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Yes we love it when Whumpee gets a call from an unknown number and Whumper, on the other end of the line, refers to them by name. Maybe Whumpee recognizes their voice, maybe they don’t. Either way it’s a classic.
What else is a classic? When Whumper comments on how scared Whumpee looks. Tells them to take a seat when they shouldn’t have known there was one available. Warns them not to get any bad ideas when Whumpee’s eyes stray towards an exit.
Getting a call from a stranger who knows their name is scary enough. Knowing they’re watching somehow and unable to see them, that’s terrifying.
#the slight pause as Whumpee realizes#then the ‘how do you know that?’#‘where are you?’#the way they look around in a panic#too afraid to hang up even as their hands start to shake#whump
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Reuniting with a distorted past.
Extra:(New personality tested gone wrong)
wanted to play with rin living in the aftermath aus aswell and had these drawings laying around to share so yay
Panel 1: Was buried alive.
Comic 1: Who are you supposed to be?
new friends
Comic 2: Misguided protection.
obito still sensing the warning signs of rin losing her temper. anyways they proceeded to be dragged into the ocean by rin like some sea monster
Comic 3: Finding out (Now what will you do?)
obito is harshly brought back from his delusions because now its not just kushina but rin too who he needs to ripped out the tail beast from
#naruto#naruto fanart#kakashi hatake#rin nohara#obito uchiha#naruto sukea#fanart#art#my art#sketch#drawing#digital art#hope i can add something new and if not may i shall add fuel to the fire for rin!! :)#So Rin loses ALL of her memories forever (kinda)#the only thing that remains for sure is the feeling of missing something that she'll never reach it again#she's alone and is left to roam directionless until she meets an elderly civilian that is also alone#she stays with her for a year+ but she passes away. But Rin with her new identity decides to walk forward (with love comes pain#but to love at all was the greatest thing to her.) She cherishes her new memories and won't let it stop her from moving on#inbetween this time frame she meets isobu in her mind after he gains enough form within her (who is also without memories)#Now WAY LATER she meets Sukea who looks like he's about to panic and she tries to help (which uh doesnt work too well)#but then Sukea joins her on her travels (sending minato an letter through his summons of rin being alive and forgetting the mission)#they both wander around (he doesnt know how to bring up their past) but then obito appears (always at the wrong times)#At first glance he's pissed but then realizes that this isnt fake AND its both the worse thing yet best thing to ever happen#Now Rin thinks she made two new friends who give her feelings of warmth but they both also reminded her of something old she thinks#PS Minato and Kushina are freaking out back in the village but can't do anything about it (Obito hasn't acted on his plans yet so yes)
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if aradia's death was just in-character for a long roleplay, what's the deal with tavros and terezi's disabilities? did vriska have anything to do with them?
She Did Do Those Things. vriska no!!!!!!
#im insane that vriska is a roleplayer#its so funny to me i love roleplaying jokes#for those not in the know: 'i was just acting in character' is a common phrase used by people Behaving Badly#vriskas like OOOOOOHHH you want me to break the carefully crafted and lovingly acted personality of marquise spinneret mindfang? you monste#listen!!! im playing as my spidersona!!!!! its what she would do shes a spider you want me to not act like a spider???#vriska. you threw the boy off a cliff screaming and cackling to yourself FLY PUPA FLY#thats not '''''''in character''''' marquise spinneret wouldnt have fucking done that you bitch!!! you just got bored and started#causing problems!!!!#her glasses details had to be shifted around because vriska saying to terezi 'its harder for me. i lost 7 eyes you only lost 2' is so fucki#oh my god vriska no. NO. VRISKA#but yeah she did still do those things. i wasnt sure how to handle this but i decided to go this way. a vriska is a vriska#vriska#homestuck#bugstuck#vriska serket#One time I got a death threat in the middle of an in-person roleplaying game. That underclassman just looked at me with hatred in their eye#a panic attack#then later after THAT they began openly weeping.
