#day 22: Alone

[sunmoontruth-stiles]

I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.

#we follow Derek from New York. Laura left for beacon hills. it’s been six years since he was back but he hasn’t heard from her #and hes going stir crazy waiting. he packs up and travels back. it’s almost too much immediately. he still can’t get a hold of Laura #he can’t resist going home. it’s like a natural pull that guides him back. all at once he’s 16 again. staring at the wreckage of his life #deputy stilinski is sherrif now. it’s reassuring in the slightest that the police force seems to have moved on from how corrupt it was #he catches her scent and it’s putrid. bile catches in his throat. he seeks it out. still in denial to what he knows it means. #when he finds Laura it’s like the world ends all over again. he can’t stand to see her like this. he gives her a proper burial. #the best he can do at least #he visits Peter. he’s not the man Derek remembers- so full of fire and cunning. their relationship may have been strained at times. #often Derek felt more like Eve being swayed by the snake than a normal friendship #but this isn’t the sharp tongued uncle who guided him. this is a broken shell. all that remained of his family. he was so lost. #22 but he barely knew how to function without his family- his pack paving the way #Laura handled everything. she got the apartment. she made sure they had food. Derek looks back and feels so useless #he was so lost in his grief. Laura must of felt the same way but she never let them drown in it #she made sure he got his GED. even got him to enroll in community college classes. #he took them online. he never was able to warm up to people the same way. he used to be so full of life. now he just wanted to be left alone #he studied English. never finished his degree. doesn’t look like he ever will now. he can’t go back to Laura and his shared home. #can’t bare to see another shell of a home #he vents to the vacant audience of Peter and his cold fixed eyes #Derek leaves. he wants to promise he’ll return soon #but promises feel costly these days #he decides to go back to the reserve. maybe he can find some clue as to what happened to Laura #someone lured her here. someone who knew them and their history here #his mind went to the worst. Kate. why would she go through the trouble six years later. why wait so long. #Derek couldn’t stomach the thought of facing her. he focused on the woods. the scents were all over the place. #clearly multiple people had been through here recently. two scents were much stronger. Derek follows them #but when he hears the crunch of leaves he realizes why the scents are so strong. they’re still here #he ducks behind some trees. listening in on their conversation. but an echo of their scent catches his attention #he spots an inhaler on the ground. he puts two and two together and swipes it from the leaves. #he comes out once they’re closer. tossing over the inhaler- he figures they’ll leave. dumb kids messing around in the woods #he reminds them this is private property. though that may not be true anymore. he recognizes the scent of a new beta. interesting.

[linksthoughtbrambles]

A Public Service

A silly little fic for Linktober 2023 Day 22 Prompt: NPC. Zelda 1. 680 words. Big thanks to @bellecream for beta-reading!

Link peeked into the cavemouth flickering with torchlight, relieved to see an old man inside and not a moblin.  “Oh!  Hi.  Sorry if I’m intruding-“

“It’s dangerous to go alone,” the old man said.

Link’s mouth snapped shut with a one-eyed squint.

“Take this,” the man continued, offering Link a wooden sword, hilt-first.

“Uh.”  Link eyed the meager space, nothing but bare rock, the two torches, and this guy.  There wasn’t even a reed carpet for him to sit on.  “Do you… live here?” he asked.

The old man appeared not to have any idea what to do next.  He continued inching his outstretched hand toward Link, as though proximity was the only reason Link hadn’t already gripped the hilt and charged into the great unknown.

“Why do you have a sword?”

The old man glanced around the cave, a bit of sweat appearing at his temple.  “It’s dangerous to go alone.”

“Oookay.  Why don’t you go with me, then?”

A nervous grin appeared on the old man’s face.  “Ohh, oh no, lad.  I should stay here.”

Link blinked at him a few times.  “I could… stay with you, then?  Do you feel unsafe?”

