#and now you’re on the other side

[redrattlers]

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#last day of school????? ever????? #i have no clue how i feel about it #like what???????? #yknow one day you’re 17 about to finish highschool and you’re imagining 7 years of studies and it feels almost eternal #and now you’re on the other side #so much and so little happened at the same time #okay damn #lots of nice things ahead and i feel like i should appreciate today more #realistically this is a Big Day #i just #yeah damn #what now #omg ​ALSO i remember making a post like this for finishing my undergrad #how was that TWO YEARS AGO #see that feels fake #more than ending my masters all together #like so fake #i’m gonna go and have a crisis about that now

[loveandthings11]

Understanding in 1x02 vs 4x03:

*deep breath*

Early on, this is what Shiv sees:

This is what she doesn’t see:

Kendall is cornered into talking about the business. Wordlessly, gently threatened into it when he said he didn’t want to right now. Gerri and Karl aren't in mourning. They are doing their jobs, and they’re testing him to see if he can do his. If he said no and walked away, the company would be taken out of family control, Logan would be furious, and he'd lose out on his dream forever.

Shiv sees none of that happen, and Kendall doesn't even tell her about it- maybe because he thinks she wouldn't listen, maybe because she said she thinks he’s weak already, or maybe because he just almost never defends himself in general. But she can’t see his perspective without knowing what happened.

The lack of understanding between them results in this disaster:

She thinks he’s being cold by talking to the nominating committee, but we see how he really feels. He just always turns to reason and order in times of crisis and she doesn’t really know that.

He has not forgotten this conversation or Shiv’s perception of him here. He doesn’t want that:

Shiv’s been inside Waystar now. She knows now that talking business for a minute during a dark time doesn’t mean you don’t care. In fact, she did it while Kendall was confessing his worst moment, but it didn’t mean she loves him less. She knows him better now and has seen that he’s anything but emotionless. No one criticizes him for turning to reason and order this time. They ask for it.

No matter what happens, he won’t forget this nice conversation either. He won’t forget that his siblings finally see him the way he’s always hoped they would: as the big brother who can make hard decisions in seemingly impossible moments. He’s the one who can shepherd them through it. There’s trust there now and they finally know how it feels. The door will be open for togetherness now, even if it looks like it might close for a while. It’s not that they changed as people, it’s that they’ve learned how to read each other.

Not seeing each other’s perspectives led to having to be alone:

Now, it seems, even though they will struggle for a while, they have an understanding.

🤍

#us 🥹 #really what he’s wanted from the very beginning #Jesse can talk all he wants about not believing in growth but it’s all over this episode #I mean #they are the same people #but now they get each other #doesn’t mean there won’t be backslides but they will remember how much better they feel together #as we’ve seen with ‘I don’t know if me and you come back from that’ they do always come back together #there are so many parallels between these episodes my brain had sparks going the whole time #they are all happier like this and they won’t forget that #I have always been obsessed with 1x02 #the way Karl says you’re in no fit state gives me goosebumps #yeesh #succession parallels #kendall roy #succession #succession season 4 #roman roy #I wonder how much money I’d have if I cared about my side jobs as much as I care about this #shiv roy #shit show at the fuck factory #Connor’s wedding #succession spoilers

[ssreeder]

Is it okay to ask a spoiler? (kinda, like, it's probably just for me I'm at the beginning of your fic and I'm anxious as fck 😂😂)

I'm reading LIAB (chapter Going the Distance), and loving every word of it! I'm considering it as a real book instead of fanfiction, because you're a really skilled author and I can't wait to read the whole series and become an unbearable fan annoying you!! 😜❤️🙏🏼

Anyway, while reading I can't help but wonder: during the series are we gonna see Zuko and Iroh together again? I can't stop thinking about how Zuko misses his uncle (for context, Chang just was left behind for me, so I'm a little emotional about that yet!!!) and I can't stop thinking if we get to see Iroh unleashing all his angry at Zhao once he finds out what happened to Zuko and how our boy suffered...

