#grief and love and everything in between
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The way they fell into each other’s arms and buried their faces in each other’s necks and inhaled each other and held onto each other and ignored the hurricane around them
#we’ve been waiting for a season for this hug#they’ve been waiting 80 years#somehow more intimate than a kiss#it was perfect#grief and love and everything in between#I don’t wanna hear anyone else say Lestat didn’t love Claudia after that speech#grieving mother#interview with the vampire#iwtv#amc iwtv#iwtv s2 spoilers#lestat de lioncourt#louis de pointe du lac#iwtv 2x08#loustat
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Happy Birthday to Fallen London; My favourite British people beefing it with bats simulator.
#fallen london#ambition: nemesis#mr.cups#the grey mourner#Happy belated birthday to me: I finished my Nemesis ambition. I get to make a fun comic about it. THAT WAS THE DEAL!!!#...Is what I would have said had I not spent *four* days trying to draw a cool dramatic comic. This is all I have to show for it.#I also missed posting this on the Flondon anniversary so I'm double Smad and frustippointed at myself.#This is niche content but I know there are flondoners following me who will understand.#I had to make a second account because all my friends who I played with *also* picked Nemesis and dropped the game at various gates.#I failed every possible check at Knifegate. I was on the verge of madness. And yet I still love this game.#Little known secret about me: over 70% of the blogs I follow on tumblr are flondon rp blogs.#The cool art and character lore brings me a lot of joy!#With that said; what the hell is the coincidence that right as I finish Nemesis -#The flondon community starts a Nemesis Race.#Guys. it’s not worth it. It is a revenge quest about losing everything you have to see your task through.#All to culminate in the discovering that you are beefing it with a fanfiction writing bat.#That said; I do feel like this story was very satisfying for my melancholic doctor.#I knew I would get the choice between sparing or killing my nemesis (the bat) and I had a long time to think it through.#Someone who wants to save lives and (does as much as possible to do make things better for others) choosing against mercy?#Someone who never permitted themselves to let the city truly become a home because they were not a person - they were a tool for grief.#Alright..Yeah the ending was really good.#I will be back with a part two. Clearly I'm tenacious enough to commit to what I started.#If I am not excommunicated on sight by the flondon community I will be back with comics for the other ambitions.
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lucanis' last question when interrogating zara's corpse -- whether illario also asked her to kill caterina -- is so telling. because if illario had done that, I actually do think lucanis would have killed him. (his standards are predictably wild and hilarious in a dark sort of way. listen I can forgive you for killing me that's fine understandable even but there's a limit to everything illario.) which is why he saves that question for last: it's the one thing he really does not want to know the answer to. because if the answer is yes, it's going to need action from him that would be so psychologically catastrophic that nothing the ossuary could do to him would compare, that would have been the end of him too, I feel, even with rook and the team there to try to catch him or pick up the pieces. I love how if you pay attention you can trace out the underlying hurt/logic already here, before it gets spelled out in inner demons. the logic lucanis' brain operates on is very sad and very consistent the whole way throughout the game.
#no wonder his brain has decided it best to stay frozen instead if it thinks moving might mean moving towards well. that.#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#I feel that when looking at this dude as he is at the time the game is set it is crucial to keep in mind#that he is actively going through at *least* three separate full on mental health crises at all times fjskah#he literally stays awake at night wondering if his brother killed their grandmother/maternal figure.#and if that means he's going to have to be the person to kill what little is left of house dellamorte and everything he's ever loved himsel#he doesn't want to but he's had a whole life of the idea that what he wants isn't particularly relevant to what is going to happen to him#quite aside from the torture year and demon/erosion of self dimensions of the situation#and also unprocessed childhood trauma doing a merry little jig over on the side as he tries to ignore it#'am I going to have to kill my brother (an act that would destroy what little might be left of my own soul)' 24/7 in those neurons#are we surprised he is a bit weird about intimacy. a teensy bit preoccupied at times. it would be so much weirder if he wasn't#the true testament to the depth and intensity of the connection between him and rook is that that intimacy manages to grow#AT ALL but also#with such safe unbudgeable roots in the middle of the on-fire hurricane-zone garden that is lucanis' mind for most of the game#and rook's matching blood magic-enhanced haze of grief and denial of reality/compartmentalization on the other side lol#the mutual 'you met me at a strange time in my life' and 'that's okay' of it all. unspeakable.
