#poor everyone

[moscasines]

Picnic together.

#ミギとダリ #migi to dali #myart #I'm just sure they went on a picnics together #the last ep is devastating #i dont want migidali to end #im so sad #the story is SO SAD #Poor eiji #POOR EVERYONE

[vivitheanimaxen]

Tango hadn't had this much physical contact with another mer since he'd gotten separated from his pod.

He was pinned against the cold wall of the pool, Jimmy pressed against him and holding him pinned. Everything was just too much, at the moment. He squeezed his eyes shut, just focused on the water pumping over his gills as his heartrate started to finally slow down.

Okay, back up a bit, how did Tango manage to get himself in this situation?

In all truth, he wasn't entirely sure. He'd been swimming around the pool, trying to get used to the way his ripped fins changed his maneuverability, going as fast as he dared in the enclosed space-- probably faster than was advisable.

It was an anxious tick of his, pacing back and forth when he was attempting to work something out. It helped when the problem was something he could inspect with his hands and where another perspective was incredibly helpful. Not so much when the danger was unseen, unheard, and completely out of his control. At least he could pace, here, rather than being stuck in an empty tidepool not much bigger than two body lengths across.

He'd been talking out loud to himself-- just gibberish, really, thinking out loud as he worked the stiffness out of his muscles. Anything to distract from the eerie quiet. The water being this quiet never meant anything good. He was going to go insane if he had to sit here in silence, just waiting to be ambushed. And him being loud wasn't helping. the sorts of predators that made the sea go quiet were the ones you needed to be quiet to avoid.

He felt like he was going mad anyway. There weren't any predators here, not the type that sound would do anything more to attract. But he simply couldn't bring himself to shut up. It was easier to just keep chattering away to himself, because then maybe he would actually have somewhere to point the pent-up jittery sort of borderline panic that was making his scales itch. Maybe then there would be a physical threat to sink his fangs into, instead of this growing dread and certainty that his pod was dead again.

He'd lost his first pod to a silence like this.

Tango hated silence.

It only took a half a second of distraction for Tango to lose focus on his careful balance of speed and water pressure and the way his fins dragged to slow him down for the turn and-- there was movement, something was above the water.

Thwack--

Well, that hurt. Tango shook his head, at least he'd had the awareness to twist, hitting the wall with his back instead of with his head or shoulder or anything that would've snapped with the wrong amount of pressure.

Then there were bodies in the water, humans surrounding him where he lay on the shallow bottom, a mer circling around behind him for the kill--

It was a split-second decision, and a lucky glance of blond hair versus blue that let him tackle the human into the water and take him hostage.

The other two had gills, but this one didn't.

Once he had his back to the wall and the held in front of him like a shield, the other two kept their distance.

It was Jimmy, the mer he'd yelled at before, and the blue-haired half-thing that'd helped steal Tango and maybe-kill Impulse.

The human he was holding hostage was the one who'd maybe-killed Impulse. In that moment, he was incredibly tempted to bleed the human out right here and now. He was a threat.

"Woah-- woah!! just calm down. we can talk about this, right?" Jimmy had his hands out in a placating gesture, "Just-- let Martyn go, alright? He's done nothing to hurt you, mate--"

"Oh? Why don't you ask him about what happened to my human?" Tango snapped, tightening his grip.

"Don't--! You're gonna hurt him--" Jimmy pinned his fins back in a show of submission, backing off.

But the other one was trying to edge around to the side of him. Tango bared his fangs in response, twisting to face him too, "You stay right there-- don't come any closer--"

The half-thing put up his hands, "Let him go, we're not goin-ta hurt you."

"Tell that to the human you killed--" Tango snarled, flaring his fins in threat, "You killed my human, it's only fair that I get to kill yours."

"Killed--" Jimmy twisted to look at the half-thing, "Scott, did you guys kill somebody?"

