#to long distance friends is... hard

[thatlesbiancrow]

HOORAY! MY EARRING COLLECTION!!

i finally organized them! most of them at least...

the ones in the pink box were gifts to me, all the others were made by my own hand!! and other than a hidden pair of black worms on strings, all of he ones in pockets are ones not made by me that i need to get rid of haha.

which is your favorite? i tend to reach for the same ones so maybe this will spark more variety in what i wear!!

#jewelry #homemade earrings #lesbian earrings #i have bright pink hair AND i wear these but somehow men still think i want to date them?? #when i made my first ones one of them was the holy bible pair #i thought it was so funny to make bible earrings bc of the whole 'don't modify your body' thing or whatever that's in it #a funny ironic jab #but it actually makes me pretty sad to have them #it was pretty soon after i moved to a new place and it made me realize i was alone again #the new people i met wouldnt have found them funny #my old friends would have got it though #THEY would have got it and found it as funny as i did #but in this new place i was all alone #i cant find it in me to get rid of them because they remind me of my friends #but it hurts to look at it #we've lost touch #and like that happens! but it still hurts #they were so important to me and still are #but going from in person friends who hung out outside of school often #to long distance friends is... hard #and something im really bad at #i miss them

[starry-bi-sky]

i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.

BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.

Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.

Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.

But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.

Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.

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They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.

It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.

If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)

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Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.

They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.

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Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.

One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.

Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.

And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.

She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.

She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?

And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.

(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)

The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.

Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #danyal al ghul #its kinda hard to get my thoughts in order bc i am ✨unmedicated✨ rn BUT #this is the gist of it #i could wax poetic about how much sam and tucker adore danny as their friend but alas. the wax is not waxing. it is stuck to the paper #and i am chipping it off with my nail and its getting stuck under it. #ocarina batman has been in my head since friday someone come sedate me. him and pit fighter batman too. who is ALSO a piss poor teenage #bruce wayne who instead of a vigilante and villains is a PIT FIGHTER. he fights blindfolded thats why he's called the bat #ocarina batman's Look is if you combined punk + assassins creed aesthetic together and then gave it an ocarina #the ocarina is because i thought it'd be cool if its how he and robin communicated across long distances bc they didnt have comms #because they are ✨poor✨ and live in a one room apartment in crime alley. #and also the mental image of him sitting on. rooftop ledge in the rain playing 'song of storms' from LoZ was too fantastic to ignore #like bro imagine hearing that as a criminal. you're off doing shady shit with your gang and in the distance you hear the faint and #haunting melody of an ocarina. two of them in a call and response duet. and its getting closer. and you cannot find where #siren type shit fr fr #look he has the assassins creed hood and a long ass coat that has spikes on the end that when flared out looks like the silhouette of a bat #on fucking GOD i am this 👌 close to finding an artist doing commissions to make this for me. i am frothing at the mouth #he is 17-19 years old with his little brother-son Robin. Logically Robin is Dick but in my heart of hearts the first Robin is Jason #and he has perfected the art of getting his older brother to play songs on the pan flute for him. long pitchy whine on his own ocarina #the familiar childlike 'pleeeaaaaaaase?' and he knows he's won when there is a 10s silence on the other end before his brother plays #a lullaby. #look up 'sailor moon - pan flute (relaxing) on youtube' and when there's the thumbnail of two green skinned aliens with long blue and pink #hair. click on it. THAT is the song Bruce plays. #hhhhhhhhhhh frothing at the mouth over this au sooo fucking badly

[genderfcker]

do you ever think about how NONE of the gangsey really had friends before they met each other besides henry? the only people we know gansey interacted with before meeting adam and ronan are people like mallory, who i wouldn't really count as super close friends. we know blue was the odd girl at school. that the only people adam seems to really interact with are gansey, ronan, and noah at the start of the raven boys. we know ronan was close with his brothers, but never mentions any close friends growing up. even noah is only really described as having one close friend (whelk) in high school, and we all know how that one ended up.

i think a lot about how messy the friendships are in that group, but it wasn't until today that i realized that part of the reason might be because none of them have really had friends before. it makes sense that henry, the ONE person who actually seems to have friends besides the gangsey, is also the one who is the most upfront with getting friends, and the one who seems to be really good at picking up his new friends' strengths. he's already been there before, so he knows how to interact within groups like that. everyone else is still figuring out that dynamic all throughout the series.

