#i'm so proud of this actually

[rad-rat-with-a-tophat]

day four of @thetheatergremlin's boyf riends week

✨reunion✨

It was the summer before college and Jeremy hadn't seen Michael in two years. In those two years he'd made new friends, got closer with the ones he already had, and started a mildly successful band.

He wrote the songs and was the lead vocalist, but the fact that most of them were about Michael and how he never got to confess to him and how he was still in love was a total coincidence. In his defense he was the songwriter for a midwest emo band, ignoring the facts that they were from New Jersey and he'd written most of his songs before starting the band.

So here he was, about to start his last set in his hometown with his best friends Jake, Brooke, and Chloe. Christine was in the audience shouting their band name, More Than Survive, at the top of their lungs.

Jeremy and Jake were positioning the mics while the girls were fixing their makeup.

"Dude," Jake said.

"This might be our last time performing in Middleborough,"

"Yeah," Jeremy responded, unwanted sadness pooling in his stomach. Him and all his friends were going to New York for star's sake! He was getting out of tiny little town, out of the endless high school classes, and the shitty classmates who made fun of him for his "stupid gay songs"

But in truth, he was gonna miss his little hometown. He was gonna miss all the good memories. Those with Michael and those without.

Damn, two years later and still not over and still not over him, Jeremy thought to himself. Before he could start full-on monologuing to himself, Brooke and Chloe rushed on to the hurriedly built stage.

"Two minutes until the show starts everyone! Two minutes!" The announcer said into his microphone.

Tonight was the perfect night for what might be their last time performing in Middleborough. The sun was setting, the air was humid but there was a perfect breeze, and there was that slight chatter of people enjoying the time they had before returning to the hell known as school.

Just as Jeremy and the rest of his band got settled, Jake with his guitar, Brooke with her bass, Chloe at the drums, and Jeremy at the mic, a sharp buzz came from the announcer's mic before saying, "Hello and welcome everyone to our 14th annual Summer Performance Festival! Starting us off is the two time winner of Middleborough High School's Battle Of The Bands is More Than Survive!"

Looking out from the stage Jeremy felt a calm he only ever did when performing. On stage he felt confident and at peace, things he could never be normally.

"Hi everyone! We're More Than Survive and we'll be performing three songs for you tonight! Each one had been written or inspired by different members of the band! Our first one was prompted by our wonderful guitarist, Jake Dillinger!"

The first song they played was called what the fuck is a ttrpg? Which was written because Jake needed a song about a huge giant crush he had on this one podcaster who had a podcast about Magic: The Gathering, Pathfinder, DnD, and other card games and ttrpgs alike. Jeremy had never listened to the podcast because he wasn't the biggest fan of them, but he had Jake write a letter about everything he liked about the guy and then Jeremy the turned the letter into a song.

The song ended and the audience launched into applause. Jeremy smiled, overwhelmed with appreciation that he started this band. Sure, it was originally because he needed a way to release his pent-up feelings but now others could too! All because of him and his friends! It fucking rad.

"This second song is called is called ride to pinkberry, written by our amazing drummer, Chloe Valentine and mega-talented bassist and back-up vocalist, Brooke Lohst!"

Brooke and Chloe smiled at the applause, neither of them seemed like they were in a midwest emo band. Brooke was wearing pastels with gentle make up, and Chloe looked like modern Regina George with slightly less pink. But anyone who doubted their stage presence was completely wrong. Without them, Jeremy and Jake would just be two losers with okay music but no personality.

Right at the middle of the musical interlude, Jeremy noticed Jake staring at one singular spot in the crowd, mouth slightly ajar. Jeremy turned his gaze towards the spot that Jake was looking at.

There he saw a short, but absolutely shredded guy around their age who had blonde hair with a purple streak which eerily fit into the description of podcast guy in what the fuck is a ttrpg?

Guess podcast guy might return Jake's crush, Jeremy noted, observing the shorter guy's star-struck face.

But then Jeremy noticed the people next to podcast guy.

One of them was a fairly tall girl that he'd never seen who had her phone in her hands, but was still looking at the performance. Then he saw Christine who he guessed must have invited these people.

And then he saw someone who he thought he'd never see again.

A face he hadn't seen in two years, the face of one Michael Mell.

Before Jeremy could have a larger reaction than Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, the musical interlude finished and Jeremy came back in to finish the song.

