#Bittersweet Meetings

[temeyes]

salute

#alt title: growth (without one another) #i like the idea of them meeting by accident again in the future #like?? imagine probably more or less a decade after Chariot retires!!!!!!! #it would be SUCHHH a bittersweet moment because they'd be proud of one another but still longing for that relationship they always wanted. #but by this time?? the world might be a more calm than it used to be.. and maybe.. MAYBEEE Captain Garrick's gonna make a move fr this time #my art #2024 #cod oc #my ocs #gaz x oc #call of duty #call of duty: modern warfare #call of duty: modern warfare ii #call of duty: modern warfare iii #cod #cod mwii #cod mw #cod mwiii #modern warfare #mw #mw2 #mw3 #gaz cod #kyle gaz garrick #kyle garrick #oc #ocs #original character #original characters #character design

[muzzleroars]

I posted this in like a comment or something wasn’t sure if you saw it, it’s in the context of V1’s main flesh part bein’ a heart ‘n everything:

Take it a step further: the heart was a donation from one of V1’s designers, someone who put so much of their heart and soul into making their machina magnifica that when the AI was finished and they were constructing the body, they made it literal

It was their greatest creation and they would do anything to make it perfect.

Like, I can’t help but think that there must’ve been someone on that team who had that kind of love or passion, engineering borders and overlaps with art in the nature of creation, and V1’s so finely tuned, made to such precision that it couldn’t have just been a project to them.

OOOUGHGHGHHHH this is absolutely true for how i characterize v1's head designer and now i'm really considering it as a possibility. i'm still in the process of designing them all, but the lead designer has advanced lung disease due to exposure to pollutants and heavy smoke damage that occurred when they were younger. they are on oxygen pumped constantly into a custom made mask - though i do imagine most humans, if not all, are wearing gas masks at this point in the war, given how smoke-filled the air must be, the damage has been done with them and they are aware they likely won't live to see the v-series put into production. yet their passion is evident, they draw up detailed plans by hand and have many artistic renderings of what they believe v1 will look and behave like by the time it's completed. this is the last thing they will do, a virus to destroy the earthmovers from the inside out, something that will halt the devastation of their world (i will note they aren't super introspective in this regard or anything, it's a much more practical 'save the world from burning down' than anything personal as many have suffered in similar ways). i wouldn't at all say they're an idealist, but they are an artist and v1 is a culmination of a vision for them. they work past their limits to create it, they are present with it at every step, and even its preliminary trials, buggy as they are, they see what it will be. v1 is what their passion is. so if they came to the point where they were dying, they would be more than willing to give their heart for v1 since it really already belongs to it

#plus it makes their meeting in hell even more bittersweet AUGH #the lead designer and hardware engineer both have. a lot of quirks #head of software/behavior thinks they've both lost it #i will have to redesign their husks too..... #cake answers #AND SORRY I MISS SO MANY REPLIES.....CHRONIC PROBLEM #i don't check notifs too much and i know things get buried ;o;

[sucharandomwolf]

#I had been wanting to draw a bittersweet moment between the two #so I drew them meeting again in the matrix #sorry it looks half assed I’ve been struggling with art block #but have my favorite Dino and gorilla seeing each other again #oh and though prime’s fave occurs after beast machines doesn’t mean I’m gonna draw his tech organic form #cause quite frankly I hated most of the beast machines designs 😭 #okay I think I’m done rambling #beast wars #beast machines #beast wars spoilers #beast machines spoilers #beast wars transformers #beast machines transformers #beast wars optimus primal #beast wars dinobot #beast wars doop #doop #dinoprimal

[kimwexlersponytail]

The only thing that kept me going was knowing you were here.

