#this is so sad but so good for story

[emry-stars]

SO interesting thing happened in class today. I'm studying linguistics and in my intro course today we were talking about language disorders and did a bit about dyslexia

And first of all I learned far more about dyslexia than I knew before (we thought I had it for like half my life lol) but there's also apparently more types of dyslexia than I expected which fall under two main categories: developmental and acquired dyslexia

Developmental being something you developed (usually from a v young age) which has no single cause

Acquired is (as the name suggests) acquired (usually later in life) and usually a result of head trauma

So all this very long info dump comes to my question: do you think Neil's dyslexia is developed or acquired after his dad hit him in the head too hard one too many times?

SHAY I DONT KNOW HOW I MISSED THIS IM SO SORRY BUT OMG

this is so heartbreaking 😭 but yeah… even if it is a mix of both this modern au’s Neil has definitely been knocked around enough for it….. my heckin heart man thank you so much for the ask genuinely 🥲💕

#LIKE WOW #and you can imagine Nathan would constantly be getting on Neil for his grades and being below grade level in reading and stuff like that #so it’s just an endless cycle 😭😭 #this is so sad but so good for story #thank you shay you’re so sweet always #aftg #au #modern college au #swicr #asks

[maelgwyn]

I'm suffering, I'm having a great time

#ffxiv #ffxiv memes #I made this #This story just hits you over and over right in the heart huh #There are very few characters I HATE. most of the villains just make me so so sad #And I love that #I want more stories like this #And I am having a good time truly #This game is just really taking me through it goddamn

[speckled-biscut]

help the puppets got me again

#welcome home #frank frankly #sally starlet #silly #the new update was so good im so excited for the next one im going insane #these guys were so funny #honestly all of them were #i love when horror stories let the guys have fun makes the horrors more sad #rip and skip eddie your well being will be missed 🙏

[inkskinned]

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

#writeblr #warm up #i can't write rn but i have SO much words in here bc im reading the chorus of dragons books #(just started book 4) #and this woman's writing is just LIVING in my brain. let me out!!! #(i read roughly like 2-4 books a week usually bc i go on long walks with my dog but when a book is REALLY good like. it eats my life. ) #anyway ...... so like here's a story that idk i've tried to explain to other people as being wild #but maybe im the only one who thinks it is wild??? #so i play pokemon go (i just started in jan) bc i love pokemon and as i have mentioned i walk goblin for like an hour in the morning #and i don't like a lot of fitness trackers due to the fact it makes me .sad. but i also wanted the little digital rewards. enter pokemon go #anyway so they make you make friends to complete quests. so i used a reddit thread. i do not usually use reddit. i don't have an acct #i lurked. i just googled like ''pokemon go reddit '' and randomly added a bunch of numbers #i was on that page for all of 15 minutes. there are THOUSANDS of responses on that page. #here's what's wild: in that group of people. even though i am not on reddit and it was one random event once #it turns out one of those people lives in the town i live in. or at least very close. i only know this because #when we send each other gifts. it's from the same freaking area. #i can't ask them to meet up bc pokemon go doesn't have a messaging app lol but like . what are the fucking chances that #a random person posts in a random reddit thread and HAPPENS to get added by someone ELSE from their SAME TOWN #who by pure fucking CHANCE is ALSO playing pokemon go and looking for friends #i googled it there's only 42000 people in my broad region. the .......... smallness ! of the world!!!

[soranatus]

Diana’s creation in Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons (2021) 🥹

#if you haven’t read this yet you need to #it’s so good it’s beautiful and sad and an amazing story #dc comics #wonder woman #historia #Wonder woman historia #Hippolyta #artemis #hera #diana of themiscyra #greek mythology #Wonder Woman Day

[viperinz]

sometimes im just going about my day walking out in public, living my life to whatever extent i want to and i remember how good omens 2 ended and i have the urge to fall to my knees and grieve like i just found out i accidentally dropped my wallet down a drain pipe

#the feelings stories make others feel.. so powerful! #but also im so sad help #good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #aziraphale good omens #good omens aziraphale #crowley good omens #good omens crowley #aziraphale x crowley #ineffable spouses #ineffable husbands #ineffable wives #aziracrow #good omens aziracrow #aziracrow good omens #go2 #vee rambles

[bulkhummus]

What I think is particularly heart breaking about this episode, is that Esteban is immortalizing a memory that Cecil doesn’t get to experience. Esteban knows about his grandfather, because he has heard the story several times before according to Abby, in fact they all just heard it. Cecil is experiencing, second hand, remnants of a memory that slides off of him. It refuses to stick.

