#anyway i'm cRYING

[graciehart]

— washington irving

[simplepotatofarmer]

think about Dream gently petting Techno's execution scars and wondering if he could have done more to help

part of dream truly thought it wouldn't go that far.

he gave techno the map to direct him to the totem as a fail safe.

dream never thought they'd actually be able to get techno to the execution platform. he was prepared for it to happen, of course, because this was too important not to plan for all possibilities. but it's technoblade. no way he gets brought in by the butcher army. sure, he was outnumbered but dream knew he could best them all.

and he was right! techno could!

then they threatened carl and of course techno surrendered. dream isn't all that surprised, really. he had a horse he loved. but dream didn't think it would get that far. but it did.

so he has punz attempt to stop the execution (techno has a totem). so he frees carl because he knows that techno wouldn't leave without his horse and he's shocked and horrified when quackity pulls the lever (techno has a totem). dream doesn't have time to stop and think but the thought he should have done more does cross his mind.

when techno gets locked in prison with him, after things have settled down, dream finds himself constantly looking at techno's scar. it has a gold tint to it and most of it is hidden beneath techno's hair but part of it covers his forehead like a strange birthmark, one jagged line bisecting his eyebrow and coming close to his eye.

they're sitting next to each other, against the wall, and techno has nodded off. he can sleep anywhere. dream is watching him and without thinking, reaches out to trace techno's scar. his fingers are shaking and he knows all about scars - he's covered in them - but the scar on techno makes him sad, makes him feel guilty. what else could he have done? techno walked into a trap for him and all he did was give techno a map....

techno opens one eye and asks dream what he's doin' and dream freezes, not sure what to say. he stutters out something about never noticing it before and techno takes dream's hand and presses his palm against the scar. 'it's pretty cool, huh' he says, sounding nonchalant and that makes dream's chest tight. 'i should've done more.' he expects techno to agree.

but techno shakes his head and tells dream he did enough, without the map, he'd be dead and, besides, you got carl out, man. when dream opens his mouth to protest, techno shushes him, says it's alright, dream, you tried, you were there, that's enough.

(dream doesn't know that techno is looking at all dream's scars and wondering if there was something he could've done to take away even a fraction of them.)

[goodbadhabit]

i am mentally and physically and mentally and physically exhausted, fucking hell

[sloedancing]

she said yes

[brionbroadway]

guess who just took her first steps without crutches!! 

[gruesomejack]

Bianca with her toddler on her hip while she's moving around the kitchen, cooking and singing to him too

His head is full of little curls and his bright eyes match her own and she loves him

She never believed in soul mates and if she ever thought about it, she never thought they could be familial, but this two year old is the best friend she's ever had and she's never felt her heart warm as much as it did when he smiled for her

She doesn't love her husband, but she can admit that he gave him the best gift she's ever gotten

[sev-ille]

I may be pointing out something completely obvious, but Round 7 takes place immediately after Round 6?

Like immediately after.

Hyuna is still there, bleeding. Like it's so unlikely that Mizi and Hyuna have just been roaming for days. Like after round 6, it's been maybe a few hours at most?

My thoughts are a mess rn but damn that sucks for Till if that's true (not that it doesn't suck if it's not).

Ivan dies in front of him, then he has a change of outfit and immediately has to move onto the next Round. No wonder he looks so fatigued, like he's about to pass out at any moment.

Did he even get to eat or drink anything? I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't, but still.

[kintsugiscars]

“You always feel like you have to carry the weight of everyone else’s worlds… why? It’s alright to look after yourself, too.”

[ that soft comforting vibe ]

Why... truly the question that puzzled his heart. Perhaps it was a sense of responsibility - he had saved the worlds so many times over it was his job to continue doing so. It could even be a sense of misguided pride - he was the only one that could carry that weight.

Though, more likely than not, it was no such grandiose, beautiful thing. It was an ugly, clawed beast that held tight to the worlds on his shoulders. Only with a fellow Atlas could he open the door a crack and make the beast face the light.

"I do it because I know no other way to be." With a miserable smile, he turned to his companion. "If I don't carry the weight, what is there left for me? Should I cease my work, then no one stay with me. I am a monster, Meteor. God-killer, mortal-slayer, nation-destroyer, you name it, I have done it in the name of good. If I start showing a hint of selfishness, people will remember those things not for the cause I fought for, but for the blood I spilled."

Golden tears long dried shone in the light. "I cannot stop giving away parts of myself. The more of myself I give away, the more people are at ease around me. The more I carry other people's worlds, the more they trust me not to hurt them instead. There is no other choice for me. It is either willingly sacrifice myself endlessly or become the next great threat to the star to the very people I saved."

[chipthekeeper]

“I was really surprised to be speaking about this big fantasy series and about a character who on both a personal and political level is somewhat at odds with the gender they were born in. That was something, as a nonbinary person, that resonates strongly....I think she’s always living in counterpoint to what her life might look like were she male.”

-Emma D'Arcy, from House of the Dragon: Inside the Creation of a Targaryen Dynasty

[tagerrkix]

rage.

[mobius-m-mobius]

Mobius + being the only one to notice

[theoldkyokodied]

It's always funny in sillydelphia or whatever. Sorry i can't concentrate on making a joke, there are women right in front of me (pointing at my own genderbend iasip drawings, sweating profusely)

[egophiliac]

innocently logging in to look at the Twst schedule for May like

[soybean-official]

Family portrait.

[physical-manifestation-of-spite]

A collection of Halloween costumes from an antique 1935 magazine published in New York. Found at a local thrift store.

Prints available :]

[fairydrowning]

"People cry out of fatigue. But how horrible it is to hear someone say, ‘she’s just tired.’ Tired, yes, certainly, but just? There’s nothing just about it."

– Heather Christle, The Crying Book