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Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, it’s okay! Calm down, son! Walter! Walter, she’s here. I found her! She’s here! I gotta go back, Walter. Shhh, shh. I gotta go back, they’re gonna get her! Come on, breathe. In and out, hey… hey…. Oh, I lost her. I lost her.
FRINGE
3.19 - “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide”
#fringeedit#fringe#fringe 3x19#episode: lysergic acid diethylamide#walter bishop#peter bishop#walter and peter bishop#myedit#mygifs#I typed peter too many times and now it sounds weird in my head#poor peter. what’s probably a bad trip/a panic attack would be a very sucky combo.#love to see a rare moment of vulnerability from peter with walter. usually it’s the other way around.#he is holding on to walter for dear life😭#not pictured: broyles accidentally high and looking shocked off to the side lol
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The Therapist
There's a new therapist at school.
Normally this wouldn't really bother Peter at all, since he's never gone to see a shrink in his life and doesn't ever plan on it, but there's something... off about this woman.
She seems unassuming enough at first glance. Red hair, green eyes, bright red lipstick. But there is something in her eyes, something that Peter can only describe as a predator looking at its next prey, when she looks around the school at all of the teenagers milling about. Heck, even the way she walks makes her seem as if she is a predator stalking her prey.
It could always be some kind of power move, Peter reasons. He's met people like that before, who try to intimidate everyone around them into thinking that they are superior, that they are the apex predator and anyone who dares to cross them would pay for it dearly.
But his Spidey Sense went crazy around her.
He tries to brush it off as paranoia. He'd pulled an all-nighter last night in the lab with Tony because neither of them had been able to sleep, and he hadn't been sleeping well even before that. (Funny, how it had all started the night after he first bumped into the new therapist in the halls.) So his Spidey Sense is probably out of wack because he's tired. Simple as that.
But it seems like everyone in the school is depressed. Even Ned, who can't even muster up the energy and enthusiasm to talk about Legos or Star Wars or even the weather. It worries Peter.
Because it all started when that therapist came to the school.
He can't ignore it forever, he knows that. There is only so long his Spidey Sense can tell him that she is danger danger danger before he finally listens. He has to do something to help everyone.
So he researches.
And he falls into the rabbit hole of ghosts and ectoplasm and secret government organizations and the little, unassuming town of Amity Park, Illinois.
He doesn't sleep that night.
When he comes to school the next morning, Dr. Penelope Spectra looks him dead in the eyes, and smiles.
#dpxmarvel#peter parker#penelope spectra#peter's boutta get a crash course in ghosts and ghost fighting#he is definitely not prepared#idk why spectra is in new york#specifically midtown tech#but she is#peter starts digging into amity park#he just wanted to find out who spectra is#and he did find out that she's a dangerous “ecto-entity”#he does not know what that is until he does more research#he's very shocked to learn that ghosts are apparently real#meanwhile tucker and the rest of team phantom is freaking out#someone just hacked past the media blackout or whatever around amity park#(you can thank friday (or karen if you prefer) for that)#they're surprised to see that it's coming all the way from new york#and even more surprised to see that the hacker went for spectra's files first#almost as if the hacker was specifically looking for them >:3#maybe danny goes to investigate and finds peter#btw peter can sense ghosts with his spidey sense even if they're invisible. especially if they're invisible#they team up to take spectra down#danny helps peter make some ecto-weapons and a specter deflector or something#then they catch spectra (and bernard because he's probably there too and i'm kinda just now realizing that)#peter gives danny his phone number as thanks and tells him to call him if he ever needs anything#peter doesn't know who phantom is btw. he just knows that his new friend is a ghost that luckily knows how to use technology like phones#maybe there's even a bad reveal a little further down the line and danny calls peter in a panic because sam and tucker have done everything#they can and he needs to get as far away from amity as possible#peter is very surprised to find that his ghost friend is only half ghost and is then very ticked that danny's parents tried to capture#and vivisect him
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This tweet reminded me of how absolutely bugfuck insane the His Dark Materials trilogy is. This is a YA series, contemporaneous to Harry Potter. And it legit goes from "You have a part of your soul outside of your body in animal form, it can be used like a battery" to "Organized religion is a fucking fraud and you need to put God out of his misery then tear down the Church".
