#until like last month or something

[nekrosmos]

Ragablaga I'ma be that guy (maybe)

Char ask game cause I'm in a mood and dirty bastard man Graves

1.2.3.4.12.20.25

No pressure 🙏

LET'S GOOOOO oh I am so happy you sent so many questions for Graves !!! He's my wife <3

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

I like how much of a high energy yapper he is. I think he's just a REALLY fun character overall, great voice acting, great character arc, funny banters and idk I'm just obsessed with him. I don't really dislike anything about him, he's an asshole and I like that for him :3c

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

I love a morally ambiguous asshole and he sure is one <3 His betrayal makes him so interesting to me. There's a nice little theme of him betraying the 141 while in the end staying truly loyal to Shepherd, while he himself inspires loyalty to his Shadows.

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

I love his rivalry with Soap and Ghost post betrayal but that fucker was getting along so well with them, especially Soap. Could have had a great bromance Phil.

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

Just a general fantasy AU with him is really fun. Him being a warrior at the head of a group of mercenaries, idk, I like the vibe, and I like to think about it when I ship him with my OC.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

I hc that he came from a wealthy but very religious family who did not like how flamboyant he was growing up. He pretty much left home as soon as he possibly could and joined the army right away so he could get away and prove to them and himself that he was stronger than they thought. He got popular with his fellow soldiers quickly because of his humor and cheery attitude (and huh, other reasons :3c). When both of his parents died, he inherited the family fortune and that's what he used to create Shadow Company.

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

Soap alas

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

Hated his gut LMAOOOO. Hated his betrayal, hated his attitude, everything. Then I started playing a lot of warzone, specifically plunder, and getting him as the announcer and seeing the cutscene with him over and over again, I started commenting on how fruity he was and how he has a nice ass and stuff and my friend was the unwilling witness of me turning from "hate his guts" to "kind of like him" to "fully fucking obsessed." Then I replayed the game and I was fully sold.

Now he's probably my favorite character in the CoD games, I'm fully invested in my ship between him and my OC and I'm just having a silly little time <3

Have a little screenshot I took and edited

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[amphibianaday]

day 1609

[idontmindifuforgetme]

At some point checking into social media starts to feel like masochism…. Literally flogging my brain every time I try to keep up w people’s lives

[gothichorror01]

誰か、助けてね(^^♪

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[titsthedamnseason]

happy liverpool n1!!! it also just so happens to be THE 100TH SHOW (for real this time) and thanks to taymagic of course it falls on the 13th aka her half birthday. we have no choice but to play the surprise song game for this very special occasion and the rules are simple - just leave your guesses in the tags or replies and all the winners will receive shoutouts from ME! as always, if you predict any shenanigans or outfit changes or announcements etc for tonight you’re more than welcome to include those as well

i’m going to guess foolish one x delicate and mary’s song x timeless because i’m feeling the speak now vault tracks. maybe a mistake to not go idsb but we’ll see!! and for fun i will guess a new rep outfit (🤡)

[b4kuch1n]

one string is all that I need

[welcometogrouchland]

I like to think that when the batfamily inevitably runs out of money and jobless Bruce, Tim, and Dick* find themselves in financial need, Steph reveals that she's made thousands of dollars taking odd jobs around Gotham City that we just never saw bc Steph hasn't been in a comic for months. Nobody checked in on her and while they weren't looking she made 6 grand babysitting and playing piano at a local theatre. Bruce has to grovel for enough money to buff out a scratch on the batmobile and Steph is revelling in it. This is the closest she's ever going to get to being a supervillain

*(Cass and Jason don't need money to survive on account of being homeless as kids + Babs funds Cass' basic needs and Damian is on his mom's payroll, same w/ duke even if it's obvs not al ghul money)

[salemontrial]

Why the FUCK didn't Sasha apologize to Quinni.

[alacants]

ok so i went back and listened to brian vahaly on beyond the baseline in 2017 and tbh highly recommended. really frank and interesting conversation overall. couple moments so awkwardly Straight Dad Trying To Be Cool About It that i laughed aloud but overall wertheim is fine. but the part that i found most interesting, for its self-directed ruthlessness, was this: 

Vahaly: I think in general you'll find a lot of players talk about a feeling of relief, with victory, as opposed to wow, this is an amazing moment... What is there is the feeling of pain of loss. And especially losing to people you're not supposed to lose to. And doing it in a very public forum, in front of friends, family, and your peers. And that loss sits with you all day, it can sit with you, you know—depending on the size of the loss, the size of the choke, it can sit with you for a year. Wertheim: "I have a UVa degree to fall back on." Is that blunting your—I mean, is that a help or a hindrance, when you're out there trying to make it? Vahaly: For me it was a big help because it was able to take the pressure off... I always tried to rely on, "this is not my everything." This is about me going to be the best I can be, to have the most fun I can, and for—you know, you're always trying to find what that lie is you need to tell yourself, to enable you to relax in the big moments. Wertheim: I wouldn't say that's— Vahaly: And for some people that's, "I'm the greatest person in the world, I can beat anybody," for other people that's, "This isn't that big of a deal, I have an education I can fall back on." You know, there's always stories you're telling to yourself— Wertheim: I was going to say, stories, uh— Vahaly: —songs you're singing to yourself to— Wertheim: "Narratives" sounds better than "lies."

[shalom-iamcominghome]

The jewish love language really is giving each other book recommendations you think they'd like........

