#after far from home

[heich0e]

every year on your wedding anniversary osamu convinces you to take your ring off and go wedding cake tasting at local bakeries while pretending that the two of you are still engaged

#giggling between bites while osamu squeezes your hand under the table #kissing him in the car on the way home and tasting the buttercream on his lips #after enough years have passed you've hit every bakery in your town so you start having to go on trips to pull off your little ruse #and when the two of you get old enough and can't travel as far from home as you used to be able to when you were young and spritely #the staff at your local bakery pretends they don't know what you two are up to because seeing how you treat each other #and love each other makes them feel just as special as watching any young couple try their cakes #hq hcs #hq writing #writing #osamu x reader

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep - The Land of Departure

#kingdom hearts birth by sleep #khbbs #land of departure #scenery #my gif #man... i really do wish we could have spent more time in this world and learned more about the characters' lives here #it's very beautiful with a big castle but it's also very desolate #almost as if no one else lives in this world #no sight of any towns in the distance even when viewing the world from space #vanitas describes it as a tiny world so i think it's safe to assume there really isn't much of anything past those mountains #it could have to do with eraqus's vehement hatred of darkness so he raises his pupils in such a sheltered environment #as a means to 'protect them' #he does suck as a master honestly #so what's up with this place anyway? #the architecture is reminiscent of scala ad caelum but is it because eraqus modeled it after his home town or is there more to it? #in the fourth gif with the flags there's a bridge that you can't fully see but it's destroyed and doesn't lead anywhere #not that there's any land across from it that it could even lead towards #it raises a lot of questions... #i could be looking too far into things but it's fun to speculate #haha jonathan you read my essay

[worstloki]

AU where Loki gets banished for Thor/Warriors 4 going to Jotunheim and he just settles down on Earth. Copes with the blue arm by ignoring it completely since he's been disowned and dumped on Earth anyway. There's probably a way to 'prove himself worthy' and 'get back to Asgard' but he never bothers with it.

#years later Thor uses it like a getaway home #which would annoy Loki more if he didn't decide not to care about everything already #Thor running off to him after arguing with their father over some petty thing and asking if he can stay over a while #basically staying over at his bro's house bc his bro moved out and is far away now #Odin never restricted Thor from visits but is getting impatient about Loki returning #Odin was waiting for Loki to get back to promote Thor to king #but Loki has no intention to do that and when Odin realises this he blows a gasket #no wonder Thor's always pouting and dragging his feet around the palace #no brother his friends don't fare perfectly fine on quests anymore and his father delayed his coronation for the foreseeable future #smh #at least Loki's place has video games

[icantalk710]

This semi-mild cold has been an annoying start to this week 🤧😪

#ore no kao #feels mostly gone now after being in its clutches since sunday night #but on the bright side i got to skip the Tues/Wed office days and work from home all week #lots of sneezing and congestion with a very brief fever yday--likely thanks to my roomie's four day/nyquil pills #but phew #also finally almost caught up on work emails 📧 #and just put out a vid for a ygo project i've been working on over on my sideblog for the interested #so feeling better 😌 #(now to finally sleep 💤) #[should not tag-vent-rb before bed] #let's see if i feel up to a jog tmrw finally #[also jeez my nostrils need some r&r 😩] #(clarification: day/nyquil pills *keeping it from being worse probably lol) #if you read this far into my tags you are now imagining a smiling corgi doggo :)

[whaliiwatching]

cozy color..

#transformers #starscream #knock out #knockscream #koss #kept freaking out n stimming over this while drawing it #i am SO HAPPY with how it turned out!!!!! #even tho the coloring process was a NIGHTMARE #just. hmngh. peace after war. star prolly escapes jail and hunkers down as far from civilization as he can #there is nothing left for him to fight for—the world he knew is long gone #maybe ko finds him while on a drive through the more rural parts of cybertron #he’s thinking the same thing #not sure what happens from there—maybe ko brings him back and they start a new life together #maybe ko stays with him in the ‘country’ #either way. love and grief. you know the drill #you can’t go home again and all #that’s way sadder than i was thinking it would be #but its hopeful dw i like happy endings

[neo-zone]

Does Jung Wui-myeong even existed on the first place? Is that the name of the scientist whose body Sang-won hijacked during his escape? Or is it just Sang-won's made up identity for his time among the criminals?