Also there's a talking bear, witches, and ritual consumption (as in literal consumption in a ritual) of an honored friend so you can take their power inside yourself.
You read that shit at a formative age and it changes the the whole fucking trajectory of your life.
#pear text#his dark materials#this was also around the time of the harry potter 'panic'#perhaps it's because i don't live in a heavily catholic area#i'd never heard anybody mention hdm in the same way#i felt very smug and subversive#like i'd truly found something out#(look i was like 19 cut me some slack)
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it turns out that, in moving, i have traded out having to deal with many small spiders for having to deal with the occasional fuckoff huge one
#what the FUCK was that thing#ive never had such an instant-panic killing out of desperation moment#it was giant. i could see Everything and it was horrible#im still breathing a little too fast that was just. get me out of here#it was Fast and Big and Spindly#i havent seen many spiders here but every single one ive seen has been bigger than im comfy with#if only there was a magic spider-repelling spell i could cast around myself an a ten foot bubble...#unfortunately no such thing exists!#absolutely unprompted#im gonna be so much more paranoid than i already am#if THAT can get into this house. jesus fuck#id love to look up what it was but that would mean looking at high resolution spider pics and i dont think i can do that#currently looking up spiders#i love torturing myself#its like 'normal picture normal picture normal picture WOLF SPIDER FACE CLOSEUP normal picture-'#thank you webbed site for that jumpscare i feel unwell and not in a good way#YEP OKAY THAT WAS FAR TOO MANY SPIDER PICS AND I STILL DONT KNOW WHAT IT WAS#it was huge and light brown with long legs and it was fucking Fast
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oooooh it is so very late at night and I am having #thoughts #emotional #notclickbait
thinking about how in the grand scheme of things IK is like. inherently the bravest being in the devildom
Mind You it's not even to do with the massive amounts of trauma she's been through, it's solely because she is a human
Humans lives are like a second long compared to these centuries (eons even) old demons- she knows virtually nothing in the grand scheme of things compared to them
And yet despite her knowing nothing (and being aware that she knows nothing and could die at any second) she still walks forward with little hesitance, trusting and learning and growing which is the bravest thing you can really do as a human (imo)
Even just the fact that she lives knowing she could die at literally any moment makes her braver than like. half the cast. because while yes they have all been through their respective traumas, they still live for HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of years, and every like. 200 years or so they'll maybe once think 'man i've been alive a long time' and continue on with their day
IK, as a human, looks around at just. the place she's in. and registers that virtually anything there could kill her and says 'yeah I could probably survive'
I honestly feel like it awes the others, especially given their lack of knowledge on humans. If I was a demon I'd be like 'shouldn't thinking about dying break your brain or smth' and here's this baby walking around like 'hey how many ounces of fucking cyanide could I chug before things start getting serious'
And I rewatched Finding Nemo recently and pictured this scene with Lucifer and IK and I think I severely dehydrated myself with how much I cried
IK: "He says to let go! Everything is gonna be alright!!"
Lucifer: "How do you know?! How do you know something bad isn't going to happen?!"
IK: "I don't!"