"Uhm, now for our third and final song," Jeremy stuttered, the first time he'd done so on stage since his first several sets. "We have a fan-favorite written by y-yours truly, cardigan!"

The crowd erupted into a surprising amount of applause for a local band, none the wiser that Jeremy was on the brink of a panic attack.

They started the song, Jeremy trying but failing to pull his gaze away from Michael, who was staring at him from the start of the song.

"...and i gave you my cardigan and you said that'd you'd give it back,

but now it's two years later and it's clear that i'm never gonna get it back,

but i don't mind, no i don't mind,"

Michael stared at Jeremy, he looked almost the same as he remembered him, albeit taller, older, and a little fuller. But nonetheless he was beautiful in the way that only your oldest friends could ever be."

"...and now i'm sitting here alone, wishing that i was stoned in your basement,

but now it's two years later and i never ever got the chance to say i love you,

and i can't mind, no i can't mind,"

Jeremy knew he was screwed. He just sang a song he wrote about his childhood best friend while making direct eye contact with said childhood best friend. He. Was. Screwed.

The rest of the set passed with a blur, Jeremy couldn't even remember leaving the stage.

"Jeremy," Approached Brooke carefully, gingerly touching his shoulder, "Are you okay?"

"Michael. In the audience," Jeremy gasped, panic catching up to him once the adrenaline of performing started to wear off.

Just then a figure appeared in front oh him.

Michael.

"Jeremy?" He asked, voice a bit deeper than he remembered but otherwise the same comforting sound that warmed Jeremy through his whole body.

"Jeremy are you okay?"

Jeremy laughed, bitter and choked with tears that were starting to form. "I just sang a song about how I'm still in love with my childhood best friend after two whole years in front of that best friend. Do you think I'm okay!?"

Michael considered this for a moment, "Yeah well, that best friend is kinda still in love with you after two years so..."

Jeremy's gaze shot from the floor to look Michael straight in the eye, Jeremy was still taller than him but not by much.

"Oh," He stated simply. "Oh,"

"Yeah, can I hug you?"

Jeremy nodded collapsing into Michael's arms. Their hug felt the way it always did.

Yeah, there would be things that had changed but right now Jeremy was only focused on how good it felt to hug someone who had been missing from his life for the past two years.

#I FUCKING DID IT #by the way while michael and jeremy are catching up jake and rich are making out in jake's car #i'm so proud of this actually #you know those lyrics #i'm the one who fucking wrote #you have to sing them in a certain way that i can't describe though because i'm not gonna make fucking sheet music #anyway #i fucking loved writing this #wrote some of the lyrics in my ballet studio #came out to my sister while writing this because i felt like it for some reason #so that happened #i don't make the rules #bmc #boyf riends #my writing #boyf riends week day four #fanfic #jeremy heere #michael mell

[loomissister]

peep the new header <3

#i'm so proud of this actually #⋮ ❛ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐋𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 › ooc.

[itsthislake]

“Icarus.”

it's all about freedom really

Credit goes to An Sifakah for the poem. Enjoy!

Support me on Ko-fi maybe?

#lake's art #happy birthday sabo! #this time actually on time wow #revolutionary sabo #one piece sabo #asl brothers #asl trio #monkey d. luffy #portgas d ace #watch me tag ace even though he barely shows up #one piece comic #one piece #one piece fanart #oh i'll confess. i traced that ship from a screencap #there's no force on earth that can make me draw a whole ass ship sorry #as always I am stupidly proud of exactly 1 (one) page and this time it's the third #but i also just love that part of the poem so i was already biased towards it before i drew it lmao #i had a whole ass explanation for the reasoning behind this comic that i wrote at like. 3 am. but fuck knows what i did with it #i contemplated colors and immediately gave up. hell nah i'm not doing that again

[wolfram-but-art]

drew one of the memes in this person's post again

reblogs > likes

#did i put way too much effort into what is essentially a shitpost? #yes #do i regret it? #no #tf2 #tf2 fanart #engineer tf2 #sniper tf2 #spy tf2 #soldier tf2 #tf2 demoman #i suck at drawing backgrounds so this was me improvising #bus i think it actually turned out pretty good. lmk what you think #also i'm so proud out of how the fire turned out #sniper's legs were so hard to do FEUSIGFYESFSE #anywyas i'm done rambling :3 #i'm gonna go do the sniper teeth ask next

[risibledeer]