#bcsedit #better call saul #mcwexler #jimmy x kim #kim wexler #jimmy mcgill #been seeing a lot of people saying that they don't deserve a happy ending after everything and though i get why that's being said #i disagree with the idea that they must be punished by the narrative in the form of an absolutely devastating end where they both die or #are broken down even further because they're Bad People and they Deserve It...their relationship is the heart of the show and #i don't believe that the writers spent over half a decade building this relationship up just to leave everything hanging in the balance #we can argue all day about jimmy and kim being Good or Bad but they love each other. they do. and bcs is a love story #do i believe that they're going to live happily ever after and get a fairytale ending? no of course not but i don't see a doom and gloom end #for them either. narratively speaking jimmy has been in prison all this time and who knows what kim has been up to all this time #i just don't think it would be narratively satisfying if the ending was about punishing them i really don't #i think it's going to be bittersweet for sure but there's no doubt in my mind that it'll be full of heart.... #but god all of the takes about jimmy not deserving to meet up with kim in the gene timeline are just making me root for it even harder #and i really hope the world turns back to color the moment he sees her and idc how many people think it's cheesy <3 #and you know what someday maybe they'll finally get their house. #mine

[junotter]

my human montana taz taagnus au wasnt a lie

#taagnus #taako x magnus #taz balance #taako #magnus burnsides #um um um #me just drawing taako in my actual outfits #bitches who live in montana be like: gonna make the blorbos suffer too #i am leaving in a few days and wont be back for like a year plus which is bittersweet #ANYWAY #this has been brewing in my mind for a bit now #trying to figure out why in montana other than i want it to be #drawing human taako is like cursed... #disgraced tv chef meets seasonal worker widower #heyyyyy the 3 people actively talking about taagnus (desperately) #my art #taz fanart #montana taagnus au

[prototypelq]

...do you think Dante ever realised how Vergil-like he was acting around Patty? She was quite obnoxious in the anime, did he ever think 'oh no is this what being Vergil felt like?', or 'was I ever this annoying?'...

Knowing Patty did him a lot of good, do you think it, per chance, also reminded him of happier times in his and Vergil's childhood when they just played together and annoyed each other all the time?...only to, of course squash those nicer memories the moment Patty leaves, because then the reminders of what he's done come crashing down....

#i am having F e E L i n g S ok ay #seriously i just thought that dante always tried to make Patty mind her own business and that's exactly what smol Vergil wanted Dante to do #and it spiraled down from there #patty's obnoxious behavior helped him to keep Thoughts TM at bay but what if it also reminded him of his childhood #i mean her entire background is Painfully familiar to dante #i am a firm believer that protecting her helped dante heal some old wounds and he was already in an obsessively retrospective mood at the #time maybe she also provoked a resurfacing of some happier memories of his #only to get hammered by his trauma even harder later of course and to get actual hammered in attempts to escape this vicious cycle #congrats now you're sad too ) #at least it is bittersweet this time #patty propaganda #makes my brain go brrrrrrr #wonder if it'll work in reverse too! would meeting vergil and seeing dante go all 'annoying little brother' on him remind patty of her first #meeting with dante for the first time? and will vergil's 'moody' behavior remind her of dante at that time #i will Force patty into sparda family trauma and you can't stop me #patty lowell #patty adopted dante as her father figure #patty and nero are cousins #vergil is patty's classy uncle #dmc

[alibonbonn]

Patroclus sketches to explore the evolution of a sadboi into a formidable young man

#in this hc he got locs on yhe journey to scyros #one of the few times he's on his own traveling places #when Patroclus and Achilles meet in scyros when he said i would know him in death at the end of the world #how bittersweet would jt be if both of them look very different from when they left my Pelion? #they've both been changed by their time apart and yet #shoutout to @tododeku-or-bust for many daily Patrochilles thoughts ily 🥺✨

[cinna-bunnie]

not me and my manager trauma bonding over mommy issues 💀💕 i love her aksksk oof i had to go smoke and Think after this one

i love when our one on ones are basically like lol i don't have much 2 talk about this wk and we get like 40m to hang n talk after getting work stuff out the way. she is such a sweetie and so fun (❁´��`❁)

