#bridges burned

[originalityreigns]

[butterflybiana]

From sprinkler splashes to fire place ashes I gave my blood sweat and tears for this. I hosted parties and starved my body like I’d be saved by a perfect kiss. The jokes weren’t funny I took the money my friends from home don’t know what to say. I looked around in a blood soaked gown and I saw something they can’t take away. Cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned everything you lose is a step you take. So make the friendship bracelets take the moment and taste it you got no reason to be afraid. You’re on your own kid. Yeah you can face this. You’re on your own kid, you always have been.

now that we've had midnights for six months......favorite lyric from the album. go

[rosielindy]

✌🏼Father’s Day: True Story✌🏼

My father always said… that his father always said…

“Don’t expect anything and you won’t be disappointed.”

Decent advice, maybe, but what does it mean to have no expectations? Does it mean the “bar” we set to protect ourselves is somewhere below sea level?

Unfortunately, this advice shaped my father’s worldview in a way that set him up for a lifetime of personal boundary invasions. It did not end well. 😢

I stopped the cycle, painful as it was and still is. It’s been 10 years since his death but he was “gone” many years before his body gave up.

I love you, Dad. I always will. 🙏🏼

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Finding Draxum

A little comic of Mikey finding Draxum in the street after he got drained by the Shredder suit. The original idea for this storyline was that Draxum would align himself with the Hamatos for a time while The Shredder took over the city, until his ego and obsession with prophesy led him to betray them once more. This time he would get no third chance, and Mikey would be the one to draw the line and tell him so before making him leave the city for good.

I love TMNT for its found family! But having had to cut off irl blood relatives before despite how many chances they were given, I kind of like Draxum as a villain despite him being the creator of the turtles. But that’s just me!

This doesn’t lead to his nice canonical show self in my mind , though it can totally still be read that way :)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Breaking Bread, and Spilling Soup [Bonus art]

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[howifeltabouthim]

He had estranged from himself every friend that he had ever possessed.

Anthony Trollope, from Can You Forgive Her?

[orcatnip]

"I'll make you feel what I feel if it is the last thing I do! And mark my words, you wont like it when it happens!"

"Oh, how exciting. I'd love to see you try."

I completely agree with this post, @dampfur !!!! What was going on in the burned grey...

[wintergrofyuri]

ok but no seriously when are we going to talk about the fact that cold and smitten both have heartless imagery. cold getting his heart ripped out by spectre. smitten tearing his own chest open to remove his heart and give it to someone. like. what is wrong with them. like genuinely

i need smitten to call him heartless and cold being all "and you would know all about that wouldnt you" and smitten has to be held back from snapping his fucking neck. i think hed HATE how similar they are i really do. and cold wld love dangling it above his head. hook line and sinker.

and ofc, he doesnt just do it for the love of the game, altho he is a world champion at it. its self destructive. he wants to be hurt so bad. freak. but he cant just walk up to someone and go "hey can you stab me a lil" bc a) thats vulnerability and b) NOBODY is going to do it. so he just sticks to provoking people to get what he wants. and smitten will always fall for it bc hes an emotionally driven person. his heart outweighs his head. i feel like even if he was toldexactly what cold was doing hed still struggle not to react. hes just that kind of guy.

anyways theyre like this to me

[xiaq]

In the last year we’ve been in our house, we’ve had an issue with one of our neighbors. He owns the house, but he rents it out all year on Airbnb.

His house/garage shares a back pedestrian alley with ours. Now, he keeps his trash bins at the street 24/7 since he’s not there to take them out on trash day, which means that for the first few months we owned our home, his guests were filling up our bins, the only bins in the pedestrian alley, with trash/recycling (even though they’re right outside our door, not his). They would run out of space and overflow every week and we’d have nowhere to put our trash. We messaged the owner multiple times and he did nothing. So we moved our trash and recycling out to the street as well, which is a hassle, but better than dealing with a bunch of party-trash on a weekly basis.

We left our compost bin, since we step out the back door to empty our kitchen compost container into it almost daily and don’t want to walk all the way around to the street. This bin is bright and very clearly labeled both for our home and for compost.

His Airbnb guests did not care. For the past few months, at least every other week, I am pulling trash (often not bagged) from our compost bin. I’ve added giant signs, I’ve tried putting bungee cords on it so they have to slow down and read the signs. They ignore these measures.

Thursday, after having to completely clean out the bin of rotting party trash (again) so we can use it for compost, we sent a message to the owner (again) that was ignored (again).

Instead of dealing with the trash myself this time, I left if piled outside his back door.

