#suddenly in the dark of night

[marigoldendragon]

Night vision.

Or beastfolk eyes doing that glowy mirror thing that animals have at night time.

[thinwhitedoc]

SHERLOCK | Martin Freeman as John Watson

[sergle]

I feel you, its so bad 😭, I had to go on a functioning adult human schedule for school and good god, out the house by 7am... bad bitches are not built for that..

WE REALLY ARE... and man, I can brute force myself into any schedule if there are things that HAVE to be done at certain times (like school, like you said) but it absolutely never feels "right". it feels like waking up at 3am to go to the airport type of shit. and it is truly so annoying... to get hit with the "that's a Normal schedule, you need to Fix your schedule" okay. alright. but let me hit you with this one. is it "normal" or is it just conducive to a 8 - 5. because no matter what my sleep schedule is like, or how locked in I am, I'm more clear headed at night + more productive and energetic. and no matter what, I'm tired during the day, especially the brightest times of day when the sun is allegedly supposed to be signaling my brain to be awake and alert. and it doesn't matter how much sleep I got.

[notbecauseofvictories]

how does one stop being catholic?

You determine that god doesn't exist. Things follow quite naturally from there.

[bardnuts]

But how long did they think we could walk, we could sing

Before our voices gave out and our limbs gave in

x x

[shittyjakeenglish]

Day 240

the oystercatcher is a really good bird and i would like to take this day to make you look at one. see, jake loves it too!

[valentineish]

On the topic of learning after the election, what I am personally coming to grips with is just how expansive radicalization pipelines have become. Like, we were seeing this in 2020. Part of the work and activism I was doing before needing to retire was outreach. And I am haunted by so many of the interactions I'd been having. How talking to my peers was getting a little harder everyday, and my younger sibling's peers were steadily becoming hostile.

For me, it is also crystal clear that like. Leftists became so comfortable with the idea that radicalization is exclusively a conservative phenomenon, we have collectively failed to discuss intracommunity cooperation or information seriously.

There's a contingent of leftists that has fully bought into the conservative pet talking point of liberal fascists. Leftists ready to blame every Black and brown person as responsible for a lost election. Radfeminism is rampant among the furthest left queer circles, and it is ready to betray every man over. The sheer glee some leftists are expressing over anybody being "taught a lesson" by this election.

We were seeing the outline of this shit in 2020. I inundated my colleagues with what I was seeing, and tried to walk them through deescalating this. It is staggering to me just how much this grew out of control in 4 years.

We as leftists are not immune to propaganda, but my god. We've been fucking acting like we are. What the fuck have we all been doing?

[fastidious-and-a-mess]

hello all seven active members of the batman unburied fandom. go read “box without hinges” by @wolverineheight right now. <3

[hanzajesthanza]

the headcanon that regis can hang from the ceiling to sleep or rest like a bat is funny on its own, but when i consider geralt and others in the hanza holding conversations with him like this, it’s made better by my understanding of this as just an advanced “neurodivergent sitting” technique

[iddybittysnail]

on the dance floor. straight up "funrkin' it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My dismcohorlc.

[merakiui]

Ooooo, piggybacking kinda on the roommate!Floyd… what a wonderful adventure that must be, being his roommate!! Cuddly movie nights, cooking times, and playful wrestling that deeeeefinately turns into sexytimes, eventually. :D

It's actually so much fun having him as a roommate. You never get any studying done, so your best options are to go somewhere without Floyd so you can actually focus. But when you're both in the apartment, the two of you have a lot of fun together. He used to go out all the time, but ever since the two of you became friends he's started going wherever you go, doing whatever you do, following your flow. You'll have movie nights or gaming sessions with lots of snacks (he always steals whatever you happen to be eating, sometimes even snapping it up from between your fingers). Sometimes you'll cook together (sometimes a food fight ensues or Floyd steals cooking utensils that you need just to be a nuisance). If Floyd cooks breakfast, you can guarantee he's cooking in just his boxers because he's too lazy to put clothes on.

And wrestling... omg. It all started because he had stolen your phone and wouldn't give it back. He was pouting about how you were ignoring him (you were trying to finish homework), but the minute he's stolen your phone and you get up from your seat he knows he's already won. And won he definitely did when the two of you take your chase into the living room, falling over one another on the sofa while he holds your phone out of reach, having too much fun giggling about how you should give it up. You're on top of him, reaching over him and just barely managing to touch his wrist, before he tosses your phone across the room (he says he'll get you a new one; he'll get you a dozen phones if that's what you want). You have no time to protest because something's poking you from behind.