#i talked about my intro 2 adulthood and what it was like around before/when i left home and how my sis was just 10 when i left #so we never rly got to be close n i just started talking 2 her this year. but the last thing i told my mom was she lost her son forever #and that she better not fuck up with my sister - and she took it to heart fr which was Great for my sister. #she grew up v loved and supported and idk as the eldest u have complicated feelings being the experiment child. #and as an older sibling u are genuinely happy ur younger sibling has it so much better but there's this disconnect where u both have #Very very different feelings about ur mom and family in general ig. but it's from having lived different lives and idk. #she relates though 😔💕 oldest sibs rly b dealing w moms that tear them down then watch w bittersweet feelings that ur sibs get a better #life. my life itself is fine lol im kinda stoned (⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠) but like. a good loving childhood. support. community n never feeling like #there's Nothing for u here. she's turning 21 in December it's crazy how time flies. I'm glad she's doing good but I'm just thinking about #how we had Very different lives and stuff going on in our late teens 😮‍💨 #bless my manager fr i'm glad we got to get into it !! 😹 i can see why i miss her when we don't get to meet for the week

[cruisie]

I am so normal right now. I'm having a completely relaxed and normal day.

..... I'm gonna sparatically crawl up my walls if I keep thinking about the upcoming Bittersweet EP.

#bittersweet #audio roleplay #asmr #yuurivoice #seth yuurivoice #alphonse yuurivoice #we meeting up in the chat right??

[crossingoceans]

Been spendin’ a bit too much time on xiaohongshu. I saw a really nice edit about Jude and Erling with the captions roughly translating to:

The hardest thing to accept about Haaland/Bellingham is that they’re still young, so there’s no need to recall their days of youth together with the attitude of old people. However, you cannot deny that perhaps, their most beautiful memories of each other in this life, have already become of the past.

(哈贝最让人难以接受的是不是我们还正年轻, 还不需要以耄耋的姿态回忆青春, 却不得不承认, 或许此生关于对方最美好的记忆, 已经成为了过去)

#ex teammates energy #I’ve also seen this being tossed around 顶峰相见. which is really bittersweet. it means meet at the summit. #it means wishing each other the best. finding success on their own separate paths and reuniting at the highest stage as their better selves #same goal different paths. together but apart! #which is rather romantic! #erling haaland #jude bellingham #haalingham #anyway just some vibes for my next writing sesh #btw—account that posted the edit is called Erling’s tears 😭

[viridian-forest-collective]

Joe: *what's worse than telling him I'm literally death... OH YEAH!*

Joe: I'm the IRS, now gimme your taxes.

#meet joe black #joe black #joe #death #death character #immortal #immortals #pls somebody #someone get this pls #i need more characters like him #i NEED to consume more characters that are literally death #give me more content somebody pls #i need more immortals #i need the bittersweet endings that immortals with no control of the inevitable have #i need it #pls #give this to me #im crying #please #nothing is worse than death and taxes #bro #bro please #gove polly a cracker and shove this gorgeous sad content down my throat

[designernishiki]

you ever think about how by yakuza 8 haruto will be 8 years old and won’t remember kiryu at all, and if/when he shows back up kiryu will be a total stranger to him. haha

#:) suffer with me #rambling #y6 #realistically the closest person to him in what would’ve been kiryu’s role in haruto’s life would be nagumo #especially considering he’s got so god damn many parallels to kiryu despite his personality being so different #I also think he’d know uncle akiyama because akiyama’s the closest other protag to haruka and is a civilian so he doesn’t have like a Ton #of risk visiting her- at least not nearly as much as other characters who Aren’t civilians #he’s also got the Money to travel so there’s that prjscjdjsjc #no but for real? i feel like he’d visit but Also he’d fund the orphanage. for kiryu’s sake haruka’s sake even mirei’s sake in a way #ahh……anyway it’s killing me to think about 8 year old haruto finally actually meeting kiryu and knowing not to be scared of him or anything #cause of everything haruka’s said about him and all that- but having absolutely no emotional connection to him at all. so he’s still just… #a stranger to him. like that’s just the cruel truth #kiryu missed his most important developmental years and isn’t a part of haruto’s life and even if he were to show back up and be around for #good it’d take years until their bond feels like a true deep familial one #it’s very very very bittersweet to think about kiryu trying to bond with him. ohhh man yeah that hurts to think about. oh boy #haruto #kiryu

[xiaq]

This morning I woke up at 8am. Took Deacon for a walk to the park and back. Did some light weeding in the garden. Put on the Bridgerton soundtrack and a flowy dress and apron. Opened the windows. Made pancakes and veggie omelets and blueberry parfaits. When B got home from a morning pickleball sesh with the lads, we ate a leisurely breakfast together. I spent an hour going over some shadowing notes, participated in 3 calls (one I was off-camera so I did housework whilst listening) and now I'm working on certification and presentation prep for the rest of the day. I'll take a break for lunch with B in a bit and another break for dinner--he's cooking, of course-- and then we'll walk to the grocery store with Deacon as a little family to get food for the next week while the sun sets.