(Another question completely different: is there any scene in the story you would love to see draw? I actually got to know your fic because of the lovely fanarts hahah, and now I was thinking about drawing something that I read but can't decide which scene 😭😭)

HELLLOOOOO!! I had to look at the chapters to figure out which one was Going the Distance & then I realized you really are in the very beginning of the fic series haha! Well…. WELCOME! (&your anxiousness is super valid it’s a super anxious fic I’m even anxious just thinking about you being anxious lol)

AWWWWW I HOPE YOU LIKE THE ENTIRE SERIES!!! it gets a little wild in some places & super duper dark so I just like to always warn lol. heed the tags lol.

OK AYYYY so as for the spoilers: Iroh & Zuko will absolutely be reunited & it’s going to be a mess. So much will happen between where you’re at in the fic & where you’re going, that it’s hard to even explain without spoiling the entire fic! Which I will do if you want just let me know haha. but Iroh will be part of the story and I think you get an update on him towards the end of the first book & then you’ll hear about him in RIA & then they’ll be reunited in ITF. They have a long & painful journey ahead of them I’m sorry… you have quite a bit of angst to get through.

& I can promise you Iroh is going to be very very PISSED. I love me some slightly feral Iroh, especially when it comes to his nephew.

(omg omgomgomgommgggg fanart is like a proposal to me and I swear I’m rolling on the ground happily just thinking about it. But idk what scene I’d pick I really like people who create the fanart to pick because I like to see what they choose! Also you have a long way to go so maybe something will interest you?? I’m super excited either way!)

thanks for the ask I hope you enjoy reading!!

#I think iroh pov pops up around the forest lesbians #So if you find some lesbians in the woods you’re close to an iroh pov lol #It’s a very anxious fic and it’s a whump style story so just be prepared #But yeah Iroh is not a man to sit by and let his nephew suffer #Ok he actually totally is but not physically suffer haha he can look past internal trauma but he draws the line at physical injuries! #But zuko changes a lot…. So…. Yeah that poor boy goes through it #& iroh is on the other side with arms wide open and zuko just doesn’t know what to do about that lol #We’re still in the middle of their situation right now and we don’t have an Iroh or Zuko pov so it’s been a BLAST haha #We will eventually get another iroh pov haha but it’s coming slowly #Oh I can’t wait for you to get to some parts because idk if you’ll be expecting them or not haha #*spins in a circle* WE WILL SEE!!!! #OK GOODLUCK #Waterlooletterwrb #Liab #RIA #ITF #ask #THANKS FOR THE ASK I HOPE YOU ENJOY!!

[kingkatsuki]

Can you imagine how pissed off love island!Bakugou would be if another guy chose you to kiss during one of the challenges?

#he’d just be mouthing off on the other side of the course #kirishima with his hand on his chest because he thinks he’s gonna jump across the room #he’s probably calling the guy so many names when he comes back into line after too #and he’s now trying to catch your eye to see if you’re okay and to try and ground himself #but you’re just there feeling bad for your friend who got pied #and you’re worried Bakugou will think there’s something going on #but he knows you proper fancy him and you’re loyal to him😭🥺💕 #love island bakugou

[tanoraqui]

Thinking again about the absolute feast of rotating fairy tale character motifs in 2012-13 cyberpunk show Motorcity… In Kane’s ideal world he’s the king and Julie is the princess and Mike is the knight (and adopted heir); and in Kane’s lived world he’s the king and Julie is the princess and Mike is the knight treacherously turned dragon; and in Motorcity Mike is something between a lordless knight errant and the king of a round table and Julie is one of his knights (playing the part of princess in the tower as necessary) (except she really is still trapped in the tower, because she loves her father even as she works against him) and Kane is the dragon; and as a sidebar the Duke has actual dragon aesthetics (GOLD + larger than life, ego) and more importantly there’s the LARP where Chuck (normally a common knight of the round table) is the king and Mike is a dragon who is a knight, or maybe a knight who is a dragon… The greatest tragedy of its cancellation is we’ll never find out what Julie would’ve been in Raymanthia (the LARP). My heart says queen.

