#so many brain worms about this

[trailmixtime]

i am literally so obsessed with gallifrey: war room episode 2: the passenger.

it's a leela-light episode, but when she is present, it's just. it's so FASCINATING to see how she behaves. like. on a normal day she's strong willed and rebellious and kind without necessarily being nice and just generally taking up space. but in this one we see her being polite and complaint and nice all the time. hell, we even hear her refer to a time lord as 'sir' for the first time ever.

and just. we know it's because she has the threat of romana hanging over her head but just. the extent to which she restrains herself and makes herself small. it's so INTERESTING, especially since episode 2 is set several months after the first one, in which we see her closer to how we usually see her.

and just. what must have gone on in the months between to get her to behave in what is, on the surface, an ooc way. ik it's no one's favourite episode. heck, it may even be some people's LEAST favourite but i, for one, am going feral over it.

[heartorbit]

find another role, carry on the show

[soft-cryptids]

Ghost's attention almost had a weight of it's own, dark eyes sharp when they locked on the object of his interest, his focus absolute and unwavering. Most of the time it was cold, clinical, assessing; analyzing the risks and the possible benefits. Sometimes it was predatory. Possessive. Dangerous.  

It was always heavy.   It was always there.

A physical touch, blade pressed to skin, cold air on the back of the neck.

Most people found it unnerving, but Soap felt almost naked without it; the weight of Ghost's attention was as familiar as the shape of a knife in the palm of his hand, the scent of smoke, the burn of good scotch at the back of his throat. With Ghost next to him, or knowing he's watching from afar, following him with a scope - it was grounding. It felt right.

[heavendraven]

[REACTION SPEED - IMPOSSIBLE] Gracefully step OVER the cat

[sleepy-steve]

🧠🪱 Wiggly Wednesday Thursday 🧠 🪱

thank you for tagging me @stervrucht 🖤

no pressure tags: @frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe @stevesbipanic and of course anyone else that would like to ♡

thinking about Steve and Eddie who, after going through rounds of physical therapy after everything, continue to work out together because Steve obviously loves it and loves having a friend to work out with. and Eddie notices the difference in his stamina when he gets back to performing on stage. (and if Eddie likes to watch Steve work out a little bit, and likes Steve coming over to help his form more than a little bit, well that’s his business.) but Steve takes a dance class and shakes up his usual warmup, leaving Eddie with some… thoughts.

***

“Okay, Munson,” Steve says, pulling his arm across his body for a shoulder stretch. “You ready?”

“Ready to be tortured? Always,” Eddie jokes. It was their thing. Eddie acts like he hates being there, but he still shows up every other day to their local gym in Indianapolis. And he won’t ever deny the benefits he’s noticed since starting their exercise regime. He's faster on stage, doesn't get winded near as easily, holding those screaming notes without feeling like his lungs will explode. Little did he know that today his joke would come to be true.

Steve liked most kinds of exercise. He was a sporty guy. He liked the pull and stretch of his muscles, the feeling of accomplishment after achieving a new goal, that delicious soreness the day after a really good workout. But mostly he loved trying new things. He’d give anything half a chance if he thought it might be fun. Which is how he ended up at a dance-aerobics class the week prior, finding himself having a lot of fun, blushing furiously when the women in the class complimented how quickly he picks up the steps.

He went back three more times that week. Part of his enjoyment came from the new warmup he was taught in the class. Steve’s usual warmup consisted of basic stretches and a light jog, covering all bases to ensure he didn’t get injured, but not very exciting.

This, however, was far more enjoyable. Steve found himself sinking deep into stretches he didn't know he had flexibility for, and moving his hips to a beat, ultimately just having way more fun with the warmup. And it was about to become a huge problem for Eddie.

Steve pops his headphones over his ears, the tape deck tucked securely in his shorts pocket. He bends over, inhaling deeply as the song starts, rising up with his hands overhead, exhaling as he rolls his wrists, hips moving side to side with the beat. His already short cropped t-shirt rises, showing off a good amount of his chest. He lets his arms come down, bending over again, feeling the pull in his hamstrings. Gripping his elbows, he lets the top half of his body hang, swinging from side to side, his hamstrings fully stretched out.

Eddie looks up from his own basic stretching, shocked to see Steve fully bent over, because hey, since when was he so flexible? With Metallica blaring through his own headphones, Eddie just stares, completely forgetting where he was at in his warmup.

Steve lets his hands drop, moving to one foot, back to the centre, then the other foot. Ass just up in the air, his shorts way too tight. Eddie swallows. He’d been denying his crush for months at this point, and good god this was not helping.

