#crying because this sucks

[starmieknight]

Was thinking about Stan's habit of grabbing his chest when he's scared and then thought about what if he did end up having a heart attack or something after Ford came back. Like, he's been stressed for ages and now he's gotta worry about Ford potentially getting the kids into something dangerous like he did and where he's gonna go after the kids leave and what he's gonna do without the Shack.

Maybe it hits him in the middle of tour or something. Like, he's been feeling off all day and looks kinda ragged so maybe Soos is keeping close and sees him go down. At first, people think it's part of the tour or some typical Stan gag. And then he doesn't laugh or try to play it up for money. So the twins run down to the basement to get Ford.

He's kinda annoyed that his planning time's been interrupted by Stanley's antics, but the twins seem genuinely upset so he goes to check it out. And finds out Soos and Wendy called an ambulance and there really IS a problem. Then he kinda disconnects from the situation. Like, he's panicking internally but this isn't the first major medical situation he's been in. So he calmly gets the kids (Soos and Wendy included) into Stan's car and follows the ambulance to the hospital. He's the one wrangling the kids while they freak out and asking all the questions to the doctors and nurses about Stan's condition. He can't take time to worry about his brother because he's got a bunch of kids to reassure and they're all looking to him because he's the eldest person there. He's an old man with all the answers in the universe. If anyone can tell them Stan's gonna be okay, it's gonna be Mr. 12 PhDs.

Except... he doesn't.

He doesn't know anything about his brother's medical history past the age of seventeen. Dipper's the one to mention Stan's medication and Mabel knows his diet and Soos and Wendy know about his boxing hobby and work schedule. Ford has a hazy memory about Stan chewing his way out of a trunk once.

He starts thinking about how Stan's the only family he has left. Sure, the twins are there, but they don't really know each other. Shermie and his son are just over the state line in California, but they don't know who he is anymore. Stanley's been wearing his face for years and they never seemed to notice. His parents are dead. Fiddleford is 30 years in the wind.

Stanley's the only one who truly knows him. Knows about his deepest insecurities and childhood dreams. Who knows his favorite books and comic book heroes. About his first disastrous date and the kissing bot. About how badly things had gone for him and been at his doorstep only a couple of days after receiving a single postcard after 10 years of silence.

And Ford knows nothing of the man Stanley became. Stanley doesn't know how Ford has changed. How he's trying SO HARD to fix his mistakes.

And suddenly being so angry over some paltry little machine doesn't seem so important. Ford's the one who built a doomsday device.

He's still angry with Stanley taking his identity, but what does it matter if no one noticed? Sure, Stan got him a criminal record, but he made one of his own in the multiverse. Their family has always leaned to the gray side of the law.

And now they may never get the chance to know each other again. 40 years without each other and the pain of potentially losing Stanley cuts Stanford so deep he feels like he's the one dying.

So he sits in that cold hospital waiting room, four hysterical kids surrounding him, and wears a straight face while his world falls apart around him.

If you lose your parents, they call you an orphan.

If you lose your twin, they don't stop calling you a brother.

[wwillywonka]

working on my style

[yelrabmena]

I reaaaaallly hate how fnaf fans seem to hate any interpretation of william afton that makes him even a bit complex or gives him a proper motivation like it ran over and beat their grandma or something. doesn't even have to be an interpretation of his canon self I've seen people get pissy about it in AUs and whatnot. this is especially common in twitter and reddit from what I've seen and admittedly even I used to be like this

yes he's probably an unforgivable asshole in canon, he's also barely a character whose motivations we literally do not know by just looking at the games and have to turn to outside sources to have even an idea of, but why would someone having a "willcare au" make them bad (actual point of criticism I've seen). Like no, making him care about his children does not mean treating him like he's a good father, in fact, fathers who care about their children can also treat them like shit and/or be extremely negletful! (very common irl!)

this also applies to whenever people make his motivation related to his dead son, which for some people seems to be code for "this person completely justifies everything william did to his own children and others and should be beaten to death with a sitck", when most people who do that also make him treat Mike like shit so I do not see how its remotely pretending he's a good father

[puppppppppy]

beep beep im a sheep

speeddraw below the cut (audio warning)

song: "Cult of Dionysis" by The Orion Experience

[bedtimegiraffe]

Here are all of the Blades breakups!!!

To paraphrase MC, maybe I'm bad so other people don't have to be. (And I do love it because I love angst and heartbreak and what they can tell you about a character)

If you want something very different, here are all of the proposals.

