#is terribly understandable and also terribly sad

[biscuityskies]

Wip Wednesday (4/53)

Feeling very down in the dumps lately so I’m hoping working up the courage to post a wip Wednesday will help me feel better

Managed to finish pinch points so I’m back on my bullshit with trillium 😎

“General?”

Kenobi gazes at him silently for a moment, inscrutable. Perhaps even pensive. “Are you well, Commander?”

Cody huffs out something that could pass for a laugh. “Fine, sir,” he replies easily enough. He pulls the tin of chocolate powder from a shelf that is absolutely within Kenobi’s reach - even without his magic - and extends it to him. “It’s been a long day.”

“It has, indeed,” Kenobi hums in agreement. A small, sorrowful, knowing smile curls his lips. “And how are you, really?”

Something in Cody’s chest pulls tight. He hurts, he wants to say. He wants his brothers back. He wants the Venator to be full again. He wants the medics to be searching for things to do, not overcrowded with beds. He wants to see Bone’s self-assured smile, not his very soul wavering under the threat of gunfire and loss.

He wants the sky to be full of stars, like it was just a day ago.

The words dance on his tongue, but he bites them back. Kenobi seems to know them all anyways. So he offers a small, sad smile of his own instead.

“I’m okay, sir. Thank you.” He glances away, carefully meets Kenobi’s gaze again with some gravity. “It’s been a long day.”

A series of emotions flit across Kenobi’s face. Cody hasn’t known him for that long, but he knows his general keeps his mask up at all hours of the day unless he’s incredibly comfortable with the company he’s in; as Cody watches the layers of exhaustion cross Kenobi’s face, part of him is simply honoured he’s counted in Kenobi’s inner circle.

“Yes,” Kenobi finally sighs quietly, carefully lifting the tin from Cody’s grasp. An easy silence passes between them as he spoons the chocolate into three cups, fills them with hot water, and stirs them to mix before speaking again. “Yes, it has.”

Kenobi’s mask slides perfectly back into place as he turns back to Bone and hands over a cup, wearing a brighter smile than the one he had given Cody— this one full of naive hope and promises Cody knows he can’t necessarily keep.

Cody can understand why he presents it to Bone; the kid just lost his best friend and mentor in what’s probably the worst day he’s had… well, so far. He can also see through that bullshit a mile away, can see the pain that Kenobi so carefully hides away until he can be just Kenobi and not General Kenobi for a moment.

Kenobi and Bone find topic after topic to talk on, passing the time into hours and distracting themselves from the terrible, painful truth that is reality. Cody, unhearing, can’t stop thinking about the depth of Kenobi’s eyes.

[spinnenpfote6]

One thing I like about LOTR is how it doesn't turn the protagonist's sad backstory into an artificial way for the audience to sympathize with him. It's just... a part of his life that he has already experienced something terrible but also that he has sorta moved on from while living a quiet happy life. Everybody in the fandom knows that Frodo's parents died in a dramatic boating accident when he was still a kid but in the books it is only brought up on maybe one or two pages and I can't remember him ever thinking about it much or at all, even.

We learn to feel with Frodo because we see his thoughts and feelings, the love for his family his friends, his courage, big heart and strength but also his streak of relateable laziness and coziness and weakness at times. Even in the movies his parent's death is only brought up as a "blink-and-you-miss-it"-line by Bilbo in the extended version at the beginning of Fellowship and Frodo lacks having a serious reaction to it as well. This also part of how to me it never had a big impact on Frodo's relationship with Bilbo itself. Sure, he is a father figure for him and they love eachother but Frodo is not constantly thinking "OMG Bilbo's my second-cousin but ACTUALLY he's my adoptive dad 'cuz my real dad died :'(((". Their relationship is more a mutual love and understanding and enjoyment of eachother's company.

The sad backstory thing is something that can definitely work but it is still a tool which is often used for an easy but ultimately cheap and shallow way to manipulate the audience into feeling for the character more and/or quicker than they should've had. I've noticed it in quite a few movies, especially with male heroes who have lost a family member. So I'm happy that Frodo strays from this overdone use of a trope.

