#existential thoughts with me

[minewarz]

Why did the chicken cross the road?

It's a trick question, since the chicken never did cross the road.

He got halfway alright, made it to the little isle separating the two lanes.

But alas, it seemed rush hour had arrived, and an endless stream of cars separated him from where he needed to go.

He waited for a minute. Nothing changed. He looked behind, and to his despair, there too now rushed past car after car.

There were gaps of course. And as he looked to the side, he saw others on scooters, daring to go between.

The chicken, however, knew he would not be fast enough.

And so he remained on his little traffic isle. Under the roaring noises of engines and tires, an impossible amount of time passed.

The chicken realized this was it. This was where he would spend whatever remained of his life. There was a strange peace in accepting that, knowing his final moments would be spent on his little island of calm amidst the storm.

Why did the chicken want to cross the road? Well, to get to the other side, of course. And the other side he reached, just not the road's.

[bruhstation]

*Breaks into your house to stare wistfully out the window* Do you ever think that CTHenry is, at least by some perceptions, a corpse being kept alive by gold dust and the whimsy of a goddess whose motives are unknown? I do. *Puffs on bubble pipe* Anyway. I'm still holding out hope for a happy ending for our Miserable Train Gays. Iram gentlemen. Have a good day 💗

out of sight, out of mind

[wackywatchdotcom]

i think theoretically the idea of caine adding in some sort of pet would be very fun and cute but i cant help but think pomni would be unnerved by it

[opens-up-4-nobody]

It's been a long, strange year...

[tommytomatoe]

i love treasure and how they ran off in the middle of the night with a stranger because they couldn't stand how uneventful their life has become, and how they know their friends were bad but they'd rather go out with people that didn't care about them than stay home in the silence. i love treasure and how they start things but never finish them because they fear of being left with nothing to do. that's why they leave their laundry sitting around for so long, once that's over then what? what happens next? treasure doesn't want to think about and for that i love them.

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Media: Sonic the Hedgehog (Cinematic Universe)

Song: Hellogoodbye - HOKO

I just really like when the bass kicks in on this one.

[medusas-graveyard]

Au where Danny, whose timeline is an alternate version of Dan's timeline. Instead of Vlad, he's taken in by...Bruce Wayne? What the fuck do you mean his uncle is fucking Bruce Wayne???)??????

While Danny is having the existential crisis of his life, Clockwork is giving very specific instructions to Danny's rogues to make sure the boy doesn't sway to the same person Dan was. Of course, he should've known better.

Unsurprisingly, threatening Batman was a bad idea; since now the Justice League is in high alert ever since they found out this entity named 'Phantom' is supposedly the difference between the end of the world and peace.

[chaos-interwoven]

when i read aftg for the first time i was fourteen and the ages of the characters felt like distant dreams i wasn’t sure i’d ever reach. now i am nineteen and share that age with neil and jean and that makes my mind spin. it adds a treacherous weight to their pain to know all they had gone through when they were my age. to put that trauma against the feel of my age in my bones hurts. but more than that it is dizzying to think back on how i read about these traumatized characters when i myself was in a dark place and didn’t know if i would survive it, didn’t know if i would live long enough to share an age with them. and now i am nineteen and getting to read jean’s story while i battle away my own dark days. the thought of it all honestly makes me so so emotional

[burberrycanary]

Damn the Torpedoes (Stucky kidfic AU)

Summary: That spring Steve hears a lot about what’s big in algebraic topology from Mary as she talks a mile a minute in the car passenger seat, across the dinner table, under worn-out beach umbrellas or climbing up him like he’s still her favorite jungle gym though she’s almost too big now. What he gathers mostly is that, in order to classify shapes, mathematicians spend a lot of time trying to distinguish between differences that matter and those that don’t. 

And isn’t that the trick in life, thinks Steve: figuring out what matters.

(Doesn’t help in explaining Bucky, though, but he’s not sure what would.)

—

Or: Steve as the single dad from Gifted and Bucky as the DJ from Monday. Sort of.

Read Chapter 1 on AO3

Many thanks to my betas @village-skeptic​​​​​​​​​​​, @booksandabeer, ​​​​​​@beautifuldiscojolras, @norelationtoatticus and @atomicstaci 🥰

[chaoticke-rambles]

There's something haunting to me about AUs and canon divergence because no matter how happy the ending or satisfying the fix-it, there are some events that are always recreated so that they rhyme with canon. Maybe in this world, the character gets injured saving a loved one instead of failing to do so, or maybe they experience a breakdown that gets them help instead of hurt, but there's something unsettling about the fact that even when we imagine these characters happy, we must also imagine them in pain.

