#it's like i'm back in 2020

[snarky-wallflower]

me: I could write some fic around the new characters and relationships we've got so far! After all, Sam's clearly got some history with the Magnus Institute, and Alice is amazing and I love her--

also me: screw you, the angles cut them when they try to think.

[not-rome]

We'll Never Have Sex by Leith Ross is mercelot's song. idc what anyone says. I will fight on this. it is their song.

you cannot tell me that these lyrics don't remind you of them

[hinamie]

bunch of portraits

[andisupreme]

I moved recently to start a new job and part of my commute now involves one of those high capacity toll booths where a two lane road suddenly flares out into 5-7 lanes of total anarchy with no lines anywhere, and then narrows back down to two lanes again, and we're just supposed to sort ourselves out? Who designed this

anyway I dreamed up this helpful anatomical guide on the drive home

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[insertsomthinawesome]

Trying out a post for Repostober!! and idea by @marlowedobbeart!!

The top one was an old FFXV post I'm honestly still quite proud of! The second image is actually one I never got around to posting. I thought it needed more work/that it wasn't good enough. Looking at it now tho I think it looks fine aldskfjLSKDJGSD. So sharing it now :D -NO ROMANCE INCLUDED-

[moreausposts]

i can't believe i opened tsc thinking i'd ship jerejean and walked away wanting jean with fucking KEVIN DAY so bad it makes me nauseous

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

i hope that you finally save up enough to buy the dream car you’ve been wanting for years. i hope that on the drive home, at least 30 minutes from your destination, you suddenly get explosive diarrhea all over the pale suede seats, staining them forever. i hope the smell is so overpowering & rancid that you immediately projectile vomit in all the little crevices of the center console. i hope youre wearing your favorite clothes, too. i hope the smell & stains linger forever. suffer.

[notachair]

Since atla is again having an extra surge of popularity, I'm shooting my shot:

[ID: (Rest of image description in alt). At the bottom of the image sits the text: "Zuko: Okay. Well, I can't remember how it starts, but the punchline is "leaf me alone, I'm bushed."" ID end].

Did we ever find out what the setup for this joke was? I feel kinda haunted by it. If not- anyone wanna make their best or worst guesses?

edit: I now know what "I'm bushed" mean, but go ahead anyway 👍

haunted thoughts in tags ↓

[masschase]

i've been thinking about SR1 a lot recently

[dazzelmethat]

The last Sess I posted was in 2018 I think, though this time he gets manga colors.

[kindnessoverperfection]

Lately, when I talk about someone I strongly disagree with, I think about my friends.

When I interact with someone who regularly rants about people, and tends to take things in the worst ways (without any attempts at self-reflection or grace), I feel more on-edge. I'm nervous to voice opinions. I'm always over-thinking everything I send them, worried about how they'll receive it.

On the other hand, I feel much safer during conversations where someone is speaking neutrally about those they feel at conflict with. When they feel upset about a situation, but without talking aggressively about the other person. Because I know that if we're ever in a disagreement, or have some sort of conflict or misunderstanding, they won't hurt me or suddenly hate me*.

I used to speak much more aggressively about people. My personality disorders, combined with online toxic environments, were big factors in that. I was stressed and angry constantly, and I felt justified, and I felt afraid and ashamed to respond with anything but anger. But to make a long story short, I had several big painful interpersonal experiences where I realized how my attitude was impacting my friends.

I remember the nervousness in my friends' eyes. I remember the people I've met who are much older and never grew out of that reactive communication style, and I don't want to be that person. I want my loved ones to feel safe around me.

So nowadays, I do my best to speak compassionately (or at least neutrally). Because I want to signal to my friends that I'm not going to be cruel to them, or to automatically believe the worst of them, during a conflict or misunderstanding. I try to vent about situations and my fears instead of people.

I wish I'd realized this before.

*(I discuss splitting in the tags)

[michelleaneousart]

Hey everyone!

I'm still (somewhat) alive!! 🥳

I did this way back in 2020 actually, but it was meant for a zine (which, to my knowledge, never saw the light of day) and since I've been going through my computer and saw this, I figured I might as well post it now. At least it might fit the summer vibe (not where I'm at though, here it's only rain all day long...)

Hope you guys are all doing well x

[youssefguedira]

sorry to keep posting about all of us strangers a film i have not seen since like uhhhhh february/march but during my occasional review scrolling before thinking about it made me too upset to continue what i noticed was that some seem to identify the scene where adam goes into his parents room and it cuts to him in what is presumably an adult-sized version of the pajamas he wore when he was a kid as something that was somewhat ridiculous + works because of how sincerely the moment is played by the cast and of course performance has a lot to do with it but also that moment to me is one of the most heartrendingly sincere parts of the whole film. it's very much about grief and wanting to go back to something that doesn't exist anymore and so the fact that the movie takes a somewhat dreamlike direction with this + has him dress like he would've when he was a kid speaks to how desperately he wants to be able to go back to that sense of safety. like he loses his parents really young so his relationship with them is kind of frozen at that point. that visual alone is such a clever way of communicating everything + the performances are devastating in this scene + this is the moment that had me physically shaking in the theatre so uhhhhhh

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

I am afraid.

For myself as a woman and queer person.

For my clients who are elderly and/or disabled and rely on programs like Medicaid and Social Security.

For my colleagues (and myself) as employees of a nonprofit, especially with Jewish in the name.

For my POC friends. My queer friends and family. My disabled friends and family.

For my friends and family who are teachers and crisis counselors and medical professionals, whose careers and possibly lives will be threatened even more by pro-lifers and conspiracy theorists.

For my friends that are specks of Blue in places that we slowly and with horror watched turn Red.

For this country. For the direction things are going to go. For the light at the end of the tunnel turning out to be the tikitorches of a MAGAt rally.

But I am also here. I love you. I support you. I want to help you however I can.

And I am not going down without a fight.

[brown-spider]

AU where Noir gets hired to investigate a sudden string of missing property/legal issues that's damaging local businesses in Brooklyn (think Museum mission from Insomniac's Spider-Man 2), and Hobie (Prowler) is his main informant

(^ these versions of the mfs, for visual reference)

Spiderman has a violent encounter with the Prowler and sees Hobie unmasked- then later, Robbie (reporter for the Bugle) manages to drag Peter into taking on a case for his neighborhood, where he's introduced to the man closest to the action: Hobie 🙂

Sidenote, I think it would be Very funny if Peter’s civilian identity is a private eye but everyone knows about The Spider always helping him. Like, "yeah Im a private eye and so is that vigilante guy and yes he for some reason only gives ME his leads but we are totally not the same person"