#and community. Each year

[qcsupermom]

Friday Four: Embracing Kwanzaa: A Soulful Celebration of Unity, Purpose, and Heritage

[crazycometspecular]

look how she lights up the sky ✨

[royalarchivist]

Pac: Tamo junto, Fitch.

Fit: 😘❤️

Over one year after their first (official) date, Fit and Pac finally have their first kiss. 🥹💕

[lonestardust]

"Thanks for taking the time, baby" "Always." CARLOS & TK 9-1-1 : LONE STAR : SERIES FINALE : "Homecoming" 5.12

[nidbaesenpai]

Paper flowers seem beyond you now but you can always go back to the basics, paper cranes are easy enough...

[ruporas]

being a little petty (ID in alt)

[deathandnonexistentialdread]

So here is the thing: I feel like Yuugi truly understands Yami incredibly well already. He knows when Yami needs a change of pace (hence the date with Anzu) and he also takes Yami's thoughts and ideas into consideration as well

Take for instance this comment by Yami during the burning building arc where Yuugi rebuilds the Puzzle in record time.

During the date with Anzu, Yuugi did put silver jewelery on his arms while he was getting ready, because Yami showed an interest in it and also because since Yami was using the body for the day, Yuugi dressed up keeping Yami's preferences in mind.

Even in this scene, even without Yami giving Yuugi an inking about his actual thoughts and problems, Yuugi hits the nail on the head precisely. Anzu's reaction is proof of how correct Yuugi is.

TL;DR: if Yami wants Yuugi to understand him better without communicating or telling Yuugi anything, they might as well meld their minds together at this point

[chloesimaginationthings]

Happy Birthday!!

TYSM FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES! YOU GUYS ARE TOO KIND 😭💜

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt in Memes 6

Let's make it some in-world memes this time :)

[thebroccolination]

Y’all WilliamEst are very good at this game already. Like, they hit their post-ThamePo success guns blazing, every social media platform active, memes mastered, like damn. This is how you play and win.

And like, for some it’s luck, right? They get a smash series, or they lean on chemistry alone, but these two got BOTH? ThamePo is incredible and WilliamEst have fantastic chemistry and they’re both in their early twenties, so they have enormous potential moving ahead.

They’re the breakout khuujin of 2025, hands down, and I also appreciate that they both seem absolutely kind and lovely on top of it. Couldn’t happen to nicer kids. I wish them enormous success and a relatively tame fandom.

[shallowseeker]

I have two questions for you, really. Just as proof of the point. But first:

[see-arcane]

One thing that I really liked is how the Juke's spiritual dance scene was so vibrant and diverse, not a single person was dancing the same, different ancestors from different cultures and different music styles yet so clear that the meaning of the music evolved despite being severed by colonialism, even the chinese spirits were opera actors! The fire burning through the physical dimension of the wood, representing unity and freedom powered by Sammie... then the irish vampire dance comes, and it's just so so flat.

No one is irish, not a single person (except Remmick) there knows what the rocky road to Dublin means culturally yet they sing it in a shrill tone, he is the only one dancing in the middle of the circle, and suddenly everyone forcibly moves in a hivemind around him to worship HIS culture. There are no dancers, no different music rhythms, and certainly no ancestors nor future people.

While Sammie brought both alive and dead with his voice and music in harmony to celebrate past present and future in a space of true community, Remmick could only imitate it in a desperate attempt for community while gleefully colonizing black and brown people just like how the english colonized his.

1000% this.

Sammie's gift manifests what community actually is, weaving together a collection of multiple identities with a shared culture, history, and heart at its roots. It's celebratory and a revel of everything past, present, and future. Identity, but not identical.

Remmick's imitation is only a showcase of himself and the warped vestiges of his own culture and past, leaving room for nothing else, all of it forced onto unwilling participants to play along in what amounts to a puppet show performance to make Remmick alone feel better. We see proof in the end credits with Stack and Mary that, while still monstrous, vampirism here is not a thing that innately causes you to colonize on impulse. They were only themselves, independent as a simple duo.

The full colonizing/conscripting route comes strictly from Remmick. He is the one choosing to actively violate and force his will onto trapped souls the way you'd playact with dolls, all the while willfully blind to how he's repeating the same evil that the English forced on him and his long-dead community.

