#this is normal and healthy 👍

[nexus-nebulae]

i had such a normal sleep schedule for so long what have i done wrong this time 😭

[dizzybizz]

THE PANEL FROM THE END OF CH1 BUT LIKE *BURSTS INTO FLAMES*

[dukeofthomas]

I need people to realize how horrible 'stalking/constant surveillance/breaking into each other's homes is how the Batfamily show love' is. Like i really need someone to just acknowledge how horrific saying this bullshit is.

Like even fics where they're shown as happy and healthy and with good ties, you've always got this thing where none of them have privacy or any boundaries with each other. Which is directly antithetical to actually having good relationships. And this invasion via hacking and stalking and breaking into homes is portrayed as a positive, good thing; it's just how they show love and care to each other, after all. But for some reason I just personally don't find stalking, lack of privacy or boundaries, and emotional manipulation funny, endearing, or healthy, and just end up disgusted at the attempt to sweep it all under the rug.

[bronzebluemind]

It’s been 0 weeks since the World Cup finale, 17 weeks to go until sgp and 34 weeks to go until next season.

[quietwingsinthesky]

Theta/Koschei

Koschei decides to ‘force a regeneration’ to see if it gets rid of the drums.

I’ll let you decide at which point in that process Theta finds him.

>:) (<- evil)

The first thing Koschei hears is Theta-

No, the first thing he hears is the drums. He cringes in on his new body, its limbs awkwardly long and its hair in his face. He claws at his head, and when his nails aren’t strong enough to get inside and scratch the noise out, he starts pounding at his temples. It only encourages the drums to get louder. All he can smell is bitter metal, on his skin, in his mouth, soaked through. It was supposed to be cast off a new regeneration, so why is his blood still clinging to him?

He feels the hands wrap around his wrists and force him to stop. He feels the body kneeling next to his. “You jumped,” Theta hiccups. “You jumped!”

Koschei peers up at the cliffs above. The skies look like they’re burning overhead. Good, he thinks, good, burn down with me.

Him at the edge. Theta frozen feet away. An expression on their face he’d never seen, no matter how much they’d gotten into trouble in the past.

He scared his friend.

“I- I couldn’t move,” Theta says, like they need his forgiveness. “I tried! I couldn’t move! You jumped!”

“It didn’t work,” Koschei says, unable to summon up more reaction than a statement of fact. Theta shivers and wraps around him. They’re shorter than him. He didn’t think about that—only the blessed promise of relief. It’s all that he can hold onto now, Theta’s terrified expression as he tilted over the edge and their body, too small to bundle him up in their arms anymore like they used to. They bury their tears in his hair.

“Of course it didn’t work. You can regenerate, you can’t-” Their voice shatters. Koschei tries to be gentle, but he flinches at the pounding in his head, shoving Theta’s shoulder. Stubbornly, they hold on tighter. “I won’t let you go back up there. I won’t.”

“It didn’t work,” he repeats, like it’ll make sense to them. It hits him, suddenly, what he’s done. The obviousness of it, his whole body a betrayal of a moment’s grasp at peace, how could he- He wants to hide in Theta’s arms, but he can’t, he’s too tall.

“I did this,” Theta says. “It’s my fault. I did this.”

“No,” he snaps. He won’t have it taken from him, even as he can’t look at the shame of it. It was his choice; he jumped. “You told me to get away from the edge.”

“Shut up!” Theta is trying to crush him. His ribs ache from the way their fists jam into his sides. “I pushed you, understand?” He wriggles.

“You didn’t-”

“Koschei, you jumped,” Theta says, voice gone near a whisper again, and he listens to that more readily than he does when they match his volume and fight with him. “I don’t know what they’ll do to you if you jumped.”

He understands.

“You pushed me,” he agrees.

“It was an accident,” they build.

“The wind was too strong. I lost my footing.”

“And I pushed you too hard. We shouldn’t have been this close to the edge.”

“I forgive you.” Theta’s breathing stutters.

“You have a stupid amount of hair now,” they mumble. Koschei agrees. His head hurts so much, and he can’t place what’s worse: the drop after sudden regeneration, or the fresh bruises from hitting himself, or the drums, they’re louder now, he made them louder-

“It didn’t work,” he says a final time, no longer numb to it. His vision blurs, and his breath is coming one-two, three-four, one-two, three-four, stop it, stop it, stop it!

Theta touches his face, smearing his tears over his cheeks. They jam their forehead forward, close the distance until the entire universe is the two of them, alone.

He has to escape somehow. He grasps at Theta’s mind, not calm, always whirring and humming but quiet compared to his. He sinks into them with a sob.

They’re still there, in the back of his head, beating away.

He tries to pretend it’s only the sound of Theta’s hearts.

Maybe, for a moment, he even believes it.

[teslathelame]

having another weird one this fine morning, so here's a poll

*purposely, in this case, meaning that YOU sought it out. not that it was shown to you by someone else, or that you found it accidentally. if you ~technically~ sought it out, but feel like it was made overly easy for you to access or that you were groomed into doing so, you can choose the nuance option if you like 👍

*media, in this case, being any book/magazine/film/photos/animation/game/drama cd/whatever, fictional or otherwise

[loderlied]

a compilation of ‘gortash about zeke’ posts. have fun

[velvet-games]

No real I'm SO confident that Vox would be lowkey racist and probably didn't realize at first that Alastor is black. What level of faux pas is that

not where I was going with that but yeahhh

[welcometoteyvat]

jing yuan and yanqing are giving zhongli and xiao if the latter’s canon relationship was Actually fanon’s made up father figure/adopted child dynamic

[jkgnggj]

HAPPY TORISAI DAY CULT 🩷💜 TORISAI NATION RISE UP 💪I don't have any art (I have old art) to show off for this national holiday but here have a pic of my torisai bfs keychain (they're in love your honor) I'll see if I can post some torisai art later tonight before I go to bed ;))

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

expressing vulnerability is fun because it's like a game of chicken where you slowly become more and more genuine until you freak yourself out about it and skitter back into your shell persona

[horsemage]

just realized I have advanced quantum and gravitational waves back to back MonWed this semester :')

[puppysdog]

i dont think i was meant to have a job i think i was supposed to lie around like a faggot and smoke joints all day

[lazaruspiss]

wanting your mom to like you is a self imposed hell

[dyke-mecha]

How to tell your mom what she said just now really hurt you without telling her what she said just now really hurt you ?

[diamond-rings-and-gutter-bones]

the true horror in supernatural is that the people you love always die, but they might come back. they might. if they do, you don't know how long you have before they inevitably die again, and you're again subjected to the will-they won't-they of vaguely conditional mortality. but they might come back. or they might not, and you'll spend the rest of your life trying to ignore the painful flicker of hope that knows there's a chance.