I think I draw too much of him... I should really stop lol

#Art block I love you sooooo much….. ur absolutely horrendous. first thing I’ve drawn in a week lol and its once again 3am and i don not know #edit #actually its is now 6pm and jesus christ those hands look good #i'm actually kinda proud of meself lol #life series #trafficblr #hermitblr #life smp #empires smp #mcsos #minecraft sos #sos smp #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #hermitcraft

[destiny-islanders]

atlantean pop idol sora kingdomhearts fancam

inspired by this post everyone's been redrawing

#kh #kingdom hearts #sora #destiny doodles #my name is des and i'm here to say i'll give you fandom whiplash in a major way #will i post ff next? #kh? #star wars? #even i do not know #isn't that qte prompt like really good actually #i drew that #it's dumb that i'm so proud of that but i really chef's kissed it #sorikai #just a crumb in these trying times

[seashawnty]

Symbol of hope

#bnha #midoriya izuku #boku no hero academia #deku #MY VVV LATE DEKU ART FOR HIS BDAY #HAPPY BDAY MYLUV I WISH YOU ALL THE HAPPINESS IN THE WORLD HUHUHUHUUHUHU #IM SO PROUD OF U I'M ACTUALLY IN TEARS U 😭😭😭 #MY BELOVED #💚💚💚💚 #sorry for the terrible quality #idk how to fix it 🥹

[ryllen]

when u love being called 'love'

#twst #twisted wonderland #best endearment name ever me think #there's always a little flower bud pop up in my stomach when i'm being called love #(just by random old people in the street but that's also a thing) #sebek zigvolt #twst yuu #twst mc #fanart #newly wed and in love #i once think of how he would text in a so romantic way calling u love and all #but then when he meets u in real time he always reverts back to calling you you or human bcs he is just so embarrassed #now he actually calls her love she is happy #teenage sebek would be proud or will he

[seance]

PICTURES TAKEN THREE HOURS BEFORE DISASTER.

#ofmdedit #ourflagmeansdeathedit #ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbonnet #gentletbeard #rs: you make me happy #edits #ed is so proud here despite everything i'm-- #he knows how much this means to stede #even if it's the beginning of the end in his head #i wanna scream actually #ofmd spoilers

[rustedrocket]

"I’d like to open up a cat orphanage someday, for all the stray cats of the world, so they have a place to stay."

...

"What? I have a soft spot for adorable little kittens. Don’t judge me."

#shadow the hedgehog #shth #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic fanart #sth fanart #sonic art #this is actually a redraw of a piece i made in 2020! #i'm always so paranoid about tumblr butchering the image quality eugh it's raining on my parade #i'm proud of this ok? it deserves to be witnessed with no compression artifacting

[mikesbasementbeets]

Sometimes I think it's just scary to open up like that. To say how you really feel. Especially to people you care about the most. Because what if... what if they don't like the truth? // Sometimes people don’t really say what they’re really thinking. But, you capture the right moment… it says more. // I didn't say it. // You didn't have to.

[remake of my very first gifset one year later]

#byler #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #mikesbasementgifs #hiii i rly love making gifs i'm so glad i started it's been so much fun playing and learning and i'm genuinely so surprised and also #proud of myself for how far i've come in a year. theres so much more i want to learn and seeing how much i have visibly improved is #great motivation to keep pushing myself and trying new things... like this actually i've never done a set like this before dhjsfdsdjhs #also if you’ve ever said nice things about my gifs please know that i love you it means the world to me <3333333 #anyway look at these gay boys they want to kiss each other on the mouths!!! (and they will!!!!!) #ok byeeeeeeeeeeeee

[somerandomdudelmao]

HEY HI I'M BACK BITCH/aff

YOU KNOW WHAT

YOU KNOW W H A T

DONNIE'S NINPO GHOST THING RIGHT????

HE WAS CRAWLING AWAY FROM HIS FAMILY RIGHT????

WAS HE CRAWLING TO THE ROBOT TO SEE IF HE COULDN'T SAVE HIMSELF????

IS THAT WHAT YOU DID CASS ARE YOU PROUD OF YOURSELF

I'm so normal about this but how dare you/lh

#I'm actually #so proud

[bitegore]

Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.