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#what if i just never emotionally recovered from this . wouldnt that be something#star wars#sw rots#revenge of the sith#rots novelization#anakin skywalker#darth vader#you know what. it's the fact that after everything that has happened anakin still chooses to stay with sidious#even after he knows all he's ever done is lie to him. is use him. is be yet another person on a list of people#who've only ever wanted him for his power#anakin HATES sidious by this point. he despises him. he wants him dead. and yet he stays#because he has no reason not to#he's destroyed everything and everyone who he's ever loved and has loved him in return#and as twisted as it is.. sidious is all he has left now. sidious and all of his anger and all of his terrible grief#so he stays . because he has no reason to leave#and it's not until rotj that anakin finds himself faced with a choice which isn't really a choice at all#because from the moment he realised luke would never join him in overthrowing sidious and ruling the empire#there was only ever one decision anakin could make#because in that moment he looked upon the last reminder of the love that existed once between him and padme and he found his reason#to finally break the cycle of violence#he couldn't kill luke because he loved him ! even among all the anger and pain and regret. anakin loved his son#and just as anakin's love drove him to the dark so too did it help guide him to the light#whatever. this novel destroyed me. gonna have 'this is how it feels to be anakin skywalker forever' on my mind for 3-5 business days
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cc!leo and the way love and distrust go hand in hand for him. how he guards his own heart in an attempt to protect the person he cares about the most and that's his own undoing-- how that's both of their undoing. how he sees trust on donnie's end as too much, something he doesn't deserve and something he took for granted. how out of everything that's the one thing he will never ask for, and he's so quick to withhold information to protect donnie's heart in turn (hell, he does it to raph too, and by taking leadership he's quicker to hold up the weight on his own instead of sharing it).
and how this contrasts with how leo before this point spent his whole life begging for the trust of others, for his family to just believe in him for once. and now he fails to see the independence he's developed as a sign that his trust in other people, and in donnie, has been broken, and because of that he doesn't realize that it hurts them until he has to confront it violently head-on. (he doesn't even realize that in a lot of ways its the other side of the coin from how he was under the curse)
it is almost one am. ummmmmmm
#personal#canary continuity#maybe i'll write that invasion fic at some point#i love cc b team because mikey trusts donnie with Everything#i love cc disaster twins because leo does not#i love how unintentionally harmful cc!leo will be its crazy. he's so perceptive and so fucking dense#its just hard to use those skills intelligently when your head is clouded with grief and self-hatred#while you simultaneously make justifications for yourself#does leo understand the way he's putting himself in the role of donnie's guide and protector-#-still implicitly invoke the fact that he's older. and how donnie just wants them to be on the same level#because donnie knows its out of love even as it hurts. but does leo know its also out of distrust#THE ANSWER IS NO#uhhh uhhh something cc!leo protects and cc!mikey defends and there is a KEY DIFFERENCE between those dynamics#and cc!raph nurtures
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Like they just did that and moved on
#i know they werent the point of the story/other things were going on (al) BUT OMFG#like WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE JUST WENT AND DID THAT?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY MEANT EVERYTHING TO HIM???#“oh. ive had enough. yeah. thats all i really need. they gave me everything i could want. hehe. thank you. and goodbye. my friends”#ASDFGHJKL?!?!?!?!??!?!#sorry i cant be coherent about this please understand what im trying to say#“i want the world” “no you want friends” “shit ur right. guess ill die” “okay cool ill yell ur name and then never be sad about it”#do not misunderstand me i absolutely love them i adore them but like do you see what im trying to say#also in the sub (the one i watched at least. idk if they differ between platforms) he says#“enough... yeah. thats enough. i dont need anything more. see you later. my soul... friends”#OUGH#FUCK#thank goodness for fanfiction yknow. i need them in grief and pain but also i need him to live yknow#fmab spoilers#fmab#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood#greed the avaricious#greedling#ling yao#edward elric#im so not okay about them istg#moss' madness
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i don’t think i’ve talked about it much on this blog because tbh it’s a really difficult thing for me to talk about in general but a year ago today, i lost my baby kitty zelda and i miss her so very much ᰔ
