#working things out

[akindplace]

Even if you were an open book, it doesn't mean others will want to read you, to know your stories, to be understanding of what is inside you. And it's okay if they simply are not willing to do so, as long as you are willing to look somewhere else for someone more understanding instead of keeping yourself attached to a person who isn't interested in who you are at all while still needing someone to talk to, to connect with, but being to afraid to leave a bad relationship in search of a good one on the anxious baseless belief that you won't find anyone who is good for you and willing to put in the work to figure your relationship out. Some people don't want to work it through and that is fine, you can't force them, you can't love someone in hopes they will love if you the right way if you love them enough. You cannot pour all your love into someone who doesn't know what to do with it, not how to reciprocate and doesn't want or is not willing to put effort in a relationship. That's okay. They are free to do so. You are free to walk away and find someone better, and you will, if you keep searching instead of settling for people who will never connect with you because they couldn't be bothered.

#walking away #relationships #cw toxic relationship #being understood #self-acceptance #self-worth #love #original writing #being an open book #you will find the right kind of love #working things out

[whitedahlia13]

Falling Slowly

Chapter 35: The Brighter Side

Fandom: Teen Wolf

Characters: Stiles + Lydia, The Jeep, Noah Stilinski, Allison Argent, Kira Yukimura, Alan Deaton, teenage Derek Hale

Summary: Smiling, she refocuses on her task, emptying the cubby of old candy wrappers and inkless pens, checking the charge in the flashlight. She organizes the maps, owner’s manual, insurance card, and registration. Before returning them, she digs into the back corner where she finds a handful of lose coins.

Not just any coins. Eight pesos to be precise.

She clutches them in her palm, listens to metal scraping against metal, and she remembers.

She remembers when she learned why the Jeep is so special to Stiles...

It was the night they got back from that miserable two-day trek to Mexico. Two days of too much desert and too much sun, then too much darkness and too much cold. Two days worrying and being in danger and fighting for their lives, all while pretending to be calm and confident and fine. Two days in constant, whiplash-inducing flux, from soft banter and familiar protectiveness to uncharacteristic indifference and abrupt harshness. Two days of uncomfortable proximity, followed by one heart-piercing moment of almost being left behind. Two days of straining to recognize the Stiles she knew...and loved.

And then it was over. They made it back. All of them alive and as they were before...for the most part. All of them, plus one more. Derek Hale.

Lydia remembers being at the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic, the words I'm so not okay with this and not going anywhere ricocheting between her head and her heart.

After Scott dragged an adamantly protesting Stiles out of the building, Deaton retired to his office to research Derek’s condition. Lydia remained in one of the exam rooms, recently age-regressed teen wolf clinging to her hand.

While normally, she wouldn’t be jumping at the chance to babysit any member of the Hale family, she remembers volunteering to stay. In the moment, it seemed like the most logical thing to do. Yes, it was late and a school night. But Scott was working so hard to improve his grades, and Stiles already had more than his fair share of absences for the semester...especially last month.

Despite missing a few classes, Lydia’s GPA was in no danger of being affected. So there she was, at two in the morning, watching over Derek. Someone who wasn’t exactly her enemy but wasn’t really a friend either. Someone who, not so long ago, had plotted to kill her, and who had been more than willing to lay all the blame on her for the horrible things his uncle compelled her to do.

She supposed it helped that his current appearance made it easy to separate the trembling, helpless boy on the exam table from the grumpy, former alpha she was so used to avoiding. But if she were totally honest, the main reason Lydia offered to stay was that she needed a distraction.

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#stydia #stydia fanfic #stiles and lydia #post 6a #Lydia's memories #s4 memory #The Dark Moon #Falling Slowly #The Brighter Side #slow burn #angst #longing #emotional h/c #grief #banter #fighting and making up #working things out #being there for each other #stydia friendship #verging on more than friendship #summer of stydia #being in love #day dates #summer fun #teen wolf #teen wolf fanfic #my writing #my fanfic #remember I love queue

[bixels]

Baffled.

#personal #not art #like how do you arrive at this conclusion #what beliefs? #the man may be a total grouch but if there’s one thing he HATES it’s Japanese nationalism #Japanese nationalists famously HATE his work especially the wind rises which criticizes imperial Japan and calls out the invasion of China #don’t ask for context on the first part of the tag I’m not answering

[july-19th-club]

seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

#i personally like to not be doing things constantly at all times. it stresses me out #i know there are ppl who thrive on cosntant activity #but me i like to chill out. #and the problem then becomes that i only ACTIVELY remember to do work and Find More Work To Do when im stressed #at the thought that others might want to see me working #if im ever relaxed i just dont look for stuff to do #catch 22 of modern work culture which permeates even ostensibly noncapitalist structures like public libraries #for instance: will it really kill anybody if the books get shelved by me now after a very busy day? #or shelved tomorrow morning by. well probably me since i'll be the one at the desk #not in the slightest #but it was work that wasnt being immediately done by me. therefore it was incorrect behavior #that i failed to identify because my instinct is to relax when not immediately presented with a Situation #this got me labeled as 'having no initiative' by my dad from a very early age #and even as an adult i still feel like im a child with no initiative

