#i can’t remember the name of this show

[rainbowvamp]

There’s a difference between familiar and used to.

The feeling of being so tired after doing nothing like an ache in his bones is familiar. He’s felt it before. He knows what it is. He knows what it means. He knows that he’s going to have to work harder to get out of bed today. That objectively knowing the world is always getting better isn’t going to make him feel better. He knows that there will be lead in his feet all day. And weights on his smile. And a void in his heart. He knows that. It’s familiar.

Familiar doesn’t mean used to.

He thinks if he were used to this, he’d be able to power through it better. He thinks if he just had more self-control. More will power. More desire. He’d be able to talk himself out of his own downward spiral like he might be able to talk himself out of a 1000 meter free fall.

Except you can’t talk your way out of a 1000 meter free fall. Not any more than you can talk yourself out of the familiar ache of Everything is Too Much. He knows the only way out is through. To hit the ground, get patched up at A&E, and spend a while healing. He knows he needs to rest. He knows he needs to eat. He knows he needs to go out into the sun.

He also knows that he has papers to grade. And parents who want to yell at him because the best he can manage isn’t good enough. He knows that the school year isn’t over for another three months and testing season is just around the corner and so things are about to get worse.

He knows that.

He knows that, and it cancels out all the other things he knows.

And he stays in bed on a Sunday. Heavy like lead. Strapped down like his blankets are steel bars. He can’t move. It’s too much. Everything is Too Much.

He takes a deep breath and reminds himself that that’s okay.

You can’t embrace life without embracing all of life.

Sometimes life is depression. Sometimes life is overwhelm. Sometimes life is memories of drowning slotted between the feeling you get when there’s more work to do than you can manage and you think you should manage it anyway.

Sometimes that’s what life is. You have to take the good with the bad.

He twitches aside the curtain by his bed. Lets a sliver of sunlight fall across the back of his hand. It’s enough for now. Later he might able to muster more. It’s enough for now.

He lets the sunlight warm the smallest part of his hand and reminds himself that every fall must end. And every testing season must pass. And every parent who has no idea what his job is like eventually moves on to harass some other poor sod and then the thing starts all over again.

And every time it starts over it gets a little better. And he holds onto that hope, strapped into his bed by blankets that feel too heavy to move, and he lets himself sleep another hour, because it’s Sunday and he deserves to rest, even if he doesn’t feel like it. Sometimes rest is what your body needs, even if your brain disagrees.

And if he dreams of a pale hand holding his, sometime in the next century, then that’s no one’s business but his own.

[alien-from-planet-zog]

Ideal study group

(@just-a-little-kreature came up with this format and I am going to abuse it so much)

[ivetried27nameswhataboutthis1]

Enid: You need to do me a favor and join the decorating committee for the dance.

Wednesday: I really don’t want to.

Enid: Please! I’ll make it worth your while, I will do anything you want.

Wednesday: … anything?

Enid, seductively: Anything.

Wednesday: No questions asked?

Enid: *starts to unbutton her shirt* I won’t even open my mouth, unless you want me too.

Wednesday: Okay, pretend to be the victim for my bloodstain pattern analysis research.

Enid: Oh my god, why?!

Wednesday: You said ‘anything’!

Enid: If you’d asked me to kill myself, I would have been more enthusiastic.

Wednesday: I am, kind of. Now button that shirt back up, the character is dead, not a slut.

Enid: I wish you were a slut.

Wednesday: Too bad. Get on the ground, I’ll get the fake blood.

[makotonaegiunderstander]

something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.

“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”

[cleo-serotonin]

kids don’t even say “trick or treat” anymore they just stare at you like this

[coderooster]

Why are there 2-3 pets called hoover on the show? Is hoover a common pet name in the US? Is it an inside joke? Did they just forget they’d already named a pet hoover? Is it pure coincidence? I wanna know all the hoover lore.

