#and now I AM SUFFERING

[msmargaretmurry]

this is so… https://x.com/yanoforsure/status/1743120761940762905?s=46&t=bAD5FtiXuUGilfnwtByrxA

(link to tweet but this is the important part:)

UM???? ANON?????? HELP?????????????? im not ok. im so mad the nhl didn't send this man to the asg. with the NARRATIVES out here like THIS?????????? we could have had it all (the possibility of a single on-camera interaction) i am going to go lie down in the potomac river

[bolithesenate]

BOLI FINISH HER EXCHANGE FIC BEFORE THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT 2K23 CHALLENGE

[curiosity-killed]

Headhurty & so tired alas

[sharkface-daydreams]

now that i’m replaying Outriders (2021) here’s a great goddamn writing tip:

manufacturing drama for drama’s sake isn’t good writing. if your characters are acting out of character specifically so that you can make something OH NO TERRIBLE happen for maximum drama that actually doesn’t effect anything else in the plot except to try and garner emotional reactions? that’s bad writing. it’s just bad writing. there’s no getting around it. it pisses off your audience and adds nothing but resentment.

god i love this game but i literally had to slide down in my chair and laugh hysterically so i didn’t scream.

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

19

[baseballunhinged]

pulled a muscle in my chest playing uncompetitive frisbee golf on sunday and made it worse at the gym yesterday in my pursuit of Brandon Marsh Arms… will remember this next time I’m tempted to complain about a baseball player’s weird injury…

[useful-boy]

Baby got back (pain)

[mobius-m-mobius]

#obsessed with their priorities

[nonbinarytoast]

ALEXANDER JANE NEWELL YOU FUCKING BITCH YOU CANNOT TAKE AWAY MY SCOTTISH MAN

[mumblesplash]

in honor of last season’s poem being called “”end poem”” (all quotes mandatory) this season i made one out of pieces of the actual end poem

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[choccy-milky]

part 3 to my modern AU 💞🍺 (part 1 / part 2)

[benevolenterrancy]

Scholarly peak is catching up on recent literature

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

finally at that age where i'm thinking i should get a tattoo. not bc i feel strongly about it, just seems like a waste not to. i've got so much skin i'm not using

[inkskinned]

something bad happened to you, and you died, and you came back wrong.

not wrong all the way. the little ways. you forget important dates, stopped going out with friends. it's harder to make you smile. you're apathetic towards things you used to love, afraid of places you used to go to cheer up. quieter. flinching. different.

you came back for love. you're still here for love. what pulled you back was a brightness so loud that even death couldn't outshout it. death heard the call and smiled at you and said okay. go home. somebody is waiting for you.

but you came back different. like lot's wife; you've turned into salt. you used to chirp through life in hops and skips; but now you lose skin just standing up. you have to move slower, skimming across this world without-touching-it. most things feel dull - until they're suddenly all-too-much. life, and being alive just rushes up and over you and you get hopelessly crushed.

you try to explain it to them: it is ugly, but this is what you are, now. the huge golden hoop of your halo now a little bronze ring. you are still watering your plants and wearing the same clothes. after all, you worked hard to come home. this life; so odd and off-color, now that you are wrong.

but they waited for you - it's just that they wanted the "you" that happened before this. the "you" that could sing in the show and hug people tight and look at a blade without breaking down to cry. the you with a smile in pictures. god, holyshit, it's like looking at a completely different person, isn't it. that other-you; the one they actually wanted.

you are the consolation prize. you are the body that forgot the ghost. you are the memory of the bad thing, and the death after; like you are wearing that memory as a banner. you are a fragment, an assembly. simulacrum. you don't make eye contact in mirrors, afraid the light will glance off and your true nature will flash back at you.

you hear them talk about it in their hushed, desperate whispers. sometimes they even admit it to your face; harsh and violent, acid thrown at christmas dinner. god, can you just fucking be normal again. you do not remember what normal is. you had to climb so far to get back here; you are far too exhausted. you want to open the glass door of your heart and show all the gears. can you help resolve whatever got messed up?

you try so, so hard. you came back for them. because you believed they would love you, even when you were so horribly broken. because you believed they would be patient. because you believed unconditional meant "without exception." you cannot do things the same way. you just get tired too quickly these days.

you want to put them on a couch and pour them the tea with hands that shake more than they remember. you want to line them up and draw them a map of where you have had to wander. you want to show every bruise in a backsplash; the little helpless ant of your soul carrying all that weight, over and over. you want to say: yes! it is different! but i did it for love!

you want to say: "i'm not the same, but i'm yours and i'm here. can that be enough?"

[rcbertleckie]

MASTERS OF THE AIR · PART 1 and PART 9

BUCK: Last few years would have been a lot rougher without you, John. BUCKY: Mmm. Same.