#and have to subject everybody to them

[sighonaraa]

Please feel free to share all the thoughts on the football babies au! ALL THE THOUGHTS 😂😂😂 I’m so invested

ALL THE THOUGHTS??? oh boy. welp. Since You've Given Me Permission............ jk jk. i won't subject you all to ALL of my thoughts i am not that cruel. but! i have been thinking Very Much about the kiddo dynamics of it all and now i'm going to detail those dynamics via alien conspiracy theories.

moe is, as we've established, the dirt-eating worm kid who is absolutely convinced the government is hiding aliens in arizona and constantly attempts to blackmail ted into taking him to the sonoran desert to find Proof.

colin and isaac are unimpressed because they are 9 years old and three quarters minus one month which means they are Too Mature to believe in aliens.

sam and jamie are. uncertain. as to what exactly aliens are, really. but they do some very Intensive Research on the topic (pester roy until roy is aggravated into a thorough explanation) and come to the conclusion that moe MUST be right, there MUST be aliens in arizona, and they MUST be lonely and in need of friends.

("the aliens are not your fucking friends," roy says, head in his hands. "this is how abductions happen. you think they're your friends and then they fucking beam you up into fucking space and you're never heard from again."

"but roy," says jamie, gravely, "we gots ice cream! the aliens'll be our friends 'cause everyone likes ice cream!")

and so ted and roy are caught in an endless game of This is Why Aliens Are Bad For You, Actually. colin and isaac are soooo over it. moe keeps hiding little knick-knacks around the park and then telling sam and jamie they're gifts from the benevolent alien overlords from above. eventually the alien discussions die down.

and then moe learns about the denver international airport.

[egophiliac]

oh no, I love them

(super quick doodles done between other stuff, there will be better things later I promise :')

[hamletthedane]

“Isn’t it weird that we don’t use cell phones in our dreams”

That’s not weird. What’s weird is that we cannot READ in our dreams. What the fuck is with that. We don’t talk about this enough - it’s so spooky.

[quirkle2]

i liked the part when he

[heroesriseandfall]

“Damian’s eyes are green like Talia’s” neither of them have green eyes…

[inlovewithaspiderguy]

the amount of love my cousins show me is inversely proportional to the amount of hatred I do not show them

[gumpistol]

𝐥𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐲 & 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲

I couldn't stop thinking about this today, so I had to finally write it up, but recently I found a meme that jokingly stated something along the lines of “I cannot stop moving or doing things or I will spiral into a pit of despair” and it made me think of Luffy and specifically his lack of ever talking about his past or how he really feels about things.

Luffy is both a character that has so many expressions and feelings, but can also be one of the least expressive. He actively shows all forms of excitement and joy, and he isn’t opposed to showing a fierce anger either, but something that doesn’t come out as often is his sadness, grief, and despair. And even less so is his willingness to ever talk about the moments in his life that have caused those feelings. His heart is open to taking in friends and their pain and past as it comes, but it is almost entirely closed when it comes to letting others help with his own past burdens.

The straw hat captain doesn’t like to dwell on anyone's past, this is evident from the first saga in the East Blue when he does his best to meet Nami where she is at, rather than prodding her for information about who she is. That information comes out on its own, because other people tell him despite saying he doesn’t care. But possibly the stem of this: Luffy doesn’t like to think about his own past.

It’s not so much that he won’t talk about his feelings regarding things from his past or tell people about it, it’s that he actively will not allow himself to have those sorts of feelings or even think about these things. He fills his time awake doing anything and everything, pushing himself to be actively thinking about something else in the moment, whether that’s food, playing games, being in the presence of his friends, taking care of and protecting people from their problems, fighting, etc. Luffy cannot stop moving or doing things, because if he does he will inevitably fall into a dark mental spiral. So whether actively or subconsciously, he chooses to live in the moment and only look ahead to the future. The rare moments when he does snap and break and panic or wail are moments when he is forced to face the truths he is doing his best to push deep down.

Knowing this, yes, it will be very rare for writing on this blog to include Luffy exploring his emotions on situations without heavy plotting beforehand. He is a closed book who would rather pretend that everything is fine – which to some degree is what he honestly believes. As long as he has his friends and loved ones, he believes there’s no reason to dwell on the sadness or pains of the past, so unless something is going horribly wrong in the moment, he genuinely thinks he’s fine, that everything is fine, and there isn’t any reason to not be happy.

At least, that’s the lie he tells himself.

EDIT: I found where it's from gdi, it's Chris Traeger's line from Parks and Rec

[galacticlamps]

very minor thing I still definitely deserve a medal for:

being raised catholic, and now as an adult repeatedly falling in love with characters that fandoms like to declare catholic, but still managing to reject those headcanons because at heart I'm too much of a stickler for accurate analysis to get behind them when i know the person in question is really meant to be anglican/episcopalian/whatever other flavor of christian

i am being, as the poets say, so brave about it

[lynaferns]

School is draining any small motivation I had for art

or creativity in general

(tw: I got pretty much depressive in the tags but I needed to dump this somewhere and this may not be the best place but is where I feel better talking about my problems or insecurities, so feel free to ignore)

[daffythefox]

those small jokes and jabs some people will make at you when you’re friends with them like. they just wear me down so much. like I could have a face up for multiple hours and be relatively fine and then they could start doing that (like. I mess up slightly and they make a joke at my expense, or someone points out something I’m sensitive about for a joke, or someone makes a joke where the punchline is “hey you seem like you’re barely holding in your emotions) all of a sudden it’s nine times the work to be out and social without acting like a total dick (shooting back with something that plays on their insecurities as well so they sill stop pressing me) or having to leave because I’m about to break down, which is incredibly embarrassing and makes me feel like I’m just making a show so other people will feel guilty (not that I’m worried they will feel guilty, I’m worried they will think I will want them to feel guilty and that they will see me as lesser for that instead). “get something you’re fine with people joking about so they will make jokes about that and it won’t hit you as hard” why are you entitled to being able to make jokes at my expense? maybe I don’t want you to make fun of me at all!

[vanyafresita]

actually, you know what ? im glad my ex gf ghosted me, i dodged a bullet it seems

[silent-partner-412]

having 19 notifications in my inbox this morning terrified me since i brought up racism and transphobia in my posts yesterday and i was like oh no did i fuck something up

[fragglerockopinions]

I'm in so much pain it's embarrassing. I'm going to look back on these memories of me writhing alone too afraid to sleep biting my knuckles crying about nothing and laugh.

[bitterlyromantic]

i think it's funny how in my ship* playlists, their "sound" is largely based off of what i'm into at that moment. like for example, when i made my Macdennis playlist: lots of power pop / garage (The Exploding Hearts, Pansy Division, Peach Kelli Pop, etc.) and also Hannigram: industrial for the most part (Zeromancer, Snake River Conspiracy)

*this also goes for character playlists, but those are a mix of my current interests + my personal headcanons (example: Mac's playlist having The Exploding Hearts and The Vapors because to ME: he is a little (wannabe) punk bitch (like me!).)

[finethingswellworn]

Trying not to have an anxiety attack about having to Once again assume my role as the only out lesbian cousin amongst a group of hyper religious, ultra conservative, straight female family members tomorrow

The stuff of nightmares

[majestymidas]

I wish I was relevant, so I could be treated like a human being.