[fffuckthelaxbros]

alternatively‚

Also if you’ve only read the main comic so far I recommend also checking out the extras tag! There’s a lot more fun stuff in there (like. A lot)

[xx-maemae-xx]

I’ve heard The Stranger (from The Acolyte) described as both Darth Thirst Trap & “The Sith equivalent of Jason Vorhees” and if both of those don’t capture exactly why I ended up liking Qimir’s ass so much then idk what else could.

Manny Jacinto describing him by saying he’s: “like that high school bad boy” didn’t help either. And neither did Qimir’s general -ness from before the episode five reveal. Then there’s that softness only being afforded to one other person thing and I— *sobs*.

[irregularbillcipher]

to this day my biggest artistic accomplishment is that i contributed to an official toby fox and fangamer approved undertale project and had my name in semi-official undertale credits. anyway if you ever got the chance to see the undertale live concert after covid lockdowns had started, whether you saw it online or during one of the few in-person shows they did after restrictions started to lift, and ever saw this technical difficulties screen, i designed it!

[tiredwiredanduninspired]

I always forget how unhinged Bobby is since he has to be the firefam’s dad but whenever he is with Michael he’s absolutely hilarious

They destroy each others brain cells

[cookiemumster1]

it’s so funny to me that while i was watching the fallout show, i never even considered the ghoul and lucy as a ship because the entire time her and maximus were on screen i wanted them to be together

[moonlightperseus]

zeus: he’s a forbidden kid

poseidon: so was thalia

me, from my couch: SO IS JASON

[vmkhoneyy]

idk if it’s just me but I rlly love the tiiiiiiny glimpses of the gods underneath their masks so far in the show.

Ares is most obvious- the switching between dicking around and being vaguely unsettling to “the joke was funny for a minute, but-“

Hades is another good one. You see a well dressed man with odd eyebrows who walks in a hurry and offers pomegranate juice. Who says things like “I rarely cahoot” and whines about his helm. But- he offers pomegranate juice, in the underworld?

I’m still bothered and perplexed by “I see you.” Is it a joke? A quippy little one liner? Probably. But Hades has seen countless heroes try to bring their loved ones back from his realm only to fail. So is it really?

His demeanor doesn’t change when he hears about Kronos- but it flickers. “Ask me for sanctuary.” And the kids don’t know it yet, but he’s offered this before to his lover and their two children, only to fail. One can only assume he’s offered many times before.

Poseidon is the only one thus far who’s Felt like a god, and that was in the presence of a woman he loved.

Dionysus, Hephaestus, Hermes- they feel like people. Odd ones, but people. And yeah ig there’s an argument that that’s the whole point of the Greek gods- they’re fashioned after humans. They’re fickle and flawed and impulsive.

But it’s just so much more fun to consider that there is so much more underneath these beings that we’ve only gotten moments of.

It’s so much more fun to consider how fucking terrifying they are when they’re motivated enough to set the masks aside.

[im-vibin]

As soon as Norm walked on screen I go “oh shit that’s Rico from Hannah Montana”

[sockhatingsapphic]

also one more thing about these firefighters before i go to sleep. well actually not at all about these firefighters. bc this season has been so enjoyable as a show (though why is it only ten episodes??? i thought we usually got more? is this bc of abc?), but it has truly turned some parts of the fandom so sour. i thought we were above ship wars in 2024 😭! personally i am a multi shipper for the first time in my life. bucktommy is good! buddie is good! the hatred people seem to have for each other is not good! people are labeling other ship fans and making LOTS of assumptions (i, for one, have been watching this show since i started college and will be a senior in the fall) and being so mean about the actors and “chemistry”. listen. buck and tommy have chemistry. so do buck and eddie. oliver has chemistry with both lou and ryan! i’ve seen people on both sides of this ship war post pictures of oliver happy with one guy and then “sad” with another as if there are no other pictures of him clearly quite happy with BOTH GUYS. i came on tumblr excited to talk about the episode and see it trending but instead everyone’s using body language pseudoscience to figure out who’s endgame and who secretly hates each other. smh

[simplyghosting]

Still thinking about how my sister made me in Sims 4 and how she watched my sim get married and will now say “your husband and you have such a cute romance” and “your kids are insane why does your toddler only eat off the floor” in casual conversation