#Thirteen Years of my Life

[anna-scribbles]

thirteen update 💕💍🍽️🩸

chapter 5: february

summary:

“These things do not concern you,” Papa told him flatly. “I will run my household however I see fit. Your concerns are with your schoolwork and your modeling.” Blood pumped heavy and fast through Adrien’s heart. That wasn’t—fair. Concern was about all he was capable of these days. “And what about Maman?” Adrien asked, exhausted, reckless. “May I be concerned about Maman?” Something shifted on Papa’s face, all his emotions smothered in stone.

excerpt:

The best day of Adrien’s life was eight months and six days ago. No contest.

It was a crisp kind of cold that day, the Paris sky blooming a bright and brilliant blue overhead. The sun pierced right through the brisk February air, a shock of spearmint and adrenaline in his veins. He couldn’t stop widening his eyes, couldn’t stop smiling. The city was so alive. Strains of love songs poured out of open cafe doors and onto tourists, their hands full of red roses and lovers’ hands. The cobblestones sang with the patters of paired footsteps all down the street. It was the city of love always, but today especially. Today Adrien was made of the stuff, just bursting with it.

And, like every other day in the running for the best of his life, Marinette was there.

“You’d better not pull anything,” she warned, tightening her grip on his hand as they passed by a tourist couple looking very… engrossed with each other in the middle of the street. “And—and if you do, you have to tell me. Right now.”

Marinette’s brow was lightly furrowed, the bridge of her nose just barely scrunched up. Her hair was pulled half-back with a pink ribbon, matching the shade of the skirt she wore beneath her velvety black peacoat. Her Mary Janes clipped anxiously down the road and Adrien’s heart danced and swelled and spun in his chest.

“Pull something? Me?” Adrien stepped aside so their arms were outstretched, and then pulled at Marinette’s fingers, sending her tumbling back into his arms. She looked up at him, trying to frown, smiling. He grinned. “I would never.”

“I’m serious.” Marinette untangled herself from his arms and interlocked her fingers again with his. Her hand was the warmest thing in the world. She looked at him sternly, wagging a finger in his face. “I need to know so I can—prepare. Especially if it’s something crazy. No funny business.”

“Marinette,” he moaned, draping a wounded hand over his heart. One corner of his mouth quirked into a smile, eyes darting to meet her gaze. “You think I’m funny?”

She groaned. “I think you‘re—I think you’re ridiculous, and sappy, and romantic, and I think it’s Valentine’s Day in Paris”—this part she shouted, which drew a few stares—“and I think you’re about to take me on an insanely adorable date, and I think Alya took me to get my nails done last week—!”

“You’re so thoughtful,” Adrien remarked, swinging their hands back and forth. “And observant. What a beautiful mind you have, my lady.”

“You have to tell me,” Marinette insisted. She stopped them on the street and frowned at him, pink flushing the apples of her cheeks. “Is it—are you—?”

“Hm?” Adrien murmured, brushing a lock of hair behind her ear. Marinette’s cheeks went ablaze.

“I—you—you know what I mean!” she spluttered. “Are you gonna…you know!”

He tilted his head to the side. “Am I…?”

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#ml #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #my art #thirteen #adrien agreste #emilie agreste #she's there. just look #don't be worried about the blood emoji it's actually a very funny story #and doesn't involve death at all I promise #shout out to the procreate perspective tools for this one. owe them my life #happy february it's march. are any of us surprised #maybe march will be in march this year but I cannot make any promises #the first 2k of this is just the cutest adrinette fluff i've ever written and I love that for me #(me making my own content) I stay winning #anyway. adrien is having a hard time etc. read more

[autoraton]

having big thoughts about nick-slash-nicholas tonight.

#listen listen i know narcolas is a massive prick. but. dude. #you're thirteen years old and every day you wake up and nothing feels quite right. #and you lead a normal life with a mom and dad who love you for thirteen years and then a bunch of weird shit happens and #and your dad isn't your dad and YOU aren't YOU #and also you're thirteen years old #idk man. idk. #oh god not to leave out fuckin NICK getting erased out of existence #welp! anyways #fanart #my art #nick close #nicholas close #dndads #dndaddies #dungeons and daddies

[rickktish]

