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itsjustanemotion · 2 months ago

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The City That Paused Her Storm

2024 had been a year of extremes for Meera—moments of joy followed by storms of chaos, testing her resilience like never before. It was as if the universe had decided to put her through a cosmic audit, scrubbing away the toxicities in her life. She had read somewhere that Shani Dev’s way of blessing was to first throw you into the fire, then drench you in unconditional grace. Well, if this was the fire, Meera was sizzling.

The year started on a high—a string of travel plans and professional triumphs. She traveled with her close friend's group, nailed two incredible trips, and dreamed of ticking off destinations. But then came the tumble. A big-budget project slipped away, and her manager was replaced, throwing her into a workplace purgatory filled with politics and a team that revealed its ugliest sides. Trust became the ultimate scam.

And just when she thought it couldn’t get worse, it did. Her personal life mirrored the mess. A "hotelier" who seemed too good to be true turned out to be just that—a walking life lesson in why actions speak louder than words. Amidst it all, her saving grace was Aishoo, her consultant-turned-sister. What started as professional camaraderie blossomed into an unshakable bond. Aishoo became her anchor, helping her stay sane as the world around her crumbled.

One weekend, the chaos peaked. Meera decided to escape—just for a day or two. No planning, no overthinking. She booked a flight to Bengaluru, a city she’d adored from afar. For once, she let destiny take the reins.

But drama seemed to follow Meera like a shadow. Her flight was delayed, and she found herself sprinting from one terminal gate to another. At security, she endured the usual awkwardness of being patted down a bit too thoroughly—a recurring indignity she chalked up to sheer bad luck. By the time she landed in Bengaluru, she was ready to cry and laugh simultaneously.

Bengaluru embraced her like a long-lost friend. The city felt familiar, yet new. Her stay at the Hyatt was a splurge—a gift to herself, and perhaps an assurance of comfort in this uncharted solo adventure. It was her first time traveling alone, and every step felt like walking a tightrope over her fears.

On her first day, she met Yash—a friend she’d known only through texts and the one call. Seeing him in person felt surreal. He greeted her with genuine warmth, and his easy charm soothed her nerves. He introduced her to Bengaluru’s quirks: Rapido rides for quick and cost-effective ways, Uber Go with no AC (a revelation that left her speechless during her travel to the hotel from the airport), and the joy of exploring places. Their day was punctuated with messy streets, deep conversations, and a memorable Kerala dinner at one of his favorite spots.

The second day brought her back to reality. Meetings, mall visits, and quiet meals filled her schedule. Sitting by her hotel window during lunch, she observed the streets below. Bengaluru was a city of contrasts: chaotic traffic on one side and serene cultural vibes on the other. As she watched life unfold, loneliness crept in. Tears followed—silent, unrelenting. It wasn’t just the city’s beauty that moved her; it was the weight of months of disappointments and betrayals that finally broke through her defenses.

That evening, she reflected on the lessons life had been throwing at her. People who truly cared made the effort, while others simply faded away. She thought about the hotelier’s words: “A boy for his girl will do anything. For the rest, it’s just casual.” She realized she’d been chasing people who didn’t deserve her energy. Those who mattered—Aishoo, Anwesha, Krishna—stayed effortlessly.

Her final day in Bengaluru was a comedy of errors. A ticket booked for the wrong date, a missing Aadhaar card, and a frantic argument with airport security over the absence of a surname. Chaos unfolded like a scene straight out of a soap opera. But in the end, she managed. Sitting at the gate with idli and filter coffee, she chuckled at her dramatic life.

The lessons she learned from these situations is to double-check details instead of blindly trusting others. Panic never solved problems—calm thinking did. Overpacking was pointless and made life harder. And perhaps most importantly, dating apps weren’t a solution; they were often a cesspool of disrespectful men. Genuine connections came from real-life encounters, not endless swipes.

As her flight soared into the sky, Meera gazed out of the window. Bengaluru had been more than a getaway—it was a revelation. A city that taught her to let go, trust timing, and embrace life’s messiness.

"In chaos, there is clarity. In endings, beginnings. Sometimes, the city you escape to becomes the home of your peace."

#Lost & Found in Bengaluru #A Window Seat to Life’s Lessons #Lessons Between the Traffic Lights #Flights of Drama #Windows of Peace #From Tears to Tranquility #The City That Healed Me #Unplanned Escapes #Unwritten Stories #human expression #blogger #love quotes #lovers #psychology #relationship #friendship #Lost in Chaos #Found in Bengaluru

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sunlitsoil · 10 months ago

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there is always tomorrow

#lovecore #hopecore #webweaving #the presence of love is beautiful in itself #you got this #self care #self love #recovery #healing #hopepunk #recovery is not linear it is okay to have bad days you have the entirety of your life to have a better day #i wish anyone reading this a good life #i love you #you are loved #and i hope you will find happiness in the small things #i’ve been struggling a lot recently but i always remind myself the good set in store for me and look up places in the city i’ll move to #and it motivates me a bunch so i hope u all find things to strive towards mwah

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chel-tiaz · 1 day ago

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What betrayal does to a mf

Quick concept sketches because I have many thoughts. I wanna do a proper illustration with this later methinks

#how to age ten years in two weeks #step one: lose your entire safety network #step two: be dumped with fuck all to your name in the middle of a hostile slum-city #step three: alcoholic #profit #the entire time while drawing this i was muttering 'why the long face?'#lucky he's fictional he'd kill me #been thinking about what the scar might've looked like after it healed-kinda but before he shimmer'd it up #silco #silco art #silco arcane #arcane silco #young silco

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milo-igidk · 7 months ago

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in my head ro is a lesbian and has a gf btw. if you even care.

