#road between ; about

[hella1975]

noah kahan really said growing up in a small, bitter hometown is about the rage and the hatred that's been sung about many times before but it's also about love and devotion and the 'all three of us were drowning and we didn't know how to save each other but there was an understanding that we were all drowning together' of it all and knowing people so intimately yet not being able to help anyone and he's morally grey at best in a lot of his songs and objectively the bad guy in others and that's just how it is and it's about substance abuse and normalised crime and teen suicide and country roads and failed exams and leaving and being left and love and hate and love and hate and love and

#anyway. listening to orange juice again. like it's my fault #girls when growing sideways and view between villages and northern attitude and homesick and stick season come on #like new england must actually be called that for a reason bc you cant convince me this guy isnt actually secretly singing about england #like even when he sings about the WEATHER im like !!! this guy gets it fr!!! #IM TIRED OF DIRT ROADS NAMED AFTER HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND'S GRANDFATHERS AND MOTHERFUCKERS HERE DONT KNOW #THEY CAUGHT THE BOSTON BOMBERS TIME MOVES SO DAMN SLOW I SWEAR I FEEL MY ORGANS FAILING I STOPPED CARING ABOUT A MONTH AGO #SINCE IT'S BEEN SMOOTH SAILING I WOULD LEAVE IF ONLY I COULD FIND A REASON IM MEAN BECAUSE I GREW UP IN NEW ENGLAND!!! #or the entirety of growing sideways. divvied up my anger into 30 seperate parts keep the bad shit in my liver and the rest around my heart #r u even listening. what the hell #HONEY COME OVEERRRRRR THE PARTY'S GONE SLOWERRR AND NO ONE WILL TEMPT YOU WE KNOW YOUVE GONE SOBER <- sobbing #noah kahan #stick season

[insomnya777]

boat boys coded

#....does this make sense #it does in my head #lovers lane. dead end. #aka double life #they know it won't lead anywhere #in the long run it will only end in pain #whether it ends in a screaming match or just one too many empty promises — it doesn't matter. it still ends either way #and that's the part that really counts #but they don't do anything about it because what is there to do? your only option is to live the story #even if you know how it ends #so they go along with it #what other choice do they have? #they fall in love and they kiss and they kill and they do it all together. they follow lovers lane all the way until the end of the road #until they can't deny it anymore #their time is up #double life is over #they're running on borrowed time - delaying the inevitable #it's a dead end #and it was always going to be #and somewhere in between they may have convinced themselves that it might be different #(it's not) #(it never is) #IS THIS ANYTHING GUYS... #maybe i'm just insane #nya talks #hermitblr #trafficblr #joel smallishbeans #boat boys #smalletho

[lloydfrontera]

lloyd 'survived on one meal per day for years' frontera would absolutely see sharing food as a love language and javier 'lived in the streets for months as a child' asrahan would be fluent in it

i do believe there is a point in their lives where they both heal from the trauma of going through severe food insecurity but neither of them ever quite really forget just how important food can be. and when the other shares their food with them, they appreciate it as the show of affection it was meant to be

#i talk a lot <3 #tged #the greatest estate developer #lloyd frontera #javier asrahan #i've talked before about food as a love language in tged which mostly affects the relationship between marbella and lloyd #but i do think it would bleed over to other aspects in lloyd's life #and there's a scene in the hell arc where javier figures out something is wrong because lloyd complains about the food #something javier notes he never does. no matter the quality of the food how plain or unpleasant it is lloyd never complains about it #and he explicitly calls it out as the way someone that had been starving for years and knew the preciousness of food would act #which if you then take into account that this is been said by a person that survived on his own as a five year old child in the streets #in the middle of winter... well. it sounds less like speculation and more like someone speaking from experience. #anyway. all this to say lloyd would peel an orange and then give half of it to javier and javier would absolutely swoon #and when they're on the road and they sit down to eat javier will always give the fuller plate to lloyd #and lloyd will have to swallow the knot in his throat before he can start eating #llojavi #yeah fine i'll tag it

[odinsblog]

As cold weather sweeps across the U.S., some electric vehicle owners are learning a bitter truth: Low temperatures can stop the cars dead in their icy tracks.

The issue crystallized this week when some Tesla owners in Chicago discovered their EVs' batteries had died in sub-zero temperatures. Drivers also said some of Tesla charging stations weren't working, or if they did work that the stations were taking longer than usual to charge up their vehicles.

