#let my boy heal!!!!!

[sorikufeels]

https://www.tumblr.com/pondrea/748403783611105280/dont-you-recognise-me

amazing art by pondrea (link above!!!) got me feeling things (the art is so good op!!!!!! 💚) and now i need to yap about this scene lol it’s of the moment zexion disguised himself as sora to riku in com.

(i hope it’s ok to post the link here! let me know if not!)

i’m CONVINCED what zexion said to riku as sora this still haunts riku to this day. it wasn’t even sora who said all that, but i’m sure the fear of how it played out in com actually playing out with the real sora scared riku to death. the fear of this happening led to him walking away from sora first, not even giving him the chance just in case there was a repeat scenario. sure, there was a lot of self hatred and feeling like he didn’t deserve to see sora as well, but the look on riku’s face tells you that this scarred him. this was his biggest fear. he rather fade to darkness than go through this again and isn’t even willing to risk that it could go another way.

anyway, this is just context for what i actually want to talk about lmao

so this is probably one of worst moments for riku right? utterly rejected by his best friend and now that friend was willing to kill him for who he is now. and it wasn’t even real.

but you know who that was real for? sora. in hollow bastion. utterly rejected by riku. his only means of defense taken, basically left to die. and then riku fought him tooth and nail until he lost and sora let him run away.

you know who got closure for their version of this scene? riku. he got it when sora fell to the ground on his knees in the world that never was, when he said he looked everywhere for him and told him he was still riku no matter what. sora told him exactly what he needed to hear to reassure him that sora didn’t think any of things riku feared he did. sora telling him specifically that he was still riku no matter what showed riku that sora stills wants him around. even if he looks like their enemy and even if he did some real awful things, he’s still riku and that’s enough. riku as he is is enough for sora. always has been.

you know who never got anything like that? sora. in fact, the conclusion that sora found to get him through is that he’s not enough. his friends are his power. alone, he has no strength. he only made it through by relying on a complete stranger he managed to befriend. if beast wasn’t there or if he refused to go with sora, would he have survived? he had magic but that would run out eventually. would he have even made it to the room he fights riku in?

i don’t think he thinks he would’ve. in kh3, he says alone, he’s worthless. he’s held that sentiment this entire time. no one told him otherwise. (until riku’s sacrifice but it’s murky about whether sora even remembers that at this point. but even if he does, it wasn’t like the scene in the world that never was. sora was able to dictate exactly what riku needed to hear with no imminent threat and riku was not emotionally compromised like sora was in the keyblade graveyard. riku was able to process everything sora said. that is a far cry to sora screaming in agony over all his friends dying, sora believing wholeheartedly that he's nothing without them, and riku just saying he believes in him. sure, thats what sora needed in that moment to save everyone, but it's not a response to his fears and insecurities established in kh1 like how what sora says to riku is a response to his fears and insecurities established in com.)

at this point, i think it’s obvious that sora knows riku’s changed from kh1 and that he doesn’t believe the same things. sora knows he cares based on his actions and how he saved him too and we know as an audience how dedicated he is to him. but it fucks me up to think that riku got that verbal closure while sora never did. that riku got to start healing from that awful moment but sora really never did.

just,,,, please please please please let them talk about what happened in kh1 i am on my knees begging

extra thoughts: didn’t think of this at first so sorry it’s a little disconnected, but maybe the reason riku is so horrified in that moment in com is because he realizes this is what he put sora through. maybe he made this connection himself and feeling what it was like to be on the other side of it, on sora’s side, horrified him. what’s worse, in riku’s mind, is that riku deserves to be in this position and deserves to be rejected due to his past actions. but sora never deserved it. maybe that contributed to why the self loathing spiral got worse after com.

