#scary close

[saresmusings]

Excerpt from "Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy" by Donald Miller 2015

#saresmusings #for you page #donald miller #2015 #I am willing #quotes #scary close #true intimacy #writers

[melancholy-ember]

i made an huge thread on twitter about the last FTAHT chapter and i blame you 🥺

I appreciate you. Genuinely. Your support means so much to me and I can safely say that the constant hyping up that you give me makes a world of difference in my confidence for this fic. This is the longest fic I’ve ever written, and definitely the most introspective/hurt and comfort/slow burn plot line I’ve ever attempted, so seeing you constantly cheering me on means so much to me.

Anyway about the thread before I go off on another tangent. I immediately jumped onto Twitter to find it and—

You guys are awesome. I loved every bit of reading the predictions for future chapters. Some of the plot points were so painfully good that I wish I had thought of them. Some of them were just so painful that I hadn’t even considered them.

Some of them were so, so scarily close to what I’ve got planned that I was genuinely concerned I had unknowingly leaked my outline.

#cabotwhistler #faster than a hairpin trigger #my writing #but is it really? #because you guys got... very close on some of them #scary close #like if you’ve seen the outline somehow—please consider this my formal request to let me know #anyway 😅 #thank you again

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

#not vc sorry #bird #birds #aves #raptor #hawk #red shouldered hawk #i think. might be wrong on that id #accipitriformes #birds of prey #honestly a really cool guy so close up #I'm happy i wasn't attacked. i would not want to fight a guy that big. #talons on this bird were huge. big scary. #I've never heard of large predatory birds just landing in front of people like that so i don't know what gives #it didn't catch any food or anything. just landed near me then stared me down. #I don't know a lot about bird behavior so i tried to not look back at it but still. #it also didn't look injured. seemed like a healthy bird #if anyone has any idea why this thing would act the way it did I'd love to know

[ink-the-artist]

Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.

The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.

You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character

#the actual animation of the wolf eating your character wasnt scary he kind of just cartoonishly swallows the character whole lol #the scary part is being pursued by him and never knowing how close he is #i remember being surprised when i first saw the game bc it was presented to me as #a fun addictive sort of game kinda like a mobile app game #and then i see it and its a horror game and the creators are just completely oblivious to it lmao #dream art #<- thats my tag for all my dream-inspired art #art #gif #photomanipulation #digital art #liminal #weirdcore #used a mix of ai photos and regular photos for this one #the ai stuff is sooooo good for recreating what a dream looks and feels like #but i didnt use it too much bc i wasnt able to get the specific photos i wanted :/ #hmmmm this is vore isn’t it

[keepin-it-on-the-d-l]

Two generations of dumbassery

#I haven’t caught up to the finale yet but I assume this is relevant based on general vibes of s2 #in order we have: Anxiety. Closest thing to a straight man who is not straight at all. Lovable NPC. The Dumb One. and Morally iffy Cool One #my art #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #dndads s2 #dndads season 2 #dndads quest #dndads odyssey #dndads s1 #dndads season 1 #ron stampler #glenn close #darryl wilson #henry oak #taylor swift dndads #scary marlowe #lincoln li wilson #normal oak #hermie the unworthy #paeden bennetts

[ryssbelle]

Inspired by these comics by @zivazivc and this comic by @chongotheartist

This has been chilling in my mind since I first saw ZivaZivcs comic and I finally got the energy to make it XD

#my art #dreamworks trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #john dory #creek trolls #the orange troll is actually a deleted troll from the og movie known as Aspen Heitz #he has green hair in 3d and blue in 2d so i mixed the colors to get the hair i used here #any way #also i used chongos comic as like a reference for the posing and stuff #and like this is what it looks like in the comic but when put into trolls #it lind of looks like Aspen is like comforting his boyfriend creek #and i did not intend for that i just noticed it while coloring and i was like welp #and did not fix it #maybe im just overthinking it #it may just be the closeness due to troll proportions #also the holding hands on the shoulder #but it was in the og so its here too #also i love the scary jd render #whyd they make him so scary ill never know but man does it make for good comedy #i was orginally gonna draw jd too but then when i sketched him he just looked like the render and i was like you know what- #i also thought of using a fake png but that qas too much #so you get real png jd

[mispelled]

Just like the post canon homestuck photos..

#mispelled draws #misp draws #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndads fanart #dndads s2 #hermie unworthy #hermie the unworthy #Normal oak #normal oak swallows garcia #normally oak swallows garcia #taylor swift not that one #Taylor swift dndads #lincoln li wilson #scary marlowe #hero oak swallows garcia #Lark oak Garcia #terry jr stampler #cassandra swift #rebecca oak swallows garcia #glenn close dndads #nick close foster #jodie foster dndads #Grant Wilson #marco li wilson #scam likely #Jerry dndads #jerry marlowe li wilson #Dood dndads #Ok I think that's everyone. Holy crap was this a big deal I've been drawing these for the last week

[macksartblock]

teen divorce selfie

inspired entirely by @apricior 's divorce reunion post lmao

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #taylor swift dndads #scary marlowe #normal oak swallows garcia #lincoln li wilson #nick close #nicky foster #they should stay married for the bit but also Nick being their divorce attorney is hilarious to me #dndads s2 #my artwork

[nyaskitten]

Oh okay, so Doc and Kevin want me dead huh!

#i fucking hate them im sick im gonna throw up /pos #this scene brings me so close to tears its scary #theyre so tiny and EYFBSHFEHRIGBR 😭😭😭 THEY MAKE ME SO ... IM INSANE IM GONNA CRY OVER A LEGO SHOW #ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #raine's rambles #ninjago spoilers #ninjago dragons rising spoilers #ninjago dragons rising season 2 #dragons rising spoilers #ninjago dragons rising season 2 spoilers #ignacia how i missed seeing u ... also nya w her old qipao ... #kinda #its missing some of the phoenixes. her sash . and one of the buckles ... #but Whtavrer im gonna be sick bye guys . throws up

[heuheu-art]

I've really loved doing these character designs and would love to do more! Perhaps I'll draw the earlier generations or the spouses in the future.

#dungeons and daddies #dndads #henry oak #ron stampler #glenn close dndads #darryl wilson #lark oak #sparrow oak #terry jr #terry stampler #grant wilson #nick close #nicolas foster #scary marlowe #lincoln li wilson #normal oak #taylor swift dndads #my art #i have designs ready to go for almost every member of the four families i just need to figure out what i want to do with them

[dailyjermasparkle]

a really freaking loud airplane just flew over my house why can't we all just use trains or something

#i don't like planes #i live kinda close to an airport #planes are way too loud and scary and annoying #not blog related #sorry to be so amtrak coded on a monday evening

[acowardinmordor]

Everyone knows that Wayne knows about and supports his nephew in his various flavors of queer across all fics and headcanons. But I especially enjoy it when Wayne knows and supports him, while Eddie is completely oblivious to the fact that he's not straight.

#not in the closet #not confused and questioning #out of the closet but entirely unaware of it #this is also why Wayne went gray #his beloved idiot nephew is accidentally visibly queer in small town america #and even when Wayne has tried to bring it up #Eddie talks about how he also thinks Reagan sucks #he's so close to getting it #but he never does #man now im picturing Wayne being Scary(tm) around town #so everyone knows not to mess with Eddie #and Eddie thinks he's the scary one #wrong kid #you are a goofball made of marshmallows

[bizarrelittlemew]

Our Flag Means Death 1x4 | 1x6 | 2x6 | 2x7 ⇉ if the bed nook could talk...

#ngl it's driving me bonkers a little that ed was about to kill stede IN the bed nook like behind the curtains #and the scene is filmed so erotically?? #the lighting and ed's low voice when he says “scary as hell” and the hand he gently places on stede's back #and instead of killing stede he relives his trauma related to killing #and stede takes care of him so so gently and that scene is ALSO very intimate #they could've just as easily put jim's shadow show in the bed nook and ed's hiding place in the library nook but no #they put ed and stede together in the bed nook #and it's the only other time they're both in there with stede drawing the curtains closed BUT we're behind the curtain with them #sorry this just set off a lot of thoughts on my latest rewatch aksdhjsk THERE'S SOMETHING THERE #also i know i made a similarly themed set with just the 1x4 and 2x7 scenes but the “murder attempt” scene being one of these 4 intimate one #with the two of them together in there #idk i've been rotating it in my brain #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmdedit #ofmdsource #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #ofmd 1x4 #ofmd 1x6 #ofmd 2x6 #ofmd 2x7 #edward teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard

[alien-bluez]

errrrmmm cheesed to meet you?

