#unless we don’t

[unlesswedont]

A LETTER TO 16 YEAR OLD ME

My dearest version of me,

I know I can’t change what happened to us. I wish with all my heart that I could—because you deserved so much better.

You didn’t think you deserved better, and I get that. But that isn’t your fault.

None of what happened was your fault.

The grown men in your life dressed up harm as affection, acceptance, and validation—the three things you wanted more than anything from our father. And the thing about men like that is they can smell uncertainty and self-doubt like sharks smell blood in the water.

The only difference between sharks and them is this:

Sharks are honest.

They don’t try to convince you it was your idea to be eaten alive.

They don’t gift-wrap your pain and call it love.

But these men…

They didn’t “win.”

They didn’t “conquer.”

They drugged you.

They groomed you.

They trapped you.

They stole your innocence, and the faith you had in anything good.

You put yourself out there for the first time in your life, and you were met with bad luck and worse intentions. And yes—we let it control us for a while. We tried to numb it. We tried to pretend it was our idea, because pretending made the shame easier to bear.

But we did that to survive. And we did.

You survived.

We aren’t trapped anymore. They don’t hold us.

They don’t get to narrate our story.

Yes, we made mistakes afterward.

But no one gets to blame you for that—not when you were a child trying to rebuild yourself without any blueprints.

You didn’t have the tools.

You didn’t have a safe place to bleed out the venom they left behind.

And that? That was never your burden to fix.

I forgive our parents for not knowing better than making us too scared to tell them what was happening.

And I’m so sorry that I can’t go back in time and protect you. But I am SO grateful for you protecting me the best way you knew how.

Because today—

You don’t drink.

You don’t use.

You don’t accept less than you deserve.

You’re raising two sons who know how to treat women with dignity and respect.

You broke the pattern.

You did that.

We did that.

Because we are so much more than what they did to us.

From the One Who Wouldn’t Be Here Without You,

— Me

[morganbritton132]

Steve has no idea what D&D actually is because no one ever says that it’s a tabletop game so he think they’re out in the woods pretending to be park rangers or something.

Which sounds lame.

Plus, his sneakers are white. He’s not doing all that.

[jamathydodger]

A normal day at Casper High School! I don’t know what to really say about this I just needed to practice backgrounds and scene work.

Maybe I’ll go in later and add details to other characters like the Dash, Kwon, Val and Wes. Probably not tho.

And a version with some blob ghosts hanging around! As a little treat for myself!

This took an unreasonable amount of time for how much I like the final product. Oh well! Sometimes you just don’t like your art.

[dozingsun]

[timethehobo]

Had the thought of what if Manfred really just pantomimes normally, but because The Lighthouse is in the Fade, he can while they’re in there?

[laniidae-passerine]

don’t get how you can watch iwtv and be a sincere diehard lestat hater. like the world’s biggest lestat hater is louis and that man can’t even commit to it for more than five minutes before literally hallucinating lestat wearing a wedding ring and talking pretty to him. this show is about louis and every road leads back to lestat for that man

[goodluckeddie]

the other day i saw someone in a tiktok comment section arguing that we don’t need ravi begins because we already know why he became a firefighter and like okay but the thing is we don’t. not really. we know the sparknotes version of his childhood cancer, but anything deeper about it? no. we know fuck all about ravi’s past! we have the tip of the iceberg! you don’t want to explore his trauma? you don’t want to meet his family? you don’t want to see his journey from the start, get the whole story, understand him better than we ever have? are you well????

[lemoyne]

i hate bioware so much it’s unreal. why did they make solas’ agents a whole Thing in trespasser only for them to be nonexistent in datv???

trespasser really hyped up solas’ agents as a force to be reckoned with. ‘watch out, solas’ agents are everywhere, even among your own people and allies! watch out, all the elves in thedas are vanishing to go join the dread wolf in his quest!!’ ok so where are they. they don’t exist in veilguard

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 302

Look, when they had decided to reincarnate with Tucker this cycle they hadn’t exactly expected this. Tucker didn’t either, so thank fuck it’s apparently not a normal thing, but still! The matching gold eyes are pretty cool, and at least their fangs and claws have stayed but like, everything else? Ugh. So very not good. 

