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Not that his mother poses the same concern as that potentially stalkery girl. She obviously doesn’t. Chris is just desperate for a third person to be here. Denny is really charismatic and kind. He’s great at diffusing tension. That’s what Chris needs right now. MLM lady amounts of diffusers, actually. 

He orders tea for Mom. Shannon? Mom? What do you call someone who is your age and hasn’t parented you in sixteen years? There’s no etiquette guide for this situation. Whatever. He brings it to her, sits across from her, opens his phone, and stares as the little ping representing Denny slowly gets closer.

“Uh, Chris?” She asks after accepting her tea.

He looks up from his screen at her. She’s got this sort of expectant look in her eye. Yeah, Chris gets it. He’s not really talking. Not about anything. The thing is, something’s going to happen. This is going to go away. He’s felt it before. That rush of hope. The thought that somehow, some way, she’s back. He trusted it, for the moment it lasted that time. He doesn’t want to surrender his wits entirely to it this time. 

Whatever this is, who knows how long it will last?

“Yeah?” He replies.

“Uh… I don’t know a lot about you,” she says. Her fingers clutch the hot cup of tea like it’s her only source of comfort. 

Chris thinks of the way he used to go talk to her gravestone. He told her a lot of things about himself, over the years. He stopped, though, after the whole Kim thing. Not visiting. He just stopped talking to her. Something about it felt tainted. He supposes he didn’t need to. She was never listening. She didn’t even know she was dead.

“What do you want to know?” Chris asks.

Her brows crease a little at that. She looks sad.

“Everything,” she says. “Anything?”

Chris thinks. He doesn’t know what to say. It’s not like he’s married with children. But he has accomplished things, he supposes. 

“I work nearby,” Chris says. “At an engineering firm.”

Her mouth parts in surprise. “You’re an engineer?”

He nods. “Went to school in Pomona. Cal Poly. Got in other places but didn’t want Dad to have a stroke before he turned forty, so I stayed nearby.”

“Wow,” she smiles. “You’re brilliant. I mean, I always knew that. But… Wow.” 

Chris feels his cheeks heat a little. He shrugs. 

“I mean… I’m fine. It was hard. Not like I flew through it.”

“Even more impressive, then,” she says. 

What else can he even tell her? He has to be careful. How much of his life does he actually want to give away without encroaching onto the family territory. He spends a lot of time with Dad, Buck, and Josie. With his cousins.

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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

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Buck has definitely sent eddie pictures of the gay penguin couple at the zoo and eddie replied w “us” 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

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🕊️ Nadin’s Hope: A Mother, A Memory, A Future

Hello, my name is Nadin I’m from Gaza. I’m a graphic design graduate. I’m a wife. And now — I’m a mother.

I finished my design studies just before the war began. I had dreams of starting a small design studio, of making art that told stories. I used to think about colors, fonts, sketches. I used to think about the future.

Then the war came. And the future became something we tried to hold onto, moment by moment.

On October 22, 2023, I was pregnant when a missile destroyed my husband’s family home. 25 members of our family were killed — his mother, his siblings, his nieces and nephews, children. Entire branches of a family tree gone in seconds.

We were displaced twice after that. Everything we had disappeared — home, safety, routine, rest.

A few weeks later, I gave birth to our daughter. There was no crib. No stillness. No celebration.

But she came into the world quietly and beautifully. And in her eyes, I saw something I hadn’t felt in weeks: life that still wanted to grow.

Now, I spend my days holding her and trying to build a world around her that doesn’t shake with explosions.

We don’t know what comes next. There is no clear path. We are walking toward the unknown, step by step — with our daughter in our arms and hope as our guide.

🧡 How You Can Help

This is why I’m asking for support. Not for comfort — but for survival. To help care for one baby girl who entered the world after everything else collapsed.

If you can spare anything, it will help us:

Cover basic needs, so we can breathe and heal

Support a path toward even the smallest stability in a place that has none

My husband manages the donations securely through a U.S.-registered Stripe account. Everything is converted to USDT and exchanged here in Gaza. The rates are difficult — $100 becomes only 245 shekels — but we use every shekel carefully, with full transparency and documentation.

🎨 Sharing a Piece of Me

I want to share more than my need. Over the next few weeks, I’ll begin posting some of my graphic designs from before the war. They are pieces of who I was — and who I still am.

They may not be perfect, but they hold something real: my story before the silence, and my belief that beauty can still live alongside survival.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you. If you can give — thank you. And if you can’t, just sharing this post is a form of support I will never forget.

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Why the SHIELD’s new color level thing makes sense:

(AKA: Exactly how much of this I understand)

So, we know that:

Jemma is orange 

May is red

Fitz is green

Coulson and Mack are blue

So following the logic that Orange is higher than Red because it encompasses Red and Yellow, We know that May is one of the lower levels, because Red is a Primary color. So Red, Yellow, and Blue are the lower levels. My guess is that the primary colors stand for different divisions. Red for Training (which May is doing), Blue for Ops, (which Coulson and Mack are doing), and Yellow for Science (which Fitzsimmons both have clearance for). So then Fitz’s green puts him above May, Coulson, and Mack, but below Jemma. The primary color theory makes even more sense if you consider that with Fitz’s engineering capacity, he would need clearance for Ops and Science, and with Jemma in an administrative position while still working in the lab she would need clearance for Training and Science. Anyway that’s my take on it. Tagging @agl03 because this was partly inspired by her meta

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“We don’t let anything stop us.”

