#between sleep and awake

[hmsquared]

I just watched “Between Sleep And Awake”.

As an actor, I loved watching Diego Klattenhoff’s performance. Not only did he hit different emotions with Ressler, but he showed different points in time. I feel like I learned a lot.

As a Keenler shipper, this episode… broke me, but in a good way. I’m glad we got to see just how important Liz was to Ressler. My theory is that he always loved her, but tried to respect her relationship with Tom and their status as coworkers. At the end, when he touched the gravestone and said, “I’d like that,” it was more poignant than just saying “I love you”.

I hope The Blacklist continues diving into emotional moments. They really know how to do them.

#the blacklist #donald ressler #keenler #review #spoilers #between sleep and awake

[heart-songs]

Often she emerged from sleep disoriented and deeply distressed. It was as if her grief was at it's most raw in those moments when she was not quite awake.

Simon Block, A Woman's Courage (pg. 313)

#beautiful words #painful but beautiful #grief #heartache #loss #between sleep and awake #vulernability #simon block #A Woman's Courage #book quotes

[smilesrobotlover]

Thank you @skyloftian-nutcase for the idea :)

I wrote this fic a while ago, I think it’s posted on AO3 about Sky and Hyrule finding a great fairy, and I wrote about Sky suffering in the snow cuz my dude has probably never been cold in his life. Skyloft seems to be a warming temperature, or maybe he’s used to more chilly air cuz he’s so high up, but he’s probably never experienced snow, so I did a continuation of him having hypothermia but it didn’t go anywhere. But I wanted to draw more snow stuff so I drew Sky suffering in the snow with Time trying to help him. All swaddled up in his sailcloth </3 rip

Also this is not au! The original fic was Lu but this is not! Please don’t tag it as such!

#bruh drawing poses are so hard fr #oh well #I couldn’t find a good reference for this pose so I winged it #wung it? #wunged it #lol #anyways #link between links #lbl time #lbl Sky #time make sure sky is awake #he can’t sleep fr #I did a lot of research on hypothermia #but hey he’s kinda desperate to get out of the wind so #I LOVE painting snow

[zinniapetals]

I’m so glad Chuuya doesn’t dream; people treat it as such a sad thing with angst but like ?? Hello ?? His life has been pretty riddled with trauma and loss, like let the boy get his 8 hours of sleep without waking up from nightmares

#bsd chuuya #bungo stray dogs #bsd #chuuya nakahara #as someone with awful intrusive nightmares #good for him #I wonder if he daydreams and it’s like that liminal space between sleep and awakeness that he lucid dreams #just those small moments of oh fuck before he falls asleep #idk #I just love Chuuya and sometimes I see posts about him and I’m like #stop put that boy down enough #anyways #liztalks

[immediatebreakfast]

After these talks of preparation, Jonathan's attitude becoming more and more jumpy as he listens to the people supposed to help Mina talk about her transformation, and the Czarina Catherine being held hostage by the fog... Mina is probably living her own version of hell on earth right now.

Mina is a kind woman, an intelligent woman, an observing woman. Very aware of her surroundings, and the people that walk around her thanks to being a manners teacher. She reached when Lucy couldn't, she guided Jonathan towards information and inspired all of these men to swear loyalty to her alone.

And now Mina is trapped in a limbo of darkness, and coldness. Hearing, and watching how her comrades talk about how to kill her if god gives up on her. Then the hypnosis comes in a shove in the water deep deep down, and suddenly Mina is dead. Not in the body but in the mind.

Feeling dead, but her heart is still beating. Knowing what a coffin feels like, and how no light comes underground. Only hearing the sound of the waves as her breathing becomes shorter becasue what if she can afixiate while doing this? Then Mina wakes up, and the first thing she sees is Van Helsing's face deep in thought.

The report is the same as yesterday... Again, but Mina notices (of course she does) how Van Helsing "subtlely" checks her face, and mouth then talks to Seward in hushed tones. But, not the ones that ladies like her, and Lucy have practiced up to perfection to talk about someone who is present without noticing, no. It's a simple low voice without finesse, or any attempt of masking that they are talking about her, about her letargy, about her pale skin, about her spike in energy on the evenings. Even Jonathan could do a better job, Mina knows because she taught him a little.

