#trying to mend things

[africanmorning]

#crafts #crafting #mending #diy #sewing #embroidery #sashiko #visible mending #coworkers misunderstand and try to chastise me for being too humble when i argue with them for saying the top thing #so i made a meme about it #inspiration #?

[peony-pearl]

I’ve loved this song for a long time; the instrumental is one of my favorite pieces of music. It totally gives me healing Fire Fam vibes

#music #idk I really do think Zuko's experience in his self loathing and shame could help him give patience #while helping Azula navigate her new start away from Ozai #all while Iroh sits near Ozai's cell as one of the few people who go to visit him #trying to mend things #but he knows full well nothing was ever between them to mend #all the while Ozai looks at the man that escaped this cell #Ozai snaps at Iroh and tells him how nice it must be to gloat about how he's on the outside now #but Iroh says 'if I wanted to gloat I would not come in here at all' #the lyrics 'though you may disappear - you're not forgotten here - and I will say to you - I will do what I can do' #followed by that violin #godddddd #also yeah this song is what my Iroh visiting Azula in her cell oneshot is named for

[earlgodwin]

"This, dear sister, is a gift for you like no other" "For me?"

#the whole thing was such an adorable mess help i'm gonna sob #here we have juan arriving from spain trying to win lucrezia's affections back after he killed paolo without thinking it through #because he firmly believed that he did the right thing and that he protected his sister's honor but didn't realize she would hate him rip #not to mention that he was consumed with jealousy since he has incestuous feelings for her so he acted impulsively to kill paolo #and now he is gifting her a rare panther to mend their relationship lol you can see how much juan loves lucrezia but he's too frustrated #the shock of lucrezia actually standing up and trying to kill him had a huge effect as well #anyway juan loves his family so much and wanted to feel included but he was misguided and none of them gave him a break #juan borgia #lucrezia borgia #the borgias #theborgiasedit #david oakes #holliday grainger #periodedits #perioddramaedit #tvedit #weloveperioddrama #cinemapix #juan x lucrezia #by jen

[pollyna]

Bradley grows up in the front seat of his mom's car and in the backseat of his uncle Tom's - soon to be called Pops - car. If Mav had a driver's licence, he would probably have sat a little here and a little there. It becomes part of his universe, and Bradley will end up cherishing every single conversation he had with both of them while they were driving. He won't get the chance to drive his mom around, to young to even reach all the pedals, but he is going to be old and capable enough to drive his pops to the hospital and back every time he needs to, and he will confine dad in the back because he made the mistake of having him in the front once and he got this close to stopping and leaving him miles from home.

At some point, it becomes pretty normal for Ice to sit on the back with Mav just so they can have a conversation, all three of them, with Maverick translating Ice's sign language.

#bradley rooster bradshaw #carole bradshaw #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #mav doesn't have a driver's license #idk if this makes sense #but bear with me #domesticity #about growing up with different people and where you get to sit with them #post top gun(1986) #icemav #icemav + baby goose #(who's not so baby anymore) #they're trying to mend things #this is as the mission was in 2016 not 2020 #-> not that matters lol

[cloverstellar]

I think we as a society really need to talk about tim as Joker Junior more that was so fucking depressing

#rose talks #watching this as a kid killed something in me #and afterwards tim was forbade from ever being Robin again and he tried so so many times to mend his relationship with batman #but batman was also deeply traumatized and it never fared well and tim didnt deserve all that happened to him in this universe #tortured and abused for three full weeks and broken down to the bare bones and built up as the one thing he never wanted to be #and he recovered (mostly) but he’s never the same and feels like batman rejected him completely even though batman was trying to keep- #him safe by simultaneously pushing him away and FUCK me man this shit was so depressing #tim drake #dc.rambling #joker junior #batman: the animated series

[oneluckydragon]

Started writing a fic back in early October and had to abandon it for a while due to IRL situations. But I've started working on it again little by little, and I am so excited to eventually share it with my mutuals and followers. I hope you guys enjoy it (I am trying my best to get it done)!

TBH my only motivation anymore is thinking about my friends having a good time reading it when it's finally posted (I love all of you very much). I cannot wait for all of these ideas to be fleshed-out on paper at last.

Over 16,000 words and I am nowhere near satisfied yet. I feel like I can write WAY more. Stay tuned!

