#now I'm crying at my desk

[dalishthunder]

:(

[mewkwota]

"A photo of Dad, Mom, and their children."

In my constant visits to see Yuichiro I would snoop around the entire lab for hints of backstory, and upon finding this photo the first time I was emotionally destroyed. Do you think this may be one of the few if not only pictures they have of Hub while he was still alive?

For me, it's even more interesting that the description gets more specific with the first few games. Starting with a "a photo of a dad", then implying it as if it was Lan's dad (quoted above), then finally clarifying the children as "two smiling boys".

[hairtusk]

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[disasterbijamietartt]

God, I sure hope that Jamie will be happy and feeling secure and loved at the end of this series. I don't even care anymore who he ends up with, as long as he is with someone who makes him feel good about himself and wanted for who he is and just at home😢

[msommers]

priscilla and riya i'm going to throw UP

[the-lark-ascending69]

Had this moment of extreme anger and aggression out of nowhere and ended up hurting myself and then i wrote about it, went out to get some coffee, chatted w the coffee lady for 5 minutes, watched an episode of amphibia and now i feel weirdly refreshed and hopeful about life and the future??

[crmsndragonwngss]

Well, don't lean on me 'cause I am falling, Please don't fall with me I really need you here, Yeah, I need you, so don't leave And don't count on me 'cause I am drowning, Please don't drown with me Just hold me in your heart, Let the ocean take me Let the ocean take me

[daedrabela]

time both goes too fast and not fast enough. when i'm enjoying my time it slips away from me. when i want things to end quickly, it seems to take eons.

[missmouse43]

I was playing around with some Jiara clips in my video editor and had a breakdown over this transition so I decided to make this crappy gif so you can all suffer with me 🧡

[shirogane-oushirou]

finished two ren pics yesterday that i'd been sitting on for a while, started TWO craft projects today (making a cheap DIY bobbin lace bolster pillow + making a ren doll (or two???)) AAAAAND i just found a program that lets me use my ipad as a tablet for my laptop and bought CSP 3.0 on sale. >:333333c Beware.

[moonlight-prose]

coming to you live from my very own desk.

[sukugo]

got COCKBLOCKED in my own HOUSE (both literally and figuratively 🤔)

[hairtusk]

i get emotional sometimes thinking about how well i eat when i'm at my boyfriend's place, because he's the only person ever in my life who has cared enough about me to find and prepare meals that i can handle with my ARFID :')

[essektheylyss]

Alright tomorrow (or, well, today now, I suppose) I am FINISHING THE CHAPTER I'VE BEEN WORKING ON. I've got one scene left of it. And then I can write the third chapter in this section and I will feel way better.

[astralarias]

A SLUG SPAWNED OUT OF NOWHERE AND FELL ON MY HANDDDDDDD

[callsignspark]

Be real with me, Elle, how much is ‘the life that could have been’ going to ruin me??

(‘Your lap is my safe place’, I’m looking at you.)

I would apologize for this but, as with everything, this is all @gretagerwigsmuse's fault. below the cut because I do not have the ability to be brief, warning for mentioned miscarriage.

but when Bradley and Mary buy their house (the house that Carole always said she wanted to move into, a house big enough for their family, for their friends, the house they spend their entire lives in together) the twins are three and starting to get to the point where they're starting to think about of giving them their own rooms. so they start going through all the stuff that has accumulated when you build a life together - old clothes, holiday decor that never gets used, your parents' stuff.

Bradley is going through a box of paperwork that Mav had after Carole died; it has a lot of important stuff. copy of her will, his parents' wedding certificate, and oddly enough, a folder with Carole's medical history. he flips through it, figuring she must have requested a copy when she got sick for insurance purposes or something, and a few pages in he wishes he had just put it back in the box.

October 13, 1986: Patient admitted to emergency department for severe abdominal pain and heavy vaginal bleeding. Diagnosed as spontaneous abortion, estimated to be between 10 and 12 weeks. Patient chose D&C treatment, local anesthesia used. Follow-up appointment scheduled for two weeks.

he feels like he's going to pass out. he was almost a big brother; he is a big brother, technically. he heads over to Mav's house immediately, barely saying bye to Mary which worries her but she doesn't press; she's seen the look on his face a lot. specifically, three times a year - on his parents' wedding anniversary and on the days they passed. she knows what he was looking at, figures it must have upset him and she sends Penny a heads-up text.

at Mav's house, he finds out that his mom didn't even know she was pregnant. that didn't tell Mav until Bradley was about 6 and she had a breakdown on the anniversary of her procedure.

he drives around for a little bit, ending up at the beach behind the Hard Deck, imagining what his life would have been like if his little brother had been born. it was too early to tell, but Bradley has been picturing a boy. Mav said that Carole had always liked the name Marcus, Marky for short, after Nick's father.

it goes through this in-universe AU I've been developing, where everything is almost the same except Bradley doesn't go into the Navy but he's a history teacher and he takes care of his little brother. does all the parent things - goes to parent-teacher conferences, goes to all the baseball games, takes a stupid number of photos at prom, etc. and it explores his feelings of watching his brother live the life he pictured for himself.

it ends with him coming home to the life he does have. his beautiful wife, his daughters he would do anything for, his uncle and the family he built for himself. Mary is like "you need anything?" and he's goes "just you baby doll, just you." the final bit is AU Bradley bumping into a pretty brunette in his bakery, "I'm Mariella, but you can call me Mary." because these two find each other in every universe, no matter what.