#the deeper wound

[a-compass-without-a-needle]

This is what happened after 3.1 isn't it?

[stressfulsloth]

Thinking about Harry and all the animal parallels that follow him through the narrative. It's true that these animal parallels reflect the way that the brutality of individualist moralism strips him of humanity as someone who has fallen through the safety nets, and his agonised shout of 'I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore' can be interpreted as a direct admission of the RCM's dehumanisation of him as a disabled addict who is no longer as 'useful' as he once was. Gottlieb even directly tells him '[he] lost [his] human visage a while back.' Jean calls him 'the most dangerous animal of them all'. The rabid dog that needs to be put down, the black dog (also a common metaphor for chronic mental illness!) that Mollins shoots as it licks its wounds; the scared, hurt, frightened animal lashing out, chewing off it's own leg to escape the trap that it's caught in. The wild dog is all they can see.

But then there is a flipside to these parallels too; a kindness, a gentleness, almost a freedom in Harry’s animal parallels. He's strong like a 'goddamn ox,' like a bear ('I had to kill the bear to become the bear'). He's a harrier hawk, a name given to ensure his safety, raised up to the level of the aerostatics looking down over Revachol, 'soar[ing] on the wings of [his] spirit hawk.' He's a leopard ('its impossible to know where you end and the leopard begins'), discovering or rediscovering a love of softness and sensuality that he'd not known before via the leopard print leotard that 'speaks to the animal inside [him]' and touches on his relationship with his gender ('Yes, this is the type of animal I want to be.').

He's a 'seagull', a bird that will do 'whatever it takes to survive,' a 'bird of paradise' that tells a story of 'endurance- and adaptation' ('You! You and the seagull are just alike!'). He survives, despite everything, despite the grimness of the world around him. He endures. Even the sea monster comparison is oddly kind ('You've become a sea monster -- giant, hidden and... strangely tender at heart'). Even as a monster, he's still gentle; he still has so much love for this world that has wrung every last bit out of him. As if his tenderness is such an inherent part of him that no matter what monstrous face he wears, no matter what creature is there in his shadow, he cannot help but have some trace of it at his core. His tender soul 'quivering like jello.' The pain he feels is raw and animal but so is the love he feels. So is the hope and the fear and the wonder.

[forget-me-ghost]

There is something about Alastor's eyebags that brings me joy

This man is chronically tired and, for some reason, this is very important to me.

[halfbaked00q]

im not super big on android or cyborg AUs but I also feel a burning NEED for situations and or scenarios where Q has Bond cracked open and is rummaging around in his insides. could be repairs, could be upgrades, could be routine maintenance. metaphoric situations like this work for me, too, but just. I Need something

[maretriarch]

i was eagerly waiting to see what the outfit reveal for helltier vriska was going to be and well...im going to be honest i was expecting sooo much worse like a rose/davebot overdone nightmare of hs2 bcs helltier vriska fucking sucks as a design. you cant imagine her in any lighting except total darkness. and this is a very mid cop out. but they could have done worse

[shallowseeker]

We wither

The loss of a sibling:

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The loss of a father:

"Cas?"

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Discussions on the loss of a sibling / the loss of a father, and the wound an absence leaves behind:

GORDON: I can still see her, you know? The way she was. But hey, that was a long time ago. I mean, your dad. It's gotta be rough. DEAN: Yeah. Yeah, you know. He was just one of those guys. Took some terrible beatings, just kept coming. So you're always thinking to yourself, he's indestructible. He'll always be around, nothing can kill my dad. Then just like that (snaps) he's gone. I can't talk about this to Sammy. You know, I gotta keep my game face on. (clears throat) But, uh, the truth is I'm not handling it very well. Feel like I have this -

GORDON: Hole inside you? And it just gets bigger and bigger and darker and darker? Good. You can use it. Keeps you hungry. Trust me. There's plenty out there needs killing, and this'll help you do it. Dean, it's not a crime to need your job.

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This is no salvation; it's another wound, another empty void where you used to be:

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JACK (praying): How can you be gone? You said that you believed in me. No matter what. It didn't matter what I did Th-That being me was enough. But what does that mean now? Cas? Mom?

[carnage-cathedral]

Why run if you have nothing to hide?

[dadfolddilf]

Deadclaws is very Nine Inch Nails coded

Goodbye

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

so obsessed with susato that i forgot that her saving holmes's life wasn't something i just made up in my head but implied by the game to have been What Actually Happened.

[feketeribizli]

your f1 alien au art is so so amazing holy sht I can only hope you draw more things related to it so I can obsess even more about it 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

weeee im glad you like it!!!! the concept made me insane so there will definitely be more of that! like and subscribe if you wanna see men in distress 😁👍

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

thinking abt unrequited love w gojo and nobara……

[hersurvival]

Forever bound to the west coast,

Holding onto trauma with both hands -

Cold, dark, and endless as the Pacific.

And though I have been to the east coast,

The Atlantic never felt like home-

Too warm, too shallow,

Too healing in its abundance of salt.

@nosebleedclub May 22nd - Eastern

[teathattast]

So, note all ye lovers in love with the sound

Your world be shattered with nary a note of one

Cupid's arrow under your coat

And in the land of star-crossed lovers

And barren-hearted wanderers

[penthesilia]

Because I was a poor faggot they used to pay me to attend all my lessons in sixth form but it was such a low fucking rate that it kinda just pissed me off and made me bunk way more than if they just gave me nothing at that point lmfao. Classic British Welfare state move that was though; recognise the value of cash incentives but undercut everyone so badly you negate any potential benefits while giving yourself an additional aspect of public spending you can campaign on reducing next election.

[pillowzilla]

my wizard ocs ft toxic yuri

ok context for these girls as quick as i can summarize it so tabitha is the one with the horns and allison is the one with the beret anyways so tldr tabitha has been trying to kill allison for a bit bc shes afraid shes gonna become morganthe 2.0 being the yw and all however tabitha herself gets so invested in this goal she ends up becoming what she fears and losing herself so much that allisons gotta kill her more abt this below

sososo continuing on throughout all this tabitha kinda does fall in love with allison however allison doesn't really feel that way romantically (for now i cant be trusted JHFIOJFW) but at the same time she does get use to tabitha trying to kill her and them playing this game of cat and mouse it was never that serious to allison really she loves a good fight and tabitha brings it and she loves that potential that she has to keep honing her skills but it all gets ruined when tabitha slips into shadow magic and she mentally just cannot handle it and the girl allison kinda enjoyed is rly no longer there its gotten too serious and to the point of no return

so anyways thats why i felt this audio FIT so well like tabitha being the one to say goodbye until tomorrow bc shes not ready to accept her death its not over she can't fail shes in denial meanwhile on allisons end shes giving her heart to tabitha to take to her grave she asks her not to break it because at the same time shes in denial about the situation like what happened what happened to the eager girl she met on khrysalis how did they get here ? taking someones life is never fun

[throwaway-settings]

hmm. davesprite sword wound.