At least all four are together still, even if it’s in this absolutely crazy scenario of rich cults, undead child assassins, and wow this is like some sort of ridiculous novel or anime scenario when you put in the whole reincarnation thing… 

Alright, so they’re getting out right? Yeah they can all agree on that- and thank fuck these new bodies of theirs are Liminal or else they wouldn’t be able to communicate. Seriously, who slits kids’ throats? The cult people, apparently, so honestly fuck them. They're getting out of here.

[afrophunk]

Playing dress-up with my OC’s again. This time around we got Lupo, Emerald’s son

Boy likes his pink 🤷🏾‍♀️

[unlesswedont]

Long Distance Isn’t the Hard Part

Dear Future Me,

I don’t know how this rumor was started, but long-distance relationships aren’t inherently harder than in-person ones.

Are they difficult? Of course. Every relationship is. But being far apart doesn’t automatically make something doomed, more stressful, or more tragic. If anything, I’ve had more meaningful connection in my long-distance relationship than in 98% of the ones where the person was physically near me.

Everyone says the hardest part of LDRs is the distance. And yeah, not being able to express yourself physically every day can suck. But you make up for it when you’re finally in the same room again. Like really make up for it.

But here’s the part that nobody talks about: in long-distance, you have to communicate. Like, really communicate. It’s not just, “How was your day?” and scrolling side by side on your phones. It’s talking—daily, intentionally, emotionally, vulnerably. You build habits of checking in, sharing thoughts, asking deeper questions, and actually listening.

We FaceTime every day. We talk about our health, our mental states, our kids (his and mine, respectively), and how we’re really doing. We talk about stuff most couples don’t touch until they’re getting married or falling apart. We intentionally carve out time for each other.

The things we say to each other is not lip-service. It’s not convenience. It’s effort, and presence, and showing up without excuses. And that’s not unique to long-distance love—it’s just that with long-distance it’s imperative.

I’m not saying long-distance is better than traditional relationships. I’m just saying it’s not worse. Different doesn’t mean doomed. And when people say “long-distance is too hard,” I think what they really mean is “I don’t want to try that hard.” Or maybe they’re carrying trust issues they haven’t healed from yet.

Because honestly? Loving him has been the easiest thing I’ve ever done.

The distance isn’t the hard part. Not loving him? That would be hard.

From the One Who Gets to Date in Her Comfy Pants,

—Me

[lycandrophile]

at this point i don’t even have any commentary to add to this. i’m just tired.

[hplonesomeart]

*guilty sigh* There’s no coming back from this one boys—throwing all my self respect and artistic dignity out of the window right now, oopsie woopsie! Listen the longer we don’t hear any news or updates about him from the SMG4 channel, the more I go stir crazy clawing at my fixation enclosure making Puzzle art to cope. His hold over me is getting stronger every day /j

(flipped/vertical version under the cut)

You could spin the angle/reposition the canvas vertically as well if looking down at him is more your thing. Oh the power I have been granted to manipulate reality as an artist is unmatched >:3

I mostly wanted my hand to guide me into practicing drawing odd angles like this, where the head appears closer to the viewer then legs/lower body. Almost like forced perspective? But I didn’t use any reference images…so you let me know if this works or looks wonky lmao

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

so five and lila being a thing is going right next to allison literally sexually assaulting luther in the box of things we are absolutely under no circumstances accepting as part of canon right

[yuri-on-crack]

james and sirius bribing little harry with chocolates after accidentally (possibly slightly on purpose) teaching him swears and "tips" for when he goes to hogwarts that his mums definitely wouldn’t approve of. harry absolutely milks this because he can. occasionally he’ll slip up while rambling.

whenever lily finds out, she’ll fix one of them with a glare and a firm ‘james fleamont potter if you keep undermining my efforts to raise a functional human being with a decent vocabulary i will hex your mouth shut’ then smile at Harry and say something about how even though James and Sirius act like they have ‘three brain cells between them and a broomstick' she knows he’s smarter than that.

when Mary finds out, she doesn’t react much at first, just a blink, a casual question about where harry heard that, a murmured ‘did he now’ and then calmly tells Lily she’s going to kill them—she has James and Sirius give Harry a "nice word of the day" for the rest of the week.

she’s not even scary about it when she’s mad, she’ll just stare at them with her arms crossed looking deeply unimpressed until they’re uncomfortable and then ask them why her son thinks it’s a good idea to duel someone over a bag of crisps.

[timethehobo]

What-if pair…? Just had the thought of both of them silently enjoying their hobbies in each other’s company. (Emmy is helping, ok.)