SHE KNOWS NOTHING!! SHE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF HOW FATE CARRIES HER OR WHAT SORT OF INEXPLICABLE DANGERS LIE AHEAD OR EVEN THE BASICS OF HOW MAGIC WORKS AND YET SHE BRAVES THE UNKNOWN ANYWAYS AMD LUCIFER IS IN AWE!!!!!! IM GOING TO BE SICK
this is us right now THAT'S OUR GIRL
for real though. it's like watching a baby bird fly for the first time. it's tiny and helpless and could be crushed in an instant in a predator's jaws, but it clambers out of the nest and jumps for the sky anyway, even if it could very well smash itself to pieces on the rocks below
one of my favourite genres of character tbh... i love that baby bird so dearly
#answering asks#whensam#i think the especial thing with lucifer is that as avatar of pride#he moves forward with absolute certainty that he WILL be able to handle what comes next#(and he panics when confronted with the fact that he can't)#versus ik who's tumbling on with no idea where she's going or what she's doing#it's like. we see lucifer adapt to new life in the devildom by dedicating himself to earning his place there#it's all deliberate and calculated because he needs him and his brothers to survive#whereas ik gets there. looks around. realises 'oh this place is a death trap.' and just keeps chugging along#she wanders her way home and that's how she thrives#they're both lonely at the start of their arcs in different ways#but lucifer thinks he can do it on his own while ik always welcomes company on the road#auhgh i love doing this. i love getting emotional and introspective over my own characters spshdfhsk#!lucifer
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A future fic carcass I'll write when I write (after I finish 9 ungoing fics)
King Viserys dies at the wedding celebration of his daughter, Crown Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen.
No one else does.
I am a firm believer Otto and Viserys are the rot on the face of the House of the Dragon and without these two everything would be fine-ish.
Unfortunately, we need Vissy T for his kids to be born, so Viserys dies soon after Aemond is conceived. Sorry, Daeron, not this time.
Joffrey doesn't die because he doesn't manage to provoke Criston before the king dies.
Rhaenyra overrules his father's decision and marries Harwin Strong.
Their son Jacaerys Targaryen is the heir to the throne, Lucerys Targaryen is the heir to Harrenhal.
Daemon marries Laena and lives at Dragonstone (Rhaenyra grants him that), their firstborn is the heir of Driftmark.
Laenor joins the Queensguard and is sent to Dragonstone to protect Prince Daemon (ha) and his future heirs.
Criston Cole becomes the Commander of City Watch while still retaining his white cloak (what? He did it in canon, can do it here).
Rhaenyra removes Tyland Lannister as the master of ships and appoints Corlys Velaryon (back).
When Baela and Rhaena are born, it is decided to betroth Prince Aegon and Lady Baela, making him future lord-consort of Driftmark (and successfully removing him out of succession of the iron throne).
When Jace is born, his and Helaena's betrothal is announced.
Baelon is born without an issue and the royal family meets at the celebration on Dragonstone, where Aemond claims Cannibal and loses an eye in the process.
(Kinslayer, everyone. It fits).
Afterwards Luke is sent as a ward to Harrenhal with his father. A huge ass scene ensures there Luke clings to Aemond and refuses to go.
Aegon makes a greasy comment and gets punched.
Both Aegon and Baela are sent as wards to Driftmark.
Lucerys still leaves.
Harrenhal doesn't burn bc even if Larys kills Harwin and Luke, there's still Lyonel and Joffrey in the equation. Lyonel keeps serving Queen Rhaenyra as her Hand.
Years later the royal family meets at the wedding celebration of Baela and Aegon, where Luke and Aemond behave very much like Rhaenyra and Daemon at Rhaenyra's not happened wedding.
Rhaenyra and Alicent clutch at their pearls, Rhaenyra suggests father died because of seeing something like that.
Daemon asks if she implies they killed Viserys, then asks where is Baelon.
Laena replies Baelon is playing knights with Joffrey.
Rhaenyra and Harwin Strong (no) have three more children, Aegon, Viserys and Visenya, all silver-haired like their mother (her uncle).
Laena is fine with it, they have a poly. Laena doesn't have more children because Baelon's birth was a ghasty one.
Baelon claims the Grey Ghost.