#tw grief#tw pet loss#tw vent#i dont mean to be sad on dash but >_< sometimes ya just gotta let it out a bit yknow?#she was the best kitty i couldve ever asked for <3#i always joked she was my lil familiar lmfao just two magical girlies coexisting#i met her during a very hard time in my life and all the years we had together were everything to me#i miss her companionship#i miss her lil meows#i miss watching her bask in the suns rays#she’s my lil guardian angel and she has been since the beginning#we have a lil soulbond and that doesn’t just poof away but i really wish i could hold her again#grief and i became very well acquainted in the last year between losing her and one of my close friends#there’s sm more i could say but tbh i feel a bit silly even typing this all out#if you read this i really appreciate you for being here#this lil blog has truly been a sanctuary for me to escape the horrors and i’m feeling thankful for this space <3#i might go back and delete all these tags in a bit bc DHDJHDSJ#but yeah . i love and appreciate u all sm#back to being silly <3#₊˚⊹ ᰔ xoxo aims
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the way my ears perked up like a dog's when i heard it's confirmed ella is in s3
#JACKIE HAUNTINGS JACKIE HAUNTINGS JACKIE HAUNTINGS#fuck i will just not be free i guess fhshdhsjs#listen. shaunajackie insane grief is Not the only thing i love abt the show. clearly. look at my url#but it is the only thing i thought was done perfectly lmao like everything else is like#okay if you ignore this here and this and also make up this in your head this is amazing#yknow?#and im always here for grief storylines you know me#so like#i was almost like well idk if i wanna watch s3 ill just get mad abt bad writing and there wont even be ghost jackie#but . if we get ghost jackie i have to watch 🧍#torn between thrilled and dreading. i am Not escaping this show anytime soon huh
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Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan wangji#Yungmeng Jiang training arc AU#I wanted to try out a different paneling style for this one - sorry I'm a day late! (there will still be a post tomorrow to keep on track)#The original 3 panel comic idea was fine but the point of this new schedule was to take time to push myself a bit more.#I was taking a look back through some comic artists I felt inspired by#and I really loved how Lynda Barry fills her gutters with patterns and doodles!#Obviously I'm not going as absolutely wild with it as she does but it was a great exercise!#I truly think the gutters are the most important and most overlooked part of any comic. There's lots going on in that space.#It's the same with timeskips. The implied movement between moments that we don't see changes depending on how wide that gap is#You're here for the funny tags so here's some that ties this time talk together:#I think LWJ was thinking about that second note from day 2 but it took him 7 days of hazing to commit it to paper.#I think he sends it a day later and immediately regrets it. Chasing down the messenger and everything.#You know if something actually happened to his brother he would never ever forgive himself for putting the bad vibes out there.#Third time skip was the hardest because there was so many possible flavours of jokes here. Day 8/9 was a personal favourite.#day 14 was also funny (week by week). I think the debate on 'how long does lwj take to catch feelings' is more or less:#'how long does it take for him to arrive at a particular stage of grief and yearning (and awareness of it all)#This is a symphony. There is an act by act structure. Every day he is fighting to keep his old sensibilities. He is losing so badly.#(I'll be returning to the main comic soon but there is more of this AU to come!)
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thinking about how easily ray was willing to make an exception to his firm ‘i can only save emma and norman’ stance once don and gilda are actually in on the escape. the fact that, during his ‘deal’ with norman in ep 5 ‘we can bring don and gilda too’ isnt a condition norman had that ray begrudgingly agreed to but rather one that ray brought up completely unprompted.
ray has spent years coming to terms with the fact that saving everyone is impossible, years putting emma and norman over everyone else because they were the most precious people in his life and because risking a bigger escape could get everyone killed. he thought it was better for the others to live ignorant, happy lives until their shipment than to get killed on the outside.
ray never had that same ignorant bliss the others had, emma and norman lost it after seeing conny, and while don and gilda aren’t given the full truth at first, they are given enough to have that illusion shattered for them as well. i just think a lot about how ray knows what it’s like to be trapped in that house without that happy illusion, and the moment don and gilda lose it, he can’t allow himself to push them away anymore.