#for anyone wondering the fic is dusknoir/grovyle centric but I PROMISE that I did not forget their girl Celebi #she loves them as well and they love her #but the entire thing takes place during Dusknoir's reconciliation w/ Team Wish #the doodle above is from a scene that I wrote!! #Echo and Dusknoir have lots of conversations #they are working on mending their relationship with each other #also dusknoir is holding his hands folded and out in front of him so Echo can clearly see them at all times #he knows that she's got some trauma with grabbing/touching when its w/ him specifically and he's trying VERY hard to accommodate her #in reality Echo could give a shit about him doing that for her but it's the thought that counts (she secretly appreciates it) #bonus that Sora also gets some resolution with Dusknoir too because lemme tell ya my girl NEEDS it #(scribz / fuji / zerger ) thinking about you guys each day fuels my desire to finish this damn thing so pls know that i love you #pmd eots #pmd2 #my art #my fic #echo/umbreon #sora/lucario #not sure how long until this is actually posted cause my life is a horrible mess atm but I am hoping not too long!! #time to disappear back into the void because job hunting is the literal worst

[sketchmouse-art]

first attempt at visible mending. i started with stitching the edge of the hole and a denim patch (blue thread). i wanted to do a criss-cross pattern with the purple and green thread but the lines i drew on were hard to see so i ended up free-handing a lot.

i used embroidery thread because that's what i have on hand. i'm not sure if that the strongest option but if the stitching breaks, i'll just try again. the wrinkling in the denim bothers me a little; it's not so bad on the knee but i think for mending the inner thigh area it will be an annoying texture :p

#visible mending #clothes mending #sewing #i never threw out my worn out jeans because i was gonna recycle the fabric #then i started seeing sashiko and visible mending posts #i like not buying things and trying to be sustainable #and those were my most comfortable jeans so i wanna keep them if possible

[scorchedhearth]

i actually dont think jason would openly talk about the batarang scar like you see in fics because that's a sign of failure and you know he hides those. failure of his plan, he didn't get what he wanted and didn't plan well enough but also -mainly- failure of his relationship with bruce and he's really private, he wouldn't air that out in front of just anyone. i don't know about you but i wouldnt freely give details of how my father maimed me (and killed me) because his morals go above his personal feelings and relationships and i tried to push those. i don't even think the rest of the batfam knows what really happened at the end of UTRH and both bruce and jason like to keep it this way, secretive as they are

#sure jason could say what happened but right after hes still a bad guy and his words wouldn't be trusted #and later on hes trying to mend things with the fam so it would be counter productive to bring that out (in his own eyes. #imo thats the kind of things you nerd to talk and work through to go somewhere and not let it fester but anyway) #again a lot of this is my interpretation but i dont like how fandam make the fam to be so open. theyre all so secretive and paranoid #jason wouldnt be handing out free cards about his triggers and trauma. not any of them #dc #jason todd

[kaet-draws]

woe, throws a dmc oc at you

#dmc oc #devil may cry oc #shohei vu #*myoc #hiiiiii yes i can NEVER resist putting shohei into new media #tho this time theyre small!!! theyre not starting off as an adult in dmc like every other thing i put them in #btw ive been posting more on my main twitter again but twitter wont get to know my inane thoughts that i put in these tags #anyway vergils gonna be put into the torment nexus of mentorship/fatherhood...2! while simultaneously trying to mend his relationships #ty for reading #dmc #<-organization tag lol

[exrayspex]

more naclyoho

since i made progress but did not finish my mending project on the 3rd, i finished it on the 4th. where before there were holes and worn fabric, there is now fun embroidery!

love how it turned out! i'd like to figure out how to fix and protect those ragged stretchy cuff ends too, but that's a project for another time. i also cleaned the toilet bowls.

on the 5th i washed another window's blinds! very slowly, with many breaks, bc what a fucking task lol. that window is taller than me 🫠. but that's 2 windows done! i swept and washed the sill and the floor underneath while i was down there, too, so I won't have to move the piece of furniture that goes in front of it again, if i clean the rest of that floor soon (a big if, but less big for having done that).

today/the 6th, i did some dusting and added in a few high up spots that can't be easily reached and were therefore Very dusty. i wasn't willing to get out a ladder today but i was willing to stand on tiptoe and/or the stairs and really reach, and some stuff's cleaner than it's been in a while for it. also got what I could reach of some wall, which shouldn't be allowed to get dusty, and yet!

#naclyoho #visible mending #i could've reached much more wall if i'd gotten out the floor duster and more high spots if i'd gotten out the ladder #but i had momentum with the hand duster and only the hand duster #and i know by now it's best to just go with it and be happy i did what i did than to stop and try to do it 'properly' #bc if I stop I just won't do it at all #and working with yourself like that seems to be very much in the spirit of this whole thing #which is what attracted me to it in the first place!

