#and she recognized him

[madbard]

I don’t think anyone was surprised when Stanford Pines cut ties with his family. He was already living on the other coast. His potential to earn the family millions had been firmly squandered; his father certainly didn’t want to see his face after that. Maybe he called on occasion, spoke with Caryn or Shermie. But as he grew steadily more fixated on his work, he didn’t have the time to talk anymore. And the less he picked up, the less they called.

So when Stanford went radio silent, they weren’t surprised. His twin had just died, without them ever having made up. That would change anyone. Caryn likely wasn’t too happy with him after he missed the funeral, anyway. Stanford had been pushing his family away for so long; it was only a matter of time before he finished the job and fully cut them off.

So they called him on birthdays and holidays. Maybe a card, a letter. Sometimes he picked up, but he didn’t talk much. He sounded… different. But then again, they hadn’t spoken in so long. Was it any surprise that he had changed?

When Filbrick died, they let him know. Stanford didn’t come to the funeral. No one was surprised at this point. They knew Filbrick too well for that. They remembered Stanford’s childhood, and imagined that they knew him as well.

It may have gone on like this; Stanford vanishing deeper and deeper into the recesses of memory and quiet resentment. The Pines family may have forgotten their once-prized son.

Then ‘Stanford’ got a call. It was sheer chance that he picked up this time; that he stayed on after realizing it was Shermie. Maybe he just realized it had been a long time since his last call. Maybe he was in an especially good mood, or an especially bad one. Maybe he was homesick.

Regardless of how it came about, the most distant member of the Pines family picked up the phone that day and was told that Caryn Pines, having lived a long life, had finally reached the end of her rope. And before she went, she wanted to see her surviving sons.

It would have been a long drive, the longest he’d taken since the eighties. When he arrived, he would have looked exhausted, suit wrinkled and gloved hands buried in his pockets. The other Pines would have been shocked that he’d actually showed, that the reclusive and elusive Stanford had finally left his cabin. They would have taken a moment to reset their mental images of him. Maybe they would have wondered, dimly, what his twin would have looked like at that age. Then ‘Stanford’ would have entered the room where his mother was resting.

Caryn Pines, the charlatan psychic, would have looked up in that moment. She would have locked eyes with the middle-aged man standing across the room, and for a moment she wouldn’t recognize him. It had been so long.

But after those first few seconds, Caryn would recognize her son, standing there like one of the ghosts she’d never believed in.

“… Stanley? Is that you?”

“…”

“You came home.”

[pangur-and-grim]

Pangur is smart enough that she hisses when I say "Belphie", just on the off chance he's in the room

[morganbritton132]

Eddie keeps trying to take Steve on a date but Steve keeps bringing Robin with him because he thinks it’s a group hang. Eddie begs Nancy to get up the nerve to ask Robin out to fix this problem, and she does.

Robin brings Steve on the date.

[ofswordsandpens]

its funny because Percy has been spiraling ever since pjo and whenever he has a particularly bad episode you have other characters actively worried about it and you think to yourself surely they're going to intervene, surely someone is going to talk to him about it, and then like no one ever does lol

[rocketbirdie]

fateful encounter

[plutonicbees]

love how gansey canonically wears contacts most of the time but fanart almost always depicts him with his glasses. blue sargent would be rejoicing.

[omo321]

~followup to the previous doodle

Aoko volunteers to help Conan with catching Kid :] Kaito got dragged along for moral support since he's "bad at riddles". Shinichi's too bemused to consider calling him out.

[pandebunuelo]

but if he knows that you know that you know that he knows that he knows that you know that you

[claraoswalds]

#mrs flood who are you: time lord edition

[fcaruana]

— Hi Franco! Carolina here, from Paraná, Entre Ríos. — Hi! First row, I like it! — We're here since 4:30 pm... — Since 4:30?!?! What time is it? [Crowd: 7:30 pm!] 3 hours?! No, no, I'm sorry! — We traveled from Paraná- — Do y'all want water or something? Are you thirsty? — Yes, but it doesn't matter! — [To the crew: Is there water for them? There is water, yeah, you got bottles] ... I don't want y'all to dehydrate. They'll bring water for you now!

[katnissmellarkkk]

favorite book quotes :

“It feels like such a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn’t realize until now how starved I’ve been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness. I wish I hadn’t wasted the last couple of nights shutting him out. I sink down into sleep, enveloped in his warmth, and when I open my eyes again, daylight’s streaming through the windows.”

- catching fire (2009) by suzanne collins

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[ladystoneboobs]

such a shame that edmure hasn't yet gotten to meet the only member of his family truly proud of his great victory of the stone mill. so proud she even believed he could destroy tywin on an open battlefield too! ofc if she knew robb/catelyn/brynden blackfish's opinion on all that, she'd no doubt be influenced by her mother's and big brother's thoughts of the uncle she hadn't met before, but it's not like either is in any position to tell her now. maybe that's the one silver lining of the rw, if/when edmure and arya there's nothing to stop her congratulating him on his defeat of tywin lannister.

[notbecauseofvictories]

also I've spent the last couple weeks reading some older historical romance novels, and my made up, wholly unverified hypothesis that in the 2000s romance authors finally grasped that the old-fashioned "no, don't! stop, you brute" etc. scenes were not really landing with audiences anymore. So they faced a conundrum about the future of the genre. Ultimately, I think they chose to quietly stop writing those heroes, and switch them out for a more sensitive model. Still dark and brooding! But with limits, often a Heart of Gold, and more general emotional intelligence.

Still, somewhere out there is a parallel universe where these authors decided to take the opposite approach---to write heroines as unhinged, cruel, impulsive, and emotionally ignorant as their heroes. I don't know if I want to live there, but I wouldn't mind a trip to their library sometime.

[ryssbelle]

N2 Floyd in the first movie

Sad little man got himself captured :(

He also gets punched in the face, but that's neither here nor there lmao

Also sorry for not posting for a fat minute I've been busy XD

Bonus: What John and Branch be doing

RIP in pieces John Dory, you were a brave troll and will be missed

I've got some more doodles of them going through it in the first movie, maybe we will see them soon teehee .

[mercymaker]

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭.

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