Does Sang-won even love Yi-kyung on the first place? Has it been a lie all along? If he still loved her, why he pretended to not know her, why he ignored her, why he abandoned her, why he didn't even do anything when she's clearly in an unimaginable amount of shock and pain from the grief of losing him and the rapid body horror pregnancy? Or does the body switching and trauma from his painful torture by Lim ruined his mental stability and sanity forever to the point the Sang-won Yi-kyung knew and loved didn't exist anymore?

#sweet home 2 #sweet home season 2 #sweet home netflix #sweet home spoilers #jung wui-myeong #jung wuimyeong #jung ui-myeong #jung uimyeong #ah fuck I can't keep up with this confusing korean name variations #sweet home #apparently from the shotgun boy webtoon the enemies become “crazy evil” after the endless torture so it's not far fetched for his case #or maybe he's always been an asshole #nam sang won #nam sang-won

[skala]

and the universe said I love you

and the universe said you have played the game well

my son, I am so very proud.

#ava #animation vs minecraft #I've never been completely satisfied with this one but #after the latest short I keep thinking about Purple crossing the nether and back—again and again—to find a flower for his mother's grave #it isn't as though nothing grows in the city #maybe it's just that they remind Purple too much of the now-overgrown gardens surrounding a house that never felt like home #flowers a child might've picked for a bouquet only to watch them slowly wilt behind doors slammed over muffled sobs #perhaps he came to scorn their fragile beauty #as he once scorned a world too far away beneath him to be worth looking back #Purple's changed since then #but it was beyond the confines of the interspace where he found belonging #and a chance to grieve unfettered by guilt #it was there that he found the courage to walk unafraid against a tide of devastation #and so when a stick who once thought himself a coward glides through the underworld on phantom wings #sapling cupped in both hands to shield it from the oppressive heat #the universe watches #and the universe whispers #with three voices intertwined

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

do you ever just sit there thinking about your favorite ocs while violently shaking. god. clenches fist. They're So.

#every time a song from their Joint Playlist comes on i go fucking feral #the betrayal the refusal to Let Go the haunting the persisting love the renunciation the resentment the abandonment the resignation #the overwhelming desire to do good vs the fear of admitting you were wrong vs the two people you love most tearing each other apart #AGHHHHH FUCK FUCK FUCK IM SUDDENLY DEEP IN THE ORIGINAL SAUCE #five seconds i was Normal. scribbling welcome home #then One Of The Songs Came On and now im losing my fucking marbles #perceived betrayals leading to real betrayals.... #going too far and now its too late you're Committed you cant go back #he came to you thinking he could make you understand and you could work together to make things Better #and instead you ripped his heart out and left it bleeding on the floor for everyone to see #THEY MAKE ME MORE INSANE THAN LITERALLY ANYTHING #absolutely unprompted #the oc Unwellness comes and goes in waves but its the only true constant obsession with my life #god those three... my dearest darling Trio.... how old are they turning this year? #is it year eight of having them? year nine? #one of the two is for sure how long ive had My Specialest Boy Light Of My Life The Reason I Am Still Alive #the other two came after... maybe only mere months after but he was the first and he is just. i love him so fucking much #he is so so personal to me. he has a permanent place carved out in my chest #he sleeps on my ribs <3 #the other day i was reminiscing about his development over the years. his changes his different Versions #and fuck... he's really changed with me huh?? #his past selves are echoes of my own self over the years #like he is Very different from me but at the same time. i created him with little pieces of myself sewn in #we hold the same views the same beliefs. im not him and hes not me but we're Kindred yk yk #i think i need to go listen to his playlist.... how long is it now... let me check... 15 hours 13 mins... 228 songs... #my gay 5'2 powerhouse of a guy. him <3 #maybe 'them' too he's played fast and loose with gender over the years. holy shit wait #his development echoes mine... i characterized him as 'fucks with gender norms' long before i realized my own gender fuckery #god damn. i love him even more now. i didnt think that was possible. im going to cry. hes so important to me #he has been with me through my worst years... and will be with me through all the hard times to come <3

