#I'm a sucker for hugs

[carryoncastiel]

[prince-liest]

This fic has been done for two! days!!! and I am posting a snippet so that I may resist posting the whole thing until tomorrow, because I feel like dropping two 8-10k word fics within like two days of each other is. A little much. BUT SOON.

[brwnerinq-89]

i'm. so. sorry

[bydusklight]

when you and your husband haven't seen each other in a while.

[feraltwinkseb]

Race winner Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris celebrate in parc ferme September 17, 2023 - Singapore, Singapore Source: Mario Renzi - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images

[zingaplanet]

Here's your incredible friendship story of the day:

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first two people to ever summit the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. Before the commercialised hiking expeditions of the 21st century, Hillary and Norgay had to make the climb without a pre-fixed route, discovering their own path to the top (one of which later became known as the Hillary Step in the Everest climbing trail).

The pair did not know each other well beforehand but met through their mountaneering peers. Norgay (a sherpa, Himalayan locals well-known for their mountaneering prowess) apparently made a lasting first impression on Hillary due to his incredible mountaneering skills, patience, complete with his "flashing, irresistible smile".

In one ocassion during their few earlier expeditions together, Hillary stepped on a crumbling ice and almost fell to his death before Norgay saved his life. This made him determined to ask Norgay to be his partner for his Everest Summit expedition.

Amongst other members of the expedition, their pairing became the first one who were successful, reaching the highest point on Earth at 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953.

At the top, Hillary hilarously recalled extending his hand to shake Tenzing's hand in "a good Anglo-Saxon fashion," but his Nepalese-Indian friend jumped him on the back and gave him a massive hug instead. As he said, it was the “great moment for which I had waited all my life, [...] I waved my arms in the air and then threw them around Hillary, and we thumped each other on the back until, even with the oxygen, we were almost breathless!”.

But beyond this monumental achievement, the gentlemen's agreement they made at the top was perhaps an equally impressive commitment.

Being the only people in the world who were present, Norgay and Hillary made a promise to present their a success as a joint effort. Both countrymen were under international pressure to divulge who was actually the first to step foot on the summit. Despite the rising colonial tension at the times, both Norgay and Hillary refused to say anything other than they reached the summit together as a team, carrying the secret to their deathbeds.

After Everest, Hillary devoted his life to assisting the overlooked sherpa people of Nepal. He established the Himalayan Trust, constructing many schools and hospitals in Nepal. Norgay continued to climb mountains all over the world for the rest of his life and died in his beloved Himalayas.

Hillary and Norgay remained lifelong friends, bonded for life. When Tenzing Norgay died in India in 1986, the country was in a massive political turmoil and all the streets in Darjeeling were closed due to confrontations with Nepalese separatists.

Edmund Hillary was the only foreigner allowed to enter the region, as reporters recounted how protesters parted ways to enable him to pay respects to his old friend.

In 2003, their sons Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay climbed Everest together, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their fathers' memorable climb that changed the world forever.

[etherealriver]

Okay but I'm actually sobbing over Wild Blue Yonder WHO GAVE IT THE RIGHT TO BE SO RAW. That shit HURT and I LOVED IT. I didn't realize how much I missed David Tennant as the doctor and rtd and Donna and I'm going to explode. I love our platonic soulmates so much.

[mjj-nostalgia]

"As long as Y/N is happy...I just wish I said something sooner...,"

IF THIS IS YOUR GIF PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

[iamshame]

Chapter Seventeen. In which Astarion finds himself in the Kennel, at Godey's mercy.

Even before he opened his eyes, Astarion knew from the musty, stinking air in his nostrils that he was in the Kennel.

For a moment, he had the horrifying thought that maybe his entire escape and adventures had all been some kind of hallucination, just the fevered fantasies of a tortured mind. Maybe he had never left this rancid cell.

Then, he realised that no. The reality was worse. He had been free. He’d felt the sunlight on his skin. He’d laughed, and smiled, and the touch of others had brought him genuine comfort and joy. He’d known hope and happiness and maybe even love, and now it had all been snatched away from his desperate, grasping hands. 

Hurt/comfort, 2000 words (this chapter).

[cutemothman]

best msr hug is the one at the end of paper hearts where mulder smiles so so big and scully pulls him against her and ruffles his hair

[anothermonikan]

Love Fluffybird TikTok’s new interest with when Red Guy and Duck glance at each others directions during the Transport song 

[saqui]

It's nice to imagine Oscar saying this to Ruby:

"I know you want to be strong for your friends and I won't let you stop because it is your decision...

but I want you to lean on me. I want to be your shoulder to cry on when you're at your weakest. I want to be there for you when you want to cry. I want you to trust me. I'll be right here if you need someone. It's okay to cry."

Or he says:

"I want you to share your burdens with me."

[meezer]

okay it was kinda cute. they turned it around with the hand-holding and the hug there at the end

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

Me when someone says they’re happy to see me

[pu1itzer]

what sky are you ?

overcast sky

you've built up some walls around you . you're careful with whom you give your heart and your trust . you feel like you're waiting for something , but you're not sure what it is . there's something telling you that there's more to life for you than what you have now . but until then, you're content to let the days pass . you're not in any rush , but some days you can't ignore the sense of restlessness that comes with waiting . you are a calm but intimidating presence .

tagged by : i stole it from @darehearts tagging : @bruz3r , @am4zon , @hopesent , @fatedtruths & YOU !

[acanthyme]

sigh. so tiiiiired..... but sleep eludes me...