#feelings about oceans

[cricketnationrise]

okay I'll play!

 a timestamp: 4:03 am - a location: a beach (like an ocean beach, not a lake beach) - a character: June Claremont-Diaz

Ooooh! I am a beach girlie myself, so excuse me while I project all over June for a moment. Hope you like it @adreamareads!

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beach, 4:03am

Usually, she sleeps like a baby at her dad’s house, but it’s four in the morning and June is wide awake. With a sigh, she gives up on falling back asleep, rolls out of bed, and throws on some sweats. She makes her way quietly through the house, collecting the essentials. She leaves a note for Oscar in case he wakes up before she’s back, and then June is out the door.

It's a quick two-street trip to the beach, and the sound of waves grows louder with every step she takes. Pre-sunrise, the world is still – too early for pets and all but the most dedicated athletes. June is almost never alone anymore, between her job and Nora and former-First-Daughter appearances, so taking this moment just for herself is unexpectedly nice, even if she’d rather be sleeping.

She rounds the last corner and the shore comes into view, eerie in the dim light of false dawn. With the first step onto the sand, June feels some lingering stress fall from her shoulders. Water, especially the ocean, has always relaxed her, always made her feel more connected and rooted to herself. 

She likes the lake house just fine, but she always misses waves when she’s there. It’s also become more Alex’s retreat than her own (despite it being their dad’s property), especially now that he and Henry are going to have one of their weddings there. California, and her dad’s house especially, feel more hers. Alex hasn’t ever lived here for longer than a few weeks at a time, needing to spend most of his time in Texas and then DC and New York for school. June loves Alex more than she’ll ever be able to properly put into words, but it's definitely a (slightly guilty) relief to be in a place that doesn’t feel like he’s a part of – a place where June can be the focus for once.

June picks her spot carefully and unfurls the old comforter on the ground, weighing the corners down with rocks. She settles into the center and pulls Oscar’s big camping thermos out of her bag. Big enough to fit an entire pot of coffee, its best feature is the outer lid that becomes a mug. June pours herself a cup and looks out at the waves, reveling in the mixed scents of salt air and coffee that she gets with each inhale.

A breeze lifts her hair off her neck, making her shiver, so she tugs her hood up. She brings her knees up and tucks them under her chin. Despite the early morning chill, June doesn’t want to be anywhere else. She lets the coffee keep her warm while she watches the sky slowly get lighter, watches the tide come in.

June lets the place wash over her: listens to the waves crash, watches the sun start to reflect off the surface, basks in the still peace of the morning. She’ll head back eventually, but for now, she’s more than content to be alone with herself.

[orangelemonart]

Episode 13 is wild but episode 31 is even wilder. Nice try boys, only the gentle slap of another girl can fix whatever the hell is wrong her.

source for joke

[fumifooms]

Rin, smiling, and nagging

Rinsha Fana’s character is summarized in a couple facts thrown here and there. Because she worries for him, she follows Kabru to help his cause and protect him, and to nag him. She’s a grumpy angry tsundere, but it seems not only rooted in her attitude but on a deep rooted physical level, to the point where any intense emotion she feels will make her frown and scowl even if it’s genuine joy. Her childhood was half spent ostracized in the tallman community her family lived in and half with the elves, where she’s said to have been treated like an animal.

We don’t know how she was raised exactly or who it even was, but knowing she was "treated like an animal" by the elves taking care of her…

Elves are shown to have a highly hierarchical society, not only with their concern with status such as nobility and the purity of bloodlines but also reflected by its social culture imo. They have high society and etiquette, upmost devotion to the queen, very role-oriented, like cogs in a machine, and as such, it’s a bit skewed since most of what we see of the elves is in a military context with military people but they seem to value having emotions under lock and key to be efficient and not bring dishonor, Flamela is an interesting character on this. Don’t be a bother and do your job until you’re called on, fulfill your role, everything else is extra at best inconvenient at worst.

Personally I do think the canaries kept Rin, it’d make sense that whichever canaries got stuck with the job at the headquarters would be barebones with her and treat her like an ‘impounded article’, they couldn’t find another place for her and this way they can get her report on the events whenever she can speak again in however many years, and this way it makes sense that she could keep in touch with Kabru too. They’re used to prisoners, not kids. Being raised in a military context rather than at some orphanage would shape her further.

All of this to say…

She’d already seen the world’s harshness to those who don’t conform in her hometown, but with the elves? Her disdain for those who had formal education at a magic school?

Wouldn’t she become very concerned with proving she is not an animal, proving that she’s smart and skilled in her own right on her own merit, even without schooling. And to do this she nitpicks and nitpicks, because even being pristine isn’t enough to be respected, but at least it’s not giving others reasons to disrespect and dehumanize her. Learning to school her emotions, to scowl as a defense mechanism because anything else makes her vulnerable, because they don’t care about her as a person with feelings, because showing other expressions was dangerous or punished in some way: because it was fit in or don’t fit in and that’s the difference between having your house burnt down and being tolerated, between getting her food or having her questions answered and being yelled at to shut up… Because all her life she’s been surviving in hostile social environments and at the mercy of others, but unlike Kabru she doesn’t become a people pleaser but becomes very self-reliant and wary of socializing.

