#just a little emo post

[musubiki]

danmarch 🐉💎

[oneluckydragon]

"What do you remember of being human, Echo?" The question is out of the blue and unexpected. But Sora offers a patient smile and tilts her head in curiosity, just enough that one of her ears flops over. It's endearing, if anything.

But Echo wishes she hadn't asked.

"Not much. Distinct memories are cloudy." A tired tone says softly, a pained recollection in her eyes and an acrid haze in her soul that endures, endures, and endures, "But I remember the discomfort more than anything. My body always did feel wrong back then. Misshapen. Condensed. Like it was too small for everything buried underneath, and that ache went so deeply some days that it would make my skin crawl. I hated that part the most."

At that, Sora's expression falls. She looks inexplicably sad, as if she'd hoped for a different response, a gentler one despite knowing the harsh truth about the dark future and the struggles Echo must have suffered. "But you had Grovyle, right? I'm sure he took care of you."

"He did, Sora, of course he did." A sigh, a flick of an ear and claws clenched tightly into the churned earth pressed under her paws. "I doubt I deserved his attention, though. I was too busy being angry at the world to give any care back."

In my lore, Echo does not look fully human during their time in the dark future. Since they were Darkrai before becoming human, and as a result of Palkia's reckless shattering of the Dimensional Portal which distorted both time and space, Echo's transformation was broken and accidental. They ended up looking pretty messed up and definitely (not) human. A lot of their characteristics as Darkrai carried over but rather morphed into something else.

And Grovyle, growing up in a world where humans have been extinct for longer than any living pokémon has been alive, has no concept of what a "true" human looks like. The only thing he knows is descriptions of humans from glyphs and texts in old ruins. Thus, he mistakes Echo for an actual human. And Echo, not knowing what a human looks like themselves due to amnesia, accepts this identification with nothing better to use.

[luckylittledarlings]

Stay ⭐️ Rad And Totally Awesome ⭐️ (RATA💚)

[sendmyresignation]

For one, I cannot possibly reflect on my lived experience of the word “emo” without acknowledging that the more comfortable I became in my own skin over time, the less discomfort I felt over being associated with a word that once connoted weakness and sentimentalism. I spent a great deal of time in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s basically terrified of being “found out” as gay, and while this fear was not unfounded — there were hardcore kids being arrested for murdering a gay man in New York City as recently as the summer of 1990 — it may have been somewhat misplaced. Being vulnerable or in touch with your full range of emotions isn’t “gay” as much as it’s human. The closet denied me of my total humanity in that way, and it has almost become my life’s work to reverse the damage I caused to others and myself by living that way. Those things that people now identify as “emo” from my work in the ‘90s, I see as my coming out. A slow, but meaningful coming out. Texas is the Reason and Anti-Matter were projects that did an inordinate amount of the heavy lifting in helping me accept myself for who I was, and over the years, I’ve heard time and again that they’ve also played a direct part in giving other hardcore kids the permission they felt they needed to become fuller versions of their own unique selves. If that’s called “emo” now, then I want to continue to be a part of that.

Norman Brannon Emo: A Personal History in Three Parts -- Part 3 2004-2019

I've seen the post about Norman Brannon's experience with the word "emo" as a closeted gay man pass around before but I think it's unfortunate that the quote is taken out of a larger piece, specifically the way it's been unintentionally removed from the introspective conclusion.

[notimeforlaugh]

trying some designs for new eggs

pepito sometimes using supports for walking, but still skating with their favorite father carre cuz they r just cool like this

material girl sunny is a little mechanic + aviator like I imagin their pa tubbo

and em being the only properly dressed and fed egg cuz her moms like to sew and cook

[justgivemethefuckinvalium]

[potatobugz]

yeah we turned your boyfriend into shadow the hedgehog. sorry

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso

[gemstarstarlight]

Everyone go check out the arcane tag the lesbians are losing it

[anteroom-of-death]

The Master after using psychic energy from Inside the Tooth to make the Toymaker do a fun dance number:

[luckylittledarlings]

As a fellow artist herself, Leonessa says you better know your worth ❤️‍🔥

[angelbambisworld]

I want to believe you're happy with her. I really do. I see the way you hug and kiss her sometimes. It's like you really mean it when you say you love her.

And I want to believe that you do so fucking badly. I want to believe that I'm wrong and that she's the right woman for you and that she totally loves you back.

But something about her tears a hole in me.

[mccallmemaybe]

i'm on season 2 of my teen wolf rewatch and i somehow forgot how hard scissac goes. i've had to pause battlefield multiple times to giggle and kick my feet about them tbh

[pastelpousay]

Sometimes I wanna give up but then I have to remember I’m doing this to make the little me happy

I’m gonna try and focus on myself because if I have another borderline episode someone is going to die and it will not be me.

[clown-around-and-find-out]

moodboard of shit i constantly quote which results in nobody ever knowing what the hell im talking about

[rosies-riveters]

Folks, please check on your emo Jersey friends. We are not okay. Trust me.