#skye's ramblings#I DUNNO IM JUST. I HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS. even before the escape ray cares abt everyone so so much#his whole thing is he wants to minimize their grief. if he cant save them he wants to make sure they dont suffer at all#he pushes them away not just for his own emotions but bc he thinks theyll handle his eventual death better if theyre not close to him#hes just a scared kid who wants to help everyone!!! so so bad!!!! fuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!!!!!!!#also why the whole situation w phil makes me insane like. ray had no input in that decision. im not sure he wouldve let him stay behind#yeees it was phils choice to stay but rays the only ond who knows what that choice actually fucking means!!!!! fuck!!!#and as ive made abundantly clear. i reaally love ray's apology to don in ep 6 not only for thedevelopment between them#but also bc of the look emma n norman exchange when he does it. they definitely know hes distanced himself from everyone else#even if they dont have every detail at this point. he has made his stance on making sure they escape at any cost abundantly clear#ray means the world to them but they dont want to be his only source of comfort yknow. seeing that brief vulnerability was everything <3#ohhhhh im so. rays relationship w both don and gilda is everything to me. lying onthe foor
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Oooh im gonna make the most toxic romance possible, I've been struck by inspiration and the answer is to make the goofy ghost story into a psychological horror. But it's still a little goofy though
#im talking about this as if any of you have any idea what im talking about#but basically I've had the idea of a supernatural story with basis in nordic folk tale (because that's childhood nostalgia)#and I've been thinking of making it a bit cute or whatever? like a lovestory between a ghost and the person who can see ghosts#and it was going to be a bit light hearted. but then i started to think about family annihilation and it kinda spiralled from there#the vibe just wasn't right when it was light hearted‚ i need their souls to be entwined yet they're still each others doom#i need there to be cannibalism as a beautiful metaphor for love or so help me#like it has to be fucked up for it to have the right vibe. there's a woman locked in her room with her grief and a bottle#and a secret in the attick that could unravel everything. i neeeed it to be messed the fuck up ok#im just spitballing but you get the idea. i need a bit of yellow wallpaper vibes. some gothic romance vibes as well.#maybe I'll even drag lord byron into it who knows
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There ain't nothing Shera does that Lego Monkie Kid doesn't do better.
#and obviously tdp but like#Spop and LMK do similar things with ''chosen one'' trope deconstruction and main protagonists who think they make everything worse#Except god.#They resolve that part of Adora's arc TERRIBLY. Like. They just give it to her. Nothing happens to inspire her to change they just went#''Okay now she doesn't think she's a weapon! She has some self-worth!'' at the end of s4#But that's the entirety of spop smh#They just do whatever they want and everything is so tonally inconsistent and none of the characters are ever written consistently#I've been doing a watch through of it with some friends and god. God is it terrible#Maybe if I liked the jokes I'd enjoy it more. And also if I turned my brain off#But with the way I interact with media like oof. Not the show for me#Ougghghg it's so sad Adora should be EXACTLY my type of character (the narrative's favorite) (not a good thing) but like#They just do everything so lammmeeeeeeee#It's soooooo baaddddddddddddddddddd#God the s4 conflict between Adora and Glimmer makes no damn sense. No fucking sense. It doesn't get resolved#the way Shera handles war and grief is so weird#Like. Just go watch tdp it's better there#But for destiny and chosen one stuff and ''not being a weapon''? Living in the shadow of those who came before?#Super mentally ill protag with the lowest self-worth you've ever seen? Friends who struggle against their fates?#A ''reboot'' that treats it's source material with love?#LMK is the way to go man#spop critical#lmk rant#imp tag#imp's a little feisty
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one day i'm going to go into depth on the relationship between amelia and emmeline and how they were each others biggest regret when they could've been really good friends. how they're different sides of the same coin, but today is not that day
just know that it's coming
#im rewriting a scene between them that i have already written for only survivors (my emmeline fic) but i'm now writing it from amelia's pov#for thin ice (my amelia fic)#i mostly need to find a way to properly explain how i see their dynamic without blaming eveything on edgar😭#cause low-key edgar has everything to do with it#but it's not his fault#he doesn't want the love of his life and sister to dislike each other#but their grief for him is far greater then any possibility of a friendship between them#if that makes sense#the marauders#harry potter#the marauders era#marauders#emmeline vance#amelia bones#edgar bones
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one of the aspects that i love most about the confession scene is that blake & yang both already know the big truth they haven’t dropped on each other. blake knows yang is thinking ‘i love you’ and yang realizes that blake is thinking it too as the clouds go gold behind her, even though she immediately questions it with the dropping of her gaze and the uncertainty on her face - for them, it’s a matter of being brave enough to speak it into existence rather than revealing previously-unknown feelings to each other. my question is, when do you guys think blake and yang first became aware of how they, themselves, were feeling?
