#thread: going to be okay

[nxttheendxfthestxry]

Closed Starter: Going to Be Okay (James/Ciri/Bonuses)

He's through the woods as fast as his legs can carrying him, clearing obstacles including a small flame, coughing but not stopping, never stopping.

He has to find her.

There is no other option.

James coughs as he bursts through the treeline, seeing her, not even seeing the others, running straight up--

Hitting a barrier and backing off slightly, his hand coming to his head, shaking himself off quickly and recovering. "CIRI!"

Cora looks up, alarmed. What the--? She looks to her brothers. Cal looks surprised and a bit confused.

Meredith has her head down, arms curled over her head. She'd stopped crying a long while ago. She didn't have any tears left. She doesn't look up at the cry. She didn't have any hope left, either.

Brandon Breyer glances to his sister and her counterpart, raising an eyebrow. Was that... his uncle, at a younger age?

Maruca's eyes widen and she looks to Atlas. They'd finally made it out here, for all the good it had been. Wylie looks up, lighting up with hope. It had to be, didn't it?

@storystartsanew

#i try i try to be a good kid || james #a fantasy of who you think i'll be || cora #i'm a natural disaster || meredith #seriously i've got this || maruca #i'm definitely in for whatever comes next || wylie #have to have it my way 24 hours a day 'cuz i'm hot like that || caladium #dance with me through the night || ash #trek au || brandon #askstorykidshqevent #event: apocalypse #askstorykidshqapocalypse #&ciri. #&trek!hope. #&atlas. #&loriss / yarrow. #thread: going to be okay

[maliciouscigarette]

The Bible says Tetris and Puyo Puyo, not these "DT-cannon" and "4-wide" abominations.

#okay i'm derailing the tetris thread to talk about puyo puyo for a moment #because holy HELL #momoken #is so bloody satisfying to watch #but for pure tetris you can't go wrong with some wumbo streams #the speed #the skill #the insane t spin setups #they make me go weak at the knees #196 #r196 #apartmentofawesome #ruleposting #rule #/r/196 #r/196 #tetrisposting #puyoposting #tetris shitposting #ppt memes #tetris memes #196 migration

[egophiliac]

HOW WE FEELING ABOUT THE UPCOMING NEWSS 👹👹👹

man, it's a good thing they stopped doing the episode 7 SSRs, because I'm really low on keys and gems right now and --

OH NO

#twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 chapter 6 spoilers #IT'S MY BOY #MY BEAUTIFUL ELECTRIC BOY #LOOK AT HIM! HE'S A BIG BRAVE KNIGHT!!!!!!! #but in a good way or a bad way. IS IT IN A GOOD WAY OR A BAD WAY TWST?! #'armor of the eternal night' that's not ominous at all NOPE #malleus is nightmare moon confirmed #wait. wait. hold on. armor of the eternal KNIGHT. ha ha i'm sorry i'm losing my mind a little #me zooming in to the banner as if that's going to tell me anything new: is that a crocodile mask. is he wearing baul's mask. #they did the half mask thing in lilia's card too so i think it's just to show his face in the card art. but it could also be a Thing. #I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING #god this is cerberus ortho all over again. what could it possibly MEAN #someone on the twst pr team really loves seeing us lose our goddamn minds huh #okay okay okay i'm cool i'm good i'm calm #let me just arrange my red thread on my corkboard here #unified exams end on the 11th so we're looking at >2 weeks here #eeeeek #sorry jamil your kelkkarotu card looks lovely but we'll have to catch up later #(do love that they straight-up were like 'kelkkarotu rerun featuring jamil as sir not appearing in this story') #man i'm so glad my horrible shrieky son is getting a big fancy story card #i hope this means silver gets one too #i hope this means EVERYONE gets one too #YOU GET A FANCY STORY SSR! AND YOU GET A FANCY STORY SSR! #DECADENTLY-ILLUSTRATED PLOT TWISTS FOR EVERYONE

[saphushia]

need to be hooked up to an IV of etho music content i need it i need it i need-

references -> || nameless ghoul from the band Ghost || BTS || sheila rock - the rehearsal ||