Mina is probably more aware than anyone might think, so aware that she probably prefers sleeping than enduring. I wonder Mina thought for even a second "Do they think she is stupid now?"

#It's sadly good that Mina is sleeping most of the time because all of this would wound her #I wonder if she thinks of Lucy while she is in that dull state between sleep and awake #All interactions muddled while only feeling a cold familiar and lovely hand anchoring her down to reality #Oh how I wish Mina had the strenght to grab a pen and write #I bet if she asked Jonathan to hold the paper for her he would #dracula daily #dracula #mina harker #mina murray

[kingkatsuki]

Specifically thinking about long distance relationships today.

So tell me how you and your f/o would first meet online?

#I feel like Bakugou and I would meet in one of those online games he’s downloaded to mindlessly waste time between shifts #and he’s so foul at first because he thinks I’m weak but we play and he realises that I’m #actually whooping everyone and he’s like well damn okay #and now he’s messaging in the alliance chat and like getting excited when I’m online even tho he tries to hide it #and gets annoyed when other creeps in his alliance try to flirt with me #and then he’s asking for my discord #me and Sanemi get into a fight on discord the first time we interact #in some stupid big server I only joined for the emojis #but he’s a jerk so I tell him to shut up and a message later I find a msg notification and it’s him trying to continue the conversation😭 #enjin slides into my dms on Instagram #he finds my post at a concert and hates the fuckboys that are commenting below #ends up messaging me to see if I’m okay but then immediately worries he’s one of those guys #Tamsy I feel like is that mutual I’ve had forever on twt and we like each others posts but we’ve NEVER talked to each other?? #it’s not until I’m feeling sad at 2am and I post something self-deprecating that he drops me a msg🥺 #and we end up staying up until 5am just talking to each other #Kirishima is ALWAYS the guy that responds to my ‘morning’ with a morning back! every day without fail #and I slide into his DMs one day and ask how he’s ALWAYS awake when I am??? like to say it back so quick #and he admits he’s kinda learned my schedule and he tries to be online for it because it’s one of the best parts of his day #and he likes saying it back😭😭😭 even if he’s off from a night shift and needs sleep he can’t without seeing me msg #Shindou blatantly flirts with me in a gaming discord and I think he’s an incel so I block him #he gets a friend to ping me to beg me to unblock him and I refuse #the friend then sends another message with a screenshot of Shindou basically begging me to unblock him😭 #Dot and I meet in one of those AITA Reddit threads #and we end up borderline arguing over whether op is TA #so much that we get told to take it elsewhere😭😭😭 #enjo #bakujo #eijo #but also catch me sending Dynamight sassy banter on his official socials😭😂

[skunkes]

almost fell asleep on my parents bed in front of the heater after coming back in from the cold so i drew talon doing the same

#a doodley #legs hanging off the edge bc you do a backwards flop onto the bed do u understand me #also i like the thot of some vampires Lazarus Reflexing if they do sleep #which they dont need to but i like to think talon getting into the habit of napping is like #when people feel safe enough in their environment to sleep more; to sleep Enough #he doesnt Need sleep but its social...also Nice and Warm #and a good compromise between always being awake with your thoughts and vampire coma-ing for hundreds of years to avoid em #he's wearing 3 layers of shirts btw. still not enough he's sooo cold

[spiderwarden]

Between Minthara’s teasing and her deadpan humor and Karlach’s sense of adventure and fun, nothing can go wrong. Tav/Durge and the rest of the camp are in for a good time.