The man shook his head with vigor.  “Of course not!”  He threw his head back and laughed three “Ha!”s that sounded more like the guys who’d been running the same mud-show act at the carnival for the past three decades than anything else.

Link stared at him, then at the pommel of the sword.  “So… why do you want me to take the sword so bad?”

The old man’s eyes peered all the way to one side, then all the way to the other.  “Look, son, just take it.”

“Why?!”

“Don’t you want a sword?”

“Well, sure, I-“

“Then what’s the problem?”

“It’s just weird!  Why are you hanging around in an empty cave waiting to hand a sword to the first total stranger who walks in?!”

“Why do you have a shield and no sword, young man?  Isn’t that also ‘weird’ as the young’uns say?”

“I’m not standing in a cave waiting to give a rando my shield, am I?!”

“Just take the damn sword!”

“WHY?!”

“Because it’s dangerous to go alone!”

“I’m still alone if I have a sword!!”

“You’re a little safer!”

“You’re not, you’d be alone with no sword and apparently no home either because this sure doesn’t seem like a place of residence!”

“I live two screens south of here in Ordon, thank you very much!”

“Then what the hell are you doing here with that sword?!”

“WAITING TO GIVE IT TO THE NEXT IDIOT YOUNG MAN WHO DECIDES TO GO NORTH INTO THE LIVING HELL CALLED HYRULE!”

“OH SO I’M AN IDIOT, AM I?”

“YOU CERTAINLY SEEM TO BE CONSIDERING YOU BROUGHT A SHIELD AND NO SWORD!”

“A SHIELD’S BETTER THAN NOTHING!”

“A sword and a shield is better than that!  NOW TAKE THE DAMN SWORD!”  He waggled the hilt in Link’s face with a half-crazed, open-mouthed frown, his breath whistling between his teeth.

Link glared at him with narrow eyes and a curled lip.

The old man’s eyes narrowed right back at him.

Link snatched the hilt and held the sword begrudgingly at his side.

“Good.  Now be careful,” the old man said.

“I’ll try.”

Now the old man’s finger was in his face.  “NO trying.  Do.  I’m sick of all these young men off to take the triforce back from Ganon, as if they’re some kind of legendary hero.”

Link went pale.

“Take.  Care.  Of.  Your.  Self!” the old man said, each word punctuated by a hard poke of Link’s chest.  “If it gets too rough, go home!  Royals and their triforces – ha!  They can stick them.”

Link blinked.  He swallowed.

And he walked out.

The old man sighed, shaking his head as he deflated, his shoulders slouching.  “Impa’d better hope I never see her again.  What a right old she-wolfos.  Single-handedly sending all the younglings off to slaughter.”

He continued muttering to himself as he reached inside his robes and pulled out the next wooden sword to wait.

#linktober #linktober 2023 #day 22 #prompt #NPC #zelda 1 #it's dangerous to go alone #humor #loz #fanfic

[gideonisms]

I actually think that the main good thing about adulthood for me is buying my own comfort foods and drinks whenever I want. No one else eats them! They're just waiting in my fridge for me to get home and enjoy them

#as a kid we didn't buy juice much because it would be gone immediately #snacks disappeared pretty quickly too between me and my siblings #one day when i was about 22 i was like hang on my priorities are different i can budget for juice #juice fund #it had never occured to me to question what foods people normally stocked their fridge with #until 2 years into living alone i was like Hang On i have an opinion about this

[catfoodsminmo]

passive suicidality is so fucking annoying and stupid like yea my brain won't stop telling me to end it. no, i'm not gonna. no, i'm not even interested in what that part of my brain is saying, it's on the grind of "coming up with shitass ideas", no ignoring it will NOT make it shut the fuck up. my brain has been on this stupid grind since i was like 7, it's not gonna shut the fuck up any time soon

#the adhd meds help a lot theyve minimized it to a not literally every day thing #but i can sense the pmdd about to kick the door in which means that the next four to seven days is going to be a highlight reel of this #btw i don't want anyone who sees this to worry i have 22 years of coping mechanisms built up and also i am never fucking alone #i'm merely bitching and moaning because i'm straight up not having a good time because my brain and i aren't fucking friends

[mythvoiced]

OPEN STARTER | Baek Eunjae

"Science can explain fuck-all about bees and their fat bodies and their tiny wings, but we're definitely equipped for space-travel, sure, why not, sounds logical."