[bi-writes]

Hi b!!

This isn’t a request, this is just me venting in a way so you don't have to read this or even reply.

I'm literally so over men because me and this guy have been dating for 8 years...8 YEARSS. And he chooses to cheat on me with my CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND?!!!?!?!?!?

And his reason was "you don't want to have kids with me" .... HO WHAT?!

Like I'm 23, and I'm busy. I'm studying anesthesiology. WHAT DOES HE WANT ME TO DO?! I can't bring a kid into the world when I know for a fact that I'm going to be too busy to spend time with them. I'm also not financially stable enough or mentally ready for it

And it's not like he would be able to look after the kid either. He's too busy going to fucking parties and getting drunk. Probably was getting a shag from other girls too now that I think about it.

Like can this man not get it into his big, fat, stupid head that I've given up every bit of comfort for him. I lost my virginity at 16 for him. I didn't want to , I wanted to stay a virgin until I was in my twenties (Not shaming anyone for losing their virginity early, it's just a preference for me) but he kept pushing and pushing

I genuinely want to punch him. And he had the nerve to cry?!

And guess what my best friend told me!!!! "Don't be so hurt, you're infertile so you would've disappointed him either way. I can Atleast give him something he wants" ouch

LIKE HUH

What am I supposed to do?!

I don't know if I should feel hurt, angry, happy or sad or whatever. I've been with this man for nearly a decade and most of my teenage years. I was literally planning on marrying him.

He was literally all I knew. I don't even know who I am!!

sounds like the universe trashed some nasty people for you.

i think you would very much find reneé rapp's "tummy hurts" very relatable LMAO.

that is so terrible, and i am so sorry that happened to you. i think you're a very responsible and very determined person, and i applaud you for putting yourself first. i say the same thing--where i am right now in my life, i don't want kids. and if my life stays this way, i won't want kids.

now if my future husband ends up being some multi-millionaire and my lifestyle doesn't have to change? sure, i'd think about it. but it's just not realistic for me, and it would do me more harm than good.

i think you are so intelligent and so focused, and you need to surround yourself with people like-minded. i think the only thing you lost here are things that were weighing you down. i'm not going to tell you it doesn't suck and that it won't hurt, because being very sad is totally understandable, but it just sounds to me like it was definitely for the better.

bless that you didn't waste 9+ years on this terrible man. onto the next (or maybe not, i get that too lol). <3

[anonymous1233211]

Recycled from Male TF Stories

“Normal Procedure”

Request by itsreigningdilfs

Saul waited in his assigned position for anything to happen, his police cruiser had been in idle for the past four hours next to a Denny’s, the town he lived in was pretty normal, there was normally not that much to do as it was pretty peaceful.

Suddenly as he waited a car flew in front of him, Saul turned on his sirens and stepped on the pedal, his police cruiser rapidly caught up to the car which started to pull over to the side.

Saul left his cruiser and walked towards the car he recognized as a ford mustang, once he arrived at the drivers side the polarized window went down.

The guy that was driving was young, If Saul had to guess he would say that the guy was probably twenty two.

-"License and registration please"

The kid in the wheel grunted and took the things the officer asked from his glove box.

Saul looked at the name of the kid he had stopped.

-"Okay....Adam, I'll check this out and let you go with a warning, it won't take that much so wait here"

Adam bluffed at the officer as they always said that to him, he knew speeding was bad but he had to get to his girlfriends home, apparently she was "home alone".

As Adam Dreamed about a day of fun with his girlfriend Saul cringed at what the onboard computer told him about Adam, apparently Adam was driving with an expired registration.

Saul got out of his cruiser and walked towards the mustang, once he was in Adam's point of view he told him the bad news.

"Sorry kido but your registration expired, I can't let you continue driving this car"

Adam was in shock, he needed to get to his girlfriends home, he was so angry he started rambling at Saul even saying a few curse words here and there.

-"Look I now it's bad but this is on you, I'm not even ticketing you for speeding so be grateful and if you want I can take you to your girlfriend's house, my patrol is already over so I can perfectly take you there"

Adam relaxed and finally relented, he accepted the officers orders and got out of the car with all of his things.