“I've been here for over five hours at this point, and I still have not gotten to charge my car,” Tesla driver Brandon Welbourne told CBS Chicago. “A charge that should take 45 minutes is taking two hours.”

What happens to electric vehicles in cold weather?

Here's what to know.

Electric vehicles are less efficient in cold weather, with Recurrent's research finding that below-freezing temperatures reduced driving range up to 30% on 18 popular EV models.

An EV with a 200 to 215 mile range may only go 150 to 175 miles in the cold, Recurrent's Case said, while noting even that reduced mileage is often sufficient for most drivers. “The average person with an EV drives 30 miles a day,” he said.

Still, a shorter range in cold weather could be an issue for some owners if their EV runs out of juice miles earlier than expected, potentially leaving to hunt for an available charger or, worse, stranded in dangerously frigid conditions.

(continue reading) ❄️ 🚗​ 🥶

#tesla #elon musk #electric vehicles #yikes #as much as i hate those stupid soap bubble looking cars its not just tesla #yeah this might be a prob #lol i think i can wait a bit longer for my ev #i frequently drive to georgia and north carolina and nyc and dc #i couldnt imagine getting stranded on the side of the road in freezing temps #because my charge died about 30% sooner than i planned #and charging stations are so few and far between to begin with #im not knocking the technology but issa problem #❄️ 🚗​ 🥶

[zxal]

let's meet again

#kingdom hearts #kh #kingdom hearts dark road #khdr #xehanort #young xehanort #baldr #xehabaldr #quadratum au #(shaking you by the shoulders) BALDR IN QUADRATUM!!!!!!!!! #and he gets a ponytail because. well look at him #idr who i saw say 'i knew he had bakura vibes' when the finale dropped but i was definitely channeling that here #i've been resisting the urge to ramble abt baldr in the tags. because. i am insane #but. BUT #i dont think that there's a meaningful difference between baldr and darkness. like i think 'possessed' baldr IS baldr #and that he's always been Like That. but i also think it's a mask #like he is cruel because of hatred and anger but also because of grief. and also because he's miserable and - #- because he needs to feel like he deserves it. deserves to be miserable #like it's about punishing himself. that's what it is at its core. he is vile and so he will act vile #but it's an act. he's putting on a show. it's a performance #'i win. you lose. the end' #so he tries to drag xehanort into the performance by goading him into being hurt and angry and vengeful towards him (like he deserves) #but the second xehanort refuses to play along the facade comes crashing down #all that to say. i remembered this bit of dialogue from days and felt like drawing something self indulgent. again #happy valentines day to unwell people <3 #my art #kh art

[rowanthestrange]

Doggy DNA test results are back, and baby Cody is none of the breeds anyone thought he was.

he is…

*drumroll*

Quarter Cocker Spaniel (cute and fluffy yay! Guess that’s where his slightly curly tail hair comes from)

Quarter XL Bully/Pit-and-mix (the UK’s answer to the banned pitbull that just also got banned)

and Half Belgian Malinois (German Shepherd on Hard Mode)

😬🥲 Pray for him, and us lol

Though the people we used also give you relative links, and there’s a dog which has low genetic match but high breed match (so they’re not directly related but their root breeds are very similar) and damn true. Roch even does the ear thing.

#rescue pup #he’s still way too scared of the outside #is pretty damn good for a puppy inside the home #but he’s scared of and panic barks at anything so easily outside #not a surprise now - that’s a lot of guard dog in him #and the problem is he’s triggered from ok to overflowing #in about a second #no steps between 30%-99% #he’s /used/ to panicking if that makes sense #his brain knows those pathways well so defaults to them #like a human with a panic disorder #but unlike a human he can’t do talking therapy #(we’d probably be fine if our road wasn’t so travelled) #(and our garden connected straight to the house) #(rather than going out and then down an alleyway to it) #(but we’ve got what we’ve got) #(so trial and error and training methods with his behaviourist)

[sunforgrace]

dean “reacts in new, interesting, fucked up ways to losing cas” winchester and they’re telling me that has nothing to do with nothing in the finale after cas literally confessed his romantic love the act of which was his moment of true happiness and subsequent sacrificial death. haha okay

