#and I value my friendships so much!

[sancastarcs]

i LOVE the recurring theme of luffy entrusting his straw hat to nami, it's such a beautiful action that shows how much he cares and trusts her, and it all started from orange town where Nami was the one to understand how important the hat is to him and offered to fix it for him

#luffy believing in nami so much that he literally entrusts her with THE thing he values the most #and giving it to her in moments where she is either devastated or sick bc the straw hat has given HIM so much strength over the years and #and nami in return understanding more than anyone the meaning of it #how the strawhat is the one thing that reminds him of shanks and his promise #God I love their friendship #they have such a beautiful dynamic #my best friends #monkey d. luffy #nami #cat burglar nami #nami one piece #one piece #drum island arc #platonic lunami

[mrs-gauche]

“...Instead of just seeing a pair of pointed ears.”

#solas #solavellan #dragon age #dai gifs #my gifs #the fact that I could add a hundred more gifs to this #although this set is more centered around his romance.. #..I think this point equally applies to the friendship route #one of my favorite aspects about Solas' character.. #(and this goes for every character of course but even more so for Solas because of who he is) #..is that - in order to fully understand him and crack his guards.. #..you have to sit down and actually *listen* to him.. #..you have to *ask* questions.. #..you have to take him out on your party.. #part of the reason why I love to capture these little moments with the flycam and make a hundred gif sets of him.. #..is because his character is so layered that you have to look at these hundred little puzzle pieces first in order to get the full picture #and yet there's still so much we don't know about him #and I just like to highlight these little moments with the flycam the best I can #there's just so much to him *if you try to understand* #something that Solas respects and values most #to question and look beyond preconceptions #to think for yourself #and that's why we never get tired of analyzing his lines 😂 #(also note to myself - listened to The Red Thread from the Unravel soundtrack while making this - for extra heartbreak 💔)

[thebirdandhersong]

Okay y'all it is over it is done the conversation has been had he knows I love him we are still friends I have cried my eyes out properly I have laughed again my heart will keep on hurting for a while but it is FINISHED

#it is a bit rough to be told that the age gap (3 years??) is too big and life stages are too different #and that it would be unwise since im graduating next year #and then be told that he's not attracted to you in that way #and THEN be told that if you were younger he might consider it #but alas that is the way the cookie crumbles #i do value his friendship very much and i am glad for it #but i am also glad he was honest with me #lads if i could choose i would go through all of it again! i have loved this poor sweet oblivious boy for a short while #but it has been very long and very deeply lodged in my heart #anyway i will be okay and im glad i can laugh again so soon :) #thank you for praying for me it really has been a fresh new hell in many ways #and i do love him. i do love him so terribly much #but i know it will pass #also he WAS very sweet about it. very sweet and honest and vulnerable and i deeply appreciated it #part of me is like. WILL I EVER LOVE AGAIN??? and the other part is like. i cant imagine loving anyone else #i kid you not he is the most wonderful God fearing gentle kind man of integrity i know. i love him terribly. #and there is no other guy who i trust implicitly and know i can tell or talk to about anything #so it is hard to imagine loving anyone else. he is so precious to me and just being around him makes my heart so happy #it will pass!!!!! #the waiting room chapter

[biblically-accurate-soup]

i think the reason i love mitsumi and shimas relationship so much is that the manga has made it clear that they matter to each other no matter if their dynamic is romantic or not. like obviously i am expecting (and rooting) for them to get together, but i’ve never seen a piece of media actually put a platonic relationship on such a high level, even prioritizing it over a potential romantic one

#skip and loafer #like they are aspec to me. ya know #don’t read further in my tags if you haven’t read the manga #but especially during that but where they tried dating #and mitsumi could tell that shima just was not in the same place #and decided it would be better to have their relationship remain platonic #(at least for the time being!) #because she values him as her close and beloved friend way more than as a crush #and idk dude. media of all time. to me. #and while i think shima will develop romantic feelings towards her eventually #he respects her and likes her and values her friendship and opinion so so much #ugh. UGH. WAUGH. #anyway

[bucksboobs]

I need to finish Like Flying so I can get to the Buddie Angst fic in my head of Eddie telling Buck he’s in love with him and Buck telling him it’s too late because he (Buck) said the same thing to Tommy yesterday and he meant it.

