#when life treated you well

[istartedwritingagain]

when life felt good

..and then suddenly you're back in your bright pink crocs and chino shorts, standing on the porch of the resort your parents took you to for summer. You can hear the crickets in the dark lawns singing. You can see the soft glow of the lamps onto garden path. The air has cooled down and you can here the horn of the train blare from a distance. These were the few days you could genuinely enjoy without watching any TV, something that would have been quite an achievement for an 8 year old like you. You don't remember the trip way too vividly but you could see the lamps at the hotel restaurant, the cabbage field trip and ziplining at another. You could hear insects you could have never seen back at home. Fireflies glow against your window at night, as you try to catch them in the jar, only to be leaving them a couple minutes later because you wouldn't want to be treated that way. You knew that there was going to be a magic show in the hotel lawn at 7 pm, but what you didn't know was that it was arranged for by your parents. You remember the trip you took with your father down the market lane to look for the perfect gift for your sibling. You remember the ballpark and chasing the rabbits and the costume you begged to put on for a few pictures. You remember the barbie you cried for, and the kid who pushed you off the baby slide at the airport. You remember counting the trains visible from your hotel room for hours on end. You didn't have any homework to worry about, or counting the percentage you'll require to pass the grade. You remember the late night disney movies your parents wouldn't approve of. You remember having mangoes out of the crate when you'd cover every inch of your ancient home to have the Air condition on. You remember everything that's when life treated you fair, when life treated you well.

[triglycercule]

horrortale waterfall game broke me sorry (hey just like horror!)

[owlheartt]

Something I really like about timebomb is that Ekko actually knows what he's getting into.

I'm not really seeing it get talked about but in season 1 they mention that Ekko and the firelights help people addicted to shimmer get off it and lead more fulfilling lives within the community. I should probably rewatch the scene for the exact wording (might be misremembering tbh) but that comment implies A LOT.

First: Ekko's mission is helping people where he can, he would probably try and help Jinx even if he wasn't in love with her

Second: He has experience dealing with severe mental illness as that often goes hand in hand with drug abuse, namely depression/suicidal ideation like what Jinx was exhibiting

Third: He's probably mapped out best course of action FOR dealing with this and has already figured out his own limits/boundaries. Meaning he knew what he was getting into trying to talk Jinx out of suicide, and was thus more equipped to deal with the aftermath

Fourth: He's probably helped ex members of Silco's gang. The firelights seem to have a theme of healing and repairing and recovering, so they've probably also learned to forgive. If they're mission is to rebuild the lanes into a safe space, they can't exclude people they don't like, they have to make room for them. I think they fought Silco out of necessity, and I doubt Jinx would be the first person they help who's killed one of them.

These all might be a bit of a stretch but I think it really fits. Beyond that, it shows that Ekko can ACTUALLY help Jinx. As much as unconditional love can do, Ekko has the tools for Jinx's recovery and a path ready for her. He also probably knows that her "healthy" will look different from AU Powder's "healthy." On top of that, I expect he knows how to respect her even in the middle of psychotic breaks and won't agitate her already frail mental state

[halfbaked00q]

Im soooo weak to when Bond is like casually being used or exploited at his expense for some ostensible Greater Good except the situation doesn't HAVE to come to that, not really, and he's so inured and even numb to it that he barely pays it any mind; meanwhile, Q absolutely minds and is very indignant on his behalf and works overtime to like either try to avert or forestall the situation before it gets to the point where Bond has to dig his own claws into more of his soft underbelly to offer up on the sacrificial alter of politics of all tawdry things, or to manufacture a way in which he does the needless "needful" so as to spare Bond at least one unnecessary additional wound upon his psyche.

bonus if Bond finds out and maybe after being angry or indignant about it - I don't need you to do my job for me, Q, this is what I'm here to do - and either Q tells him/lets slip or he deduces that like, this isn't Q thinking he can't get the job done, this is Q finding him precious and worthy of protecting, and like. he's just very in awe of that and does in fact feel very safe and cherished within the cradle of his Quartermaster's regard

[suosgirl]

your honor, I love him ♡

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WIND BREAKER: Special Comic (Bonus from BD & DVD Vol.1) English Translation

[buubonita]

I see Past/Passive Nightmare defending himself at least once from the constant harassment and the villagers using this as an excuse to further spread the idea that he is bad and turn Dream against him at some point.