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @zu-is-here 🎉

I'm so happy I had the opportunity to join in a collab for once hhh xD especially when it's something as sweet as a hug bomb for one of the kindest souls I ever interacted with online waa have a great day zuuu >:'Dc <3333

[almalex24]

yaayyyyyyyyy

[waywardstation]

WIP FRIDAY

I apologize for getting this out two days late, I’ve been busy with lots of packing and events! But I have a little reprieve, so I wanted to post another WIP; this one is from Heart Full, Bowl Empty.

BE AWARE THAT THIS SEGMENT INVOLVES A CONVERSATION REVOLVING AROUND UNWILLING BUT INTENTIONAL STARVATION. I know there are people who say they can’t read this fic because of themes like this, so be aware of this before reading this WIP!!

I included this snippet in today’s WIP because I have like three versions of the entire segment this snippet is from. I feel like it’s a really important segment with a really important conversation, and I’ve had a hard time balancing all the emotions the way I want to between Ingo and Akari, with frustration, sadness, anger, and empathy, to realistically get them to the resolution I want at the end of it.

The final version will probably only include a few parts from this particular segment.

Enjoy!!

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“I knew it! You’re doing it again!” Akari’s eyebrows scrunched, trying to understand through the frustration. “You said you wouldn’t!”

“Circumstances will improve soon.” Clearly done with the conversation, that was all Ingo said, but it was confession enough that he had fallen back on his word. Shame contaminated his voice, but if there was any regret, he hid it well.

“No, it won’t!” They were not even half-way through winter yet. “And you know it won’t!”

Ingo said nothing as the kits carefully moved around his slumped form, finding comfortable places to settle around him. She didn’t know if he intended to snuff the conversation out with angered silence, or if he was just too exhausted to care about arguing with her anymore. If it wasn’t for his small occasional signs of movement or acknowledgement, she’d think he was actually sleeping.

Akari carefully stepped into the nesting layers, moving to sit down next to Ingo. She settled with her back against the cavern wall, pulling her knees close as a few kits shuffled around to accommodate her. “You know I’m right.”

Huffing out an irritated sigh and nothing more, it didn’t seem like Ingo had any intentions to engage with her argument anymore.

“You couldn’t even pull yourself up over the ridge,” She prodded at him again, trying to motivate more conversation out of him. “I had to help you!”

“There are many, many factors that go into that.” A reluctant answer, perhaps a reflexive attempt to quell her worry; Ingo feebly rubbed his wrapped hand, almost as a display for his excuse.

“I’ve seen you do more when you’ve been hurt worse.” Akari retorted, a little softer now but still cold.

Ingo’s eyes remained closed, though his hardened expression implied that it came across as more accusatory than she’d intended. But perhaps it was precisely the time to be accusatory.

“Ingo, you’re so tired all the time now – you stopped coming to the training grounds because you just can’t make the trips all the time anymore! And you’re sleeping so much more than you used to, and it’s like you’re always hungry all the time, even though all I see you doing anymore is gathering food!” Akari’s voice grew more jagged as she continued to jab at him, entirely uninterrupted.

It was getting difficult. With Ingo’s tunic still sopping by the bucket, still somewhat red from the exhausted effort of washing out the blood, it could not hide the ribs that pressed out just a little bit more, or help fill out what the waistline had lost under the loosening belt. The abject dread of directly acknowledging that was too much.

“And- and look! You aren’t even willing to hold a conversation with me anymore, and I don’t know if it’s because you just won’t, or because you can’t!” The kits shifted uncomfortably as Akari retreated back into her own frustration instead. “People think you’re sick, Ingo! They’re asking me about you! What are you doing?”

The exhausted man remained where he laid in the nesting material, only moving his hands to rub at his face and sigh — a deep, forced sigh that swelled his side before releasing. Akari almost didn’t think he’d answer her, but with some effort, he propped himself up first onto his elbows, then slumped forward. The teen watched him run shaky fingers through his hair as he sat next to her.

“…I don’t know what I should do.” The guilt. The weary guilt cracked his voice and tore Akari’s anger down to heartache.

[icewindandboringhorror]

boy in silly sitting positions compilation

[danieyells]

Whenever I think of that Ren doesn't like Sho because he thinks he's like a playboy or whatever

Obviously he could be characterising him based on build, dorm placement, and the way he's seen others treat him(Sho is athletic, attracts the attention of women, hangs out with Leo, and was placed in the delinquent house of Vagastrom)

But that he calls hima "burnout" like he personally knows him, which of course leads to the thought that he knew him before they got here, maybe went to school together. Probably saw him play with girls' hearts before. And yet they never stopped fawning over him--and he kept breaking their hearts. Probably even did it to someone Ren liked and thought he had a chance with, or even just a friend.

Or, and the more fun thought for me personally, Ren totally had the hots for Sho and Sho broke his heart after making him feel like he had a chance.

(And when he first saw him with Leo online years later he thought it wouldn't last but they're still going strong and Leo even treats him worse and he thinks Sho deserves it but they mesh so well together it pisses him off--)

[fictionadventurer]

Potential December Reads

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Volume 8 by Beth Brower

Prudence and the Romantic Poet by Nina Clare

A Christmas-related book

The Cricket on the Hearth and/or The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens

The Christmas Blossoms by Priscilla Smith McCaffrey

One of the American Girl books

A religious book

Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine by Pope Benedict XVI

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton

Arriving at Amen: Seven Catholic Prayers Even I Can Pray by Leah Libresco

A middle-grade book

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling

The Happy Prince and Other Stories Oscar Wilde

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

Mandy by Julie Andrews