#if she is i'm sorry >>

[climbingthefloors]

obsessed with this baby hippo from thailand's khao khew zoo.. she has been so utterly betrayed by the world

[willabee]

I gave willabee one of her presents early 🥹

[the-haunted-office]

Doom finds it a bit ironic that Russell says he gets the impression of her that she's had to take care of things for people and be the caretaker, and that he doesn't want to do that to her too, but in a way... he is doing it to her. Making her feel like she has to babysit his feelings and tiptoe around him. Everything seems to upset him and bother him and make him feel like he has to walk on eggshells around others, at least from her perspective. He is constantly shifting himself to adjust to others, as if afraid of how the other person is going to react to every single thing he does and honestly...

...Doom gets it. It's exhausting, it's annoying, but Doom gets it. She used to be like that. She hopes she isn't like that anymore, but she remembers a time in her life when she used to put the burden of her own anxiety on other people without realizing it. And now she sees how tiresome it can be.

She doesn't want to be angry about it, despite how frustrating it can be, because she very much doubts it's stemming from any amount of self-centeredness or selfishness at all. Quite the opposite, actually. If anything, she bets it's from a lifetime of having people turn things around on him, of faulting him for everything, of pulling the rug out from under him, to the point where he might feel like he'd better apologize now, in advance, for every perceived slight, before someone abandons him. That's what happens when you've never had any stable ground to stand on - you'll do anything, say anything, apologize for everything, even the things that aren't your fault, to keep the ground beneath you.

Yeah. She gets it. At least, she thinks she does.

So, rather than expressing any of her frustration, Doom takes a breath and lets it out, pushes it aside. She can let it go, because Russell is her friend, and she cares about him.

"I'm all right, but I'll let you know if it's too much. I doubt it will be, though," she says, not bothering to go into detail and open that can of worms and instead offering a small, reassuring smile. "If I need anything, I'll be sure to let you know. I'm all right, though. Right now, I mean. I mean, listening is just... you know, sometimes really all a person needs. For me, at least."

"But anyway," she says, letting out a sigh and hoping she hasn't said the wrong thing. She's never been very good at saying the right thing, despite trying her best. "About the whole ocean thing. I'm not really sure how it came about for me. I just remember one time being out on this lake with my family on my dad's pontoon boat that he bought with this money he got from almost winning the Powerball lottery - we used to be really poor, see, and so when we got that boat, we'd go out on the lake all the time, fishing and stuff."

"I remember looking down into the water one time and seeing this- this whole tree down there, just under the surface of the water. Like, I could see this whole top of a tree, submerged on the water, it was murky and I couldn't see the entire tree or the bottom of the lake, and for some reason it really freaked me out. After that, I was really afraid of things in deep water, especially if I couldn't see the whole object or what it was all attached to. I think it's called thalassaphobia."

Doom shrugs at the end of her story. "It's stupid, I guess, but I was afraid of that kind of stuff for a long time. Shipwrecks. Seaweed. Kelp forests. Just- any big thing underwater. And then after I died and was a ghost, I just.......... I guess... stopped being afraid," she says, shrugging again.

She looks to Russell, almost casually. "What about you?"

Russell feels his cheeks turning a little bit pink as he sees the look on Doom's face, and he rubs at the back of his own neck again. He couldn't help but get the feeling that he had said or done something wrong and had annoyed Doom in some way.

Perhaps he had, but not in the way that he might have assumed. But then he gives a small nod.

"Th-thank you, Doom," Russell said, "That, that makes sense. I, I guess you, you did, you did ask. But um, if, if I ever do um, have, have a bit, a bit of a vent or, or something, just, just let me know if, it's a bit much."

Russell swallowed, before he hesitantly continued.

"You, you've um, you've given me the, the impression that you've had, had to, to take care of, of things for, for people, or, or be the, the caretaker, and, and I don't want to, to do that to, to you too," Russell added, "You, you deserve a, a break from all, from all that."

He really hoped he hadn't gotten the wrong end of the stick entirely.

