#like i will not budge on this

[whenthelightisrunninglow]

hobbies

[inkskinned]

100,000 dollars is not a lot of money.

it is also a lot more money than i will ever have. my student loans make up half of that - they're coming back, i'm told, like we all bounced back recently. the other day while paying for gas to go to work, i overdrew my account without knowing it.

i sat in the car and looked at the charge and tried to do the math. where the fuck is the money even going? i don't live extravagantly. i live in a hole in the ground, in an apartment the size of a sneeze; covered in ants. yes, i wanted to live close to a population center. maybe that's my fault. i've downloaded the apps and i've spoken to the experts and i've cut back on excess. i can't help the pharmacy bills or the medical debt.

i have a good, well-paying job. when i googled it to see if i was getting a fair salary, i found out i'd be making "upper middle class" money. which doesn't make sense - is "upper middle class" now just "able to afford a one-bedroom without a roommate". when i was younger, upper-middle meant a nice big house and a backyard and vacations and not flinching about eating at a resturant.

i was talking to my friend who is a realtor. he said 100,000 dollars is extremely cheap for housing. he's not wrong. 100,000 dollars would change my life. 100,000 dollars also won't really buy you anything. it could get you out of debt, potentially, if you were lucky and had a certain amount of scholarships to tack onto your degree. you could pay off the car and then have enough left over for "spending" money. how fucking amazing. one vacation, maybe two if you're thrifty. and then - like magic - the money would evaporate into nothing. people would sigh and tell you see, you should have put it into savings! like "upper middle class" people can't afford to value "actually living" over squirrelling wealth. you should spend your life only in scarcity. like that is what made the rich people all their real "actually a lot of money".

100,000 dollars would literally set me free. it also would just set me back to "earning normally" instead of paying down debt into infinity. god, do you know how many of us just want that? that our first thought is we could stop scrambling and just be free of debt if we won the lottery? that we don't even necessarily need to stop working - we just wouldn't have to worry about failing or falling?

and. at the same time. 100,000 dollars is next to fucking nothing.

[heartorbit]

the star you've longed for

[heynhay]

like a star

[ruporas]

lonely

[ID: A limited palette of green and pink, Vashwood comic. The first page serves as a prologue. The first panel shows Vash speaking to someone off screen while Wolfwood is lingering behind him. A black arrow is drawn pointing at him. In the second panel, Vash is buying donuts in the distance while Wolfwood is once again in view, lingering. and the black arrow is drawn pointing at him. In the third panel, Vash is leaving a cubicle and turning towards his right with a slightly peeved expression. He sees Wolfwood, leaning against the cubicle, waiting for him, and with the black arrow drawn, pointing at him, implicating the consistent hovering of Wolfwood’s presence during Vash’s everyday. At the bottom of the page, they’re drawn out of panel with Vash turning to Wolfwood and saying with an irritated expression, “You’re really following me everywhere, huh?” Wolfwood responds, “What, you got a problem?” Vash responds without hesitation, “Yeah, kinda...”

The second page starts with a new day. In the first panel, Vash is seen alone, weighing apples in his hands at a mart, with crowds passing behind him. In the second panel, he turns to his right and starts to say, “Hey, Wolfwood...” In the third panel, he’s startled from seeing a stranger, whom he’d accidentally called out to when he was expecting to see Wolfwood. He says, “Oh, you’re not him. Sorry!” In the fourth panel, the stranger walks off and Vash muses, “Right, he said he had something to do today...”

The third page begins with a close up of Vash's miffed expression, the continuation of Vash's thoughts, "Now that he's not here, this is just like how I used to be, but... It feels lonely somehow. Oh well, I'll see him again tonight, like always." In the second panel, it shows Vash walking through the marketplace crowd, alone. In the third panel, the door panel is a close up of the door opening with a peek of Vash's head. He says, "Wolfwood!" In the fourth panel, Vash is holding a bag of food with a bright smile and says, "Are you hungry? I got you something to eat today!"

The fourth page begins with a shot of the room, two beds being highlighted, one of them being made properly with the blanket draped over the bed and the other with the blanket folded and pillow sitting on top of it. There's no sign of Wolfwood. The second panel shows Vash with a disappointed look as he thinks, "He's still not here?" The third panel shows Vash putting the bag of food on the table. Stapled to the paper bag is the receipt with a written note "For Wolfwood." Vash's thoughts continue "He does like to stay out so, I guess there's no reason to worry..." The fourth panel shows Vash sitting his bed somberly with his thoughts continued, "It's not any of my business anyway..."

The fifth page starts with a close up his blank expression as he looks downwards, thinking, "Even if he left completely... That'd be understandable and better for him. I'll just travel alone again... like before... Huh?" The next panel shows Vash's composure break, tears welling up in his eyes suddenly, as he didn't expect to cry. He starts to sob, putting his hands to his face to quiet himself and wipe at his tears, as he says, "Ugh... Dammit... I miss h..." The last panel shows Vash leaning over into his hands, still crying, and in the back, the door swings wide open with a bam as Wolfwood walks through with the punisher swung behind him. He shouts, "SPIKEY! You in here?!"

The sixth page starts with Wolfwood confused, looking at Vash and Vash looks back, just as confused, with tears in his eyes and snot out of his nose. Wolfwood starts saying, "Ah? You..." No longer in panels, at the bottom of the page, Wolfwood takes the Punisher off of himself and starts to walk towards Vash, continuing with slight concern, "What's wrong with you? Did something happen?" Vash, hurriedly begins to wipe at his tears, denying immediately, "No! No, I'm fine! Nothing happened!"