#i tried really hard to find more concrete image sources than just descriptions and img links but #i spent a good hour chasing threads and thats the best i've got #i dont know much abt music other than. musicians hot. seeing ppl play music hot #tried different color style for that first one its fun #ethoslab #vintagebeef #beetho #<- open to interpretation. they're dorks <3 #hermitcraft #mcyt #art #fanart #hermitcrap #i think etho has an insane ear for copying songs he hears and putting notes together but can't read sheet music for shit #etho the kinda guy to go 'eh yeah i'm okay at playing' and then near-perfectly play a song he heard one time

[silo1013]

salvaged from the office fire in 1998

#my art #the x files #dana scully #fox mulder #alex krycek #i was talking about this on twitter yesterday but #i have a LOTTTTTT a lot of thought about this part of season two #mainly because i think that while scully probably realized she was never going to find peace ever again after emily #i do believe that the last time mulder ever thought everything would be okay was right before scully’s abduction #which is also kind of why i think mulder was closer to killing himself in ascension than in gethsemane #at the end of season four mulder is kind of resigned to his and scully’s lives unravelling #he’s more suspicious and slower to trust then he ever was #while ascension was the first time he was like. Oh okay. It’s over for us forever and ever #and the fact that he was still open and still kind of okay before that just kind of makes it worse #that he was just betrayed and left hanging and lost everyone he thought he had in one fell swoop #ascension jades the fuck out of him and you can see it. like through the whole series there are threads of it #his tendency to rely on skinner regresses for a while. he becomes even less functional when scully is gone. #he has far less patience for his informants and he refuses to rely on anyone the way he tried to on krycek #like it’s just. such an obvious shift in his character that you can tell his mindset about his and scully’s life has changed #and that’s a huge part of the show’s tragedy i think. ​there is no peace. there is no rest. it’s never going to be okay

[margina1ia]

Idk where it was, but I think I saw a post about how Cassandra couldn't finish saying the word "fair" without being consumed by the rage shard. Going back and watching the moment when it starts to go wrong in the wizard synod, Cassandra says "it's not fair" immediately before the shard rips through her and she begins bleeding out.

Thinking about this with the Bad Kids' convo with Lydia Barkrock and how the pit fiend in her chest couldn't say the name of the dead fallen god he served or he could only say it in certain contexts... I wonder if Cassandra had another sibling aside from Galicaea and Sol (or maybe it is Sol?? Or Helio???) that she was a right hand to or had a contract with (now I'm thinking about rules and relationships re: figs warlock classes????), and maybe what Lydia's party invoked is what happened to Cassandra. I wonder if, when the Bad Kids find out more about the ritual, they will recognize elements of what happened at the wizard synod.

Anywayyyyys, maybe I'm just drowning in red strings lol

#fantasy high #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #d20 #d20 spoilers #sounds like they gotta go talk to gorthalax #and maybe kristin needs to go read some more about sol #if my theory is correct though the god would have to be a god of fairness #which would also tie into fishflower metalplants campaign???? #is sol the god of fairness?? helio can't be because he's the god of corn?? #but in fy kristin asked him why good things happen to good people and he was like PEACE!! #anyway was yes or helio or sol killed in the astral plane bc i dont remember #it could also be something else but my red string board COVERED IN THREADS (that go nowhere lol) #anyway heres my insane first original post about d20 ever #ALSO Cassandra was offered to become a warlock patron by becoming an archfey??? #ALSO ALSO i wonder if sandralynn would know more about ivy embra if shes also a sylvan ranger #OKAY FINE I WILL GO TO SLEEP NOW

[twistsandturnsroundwonderland]

Some memes because how else am I supposed to handle waiting for the second half of book 6. Thank you, Rook, for being so memeable.

Love and beauty? Hm, sounds familiar but I can’t quite place it.

Hello???? HELLO???? I WOULD LIKE TO SEE VIL PLEASE

…bonjour

Oh, CAN’T I?

