time. Then I learned your favorite color. I realized how easily you could paint a smile across my serious disposition and I started practicing learning you. Thinking about you a little too much in my spare time. The three thoughts changed. Probably lovers,  possibly friends, but definitely not nothing. Then things started to change. I realized the love only went one way.  I started anticipating the feeling of you pulling away. Your sentences became shorter as my grip became stronger on a love that was falling through my fingertips. You took my smile as easily as you had given it. The three thoughts chimed one more time. probably nothing, possibly friends, but definitely not lovers.

“probably lovers” Whitney Hanson (@whitneyhansonpoetry on tiktok)

[moonpierces]

It should be noted that Skipper has not felt for three years that he had any agency over his life. At least until he was truly freed from the gods and allowed to ascend to his position as a constellation and member of the Elder Council, he felt as though his life hadn't ever truly been his: that he was simply a pawn of the gods to be killed and reincarnated for some other grand scheme.

[theguythatcollectsdolls]

They are using Matte paintings in the Barbie Movie like in the early movie days instead of using CGI

And here’s a look at Skipper, she’s living with Midge in Chelsea’s treehouse :-)

[herpsandbirds]

Rainbow Skipper (Phocides u. urania), family Hesperiidae, Monterrey, NL, Mexico

photograph by Cabo Neri

[onenicebugperday]

African giant skipper, Pyrrhochalcia iphis, Hesperiidae

Found in Western Africa

Photo 1 by desertnaturalist, 2-3 by rdb123, 4 by emskakoon, 5 by kdbishop69, 6 by muir, and 7 by botalu

[sea-buns]

I really like how they had that one bit in fhsy where Gorgug was "Skipper" while the van was a boat, and then Zac WAS Skipper in aso as the crew's pilot, and now Gorgug is quite literally the pilot of a flying ship. It's all coming together under Airitime Law.

[turquoisemagpie]

“My name is Norman ‘Skip’ Takamori.”

(More A Starstruck Odyssey fanart.)

[freakinbads]

Ezra or Skipper when someone touches them gently

[moonperished]

-Madeline Albright

I don't want to make you the villain! Why does everyone think I want to villainize them! I don't hate a single one of you! And I should! I should hate every one of you for what I was put through by you because I was a child who should have been cared for! Instead, I was fueling poisons into my body in a desperate need to feel complete, to have a family that had been taken from me! But I don't! I don't hate any of you! At all! I never ever got the chance to grieve my parents, let alone anyone else. Do you understand that?! I have no one! Not an aunt, not an uncle, I am the last person in my family! There is something so inherently scary and lonely about being the only person in your life! I'm allowed to be upset!

"My life hasn't been mine since I was seventeen and you think you have some sort of ownership over me?!"

[timebranded]

No thoughts, head empty.

[summerlovedfm]

One Man Drinking Games

“You let me hold you tightly as we said all our goodbyes May I say I loved you more? May I say I loved you more?... -As your sympathetic whispers—they told a tale of bad goodbyes -As I take this piece of you with me I'll carry to my grave And knowing that for someone you're an angel sent to save May I say I loved you more?”

“Hi again. I brought your favorite.” 

What is he doing here? Especially knowing that the person who was supposed to be dead and gone wasn’t even here? That they were alive? But it’s Saturday, and Skipper goes. Has gone every Saturday since after the funeral. Even when he faked his death. He sets the mini bottle of the liquor on the headstone, setting the flower down in front before he sits cross-legged in front. 

He looks worse for wear. He hasn’t slept, he’s been drinking a lot. Even gone back to smoking just for some sort of relief. 

“I think this will be the last time I come here, Sejin. It’s kind of stupid to visit the grave of someone who’s alive. And...I don’t think I’m going to be here much longer.” He picks a few blades of grass, slides them between his fingers. “I guess I just...wanted to say goodbye. You didn’t give me goodbye, I don’t know why I feel I owe you anything.” He scoffs, wipes at his eyes.

“Eros told me you don’t remember anything. Everyone’s unnerved but I...I’m glad. I’m really glad. I wish I could tell you in person but it’d be weird for some random guy to come up to you and start spilling their guts so...I wrote a note.” He places the paper on the headstone as well. “I’m really glad you don’t remember anything. I think that means that maybe you’ll get a better second chance at living. That maybe you’ll get the power you always wanted by doing it the right way this time. I’m just disappointed I won’t be able to see it. You and Eris are a good couple, I can see it working. I always knew I was never what you wanted, but I wasn’t mad about it. I’m...still not.” 

He presses his palms to his eyes, sucking in a breath. “I always wanted you to have everything, and I did what I could to give it to you. You deserve your kingdom, with Eris by your side. I wasn’t supposed to be in your world, but I still am grateful that you took in a helpless kid with an inclination for deep magic.” He wipes at his nose, at his eyes. “You and Lady Hera didn’t have to do it. You could have killed me for pickpocketing, but you didn’t. I think...you’d tell me to not be a coward. But I even felt like a burden to you at times, especially before you died. After my breakdown.” 

Furiously wipes at his eyes. “Can you take care of Helen for me? I’m sure Lord Khar will make sure I get equal passageway back to where I should be, in the stars. Don’t miss me, yeah? And I don’t want anyone grieving me, people grieved already. No use crying over spilled milk.”

[moonpierces]

-Madeline Albright

I don't want to make you the villain! Why does everyone think I want to villainize them! I don't hate a single one of you! And I should! I should hate every one of you for what I was put through by you because I was a child who should have been cared for! Instead, I was fueling poisons into my body in a desperate need to feel complete, to have a family that had been taken from me! But I don't! I don't hate any of you! At all! I never ever got the chance to grieve my parents, do you understand that?! I have no one! Not an aunt, not an uncle, I am the last person in my family! There is something so inherently scary and lonely about being the only person in your life! I'm allowed to be upset!

"My life hasn't been mine since I was seventeen and you think you have some sort of ownership over me?!"

[scalpho]

so i started watching aso