#the painful truth

[batfam-belfry]

Jason has been numb since he climbed out of that grave

[lafayettenossie]

Salvation: A tale of the past. (Part 4)

Last time...

Homicide detective Britney Loup didn't know whether to shoot him or not... That man, if he really was one, had helped her in several investigations. They were almost always strange cases, unexplained disappearances, ritual deaths, even a human sacrifice in the middle of Bayou St. John! And suddenly he wasn't even human!

"Don't move a muscle or...!" she said loudly, still pointing at the detective's chest.

Nosferatu Detective Lafayette facing Britney Loup with her gun aiming him...

"You can open fire... it would only serve to burn holes in my suit and trench coat... and attract the Police. And I don't think it would be best for you right now..." he said pointing at the bottle of bourbon she held in her left hand and the gun in her right.

"Who the hell... who are you...?!" she asked, looking at the strange bald, pale being with pointy ears and an aquiline nose.

"A private detective from New Orleans. Someone who wants to help whoever needs it. And you seemed to need my help tonight, Britney." Lafayette's voice was the same, that hadn't changed. Neither had his eyes, those intense green eyes.

"Are you... a... monster? What... What are you? Really, tell me!" The Homicide detective was starting to lower her gun.

"My real appearance isn't nice to look at, I know..." he replied with a smile, showing his sharp protruding incisors that rested on his lower lip when his mouth was closed. "But luckily, in order to interact with the rest of the normal people, I can fade from sight and hearing, or adopt a nondescript appearance that doesn't make me stand out among the others..."

Britney Loup lowered her gun, she didn't know why, but she trusted that individual since she met him. Lafayette really wanted to help people!

Homicide detective Britney Loup lowers her gun.

"I'm a Kindred. Some call us vampires..." he told her trying not to alarm the NOPD Homicide detective.

"Wait! Do you really feed on blood? Human blood?" The blond woman asked him with some anxiety in her gaze.

Lafayette smiled maliciously at Britney.

To be continued...

[glassrunner]

"There is no prize to perfection, only an end to pursuit. In all timelines, in all possibilities... only you can show me this."

JAYCE AND VIKTOR | ARCANE S02E09

[holtog]

It's like chopping down a huge tree of immense girth. You won't accomplish it with one swing of your axe. If you keep chopping away at it, though, and do not let up, eventually, whether it wants to or not. it will suddenly topple down.

ZEN MASTER HAKUIN EKAKU

[ahaha-ahahaha]

I'll draw the most beautiful masterpiece and then lose it forever because i named the file 'squobglirt' or something

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Burning Rotten Bridges

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[densewentz]

hey if you guys go back to the scene where the Cat King puts the truth compulsion on Edwin and, after removing it, asks him "now, doesn't the truth feel better?" if you watch carefully you can see Edwin give a tiny shocked and vulnerable little nod right before the Cat King nods back and you TOO can start screaming and crying inconsolably like I am

[cheesenchalk]

i never know how to phrase it but something about the way beatles biographers and people in general view paul's reflexive placating persona and determination to smooth things over as manipulative or duplicitous and john's reflexive barbed persona and habit of lashing out as brave and subversive despite both being equally defensive mechanisms to shield themselves from the world that resulted in them saying things that weren't true says more about how we culturally view kindness or friendliness as inherently untrustworthy or flimsy and anger and carelessness as more believable as someone's true nature than it says about either of them in actuality

[briseise]

bdubs and his starter not cottage-core cottage. and bird roomies

[whichcouldmeanothing]

“fangs lungs ankles” – Adrianne Lenker

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

Sometimes a friend group is a 37 year old former assassin who caused a whole bunch of political upheaval by killing a lot of guys, hears the voices of those he killed, and has realized he wants a life of peace, a 800+ year old talking sword who really wants to destroy evil but is beginning to realize he has questions about what that means, a 22 year old former highmarshal who accidentally invented therapy, is learning one song on a flute to try and relax, and trying to find a healthy work- life balance, a 1000+ year old spren who's basically god's daughter and a princess who is also learning how to have a healthy work-life balance with her friend, and a 7000+ year old herald who believes in following the law to the letter, really hates that one song, and does not believe in a healthy work- life balance.

[blitheringmcgonagall]

Tags by @roalinda

Canon James Potter on hearing his name is linked to two ships in ao3’s top 20 ships for 2023 (no 8 and no 18):

Canon James Potter on hearing the most popular of the two is him & Sirius’ Deater baby brother Reggie:

[septemberkisses]

On Mothers and Pain - Collected Works #1

— her pain was mine, but mine not hers.

Excerpts from-

Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong • Letter to my Rage: An Evolution by Lidia Yuknavitch • honeytuesday • sixisockets • La Flor de Lis by Elena Poniatowska • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera • The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks • A Mother's Hate by Sam Gordon • Salt by Nayyirah Waheed

[mspaint-flower]

toothache

[b4kuch1n]

simulated earth (it does not matter)

transcript

[fairydrowning]

– Alida Nugent, "You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism"

[TEXT ID: "You still crave lemonade, but the taste doesn’t satisfy you as much as it used to. You still crave summer, but sometimes you mean summer, five years ago. You remember your umbrella, you check up on people to see if they got home, you leave places early to go home and make toast." END ID]