#i love how far they've come

[lettersnorth]

Day 14: Valentione’s

A note left on Captain Fairwind's desk: "If you can find a way to make it back by Valentione's Day, I'll be waiting. In red."

#febhyurary #ffxiv #FFXIV Screenshots #gpose #febhyurary 2023 #Birds of a Feather #A side of her no one else sees #I love how far they've come #Happy Valentione's Day!

[green-bat]

listening to my top songs from 2021. yeah, me from two years ago popped off assigning this song to shadowgast. so true.

it's so... early shadowgast. i miss early shadowgast.

or not even early. post 97th episode but pre-aeor. it's that weird period.

#also i cry every time i hear it #i love them so much #i love how far they've come #i think essek thelyss and caleb widogast deserve the world #Spotify

[meep-meep-richie]

they went from this

to this

#i can't believe how far they've come #loki acting like a spoiled child in that first one tho #like he didn't get his toy #and now he's the true hero #love them #lokius #loki #mobius #loki and mobius #lokiedit #mobiusedit #mobius m mobius #loki laufeyson #loki series #loki gifs #my gifs #my gif post #loki s2 #dailyloki #lokitvsource #lokitvedit #tom hiddleston #owen wilson #gif post #gifs #gif* #tvgifs #marvelgifs

[avastyetwats]

Stede Bonnet seeking guidance/approval from Izzy Hands.

#ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #stede bonnet #con o'neill #rhys darby #stizzy #gentlehands #this is so special to me okay #especially thinking of where they've started and how far they've come? #i want to sob thinking about it #stede seeing guidance/help from izzy and also looking to him for praise and approval #and izzy giving it all to him without hesitation #and him looking PROUD of stede and happy for him? #y'all don't know how much i love these two and how much they mean to me #i love them so bad #the polite menace (stede bonnet visage) #the unicorn (izzy hands visage) #hold me close and hold me fast (stede x izzy)

[maggiesawyer]

#greysedit #station19edit #Grey's Anatomy #Station 19 #Carina DeLuca #Miranda Bailey #Liam DeLuca-Bishop #Ben Warren #edit #gifs #I love their friendship and how far they've come #they have been there for some of the most important events of each other's lives

[canisalbus]

i like think about machete's death as a culmination of his paranoia and eventual cruelty and vasco as the single ray of light loving him up through the end. even through as terrible as he becomes, the thought of vasco's heart being with him even as he chokes on his own blood as the one thing that he could hold on to. what is it to love something you know is vile, and to mourn their loss regardless. i could drink the tragedy like wine

.

#*deflated wheeze* #you've clearly Thought About This have you #man #I was about to head to bed and in comes this curveball #Vasco's image of Machete is very different from the public one they've known each other since late teens #of course he'd be willfully blind and reluctant to believe someone you love dearly has developed this widely hated and feared work persona #even when the evidence mounts you still think surely it's not that bad you know they're going through rough time but it'll pass #they're still the same person when they're with you at least mostly #and then when things escalate you take steps to save them but they're not letting you #towards the end Machete is so drenched in perpetrator trauma and moral injury I think he starts to try to distance himself from everyone #on some level he realizes what he's become and how far beyond the saving point he is #everything's gone wrong how did it end up like this #and he can't let Vasco get dragged down with him #his single ray of sunshine #answered #middry #Machete #Vasco

[wistfulwatcher]

most confused hardest working kitchen staff in all of exandria!

#critical role #criticalroleedit #crc3 #crc3edit #crc1 #crc1edit #vex'ahlia #vexahliaedit #mine #edit #* #callback* #i love callbacks* #evidence* #p r o o f #this was ALL i could think about during the ep jalkfj;alkfj #but like...the kitchen staff definitely thinks vex dislikes bell's hells right?? they've seen this behavior before lmao #(god i love this c1 ep and i had to watch the geewhiz animated of it because it's just always so damn funny #...yes grand poobah) #((also i love c1 but god is it ugly to gif lmao so grateful for how far we've come))

[spaceratprodigy]

⭐ Faith and Max ⭐

2021 vs 2022 vs 2023 vs 2024

#I just wanted to show off how far they've come in my style #being unapologetically self-indulgently insufferably annoying abt that old man has gotten me everywhere btw #big shout out to my friends for being so wonderful and supportive constantly #I love y'all sm #I cannot begin to express how much more special your kindness and excitement makes this experience #very grateful to have met y'all and to be able to grow and create together <3 #my art #faith and max #oc x canon #the outer worlds #captain of the unreliable #vicar max #maximillian desoto

[sunroseofthewood]

It's been a long campaign...

