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bro we're so fucked they just integrated a ticking clock into the background music

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“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.

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was talking to a coworker and realised i could not for the life of me remember his name but i was too embarrassed to ask because we've spoken multiple times so mid-conversation i started concocting a plan to nudge the conversation towards the ID photos on our building passes so that i could be like oh my ID photo is awful haha the camera they use to take these has a real talent for making me look as unphotogenic as possible and then he would say oh yes me too haha everyone says that (because they do) and then i would be able to say well let me see yours it can't be as bad as mine! and he would show me his ID because we are coworkers and why wouldn't he and this would allow me to see his building pass which of course would have his name on it and then i would be able to say well yours is perfectly nice it must be me that's the problem! and then we would have a polite chuckle about it and i would have his name without needing to ask for it and he would be none the wiser and all would be well but then before i could execute this fine plan a little voice in my head went "so this is some light yagami bull shit you are about to pull" which was such a violent reality check it shocked me completely out of my embarrassment and i went "hey im so sorry your name has slipped my mind could you remind me" and he did and it was fine.

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some of my favorite mutuals post entirely about things that i do not understand or care about and our dms are barren like a desert. and yet the warmth of that big hot sun remains between us

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Static | FLAVOR FOLEY (Vane, Jamie Paige, & rice) feat. Hatsune Miku

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it's kinda difficult to talk about "cozy games" because that's an aesthetic and not a genre so its very broad, is it cozy to de clutter an apartment or go on a hike, is it cozy to be action packed or melodramatic or blithely unconfrontational, etc. but I think it's accurate to say that coziness is one of many shorthands that have been developed as an attempt to opt out of ideology, be about nothing. of course with a game made to evoke comfort comes a proclamation of what the author's society considers comfy

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rip dale cooper you would have loved yapping on a bluetooth earpiece. facetiming diane. using the thumbs up emoji.

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I'll probably watch that kpop de.mon hunters movie at some point but couldn't have they have come up with a more creative name for it.. it just sounds kinda lame

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Love Character A calling Character B by a name they never use, fueled by emotion - whatever that emotion may be. Calling them by a nickname when they've always used the full name, to help them feel comforted or at ease. Vice versa, angry or panicked full naming makes it clear how serious this is. Characters who always refer to each other by last names getting close enough to be on a first name basis. Revealing they consider the other a parental figure by using a parental term for the first time. Revealing they know the hero or villain's identity by using their civilian name. Any of it, all of it

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It's a bit silly that when you do art for a living, people think you don't do emotional labor, but man, I've drawn for a guy who was planning to gift his gf an anniversary gift and she passed away in the middle of me drawing it for them, I've drawn for a woman who wanted me to draw her daughters oc and she randomly dropped "It's my last gift for her because I've been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor". I've drawn rabbits, cats and dogs as memorial pieces for people and their beloved pete, I've drawn dnd group shots for sessions that lasted years that ended because the dm died. I don't know. It feels so, immense to be a part of people's lives like this. I have cried so many times because people were cruel to me over commissions, but I have cried harder because people were kind to me. I wonder if the art helped. Even a little. I hope it did.

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i need to catch up on

wha (10ish chapters?)

on and off work/life (prob only have 3 chapters at most that's easy)

hgsn (2-3 vol)

csm (50+ ch...)

nsotf (10 ch)

cherry magic (i THINK there is one english vol i havent read but i need to check)

also finishing shonen note (2 vol), after that one I'll probably start something else

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The Summer Hikaru Died is like. what if you believed you were a disgusting monster for being gay. but then you meet a real monster, and over time you start to believe that even this monster deserves to be safe and happy, and it's the first time you start allowing yourself to believe that maybe you do too. what if I cried one million tears forever

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by laurilohi

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For Better and For Worse

Midou Torao

Midou Torao had another woman on his arm again. No surprise there. A different woman than the night before, all big brown eyes and soft wavy hair. Smart enough to find herself in his company, and not smart enough to realize she didn't want to be there.

He smiled at her, and it was the smile of someone who'd practiced every day in the mirror since he'd turned six.

She smiled back, and honestly, it fit her face just as well as it did his.

She dragged a finger up his arm. Coy was not a good look on her, but she played it anyway. "This is such an interesting scar. Where did you get it?"

Sharks smiled with fewer teeth than Midou Torao. "A couple years back, I walked in on a man mugging a woman. Of course I couldn't just leave her there. When I stepped in to help her, the guy pulled a knife on me. He managed to swipe me with it before I got it away from him."

Liar.

Midou Torao acquired that scar at the cheerful young age of 11 — though if you could ever convince him to tell you the real story, he'll claim he was 6. He thinks it makes it less embarrassing if he was younger. He's right.

Midou Torao was 11 years old, and like every boy his age and younger, he was a big fan of sentai anime. Midou Torao also got everything he asked for.

Picture, if you will, our young wannabe-hero. He's holding the brand-new action figure (it's an action figure, not a doll, he would tell you) of his very favorite character. Across the room, the theme song for his very favorite anime (home to his very favorite character) begins to play. Midou Torao, age 11, is overcome with excitement, and runs towards the television.

He trips.

He falls.

He lands directly on his new action figure.

The toy breaks. His skin breaks with it. Shiny red of a different shade stains the toy.

There were tears. There was snot. There was a trip to the hospital and seven stitches to seal the wound closed. The doctor called him brave, and young Midou Torao had preened despite his watery cheeks.

Cut to the present, and the girl stroking Midou Torao's arm.

"Wow," she said. Her eyes were doe-wide and shining. They'd look innocent if she were capable of such a thing. Instead she just looked coquettish. "You're so brave."

"I know." Hook, line, and sinker. "What do you say I buy you another drink?"

She went with him, of course. Midou Torao always got what he wanted.

[Ao3] | [Masterlist]

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"Oh you like [x character] a lot!! What's their lore/your favorite thing about them/other questions to ramble about your fav? :)"

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$20 used to mean something

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it's called one william dollars because it's. bills:)