Otto is never called back to the capital because (suprise!) Rhaenyra didn't rush to kill her 3 y.o brother or the other one who was born after Viserys' death. Instead she marries Aegon off so he's no threat.
Aemond eventually joins the Queensguard and is appointed to the future lord of Harenhall.
Lucerys refuses to marry and appoints his brother Viserys as his heir, who marries Visenya. They have a very good life in Harrenhal.
The reason Luke skips over Joffrey is because Joffrey is always at the sea (with Baelon), and Aegon the Younger is bethrothed to Baela and Aegon the Elder' firstborn, Laena.
Everyone lives happily ever after, Otto gets to be the head of the house Hightower after he successfully plots against his own kin, since his blood is secured on the throne, if in unconventional for him way.
He once tried to manipulate Aegon, but was cut off sharply by Rhaenys and Corlys, who kind of adopted the boy as theirs.
Aegon enjoys wandering about Essos very much, he, of course, whores around, but he and Baela have an agreement. One of Baela's children is born from Alyn of Hull, but no one is any wiser, since everyone just thinks the child looks like her.
Jacaerys and Helaena have three kids, Jaehaerys and Jaehaera and then Maelor.
Jaehaera is oldest and so is the heir.
Oh, and Rhaena is happily married to Corwyn Cobray. They have a daughter, Rhaenys.
#hotd#hotd au#queen rhaenyra#hotd fanfic#fuck viserys#i will write it one day bc i have such a vivid image of the scenes such as: viserys' death. rhaenyra overruling her father's decision#explaining it and trying to mediate it so Corlys wouldn't start another war#'i thought it was in the tradition for the king or queen to marry their hand's child'#the greens' FACES at that#rhaenyra gathering Laenor and his entire fam and suggesting queensguard#“but then he won't be able to wed a woman. have a family-”#-exactly *Rhaenyra and Laenor lock gases. she nods. he nods.* -i accept#Aemond just fucking WANDERING AWAY TO CLAIM THE SCARIEST ASS DRAGON THAT IS THERE#the total panic then Laenor finds him and brings back with EYE LESS. (he almost got to the castle but fainted mid way)#corlys trying to push for baelon as the heir and laena&rhaenys being: “NO”#the unspoken kinship in the house of whoring around. Harwin being like “i support my wife's wrongs” and loving egg vis and visenya as his#NO ONE KNOWING THEY'RE NOT HIS. LIKE LEGIT THEY COULD BE HIS OR HARWIN'S. EVEN RHARNYRA DOESN'T KNOW#aegon living his best life as a sailor and explorer#Aemond looking at Laenor and being like “i can do that too”#laenor living THE BEST LIFE by his sis and her husband/his friend's side. and Joffrey is ALIVE#criston eventually getting over himself and accepting that Rhaenyra indeed couldn't run away with him#like imagine if they run away and then vissy t died#whoops i guess#also i just realized i accidentally made it so that Harrenhal is eventually ruled not by Strongs but Daemon's kids#lmao i guess#They are Targaryens (tm) your honor#the amount of dragons they're about to have...like harrenhal has 4 just with luke aemond and visx2#Dragonstone has 3 even if all kids scatter about#cobrays have 2 (Rhaena's and her daughters)#driftmark has at least 3 and then Laena is born and its 4
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another thing i realized is that in the crosswalk sequence, dora is only criticizing hdb for 1) lack of success (his poverty mainly) and 2) some of his inherent traits, like his mental illness and age.
she's only being cruel to him over things he realistically can't control. in revachol especially, he can't help that he's poor. there's nothing he can do about his age. there's nothing he can do about the fact that he gets "unbearably sad– no one gets that sad" or is sometimes "hysterical". she calls him a poor, sick, insane old man. but never once does she bring up behavior, which is another reason i think that dream is largely him projecting. there's no way that dora wouldn't have focused on any behaviors of his instead– his lying, manipulation, fits of anger, etc. she definitely was upset about his drinking (like with the flashback while he's hugging billie) but that's really the only time we get an example of her being upset with actions and not an inherent or unchangeable trait of harry's.
harry can't remember the things he did. he doesn't know any of the other things she might have gotten upset at him for– forgetting important dates, never helping at home, spending too much, yelling at her, literally, who knows?– he just knows that he's poor, sad, old (kim thought he was 58!) and deeply mentally unwell. so in his state he just concludes that those reasons must be entirely why she left.
