#wiser words

[julygirl67]

Holding a grudge is Like drinking Posin and expecting The other Person to Die

#words of wisdom #remember this #wiser words #holding a grudge

[snailsnfriends]

not to be crazy in september 2023 but ctommy realizing that he could leave exile. the fucking desperation. the realization that he wasn't stuck. running far away from that area into the snow. finding technos house. digging under it. getting giddy and excited over the fact that he was free. how happy he was at even the idea that he wouldn't have to suffer anymore. knowing deep inside of him that there was even someone out there who cared enough to let him burrow under his house, even begrudgingly. knowing that even though cwilbur was gone there was someone to run back to. what if I was crazy. what then

#maybe it's time for bed #anyway word from the wiser don't take a bunch of 9 am classes #snailtrail.txt

[glasswaters]

"All that pain, that misery, that loneliness, and it just made him kind." - Amy Pond, Doctor Who, season 5, episode 2, "The Beast Below" written by Steven Moffat

Pain sits on a chest too frail to lift it, its mouth split by teeth. it digs curved claws into sinew and bone and untwists nerves where they lie blank in its hands. Misery, hollow cheeked and hollowed bare, keeps its stomach concave, starving for company. A rattle in your lungs. Weeping sores on your skin.

What are you thinking? What are you feeling?

It hurts.

What are you thinking? What are you learning?

Make for me a map of the starving thing shredding your muscles. Hold open the puncture wounds, and pull out the claws.

Or else leave them in and let them fester. Watch your skin go blue and yellow, watch the flesh swell where they lay buried somewhere deep inside of you. Feel your tongue grow heavy and drop down your esophagus. Won't you lift your head?

Pain pulls from your head every thought before it's formed. Pain threads a needle from the spool of your words and stitches closed your lips. Tiny, and neat, a surgeon's touch. Pain takes your hands and holds them, fast and steady. Let me teach you, it says, and presses its splintering bones into the skin of your back.

What are you feeling? What are you learning?

It hurts.

-oh, my darling. pain doesn't have anything to teach. it just hurts.

#poetry #writerblr #writers of tumblr #poets of tumblr #my work #spilled ink #spilled words #on pain #and learning from it #we like to ascribe morality to pain #it has none #pain doesn't make anyone kinder or wiser #it just hurts #and hurts #what are you thinking? #what are you learning? #nothing at all #lol i wrote this without knowing the og quote was written by moffat #fuck moffat ♥ #as always #graphic descriptions of injuries #All that pain that misery that loneliness and it just made him kind #doctor who #steven moffat

[beemovieerotica]

@flyingdutchmanposting

#potc #davy jones #wiser words honestly never said

[misspaddockverse]

Honoring the Daniel Ricciardo Race Week, let’s remember the biggest Daniel Girlie of all times:

#he’s just like me fr #never heard wiser words #in Cyril we trust #forever a Renault Daniel defender #I cannot not love Daniel #*sighs* when will my husband return from war? #daniel ricciardo #formula 1 #f1 #f1blr #danny ric appreciation post #red bull racing #drive to survive #cyril abiteboul

[sciderman]

Demanding more lisp

posts in which it is imperative that wade be read with a fruity obnoxious little gay lisp:

#ask-spiderpool #she's a LETHSBIAN harold. #hoh-moh-SECKS-ssuals... #i love wade intentionally having the most ridiculous pronunciation in the world for certain words. #penetration... penatracione... pen-ah-TRRAh-see-oh-neh #it's very important you roll the Rs... #your erectioné in this directioné... #i hate this man and his mouth. #i have such a vivid and stupid voice for wade wilson that lives in my head and i hear him so clearly #and im just like so. so upset that i can't manifest this voice and have all of you hear it #he has the MOST stupid way of talking ever and i so want to animate to it. #it's something like robin william's genie from aladdin. an animator's delight. he's so. so theatric. all the time. #and he's constantly changing and shifting accents and impressions and mannerisms. #just whatever he can to make the delivery as funny as possible. #he has this universally ambigious accent all the time. and he's so. so good at accents. #he's just totally brilliant at mimicry. you should hear his peter parker impression. it's perfect. he nails it. peter is so mad about it. #he absolutely can answer the phone as peter and nobody is the wiser. #if he dons peter's tights nobody would discern from voice alone. they'd only be able to tell by the different body types.

