#right under my nose

[fragiledate]

i still cant believe another year just passed by and I didnt even see it

[leahm2000]

I don’t get the over the top declarations of love. I don’t wake up to breakfast in bed or flowers just because. I don’t get cute social media posts about how much he loves me. I don’t get random surprise vacations or expensive presents

But…I get to park in the garage while his truck stays out in the elements in subzero temps. I get control of the remote 98% of the time.

I get a constantly stocked bowl of goldfish because he knows it’s my favorite snack. I get my favorite ice cream always in the fridge. I get my favorite tea laid out for me when I wake up because he thought of me as he rushed out the door at 4am. I get “lovey let’s go for a drive” as he takes me to all my favorite bookstores. The “just tell me when and where and I’ll be there” warms my heart. There’s always a hand on my lower back or arm when we are out in public.

I never have to worry about my car getting an oil change or a renewed inspection. I don’t have to worry that my jobs are too much because he understands. He lets me run through lesson plans with him while he cooks dinner. He doesn’t yell at me when I forget to turn off the preschool teacher persona and ask him something baby-ish like ‘did you remember to go potty before we left?’

I don’t get told he loves me, I get shown.

Sometimes people get so caught up in what they don’t get that they miss what they do get. Maybe you didn’t even know you prefer other ways. Personally, I’ll take this everyday over that.

[e-the-real-ethereality]

Made a deal with the cake witch in exchange for my first 🍰, how do I get out of this?

Oh. I didn't even get to say goodbye :(

[transexualpirate]

such a complex nuanced situation if i start talking about it i just explode

[ghostbredtt]

sketches doodles useless thingies

sorry guys I'm dead summer finally killed me so baii 😁

[ghost-bison]

[kelpeigh]

I think my fav thing about House is that the protag's name is a joke on the pronunciation of "Holmes" being a homophone for "Homes" but instead of letting it stay a little tongue-in-cheek reference, they made it the title of the whole show

[anonymouscheeses]

I'm gonna be shitting and screaming and starting fights if Sera becomes a villain. I can't take sibling angst, Sera loves Emily I swear guys believe meeee.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[grapecaseschoices]

so i'm leaning toward briala-celene [ugh] or public truce*. but i wanted to know ...

*I've been reading posts/articles that state that public truce isn't best long run ... but it isn't like the inquisitor would KNOW that.

[sarah-sandwich-writes]

Have I mentioned I HATE the way I outline??

Why do I always have to figure out the plan? Why can't past Sarah figure out the plan for once???

[meep-meep-richie]

you say what now, Buck?

[animezinglife]

I don't think the comment about the rejected mating bond I keep seeing is about Elain and Lucien.

Taking my shipping goggles completely off (and I truly am open to the narrative taking different turns), it would be an incredibly odd move from a writing perspective on the individual level.

Let's completely take Elain out of the equation or forget we know her. Does it really make sense for Lucien--a male who's been rejected constantly and in multiple capacities throughout his life, who has no "home" to turn to (not by his choosing), and who lost his love tragically and horribly--to go through all of that only for a mating bond to snap and for that bond to be rejected?

Let's do the same with Lucien. Let's forget we know Lucien. Does it really make sense for Elain--a woman who's just had her entire life ripped from her, including a future with a man she thought she loved only to be cruelly rejected by that man--to go through of that only for a mating bond to snap with a good man (male) and for her to reject it?

I'm not stating it couldn't happen. It absolutely could. Yet it would be a strange narrative choice, especially after going through the trouble of writing that bond in the first place, elaborating on the care Lucien takes in selecting her gifts, his extremely intentional, careful distance with her, etc. It would be a strange narrative choice for them to not get the happily-ever-after--or at least the happier ever after--when so much of their characters as individuals and as a potential couple seems to be building the foundation for a story on healing.

On overcoming heartbreak, devastation, and having a life stripped away.

On choosing the courage and challenge of loving again.

On finding a simple sort of peace in that love.

I don't think a rejected bond will have anything to do with them. Not with Elain and Lucien, not with Azriel, and not with Gwyneth.

[lang-shih-na]

the very first words out of shih-na's mouth to lang after admitting to being a spy and a murderer are flirting with him. you really have to respect a girlie who shoots her shot even in her darkest hour

[fobnsfwdoodles]

If they didn't want me to make them into yaoi they could stop being yaoi for five seconds

[bacchuschucklefuck]

just realized after sophomore year's article class swap riz would 100% have assassins after him