[mega-delicatelysuperbcollector]

TREPIDATION

Tomorrow it’s face-to-face, She comes back to clean at my place…. Will I act With the Lord at my back, Or waffle all over the place? – Fires inside still rage But I’ve got to act my age… Holy Spirit control To my very soul, Will sooth and assuage! – You can do this Jon, Stand up till the conflict is gone… With minor tweaks You’ll last the two weeks, Remember who”s side you’re…

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#awash in #being responsible #Caswell poetry #conflict #confrontation #counseling #tomorrow #trepidation #working things out

[zosanbrainrot]

yeah Zoro we know what you mean..... or do we?

#the thought bubble incident #zou #zoro #sanji #zosan #my art #the sanji on the right turned out so east blue #round #when your boywife left you and you cant cope #guess who doesnt have tasks at work today #ITS MEEE #i should really draw other things jdjdjf i have zine deadlines approaching #roronoa zoro #black leg sanji #vinsmoke sanji #one piece fanart #one piece

[clown-owo]

been replaying the Portal series I think this is where its heading

#i haven't drawn in like. half a month. which listen i know i don't post much here but i do draw a lot #i have another blog. but also sometimes i just don't post things. i draw for myself #just got burnt out from working on an animation final 😔 #so anyway. eased myself back in with a silly comic about portal #my irl saw my shitty sketch and thought glados was painting chell which is very funny to me. #chelldos #but like. unrequited. glados is obsessed with chell. chell is not having a good time #portal #chell #GlaDOS #GlaD0S #my art #og post #1k #5k #10k #20k #edit: i made this post almost a year ago and it haunts me. theres a typo. chell is out of character. #because i couldn't come up with a good reason for her to be there in the first place #and this was a shitty ms paint replicating drawing that i did just to get back into drawing #i didn't think it would gain much attention #i was Wrong #anyway someone in the comments said this is what happens when you speedrun thats an infintely better setup for the punchline #EDIT 2: ok i fixed it fuck you

[prima-donna-worm]

heartstopper is so funny to me bc it’s like almost all young up-and-coming teen actors and then just. academy award winner olivia colman is there to have four lines a season

#i’m sure it’s a thing where she can knock out her scenes for very quickly and work on other projects #but every time i watch i’m like. queen why are you here #heartstopper

[movedtodykedvonte]

*Spidey and the Sinister Six having their usual fight*

Doc Ock, landing a hit: You’re getting slow Spider-Man! Age finally catching up to you?

Spider-Man: You wish! I haven’t even hit my 30s! From those costumes I can already tell I failed to save you guys from those midlife crises! Sorry by the way.

Vulture: Watch it wallcr- wait… Did you just say your not in your thirties yet?

Spider-Man: Surprised that this spiders so young and spry? Well-

Electro: Dude I’ve been fighting you for at least 5 fucking years! How old even are you?

Shocker, joking cause he’s the only one who picked up no grown adult acts likes Spidey: Don’t swear in-front of the boy you don’t want him to pick it up.

Rhino: Christ! You’re tellin me I almost crushed some 12-year-olds skull all those years ago?

Spider-Man, regretting his quipping: I was not that young! Like just starting freshman year but-

Sandman, horrified as he’s the only one with a kid and dad instincts(as of my iteration): I could’ve killed a kid…

Shocker, genuinely curious: Are you even old enough to drink? Cruel to kill a man who ain’t had his first drink yet.

Electro: Please tell us you’re at least over 25 as of this fight. Hell, I’ll take over 21!

Spider-Man:….

Sandman, realizing just how young he really is: Oh my god.

Spider-Man: My birthday’s coming up soon so I guess it counts?

Doc Ock, exacerbated: It. Does. Not!

Vulture: What would your mother think if she knew her son was out here risking his life telling poorly constructed jokes?

Spider-Man, offended cause it quips slap: 1. My jokes are great 2. She and my dad are dead so-

Sandman, hysterical cause holy shit he almost killed a kid orphan: OH MY GOD!

