#it's too quiet

[bakfoo]

Dev Diary: A different type of writer's block.

Ayumi was designed as a homage to my time doing blue-collar work. Someone who was (and is) currently going through the ringer. Strong despite being marred by tough times. A little preview of what her son would grow up to be.

Around this time last year in 2022, I saw the papers for a tumor on my mom's bedside table when I was walking around the house.

She never brought it up. I had to confront her about it that year. Throughout 2022, she said it was "a complication." Never once did she say that it was a tumor, just some complication in one of her arms. She downplayed it, saying it was benign and wouldn't say anything else about it for the rest of the year for the entirety of 2023.

Bit of a spoiler, but Ayumi loves her son and husband a lot. However, she views herself as the one thing keeping her family afloat. It's a lot of responsibility, which can prove to be a source of strain and dishonest communication. A toxic mentality of shouldering burdens with an "It's fine. I'm fine" mentality.

I came back to family for Christmas in 2023. After a year of silence about the situation, I came home to realize that that my mom can't use her right arm for (almost) anything. Doctors say the op to get rid of it is too risky. It's too ingrained in the spinal cord. Throughout the entire year, it's steadily gotten worse and my mom kept it from me. She can't play the piano anymore.

Suddenly, I couldn't put pen to tablet. Ayumi's story started to turn into something else. It became too real.

Before, I was writing about my own experience of feeling the pressure for providing for someone who is disabled. She was a representation of the unhealthy "don't worry, it's nothing" mentality I have when I have too much to carry. Not wanting to burden my partner when they've got so much to deal with already.

But now my mom's doing it. The same thing. "Let's not tell our son how bad this is because we don't want to burden him."

"Don't worry, it's nothing."

My mom isn't some larger-than-life character. No stories of grandieur, no big muscles, no gung-ho mentality. She's just a piano teacher who is getting smaller and more frail by the year. No longer filling the mornings or evenings with music.

This house is too quiet.

#I don't know what to tag this with #But it's heavy #But I need to get my thoughts in order #This might be a bit too personal but I want to talk about it #Might delete this later #I don't know #It's too quiet

[1o1percentmilk]

feeling so empty tuesday

#wow i need to go back to school #or like #go to the library or smth #take a walk somewhere different #when things get too quiet around my brain i get the insane urge to [redacted] #life is too boring right now #kicks a pebble #it's too quiet #milk isn't this peace what you always wanted and strive for #well yes but #it doesn't feel right #wait holy shit did they add another bus to my city that runs at 8pm instead of ending at 7 pm #post cancelled moping cancelled we r going to the library to work on smut fic

[kakashihasibs]

Leia is with my in-laws today :( i didn't even get to say good morning or good bye bc she left before i woke up :( I'm sad

#my husband wanted her to spend the day with her grandma #which i wasn't super on board with bc I'm not like sick or anything #my husband didn't wake me up to say good bye #he's telling me to do something with my free day but it doesn't feel like a free day :( #i just want my dog home #i keep catching myself looking for her and she's not here #it's too quiet #my husband has apologized but I'm still unhappy with this #ben gets personal

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

#inspired by a convo I had with a friend where she said the show made her glad she was more of a disney kid and not a nickelodeon kid #like girl you think these things weren't happening at disney too?? #quiet on set #nickelodeon #dan schneider

[reckonslepoisson]

It's Too Quiet..'!!, Pink Siifu & Turich Benjy (2023)

It's Too Quiet..'!! is conveniently easy to structure: it starts out with some of the most agile and dreamy trap of 2023; then it becomes a little middling, a little more conventional; then it finally turns towards an imprecise, impressionist, soulful rap sound typical of Siifu’s Ensley or GUMBO. In all, one of the year’s more idiosyncratic pieces of pop rap.

Pick: ‘It’s Too Quiet..'!!’

#It's Too Quiet..'!! #It's Too Quiet #Pink Siifu & Turich Benjy #Pink Siifu #Turich Benjy #hip-hop #rap #southern hip-hop #trap #cloud rap #abstract hip-hop #neo-soul #2023 #music #review #music review

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Pizza sim’s plot is just the Afton’s fighting

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #michael afton #scrap baby #scraptrap #william afton #elizabeth afton #fnaf #fnaf pizzeria simulator #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #Pizza sim really is just a line up of characters who want Michael dead #and Michael is on that list too 💀 #Half the fnaf games truly is just Afton’s fighting each other #SCRAP BABY!! IS HERE!! #truly I just wanted to draw her #her design is so cool #Poor Michael just gotta sit there as the other two argue #he hoping if he stays quiet they’ll just forget he’s there #man’s waiting out the clock cause he legally can go at 6am #LETS GO PIZZA SIM ENJOYERS 🩵🩵

[fake-diary]

Day 640

Finally back, after a +7 hour car trip, due to all of the stops... I have to say that it feels too quiet here.

