#bite down or let go

[sergeifyodorov]

He didn’t know what he was doing when he first moved here, a boy with a half-healed knee and obscene amounts of money he’d earned from an ex-passion, with no current passions to spend it on. He would mumble that the frontier called him when he was asked why the hell he was driving a shop-clean truck up and down the Parks over and over; he’d get laughed off, called McCandless after the kid who died and got written about like a hero in that Outside article. Eventually he’d stumbled into a kennel in Talkeetna and been given real work. Learned how not to act like such a fucking idiot outsider all the time. Shoveled dog shit until they let him ride the sled as penance, and then the hot blood of hockey and ice and competition crashed down into him all at once and he needed, needed to do this.

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[b6d11f]

at my best, I'm a sacrificial lamb at my best, I am something you could handle

[theblack-dog]

Ponyboy has won multiple fights for the sole reason that he's not above biting people.

[kbsd]

leckiesledge // "somebody told me"

breaking my back just to know your name but heaven ain't close in a place like this

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt in Memes 6

Let's make it some in-world memes this time :)

[sergeifyodorov]

"At first, it was just the two of them -- Sani and the Soviet, and then one of them made a slash at Theo and there were four, and then everyone. You stand by your teammates, I thought, but I didn’t know if it was right to get into it. A couple of the commies jumped off the bench, went to the rest of the group. I had no choice. I knew what I had to do. Those Soviets were starving, and if we beat them then we would win the gold. I kicked one of them in the shin, felt his leg give out. It was so dark in there I couldn’t see the face of the kid I was fighting, hardly even the reflection off his collar from the scoreboard light. The sound from the crowd was amazing. They were so angry, so shocked. The lights came back on and I’d choked the Soviet kid on his own collar, beat him so hard both of his cheeks had split and half his sweater was wet. I didn’t notice until after they tossed us all that he’d gotten me back.”

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[wanderingibon]

"Every Mourn Watcher must deal with grief in their own way. "

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Video by shesasolarbeing on Insta cause apparently unlike TikTok they don't like putting watermarks for their creators. Go check them out!

Friend sent me this and my first thought was @kianamaiart 's magical girl series. Or rather, AIKA REAL??!?1?!1

[amethystsoda]

don’t lose hope. don’t ever ever forget we have each other 🫂

[coconut530]

BAD “BOYFRIEND”

[lovesickeros]

lord its so dark in here the sahara desert of tsaritsa content you are like a shining oasis. your characterisation of her compels me & mihoyo would be hard pressed to top it imo.!! caaaaan i humbly request yr thoughts on her first meeting w a reader of any kind, or maybe even multiple kinds (sagau, sagau god au, isekai, etc) if you so desire...

it really is like a desert here. being the fan of a character we aren't getting until the last damn nation is driving me up a wall but i will persevere bc if nothing else i support morally bankrupt women in media. we r in a severe drought over here but i do my best. unfortunately nothing i say is ever coherent so pull out your translation notes its abt 2 be messy

also this got out of hand but thats bc first meetings w the tsaritsa are tricky to write + a LOT of her characterization lies in deeper exploration then just surface level yknow...NOT A DIG AT YOU this is just my excuse for rambling. gently pats the tsaritsa she can hold so much complexity i do not have the word count to delve into it completely :]

gonna talk cult au for a bit here though because that's 99% of my content. and honestly? she thrives in sub au's of the cult au like villain au + imposter au. it's basically made for her. i mean, early days, the imposter au had been going around for a little while but one of the first few ideas was the Fatui taking reader in so like. it kinda technically actually was. pretty sure cult au Tsaritsa popped up because of the imposter au. a lot of it's writers kinda left though which. man am i getting old or.

anyway.

there isn't much of a chance her first impression is all that positive. at best it's usually neutral, imo, but rarely if ever positive. specifically because i view the Tsaritsa as someone who isn't as fanatical as most of the acolytes typically are towards the creator. she's not exactly going to worship the ground you walk on unlike a certain geo lizard. which is partially why i think she thrives in the sub au's i mentioned.

imposter au, for example. she meets you at your lowest. there's no gaudy extravagance or pampering from the acolytes waiting for you because your own acolytes have turned on you. for all intents and purposes you aren't a "god" at all. which is why i don't think she meshes well with normal cult au reader. the Fatui are made up of outcasts, basically, and imposter au slots right in just perfectly. you're weak, at your lowest, when you meet the Fatui in the imposter au. and the Fatui can help you, too.

