#and commiserate <3

[thebestestbat]

the fic i read that bothered me the most and it continues to bother me CONTINUALLY was a sirius/harry fanfic (on ff.net, i dont remember the title and i definitely couldn't find it again). i was like 12 or 13 and it was like 50-100k of "everyone thinks this relationship is not okay but it is okay because we love each other, and everyone who thinks it's not okay either changes their mind or Gets Theirs in the end" and it made me feel so BAD and to this day thinking of it makes me feel BAD and its part of why i cannot stand fics like that. i mean i think in an objective sense as well, i wouldn't like those stories, but i also acknowledge that it's a fine line between a story like i described and a story that is Depicting An Abusive Relationship. which i think are fine and in fact i love reading those. and i think that is my main problem bc i enjoy reading about dark things, but sometimes the story is just not what i am looking for and in fact makes me feel BAD.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

i wanna know more about svsss menopause

They synced their periods together too well. Now they are synced through their perimenopause years.

[crimeronan]

Woke up today thinking it’d be really fucking funny if Luz and Willow get their shit together re: any dating stuff before any of the others do mainly cause I’m just picturing Amity being really bitey bitchy jealous about Willow being brave enough to actually pursue Luz at all which leads to Amity pulling the “wow I didn’t think you were this type of social climber” card and Willow Uno Reversing her with the “Do you think the only reason people date is to improve in social status? Wow. That’s really pathetic. You’re really pathetic. Not to mention an insult to Luz insinuating nobody would want to date her for any reason other than her crown. Man, you suck.”

Cue Amity curled up in a corner eating eyescream because Fuck She Got Absolutely Fucked with that one

THIS IS HILARIOUS AND DELIGHTFUL. GET HER ASS!!!!!

[gerryrigged]

dicktim - La Beau Au Bois Dormant

idea gripping my tired brain by the throat about Tim being struck by some kind of sleeping beauty poison or spell and falling comatose.

Except the solution is not True Love's Kiss but sending someone inside his soul to battle the dragon that will manifest from his inner demons to keep him imprisoned, forever.

The highest chance for success necessitates sending in the one person that the sleeper trusts most - often their love, hence the poison/spell's reputation, but not always.

And almost everyone immediately turns to Dick, like in you go, Nightwing, what are you waiting for.

Which Dick. Doesn't know how to react to, because. God he would give anything to be that person for Tim again. But he knows that he broke something between them when he stripped away Robin.

They've moved past it, they're...fine. But Dick knows. It's not the same. They aren't the same.

He can't help Tim with this. Tim probably wouldn't even want him to try. And that kills him, but he won't sabotage Tim's only shot to wake up because of his own desperate wish to still be the one Tim turns to first. His north star.

There's a ticking-clock time limit before Tim won't be able to wake up at all. They don't have any time to lose.

He looks away from everyone's expectant, demanding stares.

"Call Superboy," he says, voice scraped raw from his throat. "Or Kid Flash. They'll get here in time."

He can't stand the disappointment on Bruce's face. It makes helpless anger boil hot and toxic in his belly. Bruce wasn't here for everything that happened. He doesn't know.

(Dick's never told him. How badly he fucked up.)

"Wait, not his boyfriend?'" Steph says, raised eyebrows and gesticulating at nowhere in particular and Dick's churning thoughts sputter and die into frozen blankness. Boyfriend?

Babs shakes her head on the Batcomputer's view screen.

"They're not at that level of trust yet. They haven't even been dating that long, Tim definitely hasn't told him about - " she twirls a finger, indicating all of them. Red Robin on the medical bed, cowl pushed down and cape pooled around him. The Cave, vaulting overhead. " - all of this. And he won't thank us for doing it for him."

Tim...has a boyfriend?

Wow. His little brother used to always want his advice on love. Life. Everything. If he doesn't trust Dick enough anymore to tell him even that much... Well. It just proves definitively that Dick isn't the right person for this job.

