#and quietly

[carmineskiesandspidereyes]

Do you ever see remnants of someone around your house, without ever having met them?

maybe this is just a me thing. but my parents tell me his name was Brett.

in the kitchen, there's a sunhat on the wall. Pulling it down when I was 8, my mother looked over, smiled, and said "Oh, that's Brett's." In my room there's a wooden box, worn and faded and dull jade green, and I'm told that Brett made it. So of course, it's called the Brett Box.

When I'm 13, my dad pulls a book off our shelves and goes, "Brett wrote this! I'd forgotten.." and then he flips, and flips, and shows me a passage. Not only had Brett written a book, but he'd written us into it as well. briefly. I was only 2, when I'd had the chance to know him.

But now I know that 2-year-old Rose had a 100-watt smile.

When I'm 15, my dad drags climbing equipment out of the garage, and I find him holding up lanyards of pink and purple and blue. I know those hues, and so I ask about it. "Oh, Brett was definitely bisexual," my dad had smiled, winding them through his fingers. "I think he was figuring out his gender too, near the end. Wearing a lot more skirts, and such."

And then we hung grips off the lanyards, went inside and had lemonade.

"Alcoholism," my mother murmurs one night, zipping me into a sequinned gown; 17, now. "He was wonderful, and brilliant, and so full of love...and he was so, so damaged. All from his childhood." Natural grief wells up, even as I'm holding my breath and sucking in my gut. I bite my tongue and wait for her to continue.

"We didn't even know how bad it was until it was too late." She winds a scarf around me. "At that point, there wasn't a lot we could do." And my heart is hurting now but I just nod. I keep listening, because I only ever hear about Brett in bits and pieces; he's everywhere but here. in the sunhat on the wall and the box by the floor and the book on the shelf. In pink-and-purple-and-blue lanyards, and now, every pride flag my dad places. I know him through the echoes he left behind, through whispery remnants and wistful stories. And still, I wish I knew him more.

And it hurts.

By the end of that night, it hits me with aching clarity that he would have been family. I don't know if it makes sense, how suddenly it hurt, to realize a little more of what was lost. Because in a way, he'd always kind of been there. Even after death, Brett is ingrained into this house. And it just hits me, how much more of an impact it could have had, if he'd had the chance to stay.

It hits me that I would have loved him. More than a 100-watt smile could ever convey.

[minttangerines]

I like introverts. It's why Yoongi is my bias. Also bc im an introvert

😤 harrow

Same! We are a special breed.

[yellowplumfruit]

just learned that a mutual of mine is pro israel (they’re now blocked) so i wanted to take the time to say that if you believe what’s happening in palestine is not a genocide than you are not welcome here. unfollow me block me whatever i don’t want you interacting with me at all

[chipperchemical]

never recovering from this clip of Skizz saying "what's up, fuckface?" 😭

[bruciemilf]

Bruce being so smiley and happy around Robin! Jason shatters me so intimately. Soft as hell if this continues when Jason’s red hood, too.

“Robin,” Bruce calls him that out of habit and isn’t at all surprised when Jason swiftly punches his arm, only to rub the place a moment later, even if Bruce barely notices. “This is not the time for jokes.”

“ Three o’clock is always the time for jokes. You scheduled it.”

“Nightwing was turned into a rabbit. And you’re laughing.”

“Have you seen the guy’s Tik Toks? This is as dignified as he’ll ever be.”

Jason is very sure Dick can understand them, because he’s biting hard through his boots. Even harder when Bruce snorts and presses his lips in a white line.

Don’t get me wrong, thought, it’s vice versa.

“I think we’re gonna have to kill this guy, B.” Talking about a guy who cut the line in Batburger while Cass was trying to order.

Bruce, in his Batman voice, “fuck!”

Jason has one of those laughing fits where you get on the floor, breathless and limp. “This brings up memories.”

“ROBIN.”

[flawlessflesh]

the melini family tree

[marisatomay]

the “i had a good time” factor still the unbeatable metric in deciding if media is good

[userscully]

This is a game about winning the points that matter. CHALLENGERS (2024, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

[monstermonger]

🍂 INPRNT (Prints) 🌻 Ko-fi (Stickers, zines)

I recently bought an art book on Caspar David Friedrich, whose emotional work stuck with me since I first saw it in a museum years ago. Over the course of a few weeks, I read about his life and at the same time did studies/interpretations of many pieces. It was a really enjoyable and fulfilling project; here's a good lot of them together :)

I was happy to see many people enjoyed Friedrich's work+my interpretations while posting them individually. It took way too long, but I FINALLY set up a print shop for some of these + some other pieces for those who expressed interest. Thank you so much!