Rolling his shoulders as he stands up, Steve lets his hands travel down his bare thighs, sinking into a squat with his back arched and head tilted back. Eddie's eyes are wide as he watches those tight little shorts with the little cut-ins on the sides ride up, showing far more of Steve's glorious hairy thighs than Eddie can handle. Steve drops his head forward, hunching his shoulders as he moves back to standing. He repeats the motions, and Eddie wishes he had the strength to pull his stare away from Steve's ass.

Seeing Steve's head tilted back and his back arched is sending Eddie insane. Like, he geninely thinks he might evaporate on the spot if he keeps watching. But he just can't look away.

Turning himself sideways, Steve has one foot stepped out in front of the other, legs perfectly straightened into a triangle shape, bent over his front leg. Just when Eddie thinks he’s about to get up and end his suffering, Steve lowers himself down into a lunge. His little shorts definitely way too small and tight for the movement, Steve lunges back and forth, fingertips resting on the ground on either side of his front foot. Eddie watches as the t-shirt rides up with each lunge, the desire to get his lips and tongue all over Steve's chest overwhelming him.

Shaking himself, Eddie tries to remember which shoulder stretch he was up to. He attempts something close to a stretch, but he can’t be sure he's doing it right, because Steve has lowered himself to the ground, front leg bent and back leg perfectly straight, and is fucking thrusting into the ground. If he were to ask Steve, he’d find out this was a hip flexor stretch. But Eddie’s forgotten how to form words entirely, suddenly imagining nineteen different ways he wants to get dicked down by the man before him.

Eddie suffers in silence, heart racing in his chest, watching as Steve repeats the movements on his other side. He prays that the torture ends soon, that they can just get to the workout, and Eddie can go back to pretending he doesn't want to ride Steve until his thighs give out. But Eddie gets no such luck.

Steve has moved into some kind of triangle position, hands on the ground, legs straight, and of fucking course, his ass in the air. Eddie marvels at how straight the shape is, only for a moment, because then Steve is lifting his heels up and down in turn, and jesus christ those tiny little shorts are just riding up, and Eddie can see a hint of Steve's ass peeking out. His jaw drops. He may actually explode.

Just when Eddie's thinking he can't take much more of this, Steve lowers himself down, knees spread wide, arms stretched out in front of him and head tucked down. A wild and rushed series of thoughts fly across Eddie's mind, all centred around Steve kneeling down in front of him. Eddie needs to get it together quickly.

As Steve brings himself back up to the triangle position, walking his feet to meet his hands and rolling his spine up, shoulders and head rolling back last, he sees Eddie taking off for his warmup jog. Assuming that he probably just took too long with his new warmup, Steve shrugs it off and starts his jog shortly after.

Eddie hits his personal best in several weights that day, desperately trying to expend his excess energy in some way. He barely registers the wins, mind still stuck on Steve and his perfect ass in all those new positions. He almost dissolves on the spot when Steve claps him on the shoulder in congratuations.

At the end of their session, Eddie takes a freezing cold shower and prays for the sweet release of death.

[meziniart]

If you were church, I'd get on my knees

[zeb-z]

Gillion throwing down his sword, his destiny, at the feet of the Elders, spitting in the face of how they treated him. Chip struggling to hold Destiny’s Blade and using it to protect himself and the others in Gillion’s absence. Can anybody hear me

[vamo-vamo-vamo]

The Madrigal triplets embody the Fight, Flight and Freeze responses a little too perfectly.

Fight - Pepa

We see her under immense pressure to keep her feelings contained, but she is quick to snap when challenged. We see it whenever Alma calls out her inclement weather. She is quick to lash out at her niece who she clearly loves. There is so much she’s barely containing below the surface that it comes out quickly and aggressively when she gets triggered.

Flight - Bruno

This one seems the most obvious. Instead of taking a stance when he has the vision about Mirabel, he leaves. He flees the situation. It’s implied that the first time in his fifty years of life that he has ever confronted his mother directly was for the sake of his niece. His stairs got higher and his room got further away so he wouldn’t have to deal with the situations going on in the family. When Mirabel finds him in the walls, he is reluctant to leave.

Freeze - Julieta

I used to get frustrated with Julieta’s passivity before I started seeing her through the lens of trauma. Just because she seems to have everything together doesn’t mean she does, and she deserves the same level of understanding as her more turbulent siblings. I think there is evidence to support that Julieta’s trauma response is to freeze. For most of the movie, she stays quiet and in the background whenever her mother criticizes her daughter. She may have gotten conditioned over the years to just stand there and take it to avoid escalating a situation.

