#it's great either way

[tinkerbelldetective]

"I miss you," he finally sighs, looking directly at the camera.

Nina smiles softly, setting her pencil down to meet Fabian's cross continental gaze.

"I miss you too, Fabian."

The night has already fallen on his side. She can see the dark sky just outside the window behind him, while the sun still shines against her back.

His eyes fall to his wrist with a sigh.

"Nina-"

"I know. Send me a copy of it, okay? I still want to read it."

Fabian smiles, waving at the camera before her screen goes black.

***

"Finals are in a week. I'm just glad this class is over. She has deadlines tighter than Victor's curfew."

"Well that never stopped us."

She can hear his smile in his voice, but she wishes she could see it in person, even if she has memorized every pull of his lips, every smile he's ever given her written into her soul with golden ink.

"True." She readjusts the phone against her ear as she digs through her bag, grasping onto the textbook that she managed to trade a $50 gift card for. It's weird how much she can slide by. "You have organic chemistry this Thursday?"

"I've done well so far, but I'm reading everything over."

"You're gonna do great, Fabian."

"I know."

"Are you going back home?"

"For a few days. What about you and your Gran?"

"She's planned a pretty elaborate dinner and we're seeing The Nutcracker."

"Oh, nice!"

There's silence before Fabian speaks again.

"I know you have class, Miss Martin. Don't stop learning on my account. We'll talk tonight, okay?"

She laughs at the voice he uses when he calls her 'Miss Martin' before answering with a happy confirmation.

***

The plane ticket burns in his pocket as he pulls up the webcam, catching Nina already in her pink pajamas.

"You're going to bed early."

"Early day tomorrow."

Ah, yes, French tutoring on Thursdays.

"Listen, I-" He stumbles over his words, just like he did at Anubis, before pulling himself together. "I've been saving all semester. Uncle Ade pitched in, not much, but still." He pulls the plane ticket from his pocket, holding it up to the camera with a shy smile.

"Fabian," she breathes.

"I'm spending Christmas at home, but I want to see you."

He waits for a response as Nina stares back at him, her lips widening into a smile.

"I can't wait."

[keydekyie]

Leap

[ping-ski]

sugar daddy eclipse is real finally

[slfcare]

the most difficult thing about growing as a person socially, as in getting out of your shell and noticing that you are, is that there will still be times when it doesn’t feel like you’ve grown at all! times when you can’t really connect with anyone around you, times when you fail to enter into an existing conversation, times when you say the wrong thing (or nothing at all when in hindsight you probably should’ve). but that’s also kind of the best thing, because that’s the thing that helps you realize that sometimes, it’s not you or your lack of skills or any shortcoming. sometimes certain environments just aren’t for you and certain people aren’t your people, and that’s okay. that’s human. it’s okay to not feel the progress you have made all the time.

[courtesanofdeath]

sorachi redraws (volume 1) gintoki 20 years later!

[inazuman]

sae is definitely someone who loves you more and more through every stage of your relationship. he loves you even more when you’re engaged than when you were dating, he loves being married to you and growing old with you. he loves watching you grow as a person. watching smile lines and starlight grey hair settle into your image, sees it as proof that he made you feel happy and loved. loves the thought of knowing he was there before and after it

it’s such a beautiful and honestly rare thing to have someone who’s love only grows for you with every milestone and who feels like knows everything about you by heart whilst simultaneously feeling like he’s rediscovering you over and over again.

[morethanwonderful]

Sweeping away his competition with a constant lead and a final victory by 22%, Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu has officially beaten Qi Rong and been crowned the MXTX character that was/would be most insufferable if given access to the internet!

In the end, it turns out that this whole elaborate tournament was for naught. Even Qi Rong, the man voted more annoying that 63 other characters, cannot hold a candle to the sheer degree of insufferable that we know our dear Peerless Cucumber was and would be. Absolutely nobody can compare to Shen Yuan's canon keyboard warrior antics.

Thank you all for joining me on this journey! I hope everyone had fun voting in this tournament, as I know I had a lot of fun running things and watching everyone's hot takes. Shen Yuan may have rendered all but the very final round of voting moot with his sheer loveable obnoxiousness, but maybe the real most insufferable people online are the friends we made along the way :).

[sandflakedraws]

the song came on my shuffle and would not leave me alone until i penned this i'm so sorry

[goosesartblog]

this guy i guess

[chloesimaginationthings]

The way you draw Micheal Afton, both scooped and pre-scooping, is soooo pretty I love him!!! Like he was already my favourite character but your design and art made me love him even more!!!! 💜💜💜💜

Like if the girl on the right is as beautiful as the girl on the left 💜

[lesbianlenas]

hmmmm i wonder what it was that made biden able to beat trump but not clinton or harris……hmmm what could it possibly be i wonder that shifted the votes away from those two qualified candidates but not old man joe…..

[bluebirds-stuff]

Tang bo return au inspired by ge's and azu1as Tangchung arranged marriage au

Something Something happens and chung myung ends up needing to be (faked) married for a short awhile so the tang family offers the hand of a distant tang cousin who's been making waves in the cultivation world and getting stronger during the last 3 years (*note that this is after cm is 21 ) who seems to REALLY hate the demonic cult and the great sects who won't meet each other until the wedding day

Now on the outsider pov we have people up and down making sure everything is doing good on said wedding night , and it is ..... except for the fact that said wedding grooms seem to be late for THEIR OWN WEDDING

Thankfully the mount hua disciplines see their youngest coming, not so Thankfully he's coming covered in blood dragging a (dead or unconscious ? ) demonic cult member and all of you are worrying about the poor groom who doesn't deserve to be tied down to this heart attack inducing menace ,except the groom ALSO Shows up covered in blood dragging a (also dead or unconscious ?! ) body without a care in the world, then all of you see your youngest FREEZE at the site of him as if he saw the dead coming back to life he did

And the tang groom freezes too and whispers in awe and confusion " taoist hyung-nime!? "

The crazy bastards proceed to drop the bodies and launch at each other with desperation

And all of you are hit with a horrible gut feeling that this isn't going to be a "fake" wedding after all .

[fumifooms]

Dunmeshi promotes the importance of balance for both a healthy body and a healthy mind, and optimism vs pessimism is one such case <3

If you were too glass half-full and I was too glass half-empty, maybe together we could make a full glass

[starcurtain]

Sometimes I think about Aventurine in the moment he first discovered his Pathstrider abilities. The moment he first realized he could shield not only himself but also others. The very first moment he realized he could be a source of safety, rather than a burden--than a curse.

Sometimes I think about the hatred he must have felt for himself in that instant.

Where was this power when their camps were burned to the ground with every last one of their meager possessions? Where was this power when his mother died begging as he cowered, playing dead in a bath of the blood of everyone he knew?

Where was this power when his sister stood tall, a silhouette against the lightning, and used her body as the shield? Where was this power in the maze, when it could have spared the screaming child who was the first to die?

You could have saved them. You could have saved them. You could have saved them.

[steambend]

zutaras are about to be baited so bad for the second time in a row and frankly idc can i get ten more scarf scenes please

[eluminium]

you can divide the people in the guess the build squad into four categories

actual builders and fantastic ones at that: Gem, Grian, Joel. redstoner who is a builder in training: Impulse not a builder but has builder besties: Jimmy not a builder but has redstone besties: Skizz

and it explains everything. especially about those last two.