#or Andy honestly

[reginaphalange2403]

The hiding an injury trope always hits the fucking mark for me. Like character A trying to not make it noticeable all day cause they don’t wanna be a bother or they want to appear tough, and then B finding it and being pissedTM at first but then soft and comforting about it PLSSS that’s the sweet spot😣💓

Somebody write one for me🧍‍♀️

[robertfrobisherslover]

The Star Trek: DS9 Wrap Party, April 1999

[sigmaaaah]

me when in doing my sister 🔥

[eccentricallygothic]

I am not saying I want Steve Rogers to bend me over his desk and whip my ass to get me to do/finish my homework but that's exactly what I am saying.

[teachyouhowtodothesponge]

I thought I would share some more Ann and Andy doodles! I present to you, Sir Leonard Looney.

[double--blind]

It's because at your core, you're just a soft, gooey marshmallow.

[partybarty]

if you have seen me giggle unprompted this week it's because i randomly remembered this tweet

[orphanbychoice]

atp i genuinely doooon’t care if the old guard two is the worst thing put to film i just want to see the best character of all time (andromache the scythian) and her loser henchmen and everyone’s favorite girl nile freeman again

[tombstoneswerewaiting]

mania 🤝 stardust

+

[glassofpumpkinjuice]

hold me like a grudge

(london 11/3/23)

[atlas9248]

Marius and Skrimm in their players iconiccc con fit

[blueautumngrave]

There’s so much going on in this video and every time I watch it I notice something new, so here’s a list of my observations so far:

☆ Pete chucks his bass over Patrick into Andy’s drum set (neither Patrick or Andy are phased by this at all)

☆ Joe holds his guitar above his head as he sees Pete chuck his bass and then proceeds to throw his guitar with full fucking force behind him and just walks away cause yk whatever

☆ Andy is in a long sleeve, white, button up shirt

☆ Andy picks up his glasses and puts them on and this leads me to wonder did the lens get scratched by the flying bass????? Also he keeps his glasses by his feet??? Andy honey what if you accidentally step on them!!!

☆ Patrick sets his guitar bare ass strings down right in front of Pete’s abandoned bass of flying death (he just wanted to be apart of the fun but didn’t want to hurt his beloved guitar too bad)

☆ Then they all then just fuck off the stage like nothing happened

[miimeeks]

what is it with antis coming in the tag and announcing that they look down on people for shipping coffincest and saying how they love the game but cant stand the incest. like wow !!! do you want a medal for seeing yourself as morally superior to other based on your preferences in fiction ?!!

[double--blind]

(SPOILERS) Ashley, self-esteem, and starvation

So, I adore Ashley. She's this intensely toxic, vicious, cruel, manipulative girl, and her psychology gives me hella brainworms. Andrew's not the only one whose head I wanna crack open and root around lol. She's thrown away the world just to keep her brother by her side, and she'll continue to do worse and worse for the same reason. She's pretty awful! I've been thinking about why, though. How did things get so bad? How did her soul get so dark?

We don't know everything (I'm waiting for those new eps patiently aND CLAWING AT THE WALLS AND FROTHING AT THE MOUTH but whatevs y'know whatevs I'm normal. I'm fine), yet what information we have been given is bumping around my brain like a DVD screensaver on hyperdrive

It's clear from the start that the roots of Ashley's issues lie in her horrible, neglectful upbringing, but it's hinted that even those outside of her family felt the same abt her. I'm lowkey even betting we'll learn later on that she was ostracized by her peers somehow. However, what's most disconcerting, I believe, is how little she was when the results of this alienation are first made apparent to us (bc kids aren't dumb; they notice this stuff oftentimes instinctively, impossibly young, before they even know what it means to be hated), and how devastating the consequences were.

(There's something decidedly childish abt her dream sequence in the "questionable" route—filled with crayon scribbles and rabbit plushies, the metaphors simplistic yet profound—which really hammers in how these sentiments are things that have made a home in her since childhood. Formative subconscious truths.)

Growing up unloved and noticeably unwanted by virtually everyone around her likely left her with a gaping hole in her heart that she'd spend the rest of her life trying to fill. She'd make friends, but she'd always worry that they'd leave her, that they'd betray her, nothing tangible or weighted enough in their connection to trust in its persistence. Why should she expect otherwise? Not even being bound by familial ties ensures affection if her parents are any indication.

Every lesson she'd ever learned had always taught her this: you are easy to abandon. You cannot love and be loved by virtue of your own worth.

You have to rip their affection from their clenched hands if you want it so bad.

