#ease of mind

[unscramblerer]

Todays Word Of The Day is: Insouciance

Insouciance originates from the French word insouciance(carelessness). English usage of the word began in the late 18th century.

[jm-chrome]

Procrastinated by drawing them again... I need help

[stydixa]

UP (2009) Dir. Pete Docter

[bumblehoneybee]

Imagine DogDay, Poppy n Kissy are just chilling while Y/N is out and about (DogDay probably wanted to come with, but the stitches need to heal) and y/n just shows up and goes "Guess who just fell down a fucking staircase" spoiler alert:*It was y/n*

((No serious injury, just bruised one of the bones in their arm))

Mmm Watcha Say...

Dogday just barely missed you.

You were right at his fingertips, but you slipped through his grasp, falling away from his reach. To your credit, the expression on your face did not change as you accepted your descent. Blank indifference, a "this might as well be happening" expression took you over. Hell, you looked kinda a bored in the moment's Dogday saw you before you disappeared.

And it wasn't funny. Not at all. But in that vein, you ragdolled like this was some kind of cartoon. There were no sound effects besides the crash of your GrabPack on the concrete steps, but as Dogday hurried after you, he could hear the classic glass-breaking, accordion-playing, general collisions that indicated someone falling down.

Thankfully for him, you lied at the bottom of the stairs in an un-moving heap, but one that was also not crying out in pain. And he also knew you weren't unconscious from the long-suffering sigh that slowly fizzled out of your lungs.

"Angel. . ." Dogday tried to say, horrified by the laugh bubbling up inside of him. Why were you so resigned? Why was it so funny to him?

"Dogday." You replied, still face down on the floor. "Guess who just fell down the stairs."

A bark of a laugh choked him.

"Now that's just mean of you."

Dogday covered his mouth, but his chortles still slipped through.

"I'm lying here-"

"A-Angel-"

"Mortally wounded in body and soul-"

"Angel, please-"

"And you laugh at me." You released another sigh, the weight of the world on your shoulders, dragging you down (obviously). "I might as well perish where I lay. So long. I wish I could say it was fun."

Dogday fully laughed, lying down beside you. He could see the small smile you always wore when you get him to laugh, nearly hidden in the concrete. "Want me to carry you back to the hideout?"

"Nooo, then my pride will really be shot!"

Too bad you didn't have a say in the matter.

[kadextra]

urgh !foolhalo are such mutual freaks for each other I’ve not seen a toxic yaoi quite like them

!bad’s twisted obsession with !foolish, the shining spark of life who’s a constant presence in the long immortal existence surrounded by death. he’s completely deranged about the guy and shows it through violence and possessive behavior, proclamations of “you’re mine to kill.” and !foolish is just as obsessed with !bad, the looming shadow of death that constantly appears at his side in the long immortal existence full of life. says he’s a parasite and wants him gone, but in truth !foolish is horribly addicted to the thrills only !bad can give. his existence helps !foolish “keep on living”

guys it’s crazy . there is so much wrong with them and they match eachothers’ freak. in every world they meet and continue making each other suffer. when they get started on their newest game they cannot be stopped, both get this tunnel vision that ignores everything & everyone else and it literally becomes a volatile situation for innocent people bc anyone who gets in the way will be trampled. to them, mortals are like playthings and none can completely understand them. both know exactly what the other is thinking & feeling to a frightening accuracy. they will attend a ball arm in arm if mutual death is involved, will gladly play hunter & hunted, enemy rebel & beloved king, any kind of role that’s necessary to light a fire that burns through the immortal ennui - and who cares if it burns everything else too? when all is said and done you’ll find them sitting together chatting like nothing happened.

[applestorms]

L can be such a possessive character at times. he always strikes me as the type of person who is deeply aware of everything that he owns, both in a more literal sense and metaphorically-- like, he knows what money he has and how to use it, what resources are readily available to him and what he has to be sneakier to utilize, the habits and tendencies and emotional states of individuals and world governments both. the DN musical really puts an emphasis on the more computer-y aspects of how his brain functions, which isn't as obvious in the manga/anime but i think still works well as a way to follow his thinking. it's kinda what near does too: everything is a factor to them, every tiny detail a new opening to optimize for the best results, every person and location and object a part of a puzzle waiting to be solved. and as a part of that, L is deeply aware of every and any little thing he may or may not have control over, and exactly to what degree.

his habit of stealing titles as depicted in the LABB murders novel is such a good example of this. ryuzaki, eraldo coil, deneuve. he eats people alive and then takes their names for himself like some kind of fucked up fae or trickster god, creating new masks and personas to hide behind from the remains of the people he's devoured. i have to wonder if he would've used the title of KIRA for himself had he won-- i can hardly imagine what kind of power such a title could hold if held in his hands. of course, he could've just used the defeat of KIRA as a way to build up the L title even further, offering up the body of a dead god like perseus showing off the head of medusa. but L is so emotionally attached to the kira case, i struggle to see him allowing it to fade from existence so thoroughly as near does, even if it is only kept close on a private level...

this is part of why i think it genuinely makes a lot of sense that L's ultimate win state would include capturing light to some degree. even if the memory of KIRA somehow manages to fully disappear from the public consciousness, there is no fucking way L is letting light yagami out of his grasp. honestly, the moment that L truly loses this game is not when he starts investigating misa while still under rem's watch, not when light gets back his memories, not even when he dies, but the moment when he allows light to be freed from the handcuffs. the moment when he allows the other members of the task force to turn off the cameras and keep him from watching light and misa talk in the lobby. the moment when he gives up, lets light yagami go outside of L's personal sphere of control, is the moment when L starts the clock ticking down to the end of his own life.