#and then after that the fic idea I have is my idea for an 8.01 where Tommy is taking things super slow #and in the entire 6 months they’ve been dating they haven’t gotten past heavy petting #and Buck’s about to lose his Ming with how much he wants Tommy to fuck him alreadaly #and he starts making it everyone else’s problem until Eddie has to be the one to tell Tommy #that if Tommy values their friendship he NEEDS Tommy to fuck Buck so he can stop hearing about it

[obstinatecondolement]

Not to be all "this is an Only Murders in the Building blog now" but apparently since yesterday I have reached a point of no longer being satisfied with being part of a two-person fandom irl with my sister and I need to Discuss things with you all.

Anyway. Currently thinking about how Theo Dimas is a) Greek and b) Deaf—both cultures that are very physically demonstrative—and that he is. Like that.

#I love Theo Dimas so fucking much #the poorest and littlest of meow meows #haven't we all committed accidental manslaughter and allowed someone else to go to prison for it? #have we not all in our time robbed valuables from dead people's bodies? #and consider this: he was very sad about it #and he is so sweet and has such a delightfully quiet and affectionate friendship with mabel #who he kidnapped that one time and who wrongly accused him of murder on a podcast that lead to his arrest #neither of which they hold against each other because they are fellow traumatised disaster millennials who haven't got their shit together #also I think maybe they should kiss about it??? #because he has stuck around a lot longer than any of her canon love interests #and! she is learning asl so clearly values the relationship and wants to make it easier to communicate on his terms #and mabel is famously guarded and slow to trust #(but also a real 'once my walls are down I will love you forever' type) #so her being like 'I want to talk to you and I want that enough and to do it often enough that I want to meet you half way #and not just expect you to always lip-read and write things down for me #because I don't want understanding me and being understood by me to be as much work as it would be if I didn't make any effort to sign' #is like... a very significant indication of how she feels about having theo in her life imo #also they are both very cute and ping bi4bi to me and honestly that would have been more than enough for me #only murders in the building #omitb #omitb spoilers #only murders in the building spoilers

[bilestat]

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#I wish I could stop caring as easily as her #but unfortunately my feelings are just going to constantly get hurt over and over forever #when it’s obvious she doesn’t value our friendship as much as I do #I’ve learned to stop texting beyond holidays for the most part because it hurts getting disappointed when I don’t get answers #but it really fucking sucks she saw my insta story about my birthday but couldn’t bother saying anything to me #good to know where we stand #but again: idk why I’m surprised when she has not told me directly when she: #moved to my state from the opposite coast #set a wedding date and also got married #and moved a half an hour away from me #had to find that all out from the internet #so why would my birthday matter? lmao I’m an idiot #like at least she’s remembered in past years and does answer on holidays but #she hasn’t texted me first beyond my birthday last year in like two years #anyway wish I didn’t feel like crying rn #personal #to be deleted #and I feel conceited for caring but I know it’s not #and it extra sucks to still be hurt about another ex best friend that ghosted me years ago that shares my birthday so the sadness is just #inevitable #especially when combined with the fact that my dad’s birthday is in five days #so I’m just kinda sad around and on my birthday every year

[trans-axolotl]

my life has been so much richer and full of meaning since I was introduced to mad liberation +the psych survivor movement and i am so so so grateful for the people who shared their time and energy and stories with me. can't imagine where i would be today without the people who helped me start dreaming of different ways of living + loving + caring for each other.

#personal #crazy to me that it was almost three years ago now that i like. first heard about psych incarceration and went Huh. huh. things make sense #antipsychiatry #mad liberation #mad pride #i love my psych survivor friends and loved ones so much #watching one of my best friends who's also a psych survivor get up in front of a room full of professionals and defend her thesis on #carceral structures of psychiatry settler colonialism and her proposal for Indigenous community care for suicidality #and im just so so proud of her and value her wisdom and insight and friendship so much #and knowing where she's come from and where she has lived to now #it has been such a comfort to be able to talk about instituionlization with someone else who has survived it #and only live like two minutes away from her #i

[kaltacore]

unconditional devotion is fun and all but i love when you have to work on your relationships with characters in rpgs. it's so much fun when they openly question mc's decisions if they are not aligned with their morals. when they object and start an argument and must be convinced to do something. when they don't join mc in the final fight if you don't trust each other enough.

the payoff hits so much harder this way. if you're a dick to them they will not put you above their principles and stances because why would they? but if you helped them if you proved yourself to be trustworthy if you were good to them they will stand beside you even if they're conflicted and have to sacrifice something for that. and it's so cathartic when you know they could leave but at the end of the day they didn't! because them and your character are besties! friendship and love are hard to earn but you did it and now it helped you win!