#dnd #dnd 5e #oc #ocs #original characters #dnd character #dnd characters #dyana darkheart #niaomh ohronna #hilda #i love them dearly...look how far they've come

[da-proti-toku-grem]

Finally finished watching the documentary and I just 😭😭😭 I'll just say I had to pause it in the middle of Novi Val because I had so many tears in my eyes I could barely see anything...

And the whole throwback showing their time at Eurovision??? Man I'm crying like a baby :"( <3

#don't mind me being emotional over five (5) slovenian men again #i'm so so so proud of these boys #they've come so far #and everything they represent and everything they transmit and #idk i just don't have words to describe how much i love them and how much they have helped me #just 😭😭😭😭 #joker out #maca speaks

[smoshidiot]

sorry in advance if this is rambly or doesn't make sense. it's 3am and i just have a stupid amount of love for smosh in my heart rn and i wanted to make a lil appreciation post 💕

first off i wanna say: happy birthday smosh! i can't believe this silly youtube channel is already 18 years old. it's hard to exactly describe how much smosh means to me. i discovered the channel nearly 10 years ago (my anniversary is on the 25th!) and even at the times in my life when i wasn't actively watching smosh, they always had such a special place in my heart. ian and anthony have always been able to make me laugh in a way that other channels have never really been able to, and it has been such an absolute delight to see them working together again.

ever since june 20th my life has really been centered around smosh and it's been amazing. if you told me a year ago that this is what my life would look like i never would've believed you. i am so unbelievably grateful for all of the joy, laughter, and opportunities smosh has brought me since anthony's return. i wanna say how happy i am that smoshblr exists and was so welcoming as soon as i made my blog. i honestly don't know if i would've stuck with smosh so strongly if i didn't have this great community to chat with and rediscover my love of this channel with.

and then of course, smoshblr and my friends here led me to joining the smoshcord which has been my absolute home these past few months. i have made so many incredible friends on that server and i wouldn't trade it for the world. all of the neighbors mean sm to me and i absolutely cannot wait to meet a bunch of them at vidcon 2024. also! i am still so honored that erica from the team over at smosh chose me (as well as a few other amazing ppl!) as a community mod for smoshcord. it feels so amazing to be able to give back to the smosh community, for how much it has given me over the years. and just to be recognized by smosh as a respected member of the community means the absolute world to me.

along those lines, while i'm being sappy i think i'm allowed to be a lil selfish and say ?? holy shit if you told 12 year old me that i would go on to have regular conversations with anthony padilla i would tell you you're absolutely insane. it has been such an absolute wild ride but it's so fucking cool that ian and anthony (ok mostly anthony but i think ian too bc of streams n stuff!) know who i am. i have an insane amount of love in my heart for these boys and it's so nice to interact with them on a slightly more personal level. it still feels like an absolute dream to even see them sit next to each other, let alone sit next to each other while saying my name.

but anyways i just want to say thank you smosh. thank you for all of the love and laughter and hope you have given me. you've shown me that friendship DOES truly always win. i am so fucking proud of these boys for mending their relationship and coming through such a hard time to create something genuinely beautiful.

anyways i wanna shoutout @smoshmonker @squig-s @yourinterestisnotcringe @lilac-hecox @kubabamia @only-frann for being just so lovely and fun to talk smosh with ♡ i am so grateful i met you all and that smosh brought us together like this! (sorry if there's any other neighborhood friends that i simply forgot the tumblr urls for ilyy)

#shut up.txt #is this rambly enough #i just have so much fucking love in my heart for them #i cried a lot tn over smosh #just watching old lip syncs #and getting emotional over how far they've come #i'm so fucking proud of these two floppy-haired emo boys #smosh

[cryptids]

ok sorry to rant out of nowhere but why is tender is the flesh on every book youtuber's top 10 (or whatever) best horror books ever list 😭 it was so bad, I couldn't even finish it bc it was so uninteresting... like I would get it if a few people loved it bc people's tastes are always gonna vary, but the fact that its SO popular just baffles me like am I missing something or am I crazy or what lmao??? and one of the best books EVER?????

#it was just boring and predictable and full of weird misogyny and ''the meat industry is the same as killing/enslaving humans'' vibes #and the premise has already been done many times (and done better....) #like I wonder if people only think its so ''scary'' bc its the first time they've come across the concept of humans being farmed for meat #which IS really scary and disturbing #but if they're self professed horror fans who have read a ton of horror books how have they not come across it before lmao #like even lovecraft wrote a story with that premise #anyway no hate if you loved this book sjdghsdfs #I'm just reaching my limit with every time I'm watching a video of someone's fav horror novels and they whip this out halfway through #and then I'm suddenly doubting if I can trust their judgement on anything else 😭 #also ftr it's not like the worst book I've ever read (by far) but its just so mediocre imo #🐊

[fictionadventurer]

"It looked like a good day for setting fence posts, and my mother said so while taking the biscuits from the oven. 'Some morning early, when I can get away, I want you to come with me along the edge of the hill in the wood-lot," she continued. "When the shadows of the trees begin to come down the slope, as the sun rises you feel the turning of the earth. You feel the whole globe under your feet rolling into the sunlight. . . . That's something I found one morning when I was driving the calves to pasture. I've been saving it up for you. I wonder if you've seen a more beautiful dawn in any of the places you've been.'