#like the way that she talks to him just sounds to me like the things he'd think while looking in a mirror you know#he looks at himself and he doesn't know much anymore but what does he know?#that he's poor and sad and old and completely mentally wrecked#he wakes up hearing voices and talking to himself and finds evidence of his suicide attempts everywhere#and has panic attacks over the tiniest things and it seems like he never makes sense to anyone around him#by the phasmid encounter he's ready to accept that he really has gone insane. this is how he thinks of himself now#disco elysium#harry du bois#disco elysium meta#dora ingerlund#kiwipost#hdb meta#di meta
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Those were the big things, but I--OH MY GOD WAIT! Also, the way The Last Wish very plainly but not obnoxiously talked about toxic masculinity and how it’s good and okay to be vulnerable with other people and ask for help and be scared. Like! Oh My God!
#puss in boots#the last wish#puss in boots: the last wish#puss in boots spoilers#ngl it also... stung a little personally bc the obvious thing the whole time was like 'tell your friends that death is trying to kill you!'#and puss was having a panic attack and shit and it reminded me so much of me with my trauma and seeing my abuser everywhere#except that for me when i told my friends they didnt give a shit and left me alone with my abuser and told me that its a 'you problem'#it didnt really make me mad at the movie though it just made me pissed at my (ex)friends#its so frustrating that at a time when i needed support from the people around me those people sucked#anyway i also liked that it showed how perspective can... how for puss he was just running from death and fear#but to his friends it looked like he was running away from them#i felt that it both acknowledged that how his friends felt was valid and reasonable and also that his reaction was valid and reasonable#and that giving people second chances is good and healthy and you shouldnt cut them off after one mistake#idk i just felt this movie had a ton of nuance and talked about big emotions in a very good and productive way
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[taps mic] wings are to black mages as tails are to genomes, they're just axolotls about it
#final fantasy ix#ffix#ffix black mages#not just because of the waltzes either; there are a lot of things i feel back it up! i'm hoping to write up a post going into it properly#but like. there's a lot of subtext that they are Birbous in both the xenobiology sense and the symbolic one#and that wings are associated with Having Their True Power/Individual Form Unlocked(tm)#again there's the waltzes but also vivi has wing decorations on his trance form--multiple sets of them no less#and if you look at most black mages as having been mass-produced to a template and undercooked it makes sense#they're mostly not too impeded by the lack of wings and i think most of them wouldn't be too bothered if i knew#but among other things it might explain how clumsy they are; more specifically how much they're inclined to trip over things#they're missing a counterbalance/way to catch themselves/fly#a lot of birds that are closest to the body shape we see can get around by walking but it's clumsier and not as efficient#and if it's a mobility thing it might have made their legs shorter too#idk i may revise that a bit because i'm out of it right now and i don't think they're *entirely* birb#but they deadass hatch out of eggs and instinctively adopt and know how to care for them#they don't just take bobby corwen's egg home because his mom was dead; most of them barely know what death is in the first place#and think that the mom 'stopped' and have said they think stopped people will eventually get right back up#but they immediately know the egg needs to be taken care of in a time-sensitive manner#and what it is and how to do so; to my memory they don't express panic or uncertainty about Doing It Wrong#anyway lots of thoughts about them but vivi's last name is literally french for ornithologist so Like. i am just saying#ffixtag#FF tag#black mage tag
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Maybe I’m delusional or maybe my freshman and sophomore year history teacher is the only person who has ever understood me
