#before and after the bomb

[b0tster]

i fucking hate this country

[skinnycookie]

Once on your lips, forever on your hips 😭

[bree-paints]

My copium where they all survive and they are an iconic one eyed trio

Also some random sketches because 266-267 have been killing me emotionally thank you

[heybiji]

dandelion casually dropping traumatic information while insisting that instead of killing the problem wizard they simply burn his tongue

[foldingfittedsheets]

My first ever concert was Death Cab for Cutie. I was supposed to go with a friend but she bailed. The venue was this gorgeous local park that put on concerts over the summer so it was a big outdoor area.

I thought about not going but I was like, social anxiety be damned. I will go to this concert alone! I’d already bought the tickets and it would be an adventure. In my heart I was hoping someone might ask me to join them which in hindsight was fairly ludicrous given the insular nature of both Death Cab fans and Pacific Northwesters.

So I went alone and sat alone. I still had a pretty nice time and when the concert finished I got up, folded up my blanket, and headed out. I was a little puzzled more people weren’t leaving but I figured it was just that they were having a nice time with their friends on the grass.

I had made my way out of the venue when music started back up. I froze.

Readers, I didn’t know encores existed.

I stood outside the fence, feeling ridiculous, listening to my favorite song drifting along the night air over the barricade. The tickets were only good to be scanned once. I’m certain now if I’d explained to the door people they’d have let me back in, but I was young and embarrassed.

I sat outside the fence on the warm summer evening as the light faded, wishing I weren’t alone, listening to music about being lonely.

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Still very wild to me when people try to gotcha Jason with the whole "if you can kill other people for being evil why can't they kill you" when jason is like. One of the most passively suicidal characters I've ever seen. What if man

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Big shout-out to the ocs and lore that depicts physical/appearance changes due to high concentration and uses of magic btw that shit is so cool. Whether your wizard's hair turns blue or straight up grows an extra arm due to the excessive amount of powerful magic they use everyday I eat that shit up. Bonus points if it's a rare/newly discovered condition or if your wizard is just straight up unrecognizable from arc 1 to arc 4. Bonus bonus points if the wizard gains a disability from it and has to learn to adapt to their new condition

[spacedlexi]

silly ep 1 redraws done time for the hurt

[sage-nebula]

"Look. I've got these [fists]. And you've got those [bombs]." "They never work." "They will." (insp: "what could you possibly expect was gonna happen when you made me?")

[jesse-pinko]

Honestly there are so many ppl I know irl that I will never be able to look at the same again… If you can hear “11,500 children killed” “crushed and buried patients alive with bulldozers” if you can look at videos of children with their limbs amputated screaming and crying because there is no anesthesia and your response is still “free the hostages!” or “but Hamas!” or “Israel has the right to exist” then you simply do not see Arabs as people, you cannot look at brown children and be reminded of your own kids because you see them as Other, and whether subconsciously or not your perception of the Middle East is of an innately war-torn, inherently violent place, and you have conveniently and utterly failed to comprehend how much of that is due to Western savagery and puppeteering. Why do you think it’s in any way acceptable for the US to regularly bomb other countries, but it was considered a war crime to the utmost degree when they physically retaliated against us? Why do you think Hamas holding hostages is the height of brutality when Israel is publicly expressing glee over killing thousands upon thousands of Palestinian children? If you think any of these things, you do not think of Arabs as people, you think of them as Other, unworthy of the protections and freedoms you take for granted.

[rizzzcat]

Enot and Arti visit metropolis!

[th3-c0ll3ct3r]

My Tumblr followers. If and when you see this. Just don't look at twitter man

This year is cooked

Sorry for the vent but omg this year man THIS YEAR UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (read tags for context)

[attorneys-against-court-violence]

The alternate series of events where Metis kills the phantom instead is kind of hilarious? And we needed to expound on it.

Picture this; you're Athena Cykes, bounding toward the robotics lab like a bunny with a drawing you want to show your mother. She hasn't been there for you in the ways you needed, but you still love her and want to show it in the ways you know how.

The door opens. First thing you see is your mother, standing aggressively, looking weirdly downcast and angry. The second is her katana, stained in a shade of red you've never seen before (as ridiculous as that fact was, in hindsight). The third is this... man? You think? On the floor motionless. He looks... broken. That same red liquid seems to be leaking from him, like one of the many machines in the Space Centre leaking oil. You connect the dots and realise your mother's hurt someone. Badly.

Just after that clicks, your mother stands upright and turns to you. Blissfully setting aside that this is a fucked-up thing for a kid to see, she beams a smile your way and says "Good afternoon, Athena." with all the warmth in her heart. Like she hadn't just irreparably damaged a grown-ass man in her own workspace and home. You're not sure if her voice is re-assuring or just plain uncanny but at least she's safe? And a murderer now?

Who the hell even was that guy?

WHAT WAS HE DOING THERE?!

Answers will have to wait while you're ushered out the room and back to the psych lab. Metis leaves you with PONCO to keep you safe while she deals with the. Situation. She sounds about as panicked as you are behind the assurance but she's always been better at handling such things. That or it's her resting flat tone doing the heavy lifting. Showing her emotions is something she was never so good at.

Simon arrives shortly after and helps Metis with the incident, later informing his co-workers that this "phantom" they had been chasing for so long had been felled by his impeccably skilled mentor. Perhaps he's alive enough to be arrested and face the consequences of his actions, maybe he karked it when the blade entered his body. Either way, justice is served for this total stranger who you didn't even know was a bad guy when you stumbled onto his body. It's been a baffling and frightening day. Conflict of interest prevents Simon from prosecuting but he ensures that whoever happens to be defending her can plead self-defense and reduce/mitigate her sentence without trouble. At least you won't be separated from her over any of this.

Aura doesn't really seem to care that a man died in the laboratory. If anything, she's disgusted that someone would try to hurt Metis and frankly a little too excited over the idea of Metis killing someone who had it coming stone-dead with no remorse. It's only mildly worrying - Aura's just like that and she's exceptionally biased towards your mother for... reasons you find too complex to understand for now.

The HAT-1 launch goes forward as planned. That drawing of yours from the day prior becomes quite the conversation starter for years to come.

It's almost morbidly amusing. The Blackquills seem to think so, anyway.

[lord-squiggletits]

They're never gonna make a megop dynamic that's as good as IDW ever again and the sooner I accept that the sooner I'll be able to curb my disappointment when every continuity from now until the end of time makes Megatron and Optimus' story "Megatron is the gladiator/writer who actually has protagonist energy because he has goals and is starting a conflict against the government (antagonist), and Orion is just his bestie/simp friend tagging along bc he had no ambitions until Megatron showed him the light" like oh my god give OP initiative for once in his life I'm begging

[princealberich]

Actually no I need to talk about it. Nagasaki disinviting Israel and inviting Palestine specifically means so much. Not just on a political front- But for the belief in a free Palestine.

When the bombs dropped, nothing was left. It was hell. Two entire cities just... Gone, completely wiped off the map. It was believed then, too, that nothing would ever grow again due to the radiation- At the very least, with nothing left, the survivors surely wouldn't be able to remain.

But they did.

And flowers grew. And trees. And buildings were rebuilt, and people kept living, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki came back. They didn't just survive, they thrived, and now both cities are booming centers of life built upon scarred land that grew back.

This is, to me- One people that came back telling another that you will live, too. You will grow. And you will be free.

[field-cryptobotanist]

Just watched the new fallout series and it might just be the brainrot talking but I feel like Elias Bouchard would have thrived in that universe