#we are okay 🫶🏻

[neverbeforeandneversince]

today is going to be a good day ✨ i’m manifesting it 💛 no anxiety 🫶🏻 no depression 🌻 no ocd thoughts/compulsions 🌼 only contentment and rational thoughts today 🍋 i’m manifesting it

[leolaroot]

tshirt that says i enjoy overdramatic and slightly silly science fiction but sincerity is a must at all times.

[eeblouissant]

agh agh okay … i know I’m supposed to be on a break (and I have been! And enjoying it at that) but this little moment !!!!! I needed somewhere to scream about it quick because !!!!!!!!!! Do !!!! You see!!!!!! Dorothy’s face !!!!!!!!!!!

[where-is-the-angst]

yall help

[wikitpowers]

sorry but if people are really out here complaining that we aren’t getting a kitty or malec story…

like we are literally away to get a whole series of kitty together and it will be better than we ever imagined (and malec are gonna be cute & domestic in tec)

let’s just enjoy what we’re getting bc idk about ya’ll but i’m so freaking chuffed :]

[jotadoul]

this is nothing, i'm just wishcasting! okay!

in my wildest fantasies/emergent fanfiction, Folken's name would be the Irish folcán— a diminutive version of flood/downpour— or folcánta— ocean waves/creatures of the sea rushing with great force. i'll happily take the Turkish name furkan— from Arabic فُرقَان, adopted from the surāh of the same name which says "there is no sin, however great, that cannot be forgiven if sincerely repented, showing faith and working with righteous deeds."

etymologically,

The term furqan is etymologically derived from the root “faraqa” meaning differentiation and discrimination of two things to the extent they are rendered separable (Farahidi 1988, 2:47). It also refers to the separation of two words or two persons from one another (Fayumi 1993, 2:470).

The root “faraqa” means separation and isolation, and at the same time, it is also close in meaning to “falaq” meaning cleavage. So, “faraqa” basically means separation and “falaqa” basically means splitting. This same purport has also been used in the holy Quran by the praised God (Quran 44:4) (Raghib al-Isfahani 1991, 632). Notwithstanding, it should be noted that the word "furqan" is more articulate than "faraqa" (Hosseini Zabidi 1993, 13:391). Originally, furqan is an infinitive term meaning "to differentiate”; then it was used with the meaning of “fariq” (agent noun or participial adjective), in the way that everything that distinguishes right and wrong is called “furqan.”

Even morning is referred to as furqan, because it tears apart darkness (Ibn Faris 1983, 4:494).

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that feels thematically on point, i'll say. plus, in Japanese his name is written (and pronounced) with the o sound, something like [ɸo̞] which imo rules out any possibility of something like falcon or how volcano* is pronounced in American English. (o̞ is the mid-back rounded vowel. to my ear, it sounds like his name has a fairly small range of pronunciation between /ə/ /ʊ/ and /o:/)

* I won't rule out a connection to vulcan, that makes sense phonetically, but i don't see a big connection theme-wise. he seems like more of a Prometheus, lol.

i know Escaflowne is a mishmash and a fantasy. i just like can't have these Nepali/whatever boys be German. it's no offense whatsoever to Germans and ofc you can be Asian with a German name, obviously, it would be absolutely insane for me to claim otherwise lol, i really don't want to be taken in bad faith here. i just don't know why he, in Thee Vision of Escaflowne, would. he's wearing emperor clothes, he's. a dragon., he lived in what is pretty much literally Potala palace, everywhere is influenced by the Timurid... their dad is brown... and Balgus Ganesha is there, lmao... idk 😒 like i've said before, i think they realised it was a weird move because in the film it's a name he adopts for war. and iirc, surnames don't appear in the film? with warring clans instead of toponyms/patronyms, they don't refer to one another with surnames and i don't think they're in the credits or in the film artbooks. only on wikipedia. am i wrong? i'm flagrantly bullshitting here: Allen has an undeniably Persian or Arabic surname that matches his 1001 Nights mech, so why can't Folken have the same but as a first name. if they're foils, it should be allowed 🙂‍↕️

wait

OK

in specifically OTTOMAN Turkish (which would be quite time period/location appropriate for Escaflowne!) the word fulgān/fulqān translates to "dell; a small valley surrounded by trees." oh.......... you mean like where he LIIIIIIIVEDDDDD????!!!!???!!!??!!?? and van's name hypothetically associated with lush green forests? PLEASE. LORD.