[benisasoftboi]

I love it when Doctor Who is just stupid. Just fully understands, and tells you wholeheartedly, that it is a ridiculous programme that no one should take seriously. The Daleks are fighting robot Dracula and the Doctor’s defeating Evil Bertie Bassett with lemonade and an alien wasp with psychic powers is impregnating a human woman and everyone’s riding Segways to the final boss chamber. And this horrible creature is the Beep Of All The Meeps and David Tennant has yaoi hands and our villain is dressed as a drum major and dancing to the Spice Girls even though that has nothing whatsoever to do with his evil gimmick and yes. This is it. This is television. What bliss

#doctor who #doctor who special #dw #doctor who 60th anniversary #this is what i want. so bored of lore shakeups and Doctor Angst and special effects that actually look good #i want photobooth filters and lines that would make my mother walk out of the room swearing #(she watched the series 3 finale and swore off the entire show upon hearing the words ‘black hole converter’. a wiser woman than i really)

[season-77]

I had a lesson yesterday with my student on the topic of human appearance, and we were analyzing a passage of text. She was reading aloud the description of a man, and I thought to myself, 'It seems to me like I've seen this guy somewhere before...'

"He was, by any objective standard, extremely good-looking, far more so than she had realized at first. His hair was thick and almost brown, although in the lamplight there were faint ginger lights in its depths, his features were strong and his profile was even. He was quite tall, with broad shoulders, but he wore his size lightly, moving about easily in the room.

But it was his eyes that were so arresting. When she had first seen him she had thought they were dark blue, but now they seemed much lighter, more grey. She stared more closely, unable to help herself, fascinated. Their darkness came from a darker rim of the navy around the iris, and from the clearness of the whites, which caught the flickering firelight as they ranged over his gathered guests..."

#tux tuesdays #shaun evans #endeavour morse #He IS #by any objective standard #extremely good-looking #wiser words have never been spoken

[demigod-of-the-agni]

Spider-Man India, but... where from India?

A SUPER long post featuring talks of: cultural identity, characterisation, the caste system, and what makes Spider-Man Spider-Man.

I’m prefacing this by saying that I am a second-generation immigrant. I was born in Australia, but my cultural background is from South India. My experiences with what it means to be “Indian” is going to be very different from the experiences of those who are born and brought up in India.

If you, reader, want to add anything, please reblog and add your thoughts. This is meant to be a post open for discussion — the more interaction we get, the better we become aware of these nuances.

So I made this poll asking folks to pick a region of India where I would draw Pavitr Prabhakar in their cultural wear. This idea had been on my mind for a long while now, as I had been inspired by Annie Hazarika’s Northeastern Spidey artwork in the wake of ATSV’s release, but never got the time to actually do it until now. I wanted to get a little interactive and made the poll so I could have people choose which of the different regions — North, Northeast, Central, East, West, South — to do first.

The outcome was not what I expected. As you can see, out of 83 votes:

THE RESULTS

South India takes up almost half of all votes (44.6%), followed by Northeast and Central (both 14.5%) and then East (13.3%). In all my life growing up, support towards or even just the awareness of South India was pretty low. Despite this being a very contained poll, why would nearly half of all voters pick South India in favour of other popular choices like Central or North India?

Then I thought about the layout of the poll: Title, Options, Context.

Title: "Tell us who you want to see…"

Options: North, Northeast, Central, East, West, South

Context: I want to make art of the boy again

At first I thought: ah geez. this is my fault. I didn't make the poll clear enough. do they think I want them to figure out where Pavitr came from? That's not what I wanted, maybe I should have added the context before the options.