#did anyone try the consciously choosing to pull that trenchcoat out of the water fold it up and transfer it between each new car #putting it in the trunk from car to car just keeping it until the moment he puts it back in cas’ hands i thought the transferring the #trenchcoat between each non impala car was lovely #orrrr the time his brain literally rewrote his memory. because the reality of cas choosing to stay behind in purgatory rather than #going with dean was more painful than a memory where dean failed to save him and cas was reaching out to him desperately. and he couldn’t #save him. that he NEEDED to remember it that way to cope. #and then seeing cas on the road and at the window (I’m so cold I’ve come home) and fully believed he was seeing visions of him. #FROM DEEP MOURNING ENTIRE ARC TO COWBOY TIMES. and this time it’s pretty much fine you guys don’t worry about it. #after a love confession which. is literally the death of him. the act of loving dean in that moment and doing so openly both his true #happiness and his cause of death. which he chose. okay! #surely dean ‘very capable of being normalcore about castiel the angel’ will experience no rammys from this #(also by fucked up I don’t mean wrong I mean he does not do well it is not a good experience for him)

[gamebunny-advance]

Last Thing

While I was trying to figure out if Zam actually was a little too big, I noticed that there's this little "tail" hanging off the left cup of his headphones to make it look like a speech balloon.

I've literally never noticed it before, but it's apparently been there since the very beginning.

I dunno how, but I've just never internalized this detail until now, but it's super cute, isn't it?

#no straight roads #nsr #dj zam #zam #i guess i just don't spend that much time looking at the other characters #also is it just me #or is zam one of the most different characters between his model and his talk sprite? #i dunno. i just don't think they look the same #i kinda feel that way about gigi too but it's mostly just that his smile isn't modeled as sharply as it's drawn #zam is like totally different to me #his model is also kinda weird in other ways #it's not as detailed as the main cast #but not as undetailed as the other city npcs #and as mentioned before he's one of the few characters that t-poses instead of a-posing by default #i wonder if he was supposed to do more in earlier versions of the game #anyway i think i've decided that zam is correctly scaled #i guess he's just a bigger guy than i realized #gonna have to rectify that in future fanarts

[blowingoffsteam2]

This parallel though,,,

#soriku #thinking about all the context of these moments #the contrast between what Riku was walking away for then vs what he was walking away for in kh3 #in kh1 that was the moment he had truly broken his promise #and in kh3 that’s the moment he remakes it #just like his poem in CoM #walking the road without you #to remake our forgotten promise #and meet you at road’s end #well something like that anyway

[captainsparklefingers]

You know what I love?

(and by love I mean am emotionally crushed by?)

We've now seen Vax and Vex's connected threads of fate severed. They're on different paths now, not fated to always be connected, because now Vax's fate is directly tied to the Matron of Ravens (to death).

And you know what else?

Vax is the only one in the opening who doesn't see or react to the thread of fate. All of Vox Machina does, save him.

Vax is the only one who won't have the same fate as the rest of his friends and family. He's destined to be on a separate path from the rest of them. Vox Machina gets to stay together. They're all connected. No matter how much he may want to be, Vax doesn't have that connection. And one day, he'll have to walk away to where his thread of fate leads him to. To the Matron. To death. To divinity.

Without his family.

....I think I'm gonna go lie down now.

#the legend of vox machina #tlovm #tlovm spoilers #critical role #critical role spoilers #vax'ildan #the champion of ravens #the matron of ravens #the raven queen #*GROSS SOBBING* #they're all connected except for him! they all get to stay together #EXCEPT FOR HIM #IT'S SET UP SO WELL #between this and the multiple visible separations between the twins in the first three episodes #they're making it so clear theyre gonna end on different roads #and that vax's is completely separate from them and they'll lose him one day to it #(and it'll be a long long time until they can all be together again after that) #i think i need to stop thinking about sad things #there's too many of them in fiction and in the real world and I don't care for it.

[kvothes]

i honestly was not expecting to be as affected as i was by the presence of kvothe in the narrow road. even though he’s hardly there and is very pointedly never named, neither as kvothe or kote. but ohhh my god my special boy i’m chin in hands kicking my feet like hiii

#breaking fucking news: tumblr user kvothes is emo about the presence of kvothe #the narrow road between desires #the name of the wind

[somer-writes]

What's your favorite trope? Like ever. If every story you read/wrote for the rest of your life had to contain this one trope, what would it be?

oh man oh man oh man

i almost said enemies to lovers but really, it has to be crisis of faith

nothing tickles me more than a character having their entire reasoning for doing anything or moral compass laid at their feet. maybe their deity doesnt exist, maybe it does. maybe there is no reason for mercy and cruelty, maybe those things are entirely out of their control. and what becomes the point of anything if they start to believe that their life was never theirs to command??

i love this trope bc it breaks down what makes someone them. like at the end of the line, on deaths doorstep, if they leave anything behind what would it be?