#thinking about how I saw in the back corner of her classroom freshman year bc I was shy and she would go out of her way to stand in that#corner and talk to me and ask me about the books I was reading#how she would leave thoughtful notes on my work sometimes even complimenting me about it in person#and during class presentations I would freeze up and panic and choke on my words#and then she’d go it’s okay take you’re time you’re doing great#and then tell me afterwards that she liked my presentation#sophomore year I was confident enough in her class to sit in the very front row#and she would look at me while lecturing and make jokes specifically towards me#and before the ap exam I was standing around after school hours#and she asked me if I had a ride home and offered to wait with me#and she asked how I was feeling about the exam and I was feeling really nervous and not confident at all#and she fully talked me down and convinced me that I could do it and said she believed in me#on the last day I had her class she said quote:#it’s been wonderful watching you blossom the two years I’ve had you I think you’ve really found who you are and you’re owning it and im so#proud of you#and she hugged me#I miss her so much#school fucking sucks without her her class was the highlight of my day#literally just seeing her is the highlight of my day now#she waved to me in the hallway today and I haven’t stopped thinking about it#im gonna cry. I miss her so bad
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realized i hadn't actually posted any fic snippets of eots with my boy maxie in them so here he is
also. i think groudon and kyogre should be scarier. as a treat.
“Maxie,” she says, tugging gently on his hand. He stops and turns partway around, glancing at her briefly, and follows the direction of her flashlight beam across the cavern to the spot where it illuminates a small x on the rock wall, drawn in white chalk.
“Again?” he mutters.
“This is the third time,” May says, voice high and tremulous, “that we’ve been through here. Every single one of these exits just, I don’t know, loops back here somehow.” She gives him a look that’s halfway between critical and pleading, and he holds her gaze steadily, expression neutral. “Have you seen the passageway that leads back to the entrance? Because it should be right behind us, but we got here through that turn.” She points ahead with her flashlight, to the branch of the cave that heads off to the left. “I mean, how does that even make sense? Coming through the same exit four times from four different directions?”
He turns away, falling silent for a moment. The cavern echoes with the quiet sound of water dripping from somewhere nearby; of Maxie tapping his foot. His hand is warm in hers, and she realizes she’s squeezing it. It’s selfish, but she’s too afraid to let go.
“I think,” he says evenly, “that this is normal.”
She takes a deep breath. “Normal.”
He nods once. “Relatively speaking, of course. But I’ve seen something similar to this before, back at our base.”
She frowns up at him. “I thought that was an abandoned mine?”
He catches her gaze again briefly. “Why do you think it as abandoned? People thought it was haunted, and when they couldn’t find out what was haunting it, they abandoned the project rather than stick around and risk irritating something powerful enough to rearrange a cave system at will.” He looks around the cavern briefly, flashlight beam skating across dripping stalactites on the ceiling. “You have to remember the scale of power we’re dealing with, here. A reasonably powerful psychic-type could achieve something similar to this, and people used to worship Kyogre as a god.”
Maxie’s words hang in the still air for a moment, and May shifts back and forth on her aching feet. She turns and looks behind them, but there’s nothing there except the dark passageway they just walked through.
“You think Kyogre’s doing this.”
“Not doing,” he corrects. “Well. Maybe doing, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a conscious control.” He takes a deep breath. “Obviously, I’m not sure. But have you ever seen anything like this before? Since Groudon… left, we’ve been able to map the entire mine and the cave structure it intersects with. We tried several times before, of course, but were never able to do that successfully while they were still there.”