There is something so poetic to me about Cecil being a reporter, a journalist, an observer, and doing everything to piece together a story from literal scraps of his own life, only to find its already been written for him. The story has already been told. Cecil doesn’t listen to stories, he tells them. I can think of nothing more infuriating than a story being told and not having a satisfying ending, or an ending that makes sense. Nothing within the story justified the ending. And yet we have seen it before throughout the show.

I am reminded of the episode It Doesn’t Hold Up, where Cecil watches the last few minutes of his comfort film Cat Ballou, changed and different. He has seen the same movie over and over and over again, and now the ending is different. In the drawing Esteban drew in 245, there is a shovel stuck into the dirt, and there is a boy climbing into a tree. In the ending of Cat Ballou, there is a man digging into the base of the tree. Just like in the episode It Sticks With You, when Abby, Cecil and their mother journey into the woods, and Cecil climbs into a tree over and over and over again until he can no longer remember the outing with his husband and son. Just like in Cassettes, when a young Cecil’s story is cut short, in an ending that Cecil refuses to listen to, immortalized on tape.

Just like in Liminal Spaces, when Cecil enters a space that is neither here nor there and is haunted by someone who tells him that he wants Cecil to remember. The very face that Cecil saw in Cat Ballou in It Doesn’t Hold Up. In fact, he tells Cecil he has no choice, before once again, he is pulled from the story.

Cecil’s whole life is one long interrupted narrative. It’s as if he is an old cassette that isn’t rewound all the way before pulled out of the slot and put back on a shelf. The next person to listen to the tape, unknowing, doesn’t realize where they’re starting off is not the beginning. There are things missing. Cecil has gotten so good at forgetting (and justifiably so) — has forgotten how to stop. He’s recording over the same tape over and over again until the tape inside is no longer coherent. I’m thinking, of the sound of a cassette being rewound, and how it could sound very much like how Cecil is often describing owl sounds.

So, how disquieting, to have your own family stare back at you, privy to information about yourself that you do not get to have. Cecil is there, quite literally, to construct a story for his town, but who is there to construct a story for him? A man you used to hate? A sister you aren’t sure you even like? A husband who you have forgotten before? Children who see and hear more than you realize? The listener?

No. Instead he will sit until dawn comes, and be made a fool out of trying to create a story, maybe even a better one, out of scraps of memories.

#my baby girl is in denial okay and thats ok #i think its normal and healthy and good #im having so many thoughts my nbrain is moving a mile a minute #and like this was NOT coherent bc theres so much i want to talk anout but #damn how fucking sad this episode was im onsessed #i lvoe when cecils going through it #it doesnt hold up #Casette #It Sticks with You #Bedtime Story #cat ballou #liminal spaces #go to the mirror #wtnv #welcome to night vale #cecil palmer #wtnv spoilers

[kinnbig]

it really throws me off, because for some reason my English fails me, and I'm like, "how do - how do you - how would I say this 'natively'?"

Our Experience as Foreign Actors in Thailand | Perth Nakhun (ft. Luke Plowden)

#hdhjfjdjdkd the story behind one of kinnporsche's most iconic lines :D #this whole video is so good so interesting #there's more i want to gif but the part i want to gif MOST is in the patreon only cut so i caN't :( sad :( #perth nakhun #luke plowden #luke ishikawa plowden #kinnporsche #kp cast #kinnporsche cast #kinnporschesource #kpcast.gif #darcey.gif #darcey.txt #this is a bad time of day to post gifs but i'm doing it anywayyyy

[speakofcompersion]

For jjong month ♡ part [1/4]