The tow truck didn't last long to arrive and just as fast as things escalated Adam was now being driven in Saul's police cruiser.

Things were pretty tense so Saul tried to start a conversation.

-"So what are you doing at her house?"

Adam looked at the officer and responded to him rather sharply.

-"What do you think two people do when they have a house to themselves"

Saul laughed at Adams comment, he remembered does times.

-"I understand you, enjoy it will it last kid"

Adam looked at the officer with a questioning glare.

-"You're speaking as if your married a terrible girl"

Saul laughed at this comment and told Adam the truth.

-"Buddy I don't swing that way if you catch my meaning"

Adam stayed quiet as the gears in his head started moving, he understood what the officer meant and stayed quiet for a while until he decided to break the ice.

-"Well... Good for you, so are you married?"

Saul showed his fingers without any rings and Adam didn't had to ask further to understand he was single.

Form there on the conversation ended but Saul couldn't stop thinking on Adam's comment, he really wished he was married but he couldn't find anybody that he really loved.

As Saul continued thinking Adam was on his own universe, he tried to not to look at the officer as he seemed a little melancholic and sad, he really didn't want to ruin the mood even more.

As the both of the kept to themselves things started to change, as Saul turned left one of his fingers was now adorned by a shinning new ring.

Then things started happening at Adam, he started to become older in his facial features and as that happened his rather small form was now occupying more of his seat.

His physic then started to alter as from under his hoody his respectable pecs and abs increased in prominence and were now covered with grey hairs.

Adams arms were now also packing bigger biceps than before and they were so accompanied by veins that covered them.

His lower body didn't change that much, the only difference was that his legs were now also covered in grey hairs.

The changes finished altering Adam's face leaving him looking like a middle age man, but a sexy one at that as a short trimmed beard now covered his facial features.

Then his hoody and joggers which were about to burst were suddenly replaced by well fitting police uniform.

For the last change an identical golden ring as that of Saul formed in one of his fingers.

As the ring finally sealed Adam's fate he fell asleep and started dreaming about his new life, while Adam peacefully dreamed about his marriage with Saul and their life together Adam's past memories were replaced.

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-"Honey wake up"

Adam woke up from his deep sleep and looked at Saul which he now he recognized as his husband.

-"Sorry babe today was very hard, I had to do a lot of desk duty.

Saul listened to his husband as he stepped out of the car with Adam doing the same.

The both of them entered their small home and as Saul closed the door Adam started kissing him in the neck.

Needles to say their uniforms were rapidly pulled off each other and left in the floor as manly grunts and moans emanated from their room.

[feastingonchrist]

Interesting how people say Christians are terrible people but in the same breath say that Christ was a good person and teacher (maybe not you op, but i have seen many non-believers say this). Like, yeah, we follow His example of how to live, what love is and what He defined it to be. Jesus is God. He lived a perfect and sinless life. He died for our sins to have justification before God and to have eternal life and to be with Him for all of eternity.

Now of course, there are people who call themselves Christians who don’t act Christ-like or bear any good fruit. These people may either not be saved, not take their faith as seriously or don’t understand the gospel. We are to live and love like He did. We are also supposed to die to ourselves daily and sacrifice our deepest desires that may go against what God has for us. No matter the cost. Believe me, it is extremely hard and even painful at times. We are not supposed to judge the world, but to share the gospel with those in need - everybody. Not agreeing with or accepting everyone’s actions or ways of living doesn’t mean we hate anyone. Jesus literally told us to do this. He doesn’t hate anybody, either. This is why He died for us. If you think Christians are bad people, it’s either because: the church hasn’t done a great job to the greater public in stewarding love and kindness to the world and many people have been hurt due to false teaching and unbiblical practices, (and i can 100% sympathize with that), or, it also may be because you don’t understand who He is and how powerful He is in loving and healing us. Or maybe you just don’t agree with the fullness of His teachings because, while, yes, He is 100% love, He also convicts and teaches us His way in how we are to live. That’s the fullness of the gospel. I used to feel that way too before i came to Christ. But He absolutely changed my life and we love Him because He first loved us.

