#really neat

[blitzy-blitzwing]

I think he’s neat. 🤓

[r-aindr0p]

Fjskgjdk I draw too many stuff form various fandoms in my sketchbook in the span of an afternoon then proceed to post none of these drawings,

Anyway here's small Welcome home doodles since I finally got to read everything with my own eyes on the site heehee

[saisons-en-enfer]

[kumquatpoo]

Posting this right after the mlp and total drama crossover drawings

Anyway i think clydes self worth issues are really interesting and how its an entire neurosis that feeds off of him, making it hard for him to accept love given to him, being loved turning into guilt.

[heythereimashley]

I just think he's neat

[2009-ghost]

i got a new gasmask yippee!

[starpros-sunshine]

If I loved Wataei less I might be able to talk about them more....

[writingonesdreams]

“If I could hold you inside my hands, I would. But you are a human, so we’ll have to settle for hugging.”

Can the kids-?

I actually got a scene for you, Sleepy. With Zephyr and Leander. Thank you for thinking of them for this^^

All the way

Leander was leaning against the railing at the small balcony with the seaview. Zephyr had found him and had let him, not wanting to disturb the moment.

But it had been stretching long enough.

He understood. They were both leaving something good behind for some other unsure kind of good and it felt ungrateful to be happy about it.

Breathing out regret and indecision, he walked up next to him, loud enough to give his friend a warning. No acknowledgement of his presence came, so he put a hand on Leander's arm. He tended but didn't turn to look at him.

"Don't get soft on me now, Zeph." Leander protested half-heartedly. The reaction took too long.

He didn't rise to the bait today. This asked for a more sensitive approach. Which was weird, cause even though he liked being gentle, he didn't how to be that with Leander. It was not a side he liked to show to his most competitive and competent friend.

Strange, how accomplishment of others made him more self-conscious about his own. How embarrassing it felt, not to need, but to want to take their advice, their side, their example. A failure, like he couldn't have come up with that himself.

But this was Leander's gambit more than his own. He came up with this plan, with an idea for work that became their future. He came with a girl on his arm, hoping to see a reassurance, that nothing would change between his best friend and him.

But Leander was unusually quiet, unusually less excited about a risk he should have jumped for. He had agreed and he had jumped, but...

Maybe it wasn't on Leander to give reassurances.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"About what? There is nothing to talk about."

"You don't seem well, you know. Someone should be allowed to say that."

"Well? I'm totally well. And no, we are not talking about this, because that would mean there is something wrong to talk about, and there is no way anything is wrong. I'm doing what I said I would. Going my own way, betting on things I believe in. Can't grow if you don't overstep your comfort zone and that other nonsense." His voice was shaky and he was dribbling with his fingers against the railing.

Zephyr gripped Leander's arm harder, still tense as if ready to strike, to move, to act on the stress inside it.

The fear of change. The fear of failing. Of doing something new you could fail at. Even with all the confidence in the world, these were still things that could shake you. Even when you were Leander, apparently.

"I'm going to be there with you all the way." That was the only guarantee he could give. Only one he had himself.

Leander laughed and then coughed and sniffled. His eyes were shimmering, when he finally turned to look at him. "No, you dimwit. I will be there for you all the way."

Zephyr snickered, a wave of warmth spreading across his chest.

Leander sniffled again and wiped at his eyes. "Heh, this is pathetic."

There was no tough guy answer for that. So Zephyr smiled and said what he was really feeling.

“If I could hold you inside my hands, I would. But you are a human, so we’ll have to settle for hugging.”

Leander snorted and then let himself be embraced, finally relaxing the coiled muscles and tension as he melted against him. They stood like that for a long while, hands wrapped around each other in uncharacteristic tenderness, allowed to say and do as they felt. They would pretend it away later.

And maybe that's why it was allowed to last. Cause it wasn't supposed to be there in the first place, so they might as well make the best of it.

All the way.

[just-miru]

i should be girlblogging on tumblr but nooo- gotta write silly essays hngnhngng

[candypopchaos063]

I visited the International Circus Hall of Fame two days ago and I noticed that it's in desperate need of repair. If anyone is interested in history or the circus, please help me spread the word and try to help them out.

Here's where you can donate:

https://circushalloffame.com/elephant-barn-roof/

Also, the info in their pamphlet:

[halogalopaghost]

TIL that you can assign an AO3 next of kin to control your account in case of your death???

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[spyroforlife]

I was today years old when I found out that Minecraft skeletons can be right-handed OR left-handed

there's only an 11% chance for the left-handed ones to spawn in but nonetheless, they exist. They've been around since 1.9, back in 2016, and I just never noticed

but tbh why would I take the time to stare at them too closely, I'm always too busy running or just going in and killing them as fast as possible, but yeah! left-handed skellies :D

[delicourse]

been watching dungeon meshi...🌱

[ofswordsandpens]

actually I do want to talk about Sally Jackson a tad more because one criticism I've been hearing about her book counterpart more recently is "book Sally is one-dimensional: the perfect mother with no flaws" and that just has me biting my cheek because one part of her book counterpart that I always thought was ripe with discussion and didn't make it to the show is that Sally states that it was selfish of her to keep Percy close. It's one of the last things she says to him before she's "killed" by the minotaur.

And there's so much that we don't know about Sally because we view her from Percy's eyes. From his perspective we know that she's exceedingly kind, she never raises her voice to him or even Gabe, and she endured a horrible and abusive relationship to protect her son from monsters (of a different kind).

But there are things we can piece together from the text: Sally has known about CHB for a long time, apparently since before Percy was even born because Poseidon told her he wanted to send Percy there; she was told that it was a mistake for her to keep Percy close - who told her that, we're not sure, she only uses the phrase they; she's been in contact with Grover through out the school year; she knows that she can't cross the camp boundary line, which means either Grover or someone else (Chiron? Poseidon?) told her that, and that she understood that there was place that Percy would be safe from monsters.

And all of these little details are so interesting because it does make you wonder just how much she did or didn't know. Was her self assessment right? Was it selfish of her to keep Percy close?

On one hand, she kept him close because she loved him, alongside the fear that if she sent him to camp, she would be saying goodbye for good -- so is it even fair to call the act of keeping him close selfish? Or perhaps, much like Chiron, she assumed keeping Percy in the dark would be safer?

But on the other hand, Percy had been attracting monsters all his childhood, she understood camp was a safe place from monsters, and she had apparently been told explicitly that it was a mistake for her to keep him close.

And then adding in the factors of: Percy is her only family in the entire world, she's been suffering with Gabe for years, sacrificing so much in order to keep Percy safe when he's at home... but even that has a touch of sad irony because when we meet Percy in tlt, its at point when he's not really home at all -- he's been regularly sent off to boarding schools, so much so that he's internalized it as his own short-coming.

And all of this isn't to say "Omg Sally is actually horrible" or to assert definitely that she is selfish... but more to speak to the fact that in the books, she's not an all-perfect 2-dimensional mother. And her self-assessment of selfishness is something that is really interesting to explore and debate given the implications of what she apparently did (or did not) know about the godly world. I feel there's even an argument to be made that Sally being "selfish" could be a reflection of Percy's fatal flaw.