#option b

[19-ninetyfive]

Golden Temple.

[howdidthisevenhappenanyway]

one on the end of each lek too

questions that keep me up at night

[batbabydamian]

*you opening the love letter* what does your damijon look like, pls pls pls pls pls pls pls, i know it would be so cute, i just know it 🙏🙏🙏

here you go! thank you for the ask, this was a lot of fun to do! they're working on a case together ^^

[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

[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.

[rhadko]

[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

[hinamie]

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

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[kiiseru]

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

[foolofthegeekdom]

ok but hear me out

[potato-lord-but-not]

The colors on all your colored work is always so scrum-diddly-umptious. How do you get it so unified and cohesive, primarily in terms of traditional art? Does it look that delectable irl or are there filters being used

I am guilty of using filters I’m only human ………… I’m a believer in “most pics of traditional art need a bit of adjustments” because hooBOY my phone does it such a disservice. Here’s one jarthur for comparison tho :3 unedited and then bathed in filters

[seefasters]

"is irving getting reintegrated because he was acting out in this episode" that man has lost everything he cared about the man he's in love with is gone his belief system is crumbling his friends think he's weird and one of them is a fucking imposter he's actively suicidal he's LOSING IIIITTTTT

[jesncin]

this Clois comic is inspired by something my comic prof mentioned in class- he's a huge Superman fan but he said he's doesn't like Clark and Lois as a couple traditionally. He prefers Clark and Lana together because "Lana loves Clark for who he is, and Lois loves Superman- the idea of who Clark is". And he's not entirely wrong!

Classic Lois likes Superman because he's the macho guy and Clark is a wimp in her eyes. Once Lana was introduced as her natural opposite (loves Clark over Superman and knows his secret identity), Clois as a couple became harder to root for as an endgame. Canon is aware of this, so usually their way to combat this is "Clark doesn't feel the same way for Lana". in a way that doesn't feel convincing.

Still- I think this dynamic just needs more nuance and attention. I don't see this "Lois loves Superman, Lana loves Clark" dynamic as a problem- I see it as the basis for a compelling love triangle. The best love triangles have it so there's no perfect couple, and everyone is flawed in some way.