#sunday afternoon thoughts

[masterwords]

[neonstardustart]

Is it too much to ask for a hot alien to abduct me, and keep me as their pet?

[sarahlancashire]

dyke-onic carla connor quotes:

"high maintenance, annoying, nearly fifty divorcee seeks ..."

"you mustn't put yourself in harm's way [...] not just for betsy's sake"

"lisa? lisa??? can we talk??? [...] i can wait!!! we need to speak about last night!!!"

"you think i'm a tourist, right? [...] surely that does us both a disservice, thinking that?"

"you need to stop using yourself as a punching bag"

"oh, well, if you're exhausted, you can always [apologise] another time"

"lisa, that's not going to happen [...] i'll make sure of it, alright?"

"these all your crisps?"

"don't get dressed"

"it's a good job i'm an angel, then"

"you can't apologise for living your life"

"i am not going to apologise. betsy, you get one life, and it's short, and what is so wrong in trying to wring some joy out of it?"

"oh, great, terrific, just what i need!"

“you can tell me anything, any time, know that”

“no visitors!!! [realising it’s lisa visiting] […] do i look alright?”

“get me those, erm… things… i needed”

"what if i've changed my mind?"

"... and they say romance is dead"

[persephoneflouwers]

Listen I don’t know how to articulate this in an eloquent way but remember that part in sunflower vol. 6 “I dont want to make you feel bad, but I've been trying hard not to talk to you”? It’s like he’s saying I’m trying to protect your solitude but it’s hard, first of all because it’s not something you just know. You have to learn how to create a space where two people in a relationship still feel like they’re their own person, if that makes any sense.

Secondly, because it is a contradiction, if you think about it. Being a couple, being in a couple automatically deletes your solitude state, unless you seek for it, unless you ask for it.

Third, it creates uncertainty when you’re young and in love and you have all these feelings inside your chest they might as well just explode out of your lungs, you want them, you want to be with them (let me inside, wish I could get to know you) and it doesn’t matter how many years have passed since you first got together. There will always be this perpetual urge of belonging to someone that pushes you to just be around each other all the time, to know what’s happening, to worry about them and to take care of them. It makes you paranoid and insecure to know they asked you to wait for when they’re ready to not be alone anymore. It takes a lot of patience and growth and trust to just let them be and live on their own, you know? It’s probably the most selfless act of them all, even when that’s not what you would want (my eyes want you more than a melody, I couldn’t want you any more/I don’t want to be alone in golden).

And I could go on and on and on about how well this concept fits his entire discography.

I could mention Satellite’s «You got a new life, Am I bothering you? Do you wanna talk? Spinning out, waiting for ya to pull me in. I can see you're lonely down there. Don't you know that I am right here?».

Or Daylight’s «you got me cursing the daylight»

Or Canyon Moon’s «I’ll be gone too long from you»

Do I have to mention Adore you? ALL OF IT? Alright, I will: «You don't have to say you love me. You don't have to say nothing You don't have to say you're mine, honey. I'd walk through fire for you, Just let me adore you»

In conclusion, loving him is the antidote, solitude included.

[Such a huge development from Sweet creature’s «I always think about you and how we don't speak enough» by the way]

[to-the-fishies]

All our seating has been getting more and more ragged from our felonious felines, so I took a while this weekend to apply some patches to one of the chairs. Kudos to this tutorial, my brother's staple gun, a combination of needles (upholstery, smaller upholstery, leather, and straight-up), and the local creative resale shop for what I needed to give the chair a bit more longevity!

[insummerigrieve]

Don’t underestimate your room for growth. Happy Sunday ⋅˚₊‧ ୨୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅

[atlantis-area]

Many times today I thought of Key's saying "I love my job" and it kinda helped.

[greenqueenhightower]

This is Alicent teaching Aemond how to waltz:

“And one-two-three, one-two-three, that’s good—Aemond! You’re stepping on me again.”

“Sorry, mother, it’s just—it’s more difficult than sparring with Criston!”

“Come on, you can’t fly a dragon, and not know how to waltz!”

