#How to Unplug

[goodgirldelusions]

Feeling Screen Fatigue? It Might Be Time for a Digital Detox If your eyes are tired, your mind feels scattered, or you’re constantly reaching for your phone without thinking—you're not alone. This week on the blog, we're diving into the power of a digital detox: what too much screen time does to your body and mind, and how to create healthier tech habits without giving up your devices. 💡 Plus, we share easy daily ways to unplug—no drastic changes required. Take a breath and unplug, Phoenix Wanderlust Good Girl Delusions

[stars-obsession-pit]

(Another) Ghost in the Machine

DP x Hellblazer (the original John Constantine comic)

Ritchie Simpson continued to search frantically for the connection out of the computer and back to his body as he begged John to explain what he meant by saying “Goodbye.”

Had John disconnected him? He knew John’s sense of humor wasn’t the lightest, especially after Newcastle drove them all a bit insane, but that felt too far even for him. Nah, he’d probably just gotten himself a bit lost in the wave of energy he’d experienced in the Tongues of Fire network and was accidentally looking for his body in the wrong spot.

He pulled himself back and let his mental connection to the digital world expand outward, probing the rest of the machine for the connection. He knew he was in the right system, so as long as he looked thoroughly he’d definitely fi—

Everything flashed a surge of blinding white and then was replaced by pure darkness. He thought he screamed, but he couldn’t hear his own voice. Couldn’t even feel his own thoughts. Trapped in one single instant that stretched for indeterminable eons. Then, eventually (or was it immediately?), awareness began to trickle back.

He was still in the computer, though it felt… different, somehow. His thoughts still weren’t entirely in order. The first possible hints towards his location he found were the sound voices trickling through from the outside world. Voices he didn’t recognize. Young voices.

“I’m happy to help, Tuck, but I’m not really sure what you expect me to do here. You’re way better than me at this computer stuff than me.”

“By all means, feel free to keep complimenting me, but this has been frying my brain, man. I got this thing secondhand, and the system should be quite powerful, but there’s something using up a ton of its processing and I can’t figure out what. I was hoping you could do your ‘enter into the computer’ thing and see if you see anything.”

[jakes-jules]

Went to PAX Unplugged today as the Darkest Faerie and neglected to take pictures (as usual), so here's the single selfie I took, and a full costume shot from Katsucon this year

[moeblob]

When you have to clarify for social media reasons and it just becomes a disclaimer and no one takes the comments seriously.

[ahappydnp]

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[superbellsubways]

i wanted to wait longer to get a switch 2 but i might have to soon because my switch is in very bad condition.. fuck my gay life

[foulrests]

unfortunately left my google docs with my drafts open at work by accident and someone saw them on my laptop and asked me about it...

[babymorte]

if i could manage not to fuck this up

i think enough is enough

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

The prophecy x long story short

lmao first of all I missed this by one night but ANYWAY I'M BITTER BUT I SWEAR I'M FINE. Groupama Stadium you will always be (in)famous or whatever.

Once again: I love the way she plays this! Girl and Her Guitar Doing A Bit At A Coffee House! She sounds so beautiful and the vibe of the song is so different, even if the meaning is the same.

Spending my last coin for someone to tell me it'll be OK... Past me, I want to tell you not to get lost in these petty things. THAT IS A GENIUS TRANSITION. GENIUS!!!

She spends the whole "Prophecy" section singing about deep longing and yearning and loneliness, and then in comes "Long Story Short" to be like "lol what even was that THANK U NEXT." The unrelenting sadness of the first song gives way to the magical healing powers of time, where these deeply painful experiences fade into distant memories and you find yourself in a much, much better place on the other side.

Who do I have to speak to to see if they can redo the prophecy? ... Long story short it was the wrong guy(-uy-uy). Long story short, I survi(i-i-)ved. Is that not TTPD in a nutshell? Grieving all the things you have to give up inch by inch as you sink deeper into your loneliness, only to realize: hey, maybe I'm not the problem after all, maybe there's another variable that can change the outcome. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, maybe it's time to do something to change that. And she DID survive! She faked it till she made it till it was true! AND SHE DID REDO THE PROPHECY. Because she did end up finding someone who wanted her company and wasn't going to make her crumble in wait.

As an aside, I looooooooooooove how she sings "Slow is the quicksand, poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand / Oh, still I dream of him," because she is bordering on twangy and it just feels soooooooooo intimate. Once again, she sings so beautifully. And another thing about her delivery: On the album, The Prophecy is obviously so, so sad; there's such an air of defeatism yet desperation at the same time. Obviously on the B stage, the vibes are completely different in general, but it's especially notable when she comes back to The Prophecy after LSS: she did redo the prophecy! She didn't seal her fate, she changed it! SHE DID THAT! She reclaimed the land! And now she's all about the next person in her life! (Dare I say, him passing by rare like the glimmer of a comet in the sky was indeed a sign of a soulmate!) She wasn't condemned to shades of greige for the rest of her life, she found all the colours all over again!

