#very normal response

[dccontramundum]

“anyone touches you, says anything to you, so much as looks at you the wrong way- you come get me, and i’ll set them straight. understand?” ~@galacticforces ((Joan taking him out somewhere with her friends))

MORSE'S STOMACH DOES A FLIP. That makes him feel... something. It definitely shouldn't, but it does. Quickly, he tries to backtrack in his mind, reverse the sudden warm feeling before it takes hold properly.

FOR A START, THAT WON'T HAPPEN. Why would somebody touch him? Why would somebody say something to him? And if they did, he could definitely handle it himself. He doesn't need protecting. If something happens, he'll be fine, because he handles that sort of thing every day at work. Teasing, jokes made at his expense, being looked at in a particular way... he deals with that just fine. Doesn't he?

HE DOES. He knows he does. He ignores it all, from the rolling of eyes to the pointed jabs and cruel teasing about his interests and hobbies. But... hasn't he thought, every now and then, about what it might feel like if someone did say something? As soon as his mind goes there, instead of successfully finding its way back to a normal response, he's burning with shame. Not only does he like what she's just said, but he's thought about it before! To even acknowledge it is excruciating. Morse likes the thought of being defended, being protected. How completely humiliating. He's not supposed to indulge those thoughts when they happen as fleeting wishes or fantasies, never mind when he's supposed to be having a normal conversation with Joan.

THIS ISN'T GOING WELL. His eyes are wide and he's definitely blushing, and he really needs to say something or this silence is going to linger too long. "Well, I'm sure... nobody I know will be there. So..." he trails off. Really? That's the best he can come up with? All he's really done is suggest that if there were people he knows there, then something might happen. Great. "I'll be fine," he clarifies quickly, shaking his head. "But, um, thank you."

#great job morse #that wasnt weird at all #very normal response #galacticforces #answered. ( love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. ) #verse. ( where could i rest but in your hurricane? ( married verse. ) )

[jedi-starbird]

Alpha-17 and Obi-Wan being friends (derogatory) on 17's part and friends (threatening) on Obi-Wan's part is such an underrated dynamic

They could be so funny and terrifying, like Obi-Wan went through a soul shredding experience with Alpha-17 as his only company. They're friends because what else are you gonna be after you witness each other at absolute rock bottom from torture.

It's like 'dog put in cage of cheetah who's threatening to go crazy', except the dog is a grizzly bear and also threatening to go crazy.

Emotional support trooper except the trooper in question has never done any sort of supporting in his life and is actively an emotional distress trooper to a great number of the CC batch.

I want them texting everyday, I want Obi-Wan mailing handmade BFF bracelets to Alpha and Alpha sending pics back of him flipping off the camera but still wearing them, I want Alpha using Obi-Wan to keep track of and occasionally terrorize his cadets, I want 17 ending problems in the GAR (like Krell) before they begin because Obi-Wan has him shipped out on a personal transport at the first opportunity, decked out with slug-throwers Obi-Wan got him for his decant-day.

Natborn officers think this is all just an odd indulgence of General Kenobi, the Vode, however, correctly identify it as a goddamn threat and their danger assessment of Obi-Wan ticks up significantly.

When Alpha arrives on Kamino, Shaak Ti presses a shiny new comm into his hand. It has the Jedi Order symbol painted onto it alongside a smiley face sticker, and it pings immediately with a new message: Hello! I hope you're settling in well!

Alpha stares at the message, stares at the singular contact named 'OWK' and then stares Shaak Ti in the eye as he pitches the comm straight into the ocean. Shaak Ti's serene smile only grows larger as she calmly reaches into her robes and pulls out an identical comm, only this one has a frowny face sticker, and presses it into his hand. It lights up: I'm afraid we've bonded, Alpha :). Alpha shuts it off and pockets it with resignation.

Cody arrives on Alpha-17's personal recommendation.

A-17: He's the most difficult little bastard I have. You're perfect for each other. OWK: Thank you, he's very handsome :3 A-17: No. Stop.