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

#rick’s originals #rick's rambles #jason todd #damian wayne #damian wayne al ghul #red hood #robin #it just bothers me sometimes #i wouldn’t trust any of these people with a real life ten year old #or a real life thirteen or fifteen year old for that matter #if i use trigger words like telling you that believing in biological evil is racist will that shock you into thinking critically? #but then i suppose i’m only promoting my personal ‘no inherent evil’ dogma #so i don’t know that that’s actually better

[sleepy-stitches]

every day my birthday gets a little closer and everything gets a little scarier

#sighs. thirteen days now. i gotta talk to various family members when i wake up again everyone wants to know what i want #on a tangential but otherwise unrelated note i recently found out that two of my friends have the same birthday. like a year apart but #same day. weird and neat huh. many beautiful (april) aries in my life #thats a joke. i want you all to know that is a joke i put no stock in horoscopes. i have a running joke abt april aries. its not serious #i swear there is more people im thinking of with birthdays in the first half of april but im drawing a blank. 1:40 am will do this to you #im not tagging this post its not worth going into my original tag

[addicted-obsessed]

thank you berklie and thank you dean winchester 🖤

#AHBL #AHBL12 #SPN #Jensen Ackles #Jensen fucking Ackles #Jackles #Dean Winchester #Supernatural #Photos #Photo Op #loml #I never thought this day would come #After thirteen years on this hellsite #After loving Dean Winchester for over half my life #Lazarus Rising

[reputayswift]

I’m 100% serious when I say I understand time in relation to the release of The Hunger Games (2012). Every year since 2012 I have gone “oh it’s been x years since I saw The Hunger Games (2012).”

#probably because we thought that was going to be the last year ever and it was when my social life was at its peak but #please picture me at the movies I hit my peak at thirteen… #ignore that I was still 12 until May for the sake of the rhyme #tays takes #the hunger games

[evviejo]

thirteen’s era appreciation: 53/?

#dwedit #doctor who #thasmin #the doctor #thirteen #thirteenth doctor #yasmin khan #the vanquishers #jodie whittaker #mandip gill #thasmin* #thirteen* #yaz* #my gifs #13seraappreciation #THIS IS HUG EVERYTHING #THE DOCTOR BEING THE ONE WHO HUGS YAZ??? #EVEN THOUGH FOR HER IT'S BEEN HOURS AND FOR YAZ IT'S BEEN YEARS #THE RELIEF IN YAZ'S FACE #HOW THEY CLING TO EACH OTHER FOR DEAR LIFE????????? #I HONESTLY CAN'T

[widowlurker]

Im like a sleeper soldier whose code words are just nec quotes but instead of killing someone i just burst into tears and heart palpitations

#not easily conquered #the thirteen letters #a long winter #just writing that took years off my life

[ratsalad]

me explaining to my brother all the different ways house md compares house and wilson's relationship to other romantic relationships in the show because he had some free time this morning

#i eventually started crying too LMAO what a morning #we were reminscing over all the house episodes we watched as kids. we apparently watched SO much more than i remember #to us thirteen taub foreman and kutner were The Team because we didn't see as many reruns of the earlier seasons #and we both have vivid memories of the games from s4 #and i told him how I'd never forget cuddy telling house she owns his ass at the end of the tritter arc because she used the word 'perjure' #and i didn't know what that meant and i looked it up and used it in a story i was writing #idk it's fascinating how this was just another tv show we'd watch casually 10 years ago and now it's taken over my life and has left such #an impact on it #house md #houseposting #vaaya moodu

[frankensteincest]

he’s just like me fr

#txt. #house md #hiiii finally rewatching this show #having the time of my life. better than thirteen year old me ever comprehended #also he Does suck up to his boss later on but I’m ignoring it #in my defence he had vicodin and I do not

[joellesolo]

After thirteen years of blacking out when I stand up, I finally got a referral to a cardiologist (because my previous doctor, who I'd been seeing since age eight, just flat out wouldn't test me for POTS). The cardiologist was like, sure, let's get this going, and scheduled an echo test, stress test, and the all important tilt table test for these next few weeks.

Well, I get a call from the hospital today, asking me what my payment plan for the stress test is going to be. And I'm like, uh, I have insurance? How much is it out of pocket?

And they respond casually, oh, it's over twelve hundred dollars (I temporarily blacked out at the actual number but it started with a thousand two hundred) and I'm like... that's AFTER insurance?! Are you fucking kidding me??

So, I had to cancel the stress test. Doesn't matter how 'good' the payment plan is, I don't have that kind of fucking money to spend on one. single. fucking. test.

