#can't be helped

[rijinks]

Marius and Daniel– how I imagine it started (and what we see in Prince Lestat)

[nurizziee]

Well, that was fast.

Seen it, gotta do it.

I saw a post from @astronic-fr . Idk which one but it was this picture

Unfortunately, I only saved the photo and not the post. Too bad but oh, well.

[whumpty-dumpty-doo]

Whump is so wild because I'll be sitting there on my phone smiling at something I read and then I'll pause and realize that what made me smile was someone saying: "He's so cute! I'm gonna break his arms."

[scribeoffate]

11 and Allison/Kira!

thank you!

and no one can ever figure out what you want and you won't tell them.

Kira flips the hastily wrapped package over in her hands. Then again. Sighs. Pushes hair out of her face. Squares her shoulders. Reaches for the doorbell, stomach tied in knots as she pressed the button.

It doesn't work. No buzz, no ding, just a useless button.

Kira bites her bottom lip, tucks the package under her arm and knocks. That works and a shouted "just a minute" leaves her alone on Allison's doorstep a few minutes longer, shifting from foot to foot. Hoping. Wondering.

Allison looks older. She isn't expecting that. In her mind, Allison is trapped in time, a teenager forever. But she's older- an adult woman but with the life experience of a seventeen year old. Like Kira, Allison is a person out of time. On the fringes of the fringes.

"Uhm. Happy birthday."

"Oh." Allison runs a hand through her dark hair. "I guess it is."

"I got you..." Kira thrusts the package at her and Allison takes it.

"Thank you. I... do you want to come in?"

Kira shrugs. "Do you want me to?"

"I don't know... I feel lost."

Kira nods. "I... I was thinking we could talk. After you... uhm,"

"Died," Allison answers, holding the door open. "No sense in dancing around it."

Kira nods. "After you died, I had to leave. It's... hard, to come back."

She follows Allison inside to a sparsely furnished living room, just an old couch and chair.

She sits on the couch, surprised when Allison settles beside her.

The package is a book she's been putting together, scraps from the pack over the last decade or so. Monsters they've fought, pictures she's found online and in forgotten albums. It's the closest she can come to watching them grow, seeing her friends thrive and falter and exist.

Allison flips through the pages. "Oh," she breathes.

And Kira knows she understands. She reaches for Allison's hand, threads their fingers together as they seek connection, together.

Reuqest a ficlet

[brionysea]

the most realistic part of all this batfam fic i'm reading is the kids looking at their siblings and declaring them old. dick grayson isn't old he's 29, but teenagers are the worst, so it must be included

[capn-rattlebones]

ughhhh got bored, threw together a new PFP as a test of a bunch of things I usually don't mess with

[itadorey]

i'm a simple woman. i see a character with glasses and i fall in love 🤷‍♀️

[tenth-sentence]

"I fail to see how you could have done more."

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[impromptu-sketches]

[nihidea-art]

Nihitober Day 31: Void

We made it!!! The last Nihitober artwork!! Can't believe how insanely fast this month passed.

[leofrith]

basim is so anakin coded it's not even funny.

[faronmiu-persil]

The Sims and the rabbithole of CC

Like, don't you hate it when you're browsing some CC finds site, you find a cool creator, you go to their page, find another cool creator, open up their page in a new tab, and OH WOW LOOK AT THAT it's another new creator making content YOU ABSOLUTELY NEEEEEED. And you get to this.

This absolute monstruosity of a window. How many tabs? Don't know. Will I still open up new tabs because I found new content to download and can't close the other ones because I'll go back to them later? Yes. Someone help me. This rabbithole is making me look CC up for hours, I still have to finish my ts3 world and to convert some doors from TS4 to TS3 and stuff, but I can't stop scrolling CC finds.

[espectres]

this pic from the stageplay is so funny to me

[sneezemonster15]

So this was the view outside the window of my flight today. No filter.

At the edge of the horizon, all shades of blues and purples and lilacs and oranges and vermilions and carmines had blended and fused together creating a dazzling iridiscence that my phone couldn't truly capture.

And guess what it reminded me of. I wonder if Kishi took a flight to the valleys and mountains at dusk many years ago....

Perhaps he saw that place where the sky met the sun and created mad colours, and they were simply unforgettable, so he permanently recorded its majesty in Sasuke and Naruto. His gift to the world..

[janeway-lover]

SIMS is just missing the P to become SIMPS.

Aaaand we're back to this.

[jemichi90]

An update on the job situation:

I was chosen for the position, which was exciting. BUT. I ended up turning down the offer myself after a friend that works there called me to warn me about certain problems with that specific job. It would have been super cool and a very fitting - and fun - role for me, but those problems were unfortunately a deal breaker for me, and I think it was better to find out now rather than after I'd been hired. The boss was really sweet though. I went to negotiate with him one last time before turning down the offer and I could tell he was sincerely trying everything in his power to find a solution. I could tell that he really wanted me for the job just as much as I wanted that job, but sometimes it's just not going to work out. I gave him my business card before I left, as he was interested in my illustration / graphic design skills, so he can commission me for art at least.

But man, that was a hard decision to make. It would be much easier to say no if the job had sucked and the boss would have been awful, but they were wonderful. My friend even sent me a message to tell me they had all really liked me, so apparently they were still talking about me after I left (I cried when I heard that)... But yeah, that idea got buried, sadly.

I think I'll focus on marketing my art / book for a while before attempting to search for other jobs again. Speaking of which, I will publish my book (officially) very soon!