#hi vulnerability is uncomfortable

[quietcuriosities]

Feeling some type of way tonight.

Really just want to be the little spoon, snuggle up under cozy blankets, and fall asleep.

[pasta-pardner]

attack dogs shouldn't bite the hands that feed them

[lokimobius]

"Listen. That wasn’t tactical. I lost it." LOKI S02E02 “Breaking Brad”

[zketylers]

TRAP (2024) dir. M. Night Shyamalan

[vaguely-concerned]

bunter keeping peter from being swallowed up by an evil bog with the kind of hysterical strength otherwise only known by mothers deadlifting cars to save their tender babes is something that can actually be so personal

[orangerosebush]

At once, Artemis has this all-consuming need for control and rejects being treated as a child, yet nonetheless, there's a longing for the protection (care?) of childhood that he sees as beyond his grasp (“It’s too late for me [..] am too old for tussles with Father" in TTP). During the months of recovery, post-resurrection, I would imagine Artemis feeling almost uncomfortable with the sustained gentleness of the life he’s been thrust back into.

[findmeinthepitt]

had this thought right before i slept last night so now that i’m awake. let’s get into it. what if frank, tired of whatever is going on between him and robby ever since he came back to work, writes him a letter in an attempt at honest communication. in-person conversation is certainly not the way to go because it almost always ends with either or both men snapping at each other. sometimes it even starts that way. but he has to talk to robby, needs him back on his side, needs to know that whatever damage he’s done isn’t permanent, that they can work on it and he can re-earn robby’s trust. because without that, well. he may as well not work in the ED for all it’s worth. so. the letter. he has no idea what to write or how to start, but then he thinks of robby, thinks of what he would say to families of patients who are struggling to find closure, to talk to a person who isn’t all there anymore, and he knows. he writes

please forgive me. for not coming to you when i was struggling with my pain, for stealing from the hospital under your watch, that in doing so i endangered and disrespected everything you worked so hard to build for me. for the ambulance bay. for hitting you where i knew it would hurt, on a day that i knew was one of the worst days of the year for you.

i forgive you. because i think you need to hear it.

thank you. for letting me come back. for fighting for me in admin meetings and against HR and legal teams and our lovely gloria, as belligerently as you must have done even though you never told me. for keeping a check on the gossip on the floor when i came back, for doing your best to keep most of the sordid details private. for still believing that i’m competent enough, responsible enough, to be on the floor, despite. for teaching me so well, all these years.

i love you.

[noxexistant]

“remove all mentions of ‘crip/cripple’ from newsies” is quite literally the worst take i have ever seen and i am not exaggerating

[mr-payjay]

watching the nickel apology scene from the great bluish bakery over and over going completely insane. i could rewrite this to actually sound like nickel.

[dirtyoldmanhole]

deleted like 50% of the hentai strip roughs that were Not Working, instantly feel so much better. i was getting a little too up my own ass about fancy perspective and anatomy flexes, not....you know.... goddamn essential character acting.

krad we are not reading this strip for perspective flexes!! we are reading this strip b/c we want to see gunter be a creep!!!!!! >:P

[cosmicsproutcake]

does shadow have a winter coat too???? 👀👀👀👀👀👀

His fur gets a bit denser by way of a slight undercoat when he's in colder climates, but he doesn't go through a full seasonal shed/moult every year like Sonic does, no.

[brofightiscancelled]

someone please write my in-depth osomatsu and nyaa go on a pity date fan fiction for me

[schrijverr]

I keep thinking about the auau where Buck actually invites the 118 to Chris's birthday party- it was just so uncomfortable in a way that I very much love reading? Like I can't even explain it. I just love reading about awkward family interactions that I'm not a part of even more when they're from an outsider's point of view so they don't know why it's so awkward--

Obviously I would hate being at that party in real life but damn I think I might have to reread it lol

Ahh thank you so much! That one was so fun to write, because it was so uncomfortable. There is something deeply interesting to me about the feeling of overstepping, of witnessing something too private, while being invited into it. The discomfort of it all.

Because like Buck invited them, wanted them to come, asked them to step into this uncomfortable family situation with him (yes, I will always keep the 'step in with her' Bobby-Buck conversation with me). He wanted the 118 there. Mostly because Buck himself also feels like he is part of a family he's not allowed or supposed to be a part of (which is mirrored in Bobby's guilt at being alive and friendly with coworkers), that Eddie only married him because it was easy and Buck happened to be there, not because it was Buck specifically. And celebrating Chris's birthday surrounded by Eddie's family, the one he shares with Chris, the one Buck thinks he isn't a part of, the one Helena and Ramon make him feel like he is not a part of... that hurts and it's uncomfortable, so he invited people to be on his side, but it's season 1 and they're not like that yet, so it's just this discomfort of wanting more closeness than there is. It's so interesting!

Like the discomfort comes from a place of yearning to be closer both for Buck and for Bobby, but Eddie too. It hangs around that party unspoken and that grates, because they're not close enough for it yet. The 118 doesn't know the family dynamic they've been invited into. Buck and Eddie haven't sat down and at least said that they're going to stick together even if it's not necessary yet. It's this limbo of closeness without having the security to back it up. The awkwardness of wanting to be closer without being it yet.

At least, that was kind of what I was going for, along with the fact that the mental image of the faces the 118 were making at each other at each revelation was just too funny xp

[mossterunderthebed]

WHERE ARE MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SUBTITLES

[avoteforme]

it's the same picture as-