"No. No, we didn't kill him. We put him to sleep, that's all." The half-thing-- Scott-- shook his head, "Let Martyn go before you hurt him."

They-- hadn't killed Impulse? Oh. That changed a couple things. Maybe. If Impulse was okay.

A moment before Tango was going to let the human go, something sharp bit him in the arm.

Tango recoiled with a shout, shoving Martyn away.

He got tackled a moment later by Scott, everything starting to go out of focus.

They were all liars. All three of them. Liars and cheats and Tango wasn't going to let them get away with this--

He snapped at Scott, managing to get at least one or two solid bites in before the half-thing could really react. A moment later, Jimmy slammed into the two of them, knocking Tango's head spinning and taking the opportunity to pull them apart.

Tango twisted in his grip, shrieking in anger as he attempted to get his fangs into Jimmy too. He wasn't able to get around to anywhere he could do any damage. A moment later, Jimmy shoved him against the wall.

And that's how Tango found himself in this situation.

He gave a half-hearted flick of his tail, flexing against Jimmy's grip. Tango didn't really want him to let go, but he didn't want to just-- give up.

"Alright. Listen here, you." Jimmy hissed into his ear, "You need to hold your seahorses and actually listen for once, instead of just fighting us all the time. Now. Are you done? or are you going to keep trying to bite me?"

Tango shuddered, letting himself go limp as he tipped his head towards the wall. His mouth felt thick and clumsy and stuffed full of pebbles as he answered, "I'm done. . ."

"Moon and stars above, was that really so hard?" Jimmy asked, not letting Tango go, but loosening the death grip on his arms.

Everything was fuzzy, like the way it'd been when he first woken up here. Whatever it was that'd bitten him was nasty. Nastier than the time Etho had accidentally gotten Tango with his spines.

Jimmy did eventually let go of Tango, after Scott had gone back up to the surface to check on the human. Tango still had to lean against the wall, though. He didn't like his chances of staying upright with the way everything seemed tipped ever so slightly to the left.

He had to admit that he was sad about Jimmy swimming off to also check on his human after a little while longer. Even though Martyn hadn't actually killed impulse, Tango couldn't bring himself to feel guilty about almost drowning the man.

Sue him for being homesick, but Tango couldn't help but want the other mer around.

#tango tek #jimmy solidarity #team rancher #scott smajor #martyn itlw #team rancher au #viviwrites #emberfish au #this time with a read more line #cause this one is also super long #maybe they will stop fighting now #hopefully #dont mind me #and my unrealistic physics #poor everyone #they all need hugs #especially poor touch starved Tango #man has trauma #and etho is now venomous #tw sedatives #tw fighting #tw dissociation

[k-llforme]

When you just wanted to write a small cutesy one shot of Rosekiller finding out their feelings for each other, and suddenly Evan took a traumatic trip to the Forbidden Forest and got an ancient old pet snake out of it.

#i need to stop writing angst #i can't stop #poor evan #poor pandora #poor barty #poor everyone #rosekiller #barty crouch jr #evan rosier #pandora rosier #maraders era #marauders #slytherin skittles #poor regulus that had hoped for an easy peasy confession #skittles squad #don't worry it's an happy ending

[corpusdiem-seizethedead]

*sometime after Jack ‘scabs’*

Davey: Maybe if I fall in love with my anxiety, it will ALSO leave me!

Race: Jesus Christ, Dave

#newsies #newsies 1992 #seize the day #incorrect newsies quotes #incorrect quotes #jack kelly #newsies stage show #racetrack higgins #davey jacobs #david jacobs #incorrect newsies #poor davey #poor jack #poor everyone #SOMEBODY HUG THEM PLEASE #don’t worry davey #I don’t think Jack could ever truly quit you #javid newsies #Javid forever #race is really trying to hold it together #and by it I mean everything #someone hug race too #preferably spot

[khlegacynexus]

Replaying FF7 and wondering if Sephiroth saw Prof. Ghast as a Father Figure inspired me to make this

#final fantasty #final fantasy vii #Hojo ruins everything #poor Sephiroth #poor everyone #screw Hojo

[blackjackkent]

OK, Aylin vanished while we were talking to the guardian so I think it's finally time to take this bad boy:

And finally let Hector take a GODDAMN NAP.