#shes just as flustered and over heals over her as keefe is for sophie and he goes so nuts/pos when he finds out #starts ranting abt hypocrisy and how she better expect revenge for all the times shes embarrassed him #his turn to play wingman #you guys would not survive my ogre (+keefe found family) hcs that are so far from cannon but mean everything to ME #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc fandom #keefe sencen #kotlc thoughts #kotlc keefe #kotlc ro #ro and keefe #theyre siblings your honor

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lotusishere · 19 days ago

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Does anyone else think it’s weird Elwin doesn’t have a love interest?

#* sprawls out on the floor with a rose in my mouth*#by weird what I really mean is that #his love interest should be ME #I’ll show him something really ‘healing’ hee…hee 🧟#kotlc fandom #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc thoughts #kotlc sophie #kotlc keefe #keefe sencen #kotlc #kotlc fitz #fitz vacker #kotlc biana #kotlc elwin #elwin heslege

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pure-0f-heart-dumb-0f-ass · 2 days ago

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Felt very vindicated by the fact that, upon being told the TLDR version of my breakup, Aabria Iyengar was so mad she was shaking and her Husband memorized my ex’s number because she wanted to FaceTime him and cuss him out (she didn’t and I don’t think she will but the inclination means a lot to me lol)

#I swear the topic came up in a somewhat reasonable manner #ran into her and Anjali and Conner outside MSG #we were discussing watching unsleeping city to prepare #and I watched the first season packing up my apartment to leave NYC because my ex blew up my life #dimension 20 #the unsleeping city #gauntlet at the garden #not tagging bc I tagged her in the less detailed Instagram story and I don’t wanna come across weird #all this to say Aabria Conner and Anjali are phenomenal #and not to be super parasocial but having these incredible performers who I admire and look up to willing to go to bat for me #based on like a 5 minute conversation #was really healing

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ann-chovi · 1 month ago

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#wip #dragon age rook #lace harding #purposefully taking art slow and not stressing myself out with deadlines for a bit #it's reminding me how much i love being able to do this #the break from comic work is more needed than i thought #like i love that project #but it was starting to feel like a second job and the joy was getting sucked out of the process #doodling elves and dwarves with no deadlines has been healing #I'll get back to the comic soon enough #but right now- it's Dragon Age city #population: these two goobers specifically ♡#xposted from my insta stories lol

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thelasttaleofthepari · 2 months ago

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Guys I miss reading KOTLC for the first time :(

#i miss worrying if sophie would pass her foxfire tests and if she would get exiled #i miss exile and hating bronte and being shocked about sophie’s minding healing abilities #don’t even get me started on neverseen i loved neverseen #i actually miss the first four books so much oh my godddddddd #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #remember when dex had screentime lmao #and biana #remember when we didn’t know what the neverseen wante- oh wait

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asoftepiloguemylove · 2 years ago

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hi uhm, i was listening to cinnamon girl by lana del rey and there was this lyric "if you hold without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did" and it would be amazing if you did a webweave based on that <3333

on love and healing

i decided to take this into a more positive direction, i hope that's okay !! have a good day <33

@ruhlare / Call Me By Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino / Aimee Nezhukumatathil Baked Goods (via @girlfictions) / Cassandra Clare City of Glass / Lana Del Rey Cinnamon Girl / E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) dir. Steven Spielberg / @typewriter-worries

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book-lover85 · 5 months ago

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ok but what if we got a scene of Sophie telling someone she could feel herself cracking

she'd witnessed too much violence

maybe she's had less of a problem attacking people

maybe she's killed someone (Gisela?)

she can feel the cracks in her mind

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #sophie foster #the idea that sophie will crack or lose her sanity has so much potential #she won't let fitz in her mind #maybe she starts to act like brant #giggling at inopportune times and not being fully there #how would they help her sanity if she's the only that can do it #would keefe use his abilities #or would sophie piece herself together bit by bit #and it would be a month later that she's awake #maybe a year for some drama #cause like somebody has to kill gisela #but if it's anyone except sophie there's no stakes #at the end of the day she can just heal them #jinx (arcane) sophie perhaps #sophie and brant parallels haunt me #SOPHIE PULLING HER HAIR OUT WHEN SHE LOSES HER SANITY #BECAUSE OF HER TRICHOTILLOMANIA

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here-there-be-drag0ns · 4 months ago