#they now think he’s some homeless orphan fighting crime cause it’s the only thing he has #my fav hc are the villains earlier in spideys career are completely against harming kids #so to figure out the hero of New York was like a child they plan to torture before unmasking and killing is well #not great on their minds and little sense of morality #I wanted to write a fic about this but ao3 is dead so take this flash dialogue fic instead #I need to sleep for work #doc ock #sinister six #doctor octopus #otto octavius #the ​sandman #flint marko #the rhino #Alexei Sytsevich #the shocker #herman schultz #electro #maxwell dillon #the vulture #adrian toomes #peter parker #spider-man #spiderman

[perfectlyripeclementine]

when someone finds something that really works on you and they go OH. and you can see their brain go ✨ and they do it again and again for the pleasure of watching your desire for them make you short-circuit

#nblnb #this post is about queer sex #genderless nsft #genderless sext #queer nsft #i always wanna show someone new the things that work on me but also really. enjoy letting them find out on their own

[astearisms]

fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

#i’m part of the demographic where i was a kid when adventure time started and now watching fionna and cake as an adult makes me emotional #because did they keep us in mind when writing fionna and her attitude towards life #the dissatisfaction #the hoping for something more #something more magical than this dreary life filled with working to live and living to work #it’s so reflective of how life feels for me and perhaps many of us #and also Simon’s episode was so sad but so well thought out #exploring his feelings after the events of the adventure time finale is something I’m glad we get to see #there were already so many layers to his character in AT but now it feels like we get to dive deeper #I also felt emotional hearing Rebecca Sugar singing and writing a song that encapsulates his feelings so well #😭 it’s been awhile seeing her work exist alongside these characters #and all of these emotions get stronger because I remember AT being the one to inspire me to be a storyboard artist #when I was younger I used to follow many of the board artists here in tumblr and would get so inspired by them #to create simple but powerful boards that can capture the feelings of characters so well #Rebecca Sugar’s songs for the AT characters inspired me so much too #I’m sorry this is long I’m just feeling so many things experiencing all of this again as an adult #my art #fanart #adventure time #fionna and cake #fionna the human #cake the cat #simon petrikov

[lazylittledragon]

mombin pt 2 because we're committed now

(part 1 is here)

#stranger things #platonic stobin #steve harrington #robin buckley #mombin™ #cw pregnancy #i fought with the bathroom lighting for so long #the warm light just didn't work and i couldn't figure it out #also psst i put high res crisp versions of these up for my patronis

[taggen96]

Jamming to the radio 🎼

#hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel fanart #human alastor #hazbin hotel animatic #hazbin hotel animation #hazbin hotel #fan animation #i spent too much time working on this thing only for it to come out blurry… :/

[hesbuckcompton-baby]

people who don't study history will simply never understand the joy of reading historian beef. there's nothing like it

#when they're reviewing each other's work and they're just SHITTING ON IT????? wonderful #when you can tell the historian HATES whichever historical figure(s) they're writing about? incredible #one thing we must remember is that historians are just academic gossipers xx #what is JSTOR for if not to read the DRAMA #reading an absolutely SCATCHING rebuttal of an article on New England migration and honestly??? having a wonderful time #sometimes the history student just jumps out #history

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

#anyway this is just more of that lefty shit where 'well i can't be racist because i'm gay!' #'well i can't be media illiterate because i love villains!' #not how that works babes #'well I KNOW bad from good so i can't be affected by media!' #'everyone else also knows bad from good and defines it the exact way i do!' #'so if i think this is bad then the author must also think this is bad!' #i have bad news .... #also how do you know bad from good? who taught you that? hmm? #did you fall out of the womb knowing? or did you pick up some things on the way here? #'i just know' no you don't! that's what i'm saying! #assuming one thing is always true is the opposite of being a conscious consumer of media soz #assuming someone thinks and knows the exact same shit you think and know is not media literacy!!

[lilybug-02]

Pain is a great motivator…

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Meanwhile Toriel:

(Loud noises don't wake her up usually.)

Artist note: I’m so proud of this :))) I know it’s a lot of dialogue and reading, but dialogue is grueling work for me. I’m glad with the art and for the amount of pages I made in such a relatively short time span -w- page 5 was super fun to work on. A lot of blood, sweat, and hours here... :) The backgrounds were a big bore tbh, but I finished them! Yippie!

#CHARA WTF DO YOU MEAN “COMPUTER”???? #lol i hope you guys dont hate me for what im doing in the next update. #IS THAT A MAC OS??? #Yes......owo'' #Kris and the Gang are LITTLE now. I've pixelated them and turned them into little game characters! #FINALLY!! #I never thought I would be going so far in the story to explain WHY Kris pulls out their SOUL and opens Darkfountains even when they killed #Berdly in Chapter 2. Pain can make people do horrible things. #Uhhhhhhhhh anyways. :3 I hope you liked it! I made this post a little too long for my liking and didnt get it out when i wanted too- #but thats okay! As long as people enjoy it :) #bread #art #deltarune chara timeline #deltarune chara timeline comic #seriously though #long post #man am I glad I switched over to the limited color palet! It helps me feel alot more relaxed uwu #This is....way over 16 hours of work q-q #chara #asriel #susie #kris #asriel dreemurr #kris dreemurr #kris deltarune #susie deltarune #deltarune #comic #my art