The first thing he asks once he gets comfortable is who his general is texting so much that has him swinging his legs and twirling his hair. Cody assumes it's Anakin, given they seem joint at the hip anyway, but little does he know Obi-Wan's ability to consistently have the Weirdest Relationships Ever.

"Oh, it's Alpha-17, I understand you're familiar with each other?" Hmm. OK. Cody.exe is experiencing a processing error, please hold. He exits the room instead of answering. The next day he peeks over the General's shoulder when he's texting and sees walls of rambling messages from Obi-Wan. Alpha-17 replies every hour with a single text: Lose this number. Obi-Wan giggles. "He's so funny." he says.

When Obi-Wan meets the rest of the CC batch, Cody makes sure to stand perfectly angled so that he can record the reactions when his general cuts off their introductions with "Oh, no need, Alpha-17's told me all about you." It's always immediate FEAR.JPG followed by a slow spiral of What The Fuck.

What do you mean by that General. What does that mean Cody. What do you mean they text. No. Cody. What the fuck is happening, Cody. Alpha-17 doesn't have friends he has enemies and enemies he tolerates enough not to shoot on sight.

OWK: Wolffe reached for his vambrace? when I mentioned you A-17: That's where he keeps his spare knife. OWK: Hm that does explain the way he eyed me up, ambitious. A-17: Clearly not enough, he should have followed through. I taught them better.

#alpha obi wan and cody are so powerful together they could win the war or start an entirely new one. who knows :) #i fully think 17 awakens the feral cat part of obi wan thats been dormant since qui gon died and he had to become a responsible brotherdad #like at last someone to scruff him by the neck and call him stupid its very familiar to obi wan it brings back memories #fully on my 'obi wan has the weirdest relationship dynamics ever' agenda #obi wan is a lying liar who loves lying and the biggest lie is that he's the only normal well-adjusted one here. no. he is SO deeply strang #obi wan kenobi #star wars #alpha 17 #commander cody

[bucksbisexualawakening]

the progression from "there's a morning snack and a midday snack" and "20 bucks for pizza" buck looking after his friend's kid to "bobby's famous lasagne: 6 types of cheese cooked to perfection" buck cooking for his family to "that's makes me your sous chef" teaching his kid how to cook is making me go so feral.

#going from two separate things - like how normal friends who aren't co-parenting would organised it - to the most domestic thing ever #to being the good responsible parent and making sure he eats real food before cookies #AND and the motifs that've been established: teaching to cook as father/son bonding and cooking food as a demonstration of love #im UNWELLLLL #buckley diaz family #911 abc #right from the pilot buck has had an intense care for children (but was also immature himself) #and we've seen him grow into a person who is literally becoming a father. (alongside his increasing ability to cook - which he is learning #from his own father figure) #children - specifically caring for children and being a father - has been tied to very important parts of buck's character development #thoughout the seasons #that man wants nothing more than to be a father AND HE IS ONE. #i dont even know if what im saying is coherent anymore but you get my drift #season 6 911 #lynnsaysstuff

[gaycrittercentral]

HELLO DEAR if you're still taking prompts i would love to see the gremlins and "kisses to shut them up" LMAO..... i imagine they both do this quite a lot they're idiots supréme ahsgskfgh <33

EEEEEE HI MOON sorry for the long wait for this one!! Now that all the holidays and birthdays at my house are pretty much over I finally have time to sketch up some answers for some asks that have been waiting way too long and I’m so happy to get yours out there first!!! :Dc here it is myehehheeeh this was an extremely fitting prompt

Sam knows exactly what tf he’s doing lmaooooo. Probably it just backfires on Max bc Sam decides to sing something even sappier hhflzjgkhsjdhssbjffhbd

#your honor they’re very important to me 🥺 #and they are so so so so sosososoo important to each other. god I'm so normal abt them #more ask responses to come hehe!! so if you sent one a while back and didn't get a response get ready >:) #sam and max #sam and max freelance police #freelance husbands #asks #my art

[francy-sketches]

asoiaf twitter is so cool you can say 'I think the way you guys talk about gnc women is kinda weird can you maybe stop that' and you'll get people calling you a freak and a bitch