#;open starter #the social worker;eunjae #the social worker;open #you know i started writing these at around 22:50 or 10:50 PM or somewhere there #and i am very tired and have been for the past however many days #so if these one-liners seem stupid as hell please be kind to me i am just a GOON #this is eunjae energy tho don't worry the folies des hommes piss 'em off leave the moon alone #eunjae is they/them icon a social worker 27 ish somewhere they have a younger brother that #they basically raised and he depends a lot on them and they're very close so good family system #they're also a MIND READER it doesn't pop up a lot in threads because i get so excited about getting to write #their personality i forget all about the mutant aspect KJDFLSFLKFJDGFLKJ #but i'll only throw it in after prior discussion #honestly if you're familiar with apoth*cary diaries eunjae's a LOT like ma*om*ao in terms of #prioritizing and not fucking with others and display of energy #;queue #they're not even talking about whether humanity is equipped to handle space-travel in a technological sense #or even from a scientific point of view-- ATTITUDE!!! it's about ATTITUDE!!!! #humanity is still scratching their head about bees unwilling to admitt nature does whatever the fuck IT wants and not what we determine #it should do what the HELL are we gonna do in SPACE-- #it's also about the bee movie ngl

[anotherferalrat]

Link Click s1e5 has distressed me so bad that I'm resorting to a comfort ship I haven't been able to interact with in months since someone ruined it for me

(but that's a lore drop for another day)

#link click #cheng xiaoshi #lu guang #PLSSS I AM SO NOT OK ABOUT THEM #xiaoshi just doing his best to save everyone #lu guang always seeming to know a little too much/more than he lets on #HIS COLD AND ALOOF NATURE #like real talk #ik it seems like a dick move not to tell xiaoshi about the various deaths #but i can't even imagine carrying it ALONE for as long as he did #THERE'S LITERALLY SO MUCH WE STILL DONT KNOW ABOUT THEM #IM BASHING MY HEAD INTO A WALL #also in relation to the comfort ship #if u see a theme in posts in the foreseeable future #no u heckin dont #Day 22 of hiding from my friends

[kqluckity]

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#it's kind of funny how much of a failure and a disappointment i feel every day tbh #and it's not like im doing anything to change that but that doesn't mean I don't feel like that #like. im kind of ashamed of feeling like that too because i know it's 100% deserved. i am both of those things #and i always feel like a burden. most of the time i just want to drop out and go back to my hometown so i can maybe find a job #no matter how much it sucks #and help my mom at home #like. idk. i honestly have no hopes for my future anyways im ngl i never actually expected to get to 20 let alone 22 so this is really a lot #i just. don't think this is for me tbh #but i know that if i were to discuss this with my mother I'd just tell her that i don't know why I don't want to continue anymore #or start crying. or both. #i just don't want to feel like a burden but honestly being here and not even having a job to maybe help her a bit isn't. well. helping with #this feeling #personal

[nerdie-faerie]

It seems to really be hitting my mum just how young she was when she had me in light of her upcoming birthday