it gives characters a new motivation. sometimes it makes them better, sometimes it makes them worse. i love when no matter good or evil it causes some kind of ascension in them.

even more when it effects a greater world! dead gods are still gods. why are they still being worshipped if theyre gone? why not worship them if theyre alive? how does an atheist align their viewpoint with a world that hinges on deities like a lot of fantasy worlds or how does a theist grapple with this being all there is?

sweet sweet angst in a good old fashioned existential crisis but so much oomph in a character finding out theres no point and making their own instead or perhaps a character choosing their own path to a predetermined destination

#somer answers #i could keep rambling about this #mostly i just love philosophical differences between characters #like when they have to agree to disagree #or when they ruin the others viewpoint #or when a villain and a hero have the same goals for separate reasons or different reasons for the same goal #characters realizing theyre only human or characters realizing they were never really sharing the human experience at all #stronger through spite is something i wish more media explored #not everyone is a perfect victim #not everyone takes the high road #forgiveness is never a right or an obligation

[maddymoreau]

Fallout New Vegas DLC Sleeping Arrangement Headcanons:

After making my post about my thoughts on how the sleeping arrangement inside the Lucky 38 would work with all the companions.

https://www.tumblr.com/maddymoreau/747184690349342720/fallout-new-vegas-lucky-38-presidential-suite?source=share

I couldn't stop thinking about the DLC characters so here’s my headcanons!!

Honest Hearts:

The Dead Horses and The Sorrows are always courteous offering my Courier Six a bed to rest in:

When traveling with Follows-Chalk if it's too late to return to the Dead Horses Camp, they'll find somewhere safe to sleep. The plan is to have one guard while the other rests. However, they stay up wayyy too late talking. Follows-Chalk teaches her how to read stars while she tells him stories from her travels.

Waking Cloud wears and uses her Yao Guai Gauntlet as a pillow (it also allows her to quickly spring into action). She misses her children and as they're falling asleep, tells Courier Six stories about them.

Joshua Graham is usually the last to go to bed, so he'll sleep on whatever bed isn't taken (or the floor). I imagine he always sleeps on his back. Since it distributes the pain evenly instead of putting a large amount of pressure onto one spot.

If my Courier Six is also awake she'll say a prayer with him before bed.

If Joshua is up late working on inventory and my Courier Six is inside Angel Cave, she'll be lulled to sleep by the fire and noises he makes.

Dead Money:

You know how Dean Domino has secret stashes hidden everywhere? He also has hidden sleeping spots. Multiple pillows and blankets which he does NOT like sharing but will begrudgingly with my Courier Six.

Dean Domino has lived in the Sierra Madre the longest, which has caused him to become a light sleeper. He will always bitch about back pain, regardless if he's sleeping on an old mattress or couch.

Once, when traveling with my Courier Six, she got VERY sick and dizzy from the red cloud, forcing her to rest. Dean thought about ditching her (but couldn't with the whole "wedding rings around their necks" plus he wants to use her for protection). So he dragged her to one of his spots. When Courier Six woke up she thanked him and offered to keep watch, so he could rest as well, which he reluctantly accepted.

Courier Six is the only one he'll sleep around.

Christine has an extremely hard time falling asleep because she’s afraid she'll wake up in the auto doc.

My Courier Six offers to sit next to Christine, hold her hand and keep watch while she tries to sleep. My Courier Six's perception isn't high enough to understand Christine, but she can sympathize with how difficult it is to fall asleep in the Sierra Madre.

Dog and God sleep sitting perched up against a wall. Dog snores while God doesn’t. He's far too large to sleep comfortably on most of the furniture scattered around. Courier Six worries about him but can't convince him to sleep differently.

Old World Blues:

My Courier Six sleeps in the bed inside The Dome. However as she slowly begins repairing everyone inside The Sink (Muggy, Toaster, Jukebox, ETC.) it becomes harder to sleep in there. She also feels WAYYY too guilty about the idea of turning them off.

So near the end of the DLC after getting closer to everyone she starts occasionally sleeping inside The Think Tank. Specifically using the weapon trunk and table next to Dr. 8 as a makeshift desk.

My Courier Six has 100% woken up to some of them hovering over and observing her sleep 👁️👄👁️ (especially Dr. Dala).

After she peacefully resolved things with Dr. Mobius, before returning, she slept on his floor. Making sure not to sleep on or touch any of his notes. Despite this, she woke up with math equations written on her face.

She has no idea how he did that.