"And, and of, of course, you, you can, you can talk to, to me ab-about anything if, if you'd like to as, as well," Russell said, "I, I may, I may not be, be always able to, to help with a, a problem, but, but I can listen. But, but I will keep, keep that in mind."

But then some sympathy crept into Russell's eyes on hearing that. Hopefully Doom hadn't gone through something awful to have became afraid too.

"I, I see. From, from the sounds of it, you, you managed to overcome it, and, and I'm, I'm happy that, that you did," Russell said, smiling then, "Do, do you rem-remember how?"

He was mainly asking out of curiosity. Russell didn't know if he'd be able to apply what Doom did to himself, but he wanted to give Doom a chance to talk about that kind of accomplishment.

[toodrunktofindaurl]

"Death's child"

twitter | bluesky | insta | 🔞 patre*n

[gongyussy]

studio trigger understood the assignment. i would let her wreck me.

[11thsense]

The dead surround the living

[cspcrashing]

fool's hope

[hinamie]

tiger lily

[azural83]

No way they got rid of katara's anger in THE feminine rage era

[feralforbeanix]

He loved her immediately I'm gonna cry

[thesadpuffin]

Zelda Reacts Part 2 : a comic series where Zelda reacts differently depending on which armour Link is wearing.

Wow, I received. A LOT. of requests. hahaha the response for the first one was overwhelming in the best way!! but I have ideas for so many more so if you requested something chances are I'll be doing it at some point.

*ahem* also, I CANNOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THIS OK!! I was left unsupervised with drawing implements!!

Part 1: Rubber <<< >>> Part 3: Vai

[apricoctopus]

How to talk to short people: Faerun Edition

[inkskinned]

"don't make it political!" .... what proportion of death and suffering must occur before politics are involved. if this isn't political, what is even the point of any politics, ever. of democracy. the words are "by the people for the people." if i am going to be left alone by my elected representatives to "figure it out" - to undergo damage, hardship, fear. what the fuck did i elect them for. what was their job. the entire point is that they handle this shit. this is why we were supposed to be electing leaders.

poverty is political. misogyny is political. gun control is political. climate change is political. how much aid a community gets is political. what the fuck are you talking about. it's been political this whole fucking time.

[cherrywhite]

hey silt verses? I just want to talk

[aingeal98]

Ultimately the resolution of Jason and Cass fights comes down to the fact that while he has his own ideals that don't mesh with the bats, Jason can be flexible. DC skipped the whole reconciliation with the family but while he's willing to kill it's generally a means to an end to him, not the whole entire point unless you're talking about Joker. Meanwhile for Cass the question of killing vs not killing is dead serious to her which means any time they're working together and things start going off track it's like:

Jason: Look if we kill this guy we send a message to his boss which makes it easier for us to negotiate with him from a position of power and I just think that-

Cass, snatching one of his guns and pointing it at her own head: Go on, pull the trigger. Kill him. Kill me. Go tell Batman that you let his daughter die to make a negotiation easier. He already let you die so no problem right? You think we should die? You think our life only worthwhile as part of a plan, just because we're killers? Are we doomed? Are we rotten to the core with no hope of redemption? Go on then, kill us and kill part of your soul alongside it. You clearly don't care for it so why are you even trying? Kill yourself along with us, come on Jason let's all just die right?

Jason, slowly backing away: I think you may be projecting a tiny bit so just. Calm down before I call the suicide hotline please.

Cass, slowly lowering the gun and knocking the random henchman unconscious: Yeah that's what I thought, fucking pussy.

Jason: Mm yeah you know what I hate you actually. Fuck this mission I'll just shoot you right now if you're going to be this annoying about it.

Jason, explaining things later to Dick: So I just kept shooting at her until I ran out of bullets and we both calmed down enough to call a truce. We tracked the guy down and didn't kill anyone but I did blow up the batplane just as a last minute screw you. Is she always this uh... intense?

Dick: Yeah, one time I broke up with Barbara and she threw me out a window. She's just like that.

[invisible-pink-toast]