[dionysus-complex]

beyond the shame I also just didn't have the best childhood in a very mundane kind of way and I think that reinforced the feeling of being powerless and lonely that followed me throughout my elementary and middle school years. we moved a lot, I changed schools several times, my dad's parents both died relatively suddenly when I was 7 and my dad spent the next several years grieving, we lived in a condo complex on a busy street with limited access to outdoor space, and I had difficulty maintaining friendships given all of the above and the one that did find me turned out to be exploitative and abusive. found most of my solace online in virtual worlds and RPGs and later (after age 12 or so) in music

[misskaboom]

[nightbeforethend]

I think about that part in the glory where hyeon-nam’s daughter starts playing thrill ride by the boyz in the car while her mother is literally trying to get her to safety outside the country and god, that’s me and my mom in a nutshell.

I’ll never forget when my grandma passed away and I didn’t know what to say to make her feel better after her funeral so I played just right by got7 for her for the first time. Literally the 2018 equivalent of thrill ride for me and now got7 is my mom’s favorite kpop group of all time. Haven’t felt this seen by a show in a minute

[misspanicdead]

Thinking about how step 9 is making amends to those you've harmed and Bobby's spent years thinking about those 148 people who died but not about the people who got left behind. Thinking about how bobby is also one of those people who was left behind, but he doesn't think of himself that way, doesn't think of himself as one of the people he hurt in that fire, doesn't realize that he's one of the people he needs to make amends to.

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Tagged by @alyxmastershipper @devirnis and @rewritetheending for sevenish sentence Sunday. Now just don’t worry about what this is from. Canon typical violence warning!

Eddie, limb not moving too well, reaches to grab Bobby's forearm. He tries not to think about how weak the grip is. Eddie has to swallow several times before he can speak again. "I didn’t- I didn’t- I never-“ his face goes terrifyingly slack for a moment. Bobby might be able to hear faint digging sounds but it also might be wishful thinking because he’s frightened. He’s been frightened for a while now, but he’d been handling it because he’s also a professional, a firefighter for more than 20 years, he knows how to feel fear and work past it. “I- I- He-“ But the thing is there’s not work to do, he’s useless, absolutely helpless trapped down here. He has been a firefighter for 20 years, and he knows what a man sounds like when he’s dying.

Tagging @bigfootsmom @shitouttabuck @shortsighted-owl @watchyourbuck @forthewolves @lover-of-mine

[dindjarindiaries]

I know a lot of people were disappointed we didn't get more moments of emotional processing this season in the aftermath of Din earning his redemption and adopting his son, but honestly, The Mandalorian has never had moments like that, and there's a reason for it.

In season 1, we don't get to see how Din processed his near-death experience or the grief of losing Kuiil, IG-11, and much of his covert all in one day. In season 2, we don't get to see how Din processed the identity crisis he surely felt when he first met Bo-Katan or the loss of Grogu and the Razor Crest all in one go. In season 2.5, we don't get to see how Din processed his shunning from the tribe or the way he had to walk away from Grogu on Ossus.

I'm sure he was forced to deal with all of this in some way on his own, but it was off the screen. He's never been the kind of character that will show us how he processes trauma that serious and that's the point. He quite literally hides himself within a suit of impenetrable armor, and despite what he goes through, he keeps on pushing ahead.

While I would also love to see how Din processes moments like these, it's not for us to see. Grogu is the only one who gets to see within the cracks of Din's armor, not the audience, because Grogu is the physical representation of Din's heart. That's why the biggest emotional moment we've ever gotten from Din, the only time we've really seen him process something, is when he said goodbye to Grogu in the season 2 finale.

We may get glimpses of Din's emotions, but the rest is saved for Grogu, and that's something really beautiful to me.

[riacte]

ren trading his golden crown for a minister hat and now his crown hangs on a armour stand in his base... something something about him desperately clinging to the old days of leadership and glory until he found a new way to establish that with the hats....

[the-travelling-witch]

How would Scaramouche behave with his children (possibly his son) :)

like a good dad :)

sorry, i already said it but children aren’t exactly my favourite topic and as a man in his early twenties (to me), scara just isn’t the ultimate dad; i tried my best to indulge the other asks but i don’t really want to turn this into a thing