#friends lost and found

[archivingheartbeats]

Friendship doesn't feel like fire, anymore.

Our shared has-been could burn me hollow.

There is no raging need to throw

Open wide the gates, to be invaded.

You have no invasion force.

You're just one weary traveler

Easing down the road

To meet my hearth-fire.

You're just the cat padding peaceful

To my lap to purr and sleep.

And that's the way I love you.

My hearth is always ready,

Because I know you'll knock for me.

My hand is open to your curious nose,

The gentle dance of reacquaintance

Waiting on your purr.

#poetry #archivingheartbeats #castingmysilver #ex cousin #friends lost and found #kinds of love

[ellemonjuice]

Memory plays a joke on me. I remember little things.

Fear of heights. Dislike for bananas. Allergy to pumpkin. Disgust for toes. Favorite colors. Forgotten places. Rare smiles.

I wish I remembered something else instead. Something of greater value. Like this rule I couldn't apply during my midterm, or where I put my keys this morning.

The ghosts pass by after spending a while making home under my skin. The small parts of them linger, like skin particles and hair all over the apartment. I do not study forensic science, but I pick them up and put them in sealed bags.

The evidence of someone sharing truths and secrets with me somewhere in the blurring fog of the past.

I wonder if they carry those little bits of me with them too.

I wonder if my bag is still sealed in a corner of their memory.

#thoughts #poem #my poem #writing #poems on tumblr #poetry #prose #sad poem #authors #sad thoughts #dark academia #past #memories #childhood #friends lost and found

[inkskinned]

i know people are good because of this: the universe often assigns me side quests. in a circular strangeness; despite my inability to locate my-own-anything, i am almost-always finding someone else's lost things. dogs, coats, phones, cash, laptops. it happens so often it's almost tiring; suddenly being looped into a tiny amount of detective work.

but when i'm with other people who are not used to this: the response is almost invariably delight. yes, maybe they are simply thrilled by the mystery. it's just... they light up so much. i think maybe more... i think they like the opportunity to do something kind.

a few weeks ago, i was at a bar and i found a wallet as soon as we stepped outside. i felt nervous to ask for help, worried i would be holding up the night. i picked it up and said go on without me, i should help this get back to its home.

instead, three people pulled out their phones - to find him on facebook, to help cancel his credit cards. two people went back into the bar to tell the bartender, two others went calling down the street. group texts, facebook posts, instagram stories. people, without even seeing what happened, start offering help to me. fifteen minutes and: someone knows someone who knows the guy. the cheer that went up - just for finding him, just for this small thing. someone gets him on the phone. strangers dance around me, hopping on their feet - are you the girl that found that wallet? good for you, that's a good thing you're doing/same thing happened to me and somebody did what you're doing and i thank god everyday for people like you/i can't believe you found him so fast this is so exciting

i gave it back to him in a parking lot. i watched his shoulders sag with relief. there was cash in it still - he checked the pocket, and then sheepishly held the money out to me. i didn't take it. i held up my hands. "it's no problem, man. i know you'd do the same for me."

i don't know him, to be honest. i don't know if he is the same kind of person i am. but he nodded at me.

and i know people are good. i know people are good, because the way this story ends isn't surprising. we wave goodbye awkwardly. my friend loops their arm around me.

"i can't believe we got it back to him," they said. "i'm going to be riding that high for weeks."

#i lost my wallet in disney world once #and really thought i had beefed it bc i was 19 and alone #and a woman got it back to me within an hour #just like . a mom #i have no idea how she got my number or info #and i do think that since then karmatically god has been like. #ur about to be the same person in someone else's life #btw i like the side quests but they never happen at a good time #once saved 2 lost dogs while on the way to the airport. i already had my 70 pound dog in the back of my car #and had to chase 2 dogs down the street to wrastle into my passenger seat #(she ended up writing me the fucking nicest thank you card and sending me WAY #W A Y too much in target bucks as a thank-you) #i went 2 go see batman the other night and legit like. had already been running late #to go see a friend #and instead was like. sorry i have to step outside and use this person's phone to see if i can find them #i once found 250 dollars in cash lol #MEANWHILE IN MY PRIVATE LIFE #I LOSE FUCKING EVERYTHING #adhd will be like #: thou art so observant that it is distracting : #: BUT not observant towards items that are not novel to you : #: die mad about it : #: so it is written. so it must be : #: no nobody saw where you put the fucking car keys :

[snarkspawn]

