#lingering life

[rosekasa]

i think what i adore about ladynoir beyond high school age (18 and over) is the opportunity it leaves for some of the most DELICIOUS best friends to lovers scenarios. because, like, two people who've been fighting side by side for years? who've known each other long enough to make jokes about it, haha remember when we were fourteen and you-- we AGREED to never speak of it!!!! who've spent so long learning each other inside out, even, in chat noir's case, getting over feelings, that the idea of anything romantic between them is so far off the radar that they don't feel the need for certain boundaries, because why would it matter if they made jokes about how attractive they find each other, about getting married, about how they could totally mess with the rest of the miracle team by pretending they're hooking up because it's so far out of the realm of possibility.

but then there would be that imperceptible shift. the moment where one of them makes a joke and it feels just a bit more loaded than it should. gazes lingering where they never lingered and playful smiles turning curious. the sudden awareness that, while maybe they were cuddling on a rooftop with their best friend, they were also wrapped up in the arms of someone they trust with their lives, and is extremely attractive, and, wait, if the only reason it was platonic before was because there were no feelings, what does THIS mean?

THE TENSION. THE PINING. THE INHERENT MESS OF BEING IN YOUR TWENTIES. PLEASEEEE

[hobermallowed]

Can’t stop thinking about claudeleine in their last moments. The last soft glance. The unknown whispered final words. How they kneel together hand in hand until Madeleine can’t bear the brunt of the sun anymore and wraps her arms around Claudia. How Claudia holds her close until there’s nothing left of her. The only person in the world to put her first and Claudia’s final moments are spent clutching their ashes in her hands.

[neobastard]

depression and chronic illness metaphor? in my neopets plot?

[thinwhitedoc]

SHERLOCK | Martin Freeman as John Watson

[thatgothsamurai]

I used to scent these flowers constantly💮💮

[cringefailvox]

friend breakups are genuinely devastating especially homoerotic ones when neither of you know you're gay yet, which is just to say that i actually would NOT be disappointed if vox ends up canonically only having had platonic feelings for alastor, because there is little in this world that can psychologically fuck you sideways into deep, haunting loathing that you never forget more than falling out with someone you considered a best friend

[edwinisms]

you ever think about how edwin got like. no warning, no time time to process, nothing, when he reappeared on earth faced with the fact that virtually everyone he knew in life is dead. his parents? probably died in the 1950s or so (at best) almost forty years prior to edwin’s return. if any of his classmates were still around, they’d have been elderly, possibly senile, and in a few years they’d all be gone– except, of course, edwin. nothing looks the same, cars look like spaceships, there actually are spaceships, he can no longer see the stars, and everyone he knew is dead.

[a-memory-a-distant-echo]

inspired by several recent conversations, because it's plaguing me.

for the purposes of this poll, a wip is any creative project (not work project, even if you do creative work—this is just funsies stuff) that you have started creating and intend (or hope) to finish. the ones in the time-out corner count, as long as you're still kinda rotating it in your brain—mental work counts as work.

no 'other' option. toughen up and pick an option. i believe in you.

also i know perfectly well that people have lots of justifications for whatever number of things they're working on, but these were the ones that came to mind when i made the poll, so they're what's here.

also please take seeing this post as an invitation to make a post about your wips and why you love them. i always feel super awkward and weird posting about things that i'm trying to create, but i love hearing about what people are working on and why they like it.

[chloepleasestopdying]

My favorite pricefield moment is in the first episode when Chloe has just gotten done bitching at Max and is driving her to her house (which: I know if MY best friend ignored me for five years I would drop her off somewhere else- not the point here though) and the camera kinda drags its way up Chloe’s tattoo to her face and she’s all lit by the setting sun-

What makes it my favorite is the fact that Max IMMEDIATELY reaches for her camera after this. LiS is from Max’s point of view even if most of the time we don’t see things from her exact perspective but to me it feels like Max was looking at all the changes and new details of Chloe and saw something she wanted to take a picture of (and if her camera wasn’t broken I totally believe she would have taken a picture)

[ptieuca]

bangel + jewelry

[carlyraejepsans]

One thing I think people forget is that sans probably wouldn’t talk about missing his home and never being able to go back and giving up unless he absolutely felt he had to

with frisk he’s pretty sure that’s the time traveler that could very well end the entire world. He’s trying to reason with em as a someone he’s hoping could be a friend at that point because he’d really rather not have that happen

In geno is IS the end of the world and he’s hoping you’ll realize this is stupid and cruel and reset. It’s not like he’d have this conversation on a random Tuesday with papyrus

yeah agreed, sans goes out of his way to not talk to/with papyrus about their life before the underground. remember the newsletter q&a? (this is more a theory, but judging from their behavior i personally think papyrus is an amnesiac/sans thinks he is, and he's trying to spare him the grief of remembering).

his memories and mementos are stored behind his house for a reason, he's had his realization that he'll never go back already: there's no sense in reopening that wound again if he has an option to avoid the topic.

[gavincreel]

— and this time will be bigger! and brighter than we knew it. so watch me fly, we all know I can do it!

[rotteneldritchhorror]

I feel like it’s kinda brushed over that Mischa absolutely has the worst (current) parents

He’s literally locked in the basement and shipped to a whole new country and his new parents literally shoo him away and sob every time they see him

AND! HE HAD TO MOVE TO A TOWN NAMED AFTER THE THING THAT KILLED HIS REAL MOTHER.

[jesuis-assez]

↠ Tim & Lucy ↳ 5x04 - The Choice

[thatscarletflycatcher]

It has probably been said before, but in It's a Wonderful Life, part of George's regret is a sense of guilt about what Mary could have had had she not married him; that she is in it because she loves him so much, and so she endures the life they have. And yet when we get to the reality where George never existed, Mary is a librarian. There's this contrast between the casinos and the cabarets and such (all exploitative and fraudulent ways of preying on desperate poor people) that populate Pottersville, and Mary, in this timeline, choosing the one job that remains a community oriented, free, helpful service. She married George because she loved him, yes, but also because his convictions about doing good for his community were also hers all along, and would have been even if he had not existed. She doesn't endure the life they have out of sheer abnegation, but embraces it out of conviction.

[whirlybirbs]

truly, there is no finer comedic bit than #1 Hero and The Nation’s Greatest Sex Symbol, All Might, being a fucking virgin. there’s no funnier line ever written. that is peak. that’s the top. not him, though. he’s not the top. he’s the bottom.