I might do some more work after. I might not. I'll need to do some this weekend regardless because onboarding is pretty arduous and I don't know how to do things by halves. But I can do it whenever I want and whatever pace I want. And I know that in a few months once I'm acclimated I won't be working weekends unless there's a big client meeting scheduled short notice and I'll have more free time on weekday evenings even with late morning starts. I know I can take time off whenever I want and work as much or as little as long as I'm meeting benchmarks/accomplishing certs/participating in the few required meetings we have.

And people keep asking me if I'm going to miss teaching or if I'm going to feel unfulfilled in my new job.

No, friends. I have a life, now. I'm still texting/emailing/seeing many of my favorite students. I can go to the bathroom whenever I want during the day. I'm learning new exciting things and working with lovely people. And I'm getting paid over twice what I did as a Professor. While wearing flowy dresses or pajamas or yoga clothes.

Do I miss the actual teaching/student interactions? Sure. Do I miss literally anything else? The schedule. The work hours. The lack of support. The emotional overload. The physical and mental exhaustion. No. I felt guilty about that at first but I think it's time for me to be selfish, now. I'm healthier and happier and I get to sleep, now. I might even get to start writing again in a month or so. Wouldn't that be something.

#mylife #bittersweet #but like #honestly it feels like a trick #like my boss randomly has blocks of her calendar where she's doing things with her kids during the day #coworkers take random fridays off if they don't have client meetings #people are so healthy here #i didn't know a work environment could be like this #x rambles

[parseisflat]

uh oh. erm... compartmentalization is crumbling...

#erm my parents are meeting my gf... who is gonna be my Straight Bestie for the day :/ #fighting off the bittersweet ache with a sword #dont rb..

[house-of-daena]

just finished solo levelling manwha in 2 full days.

#» asmo talks #the ending is really fucking bittersweet #imma read the ln too for the upcoming anime eps #also im SOOO upset this week was just a recap ep... #anyways meet my new wife; sung jin woo #and unapologetically attracted to igris and beru #thats all see yall next next month /j

[selkiecoded]

to meee :3 akechi and sumire arent exactly friends throughout january, (they only get really close several years later) but as a side effect of neither having anything better to do and the two constantly haunting kichijoji i think they inevitably fall together more often than not. ren takes sumire out for darts and shes weirdly better than she was last time (sidebar but the fact that sumire and akechi both mimic your throws but sumire sucks shit at darts too much for it to do any good is so cute) and shes like oh yeah akechi-san has been teaching me. oh wow i got a forty! unaware of the way she just blew rens mind.

#the clock chimes at midnight #its not all about you ren!!!!! #sidebar to the sidebar. of course sumire imitates your dart throws. of course. #again theyre too busy fighting for their respective lives in the time loop to actually become friends in january #but i do think in the years before meeting again they think of the time with fond bittersweetness of what couldve been. #theyre not really going out together but more mutually keeping each other company lol. its generally a pretty quiet affair. #sumire doesnt really ask him for advice as she puts herself back together (he tends to get acerbic if she tries) #but he can be a pretty decent sounding board for either really simple (red or blue glasses) #or really philosophical (do you think my time as kasumi irrevocably changed who i am and if so am i still sumire) questions. #he does not tell her anything concrete about why the other thieves are so tense with him and she doesnt ask outright #but she able to glean a bit more about him through these discussions. and sadly for both of them they both actually sort of like each other #they get food. play darts. practice mementos on their own a few times (THEY GET A SHOWTIME STOP LYING TO ME!!). #and i sort of think akechi smokes either hes always done it or very recently picked it up now that he no longer needs to be personable #and sumires like well. im going to remain myself but i still want to do smth self-destructive. smoke me up man. #(also all her clothes smell like kasumi and its freaking her out. she doesnt mind smelling bad if itll distinguish her.) #idk. akesumi smiles gently.