I have to get this off my chest, and I'm not looking for pity or sympathy.
Tonight was supposed to be Will and I's usual fun day/evening. We typically play games together, normally PC games cause we're big PC Gamers, I just got him into my Palia addiction, but we do other games too. We catch up on the shows we missed throughout the week because of his work schedule. It's also a good time to dip deep in my Little Space and his Daddy Space. It's the one day we have usually to shake off the week's stresses and be together.
However, I was woken up earlier than usual to the sounds of our old girl, Raven, making one of the most ungodly noises I've heard from her. Come to find out from Will, she'd been having something called Synopses. They're like seizures, but not quite, brought on by her heart murmur and old age, she'll be 16 in January. Maybe. Which is old for a dachshund. The vet says if they don't get better or if she doesn't pass on her own in the next few days, we'll have to help her across the rainbow bridge medically, so she doesn't suffer any. That's that last thing I want for her.
She had a very hard life before we adopted her at the shelter ten years ago, about a day or so before they were going to put her down. She was a bait dog, before the evil and disgusting people that had her dumped on a busy highway. She has her scars. She only had a teeny bit of gray around her mouth, when we brought her home. Now, her face is so gray, we tease that she's got a racoon mask on. The top of her head is grey. Her paws are gray, so is her belly and just the underside of her tail. She's gone deaf and blind in the last few years. Her nose still works like a charm tho!
We had Midnight, before her and he took to her easily, but she didn't take to him so easily. He wanted to clean her face, but she'd growl at him, so he'd just sit there and keep her company, or eat her food. XD But eventually, they became two peas in a pod. All honesty, I expected her to go long before my baby boy, Midnight, who'll be gone a year this Halloween. Still shreds me up inside. I feel like an idiot. I bonded more with Midnight than her in the years. Not to say I don't like her or won't miss her, because I do, and I will. I just feel bad that I didn't. Will did, him and her are the best of buds, she's his other little Princess.
I just expect to spend the day and all night watching with the impending dread of her last breath, of another episode. Of thinking what it'll be like not having any animals in the house, because Will doesn't want any more after she's gone. Can't say I blame him. This part of having a pet sucks ass. The house already seems empty.
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[Blows the dust off this blog] Long time no see...
Back in the Danganronpa pits... have some silly doodles for an...AU? or like, slight canon divergence/missing scene? I got to chapter 5 in my THH replay and was thinking about the part where these four are alone in the gym dismantling Monokuma all night.
I know realistically it's supposed to be because they were paranoid and extra careful about taking it slow so nothing went wrong... but like... their alibi is from 10pm to 7am? In my heart of hearts it actually took the whole night because they kept getting distracted and chit-chatting and got into a bunch of shenanigans once the actual dismantling part was done. Like Byakuya says they went to the bathroom in pairs?? Not to mention you'd totally expect him to make a comment about how insufferable it was being stuck together for like nine hours. And Hina says they played rock paper scissors to decide who brought back breakfast???
You can't tell me they didn't bond at least a little bit. A friend pointed out it'd have the vibes of a 4am discord call and that's exactly it. Emotional confessions about personal fears and insecurities to dumb physiological debates that become inside jokes forever. Etc.
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Occasionally the contrast between the woobification of Jason Todd and the demonization of Damian Wayne makes me want to commit acts of untold violence.
Like, two of bruce’s kids have “tried to kill” tim. One spent a decent amount of his life being taught to care for and value others and to serve them, went through an incredibly traumatic experience, came back and decided to go full scorched earth on those he believed wronged him while he was gone. The other was raised in an extremely abusive environment and taught that his only value came from things outside his control and that if he wasn’t superior to everyone then he was inherently inferior. He came to his father’s house at a time of severe upheaval, with little to no experience with any kind of unmixed kindness, and felt the need to secure his position (i.e. make himself safe) by removing a competitor for that security, and later learned that person had a contingency plan to deal with him and retaliated out of fear. One of these guys was in his late teens when he caused grievous bodily injury to a younger opponent who had only enacted symbolic harm of which he (tim) was unaware of having caused. The other was prepubescent when he attacked someone more than half again his age out of a combination of fear and a belief that that was the correct and appropriate way to deal with a competitor for your personal position of security and safety because he was literally taught to kill before losing most of his baby teeth.
Guess who gets justified by the fandom and has dozens or more fics where the entire plot is specifically about tim forgiving him? Spoiler alert: it’s not the literal child from the death cult who’s been abused and manipulated by every single adult in his life until his arrival in Gotham.
Guess who gets portrayed as being somehow inherently evil, even biologically so, and utterly irredeemable no matter what he does? Spoiler alert: it’s not the grown ass man who had a whole villain arc before his public popularity elevated him to anti-hero status.
Edit: added quotation marks around “tried to kill” because somebody said Jason never tried to kill tim and I think what they meant was that he wasn’t approaching the situation with intent to actually murder him, only cause him grievous bodily harm, which i’m too tired after work rn to try to chase down atm. But also because regardless of whether or not Jason attacked tim with homicidal intent, this post is discussing fan interpretation used specifically and prolifically in fanfiction, which does tend to view Jason’s actions as falling under the umbrella of “trying to kill” tim. So. I don’t just want to wholesale remove those words. Perhaps I could simply alter them to say that “two of Bruce’s kids have enacted greivous bodily harm upon Tim intentionally, willfully, and with malice aforethought” but again. Most people just kind of call it “trying to kill tim.” So. Idk
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A tale of daisies & larkspurs
For @sanusoweek || Day 2: Fairy Tale / WLW (pretend this was posted on time)
Relationship: Sanji/Usopp (F/F)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Recommend reading on Ao3 but the main ones are: Transphobia, gender dysphoria, child/domestic abuse, and violence (I swear this is happy too don't get tricked by my angst)
Chapters: 14/14
Summary:
‘I love you’, her mother always says. ‘My precious daughter. My angel.’
But her father’s words are still louder.
“It is the only thing he will never be able to obtain.” He turns around to approach her numb body, as she uses her last efforts to hold on to Pedro’s armor. Judge doesn’t smile, but he has all the fun in the world when he frowns with disgust at his son. Son. “A true love kiss.”
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Usopp smells like wild berries, daisies, and wood. Like ancient books, fire, and dirt. Like chemicals, poison, and deadly flowers. Like sunlight, wet grass, and thousands of thousands of songs Sanji hasn’t been able to hear. It is impossible to know what a song smells like, but she is quite sure they all have the scent of that music box Usopp made for her. She always brings gifts whenever she comes.
It makes the princess feel less trapped and more… It wouldn’t be more, since she isn’t even a bit free. But it makes her feel free.
Liberation, that’s what she smells like. Freedom.
Read on Ao3!!!
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Also @the-orion-inexpirience's art I asked them to draw quite obviously inspired by this fic!!!!!!! It inspired me so much to keep writing!!!
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