[jumumo]

There's something so sinister about the fact that Katara is shunted away from the story when she should be way more involved in Korra's arc. Korra's seemingly main conflict is her sheltered life with her fiery passion for enacting justice and learning to temper it with diplomacy. Who's an old person in the series that has dealt with injustice, who always took direct action to correct them in any way she can and had moved to a more diplomatic role once there wasn't an active war?

Katara fits so well in Korra's story it's not even funny. Imagine Korra having a mentor from the devastated but resilient Southern Water Tribes that was the THE last water bender at a point and can absolutely do girl talk with? Imagine Korra having a tangible connection to the history of her Tribe. Imagine writing Korra to have connections to the place that was the next most affected by the war. Imagine writing a Korra where that mattered to her character.

The way she was canonically written, she don't really give a damn. And that's heartbreaking. And most likely a blind spot with the writers. Especially when passing down cultural traditions and respecting elders is one the most important things to happen to communities where there were attempts to erase them.

[lethality-of-dual-strike]

(most of) my favorite fop character sketches to take my mind off of the sense of impending doom

[journey-to-the-attic]

ddvd au. the brothers are holding a dinner party and little ik rushes out to greet the guests. "uncle magic!!!" she exclaims, scrabbling at solomon's cloak in particular. "i've got something cool to tell you!!!!!!"

solomon, none the wiser, asks with great affection, "yeah? what's that, sweetheart?"

"i dreamt you DIED," ik announces. "your skin turned into DUST and FELL OFF."

solomon is left to process this in silence as zhaoxi rushes in to usher her away

[your-unfriendlyghost]

“You okay, Joel?”

“ ...and I find myself in a room full of kids taking their College Boards. I'm over three hours late. I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined.” -

Still thinking about Risky Business lol. Let’s just say that with the SATs and all, and my half-baked unrealistic dreams of Ivy League colleges officially going out the window, a lot of his situations are lookin’ pretty relatable at the moment 🥲

ref pics under the cut

[zillychu]

I'm half asleep when I get up from my bed, and sit down next to my ten-year-old self.

"You're an adult. You're not like me." They say.

"I'm still you." I reply with a sadness I wasn't prepared for. "I'm still just like you."

"No," they insist, "you're an authority. An other. Something I don't understand. I don't see myself in you."

"But I see myself in you." I'm desperate, and I don't know why.

"How?"

"You know about infinity, right?" I already know the answer, but I ask anyway.

"Yeah." They look up at me from the scribbles of Pokemon in a math notebook, from the stuffed animals arranged in a town made of blankets. I don't see the life in them anymore, but I remember what it was like to.

"The universe is infinite."

I pick up a stuffed animal. I still have this one, it now sits on a shelf untouched for years. The fabric is still just as soft, just as loved.

"So adults might know more." I say with conviction, surprised it's my own. "But we all carry the same amount of unknowing. We're all just as lost."

My ten-year-old eyes stare at me. I stare back.

"Why is this important to you?" They ask.

"I don't know." I answer truthfully.

"Maybe I'm just still scared of being left behind."

[exiled-md]

I am an absolute idiot. This entire time, I thought Shane's neutral expression was smiling.

THIS is how I saw it, and only when I realized it's literally the :| face did I realize how horribly I've misunderstood him.

FOR THE RECORD, I have always been confused as to why when I first talked to Shane, he was smiling. It didn't fit his "fuck off leave me alone" dialogue but I still saw it that way.

And then, in higher hearts levels, I've always found the "scrutinized like a disgusting insect" line confusing because a.) it was random and b.) he was SMILING. So I took it as an absolutely random dialogue that kept throwing me off a loop because I couldn't understand why he says it. ONLY WHEN I REALIZED HIS EXPRESSION HAD ALWAYS BEEN NEUTRAL DID IT MAKE SENSE. He's OPENING UP to you in that line AND I MISUNDERSTOOD IT because I thought his Eddsworld-ass upper lip was a smile!!!

It's even worse when he LITERALLY HAS A SPRITE dedicated to smiling (WITH SOFTENED EYES MIND YOU), so I have no excuse. I'm literally just a DUMBASS but still let me justify it – his smiling sprite uses the same "shadow" to make an upturn of his lips like his neutral sprite. PLEASE tell me y'all can see it A LITTLE BIT 😭

Anyway, this little mistake shouldn't have that much of an impact on me, right? WRONG. I ALSO JUST REALIZED HOW RARELY HE SMILES. I thought this entire fucking time he was smiling when 90% of his dialogue he uses the White Guy Stare™. This has made me love this man even more when I SHOULD'VE BEEN LOVING HIM THIS MUCH THE ENTIRE TIME I'M JUST BLIND AND WRONG AT SEEING PIXEL ART

Mind you I am at 10 hearts with this guy and have a mermaid pendant in my inventory I'm only keeping because I don't want him to live in a shit house. I should have my Shane fan license revoked for at least 5 business days. I will die of course but I feel as though this is a sin I must repent for