#and it just kinda hit me in the gut

[longmaxsilvarg]

something about the main menu for life is strange genuinely makes me wanna collapse and sob

[dent-de-leon]

oh my god I just remembered that Lucien playfully asked Frumpkin what his dreams for the future are. He’s so cute, I love those little moments when he indulges in that same love of ridiculous whimsy as Mollymauk—

Also I was going to say it makes me feel some kinda way that Lucien gives Caleb a little nickname too, how something as small and teasing as, “Broody one,” betrays just how much of Caleb Lucien can truly see, how the depths of this wizard’s heartache and pain isn’t lost on him.

But, even more heartbreaking… “Perhaps we’re more alike than you think.” Lucien saying that, even though he can’t possibly know how terribly true it is. Lucien who doesn’t know that Caleb is the only person who would understand how he woke screaming and crying as a child from nightmares of setting his childhood home on fire. Lucien who watched his parents burn, lost his whole family—and spent years blaming himself for it, desperately trying to bend reality to his will just to bring them back.

Never mind that he did it to save himself and his little sister, that he did it to stop them from using his brother’s corpse as an undead puppet—saved countless others from being sacrificed to the same fate. He still hated himself for it, still let the gutting guilt and grief eat him alive. Lucien who is a victim of the Cerberus Assembly and several other very powerful, manipulative mages—just as much as Caleb is.

We’re more alike than you think. Lucien who resents his blood hunter scars and all the Eyes and his own infernal blood—every time he tried to close off his own heart to keep from losing anyone else. It could have saved him, I think. If he knew just how much Caleb would understand. And I think, for his Magician, that shared connection would be a comfort too—

[skrunksthatwunk]

reread the first 3 volumes of berserk (aka the black swordsman arc) today and started Really paying attention to guts this time and my takeaway is that he is TERRIFIED way more often than i thought. like puck mentions fear in the mix of emotions he's sensing from him but he is truly wide eyed quivering princessmoding his way through a lot of this ordeal

[akkivee]

sunshine and scarlet summer are very obvious callbacks to jiro and saburo’s first solos so i think it’s natural to assume the h era reformation will be a call back to ore ga ichiro and maybe………

but his bp solo already has the ore ga ichiro callback so i think it’d be sick if it was a callback song to break the wall instead 🤔

[st-peculiar]

Got onto the werewolf train recently and I have something to say to tv and film producers. Let your werewolf character be more. Wolfy. For my peace of mind

[journey-to-the-attic]

friends are currently debating whether 'lost in the citadel' or 'montero (call me by your name)' is the better solphisto song and here are the main points for each side of the argument:

"lost in the citadel works for both perspectives and their tragic yuri romance" (lines 'i need time to get up and get off the floor / i need time to realise that i can't be yours' given as main example) - jo

vs

"montero cos those two definitely want to f-" - james (perhaps better known as captain bhole)

[ananxiousgenz]

just burst into tears after receiving an "I love you" text from a loved one, how's everyone else's day going

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

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[konshokoentaiko]

i always thought i was a very typical enemies to lovers girlie but i think i just realized my actual taste in ships is the dynamic where the two are supposedly equal rivals/enemies who represent diametrically opposed themes (for the Aesthetic), but in actuality it’s just one of them yanking the other around on a chain while the other whines and rages and protests and ultimately makes an absolute spectacle of themselves

so uhhh. how did THAT happen and when and why

[plan-3-tmars]

as a parting message before I go to sleep I just want to share that I genuinely can not stop thinking about a spiral avatar kazui. this ?au? (it isn't even an au its just an idea that lives in my head) has taken over my brain.

[anothermonikan]

>opens tiktok

>immediately gets called transgender

>see's a popular objectum post on here gutted for a laincore slideshow post

>closes tiktok

[amtrak12]

My spouse read chapter 12 of my Lucifer fic and he called it my best chapter yet :') Definitely did not expect that for this one, but I am Pleased.