this is one of the key ways in which i see light as a true equal and parallel to L, as after L's death he, intentionally or no, continues the same tradition and takes L's title for himself, twisting the two sides together into the L-KIRA amalgamation. only, the L title functions a little bit differently than every other persona or title that we see in the series-- because L's true name is L. that's all that he is. on a literal, legal, and emotional level, i don't think that L is anything more than L. he is the world's greatest detective, he's an incredible, weirdo super genius, but he does not afford himself much more than that, barely allows himself personhood or humanity outside of his work. light was the one to ultimately defeat L because he did not just put a stain on his character (as BB attempted), did not just kill him, but stole his very identity and took it for himself.

one of the biggest contradictions of L's character that i think you must accept should you attempt to portray him accurately is that he is both deeply detached from humanity while also having all of his work and effort and life be focused around saving it. it's one of the ways in which he is an exact opposite to light-- where light relies on humanity for external validation, to be Seen, while also looking down on it as dumb and immoral and spineless, L is so separated from it that he barely exists as a person, all the while dedicating almost every action he takes to helping it. remember: for all the emotional turmoil that wammy's house and the legacy of L may put on the kids living there, ultimately it's entire existence is nothing more than L's logical solution to his potential demise. if he dies, the world goes down with him, all of the cases that are yet to happen and he is yet to solve being left in the air. he has the foresight to set up a fail safe, but not to consider the emotional implications of what being that fail safe might feel like, how high the price of your own humanity is if you are not already alienated from it, the inability to have your own name on your gravestone-- though perhaps some of the blame also falls on watari's shoulders in this case, philanthropic old bastard that he is.

imo, playing his game really got it right in presenting L and light as one and the same, synonyms on either side of the mirror. in every action they take they are both so selfishly selfless, playing the game for themselves and their own pleasure but plastering the needs and will of humanity on top of it. L isn't invested in saving humanity for the sake of humanity-- he just likes the thrill of having the stakes raised so high. hard to shit on ryuk for wanting entertainment when the humans he finds are just the same as him.

[starry-bi-sky]

yall ever think Shen Yuan went through like, internet withdrawal after being transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu? Like, he's canonically a NEET shut-in who did nothing but spend his time online, you can't tell me that for the first week or first few weeks of being SQQ he wasn't twitchy.

Like, reaching instinctively to his pockets for a phone that wasn't there, having an obsessive itch in the back of his mind that he should check and see if X or Y novel or webcomic has updated -- only to realize he can't anymore and being irritated by it. Wanting to go and see if there's new posts about this or that, but again realizing that he can't.

When he's bored or uncomfortable or just feels like wanting to escape he tries to go for his phone to distract himself, but oops! Not there anymore, and now he has to find a new and different way to distract himself from his feelings. And going through system notifications, quests, etc only does so much.

And there's that Tetris Effect too. SQQ makes a mistake while writing and instinctively goes to backspace on it except hey-ho that's not a keyboard and now he just dipped his pinkie into a bottle of ink or on a still-drying letter.

With him scrambling to fix his reputation and learn how to be a peak lord, I think his abrupt cold-turkey from all things internet would just be another straw on the camel's back that he promptly Ignores until it goes away on its own after he acclimates to his new surroundings.

[leafsfromthevine]

the boys are fighting (together. homoerotically, even).

[sgtbradfords]

Lucy + her hand on Tim's chest

[foldingfittedsheets]

My doctor works at a clinic with several other medical providers. My wife and I adore her. Not only did she catch my thyroid fuckery when it was reading in normal ranges but she’s also a friend. She’s been to our home a few times with her very precocious daughter.

To help handle clinic load they recently brought on a nurse practitioner. They’re loading her up with overflow patients that need simple things. Like for instance, my wife who just needs an allergy shot weekly.

The clinic asked my doctor, “Hey, which Tuesday patients do you want to keep for yourself?”

Her immediate response was, “Well I’m obviously keeping [FFS] and [wife]!”

[lylahammar]

can I be real I think that people are kinda catastrophizing about the ao3 m/m tag surpassing the f/f tag for dungeon meshi.

like I've been seeing soooo many posts the last few days lamenting about how fandoms are misogynistic and will always prefer mid yaoi ships even if the main ship of the series is lesbian and the women are well written........ but yall realize that the m/m tag surpassed the f/f tag because it's 3 different m/m ships that just barely outpaces the f/f tag which is almost entirely taken up by just farcille? I literally see nonstop farcille content and love for the women on here (I can't speak for twitter or any other social media wasteland bc I don't go anywhere else lmao). Everyone take a deep breath, trust me I get the fear but the dunmeshi fandom is appropriately filled with woman enjoyers I promise

[epickiya722]

It's so funny seeing people either convert or just now going "BkDk is so gay" after, what, a decade of its run.

Because now?? Now you're admitting something deep is there? Romantic and/or platonic?

Maybe it was just me but I clocked that tension in the beginning, even when I wasn't into the ship like that (as in it wasn't a ship I thought about given where I started with the anime and manga).

When Midoriya called Bakugou "Kacchan" and not once did Bakugou not tell him to not call him that, that's when I knew "oh... y'all got something... to be worked out there."

[minecraft]

naturally spawned village cave houses my beloved

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

“Steer your ship in that vast sea. Follow your heart, and you will never go astray, no matter where you end up.”

Ereyesterday

Summary: With new life sprouting from the ashes of yesterday’s sorrows, Ephemer clings to hope with everything he’s got. This is the story of how he learns to keep living. Even when it’s hard to choose between what’s easy and what’s right.

(The Final part of the Overmorrow: The Founder’s Story series)

Read (AO3): Ch 1: Perch ⛲️💜🏙️

Supplementary info (dropbox): link

[lazysunjade]

P R E A C H |

"Do I call him Father? Only when he's earned it."

[lovelykhaleesiii]

“you look lonely… I can fix that.”