#learning to walk again

[heart-songs]

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I place one word slowly in front of the other, like learning to walk again after an illness. But the blank page with its hospital corners tempts me. I want to lie down in its whiteness and let myself drift all the way back to silence.

- Linda Pastan

[wordsarefakeokay]

When there's a patient in the house

How quiet the house must be

This isn't just a house for living

It becomes a house of recovery

Quiet it's sharps of pain

Yelps of agony, whimpering again

Rearranged all the furniture

Threw out any clutter

Who needs these shoes right here

When I just fell ablunder

When there's a patient in the house

All other troubles seem to fade

What other frustrations can there be

Just lay down and pull down all the shades

You fight with everything you have

Medication appointments rest

You try with everything you have

Why does this feel like a test?

Is there some greater reason we had to live this day

The one tomorrow too

From the day of the accident

To healing day going infinity and two

Is this just a lesson

Or is this character building

I knew no other change would come

But did it have to be this way?

I get it, it's a wake up call

The one I was even joking I'd need

But did it have to hurt this much

At least send a noble steed

When there's a patient in the house

And everyone seems on eggshells tight

How are you supposed to breathe

When everything is about healing right?

[toxtricityamped]

starting watching merlin like. 16 years too late

[aalghul]

bruce thought jason moved so exactly like nightwing that he assumed "clayface" was trained to imitate nightwing, jason passed himself off as nightwing, is seen flipping around constantly preboot, bruce thought training him was so easy because he's so similar to dick.....and yet, jason's still the first one people jump to when they want compare nightwing to a robin who moves markedly differently than him and isn't as acrobatic in style. okay.

[crabsnpersimmons]

Clip: well maybe it would be easier if you didn't have big meaty claws! crabs: well these claws are only good for attracting mates* *cute robots

so while i was struggling with my creative block, i was trying out new hobbies to fill the void and i decided to try out crochet

i

have not yet learned to enjoy crochet

but hey, Clip's here to be a... support? (show off?) at least he's surrounded me with amigurumi plushies of dear friends. see if you can recognize them all!

i'll put the tags under the cut

from the left to right, top to bottom:

@linafoxoficial - purple fox sona plushie

@inkydoughnut - crochet donut

@itsmuffiiee - sona plushie

@cacaocheri - cherry sona plushie

@eggcromancer - egg sandwich sona plushie

@normal-about-the-dca - beetle sona plushie

@scarredlove - blue mug plushie

@starriegalaxy - star sona plushie

@divinit3a - Pomeranian plushie

@enduu115 - sona plushie

@random-tail - kie kie plushie

[blingeesketchbook]

i don't think i've seen many "disguised tallest" designs before, so here's them in terrible stupid slutty human cosplay

[xbuster]

[3eyedtraveller]

I cant decide whats funnier if Robotnik not only memorizd Stones accessible file but also hacked some secure government files + some of his own stalking for more information on him "to find out that he is a spy to steal his work" and he now knows more about Stone than anyone else.

What results in casual mentions like "why didnt you take a red one? that was your favorite colour when you where 9" and "you werent late because of trafic because you left at exactly 5:50 this morning and there was nothing on your usual way here"

OR if Robotnik threw the file away without looking at it because "if he is a spy the badniks can easily deal with him and im not using my precious brain cells learning anything about a human being"

But now in the crab era now that he is unable to look anything up on Stone a lot of awkward conversations happen

"would you like some shrimp?" "im deadly allergic" and "did your agent training include learning how to make pasta?" "No i learned that when i was undercover for 7 years in Italy" "YOU LIVED IN ITALY"

[clumsypuppy]

ummm started eos and I made. Some Guys

[wordsarefakeokay]

More things happen alone than we think

Healing is a solitary venture

Recovery is too

You may share moments with others

"look at what I did today!"

You may show them movement

Or something you relearned how to do

But no one can ever know how it feels

To do it yourself once again

To feel the movement beneath you as you become more independent once again

To feel normal

And beyond the pain

And finally just getting to be

Simply be

[blizardstar]

Me when Ashton Greymoore is denied honorable and meaningful self-sacrifice, and now must face the reality that they MUST keep living after it’s All Over

[r-aindr0p]

Oh hey, the lil guys and their color palette inspos

I'm trying to get back to draw them again and do very slight redesigns on their clothing (as usual absolutely in tears whenever I have them all on the same drawing and I have to color them but I still love my guys so much)

[helenstudies]

I love being multilingual. I love reading books so much. and I know most of langblr and bookblr is about academia or classics but my heart is in children's literature. I grew up with my own language and my own country's literature. I get to have my childhood favorite books in my language. and then as I grow up and learn others I get to enjoy other people's childhood favorite books. sometimes I've progressed enough in my language to enjoy those foreign books in their own original language and be filled with joy as I realize how this would have shaped a generation of people. I get to go "what is this word" and look up and have a spark of joy as I memorize a BIG word in a new language. I get to gasp at reveals and twists and turns and fairy tales and romances and horrors of all your children's literature because my language level is still progressing and every new word fills me with wonder. I get to have my childhood and I get to have other people's childhood through my childlike language abilities. I love it. I love reading books!

[0vergrowngraveyard]

sonic: so i got a little bored and started looking up random things and found something called the “battle kukku empire”. it’s wild. apparently they were last spotted over cocoa island and their ship was found completely destroyed. they say that no one survived the crash. crazy right?

tails, not at all paying attention: oh yea, that was my bad

sonic:

sonic: i’m sorry what

[rat-rosemary]

When you think about how Q and Tubbo/Wilbur and Ranboo had toxic yaoi mentor arcs during Las Nevadas it leaves one terrible duo to finish this, Dream and Tommy mentor arc

But Dream post prison is definetly not in the headspace to do jackshit, so their arc is Dream laying down in the sun while Tommy complains about shit

Tommy; "I don't know, Wilbur kept annoying me about the rosary yesterday and saying it was useless and how Prime never helped me, and it got to my head. I mean, did God ever really help me?

Dream, slightly zooted; "Most of your problems come not from nature, but from people. The only way God could help you would be by altering those people, and then you would see it as a monster."

Tommy; "Huh. I hate that but it made me feel better somehow. Hey can you show me how to do that stich again?"

[regular-gnome]

What's Anatomist up to lately? (I miss my bae)

They are mainly working, occasionally getting annoyed at how evolution makes things more difficult for them to work on

it's reference to the recurrent laryngeal nerve. The fun thing about it is that it's the nerve that innervates the muscles in the larynx, but it detours around the aorta on its way from the brain to the voice box. This is especially noticeable in larger animals where the heart and the voice box are far apart. For example, in giraffes, the structures are only a few centimeters apart, but the nerve can get 5 meters long because it travels all the way down to the chest and then loops back up. This is a result of how structures evolved from fish (with no necks) to large animals (with large necks). Evolution can't just "unplug" the nerve and optimize it, so next best thing is to gradually adjust over time

animation of the process | bit more info about it