[liliallowed]

this is love by air traffic controller

playing in my head tent free, rotating in microwave

You're no good, you're no good

You could kill me and you should

I'm an idiot for thinking

This was anything but blood

On the wall, on the couch

On the corner of my mouth

You must like being the victim

You've done nothing to get out

Of this pattern of pain

Washed away by the rain

You'll forgive me if I promise

And do nothing but the same

This is life until death

Could be my last dying breath

But this is love, love, shut up, this is love

(Forget everything you used to know

I think you better tell your friends to go

Stick around cause I'm about to show you

The beginning is the end)

Yeah, I know wrong, I know right

But I just love to pick a [fight]

I can sleep with one eye open

If there's any sleep at night

I got my knife, got my gun

Let's see how fast you can run

You might think that you can hurt me

But the damage has been done

It's pathetic, I know

A jealous fool who won't let go

If I was sorry for my actions

Would I ever stoop so low?

Got no reason to live

and I've got nothing left to give you

But my love, love, fuck it, this is love.

(Forget everything you used to know

I think you better tell your friends to go

Stick around cause I'm about to show you

The beginning is the end)

Oh I was hit as a kid

I was good but then I quit

Everyone that tried to fix me Knows that I can't change a bit

I've got no shame, got no pride Only skeletons to hide

And if you try to talk to someone Well then someone has to die

Once you chase me down the hole

Yeah once you think you're in control

You'll believe that we are partners

And you'll feel uncomfortable

Oh then the darkness rolls in

And you'll forget who I have been

But you'll love, love, love it, this is love

(Forget everything you used to know

I think you better tell your friends to go

Stick around cause I'm about to show you

The beginning is the end)

(The simple love that your grandparents had

This kind of love will only make you mad, honey

It hurts at first but it ain't that bad

You gotta wonder what it meant?)

[ame-to-ame]

Sometimes I think I'm fine and life is going well but then I see someone and for the next day or 2 I forget how to breathe until my heart sits back in my chest nicely again after I thoroughly distract myself

[neverendingford]

.

[nerdykeppie]

Okay, y'all.

I'm gonna be really up front with everybody in a way that I'm usually not:

This year so far has been really rough, in a way that kinda has me worried. Bear with me, and there will be dog pictures along the way and pictures of new swag at the end, ok?

Running a small business is always rough, and with everything going on - with me being down-and-out struggling to get my hysterectomy approved, with everything going on financially & politically, with Jake moving out here - we knew that this year probably wouldn't be a banner year, but...

... when I pulled reports at the end of May, I was kinda shocked and gutted because at the start of June, we were actually down a considerable amount year over year. I knew the year wouldn't be great, but like, oof.

Pride is usually where we make our money for the year - we call it "gay Christmas," because where other retailers count on their holiday season, we count on Pride to make sure that our employees get paid during January of the following year.

Pause for Ser Davos Seawoof:

This Pride has started ... slowly. Not terribly, but a little more slowly than I'm comfortable with, and slowly enough that I'm nervous. We invested a lot of money in new stock and equipment, and that's got to pay off. Right?

So here's the pitch:

We need to make at least $60K in sales this month to make sure that we're in good shape for the upcoming year. We are currently at $8100, and we have a two-day event coming up in Seattle at the end of the month, but that still gives us an awful lot of ground to make up.

If we hit our sales goal for this month, NerdyKeppie will donate 1% of our net profit for June to @queerliblib.

Just hitting that goal would both make it possible for us to know we can make it through the year & even if we have the worst profit margins this month, it'd be a minimum $250 donation.

We just added Express delivery as a shipping upgrade on most of our t-shirts (limited color and size options on that, which isn't under our control) so if you need something quick, we've got you, and everything from our Portland HQ collection ships usually within 2 business days.

Everything in our Bottoms & Tops collection is Buy 2, Get a 3rd 69% off with code TOP2BOTTOM until midnight tonight:

And as always, NerdyKeppie is 100% trans-owned and queer-run. We start all of our employees at a minimum of $25/hr, and all eligible employees are IWW members. We have no investors, and we have no shareholders to please. Big box corporations screw over small artists and drop Pride the minute it gets hard or controversial, but this is our life.

We're here for the long run. Help us stay and help us build resources for today & tomorrow, and get some cool-ass swag while you do.

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