[sellenite]

Imagine giving him a handjob for the first time and he’s soooo sensitive. He’s trying so hard to stay quiet and not move because he’s so embarrassed, but his cock is leaking so much.

And your fist feels so good wrapped around him.

You bring your hand up to his tip and squeeze him a little tighter, and it’s completely involuntary how he arches up into your touch and lets out a throaty groan.

And the high points of his cheeks are pink because he can’t believe he just let that sound out, but he can’t stop the whines now because his head feels so light and you’re pumping his cock even faster.

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[bonetrousledbones]

fuck it since my birthday is in like one day i'm gonna use my birthday wish to tell y'all to look at the shit going on in southern Appalachia right now after Hurricane Helene. look at it and talk about it and spread resources about it like wildfire because nobody else fucking is and it feels like we're on our own out here.

there are people who are stranded in hazardous areas that are still safer than trying to leave by driving on the increasingly hazardous roads. i'm personally going into my third day without electricity at this point, and haven't been able to get any gas for a generator to even keep our fridge working. there are very few places with power or running water, and cell service has just barely been restored in the last hour. ground crews are working hard to repair things, but there are many, many areas that are entirely inaccessible that may not receive these fixes for several more days if not weeks. i'm afraid my own neighborhood might become one of those areas if repairs don't get to us soon, and since we're much more rural i have a difficult time trying to be optimistic about it.

we're very far inland. i guarantee you damn near everybody here was expecting a little more rain and wind like we usually get during hurricane season, if they even heard about the hurricane beforehand in the first place since most people only got about a twelve hour notice before landfall- after several major areas had already been flooded. our terrain protects us from most major weather events- most locals have never encountered a single tornado or legitimate tornado warning in our entire lives. nobody i've talked to or heard from about it seems to have had any idea that it would be this bad. everybody's wishing that they took it more seriously, but we've never, ever had to before. i've seen people comparing it to Hurricane Katrina and honestly i'm not sure if that's all too inaccurate. today while looking for a single working gas station i drove by a military helicopter parked in front of the elementary school i went to when i was little.

please for the love of god, talk about us. talk about the good memories you had here or the beauty of our mountains, and talk about how devastated we are as we watch historic structures, buildings, and entire towns get wiped from the face of the earth like they were never even there. stop dismissing us as uneducated hicks and rednecks and hilllbillies and fucking help us.

r/Asheville resource/updates megathread (Asheville is the largest city in western North Carolina)

How to set up disaster roaming for cell service

WLOS Live updates

Duke Energy power outage map

WNC Landslide Map

Hotels accepting locals

Emergency shelter locations

I live in western North Carolina so all of my own resources are centered around that. If anybody from the other impacted areas has additional sources they'd like to add, please don't hesitate to do so.

[lafortis]

[ryllen]

mal mal so thankful of our existence, sometimes he will even mutter it before bed and because he is so powerful, the blessing reaches u even with the distance

[raindropdragon]

Opportunist Long Quiet is absolutely terrifying

Like, holy shit, look at those TEETH

[zan0tix]

ALPHA KIDS: Draw your best friends!

DIRK: I'd say I'm better at one on one character interaction work of the more intimate variety, but I think this piece came together nicely. DIRK: Fun for the whole family style wholesomeness, any motherfucker in the radius of a screen displaying this image will instantly get hit with a sore case of heartburn and their tear ducts will clock in overtime at the weeping factory.

ROXY: im so proud of these i think these are my best designs yet :3 but omg dirk callie and jake were SOOO peculiar about their damn designs over my shoulder. jake wanted me to clarify that even in pink pen form his little guy is BLUE. so there. sigh this is the one occasion they could take notes from janey.. JUST LET LE ARTIST WORK!

JANE: Boy! I don't draw often but I always was fond of calligraphy growing up. I was kind of inspired by all of the other's works, but especially Calliope's swirls she puts in her art. It's very fun to add!

JAKE: Im not quite the best with posing, but i find the head very fun to study! Especially skulls.. so good ole calliope makes for the perfect muse! (hehe)

CALLIOPE: i realized i hadn't ever made a piece with Us in the same place at once. u_u CALLIOPE: bUt since it's reality now here's all of Us together, United at last! ^u^

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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice