#but trust me that it is there!

[bananakarenina]

20 + rukebox

i can feel you dreaming of me

she dreams of the melody first.

julie molina walks through her waking life as normal, and when her eyes flutter closed there's a song in three-part harmony always floating through her mind.

well. maybe not through her mind--it almost feels like the song is her mind; it's not just something she's thinking of, in this dream world; it *is* the world. the notes swirl around her like fog and like wind, and the very sound pulses from her skin. it's as if she's a walking melody when she's here in her dreams. the music comes from the very core of her.

it's the most beautiful she's ever felt ever in her entire life.

for awhile it's just her, a melody humming on the breeze. and then one night: there's a counterpoint, bright and sharp, and it cuts through the fog like a beautiful burst of light.

i found you, it seems to say, a thread of pure joy pulsing through. i found you!

you found me, julie sings back, with her whole self.

another night there's a thrumming low rhythm instead, and julie knows it's not the same counterpoint as before. this feels like going for a walk on a sunny day, a bounce in her step and her heartbeat in her chest. it makes her feel like dancing, and she does, and the rhythm itself seems to grin somehow, and something else lights up inside julie like the pulse of fireflies on a summer night.

a lot of times the counterpoint melody and the rhythmic bass come together, and with julie they make the most beautiful sounds she's ever heard. a three-part harmony with chords that couldn't possibly be real, but the thing is.

the thing is.

now, when julie wakes, she's hearing music everywhere she goes. not on store radios, not in her earbuds, but something is humming along with her very life, and every day it's getting louder, more insistent. there's a melody, and bass, and even drums now too; entire songs unspooling in her mornings and in her nights.

flynn just says she's glad julie has her music back, after rose.

but julie knows that's not it. or at least, that's not all of it. something is coming to life inside her--something she thought was gone, yes, but also something she didn't know was there.

it happens one ordinary day. a tuesday, maybe, or a sunday afternoon, a soft slow day in the middle of january, but it's los angeles, so the sun is shining and it's a perfect day to walk along the shores of silver lake and daydream.

and then she hears it. hears them.

"i still think something is missing--"

"come on, luke, it's a good song, what could possibly be--"

"i just think--back me up here, reg--there's another vocal line, i just can't--"

julie's running. julie's spinning and running and there's a band on the boardwalk stage, three boys, bass and drums and guitar, and they're beautiful, and that melody in her soul rings so loudly she can't help but--

rise through the night you and i we will fight to shine together

the guitarist looks up first--his eyes are piercing and bright, and julie knows: it was his countermelody. it was his, and her heart sings.

the bassist, next, and his smile is familiar and warm as fireflies.

"oh, boy," the drummer finally says, and julie can't help but grin at him, too. he looks exasperated, but in a fond way, and when julie laughs it feels like a symphony in her chest.

"it's you," the guitarist says.

"i found you," julie says.

and when they all sing together it goes like this:

bright forever

#okay so the peterpatterlina thing is a little metaphorical #but trust me that it is there! #peterpatterlina #rukebox #kind of a soulmate au? not explicitly #dreamworld au

[sabertoothwalrus]

girldad mode activate

#I'd trust him to buy me pads #at home he'd always have clean pads ready in case #they're not for him to use. if he's trans his ass is in menopause #chilchuck tims #dungeon meshi #izutsumi #comic #my art

[chilpilled]

his smile and optimism…….gone………

#halflings being treated so horribly and being used as bait and him making a union so others dont get treated as badly as he did. ourgh #no wonder hes defensive and doesnt trust people. it makes me tear my hair out #my silly little rabbit………… #chilchuck tims #dunmeshi

[dovesick]

endless night

#animal art #animal comic #penguin art #comic art #artists on tumblr #just a comic about emperor penguins #(they are emperor penguins but yellow didn’t go with the colour scheme loool) #(i tried to make it work just trust me lol) #i keep forgetting to upload here woops #sometimes i don’t wanna draw anthros #i’ve been wanting to experiment again #i have a couple pieces planned #but i also wanna do more horror #rlyyyyy hard to decide lmaoooo

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

Me being happy that one of the firefighters on the firefighter show is finally canonically Bi despite never watching a single episode:

#911 abc #911 spoilers #evan buckley #y'all deserve it #i am a teen wolf veteran #so trust me i get it

[yesokayiknow]

#tumblr pleasw give me evil boops before april fools is over please theres only 40 mins left #i can be trusted with them i prommy

[krash-8]

"what have you been doing on your phone for the past two fucking hours" hitting people leave me alone

#boop #krash 🗯️ #also for the record when I made this post I only had booping for two hours #it was not two hours in the end trust me

[spyglassrealms]

had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

#normally I don't chronicle my dreams here but fucking hell that one was funny #I think this would genuinely make tumblr better tbh #@ staff do this cowards #spy has thoughts #my life is a sitcom and i am my own laugh track #functional website #spy's smash hits #Glock function #edit for everyone in the notes saying 'everyone clapped' #I know I can't prove to you that it happened for real you're just gonna have to trust me on this #but I swear on my goddamn life I'm not making this up #I make so many conscious puns that sometimes my subconscious cooks up a real good one

[fattributes]

Genuinely, I don’t know how else to get the word out, but I feel like if your home-cooked dinners don’t taste right, you're missing either paprika, sugar, butter, or chicken bouillon.

#it’s usually the chicken bouillon #also ​the best ingredient to have in your kitchen is ketchup #trust me #text

[ackerslut]

category of blorbo called "technically i like them but fanons obsession with them to the exclusion of other characters pavloved me into having a negative reaction whenever i see them"

#tragically this post is about star wars but trust me i have one for almost every fandom

[glorioustragedykid]

I dreamed that everyone on Twitter was mad at this new Sonic game about alternate universes because it had an adult Maria on it and she looked like this:

#my art #YOU'LL HAVE TO TRUST ME ON THIS ONE

[itsbasil]

this literally never stops being funny like dog they made starship troopers with the Baby's First Satire cranked up to 11 and these people are still fucking dumbfounded that the creators don't share their politics

#idk if anyone who follows me plays helldivers 2 but trust me #when it comes to “political commentary in video games” #helldivers 2 does everything short of putting “YOU ARE FIGHTING FOR THE BAD GUYS” in every loading sequence #helldivers #helldivers 2

[mountainshroom]

Felt like drawing some silly cats :)

#playing with/braiding someones hair is ultimate sign of trust for me #and i like the idea that katara likes doing peoples hair so 🥹 i dont knoww #bit of a modern au for them #and cats ofc #atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #toph #toph beifong #art #my art #fanart #digital art

[roipecheur]

The only thing you need to know about Tim becoming Robin is that he's the protagonist of a horse girl movie and Batman is the horse.

#tim drake #tim's diary: today batman let me feed him a sugar cube :) #I think he's beginning to trust me! #bruce who ate a sugar cube while distracted: ?????

[theshadowrealmitself]

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

#star trek #Vulcans #Humans #not based on a specific thing #but I used to know this annoying couple that were ‘family friends’ #who would show up to potluck dinners and the like and would either bring nothing or bring something really just. out of left field? #like a bag of frozen chicken to a bbq #and then proceed to make sure they are first even if it was stated to let kids go first #would take HUGE amounts before anyone else got a chance to get a plate #and then make off with the leftovers again even if they were already claimed for #and it wasn’t a food insecurity thing trust me I would never speak bad about a person getting food if that was even a remote chance #the adults who raised us knew them really well and we’d been to their house a ton of times #they were just dicks #and yeah. they’d occasionally insult the food. while eating the MAJORITY of it. #it was so weird at their home they would go out of their way to get the healthiest options possible #you know the really bland tasteless expensive stuff that apparently was healthier #but then if they were visiting our house they would. eat all our unhealthy snacks. #that always pissed me off so much as a kid because we actually had a food insecurity thing going on #and also a variety of other reasons that are a bit too depressing to bring up on this post #but anyways we’d hardly ever get to have nice snacks #and this couple would just take them all??? even after we’d tell them repeatedly that it was ours and those snacks weren’t gonna be #replaced #hated that couple #if you’re wondering why they were ‘family friends’ it’s because the couple who raised us #(it feels weird to type it out like that but apparently legal guardians doesn’t fit since they never finished petitioning 💀) #liked having them around because it made them look like ‘such great Christian’s’ being nice to the people #that no one else wanted to be friends with #I always thought that was a really weird and fucked up reason to be friends with someone #this got long sorry 😭

[hansoeii]

head empty, no thoughts. just turtleneck crowley

#that was his superior look no one can argue with me about this #literally THE crowley look my god #SHE LOOKED SO GOOD WITH IT #like my god #whoever decided to put david in that turtleneck deserves a raise #TURTLENECK CROWLEY!!!! #LOVE OF MY LIFE #kiss aziraphale again but with the turtleneck it'll work trust me #anyways #good omens 2 spoilers #i guess???? #good omens 2 #good omens #good omens fanart #good omens 2 fanart #crowley fanart #crowley #david tennant #neil gaiman #my art #digital art