#rook hunt #epel felmier #idia shroud #twst yuu #twst mc #twisted wonderland #twst #twst book 6 #twst book 6 spoilers #book 6 spoilers #do I know everything is going to be okay yes am I still worried about the boys also yes #I’ve not read it through jpn so please do not tell me #twsted threads

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

me desperately trying to outrun my writer’s block for the fiftieth time this week

#i know i vent about my writing struggles a lot on here #but god i really am struggling with this chapter of four walls so much #i feel disconnected and overly critical and lacking motivation and UGH #why can’t life be simple and just let me enjoy the things i enjoy #maybe i’m struggling so much because actually this is the longest story i’ve written in literal years and it’s kind of a daunting #i don’t want to mess it up #and i’m kind of scared i’m losing the thread #i know i just need to trust the process but sometimes it’s really hard #okay rant over #i’m going to gather snacks and return to my laptop and see if i can finally get in the zone #lulu posts

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Beating back more fic ideas with a stick

#just thinking about like if we do get a shooting callback/ reversal and Buck's hurt bad and rolled off in the hospital #and Eddie's covered in his blood and tommy is there and hes worried for buck duh but like hes worried for his friend eddie too #eddie who had to watch whatever happened go down #and then something something #and somehow we get to eddie like crying and kind of lost looking and saying i know you might love him but I love him. #i love him more. ive loved him longer. i- i /know/ him. he's- #i was here first- #and just kind of nonsense begging as tommy is like. ah. okay. okay. #i feel like this could easily be too dramatic in a way i wouldnt like but maybebi could thread the needle of good characterization #and make it work #but! too much other shit to do! maybe eventually!

[aheathen-conceivably]

Ok so I read the post on your thoughts on Gio and the American Dream and I hate to say it … as an immigrant, I understand him.

I also come from a culture where women tend to their male partner's needs and I don't believe he wants to turn Jo into a subservient wife. He fell in love with a lively, free, and wild Jo and loves that aspect of her.

At the end of the day she loves him too so why would she leave? I understand she doesn't like to be dependent of him but where else would she go? There are no parties or glamour, which was her whole thing, anymore. At least the farm offers stability in the economic crisis.

Point is, I understand Gio as an immigrant, but don't understand Jo as a woman.

BABES! We’ve got another one…

(As in me being touched and having no other means to say how much I love y’all takes other than to give them a standing ovation in GIF form).

But you know…there’s a whole lot to break down here, friend, especially about Jo. I think you know what that means! Under the cut we go….

First and foremost, I very much appreciate you saying you understand that aspect of Gio. I did in part write him as a commentary on the immigrant experience in America (filtered through his own personality/character of course), and so to know that is relatable means a lot to me. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to tell y’all his journey is far from over, and you can already see the cracks in his outlook beginning to form. Whenever Jo is depressed he says this quite vividly:

Because you are very, very correct. This isn’t about molding Jo into some subservient housewife, or even eroding those exact qualities that he loves in her. This is about Gio attempting to square what he’s been taught/believes will bring his life happiness and meaning with his own experience and emotions. It’s about the myth of the American dream and the perfect housewife and the very real struggle of those things existing as actual, lived realities.

Because at the root of it, Gio is amalgamating an understanding of his own family unit and what he knows he doesn’t want in this country. He has seen another methods of “making it” in America, and so he thinks if only he can make the “right” choices, he can avoid that, and become the respected and happy man that he wants to be.

Now onto Jo, boy oh boy, Jo….

I think one of the core misunderstandings here is that Jo wants stability. This is kind of the crux built into her desire for control and her never-ending failure to achieve it. She wants to control her surroundings, to make sure nothing and no one can hurt her, but she also wants to feel in a way that is hard to find in a stable, heavily domesticated life. On the flip side, despite whatever imaginary dream Gio has, he’s the same way. They both want a life filled with excitement and new experiences, new people and rushes of emotions. This is one of the ways they differ heavily from Antoine and Zelda.