#red rambles #viva palestina #antizionism #i haven't actually seen a lot of antisemitism personally. not recently anyway. but that's more a feature of me not following antisemites #i DO however see a lot of people talking about the people they're seeing throw their support behind antisemites using palestine #as an excuse to conflate all jews with israel #and i cannot stress enough that that is literally what israel and zionist forces abroad WANT. #i am jewish. my entire family is jewish. i want to see palestine free. and i have SEEN how the jewish community gets conflated with israel #both from the inside and out #and i am dead serious when i say that every time someone is antisemitic it strengthens the conviction from people abroad #that it's a terrible sad situation but there's 'no other choice' #if you're being antisemitic you are doing the enemy's work for them. Stop it. #like... look. i am putting this in the tags bc im talking in the tags but i mean this. I do not give a single flying fuck if you personally #are a giant raging antisemite at the moment. Your personal beliefs are your problem and not mine. I do not fucking care. But if you are #being openly and loudly antisemitic *in your support of palestine* you are absolutely not fucking helping. I am so dead serious right now #if you want to raise awareness and you're being antisemitic because of deep held beliefs or whatever i want you to look around and read the #fucking room. Do you understand how much of Israel's international support comes from the idea that they are the only country where jews ar #safe from antisemitism? do you see how every time palestine comes up people point at incidences of antisemitism in anti-genocide actions to #discredit the entire movement? do you not understand how your actions are cutting the movement down at the knees? #i'm jewish and proud of it. i don't like antisemitism. but there's a genocide on and i'd rather work against it than quibble over who i #work alongside. i dont fucking care. you can be as antisemitic as you like in private. stop fucking the movement up. #there are bigger things to worry about here. if i can put aside my own concerns as to who i'm talking to you can hold your tongue #and fight the good fight instead of handing weapons to the people who are trying to fucking flatten gaza.

[triple-starsss]

first time gigs and anxiety dont mix too well

#BUSTED MY ASSSSS ON THESE!! got the comic idea whilst playing stardew then immediately started on it #SO PROUD OF IT ACTUALLY ABSDJD. #i'm slightly unhappy with the bg on the 2nd piece but its alright THE COMIC MAKES UP FOR IT. #spoiling you guys today #triple☆s #t☆s art #shadow the hedgehog #silver the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #maria robotnik #rouge the bat

[hajihiko]

a long time ago I was like "I bet there are a lot of characters that are both touch-starved and touch-averse" so. Thinks

Impostor explanation: has been around the whole scale as various identities, has a hard time understanding themselves and their own true preference. Tends to just adjust to whoever they're around.

#not an art #sdr2 #super danganronpa 2 #I used to be that combination team! Not anymore. Now I'm just touch starved lol #Akane and Nekomaru are doing so good im proud. I think they both get affection from each other- #-and are also just healthy enough to seek out what they need. Akane had loving siblings and Nekomaru knows the benefits of human touch #Nagito is touch starved but some of it is his own fault. Refuses to seek a solution to this problem (same with Fuyuhiko) #Peko is more touch starved than she thinks but she's so used to pushing her wants aside that she doesn't realize it yet #Kaz actually gets a lot of physical affection because he seeks it out so often! He just also always needs more. #OK thats it bye

[jerswayman]

LOVE THY GOALIE. GIVE THY GOOD BOY HEAD PATS.

#bruins lb #jeremy swayman #david pastrnak #brandon carlo #pat maroon #linus ullmark #boston bruins #hockeyedit #nhledit #j made a thing #gifset series: hockey moments that make me insane #gifset series: jeremy swayman brainrot #ok now i've got the tags out of the way #i have THINGS TO SAY #SO MANY THINGS #FIRST OF ALL I'M ACTUALLY GOING OFF THE RAILS SEEING SWAY LOOKING SO HAPPY AND PROUD OF HIMSELF #like that is the most 'did i do good?' smile i've EVER SEEN #LOOK AT HIM!!! #second of all #pasta clinging to sway like a teddy bear is something that can be so so personal !!!!!!!! #THIRD OF ALL #'NOBODY WANTS TO LEAVE CARLO' BE ECHOING AROUND MY SKULL RIGHT NOW BC YES #WHO WOULDN'T WANT A HUG AND A HEAD PAT FROM THAT MAN ??????? #FOURTH OF ALL #I DEFINITELY DID NOT HAVE SWAY AND MAROON EYEFUCKING LOVINGLY ON MY 2024 PLAYOFF BINGO CARD #i'm sorry it's 4am and i'm unstable so :) #also the footage of the goalie hug wasn't great so this is all we got. there was a close up but the colouring doesn't match the other gifs #so maybe i'll gif that separately tomorrow or smth