#jjongmonth #my little tribute to jjong month :) i love that everyone coming together to celebrate him this month! my heart is full <3 #analook #tagging u because ur tags r the reason i knew about jjong month!! (new to shinee tumblr) and i thought u might want some jjong content :) #gifs sure are looking crispier~~ antlantis-area darling thank you!!!! <33 gif mentor advice coming in clutch! when i master this i will be #so powerfulllll i will ascend the stratosphere into space #the agit “the story by jonghyun” vcr #shinee #jonghyun #mygifs #speakofgifs #kim jonghyun #kpop #i also had the unfortunate discovery that gifs look great on the computer but pixelated on my phone. i think my phone screen must be #pretty shitty so sad lol :') i hope it looks good on other ppls phones at least heh~

[rawliverandgoronspice]

I think what chronically upsets me about TotK is that. So much of it could have been so good with so little change.

I am into Zelda as a sacrificial, wondrous and silenced creature who must literally carry the blade of the hero as a wound inside her forehead and silently wait to be humanized again --and the injustice of a kingdom built on such a premice doomed to repeat itself, especially if the kingdom was founded on such dubious grounds to begin with. I am into Ganondorf forcing the present to reckon with the past through the most violent clash, forsaking everything that made him a person while sinking down into petty vindictiveness until no connection and no humanity remains, even though independance was what he was trying to protect in the first place. I am into Link as somebody trying to hold onto his most important connection to the world he once knew being used to force him into a conflict that has ultimately nothing to do with him (sure that's SS again but, it could have been explored even further). I am into Rauru as this self-important, self-made king who used his own association to godhood to live out a power fantasy that refuses to ever be acknowledge as such, maybe compounded by the fact he is one of the last of his species and feel, himself, the crushing weight of their fading heritage?

I don't know, the Tears of the Kingdom or something????

But, it all tragically depends on one crucial thing, which is to allow hylians to be wrong sometimes.

And it's wild to me how all of this incredible potential to comment on the series' history and the characters' role in it is just. Flattened into nothing, because Good must be Good and Evil must be Evil, and Hyrule must be righteous at literally every cost --even if it means nervously rewriting their own history through convoluted logic that rejects conflict and depth and vulnerability at every turn.

#totk #totk critical #rauru #zelda #link #ganondorf #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war... #what offends me personally is that the game pretends to have written this heartwrenching tragedy #when objectively nothing has consequences and nobody (except maybe rauru and that's weak af) learns anything about their own flaws #look nintendo tragedies are My Shit you can't fool me into pretending you did a good job #especially when the execution is so so botched #you can't punch sonia's spine off and have ganondorf make a gary's mode face about it and pretend you wrote a good story like come on #also “man sad because wife died because bad guy is bad :(” is beyond level 0 of tragedy #it *can* be pulled off without making me roll my eyes with enough depth given to everybody involved #but this just wasn't it

[morganbritton132]

Steve didn’t want a dog.

The seizures started not long after they officially slammed the gate shut on the Upside Down, but it was suspected that they were probably happening before that. It’s subtle for the most part. It takes a while before anybody notices the shifting behind the eyes, the confusion, the dull drag that sinks into Steve’s body and tightens everything up.

They call them absence seizures. And then when Steve convulsed on the Family Video carpet, they say grand mal. They say brain damage and likely permanent, and it’s scary.

It is always scary when Steve’s brain betrays him, when his memory slips and his body fails, and Eddie knows that it’s frustrating. He knows that Steve hates it. He’s been on the opposite end of Steve’s mood swings, of the tears and the anger at going from a kid with no adult supervision to an adult that can’t drive their own car anymore.

He knows the fear that creeps into Steve’s voice through the phoneline when he’s somewhere he doesn’t recognize and doesn’t remember how he got there because Eddie is there. He is on the other end of the line. He is there for the confusion, for the messy emotions, for every breakdown and the attempted break up and Steve saying that he was holding Eddie back when all he ever did was keep Eddie together.

But it is scary.

