#Emotionally Devastating

[nighhtwing]

ALFRED, BATGIRL, & ROBIN in NIGHTWING (2016) #92

[depression-soup]

Who wants more emotionally devastating TH headcanons?

Definitely don’t imagine a universe where Phoenix didn’t survive IEYTD2. Don’t imagine A universe where TH was forced to move on because he’s such a great handler and he’s needed elsewhere. Don’t imagine A universe where he’s forced to grieve quickly so he’s useful to more people.

Don’t imagine a universe where instead of prism, he joins Zoraxis because he doesn’t really have any purpose in the Agency anymore. Don’t imagine how much he’s made fun of and shoved around in Zoraxis because to them, he’s just a weak old man.

Don’t imagine how once he is persuaded or forced to return to the Agency, because you know he would, he’s shunned once again. Don’t imagine how utterly defeated he would once again feel.

Don’t imagine how pheonix in this scenario would have had to go against his former favourite person. Don’t imagine how their relationship became on such thin ice TH was almost considering asking them if they wanted to switch handlers. Phoenix would’ve said no, but i digress.

Do imagine how after a few months, their relationship warms a little. Do imagine how everything goes back to normal.

Don’t imagine that the happy ending was a dream, and Phoenix wasn’t there. it was a different agent. don’t imagine that.

Thanks for coming to another TED talk :] It definitely wasn’t emotionally destroying :33

[speakeasyyy]

Good Omens fans weren't lying, "Pray For Us, Icarus" is the most devastating fic I've ever read ‼️‼️

[secondstar-acorn]

well. good/healthy parent-child relationships are dropping like flies!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahaha comedy podcast!!!!!!

[hyperfocusthusly]

And now I’ve received the news that Michael Gambon has died??? I’m signing off

[sunmoonjune]

‘moonie stop making yourself cry while you write LTM challenge’ FAILED

[bluedalmatian14]

'If I don't make it back from Where I've gone Just know I Loved you all along...'

- Inkpot Gods, The Amazing Devil

[thechaosnetwork08]

"I forgive you" 😭

[wordsthatsoundlikepoetry]

My battery is low and it's getting dark

-The last words of the Curiosity Rover

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Lukas Dhont‘s “Close” November 1, 2022.

[terresdebrume]

I have now finished episode 33

I agree with the cast that it was SO GOOD but also

[forestal-ramblings]

HBO had no right to emotionally destroy me so much with Bill and Frank's history.

[whimsicaldragonette]

ARC Review: A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo

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Publication Date: October 4, 2022

Synopsis:

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age story, this time set against the backdrop of the first major Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage. And almost sixty years after the end of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Lo's new novel also offers a glimpse into Lily and Kath's lives since 1955. Aria Tang West was looking forward to a summer on Martha's Vineyard with her best friends--one last round of sand and sun before college. But after a graduation party goes wrong, Aria's parents exile her to California to stay with her grandmother, artist Joan West.Aria expects boredom, but what she finds is Steph Nichols, her grandmother's gardener. Soon, Aria is second-guessing who she is and what she wants to be, and a summer that once seemed lost becomes unforgettable--for Aria, her family, and the working-class queer community Steph introduces her to. It's the kind of summer that changes a life forever.

My Rating: ★★★★★

*My Review below the cut

My Review:

This book was emotionally devastating. That's the best word I can think of to describe it. I turned the last page and read the author's note through my tears, and then I ugly cried for a while. It's poignant and nostalgic and gorgeously written so that you feel everything Aria feels and live breathlessly in the moment with her. Every time I opened the book I was sucked in and forgot about everything else.

Malinda Lo is exceptionally good at capturing a moment in time, especially a moment where the character is right on the cusp of something. I don't remember Last Night at the Telegraph Club being quite so devastating, but I think part of that is my own emotional resonance with this story.

For most of the book, it's like she captured one perfect golden late-summer Northern California afternoon. The kind the stretches on and on, where the light showers everything in gold and you could believe that the moment could last forever. It meshes so well with that last endless summer between high school and college, when you're just beginning to discover yourself.

Aria is on the cusp of adulthood, the cusp of realization that she's maybe not as straight as she once thought. Her crush on Steph simmers just beneath the surface, warring with the impossibility of it all and the electric novelty of her newfound queerness opens up a previously unseen world to her.

At the same time she's having her ideas of her grandmother, her parents, her friends, and her past reshaped as she grows out of her childhood assumptions about them.

The ending circles back to the beginning in a wholly satisfying way that makes everything seem more profound and gives every moment, every gesture weight and meaning.

I love the exploration of time and memories and grief and art, and how they interconnect and weave together. The characters leap off the page, so full of life and well-rounded are they, and I felt them tugging at my heart more insistently than many.

This is a book that everyone should read and that I will probably never read again, because I don't think it would have the same breathless impact the second time through and I'm not sure my heart could take it.

The cover is stunning and complements the story SO well. The cover artist captured the essence of the story perfectly.

*Thanks to Bookishfirst and Penguin Teen for providing an ARC for review.

[notasouleater]

recently found the song Underground and I Know, I just Know there are a bunch of really good submas animatics out there of it, but I am too terrified to search for them

[tfotaandstuff]

i hate authors. they're so mean.

on a completely unrelated topic you should all go read The Quiet Part Out Loud by Deborah Crossland it destroyed me

[sanzundertale]

babygirl i will invent stages of grief you have never seen before