#.txt #yeah man very hinged response that makes you seem normal keep it up #my favorite was 'baela's already a tomboy why do you need more' you're right sorry I'm being greedy #by that logic you already have plenty of girly girls you'll be fine without rhaenyra #'but she wore pretty dresses she cant possibly have any sort of difficult relationship with gender' wait till you find out about cersei #btw guess who also wears pretty clothes and jewelry. like every nobleman ever #ned's such a girlygirl he loves fashion and dressing prettily (female trait)

[bogkeep]

idk why there's so much discussion around the ~*morality of traumadumping*~ when it's a VERY solvable social conundrum. all you need to do is ask something like "hey is it ok if i talk about this thing? it's kind of heavy" and respect the answer

#it's both very normal and good to talk to people about stuff that's weighing on you #AND it can be very uncomfortable to have someone unload a lot of really heavy things at you at once without warning #this is not a zero sum game? #????????????? #i guess sometimes the problem is that ppl have a different measure for what counts as 'traumadumping' #i personally associate it w the time i was a volunteer at a summer camp and one of the teens asked me if they could get my advice #and when i was like yeah sure they proceeded to tell me their entire life story which involved several deaths and horrible things #which left me in a very awkward position of Um What Did You Want My Advice For Specifically #but like i was fine!! i was the Responsible Adult who had signed up for this #and they were a teen who needed someone to listen to them!!

[rystiel]

rewatching season 3 for the first time in forever rn and. the doctor and jack make me so sick dude. i feel sooooo unwell about them. like imagine you meet rose and the doctor, these amazing people that you find yourself traveling with and coming to care for, then one day you end up left behind by this man that you trusted, alone and fundamentally changed forever—back from the dead. you wait for over 100 years, searching for him, and when you finally find him you learn that he abandoned you on purpose. that he views you as something wrong, something that he can’t stand to look at. a fixed point, something not meant to exist. this guy that you loved and trusted, telling you all of this right to your face. like that’s crazy

#likeeee ily doctor but dear fucking god #i feel so bad for jack 💀 #like ok martha’s also going through her unrequited love arc but jack??? #this man was changed forever. he literally can’t die #all because he traveled with the doctor #and now this guy who was essentially responsible for his fate (somewhat) just… abandons him #treats him like something fucked up. yknow? #like shittttt dude damn #PLUSSSS HE THOUGHT THEY LOST ROSE #like DEAD lost not parallel world lost #these 2 people he cared about so much. like. he lost them #one of them he didn’t really even have to lose. like the doctor’s right THEREEE he FOUND him #and yet #tragic shit man #doctor who #doctor/jack #tenjack #?? #captain jack harkness #hello everypony :3 feeling awesome. very normal

[add1ctedt0you]

'jc is making himself miserable' is endless funny to me because how dare you jc act like a traumatized war veteran in a setting where therapy doesn't exist? How dare you be sad about your entire family's death? In particular when everyday you have to wake up in the same place where you all lived together and where your parents were brutally killed and you brutally tortured?? How dare you still grieve your sweet and beloved sister? How dare you??

#It's almost like he can't escape his responsibilities and duty to be able to process shit! #Maybe he should ditch his duty and elope with an hot guy who he never hurt personally so he can live blissfully without confronting nothing #Maybe he should kidnap jl and they should ditch their duty and live like rough cultivators #He should coax lxc and nhs too to follow them #I am being very normal about fictional characters uh

[tricoufamily]

HUGO HATER FOUND BOO HIM OFF THE STAGE

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#it's here it's ugly idc idc #one of those moments where you really feel the still image limitation as a limitation #you couldn't see them keep looking over then looking away then looking over and so on and so on both realizing who the other is #it's the villareal boy it's your arch enemy according to your mother for no reason he's at your school now and even the same boarding house #malcolm is a very normal character he will have only the most normal of responses to this #hugo was already having such a bad time </3 he just doesn't get along with other boys his friends have always been girls #and then here comes this fucking oaf #this is the fall #this is the fall: part 1 #ts4 #ts4 story #the sims 4 #hugo villareal #malcolm landgraab

[championsandheroes]

It never ceases to amaze and confuse me that the Warhammer fandom, despite its age, just seems to be... lacking in a lot of what I expect to see in fandom. I have to assume that it's hidden away somewhere on the internet and I just haven't found it, but I just can't understand how there's only like 5 fics shipping Cain/Jurgen.