a mutual exchange, really. the Tsaritsa sees a tool she can use to one up the rest of the nations and especially Archons, and she has no qualms about you using her and the Fatui in turn. you both want something out of it, after all. whether you just want to be safe from the rest of the acolytes, or you want revenge, or whatever else..she'll give you the power to fulfill it, and she gains the strongest piece on the chessboard when all is said and done.

the best way i can describe the first meeting is "practical", i suppose. she sees an opportunity in you. the ultimate gamble. because if she "saves" you, and you dont trust anyone else because they tried to kill you, well..she holds all the cards, doesn't she?

but the Tsaritsa, imo, is just as capable of being just as fanatical towards you as anyone else. she just won't worship you as the creator. but as yourself? clawing your way back to your divine power and taking back what belongs to you? the Tsaritsa is, to me, a character who's character flourishes in long-term fics more because she changes a LOT between "just met reader" and after having been with reader for some time. she's practically apathetic at the beginning but a lot of her character, in my characterization, shines through LONG after the first meeting.

[sergeifyodorov]

"A mark of a great player is the ability to see without seeing, to know without knowing. To guess and be right."

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[commandeeznutz]

Randall kissing y/n on the cheek or forehead.... mayb... both platonicly ofc :3

Cuties :3 /p

Sorry I was lazy lol, I’ll try and draw a better one some other time but here’s this chibi one for now anon!ᕙ(`▿´)ᕗ

[buck-up-buck]

7x09 is titled "Unfinished Business" ....

Tell me that is not a revenge plot against Bobby. TELL ME. You can't. If I was not convinced before, I AM NOW.

hErE mE oUt.

I'm not saying they are going to burn down Buck's loft, I AM NOT... BUT, imagine Bobby is dropping a patient off at the hospital with Hen and Chim (I know this hardly ever happens but roll with me guys), and our friend, the Burn Unit Nurse, sees him, and is like...

"Bobby?" BECAUSE, he recognises him, from all those years ago in Minnesota. He lived in Bobby's apartment complex, they were somewhat neighbours, and he saw Bobby go into that vacant apartment that night (the night we do not DARE talk about), on his way to work, and was working a night shift at the hospital when suddenly, they get an influx of patients with burns and smoke inhalation from an apartment fire downtown, and he hears in passing from a nurse the address, and his heart sinks because no his fiance was at home asleep at that address and he hears from someone a few weeks later that the fire started in a vacant room due to an electrical issue with a space heater and HE JUST KNOWS.

And Bobby turns around to face him and is like "Sorry, do I know you?" Because Bobby was going through it back then, he doesn't remember this guy, and the guy is like, "Sorry, no, I was mistaken." And he walks away leaving Bobby all like huh.

Then the episode ends with the truck pulling into the firehouse and the camera pans out and we see BURN UNIT NURSE GUY STOOD ACROSS THE ROAD STARING UP AT THE FIREHOUSE BECAUSE DUN DUN DUN- He has some Unfinished Business to attend to.

If this so happens to lead to the burning down of Buck's loft because this guy does his research and he does some stalking and he sees a connection that Bobby has with Buck that he doesn't seem to share with the other members of the team, then well, ya'll didn't see it here first but I fucking called it if so, because you're telling me that is not a CRAZY storyline right there.

BUT, even if not, even if we do not get our beloved loft burning down scene that we have been writing and praying for on Fanfiction for years, you cannot tell me that there is not going to be some kind of dark revenge plot going on in the last four episodes. This nurse is about to cause some HAVOC I CAN SENSE IT. MY SPIDEY SENSES ARE TINGLING GUYS.

Anyway, @whollyjoly and @thetangycheesemanwithaplan had the absolute joy of hearing this from a very sleep-deprived me last week and now that the episode titles have been released, Buck's loft burning down and Burn Unit Nurses revenge plot is going to be my new personality trait. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.

[kaisollisto]

AND YOU KEEP ON FALLING BABY FIGURE IT OUT

[atechalk]

totally agree with the take that susie wouldn't necessarily be mad at kris for the possession / start a spiral about whether they were really her friend solely for that . it's the working for the knight aspect of everything that's going to set her off