We (me and others) as Christians should be walking in His love and giving that out to others, too. A huge amount of us DO do that. It’s just overshadowed. So i disagree that you think all Christans are terrible people because it isn’t true. However, i can’t convince you of that and i think you are 100% entitled to that opinion. Just showing you that there is a “good” side of Christianity too - because that’s how it’s supposed to be. That’s His heart for the church and for the world. If we have Christ in us, we’ll act like Him. By His own standards. With grace, love, kindness and all the other fruits of the spirit. If we allow ourselves to and for Him to work in us (i know some do not and end up taking His name in vain and tarnishing His reputations, which ruins the whole point.) That makes me sad. I hope my tone wasn’t mean or off-putting, i meant everything genuninely and lighthearted. But i felt that it was appropriate to say this because people have the wrong idea of what Christianity is and automatically assume we are all the worst people in the world when it’s not the case. Especially if we truly are following Him and taking His Word seriously.

Idk who needs to hear this but you ARE a bad person for being Christian and you need to stop.

[marshmellowtea]

i'm a jonathan apologist in a "he was absolutely an asshole during ppgw but tbf hearing another guy say he's in love with your girlfriend live onstage in front of an audience who are also seeing you get constantly humiliated and injured would be kind of a lot so i get it and i don't think he's that bad most of the time" way. he absolutely deserved that slap from sandra though <3

[canisalbus]

Sorry but we were speaking about history in a part of one of my classes and when the Vatican came on. I had to draw the sad dog man.

Machete is now immortalized in my class notes. It’s in spanish by the way, which is kind of funnily appropriate considering latin is very close to spanish.

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[quadrantadvisor]

tl;dr: I think being trapped in a time loop would fix him

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I read like two different jason time loop fics which both featured jason coming to the cave for help or resources when people didn't expect him there which makes me think that the loop helped make jason aware that he could come to his family for help and anyways jason gets stuck in a time loop shortly after becoming the Red Hood bruce is aware or at least suspects his identity but he hasnt communicated that to anyone else yet so for a couple of loops jason tries to figure out what's going on but all of his league contacts are either unhelpful or unreachable within the time frame and he gets frustrated and he spends a while just. living out all of his sadistic fantasies he gets to do every dramatic reveal, he gets to kill each one of them, and they're spitting and defiant and telling him he isn't the jason who died but after a while it stops being satisfying and he gets desperate for a way out he knows by this point that bruce hasn't told anyone about him, so his new plan is to talk to one of them away from bruce and just lie Dick is the obvious choice, and that's how jason finds out that dick has been hallucinating him while he's been gone he is not very useful. it's really hard to convince him that jason is legit and then he just gets really emotional and doesn't pay attention to the time loop at all also jason feels really weird about it

so he tries tim. he's like. okay. he doesn't know you're the red hood. you just have to be civil to him for one loop and when it turns out he can't do anything you try something else but tim is also like. really emotional about him apparently? but when jason tells him there's a time loop he takes it really seriously tim is like "why didn't you go to bruce?" and jason is like "i tried that. when he finds out he makes it worse" which is a very plausible thing for someone in a time loop to say so tim believes him Tim's like "obviously i have to verify" and jason is thinking to himself what a waste of time this all is. but tim gets his permission to bring babs in on things and that's how jason finds out about oracle and the clocktower so thats useful at least they use babs equipment for blood tests and tim grills jason on things only he would know and jason is like. hey. why do you know any of that stuff and by the time that tim is satisfied that Jason is who he says he is and that what he says is happening is happening the day is basically over and jason is like well thanks for nothing

and Tim's like, oh, sorry, this is just the setup. next time just tell me this timeloop code, I'll know that I trusted you enough to give it to you so I'll listen to whatever you say which actually does work to Jason's surprise, tim just asks him how many times and what they've already tried and they get down to business tim always has a freakout over jason being alive but that freakout can come at different times of the day depending on how jason plays it jason is still mad at tim and frequently snappy with him but it takes a few loops for him to just yell at tim that he's the red hood and he's been killing people and he was planning on killing tim (not strictly true originally but like. he has done it, so) and tim is like. hm. that makes it pretty personally dangerous for you to know my time loop code, since it makes me just drop everything and listen to whoever says it. but also i think you do need help so i guess I'm still glad you have it. and jason is like WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