Now on one level, this is simply the way Josephine is. She’s high energy, fun loving, and insatiable. But on a deeper level, this is tied into her experiences not only as a woman, but as a daughter. She has a brief moment of clarity in that last post where she realizes:

Now I have chosen not to go too in-depth on Josephine’s trauma, but you can see her lay out the course of events here and also her deep hesitation to any of it here. Josephine is still only a teenager in that second post. Her mother not only told her things like that (“this is the weight that prejudice and expectation have placed upon us”) but also “what do you want to be then? Some glorified maid to a man?” (Which, frankly, I can write another Ted Talk about the juxtaposition here, but I think ya'll can pull some threads).

So when you see Josephine’s struggle with control, this is heavily rooted in bodily autonomy. Now all things considered, Josephine has managed to make great strides toward reclaiming this and reasserting not only her sexuality, but also her sense of self in her body. Gio knows this. We see him recognize and respect it quite clearly in that last post. He’s been part of that process for her, and that only adds another element of love, trust, and safety between them.

But on a fundamental level, neither Gio nor Josephine has made the connection between that trauma, her own personality, and why she hates her life now so much:

Here’s the issue right now: Josephine doesn’t feel like she’s living her own life. We have seen how she would like to live in the 20s not just in the parties and glamour, but when she was managing bands. She wants to be fulfilled professionally, through helping people/places she believes in and bettering her own life by bettering theirs. That’s how she gets her joy, and that’s what she would chose to do if given the chance.

And right now, she does not feel like she gets to chose. You’re correct in that part of that is coming from the current economic situation. Again, she sees that herself here. She knows what demons are waiting outside her window, and how easily poverty can make them rearise. That only makes it worse. It doesn’t make the smell of bread (domestic security) any better or more comforting. It makes it bitter, because she didn’t chose it. She was backed into a corner by circumstance (and, as she can sense, by the choices men made for her without telling her), and now she feels like she can’t say no. That’s her ultimate trigger.

Now whether or not that loss of control is simply perceived, or should be offset by how “lucky” she is to be in a stable position in such precarious economic times, we might all have different options on. Even more, I’m sure each of us would answer differently for ourselves in that situation. I know I would. But for Josephine? Not only is this a life she will never find joy in, because even without her trauma, she is an ambitious, restless, and outgoing person with different goals for herself; but that added memory and pain makes her reaction to it all the more volatile.

Perhaps most importantly, Jo feels as though her life is being controlled again, whether by Gio, the reality of the world outside her window, or by her own guilt/love that makes her feel beholden to the people around her (just like it did to her mother). Because you’re right, she does love him. She wouldn’t leave because she doesn’t. If she leaves now, it would leave because she panicked, because she feels like she’s lost all the autonomy she worked so hard to regain and she’ll never feel the fulfillment she felt when she was successfully independent ever again. That’s the element I hope we can understand, even if it’s not what we would do.

#okay THAT might be my longest Ted Talk yet 🤣 #which if you’re actually reading you really deserve a tshirt let’s be real #and I’m so very sorry they’re so long #I try and infuse them into all the posts but like to condense it and write it all out clearly can be so helpful sometimes #for me too let’s be real #and like I want them to have a real solid base before we move into ~the great unknown~ #anywho there’s a number of threads I could have touched on here that I didn’t for ~time~ #but if you’d like to go through the #Josephine Duplanchier extra #tag there’s some good stuff there too 😉 #Giorgio Mistretta extra #also #*ahem* #does it REALLY offer stability in the economic crisis? #y’all remembering what I’m remembering? 😬 #ain’t a true American dream without a healthy serving of debt aint it

[babemaya]

Maya was so over the encounter she had with her ex and just wanted to have a nice evening with her boyfriend, she wanted to enjoy going shopping and spending time with him without the nuisance of someone else getting under her skin. Her driver dropped her off in her pink Cadillac as she patiently waited outside the car for her boyfriend to come out from the house.

