#it hit close to home

[vaguelyhauntedcornfield]

Okay but like I really need to rant about this a bit so like spoilers for ep 3 of tlou below but like

idk I’ve never played the game so I had no idea what to expect going into this, but when Frank showed up, I was like “I can’t tell if Bill is going to kill him or marry him.” WELL. Nick Offerman did such a GOOD job of looking on guard and uncomfortable. His shoulders are like up to his ears the entire meeting sequence and it made me so jumpy, and then we skip 3 years and he’s so visibly relaxed. And my heart started to melt. And I found myself so enamored with these two men who, against all odds, found love in a situation where that should have been impossible. Frank was the last alive from a group fleeing a collapsed quarantine zone, Bill a preper who had decided to be alone long before the pandemic even started. We expect Bill to die the whole time--comments about him getting old faster than Frank, getting shot by raiders. The jump to Frank being sick...they showed so much through his paintings. You weren’t expecting it, and they showed you through his art how his illness has been progressing, and how him being able to see that himself affected him. They showed how Bill broke down and made a deal with Joel to get medicine despite saying he never would. This show. THIS SHOW. I was sobbing up until Bill became weirdly calm during the dinner, because I realized he’d made the decision too. They died on their own terms in a world where that had become nearly impossible. They had a beautiful life together in a world where that had become a pipe dream. Two characters that we never even meet thru the main characters, not in the present day, but who matter so much.

#also i have a lot of feelings as a chronically ill artist about everything with Frank (not bad ones! just like i feel a lot 🥲) #it hit close to home #honestly bill resonated with me too but not bc of the preper conspiracy theorist part lol #more bc of the self-imposed solitude and not seeking out relationships #i know from other posts that this is nothing like how they were in the game but this seems like such an improvement tbh #like this episode deserves awards for how much it hit me in the feels #tlou hbo spoilers #the last of us spoilers #it's 5 am so like i am not coherent but i also cannot sleep #idk how we got my horror-hating mom hooked on this show and now we're making her sob over gay romance like #that right there tells you this show is good lol #i feel like i could write an entire book on how illness can impact art and handwriting #my handwriting became that of an entirely different person when i started to get sick #my drawings changed too #tho maybe not in a way anyone but me noticed #my friend who has a similar health issue just with more presentation had to give up art almost entirely #idk it's a kind of hard i can't explain and that i dont think you can understand unless you've experienced it yourself #seeing the progression of your symptoms in the things you create #seeing how you're unable to hide it even with care #idk man #it's honestly an emotion i dont think i could name #but i feel it so strongly every time i look at more than a few lines i've written by hand #or at a page of studies ive drawn #i feel like they never made frank a tragic character. they never made illness tragic #they just made it real #the tragic theme was the idea of one without the other and it went both ways #they hit on that repeatedly throughout the ep #and in the end they didn’t have to face that tragedy #idk i feel like it’s one of the few depictions of chronic illness/terminal illness ive seen that doesn’t play the illness as tragedy #and i found that…refreshing

[taonpest]

Choosing the answers and reactions I would have if I was in Harry's situation (which makes him dumb and annoying and it's perfect) only to choose "I think I wanted to quit" when finding the clipboard in the trash

#disco elysium #I feel like there are two me and one hit the other right in the head with a stop sign #the game is forcing my head in the water of truth and I wasn't expecting that help #it hit close to home #only a little cause like. I've been aware of that for a few weeks now skksks #my stupid thoughts

[blossom-hwa]

watched the spider verse short film...might've cried a little bit

#lina talks #nas #I actually love spider verse so much both films are like top tier movies for me #the short film...hurt in a good way #it hit close to home

[syrren]

“The artist becomes the canvas!” - TMAGP 002: Making Adjustments

#tma #the magnus protocol #tmagp #the magnus archives #fanart #the magnus protocol spoilers #tw: body horror #kinda??? #this is the most vague fanart i could possibly post im so sorry #i swear i've also started drawing the actual. yaknow. characters? #but for personal reasons episode two hit so close to home for a second I thought Alex j newall had acquired access to my medical records #so I had to get this out of my system LOL #myart

