#but the rest is just

[sotvtaughtmehowtofeel]

“This is unfair. You used my adoration for you against me.” Ezra’s voice was quiet.

He was right, and she had done it on purpose. She raised one eyebrow at him, keeping her face blank, despite staring at the scar on his cheek instead of meeting his gaze.  She couldn’t look him in the eye without a stab of guilt. His soft fucking looks always hit her hard, usually made her feel cared for; how dare he use one against her. It somehow made her feel more and less guilty for tricking him.

“You weren’t listening to me.”

“Now, little bird, there are times when the additional years I carry on yours and the vast breadth of experience I hold bestow upon-”

“You’re not listening!” she repeated, resisting the urge to stomp her foot out of frustration, clenching her fists instead, refusing to project any image of childishness to him when he was trying to pull the “adult” card on her. She was nearly sixteen, and on some planets that was old enough to leave into the Black alone.

Ezra liked to point out that that was on some planets, neither Kamrea nor Lau among them. How dare he use her ambiguous homeworld against her. She clenched her jaw, watching him as her eyebrows drew down farther, even though he had finally shut the fuck up and was watching her.

“What do you want me to understand?” he asked her quietly.

“I’m not a child,” she muttered.

“I’d risk pointing out that manipulating me through affection rather than-” he paused at the look she gave him. He sighed. “I am failing to listen to you again, I see. Carry on.”

“We’re supposed to be partners, but you wouldn’t even entertain the idea.” She scowled at him. “You shut it down. Immediately.” She shifted on her feet, dropping her gaze to somewhere to his right. “Like my father would have.”

His face changed then, and his eyes dropped to the ground. He twisted his lips briefly, nodded once, and crossed his arm across his chest to tug at his shoulder. “I see.”

She didn’t know how to explain the rest. How she would shut down when her father turned on her like that. How she would still crave the validation of his agreement. How she’d never had any hope of turning whatever affection her father had once had for her into a catalyst for what she wanted. 

How she wanted Ezra to be different.

So she just looked at him, raised both her eyebrows, and repeated quietly, “You weren’t listening.”

Ezra took a step toward her, wrapped his arm around her shoulders, and pulled her into him. “You’re right, little bird. I’m sorry.”

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Thanks @not-so-mundane-after-all for sharing the writing prompt that led to this ("This is unfair. You used my adoration for you against me")!

[daisyofwaterdeep]

had a dream I went to a hozier concert and mr. hozier stopped singing and pointed to me in the crowd and asked me to go get him some extra crispy tofu and a blueberry shake for after the show and then the crowd passed his debit card to me and when I got it I could see his real legal name was Horace Bob-omb

[s0up1ta]

toxic yaoi or something idk i haven't watched gravity falls

[hamoodmood]

[koroart]

I put way too much effort into this ( based on this meme, it wouldn’t leave me alone until it was drawn — I am freee )

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[isjasz]

[Ready for a new game?]

day 11 definitelynottober - heart in your fist & week 1 weeklyhermittober - beginnings

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IM SO READY LETSGO SO EXCITED FOR THE NEW LIFE SERIES💥💥💥💥💥💥

[shitbl0gger]

[doll-phobia]

[bigimango]

I just like having them relax

They deserve it

[lastoneout]

No shade to OP as a person but believe me, this is a sign that something is DEEPLY fucking broken. Like they announced ONE new IP out of like eight films. I genuinely think within the decade they're just gonna stop making original films all together. That's what they learned from Elemental and Wish, just don't make anything new if you can help it.

Like they've unironically turned into what people pretend Dreamworks is, a sequel mill. The real downside is that Dreamworks actually knows how to make a good sequel, Disney never really figured that one out, bar a couple of outliers, and I have no faith in them pulling any of these off. Absolutely soul-crushingly pathetic. Thank god other animation studios exist.

This is the saddest shit I've ever seen, truly.

[alfheimr]

mithrun 🌞

[dreamysnowangel444]

RIP Shelly Duvall, you will be missed 🎀🪦 She passed on the 11/7/24.

[filmnoirsbian]

Feeling an incredibly weird specific nostalgia but what piece of media defined 2020 for you (as in you spent that year with it) mine is mtv's catfish

[lylahammar]

the way that this page in particular was adapted just OOZES studio trigger tbh. like I know everyone likes to joke about studio trigger being the horny studio, but the quick jerky animation direction is what truly makes their work recognizable to me. I can practically see Lio Fotia bleeding through the pixels in that 5 frame animation of Falin peeking through her fingers

[obiwhat]