#broken threads

[christeladina]

I tend to prefer Kenny Wayne Shepard's cover.

But tonight, Bob's jangly, sharp, physically and psychologically painful (seriously, I have M.E.) version fits the fuckery of my failed persistence.

#Everything Is Broken #Bob #Bob Dylan #Mercy #Broken Springs #Broken Threads #People Sleeping In Broken Beds #It me #My Bed Is Broken #I ain't lying #I ain't jokin #Everything #Is #Broken #Youtube

[night-city-netrunner]

If you remember one thing about me, remember this. I would have loved you always. Even as the sky fell, and the ocean called us home, the last words on my lips would have been your name. I would have crossed a hundred thousand lifetimes to find you again in just one.

And as the ashes of our love fall around us, I am left only with the thought that your cheeks are not stained the way mine are, and your eyes hold none of the light I have come to know.

And as I fade from your mind, as I go from being the one you cherished to a face you can no longer recall, I hope that this one thing is engraved into memory.

I would have loved you always.

#exerpt from a story i'll never write #but maybe I'll do part of it #for nanowrimo #Ballad of the Winter King #nanowrimo #soulmates #red string of fate #broken threads #forsaken soulmates

[ladybugboots]

let me help you

#ok it took me a long while to get around to post this for multiple reasons so whatever #alt caption: the threads that bind us #click for quality please!!!!! i never say that but ik it looks like shit on mobile #hollow knight #hornet #the hollow knight #ghost #fan art #id in alt text #okay so i'd love to know what ppl make of the caption #bc i had something in mind but when i asked some friends i got a different responses #hornet killing the vessels as her duty but she sees it as maybe mercy killing bc she pitys their fate #so she's saying it to that vessel #and then thk saying it to ghost by way of their self impalement (orz) #and ALSO. ghost to thk: helping kill the broken vessel either to take their place or end the radiance whichever ending #and my friend thought of hornet to ghost because of her needle coming in #and then a bit of a stretch and kinda meta but hornet by killing that vessel allows ghost to get the mothwing cloak lol #hk spoilers #<HELP

[thegreatcrowdragon]

Soulmates au pureshadow would go hard especially with the Red String of Fate variety because. Strings. Puppetry. I’d imagine that pv was always curious about his soulmate, and once he attempted to follow the string only to have to stop because it was going over the ocean. Anyway time skip, the gang is going to Beast-Yeast, and pv notices with growing curiosity that they’re actually going in the direction of his string. More story stuff happens, they get to the village n stuff, and pv is hit with overwhelming dread as he realizes the string leads directly into the tree. The sealed tree. With the Beasts inside of it.

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #pure vanilla cookie #shadow milk cookie #shadowvanilla #pureshadow #vanilla milkshake #maybe make it blue for thematic purposes #not everyone in the au has a string. white lily for example #why are there so many different versions of soulmates augh #people also can lose their soulmate in which case the string will snap #broken strings typically don’t get new partners but they can (typically other broken strings or people without them) #btw this doesn’t mean the string mends. once it breaks that is IT you can’t fix it #update I’ve decided to call this au the Blue Thread of Destiny

[ride-a-dromedary]

Feeling some kind of way about this exchange between Rath and Kagha post if you expose Kagha working under the Shadow Druids and convince her out of it.

Kagha: I see it on your face. You hate me. And I don't blame you.

Rath: I do not hate you. I am ashamed at how far I let your machinations spread.

Rath: I was blind not to see it. Too trusting. A fool.

Kagha: Not a fool. A friend. Would that I'd realised it...

#BG3 Musing #Rath #Kagha #it really is interesting that how Rath and Halsin talk to her changes (sans the Halsin chewing her out scene) if she's redeemed #and the way *she* talks is different #it's *significantly* softer even as they indicate that mercy is not for them to bestow - that is for silvanus to decide #and she's very remorseful - she even suggests that first herself #her remorse does not change what she's done but how she speaks of the refugees post the reveal is **far** kinder #and more in line with someone you can see would have perhaps been halsin's second - rath's friend #which makes people's complaints of 'well how did they not see it' to be moot - because she *wasn't like that always* #*that's* how they didn't see it at first #you are not immune to propaganda and all that #again not to sound like a broken record but this narrative with the shadow druids really is a good metaphorical example #of how...easy it can be to pluck at threads strategically and work at pre-existing weaknesses and flaws and emotions #to get people to fall in line with radicalized thinking and dangerous pitfalls #anyway there's probably more intelligent things to say about this but rath and kagha were friends and that's all you need to know #also rath blaming himself for the failures of others...seems familiar wonder who he trained under? (halsin)

[jusiri]

Every now and again i have to remind myself that Tumblr hasnt actually made any particularly egregious changes to anything, its mostly cosmetic, and this is just the "i hate any changes" website

Like i dont like the layout change, or the permanent tumblr live button, but those are pretty damn minor

Meanwhile over on Instagram they took away dashboard being only the people you follow ages ago, its like a 90/10 ratio of suggestions to stuff you want

Theyre constantly changing buttons and layouts, the algorithm is some secret thing they don't want anyone to know about, and it changes every other day