(It hurts like Dick's vital organs are being crushed in a massive fist.)

"Time is ticking," Jason Blood says quietly, looking down at the open face of his pocket watch. At his feet, a circle of lit candles awaits someone to sit down inside and sink into an enchanted meditation.

"Father, clearly it should be you," Damian says, tapping his foot rapidly. His arms are crossed tightly under his cape in a way that he probably means to come across as scornful, rather than apprehensive. "Or Pennyworth, even."

Bruce shakes his head, troubled. "No. I don't think so. Cassie...?"

"No," Cass responds calmly. "Not me." She seems untroubled by her own denial, even though she and Tim have been thick as thieves ever since she returned to Gotham.

She's looking at Dick. She hasn't looked away from Dick this whole time, or let go of Tim's hand, folded in hers protectively, over his heart.

"It's still you, big brother," she says. Gentle and direct and devastating. "Go. Bring him back."

Not so long ago, Tim trusted Dick to catch him when he fell.

Or, he was depressed and passively suicidal and telling Dick what he wanted to hear. Maybe he even believed it, after the fact.

In the end, it doesn't matter. He's Dick's brother. Dick will always, always be there to catch him, whether Tim trusts him to or not.

Dick goes.

He faces Tim, sinks into lotus inside the ring of flickering little flames, and closes his eyes, heart in his throat.

He opens his eyes. A vast, jagged bramble forest looms dark above him. Far in the distance, he can just make out a spindly tower piercing the sky, a flickering little light shining at the top.

He hacks his way through the biting brambles of Tim's resentments, leaving blood and sorrows dripping from the thorns in his wake.

He fights the sly, sinuous dragon of Tim's despair, singing with every breath that he can spare, so that Tim might hear him and know he's not alone.

He wishes he could remember happy songs, bright and lively songs - wishes he could be the light in the darkness that Tim deserves, that he looked up to and chased after and for some reason tried to model himself upon, even when he was already so very bright himself.

But any song is better than none to pierce the lonely vault of silence, so he sings of pain, of loss, of faith and faithlessness. Of holding on past the point of breaking. He sings of two hands open and outstretched, waiting to be clasped and held.

When his voice falters, when adamant scales break his sword and claws shatter his shield, he throws himself at the winged serpent, letting it coil about him and grappling it in turn. Fangs strike at him again and again, piercing flesh and armor both, before he winds his arms around its jaws and holds them shut.

It hisses through clenched teeth about failures, his and Tim's both. He holds its jaws shut, and sings of two ships tossed in a maelstrom, anchored to each other, weathering the storm.

It hisses, venom dripping from its furious curled lips, about abandonment and betrayal. He holds its jaws shut, and sings about two robins, flying with an olive branch held aloft between them.

It hisses to him of ice unending, frozen hearts, shattered trust. He holds its jaws shut, and sings about the steady radiating warmth of a hearth, of a hug, of a new dawn. Of new beginnings.

He rests his forehead on the dragon's growling snout, and sings, "Come home with me. Come home to me. Tim, I love you. Tim, Tim, Tim."

The beast shudders and shivers. And starts to break apart.

The crumbling wings buffet and beat at Dick even as they begin to crack and collapse. Dick lowers his head and holds on tighter.

The massive coiled tail squeezes around Dick convulsively, thrashing and withering. Dick's ribs crack, but he holds on tighter.

Scales etched with Tim's regrets flake off and fall away, like a tree shedding razor edged leaves in autumn. Dick closes his eyes as they kiss and cut his already tattered skin, but just holds on tighter.

Eventually, the violent disintegration comes to an end, and all goes still and quiet.

Save for a familiar shape shaking and weeping in Dick's arms.

Dick opens his eyes, blinking away sweat and blood just to be sure. But yes. It's him. Blue eyes reddened with tears, staring in horror at the ragged torn-up mess of his older brother, come to rescue him.