Then I thought: ah geez. is it my fault for people not reading the entire damn thing before clicking a button? That's pretty stupid.

But regardless, the thought did prompt a line of thinking I know many of us desi folk have been considering since Spider-Man India was first conceived — or, at least, since the announcement that he was going to appear in ATSV. Hell, even I thought of it:

Where did Spider-Man India come from?

FROM A CULTURALLY DIVERSE INDIA

As we know, India is so culturally diverse, and no doubt ATSV creators had to take that into account. Because the ORIGINAL Spider-Man India came from Mumbai — most likely because Mumbai and Manhattan both started with the same letter.

But going beyond that, it’s also because Mumbai is one of the most recognisable cities in India - it’s also known as Bombay. It’s where Bollywood films are shot. It’s where superstar Hindi actors and actresses show up. Mumbai is synonymous with India in that regard, because the easiest way Western countries can interact with Indian culture is through BOLLYWOOD, through HINDI FILMS, through MUMBAI. Suddenly, India is Mumbai, India is a Hindi-only country, India is just this isolated thing we see through an infinitely narrow lens.

We’ve gotten a little better in recent years, but boy I will tell you how uncomfortable I’ve gotten when people (yes, even desi people) come up to me and tell me, Oh, you’re Indian right? Can you speak Hindi? Why don’t you speak Hindi? You’re not Indian if you don’t speak Hindi, that’s India’s national language!

I have been — still am — so afraid of telling people that I don’t speak Hindi, that I’m Tamil, that I don’t care that Hindi is India’s “national” language (it’s an administrative language, Kavin, get your fucking facts right). It’s weird, it’s isolating, and it has made me feel like I wasn’t “Indian” enough to be accepted into the group of “Indian” people.

So I am thankful that ATSV went out of their way to integrate as much variety of Indian culture into the Mumbattan sequence. Maybe that way, the younger generation of desi folk won’t feel so isolated, and that younger Western people will be more open to learning about all these cultural differences within such a vast country.

BUT WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH SPIDER-MAN INDIA?

Everything, actually. There’s a thing called supremacy. You might have heard of it. We all engaged with it at some point, and if you are Indian, no matter where you live, it is inescapable.

It happens the moment you are born — who your family is, where you are born, the language you speak, the colour of your skin; these will be bound to you for life, and it is nigh impossible to break down the stereotypes associated with them.

Certain ethnic groups will be more favourable than others (Centrals, and thus their cultures, will always be favoured over than Souths, as an example) and the same can be said for social groups (Brahmins are more likely to secure influential roles in politics or other areas like priesthood, while the lowers castes, especially Dalits, aren’t even given the decency of respect). Don’t even get me started on colourism, where obviously those of fairer skin will win the lottery while those of darker skin aren’t given the time of day. It’s even worse when morality ties into it — “lighter skinned Indians, like Brahmins, embody good qualities like justice and wisdom”, “dark skinned Indians are cunning and poor, they are untrustworthy”. It’s fucking nuts.

This means, of course, you have a billion people trying to make themselves heard in a system that tries to crush everyone who is not privileged. It only makes sense that people want to elevate themselves and break free from a society that refuses to acknowledge them. These frustrations manifest outwardly, like in protests, but other times — most times — it goes unheard, quietly shaping your way of life, your way of thinking. It becomes a fundamental part of you, and it can go unacknowledged for generations.

So when you have a character like Pavitr Prabhakar enter the scene, people immediately latch onto him and start asking questions many Western audiences don’t even consider. Who is he? What food does he eat? What does he do on Fridays? What’s his family like, his community? All these questions pop up, because, amidst all this turmoil going on in the background, you want a mainstream popular character to be like you, who knows your way of life so intimately, that he may as well be a part of your community.