Fyp is half videos, with no option for them not to autoplay anymore

Bot problems all over the place, filled with scam accounts and bigots

One of their more recent changes was to take away the option to sort tags by most recent

you can either see Top Posts or Recent Top Posts, and thats it, if your post doesn't get big, youre shit outta luck

Trying to curate your feed and interactions is next to impossible, you can like 1000 pictures in a tag you enjoy and get nothing, but watch 1 second of some shit you don't care about and its all youll get recommended, its a nightmare

And then Twitter is...... Twitter

I dont even know what's happening on tiktok, last i heard they were determining whether you were abusive or not based on eye tilt

Tumblr might be glitchy and broken, and a little pushy at times, but its 1000x more chill than anywhere else at the moment

Staff actually tells you things, i cannot stress enough how much communication we actually get with staff, other places staff consists of a bunch of cryptic people who dont wanna say anything to you ever and/or Elon Musk

If nothing else be deeply deeply grateful we do not have Elon Musk

Thats in and of itself is a true blessing

#and i know theres hundreds of all these other smaller social media places but lets be real #theyre either broken‚ awful‚ or both #99% of these things arent going anywhere #oh Threads exists too #forgot all about Instagram's NotTwitter #its awful never make one you cannot delete it #i dont have one but they really want you to have one #anyway i don't really have a point to all this

[pastafossa]

I’m sorry if this is a dumb question or if it’s been answered already in your author notes (I have the memory of a goldfish), but I’m getting to season 3 of the daredevil tv show (yes I read TRT before finishing the tv show, i love ur writing so much it was impossible to stop reading until I finished the show) and i’m crying at the angst possibilities of season 3’s events interacted into TRT. do you plan on having those specific angsty season 3 plotlines in TRT?

hope ur doing well! x

Definitely not a stupid question! Also THANK YOU! 😭 I love that you couldn't stop reading until you'd caught up, been there, so that makes me ridiculously happy!

Also hoooooly shit yes do I ever have S3 plotlines for TRT, and sure enough a lot of it's likely to be the most painful, angst-filled arcs we'll face in TRT mainline. I can't say what those are because I'd spoil a whole lot (although my foreshadowing about the collapse of Midland Circle has been about as subtle as a brick) but, well, let's just say some events, no matter what we do... are tragically, terribly unchangeable. Inescapable. Fate. Destiny. Fixed points in time.

To put it another way, let's just say this is a section of the song I have for TRT's take on the end of the final episode of Defenders that will lead into Season 3:

I'm losing my mind Don't leave me behind We need a bit more time Can you hear my cry, an old lullaby drifting through the sky? 'Cause I don't want the world to turn without you And I don't want the sun to burn without you Yeah, I don't want the world to turn without you And I don't want the sun to burn without you

#the red thread #i could pretend i'm not going to crush all of your hearts like matt's broken body beneath midland circle but that would be a lie #i'm totally going to do that #but i promise there'll be a happy ending at the end after we swim through a sea of hurt!

[lopsushi]

In every au of my, their friendship is my addiction.💚

#broken thread au #struggling dad monkey king #yandere sun wukong #lego monkie king #sun wukong #monkey king #macaque #six eared macaque #princess iron fan #lmk sun wukong #lmk monkey king #lmk macaque #lmk six eared macaque #lmk princess iron fan #lmk #shadowpeach #lmk shadowpeach #lopsushi #my artwork

[antaripirate]

i award this trophy to Casero Delilah Bard

#i’m rereading Threads and oh my god #she is so fucking in love #the fact that lila bard CANONICALLY cannot sleep without her ginger idiot beside her makes me feel so many things #and her no telling her about the new antari in white london bc ‘he has enough to worry about’ #and the way her fingers ‘ache to heal him’ #and the way she’s always running her fingers through his hair #and the way his scream ‘tore through her’ #and the way she can read him so well and always just wants him to be ok #and she shows him that he is never weak #and she’s always looking to a way to stop him hurting and fix what’s broken #and she is always always always thinking of him and doing anything to protect him #my heart is so happy and it hurts so much #the fragile threads of power #adsom #a darker shade of magic #shades of magic #kell maresh #lila bard #kellila #threads of power

[moonflowerus]

Happy birthday, Yeo Hwanwoong!

#hwanwoong #yeo hwanwoong #oneus #foroneus #mine #m:edit #*hw #*gh #i'm late but i'm here #i mistook his bday for the 28th #but i'm glad i managed to edit this in my old notebook whose screen is hanging by a thread #my new one arrived today <3 but i'm gonna ask for someone i know to get me ps #bc my current one is broken (doesn't let me save quality gifs) and i don't wanna mess up my chances now that i got a new pc #also want a newer ps #but i'm scared to pirate and do a mistake so i'll get help ashcdf #anyway #happy birthday to the boy who loves me #i love him too very dearly

[supremestrangeness]

Continued from here: https://at.tumblr.com/thegreenwichvillagemystic/so-is-this-what-it-looks-like-what-those-who/yks6kw6mr9tb

@thegreenwichvillagemystic wrote:

He was sure that common sense would dictate that he should be afraid, but really he felt more of a vague nervousness than anything as he contemplated what he was seeing. And hearing. So much for it being the most normal part of his day.