This understanding carries with it an undercurrent of degradation, instilling within Ashley a constant, biting inferiority complex which will never fail to be a source of insecurity. She will always be put last. She was difficult to raise, so her parents gave up on raising her. She was difficult to get along with, so her friends gave up on getting along with her.

It's an odd cycle. She's difficult bc she needs to be to get attention, but bc she's difficult, she can't keep it. Not without having whatever fondness she's managed to cultivate within someone fray at the seams, volatile and prone to collapse, bleeding toxicity.

Hence, her relationship w/Andrew.

By being the only reliable constant in her life, caring for her and keeping her company, Andrew essentially became her only source of happiness, and she's since learned not to bother with anyone else. Still, it's dangerous to keep all your eggs in one basket; since he is all she has, she must protect her place in his life with even greater ferocity, which becomes a torturous ordeal when coupled with her damaged self-esteem.

It's apparent in her quarrels with Andrew that she needs constant reassurance that she is wanted in some capacity or perceived in some positive light (getting pouty when Andrew says he's "stuck with her", needing to hear that she's pretty, needing him to "choose her", wanting him to say he loves her back, etc. etc.), yet her insecurity remains, bc unlike her, he's got options. She doesn't think he needs her like she needs him. He's got a gf, their parents love him, her friends love him. Why would he settle for her? What if someone better comes along? Someone she can't scare away?

Wouldn't he just leave her like everyone else?

Even before getting locked in the coffin of their apartment, starvation's been a constant theme in Ashley's life. She's constantly aching for love, and Andrew's the only one who can feed her. When you're forced to fight for a bite to eat or suffer every moment you hunger, you become ravenous—covetous—when faced with food; you don't want the hunger to return, so you lock down the source of your sustenance, wary of its retreat. Ashley's in a permanent state of intense insecurity, always anxious that the love that gives her life will leave her.

Andrew knows Ashley better than anyone else in the world, and it's obvs to everyone and him how desperate Ashley is for him, but I don’t think Andrew has truly, consciously processed the depth of that desperation. It's there buried in his head somewhere no doubt, but rn, he doesn't operate w/the direct awareness that he is everything. He is brother, mother, friend, and soulmate. He is life and love, air and water, everything that is good in the world—everything that there is to justify existence.

It's heartbreaking, in a way, that it's so difficult for Andrew to convince her of his loyalty. This goes further than his tendency to hide his true feelings, bc when push comes to shove, he's at her beck and call. Objectively, he's hers. She doesn't see that bc all she sees is all the ways she can lose him.

So, she gets bratty. She gets pushy, possessive, territorial. Manipulative. Gets under his skin, guilts him to exhaustion, bc she can't see him staying any other way, bc he doesn't get it, bc it works. He bends to her will, for her sake. For now. It's always "for now", bc he'll start slipping away again, and then it'll get worse. She does worse.

Becomes worse.

[thosewildcharms]

The fact that, over everything else she said, it was Michonne telling Rick that he was hurting her that finally broke though to him 🥹

oh god i know. between that, and "the only time I feel safe is when I'm with you" and "I know you. and this is not how you love" she completely broke me. because she knew in order for rick grimes to be acting the way he was acting, something had to be profoundly wrong. because he would never ever hurt like this otherwise.

because like. yeah, while michonne, as a character, could have very easily been nothing more than "a weapon with a weapon" as that one guy (i think he was one of the terminus guys?) put it once. but she never really was, because danai gurira has always given her too much depth for that. it is true though, that michonne is always her most vulnerable, her most joyful and happy and expressive and layered when she's with rick. like i felt that line, because it's what i've been seeing on my screen for years (and god, the fact that it means she hasn't felt safe in a decade. jesus that's so painful). and the reason she can feel safe with him because he has always been nothing less than fully devoted to her, and her needs, and has always loved her so so so selflessly. he would do anything to protect her and their kids - it's one of the tenets of who he is and how he loves, and also why she loves him. he's strong so she doesn't always have to be. so she reminds him of that, because she knows him. because even throughout this episode, she kept seeing it, even while he was lying to her. it's one thing for him to hurt himself in order to protect himself from his own pain - to try to make her leave to avoid the pain of ever having to watch her die. it's quite another thing to hurt her. that is unacceptable to him, always has been. he'd never put his needs, or his feelings, above hers. rick will always stand between michonne and anything that was trying to hurt her. in this case, it was himself. once she pointed that out? game over.

[zingaplanet]

Look. Ok. Look. We're not hyping about this enough.

Source: Wimbledon Instagram