I honestly wonder what would have happened if Remmick had got hold of Sammie in the end. Either forced him to turn or wrung some pity-performance out of him, calling up Remmick's ancestors and descendants...only for those spirits not to dance and commune with him the way the spirits reveled in the juke joint.

The spirits Sammie conjured with talent, love, and joy were there to celebrate among their people. And Remmick's community, if they deigned to appear, what could they possibly have to celebrate in that bloodstained night, seeing what this member of their kin has done? This distorted funhouse mirror version of the same bastards who stole their land and their culture and their lives, making those sins worse twice over with an existential undead hell of souls enslaved to his hive mind will? No. They wouldn't dance. They wouldn't revel.

Remmick's lucky he died before he could drag Sammie into his hell and coerce a summoning song out of him. The stake and sun took him before he had to see exactly what kind of reception his dead and future community would think of his work on earth. (Though I imagine all that is waiting for him still, wherever he's gone.)

[pluck-heartstrings]

A year in review - the year of PLUCK MY HEARTSTRINGS

I both started and finished writing this au this year. From its conception in January to the preliminary designs to the double ending finale: what a ride. I can hardly believe all the art that came out of this year. I can definitely say I’ve improved haha ❤️.

Honestly I have enough art of each of the main cast to do a whole year of these. This one just happened to be more Princess focused (she’s my first OC, can you believe it?)

2025 will feature some new and some familiar faces 😎✨ in the DCAU - Celestial Meridian (title reveal!!!)

[nightmares-and-stars]

dont get me wrong, falling asleep in my f/o's arms after a bad day, is one of the best feelings in the world.

but falling asleep in her arms after a good day? Getting into bed after spending the day with her and laying there thinking "yea. this. this is how id like to spend the rest of my life"

top tier, best feeling ever

[flwrkid14]

Danny and Tim have this unspoken bond, both of them constantly walking the line between life and death—Tim with his brushes with danger as Red Robin, and Danny being, well, half-dead. You’d think that shared experience would bring them closer, but instead, it’s just one more thing that separates them.

Tim feels like he can never fully reach Danny. There’s always a distance, an invisible wall between them, and it eats at him. Danny can phase through walls, but somehow, the emotional ones are harder to break down. Tim’s used to distance, though—he’s felt it his whole life—with Bruce, with the Bat family, and now, with Danny.

Danny tries to reassure Tim, tells him that he’s always there, but Tim can see the cracks. He knows what it’s like to hold everything together, to be the one everyone depends on, and Danny’s doing the same thing. Tim sees the strain in Danny’s smile, the way his eyes glaze over when he thinks no one’s watching. But what kills Tim the most is that Danny won’t let him in—not fully. Not in the way Tim wants.

Some nights, it feels like they’re both ghosts. Tim, drifting through the Batcave like a shadow, barely noticed, and Danny, flickering between his human and ghost forms, unsure where he belongs. They’re both alive, but neither of them really feels it. The constant brushes with death, the danger—it’s left them numb in different ways.

Tim wonders if Danny’s afraid of hurting him, afraid of getting too close. Danny’s power—his half-dead nature—it’s a part of him, and Tim knows he doesn’t want to accidentally phase through Tim’s life, leave him behind, like he’s done with so many others. But Tim’s already used to being left behind, and maybe that’s the worst part. He’s so used to it that he’s convinced himself it’s just how things are meant to be.

They don’t talk about it, about the distance or the loneliness, but it’s always there, lingering like a third presence in the room. Danny, half-dead. Tim, feeling like he’s not fully living. Both of them too scared to confront it, to say out loud what they’re both thinking—that maybe they’ll never really fit anywhere. Not with the Bat family, not with the ghosts, not even with each other.

[rororowyourboat18]

Keeper

Thanks @lupeloto for the @galladrabbles prompt

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Mickey was enjoying the fuck out of himself. 

Everyone thinks he is the temperamental husband with anger issues. That is, until they meet Ian, “The Protector” Gallagher.

His gentle giant of a husband is nowhere in sight whenever someone messes with their daughter. So, Mickey just sits back and watches Ian tear into all the school administrators.

That is until a dishevel principal address his directly. 

“Mr. Milkovich please control your husband!”

Mickey just snorts with his arms crossed and a grin on his face.

“Fuck that, I’m not his keeper.” And continues to enjoy the free show.