#(sad? I mean grief)

[tagerrkix]

rage.

[ruporas]

the song of humanity will continue to be sung

[atalana]

so the good place is widely lauded on this site for its takes on morality and capitalism, which i totally agree with

but i think it should get more recognition for the line "all humans are aware of death. so we're all a little bit sad all the time. that's just the deal. we don't get offered any better ones. and if you try and ignore your sadness, it just ends up leaking out of you anyway. i've been there, and everybody's been there. so don't fight it. in the words of a very wise bed bath and beyond employee i once knew - go ahead and cry all you want. but you're gonna have to pay for that toilet plunger."

[arthursfuckinghat]

There needs to be a scientific study done on how Rockstar Games' Arthur Morgan is able to provoke the most earth shattering emotions I didn't even know I had in me

[faragonart]

Hey um... thank you for doing so much grief work for Httyd2 back in 2014/15. I imagine it came from an offline personal place, which I couldn't relate to at the time, yet it was absolutely flooding everyone's dash. I have come to appreciate it over the years and realize more and more how important it was.

It's honestly really nice to hear that, friend. I was going through a lot of loss at the time, and having HTTYD2 as my muse, I vented my grief by expressing it through Hiccup's own.

I had worried I had made a lot of the fandom uncomfortable with the vent art I had been making... It's unfortunately the main reason why I left, so hearing this really does bring peace of mind, and I sincerely appreciate this message. I hope it helped other people relate and not feel so alone in their feelings <3

[shuutingstar]

ever wonder if a small part why jake went to go fight the dragon that was terrorising camp was not just because he was head counsellor, but also because he didn’t really care if that thing killed him or not? ever wonder if jake accepted that he may die that day even before the dragon tried to kill him? ever wonder if nyssa found him lying on the ground bruised and bleeding and she cried because for a second she really did think jake was dead. ever wonder if when jake woke up he was disappointed to learn that he did in fact survive the dragon’s attack and therefore is still living.

[skunkes]

i have soooo much more i cld say abt him, and have explored more thru other doodles, but quick summary of talon's whole deal, which is subject to change still as he's only almost 2 yrs old as an oc

[calamitoustide]

once again thinking about James and Reg going backpacking to run from their problems alone and then they meet each other on the fourth day and just keep walking with each other because they’re going the same pace so why not (James’ idea) and they end up talking through everything and heal together in a way they couldn’t do alone

[thru-ur-alarms]

from polendina to antonia; why did you have to leave so soon? a web weave.

A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis / Unknown / In Memoriam A.A.H - Lord Tennyson Alfred / Some Kind of Heaven - Sleeping At Last / Sketch by Yenthe Joline / The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller / We Are Carried - Sara Rian / Paper Boats - Darren Kobb and Ashley Barrett

[seaweedstarshine]

Thinking about the convolution of Eleventh Doctor's expressions of love for River Song in Season 7B. He does not trust Clara. He is utterly (wrongly) convinced that he and Clara are playing a grand manipulative game together. “What are you, eh?! A trick? A trap?!!”

So naturally, the last thing he should do in this game is to clue his opponent in on something that could be used to hurt him. Something like River, so painfully near the end of their time together, whose data ghost he can always see, who “it would hurt too much” to acknowledge. He can't let Clara know of the loss which constantly floods his senses; (“You are always here to me. And I always listen, and I can always see you,” he professes, once Clara has vanished into his timestream).

And yet. River fills his every moment (irregardless of any sneaking out for dates with increasingly-young Rivers while Clara is asleep like he did while the Ponds slept, which would explain his absence when the TARDIS is hiding Clara's bedroom). Even though it's not strategic, he can’t help but tell Clara about her. The best defense he can manage is to phrase it as if River isn’t as important to him as she is. Not only is avoiding her first name in his grief; he's also completely avoiding pronouns; which seems extreme given that he's still mentioning her as often as: “Oh yeah, of course he has! Professor Song! Sorry, it's just I never realized you were a woman.”

Leave out the emotion — leave out the details — don't show the cracks in the armor — play the part — win the game.

“Well, there's no point now. We're about to die. JUST TELL ME WHO YOU ARE.”

[thatdude-noah]

i think part of the reason izzy's death is so disappointing is because it had no time to be developed. yes obviously i am sad to see him go, but im even more sad that he didn't get a proper send off. we don't get to see ed actually be sad about him being dead. we get a tiny scene of his burial, and then we're on to the next thing, just like that. it feels like his death has no repercussions for the other people in his life, for his family. and i think that makes it feel so much more painful. all of it is so rushed, it's lacking the emotion that all of us feel.

[backjustforberena]

You ever think about how Rhaenys's children were killed in ways that made them unrecognisable to her? There was no peaceful-looking body, no final look to commit to memory. Something to say goodbye to, something to dress, even.

There were bones for her daughter.

And burnt flesh for her son.

[hungerpunch]

i love how every single month, around the same time, i think something cataclysmic is happening to my mental health and then i realize it's my period. so i probably don't need to be researching like, ketamine clinics, bc i'm fine. every single month this happens. like clockwork, i am gripped by panic over how depressed i suddenly feel. it's routine! and yet i never fucking remember that.

[freshbaked-bread]

five of hearts

queen / king of hearts

two of hearts

[fatehbaz]

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[mxbitters]

parents are funny the way they want you to be open and honest with them, supposedly, but when you are, it leads to some fucking confrontation that didn’t need to happen, and when that happens, it leads to something you weren’t ready to say coming out, then being coaxed out into a still very much controlled held-back version of describing your lifelong experience feeling shame for existing the way you do and not being “easy” or as good as like, your little sister, academically, or as capable of masking as anyone else, and THAT carefully worded recall of just the natural fucking feelings of growing up in a frankly abusive household, resulting in.. oh, sorry, YOUR FATHER crying as if he wasnt just trying to gaslight you into thinking he didnt tell you the other day to Improve Yourself As A Person (right before the conversation about his mother entering hospice so now guess who can’t fucking mourn without associating it with that!) and that he instead was saying Improve Your Situation

and then he like catches you like visibly dissociating, comments, you try and put it in very simple words what just happened (in the same manner you have pointed out every other little thing he does to invalidate your feelings, or as he’d put it, “your feelings” yes using air quotes) and he suddenly is a fucking Psychology Scholar And Didn’t Need You To Explain What The Defense Mechanism Even Was and oh then also admitting to doing harm in the past, saying he had apologized (wonder why i dont remember), your mother(actual psychology minor) getting all “i’m sorry you feel that way” and also after a long ass tangent about there being a difference between “shamed” and “ashamed” as if you didn’t mean the word you say, a thing you did make very clear, ONCE AGAIN FUCKING CRYING ABOUT YOU BEING OPEN AND HONEST FOR ONCE AND TELLING THEM THEY HURT YOU