I have some vague ideas for some fluffy/hurt-comforty fic-y thing set in this period because this poor boy is so worn out right now. He's had no shortage of terrible things happen to him during the first two acts of this game but everything that has happened since the point-of-no-return in Act 2 here has really just hollowed him out emotionally.

(I always welcome fic ideas/prompts/suggestions of any sort, liveblog-related or not, but definitely open to any suggestions of some nice things to happen to Hector/the whole group during the act break. XD )

Before any relaxation time, though, we have a lot of conversations to catch up on, starting with an immediate one with Karlach as soon as we get out of the portal. Maybe she's indeed picking up on some of Hector's techniques of patience and self-restraint, because she has clearly been sitting on a freakout ever since they saw Gortash down below, and is finally letting it all come out.

"You saw Gortash, didn't you? What the fuck was he doing down there? Is all of this because of him? The tadpole, the Absolute... how?!"

Hector feels a little guilty as the words start to spill out of her, as they move up into the open air of the tower. He's been so wrapped up in his own overwhelming struggles of late - traveling into the domain of Shar, meeting Aylin and receiving not only her respect but her fealty, facing down Ketheric and the god of the dead - that he really neglected to focus much on what Karlach was also going through in seeing Gortash at the center of this plot.

Gortash was the one who sent her to the hells to become a slave to Zariel. He betrayed her. And down below the tower, they saw him in a position of nearly ultimate power, the control over the elder brain that threatens to destroy the world.

He can see the agitation in her eyes now as they get to something more resembling safety; has she been holding it back for his benefit? Or merely because there was no room down in that pit of horrors for it?

He reaches out and takes her hand, squeezes it tightly, a wordless apology in the touch. "We'll find out when we get to Baldur's Gate," he says firmly.

"Whatever the fuck he's been up to in the last ten years, we have to stop him," she snarls. All the tightly wound energy is coming loose now, all the anger pouring out of her. "He can't just keep ruining people's lives! He can't get away with it!"

She pulls her hand away from him, begins to pace restlessly. Ever since Dammon's last set of repairs to the infernal engine, the flames that run through her have mostly been contained, but he is more than a little alarmed to see the heat starting to flare around her in a way he hasn't seen since their first arrival at Last Light. The rage at Gortash goes beyond anything he's seen from her before.

"He used me up," she hisses. "And gave me away when he was done with me. Didn't matter how much I trusted him. And now he'd use up the entire Sword Coast."

Her jaw clenches, the flames beginning to lick visibly around her face and through her hair. "He has to die. AND I'M GONNA BE THE ONE WHO KILLS HIM."

Hector has to resist the urge to flinch away from the overwhelming surge of heat, the animal fury in her eyes. He knows she is fully capable of destroying anything in her path when she gets in this mood. But he has already promised himself that he will not be afraid of her, even in her darkest moments when the rage overtakes her. He just watches her steadily, letting the heat roll over him in a slow wave.

"We'll do it together," he says softly. "Whatever it takes."

Her face twists with grief and rage, but she has the presence of mind to draw back a little, pulling the flames away before they can lick out against him. "He can't get away with what he's done," she whispers hoarsely. "To me. To us." Her fists clench at her sides and the flames burst around her, in her eyes and up her neck and through the chinks in her armor. "He won't get away with it!"