I randomly did this as a bunch of quick warmup sketches over the weekend, and I was going to do nash as well only to run out of steam two doodles in lmao

but I need you to look at twin tails and short haired nash anyway asjkls

#they're not convinced. they probably lost a bet and are not happy about it lmao #project hadea #orion #nash #interactive fiction #hairstyle meme #userpharawee #also I found this sketchy brush that I am in love with and will use for absolutely everything now #sorry to all the brushes I used before I am ... #not ending our friendship no. but. putting our friendship on hold. now dual brush ver. 3 is my new best friend

[nelkcats]

Phantom, the sentient Helmet

Danny wasn't running away. He no longer had a reason to run, or to really care about his injuries (he wondered if his experience at Amity had left him numb to physical injuries, but when your father shoots you 5 times a week you start to get used to it).

The truth was that Danny was a little envious of his clone. Ellie had no responsibilities and she could travel wherever she wanted; Because of his obsession, or his mentality, Danny could never be free, he always had to stick with someone to protect. He needed to protect. It just couldn't be Amity the one he protected anymore.

Then he left his hometown. He hugged his friends and said goodbye before looking for a new "purpose", preferably one that didn't hate him. And he arrived in Gotham, with an aggressive spirit that screamed that he wanted to be protected as much as he was protecting.

It was obvious that "Red Hood" didn't know the ghostly ways, so Danny debated how to help him until he noticed his helmet, and the halfa did the only thing he could think of: he possessed it.

When Jason woke up, his helmet had developed an A.I. that he was sure it didn't have before. When he tried to restart it, the A.I. moved to his motorcycle, and well, it wasn't hard to find out that it wasn't an A.I. at all, but "Phantom" refused to leave. Jason sighed and left it like that.

At the end, Phantom turned out to be very helpful, always with reliable information, and sometimes, he didn't even behave like the A.I he was supposed to be, sometimes he was just a very tired guy, spouting vaguely worrying comments. And giving life advice to Jason, ignoring everything he was doing, like killing people (bad ones), Phantom didn't really care. Once, Phantom said that he was right, that what he was doing was right.

The first time he found out what Phantom really was was because some people cornered him, and were about to shoot him before something jumped out of his helmet. Something gigantic and vaguely threatening, but Jason felt safe. When the shadows disappeared and all that was left was a boy of his own age, clearly tired, Jason wondered if it was too late to ask him to stay out of the helmet.

#dpxdc #Danny give up on Amity #he loves his city #but he can't do it anymore #he destroyed the portal #and left #Danny wanted to be free but his obsession is protection #Danny needs to protect #just not Amity #so he searched until he found Jason #Jason seemed lost and Danny wanted to help #he overshadowed his helmet and pretended to be an A.I #Jason clearly noticed #dp x dc #dc x dp #Jason let him stay #when he finally met Danny out of the Helmet he wondered if he was his friend #Jason want Danny to stay out of the Helmet #he seems tired

[enbysiriusblack]

the marauders are the most dramatic ppl ever.

james 'acts like the world is ending and everyone he loves has died everytime he loses a quidditch match' potter

sirius 'declares life pointless to the entire school and decides to make it everyone's problem when zonko's runs out of stink bombs' black

remus 'stutters, drops everything, throws up, trips down seven flights of stairs at the mere mention of his crush' lupin

peter 'got shouted at by madame pince on his first day and decided to spend the next seven years pissing her off as much as possible' pettigrew

#(also as a group) #got lost once and decided to spend the next three years learning extremely difficult spells to make a moving secret map of the school #found out their friend was a werewolf and immediately decided to illegally become animals #most dramatic bitches ever. #marauders era #marauders #james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #peter pettigrew

[bread-wizards]

I think a lot of the meta about Orym forgets that Orym isn't just an adventurer, he is a former bodyguard. His self worth is tied up in how well he can protect people and especially his loved ones. Thats why he sold his future to a hag, because its all he had left to give in order to be able to help.

Thats also why he seems so angry after FCG's death.

Otohan has killed his husband and father. Then him. Then he is brought back and told she also killed Fearne and Laudna. She killed Eshteross. She almost kills Keyleth. Now FCG has to sacrifice himself to save them all and kill Otohan and Orym was knocked out for it.

His job is to protect people and even with the added power from Nana Morri, it's still not enough. 6 years later and his loved ones are still dying and he can do nothing but watch.

