#and my partner for being patient

[ffive-by-fivee]

I miss London and I miss Paris and I miss LA and I miss Denver and I miss my new friends and I miss my grandpa and I miss my girl and I miss my best friend and I miss my other best friend and I miss being on a plane and I miss my band and I miss not having arthritis and I miss my old coworkers and I miss wn and I miss that feeling in my chest when I experience something beautiful for the first time and I miss

[ropebuny]

I just want someone who will not leave when things get difficult

[deoidesign]

something that makes me sad is when people tell me the healthy communication in my writing is "unrealistic."

like guys this is how me and my partner talk with eachother... I'm writing from personal experience...

[daily-hanamura]

[captain-lovelace]

Protect the innocent. Lead the guilty to the wolf.

Aren’t you hungry still?

[luedelouartandwriting]

i've been burnt out and unable to draw for basically the last two years, but i wanna try and pull myself out of it. so here is a teeny kabumisu for pride month.

[lungfuls]

Maybe I'm projecting and being hopeful but I mentioned to M that I don't even get to shit by myself in peace lmao and I feel like something clicked for him. Bc I was like hey, at least you get private bathroom breaks at work (noncombative). And since then he's been a lot more acquiescent when I ask if I can nap and stuff

[nerdacious]

*rings dinner bell*

Come and get your Chapter 15!

[skiploom]

[deletreatualma]

I've been seeing a lot of A.taylor.jhnsn on my dash. It's got me wanting to add Erebus back.

[theparadoxart]

Being patient with her is my love language <3

[noxexistant]

now you’re onto something with Tommy Boy stammering 🤌🤌

[i bow to the wildly applauding crowd of two people]

tommy’s stammering is a vicious cycle - he talks less and gets more anxious because of it, which makes it worse, which makes him want to talk even less. he gets incredibly frustrated with himself, and very embarrassed, and then he has these explosive outbursts because he hates his stupid useless tongue and hates himself and hates talking and hates people looking at him like that—

this all leaves him with this reputation of being a loose cannon and erratic and violent, and also not being very bright - none of which is true. really, he’s shy and gentle and empathetic and understanding. he loves to hear other people’s points of view and always puts himself in other people’s shoes when he’s considering any situation. he’ll hear anyone out about anything, especially if other newsies get into an argument or fight, he’ll want to hear every side and really understand the whole situation - and then he’ll try to fix it. he likes people, he wants people to be friends, he just wants everyone to understand each other. he hates how angry he gets when things aren’t working.

his stammer can mean he has a lot of trouble selling papes too, especially on bad days, and other newsies sometimes accuse him of putting it on for sympathy. they’ll tell him to talk proper, and some have hit him in the face like that’ll either make him stop faking or maybe knock something loose and fix him. people he’s trying to sell to will lose patience while he’s trying to force himself through announcing the headline, and he stammers worse when he’s trying to sell a fake one because he gets even more nervous. it’s a big factor in why he scabs during the strike - because he wholeheartedly feels like he’s unwanted and useless among the newsies, and he doesn’t make enough money off his own back to turn down the extra money for scabbing.

when jack does his impassioned speech to each of the scabs to encourage them to step down, tommy tries to ignore him. he doesn’t want to respond, he knows he’ll embarrass himself, but jack is looking at him, holding him by the shoulder, waiting for him, looking at him with that sort of expectant look tommy’s used to when he’s not speaking. and he does stammer as he responds - speaking in front of most of the newsies for the first time, including jack - but jack doesn’t look impatient as tommy fumbles through his sentence, questioning if jack and the rest really want him as part of the strike. he waits for tommy to finish - really waits for him to finish, until tommy’s said every word, even though it takes him a while and more attempts than he can count and jack definitively could’ve interrupted him and just guessed like most people do - and he earnestly tells tommy that he’s one of them. that they want him there. that they’ll look after him better than wiesel and the delanceys ever would.

so tommy throws down his papes. and he starts talking when the other newsies talk to him, even talking when they don’t and he’s just got something he wants to say.

he decides he truly is one of them the day albert tries to interrupt him while he’s stuttering and tommy tells him to shut up and finishes his sentence.

[deoidesign]

I love Time and Time Again!! It was genuinely interesting to see two characters talk things out. Of course they kept secrets, but they knew when to reveal them and that made me want to stick around and read it. Thankyou for making such a wonderful comic!!

Thank you so much!!!

This really means a lot to me <3

I think there's generally a tendency to believe that relationships can't be nice in a romance or the story will be boring.

I understand where this idea comes from, stories should have conflict! And, real world relationships have conflict, as well. They always will! It makes sense that most stories centered around relationships would, inevitably, at some point, have disagreements, fights, anger...

I get why others enjoy it, its messy it's fun it's drama! but for me personally it just stresses me out since I've done so much work to NOT be like that!

As a writer, when presented with two people who are reasonably at odds with eachother, where neither of them is in the wrong per se, but someone still ends up hurt... it's a fun challenge to write them working through it in a believable way. it's a fun challenge, too, to put them into situations that feel equal and human.

I just think it's a necessary thing for who I am as a person to write relationships the way I do, and so I'm just very very very glad that other people resonate with it as well!

It means a lot. Thank you.

[viaetor]

(๑╥﹏╥)੭ ♡

[sezja]

My dentist's receptionist fucking loves me

[cynicalmusings]

‘the most crucial skill that a good drinksmith needs is listening… drinksmithing is all about having conversations with your guests’

tea house owner!reader energy for real