#*slaps roof of groudon* this bad boy can fit sooo many more horror tropes in 'em#so like obviously implying the magmas have been dealing with similar issues the whole time they've been based at chimney#leading to some ominous signage inside the base like#''if you are seeing this sign for the second time you need to turn around''#anyway this is my longwinded explanation for why seafloor cavern is the way it is#that shit's eldritch. living even#the universe does Not want you waking these two up#maxie's ability to go ''this is fine'' in the face of this kind of thing is truly outrageous#anyway you know you're really friends with someone when they see you have a panic attack right?#sorry may!#autumn.fic#fic: eye of the storm#also shoutout to may for being the horror protagonist who looks behind her. she does that so many times in this fic#may maple
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I caught myself looking like 😑 again at the grocery store today and I feel so awkward. I don’t want to come off as an asshole to anyone working there (it must suck as a job, especially during summer tourist season) but my face is just like this! I think it would be really funny if I got a custom t-shirt one day that just said “sorry, it’s (probably) not you. My face is just like this” with the 😑 emoji under it
#emma posts#when it doesn’t look like 😑 it looks like 😳#i just remembered today that part of the reason it’s like this was that in highschool if i looked like that my bullies got bored#was always switching between 😑 and 😳 and now those are just my defaults#the 😳 would probably be around regardless tho#it’s kinda funny how my teacher mom has strangers approach her regularly but my dad and I and maybe my brothers don’t get that#but my dad is 6ft with a 😑 expression most of the time in public#my brothers have different vibes but are also huge#youngest has got an awkward gentle giant energy#and middle kid has what I can only call a ‘more subtle bakugo rizz’ if that makes any sense#dude needs to take his meds like the rest of us#I really went from 😳 elementary to 😑 highschool expression wise#and one is anxiety and autism while the other is autism and defense against bullies#but now my face is just like that by default and it’s super awkward#I’m also self conscious about how i look while laughing#but that’s a mostly separate thing#mostly#non-human animals get the ☺️ expression though so they like my vibes better#I also try to be like that with kids. and I am a little internally. but I also panic about how the respond to them#I’d blame one specific younger cousin experience but I’m not totally sure#either way I look a little less 😑 to them but probably still a little 😳#kids with anxiety seem to like me though. we get each other’s vibes I guess 🤷���️#but gods. I don’t want to look at cashiers like 😑 in the checkout but i keep doing it#and when i consciously try to stop i often look more like 😳#girl has no rizz if you’re not a cat#I react the same way to energetic dogs as I do most kids which is a bit weird tbh#I end up looking like a combination of 😳😐😬😦😅 when I try to talk to neighbors#my only advantage is that people think my jokes are funny. at least in person#and I can at least tell when someone is faking their smile response#if there are two things I can usually pick up on it’s nervousness and amusement
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1:30am. plagued by thoughts of michael and everything going on in his tiny 10-13 year old head :(
#like obviously. problems and issues then on and before SKDJFMG#but yeah while a lot of his behaviors as a young teenager are influenced by home life (ranging based on portrayals but i always make sure#it’s got similar roots and feelings) as well as social standing a LOTTTTT OF IT is very extremely tied to mental illness that did not get#acknowledgement or treatment.. that was the age his very intense depression started to come in Swinging along with increased anxiety/panic#and. neurodivergence is still a greyer area because it’s definitely there in the way i write him but how it mixes with ptsd#(plus the question of how much of that is just. Me LMAO) always has me ??? about making the call i’ve talked about this#BUT YOU GET THE POINT THERE’S A LOT!!!#he’s gutwrenchingly depressed and in pain and has been TAUGHT by observance and emotional neglect and [insert other aftonisms here] to Bury#that and is so convinced his emotions are a sign of weakness and That’s Why He’s Not Good Enough so he compensates however he can#and there’s no excuse for what it snowballs into but ohh my god JUST GET THAT BOY ON SSRIS#he didn’t even have the words for so much of it but there were so many aspects of himself that he was utterly convinced made him wrong#his actions become as drastic as they do because it’s EVERYTHING around him reinforcing the root problem#how am i supposed to sleep when im sick about him#⁂ ・゚: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc
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