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[rosewaterandivy]

Happy 2024 everyone (& happy birthday to me)! Here's something I'm churning out sometime this year...

warnings: NSFW & MDNI - death, grief, suicidal ideation, drinking, smoking, daddy issues, Elizabethtown inspired, ST canon divergence with references to FOI, eddie is in his early 30s as is reader.

"Yello," He answers the phone, wedging it between his shoulder and jaw while tilting his head to focus on the task at hand. He deftly lines the scattered pills on the counter into some semblance of order and eyes the amber bottle of Buffalo Trace.

"Ed, it's Wayne," his uncle's gravelly voice sounds down the line. "Darlin', I got some, uh, news."

Eddie nods knowingly-- of course, it's gonna be bad news, is there any other kind? and taps the last pill into formation before turning to get a mug from the cabinet. "Could you call me tomorrow?"

"No."

Eddie grimaces and generously pours some of Kentucky's finest into the Garfield mug. He tries his best to sound pleasant, "Could you call me a little later?"

"No, honey." There's a slight hitch in Wayne's voice that would on any other day give Eddie pause.

Instead, he regards the pills in a row on the counter and the mug of whiskey. It beckons with the promise of oblivion.

Luckily, Eddie is not too proud to beg. "Can you give me ten minutes, Pops?"

"Al died," Wayne exhales, voice strained.

Despite himself, Eddie feels his limbs sink against the cool counter. As if the news is a physical blow, never mind that he hasn't seen his shitkicker of a father in years.

"He had a heart attack, darlin'. He was visitin' Mamaw back in Kentucky and she's in total shock."

Eddie can picture Wayne pinching between his eyes as if he could alleviate the tension building in his skull. Tired from working a double at the plant, leaning against the wall as he speaks into the phone.

"I've put in for time off from the plant, but y'know how they are. And I hate to do this to ya, but someone's gotta handle this."

With a sigh, Eddie's eyes close. His back hunches as he splays against the counter. As if this day could get any worse. He's now staring down the barrel of a ghastly, unfathomably awful day-- truly, one for the books.

And as he listens to Wayne's shaky voice, Eddie glances out the window paralyzed with the realization that he's now an orphan. Somehow, it's worse than the hurt from when Al abandoned him all those years ago. Second only to the pain he eventually numbed from his mama's passing. He blinks to clear the tears that gathered without his permission and takes a steadying breath, shoving the pills to the side.

For now.

"Okay Pops, what's the plan here?"

[artheresy]

I’ve been playing Honkai Star Rail and looking at leaks and I’m gonna be honest

I’m gonna be honest, Blade and Dan Heng and Dan Feng and Yingxing and their whatever have me feeling the most insane I’ve felt in months, like I’m feeling crazy thinking about them and all the theories people have about them. The dragon heart theory? I literally feel compelled to self destruct every time I see or hear it, anytime the two of them are talked about in relation to each other, I get the urge to scream

Their lore is… it’s so good, it’s immaculate, It’s my favorite out of HSR so far easily

Blade’s lore also like before he came to the Luofu is so painful too… like Hoyoverse decided that for right now he’s gonna be both a metaphorical (Hoyo making his whole life from childhood tragic as hell) and literal (for Jingliu) punching bag in this game.

[lemonandlime22]

Me after seeing that one Karasu x Mc nsfw fic:

[sagau-my-beloved]

I got Faruzan, and I also had elegy, I was going to use elegy on Venti but he has a r3 stringless that has high EM. I feel bad for giving her his bow I was trying to save for him, but the only reason I got her was to make him and Scaramoche stronger!

I hope he isn’t mad at me 🥲

😬😬😬

Mad probably isn't the right word, not like he could ever truly be mad at you of course, but maybe concerned fits better? You're not thinking of investing more into her than him right?

He's a bow user too! He's got wayyy more experience with a bow that she does you know. Ha, someone who claims to be a century old or so? Try 26+

And don't think he's forgotten about our dear Scara there, you're not thinking of switching over to the shiny new anemo user, right? Honestly, it's his element, he shouldn't be one to discard so easily

You're in the clear for now, of course your choices are always absolute and he respect them no matter what, but he might just have to prove how he can perform even better with a simple 4 star bow that that nice pretty decked out limited time 5 star one, you wouldn't bench him then right?

[nu-kuya]

finally dragged him home kicking and screaming 🥰

[marsbotz]

OK OK sorry sorry ill stop hulk posting now. im going to bed

[oh-gh0st]

[crybaby-bkg]

sometimes I think twice about posting long fics on here cause I’m pretty sure they’re gonna flop if they’re not just about Bakugou but then I wanna make a cute banner for it :(((((

[neros-w]

im not guaranteed rn and its been a while since i lost my 50/50 (my last was nahida's banner. i got tighnari, then got her on the next 10 pull w my c6 benny). i hope i get another tighnari or mona so im guaranteed for when dehya drops or whoever reruns next.

[thirteendaysintaunton]

alright well my ahr goals are knocked out, see you next time

[siglai]

opinion on tartaglia childe genshin impact (will cry if you say mean things /j)

ginger (derogatory)

[yoisara]

got keqing at 16 pity so ig that was actually a lucky moment? plus i have enough to hit pity again but ill prob hold off until after i collected some maybe 60 scarabs for luck

[aria0fgold]

I said I treat my redhead characters well but in truth it's actually just been Argenti (The Most Spoiled) and Himeko (2nd Most Spoiled simply cuz the relic rng for her DOES NOT WANNA COOPERATE) and all the others are... K... kiiiinda in the back--

[b-kut]

It's amazing how i decided "Hey now that i have more storage i should get back into arknights" and then virtuosa's banner comes around and i get two offrates in both my pities.

[wistfulvulpine]

im not dignifying it with a screenshot, but i got a POT 5 ho'olheyak before a single muelsyse when i pulled day 1........never happened to me before on any banner ever........it was almost 200 pulls too stop doing this to me game

[jewishcissiekj]

Local politics in small towns are so weird bc this morning my sister and I were taking a bus to go to a con and above the bus station next to where we live there are election banners for the upcoming local election and one of the candidates or whatever it's called is an old friend of our mom who's basically an old family friend who walked all the way from the other side of town to get to my little sister's bat-mitzvah a few weeks ago So the bus gets to the station and both of us haven't seen the guy irl in a while and my sister's skin was blue as a kinda Chiss/Thrawn cosplay and as I get on the bus I catch the eye of a guy that just got off the bus and it's the fucking election candidate that has known me since I was a child but he wouldn't recognize me nor my sister bc she's blue and I now have a buzzcut what is this place