[kathrynmjaneway]

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[a-s-levynn]

I'm sending you a hug...a big one🩷

Bless you anon whomever you are, thank you, truly 🫶🏻

[biillys]

insane that billy hargrove and mickey milkovich are basically the same character with the same tropes just in a different setting on a different show and yet mickey's fucking beloved and cared for and more or less treated with respect and then u have billy who's just shat on and ripped to shreds by the larger fandom as a whole. like u breath billy's name and ur blocked cancelled and killed in literally a second. the fucks up with that

[emmyrosee]

Probs not as bad as urs but I’m going through it also with projects due and tests to study for all while being sick but just a reminder that I love u and ur an amazing writer and we will get through it together 🫶

-Saniii⭐️

BABY ALL STRUGGLES ARE VALID, DONT THINK MINE ARE WORSE THAN YOURS OMG (but from the sounds of it, yours are worse than mine holy crap you’re a strong as damn I HATE being sick it’s like. My nightmare smh)

Your words mean SO much, and I’m so lucky to have you in my little corner of the internet. We are going to get through this, I believe in us 🩷

[chryzuree]

um um um jacks asks… my mind is blanking… TAKE THIS AS A FREE PASS TO SHARE WHATEVER THOUGHTS YOU HAVE ABOUT HIM RIGHT NOW <3 also just know i am delivering a small electric shock to him for every year he’s been alive. so. we’re gonna be here a while

jacks has been found twitching in a corner, blood coming frm his mouth…. truly don’t know what could’ve befallen him…. ANYWAY, i’ve been thinking abt my chrysijacks mermaid au sooooo much because like UGH. they hold hands like otters so they don’t drift away from each other in the current…. also jacks abandons chrysi at the worst time ever and she winds up captured and out in an aquarium like a little museum exhibit ☹️

mostly jst thinking abt playful child mermaids chrysijacks where they watch humans while hiding and hunt for the prettiest (or the ugliest!) seashells and they swim in underwater caves while they explore… UGH.

and THEN jacks LEAVES HER. he finds out a way to become human & he DITCHES HER. because of his curiosity or whatever (partly because of a pretty human he saw, WHICH BTW, I PERSONALLY WOULD NEVER LEAVE CHRYSI SOLSTICE FOR ANOTHER GIRL. she’s so pretty i’d throw up… jacks FUMBLED.) he promised he’d be back, but he’s not…. he doesn’t come back :((((

but mermaids live longer than humans, so he jst is kinda. there. in the human world, trying to deal w the passage of time being different for him than for everyone else. it’s hard. but he doesn’t consider going back home to his hot childhood best friend girlfriend, so he jst SUFFERS. and also dates his way through lots of other girls. sigh.

then on a date he goes to an aquarium w his then-gf (or whatever you call a girlfriend in a fantasy world… yk what i mean) and there’s a new exhibit!……. oh. uh. a mermaid exhibit. okay. that’s—no, it’s fine, it’s not weird, why would it be weird?? jacks is a human, so it’s totally fine🥲🥲

but the mermaid doesn’t come out for the show, so she has to be prodded and coaxed out. & then jacks sees that it’s chrysi and he’s going to scream. that’s his best friend! it’s been so many years! she looks so different! and she’s TRAPPED now, and he’s abandoned her, and she looks him in the eye and doesn’t even seem to recognize him…. until she does, and then jacks thinks that he liked it more when she didn’t recognize him…

in the end, he doesn’t even get to be the one to save chrysi 💀💀 it’s azure that does… pretty boy photographer, there to save the day!!!

mostly the au is jst a collection of seven scenes, spit, glue, a prayer, and vibes, but i’ve been thinking abt it… abt jacks’s jealousy of chryzure romance, and his fuckups that have ruined his whole life, and chrysijacks’s pretty mermaid tails 🫶🏻 also jacks turning back into a mermaid (refuse to use the word merman for him……. he’s the prettiest maid in the whole entire world!!!) & chrysijacks being able to sleep while holding hands again 🥺 azure is still there, but he knows that jacks gets separation anxiety, so he endures jacks being in his&chrysi’s bed…

[mothergold]

everyone come look at the beautiful commission @sluggybunny did of me and the boyfie 🥹🫶🏻 i love it sm, thank you, friend 🫶🏻

reblogs are okay, but please do not save, steal, or repost or i will find you and eat you!!!

[rome-roy]

here’s a little push for you to do something you really want to today. something as small as buying a special snack because you just fancy it, a pretty item of clothing you see, something silly and impulsive and just for you or something as big as a life changing decision, accepting/applying for that dream job, telling someone how you feel, leaving something that no longer serves you. Just do something today, or work up to it in the next few.

I just found out my neighbour passed away. We weren’t close, didn’t know her particularly well. But, you know, you would exchange a kind word or a smile if you ran into her, send a card on Christmas. Just the other day she was out in her garden, meticulously kept so neat, pottering about. Every hot day we’ve had of late there’s been clothes on the line. She was old, but she didn’t seem that old. And she appeared to be well and busy. So it’s such a weird thing to comprehend. But death just happens. Just like that. And there’s been so much death in the news of late. But life just goes on. It’s a funny thing.

So yes. Do something! Be happy if you can, do something for yourself and enjoy it, even if it’s small.

[satanssquidgy]

Sorry i didnt gif last night ! Actually the craziest thing happened and i was honestly too shook up to do much yesterday lol tw car crash description in the tags

[digitaldiseas3]

i fucking love fags

[sunlightfeeling]

My momma and pop-pop took me out to dinner and drinks and im so

✌️🤪