#this post is sponsored by the 'fenris doesn't deserve hawke because he didn't join my hawke on the side of mages' take i saw the other day #followed by comparison with certain character ig yk who with a remark that 'he's the only one worthy of hawke's friendship' #honestly i won't bother to write fenris character analysis to make a point why it's so hard for him to join mages #but there's an option for him to join hawke and if he doesn't. well. that's an rpg. that's on you #and honestly i love when a game offers you a little challenge. even if it's about relationships between characters #i remember in my first playthrough fenris refused to join hawke at first #and i was so devastated even though i managed to convince him to return later #but when i replayed the game and he joined hawke right on the spot i was so genuinely happy and relieved #and his final dialogue literally made me tear up that time. such a cool feeling #and it wouldn't be like that if he joined hawke in all outcomes! i wouldn't value it this much! #i have a lot to say on the topic but these tags are getting out of hand already so i'll shut up right here

[wo-der-horizont-beginnt]

so much art about being rejected romantically and not enough about how devastating it is to find out someone was only interested in you romantically and therefore your rejection of their romantic intentions is also their rejection of your platonic intentions

[teknikolor-walters]

I feel sick to my stomach

#i dont think i made the theater team thid year #which is so scary #all of my friends come from theater #i dont want to be lonely again #it's already so hard to talk to my theater frieds because my phone doesn't work and can't access group chats #if i get cut from the theater team all ill have is tumblr #that's so scaru #i love you guys #but i dont want to be alone #im sorry #please dont think i don value yalls friendship #because i do SO so much #its just #idk #sorry #love yall

[feralsteddie]

So i need to hear about you Steve & Argyle friendship thoughts because I keep seeing them in your tags and I think they’re such an underrated duo that would probably get along so well together?????

ohmygod THANK YOU I’ve been waiting for an excuse to go off about them. Fics always leave out Argyle or have Steve just think he’s Jonathan’s weird friend and like, I get it, but we could do so much better guys

Like okay I have a couple of different ideas for them. One is nearly canon compliant (aka Hawkins still splits open so we still gotta wait on a boss fight, but Eddie lives, bc I said so) and the other is au where Vecna bites it, Eddie just got a lil nibbled, the charges got dropped, and everything is in the realm of fine. Gunna talk about the first one. This is definitely a bit of a mess of rambles. Enjoy.

It takes a while for them to actually have their first conversation, given everything.

Argyle is with Jon most of the time, who’s with his siblings in the cabin they’re fixing up, all hyperfocused on the impending return of Vecna and the town cracking open. Steve is running around the hospital between Max and Eddie’s room and threatening doctors if they even look at Eddie sideways or if he thinks Max isn't getting proper treatment.

So they just… don’t really cross paths. Argyle’s heard some of the stories about Steve from Jon, so he’s not too quick to go seek him out and Steve just could not care less about the other new guy along for the ride, he's too busy. Doesn’t even learn his name until about two weeks after they get to town and Robin dragged him by his ear to the cabin bc it was the only other place he'd relent to being at the moment.

Their first full conversation is actually about Argyle's daily foraging. He sees Argyle walking around, avoiding the traps and occassionally stopping to pick something and drop it in his bag. So, he's curious, and Steve's been friends with genius children and Robin long enough to be a good listener for things he doesn't quite get, but unlike the fifteen year old assholes Argyle seems cool with answering his questions.

With the ground kind of rotting out from the cracks in Hawkins, and the increasing likelihood the gov is gunna put up a quarantine any day now, they talk about how to best dry and keep things. Medicinal vs Food, how they can sub out ingredients in recipes for what they can find because it turned out they were both pretty damn good cooks.

From then on it just kind of turns into a Thing.

They both see how the other isn't really taken seriously by anyone in the group. Like, their respective best friends love them and don't look down on them, but there's always this kind of air that whenever they open their mouths they're gunna get some eyerolls. Argyle is the guy who can drive, Steve is the guy that gets hit a lot. They're not really necessary for planning.

So they help as much as they can in other places, together.

They make sure the group is fed, and sleeps, and doesn't do anything that raises their potential of being killed any more than necessary. (Joyce and Hop try, they really do, but they're busy harrassing government officials)

Jon hates how they get along, like, don’t get him wrong he knows Steve’s changed, is a good guy and all that, but come on Argyle is his best friend thanks and with how weird everything had been with Nancy he’d really like custody of Argyle back thanks.