Aerin

Imtura

Mal

Nia

Tyril

Valax

Characters I believe are genuinely okay: Aerin (I'm just as surprised as you are), Imtura, and Valax. I think Mal and Nia are getting there. Tyril I have concerns for.

[medecineformelancholy]

“Thank you for letting me in,” Trent murmured.

“I wasn’t gonna let you stand out in that storm,” Ted pointed out.

“No… I mean, yes, thank you for that, but thank you for letting me in here,” Trent said as he pulled his left arm back from around Ted and laid his hand on Ted’s chest. “I’m glad to know you better.”

Ted loosened his hold on Trent to bring a hand up to wrap around Trent’s.

“Thank you for wantin’ to know me at all.”

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For Chapter 21 of I Really Enjoyed Getting to Spend This Time With You by @rngaredead 💙

Like Trent in this chapter, I'll never be able to put into words how much this story and our friendship means for me. (“I still don’t think I was supposed to be here, but I’ll never regret showing up like I did”). Thank you for giving this a chance and not giving up until the finish line.

This story is about mistakes, but to me it's also about circles. Circling in suffocating thoughts after a misstep. Circling in words trying desperately to get them out right. Circling in a slow dance in the silence of the kitchen when all paths seem closed. Humming on the next level, hesitant light coming through with so much weight. Shouting through the music on the next one, filled with smiles and hope (and if you caught a pattern with those *wink wink rule of threes*, you get a gold star). Circling back to each other and up together.

The story is over, but THEIR story is not 💙

[cheerfullycatholic]

You get no other options, just pick one (and please explain your judgement because I'm really curious about your opinion)

[smal5504]

IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT I 💥 HAVE 💥 BEEN 💥 💥 RESCUED 💥SAVEDB💥 SALVATIONED 💥 THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU legal guardians for leaving for aroun ten minutes so i could reach out and BE SAVED!!! SMALPIN IS!!! NOT GOING TO DIE TODAY!!! /GEN!!! RHAHAHSHSHHSHDGSGXZGZGZ /VPOS

[pocketgalaxies]

responding to orym's "what am i here to say" with the most earnest gentle curious non-judgmental "i don't know!" god i could cry about it.

[jellyjamheadart]

the sudden evil urge to make an angst drawing with Guajiro Cookie crumbling emotionally over trying to be good enough for Burning Spice’s approval (someone’s been listening to Where’s Your Head At a bit too much lately)

[thats-a-mood-gabriella]

Idk if anyone here has seen the show Versailles, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately in regards to Stolas and Stella's marriage. That show features a storyline about the King's gay brother having to get married and produce an heir, and it has an entirely different outcome.

Spoilers, obviously, but by the end of the show, the brother, his boyfriend, and his wife are quite happy in a little polyamory situation. Seriously, this is the final shot of them in the series ("I'm married to the two men I love."):

And while I'm not saying that it had to be exactly the same for Stolas and Stella (or that Versailles was a perfect show; far from it), I'm just trying to say that, had she been willing, they could've worked together. They could've said "we both hate that we've been forced into this situation, but there's nothing we can do about it right now, so we should work together as a team to figure out how to make this a bit more bearable for each other."

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

im gonna kms are they stupid

[pezpenser205]

being a woman does not inherently doom you to suffering btw. womanhood is not suffering. womanhood and suffering are completely divorced from eachother. if your womanhood is really that tied into the concept of suffering then maybe youre not a woman. women enjoy being a woman or are neutral on the matter, and are often discouraged by specifically the problems they face from being a woman. if struggle and womanhood is synonymous to you, you either have some debilitating gender essentialism and doomery radfem beliefs to unlearn or youre not a woman and its time to get you on T cause that shits not normal. being seen as a woman should feel "meh" at worst (and you still may be agender if thats the case lol).

[katierosefun]

modern family is all fun and games until you get to the scenes where you burst into tears because the once-vaguely homophobic dad now refers to his son's husband as family, and also the academically gifted daughter realizes that her dorky, clumsy dad was always really proud of her and just never surprised because he just assumed she could do anything, and also the eldest daughter who eloped comes crawling back to her parents' room and whispers that she still wants her parents to be present for her wedding, and also the anxious queer lawyer character admits that he was terrified that his husband would just leave him alone with their baby daughter, and also that the once-vaguely grouchy dad looks at his stepson and tells him that what makes a family is who sticks around, not who you're blood-related to and anyways what was i saying

[sleepy-crypt1d]

i will die on the hill that simon and his mom have a good relationship