BUT THAT'S THE THING — HE'S FICTIONAL

I am guilty of this. In fact, I’ve flaunted in numerous posts how I think he’s the perfect Tamil boy, how he dances bharatanatyam, how he does all these Tamil things that no one will understand except myself. All these niche things that only I, and maybe a few others, will understand.

I’ve seen other people do it, too. I’ve seen people geek out over his dark brown skin, his kalari dhoti, how he fights so effortlessly in the kalaripayattu martial arts style. I’ve seen people write him as Malayali, as Hindi, as every kind of Indian person imaginable.

I’ve also seen him be written where he’s subjected to typical Indian and broader Asian stereotypes. You know the ones I’m so fond of calling out. The thing is, I’ve seen so much of Pavitr being presented in so many different ways, and I worry how the rest of the desi folk will take it. 

You finally have a character who could be you, but now he’s someone else’s plaything. Your entire life is shaped by what you can and can’t do simply because you were born to an Indian family, and here’s the one person who could represent you now at the mercy of someone else’s whims. He’s off living a life that is so distant from yours, you can hardly recognise him.

It shouldn’t hurt as much as it does, yeah? But, again, you’re looking at it from that infinitely narrow lens Westerners use to look at India from Bollywood.

AND PAVITR PRABHAKAR DOESN'T LIVE IN INDIA

He lives in Mumbattan. He lives in a made-up, fictional world that doesn’t follow the way of life of our world. He lives in a city where Mumbai and Manhattan got fucking squashed together. There are so many memes about colonialism right there. Mumbattan isn’t real! Spider-Man India isn’t real!! He’s just a dude!! The logic of our world doesn’t apply to him!!!

“But his surname originates from ______” okay but does that matter?

“But he’s wearing a kalari dhoti so surely he’s ______” okay but does that matter?

“But his skin colour is darker so he must be ______” okay but does that matter?

“But he lives in Mumbai so he must be ______” okay but does that matter?

I sound insensitive and brash and annoying and it looks like I’m yapping just for the sake of riling you up, so direct that little burst of anger you got there at me, and keep reading.

Listen. I’m going to ask you a question that I’ve asked myself a million times over. I want you to answer honestly. I want you to ask this question to yourself and answer honestly:

Are you trying to convince me on who Pavitr Prabhakar should be?

... but why shouldn't i?

I’ll tell you this again — I did the same thing. You’re not at fault for this, but I want you to just...have a little think over. Just a little moment of self-reflection, to think about why you are so intent on boxing this guy.

It took me a while to reorganise my thinking and how to best approach a character like Pavitr, so I will give you all the time you need as well as a little springboard to focus your thoughts on.

SPIDER-MAN (INDIA) IS JUST A MASK

“What I like about the costume is that anybody reading Spider-Man in any part of the world can imagine that they themselves are under the costume. And that’s a good thing.”

Stan Lee said that. Remember how he was so intent on making sure that everybody got the idea that Spider-Man as an entity is fundamentally broken without Peter Parker there to put on the suit and save the day? That ultimately it was the person beneath the mask, no matter who they were, that mattered most?

Spider-Man India is no less different. You can argue with me that Peter Parker!Spidey is supposed to represent working class struggles in the face of leering corporate entities who endanger the regular folk like us, and so Pavitr Prabhakar should also function the same way. Pavitr should also be a working class guy of this specific social standing fighting people of this other social standing.

But that takes away the authenticity of Spider-Man India. Looking at him through the Peter Parker lens forces you to look at him through the Western lens, and it significantly lessens what you can do with the character — suddenly, it’s a fight to be heard, to be seen, to be recognised. It’s yelling over each other that Pavitr Prabhakar is this ethnicity, is that caste, this or that, this or that, this or that.

There’s a reason why he’s called Spider-Man India, infuriatingly vague as it is. And that’s the point — the vagueness of his identity fulfils Lee’s purpose for a character that could theoretically be embodied by anyone. If he had been called “Spider-Man Mumbai”, you cut out a majority of the population (and in capitalist terms, you cut out a good chunk of the market).