[weirdobarbie]

PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) Dir. Joe Wright

#pride and prejudice #papedit #filmedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #perioddramaedit #perioddramasource #dailyflicks #cinematv #filmtvcentral #filmtvdaily #userbbelcher #chewieblog #userstream #userrobin #userthing #userpayton #usersource #cinematicsource #* #this hits too close to home

[crystalvfae]

never again to see the sun

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate astarion #baldur's gate iii #astarion ancunin #itsdoodletime #i leaned into vampire aesthetics for this #but i cant ascend him #his story hit too close to home bro #see you at NYCC

[murtacalafate]

Theory of Happiness 

#chapter 121 hit close to home #fujimoto make her happy please!! #chainsaw man #csm #asa mitaka #denji hayakawa #nayuta #yoshida hirofumi #asaden #mc draws

[casualavocados]

#me reliving my 12-year-old adhd experience while watching this like: ow 💔

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS 1.01 • I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher

#pjoedit #percyjacksonedit #pjotv #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #sally jackson #pjospoilers #pjosource #pjotvsource #userpegs #userzhr #tosnimeat #userjjessi #tuserhidden #userelio #*cajedit #*gif #no really these lines hit way too close to home #percy meant so much to me growing up and he still does and he's gonna be there for a whole other generation too and im just *crying* #wish these were better quality but im doomed to 1080p

[foxesdontscareme]

emily axford nobody gets me the way you do

#fig and kristen this season have been hitting particularly close to home #i've had this exact conversation with a friend recently #fig my babygirl :((( #fig faeth #emily axford #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20

[htub]

I really like that they made Jor-El speak Kryptonian and Clark unable to understand him. The whole "aliens speak English" thing that happens in every goddamn media has bothered me all my life. Ik sometimes Clark just gets zapped in the brain for insta-second language but that always felt like a cheap shortcut.

Jor-El had a lot on his mind when he set up that magic spaceship okay. The world was ending and he was trying to do as much as he could before time ran out so he could be there for his son. He was rushing. He likely didn't consider Kal would be raised with a whole different language and not know any Kryptonian nor have anyone to teach him.

#my adventures with superman #two talks #he still might get zapped with kryptonian but at least it wasn't immediate #let there be a language barrier #it hits home so hard too bc i barely speak my mom's language and can't really talk to my family members bc of iz #it* #that's what being raised on a different planet IS! It's isolating and sad bc that's your FAMILY and you can't even understand them #fucking love superman #clark is so close and yet so far bc everything he craves to know about himself is Right There #but he doesn't speak the language of his own people and has no way to learn #it's heartbreaking and i'm so fucking here for it

[dumplingsjinson]

List of “presenting: an overthinker” prompts

“Do they actually like me?” 

Mind racing with a million thoughts about the possibility of things, and being scared they’ll actually happen, even if they are irrational as all hell. 

“So I… You know what, don’t worry about it.” “Are you sure? Because when you say that, that makes me worry more.” 

“I don’t know if I can do this.” 

“Do I even deserve any of this?” 

The constant need for reassurance, and even that isn’t enough to keep your thoughts at bay. 

Feeling the need to apologise for something you didn’t even do wrong.

Sitting in your anxiety and muddled up thoughts for hours when you don’t get a reply from that one person in a timely manner; wondering if you’ve fucked it all up with whatever you’ve said.

Reaching out to them multiple times and making your spiral worse when they stay silent on you.

It gets to the point where your overthinking feeds into your already growing anxiety, overwhelming you and eventually drawing tears out of you.

It gets so bad to the point where your chest feels tight, you feel numb and the world around you eventually becomes a monotonous blur because you’re too focused on this one thing you’re overthinking about. 

The rational subconscious of yours tries to drag you back to the side where things are okay and it’s really not that bad because it really isn’t that bad, but that small, irrational part of you takes ahold of you and continues to anchor you down.

You try to redirect your thoughts and it works for a bit… But then you eventually come back around to those thoughts. Sometimes, redirecting doesn’t work so you end up drowning in your own head.