Robin thinks it’s nice Steve has another friend their age, and knows how much easier having him around made getting used to the whole Monsters Are Real thing. (That being said, they require a certain amount of Robin-Steve one on one time or they WILL die. Or at the very least be insufferable to everyone around them)

Argyle got Steve into pineapple on pizza.

Steve braids Argyle’s hair whenever he needs to get it out of the way.

They talk to each other about their parental situations, about feeling like they’d never be what their parents wanted them to be. Argyle’s parents worked hard, wanted him to go to university and find a well-paying career; didn’t like that he was perfectly content with community college and kind of just wanted to open up his own restaurant one day. Steve's pretty sure his parents were disappointed the day he was born, and completely gave up by the time he only got back rejection letters. Argyle misses his, they were so worried when he’d gone missing for a few days, and their worry didn’t get any less when he finally called and told them where he was, but they’re not going to force him back. Steve’s parents still haven’t called, and he wonders if they remember that he’s still in Hawkins at all.

They don't hang out all the time. They've each got their respective best friends, and Argyle and Jon are usually the only two who manage to wrangle Mike, Will, and El. Who are constantly trying to sneak away to enact some half-baked plan they're sure will end it this time. Steve's got Dustin and Erica by the scruffs of their necks half the time, and his hands still full at the hospital the other.

They find out the two of them make a really good monster hunting pair though. Rob, Steve and Argyle end up on the same Team during scraps with the Upside Down Monsters. They've both got the most insane observation skills. Each quick on their feet and are really good with improvised weaponry. (Robin's able to fill in the pieces based on things they point out, is kind of the only one who really takes what they say seriously enough to utilise it.)

Argyle becomes the second person to come out to him on a bathroom floor while bloody. Argyle doesn't even really think anything of it, didn't even realise Steve hadn't known about his gigantic crush on Jonathan, just made an offhand joke about hoping his best friend thought the new gash on the side of his arm was as cool as the matching one he had with Nancy. They apent about an hour just talking about how he'd liked Jon from the moment he met him. Thought the awkward loner was cute and sweet and even after he found out he had a girlfriend back home he'd still wanted to be around him. Was content to be his best friend as long as he was happy, and did his best to move on with other people he could see himself caring for.

About a month after Eddie's back, Steve makes the third coming out to happen while bleeding on a bathroom floor. He'd kind of already known that he liked guys, but hadn't ever really thought too hard about it before. But he was having a bit of a freak out and Argyle and Rob both just squeezed into the dry bathtub with him. Let him have a full panic about liking a guy he'd kind of hated before spring break, a most likely straight guy who'd bodied a demodog that'd tried to sneak up on him and- hey did he mention just how hot that had been after they'd both calmed down from a mutual panic attack?

After that Rob, Argyle, and Steve will occassionally just get together to scream about their crushes. Robin still not sure what's happening with Vickie but they held hands guys, girls hold their friend's hands alll the time though right???

They smoke about it, a lot.py

#thank you so much I just need to talk about them or I’ll die actually #argyle (stranger things) #steve harrington #sorry this took a couple of days my sibling was getting married and prep was HECTIC #there's some slight jargyle rockie and steddie in here #but the main focus is argyle and steve #i defintiely have about a million different little hc's for their friendship #i just!!! think they're both so underestimated #so you put them together and they'd be able to value each other's opinions like no one else seems to be able to #and!!! they often ask very reasonable questions and point the right stuff out!!! #sorry they are... important to me #i'm in love with argyle and steve individually in general so just... slap them together okey #Robin: oh thank god he has a second friend. i was worried. last time i hung out with someone else i cam home and he was sitting on my steps #so yeah there's more my head's just on 50% sorry #pyreposting #pyresmailbox

[decidentia]

Just a note to say thanks for bearing with me. ♡

#this has turned into more of a hiatus than i expected #i've not been putting pressure on myself to be here #so i've just been peeking occasionally #on the other side of the screen things have been a mix of good and bad #i've been settling into my new job #throwing myself into renovations #doing all the prep for christmas #attending my pottery class #minding my neighbour's cat while she's away #trying to get into the habit of using my art tablet #( when i git gud i'll share something and maybe start drawing our blorbos ) #also just trying to be more ' present ' in the everyday #tw for medical and terminal illness but my uncle was recently diagnosed with multiple system atrophy #we thought it was parkinson's ( which is what took his father ) but it's actually so much worse than that #he was an avid cyclist just a few years ago and working as an aerospace engineer #now he's in a wheelchair and recently broke his hip for the third time #there's not much i can do but i want to be there for my family as much as i can #so thank you for your patience #rest assured i adore writing and roleplay is a very important part of my life #it is my main creative outlet and i value the friendships that spring from it #i hope to get the wheels turning again in the next couple of weeks #i'll be spring-cleaning behind the scenes #you are always welcome to reach out if you want to check the status of anything but just be aware i'll be slower than usual to reply #i hope life has been treating you all kindly – sending you my love ♡ #◈ — ooc; saddest little baby in the room