#it also explains why adam has so much trouble opening up to his new friends at harvard in the dreamer trilogy #his one standard is the gangsey #and more specifically gansey #he tries mimicking gansey's method of gathering people down on their luck because that's the ONLY thing he knows #but gansey is also not the best at opening up to people #so adam never once really thinks about how to do that #especially when everything that happened in henrietta within the gangsey was generally group knowledge since its a small town #its hard to hide things there #you can even make an argument for ronan struggling so much in the trilogy because he's never had long distance friendships before #he's still trying to figure it out #but failing miserably at it #the gangsey #trc #the raven cycle #gansey iii #richard campbell gansey iii #adam parrish #ronan lynch #blue sargent #noah czerny #henry cheng

[justanotherstardrop]

fr lol

#my uploads #upload #uplaods #meme #cat #cats #kitten #kitty #cat meme #cat memes #friendship goals #friendship #friend #best friend #friends #frienship #sleeping #long distance is hard #long distance friendship #long distance #internet friend #internet friends

[druidonity2]

2021 just some guys celebrating pride

#world of warcraft #anduin wrynn #baine bloodhoof #2021 pride fanart #I think baineduin is cute but with how Baine has been written the last few years I just can't see it working outside fanfic #I just. really wish they'd shown more strain in their relationship in BFA #And I wanted Baine to be more active in SLs #Have Baine confront Mawduin at some point #I drew that ill post it next #Anduin and Baine could've been a really interesting friendship in canon exploring what makes ally/horde relationships so hard to maintain #and yet these two of all of them would be able to power through their differences and fights and dissagreements #But I think its just too late to really properly capture that in canon which sucks #In my fanon of them they're never able to be a close couple more long distance but they hoard cute love letters from eachother #and when lucky they may meet in secret #but in the end no one ever knows that theyre more then friends #prehaps other then jaina #jaina knows everything i think #if your curious my main ship is wranduin but honestly i think anduin is just a little dork who crushes easily #I could see him with a few different people given the fanfic is written right #but also as an ace i do like the idea of Anduin as ace #honestly I just think of Anduin as a piece of playdoh i make him into whatever i want at the moment

[thissmycomingofage]

The universe puts its best soldiers (me) through the worst challenges (sickness) for them to enjoy their reward (maisie concert, night out with best friends, finally meeting irl maisie fans that I haven't created myself, discovering one of my bff's friend is a fan and is coming to the concert too!!?!?!)

#i was soooo scared my sickness would last too long for me to go to the concert #but all weeks I had appointment cancelled for some reasons #so I got time to relax #and now I'm feeling better and I'm seeing Maisie on valentine's #about to experience the best day of my life #and my bff just texting me telling me he just learned a long distance friend of his is a fan and his coming on Paris for the concert #?!?!? #I'm dying over here!! #i will scream ''the universe is shifting and it's all for me'' so hard just for that !!!! #olife #text #oli schist!

[harpiesgonewild]

These monkeys are fucking gay!!!

#*several pride crab raves play in the distance* #happy gay month!!!!! #wanted to get this done earlier but eh #as long as I got it done before the end of the month I’m happy #also my first time posting any art of Wukong (or really anyone besides the TLT) #I’ve drawn him before but not to post #shoutout to my friends for the pose btw #was really hard to figure out but I like how it came out!! #also I want to own mk’s jacket despite not being aroace #tfw you make up an article of clothing you want to wear #aroace trans MK my beloved #lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk mk #lmk qi xiaotian #qi xiaotian #lmk wukong #lmk sun wukong #lmk monkey king #pride month #pride #trans #transgender #aroace #aromantic asexual #gray ace #grey romantic #harpydoesart #digital art

[lunapwrites]

If you have a friend who goes out of their way to make you feel shittier while you're down:

1) that person is not your friend

2) they should be carefully and completely excised from your life, starting ASAP. (Not necessarily immediately, but when you can.)

