#on today's episode of

[helicrazy]

@ask-smokescreen "You know, Vortex, I think I could escape from a trap like that VERY easily. … But also, hey, my corpse is unfraggable."

"Wanna bet?"

[tamedgod]

"geez — you been awake the entire night...?" he looked the other beastkin up and down before falling to the ground next to her in a heap. he didn't want to say anything the other might find OFFENSIVE, but regardless of her answer...he could see the truth with his own two golden eyes.

"go ahead, get you some shuteye. i'll hold th' post 'til sunrise, if that's what you're worried 'bout." cactus spine he'd repurposed as a toothpick is twiddled between tongue and teeth as he leans back, fingers interlacing behind his head with the rest of him stretching out across the ground. " — 'less it's somethin' else keepin' you up...?" — ah, for haru...from sett.

lack of sleep // @face-breaker

they'd made camp beneath the edge of the treeline, not far from the shore. haru sat at its edge, the remaining embers of their campfire smoldering weakly in front of her. the soft sound of the waves crashing a ways away was background noise to all the thoughts in her head; how long had they been away from home, now? all that time she'd spent in the capital — in the castle — and now what felt like endless traveling across the continent. she guessed that they were coming to a close on the summer months, based on the drops in temperature. nothing frigid like rtali, the group being so far south, but it remained cooler all the same. did her family miss her? remember her? were they even capable of doing so? it felt like a lifetime ago that haru had lived so wild, as a creature of the northwood. feral and untamed, mind only focused on one thing: survival. and while those instincts may have been a bit dulled in her time closer to humans, they certainly weren't gone.

feline ears flick backwards at the other's approach, the cat turning reflective eyes on sett's massive frame as he fell to the ground beside her. a somewhat amused smile crossed her features at his question, her expression softening soon after at his follow up offer.

"you don't need to worry about me, i'm... more of a nighttime creature."

a half truth; while in honesty her beastkin genes did keep her more nocturnal, it was true she'd been sleeping less as of late. she wouldn't be able to lie about that even if she wanted to, the discolored bags under her eyes getting worse by the day. elias had offered her concoctions to help her rest, but she'd refused them. he was the most recent addition to their ever growing party, and while his grounding presence was welcome, haru couldn't help but feel some insecurity about how many people were with her. she was beginning to feel responsible for them, these beings who were following her needle in a haystack treasure hunt. she didn't know how she'd feel or what she'd do if anything happened to them because of this journey — a journey she'd set them on.

these feelings and doubts gave her pause to his question, unsure if she should respond in earnest. grey eyes turn to the sea, the water dark even under the moon.

"...do you really think we'll find it? the Star?"

it was an indirect approach to answering him, the cat avoiding eye contact as her gaze dropped to the sand.

"i... worry about letting you all down." her voice was quiet as she continued, before leaning back to lay down alongside the other, gaze moving up to the stars. "i don't... want anything to happen to you — any of you — over some myth that could have long faded into legend." she lets her eyes drift shut for a moment. "what happens if we're left searching forever?"

in her own way, she was trying to circle around to the core of her concern; losing everyone. there's another pause as haru considers pressing deeper; would sett... really want to know all this? would she be oversharing if she...?

"i miss my family."

it was out there now, regardless of if the other beastkin would want to know or not. the thoughts were beginning to pour out now, tumbling out of her mouth.

"i don't know what's become of them, if they're alright." her eyes open again, and finally she turns on her side to face the man, brows furrowed in concern. "they are forest creatures, they don't... there is no reaching them from here." they... as if she hadn't been one of them — as if she wasn't one of them. the realization was bitter on her tongue. "...i worry i'll never see them again."

she clams up a little at the admission, the cat lowering her gaze once more.

"sorry, um — i just... have a lot on my mind. keeps me restless."

[flawlessflesh]

a mermaid duet, featuring our shining stars laios and thistle

[frenchublog]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[missmitchieg]

this isn't s12 anymore, there's no reason for the writers and Messer to keep hating on Luke and Tara

Like damn, sorry they aren't rich white dudes. The characters are still people. You have to give them something or they'll just be basically be interchangeable with inanimate objects, which is not great writing.