On my fingers I count the dawns I have seen--memorable, just in being dawns. Sleepy-eyed dawn from the Paris markets after a night of dancing; mist dawn against which I was just to late to see the minarets of Constantinople--all the fault of the stupid stewardess who didn't wake me in time; one startling moment of color on the hills around the Dead Sea before they went colorless in merciless heat; sudden dawn like a clap of light over the freezing-cold Syrian desert. Four dawns in twenty years. No, I do not know dawns as my mother does."

-- Rose Wilder Lane, "A Place in the Country" (1925)

#little house #rose wilder lane #laura ingalls wilder #a little house sampler #i dove into the book seriously this morning #intended to read just the first couple of pieces and kept reading 'just one more' until i've got about 2/3 read #most of laura's pieces are familiar from her farm columns #though there's a couple of early versions of little house stories that show a lot of her voice did get through there #rose's are fascinating #i can't quite wrap my head around her #sometimes she'll seem neurotic and restless and judgey and sophisticated and a bit pretentious #and then she writes some of the most beautiful nostalgic pieces #showing so much love of home and family and the simple joys of life #this piece might be my favorite so far because it grapples with those two sides #after four years as a foreign correspondent she's back at home in mansfield #and she has a new appreciation for her parents and the work they do and the life they've built #now that she's had her adventures and is no longer a restless teen looking to get away from rural poverty #even in the other pieces it's fascinating how much love of her family comes through when you know about the difficult relationships #i should share some quotes from the piece about mary when i get the chance #(also i'm very upset that she didn't write down the story of why she and her parents never read the last book in the school library) #(you don't end with a sequel hook and just leave me hanging ms. lane!) #anyway i love the whole essay that this is from and there are other worthwhile quotes #but i like how this one captures the 'noticing beauty while doing farm work' side of laura that i've come to think of as her trademark

[caedi]

love mechanics (2022) rooftop kisses: ep 1 vs ep 10

#love mechanics #veemark #asianlgbtqdramas #asiandramasource #thai bl #thai bl series #thai bl drama #war wanarat #yin anan wong #look how far they've come 🥺🥺🥺 #ok i lied NOW im going to bed lmao #it's 7am #worth it #yes i know originally the first rooftop kiss was ep 2 #but directors cut it's ep 1 :) #mine

[rxttenfish]

PLEASE tell us more about virina mishra im such a sucker for nextgens

OOPS FUCK I GOT DISTRACTED AGAIN AND FORGOR TO ANSWER THIS

virina!!! my beloved virina!!!! littlest froggy!!!

aaravi and miranda very much both wanted to actually, you know, have a family. its one of those things where you come from someplace so shitty and so terrible, that you just cannot imagine someone else going through that same thing, and you cannot bear the thought of making someone else go through the same thing. to be fair, they are both TERRIFIED of just repeating the past and ending up in the exact same loop that their parents did, terrified of just heaving back on the same generational trauma and wreck of a childhood, but there comes a point in being afraid of something where you just need to get rid of this fear. its too constant, its too forever, its too eternal. sitting through it and avoiding it isn't making it go away, and they already fucked up avoiding it by finding each other and loving each other, so dancing around the issue isn't helping. instead, what they mutually land on is just... a want to prove that fear wrong. a want to prove that fear wrong, to prove that they aren't doomed to be just a weapon and just a source of death in all its forms, that they can hold something in their hands and make it grow. best way to avoid repeating the past is to take responsibility by the leash, after all. they want to go back in time, to give themselves the childhood that they always missed, and the best way they figured to do that is to give that to someone else.

this is something that very much existed since their relationship started to get serious with each other, and something that's been in the background the entire time since, so its not like its a mystery or anything. if anything, they've been using this want as a motivation, as a need to keep going even at the worst of times. they will have this happy future. they will make it through this together. they will make it work. no more ifs, no more buts, no more doubt. stop living in the doubt and start acting as though their happy end is a foregone conclusion and something that they are going to have no matter what, give no room for fear or guilt or shame or depression or self hatred to sneak in. they will be happy. they will make someone else happy. they will be someplace safe, not just for themselves, but for their loved ones too. they will be good. they will be.