And in the case of Spider-Man India? Whew — you’ve got about a billion people imagining a billion different versions of him.

Whoever you are, whatever you see in Pavitr, that is what is personal to you, and there is nothing wrong with that, and I will not fault you for it. I will not fault you for saying Pavitr is from Central due to the origins of his last name. I also will not fault you for saying Pavitr is from South due to him practising kalaripayattu. I also will not fault you for saying he is not Hindu. I also will not fault you for saying he is a particular ethnicity without any proof.

What I will fault you for is trying to convince me and the others around you that Pavitr Prabhakar should be this particular ethnicity/have this cultural background because of some specific reason. I literally don’t care and it is fundamentally going against his character, going against the “anyone can wear the mask” sentiment of Spider-Man. By doing this, you are strengthening the walls that first divided us. You’re feeding the stratification and segmentation of our cultures — something that is actually not present in the fictional world of Mumbattan.

Like I said before: Mumbattan isn’t real, so the divides between ethnicities and cultural backgrounds are practically nonexistent. The best thing is that it is visually there for all to see. My favourite piece of evidence is this:

It’s a marquee for a cinema in the Mumbattan sequence, in the “Quick tour: this is where the traffic is” section. It has four titles; the first three are written in Hindi. The fourth title is written in Tamil. You go to Mumbai and you won’t see a single shred of Tamil there, much less any other South Indian language. Seeing this for the first time, you know what went through my head?

Wow, the numerous cultures of India are so intermingled here in Mumbattan! Everyone and everything is welcome!

I was happy, not just because of Tamil representation, but because of the fact that the plethora of Indian cultures are showcased coexisting in such a short sequence. This is India embracing all the little parts that make up its grander identity. This scene literally opened my eyes seeing such beauty in all the diverse cultures thriving together. In a place where language and cultural backgrounds blend so easily, each one complementing one another.

It is so easy to believe that, from this colourful palette of a setting, Pavitr Prabhakar truly is Spider-Man India, no matter where he comes from.

It’s easy to believe that Pavitr can come from any part of India, and I won’t call you out if the origin you have for him is different from the origin I have. You don’t need to stake out territory and stand your ground — you’re entitled to that opinion, and I respect it. In fact, I encourage it!!!

Because there’s only so much you can show in a ten minute segment of a film about a country that has such a vast history and even greater number of cultures. I want to see all of it — I want him to be a Malayali boy, a Hindi boy, a Bengali boy, a Telugu boy, an Urdu boy, whatever!! I want you to write him or draw him immersed in your culture, so that I can see the beauty of your background, the wonderful little things that make your culture unique and different from mine!

And, as many friends have said, it’s so common for Indian folks to be migrating around within our own country. A person with a Maharashtrian surname might end up living in Punjab, and no one really minds that. I’m actually from Karnataka, my family speaks Kannada, but somewhere down the line my ancestors moved to Tamil Nadu and settled down and lived very fulfilling lives. So I don’t actually have the “pure Tamil” upbringing, contrary to popular belief; I’ve gotten a mix of both Kannada and Tamil lifestyles, and it’s made my life that much richer. 

So it’s common for people to “not” look like their surname, if that’s what you’re really afraid about. In fact, it just adds to that layer of nuance, that even despite these rigid identities between ethnicities we as Indian people still intermingle with one another, bringing slivers of our cultures to share with others. Pavitr could just as well have been born in one state and moved around the country, and he happens to live in Mumbattan now. It’s entirely possible and there’s nothing to disprove that.

We don’t need to clamber over one another declaring that only one ethnicity is the “right” ethnicity, because, again, you will be looking at Pavitr and the rest of India in that narrow Western lens — a country with such rich cultural variety reduced to a homogenous restrictive way of life.

THE POLL: REINTERPRETED

This whole thing started because I was wondering why my little poll was so skewed — I thought people assumed I was asking them where he came from, then paired his physical appearance with the most logical options available. I thought it was my fault, that I had somehow influenced this outcome without knowing.

