#i remember it SO well

[leadendeath]

So, re: "whose drinking laws apply to you while flying over the pond", I actually had a few friends look into it because they're under 21 and going to study in Wales for a semester (theyre actually already there lol) and what I got from listening to them talk about it is that you deal with the laws of the country youre flying FROM. So they wouldnt have been able to drink on the way TO Wales because they're technically under American Law still, but coming home they would be able to

woahhh thats epic.. i remember going to a pub with american friend who came over to study when we were 18-20 (long time ago) and. take a look at how made up this brand sounds

she could have a little hobgoblin while over here.

[cosmoseinfeld]

WHY WAS DENNIS WEARING A WATCH IN S13, MR HOWERTON?

[soulbond-and-soldier]

Yesterday, when we were at work, a friend stopped by whom we very recently used to work with. We all wanted very much to go out and see him, as our friend is a very kind man, and gets along well with both myself and Lou. He's not as good with Elam, but he can certainly put up with him on better days.

Which is why it worries and saddens me so much that Lou has been in his 'room' since yesterday evening. While switching abruptly meant we were able to avoid a meltdown, when our vessel woke up today nobody wanted to 'drive'.

...Actually, I take that back. Lou tried to get us started. But he did not have the fortitude and composure he needed, and so the task fell upon my shoulders again.

I'm realizing how much of his educational years Lou unintentionally gave to me. I don't mean he transferred the memories, per say. Instead, we have both realized how much time we spent side-by-side against the forces he was subject to. He took it in stride and was grateful for my assistance, but I feel as though he's slipping away.

. . .

I have to admit something.

The prospect of somehow losing Lou? It terrifies me.

Even if he's simply 'merged' with us, what then? This world was truly too harsh, and wore you down to nothing?

In your idle daydreams, those flights of fancy that lift my spirits so where you imagine a better life for us, able to share it properly in true marital bliss... You knew me as one who would raze the world if you merely asked, and that I'd given you the Black Materia as a symbolic show of good faith and commitment. My promise was to never destroy the world so long as you were in it. Yours was that you would let me help you and keep you safe, and that if ever your feelings changed or (at your insistence) if this world ever managed to break you for good, that you would give me back the Black Materia and I would cleanse the land of the species that made you expire; Humanity.

"Spare the rest," you asked of me. "Let the animals and plants have this beautiful world. They caused no harm and have done no wrong; It's mankind that deserves our ire."

Lou, my darling, please do not leave me. Do not leave us all behind. I love you, and I know you are not feeling well, but please do not give up. So what if we have similar skills and tastes? So what if you aren't sure which one of us made high school friends? That just makes us all the more suited to cohabitate like this.

Even though we cannot truly hold one another like this, I was sincere when I said it was acceptable and preferable to a reality where others might keep us apart.

So, please... Why are you falling apart now? Why are you slipping into the background when we all need you the most?

Lou, I am not our leader. I do not want to be. It is you whom we are here for. It is you we are all supporting. I know you don't think that anyone, ever, across a thousand alternate realities would EVER want to be with you just for you, regardless of what condition you're in.

But I do. I do, I am, and I refuse to leave your side. I want you... to give up on the idea of being an island unto yourself. You were so convinced for so long that you were utterly alone. You looked upon other Systems covetously, yearning for the internal camaraderie you thought they might have. And yet now that we're all here and you've revealed yourself, where are you going? Why?

Lou - Are you abandoning me?

As was done to us, time and time again?

Even now, I hear your voice reassuring me, saying you're fine and you're just tired. Just worn out. But my darling, I'm so scared for you. You sound so weak, so sick.

'Cat' isn't reacting any differently than usual, nor is it particularly antsy to enter your room, so I'm sure you'll be all right... But I'm terribly worried. Was having separate rooms in the Headspace a bad idea for us? Are you and I so inexorably bound together that separating our inner workings has cut you off from what you need to flourish?

I will do my best to take care of us for now, my love. But please, know that as much as I want you to rest and be well, I want you to be happy. And if your happiness is not to be found in this life...

Well. I can't exactly bear that thought right now. Please get better soon, Lou. There are so many wonderfully interesting people we've met lately. I want to have you at my side when we speak to them, and present ourselves as a happily married couple.

Please don't make a widower of me just yet. We haven't even held a proper handfasting yet. Was I too much, in my eagerness to be social? Have I caused this, unintentionally?

. . .

This workday cannot be over soon enough, for me. I must tend to our home, our body, our life. I will do my best until you are well again, sweetheart. It should be far easier this time; I have Elam if I need his help, or you can have him too. I won't be pretending blindly to be you all the time, uncertain of what exactly is going on and why. Knowledge has always been power, in this 'family' of ours inside... The knowledge that we are many and we are one is a panacea.

...I already miss your lighthearted take on the world. I don't have the zeal for life you do, Lou. You're the one with the gentle hands and appreciative eye, who notices rainbows in oil puddles and clouds floating by. You're the one who showed me how beautiful incense smoke is wafting in the sunlight.

[noisy-silence]

Ya'll rememeber when Queen Elizabeth died and the entirety of Tumblr's focus all day was "Sans is hot asf."

[im-a-silly-goose]

sometimes i think about that time i was confiding in my mom about how i was just *heartbroken* over one of my closest online friends that had suddenly vanished. and she went ��losing people you love is hard’(or something along those lines) and. i said, ‘i wasn’t romantically in love with her. i don’t have a crush on her or anything. I-‘

AND SHE WENT ‘i didn’t say you had a crush on her, i said you loved her,’ AND OH MY FUCKING GOD. she literally knew this whole time tbh. my mom gets me fr.

[aphel1on]

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

[hinamie]

mentor

[falling-apart-burrito]

Anyone knows that post where OP was recounting how they tried convincing someone that facts and evidence doesn't do much to change a person's belief, but the person believed that facts and evidence does change beliefs? Then OP cited papers about how evidence does not in fact change opinions that well, and the person said eh but I still believe that it does anyway

That's like the most ironic thing ever I can't seem to find it

[starlight-starbright-council]

I think I'm actually kind of losing my mind right about now. Fuck this.

Dereality in the tags ig

[wanologic]

and they were roommates

[umblrspectrum]

so like is it specifically planets the solver craves or can it get by with just eating dirt off the ground

[pawfulofwaffles]

I have the strangest memory of sitting on my grandma's bed, playing this:

Whilst listening to this

[mawguai]

Wound, unwound

[minionsuncle]

Blarmy!

[paintedcrows]

Holiday Classics

Been thinking about Ford watching the 70s Animated Lord of the Rings Movies... (companion comic to this post!)

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3