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[niggadiffusion]

Out Here

by DiegoJae

Way too many niggas out here acting

Like they was my type — nah

Energy off, vibe counterfeit

Tryna sit at my table with no invite

You don't match the cloth, don’t wear the thread

I peep the shift before it's said

Smile too wide, hands too quick —

Plot thicker than the tone they spit

Sorry, I don’t like you — don’t pretend it’s deeper

You feel some type of way?

That’s a personal preacher

Go pray on it, don’t play on it

I don’t carry no guilt in my sneakers

If it don’t serve peace, I delete ya

I don’t give a fuck — that’s the mantra

Say it slow like a prayer to the drama

I'm out here doing me — no costume, no commas

Straight lines, raw soul, real trauma

If you down — where the drinks at?

Where the real ones sink at?

Where the pain gets poured and the truths get linked at?

Where silence ain’t awkward, just mutual respect

And love ain’t performative — it come correct

Never been the type to beg for seatbelts

I ride with the risk and I trust how the lean felt

Eyes open, circle lean, blade tucked in the dream

Cut ties cleaner than the truth that I scream

So miss me with the half-truths and timeline flicks

I’m rooted in the now, not your highlights and tricks

This aura got layers, not a costume to switch

It’s “know me or leave me,” I don’t dance for clicks

Out here — chest bare to the storm

Voice calm in the quake, I was made to transform

Don’t care if you watch, just know I was born

To walk through the fire and rise, not perform.

[reunitedinterlude]

would love to hear more actually 💔 (1, 2)

bonus:

[canisalbus]

hey there!! i'd been checking this blog for a while, and I really wanted to say you're a great source of inspiration haha! I really love your dog characters and your lore! The amount of research and dedication is really amazing!! about ludovica's gf, do you mind if I come in with my vision as well? I think she'd be a really fluffy dog, maybe with curly hair. so my mind went to the portuguese water dog; but then i thought of two versions: long hair and short hair. so i drew both (tried my best to make her look like a lady and not a grandpa haha)

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[anticidic]

...Dazai anonymously sending Chuuya a cake that just says 'I Tolerate You' and he keeps being nosy and spying on Chuuya to see his reaction to a wrapped up box sitting on his desk.

Chuuya's face going from pleasantly confused to being gifted a cake to straight up confusion, then mild irritation as the gears in his head turn and he mentally goes down a list of who could've gifted him a cake with those words. He almost think it's a reverse psychology joke and approaches Kouyou about it, and while she's amused, she tells him she'd straight up hand something to him in person, not be secretive about it.

So then begs the question, who would be secretive and dodgy about their feelings with a fancy 'I Tolerate You' cake that also seems to hold a subtler meaning.

We have two Dazais: 15!Dazai telling Chuuya he loves him with his whole chest and 18!Dazai begrudgingly making it look like he just puts up with Chuuya. But Chuuya knows Dazai too well by now so Chuuya's trying to see what kind of mind game nonsense Dazai is up to (is the cake bad? Did Dazai put something in it? Is it a fake cake? maybe it's so obvious it's Dazai that it really isn't him?) when it's really just...his partner still sucks at truly expressing himself.

"Hey, wouldn't it be kinda terrifying if your partner actually cracked the code and revealed feelings you didn't even know you had because they're either buried so deep it's nothing or everything all at once? Gross, amirite?" <- Dazai probably, breathing a sigh of relief at Chuuya's frustrated confusion

[stanford-photography]

Birthday Flowers By Jeff Stanford, 2024

Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

[wackywatchdotcom]

imo jax has no clue that hes miserable. like hes putting on a face for sure but i dont think he actually has the emotional awareness to know WHY hes doing that. he just wants to look cool and masculine and thats as far as he thinks on it. theres more to it but he doesnt know that. being sad isnt cool so he wouldnt even entertain the idea that hes secretly sad

[lurking-loaf]

Surprise! They wanted to bring you this pumpkin and when I say they bring you I mean sun makes a cute pose as moon carries all the weight

Awww! Thanks for the pumpkin! I am sending Sun and Moon back to you with something we quickly put together over here.

Hopefully Sun will be a little more helpful on the return trip.

[naetles]

you guys don't understand how badly i need this illustration in the highest quality possible i feel like a feral animal rattling the bars of my enclosure

[strryhaze]

"That's the most meaningless, worthless thing I've ever heard," he exploded as others around the table gaped. "You people are so anxious to protect your own asses that you're afraid to do anything. All you want to do is dump the whole thing on the president. We'd be better off if you just quit and left foreign policy to someone else."