This morning, not only is the trash still piled outside the door 3 days later, his new guests, who checked in Friday, have added an additional bag.

B is still trying to message him and be diplomatic.

I’m ready to burn some bridges.

My first thought is to bring all the trash to the front porch, so someone will be forced to deal with it if they want to get in or out of the home.

My second thought is to tell the city he’s operating an illegal Airbnb. In the city proper, due to the housing crisis, you can only get a rental license if the home is your primary residence and you live there for the majority of the year. He verifiably does not.

Now, I’m not typically a snitch but A this guy has been given multiple (multiple)opportunities to address his guests’ poor behavior and elected not to. B, he’s knowingly contributing to the rise in housing costs which is a dick move in itself.

Frankly I’m not above doing both, at this point.

Thoughts?

[roach-works]

hey reblog this with a piece of your favorite poem, please

[mildhaj]

my heart forever yours

[ragingadhd]

the ending of the burning bridge like

[linkcharacter]

What is your interpretation of the blood and ladder thing? Like, did Curly really see that at the time? Is it a way to convey his anxiety? Is it how he remembers the moment?

As I see it, I'm treating it the same as Jimmy's, as their subconscious and state of mind depicted and visualized for players in a cool asf way. It's a creative and visually impactful way to tell the story, the characters' thoughts and what's going on in their mind. Therefore I'm willing to accept that it is actually something Curly 'felt' in the moment. Up to you to interpret how vivid or conscious he was of it happening, it is simply where his mind was at.

Same question can be asked about all of Jimmy's mindfuckery too, with no clear indication on whether or not, (for example) he actually thought he was being hunted by a long ass horse while searching for mouthwash for Daisuke. If we accept, that Jimmy's walk in the Polle corridor after crashing the ship was what he 'felt' while sitting on the floor head in hands, If we don't doubt, that the judgement and other encounters are something that's representing Jimmy's mind state, then I don't think there's reasons to doubt Curly's too (and vice versa). It does blur a line between in-game reality and metaphorical symbolism shenanigans tomfoolery to the player and I think that's the point. It's for the story.

The vision itself comes out as extremely foreshadowy but it's something that's been on his mind. It is Curly having an existential crisis about the career ladders that reach above the Ocean Of Blood, with him "reaching the top" and safe from drowning in it. It is Curly's subconscious screaming at him about the danger in the cockpit, how he keeps on walking "ignoring all warning signs". This sequence implies so much, especially if we assume or consider that Curly has been aware of what Anya told him for a gooood while. Anticipating the doom Jimmy will bring with him by walking into the giant star (that, by the way, locks your camera on it, unable to turn away) that is leading into the cockpit where Jimmy is seated. Because that's literally what happens, Curly walks into the cockpit and gets incinerated later, because of Jimmy and Curly's own negligence and compliance. Feeling helpless in the wake of an inescapable gravitational pull is how Curly felt (whether he actually was helpless is up to debate, but it is how he saw it). He may have know OF the dead pixel but ignored it, as the warning signs were there but kept on acting like it wasn't a big deal. Until the deadly star that grew out of it consumed him.

[yousaveeveryonebutwhosavesyou]

Sometimes it's best to leave them before they leave you.

[classycookiexo]

[sorry-not-feeling-it-right-now]

It interests me how Smitten calls Cold “villain” due to his numbness

Let me explain

In media, it’s often that the heroes of the story would win with the power of love and friendship, while the villains are often defeated due to their numbness and apparent unfeeling-ness. And generally, people associate passion and love as a good thing, while being numb and apathetic is often seen as a trait that’s unfavourable. And hence, according to media, heroes are those who wears their heart on their sleeves, while villains are numb and are distant.

Smitten and Cold embodies Love and Apathy in their traits, and yet they also break that notion that love is the ultimate good thing and apathy a bad thing

Love can heal, but it can also hurt those around you and yourself if you let it blind and control you

Apathy can lead to distancing you from forming a connection with other people, but it could serve as some sort of comfort and a safety blanket, a numbness for the horrors beyond to keep you sane for a bit longer

Side note, I’ve noticed that routes with Smitten in it often leads to the Princesses hitting certain fantasy/romance troupes, like with Damsel—>Damsel in Distress, HEA—>well, a happily ever after in fairytales, Thorn—>classic love story of a betrayal blossoming into love and passion, basically enemies to lovers slow burn etc etc.

(Actually I’m pretty sure each of the Voices have their own themes that connects them to the Princesses, like how Cold is associated with death and ghosts and Skeptic is usually associated with thriller and or detective noir tropes(Paranoid living his life as a horror movie oh no))