Wondering if you’re being annoying by reaching out, even though you’ve been holding yourself back quite a lot, knowing you’re not being too much at all. Far from it, in fact. 

There are days when you so desperately wish you can escape your brain. Crawl out of your own skin, be someone who isn’t… Whatever the fuck this is. 

“I don’t want to be too much. I don’t want to need constant reassurance. It’s as suffocating for you as it is for me, maybe even more so, because I’m living in my own head, constantly. And it’s not something I can fucking just get out of overnight.” 

“I need to end this for my own good.” 

Drowning in your own never-ending spiral of negative thoughts. 

“Do you even care? Do you still love me? Does any of this even…”

“I’m sorry that/I hate that my brain is wired this way.” 

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#got a little personal there ngl #it hits very close to home #prompts #dialogue prompts #otp prompts #writing prompts #writing scenarios #angst prompts #the last one i've said too many times

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

ed is absolutely panicking in 2x7 bc he’s seeing stede having the time of his life being a famous pirate and he’s genuinely happy for stede but also he wants out of this life and he’s afraid stede will choose piracy over him and so he’s leaving first before stede can leave him again, all of which is bc deep down ed still thinks he’s unlovable and he’s scared to get hurt by stede again and he’s handling everything very badly

all that being said

the fact that ed has already decided that he can’t choose piracy for stede’s sake is so important to me

piracy was slowly killing ed long before stede entered the picture. and now that ed’s decided that he wants warmth and food and orgasms and he wants to live he’s not going to force himself to do a job that makes him fucking miserable. he still might not think he’s worth love and not worth choosing, but he’s at least moved past thinking he deserves to die. he’s past making himself so miserable that he wants to die. ed still has a lot of work to do but he’s making good progress and i’m proud of him.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers #edward teach #ed teach #edward teach born on a beach #blackbeard #txt #meta #mine #og #s2e07 #idt it’s likely but i guess it’s POSSIBLE he’ll end up doing piracy a little bit longer w stede before retiring #but it’ll be like a very watered down version. they’ll make it their own thing #anyway ed’s mental health shit this season is hitting very close to home #not gonna get into it on tumblr dot com but let me just say. Oof.

[lordsmaf]

#fuck man I don't have anything funny to say this just hits way too close to home #chainsaw man chapter 124 #csm 124 #asa mitaka #mitaka asa #yoru #chainsaw man #chainsawman #chainsaw man manga spoilers #chainsaw man spoilers #chainsaw man manga #csm manga spoilers #csm manga #csm spoilers #csm #mangacap #tatsuki fujimoto

[mx-misty-eyed]

“cant change what you’ve done start fresh next semester”

#did this after having a breakdown in state testing today #i had three pens a vauge idea of what cars looked like and a dream #this song also hits a little too close to home (-suicidal kid who keeps getting anxiety attacks in school) #twenty øne piløts #twenty one pilots #tyler joseph #josh dun #tøp #clique art #frankies art #ns art

[ttearsofthekingdom]

I really like (but feel extreme anguish over) the parallel between Finn and Fionna in that they both have 0 impulse control as a form of self harm. Finn-- we know from Together Again -- wants to die so he can see Jake in the afterlife, so he takes on bigger and riskier enemies with a smile on his face because any wound is one step closer. Fionna says herself that she has zero impulse control. She keeps quitting jobs and getting fired for stupid reasons. She hates her life, hates the world she's in, and she's self sabotaging and ruining any chance she has at just getting by because she can't imagine that this worthless toil will be the rest of her life.

Its just a really heartbreaking parallel to me.

#it really hits close to home honestly #really really does #adventure time

[xierru]

girl di(time loop)nner

#oxenfree #oxenfree 2 #oxenfree ii #oxenfree ii lost signals #alex oxenfree #oxenfree alex #riley poverly #lost signals #oxenfree spoilers #after getting hit too close to home with riley's struggles then seeing alex again after so many years!!!!! #oh to be girlies eating time loops for dinner as therapy