"Tim," Dick sighs, bones papier-mâché from relief. And exhaustion. "Timmy. Thank god."

"Dick," Tim cries out, gripping him tightly in distress. He lets go immediately at Dick's wince, and tries to pull away. "I'm sorry, I'm so fucking sorry, I'm - your wounds, we have to - "

Dick doesn't let him move an inch. "Shhhhhh," he breathes. "It's a dream, don't worry about it." Tim wriggles in protest at first, determinedly attempting to staunch some of the heavier bleeding, but Dick just holds him tighter. "Please, Timmy," he begs. "Please. Just let me."

Tim's breath hitches, then he wraps his arms around Dick just as hard as Dick is squeezing him, strong and anchoring. Dick's own breath shudders on the edge of a whine, and he buries his nose in Tim's hair.

-----

"Missed you," he whispers hoarsely, several minutes later.

Tim lifts his face from where he's been leaking a silent wet spot into Dick's collarbone.

"Missed you, too," he whispers back, as if they're sharing secrets and might be overheard.

Then Tim hesitates, before setting his mouth firmly. He meets Dick's gaze, and there's a fierce light in his still reddened eyes that transfixes Dick. He almost lost this. He almost lost Tim - so many times, more than he probably even knows about. He never wants to look away.

"And I love you, too, you know. That's never changed. It never will change." His brow is furrowed intently, gaze searching Dick's, like he can find and burn away any hint of doubt or disbelief.

"I know," Dick murmurs, warm down to his battered toes. Tim's alive. Tim's going to wake up, and keep living. Tim loves him, and forgives him, and still trusts him more than anyone else. "I do know. I - "

He releases one arm from its death grip, because he can no longer resist the urge to cup Tim's face, stroke a thumb across his cheek. Tim closes his eyes briefly as he covers Dick's hand with his, leaning into it, brows still drawn together. Like he's in pain, even though all the dings and scratches are on Dick, not him.

Dick's heart seizes.

He dips down, to the impossibly inviting bow of Tim's mouth, and kisses him. At Tim's small, quiet gasp, he gentles further, catching Tim's lips, pulling the full lower curve between his own in a soft tug. To his delight, Tim follows him, chasing his mouth, and they share the sweet cling and press, back and forth.

-----

Dick's wounds are somehow all still present upon waking. Magic, ugh, such a pain. The resulting frenzy of medical attention and getting bundled into another bed - too far away from Tim - like he's one foot through death's door isn't exactly fun, either.

(But still. Well worth it, for that first moment Tim's eyes flutter open and hazily lock on his. The world can keep spinning, now that Dick knows Tim is safe.)

As it turns out, Tim's recollection of what happened inside his own soul is equally hazy.

He remembers enough to melt bonelessly into Dick's chest when Dick sneaks over to share his bed, which dissolves the hard knot of worried tension in Dick's chest that he wouldn't remember anything, that he'd be back to subtle distance and awkward texts and not even feeling comfortable enough to share that he likes men, and Dick. Isn't sure he could have handled that.

So he ignores his aching ribs and multiple lacerations and puncture wounds and curls around Tim with his whole body, warmth and gratitude suffusing every aching muscle.

Tim...doesn't seem to remember the kiss. Which. Is a shame.

But Dick remembers it. Every moment is burned into him like the most intimate pyrography. That will have to be enough, until he can make it happen again.

(Tim's boyfriend doesn't stand a chance.)