even after everything blows over (mainly from miranda's family, she is still crown princess and stepping away from that was never going to be an option they gave her), it still takes a few years for them to broach the topic of having a kid for-real. just to make sure everything's settled. just to make sure everything's safe.

they have virina later in life than some of their other friends or just in general, but they were planned and wanted for so long that the wait is worth it. the name, as i've mentioned, comes from aaravi. she knows her mom was a... complicated woman, she knows her own raising wasn't perfect and that there were things that she still cant fully forgive her mother for, but she had a hard life too. she too deserved better. despite it all, aaravi still loves her mom, despite despite despite. and so she does the best thing that she can to honor her mom, to honor her memory, to give her the life that she never had the same as aaravi herself, and gives it to virina. the mishra last name was a no-brainer already, miranda already look aaravi's last name and preferred being a mishra over a vanderbilt anyday.

years later, virina also earns the nickname of "froggy" - primarily because of their own love for the animal, constantly finding them and bringing them in from outside. likewise, miranda and aaravi decide to raise them genderless, and to let them decide for themselves how they want to be referred to when they're older.

virina doesn't really take much after either of their moms, though. mostly they're quiet, shy, keep to themselves. where both of their moms are brash and dominant, very confident in themselves and willing to bowl over quieter personalities, virina seldom speaks, and when they do, its soft-spoken. they get easily spooked and cry easily, especially when it comes to other people. they cling to their moms legs, hide behind them when other people come around, prefer the company of animals over other people, tend not to like new things or new people and greatly prefer sticking to their simple, easy routine. they just can't figure out other people, seemingly, not understanding them or how to make friends or even what's appropriate or not to say in a conversation.

this isn't to say they aren't deeply intelligent and curious. they quickly learn to love venturing outside with their moms, playing in the garden or chasing bugs and frogs. they come in with sticks and rocks, make mud potions, try to build things out of sticks and befriend birds. they prefer books over people, ending up much more of a bookworm than either of their moms ever were, and ends up a very big nerd as they get older. theyre close and affectionate with the friends they do make, but this is a small handful of their very most trusted, and they never get much better at figuring out social norms.

in time, they lean a little bit more towards the femme side of things, growing their hair out long and liking long, swishy skirts that they can spin and sway over and over, that doesnt cling too tight to their legs. they end up needing glasses, and end up picking a pair thats large and circular, making their eyes seem all the more owlish. they settle on they/she, but never have particularly strong opinions about gender regardless. they can be blunt and quick to frustration, especially if they feel people arent understanding them, and are forever going to be deeply embarrassed over how their moms dote on them. i very much see them getting intensely interested and starting to study either linguistics, literature, history, geology, or any biology that takes them closer to the marshes and wetlands that they love.

they never think very much about how one of their moms used to be a princess, heir to a kingdom. beyond an instance as a kid that ended with them dropping a training sword repeatedly and crying, they never get very interested in following the slayer line of work. they fuss over small stakes, have their moms grate on them sometimes in both of their old ways, and they live a normal life.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #miravi.txt #monster prom #asks #Anonymous #anon #you might notice this as a theme with my fankids #in that i very much LOVE making them be the opposite of their parents #or otherwise be a personality that would have - if it were one of their peers - have annoyed their parents #because thats just the nature of kids! you have no promise that theyll be just like you! #theyre just their own little people! and you cant control that! #and hopefully. you come to accept that and love them regardless. #because theyre still just little people. they have no control over this. they need you to take care of them. #and thats okay actually. #...... also yeah it annoys me to no end when people make fankids and just. fuse the parents. #instead of having them be their own character with their own feelings and personality.... #like! nah thats a whole ass other person! they came from these other two people but that doesnt mean shit! #also tbf i think miri and ravi would be THRILLED that virina would get annoyed by them sometimes #specifically in the sense of FUCK YES LOOK AT HOW FAR THEY'VE COME #they have reached the point where the habits that they developed out of necessity and a need to survive #are now just annoyances and no longer appropriate for the world they created together #THEY MADE IT. LOOK AT HOW GOOD THEY'VE DONE!!! #fully the type of moms to kiss all over virina's head and hug them to death while they squirm and whine that #MOOOOMS. YOU EMBARRASSING THEM. #what bliss to be embarrassing!!!

[xaeyrnofnbe]

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!! ! I AM FEELING VERY OBSESSED WITH MY OCS TONIGHT

#things i said #yeah im. losing my mind a little #also i have a headache which is Not Great #but like. i love my little guys soooo much #particularly i'm thinking about some of my oldest characters. and how far they've come #(i've written SO LITTLE in comparison to what i've actually come up with)