[wildflowercryptid]

florian first realizes he's developing feelings for kieran when they go to the festival of masks together, but i think he'd really fall for them when kieran reveals that they told the town the truth about ogerpon.

he'd be stunned by kieran doing something so risky, ( after all, there was a possibility that telling the truth would've ended poorly like it almost did with their ancestor, ) and how much courage it must've taken them to do that for ogerpon. he'd have so much admiration for them in that moment and think they're so amazing... it'd really be his " oh. oh, i really like them a lot. " moment.

[hallowclave]

What a whimsical looking young man I wonder if he has received any job offers recently

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[bigcats-birds-and-books]

your favorite of my favorites: A Book Poll

okay, i have now officially seen Just Enough open tags to override my vampiric need to be explicitly invited into things, so! here are my (current) Five Favorite Books for y'all to vote on, in order of Publication Date (and incidentally the order in which i read them)

shout out to @e-b-reads and @beardedbookdragon for the recent open tags! i am inflicting this on paying this forward to @asexualbookbird and @alloreli (who i warned), and to @sixofravens-reads (who i did not).

[frogs-in3-hills]

so i’ve currently read up to 5.1 of worm and my impression so far is that this is what bnha fans wish bnha was

[lloydfrontera]

I know zero things about the sequel other than what you post (lol) but I heard this song and thought perhaps youd like it for cpsm llojavi (￣▽￣)

Bless the Telephone by Labi Siffre

you just casually dropped the most devastatingly sweet song in my inbox like that. why would yo do this to me i'm fucking sobbing oh my god i'm not even kidding i'm so distraught right now

like. god. just,,, the entire fucking song,,,

It's nice to hear your voice again I've waited all day long Even wrote a song for you It's strange, the way you make me feel With just a word or two I'd like to do the same for you It's nice to hear you say "hello" And "how are things with you? I love you" But very soon it's time to go An office job to do While I'm here writing songs for you Strange How a phone call can change your day Take you away Away From the feeling of being alone Bless the telephone It's nice, the way you say my name Not very fast or slow, just soft and low The same as when you tell me how you feel I feel the same way, too I'm very much in love with you I'm very much in love with you

i'm,,,, this is,, literally javier,,,, what the hell,,,, how am i supposed to recover after this,,,, someone sedate me i can't do it anymore

[bivicennial]

I understand that since it's a YA series written in the 90s that obviously Smith had to tone some things down to keep them PG 13 but like. Listen to me. A ragtag gang of teenage vampires running around San Francisco with zero adult supervision would have a shit ton of weird tattoos and piercings. Especially if tattoos are looked down on in the vampire sections of the Night World. They wear leather and ride motorcycles; you absolutely cannot convince me that Morgead wouldn't get something stupid like FUCK tattooed on his knuckles.

[cometrose]

i hate when people call zhongli emotionless WHEN? like he spends a chunk of the archon quest and his story quest giggling and laughing whenever the traveler asks him questions about rex lapis or the infamous "bourgeoisie parasite" who tells you quaint pieces of trivia on demand because he thinks you would like it or the pure emotion and sorrow in his voice and tone when azhdaha had to leave? what about the way he worries about xiao or how he teases paimon- like rex lapis had to hide his emotions to protect his people but zhongli has no such restrictions!!!

[elvenbeard]

Gonna put the thumbnail extra cause hhhhh I prefer putting my Cyberpunk vids as 18+ only to avoid fuckery with Youtube xD

But yeh anyway... I did a very simple video for Kerry's version of "Chippin' In" before, then a more complex one for "Major Crimes", and I've wanted to make a vid for "Kill the Messenger" too cause they're all huge faves of mine of the soundtrack. And I'm that kind of person who always imagines all the scenarios for certain songs (and so many lines in Kill the Messenger line up so good with stuff that happens in the main story imo SO... here we go). I got plans for one more to "Never Fade Away" but I still gotta record some scenes for it 👀

It's not the full version of the song, and it's not perfect, but: it's finished xD And I really like it how it is, learning a little more with each new vid (really dove a bit into what's possible with color grading cause the game is so dark and bleak sometimes, fittingly depressing xD).

Anyways... wanted to share it here too cause I teased about it earlier.

All captured with Streamlabs OBS (free to use although there's probably better alternatives, too) and edited in DaVince Resolve 18 (also free to use, although with some limitations on effects and transitions - can recommend it though as a good PremierePro alternative!).