[spotsupstuff]

I have a question about sparrows

did she ever make any connections during the times she was studying to be an iterator technician or was she kinda like, that one dude in college nobody talked to?

hmm... well!

she didn't have any luck with her "peers", that's for sure. the first two years were hell. she could've been only glad when she became that one dude nobody talked to

the teachers aren't there to make connections with students, of course, but they weren't much help either

the only people she really connected with was the person who taught her violin, the bartender of a place she came to often to Cope and compared to everything else Boreas' annoying aggravating presence eventually became a comfort. if the overseers are watching, nobody will start too big a ruckus

#Spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #oc: three sparrows #ask to tag #cuz that first page Did make me physically sick but ive no idea how to tag that 😔 #this took a bitsy- had to design her fit for school days at least a lil n also wanted to chill a tad after the comic... hope this makes- #-up for the wait at least #gods. i was streamin to shkiki when i was workin on this a bit n she pointed out just how Far Boreas' facilities are from Sparrows home #shes so far away from home. started all of this when she was 19. shes introverted. unused to living on top of an iterator. no summer break #-looks into the sunset and sighs heavily- fuck.

[lumi-waxes-poetic]

Some Tolkien affirmations to help you along when the darkness seems too much and everything seems lost

"The world may be grim, but there's always hope. Even in the darkest of days, there may be one bright star to guide you."

—Elrond

"It is not despair, but only the handing on of a torch."

—Aragorn

"The greatest good returns at last to those who share it freely."

—Gandalf

"It is not by sorrow and by suffering that we grow. It is by the choice we make when faced with sorrow and suffering."

—Fëanor

"The world is changed because I am in it."

—Bilbo Baggins

bonus round (Tolkien never actually wrote this — Peter Jackson did — but it's a good fucking line and Tolkien would have 100% agreed with it):

“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."

— Gandalf

#You have to realize how much Tolkien had refused to break or lose his faith in people despite being in the Trenches of World War 1 #Specifically: he was there for the Battle of the Somme — the war at its absolute worst #He arrived two weeks after it started + lost two best friends + was medivac'd out only a month before the battle ended #Hell was his everyday experience for four months #until he was injured badly enough to merit (even in the eyes of the horrifically cruel military standards of the age) sending him home #He saw mankind at its darkest and worst ever #he lost things and people who were precious to him — and in horrific ways we will hopefully never have to know firsthand #and yet through it all and after he refused to lose his hope and faith even though nobody would have blamed him if he had #in fact he came to believe that seeing mankind at its worst made hope and optimism and faith more important than ever before #AND IT MOVED HIM TO WRITE THIS #And then World War II happened (AND THE HOLOCAUST) #and far from convincing him that he was wrong #it just made him more certain that he was right #what a goddamn Chad #that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien #quotes #the hobbit #gandalf #jrr tolkien #j.r.r. tolkien #optimism #inspiration

[quackdates]

quackity is in the qsmp chat 🤣🤣

#last stream he went exploring with foolish and ended up very far away from spawn/home/civilization idk they were just in mountains lmao #btw after bruh he left

[tara-the-star]

my turn to share my oc!!

#forgot to add she realised she was trans only after leaving the nest #bc before that being from a conservative bengali family and then being shipped to the nesr #applied to nj stars after her freshman year- only because eau was too far from home #um yeah so thats that #more on her soon! #aftg oc #stars vs crows au #crows vs stars au #new jersey stars #kuasha

[morangoowada]

Mondo fans who would absolutely hate being anywhere near his bike because of sensory issues

#I'm neurodivergent and very sensitive to loud noises and..... motorcycles make some huge ass noises #I'm sorry mondo but please keep that bike far away from me or else my ears are going to bleed #thought about this after passing by a loud motorcycle while going home... my ears hurt #theo is rambling again #mondo owada #mondoblr

[forged-in-kaoss]

