#even when its hard

[lavenoon]

✨ >:3c

I have been answering these for over an hour now oh my god?? <- Just saw the time stamp on this ask hfdjsk

I think I'm really good at that complicated sibling dynamic - AU specific because it's the only fic relevant for this ask game (kinda), but despite all my jokes about godmodding the aumv (accidentally undercover multiverse) I like working with less than ideal circumstances. Where no one is at fault and things still suck, and they still have to try and put the work in themselves, because it's just not meant to be easy. Communication is hard, love is effort, and I like showing that! And, from the looks of it, I'm doing a decent enough job <3

[serenova]

I strive to be one of those people

And from the outside I may look like that

But I've triple guessed mostly all the big decisions in my life.

Went to 3 different Uni's to get my degree. And I'm okay with that NOW, but those 7.5 years were hell, and the only reason I can be blasé about it in 2023 is because I graduated a decade ago.

I quit a job I absolutely ADORED last year due to my mental health. It's taken me a year to pull myself back together. But everyone who's talked to me that knew me before thinks I've made some huge life change and asked me my secret. There is no secret. I quit a toxic, emotionally abusive job

Now I've started my own business (still not profitable and still small, but it's mine (I dye yarn btw)), I've got a day job that is more stable, has better hours, and better wages than the job I quit.

But I wasn't able to do this alone.

People who seem to know how to live often have a support network they can fall back on. And I don't necessarily mean financially. But people who's shoulder they can cry on. Who will come and get them at 3am no questions asked. Etc.

Both my mom and my husband were INTEGRAL for me to get to the place where I am.

I've got friends I can vent to, who I let vent to me in return. BUT those SAME friends and I also just.... Swap memes and giggle at silly fandom shit.

I think.... It comes down to balance.

And FINDING that balance is DAMN hard. And it's WORK to stay there. I'm 36 and I'm still learning.

....idk where I'm actually going with this. I just saw this post and I've had people mention it to me in the past that I look like one of those people.

But take those silly pics of your cat. Go for than extra 5 min walk. Even if it's just to hit the pokestop just down the road to get some pokeballs. Buy yourself that little treat. Stop and watch autumn leaves fall. Or interesting clouds. Hold the cat up so they can see the birds in the bush. Try that art thing you've always wanted to. Read that book.

Yes, society can fucking suck. And yes, there's a lot of pain and suffering in the world. But you need to also carve out space in your heart for YOURSELF. You can't pour from an empty cup. And if you bleed yourself dry for the world, you'll have none left for yourself.

I'm not sure this is actual, real, life advice.

I'm a mildly jaded older millennial with 3 cats and ADHD. Oh and a husband.

I am envious of people who knows how to live. Doesn't matter if they are rich or poor, they have traveled the world or stayed in their hometown their entire life, are famous or unknown...they just know how to live. They are content and unapologetic. The ones who are convinced with their decisions and does not require validation. The ones who have glow of genuine happiness and joy on their faces. I chase this feeling of contentment, to be happy right where I am in life. The feeling that eludes so many of us. I just wish I knew how to live.

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[bluerosefox]

You know what.

ANOTHER DPxDC idea (as if I write prompts for anything else lol ✍(◔◡◔)

And once again, I think I might have a hyperfixation rn, another deaged Dani (Ellie) and Dan (Dante)! and Dad!Danny.

And you know what, lets make it another DannyxConner idea.

Danny is on a field trip with his class (NOT in Gotham though, LOVE Gotham but lets go with a different city) in like Central City or Metropolis (If Metropolis, Danny is SUPER excited to see the space sections they have at the museum they no doubt have, because well SUPERMAN is an alien and based in their city. If in Central City Conner is visiting Bart.)

During the trip he bumps into Conner and the two just hit it off. Conner enjoys listening to Danny rant about space and the stars and finds watching Danny's eyes light up in joy kinda cute. And if he got his new hero name Supernova from listening to Danny's rants about the stars well... no one needs to know how he got it.

Danny likes how chill Conner is and how the guy stood against Dash and the other jocks when Dash decided he wanted to mess with Danny during the trip, a rare thing nowadays but sometimes Dash does try, and how he respects/likes Danny's friends.

He didn't even say anything negative or hurtful when he found out Danny has two kids back home.