#+Extra #like on the one hand she feels old cus its a big birthday coming up but on the other hand it seems to only just be hitting her just #how young she is to have a 22 year old daughter which is frankly old news at this point she was always too young just in denial #we had a very odd conversation last night in which she started off by saying that my soon go be 18 yr old brother and the 19 yr old #definitely arent responsible enough to watch the kids for a couple of hours while she gets her hair but then that its ridiculous that an #under 18 yr old (her phrasing) cannot open a bank account without a parent because she was entrusted with an entire human being at that #age and so he should be able to open a bank account by himself and i was listening like no thats the wrong conclusion its the opposite the #adults in your life shouldve been more concerned about you also what a revisionist recount saying that no one was concerned about you #having a baby at the age and it was probably because my dad was an adult so they felt they had no need to be concerned when i know all of #your family tried to express concerns that you wouldnt hear which led to years of animosity during my childhood staff at your college also #expressed concern as did your friends you just dont wanna admit that now. also how can they not be trusted with the kids for a couple of #hours when youre 15 minutes down the road as basically adults when 1 is going off to uni in September supposedly and the other has #basically moved out already and i was left entirely alone with the kids at younger than 15? #the sexism and gender stereotyping continues to perplex me #anyway hoping no one got to the end of this rant to add that im once again reminded that my birthday is actually just a day for my mum to #mourn the youth she missed out on by having a baby stupid young

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

dads love literally stomping around the house creating a loud ass earthquake with their footsteps like the fucking giant from into the woods.

#you would not believe how quiet this house was the 2 days my parents were not here #every time this happens i always think like. wow i love my parents but i could so dig living alone #i was built to be a semi rich woman in her 50s who lives at her sick lake house with her three kids and some kind of weird pet with scales #divorced also. and makes special ice. the ice is a big one for me #if i don’t have a big ass freezer drawer just for assorted ice by the time i’m 40 i’ll kill myself #that’s success to me. fruit ice. and a fish tank #scratch the lake house i’d prefer the forest i think. georgia or something i don’t like cold weather #that’s what i was built for. it SUCKS that i have to be 22 this is not my prime #beth.txt

[skunkes]

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#personal stat tracking in my journal is insane like what do you mean ive cried on 22 days this year alone #16 of january's days were bad ones #25 neutral-bad‚ mixed‚ and Horrible days total in the year so far #girl i dont think we're making it out of this one. i really dont know. #talkys #only 2 ''positive'' days.... #and one of em just hurts to think about now so it doesnt count anymore #good lird......

[thesmallworldofsamizayn]

(logging onto the dash, in uk, didn't see smackdown live) that bad huh.

#:(((( #zowens nation we will get through this! #ive read the backlogs of tumblr and twitter posts from the dark days 2018 2021-22 all of it #it was thought nigh impossible that they'd ever even be on the same page again let alone part of one of the best ever stories #that chapter might be over but their story never is baby!

[minglana]

screaming and crying btw. if anyone cares

#ive moved multiple times and had to forcefully meet new ppl without speaking the language before #but this is. daunting. a 22 y/o alone in a country where they dont speak the language (and kinda has refused to until now😭😩) #im gonna die most probably #i already had 10 anxiety attacks a day bc ppl couldnt understand me when we went on vacation. i cant imagine now #z xarre #ta esborrar

[pirateborn-a]

    Okay, yes, he protected them and sheltered them and nurtured them and would have done anything for them, and he did he best to care for them, and yes they were his boys. But he was their captain, and he’d always be their captain, not their father, because you see he didn’t give birth to them and also is in no way responsible enough to claim that title for himself when everyone else worked so hard, so even if the idea was really really neat and even if he did look at Newgate’s whole “family” thing with curiosity it doesn’t really matter because they’re not his sons — even if sometimes he cursed their actual fathers in envy — and that was okay, because they were still his boys and he was their captain and that’s the same if not better because you see—