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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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If a regional war breaks out between Iran and Israel, Gaza will be forgotten. We will continue to suffer this suffering and will not be mentioned in anything. We will be forgotten forever.

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In the spirit of Indigenous People's Day we always need to educate people. There is a lot of things peopl assume or don't consider. I've been mistaken as mixed or white or Asian all the time through out my life which is whatever that will always happen regardless.

But it is sad when some particularly angry peow accuse me of lying about being indigenous and many have claimed its because my eyes "look Asian". I think Asian eyes are beautiful and absolutely nothing wrong with the comparison. But the assumption is incorrect because Native Americans do tend to have round faces and almond eyes. If we even google native faces you can see many many examples

And yes yes we can discuss the Mongolian ancestry theories people bring that up every 4 seconds. I just think it's very funny to claim my eyes are an outlier that makes me not native. When in reality it's actually one of the most common things.

It's such a silly thing but it's things people don't even consider at all and then even use to doubt others. We use weird check boxes to dismiss the identity of natives without even realizing they DO meet the "criteria" I think people even do this subconsciously especially to mixed people. But even I an actually brown skinned Cree woman get put under this silly lens.

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Bella Ramsey June 10th 2025 // Jimmy Kimmel Live

((via @bykileyfitz))

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Please help out @ahmedaldani333!!!!

Hes fundraising for himself and his family in Gaza, and he can't do this alone. He needs our support more than ever! So, whenever you can, please chip in and help him and his family rebuild their life! Every little bit helps.

Don't forget about Ahmed please.

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okokok reblog and tag ONE. ONE. character design trait you wish you saw more. deliberate and choose, and don't be noble about it. mine is simply characters that wear their hair in two braids without having to be infantilized or "little girl"s about it

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The girl dad Buck requests!! Very excited for the bobby one!

Ah yeah! Thank you! Josie may be a character that appears in several fics. We shall see. The new Nico.

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“Eddie is my husband.”

Wow. Okay. That’s surprising, but in a good way. That’s great for Buck! Bobby always had a feeling that was the root of his particular clinginess in that friendship. But he was never really sure if Eddie could return those feelings. He hadn’t written it out entirely, but… Well, he thought it might be something that hurt their friendship in the long run. 

“Wow,” he vocalizes the thought playing over and over in his head. “I’m glad Eddie felt the same way.”

“Sorry,” Buck says. “What?”

“Oh no,” Bobby realizes. “Oh, I’ve given him bad dating advice.”

“Uh,” Buck frowns. “Not all of it.”

So they’ve talked about that, then. That’s great. Hey, Buck, we could have been happier sooner but Bobby really pushed me towards women. Fantastic. 

“I jokingly told him to go to church,” Bobby says. “That’s the worst advice I could have… It was a joke. He knows it was a joke?”

He feels rather panicked. This is all so much news. There are children who didn’t exist yesterday. Eddie is married to a man. Buck drives a minivan. What’s next? Will he learn that Ravi has a thriving career in local politics? 

“Bobby, he doesn’t hold anything like that against you,” Buck says. “He loves and misses you, that’s all. But he also might freak out and not quite trust that you’re real, is all I’m saying.”

“Daddy will freak out?” Josie asks.

“Yeah, honey. He might be a little upset, like I was,” Buck says. “But it’ll be okay.”

If Eddie freaks out, and Buck has freaked out, what about everyone else? What about Athena? This whole process is going to be more than just emotionally draining. It will be emotional incineration. Bobby isn’t sure how much of this he can handle. Maybe they can develop an email template to send everyone. Book time slots to get the emotions out. Otherwise Bobby might crumble. He can’t handle his mere presence being this painful for all the people he loves. 

Eddie

It’s a regular early afternoon on a day off for Eddie. Well, except for the twinge in his ankle. That’s sort of new. He’d landed on it hard last shift at a house fire, and it’s still just off. He’d have gone on the hike with Josie and Buck otherwise. He hates to miss the extra time with them, but he can’t lie and say he’s not enjoying the peace and quiet, either. 

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Chris takes a deep breath, like he’s trying to decide whether or not to accept this.

“Besides,” Eddie says. “We’ve got Buck and Penny here, too. So, I’m pretty happy, even if I miss Los Angeles.”

“Okay,” Chris says. 

“You believe me?” Eddie asks.

“Yeah,” Chris says. “I love you, Dad.”

Eddie’s heart melts a little.

“I love you, too, Christopher. More than anything.”

More than any city in the world.

v.

Christmas comes around quickly. Before Eddie knows it, the four of them are in the air, headed to the place that shouldn’t still feel like home, but does. 

“This isn’t my first time in a plane,” Penny explains to Christopher during take off. “I’ve been in a lot of planes.”

“Oh, yeah?” Chris humors her. 

He offered to sit with her. They’re passing a game back and forth on his phone. Eddie is pretty proud of Chris for being so good with her, despite their very different ages. Part of him thinks he likes stepping into that big brother role. It’s sweet.

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happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.