#motorcity #julie kane #mike chilton #abraham kane #also I am now rotating julie & mike & kane in my mind on one side #and on the other side kate & hugh & roland of the kate daniels series #sometimes you (previously innocently evil) and your quasi- adoptive sibling (also previously innocently evil) #team up to tell your shared father [figure] that he sucks as a father and a leader and tbh as a person #and you’re going to kick his ass now

[etchedstars]

ugh wow. me when the artist/writer duos i was in grew apart but im still writing and theyre still doing art. im emotional

#oh ok. so you mean you’re going to school for design and our dream schools are both on the other side of the country but only an hr away #from each other. oh okay that’s cool. are we soulmates yet #shout out to Me for being in Four different artist writer duos and all of them are now Defunct #the overdue asteroid strikes again

[undyinglantern]

the amount of surprised pika “wait people actually shave their arms?” comments on posts about body hair are so funny like I unironically am so happy for you that you weren’t laughed at by a classmate for having hairy arms “like a man” in like 4th grade this is why I wish body hair conversations would stop centering around armpit hair

#okay that’s the tldr but the way I actually remember it is that the classmate (a boy) pointed out my arm hair and ask why so hairy #and I genuinely was so confused I was just like idk??? and then later at home that day I asked my mom about it and she was like #It’s bc your dads side of the family is hairy so then I later talked to that guy again like ‘I take after my dad’ or whatever #And /then/ is when he laughed and was like ‘but you’re a girl’ about it #Granted I’m non-binary but like I didn’t know that in elementary #Plus I didn’t stop shaving until around mid 2010s and was still self conscious about it for years #Like I remember feeling embarrassed during college (2018ish) if I had to use the rest room and someone else was in there when I would roll #My sleeves up to wash my hands #Anyways I eventually stopped caring about it sometime within the last year or 2 but see how long that took? It really shouldnt #Like some of us just genetically have more darker thicker visible body hair than others and we shouldn’t be shamed for it #One thing at a time though because even I’m still working through leg hair shame #I don’t shave them anymore but I also haven’t worn shorts outside of my bedroom in years #I’ll literally switch into shorts if it’s too hot right before bed and switch back into pants before stepping out of my room in the morning #I’ve been feeling cute the past few days and it’s starting to warm up again plus also had a convo w mom recently so #I might change that soon but only within the house still bc baby steps <3 #Anyways I’m just rambling now so I should stop. Good night !!

[honeysucklethornsandalligtrhorns]

Hey, I wanted to ask-

People with tics/Tourette’s-

Asking because I personally have pretty regular tics, and feel teased/invalidated when people will mimick, mock, or pretend to have my tics

#I understand most people w/out tourette’s probably don’t do this to be cruel #but i can’t help but feel mocked whenever someone looks at me experiencing tics #and starts clicking their tongue/popping their mouth/jerking their head to the side #etc etc #because it’s like #oh gee thanks bud #you’re definitely not making me feel like a complete weirdo right now #like i understand people don’t really know how to react #but if someone you know starts having tics (especially in public/around other people) #they typically don’t want you to start mimicking their tics #it’s usually embarrassing as is and we don’t need y’all to draw more attention to it #tourettes #vocal tics #motor tics #tics mention #tics #tourette’s syndrome #polls

[aveil]

i hate hate hate being told that i’m lucky i “don’t have to work” bitch i make $800 a month from the government and live in pure terror every day that everything will be ripped from under me if the cost of living goes up even a fraction

yes it’s so fun to sit at home alone everyday disabled

esp when it comes from other autistic people????? like wow yes i’m so lucky my autism disables me enough to not be able to hold a job in any capacity

#sorry i’m in a mood. a moody mood #not being able to work is just the other side of the same hell coin where you’re forced to work #the common denominator here is the restrictions and hell of capitalism #i came off of years of high masking and working 40+ hrs a week #and now i can’t do shit #bun txt

[vampiremilfs]

so that “luxury/beige aesthetic in the sims is boring/ugly” girlie turned out to be racist…sorry but im not surprised 💀

#im always gonna be side-eyeing people who are LOUD about their hate for that shit and alpha in general #because 90% of the time that hate got something to do with how black people dress their sims and play. it never fails #you’re entitled to that opinion but iunno. you might need to unpack that! #another thing. as someone who used to be maxis match then maxis mix and is now fully alpha #can we shut the fuck up and leave other people alone. yall need to be fucking kinder for real im sorry #like why is this this shit normalized? yall just jump in here and say the most heinous out of pocket shit about people #who did not a damn thing wrong #and THEN we wonder why simblr got some dumb shit happening every week. yall need to learn how to mind your damn business