#dungeons and daddies #dndads #dungeons and daddies fanart #just some various dndads drawings i've done because i'm very normal (ill) over this podcast #this is gonna be a long tag list of characters are you ready #darryl wilson #ron stampler #glenn close #not the real one lol #henry oak #lincoln li wilson #scary marlowe #normal oak #taylor swift #sorry for ruining this tag for you #grant wilson #nick close #lark oak #sparrow oak #okay is that all of them? #i think so #god i'm so sorry #dndads season 1 #dndads season 2 #i have a lot of thoughts/art on this pocast #i come back just to be hit with a sledgehammer of hyperfixation #it's been so bad for the last 2 months oof.

[guardian-of-soho]

For how tender and domestic (and “quiet and romantic”) the new season is, there’s such an endless sense of hovering danger around the little haven of the bookshop in the present day (not to mention the flashbacks). It’s implied they’ve been left alone a few years; but it’s clear the peace is ending.

From the moment “Jim” arrives we’re never left a minute without the shadow of Heaven or Hell darkening the doorstep of the bookshop and their safety, until the night the last-ditch dance to hold Heaven off turns into Hell coming over the threshold. They’re not left to peace. They’re not allowed to find their human happiness — not via the dance nor even by their one big kiss — not so long as Heaven and Hell want them gone. Not so long as their love stands as the threat to Eternity that it is.

That’s the only way I can make any sense of Aziraphale’s return to Heaven. They never left him alone, and for all he seemed sure of himself in helping Jim hide from them, and wooing Crowley amidst their invasions, and even refusing the Metatron at first — he must have felt the end approaching. He must have known that whatever was done to Jim could be done to him too.

He could lose himself. He could lose his capacity to protect Crowley, or Soho and the humans he loved. He could lose all memory of what had been so precious to him, worth defying Heaven for, and why he was on Earth, and who he could trust, and why.

Others have pointed out how determinedly he ignores Crowley’s fear amid the dancing. I think — I hope — that it’s not that he doesn’t want to hear him. It’s that he is pushing back his own fear to reach for happiness; it’s that he needs so badly to let him know he loves him, before it’s too late. He needs to have a moment’s romance. He knows “too late” is coming.

And then it’s there.

And still when Heaven offers him a way to dodge the doom they bring, he refuses point blank until they promise he can buy Crowley’s safety by his surrender. (And it is a surrender, for all he says he believes he’ll be in charge. Within moments of losing Crowley he’s giving the Metatron the same fake smiles and feigned agreement he’s always offered Heaven. He’s leashed again.) He wants their safety, he wants it unassailable, and I hope that’s the first reason he went back. (I don’t imagine the promise of their approval meant nothing to him. I think he wants their power and their praise. But I don’t believe it was what he wanted first.)

He’s just watched their haven (our shop!) invaded by Hell, and then by Heaven, and then watched two traitors in love, the heads of their sides, driven to the far reaches of the universe under threat of being followed — that’s not the end he wants for him and Crowley. He doesn’t imagine Heaven can be as sweet for them as Earth; but he believes their days on Earth are numbered. I think having watched their refuge breached so easily has had the same effect on him that watching it burn had on Crowley — nothing feels safe anymore; nothing feels permanent.

But Crowley’s reaction was “I want to spend whatever time we have left together as far away as we can get,” Aziraphale’s is “I want to invade the heart of the threat and turn it into home.” They’re so terribly brave; and they’re so in need of some humans showing them how to face down a threat together instead of running or joining it. I want to watch a replay of the airfield last stand, and the bookshop battle, but with power enough on their side to win Earth’s permanent peace.

I want Crowley and Aziraphale both to decide that even without Adam’s power or any particular prophecy or a tangible plan, they’ll take their chances on the humans’ side for good and all, and count it worth the dangers. And I want to see them win. Earth’s side has been theirs; they deserve to be sheltered and saved by it, too.

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #a/c #the new season is honestly so scary for how sweet it is #Jim’s situation is presented as funny but it’s also a horror story #he was so close to losing everything and never even knowing it had happened #there’s no way Aziraphale didn’t think about that happening to him

[keepin-it-on-the-d-l]

Compilation of Anthony’s plans getting screwed by the party (Part Two here)

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #dndads s2 #dndads season 2 #dndads quest #dndads odyssey #dndads s1 #dndads season 1 #anthony burch #Glenn close #ron stampler #henry oak #darryl wilson #lincoln li wilson #jodie foster #dndads jodie foster #normal oak #scary marlowe #taylor swift dndads