(11.6.23)

#Yeah #really #Also #it's not that #no one's here #it's just that #it's too quiet

[flowerbloom-arts]

That one ending where the Stranger was your first Princess.

#slay the princess #stp fanart #stp princess #stp protagonist #the stranger #stp the stranger #stp spoilers #hey girl i mean they #stp meme #art #crap post #the long quiet #the shifting mound #I was originally gonna draw a mouth on tlq for comedic effect but naaahhhh it looked too weird and had non-innocent vibes I did not intend

[closetsof-backlogged-dreams]

as sad and disappointing as this is, look me in the eyes and tell me that this isnt the absolute funniest shit youve ever seen. like, they changed their bio to ONE vaguely implicative sentence and posted some promo statement about where you can find it on streaming services, and this little shitty cockroach fandom (affectionate) absolutely BLOWS THE FUCK UP. like, within the span of 2-3 days, we completely took over tumblr so that this 15-year-old fandom was trending, their twitter account gained roughly 6k followers, and everyone is theorizing about a season six a reboot a spin-off a red white and royal blue crossover every thing under the SUN and it literally gets so bad that the poor intern (thats probably gotten two hours of sleep this week and is running solely on celsius and coffee) and the two-person marketing team that managed this whole thing had to scramble to clarify that WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY DOING ANYTHING WE'RE JUST ADVERTISING THE SHOW AGAIN

like. thats the funniest shit EVER.

#im not gonna be some pretentious little shit tho #i clowned too yall i clowned so hard #but this #this is hilarious #one twitter post and bio change and we proved to the ENTIRE internet that we're not dead actually #we just got a wee bit quiet for like six months #merlin #bbcm #bbc merlin #merthur #arthur pendragon #merlin bbc

[turtleblogatlast]

AU where Leo is trapped in the Prison Dimension for months instead of minutes and the only way he gets by with his sanity intact is through recording himself talking to his wrist comm.

When they finally manage to get Leo back and make him rest up to heal, Donnie can’t help but listen to the recordings left behind.

He’s not sure what exactly he’s expecting, only that his subconscious is screaming at him that it has to be heartbreaking, that it has to be torturous.

Instead, what Donnie is subject to is a full thousand hours’ worth of Jupiter Jim and Lou Jitsu crossover fanfiction. More than one part in the series. Spanning well over a million words.

(The worst part is that it’s actually good.)

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #donnie keeps the comms going on in the background as he works #when he gets to the end he’s like what the hell…where’s the rest #donnie: leo where’s part nine #leo barely cognizant after not needing sleep for months: whuh- #donnie: you can’t leave it at a cliffhanger. leo. leo where’s the next part. #listen leo has a great memory for his special interests this is CANON plus he’s a great talker so he would totally be able to do this frfr #whenever he needs to be quiet he’s SILENT but otherwise he’s regaling the exploits of his idols to the captive audience that is The Photo #sometimes Krang sneaks up on him and just listens to him talk like ???? #it starts both as leo trying to comfort himself with his favorite things PLUS comfort himself with thoughts of his father #as splinter makes his own crossover fanfiction when sick lol plus he’s Literally Lou Jitsu #and yes krang ALSO gets a bit invested #leo notices the reduction of Ouch but hey more time for rambling fanfic for him 👍 #idk leo’s a damn good actor/liar/planner/schemer and I genuinely think that can pivot into storytelling so well #the literal second mikey’s hands heal donnie zooms to his side with hand stabilizers and a request to draw ‘scene 82 from recording 3’ #mikey’s like what #so obvs now HE needs to listen as he works #he too gets invested #he comes across raph who mentions having trouble sleeping #mikey: have I got the podcast fanfic for you! #it only somewhat helps raph sleep #somewhat bc sometimes he forces himself to stay awake to hear the rest #yes these recordings go to the whole fam and leo is none the wiser #they don’t even mean to hide it it just never comes up lol #it’s only when donnie FINALLY makes it to the end of the recordings that he confronts leo to continue the story #leo: oH YOU HEARD ALL THAT HUH-

[spoopdeedoop]

au where they’re all human and best friends and nothing ever goes wrong ever

#my art #too much trauma let them all live out their quiet sitcom lives #doctor who #doctor who fanart #bbc doctor who #these three are my favourite doctors i will figure out how to draw the others soon i promise #tenth doctor #10th doctor #eleventh doctor #11th doctor #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #tenth doctor fanart #eleventh doctor fanart #thirteenth doctor fanart #jodie whittaker #matt smith #david tennant #starlight strings au

[mrlancer]

Today is day 2 of being in my school all by myself. Yesterday a random dude just walked in and saw that I wasn't Korean and just walked straight back out.

Today I thought I saw someone walking into the classroom next to me, but when I went to check it out, no one was there.