[ralofofriverwoods]

I do not like ulfric and I think virthik deserves a w :)

He did a similar thing with tullius. He does not like the civil war at all

#random #farlian does art #digital art #oc #artists of tumblr #mini comic #comic #skyrim #ulfric stormcloak #last dragonborn #galmar stone fist #this is after alduin when he got a little bit of therapy from icky👍 #imagine; you meet a guy on a cart who looks like 4 seconds away from dying by natural causes #assume he dies in the dragon attack at helgen #then about 3 months later you see the guy at high hrothgar #the only thing that has changed about him is now he has horns?? and is much sassier but still looks like he could drop dead at any point #and then you see him AGAIN like 3 weeks after alduin is killed #and he looks semi normal? and he tells you you’re annoying #and then he seemingly goes to join the other side of the war because you are annoying #virthik is such a mess #I love him

[r0semultiverse]

These organizations supporting KOSA going through while claiming they want to help marginalized kids are actually so disgusting to me. The posts they make about Nex is just virtue signaling & words when their actions say let’s make things worse for these children.

I’m gonna be 100% honest, they should keep that kid’s name out of their damn mouths so long as they support KOSA. Like actually fuck you & eat shit. Actions speak louder than words, traitorous scumbags. You don’t care, you care about your stakeholders more.

Your organization can only thrive & exist so long as there’s a problem to donate towards solving. Of course you would support KOSA, you need a problem to keep existing in order to look like the good guys & solve it. Just go mask off & call us slurs & your “customers” at this point, it would be less disgusting than covering it up behind kind words.

#this goes out to the Trevor project & PFLAG as well as GLAAD & GLSEN #all of you should keep Nex’s name out your mouth when you have every intention to make things worse for trans kids #I can’t imagine going to work for one of these charity organizations & just seeing your bosses make things worse for the people you are #trying to help #I cannot imagine how frustrating & upsetting that is & then the higher ups are just like okayyyy our organization can keep existing... #so now y’all lower rank workers go help these kids whose lives we just made worse! #these charity orgs function like retail stores I stg; they need customers to keep giving them money meanwhile the higher ups make things #worse for said customers while the cashiers & others just try to help the best they can #you’re doing damage control for your incompetent & terrible upper management; it’s just like every other American workplace #you can also compare supporting a bill that would hurt the people they claim to help as a war economy comparison #they need to keep the class war going by supporting this bill in order to keep having money to keep existing as an organization #they’re playing both sides while on the surface saying we are here to help! #no you aren’t! your workers are; but you as higher ups are prioritizing stakeholders over humanity & for that you’ve lost all my respect #I haven’t looked up evidence about the human rights campaign supporting KOSA but they’ve been bad in the past so I believe it tbh #I mean the recent Zionism from HRC is enough for me to be like yeahhh no they absolutely would be in support of the Kosa bill #mine #op #the trevor project #pflag #glaad #GLSEN

[badolmen]

Local 22 yo who does puzzles, knits, and birdwatches wakes up with hip pain. Starting to think their birth certificate lied about what year they were born.

#ra speaks #personal #I am an old person in a young person’s body that is also an old person’s body #help. lol #I probably just need to do pigeon or something but ough why is it my left leg the one that’s only partially fucked up #keep all my problems on the right side of my body pls and thank you #in other news I have yet to be cured of ‘being the youngest in the room’ #it’s so odd like most of my classmates/coworkers are almost 30 or older and I’m like. hi. #I’ve only been legally allowed to drink for a year. people at my age are graduating college which I did like two years ago now. #this is not the boon you think it is. because their surprise is immediately overshadowed by the realization that I’m autistic/‘a little off’ #like ooooooh you’re not the fun quirky savant autistic you’re the socially offputting and too quick for your own good autistic

[izzystizzys]

the usual izzy gets surprised by not having had menopause yet and a baby trope but adding in a twist: it happens pre-canon and by the time he gets unceremoniously dumped off the ship, he’s known for at least a month

just. increasingly tense izzy, who not only has to deal with not being able to keep anything in his body and worse nausea than he had even in his first week on a ship, but also can’t sleep marinating in the familiar coldness between him and ed that suddenly grates all over again. who’s forced to contend with the idea that something might finally force them out of this stalemate, and he doesn’t know if he wants that really or what outcome scares him the most, and it makes him pissier than a rabid cat soaking wet most days

and then it happens anyways, in an entirely different way that didn’t even require izzy to voice all of his fears and lay bare their problems, because stede fucking bonnet did that with his mere presence. no need to admit to his fear of being abandoned now, is there, is all he can think bitterly over a mug of fucking water of all things in jackie’z.

