#checking pulse

[biggest-whump-fan]

From the drama triage

[limeskye]

The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud (2010)

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[rocketbirdie]

you're still with me, right? you'll be okay?

[morganbritton132]

The first time Steve and Eddie ever talk to each other is in the nurse’s office because Eddie had a bloody nose and Steve is…dying? Eddie thinks he might be dying. Eddie thinks that Steve Harrington is going to die while the nurse left to call his parents and everybody is going to blame him.

Steve’s face is still pretty fucked up from whatever happened between him and Billy so Eddie thinks it’s probably painful to have his arm draped across his face like that.

“Please don’t die.”

Steve lifts his arm just enough to squint at Eddie in the dimly lit room, “Huh?”

“If you’re going to die, do it when the nurse is here so no one thinks it’s my fault,” Eddie says.

Steve just stares at him a little longer than them hums to himself, “Aura.”

“Huh?”

“Not dying, migraine,” Steve says into his arm. “Start of one. Gonna be bad in like, thirty minutes.”

Eddie watches Steve swallow thickly like he’s trying hard not to throw up and thinks that it looks pretty bad now, but he shrugs. He pats Steve on the leg, “Least your mom will pick you up before then.”

Steve snorts and it looks painful with his nose still messed up, “Fat chance. M’parents aren’t in town.”

“Oh…” Eddie hums and then makes an impulsive suggestion. “I could take you home.”

“…Yeah, okay. Let’s go.”

Wait. What? He wasn’t supposed to take him up on that, “Really?”

[thelyinggrapevine]

Astronomy tower, late at night toward the end of the school year [1976]

James: What's your favorite sound?

Regulus: I like the sound of silence a lot.

James: *goes quiet*

Regulus, mumbling: I also like the sound of your voice, too.

James, clueless: Huh? What did you say, I wasn't listening *was too busy looking for Reg's star*

Regulus: Absolutely nothing, you're hearing things.

James: Whatever you say, mi estrella.

Regulus: ?

James, staring enraptured: You're adorable.

Regulus, blushing: Shut,, the fuck up???

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Jason, after coming back to Gotham and taking over the criminal underworld— is burnt out.

He’s exhausted, he can’t sleep, he’s pretty sure he broke some ribs somewhere along the two month mark of being the Red Hood and he just wants to go home.

So he does, entering the Cave near deliriously while Batman and Robin are out on patrol, shattering the stupid memorial he comes across while he’s at it, and— huh, well, that actually looks like a pretty comfy spot to take a nap. He’s just gonna— one minute. He just needs one… minute…..

When Bruce and Tim return to the Cave it’s to a dead boy passed out in the shattered remains of the memorial case, wrapped up in the tattered cape Bruce pulled from the rubble in Ethiopia.

[kikker-oma]

[shvmblr]

Check your pulse!

woah.. Teej content..

[thetimetraveler24]

If Obi-Wan had a nickel for every time he killed a Sith and left them for dead but they never actually died, he’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice right?

[oh-dameron]

AU where Wei Wuxian awakens after the soul sacrifice but not the Yiling Patriarch. Because Wei Wuxian died the first time he was thrown into the Burial Mounds and every shred of his demonic cultivation was due to his powers as a resentful ghost; powers he no longer has, you see, because now he's alive again.

[marlahey]

"sorry, is this alright?" "i don't see how else you'd fix it." aka dr. jack "dodger" dawkins touching belle (aka the love of his life) for purely medical reasons aka hands hands hands for @missgoalie75

Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Maia Mitchell The Artful Dodger (2023–)

[letthewhumpbegin]

Shadowhunters, s2e8

[quadrantadvisor]

Owl House/Boiling Isles biology headcanons from a fic idea I never wrote:

Witches have a wider range of color vision than humans. A lot of magic puts off infrared light (meaning Luz is missing out on like, half of what spells actually look like).

Humans, however, have a better sense of smell. Witches are better at digesting potentially hazardous materials, but humans have to worry about poisons. Humans are also highly specialized to smell petrichor (via Wikipedia, "able to detect it at concentrations as low as 0.4 parts per billion"), and witches can't smell it at all. (Luz is like, "I miss the rain smells in the human realm so much. On the Boiling Isles the rain just smells like burning :/" and all her friends are like, "what. are you talking about."

Witches don't have an appendix, but they do, coincidentally, also have a random organ that doesn't have much of a purpose and sometimes ruptures and kills you. It's located slightly above the right lung.

Kinda obvious but, ears. Witch ears have a greater curve than human ears and taper into a point. They have some limited mobility, allowing the witch to pinpoint sounds, and they play a part in emotional expression. For a witch, it's not really that strange that human ears are round, it's more that they don't move at all. They're completely stiff, and it makes humans difficult to read. (Luz is lucky she's otherwise very expressive, or else she would come off as nearly emotionless. As it is, sometimes people think she's not being genuine, because her ears don't match the rest of her expression, like when someone smiles without their eyes.)

Humans have slightly denser bones than witches. As a result, humans weigh a bit more on average and put on muscle easier.

Witches can't digest lactose

A high tolerance for most human poisons means that alcohol isn't a popular drug for witches. It technically affects them in a similar way, but their tolerance is such that it's not an effective way to get high. Most of the drugs used recreationally on the Boiling Isles would kill a human instantly.

Witches have a different pulse beat from humans, since their hearts are designed differently to accommodate the bile sac (and grimwalkers' pulses are even more unique, since they have a galdorstone. Rather than the thump of blood valves, Grimwalkers have a sort of magic hum that pulses their circulatory system.)

[strongbeats]

Current heart rate is 103! I love these heartbeat check ins, whats yours at now? Can you get mine higher???

[tddoodles]

Gwuncan mess for my mental health