So. I took it upon myself to draw Khorne in the bath, a la that one Elizabeth Bathory figurine. Only to discover that GW preempted my attempt to draw their non-sexy chaos god in the nude by having 0 artwork of him as anything other than a giant armor. Outrageous. It's like they don't even want us to draw Stupid Sexy Khorne.

Over at Patreon, society6, and redbubble we stubbornly insist that armor can be sexy in their own right, so there!

#champions and heroes #Warhammer #warhammer 40k #tidy marine #and his very normal chaos marine warband #one of these days tidy marine is going to be by Khorne's side #and be responsible for scrubbing the giant bathtub clean #and he'll take great pride in it don't you worry #the fight against stains and germs is an honorable one #other games

[uncanny-tranny]

At some point, you have to concede that the abuse wasn't your fault - that there was no action you could have taken to have prevented it, and that it wasn't your fault.

I used to try finding the magic things that would stop the abuse - gifts, kind words, tears, smiles, pretending I didn't exist - and that was because I first and foremost saw the abuse as my fault. It was my responsibility to end the abuse, otherwise, I am somehow proving to the skies above that this is what I wanted from life. I've noticed that for some people, this is a common impulse. It's the victim-blaming internalized and molded in such a way that feels true, and it's hard sometimes to notice it.

What I want to do is, at the very least, remind you (if this resonates) that it isn't your fault. But you don't need to blame yourself for this, either, because you never deserved this in the first place. This isn't "atonement," this isn't right, this isn't cosmic justice. I can't tell you how to leave this situation, but I will say that you deserve to know that you don't deserve this, that you aren't an irredeemable monster who is being punished, as I've seen some people (including myself) believing about our abuse.

#mental health #abuse #abuse tw #this isn't even an impossible -to-understand response either!!! this is a response that is actually VERY easy to understand #abuse often RELIES on making you feel like this is your fault - that YOU did something; that this is almost divine justice #but that doesn't mean you have to feel responsible for it #obviously this is a specific response to abuse and i don't think it's the 'star model' of a victim/survivor... #...i have just seen this response a lot and it just sucks to see how many people have those thoughts... #...and i feel more comfortable talking about this response specifically because i know a taste of what it's like... #...if you have a dofferent response that is not only *normal* but *expected* and you deserve to talk about it... #...to any capacity you feel warrants it. if you don't relate to this that says NOTHING about your abuse nor your response to abuse #first and foremost i feel kinship with many victims/survivors and i want to honour each of us

[cinna-bunnie]

ppl who are horny about being tickled are so cute like hello?? c'mere 🥺😈

#i can be trusted with your favorite tickle spots i swear i will use that information responsibly and be Very normal about it

[puppyeared]

i think the reason why im so drawn to spirit tracks and pkmn scarvi is that having the legendary/princess as a companion rather than a goal that marks the games completion makes me feel satisfied the way i would after helping a friend

my brother always teases me about how I still havent finished botw after almost 7 years bc "id rather be out picking flowers" which i wont say is untrue. and yes i know Zeldas been holding off ganon for 100 years, yes i can get some sort of idea what her relationship with link was like by recalling memories and going through her diary. ive always loved botw for its unique storytelling and setting which makes it stand out, because it lets you get to know who you're saving.

but because theyre memories, it only works if theres something for the player to investigate that already happened. its retroactive (but effective nonetheless)

on the other hand, spirit tracks does something similar but instead of having the player try to piece together memories and interpret them as a spectator, you actually have an opportunity to get to know zelda yourself by talking to her and working together. besides making it a gameplay mechanic, giving the player control over how they interact with zelda makes it so much more personable.