#obviously some nuisance and context should be considered but like #but like. it shouldn't be hard to have compassion for others. #especially friends. #and even if you've got some hurt their actions are causing #there's a time and a place to address them #IDK just thinking a lot about that time i was receiving death threats #and my best friend at the time said i deserved them #and that was when they stopped being my best friend #but it took way too long for me to cut ties completely #and that was for someone I've grown up with. #we were inseparable since we were five. #but with time and distance i was able to see patterns #and they were never my friend. not really. #that was a slow severing over the course of decades #but i managed #i have better people around me now #you will too #lp talks

[but-still-elegant]

i thought that losing you would kill me, but it made me numb.

#love #personal #liebe #zitat #falsche freunde #anxitey #thoughts #einsam #lonley #losing friends #heart break #break up #relatable quotes #relationship #on off relationship #long distance friendship #long distance is hard #long distance quotes #long distance love #sad thoughts

[orcgirlcock]

i need to kiss someone right now. i need to hold their face as i lean in for the kiss. i need to feel their lips against mine and have our tongues slide across each other. i need to feel the slight hesitation before they finally give in and kiss me back with everything they've got. i need to feel the saliva stringing between our mouths. i need to feel their hands pulling me closer, desperate to feel all of me

#i just woke up from a dream where one of my friends wanted to kiss me but was too shy about it #but i could tell they wanted it so i gently rubbed their face and leaned in most of the way #and let them close the distance. they were still nervous until i slipped my tongue into their mouth #in which case all worry left their head and they kissed me back proper #and it was everything I've ever wanted in a kiss. but now im awake completely unkissed #I'm tired of getting teased by my dreams like that.. #i get stuck with all this vivid passionate imagery and no fucking outlet #i feel so pathetic yearning this hard but all my peers have had their first kisses #friends that i wanted to kiss going and kissing eachother in front of me just for the hell of it #the girlfriend i dated for longest refused to kiss me. i got like. maybe 2 cheek kisses? never once on the lips #even when i asked she would say no. i dont resent her for it but Man did it hurt #the closest I've ever gotten was one of my friends shotgunning me hits from his bong #every time my heart flutters and i want to kiss him for real #ive just been searching for someone to kiss me for a very long time #and ive just never found them...

[maraeffect]

you know, however """cringe""" it may be to be a full grown adult who still religiously watches dnp...they're literally the only reason I'm making it thru the holiday season rn. nothing else. if anything, my gratefulness for them exponentially outweighs any embarrassment i might feel.

#like. first holidays being ...distanced....from my only direct family. #not really speaking to anyone irl who isnt a stranger. not speaking to many close friends bc of. circumstances #scans today and next week. unsure what might pop up. i think im developing long covid #so i feel like shit always. idk i feel like. and this WILL be cliched. #but i feel like maybe the universe was tossing me a lifeline when dnp came back EXACTLY when they did #right around then i had hard stuff to sort thru back home. issues w relationships. covid. and pneumonia before that #i just feel so blessed to still be around to watch the new stuff #chatter #dnp

[anxious-witch]

My posts might get sad and nonsensical today, I apologize in advance

#rio rambles #I legit feel like I feel when going to see my long distance friends and then having to leave #idk what they did to me but it genuinely felt like we were there with them #and as wonderful as it is...it also hits hard after

[madd-nix]

Totally forgot I didn't post these sketches from a few weeks ago! Anyway, this is in an au of an au of sorts. Here, Ingo and Johanna had already married pre-eeby (I have a whole plot for that in my head if anyone's interested). Now, instead of Dawn getting sent to Hisui, Johanna gets sent there and gets to reunite with her amnesiac husband.

So, obviously, Ingo would be there helping his wife quell the last two nobles, but while facing Lord Electrode, he gets a bit distracted cuz his wife is pretty and strong and an amazing dodger, and as a contest coordinator she's probably occasionally throwing in some flair due to habit, and Ingo is just in awe. Poor guy almost gets crushed cuz he's not paying attention to the frenzied noble. And poor Johanna has to keep an eye on her mess of a husband.