#[ 🕷️ ] —— musings #[ Karl.ach: does a stupid joke ] #[ minthy - poking them awake and asks a question leading into a pun ] #[ Minthy is the kind to whisper in your ear about your cars extended warranty ] #[ and then cackle cause you thought she was serious ] #[ imagine sleeping around the fire between these two when you pick them for adventures ]

[lyss-butterscotch]

Never have I ever had a dream so intense that I genuinely thought I lived in the dream world instead but here I am, and its about me getting hunted down by the military in campus for espionage

What the fack brain

#is this what it means to blur between dream and reality #cuz ngl i was tempted to go back to sleep to see how it went #but i didnt #that dream genuinely shook me .-. #so here i am awake and on tumblr instead!!! #lyssten to my rambles

[puppyeared]

ive made myself more wet and pathetic

#new icon because im SUFFERING. im in HELL #its so bad. i had to sign out of discord so now im both lonely and stressed #because i KNOW im still gonna get dstracted. i just did making this URGH #how good are brains at working around things. i once set a 7AM alarm on my phone with snooze cause i was so sure my brain would #be too lazy and keep snoozing instead of actually turning it off. but nay it either kept sleeping through the alarms and snoozing #or actually managed to turn off the alarm half awake that i barely remembered it and then waking up late #i actually have a track record of climbing out of bed and turning my alarm off without remembering. which is impressive bc i have a loftbed #the other thing is setting fake deadlines so make myself panic into doing things ahead of time. but unfortunately that doesnt work either #because if theres one thing my brain will put all its energy into remembering its self assurance. meaning i WILL be able to remember #the real deadline even if i try to trick myself. cant ask someone to give me a fake deadline either #the only things keeping me going rn is that i have deadlines due at least 1 day between each other and excitement being able to talk with #crow after break. but you can see how well thats going <- ignores long term rewards in favor of short term pleasure #BTW CROW IF YOURE READING THIS IM SO SORRY TURNING OFF MY DISCORD WITH BARELY ANY EXPLANATION #im a huge fucking dumbass and i had barely enough impulse control not to block everyone in my dms because i realized that would send a real #really bad msg. youre not distracting me im distracting myself and i promise youre not annoying me i just really like talking to you and #thats why im just barely stopping myself from signing in. I WANT TO TALK TO U LOTS BUT AT THE SAME TIME IM KICKING MYSELF FOR DOING IT #you can be a little mad at me btw cause i definitely could have done that better but i was all over the place abt how to do it without #making u think im ignoring you. IF THAT MAKES SENSE. SORRY #yapping #doodles #puppysona #edit but last week i tried to schedule and give myself work periods and break periods using my class schedule #and reminders on my phone to tell me when to start and stop. can you guess what happened

[salamispots]

watched hotd and it put me in a dragon mood haha

#wip #sketchbook stuff #guess who's gonna watch game of thrones now fjhgkfdjdjd #that weird art mood #where you're kinda in between styles so when you try to paint like older styles #it doesn't quite feel right #so you end up sort of meandering around #lmao I say in between styles like every other post isn't a different style/vibes hfkjhdf #the problem of being tired and sleeping extrremely early at 7:30 pm #is that you'll be wide awake at 3:30 am #lAUGHS #happy halloween I'm gonna be reading and drawing spooky comics haha

[heart-songs]

You come to me when I’m d r i f t i n g… in… and out of sleep… half awake half in dream those hazy glimpses those soft whispers and fleeting touches

You flutter and fade in… and out of focus… impress me with vague assurances and never cease to vanish in morning light

- Cora Finch

#poetry #life #writing #love #dreams #between sleep and awake #awake #creative mind #my writing #cora finch #heartsongs #poem #231 #half awake

[r0semultiverse]

Ambrosius (and Cinder?) in the Ever After

If it’s only Ambrosius, I believe this could potentially take place after the RWBY series finale, when the gods are finally confronted on their unfair bullshit & things get sorted out properly without wiping our Remnant again.

No need for relics if the conflict is over so they either get destroyed & the spirits are freed or they get set free from their chains to the relics, allowing Ambrosius to create whatever he wants, whenever he wants, how he wants, & by his own design.

In the very least, we know Ambrosius has to be involved, unless it's a relic spirit we haven't met yet! Those are relic spirit style doors. All the spirits we've met so far have had that light blue color theme & energy.

I'm thinking back on these interactions & quotes from Volume 8 & it's so intriguing. I'm sure I'm not the first person to say this but, Ambrosius knew about the Ever After!