[nebulousfishgills]

Listen, Otto realizing that he helped put a moron on the Iron Throne and then going through the five stages of grief before dipping is peak comedy, bro really fucked around and then found out.

[emzurl]

They're all I think about

[srapsodia]

"Call for the ball one more time, Ace!"

(Based on that one gif of Christiane Endler lifting up her teammates)

[tidesreach]

happy father's day specifically to that one scene where eddie calls buck a deadbeat dad in the middle of a supermarket for their entire team and the rest of the store to hear and buck stumbles over trying to negotiate visitation "do you know how much christopher misses you? how could you? you're not around" "maybe—maybe i could come visit" you will always be so famous to me <3

[ziyingchenczy]

[distorted-prince]

They're looking at ants

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

You’re telling me this ISN’T what happened in season 1 episode 1????

Is it hypocritical for Aang to be the one to call Zuko bald when he is objectively balder? Yes. Was this really funny to me? Also yes. God may forgive you for not capturing the avatar, but NO ONE will forgive you for that fuckass ponytail.

[ramblinseahorsey]

As a person with bipolar disorder, I never thought I'd see a joke about mania I liked, but Gangle's struggles with her emotions and the heavy guilt for being over the top or needing help all the time was handled with so much care in her "episode". I feel respected and heard... Which is very rare.

Lots of people who are doting when your hurt in a thematically romance-able way, conveniently quiet or depressed and tragic, suddenly don't like helping or being around you, or even knowing you at all once your disabilities make you annoying, discomforting or angry. When your feelings are out of your control, and your hurt and overwhelming emotions disables you from being kind and helpful and happy, people are often much more disconcerted with you than bad behavior from a "normal" person. Sometimes it feels way lonelier than being stuck in a depressive episode somehow.

And you know they often don't mean to or don't know they're disrespecting Gangle, she seems to know too, but she sucks it up because she doesn't know how to "earn" help in either state, and the fear that a sudden surge of happiness will lead to a sudden great fall after solidifies the want to hide your "wrongness".

She is the very opposite of helpful here, but she tries her best, and having someone let her know it's ok for her to be around or have failed attempts to not bother those around her is all she needed to smile on her own face today. It doesn't fix everything, Zooble doesn't even correct her from saying she doesn't deserve their friendship, cause that's not something she will believe or needs to hear right now. She needs to know she still deserves and will get help and more tries, that there will still be people who will forgive and love her, that those who lose their patience with her right back will still want to spend time with her later.

The horrible ups and downs still haunt you, the long long journey to find the right treatment is exhausting, and it still won't ever get rid of all of it, but the episodes don't feel like their going on forever and always when someone will listen to you, wants to listen to you. Wants not just to help you, wants to spend time with you, wants you to be.

Also it is legitimately really funny to me she outright states she's going to weaponize her trauma to get back at Jax for his warcrimes lol. There isn't much out there better at making you feel less guilty about your mania than a legitimately evil person tbh. The manic episode having more seasons pun feels like something a bipolar person or someone who is trusted personally by a bipolar person would say, it legit made me giggle

[blackpearlblast]

the thing is israel basically belongs to the united states. it is funded by our government. they test weapons for us. when the us defends israel it is not defending a sibling nation where there might be room for them to break away or disagree, it is defending its own military interests. i think this is important for understanding why the states are acting this way and to make it clear this is something US citizens are directly involved in, as much as any other cruel, imperialistic war we are told to support, only to be apologized for as wrong decades later. you can apologize for the deaths once you have already benefitted from the deaths. that is how these things go but it is always essential to fight that pattern because we already know how it ends if we were to let it play out. none of this is new, for all the claims of complexity, it is the same old playbook and we must recognize it for what it is and fight it as we would any other demand for crimes against humanity in the name of "peace". learn from the past, learn from each other, learn from those who have been fighting this struggle longer than we have been alive. mass opposition to US imperialism, to settler colonialism, to """justified""" genocide is the only way.

[vypridae]

someone tell me to go to bed and stop drawing the blocky queers its almost 3 in the morning