@grazziella (GRAZIELLA)
If he was fire then she was water and nothing felt as freeing and calming as being extinguished by her. He was enchanted ( imagine that, enchanted) by the way she’d kick his shoes with her own, or how her lipstick would stain her teeth when she smiled as happily as she could, or how that smile would go all lopsided when she laughed. She could light up a room with just the way she sighed.
So when she’s sat there looking like a wilted flower, his first reaction is to set whatever got her looking so right.
He’s used to the sagging foundation and moldy wallpaper of the west side. Everything was broken or near about. He’d been the one folks would call when something went wrong ( not that any one could afford anything other than him anyway). He’d started this underthe table Mr.-fix-it back when he’d beat the shit out of the fella that lived below him. He could hear him screaming his head off as if he was in the same room. He’d fixed their electric and changed all the lightbulbs that had been shattered in the house when the fella’s wife didn’t report Riff to the cops for knocking on their apartment door and decking the guy right in the face upon the first chance to. this was after he’d lost his job on account of O’Conner’s being torn down. he had some steam to vent.
Next thing he knew there was a line of housewives with things that needed fixed at his apartment door .
Walking through Grazie’s place makes him think of Tony’s old home. He remembered how Tony’s ma really reamed into him the first time he tracked mud across her newly cleaned and waxed floors. Thought he’d be thrown back out on to the street for sure. Not that he could understand anything that woman said, but he remembered helping her clean it up and finding his shoes clean and polished in the morning. She was a good woman, that one.
Grazie’s place smelled like summer time. Nice clean walls, good rugs. He wondered how much effort it took her to get the place looking so nice. He let her lead him through to the problem like a shepherd leads a lamb. he’d a hard time comprehending a place this nice. It was all rather intimidating.
She had decorative soap that looked like sea shells and flowers in her bathroom. He bent to smell it when she was wasn’t looking. it smelled like mangos. He’d half a thought to take the one shaped like a rose to show Tony later. Or perhaps just to keep it in his pocket for when he was missing her.
He’d been under her sink in that spiffed up bathroom for over an hour now, the problem a little more complex than he’d originally thought. Normally, in these cases, he’d make sure to get up often and make sure he’d walk around. He’d always make sure he’d stretch out his back to keep it from hurting bad. He didn’t this time.
He’d had her shut off the water main to the apartment and had her to run and turn it back on when he needed it and off again thereafter. He got a towel to dry his face from her at some point and took a solid minute looking at it with utter confusion. They made towels in colors?
It smelled better than the soap.
He’s long past the point where he can feel his back tingling. it hurts.
it hurts,
it hurts real bad.
He can’t even feel his feet.
At least the sink is fixed and done up the right way. He could at least do that for her.
He shimmied out from under cabinet which held the sink, feeling pins and needles in his toes with the movement. He’d hooked his arm up over the sink to help lift himself up, but came crashing back down at the sudden jolt of pain. There’s a grunt and few muffled swears (something in his head said no swearing in a fancy-ed-up place like this, despite feeling like the devil’d stepped on his back). He’d tried rolling to his side with much the same results.
“Graz!” he called squinting at the ceiling. Damn, he didn’t like this. not in the slightest. ” Grazie, come here a minute.”
There is a third try, which felt a hundred times worse than the first two attempts. When he sees her he gently pointed in her direction,” Don’t you laugh.” he huffed,” I can’t get up, help me, huh?”
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I know it's been said but the changes to Maria really grate on me because....this doesn't even read as the same character anymore. Maria's design was purposeful, a very clear specific concept of a 'cool sexy girl who wears leopard print and crop tops, and have a belly button piercing and a tattoo' - it combines to a stand out character portrait of not just Maria but of James, because THATS what he finds sexy and was a stark contrast to modest, sickly Mary. The new design literally just looks like a teacher or a manager now, what the hell is that supposed to tell me about either of their sexualities.
And no this isn't a case of 'tHe cEnSorINg' - this is just misunderstanding the themes. Maria wasn't needlessly sexy, objectified for the viewer; her sex appeal was referenced in the story, and was an important part of it, one of the MAJOR themes.
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Kevin watching Jean ask Jeremy if he's okay, watching Jean offer to hold Laila's bag so she can fix her shoe, watching Jean hand Cat a granola bar before a game because she looked a little unsteady. He's not jealous, he had his time by Jean's side. Maybe it's grief. Grief for something that was never so innocent, never so untouched by cruel hands, something that could've been better if they were anyone else. Grief for something that's long passed and can never be fixed to be made better than before. He had his time at the receiving end of Jean's concerned glances. Maybe he's just a little sad that when he's at an away game, he no longer buys post cards for a friend. Maybe he just misses this person who used to always be by his side but they both knows it's better this way. Jean is happy, it's not with Kevin, and that's okay.
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Lalalala!!!
AAAHHH I am going insane! I have been finding it So difficult to think of things to draw so I may not post as much!! I apologise!
The outfit in this was based off of an Animal Crossing outfit Clown had posted for Wally a little while ago! I messed around with it a Little bit, haha!
I am still working on a style I like also! So expect a lot of changes!
Oooh... I have been thinking of drawing Eddie and Frank together at some point though! I also would really like to make a mini.. storybook type panel.. thingy mabobby.. I'm sure someone understands what I mean!!
I might post some sketches of what I do!!
Thank you so so much for the continuing support!! It really does make me Happy seeing tags people put on their reblogs!! AAH! I am so so Happy!! Thank you thank you thank you!!
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what's the threshold theory
There was a post about how Tom is the only crew member who isn't really affected by the Borg, and there's a theory that he has so much luck because he saw the past and the future when he crossed the transwarp threshold. He saw the past and the future, all of time and space. There's some subconscious part of him that remembers that experience. In fact, Tom refused to play a part in Chakotay indulging Annorax's temporal incursions, probably because a part of him knew nothing good could come of it.
If we extend that same theory to Janeway, some of her wild luck with time travel and other crack plans starts to make sense. She doesn't verbally hate time travel until after the events of Threshold, since it happens in Time and Again without complaint. Janeway has an uncanny knack for time travel, as evidenced every time she deals with it. She hates time travel, but it might be because part of her knows exactly how to manipulate the timeline. She manages to avoid the "inevitable" temporal explosion in Future's End, saving both Voyager and Braxton. She resets the entire timeline in Year of Hell, and no one else followed her reasoning. She pulled it off flawlessly. In Relativity, she senses the incidents are all related, despite it being just one reading that connects them. By the time she's involved, she has a temporal incursion factor of .0036 and a time travel protocol named after her, even if that may just be Braxton's personal grudge. Then there's Endgame, where she intentionally changes the timeline. Up until this point, she has been dragged into time travel, but for the first time, she jumps in on purpose. How does Admiral Janeway know how to get them home sooner in a way that completely avoids the Temporal Integrity Commission? It's because she has seen all of time, and part of her knows exactly what needs to happen so she can get Voyager home and do it in a way that becomes baked into the prime timeline. Maybe she doesn't consciously remember what happened during her transformation, but the experience lives in her mind somewhere, guiding her decisions.
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