"Well, self-reflection is something I've definitely had to do a bit of. I try to avoid doing too much of it, mind you, because I'm reasonably sure that's the part that leads to self-destruction. I can only ask myself so many times what I could've done differently, or better before it all becomes a spiral that leads no where good." He could only spend so much time blaming himself for the deaths of others - it wasn't productive. Looking back was important, but the future was the only place to find something new and the future was the only place to be better. Every second and minute he had ahead of him was a chance to improve.

"Are we doing multiversal therapy here, or are we going to have a problem? Because I'm not really in the mood to reenact The One at the moment."

That familiar chuckle in his own voice bubbled up before suddenly a black, clawed arm, shifting as though made of liquid shadow suddenly reached out to grip the wall beside it, followed by another one, barbed and demonic, hauling a humanoid figure out as though passing through a portal, stepping easily out into the world. As it straightened, though, it was simply a man, shrunken, gaunt, pale with hollowed eyes- his own face, if he really didn’t take care of himself. Robes dark and menacing, save for the glint of the gilded trim on his sharp-collared cloak.

“I suppose you could call it that. Kudos to you for catching on so quickly. I take it that means you’ve had brushes with the multiverse by now in your timeline?”

#v: cost of a broken heart (what if - mcu) #Thread: Talking to yourself

[bloodgulchblog]

No one:

Me, kicking the door down: By 2558 the Ussan Sangheili (a splinter population that had never joined the Covenant) recovered from Refuge had several years to re-integrate with the rest of Sangheili civilization, and they had never bowed to Covenant control and their entire history had let them resent Covenant occupation.

SO, when Cortana's Forerunner soldiers showed up to occupy the Sangheili again.

I think they would've had some extremely cool shit to say.

#uhhh something something #halo: broken circle #someone should pick up the thread and do something with the ussan sangheili #it's a cool idea

[gjdraws]

A weird experiment between casual strips and traditional longform comics. Which is to say it should have been longer but you know how it is.

Ty to @mauvecardigans (for listening to everything), @variousqueerthings (for listening to everything else), and everyone who has ever heard me cry about this.

Now on your local ao3 as well:

#lawrusso #cobra kai #comics #johnny lawrence #daniel larusso #sparring is the equivalent of johnny asking daniel out on a date - i was informed and my third eye was opened #also i am aware of the art issues but meh #it is what it is #its done and once again i inflict the red thread and various deus ex machina at you #in what has become a recurring theme of Time is Broken in Canoga Park #or wherever u imagine miyagi do to be #will put this up on ao3 soon for better reading experience? #who knows ive never done anything this big before so im flying as blind as you are #also i know schlossberg said reseda but whatever man the temporal junction is in canoga park

[18catsreading]

Awww Brennan in the background telling Zehra: I'm so glad you're alive -- I didn't want to -- and then Zehra giving him a high five.

Brennan: theater!

Travis: theater kids!

#spenser starke #critical role #candela obscura #needle and thread #ep 3 broken path #brennan lee mulligan #zehra fazal #travis willingham #luis carazo #marisha ray #so wholesome #sweet cast interactions when their characters are actively trying to kill each other

[reireichu]

when the object of your affection does not want to malewife, why not just…

💖 mansplain manipulate manslaughter ✨

#oh god I realise that all my obsessions have a common thread #mansplain manipulate manslaughter is the way to go #mansplain manipulate manslaughter #hannibal lecter #hannibal nbc #interview with the vampire amc #the vampire armand #coryo snow #a ballad of songbirds and snakes #shauna shipman #yellowjackets #everyone here just really….. loves murder? #send help #unhinged feral broken minds disguised as perfectly functional angels

[piers-official]

Broken Ties (Closed starter for @grimsley-official)

"I still don't understand why we had t'leave so soon. I wanted to see Elesa's gym!"

Piers is pacing back and forth in Grimsley's livingroom, before he stops and sighs. "I know Mar... I know."

"Like, m'not tryin' to be a brat but... it's not fair."

"Marnie listen-" Piers kneels down in front of his sister, who is currently sulking on the couch. He takes her hand in his, land looks her in the eyes, "I promise we'll see Nimbasa gym before we leave, but somethin'... isn't right with Uncle."

"...What do you mean?"

"The... the way he sounded on the phone, he sounded worried- no, almost scared." he squeezes Marnie's hand, "Something is happening, I can feel it. An' we need t'be here for our family, alright?"

Marnie, still slightly disappointed, sighs and nods slowly, "Alright, big bro... I understand."

"Thank ya." Piers is back up on his feet and, lightly ruffles his sister's hair affectionately, "Also act casual around Grimsley, let him come out and tell us what's wrong on his own. We don' need him stressin' out anymore than he has been."

The young teen nods again in response. She's about to say something else when they hear footsteps approaching the door. Piers puts a finger to his lips, shushing Marnie, as the door begins to open.

#broken ties arc #pkmn irl #pkmn rp #rp thread #offscreen post #long post #grimsley irl #piers rp #marnie rp