You and Floyd are just friends; that's what you both agree on when you're shedding clothes hastily and leaning in for sloppy, open-mouthed kisses. You think this might be a one-time thing, but it happens again when the apartment loses hot water and so you have to bathe together to conserve body heat. And Floyd's hands just love to wander, and he loves to pull your shivering body against him. He seems unbothered by the cold water, but he promises to warm his shrimpy up if you'll let him. You do, but you stress that you're just friends. He nods, parrots your words back in a silly, almost teasing tone, and bites into your shoulder.

It happens again and again, so often that it's almost become routine. To think you'd ever engage in friends with benefits with someone... It's not as bad as you thought it might be. But things are definitely...changing in your relationship. Floyd's fucked you on nearly every surface now: against the kitchen countertop, on the sofa, against the walls, in the bedroom, in the bathroom, even in the passenger seat of his sports car. The list goes on and on; you've tried nearly every position there is, too. He loves sex, but then so do you. It's a perfect arrangement. He's always been so playfully casual after every exchange, but this time he's lying on his back and looking up at the ceiling, where a dozen plastic, glow-in-the-dark stars are pasted. The two of you put them up there when the apartment had lost power and you wanted to feel like you were in outer space.

"You ever wonder if there's someone for everyone?" he mumbles, and it's so odd to hear him sound so...reserved.

"What sort of post-nut clarity question is this?" you joke, rolling over to face him.

He peers at you and shrugs halfheartedly. "Dunno. In the sea, everyone's so hung up on findin' a forever mate or...whatever. It's kinda lame, but Jade says that we're like stars. That every star has a spot in the sky."

You're quiet for a long moment. His mismatched eyes never leave yours. Eventually, you shuffle closer to him under the covers. His arm instinctively snakes around you to pull you against him.

"Do you think you have a spot in the sky, Floyd?"

"Who knows."

"Well." You glance at the spaces between each plastic planet, noting stars and moons sprinkled on the ceiling at random. You've never witnessed such a subdued, tender side to him before. "My sky could use a star."

A toothy grin spreads slowly on his lips. He levels you with half-lidded eyes; it's almost challenging, the way he looks at you. "That so?"

"Very so."

His face is mere centimeters from yours. He's leaning over you on the bed, caging you in muscled arms, and you meet his stare with a smirk.

"Your sky better not be accepting anymore stars. You're mine now, got that?"

"I wouldn't want to be anyone else's," you mutter into his mouth.

His hand slithers into yours, a perfect fit.

[ari-cuno]

[Nostalgia] "Well, well, well, here we are again."

"Why was your first instinct to throw a knife at us, Killer?"

"Cross...please...-"

"If you're here to bother Nightmare and our kids, I suggest you leave because you're wasting your time."

(What if Nightmare ultimately decided to leave the past in the past..? After seeing what Drea- Shattered did to Mirage, would he really want to help. Perhaps he deserves a rest and a peaceful life as a mother figure for his two children. As for Cross and Dream...)

Dark cream week hosted by @zu-is-here

Killer belongs to Rahafwabas

Dream belongs to Jokublog

Cross belongs to Jakei95

[ignocubo]

talkinh about orion and the dark again because it makes me so angry how the night entities are so hateful to dark for wanting to be liked and then they ditched him the absolute second some random kid WHO MAKES THEIR LIVES HELL basically said they'd be more liked if they were day entities. i can't get behind the portrayal of the night entities being fickle because up until that point in the movie THEY WEREN'T. they seemed to have a firm grasp of the responsibilities of their jobs and visibly enjoyed doing them (you know, when they weren't being interfered with). you're telling me a single fire was enough to change their mind about their cosmic duties?? backtracking a bit, why does it take them the whole movie to realize how important dark is to their job? you'd think at least sweet dreams, and quiet would have been on his side in the breakup scene but everyone turned their back on him the moment the moment they had a chance. how did they even know they could exist in the daytime? either they've lingered behind before (which i find hard to believe because again, up until orion's rant they stood on business about their jobs) or they foolishly assumed that despite being night entities along with dark, they stood a better chance in daylight than he did.

[lotrmusical]

My high school did a yearly poetry recitation contest (Poetry Out Loud), so Oh Boy do I know some poems. My favorites are Ozymandias and "the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love," by Kara Jackson. Also in 8th grade we had a Poe unit and had a class contest to make the best music video of the Raven, so I still know a good chunk of that.

i hadn't heard of the kara jackson one! just read through it and enjoyed it, particularly these lines > 'grandma returns to her love like a hymn, marks it with a color. // when the world ends will it suck the earth of all its love? /will i go taking somebody’s hand, / my skin becoming their skin?'

[frost0wl]

august my best friend august

[themthistles]

i'm working out be timeline and juwon just threw me off by doing an unnecessary costume change in the middle of a day