#is it because of the pepper??

[onenicebugperday]

Unidentified woodlouse, Oniscidea

Photographed in Singapore by budak

[ironspidxr]

Imagine Tony spending his time stranded in space debating over and over how he’s going to tell May that her nephew is dead.

Imagine him being so hyper focused on his guilt and the massive loss he just experienced that, on top of the fact that he’s horribly malnourished and exhausted, he doesn’t even consider the idea that she might be gone too.

IMAGINE Pepper trying to get him to finally rest in the med bay after he gets back, but he refuses to calm down, insisting repeatedly, “No, no I need to call her— Pep, give me your phone. I— I need to talk to her!“ With no explanation.

Pepper keeps refusing, begging him to stop worrying for one minute and just rest, until she finally asks who the hell he would need to call so badly anyway, since everyone important to him should already be at the compound by then.

“I need to call May, Pep, she— she needs to come here, I need to tell her!“ Tony explains urgently, tugging on Pepper’s hand weakly and looking anxiously around the room for anywhere Pepper might have set her phone.

The realization of just how out of it Tony is hits Pepper hard, and all she can do is keep trying to calm him down until she finally has to say “Tony! listen to me. May’s gone.”

Tony blinks at her. “What?”

“Happy couldn’t get a hold of her after it happened, he— he went to the apartment and she was… she wasn’t there, Tony. You don’t need to call her.”

As a combination of sadness and relief crashes down on him, Tony can only shake his head no.

Pepper gives a sad nod before asking him again to please just lie down. He does, staring at the ceiling with an unseeing gaze, his mind disoriented and reeling.

The Parkers are gone.

[garlicgravy]

Ninjago fandom.. from now on we are calling this duo PEPPERMINT !!! SAY HELLO TO THE PEPPERMINT DUO !!!

[hurtspideyparker]

Peter places an envelope on Tony's desk.

Tony looks up confused, "huh? What's that for?"

"It's for you," he points awkwardly at the plain blue envelope, held closed with a Darth Vader sticker.

"It's not my birthday kid." He snaps the protective face shield back down as he picks up his soldering iron, sparks flying as he gets back to work.

"I know that I, uh. It's from, it's for. It's yours. I gotta go, see you later Mr. Stark!" Peter hikes his backpack up tighter as he skips out of the lab.

Tony grunts in acknowledgement without looking up, eyes focused on the searing metal in front of him.

* * *

"Tony? I thought you were gonna have dinner with me after Peter left," Pepper saunters down into the workspace in a flattering pair of jeans and baby blue blouse.

"I was. I am. He left like five minutes ago," Tony waves at her without taking his eyes from the computer he's typing on.

"Happy drove him home two hours ago. Come, have a nice sit down meal with me." Pepper wraps her arms around his shoulders from behind, kissing the top of his head.

"I can have a sit down meal. I'm sitting right now, bring the carbonara down here and it'll be a proper date," Tony replies.

"Yeah, you me and your computer. How romantic. Tony, come upstairs- what's this?"

Tony glances up to see her holding a blue envelope.

"Uh, it's the kids."

Pepper flips it around, "it says To Mr. Stark From Peter on the back."

Tony just shrugs and goes back to typing on his computer.

The delicate glue of the sticker is undone under Pepper's sharp nails as she opens up the envelope and pulls something from inside.

"It's illegal to open someone else's mail y'know," Tony teases.

"Tony this- god you are such an asshole!" Pepper smacks Tony on the back of the head with the envelope.

"Ow! What the- what did I do now! I was just joking about the carbonara thing... mostly."

Tony finally meets Pepper's eyes of scorn. She tosses something in front of him with a huff.

"Tony, he even used a Darth Vader sticker. Do you know how adorably geeky and topical that is? You have got to start paying more attention to the living breathing people in front of you instead of your machines. Dinner is ready, please come upstairs."

Tony watches her leave as the clack of her heels fade away with every step. He's not sure what Darth Vader has to do with missing dinner, but he's quick to get up and start to follow.

He pauses before he makes it out the door, turning to finish the last line of code before he forgets the function. He pushes something off of his keyboard to type and press save.

Tony can't remember the last time he looked up from his work long enough to consume solid food. He's so ready to carb-load with some Italian food, turning away from the computer and blue envelope.

Tony's eyebrows furrow. Hm. Darth Vader sticker.

Tony turns back around and picks up the envelope from beside his keyboard.

This must be what the kid was yapping about earlier. Tony sticks his hand inside and finds a card, pulling it out.

"Father's Day it is," the front says in bold lettering with a picture of Yoda crudely hand-drawn with a sharpie and green highlighter. Tony flips it open, "celebrate you we must" is written in the middle of the page.

Below is a message in smaller writing; "Thank you for everything Mr. Stark, we wouldn't be here without you!" with a blob of sharpie that looks suspiciously like it's scribbled out a small heart, then signed "From Peter, Dum-E and U" each name written in their own unique handwriting.

"Friday, what day is it?"

"It is Sunday June 16th, also celebrated as Father's Day in countries such as the United States, Canada, and the UK."

Hm.

Tony stands there and stares at the card for longer than he'd ever admit before looking up at Dum-E.

"You help with this?" he asks, pointing at the card.

Dum-E chirps happily, twirling his claw around.

"Your hand writing's terrible."