It is so fucking scary every time that Eddie sits and waits by Steve’s side for him to come back to himself, fearing – always fearing that there might come a day that he doesn’t. But it’s scarier when he’s not there.

Steve does not want a dog.

The first time Eddie brought up a service animal, there are three adult men living in Wayne’s trailer. He’s flipping through a magazine and Steve says no. He says that they can’t afford a dog, much less a service animal and no, Steve would not ask his parents about it. He was lucky enough that they let him stay on their insurance after they kicked him out.

The second time Eddie brought it up, there is money. There is money for a trailer of their own. There’s money for Steve to go to school. There’s a label that signed them and talks of a nation-wide tour, and there’s a song on the radio, and Steve says no. Steve says that it’s unnecessary. He says that he’ll move in with Robin and Nancy while Eddie tours. That it’s okay.

The third time, they have an apartment of their own. Eddie has more money than he’ll ever know what to do with and Steve says no. He’s teaching first grade and he’s happy all the time, and he tells Eddie no. He says that it’s an almost invisible disorder and that sometimes he can pretend that it doesn’t exist. He says he can pretend that none of the bad stuff ever happened, and if he has a dog then it’s just a neon sign that says he’s got his head cracked open. He says people treat him like he’s something that can break when they know, and he hates it. He says it's like they’re all waiting for him to shake apart.

The fourth time – the medicine change, the overnight at the hospital – Steve doesn’t let Eddie get the words out of his mouth. He’s upset and he thinks that no one listens to him, and he says no. He says when he thinks about dogs than he thinks about dark nights, and the junk yard, and the creatures that weren’t dogs but kind of were, and he doesn’t want to be there anymore. They closed the gate. It’s not fair that the Upside Down still lives inside him.

Eddie does not bring it up again.

It doesn’t matter anyways.

It’s been years. They built a system. There are still seizures, still dissociative episodes and sleepwalking, and still the rare but terrifying grand mal seizures that sits like Chrissy Cunningham cracking to pieces in Eddie’s chest. There are appointments and medication, but there is family and friends, and they take the precautions they know to take and learn to take more. And it works.

It works until it doesn’t.

Corroded Coffins’ popularity started to drop off in the early 2000s. They don’t tour too much anymore, but sometimes Eddie leaves for a week to play a couple shows out of town and that was what he was doing four years ago. Neither of them think about Robin visiting her parents or the research position that took Dustin all over the world, or that half of their friends have moved out of the state. They say their goodbyes and they kiss each other, and Eddie comes home to blood tacky in the carpet.

He came home to Steve at the bottom of the stairs after having a seizure and falling, bleeding and in pain, unable to move and calling for a help no one can hear for three days. They have a system, but there are cracks big enough to fall through. Steve may not want a dog and maybe it isn’t what he needs, but it’s the only thing Eddie knows to ask about.

Eddie asks again for the first time in years, sitting next to him in the hospital. Steve says yes with bruises on his face and taste of a concussion on his tongue, and they get a well-trained dog with light fur that Steve names Ozzy.

Eddie feels for the first time in years like he can take a full breath, a little more of his fear slipping away.

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#so this is sad right? #someone asked for angst a while back and boy howdy am I not having a good day so here it is #also I feel like this contextualizes some of the things in the AU particularly why Eddie retired from touring in the first place #oh! also origin story for Ozzy #I feel like this can stand on its own but as always it’s a part of the #eddie munson tiktok saga #eddie munson #steve harrington

[mobius-m-mobius]

Most purpose is more burden than glory. And trust me, you never wanna be the guy who avoids it ’cause you can’t live with the burden.

LOKI APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 | for @dailyloki Day 6 : Favorite Quote

#mobius #loki #lokius #lokiweek2023 #mcuedit #lokiedit #marveledit #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #dailyloki #a hundred of his to choose from most of which i've happily giffed before but in all honestly this one's it for me #my good friend scar tissue the delivery of which has haunted my every waking moment for over a month now 😔 #his story was the most heartbreaking realization of how alone he's been at the tva... who knows if anyone had ever paused before then #and because of it he's been made to carry so much resignation and sadness simply by remembering a little bit of who he was #and wants to be! his eyes were so weary during the time theater remix it was like looking at a completely different character 😭😭 #never stop being surprised by owen's talent but god this scene will stay with me forever it's a level i've not experienced before #marvel #owenwilsonedit #dianagifs

[simplejoyss]

It’s how the kids “raised” by Tony are all affected differently as adults.