#though i love the thought of them having crushes on each other at beacon i think it's more of a curiosity than anything#like the precursor to a crush or even feelings#i wouldn't put my money on burning the candle either - i think yang was interested and blake still had a lot she was processing at the time#but that neither of them really thought concretely in that way about one another#at least not for the duration of v1-first three quarters of v3#once beacon started falling i think their worry for each other spiked - you see blake and yang's faces during their call to each other#as beacon is under attack and then obviously everything that happens w adam after that#but of course#i think yang first started to realize her feelings were more than just 'like' sometime immediately after blake left after the fall of beacon#she realizes her frustration/hurt/bitterness/grief is more than just 'someone i trust and care about left me behind' because underneath that#there is a very raw and real ache of missing blake more than anything and wishing she were there#and that's when it starts to become apparent to us too#AS FOR BLAKE#again love the thought of her choosing yang in the emerald forest and being interested from day 1#tho i do think she was drawn to yang in v1 and felt an affinity towards her i wouldn't say it developed into 'realized' love til later#she had love for yang which adam obviously took note of - especially the similarities between the two of them -#but do i think blake realized she loved yang until adam was threatening to take her away? nope#honestly i think she squashed it down after v3c11 when she ran away - compartmentalized and told herself that 'yang deserves better' etc and#didn't let herself think about it at all bc what was the point? she just focused on everything else going on and didn't acknowledge#then when they saw each other at the end of v5 - imo that was the turning point#that was it#their feelings rushed to the surface - broke through all the anger and suppression and grief#and they've been falling for each other even through all the issues they worked out from v6 onward#the end that's my theory and i want to hear all of yours too#RWBY#Bumbleby#RWBY 9#RWBY Volume 9#Blake x Yang#Blake Belladonna
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oh god i just watched maeve's death episode. oh god. no. i knew what was gonna happen and yet here i am heart fucking broken, oh my god
#criminal minds#hey look i posted a thing#why cant reid have nice things#also the dynamic between the team and reid in this ep is so sweet and so heartbreaking#they just. love the fuck out of him#no questions asked drop everything help reid NOW#and their reactions to maeves death?? alex's closed eyed acceptance? jj's pure shock and grief? the worry on everyones faces#like????? its just so fucking tragic and they know it. they all understood that in those seconds and its so. so fucking unfair#im not well at all rn :(((
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Random CaDi: crown princess Anomallow of Verant is transmasculine and nonbinary. They're not out to anyone but their best friend and closest ally Radriar, who is played by one of my players. Anomallow has only ever given one command using their authority as a royal: an order for Radriar to survive at any cost
#CaDi#Anomallow#theres a lot of intertwining themes with them of change; gender; and loss of power#their giving up a princess to survive and help people; and their giving up being a cis woman to transition; the loss of social status and-#-resulting power that come with both of what they gave up; is a kinda symbol in the story of the themes of powet and change#power and change being two of the main themes of CaDi#in a way they dip into the third and main theme as well of love/grief; via how transitioning is viewed within the setting due to the love-#-gods influence. trans people are valued by the god of love; and so transitioning is a divine act. but as the princess of a country that-#-doesn't primarily worship the god of love; transitioning wasn't an option. it's viewed as divine; yes; but the Wrong kind of divine#which does reflect a lot o how trans people are treated irl. frequently through the lens of the Wrong kind of man or the Wrong kind of woman#changing involves stages between that even people open to the end result tend to dislike. there'll always be someone who pushes for-#-stagnancy and stasis. but nothing can stay the same forever; and change is an inherent part of being a living being#the god of love is a shapeshifter who only has trans or nonbinary clerics. the god of history is trans. the gods of time are trans-ish#the god of divinity is agender and once was something else entirely; no matter how it seeks to deny that it could have changed#and the mortals? the people at the core of this story? ever-changing; no matter what outside forces may pressure them to be static#some transition. some grow up. some become gods. some die. some live forever. some escape. some gain disabilities. they ALL change#the only ones who don't change are the dead ones. stasis is a form of death and death is a form is stasis; a loop of nothing and everything#the attempt to enforce stasis is a functional killing. a world that cannot change is a preserved fossil; the skeleton of what once was
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