and I find that making the goal feel personal instead of an obligation gives me more of a reason to work towards it. I know what kind of person botw zelda was but as the player, shes still very much a stranger to me. but spirit tracks zelda? thats my friend!!!! she invited me to go to the beach after we get her body back!!! i dont want to whip her to make her move faster thats mean :(

you know how hostage negotiators are trained to introduce themselves and get to know the person theyre negotiating with because its harder to hurt someone when you know what their favorite food is? its kinda like that, because it feels like im helping a friend than being told or led to do smth

and although i havent played scarvi myself, i feel an attachment to koraidon and miraidon even just watching playthrough clips because its like!! thats my weird scaly dog!! it loves sandwiches and we're friends!!! you know!!!!!!

#i dont normally write long posts like this but i think ive been trying to put this into words for a long time and it finally happened #my cloth mother spirit tracks zelda and my wire mother lttp zelda #ACTUALLY ANOTHER THING when i was a kid i always felt guilty when i had to catch the legendary at the end of the game #because to me it was like 'i know none of this is real but if i capture you and have you under my thumb am i robbing the world of something #normal thoughts for a 10 year old to have #when i talked to my brother abt this he was like 'i mean yeah the point is to dunk on the NPCs what were you expecting' and i mean i think #i get that its supposed to feel rewarding because the legendary is THE reward. but it doesnt feel right and i dislike he feeling of pushing #others down to get ahead. i guess u can argue sun/moon does smth similar where you have nebby with lillie #but lillie still ends up handing nebby over to the player and i STILL feel bad because im like shit man you raised that little guy #and koraidon/miraidon feels less like a reward but more like overpowered motorcycle lizard that is just so oupydog. and i love him #and in spirit tracks i went out of my way doing some of the side quests bc zelda asked nicely and honestly that was enough for me #i think all of this boils down to.. i feel very protective abt things i care abt so stories that give me a reason to care hits harder #this can also go the other way bc i CRIED when i finished links awakening because i KNEW every person and im responsible for #literally the end of their world. like. there was a family with 5 kids. marin loved singing and cared about me. she was my FRIEND #i just. ugh. i have too many feelings rn. i kinda wanna draw more spirit tracks link and zelda i think that wld make me feel better #yapping #diary #loz #pokemon

[coolmagoloraskblog]

LOR SIGHTING!! Hi hello Lor good to see you’re up and running again

#kirby #lor starcutter #ask #askblog #storyline #chapter 1: access granted #filename: wow lor very normal response

[thestarsarecool]

“After Epstein died there was nobody to comfort them or tell them how to handle things so Paul thought he was personally responsible. I constantly saw Lennon & McCartney together because Paul came along to see that I wasn’t rude to John — who I can’t say I got on with. Paul didn’t want me to upset John and thought he could handle me better than Lennon which of course he could.”

— Sir Joseph Lockwood, former chairman of EMI, quoted in Northern Songs: The True Story of the Beatles’ Song Publishing Empire

#something about this quote scratched some itch in my brain that made me want to post it immediately #normally I just add my quotes to the queue (there are like. a hundred?) #but this felt pressing #something about the very sad image of no one being there to COMFORT them #and Paul’s feeling responsible being tied to him making sure people weren’t being rude to John #and the ‘which of course he could’ #just got to me #my quotes #paul mccartney #john lennon #joseph lockwood #the beatles #beatles #northern songs

[humanbeanisnotamused]

if Jean's medical training was an apprenticeship - which, I imagine it was, given her age at the time and how quickly she completed it - I bet a lot of it looked a LOT like the things she used to do for her father. hold this, give me that; pay attention to what I'm doing because you'll have to know how to do it one day soon.

what I'm getting at here is I bet every so often her doctor had to be like. hey bud. you are grinding that burn salve like you want it to feel pain. can I help you with something or.

#she's also a teenager. and her mom died like last year #triggers are a thing. is what I'm saying #or like hey i just gave you a very normal instruction and you responded with what i feel was a disproportionate emotional response #candela obscura #circle of needle and thread #jinnah basar