Hopefully the tilt table test is covered more, because that's the most important thing.

And before you come at me, YES I KNOW POTS IS INCURABLE. I'm well aware. But it'd be nice to fucking KNOW what is wrong with me... besides, well, everything else.

#joelle's life #insert other illnesses #pots #postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome #chronic fatigue #chronic pain #chronically ill #who knows #maybe this diagnosis is what i finally need to get approved for disability #none of this “you're disabled but not disabled enough” bullshit that i've been dealing with for twelve years #to receive ANY kind of help would be nice #ugh #fuck stress tests #and fuck doctors who refuse to test you for shit like BLACKING OUT consistently for THIRTEEN years #chronic illness #spoonie #possibly potsie #i haven't been able to stand in the shower in oh about eight years i think #i have an accessible showerhead that is mounted three feet up the wall so it's right above my head when i'm sitting on the floor of the tub #when i complain about showering people go “oh have you tried a shower stool?” #yeah bitch i fell off it #hence sitting on the floor #wish me luck #i need it

[hyacinths-in-a-storm]

Genuinely what was going through Iroh’s mind as he said that fighting the Firelord was the ‘Avatar’s battle’. Yeah I understand that history will see it as a power grab, but I think we have bigger problems than that. Like, I don’t know, THE FACT THAT SOZIN’S COMET IS IN A FEW HOURS AND THE AVATAR IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.

#Bro was like I’m going to let this thirteen year old with a year of training fight my brother #who was been training longer then has been conscious for #Instead of me #someone who has dedicated his whole life to the art of bending #Not surprising coming from the guy who let his 17 year old nephew rule a war-torn nation #Just go fight your brother dude please #Iroh is a 100x funnier when you realize he’s literally the epitome of “head empty” #he just gets possessed by the spirit of idioms past every now and then #He’s literally doing what Zuko did in Ba Sing Se (saying everything was great and fine when it was clearly not) #except for a much longer period of time #he is so used to having his way that he just lives in his own world of ‘everything will work out in the end’ #this makes me think Iroh and Zuko are foils honestly #Azula and Iroh on the other hand are cinematic parallels #that’s why they hate each other #to some extent they know how destructive their mindset is but will never admit it #so instead they utterly despise each other #Would this technically make Ozai and Zuko cinematic parallels as well???? #because oh boy that would be ironic and messy #I don’t know why this turned into a character study of Iroh and the fire nation royal family but oh well #iroh #ozai #aang #zuko #azula #atla #avatar the last airbender

[toaster-trash]

I tried to play the funny time travel game, I got to episode three, hated it, am never picking it up again, however here is my official statement on the lot of them

#life is strange #what else #max life is strange #chloe life is strange #warren life is strange #tell me why every character was so unlikeable #I hated almost all of them #especially the protagonist #Miss I-abandoned-my-best-friend-for-five-years-without-calling-or-texting #Miss I’m-going-to-stick-my-nose-where-it-definitely-doesn’t-belong-and-get-involved-when-it-isn’t-my-business #and-then-refuse-to-speak-up-when-it-IS-important #every character acted like they were thirteen #despite being grown ass adults #and all the options to act on were just a bit shit #yeah. not my thing whatsoever

[lem0nademouth]

at one point in my life i was a 13 year old girl so if you want to clown in my notes go ahead but just know that somewhere in me is an unhinged, remorseless, vitriolic beast who does not take prisoners or pull punches. she only knows survival by any means necessary.

#ive healed from that time in my life #but i think access to your inner 13 year old is important #because sometimes #people need to be knocked down a peg by a thirteen year old

[camehereforjodie]

24 hours later and it still hurts thinking about Jodie not being my Doctor anymore..

#dangit #I knew it was gonna hurt #but damn #she’s seen me through so much change #in my life the last years #doctor who #jodie whittaker #thirteenth doctor #dw #thirteen #the doctor #13th doctor #oh jodie #mandip gill

[basicallyjustmuggleremuslupin]

freud is if a 13 year old girl had to explain the worldbuilding to her awkward wattpad story

#no offense to thirteen year old girls posting on wattpad #full offense to freud #i don't know what this man took but i want to stay far far away from it for the rest of my life #this post is sponsored by today's psychology lecture #i've heard the same stuff for the third time now and it doesn't get better #far from it #cay shitposts #psychology #freud #sigmund freud