So she nitpicks and nitpicks and nags, because she’s worried. Because flaws are dangerous. So she has a hard time smiling and laughing, because it’s dangerous to allow yourself to feel safe in being authentic.

It would be nice…

Is my red, red enough? I'm waiting for your teeth at my throat. It’s only good manners. -Stephanie Valente 

[gia-d]

Team W! As in Who let them near the fire rods???

Four, Legend and Hyrule

[lucabyte]

I don't know how everyone isn't also always constantly thinking about how burial rites seem to be potentially one of the few things Siffrin instinctively remembers about their culture. But rest assured. I am in fact always thinking about it.

Textless version where they're just hanging out. It's fine!

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 239

Y'know what I think would be hilarious for a DP and PJO crossover? Percy & co finally getting to Kronos, straight up ready for anything after they pass through magic and portal of green and-

There's the smell of cookies. Freshly baked cookies, a warm oven, something about it reminding them of home in this strange place of floating gears and ticking clocks.

And there's a long, serpentine tail twisting through the gears, twisting up and down and across in a size that could hides yet reveals just how large this entity is. There's power soaking into every inch of this place, every centimeter nearly sending lightning up their legs with each step.

The ticking is getting stronger, a distant gonging of the hour echoing through a place that should feel cold and empty like the ringing of bells in the end of times.

And suddenly there's a kid- a teen like them, human yet not- with a cookie half in their mouth and hair flickering like the cosmos as they peer down from above them with a frown, eyes brighter than the sun yet darker than the moon.

"Oh great, what did my half-siblings do this Time?"

[koipalm]

Have you experienced anything since the last time we spoke?

fanart for L'appel du vide by Xov

[blackkatdraws2]

Whenever Stanley closes his eyes, he can feel the older man's aura surrounding him. [Blank Scripts AU]

[madbard]

While listening to Epic, I noticed an interesting pattern with how antagonists are portrayed, and how Odysseus’ interactions with them are coded.

In Epic, the monsters Odysseus faces are rarely fighting for their own sake. Polyphemus attacks Odysseus’ crew to avenge his sheep, and Poseidon destroys his ships as revenge for his son’s suffering. Similarly, Circe only threatens Odysseus to protect her nymphs. Odysseus does not kill any of these enemies, and while he is occasionally criticized for letting them go free, the overall implication is that he did the right thing by sparing them.

Then we hit the Thunder Saga, and Odysseus begins his arc as a ‘monster’ by killing the sirens. His actions here are brutal, and whether or not they are justified is, I think, up to the listener. However, it’s significant that the sirens are the first foes Odysseus faces on his journey who aren’t either defending or avenging what they love. They attack unprovoked, and while Odysseus’ method of execution is gory, he is never punished for it by other characters within the narrative. Apollo is the only one to protest, and even he is swayed easily when Athena says (among other things) that the sirens were “trying to do him worse.” The sirens attacked first, and while Odysseus’ response was ‘monstrous,’ his crew obeyed his commands and he was not challenged or ostracized for giving said commands. He is only treated as a monster when he yields to Scylla, who also attacked without provocation.

Thus, in Epic, the monsters fighting to protect or avenge their loved ones are protected by the very story - killing them may be more convenient, but it isn’t the answer. However, the monsters who attack without provocation, for their own amusement or satisfaction, do not receive such respect. Killing them is acceptable, and cooperating with them is monstrous.

By this logic, Odysseus is justified in his actions, however atrocious. He attacks to protect his family, and therefore deserves mercy.

The suitors, on the other hand…

[blight-eyed]

heaven's falling down 🌈🦋

[asoftepiloguemylove]

William Shakespeare // pinterest // Feel Good (2020-2021) cr. Joe Hampson & Mae Martin // Natalie Diaz These Hands, If Not Gods // Sandra Cisneros Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; "Never Marry a Mexican" // Holland NUMBER BOY // Richard Siken Crush // 스물다섯 스물하나 Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) dir. Jung Ji-hyun // Sappho // Dodie She // Maureen Seaton Furious Cooking; "Swan Lake" // unknown // Frank Ocean Forrest Gump // แปลรักฉันด้วยใจเธอ I Told Sunset About You / I Promised You the Moon (2020-2022) dir. Naruebet Kuno & Tossaphon Riantong // Danez Smith Recklessly (via @tendermimi)

[afterartist]

Just a small crappy Caz doodle I did as a sketch warm up

I’ve played/watched play throughs of this game so many times and the ending still gets me misty eyed

Still Wakes the Deep is 100% in my favourite games list

[luck-of-the-drawings]

[OLD ART ALERT] A COLLECTION OF SCENES FROM THE GILLIONS CATSCRATCH ARC THAT BROUGHT ME GREAT JOY. i love fishy chips especially when its just gillion being delirious and violent and hostile

[the-bitter-ocean]

I am not really active in the Aurora fandom anymore but… here take this meme I made forever ago after seeing that one question about Dr. Jolon years ago:

[shrikebrother]

everything i ever did, i did it all for you.

ella wilson / steven levenson / metamaiden / pasek & paul / lana del rey / bates motel (image source: @sofialamb) / dear evan hansen / andrew barth feldman / @corpsecoded / lorde / ocean vuong / ethel cain / kira madden

[mistyscenter]

Cove every time he talks about being uncomfortable In social settings/not being able to properly express his feelings because they become too much for him:

Me: I know what you are (autistic)