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i was terrified thinking my riptide hyperfix was dying

turns out i just needed to relisten to the black rose pirates oneshot

#all good now guys dont worry #was healed by 'chip. all day. every day. thats no debate.' and 'just close your eyes kid it'll be done soon.'#and 'here take this coin. itll keep you safe. itll make you strong.' and 'tch thanks for nothing old man. never needed you anyways.'#also like all the little details from the hole in the sea that i Know are gonna be important #did anyone else remember they found an archaic city full of crumbling buildings and statues of inhuman or nonhumanoid faces?#cause i sure didnt #and also the little drawing of the mountain with a kings crown over it that grizzly drew specific attention to #also the vision flashes of the three locations one of which was a brass door the third of which was the egg with gold veins #i forgor the middle one sorryy #but gah! the brp oneshot has me insane all over again cause this time im listening to it with the expanded worldbuilding from the campaign #riptide come home we miss youuu #dragons chatting #jrwi riptide #jrwi #just roll with it #just roll with it riptide #jrwiblr

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 1 year ago

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This new official yi city art from the Japanese audio drama reminds me so much of the essence of your creachers .. personally I think they're taking inspiration from your wonderful fellas

https://twitter.com/mimifm11/status/1679083183613300736?t=IslUVs4um6QsmoIG1iEYYg&s=19

They're in the recording booth!!!!

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #ask #song lan #xiao xingchen #a-qing #xue yang #Thank you for sending this to me...the are *so cute*.#it is a necessary healing factor after all that yi-city has inflicted upon me #I love seeing the mdzs characters all small....these guys look like they could be waddling around in a pikimin game.#Wait oh god hold on. Pikmin AU. None of them are getting off the planet's surface.#Xue Yang crashed them there AND sabotaged the repairs #Does that make whatever the heck happened to Olimar in the bad end of Pikmin 1 equivalent to a living corpse?#I am walking away from this line of thought. I cannot see the bottom of the rabbit hole.

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mfshipbracket · 2 years ago

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As someone who also lives under a rock (does not watch anime), if I don’t recognize the ship going against Reylo, I simply Do Not Vote. I still want Reylo to lose across the board, but I’m leaving it in the hands of each fandom to take that strike against them.

anon abstaining when they don't recognize the ship:

anon joining when they do recognize the ship:

#asks #sorry i realize the incredible irony of you being like “i don't watch anime” and then me being like ok. posts anime #but i think the images speak for themselves.#anyways shout out to the influx of asks we got where ppl were like i ALSO live under a rock and know nothing #goddamn big rock city of people who don't go online. nature is healing

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fryingpan1234567 · 1 year ago

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each of the batkids is New York vibes in a different way

look I know Gotham is closer to NJ but hear me out

Dick— Welcome To New York (Taylor Swift)

Babs— Morning In America (Jon Bellion)

Jason— HEROES (Macklemore)

Cass— That’s My Girl (Fifth Harmony)

Tim— American Boy (Estelle)

Steph— Boo York, Boo York (Monster High)

Duke— Empire State of Mind (JAY-Z)

Damian— Dancing In the Dark (Rihanna)

Dick Grayson is NY in a Welcome To New York way. Gotham, Blüdhaven, Jersey, it’s all the same— dark, rainy, a little bit evil at times. And yet he sees the beauty of it all, and he truly loves his city. No matter how many times life kicks his ass, he’ll get back up and keep protecting this place he loves so much.

Barbara Gordon is New York in a Morning In America way. God, she’s busy, she’s always busy, but it’s where she’s happiest. Being a cop, a librarian, a professional Guy In The Chair™️ for an entire family of vigilantes, shit gets crazy. But she’s got it covered. She always does.

Jason Todd is New York in a HEROES way. He grew up in the Narrows and Crime Alley. Superman who? How about Roman Sionis, who let people sit in his club during the daytime in the winter when the streets got too cold? What about the older kids, who smoked weed that smelled like shit but taught him how to make money off of dumb rich white people? Those are Jason’s people. He’s an NY boy through and through.

Cassandra Cain is NY in a That’s My Girl way. Ever jumped off a building with the sound of pure feminism blasting into your brain, wind and the sheer energy of Gotham City whipping by, tearing at your hair and clothes? Cass has. She lives for it. The city is alive, and it sounds like this.

Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne is New York in an American Boy way. Clean-cut, city boy, businessman who always has places to be and people to see. Busy. Alive. If the livelihood of New York could be filtered into a personality, it would be Tim.

Stephanie Brown is NY in a Boo York, Boo York way. Maybe a hint childish, but hey, maybe that’s what the people of Gotham need. The whole vigilante gig has turned her from a critical pessimist to a die-hard optimist, and she feels sometimes that other people just need to feel the city more. It’s changed her. It’s freedom. Freedom to be a kid again.

Duke Thomas is NY in an Empire State of Mind way. Even after all these years, he still hasn’t quite gotten used to the majesty of such a big city. She’s real, and she’s alive. He sort of loves being a city kid.

Damian Wayne is New York in a Dancing In the Dark way. It just… makes his soul happy. After living in solitude for most of his childhood, coming to a city like Gotham was like nothing he’d even fathomed before. He’s never alone, if only in spirit. It’s healing. And while he won’t gush about it like some of his siblings, he does love his city.