In the end the two exchange numbers, flirt hard, and maybe set up a date in the future. And then more dates. Becoming boyfriends. AND meeting the family. Conner is smitten with just out of toddlerhood Ellie and toddler Dante and adores them. And he loves how the Fentons just love him the moment he stepped into their house and was introduced as Danny's boyfriend, he made sure to bring over a pie Ma should him how to make.

Things get a bit complicated when Conner, Supernova, is at a reunion of YJ members and his phone lights up with a text message from Danny.

He's smiling with a goofy/soft look when he opens the text and see's its a picture of Danny holding a pouting toddler Dante and Ellie on his lap smiling with a notable gap in her teeth at the camera. The message he got was 'Ellie wanted you to know she finally lost her first baby tooth. Dan's been grumpier, I think he misses you.'

He is pulled out of his happy thoughts and musings when he hears Bart gasp hard and drop a bowl of snacks onto the floor. Conner turns to from the future Speedster and see's him about to have a panic attack.

Bart, Impulse, is having a freak out after catching a glimpse of the text picture Conner had gotten and being nosy wanted to know what got his friend to smile so smitten. He knew of Conner's current boyfriend and the kids Conner adores but haven't had time to be introduced to them or even see a pic.

He wasn't expecting to see the very MONSTER of his NIGHTMARES that basically destroyed the world in the FUTURE as a toddler pouting at a camera and surrounded by two smiling identical looking people either. People he never saw in the future or with HIM AND-

Oh.... OH!

Was that why he turned evil? Did something happen to his family?

[opikiquu]

my life a movie (PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR)

[mummer]

rhaenyra outsourcing motherhood to rhaena and assigning her that passive feminine role was REALLY interesting….. rhaenyra as a character is at her most fascinating when she is forced to navigate and ultimately perpetuate the gendered structures she despises and wishes she could transcend— the seeds of her tragedy already sewn here. just great character work

[maryreadings]

sux when someone hurt your feelings but you also miss them

[dukeofthomas]

Here's my controversial opinion; if you're trying to write Bruce as a non-abusive, good parent, you should also write him respecting his kids' privacy, boundaries, and not stalking&surveying them.

[puppyeared]

(guy who has never played cotl) haha au time

[sad-leon]

(good future) Finding Home Pride edition <3

Trans Leo pride is something I see a lot, but personally, FH Leo wouldn't celebrate his gender. He grew up around Gali, who went through a lot of gender struggles, especially in his younger years, and with the brothers being so accepting, it's just another part of his life

But his lack of romantic attraction? That's something that stands out to him. He sees the brothers with their own attractions and crushes and such and realizes he stands out. He's different. But that's okay because he's still him and he's still valid

anyways~ it's pride month, which means i get to be even more annoying about aro pride ^-^

that final shot without text:

[aq2003]

has anyone gotten the idea that odysseus' storyline in hades 2 is a depiction/exploration of trauma over his SA and how he's blaming himself for things that were out of his control? because that's the impression i'm getting from what i've seen. he talks about "goddesses" as his "greatest weakness" and that "he's not one to say no to them"...

when mel invites him to the bath, he brings up mortals having different standards for intimacy than gods and how it usually has a more romantic/sexual connotation. she then asks if he's uncomfortable and he has a startled reaction and brings up circe and calypso again (but never actually by name)

(this isn't ship/romance bait btw. odysseus knew mel as a kid and they're stated in-game to have a sibling/uncle-niece relationship)

also he grew apart from penelope after his return, but the game makes a point of showing that his love for penelope and telemachus is what drove him on at all so that element of his character isn't brought into question

[fleursdesmorts]

every year people get angry when ao3 requests donations but honestly in a world where almost all spaces online are slowly being eaten by corporations which censor the content on those sites, having a fan-run fan-sponsored place where people can create gay art without fear is great

[frostedpuffs]

i need adrienette to be closer than ever actually. they're both traumatized af i want them attached at the hip and a little obsessed w each other. i want them slightly unhealthy and codependent. they've been through so much shit together and now that they have each other i want them to sink their claws in and never let go

[vodid]

zero's pressure

[deoidesign]

For my birthday... read my webcomic! It's literally free! (Unless you want books. Those are not free)

It's beautiful, it's gentle, it's funny, they're canonically t4t and gay... And it's about time traveling vampires solving supernatural mysteries!

I've spent thousands of hours writing and drawing it, and it's really good! I'm not biased!

It's on hiatus right now and coming back in 2 months, so it's the perfect time to get caught up

[godweaver]

red pearl