Watching Kennedy's tirade was a young White House aide named Richard Goodwin. The observant Goodwin noticed that while RFK ranted, the "president sat calmly, outwardly relaxed," gently tapping his teeth with a pencil. "I became suddenly aware," Goodwin later wrote, ". . . that Bobby's harsh polemic reflected the president's own concealed emotions, privately communicated in some earlier, intimate conversation."

robert kennedy: his life by evan thomas

[eobe]

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Caf shop, Coruscant, 1:00 pm

previous chapter (<-)

No way. You won't believe this. Today Commander Fox marched into the caf shop, ordered his caf and came DIRECTLY to my table! No need to be so tall towering and intimidating... Trying to work outside my atelier maybe wasn't a great idea 🙈 Aaand teasing him in the message, calling his caf „Spicy YOU“ without thinking twice made it even worse…

I don’t know why, but he didn‘t stop grinning and he offered to invite me to as much ‚SPICY FOX‘ (...caf ☕️? Of course you... mean the drink, Sir?) as I want if I drew him smiling instead of tired like the first time.

And it’s not necessary to overemphasize that kriffing caf blend like! that! 🙈 Almost hissing... showing canine teethhzzzss 🦊 ... with that glare

I'm an artist. I AM professional mostly. I stay cool and sound. Hrrmph!

Bold clone trooper! I‘m trying to pay my fees with my art and you can‘t just rush in and SPICY FOX (??) me and think that‘s okay. It‘s not. Why am I doing it nevertheless??

He‘s obviously not used to pose, to hold still or even smile. Way too tense, it‘s quite difficult to draw this man.

I‘m not sure if some ‚Spicy Fox‘ I MEAN THE CAF BLEND, SIR! is adequate payment…

🦊🫠✨☕️

Now look, the poor little artist reader is losing it slowly but steadily and HE KNOWS IT! 🦊❤️‍🔥 Hehehe! Screech 🦉🥰

Amber, this is way too much fun! 🤩🫶✨ You can‘t just keep on FOXING me and think that this is not coming back to yoouuu 😁 Hehehehe now YOU get FOXed! Follow me down hehe 😎 🫠

Fun unforseen side story to this drawing: I was sitting in the train on my way, drawing and giggling, irritating teenies so I showed them this drawing for fun. They couldn’t believe that I do TCW art, I guess I disillusioned them, being 30+ with my wild locks, heavy boots and fun excitement, not caring about indignant elders in the train, which would gasp if they knew that I‘m heading to play graphic design boss for some office dressed business peers in glass buildings ✨ I love this, indulging in my betweens like that because I LOVE THE STORY-ART-COLLAB-WHATEVER-MAGIC-MOMENTS. Thank you so much 🥰🙏 I guess creamy caf will never be innocent again hehe 🔥☕️✨

Magic moments between is how to deal with real life, my dear folks 🫶🥰 I'm getting faster drawing, planning, writing, tagging, ALT-texting... all thanks to you all ♥️🤩

My personal ALT text mission (1 additional ALT text for a previous artwork with each new art posting!):

Another clone clowning with his face, but inmidst chaos 😆

Taglist: @eclec-tech @lonewolflupe @bixlasagna @returnofthepineapple @sunshinesdaydream @covert1ntrovert @general-ida-raven @vrycurious @dystopicjumpsuit @chaicilatte @groguandthebadbatch @justanotherdikutsimp @ladylucksrogue

Stay FOXed 🦊🔥: @ghostymarni @foxwithadarkside @feral-ferrule @nika6q

[supernxvas]

I MUST SAY SOMETHING i know sports players are not allowed to have piercings or long nails WHATEVER !!! but jean’s band aid fingers in tgr (such a sweet moment btw) made me think of MANICURES and EXTENSIONS. having my nails done has helped me so much with that shit bc a nice thick plastic oval nail extension can’t break skin as easily.

also jean with sick ass manicures is giving me life rn… expressive gestures + nails… matching sets… with who? the possibilities expand by the second. nora or one of u lovely folk who can draw get jean to the salon STAT

[stanford-photography]

Valentine Delivery By Jeff Stanford, 2025

Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

[zraloci-sharks]

I like the Disco Elysium style and I like the Catcher in the Rye. Thinking about it, they are similar in a way, though I can't quite explain how.

A little mock-up!

[civetcider]

My toxic masc trait is having a really hard time putting my emotions into words unless they are somewhat aggressive ones and i have been slowly trying to express my affection for people into words more but at the end of the day I'll always be somebody who expresses my love more with actions then anything else, and normally I wouldn't make a dumb ass tumblr post about my feel feels either cuz like who cares but I need to know if other masc and butches or like anybody else have experienced this too where, people just WONT GET IT? like I'll try to SHOW someone I love them in every physical way I know how and then they will be like "how was I supposed to know how you feel, you never said anything" crushing my heart into a million pieces, like a punch in the gut, i was trying to show you but i guess you just like didn't notice or my actions didn't mean as much to you as they do me, it's fine I'm fine

[cxndiedvi0lets]

I HATE emotions