Sometimes depression is a beast, but sometimes 5-year-olds sing you songs they learned at VBS, and sometimes you get to eat fresh raspberries from the garden, so actually everything is going to be okay.
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every time i relisten to the festival of lights it strikes me how beloved maeri is. everywhere she goes everyone is bowing and trying to gain her favor, at the festival in the last episode the estrans are uproarious and clamoring for a glimpse of her
yet throughout the entire arc we are told repeatedly that the citizens doubt her, that they mistrust her, that they believe she isnt who she says she is. and its entirely possible that the people who think these things would put on airs when the goddess is near, or just that we never encounter them by coincidence, but i find it more likely that this is intentional to some degree
the only people who talk about unrest among the people are the attendants and maeri herself, all of whom received that information from cecilia and cordelia. this is just another facet of torvahs plot - to make the guardians suspicious and to make maeri doubt herself. she knows that something isnt right, and her attendants are telling her that other people have noticed, which just makes her more self conscious and anxious
this may have worked if the guardians had been more attached to the goddess than to maeri, but instead it just led to them falling in love with her for who she is rather than who shes not
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probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.
we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."
at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.
the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.
the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.
what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.
here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.
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imagine ur garthy o’brien, just trying to fuck this hot ranger you met at your brothel that you own, except her teenage kids/wards/bosses keep knocking on the door to your bedroom and interrupting you guys and THEN you learn that she’s actually in a committed relationship but didn’t tell you, so THAT sucks but THEN one of the teens comes and finds you in the middle of the night yelling about how his friend is gone and they can’t find him and he might be in danger, so you help him teleport to his friend, and then when they all get back, looking extremely upset and dejected, you apologize to the ranger’s daughter for making her feel uncomfortable by fucking her mother and in the process SHE reveals to you that her mom’s boyfriend is actually this really cool werewolf guy that you KNOW and have fucked on multiple occasions
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idk if this is accurate but i’ve felt like in previous seasons riz & gorgug have been one of the inter-bad kids dynamics we’ve seen the least of & this season has been so great in that aspect. gorgug having helped make some of riz’s magic gear. riz helping gorgug with his studies. the shared birthday party. gorgug’s gift to riz being something he himself made to protect riz. riz’s gift to gorgug being something he illegally grabbed to protect gorgug. gorgug who utilizes rage to put his body on the line for his friends & riz who will take deep levels of mental stress for his friends. even though it was within the context of a joke, riz calling gorgug an “absolute sweetie.” like yea they might not be in a band together or both part of a presidential campaign team or owlbears teammates, but they’d go to war for each other, because they’re best friends.
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Hee hoo more of the fam! ( ≧ᗜ≦)
Ft ideas:
-Error having Geno's glitches when hes unstable (and maybe even his eye melting,,, tho you rarely get to see it)
- PJ's comfort food is just some weird concoction Ink and Error made thats just error's strings and purple paint and called it "homemade ramen"
It sounds so dumb but its probably a really good healing item for him if he lost his strings=structure somehow.
-Gradient and Error communicate through puppets. Both of them are too socially awkward when face to face so this is for the best lmfao
-Ink building lil mini metatton robots!! Did you know his dad taught him how to build machines and studying astrophysics? Its so he learns to be less dependent on his paints and powers. I wish ppl draw him doing stuff like this more ; w ;
Error by @/loverofpiggies
PJ is by @/7goodangel
Gradient is by @/askcomboclub
Ink by @/comyet
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“I’m bored.”
“So?”
“Kiss me. It will make time fly faster.”
“Here?” Vash looks around, nervous.
a little smth based on the sweet sweet fic Those Were The Days by @elofrommars 💕
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I have no computer rn so how do you guys feel about traditional art? Here's Chara my little angel
Also some little Asriel and Flowey
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