[basurachan]

Lord, prepare me

For the shadows

For the sparrows

At my window

#pillar of truth by lucy dacus is now a takaeishi song #can't stop won't stop appropriating sad gay girl music for the birdmen agenda #one day i will make fanart for these 2 i swear #birdmen #takaeishi #takayama sou #karasuma eishi #i the anchor i'm slowly sinking into darkness yet unknown #but the fading light around me is full of faces who carry my name???? #oh i tried to be a second coming and if i was nobody knew #IF MY THROAT CAN'T SING THEN MY SOUL SCREAMS OUT TO YOU #honestly in my head this is takayama's pov on eishi #like sou is so isolated and is drifting further away ready to relinquish himself to his cosmic destiny #but eishi is the only one who tries to keep him #the only one with the guts to express how much he values takayama as a real person and as a friend #while takayama seems more likable and popular it's really eishi who overshadows him as a leader and strong voice #and takayama's always had full trust in eishi he'd be down for anything he'd decide like that's his pillar of truth fr #and now this song got me angsty thinking about the possibility of sou outliving eishi in his ascendence to the cosmic divine #kinda like twilight sparkle outliving the rest of the mane 6 after also becoming a god #birdmen is just like mlp: friendship is magic fr

[lilybug-02]

It’s something else when you finally have the confidence to show some of your fancomic, that you’ve been making for over a year, to your friend… and they say it’s cool

It makes me feel like a million bucks 🥰💕

#I value our friendship so much #I don’t really show my art a lot so it’s really special when I do #bread #bread thoughts

[thueenz]

for real though that post is so true on the love front i think about it all the time like why is everyone so LOVELESS not even just in like cishetero marriages where they hate each other just in general like platonic too. it drives me craaazy when im exposed to it like why are ppl like this !! why dont you love your friends and partner!! its like everything is a social game that theyre playing just for validation and lacking real connection and its a game where theyre always about 2 steps away from being bitter and hateful towards their friends/lover like STOOOOP! im someone who values love and kindness so much and it baffles me. why do you hate your partner! why do you talk about them like theyre an object of validation! why are you dating someone you clearly dislike! why are u so mean to ur friends behind their backs im cryin. why do you up and abandon them the second you get a partner bc you dont value them over the romantic validation you get. ive always been such an affectionate person at heart and i value what my friends say so much and i always find myself feeling so distant from people in relationships because they just feel?? so shallow?? and distant from me. like i think oh this preson gets me but theres ppl who say the same things how they value kindness and love but its always like, immediately clear they are actually a deeply mean person and just enjoy feeling like theyre 'good'. the way society functions with relationships feels so intensely shallow and i cannot connect to it at all. i love my friends and i love people and i always want to understand them and reach out with compassion and be close to them physically and emotionally speaking and talk a lot and listen to them. however im cursed to live in a world of 1 word responses if any at all and shallow relationships where no one gaf about each other and then i get told i talk too much. hello? *tapping mic* hello? is this thing on? be filled with whimsy and love going forward please. anyway does anyone else feel this way or is it just me feel free to talk about it if youd like

#thank god i finally found some friends who are like this too it was so rough before #it sucks tho bc ive been so tired lately its hard for me to live up to this #which i dont hate myself for its valid its just like waaah i wanna have the energy to really put my all in friendships again #for half my life my biggest want and goal in life has been to be someone approachable and who seems kind #even to people with anxiety and i think growing up with anxiety greatly shaped that #i value being kind and compassionate and understanding to such a degree that i spent and still spend time actively working #towards that goal and unlearning being judgemental and bitter #bc i want to be kind so badly and to put kindness in the world... #no but seirously why do people date ppl they dont like #wym you guys arent so unabashedly in love that you practically see hearts thinking of them #wym your entire chest doesnt fill with joy and the simple prospect of them experiencing lifes small joys no matter how little and mundane #to love so wholly that you strive to be a good person not out of guilt or feeling like you are bad but because you desire so deeply to be #good for them and put as much goodness in their life as you can because its what they deserve...💙💙 #ANYWAY LMFAO! im sappy asf as a person sorry everyone but also not sorry #pers