#cr spoilers #critical role #orym #they have all lost people and are all grieving #but i have seen a lot of people saying he isnt acknowledging other people grief #give him a week to cool down #i see this like laudna when the groups rejoined and she was mad at the other team for having a nice trip #bor'dor was traumatic for all three of them for different reason #but her killing him and leaning into delilah specifically set her off in a way it didnt with the others and they got that #thats also whats happening here #otohan dying from a friend sacrificing themselves to save them all sets orym off #its not just grief this is tied into his everything #like i said #i will argue that a good 95% of his self worth is how well he can serve others #he has chosen to be their protector and everyone is dying #there is no closure to be found in otohans death because he failed even with the power from nana morri #and before anyone jumps on the 'orym fans cant take criticisms' #please just block me #i am being reactionary because people annoyed me #let me do that in peace #i wanna be sad about my little guy

[owlsie-hoot]

"It's a relationship that is open to interpretation. Everyone should interpret it as they wish. It's about the little subtle moments." Jamie Crichton (x)

✦ It is a multi-layered relationship filled with unspoken truths ✦

#Siegfried Farnon #Samuel West #Audrey Hall #Anna Madeley #Siegfried x Audrey #ACGAS #All Creatures great and small #ACGAS 2020 #this took forever because I had so many layers that are just THEM #could not decide which ones to leave out #of course they are absolutely married #they are also the heads of the found family #they are parents and friends and mother and father #they give each other strength and comfort #without each other they would be so lost

[voxmilia]

Oh Sklonda's righteous fury hits so hard, as a kid who WAS taken advantage of in many ways by her friends when she was in school, and whose mom tried to tell her they were being unkind and who didn't believe her until she got kinder friends

#christina liveblogs #for me it was middle school so i know we've all grown up #i wish those people nothing but the best in life #but absolutely time and again my generosity was taken advantage of #i got teased for my naivety #my mom loaned a friend $20 when she said she lost it as we were driven to the movies #she found her cash and instead of giving my mom her $20 back we went to the mall with $40 #i sat alone at a friend's house while they went to smoke weed in the garage bc i was Very much not the stoner i am now #and when we got to high school and i made friends with kids from my theater class #THEATER KIDS!!! #my middle school emo friends got upset bc i was being 'normal now' #they were not always good friends to me #and i was just like riz insisting it was fine i loved them they werent doing anything wrong #sklonda is right to be pissed and i love her for it #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #d20 spoilers #d20 #fantasy high #sklonda gukgak #riz gukgak

[iwasbored777]

When Peni smiles in the end despite being so numb earlier it made me smile too. The moment wasn't exactly happy when she showed up, she couldn't smile then unlike now, it's a whole different mood in these two scenes. And when we take in consideration that she had her disastrous canon event play out before ATSV, she's happy now because she has her old friends back which makes this even more wholesome.

#she couldn't laugh when she said hi to Miles after he just found out his father will die #in case y'all wondering peni lost her aunt and friend they died in a painful way #peni parker #spider man across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #spiderverse

[vaggieslefteye]

MORE THAN ANYTHING - REPRISE ↳ from Hazbin Hotel Season One (2024): 1x08 - "The Show Must Go On"

#hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #vaggie #hazbin vaggie #chaggie #hazbin charlie #KILL ME KILL ME NOW ACTUALLY LOOK AT THE WAY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHERRRRRRRRRRRR #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #the fact that they integrated the familial love song into a romantic love song makes me think.... makes me THINK THAT THIS TUNE #can be the ''Main'' Theme for the rest of the show. PLEASE tell me im guessing right i will literally die it can apply to SO MANY SITUATION #more family love. more romantic love. more platonic love. more of ANYTHING ELSE. scenes with any flavor of affection and connection. #IT CAN BECOME THE THEME OF THE CONNECTION FOUND BY THESE WAYWARD SOULS AND THE UNIQUE BOND THEY'VE COME TO FORM #*slams hands on table* THEY CAN ALSO BE EVIL AND USE A SLOWED DOWN VERSION AS A SAD SONG!!!!!!!!! WHEN A CONNECTION IS BROKEN! #WHEN A FRIENDSHIP IS LOST OR CALLED INTO JEOPARDY! WHEN A TIE BETWEEN CHARACTERS IS SEVERED #BY EITHER CHOICE OR TRAGEDY. #THEY CAN PLAY A DRAMATIC ORCHESTRAL VERSION WHEN SOMEONE STEPS IN DRAMATICALLY TO SAVE THEIR FRIENDS. AAAAAAAHHHH!!! #FUCK ME UP!!!!!! JUST FUCK ME UP!!!! #my videos #music vids: s1

[archivingheartbeats]

You swore yourself a house

With no fire escapes,

A ship with no lifeboats.

