#is there anybody alive out there?

[corpsebrigadier]

Whumptober 19. Farewells

Blood Trail: Abandoned Cabin | One Way Out | "Is there anybody alive out there?"

Agrias had understood the gravity of finality, but she had not had time to digest it. She supposed she had hoped to be dead before the reality of all those unfinished matters and unsaid goodbyes sank in. She supposed, in the rush of going to forbidden lands to grapple with gods and what have you, that she hadn't allowed for the simple horror of being on the march with one's thoughts.

She had few goodbyes to give, she supposed. She had given the ones that mattered to the only Atkascha who retained her loyalty. It did not do besides for heretics to go visiting. In the aftermath of Gulofavia--with so much of Lesalia and the countryside around it transformed--she had learned how not to linger on farewells unspoken.

Agrias had never spoken of it at length. She would not do so now. She imagined, as they trudged on through the gloom of the necrohol that the others must have known a Lionsguard would have kinsfolk near the capital. As she remembered the scene of the war's first battle--oxcarts full of shrouded shapes plodding by her--she told herself that she may not have to witness the aftermath of the war's last.

[blogger360ncislarules]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: NCIS: Los Angeles Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Harris Keane & Hetty Lange Characters: Hetty Lange, Harris Keane Additional Tags: Whumptober 2024, 9x23, 9x24, 10x01, Team as Family, Angst, Emotional Hurt, Set Up For Failure, Partner Betrayal, holding back tears, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Season/Series 10 Speculation, Yeah this is a lot of whump Summary:

A very deep and whumpy look into what the Season 9 finale and Season 10 premiere must have been like for Hetty.

[legoyass]

Bloody handprint on an old fashioned radio

[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[amkhaaaa]

[dailykugisaki]

Day 327 | id in alt

Both the first and the last survivor of idle transfiguration.

[spaciebabie]

at first getting diagnosed with cptsd was like, "yay my trauma has been validated (it always was valid)!" and i really thought that was going to be it, but then i started to do research as i do whenever i realize i have something and learned that!! the way i experience socialization is!! quite horrid actually!!

[heartinmyphan]

i like scrolling through here and seeing what level of insanity you guys can reach about phan and being glad its not me. not in a phantwt “you guys are so annoying i wouldn’t be surprised if we got another hiatus this is why they left in the first place yadda yadda” way but in a “i’m so glad i still have some of my sanity” kind of way. i appreciate you guys having the energy and dedication to do backflips over hoodie strings and single beds where i don’t

[hywenhei]

BLOOD TRAIL: Abandoned Cabin | One Way Out | "Is there anybody alive out there?"

Whumpee has finally managed to escape Whumper despite being severely injured. Unfortunately, getting truly out of Whumper's territory is a difficult task, and in their haste, they leave behind a trail of bloodstains and splotches. For Whumper, it feels like a fun game that their captive is trying to play; for Caretaker, who's trying to keep Whumpee alive and safe, it's a lot more worrying.

"Anybody alive out there? Trust me, it's going to be much harder for you to stay alive out there than in here. Just come out and show yourself."

Whumpee stumbles into an abandoned cabin; the first sign of human civilization since they escaped from Whumper. They flop onto the surprisingly comfortable sofa and their hands move up sluggishly to try and stem the bloodflow from their abdomen. However, the effort it took to make it there overwhelms them and they pass out almost immediately. Meanwhile, Caretaker is frozen in the doorway of their family cabin, staring wide-eyed at a bleeding stranger who just passed out on their couch.

A Whumpee who is capable enough to undo their bonds without their captor noticing. A Whumpee who is strategic enough to pick the perfect time to escape, even though they have no sense of real time in their cell. A Whumpee who is brave enough to hold out under torture, thoughts solely fixed on escape. Whumpee finally executes their plan, and everything is going perfectly until they manage to get out of Whumper's base. Turns out, they never actually planned for the harsh environment outside of Whumper's base. Escape was never actually a possibility; nobody could survive these conditions. But Whumpee was going to try their damned hardest to.

i'm actually making a whumptober masterpost which i'll (hopefully) release by the end of the month :] see you tomorrow for day 20!!

[christmassavestheyear]

i don't know who i would be, if you ever leave a fic by @thefootnotes for @whumptober

 TK tries not to involve himself in Carlos’ work with the Rangers; it’s complicated, and often confidential, and rarely as life-threatening as his own work. So he tries to stay two steps back, waiting for his husband to open up, to speak his mind, to share whatever case or suspect or civilian is the owner of the weight he’s bearing at the time. It doesn’t often happen, and when it does it’s usually very little, but if he has to go away for work he always makes sure TK knows exactly where he’s going, when he should be finished, and which Rangers or police officers should be with him.

Or the one where Rangers Reyes and Campbell disappear during a work trip out to the hill country, and TK takes matters into his own hands to find them.

T | tk strand/carlos reyes | 1.7k whumptober day 19 - blood trail: abandoned cabin, one way out, "is there anybody alive out there?"

read on ao3.

[sushimango]

Day 19 of Whumptober!

This is the background story of Dariel in one of our RPGS.

He doesn't know yet that those men he's running from he'll call saviour in future

[veloriium]

spotify cover for my little rainbow factory au thats marinating in my brain

[korrasamibottles]

That different people can engage with the same piece of media and come out of it with wildly different interpretations is a testament to the evolutionary miracle that is the human brain. It is also very annoying.

[kawaiikenna]

Just got my kudos email from ao3 and someone left a kudos on my very first fic that I’d ever posted! Like, I wrote that bitch waaaaaay back in 2016. Back when little tiny weeaboo me decided that the world needed to read my fics even though they were kinda mostly just trash. 🙃 But it was there. Right there in the email. And I ended up just staring at it and going, WTF??? People still like/are active in the Voltron fandom???? I thought we all died back in like 2018.

[leslieseveride]

i feel like if any one person had the privilege of knowing about chenfords secret relationship it no doubt would have been jackson. i mean, there’s honestly no hiding it from him, not with the way lucy comes home smiling like a lovesick puppy after every date she has with tim.

[dailykugisaki]

Day 331 | id in alt

Kugisaki looking for curse bindings on people my beloved.