* * *

Peter enters the lab slowly, an unsureness to him that's out of character.

It's Wednesday, his usual day for coming over to Tony's workshop. He hasn't heard anything from Tony since Sunday, not that he usually does. Still, the quietness has unnerved him. He's not sure what he was even expecting from his mentor; silence is probably the nicest response he could hope for after embarrassing himself like that.

"Hi Mr. Stark," he greets once he spots the older man sitting next to a complicated tangle of wires.

"Hey kid, can you go to the computer and run the command I have open for me?"

"Sure thing!" Peter says as he dumps his backpack onto the floor and jogs over.

The two get into an easy rhythm and Peter's practically forgotten why he was nervous in the first place when, "hey grab us some sodas will you," Mr. Stark asks him.

Peter walks up to the fridge in the corner of the room when he notices something new.

In the center of the silver metal lies a single piece of paper, stuck to the refrigerator with a plain magnet seemingly scrapped from some old hardware in the lab.

Tony has his Father's Day card displayed like some dorky parent whose kid got a half-decent report card, showcased on a fridge like a toddler's finger painted masterpiece.

It makes Peter so happy he can't wipe the stupid grin off his face the entire time he's grabbing sodas and delivering one to Tony.

The older hums a thanks without looking away from his project, but as Peter turns away Tony's own face contorts into a pleased smile all of his own.

The two share identical smiles all afternoon, hidden behind soda cans and computer screens.

[peppermint-whiskers]

I'm on a trip rn and drew my lovelies 💖💖

They deserve to go feral

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Union χ - Daybreak Town

[heldhram]

My friends: Wanna go out for a bite this weekend? Me: Sorry, I've got errands to run x.x

The errand:

Those blueberry bushes just ain't goan water themselves yanno?

[simitx]

✦ HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY MSA!

I am deeply grateful to the Mystery Ben team and everyone involved in this amazing project. I bow down before you all with every fiber of my soul!

[coromoor]

do you think that dalish weddings ceremonies have rituals to “appease the dread wolf” as a blessing for the couple? like dressing up the fen’harel statue at the edge of camp with flowers and burning strong incense near it so he cant catch their scent. or symbolically “tricking” the wedding guests by baking a single pepper into the cake that ends up in someone’s slice for fen’harel’s enjoyment. basically doing things to make sure fen’harel doesn’t feel neglected so he won’t bring nightmares to your wedding night and misfortune to the marriage

and when lavellan marries the dread wolf she gets great amusement out of dressing him in flowers and giving him spicy cake

[m1ssunderstanding]

Thinking deeply about PID for the first time ever just for the sake of this fic, and one indisputable roadblock for that theory is George Harrison. Some truthers say the boys decided the cover-up was actually the best way to honor Paul's memory. Um. Do you really think George Harrison is putting himself through one more hour of fame hell for the memory of his junior high bus buddy? No. But maybe George didn't know, says truther. Again. Impossible. Is Billy Shears going to smell like home? I didn't think so. John and Ringo, especially a grieving John and Ringo, can be talked into anything. But grieving George is different. Do you think for one second George would let some random boss him around and condescend to him? No. If anyone other than Paul had acted like that, George would've made them crash their car. You can rationalize the psycho boyfriend or the alcoholic older cousin. You can't make the little brother make sense.

[pepperfr3sh]

also this

based on the last part of this post except. with cat instead of dog

[tinkerbitch69]

My favourite part of dot and bubble (besides ncuti’s performance in the last scene my god!!!) is that the episode kinda misleads you into thinking Lindy is so dismissive of the doctor and the disappearance of others because of the social media echo chamber she has isolated herself in. That she is scared to leave it and that she could be a better more empathetic person if given the chance to leave.

But then the final scene happens!

All of her actions, from putting Ricky in the firing line before her to lying about it to refusing the help of the doctor because of her thinly veiled racist beliefs, reveal that this refusal to acknowledge the reality around her to the point of putting people in danger and inevitably allowing the problem to become worse was a choice. She was not some innocent victim of media manipulation but had complete agency in her denial of the danger others were and just didn’t care about them.

The reveal is an important part of the episodes critique of social media echo chambers, I think. Their danger isn’t that they obscure information that challenges the users but that they allow people to choose not to be confronted with information that challenges their worldview or their behaviour. Which is an experience vital to developing critical thinking skills and being a compassionate, empathetic human being. But by removing the agency of people who choose not to break from their bubble, we also enable the insularity of these echo chambers!

God I love this episode so much <3_<3

[nanihirunkits]

I don’t want to keep you waiting anymore.

THAMEPO | EP8

[burningcheese-merchant]

"Who am I if I don't have what it takes?"

OG post haha

[bltchkawa]

PEEING MY PANTS CAUSE EVERY KASHIWAGI I DRAW LOOKS LIKE KIRYU 😭😭😭 FREE ME!!!!!!!!! SO PISSED I FEEL LIKE IM GONNA HAVE A PERSONA 5 STYLE AWAKENING RN SOMETHING SOMETHING FREE ME FROM THESE CHAINS OF CAPTIVITY

[cfserkgk]

Child Actors Aqua and Kana on the occasion of season 2.

I imagine that if everything didn't go downhill with Ai, Aqua and Kana would have been able to act in more films together and maybe be paired together in more projects. And an actual childhood friend relationship would be real nice.