Truth is, I will never really know. But I will be thankful for it, because it gave me the opportunity to finally broach this topic, something that many of us desi folk are hesitant to talk about. I hope you have learned something from this, whether you are desi or a casual Spider-Man fan or someone who just so happened to stumble upon this. 

So just…be a little more open. Recognise that India, like many many countries and nations, is made up of a plethora of smaller cultures. And remember, if you’re trying to convince Pavitr that he’s a particular ethnicity, he’s going to wave his hand at you and say, “Ha, me? No, I’m one of the people that live here in the best Indian city! I’m Spider-Man India, dost!”

(Regardless, he still considers you a friend, because to him, the people matter more to him than you trying to box him into something he’s not.)

#long post + more tags that kinda spiral away BUT expand on the points above AND kinda puts everything together concisely #BROS THIS IS AN HONEST TO GOD ESSAY #THAT HAS BEEN COOKING IN MY HEART FOR A WHILE NOW. SIMMERING FOR MONTHS BEFORE FINALLY BOILING OVER IN THE LAST WEEK #genuinely hope you read MOST of it because yes it has Quite A Lot Of Exposition but it all matters nonetheless #put in a lot of thought into this so i expect you to do your part and challenge your thoughts as well #you see how i'm not asking for you to listen to me. but to actually Think. i want you to cook your thoughts and add some spice and flavour #and give it a good mix so you can come out of this a little more wiser than before #because!!! yeah!!!! spider man india is just that!! he's indian!!!!! we don't need to collectively agree on where he comes from #bc it gets rid of that relatability factor of spider man. at the most basic level #think of it as a schrodinger's. he is every single culture and none of them at the same time. therefore none of us are wrong!! sick!!!! #pavitr's first priority is making sure HIS PEOPLE are safe. that's probably as far as we can go that relates him back to peter parker spide #he loves his people and working in the name of justice to FIGHT for HIS PEOPLE is just the duty/responsibility he takes up #it makes sense that he loves everyone and every culture he engages with bc that's the nature of spider man i suppose #if peter parker spidey acts as the guardian for the regular folk.. then in my mind pavitr spidey stands as the bridge uniting the people #because society as its core is very fragmented. and having pavitr act as a connection to other folks.... mmmmm beautiful #that's what i'm talking abouttttt !!! #anyways guys this is literally 3001 words on my document EXCLUDING THE TITLE. THAT'S 7 PAGES AT 11pt FONT. i'm literally cryingggg wtf #pavitr prabhakar #spider man #spider man india #desi #desiblr #atsv #across the spiderverse #atsv pavitr #indian culture #india #desi tumblr #what the fuck do i tag this as #agnirambles

[ilanarose7]

"Friendship is knowing their weaknesses"

-Taliesin Jaffe, September 2023

#taliesin jaffe #queen by midnight #critical role #he knows laura too well lol #wiser words have never been spoken

[whatwouldmickeydo]

if you think about it, are you happy with how gallavich turned out in the end? i can’t lie and say i loved everything they did to them in the latest two seasons but i just pretend things like them having like threesomes and shit was just a phase and miscommunication on their part, or ian ‘flirting’ with others— oof! i look at their lovely scenes and think ‘no, okay, look how they love each other this is the purest thing’ and push those horrendous scenes aside 😪 esp when mickey wanted to stay with the other guys for free food and ian didn’t leave bc mickey joked about doing the nasty with them, i like to see it as a *ian would never want others to touch mickey without his presence*— people want a spin off for them but dear lord never let those people touch gallavich again

S11 had a lot of flaws, but in general and overall I find that I did enjoy a lot of what we got (if we combine that with the deleted scenes that should never have been deleted in the first place 🙄).

I like how low stakes the last season was, that there was never any point where it truly felt like their relationship was in danger or something was going to break them up.

