Coming home from the hospital feels like a balm for Tom’s tired soul. Exhausted doesn’t begin to cover how he feels but there’s just something about falling asleep on his own bed again after a week of nurses invading his room at every hour of the day, of flavorless varied broths that all virtually tasted like nothing and of Maverick sleeping curled up into a lumpy couch looking like an injured animal and then arguing with Bradley about going home or not.
His days had never been this quiet before, between Maverick and Bradley, he never seemed to get a minute of silence.
And for as much as Iceman thought he was tired of the noise, the silence was much, much worse. It got on his nerves, now. No loud music from anywhere in the house, no arguing, no bantering, no random stupidities thrown into the wind.
Invited it like a vampire into the house, sucking all life and joy and brightness and music from his days.
Iceman’s family learns ASL because they love him.
for @sevenall
not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]
People on here are always like "fuck capitalism, why can't things be weird anymore" and then write up a whole dissertation about how the biggest IPs need to change to be weirder.
Like, you are so close. You are so close to getting the point. "Big" IPs *can only exist because they are normal*. They will *never* be weird. They will *never* do what you want. Go find some smaller IPs. Bring back discovery. Bring back never having heard of a book before you buy it. Bring back watching obscure anime online that none of your friends know about. Bring back trying new things, even if they're bad or cheaply made. That is how you get *weird*.
class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)