The mashup is so much fun but also more poignantly a testament to the human spirit. She thought she'd be forever alone, and now she's found forever again! She thought that it would kill her but it didn't! In fact, she's found something even better. And I've come to love "long story short, it was the wrong guy" even more now, because it's another way of saying "lovers spend years denying what's ill-fated": e.g. trying to fit a square peg in a round hole until it drives you crazy is exhausting... at a certain point you need to realize you're working with the wrong tools. But look what happens when you find your match!

It's such a hopeful, cathartic story!

[niechys]

Guys. Question

#tf mecha universe @keferon

How long do you think the mech in this universe can go without refueling? an hour? a day?

I know I can just make things up. But I wanna get some opinion.

just curious.

[lunarw0rks]

wait wait lemme cook, firefighter!soap & baker!reader…because y/n will never be boring!!

there was a fire at the bakery, you’re pretty sure the owner burned it down for insure and you got caught in the middle of it.

johnny has saved dozens of people before but has the urge to visit you at the hospital everyday and he doesn’t know why (we all know why).

after you’re healed, you start swinging by every so often to deliver fresh donuts to him and his team and they all start teasing him, saying stuff like, “there goes your girl, johnny”

imagine firefighter!soap visiting you in the hospital and being so sweet :(( and not accepting praise for how he literally pulled you from the flames.

you're not seriously injured, aside from some scrapes, bruises, and a few fractures. if soap hadn't been so quick on his feet, he wouldn't have spotted you before the burning bakery collapsed. it was the definition of a close call.

and then, you let it slip that you believe the fire was all a scam. the owner has always been greedy, not allowing you tips, cutting corners, etc. and soap knows that his captain has already voiced the same suspicions to the arson investigators — so it's not an empty lie.

you shouldn't be moving much at all, let alone having him talk your ear off — so he dismisses himself, insisting that you get some sleep, that he'll see visit you sometime soon, etc.

...

immediately goes to the hospital room next door, where the shitty owner of the bakery is. slightly mangled by flames, barely conscious from whatever drugs they're pumping through him.

firefighter!soap leaning over the owner, gripping his jaw and whispering the vilest threats in his ear so none of the nurses/visitors can hear.

how you could've died because of your boss' scam, and it has johnny SEETHING !!! probably more than he should be, considering it's his job to save, not to get involved. soap thinking 'should've let the bastard burn' as he speeds down the hall.

and he's probably not even supposed to be visiting you.

but he'll be back tomorrow. with a card and flowers as if he wasn't on the brink of committing a felony for you.

[onyx-star8]

I love nirvana cause its a 50/50, its either going to be the most gut wrenching soul crushing lyrics with such meaning an average listener can never fully grasp. Or it’s gibberish with a sick guitar solo.

[charles-leclerc-official]

Where is the fic where Charles and Lewis play chess irl and one of them flips the board because someone is winning and then they fuck nasty in the hotel room? Where is it?

[wowa-bublord]

Steel, lilac, lava lemon, azure, lolipop, tiger, mint, and cherry

( @izunias-meme-hole )

SO MANY... DO I DESERVE THE RIGHTS OR NOT?

[telesodalite]

Can't sleep, but I'm thinking about FulCrank(crankful? lol) in a silly way, and how it's like, technician x mechanic

Like, Fulcrum's long gotten used to responding to others bringing him "broken" tech with the whole "Have you tried turning it on and off again?", only for it to restart and be fine, because it just needed like, a hard reboot or update or something.

But then Crankcase pulls him aside, because maybe the TVs not working for reasons other than them physically damaging it, and Fulcrum's thinking it's the usual same old problem, so he sighs, and goes to ask the question that haunts his choice of work, but Crankcase interrupts, because of course he already did that.

He already tried restarting it, and checked all the cables, the antennas, and unplugged it a couple times, and checked the connections, and- etc etc. He goes down the list of everything he already checked before giving up and asking for help once he realized he was out of his depth, because, while this isn't his exact specialty, he gets it.

And its like-

Scene: Crankcase explaining everything he already tried, while Fulcrum's optics widen a bit, his breath catches in his vents, careless whisper starts to play somewhere in the background as Crankcase goes into detail about what he thinks could be the problem as a soft light frames his disgruntled expression, and Fulcrum's just like, oh..., he already tried turning it on and off again... I- I wonder if he'd be cool with making out sloppy style after we fix this...?

Idk lol.

They'd compliment each other on the cable and pipe management of the W.A.P's old shoddy computers and pumps. Just them being nerds about stuff like propulsion systems and data collection with eachother <3

Do they always understand and get everything the other's talking or complaining about? Not exactly. But they both bond over all the repetitive or crazy situations where they've had to fix and repair stuff, the thankless work they did to keep their respective stations functioning around them, and then maybe they kiss or something over the W.A.P's shitty GPS

[mydearchoso]

why does fell on black days by soundgarden sound SO much like choso...

not the singing or the lyrics or anything, but if he had a back track play whenever he walked into a room, it would be that...