#my art #pokemon #pla #railsandribbonsshipping #johanna #pokemon johanna #submas #ingo #subway boss ingo #subway master nobori #warden ingo #i will say a little here about what happens pre-hisui #johanna was childhood friends with ingo and emmet and elesa but when she turned 14 she moved to sinnoh to pursue coordinating #they eventually grew apart as they all got older cuz keeping in touch long distance can be hard #johanna at some point meets a guy and gets engaged and ends up getting pregnant but the guy leaves her cuz he didnt want a kid #so she has dawn alone and ends up moving back to unova to be closer to family so they can help her raise dawn #when dawn is about 2 that's when johanna reunites with ingo after bumping into him at the subway with her daughter #then of course she reunites with emmet and elesa and she meets skyla too #she and ingo eventually date and later marry #also if you'll notice that ingo has his wedding ring on a string/chain around his neck #when he got to hisui he wasn't sure what it was for but he knew the ring was special and meant something to him #but with all the climbing he does he didn't want to ruin it or break it so he keeps it on a necklace #which is usually tucked into his parka for safe keeping #anyway i love these two and i will not stop spreading this propaganda

[heavencasteel420]

Steve, Tommy, Carol, and (I think?) Billy being one year older than Nancy, Jonathan, Robin, etc. has caused me NO END of problems in plotting fic. For example:

I just realized that, in Tonight, Tonight, I made Steve, Tommy, and Carol seniors in fall 1985, when they would have graduated in spring 1985. So then I had to choose between making them all high school graduates who have moved on (like, Steve could definitely still be dating Nancy in that scenario but he wouldn't be hanging out with her in the local Tragedy House with his buddies, so the whole first chapter is different), making them all high school graduates who haven't moved on (doable, maybe? But that would require either making Barb's disappearance a lot more impactful to them as a group, which means Nancy is in a really different place, or creating separate reasons which would probably be too busy), and changing the setting to fall 1984 (which means Nancy and Jonathan are both dealing with much rawer trauma, but they are the main characters of the fic so that seems like a better avenue to go down, and also it might actually make more sense with how I planned the dynamics between Jonathan and his New Jersey relatives). I did choose the third option ultimately.

I have an idea for a no-Upside-Down fic that's basically Nancy, Jonathan, Mike, and Will dealing with the conflicts I think they might've had in the absence of all that death and supernatural horror, and (for plot reasons) it bugs me so much that Mike can't be in high school at the same time as Carol.

I've had a couple Stonathan ideas where there's no Upside Down and Steve and Jonathan both end up at the same state college (Steve makes it because his academic/athletic performance is better when he's not dealing with constant physical and psychological trauma; Jonathan's dealing with a more stable family situation so he feels like he can leave home, but nothing ever really changed at home to allow him to consider an out-of-state school as an option). And it would be so much simpler for the set-up of these fics (as I conceive them) if Steve graduated the same year as Nancy and she broke up with him right around graduation before going to a different college.

#fic problems #stranger things #here's the problem with the stonathan fics: #nancy needs to break up with steve because (while he's a good boyfriend) he's pretty narrow-minded and callous generally #jonathan is friends with nancy and is aware of her reasoning #and it tracks with his experience of steve #so when he runs into steve at college he's like ugh. this guy. #but a year of college has broadened steve's horizons so he's cool now #so option one is that steve went off to college after being dumped #and nancy and jonathan hung out at hawkins high for a year #and i have to explain why they didn't get together #which isn't hard per se but it's not my first instinct #option two is that nancy dated steve long-distance for a year and dumped him when SHE left for college #but i think if steve improved in such a way she'd be like. oh. i am into this #so the answer. as it often is. is stoncy

[knowing--clandestinely]

due to various circumstances I've been quite far from hitting my arbitrary steps goals for a while now, and it means walking so much as 3 miles in one go is pushing it on overexertion, it makes these muscles around the back of my knees feel a certain way, and I need to work my way up to it now. prev time i walked over an hour I had to limit it the next day bc of how much I was still feeling it

#text post #thankfully I can start going on my walks like every day from here on out and rebuild what needs rebuilding #bc i was walking fast to keep up with a friend while walking to the train the other week and it was hard to talk and walk at that pace #which I'd basically never experienced before in my life. being so out of breath while fast walking a few blocks #i had been pretty diligent with getting 10k daily back in the day but like yknow I was bedridden for a while and then when I wasnt there #were hinderances anyway those shouldnt be in place for quite some time so tis the season to rebuilding muscle towards walking long distance