[lightvialamp]

january 24 - dinner || @jegulus-microfic || wc: 557 || cw blood? but more the idea of it

Cooking dinner, and this was the part at which Regulus had always been horrible, the small talk, the place settings, the flickering of a candle in his peripheral vision. A misplaced relationship with his brother because their childhood house had been one of shadows with teeth, and he always had to be on the lookout. He heard a whisper, a rustle of clothing, from down the hallway and looked up to see Sirius halfway out the window, begging Regulus to come with him, to run away, we’ll die in this house, Reg, please. 

Regulus sighed, hands on the counter to ground himself to the here and now, Sirius laughing in the other room. He was trying. They were trying. He picked up the drink refills he had been sent into the kitchen to grab and made his way to the dining room, dripping the gooiest parts of himself across his brother’s floor as he did so. Eyes met him at the door, gray on gray, a few more smile lines than his own.

Sirius began to lift a hand to his chest but aborted the movement halfway through. Regulus felt it anyway, a claw mark in his sternum and it was ripping him open inch by inch, a scene from a horror movie, and maybe he was going to be sick because he could feel the wetness through his shirt and if he looked down, surely it would be blood. 

“Reg?” Two hands gripped his shoulders, and when he tore his eyes away from Sirius, he was looking at James, his brother’s incredibly stupid best friend. This dinner thing had been for them actually, because Sirius couldn’t be separated from James, soulmates of a peculiar sort, and he had informed Regulus that they had to meet. 

A ringing noise then, because Regulus felt like he had met James before, when Sirius was spitting at him in the middle of a grass field, or that’s what it felt like since everything else had fallen away the moment he had heard something something something more of a brother than you’ll ever be. James had been there then, in Sirius’ shadow, sans teeth, and in the smile lines around his eyes that hadn’t been there when he’d left.

Sound came back to him, all of a sudden, as did sensation, and he looked down at the water he had spilled across his shirt and his hands and the floor, heat rising in his cheeks, shards of glass at his feet. Sirius stared at him, shocked, unmoving, per usual. James’ hands were gentle on his shoulders as he moved Regulus backwards, out of the way, sitting him down in a chair and grabbing a napkin from his place setting. 

There was silence as James moved around Sirius’ house like it was his own, dust pan for the glass, paper towels for the water, new cups, new napkins, new shirt for Regulus. One of Sirius’ from several years ago, and he remembered this one, which was the only reason he pulled himself out of the chair he’d been guided to and into the bathroom to change. 

Forehead to the mirror and a deep, uncontrollable sense of why am I here and so close to calling Barty to come pick him up and James fucking Potter knocking softly at the door. 

“Dinner’s ready.”

#this is probably pre jeg #in my head at least #sirius and reg trying to mend their relationship #but they can't do it on their own bc they both go mute in each other's presence #it's a whole thing #anyway #my writing #vee's microfic #jegulus #james x regulus #sunseeker #starchaser #marauders #maruaders fic #this might get a part 2

[cryptidcorners]

i honestly think that Derek's relationship with his mom is very one sided. I honestly assume she neglected him and he had to deal with the trauma of his dad all on his own.

The only reason he's scamming people is to get attention from his mom; hell, he even dyes his hair to try and make himself look "good enough", but ultimately I really don't think she cares about him. I have a feeling he knows that too but he's still holding onto the idea if he just tries hard enough he'll probably be happy again.

#posting this bc I see a lot of people seeing his dynamic w/ his mom in a completely different way #he's legit trying so hard to achieve her expectations #he's practically walking on egg shells around her. his entire confidence shatters whenever she comes in. #I wouldn't be surprised if she hurt him during his child hood #idk. I just saw this as some broken adult trying to mend a family relationship by doing terrible things #she's legit the only person he has atp #i don't think he's a “mommas boy” nor do I think this is a “boy mom” situation. this is just a neglectful parent who doesn't care #and the child is desperately trying to get their approval despite already being so low in life #derek danforth #josh hutcherson #📖 not a request/writing #miscellaneous #the beekeeper 2024 #tw abuse

[findafight]

Me, lying face down on the carpet: I don't know how many times I have to explain that people love characters like Steve Harrington and Zuko, is that they have done things that are bad. They have said things that are bad. Possibly reprehensible. Possibly violent.

But then. And this is THE fundamental aspect of them that you must understand, they realized they were wrong. They realized that what they did and who they were were not things they were proud of. Were not things they liked doing or wanted to continue doing. Were things that hurt people. They realized that they didn't want to be that person anymore.

And then they changed. They went and tried to apologize to those they wronged. They worked to fix what they had done or helped do. They made strides to be different from what they once were.

Zuko stood up to his father, he apologized to the Gang, admitted to them he and his people were wrong, and taught Aang Fire bending. He changed and he helped and he apologized.

Steve helped clean up graffiti, he went to Jonathan's house to apologize for the terrible things he said and their fight(and got dragged into monster fighting and saved Jonathan and Nancy's lives), he replaced the camera he broke.

