#idk I’m having thoughts

[dallasgallant]

Living near a train isn’t good for me after getting into the outsiders, however I’d like to argue an opposing view to the “brothers now hate trains” argument.

Now, I do think there’d be some extra anxiety when crossing tracks but apart from that… trains are such a constant. It’s almost comforting to hear a whistle on a calm night, it’s just another night noise like frogs or bugs. This great distant noise that’s just as common as dogs barking. It means things are alright. It means you’re home.

I can imagine they probably walked sections of track through town a thousand times, careful not to be near Shepards or the other downtown gangs territory- but this was also likely before the gangs really formed. When you’re a kid and you try to balance etc.

Being up next to a train is a different story. They’re louder than anything. Freight trains cars are always way bigger than you expect them to be, you feel it in your chest and your feet and you vibrate a little and can’t hear your heart or anything but the tracks. Perhaps on a train it’s a different story, maybe it’s muffled and a bit kinder when you’re in a car buried against your friend — not near the tracks, not on them but safe inside.

[ducksoup17]

“but I can’t draw that” “I’m bad at drawing” okay then. draw it bad. thats literally what you’re supposed to do. you will draw it bad a million bajillion times over before you draw it good. this is life

[crxxxpz]

😒

[mad-c1oud]

considering- modern day au étoiles with poliosis. he decides just bleach his whole head white to match the patch(es), but can’t really do that for his eyelashes or eyebrows, maybe also beard, so they’re mismatched and show the extent of his condition. Also considering vitiligo….

[irrelevant-ramblings]

is it just me or is This Is Me Trying a.. Glinda Pines for Elphie Song

“i was so ahead of the curve/the curve became a sphere” like little miss popular?? definitely a trendsetter back in her day… sphere… bubble okay i’m reaching for that one

but like. her popularity is eventually what comes to bite her when she becomes Glinda the Good and Elphie has to leave… and her popularity as the Good Witch is what “traps” her into pretending she’s glad Elphie is dead

“you’re a flashback/on a film reel/on the one screen/in my town” i mean she literally lives in the Emerald City like it’s right there!!! idk maybe this is just me throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks but adds it to the gelphie playlist

[kidsnextdoor-doodles]

Something something the irony of the KND fighting for kids’ rights to have peaceful childhoods while the organisation itself relies on kids giving up their childhood and being forced to mature early

[sneeg-snag]

i get when people are like “jrwi is a comedy podcast why r y’all so pressed” and it’s like. yeah i defo think of jrwi as comedy and fun goofs. but there are definitely some times i wish it let itself be a little more sincere at moments instead of trying to undermine literally every thing with a joke. one good example is like the adventure zone:balance!!! like literally one of the main characters is named “takko” and his sisters name is a play on chalupa and they call themselves the tres horny boys and like they literally shoot themselves out of the moon and merle has verbal sex with a plant, but i still feel like it’s one of the most sincere stories i’ve ever heard. and like i know jrwi is literally just them kinda fucking around but there are moments where i’m like man… :( i wish there wasn’t a bit going on rn :(

[anonymousdidsys]

I think internet culture has not only warped peoples’ ideas of what appropriate boundaries are but led to a mass sense of entitlement in general

You can’t just expect people to do whatever you want just because you frame it as a “boundary”

And conversely, don’t let people just walk all over you. Others’ boundaries are not supreme over yours, and one’s right to swing their fist ends at the tip of another’s nose

[ionlytalktodogs]

Lately I’ve been thinking about kindness and how hard it is sometimes.

It’s hard to remember the person on the other side of the screen is a human being, yes, because we are separated by the internet. But it’s hard in real life too. It’s hard to look into the eyes of someone who has hurt me and say, “I forgive you.”

But it helps. Even if it doesn’t help them. Forgive and forget is not always the best way but sometimes it is. Sometimes you can let anger go, even if it’s hard.

Kindness is hard but it’s healthy. Healthy for YOU, mind and body.

[eskawrites]

Also I’m thinking about the charmed au again

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

We all know the semi-canonical ‘all the Robins know to hide/duck inside of Batman’s cape, even as adults’ thing.

We also know that Danny ‘is LITERALLY a ghost’ Fenton sucks at remembering his own intangibility while ALSO forgetting to look ahead of him.

All I’m saying is, Danny Fenton (or Phantom, if you’d really like) would absolutely SLAM into Batman on accident while running on roof tops and Bruce ‘Brooding Instinct’ Wayne doesn’t even think twice about letting the kid hide and scanning around for danger before there’s a record scratch of ‘wait who tf is this?’ kicks in.

[clownhunterbebop]

Maybe there is something a bit ugly inside of me. Maybe there is something jealous and bitter and lonely in me. It’s kind of lovable, though, now that I’m looking at it. Maybe I could love it too

[stuckinapril]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

[sameboot]

Paraphrasing again buuut I wanted to try illustrating this scene!

[aakiwa]

He’s like a particularly pathetic wet cat

[fancy-rock-dove]

Having some feelings this evening about Frodo’s reaction to people around him being corrupted by desire for the One Ring. How generally devoid it is of any blame placed on that person, and how he instead treats it as a tragedy to spare others from by distancing himself.

It’s a big deal in the latter books that Frodo wants to show Sméagol kindness if possible because things have progressed so far that Frodo can recognize his own experience in him. But what’s really making me stare at a wall right now are Frodo’s early days reactions even before the personal identification is as strong.

Basically, I can’t stop thinking about how deeply Frodo’s reaction to that last encounter with Boromir is informed by the fact that the first person to ever try and take the ring from Frodo was actually Bilbo. The fact that the first person Frodo ever saw corrupted to that point, even for a moment, was the kind, clever, caring uncle who adopted and taught him, and who Frodo thinks the world of.

Just thinking about the personal relationship Frodo had with the very first person he saw the Ring affect and how fundamentally that set the tone for his understanding of it for the entirety of the journey.