#coming out of my cage

[genericwhisk]

2023 is the year in which i will be coming out of my cage and doing just fine.

[scretladyspider]

why did I come out of my cage. I am not doing just fine. I want to go back in please

[mothballv]

Me, coming out of my cage after someone asked me how I've been doing: "Just fine"

[takemetoutah]

feeling the urge to write again.

or perhaps not write, but just think. to consider myself and where I’ve been and how the journey has unfolded thus far. so much of the misery suffered in my early years traces to an obsession with defining myself in relation to others—partners, friends, family—being consumed by the idea of being perceived, of garnering enough notes or likes, of “hell is other people.” I still firmly believe sartre had a point. I haven’t changed *that* much. but I’m finding myself coming into a new confidence as I approach my thirtieth year. I’m surrounded by people who genuinely love me for me. no, past self, we didn’t trick anyone into loving us. we just managed to find our people, the ones who understand and care and aren’t going anywhere. even though we haven’t always known who we were, perhaps the ones you hold dear now have been able to see through to your core. in a way, perception now feels more like an embrace, less like pity or contempt. and there’s space to figure it out. to draw a circle around all that we love and confidently claim, “this is who I am.” I was intrigued by the existential difference between “who are you” and “what are you” in college, and I’m not sure I’m any better equipped to answer that. but I’m unafraid, like never before, of running into my own arms and feeling at home in my skin. let’s see where this goes.

[vstrays]

despite living in the years of “coming of age,” im still a depressed gay making minimum wage

[tooboredtothinkofaname]

[sadpicturesques]

so is there a mrs. brightside?

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage

you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out

"i'm calling shepherd"

his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books: to go up the chain. that goes against everything we've seen him do. he bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns

he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer. there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends

nothing's happened yet

it doesn't have to go this way

but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy

he doesn't hesitate

it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from

only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat

and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for

"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"

he's learned the price of trust

just like ghost did

but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath

"good advice, It"

[clockworkcheetah]

call the timeloop fic regigigas cause of its slow start

[beastlyidiocy]

[blackfire5561]

Wanted it to still be inspired by their Transformers Prime looks because I love em, but here's some designs based on my dream alt modes for Knock Out and Breakdown!

[felsicveins]

Dumping some really really really really REALLY old dndads drawings

[kitaminxart]

I'm beginning to think maybe I have a thing for people that regularly perform some sort of first aid

I should be writing my thesis :)

[linusbenjamin]

Scarlet Witch voiced by Elizabeth Olsen What If (2021-) | 2.05 'What If... Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?'

[autisticandroids]

FAMINE: That's one deep, dark nothing you've got there, Dean.

[youtube with closed captions]

dean and his father. dean and his family. dean and how bad it is.

(via @closetoyou1970)

[bulldog-butch]

i can be an animal for you 🐆