#option b

[19-ninetyfive]

Golden Temple.

[howdidthisevenhappenanyway]

one on the end of each lek too

questions that keep me up at night

[nyxgoddessofcandles]

types long message to a friend involving a memory from highschool

CTRL+A DEL

[nammythings]

The Beauty of Option B

I’m not usually the one for self-help books, but I picked up “Option B” by Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, by chance at the airport bookstore, and I’m glad I did. The book, published in 2017, is a first-hand narrative of how Sandberg coped with grief and loss after she lost her husband, Dave Goldberg, in a tragic accident. Not only did she face and cope with grief, but…

[psychogirl08]

In an au of this. Anakin chooses to keep them but can’t take the war and the code and the pitying looks he’d be given so he only tells his best friend padme ( and maybe ashoka) who supports him and helps him leave temporarily and relocate. So when obi wan comes back weeks later, or months if you really wanna make it angsty cuz that would make him miss essentially the whole pregnancy, maybe the birth too. And when he’s back no one knows what happened to ani exept padme and she’s to pissed off on Anakins behalf to tell him immediately. When they finally reunite ani has to deal with learning to be with obi wan again after being independent through out his pregnancy and obi wan has to live with knowing that he didn’t just abandon his mate but he abandoned his pregnant mate and misses the entire pregnancy and yeah.

Okay, but Obikin omegaverse style.

Omega Anakin just thought he lost his mate during the hardeen arc (that's what it's called right?) And finds out he pregnant.

Too afraid to raise it and not telling anyone, he gets an abortion, sobbing and his inner omega morning the loss of the children he just couldn't take care of cause his mate was no longer with him.

And a few week later, there's his Alpha, soft smile and quiet apologies about not telling him, looking to sink back into the arms of his mate.

[takemetodragonstone]

t shirt that says i survived hell and all i got was this stupid personality disorder

[hinamie]

obligatory water tribe alt outfits so i am not held liable if they freeze

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[vaguely-concerned]

thinking about not only the specific people lucanis pulls in to represent the 'locks' in his psyche, but the storytelling that happens in the structure/order of them. the underlying ideas are presented something like:

the lucanis who went into the ossuary never came back out again; he died down there (the boy caterina raised is gone forever) -> you're putting yourself in danger doing this (by being close to me), you should leave because I can't bear it if you get hurt because of me -> it doesn't matter even if we do try this, it won't work anyway (again because of me) ('you know what he's like, you can open the door but he won't walk through it' :'( oofie doofie) -> what if the real secret is that there was never anything but the monster in here from the beginning. you should leave, there was never anything here worth saving in the first place. (implicitly: what if I deserved what happened, all along.)

it runs pretty cleanly from outward-oriented attachment anxiety ('caterina won't even want me back like this, she won't recognize me (the same way I no longer recognize myself)) and gradually deeper inwards until we reach self-image and self worth. or you know, the harrowing basic lack of it lol.

"careful -- they'll know we're not right," spite says in one of their first scenes... but clearly, some very deep part of lucanis has feared or suspected for much longer than that that there's something inherently not right at the core of him, way before any demon entered the picture. and the voice he gives those lines to is the person who should know him better than anyone in the world, who he has loved more than anyone in the world -- and who deliberately chose to hurt him so horrifically anyway. 'It's better if I'm just a monster and deserved what happened than it is to allow for the idea that the brother I love doesn't really exist and maybe never did'. it's better if he's fundamentally flawed in some way that needed fixing to help him survive, and that's why caterina chose to hurt him again and again -- out of love. (this one I think he might have a very sad wakeup call on one day if he ever ends up with the responsibility and care of a child of his own in some way and realizes just how alien the idea of ever intentionally hurting them for any reason is to him. oh buddy. also interesting that he keeps caterina as the outermost lock -- there IS a distance he keeps there that he hasn't with illario. he doesn't resent her 'anymore' he says, but he also keeps her carefully further away from his deepest self.)

as far as I could tell the only note in the mind prison that's fully hidden and needs to be uncovered is the sad painful helpless stupid little truth that even after all this, even knowing what happened... he still loves his brother. is there anything illario could ever do that would make lucanis completely stop loving him, do you think? sometimes the trouble with unconditional love is that it is, well. unconditional, even when some terms and conditions probably would have been in order haha.

that's the pattern you see there again and again; he would rather destroy and abandon and imprison himself at every turn than let go of love, even when it's just scraps, even when there's only ever enough of it to hurt him. it's only when rook shows up and as it were takes his hand and walks along with him that he can entertain the idea of changing the story of what walking out the door might mean in the end.