[yinyuedijun]

crazy pwp lore incoming cw genocide mention and slavery

there is an absurd amount of backstory to this pwp fic it's so funny. it's over the top too but I do really like it and it is weirdly self-indulgent. reader was straight up sent to kill aventurine because their husband/owner knew he would relate to them and perhaps drop his guard around them (they were enslaved after their planet got colonized and in a strange twist of fate was trafficked to sigonia where a katican bought them since they, well, ran out of avgins to enslave) but then aventurine and reader understood each other a little too well and became psychosexually obsessed with one another. then reader decided "I want him to be my new owner :)" and killed their husband and aventurine was like "for the first time in my life I own something unconditionally :)" and now they have nonstop crazy obsessive sex because ownership entails sex to them. the moral of this story is that if you put two bpd girlies in the same room with each other they will inevitably become obsessed with each other and fuck in a casino . someone lobotomize me

[schmweed]

Succession | S01E03

[l1veleak]

Switzerland and Portugal going out on penalties back to back and bringing us one step closer to the worst possible final (France v England)

[heartual]

giving up on work for tonight and working on the little lego flower set my mom got me <3

[prettydeadb0y]

in a couple days i will be completely done with my bachelor's degree and that is so insane to me

[disabled-queer-culture-is]

Slightly disabled/ace culture is looking up flat feet to try and find advice for making walking/standing less painful and exhausting or just some other people to commiserate with but instead having to sift through mountains of feet pics and articles saying how flexible flat feet is usually asymptomatic and no other solutions aside from maybe get arch supports (which I already have) and do these exercises (I do already, they're not helping).

I want answers not feet pics!!

[aromanticduck]

Just turned my 7am alarm back on :(

[alcordraws]

i hope you reported that commenter because holy shit???? the sheer entitlement of "hey, i'm being a complete asshole and then some because you're not giving me free things and not catering to my every whim therefore You're in the wrong :)" like... get help but not here, sorry you had to get that kind of asshole in your comments 😔 maiming biting them in spirit

Yeah, and like. Being told to go fuck myself because I haven't updated a particular story is not gonna make me wanna work on it either. Unhinged behavior!

[feraecor]

My afternoon was spent with these 3 knuckleheads at work!

[garrulouseccentric]

the grocery store finally finished moving the aisle contents around and they rearranged everything except, like, the meat, the produce, and the kosher section

they left that in the same spot but moved everything around it and

does this qualify as a hate crime or is it a favor to save me the walk

[schmweed]

[solitarelee]

I have a monstrously heavy flow, too. I use pads with my cup/tampon bc for at least half my period I'll go through days where the floodgates randomly open, soak my tampon and push past it or overflow my cup. Sometimes less than an hour after changing/emptying it. To the point that POSTPARTUM bleeding was like "oh this is like a bad month, no biggie". If I wear them by themselves it's on lighter days or bc internal products are making my cramps worse. I sleep like a thrashing demon and will always stain something if I sleep in just a pad, though. It's always granny panties with the giant overnight pads with wings. The wings are the key to the pad-wider-than-underwear-gusset problem, bc when you wrap them around they fold the extra on the sides against the undies, preventing impromptu waxing sessions. It feels like wearing a diaper. As for showering and drying off, I happened upon a solution to extending the precious few moments of clean coochie so things can be properly toweled off. TMI!! but inserting a clean finger and running it around the vaginal wall to essentially scoop some of the gore out in the shower at the very end, then washing off all the blood as quickly as possible and hopping out before the uterus catches up is...a method. Has Also helped when I was miserable bc I was trying to pass massive clots, bc that always makes me cramp like a motherfucker. Also a separate washcloth for drying the undercarriage just in case. Anyways, solidarity ✊ life with a uterus can be ass. Moment of silence for all the time we've collectively wasted waiting to stop hemorrhaging over the toilet when we could have been having a sandwich. (And sorry for text block 😭 mobile)

FINALLY SOMEONE WHOSE PERIOD EXPERIENCE MATCHES MINE. I FELT EVERY WORD OF THIS. Seriously the pads i have right now that i can't even work my way thru fast bc i get periods so rarely, they don't have properly wide wings and i'm suffering.

ngl I wish I had thought of the "clean things out in there to give yourself a few moments of peace" technique; i also have "period wash cloths" that are tellingly pink wash clothes I use specifically for drying the undercarriage (i like that term lol).