anyways on a later loop tim convinces him to sneak into the bag cave for the tech and bruce catches them there and jason is like well that's this loop shot but bruce is just like ……. jason? 🥺 you came home? anyways the fic is about jason realizing that he never needed to do all that shit, and actually he finds it rather distasteful, and he can just. go home. if he wants on the last loop he has to like leave gotham to go stop whatever is causing this and it takes all day so he doesn't even talk to them so he has to make the real choice to start up relationships with all of them for keeps and by that point he's experienced so much time loop violence that the first thing he says to bruce is, I'm not gonna kill anyone, at least for now. we can talk about the morality of it and stuff and i will legitimately discuss it with you but right now i just don't want to so that can be our truce and bruce is like, sobbing at having his kid back he uses the code on tim one last time and tim jerks to attention but Jason's like nah relax the loop is over, just wanted to say thanks for all the help

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

stan: y'know how you said you'd both kill and die for me?

ford: yeah

stan: how many people would you kill and die for?

ford: hm...three

stan: ...three?

ford: mhm

stan: i...feel like you know more people than that

ford: yeah

stan: am i included in those three?

ford: of course

stan: who's the other two?

ford: mabel and dipper

stan: not fiddleford?

ford: he shot me in the face. multiple times. against my will. i love him, he's a great friend, but no

stan: i thought you guys made up?

ford: he never apologized for it...the obvious answer is that he simply forgot, but i- i'm still upset about it

stan: yeah, that's...understandable

ford: ...are you still upset with me for shooting you in the face? :[

stan: it wasn't against my will and i was never upset with you, bud. he had no good reason for shooting you with that thing. they're not comparable situations

ford: mm. it's still just three

stan: and that's okay. also if you could avoid dying or killing anyone, i would appreciate that

ford: noted :]

[astralhope]

- I understand how you feel, Yuma... and I don't want you to accept it. -

Rank 55: Yuma Jets!!

[winepresswrath]

Cannot believe at this late stage of my life I'm becoming a Gabriel fucker. Local mean jock doesn't want to be evil now, he wants to be loved. I'm slightly annoyed they didn't make Beelzebub more unhinged because the "plot" should have been at least half about them fucking up shit on an absolute rampage trying to find Gabriel, a thing everyone assumes they are doing to fry him with hellfire so they can kick off the war in a way that's advantageous to hell, BUT ACTUALLY!!! true love.

[mla0]

i hate when people portray michael and/or patrick as some kind of master manipulator who was terrible to shaun and stormy. like, in the past, michael sometimes got portrayed with little autonomy, or as childish and overly innocent in a weird way. that in itself is an issue with the treatment of mentally ill characters (infantilization), but the solution isn't to argue that he's actually a monster who only wanted to hurt and mislead people. the same goes for patrick. i don't enjoy the "goofy flirty mass murderer" interpretation for very similar reasons, because in the canon patrick did indeed do some wild shit but i think it's a stretch to say it was out of malice, except maybe towards eric lol

obviously there will be different views of these characters and this isn't meant to be gatekeep-y or anything, i'm just concerned with how certain portrayals can quickly slide into negative biases towards mental illness. i think if you're going on this route you might want to ask yourself why, and consider how it could make the mentally ill people within the fandom feel when they see their own symptoms portrayed by their peers as synonymous with being dishonest or manipulative

[ficsempai]

Getting older really changed my perspective on Natasha somehow, im more forgiving and compassionate than I used to be with her.

She’s a child.

I guess she really was young, uh, that’s definitely something you realise with age.

[sysig]

You’re gonna die if you keep that up (Patreon)

[phagodyke]

genuinely so devastating to finish my flcl rewatch and pull up the tumblr tag confident that everyone else is also down cataclysmic for haruko and posting abt it but *crickets*

[iratusmus]