[ana-deaky]

my neighbors would be experiencing good music!

When I move out I'm either gonna

A) when I'm not watching TV, just have it forever on YouTube and playing Queen

Or

B) if I have enough money, buy some speakers, set them up around my house, buy another phone, connect it to the speakers, and have that forever playing Queen

[19-ninetyfive]

Just a Girl and her S15 Silvia.

[kiiseru]

He would become exceptional. A SOLDIER. A hero. Someone special to Tifa. [x]

[foolofthegeekdom]

ok but hear me out

[luna-the-cretar]

Actually yknow what, Kremy calling Gideon “Gideon Nathaniel Coal” whenever he’s pissed and going Annoyed Housewife Mode made me consider something

1) How did Kremy learn Gideon’s middle name? Like, sure, it might’ve just come up in conversation, but like…would it? How many times do you introduce yourself to someone using your full legal name? I imagine it’s almost never, not in a casual sense.

2) Did Gideon even HAVE a middle name beforehand? I mean, not everyone does, and I doubt his Pa would’ve thought up a middle name. If the answer is no, then either;

A: Gideon chose to give himself a middle name to remember his Pa (idk if we ever got an actual name for his Pa or not, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case)

Or

B: the infinitely funnier option, which is that Kremy just chose a random ass middle name to use for Gideon the first time this has happened (bc based on Gideons reaction on the first time we heard Kremy use Gids full name, this is probably not the first time Jremy has done this), and ir just kinda stuck

[theheartneverliez]

Lime jello fudge.

He got tricked it’s apparently better than it sounds 😂😂

[jontaro-kun]

That one time a pose study (looking at art of pretty women and telling myself I was being productive) turned into Portia

[kadiraksoy]

Hitting a bag was safer than hitting a person. Safer for the other, safer for him, safer for this community. Hitting a bag was meant to be cathartic, and at the moment, Kadir was almost glad that this one was a standard black bag, not the kind meant to look like a person because he could remember all too easily the blood on his hands after Valentine's, and that anger hadn't subsided, hadn't become any less of a raging voice in his head, seeing read, wanting revenge. He had seen this part of himself before and it had scared him. It had taken him years to learn to control that anger, to learn to breathe through it, see past it. Now, he nodded wordlessly and took his turn at the bag, but the first hit was too unrestrained and with his vampire's strength, the bag ripped right off the chain holding it to the ceiling. He was usually so much better about self control, about monitoring himself in human settings. "Sorry," he said quickly, crouching to pull the heavy bag off the ground. "I'll pay for that. I hope I didn't ruin your work out."

@lunarcovestarters​

Choose Your Own Adventure Starter! 

Option A Where: The Gazebo (daytime)

Though the air was cold enough for him to see his breath, the sun was still out, and Ben found it all rather bracing. It was a nice day to be out and about, all things considered, so he'd posted that he would be outside for office hours, both with the university and with anyone looking to do any sort of CONS business. With a cup of coffee beside him and a stack of papers to grade on his lap, Ben was in his element, in spite of the cold. There was a tense, tenuous peace that had settled over the town after the hunter attack, one that could be broken at any moment. But that moment was not now. His fingers were red from the cold as well as red ink while he worked on grading, looking up at the approaching figure. "Hi there," he greeted, waiting to see if they were there for school, CONS, or something else.

Option B Where: Drop It Like a Squat

With the hunter attacks happening, being human put Ben might have put Ben at the bottom of the list of Lunar Cove residents most likely to be done in by the Catalyst if it wasn't for the fact that he was Coalition Leader. Not that he was complaining. He knew what he was getting into when he'd ran for the position, when he'd been sworn in. Valentine's had simply solidified that fact to him, which led to an increase in his trips to the gym. After methodically wrapping his hands, making sure that they were protected and supported, he made his way over to the punching bag. He didn't know how long he'd been at it before he needed to take a break, grabbing a drink of water and noticing the other person there. "You want a go at it?" he asked.