#[ crack ] ✧〖 play along for all the oceans wide 〗 #tbt. #[ i am #[ still having so many thoughts #[ welcome to another day of 'rye is incredibly normal ab that guy whose been dead for 22 years' more at 12--- fjklsdf #[ talked ab this b4 and was trying to make a coherent hc post ab it but just rambling vibes instead #[ just #[ head in hands #[ he doesn't have a personal connection with the concept of 'fathers' so just doesn't care for it sdfjklsdfkl #[ captain though? captain's someone who protected their crew and cared for them and guided them #[ just god he'd make jokes about rayleigh being their mom and stuff while completely oblivious #[ and even!! when not oblivious!! he would just not. realize why it's a big deal coming from someone else besides buggy or shanks #[ besides if they wanted him to call them their sons they'd mention it right? surely they knew they could tell him that and it wouldn't feel #[ forced in anyway bc roger isnt like that #[ and the fact that he would be /so/ enthusiastic about being able to call shanks and buggy his sons if he DID. #[ get it through his thick skull #[ if he understood what it /meant/ and understood that they /wanted/ it he'd be over the Moon #[ but he doesn't so he's not #[ and also just keenly aware that shanks n buggy Would have died or otherwise been really fucked up if left in his care alone #[ he tries and when it comes to it he's a good father-- sorry captain but also he is Incredibly irresponsible #[ just... doesnt know #[ he doesnt get it #[ /he doesnt get it/ #[ slams fist on floor #[ film red got me feeling a certain self indulgent way fdslkjsdflkjsd #[ still rotating concept of roger pretending to be buggy n shanks' father somehow ignoring how it'd be incredibly hard to get roger to #[ pretend ab something like that #[ bc if somehow did it rly would just be 'wow that was really nice sure wished it were possible to do more oh well!' #[ he is just so #[ god

[hrina]

trying to come to terms w the fact that this year might be the first time EVER where i actually may have someone to celebrate valentines day with. and that makes me nervous as fuck

#hopefully i’m not jinxing it but like. what am i supposed to do #ive spent 22 valentines days alone and single dkdjsjs this is uncharted territory for me

[swiftiesforpeeta]

sirius celebrating his 22nd bday in azkaban 4 days after his whole life was torn apart 😍

#him and harry are actually so twinny #like 11th bday / 22nd bday alone in the dirt yas #harry about to have his life changed for the better and sirius suffering from the worst change imaginable #thinking about him turning 22 like 3 days after everything that happened makes me want to die so bad #like his first birthday without his best friends in so fucking long #i am unwell #marauders #sirius black #harry potter #james and lily #halloween 1981 #fuck you peter pettigrew idgaf #remus lupin #and then remus being the only one left just AHHHHH #IM GOING MENTAL #atyd detailing how special they made each others birthdays makes it so much worse #atyd #atyd fandom #marauders fandom #GOD

[restinpeacesensei]

process gif of akoya’s birthday picture!

this took about 22 hours (admittedly several of which were spent trying things and having it not work and redoing it LOL)

#boueibu #my art #how i draw #it took about 9 hours to get to the first stage where all the characters are colored in #and 13 hours to get from there to the final LOL #that was my marathon over the last 3 days #the most time is always spent on the last details #also admittedly i kept redrawing akoya's hair bc i don't know what it was but the angle here was just difficult to work with somehow #bc it's boxed in awkwardly by the edge on one side and kinchan's arm on the other #i had to make it flow within that space or it would go too far off the page or across kinchan's arm #and i kept rearranging the flowers so many times OTL #i had to drop arima's arm and the flowers on the right side into shadow so that the petals in the corner would pop out in contrast #kinchan's original pose was even more awkward LOLL but i changed it to give it more motion #also cuz the angle of his arm wasn't connecting super well with akoya's after i moved him closer #my reason for sharing process tbh is that making something is an experience and showing it allows me to feel like im sharing that...? #(instead of spending 22 hours alone that no one ever knows about LOL) #that and i keep getting mesmerized by my own gifs #and im not even mentioning all the video i took of myself posing out in the sun for reference LOL #ANYWAY i started thinking maybe akoya was so happy it caused all these flowers to pop up around him #remembers that old hc people talked about where flowers bloom if akoya is happy..!! #though i think they're just in a flower field...!!!