They’re so strong throughout the season, dealing with so many things that all couples, married or otherwise, go through and at the end of the day, they’re right there with each other putting in the work to be together

Personally, the threesome scene and everything surrounding that doesn’t bother me all that much. They’re young, they’re dumb, they’re full of c-care and love and desire for each other 😋

(And if they choose that time to figure out what does and doesn’t work for them and if it involves another dick or two then kudos to them for enjoying life and learning shit together)

There’s just so many signs of growth throughout these episodes, Mickey being willing to talk about shit that bothers him no matter how uncomfortable it makes him, Ian wanting to stay and deal rather than run! It’s all new territory and they’re right there in it together! I love that for them!

Ultimately, they’re dumb idiots who love each other and I think we got as good of a send off as we could have honestly asked for and I’m perfectly happy living in my fantasy world of what happens after without ever feeling the need to revisit or revive them because, let’s be honest, they would absolutely destroy everything about what makes those two good if they chose to give them a spin off

#a lot of stuff has been written about the last season and there are people with wiser words than me who’ve said it better #check out metalheadmickey and gardenerian for both their beautiful asks and fics they’ve written about this #asks #gallavich #shameless

[unpretty]

absolutely wildest part of my job on an emotional level has to be making forms. it feels wrong. forms are important. someone else should be making this, who knows things about form law. these should be special ordered from a company that does nothing but make forms with the help of their legal team that does nothing but confirm that the forms are correct. every time i throw a form together in word and it becomes our new official form, it feels deeply wrong somehow. this is too much power.

#original #my method of making forms involves abusing the shit out of tables #because when you do it that way then later you can bulk fill them with mail merge and no one is the wiser #you wouldn't think this would come up so often #however we have a number of forms that i have realized someone just made on a typewriter in the 80s #that have been xeroxed to hell and back so that all our forms were fucking deep fried #i assumed it was because the hospital was set in their ways but no they also hate those forms #who made this and why did they use legal size paper forcing everyone for forty years to use legal size paper #anyway one thing i've realized since making forms is that absolutely no one fixes the document title for their PDFs #government forms straight from the IRS with Microsoft Word in the document title property

[fallenclan]

Morningbloom doesn't mean to haunt anyone, she swears it.

But when she dies, and she's welcomed into the ranks of Starclan, she finds herself lingering. She lingers as her loved ones mourn, as they hang their heads and tears stain their fur. She lingers more often than she should, to simply see and watch, because her loved ones still live there.

Morningbloom lingers as she sees Sunwish refusing to grieve. Out of guilt, out of feeling like she doesn't deserve to. The molly watches as the medicine cat throws herself into her work, into her duty. She watches as the medicine cat pushes herself again and again, learning more of her role, pushing aside bitterness to ask the other clan healers for help or advice.

Morningbloom tries to be there, she really does. She lingers every time Sunwish helps a queen successfully kit or anything of the sort. She tries to wrap her tail around the other and whisper, "Look, you're doing well! You're an amazing medicine cat."

Morningbloom finds herself often gesturing to the kits or the newly patched up warrior. She tries, and she tries her hardest to let Sunwish know that her death wasn't her fault and to please, please, allow herself to grieve.

It doesn't work, as much as Morningbloom wishes it did. She doesn't know if it's Sunwish's guilt, or her fear, but the medicine cat never listens. Shuffling away when she's no longer needed, throwing herself into making sure the herbs are always stocked.

It aches Morningbloom, but there's not much else she can do.

..

When Morningbloom descends on day, seeing Scorchstar silently stalking Sunwish, her heart drops to her stomach.

No. No no, please, no.

She races, she runs, and she tries to stop the leader. "Scorchstar," she'll try, her voice so echoy yet so desperate, "Scorchstar no!"

But she's a ghost. There's not much Morningbloom can do.

She can only watch, her starry pelt dimming with her disbelief, as Scorchstar pounces upon the medicine cat. There's an exchange of words, blame placed upon Sunwish by the leader. She can tell that the leader isn't in her right mind, but what can Morningbloom do?