@jaxxandersonrp

#I hope it's okay i started something new for them lovely! #if not i can go back to the old thread :) #you also don't have to use gifs either it's just optional :)

[sciderman]

Sci sorry it's me again the shit asker anon, another question, you ever have hiccups when you eat? Apparently you shouldn't eat while your having hiccups, cause it's like, a choking hazard or sumthin, not me tho I'm built different like that, but don't eat while you have hiccups is the moral I guess

i haven't had hiccups since i was 12 years old but i guess that's good to know

#i'm sure there's a better place you can go with these sorts of messages. some health thread or something but. okay. #sci speaks #i've always been a very slow eater who paces themselves. so i don't get hiccups. my dad gets hiccups all the time when he eats #and i know it's because he ingests everything like a snake

[sollucets]

guys i am trying Really hard not to have public opinions about of this morning... pray for me

#i work really hard not to do that. genuinely. every single time i reblog a meta or post my own opinion or write more serious tags #it is Vetted #i keep these things to my friends & my discord & such on purpose because. because. it's better for everyone #but im hanging on by a thread today i guess :') #for now.... just.... people need to remember that when youre debating fiction like this #the characters are fictional but the people listening aren't #and you can cause real fucking harm by talking about demographics the way people have been #rowan chatter #(if i see someone fucking say ray can't love again i'm going to kill. it's directly to murder i will be committing crimes) #(AND if i see another implication that he should've had to get sent to prison it'll be arson also) #fuck you all you dont get to have ray anymore. im taking him he's in my pocket now #do people even know how rehab & therapy fucking WORK #okay. okay. okay okk okokokkok mission failed a little #but we're far enough down in the tags now. reblogs are off. don't eat me

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Walking In Two Worlds & The Everlasting Road

YA sff set in the near future where an opensource augmented reality is commonly used like social media, and there’s also a completely virtual fantasy game version

follows an Anishinaabe girl who who’s the top player in the VR game, and is constantly fighting to keep her place against the misogynist neo-nazi group in second place

as well as her real life, dealing with being a shy and self-conscious teen growing up on the Rez, and her brother having cancer

and a Uyghur boy who’s moved to her community from China after finding acceptance in an online community (even when he doesn’t agree with their more extreme views) - but when he gets to know Bugz, he has to decide who truly deserves his loyalty

great mix of sff and culture, the future while also very real community traumas of the past (and present)

#walking in two worlds #the everlasting road #wab kinew #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #This has some REALLY interesting and important concepts! #I just think it could have used some more development… Obvs this is YA and I’m an adult I know I’m not quite the audience! #There’s a lot of depth in the setup of the characters but I feel like it skips a lot of the progression #I think there could have been space for more development in a lot of places to make the story feel more dimensional #- but also has so many plot threads that maybe that would have bulked it out too much #It does also jump around quite a bit between the different parts but I think that makes sense with how juggling with irl / online life. #she’s got a lot of internalised fatphobia at the start (and the love interest going “I don’t think you’re fat!!” when people call her fat.. #then in book 2 suddenly she’s okay about it - again I wish there was some progression! #her brothers cancer journey is. basically all offscreen lol mostly as set up for plot in book 2. so it doesn't have the emotional impact it #could have.. #I liked the way it integrates her culture into the game in a really cool way (though I would have liked more detail there) #also having auto language translators but they regularly don't translate quite right / still run into issues - realistic! #the parallels drawn between his being taken from his family and put in a state education school and Indigenous residential schools #the way that a future world will never be as separate from the past as ur average sff future often portrays #but yeah anyway lots of good ideas execution not so much for me..

[justalittlebluetiefling]

But the difference between Brennan's "ME!" and Travis's "I guess it could be me." is hysterical.

#brennan 'I'M DOING THIS' #travis 'am i doing this are we doing this maybe we are okay let's go????' #candela obscura #circle of needle and thread

[wcvensouls]

should she be flirting with her coach? probably not, yet saebyeok didn't seem to mind it at all. " ahh, you worked me so hard today, coach. i think that i deserve a little treat for doing so good, don't i? "

@allbettr : closed starter .

#allbettr #kwak saebyeok : threads . #two little starters for us to get things going <3 #i hope they were okay c: