#packing instead of posting

[alive-gh0st]

Hey y’all…

Soooooo I really tried to pull off a surprise drop of multiple pieces at once… but unfortunately life said “no ❤️” and hit me with another round of family crisis, just in time for my upcoming vacation yayyy!

With my flight creeping closer and my mental levels at a personal high, I need to shift my focus to planning, packing, and pretending to be emotionally stable.

So—no uploads for at least a week (possibly more if my schedule stays hellish). If I somehow find a pocket of peace, I will post—but no promises :(

I am genuinely so sorry to those waiting on updates (I see you, I love you, I AM writing—just slower than I’d hoped). That being said, thank you for being patient with me always 💔

See y’all soon! Hopefully with tan lines and new content‼️

(btw I’ll still be around to answer comments and anon asks, so feel free to send stuff in like always—buh bye for now 🫶)

﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌With Love, @alive-gh0st

[sunderwight]

(A venn diagram connecting Byleth Eisner, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Shen Qingqiu. The overlap between Byleth and Obi-Wan says 'mentor/dad tragically died in their arms', the overlap between Byleth and Shen Qingqiu says 'personally knows the creator god', and the overlap between Shen Qingqiu and Obi-Wan says 'has grown a beard'. In the middle is a solid paragraph of text that reads 'awkward 20-something coerced into mentoring the protagonist who they are shipped with but they're actually a natural teacher but they don't know it at first and if they had a time machine they would do so many things differently and also they're magic and sci-fi at the same time and they have a cool sword and-'. End of image description.)

Is this anything, or...?

[lesseraive]

<333333

[ashesforart]

take me up, cast me away

[thensocrates]

火鼠/hinezumi 2025

I really like the new visual im definitely making this my background (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

a bunch of tiny rats in boats,,,

I guess tokita fuki is the main character now ╮⁠(⁠＾⁠▽⁠＾⁠)⁠╭

another mononoke only after a month?? (⁠⊙⁠_⁠◎⁠) kons going nowhere I guess

Idk what "an heir to the throne? Impossible!" could imply but maybe one of them (leaning on fuki) is pregnant and they don't want the child to be the heir to the throne? who knows

maybe the consequences of going into the ooku is zashiki-warishi 2025 version ╮⁠(⁠╯⁠_⁠╰⁠)⁠╭ or it could be something else

also asa is back!! (Edit: to clear some confusion I don't think she's in the trailer but it is shown that she's part of the cast)

also why did the mononoke instagram post pictures of kons hands and feet what is this marketing even

[rozicheeks]

I got a demi-god pack from prismatic evolutions and I pulled a Leafeon!!

My friend has an eBay and is already selling cards so he put it up here if anyone is interested 🥺

[freaky-flawless]

It is very interesting that G3 started out with more points of articulation than the average fashion doll, only to completely downgrade less than 2 years in.

At this point, I don't even understand the purpose of the budget dolls. They're not easy to come by, I've only ever found 1 in store, and it was $20. At that same time, the core dolls were $17 on Amazon lol. Even now the G3 doll's prices fluctuate like crazy in the US. Hell, I got Scaridise Island Drac for like $11, but that new budget Cleo is $15?? Hello??

I'm getting the vibe that it's more for Mattel's benefit than it is for consumers. It'll just cost them less money.

[lastmurianwarrior]

Drew PAT and he's basically flippable :O

[sunshine-and-her-ikevil-stuff]

*thinking about the villains' tragic fates*

You know, their routes never really talk too much about their fates and how it effects them mentally. Or how the MC feels about it, and dealing with the fear and angst of it with the slight exception of William's route

*eyes widen*

... I think I know what the sequels are gonna be about

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Disregarding whether he is actually permanently dead or not, you’re telling me that we’re just supposed to what? Accept that this was Bobby’s last episode, his last few scenes. His non-goodbyes to literally everyone except Athena and sort of Buck? This is definitely such a Bobby way to go, protecting his team to the last moment he can, making sure he’s the only one going down. But he doesn’t even get a goodbye to Chimney whose LIFE he directly saved with his decision to stay quiet? The promo showing Chim struggling with this just proves the point that it’s crazy to think that Bobby would just go without a proper goodbye, even over the radio. And the “worthless” military guy telling HEN??? Why would you do that to my girl!?? And no idea who tells Ravi because he is the one to tell Karen. I get that you can’t show every moment of the downward spiral, but it just seems so cruel. Not that Bobby would sacrifice himself like this, but that the rest of the team isn’t even able to be together when they find out. I mean, Eddie is in TEXAS!!! It’s not real life, so the show is allowed to be careful and send a message with something this big, with a main character death. And they kind of, didn’t?

My video was buffering for pretty much the last fifteen minutes of the show/commercials, but I don’t think the time from when Buck realizes Bobby stayed back to the end of the episode could’ve been longer than five minutes of screen time. And while this isn’t a show that’s killed off mains before, this isn’t a show that killed off mains before. So why was the emotional impact so short and unfulfilling? There’s eight seasons worth of history for this character, I KNOW emotionally impactful death sequences. That was just. So short. If it’s a real death, are they planning on a fulfillment of the characters’ grief, Bobby’s arc, and the team as family dealing with this in the next episode, which is in TWO WEEKS, when irl feelings have already been processed and lessened?

[books-and-dragons]

I'm so sorry, I'm kinda drunk and dropping another idea, do with it whatever ye will.

Yknow how in the beginning of the game, Sojiro tells Ren he won't take care of him when he gets sick?

Consider: he's not used to city germs/being that closely shoved against other people on the train. He DOES start to get sick around Kamoshida's Palace, powers through it, and then is SUPER sick just after it's over.

He plans on sucking it up and hiding it, but Futaba hears his hacking coughs over her bug even when he's upstairs, followed by wheezing, maybe even a little weeping. He's constantly in and out of the bathroom, and he's starting to run out of tissues.

Futaba nervously texts Sojiro that the kid they took in sounds awful. Sojiro is gruff at first and says he's not a baby, he can take care of himself. She responds by sending him the audio and suddenly Dad Instincts kick in

y/n

obviously it's a YES, our brainrots continue because early-game ren and sojiro dynamics break my heart every time how dare you get me so invested in this idea, this post got too long so it's going under a read more

listen listen look i love sojiro and the coffee family okay, but early-game?? sojiro could catch these hands

ren has already been though so much by the time he arrives in tokyo, to then be put into a dusty old attic like a spare part would absolutely fit in with ren's own perception of himself at that stage. it would be almost too easy for him to put his own health on the backburner kinda like he's already used to it

very used to not taking up space, 'not being a bother', and then sojiro really reinforces this message when ren first gets to leblanc- so when ren inevitably gets ill a month into his probation, it's already doomed for maladaption

tokyo would be such a breeding ground for sickness compared to the countryside, and ren just doesn't have the consitution to deal with it. the dusty attic and poor eating habits don't help matters, and then we have the stress of kamoshida and the metaverse?? ren is not having a Good Time™

at first it's something he thinks he can shrug off, and is adamant that ignoring it is the way to go. a cold, it's nothing, he can handle this alone, no need to bother anyone else with it.

inevitably, he gets worse, because that's what happens when you don't rest and let yourself recover. a tickly cough becomes a tightness in his chest, mild congestion shifts into an attack on his senses and blurriness- but maybe that's the dizziness. he's not really sleeping, either.

it's something that's becoming increasingly difficult to brush off and hide, he even relented to finally getting some medicine (nothing as strong as he needs by this point, that would eat too much into his limited funds, but some painkillers to take the edge off). once or twice he's tempted to stay off school, at morgana's insistence, or a too close call where he definitely blacked out for a minute, but then sojiro's voice will ring in his head 'i won't be the one looking after you if you get sick', 'your parents got rid of you for being a pain in the ass', and all his worst insecurities come rushing back and he's resolved to deal with it on his own

meanwhile, futaba's been making use of her hidden audio bugs- normally they're a comfort for her in the daytime, but since the new kid- ren- has been staying at the cafe (part-timer her ass, how gullible does sojiro think she is?!), she's been listening more frequently. when ren gets sick, she figures it out quickly.

time goes on, he's not getting better- he's actually getting worse- and futaba starts to wonder if she's the only one who knows

(there's something in his sharp contrasts- the quiet kid who shuffles through the cafe and takes sojiro's scolding, to the coughing kid who cries into the silence of night when he thinks there's nobody there to see it- that stabs through her numbness. it feels like a companion to her own ghost)

one night she swears the kid gets up to be sick, and there's hardly any sound heard from the attic all night. if nobody's gonna help ren, then she will (futaba used to like helping, once upon a time).

she texts sojiro the next day, when ren doesn't say anything again, and goes off to school with what she bets is a fake assurance on his face

and you're so right, sojiro dismisses her concern really easily, claims the kid can 'take care of himself' and he won't 'baby' the part-timer. insists ren needs to learn some disipline, then maybe he'll stay out of trouble

frustration wells in futaba- if she was less fixated on what was going on with ren, she'd register it's one of the first changes of mood she's had for months- and she responds with nothing but an audio clip, an attached explanation that this is just from the past few days- it's been going on for weeks, then she waits, and hears the distant sound of her compilation through one of the bugs, a hitched breath from sojiro, curse words under his breath-

for all his earlier postulating about not helping ren if he gets sick, sojiro is immeditely struck with a pang of concern- it sounded bad, and if futaba's words were anything to go by, this had been going on for a while. the kid's at school now (at school, being as ill as that and he was still going to class-), so sojiro will talk to him when he gets back. there's a chance he goes a bit too over the top, between the variation of medicines he purchases, supplies he grabbed from home- if you accused him for over-compensating after maybe being too harsh on the kid in the beginning, you'd be right

and you just know ren would be so resistent at first to help, or even just the offer of staying off school. in his sickness-induced fugue, ren's filter-less in rattling off how he can't stay off, what will the students and teachers think, and he has work that afternoon, and a test soon, and he doesn't want to get in the way-

sojiro's heart just shatters

this kid, whose been silently carring the weight of the world and has apparently been falling to pieces for weeks now and sojiro didn't even notice?

(a part of it reminds him too much of the other kid he's got at home, the countless ways he's already failed futaba, and now ren too? he feels useless)

sojiro focuses on what he can do, and that's making the kid rest. work will understand, school can wait, ren isn't an inconvenience, he guides the kid to bed, calls takemi immediately (who rushes over, despite the fact she's technically closed at this hour, and refuses to take any payment),

even still, there's this stilted awkwardness between them when the quiet pushes on too long- they hardly know each other, afterall. sojiro is still figuring out the 'caring for kids' thing, and ren isn't familiar with any kind of parental affection, so some of sojiro's care veers a bit too close to clinical or mechanic, and ren still struggles to communicate what kind of help he needs, but it's enough for now.

for now, sojiro is there. he's trying, and at least ren's getting some colour back on his skin. for now, ren's willing to take a few days off and have some medicine, but he's over-apologetic and definitely tries to make up for his sickness once he's healed. it's gonna take them both a while yet, but luckily there's always their guardian hacker, ready and able to call them out when needed (and maybe some day she'll be able to keep an eye on ren and sojiro in person)

[mihai-florescu]

How i feel stopping by the turkish bakery, polish supermarket, and indian minimarket in one journey through the neighbourhood

[willowsallen]

i have nothing nice to say

[kittycatred]

Black kitty walks in

-Charcoal

....how...how many animals are gonna show up...?!

i mean....not that i mind but...i dont think ive seen so many animals on the pc like this before ??

...either way...hi there little kitty cat....!!

[lostbookwyrm]

Do yall ever think about how Richie absolutely only brought one outfit to Derry in Chapter 2? Cause I do. I think about Richie and what he might have packed instead quite a lot.

[intravenous-agnostic]

London Shepherd's Bush Empire 2007