#though to be fair

[the-stove-is-on-fire]

[Image ID: A photograph of the northern lights over a grassy field with short brown bushes. /. End ID]

Starting work at 6am in Canada has some pretty distinct advantages.

[silversparkz]

once a kitten, always a kitten 

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

The undeniable urge to melodramatically push open the big wooden double doors they have at my local library branch and triumphantly, but wearily, make a sexy entrance…

(I’m no Aragorn, son of Arathorn, obviously. But I am capturing the spirit of his vibe by showing up looking more than a little disheveled and sporting an attitude that says “I just clawed my way back from death to be here.”)

[silverj0]

Started reading the reckoning of Roku yesterday and I’m enjoying it so far especially since the opening has been mostly like this

What everyone is expecting from the avatar: someone who is strong and confident and wise beyond his years

What they’re getting: a 16 year old trying his best

[bestnarutoduo]

It’s still kind of funny to me that Kakashi makes up like 25% of this poll.

Almost a good thing kamui shuriken didn’t make it past round one (even if i have opinions about that xd) cuz it evened the playing field a little

[valiancenodel]

Me: Maybe I shouldn't roll for Sunday, maybe he's IPC now and fuck the IPC

Random guy on Reddit: Look, his Japanese VA is Takeo Otsuka a.k.a. Jinshi from The Apothecary Diaries!!

Me: ... Dammit.

[swingingthehatchetnow]

Just watched Starship for the first time

At first I didn’t like it.

Now I think it’s a metaphor for being trans

[backfliips]

i want to work on commissions but i want to watch youtube video essays but i want to watch my fav artist stream their commissions but i want to play bg3 but i want to go eat breakfast but

[skyward-floored]

I keep giving IAU Sky panic attacks and it’s not even on PURPOSE things just keep happening to him and he ignores it until suddenly he is just not ok

[iraqi-menace]

the fact that Grell is the only character that canonically is not a nonce says a lot lmao

[averygaycat]

wow it’s

it’s late, huh

it’s about 3:40 in the morning

and i have to get up at 6

o no

[headfullof-ideas]

Okay, i didn’t write more of Barf and Belch psychologically torturing the dragon training initiates, BUT, i did roughly outline the first four seasons of RTTE. Like, episode layout and which canon episodes are gonna be in those four seasons. Actual episode layout and all the original episodes and arcs and tying all the episodes to one another and to all the plots and arcs that happen later down the line will be done on another day, but i got the seasons roughly planned! Only problem is that RTTE got bumped up from my original nine to ten seasons, because i wanted to extend the plot i was building

[dick-helmet-magneto]

So my mom just casually dropped to me who my gay cousin is. I didn’t see it coming but I like that kid so much more now

[gale-gentlepenguin]

Are you going to rate the Paper Mario villains?

I only played Paper Mario and Super paper mario.

I plan on Playing Thousand year door once I buy it.

But there are other paper mario games I refuse havent played yet.

[saphstories]

A Brother's Love

He should have been more careful. He should have ensured it was correctly done before rushing off. He should have ignored his brother and just made a new one. But no…He had to be an idiot. He had to let his pride be wounded. He just had to prove that he was an adult.

And now here Sonic was, crouched precariously on the edge of a glacier, the ledge just barely wide enough to provide footholds for his boot heels, staring down with petrified emerald eyes at the frigid artic waters miles below while the beast above sniffed about for him, seeking to finish him off. He squeezed his eyes shut, blood roaring in his ears, when the ice cracked with the telltale pressure of footfall just above him, and prayed to whatever was listening for it to be a swift end.

“Sonic!”

“Shadow?” Green eyes popped wide and shot upward to find his eldest brother peering over the edge of the cliff with both relieved and worried garnet eyes.

Only one of those Sonic was able to reciprocate as Shadow settled on his belly and stretched a hand down towards him. “Shadow, no!” Sonic gasped.

“Don’t be an idiot, grab on!” Shadow commanded. When Sonic didn’t move, merely stared at Shadow in terror, the black and scarlet striped hedgehog snarled. “Sonic, we don’t have time for this, come on!” The ice cracked ominously beneath the blue hedgehog’s boots, simultaneously raising Shadow’s blood pressure.

“Y-You gotta get out of here!”

“What are you-?” Shadow’s ears pricked in confusion, brow furrowing as his younger brother continued to quiver in panic instead of reaching to take his hand to safety.

“The bear! Behind you!” Sonic’s shout of warning could barely be heard about the ear-splitting roar above Shadow’s head, and the eldest hedgehog whipped onto his back.