#bjk plays baldur's gate 3 #hector carlisle #poor karlach :( #poor everyone #it looks like there's a buttload of end-of-act conversations to be had so i'm gonna be at this for a bit :P

[my-hyperfixations]

Me the entirety of Edge of the World:

#the owl house #the owl house spoilers #toh #toh spoilers #edge of the world #toh king #toh hunter #WHERE IS MY BOY #I NEED TO KNOW THAT HE IS OKAY #I mean as okay as can be expected #AND KING OMG #POOR BOY #POOR LUZ #POOR EVERYONE #TRAUMA IS A KILLER MAN

[darkestphoenix]

Today’s Dracula Daily is just a punch in the gut. So many things go wrong and Lucy ends up suffering so much. It’s definitely one of the reasons why Coppola’s adaptation of Dracula still makes me angry.

Aside from Lucy’s rampant sexualization and violation, removing other aspects of Dracula isolating and tormenting her-the most blatant not posted for those who haven’t read today’s update yet-to make him more sympathetic and a love interest was a travesty.

Also: Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra.

(Unopened by her.)

#dracula daily #dracula #lucy westenra #poor lucy #poor everyone #except Dracula #he can rot

[thehallwayrat]

What

What if scott and cleo got their hands on golden apples...

#I DONT WANNA THING THAT ): #BECAUSE IT DEFINITELY WAS DONE ON PURPOSE AND IT SCARES ME #double life smp #traffic smp #(someone said traffic smp and i vote that) #double life spoilers #POOR EVERYONE #THE DIVORCE ARC HITS HARD

[whump-queen]

my favorite code geass whump fantasy: gottwald tortures lelouch knowing he's zero but not knowing he's a prince but once he learns that it's too late and lelouch is just barely alive and will never be able to function and gottwald had to live with the guilt of doing that to marianne's son

NOO ow ouch right in my FEELINGS

#this breaks my heart #poor jerimiah tho I always felt bad for him :// #also any of the mcd in code geass KILLS ME #I’ve cried so much over this show #ANYTHING to do with euphemia at ALL has me in TEARS instantly #poor Suzaku man #poor everyone #god damn #I like this lil interactive cry session tho #if anyone else has favorite moments or scenarios abt this show throw em in the askbox and we can all cry together <3 #code geass #lelouch vi britannia #jerimiah gottwald #akias asks #answered asks

[lovinkiri]

Just finished playing Season One of The Walking Dead.

Currently in tears.

#Shit that was sad #Literally trying not to cry #Poor Lee #Poor Clem #Just.. #Poor everyone #small chats

[twisted-tales-told]

OUCH???

#‘I’m poison’ NO YOURE NOT UR SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT AND BRILLIANT I LOVE U #Poor Dean #poor Sam #poor cas #poor everyone #spn liveblog

[ringosmistress]

#this is doing numbers #follow me for more beatles bangers guys #god john was on something back then #john can't possibly hate octopus's garden more than maxwell's silver hammer #poor ringo #what was paul's take on that octopus song #i love it though #loved that scene where george was helping ringo with that song #made me believe in starrison #peace and love everyone #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #beatles #memes

[deeneedsaname]

Can we have a moment of silence for Sylvia, who now has an Alien living in her backyard, and a moment of triumph for Wilf, who now has an Alien living in his backyard

#Truly everyone in that house won EXCEPT for sylvia #Who has given in poor woman #Doctor who #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #wilfred mott #donna noble #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #doctor who spoilers #ten x donna #doctor x donna #fourteen x donna #honestly looking forward to the day i cna stop using SO MANY BLOODY TAGS

[reebmiester]

apparently “and yet you're bi yourself” is not an appropriate response

#batfam #dick grayson #bruce wayne #clark kent #nightwing #batman #superman #bat family #batfamily #dc comics #my art #everyone knows about jon but they're being nice and not telling him #bruce has been given this speech 10 times. poor tim

[misterpseudonym]

#nerdy prudes must die #npmd #npmd spoilers #max jagerman #starkid #hatchetfield #incorrect quotes #this poor kid #i love this musical #my favorite part was when max jagerman made friends with all the nerds #and everyone was safe and happy #and nothing bad happened to him #og