Team Spider-man + wearing Peter's Colors

#spider-man #peter parker #may parker #ned leeds #michelle jones #tony stark #iron man #homecoming #far from home #no way home #ffh #nwh #marvel #gif #costume #symbolism #may being his biggest supporter i cry :' #i swear the whole make the sanctum snowy thing was 40% comic purpose and 60% give strange a *nonstandard* red/blue outfit to show support #in homecoming ned's wearing that right after he finds out #may's wearing it after DC when peter's class was in danger but he saved them #mj has just bits of red and blue when she only suspects #it's always a show that they are in on it and/or support him

[loving-jack-kelly]

jack in third grade with a crush on davey teasing him on the playground bc he doesn't know what else to do with the weird emotion.

jack in middle school realizing that it's a crush and not knowing what to do with the weird and now terrifying emotions so he stops talking to davey altogether.

jack in high school feeling like shit for ghosting somebody he used to be close with but not knowing what to do about it now that it's been four years and they're about to graduate and also he still gets weirdly sentimental and also butterflies when he hears davey laugh from across the room.

jack in college texting davey happy birthday because he can't think of a better way to restart a relationship that pretty much ended eight years ago and he misses home and misses familiarity and has never forgotten davey's birthday since the first time he learned it in elementary school.

#newsies #jack kelly #javid #davey jacobs #davey missing jack but thinking jack is a lost cause until he gets a text literal minutes after he turns 21 #and suddenly its like theyre 14 again staying up at a sleepover and laughing over how messed up they can make a sim #it's easy with jack the way it's not easy with anyone else. davey has been missing him this whole time and now he's back #and maybe this is stupid but it feels good. #jack feeling lost and lonely and like maybe going so far from home was a mistake bc he wants the familiar. #davey feeling lonely and stressed and scared because for the first time he's really on his own and struggling to hit his own standards #and here's this person they've each been missing for so long. a middle school crush long since gotten over (sort of) #but a lost friendship neither forgot #anyway. i understand them like nobody else and this is true and right

[fictionadventurer]

"It looked like a good day for setting fence posts, and my mother said so while taking the biscuits from the oven. 'Some morning early, when I can get away, I want you to come with me along the edge of the hill in the wood-lot," she continued. "When the shadows of the trees begin to come down the slope, as the sun rises you feel the turning of the earth. You feel the whole globe under your feet rolling into the sunlight. . . . That's something I found one morning when I was driving the calves to pasture. I've been saving it up for you. I wonder if you've seen a more beautiful dawn in any of the places you've been.'

On my fingers I count the dawns I have seen--memorable, just in being dawns. Sleepy-eyed dawn from the Paris markets after a night of dancing; mist dawn against which I was just to late to see the minarets of Constantinople--all the fault of the stupid stewardess who didn't wake me in time; one startling moment of color on the hills around the Dead Sea before they went colorless in merciless heat; sudden dawn like a clap of light over the freezing-cold Syrian desert. Four dawns in twenty years. No, I do not know dawns as my mother does."

-- Rose Wilder Lane, "A Place in the Country" (1925)

#little house #rose wilder lane #laura ingalls wilder #a little house sampler #i dove into the book seriously this morning #intended to read just the first couple of pieces and kept reading 'just one more' until i've got about 2/3 read #most of laura's pieces are familiar from her farm columns #though there's a couple of early versions of little house stories that show a lot of her voice did get through there #rose's are fascinating #i can't quite wrap my head around her #sometimes she'll seem neurotic and restless and judgey and sophisticated and a bit pretentious #and then she writes some of the most beautiful nostalgic pieces #showing so much love of home and family and the simple joys of life #this piece might be my favorite so far because it grapples with those two sides #after four years as a foreign correspondent she's back at home in mansfield #and she has a new appreciation for her parents and the work they do and the life they've built #now that she's had her adventures and is no longer a restless teen looking to get away from rural poverty #even in the other pieces it's fascinating how much love of her family comes through when you know about the difficult relationships #i should share some quotes from the piece about mary when i get the chance #(also i'm very upset that she didn't write down the story of why she and her parents never read the last book in the school library) #(you don't end with a sequel hook and just leave me hanging ms. lane!) #anyway i love the whole essay that this is from and there are other worthwhile quotes #but i like how this one captures the 'noticing beauty while doing farm work' side of laura that i've come to think of as her trademark