one of these nights

(Small rant)

Sure we're all happy that Sonic isn't going on his own anymore due to his teamwork with Shadow. But Sonic would still be fighting alone if it weren't for Shadow changing his views on teamwork, trust, and Sonic himself. Because of that, not only is Sonic not on his own, Shadow isn't as well.

"He's [Shadow] not on his own"

Before Shadow said "if we work..together," he was alone too. He didn't allow himself to be open and approachable until he was saved by Sonic. As for Sonic, the opposite. He's the one who is open and approachable, however his friend's' variants keep denying and betraying him. Everytime he saves someone or does something for them, they go on their own again and keep doing things their way. (Tbh Sonic does this as well but can't control it)

It feels like Sonic is on edge with everyone due to this reason. If something bad happens again they'll all turn their backs and the cycle repeats. But guess who's returning the favor 100% no matter what? Fighting with Sonic in Ghost Hill and saving his butt? Not (possibly) blaming Sonic of letting go of the shards? Saying "..it's in OUR way."

Shadow rejects the idea of trust and togetherness but doesn’t even realize he’s fully embracing it. And Sonic is in the front row receiving that embrace.

illustration for a very totally fun and pain free entire sonic forces rewrite fic i'm writing in which sonic is Actually tortured for months and shadow shows up to save him

i'll be posting the fic eventually on ao3 if you are interested and i'll post the link here

please vote in the poll about it if you're interested!

RED TEAM HAVING FUN AND PLAYING. episode two: make up

( USE SHE/HER 4 RED SPY ON THIS POST PLS! :3 )

“spotify stops tracking today so we can listen to cringe!!” free yourself from this mental prison at once

tumblr polls have amplified the human need to vote on things. this place just became the roman senate

i don't know what autistic person needs to hear this but they are not watching you. the entire world is not constantly waiting for you to do something weird and laugh at you behind your back. you do not need to constantly self-police whenever there's the slightest chance another person might see you. you have a right to be your autistic self in public spaces. stop fighting yourself for their sake.

don't let my tits distract u from the fact that i'm not ok in the head

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

atla au but nothing changes except sokka is taller and zuko is shorter

my brother and I don't say "mcdonalds" when referring to the fast food chain. we've always said "mcnaldo's", then it became "naldo's". now it's simply "nald". and we always refer to it as a single unit. like "do you want a nald?"

I really wish arknights didn't have a character who's named for an ethnic slur of my people

Friendly reminder that you should

Write that fic

Draw your OC

Redesign that blorbo

Plan that comic how you want

Create the content you want to see

Be cringe

Be free

The only thing that matters is you having fun! Not what others think!

matters of state

fuck it. avatar as calico critters

zuko, iroh and toph