[orangepajamas]

long live the lame-ass boyfriends

[ohmypuckingod]

27 Feb '24 // Nico's post game reaction

[hermiecore]

me: Anthony please give Normal a fucking break and some therapy he can't keep taking Ls like this

also me: he's not Broken enough yet sir, another round of The Horrors please mr Burch

[peachcitt]

cracking open a new box of contacts is like cracking open a cold one with the boys except the cold one is the box and the boys are my eyes

[that-vampire-loser]

Absolutely love when I see andreil art and Andrew is smiling

It makes me so happy

[mothinflamesdoodles]

Pulse Sans: The Frankenstein Font

Fanart for @specialmindz

[storyteller-trollfan]

Do you ever think, if Branch had found any songs that reflected what he was feeling and let him express his sadness, anger and sense of abandonment, do you think it would've helped him recover his colors sooner?

If he had been allowed to express his pain and feelings in the way most natural for trolls, would it have helped him in some way?

Maybe not, because of his fear and aversion of music in general but...

[vonn13]

Hc Steve harrington adores little magical things and has a small collection of like fairy homes or he collects plushie. His parents and friends/partners in the past made fun of him for liking these things so he's always kept them hidden away.

Now he's dating Eddie and this man thinks Steve put the goddamn stars in the sky and would do anything for him. So when he finds out about all of this he takes it in stride and feels so gooey that he makes like a garden setup so Steve can put the little fairy houses in their garden or he takes one of Steve's plushies with him on tour and makes a whole photo album of the plushie in different location across the globe. Like imagine maybe a bunny plushie with one of those cheesy Eiffel Tower pictures and this shit heals Steve's inner child so much.

[the-rainbow-meme]

it would be a lie if I didn't say that Edwin's confession didn't give me vivid November 5th flashbacks but honestly I think it was so good to watch a similar version of "male character finally confesses to his boy best friend that he's been in love with him the entire time" and being met with a response, that even if it's not ideal, it isn't negative either and it's hopeful and doesn't ruin or taints the relationship they had so far

[polteergeistt]

Singing while being sick isn't Great.

[raayllum]

and another snippet from ch3 of "teach me how to name the bigger light" bc we love the sad angsty drama

She exhaled, sharing a brief glance with his brother, before she held out her clasped hands. Ezran cupped his palms, open and waiting, under hers. She placed something round, thin, and metallic in his hands, each oval warmed from her skin before withdrawing and letting him look down. 

It was three gold coins. Why was she giving him—and then he saw the elven faces staring up at him. Two elven faces with oddly familiar features, an elven woman with the same curve to her hair as Rayla’s, the man bearing the same rounded tip of her nose, pretty if frozen in abject terror and—

Ezran looked up at her to find her eyes shiny with tears.

His throat went dry. “These are your parents.” Trapped in coins, but here. Alive? Alive. Rayla nodded and his shock turned to joy. This was wonderful. She could have her family back, and—

And then Ezran looked at the third coin, and his burgeoning smile vanished. The elf looked terrified, the opposite of everything he’d been that night on the battlements, or surely that night in the tower, drawing his blades to kill King Harrow. His father.

Everything went cold. 

[000marie198]

Happ Riday

Tanksie

[badboyvegas]

Never Let Me Go really gave us the ‘bodyguard gets a bar on a beach and his rich ceo boyfriend comes to visit whenever he can because he also needs the mental health break from reality’ ending that Kinn and Porsche deserved.

Good for you Palm and Nuengdiao good for you

[heartbreakfeelsogood]

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[volivolition]

Yoooo Voli I made ya a Electrochemistry × Volition playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19Au6o98AzOf4hEGLMHKtB?si=7kBYYWAhSR-TuLPYicpgYg&pi=a-iR4K2sFbQsWA

also I can't DM you bc you don't follow me, LEMME IN PLS :3

oh hi hello! oooh, hold on, lemme add the link so its clickable. some cool songs in here, thank you for sharing :D!!

also yeah, sorry! :'3 DMs make me nervous and uncomfortable unfortunately, and i much prefer communicating through asks and comments if thats cool!!