Babe, who believes his life is only worthwhile because of his special senses and skills. Who pretends to not need love but is longing for it. Who thinks that he cannot be loved because he is unworthy of love.

Charlie, who believes his life is worth less than other people’s and would rather sacrifice himself than see others suffer. Who thinks he shouldn’t be loved because it will put the people who love him in danger.

Jeff, who believes his life threatens anyone who knows his abilities, so he keeps everyone at an arm’s length away. Who thinks he cannot be loved because it will only lead to hurt and frustration.

Pete, who managed to escape Tony’s grip, but is still entangled in his web. Who saved himself and is now desperate to help others do the same. Who hasn’t given love a chance because he’s still only relying on himself.

Way, who believes he can force love if he tries hard enough. Who never considers life beyond Tony’s influence because he doesn’t think such a future is possible. Who is desperate for love but doesn’t realize that he is already loved and surrounded by a family of his own.

Kenta, who believes that if he does everything Tony asks of him, he will be loved. Who doesn’t understand that a man like Tony does not love but only uses. Who has lived in exile for so long that he’s lost sight of love and only knows loyalty.

It’s how they are all survivors and how they learn through the course of the show what love is and what it isn’t. And that they are capable and deserving of love despite what they were taught as children.

#at work but still thinking about the vroom vroom omegaverse show #oops #it’s because #the characters in pit babe are so good!! #I love a good character-driven story #I’m sad it’s over #pit babe #pit babe the series #pit babe meta #thai bl #babe x charlie #charlie x babe #babecharlie #charliebabe #jeff x alan #alan x jeff #jeffalan #alanjeff #pete x way #pete x kenta #itsybitsybabbles

[charrfie]

#im so sad it was such a good ask blog too but my mood has been so severely impacted by it i literally could not handle it anymore #big surprise your favorite character being put through constant and severe turmoil is emotionally damaging. who wouldve guessed #it makes me sad people are so fucking mean too :^( #<- in relation to some of the asks folks send in to guide stories along #like sure cute aggression yeah whatever but some of yall are straight up cruel for no reason. ill never understand it #i really wish i had the heart to keep following this blog bc its such a huge and beautiful passion project... but im sensitive:^( #even if its fictional #sorry to the mutual i had to break </3 wahhhh #late night personal posting. goodnight #laika originals #oh should i tag this as uhhh #vent #? kind of not really im just talking here

[vickyshinoa12]

Doing the story quest and I feel so bad for Jiyan. My man was trying to do his best, his general fell trying to protect the soldiers he was with,lots of his fellow soldiers died in front of him, and he had to become the next general. Now the same disaster is happening again and the phantoms are haunting him by using his fallen comrades and his dead general to mess with him… not to mention he tells us to put flowers on his grave if he passes.

Bruh someone give this man a hug. He desperately needs it.

((Also his mama needs to realize that Jiyan is an adult and he can do his own things, yeah healing is a good thing to have. But Jiyan wants to protect his people and nation. Let him do it dammit!))

#wuthering waves #jiyan #jiyan x reader #wuwa jiyan #he looks so sad #it making me sad #good story

[panevanbuckley]

don't get me wrong i love ao3 i would sacrific my soul for ao3 but sometimes i really wish it had that one feature from wattpad where you can comment on paragraphs rather than whole chapters y'know??

#please tell me someone else understands #like if i'm reading a 10k+ fic that's all one chapter there is just NO WAY i'm remembering the parts that made me squeal #but i want the author to know which bits are my favourite y'know?? #and suuure i could make a memo and copy and paste parts or whatever bc i've had comments like that myself and LOVE them #but i just get so engrossed in the story that i totally forget to do it! and then i'm so sad bc my comments are never as good #ao3 #wattpad #fanfic