As she watches Sunwish's spirit rise to Starclan, Morningbloom follows.

They meet there, and Morningbloom smiles at the other. Sunwish's ears pinned back, and she could see the former medicine cat was grasping for words.

All Morningbloom does is approach, wrap her tail around the other, and say..

"You did the best you could, Sunwish. And that's all anyone could have ever asked for."

- 🐆 (If that's not taken? ALSO OUGH SORRY FOR THIS MAYBE BEING LONG AND POSSIBLY OOC.. I JUST FOUND THIS BLOG AND READ THROUGH SOME STUFF BUT THE BRAINWORMS ARE REAL...)

IM DEVASTATED...... YEAH. YEAH YOU GOT IT. HOLY SHIT DUDE

#head in hands. heart shattered #just. ogughhghgh #no words. #jaguar anon #<im on desktop i think thats what it is?? lmk if its actually a cheetah or smth but its So tiny lmao #fallenasks #fallenfic #the idea of ghost morningbloom is. heartbreaking. #watching her kits grow up and become older than she is. watching her husband grow older and wiser and sadder. #watching scorchstar go from this stoic noble cat to a murderer blinded with rage #watching sunwish go from a grouchy but hopeful cat into a totally hopeless shell of herself #ouch. ouch ouch my bones

[felizusnavidad]

Did Lin say anything about Palestine? I couldn't find it and you know about everything he does

either he didn't (which is just as disappointing) or i missed it (because i definitely don't know everything). i think the first one. which makes me sad.

but it's not only about palestine when it comes to taylor, it's also about swifties sending death threats to joe alwyn only knowing one side of the story & basically treating him like a trash (one of the reasons i don't want to be part of this fandom, it's just embarrassing at this point), it's about her new relationship that feels so fucking fake (are you trying to tell me that this was a real conversation? sorry but i don't buy it), it's about so many things... that i don't even want to discuss at the moment. she's not the person she used to be & i'm sick of all of this.

#getting older but just never wiser for real #i knew someone would eventually come at me #don't get me wrong i am also disappointed that lin didn't say a word about palestine #but also let's not pretend that he's not being vocal about other important stuff while taylor is being very selfish about everything #i think she should probably go & watch miss americana lol #also let's not compare their platforms #lin has 1mln followers on instagram while taylor has 281mln #should he still speak about it? of course #but she literally has the biggest platform in the world right now so... #hate me all you want i'm just fucking mad #anon #i saved every letter you wrote me*

[hawnks]

I’ve spent many years learning the vocabulary to describe literature. I love words— they’re one of my most passionate passions. But there is something special about someone having a reaction to art without the terminology to untangle it.

Once I was hanging out with this polisci major, and he’d read a story of mine that had come out a few days ago. He really liked it but it took him a couple of tries to explain why. Then he told me, “I feel different after reading it. I feel older.”

I still think about that sometimes.

#older as in wiser not like my words had AGED HIM jsjdjdjdd #it was an absurdist piece about survival partners during the apocalypse it wasn’t a light read jejdjdnd #he was a nice dude; maybe one of the nicest I’ve ever met #should have kissed him 😔 #squawk tag #someone on here told me something about their reaction to my stories and I think abt it almost every day #idk who you are but you changed me #and I love you

[whileurmine]

my brother and i were like picking which celebrity we would pick to look like if we could pick to look like any celebrity and he was like "'why u only picking white twinks??" aajfsdlj and i in JEST !! for LAUGHTER !! said 'well i Am half white hahah lolz' bc even tho i dont look white, our dad is white and my several-shades-lighter-than-me beige-looking-dumbass of a brother looked me in my eyes said "which half? the one on the inside?"

#ooc #aksldfljsfdklj #i was like 'look im black in brazil but idk if i would pass for black in the usa' #this manace of a boy said 'fuck u care about the usa bootlicker' #wiser words have yet to be said #fuck do i care about the usa #insert elmo nodding gif here