While I was still thinking of caution

You said you would go down with me,

Go down beneath green waves.

There's a chance of us becoming

Coral-covered bones,

But we might get so lucky

We are magicked into mermaids.

The ship you built our birthplace,

No stress of drowning,

Just a private grotto.

If the house ever went up in flame

You are betting on us being phoenix,

Eggs miracle enough to hatch

New life from ashes.

You leap faith and I watch feathers grow

To wing you even higher.

You swear you will not Icarus

But kiss the sun,

Run its firelight honey down your face,

Bring all that life back in your faithful fledge

To pass the kiss onto my brow.

How are you so confident you will not break,

Or that breaking will be worthwhile

As long as we are hand in hand?

Oh my luckiest accident,

My sun-golden blue-eyed girl,

My cleverest wild thing,

Tricksy but faithful Fox.

You believe in me so loud

You make me sing again,

With notes I thought were dust and death

In withered lungs.

You make me hope us mermaid,

Phoenix:

Sun-kissed we'll swim or soar.

#poetry #archivingheartbeats #castingmysilver #friends lost and found #friendship #kinds of love #Fox-Spark

[rhymaes]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023) // Anne Carson

#just thinking abt how li lihuan’s life was never his until he remade it into something he knew he was never going to be able to keep #& even then not really when so much of it was formed in the shadow of what had once made him #& as soon as he’d found something. someone. to live for. he couldn’t. #when your myth becomes your god and your future fractures you into a pawn. ruled by the actions of those surrounding you #who get to move you as another piece in their own game. and your personhood is lost. until the one person you meet who loved you first as a #legend begins to know you truly and love you as a person & as yourself. to the point that reconciling you as the same myth becomes a cruel #ty. to see what you have & to know you are going to lose it. to look at your soulmate. the person who knows you #in your bones. your best friend. and to be seen. and to know you cannot keep him. ANYWAY. #mysterious lotus casebook #bet y’all thoguht i was over them I. AM NOT. i will never be. holy fuck. never. #li lianhua #li xiangyi #fang duobing #fang xiaobao #di feisheng #mlc #mlcedit #cdrama #parallels

[stuckinapril]

A toxic trait I had when I was taking organic chemistry is I’d listen to love songs but instead of thinking about a hypothetical lover like a normal person I contextualized the songs as being about me getting the grade I wanted

#Like you think I’m bad about studying NOW you did not see me during my orgo era #One of my friends found out and lost her mind like I did not live that down for weeks #She ended up making a playlist titled organic chemistry and just filled it w obsessive love songs. #Orgo 2 was a TRIP

[hajihiko]

A little too real 😢

#HajiZuru remembers some objective facts about Hajimes life but it's very different when there is no emotional attachment #Like he remembers that Kaz and Hiko exist but it matters as much to him as remembering the people who created him #Same amount of attachment #Which hurts to hear out of your best friends mouth but yknow they're working on it #Anyway the more HajiZuru remembers of Hajime the more accurately he can act like him so this #They dont ask him to do an impression again bc it's too much like the real thing and then suddenly gone again #Lost and Found AU #Kazuichi Souda #izuru kamukura #Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Kuzuhinasouda #(Implied. They miss him) #Posting this now bc I'm about to have a work meeting and I want sth fun to be waiting for me after hehe

[crazy-fangirl2524]

I know many people in the fandom hates the EC and for some reason also Nora (when she gave us aftg like what’s wrong with y’all) but how many authors give us as much as Nora did?! Who gave us so so much extra content when she could have just left us with the three books. I love the EC with my entire heart and I understand if you don’t agree with some of it but hating it ?? And hating the author for it?? The EC is so under-appreciated and underrated.

#the ec gave us andreil hold hands #gave us the he was lost he was lost and he was found #gave us the cats #gave us all the Jean content and his life in the nest #gave us Matt and dans orange theme wedding #tell us how andreil is for life till death do them apart #gave us kandreil going to court and winning a gold medal #give us neil crying for the first time since the books when wymack died #give us Dan becoming coach #gave us andreil living happily and together and fucking healing together #gave us the original foxes still being friends #idk what EC y’all read if y’all couldn’t interpret all of that #aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #aftg series #aftg fandom #andrew minyard #neil josten #aftg incorrect quotes #andrew joseph minyard #andreil #aftg andreil #aftg andrew #aftg reread #aftg thoughts #aftg shitpost #aftg trilogy #aftg neil