Towering on its hind legs above Shadow was a gigantic grizzly bear. Not a Mobian, an actual grizzly bear, spitting and snarling with glinting razor-sharp fangs and claws. Claws that were raised high to deliver a fatal swipe…

If not for the rock slamming into its large brown muzzle. “Hey, bear, over here!” Silver bellowed, throwing another stone at the bear’s head with insurmountable accuracy. The albino hedgehog brandished his spear and narrowed his golden eyes, slowly and steadily backing away. “Come on, bear, come this way!” The bear snarled and dropped onto all fours but did as Silver goaded and gave chase.

Shadow hurriedly spun back onto his stomach and reached for Sonic, who—this time—didn’t hesitate to accept his eldest brother’s help. Sonic’s boots struggled to gain footholds on the ice, but the blue hedgehog managed to crawl back over the ledge with Shadow pulling strong and firm on his wrists. The two of them wasted no time, Shadow grabbing his spear and the two racing farther out onto the glacier after their brother and the bear.

Silver ducked and dodged the bear’s lunges and swipes, but such evasions became exceedingly trickier on the ice, and one swing of the bear’s claws had Silver sliding down the ice and falling into a large crevice. At the last moment, Silver spun his spear and managed to pierce both ends in the opposite borders of the crack, and he dangled above the deep abyss of the glacier’s interior.  

“Silver!” Sonic skidded on his knees to the crevice his brother disappeared into while Shadow kept the bear busy with his spear. Silver’s spear cracked under his grip, and Sonic clasped his fingers around Silver’s arm just as it snapped in two. “Hang on!”

“No arguments here!” Silver howled and gripped Sonic’s hands tight in his fists, golden eyes wide with terror. Sonic groaned and heaved Silver up, but every time he pulled, the ice acted against him, causing his knees and feet to slide under him.

Shadow stabbed at the bear, but his attention was divided; his garnet eyes focusing on his two brothers instead of the advancing beast. The bear roared and struck; the air left Shadow’s lungs in a rush as agony exploded across his chest; the ice of the glacier freezing against his back even through his coat. Inspection of his chest left his glove sticky and red, though the bear ignored him and lumbered away. Shadow forced himself to his knees and panted, watching with mounting horror as the monster stalked closer to his little brothers.

No. Not while he breathed. Shadow gripped his spear tight in his fist and noticed the thick cracks all along the glacier ledge, starting at his crouched position...and ending just inches away from Sonic and Silver…directly under the bear.

“Not while I breathe.” Shadow hissed. With a roar, Shadow stabbed the spear tip through the crack in the ice and yanked.  

CRRRAAACKKKK!

The bear froze, petrified for the very first time since this all began. Sonic and Silver—now finally out of the hole, thank Gaia—gaped as the ice began to split and sink. “Shadow!” Silver screamed.

“Shadow, ru-!” Sonic bellowed…but the warning came too late.

It wouldn’t have mattered.

Shadow tightened his grip on the spear, his garnet eyes firm but sorrowful and focused on his petrified brothers, and the barest hint of a smile crossed his tan muzzle as he vanished in the falling torrent of snow and ice. The bear attempted to flee to safety, jumping from one sheet of plunging ice to another and scrabbling its claws on the firm ledge with roars of terror and anguish, before finally disappearing with Shadow into the depths below.

“Shadow!” Sonic and Silver rushed to the edge of the glacier, but nothing could be seen but the frothy churning waters and the chunks of ice that had once been part of the glacier.

The two brothers wasted no time. They scurried down the cliffs and bolted for the banks of the sea, but in the race, nothing else but boulders of sheer ice had resurfaced in the water.

There was no sign of their eldest brother. The two hedgehogs paid no mind to the freezing temperature of the water as they bolted inside. “Shadow! Shadow!”

But there was no answer. A lonely spear point, broken midway down, floated in the water. The fur-lined hood of a familiar winter coat drifted along with the current to shore. “No…” Silver clutched the hood to his chest, tears stinging his eyes. “No, no, no, please Gaia, no-,”  

“Silver!” Sonic splashed through the water towards him, emerald eyes frantic. “Silver, have you seen-?!” Sonic froze as his baby brother sniffled, golden eyes ruddy and cheeks soaked, and his eyes fell to the hood gripped tight in his hands. “Oh, gods.” Sonic choked out. Silver buried his face in the soaked fur of the hood, violently shaking even as Sonic’s arms wrapped tight around him and tugged him against a heaving chest.

Although Shadow’s body was never recovered, the noble sacrifice he performed that day was never forgotten. Recounted endlessly through the ages as a legend of ultimate courage and steadfast love, a story of a hedgehog who became a hero…by being a brother.

For @e-vay, for inspiring me with all her awesome Sonic art.

[spectrophobiia]

my sleep-deprived brain is a p l a c e

*beginning of firework by katy perry* dO yOu EvEr FeEl LiKe A-

*random screaming intensifies*

i need to go to sleep