[deus-ex-messina]

[lord-squiggletits]

Saw someone say "Megatron and Optimus barely interact in IDW1" and that feels like a very has-only-read-MTMTE thing to say kskdodndd because like sure they didn't co-star in the same long running series for 50+ issues like other characters did (like MTMTE characters interacting with each other or exRID or WB/TAAO) but to say they BARELY interact??? They interact a lot both in superficial "blah we're fighting a war" ways and in super lore important moments/series and also in incredibly homosexual there-is-no-straight-explanation-for-this moments like

Off the top of my head these are some series/storylines/issues where they interact directly. Defining interaction as anything from "the whole story is about them" to "their interaction is a plot element but not necessarily the main focus" to "they interact but only for a few lines":

The Autocracy trilogy (Autocracy, Monstrosity, Primacy)

Stormbringer

All Hail Megatron

The Transformers ongoing 2009 (with emphasis on Chaos Theory and Police Action for the most gay moments)

That one issue where Megatron grabs OP's spark through his chest Mortal Kombat style

Dark Cybertron

MTMTE (past OP in Elegant Chaos, Functionist Universe OP, and current day OP during Dark Cybetron and Megatron's trial)

And then there's other times where IDW1 Megatron and Optimus aren't in front of each other interacting/speaking with each other but are still thinking of each other:

The prelude to Dying of the Light where OP hears the LL distress signal and is afraid (not explicitly for Megatron but like he put Megatron on that ship)

MTMTE, Megatron tells Ravage that something he said to Optimus was the turning point of how he viewed himself

MTMTE again, Megatron all but says aloud that he made Tarn into Tarn to spite Optimus

One of the GI Joe crossovers where Optimus symathizes with a Joe over what it feels like 'to believe in someone who everyone else sees as past redemption' while an image of Megatron is literally behind him in his thoughts

So like, IDW MegOP has plenty of canon interactions and even if not all of them are very long moments (i.e. are only a few lines alluding to each other) there's still plenty of interactions between them. Plus I would say that it's pretty powerful how even the small, blink-and-you-miss-it dialogue moments actually indicate that Megatron and Optimus view each other as focal points where different decisions/beliefs they had revolved in some way around the other person. I think it's cool and compelling that IDW Megatron and Optimus express so often (even if only in thought) that the other person shaped who they became, or THEY did something specifically in reaction/spite towards the other, or where something they did to the other troubles them and lingers in their minds.

[mistyscenter]

I love that this fandom doesn't understand Baxter's character, I adore how they patronize him,a whole ass adult, for facing the consequences of his actions.

I love how people make him feel like a sad little baby when he leaves mc as if that's not something he made extremely clear. I love how people treat this 19 year old as if he's not old enough to understand the consequences of his actions. I love how Baxter is aware of his flaw's but feels like he can't break them because people only see him as a tool and this fandom reinforces that.

I love how people will get mad at Nico for doing the cardinal crime of being 6 years old but will baby a 24 year old Baxter. I love how people make him this charismatic rich guy when it's shown that he's a hot mess that doesn't know what he wants. I love that Baxter's whole character arc is about his self sabotaging tendencies and how everyone ignores that. I love that people fell in love with the mask he had for most of the dlc.

I love that this fandom lacks reading comprehension skills and understanding of nuance characters, great job everyone for not understanding how writing works :)

[staarry-skies]

i want u all to know this changed my life and im going to be crying about this for the foreseeable future.

[bloodyrook]

I hate the lis fandom actually its so misogynistic if a woman can in any way be precieved as competition or a threat to a ship she's a demon. This is about rachel amber and cassidy jones who get so much hate when one of them is dead and the other is objectively the better romance just not the gay one.

You can argue with the wall cassidy is better than finn solely because she does not agree with using your 9 yr old brother in a heist the second she finds out he has powers in fact the idea of using a child like that actively enrages her. And anything bad you could say about her also applies to finn but he's got child endangerment on his list as well. Btw neither finn or cassidy are in their 20s they are canonically described as teenagers in game, finn is probably older than cassidy but 19 at most. Hate on their dreads by all means, i do and i wish they didn't have them, but they are teens.

In regards to rachel the way some of you talk about a girl who was groomed and murdered makes me genuinely ill.

[deoidesign]

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[novathesheltie]

[seagull-scribbles]

Happy Fathers Day to this mutated rat and whatever he has going on 💕

[mudstoneabyss]

actually. the specific phrasing that boy Kevin wants to kill older Kevin with "I must disassemble him, piece by piece, so that everything inside of the Old Kevin comes out. Only then can the New Kevin truly begin." is so incredibly the idea that to heal from trauma and "improve" you have to destroy every "wrong" part of yourself, that everything "tainted" by it has to somehow be replaced by something untouched (which isn't possible)