#putting on a brave face

[medicine-and-molly]

briefly emerging from hiatus: my grandmother is in the hospital, she should be okay but she’s ill and in bad shape. there’s a lot of waiting involved and i might unhiatus to pass the time (i forgot my headphones 😭)

[thighlerseguin]

Roope being confronted with his bobble head | PIT @ DAL | March 23, 2023

[tenth-sentence]

Faced with my mother's anxious concern for me, I manage to get a grip on my own emotions.

"All Quiet on the Western Front" - Erich Maria Remarque

[howifeltabouthim]

He was always smiling at me, even in the wake of misery.

Lisa Taddeo, from Animal

[persona-brainrot-real]

Sae Niijima is such a good character it drives me insane a little. She's not a mother nor a maternal or doting older sister but instead a twenty four year old who was thrown into a position of responsibility that she never asked for. She loves Makoto just as much as she resents her and its so apparent every time they talk up until November. "Are you studying?" (I want you to do well) (I need you to get a job and stop making my life harder) "I'll use any method necessary to get this promotion" (Life will be easier for us) (So stop distracting me with your problems) "Focus on your future" (I know that you're capable) (I can't afford to waste my time on you, so stop wasting time on others)

Makoto is not only the sole reason she pushes as hard as she does for a promotion, for success, and the reason that she loses herself in her animosity over her fathers death, but also someone she can't stand for so long. Makoto was 14-15 when their father died. Sae was 21. As soon as she got the career she wanted and things started to look up, her stability was robbed from her and she was disillusioned with the system that her father had taught her to rely on and completely adhere to. How do you manage, the daughter of a cop, following his footsteps towards law enforcement, when you're suddenly reminded of how unfair it is? You can't quit, your little sister relies on you and she's so young and struggling just as badly with this grief. So you pick yourself up and you get moving again. You push harder, press further. You abandon your morals and your ethics because punishing criminals (guilty or not) is almost like punishing the man who killed your father.

And the whole time she's fighting for promotions, going for drinks with the SIU Director to make herself more favourable for promotions, trying to navigate being a woman in a competitive, suffocating, male-dominated field, falling behind despite doing so much where others are promoted for doing so little - all the while your little sister comes back from school and her biggest issues are so small compared to yours.

Persona 5 revolves so heavily around grief and loss and change and Sae embodies all of that so well, all of the sharp and unpleasant and jagged parts of grief.

[christyyeee]

Yor’s comfort squad.

(Post reveal, of course)

[paper-starz]

If the worst comes to worse

Please don’t let defeatism ruin you

Please don’t let your worries and your fears and rage consume you.

You will be ok

You WILL be ok

Even if it doesn’t seem like it. And god knows how scary it is right now. It’s nauseating. But if the worse happens, it happens.

Keep pushing forward

Don’t let that defeat you

You will get through this

I love you all 💖

[ninjasmudge]

i have a headcanon that narinder and the fox used to fight over who got dead people, and whether the fox or nari should get custody of the souls of the people the fox eats

narinder used to win usually, bc he had a crown and the backing of his siblings if he needed it, but the first time he sees the fox without his powers hes suddenly very much hoping the fox doesnt still hold a grudge after a thousand years

[piastri]

taking it all in for the last time 💙

[peachcott]

[ aa ] reflecting / witnessed

[sollucets]

THE LOYAL PIN | EPISODES TWO & SIX

I never want you to stay far away from me. / I don't want you to leave.

[ef-1]

yeah same

[xhanisai]

chat noir and carapace bonding over decapitating gabriel’s statue and kicking it around like it’s football WHEN? 

[shmlnbstrcnd]

Carla Jaeger - "To You, in 2000 Years: The Fall of Shiganshina, Part 1"

Eren Jaeger - "Toward the Tree on That Hill"

[howifeltabouthim]

I mean, how do you deal with that and, like, go to school and hang with your friends and act so calm?

Shannon Messenger, from Exile

[donutfloats]

I love the idea that the title of God in cotl is gender neutral

Especially for Heket, I love that even tho she’s the only woman of the bishops, she’s referred to as a God instead of a Goddess

Idk I just really love Heket, she’s got the deepest voice, she’s physically the biggest when she transforms

It would have been so easy for the devs to have made her a guy, but no, they wanted her specifically to be a woman and to have all these traits

God I love her so much