#working alone #it's too quiet #so I think my brain is playing tricks on me #personal #text post

[batfamhyperfixation]

Jason: the Batfam member I see most as my brother is Tim

Dick: What!!! That's no fair, I should be your brotherly-ist brother!

Dick: No offense Timmy.

Dick, turning back to Jason: But I am the one who has been your brother longest, I helped you kill that druglord, I even gave you some of my cookie dough last week!

Bruce: uhhh, back to the druglord thing-

Steph: You shared your cookie dough with him!

Jason: Sorry Dick, but there is one thing that makes you brothers more than anything else, not blood, or time, but...

Jason and Tim at the same time: Contempt

Jason: I have contempt for Tim, like all siblings should. Really the only thing I love more than hating Tim is shit talking other people with Tim. That form of contempt is how siblings bond and I will just say, surprisingly I love bonding with Tim even more than I love terrorizing Tim

Tim: aww, I didn't know we were that close

Jason, panicking cause he doesn't wanna ruin their dynamic: *punches Tim in the gut and runs out*

Tim, shouting after him: You can't take it back now, you ass

Jason: *turns around while running to give Tim the middle finger*

#dick really wants to bond with jason by shittalking people but jason refuses to let that happen #dick starts showing up wherever Jason is to start shit talking people with him so jason is just quiet until he looks over at dick and goes #'I cant wait to tell Tim about this' and dick is just like 'NO DONT SHIT TALK ABOUT ME TO TIM' #cause like half of shit talking other people with siblings is just shit talking about another family member #one time Dick walks in on Tim and Jason shit talking someone and it's like those scenes in soap operas where the person was just cheated on #dick just sees being the 'most brother-like brother' to his brothers as being the favorite and he really wants to be the favorite #but he is trying too hard so the others are just like nah its something that is just spontaneously formed you can't force it #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #bruce wayne #incorrect batfamily quotes #batkids #batfam #bat family #stephanie brown

[obsessedwithstarwars]

Bruce: How was your class trip Damian?

Damian: It was quiet and productive Father.

Bruce: I’m glad to hear it. What was your favorite part?

Damian: I learned how to escape an Iron Maiden.

Bruce: …

Damian: …

Bruce: Explain please.

Damian: A boy Drake’s age taught me how to escape an Iron Maiden.

Bruce: How did he have that knowledge?

Damian: He claims his family has a dungeon full of medieval torture devices. I believe he may require further investigation.

#dp x dc #dc x dp #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #dp crossovers #quiet means no rogues #Danny definitely found Damian studying the Iron Maidens #they had a conversation #Danny was careful about what he mentioned #but not careful enough for a Bat #Danny hasn’t figured out how much info is too much #Amity Park knows the Fentons are just weird like that #I can’t decide if this is a school trip for Danny #or if Jazz got custody and moved them to Gotham #if she did then Vlad is definitely bothering them #Batman is about to feel a very strong urge to adopt #I haven’t decided if I should write more or add this to my current unpublished wip #but it’s up for grabs nonetheless

[mobius-m-mobius]

Hey, Loki’s back. Well, I guess you two are ready to go.

#mobius #loki #o.b. #lokius #mcuedit #lokiedit #marveledit #loki spoilers #the eye contact the concern THE tiniest 'hi' 🥺💖 #obsessed with how mobius is at his limit this entire ep but never hesitates to be as soft as possible with loki #like they weren't obvious enough when you rewatch there's all these bonus quiet moments too?? god they're so everything #(and i actually would like this to be a running gag lol) #loki s2 spoilers #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #ke huy quan #marvel #owenwilsonedit #dianagifs

[drunkenlion]

I love love love how Larian made Astarion:

Avoiding having sex with Tav altogether if you kinda have a wholesome relationship after he confesses that he really likes Tav for real and not just to secure himself a protector/ally. It’s so cute that he just takes some time to figure out what sex means to him in terms of genuine connection with someone and not just a manipulation tactic which has been a behaviour forced on him by Cazador 😭

He is sooo insecure about it, that I already found two instances of him mentioning it: when twin drows in Baldur’s Gate offer their services either to Tav or both to Tav and Astarion. He refuses and asks if the reason Tav would want this is the lack of sex between them. And the second time when Halsin offers to have a poly relationship and you ask Astarion about it (which he is in general chill about) but once again asks Tav if the reason is not Astarion not having sex with them.

Poor Astarion is still having fear that the only thing that can make someone be interested in him is sex. It makes me feel stuff 😰

#astarion #bg3 astarion #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 companions #I just love this train wreck of an elf so much #he’s kinda evil sometimes but he’s also not? #he’s theatrical but also sometimes is too open and awkward and quiet? #damn he stole my heart 2 years ago but now that I can see his development it’s even better #and Neil newborn did such an amazing job with voiceover #love all the intonations in his voice