His humming and silly singing soothes her to sleep:

Lonesome Road:

My Courier Six is FIGHTING for her life in The Divide and sleeps whenever she can (which isn’t often). Ulysses is watching her from a distance and will also (sometimes) sleep when she does. Due to his past as a member of the Legion and a Courier. Ulysses is able to sleep easily in odd places.

ED-E watches over my Courier Six while she sleeps. Alerting her to any danger. However, until she falls asleep, ED-E lets her hold him like this:

It makes her think of home (The Lucky 38). Since that's how she usually sleeps with her ED-E in the Presidential Suite.

#I LOVE THESE DORKS!!!!! I HAVE SOOOO MANY HEADCANONS ABOUT EVERYONE!!!!!! #I COULD RAMBLE ABOUT EVERYONE FOR HOURS!!!!!!!!!!! #Also Dean doesn’t sleep around my Courier Six because he fully trusts her. #It's just because between her + Christine + Dog and God she’s the most cooperative. She doesn’t question or challenge his authority. #Mainly since my Courier Six is trying to be the glue to keep everyone together. So if he's going to sleep in front of anyone it'd be her. #Plus Dean is worried Christine will figure out it was him who put her through that hell and kill him over it. #He won't also trust Dog because they're working for Father Elijah. So Courier Six it is. #Old World Blues #Dead Money #Lonesome Road #Honest Hearts #Fallout New Vegas #Long Post #FNV #Long Text #MaddyMoreauPost #ED-E #Follows-Chalk #Waking Cloud #Joshua Graham #Ulysses #Dog and God #Dr. Mobius #Dr. Klein #Dr. Dala #Dr. 0 #Dr. 8 #Dr. Borous #Christine #Dean Domino

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Walking In Two Worlds & The Everlasting Road

YA sff set in the near future where an opensource augmented reality is commonly used like social media, and there’s also a completely virtual fantasy game version

follows an Anishinaabe girl who who’s the top player in the VR game, and is constantly fighting to keep her place against the misogynist neo-nazi group in second place

as well as her real life, dealing with being a shy and self-conscious teen growing up on the Rez, and her brother having cancer

and a Uyghur boy who’s moved to her community from China after finding acceptance in an online community (even when he doesn’t agree with their more extreme views) - but when he gets to know Bugz, he has to decide who truly deserves his loyalty

great mix of sff and culture, the future while also very real community traumas of the past (and present)

#walking in two worlds #the everlasting road #wab kinew #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #This has some REALLY interesting and important concepts! #I just think it could have used some more development… Obvs this is YA and I’m an adult I know I’m not quite the audience! #There’s a lot of depth in the setup of the characters but I feel like it skips a lot of the progression #I think there could have been space for more development in a lot of places to make the story feel more dimensional #- but also has so many plot threads that maybe that would have bulked it out too much #It does also jump around quite a bit between the different parts but I think that makes sense with how juggling with irl / online life. #she’s got a lot of internalised fatphobia at the start (and the love interest going “I don’t think you’re fat!!” when people call her fat.. #then in book 2 suddenly she’s okay about it - again I wish there was some progression! #her brothers cancer journey is. basically all offscreen lol mostly as set up for plot in book 2. so it doesn't have the emotional impact it #could have.. #I liked the way it integrates her culture into the game in a really cool way (though I would have liked more detail there) #also having auto language translators but they regularly don't translate quite right / still run into issues - realistic! #the parallels drawn between his being taken from his family and put in a state education school and Indigenous residential schools #the way that a future world will never be as separate from the past as ur average sff future often portrays #but yeah anyway lots of good ideas execution not so much for me..

[guccigarantine]

You know the ad with the panda in it? The one that brought someone back to life? 

#I stole the little clapcast stinger to put in between the clips because it's so fun #this is the most Improv thing about the episode #bc the entire time theyre talking youre asking yourself 'did i miss something???' #road to palisade #audio post

[kh-described]

do you ever think about the parallels between Baldr&Hoder and Lauriam&Strelitzia? do you ever think about a young Xehanort knowing, somewhere deep within his heart, that the khux characters are his friends, even if that doesn't make sense, and finding Brain in his friendship with Eraqus, and maybe finding Lauriam in his friendship with Baldr? do you ever think about how both of those friendships ended?

#kingdom hearts #khux #khdr #xehanort #kingdom hearts dark road #kingdom hearts union x #it's missing khux and khdr hours here..... #the parallels between those two games are CRAAAZY #i could talk way more about the sibling parallels but #rn i'm thinking about young xehanort for some reason.