#it makes me incredibly sad

[17panicattacksinatrenchcoat]

one of the best parts of writing dystopian fiction is when you write A Thing™ into your book and then several months later The Thing™ actually happens. called it!

[patchyourbrokenwings]

My cat and I usually wake up next to each other in the mornings. And knowing I'll have to leave him behind is tearing me apart. I've been slowly saying goodbye to him for weeks, telling him countless times that I love him. I don't want to say goodbye, I don't want to live without my cat. But it's time to go. It's time to choose myself.

[witchyam]

i miss my friends bro i miss having friends at all

[ahhlehlehlehleh]

"You're as beautiful as the day I lost you."

personal headcanon: Orion fell in love with D-16 and had planned on confessing to him but lost the opportunity do so through the events of the movie BUT even as Optimus and Megatron he still held feelings for him.

[jontheredrc]

Well, it's about that time again...and I'm sleepy. It was a really nice day out yesterday, but it started raining overnight and won't let up until after my shift ends. But listening to that rain hitting my roof, and also feeling kinda sluggish and tired already...I didn't want to come in to work today. Usually I have trouble falling back asleep after waking up, but I definitely did fine this morning. But it wasn't enough...I just want to go back to bed and stay there, and wrap up in blankets and read books and drink tea and not have to trek across town. But I've already made the trek. I can only hope that not too many customers bother coming out to shop in the rain, and I can just sorta coast through the day.

Speaking of, have a great day, everyone! Love you! I have tomorrow off, and I've been feeling very isolated lately. Maybe we can hang out today or tomorrow...? 👋💕

[feyriejane]

trying to explain the struggles of womanhood to a man is an incredibly isolating experience

i want to explain my experience to you but i can't. you want to understand but you can't. we love each other and we're both trying so hard, but it doesn't feel like it's enough

you will never understand me

i will never find the right words

[theerurishipper]

Local bat vigilante tries not to admit to caring about father-figure, fails

[whoviandoodler]

been thinking about pok a lot again and that moment when riz told him sklonda was dating gorthalax (in some capacity or another) and pok just went quiet for a bit before he wished her well and like. he's riz's father to such a degree that it hurts. he died young, got to paradise and then said, ok time to go back to work, chop chop. and he does take breaks to listen to riz at his grave and he works in a beautiful meadow when he's not down in hell and -literally speaking- he does sit down but metaphorically he keeps on going and going.

and i'm just imagining that- obviously he knows that he's dead, right? but the human* brain is weird in that way where you'll know things, and you might even sit with them and think you've processed them, but then something will hit you out of left field and you'll realize there are so many aspects of the situation you hadn't internalized yet, and i think that one of those aspects for pok was sklonda, or rather all the dimensions in which her life branched off after he died. because with riz he'd always been painfully aware that his kid was growing up and changing, but with sklonda it's a bit more complicated, it's a bit easier to process the grief of being apart from her, purely on an unconscious level, as being away for work. he's working, she's working, she probably tells him about her work and about riz and riz includes his mom in his stories and it's like, oh this is horribly painful, that i can't be there, but in a way he and sklonda share a lot of what they used to when he was working abroad, no matter how far apart- they're always connected by their love for each other and the quiet but omnipresent nuptial tie and the state of being riz's parents.

and then he's suddenly hit with the reality of an area of sklonda's life that hadn't been on his mind before, considering they were happily and monogamously married. truly just a matter of like, this is not a space you occupy anymore, you're fucking dead, until death do us part and all that, and she might still love you but she loves you like a dead husband like a source of grief like the man she once knew not a living partner. and it's neither of their faults, it's purely a tragedy, and he genuinely wishes her the best because he loves her, he doesn't want her to be alone nor does he expect her to be faithful past reason and the vow they made to each other. but the grief of it still really fucking stings, doesn't it?

[mxrtified777]

you guessed it! its a bug compilation

[napping-sapphic]

I just want to fall in love with someone who makes me feel safe like even when we’re angry or sad or upset i just want to know that both of us are still going to be okay

[erinwantstowrite]

i get a lot of asks about what fic recs i have and i am in fact compiling a list (i discovered most of them from alighterwood) but right now my favorite fic that i have been following is The Buzzard by FlightL3ss_Bird1029 on ao3 and it needs its own post specifically because i am that in love with it

it's an au where Tim doesn't become Robin and instead, Steph takes up the mantle. It has a prologue called Fledge that had me hooked from the beginning.

Fledge's description:

"When Jason Todd died, Tim took it upon himself to find a way to save Batman from his dark spiral of violence. Maybe if things had gone differently Tim would have offered himself up to take the Robin mantle and work alongside his hero. Unfortunately, Tim was too busy running his parents' company after the untimely death of his mother. But he knew how to be useful, and other opportunities presented themselves for him to do just that. He felt a little bad about helping to kidnap Damian, but decidedly less bad about helping Steph become a hero. He just hoped that his use wouldn't run out before getting to help his Robin."

The Buzzard's description:

"After a difficult year (for many reasons) Tim goes back to Gotham to help Jason Todd reconnect with his family. Whether Jason wanted that or not, well, Tim had time to wear him down. Between the tutelage of Deathstroke and Lady Shiva, he was well equipped to handle himself as Jason's equal and hit Gotham's vigilante scene as the Buzzard. His parents were dead and the lonely cavity in his chest kept growing every day, but it didn't matter. Tim's mission could and would succeed despite his personal feelings and failures. He was fine and he had a job to do."

Everyone is so well written in this and I think about it constantly. The Buzzard currently has 10 chapters, 103,528 words. I don't usually rec fics until they've finished but this one is always on my mind, so I had to

[mervynbunter]

TIME BANDITS (1981), dir. Terry Gilliam

I just love the idea of taking guys that are small and treating them like heroes, treating them like Alan Ladd, almost as tall as Alan Ladd, I think he was about three inches taller than those guys. That’s what the joy of doing it was and giving these guys a chance to get out of their fucking Womble costumes and R2-D2 tin cans and be people. And they all rose to the occasion, they were all brilliant. —Terry Gilliam

[reinapepiada]

there's a bit more to the thought process that led to this than i'm willing to share here. it's like an AU but for one joke only

[sysig]

How much of me is me? (Patreon)

[professional-girlkisser]

he was smitten. you could've had it all armand de nothing.

[donothello]

song: Sleep Patterns by Merchant Ships