lil non-edited first draft of the next chapter of In The Shadow of Speculation
It had been well over two weeks, and Danny hadn’t been back to Arkham to see his Mom or Dad.
He felt incredibly guilty about it, regardless of how many rants Dan would go on about how he didn’t owe them shit. The older man talked like it was so, so easy to just cut them out of his life entirely; but Danny had an entire childhood with them, and they would always be a part of him.
He couldn’t just leave them. Abandon them. Betray them, in a way so similar and so different to how they’d betrayed him-
-No. No, they hadn’t betrayed him. Logically, he knew they’d had no idea that it was their son they were doing that to.
…Logically, he knew that they would have done it even if they had known.
But when he woke up, just for a few brief moments, he would sometimes expect to see his Dad barging through the door, followed by his Mom, and to be swept up in a giant hug that felt so much bigger and stronger than the world that just kept shoveling shit at him.
Then he would remember.
Then, he would force himself to get out of bed, sometimes taking a few hours to do it, and make himself do housework. Clean, bake, study medical manuscripts, do PT…anything to focus on the present.
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Like to charge reblog to cast
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I keep seeing ads for cotton candy flavored vape pods on tumblr and it made me wonder…
Why/Why not in the tags?
I’m interested because I feel like when I was in high school/college in the mid-10s, almost nobody smoked - even if you otherwise had some pretty hard vices. I think it was considered not really worth it for something with such a small buzz. But now, idk. Maybe the advertisers are right to target people here because it’s just that popular again??
(Reblog for a bigger sample size etc etc.)
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Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.
The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.
You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character
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Mike: is struggling financially and mentally
Vanessa: *throws his prescription medicine*
Edit: it's not just about whether Mike needed the drugs (which he didn't, i understand), it's about the fact SHE LITTERED and most likely polluted the river too.
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NYT article abt goncharov has comments like 'what is the purpose of this film's existence these kids are just lying' motherfucker how do you think our ancestors survived. how do you think folklore formed. culture. music. art. PURPOSE????? do you think everything must be commodified? sold? weighed to be valued? has the rot in your soul spread so far you cannot find value in anything not spoken in numbers??? it's FUN. THAT'S WHY. THE PURPOSE IS THE ACT, THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM, THE SYMBOL IS THE STORY. it brings people joy for its mere existence and that IS the point. existence is its purpose alone
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I've been taking pictures to potentially be helpful for. crowdfunding the surgery. and this one makes me laugh
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