#ofmd fic idea #edizzy #kind of #my steddyhands loving brain wants it to end up there but idk how #in my angstridden mind this can go several ways #obvs he still sees jack and obvs the prick knows immediately #now: does jack run off and tattle or stay and help? #either way in my mind izzy has lost all will to fight his way back to ed’s side via navy fuckeries in this #discovering he has other priorities than ed now is a shock to him more than anyone #anyways option one jack still makes it onto the revenge drunkenly ripping ed a new one in the most incomprehensibly strange way #halfway through he’s like oops you’re not supposed to know that izzy’s pregnant! #ed: izzy’s pregnant???? #jack (sweating): i didn’t say that #which brings on a merry goose chase because izzy is a wanted man in his own right #and also not in the mood to talk to anyone #option two: jack does NOT scurry off to the revenge #i envisage ed still going ham in this bcs one he discovers functioning without izzy’s shit and two there were issues there brewing already #years later the crew (slowly but steadily piecing itself together) raids a ship and finds a screaming five-year-old in its brig #completely impossible to miss that she is an exact carbon copy of ed from the hair down to the scowl and eyes and- #well it’s very unsettling is all #as are the promises that if they don’t help her her papa will disembowel them all #‘a toddler should not know that word!!!’ lucius insists #meanwhile izzy going insane having temporarily commandeered jack’s current ship in search of his beloved daughter #comedy of errors type thing where the revenge crew are forced to become temporary babysitters to the absolute hellion raised by izzy hands #truly only he could create such horrors (affectionate)

[thelostboys87]

hyperfixating on a character who i don’t know as specifically as my other usual hyperfixation ocs is so funny there’s a guy in my head 24/7 atm but i don’t know him like that and im just like ummmmmm so what do you usually do at bedtime. do you like music? yeah i also like music.

#thing with Bobby is because of the sensitive nature of his arc I’ve always tried to develop him as a main character #because I never wanted to understand his illness and death from the context of someone else #also I don’t really believe in side or minor characters just characters who happen to not be the pov voice. anyway #so yeah Bobby has always been on the same level as felix and dorothy and beau for me despite not being a protagonist #which helped me quickly understand a lot of specifics about him beyond his illness and death #his character had always been very vibrant but bc I only recently solidified a project where he’s a protagonist #(always wanted to write smth in his pov but finally just figured out what it should look like) #I’m only now starting to fill in the gaps in between but it kinda feels like when you’re alone with a friend of a friend for the first time #and like you get along but don’t know each other well enough to carry a conversation yet LOL #like i need beau to help me out but he’s not here bc it’s not about him #I’m like okayyyyy so what do you do when you’re bored? and it’s like I don’t fucking know #does this even make sense my autism is very. specific I think #BOBBY I WILL AUTISTICALLY MAKE YOU ANOTHER BEST FRIEND IN MY HEAD

[ocdhuacheng]

Shut the FUCK up why does denji look like gun fiend aki I’m gonna kms

#like brother like brother or whatever. bashes my head against the wall repeatedly #also he said I’m the worst again #and YOU TAKE THAY BACK (<- about what he said to nayuta) #him giving her up basically 2 chapters after promising to stay with her .. I may vomit #also ​the only thing keeping her from joining the devils side was denji #also he just. doesn’t care about his well-being at all #the way all the other hybrids are like screaming in pain and fear and he’s just like. Let’s Get Sillay‼️‼️🌟 #self harm goes so far when you’re immortal #also also that panel of him eating spear was kinda. 👁️👁️ #.txt #csm #denji #cc #anyway. I have so many thoughts and worries #what’s it gonna take to get him to stop. where’s nayuta gonna go now #genuinely rock bottom #<- even though he thinks the opposite #inchresting.