#but now i am thinking

[baijingshen]

winter’s end

@legendwrote​ || Zhou Zishu

A single insignificant snowflake drifts through the air, falling one moment and soaring high the next, helplessly carried by the raging storm that moves the world around it. The winds are fierce and merciless but not fearsome. It doesn’t matter how often the little snowflake falls or rises, how quickly it moves or where it will land once its journey is done. Time is not of any essence and with nowhere to be or go, no place is the wrong one. The moment is short-lived and infinite at the same time, a heartbeat frozen in endless quiet peace.

Waking up is like daybreak after the longest night, like the first sunray of summer melting the ice that was frozen for centuries; and with every drop of meltwater Wen Kexing’s mind awakens a little more. His body remembers how to live first, his fingers moving against the blanket that covers him and his chest rising with a deeper breath than he’s taken since he closed his eyes on Zhou Zishu and the world.

Zhou Zishu. The first words he remembers to call out, but no sound comes from his lips, like his tongue has forgotten how to shape words. He’s floating, then falling, faster and faster, through the white endless snow-- until it all just stops.

He’s still and silent, like before, but with every breath that goes in and out of his lungs more feeling comes back to his body. He’s lying on a smooth surface, the comforting weight of a blanket covering most of his body. The air in the room is cool and filled with scents he recalls from what feels like several lifetimes ago. That’s right - he can breathe, hear, smell, taste. Remnants of the endless peaceful snow falling in his mind are still clinging to him but fading quickly now as he remembers what it’s like to be conscious.

Wen Kexing’s eyelids twitch, and then they open, blinking a few times as his vision clears. He looks at the high ceiling of a room made of windowless stone walls, far away from the bed he is lying on. With the ample space and the absence of decorations it lacks the comfort and intimacy of a bedroom and rather resembles a shrine. Kexing finds no memory of this room in his mind but something about it feels familiar. Something about everything here feels familiar.

And just like that, he remembers.

“A-xu..!” he calls out as he sits up, but his voice is so hoarse it barely comes out audible. His hair falls over his shoulders from the sudden movement - ashen white and far longer than it should be. Marveled, Wen Kexing catches a strand of it between his fingers to inspect it more closely. For a moment the thought of reincarnation crosses his mind. Perhaps he’s been reborn and this is his new life-- but no. These long ashen strands are his, as are the fingers holding them and the eyes seeing them. These thoughts are his, too, and these memories of a love so deep he chose to gave up everything to save it. Save him.

“A-xu..” he says again, his vocal chords moving a little smoother this time.

[beaft]

my mum forbade me to say anything to my dad about the top surgery thing, and it's just hit me how funny it would be if i got it done and didn't tell him and just waited for him to notice. i mean, what's he gonna say? "didn't you used to have tits?"

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

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[aropride]

[wrightandco]

the confetti for a not guilty verdict is actually the funniest fucking thing about ace attorney

it’s like they inherently know their system is fucked to the to the extent that they’ve got the celebration confetti at the ready when they don’t wrongfully incarcerate someone

edgeworth never lost a trial until he faced phoenix wright so the confetti goes off and he’s probably like what the fuck ppfthh pffth phhh that last bit is him spitting the confetti out of his mouth

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[ratbaby15]

Got inspired, made something, hope you enjoy.

Pretty accurate if I do say so myself.

[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

[indigo6f00ff]

need to share an experience i had 30 minutes ago

(edit: thanks to @walks-the-ages for providing and reminding me to put alt text, sorry it slips my mind alot lol)

[thatskindarough]

It’s ma birthday so instead of doing my many assignments and other obligations I decided to draw a present for myself

And the present is Crowley

[chemicalarospec]

fob saying "it's been 17 years since we played with My Chemical Romance" is so important cuz idk about the rest of y'all but I got so caught up in the dnp anticipation that I forgot the original reason this day was a big deal was FOB and MCR playing together again!!

[wolfythewitch]

Started malevolent, on episode 2

- we started not with a bang but with a whimper

- Arthur does not sound like a word anymore

- that demon in his brain needs to take a chill pill

- I need him tranquilized his shouting is scaring ME

[doodled0g]

memewashing

(alts for first one under cut)

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Yeah, I don't know about you, Fidds, but I'd fold at this 🙏

Previous!!

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First!!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

typical tavern scene