The seventh page, Vash points towards the table, with a hand still wiping at his tears and he smiles as he says, "I uh got you food. On the table." Wolfwood looks towards to the table and responds, "Oh. I was getting hungry, thanks." He turns his head back to Vash immediately after with an uncertain expression, knowing the other wasn't responding to his concern, and says, "But, I know you're an idiot with this stuff, so I'm reminding you again. Don't brush it off if it's an issue, alright?"

The eight page, Vash's tears have dried and he looks to Wolfwood with a soft smile and responds, "Yeah. It's okay though..." A panel at the center shows a side view of Vash approaching Wolfwood. At the bottom of the page, with no panel, is a close up shot of Vash's hand, holding onto the edge of Wolfwood's jacket sleeve, as he says, "Because you're here now. Wolfwood."

The final page is a back shot of both of them standing next to each other, Wolfwood's head tilted slightly to the left, not fully believing Vash as he says, "That doesn't answer anything, Spikey." Vash responds, "There's no need to talk about it! You should enjoy your food. Let's have a drink too?" Wolfwood responds, "Tsk, tsk. Fine, yeah. I could use one." END ID]

[weeddennis]

mac having terrible taste in food is quite an understated character trait but it's still one of my favourite details about him. his horrible imaginary dinner party where he serves plain boiled chicken with brown rice. his favourite flavour is blue. the kraft mac and cheese. the dwayne the rock johnson energy drinks. 3 dollar bulk tin of nuts that he just eats all day including in bed. iasip is incredible at using food as a vehicle for characterisation actually

[weepylucifer]

unpopular opinion maybe, but my favorite interpretation of harry is if he's always been a big guy and always will be. like, when dora thought he was the coolest man in all the world, he had that chunk hunk physique. as a gym teacher he had more evenly distributed muscle but was also still fat. starting out at the rcm, he was more clean-cut, but never skinny. when harry is in shape, that's just what his shape is. and if harry, god willing, decides to get sober and live as healthy as he can within his means, he'll also still be fat

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i can't stop scribbling him. Help

[keepin-it-on-the-d-l]

Kiddads Lineup! Aka the designs for them that I promised and never posted!

Heights: Grant is 5’11, Terry is 6’6 (tall mf), Lark and Sparrow are 5’8, and Nicky is 5’6 (short king)

Close ups under the cut:

[descendantofthesparrow]

Uma ROR redesign draft

i took the 'd2 but worse' design and made it-navy captain that took on being headmistress at Auradon prep.

also i love the idea of her with her natural hair so...yeah

[chronicowboy]

extract from a devastatingly beautiful poem by @diazass

[crackedhrglass]

i harp on this specific detail so MUCH, i know. but there's gotta be a reason ford never once corrected bill or snapped at him or even made a sarcastic comment on bill calling him "sixer" tbh. even if you don't ship stancest or incest or anything problematic, there has to be a reason ford allowed a friend-slash-partner-slash-LOVER (emphasis on LOVER) primarily call him by the same pet name his estranged brother made up for him as kids.

comfort? yeah. familiarity? of course. subconsciously associating it with stan so it was easier to trust bill? sure.

but again, why let a lover call him that?

why have a situationship with someone that lovingly calls you "sixer", angrily calls you "sixer", likely lustfully calls you "sixer", and longingly calls you "sixer" after your breakup/divorce, when that's the name your own twin brother used to call you?

and ford never felt even the tiniest bit uncomfortable with it?

WHY NOT?

[afro-elf]

What are your thoughts on Project 2025?

sounds like a shit time but also just, like, sounds like the logical conclusion of the overton window shifting as rightward as it has. to a certain extent project 2025 is an extension of black and brown reality in this country and i guess that's why i'm not totally panicked about it. like.... it is bad. but the united states is terrible to begin with, it is a tree with rotten roots and that can only bear rotten fruit, project 2025 is simply one of her stinky fruits birthed from her most rancid branch

also in my opinion, even if the project itself gets blocked via electorate the ideas will stick and spread and morph. republicans in office around the country are already trying to do that on a local scale (florida, for example). that is something i don't think most liberals in this country are prepared for. they won't even let you make silly haha joke about trump nearly getting a head transplant, how are they expecting to combat fascism?

[djsadbean]

I’ve never actually seen or read dungeon meshi. It’s just that all my mutuals and every fanartist and writer and meme maker and literary analyst and every other person on the planet has seen it and I like to feel included and I reblog and laugh along as if I know any of those freaking guys :)

[prismatoxic]

sometimes i feel bad for headcanoning marcille as bisexual bc EVERYONE sees her as a lesbian but i'll be real to me she like. heavily prefers women and she's also one of those "ugh, it's so unfortunate that i find MEN attractive" kind of bisexuals

loves her male friends! absolutely has had male crushes! also very much acts like being attracted to a man is a travesty and hates admitting when one is, in fact, attractive

falin's pan to me which i feel no guilt about whatsoever. she also like. feels the same in all directions. men, women, enbies, unknowable gendervoids, falin can and will like any of them. which i'm sure threw marcille for a loop for a while bc she just assumed any expressed interest in boys meant falin was just straight

i do very much ship them and they get together eventually (in canon settings, absolutely post-canon, like as soon as they have a moment alone to discuss things), but i also think marcille is a fucking mess who talks herself out of thinking falin is into her (falin is so blatantly into her), grapples with still treating falin like a small baby child sometimes, and resents any and all men falin seems to express an interest in even if she agrees (bc, honestly, gross)

compare and contrast to notorious bisexual chilchuck tims who is more than happy to admit men and women are hot (maybe others as well if you explained it to him) but also he has a job so he can't worry about that right now

[dylanconrique]

i'm laughing so hard at the image of tim crouched down next to kojo with an ink pad on the floor and kojo just keeps giving him the dirtiest side eye while tim lifts his paw like, "you know, i expect this kind of behavior out of mom, but i trusted you." smh 😒😒