They owned up to their mistakes and apologized and did their best to remedy them. The apology and the changed behaviour make these characters likeable. They have flaws that have glared but they have accepted those things, tried to do better than them.

I need you to understand that there are characters out there that do the same things but never apologize. When you question why someone likes character a but not character b, when character a has also done bad things, I need you to think about whether or not that character has apologized and since changed that behaviour and thus been sincere in their apology. That is why. No excuse or justification. Did the character apologize and change? Did the other not? There you go.

Me, sitting up with the imprint of the carpet on my face: Woah haha where'd that come from?

#steve harrington #zuko #atla #stranger things #meta #redemption #finda's rambles #listen im not trying to actually compare them im just saying people always question why the love for them #and its like ?? they changed?? #frustrated when ppl act as though other charscters who also did bad but never changed are more deserving of love because #because canon gives them abuse but it never has them apologize for the abusing they do #like realizing you are perpetuating the cycle of abuse and ending it and trying apologize or mend things is powerful #but do not act like your blorbo did that when they never did. they were abused. that is sad. they did terrible things. that is bad. #they never tried to change away from foing horrible things. that is also bad #just because!! a charscter is abused!! does not mean they are not culpable for their shitty actions!!! #zuko was abused and he did shitty things!! the fact he was abused isnt the reason he was redeemed #he was redeemed because he worked for it. he broke out of the mindset that caused him to be violent and cruel #he apologized directly to those he hurt most directly. and he changed #azula didnt do that!! yes she was abused and deserves compassion but she was also murderous and would have killed her brother! #she had not decided to break the cycle!! #Billy was abused. and then he abused his sister. he was violent. #he would have attacked and potentially killed a thirteen year old black boy for being friends with his sister. #at no point does he realize those actions are unacceptable. at no point does he apologize. at no point does he change #just because he was abused and abandoned does not mean he was not responsible.

[chuunibyou]

Man every blue moon I get back on and look through my old posts and I miss this site a lot. :( No matter what happened or who had beef with who back then Tumblr was some of the most fun I've ever had online tbh

#if i could apologize to some people since i matured more now i would #but obviously it's not good to try and mend certain relationships that haven't been a thing for years DKSFKSF #i just mean sometimes i'd think of past stuff over the years and i'd be like damn yeah that was on me actually which is healthy

[professor-doc-emeritus]

There's a lot of reddit refugees/AI bot accounts here and on other websites that are spreading AITA posts around, but not sharing the required-reading post that's necessary if you want to engage with that content without becoming a goblin

#reddit #am i the asshole #AITA #AITAH #196 #there's sorta 3 main things you NEED to be thinking about with every one of those posts you se #1 everyone is trying to paint themselves in the best possible light #everything from the information they choose to present to the way they phrase their sentences is written to make you think OP is correct #2 every story you see there no matter how thorough is ultimately incomplete #intentionally or not its just impossible to get the full scop of a situation in the bounds of a reddit post #and most importantly of all 3 #the audience does not care about finding the best possible solution or the fairest possible judgment #they care about getting the best story #so many of those posts jump to divorce or no contact or stupid reddit revenge schemes because people want catharsis #they want a win they can get vicariously through others #they don't care if their solution inadvertantly ruins your life or burns a bridge that could have easily been mended

[orchidyoonkook]

Personal

Hi.

How did you get over your quarter life crisis?

Because I’m trying not to fall into the vast unyielding void. And I’m failing hilariously.

#TAG RANT. CAN IGNORE. YOON JUST NEEDS TO GET HER THOUGHTS OUT. #filler tag to push the rest of the rant down past the cut off point. #i literally don’t know what I’m going to do with my life and I can’t decide anything. #do I stay in flowers #do I leave flowers #do I try and get into film again #do I move to Europe #or delay that and go back to school for the one thing that’s always brought me pure happiness #or do I move out of my city #but in all of this I have to consider my partner and what he wants #but I don’t know what to do. i don’t know what the right thing for me is and I can’t afford a therapist so I ramble on the internet in hopes #of a shiny beacon of something rings into my head and figures everyhting out for me #like. I’ll be 25 in April. a ways off. but I’m 25 and I haven’t done anything. i don’t know what I’m supposed to do?? i had a life plan that #was derailed so hilariously hard by COVID that cannot be mended. and this is the first time I haven’t had a plan or a solid goal and so now #I’m floating in the middle of the pacific wondering which direction to turn in hopes of finding land #i have nothing to work towards and I miss who I was. i want to be that again. i wanna be her again. but it’s so difficult to do that. #anyway. rant over. needed to get that out. thanks for reading if you did. #this actually made me feel a lot better hope moly.