i had a dream my parents gave me up when i was young. i came home from school one day and they told me they didnt want me anymore.
but that isnt what the dream was about. i knew that already.
it was a dream about being wanted.
my older cousin had a room for me, a whole country away, with exposed auburn wood and a big bed. big canvasses, with tubs of paint. a soft carpet. billboards for photos of memories i would make. set up for me like the aquarium for a long waited fish of an excited child.
que parecidas from the lips of relatives and strangers alike. it means ‘how seeming’. or ‘how belonging.’ they were commenting on how we look alike. we do. i could almost let myself forget i wasnt always here.
my cousins children became my little sisters. i did ballet with mis hermanitas down the hallways of our home. they dont know theres someone who called me hermanita too - i could almost let myself forget that, too.
my old friends called me sometimes, but less and less, as i started forgetting english. maybe as i forgot the words for friend and mom and sister i’d forget them too. maybe i could let myself remember only amigo y mamá y hermana. only the ones that wanted me.
but not when you called me. i could feel the dream realize - i didnt know you yet when i left - you can’t be here. large oilspilled hands replaced your face with someone else. someone who made sense in a timeline where i am wanted. you don’t make sense here. but you wiped off all the other faces. it was always you. breaking through. reaching out to me.
i couldn’t forget. not you. i wished i could. i clung to this dream where i was wanted. i didnt want to remember. you hugged me as it begun to rain. the murals i painted on my walls washed away drop my drop. until downpours claimed my dance trophies and tutus. my pictures of made-up friends. the walls dripped bare until through the haze of rain it was my real life again.
but you still hugged me.
it was a dream about being wanted. it still was.
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I saw some of your two jasons/clone AU and I genuinely thought you were continuing the markiplier joke and now Jason had a clone who Ra’s and Talia just like. plopped fake memories in and set loose idk. and decided to become a youtuber.
Anon please could you not spoil the ending of my clone au that's very rude of you Jeez now I've got to come up with a whole new ending
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i started reading the new, Certified Canon(tm) Thrawn books because
1. I wanted to read them before watching Rebels or reading the Legends Heir of the Empire novels where he originated from
2. I'd seen a lot of good things about it in the Thrawn tags
Also in the Thrawn tags, there was so much content between Thrawn and some twink named Eli Vanto and, skeptic, I said to myself "there's no way it's that gay. there's surely a lot of fandom headcanoning going on here."
100 pages in and no actually, it really is that gay. Like good lord Timothy Zahn, did you know you were writing gay men?
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Villain rando: Are you three like friends or something?
*Lord Dominator and Bill Cipher shrug*
Slade:*deadpan* I'm being held hostage.
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Dominator: *about Slade* Old man Joe is just the coolest ya know?
Villain rando: Who's Joe?
Dominator: *inhale* JOE M-
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The Beast:*about Belos* 🎶Something wicked this way comes~🎶
Dominator: Congrats you literally described everyone here
Cozy Glow: Excuse you i'm a delight!
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*in a library like place Slade sits comfortably in an armchair and reads a book*
Dominator: Heeey Joseph!
Slade:..*sigh* What is it?
Dominator: Beast says that there is new folk about to appear soon in these ports of Void and i with Bill plan on bullying the villain newbie a bit.. A lot actually.. So! Ya wanna come and make em cry?
Slade: Who will be gracing us with their presence?
Dominator: That Belos.. Philip guy.. The one who killed and cloned his brother a lot or something like that *shrugs* A worstie like us
Slade: Joy.
Dominator: Are you coming then?
Slade: I pass.. *resumes reading* Have fun.
Dominator: *looks at the book cover*.. Why are you reading Warrior cats?
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Emperor Belos: Why is a child there?
Cozy Glow: Mind your own business.
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who else remembers when during the midst of a global pandemic with no way to safely tour or travel to record music, mcr, a band with a large queer and gender nonconforming fanbase who's lead singer had such an iconic eyeshadow look that fans spent large amounts of time and effort to emulate, who have a long personal history of gender nonconformity and wearing makeup themselves, decided to partner with a smaller, cruelty free makeup brand to create a custom eyeshadow palette. and ppl got mad at them and called them sellouts. does anyone else remember that or am I going insane?
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I need to get another crab or two for Gurkle since it doesnt look like Scupa made it through his molt (it's been over a month... im scared to sift through the substrate for his remains/shell) but I dont wanna feed the crab trade and my adhd/depression are like no ❤️ and my anxiety is like GURKLE NEEDS FRIENDS
Even though he never really was a sociable crab like from the start sggdgdgd i mean he broke out of his tank twice the first week I had him and when he was in the tank with Scupa and Speedy he was like AHHHHHHHHHHHH DONT LOOK AT MEE! 😬
So idk man I can't get anyone new til I find scupa('s shell) bc if he is alive/his remains are down there I don't want the new ones eating him... and then I gotta add new substrate and augh it's just so much shit
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Did we ever learn where Phil's secret base on the DSMP was? Did I completely make up in my mind when Phil joined he made a hidden base thousands of blocks away from spawn that he never showed on camera?? Was that real????
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