This all but confirms that Ambrosius not only knows of the Ever After, but has been there before! He probably thought team RWBYJ wouldn't survive down there. If Somewhat isn't talking about Ambrosius, I'm going to look so goofy. 🤡

Wait, what if all the relic spirits or at least Ambrosius were part of these secret creations? Are Jinn & Ambrosius technically afterans? Is Blacksmith tree god lady also their grandmother in this case? 👀

The only possible person I can think of besides Ambrosius is Cinder, unfortunately. She has the staff of creation & the lamp (though as far as we know all the questions are used up).

Though this gives me a few questions if Cinder found her way into the Ever After. How did she get the same or similar blueprints as RWBY & gang? Was it Watts before he died off screen in a spinoff movie?

Also, is she about to use the clock fruits to get more questions from Jinn? 👀 Though I'm not sure how she'd know that information.

Maybe Salem is coming with her & she's had plenty of life times to potentially learn stuff about the Ever After. Salem could also be the only one going for all we know. Salem could absolutely know about the time fruit. 👀

Poor Somewhat is so happy to see whoever it is, but it's probably Cinder or Salem behind Ambrosius.

So anyway this either is a blip because of time dilation or the Ever After is getting invaded. I'll look so silly when I'm wrong on both accounts. 😂 I just know Ambrosius is involved somehow.

#sorry if this post is super unorganized; I'm very sleep deprived & running on meds that are keeping me awake & focused #I just hope somewhat will be okay; wish we had more beyond episodes coming out 😩 #curious to see if we get more ever after content now; I wasn't expecting them to revisit it visually #been posting rwby theories all day damnnn im this interest sure is special or whatever haha! #not sure if more observations speculations or theories #love how they got me concerned; then a sweet mental health talk between sisters afterwards #I wish we had more books or manga or just something to tide me over for probably the longest hiatus yet #ambrosius whose invention did you build? hopefully you're just popping in to visit? 😅 #mine #op #rwby theory #rwby beyond #rwby volume 10 #rwby volume 9 #rwby #ambrosius #rwby somewhat #greenlight volume 10 #cinder fall #salem

[dont-offend-the-bees]

Not to continue my recent trend of oversharing on tumblr dot com, but I am very much struggling not to feel like I'm doing everything in my entire life wrong at present

#normal things to think after your doctor tells you you need to get a blood test re-taken bc you mistimed your dose #I'm just. I'm tired man. #I've been putting off a phone call for two months #i spend every day lately torn between do I need to go to hospital or am I just unfit and anxious #I rot and decay when left alone but also people are Too Much #I want to Create but I can't get started and when I do I'm just so disappointed with whatever I make #I'm exhausted but I'm awake at 4am bc if i go to sleep tomorrow will start and I'll have to do this all again #and I need so fucking badly for someone to just crush me so hard in a really long hug until my bones realign #and i need to find past me shake her by the shoulders and yell “you're fine! you'll be fine! cut your hair! eat your greens! #take up swimming and also some new pronouns! no one else will respect em but they're for YOU and so is the health stuff #please for the love of fucking god just look after yourself better than i did!“ #there's toooooo many fuckin holes in this sinking ship #I need a full body MOT and then to be cradled against the chest of a large gentle man for 12-36 hours #mr. bees speaks

[the-adventures-of-dave]

Dave has decided that 5am is the best time for breakfast and no one can convince him otherwise

#NEVER in my life have I ever had his breakfast time be 5am #his supper is at midnight #that’s 5 hours between one meal and 19 between the other #Dave doesn’t care #he wakes me and Kepler up at 5am every morning and refuses to let us sleep #it’s been 1 1/2 hours now we are in a stalemate #I refuse to feed him because I don’t want to encourage being awake at FIVE AM #and Dave refuses to sleep because he wants food #he keeps wandering into my room and knocking things off my nightstand #then slapping poor sleeping Kepler in tbe face #then leaving #rinse and repeat #this cat is going to drive me insane #delete later #I just needed somewhere to complain

[burntblueberrywaffles]

#That or talking/reacting in the discord like? Tf are you doing here shouldn’t you be sleeping?? 🤨 #(yes I am also online at this hour how is that relevant) #the way I’ve seen three of my same time zone friends awake between 2 an 4 am so far tonight #we just a couple of sleep deprived besties 💖💖 #online friends #meme #memes #burntblueberrywaffles #blue makes memes