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whalesfall · 2 years

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Love has infected me with a muscular superstition that one body can do the work of another.

Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove

#karen russell #vampires in the lemon grove #begin to blur #quotes #w

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tinylilvalery · 6 months

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haha babe how romantic would it be if i totally framed you in MY murders. haha babe what if i put your dna at the crime scenes and implicated you without you even knowing so when you find out it's a happy surprise and we're kinda married because of it. haha babe what if you're an fbi agent and i'm secretly a serial killer and you get obsessed with me and start stalking and fixating on me and i pretend like i don't notice but i do. babe that would be so romantic babe

#hannigram #hoffstrahm #coffinshipping #hannibal #saw #im right #thinking bout Just a man (Just a little boy) by Syntheticpalindromes on ao3 #thinking about Mark happily telling Peter with deranged happiness that he secretly has been implementing him in his crimes #so that they're fucking intertwined #where does one begin and the other end????#you and me have begun to blur

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some-greatreward · 2 months

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well...i've only seen it in chopped up pieces so im posting it: this is the Libertines bit from Seven Ages of Rock Ep7 (British Indie)

seriously guys if you like something on the internet make sure you nab it or else it'll be gone...

#the libertines #i needed to amputate carl's beginning statement that they used to hang around blur's record label trying to get signed #fair warning this is 2007 so it's...depressing...

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grahamcore · 2 years

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hannibal asked will how he distinguished the past and the future and will replied “before you and after you” and people still have the nerve to say that their story isn’t the greatest romance of our time? please be serious.

#song of achilles call me by your name blah blah i don’t want to hear it #call me when the protagonist of your romance novel gives their lover the rare gift of knowing them and seeing them #let me know when they begin to blur #and please do notify me when they enter a loving embrace on the edge of a cliff and fall into the sea holding one another #maybe THEN we can talk about another romance upstaging hannigram. until that day comes everyone else can sit down or go home bc it’s them.#hannigram #hannibal #hannibal nbc #hannibal lecter #will graham

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letsmakesomeonehappytoday · 1 year

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ALL OF THOSE VOICES | Milano Summer Festival, 03/09/2022

#hlcreators #tomlinsonedits #louis #my gifs #lt gifs #i had to make a gif of this bit alone because he's just so pretty #it would be so much better if the beginning wasn't so blurred

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bloodanddiscoballs · 2 months

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heyyyyy Harry and Jean have literally never been confirmed to have dated in any way. just cause Luiga made a joke tweet about them waking up in the same bed doesn't actually mean that they fucked. the "heterosexual life partners" and the "where's your homo homie" thing is a way to read how unhealthy they are together and is a clear bigoted dig and joke, helping to illustrate the way the RCM works internally and how it doesn’t make for a good environment. like you can have your fun and stuff and enjoy ship stuff or whatever but to point out Harry and Jean as ways to idk point to how Harry is bisexual is just a plain misread simply because we do not get anything to ACTUALLY show that there was something sexual there. there are plenty of other lines in the game that actually discuss how Harry is attracted to men that are legit, but sorry, him and Jean were never explicitly stated as a couple or a fling.

#disco elysium #also im not trying to like fight anybody #cause i think their dynamic is very interesting for lots of reasons #and i literally couldnt give two shits what people ship #but i think it is important to understand where the canon ends and fanon begins #and im not sure why it always gets waaaay blurred wrt jean and harry #btw this is coming from a ling time jean enjoyer but NOT whatever the fuck the fanon version is people make him to be #do not lump me in with those fans i have them blocked for a reason

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cattons · 5 months

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“sometimes, we didn’t use it in the film in the end - but sometimes, in [oliver’s] fantasies, he was felix and felix was him, as a kind of entwinement.”

#saltburn #why would she say this #when the lines between love obsession and identity begin to blur.. i’m sat

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aggressiveguitarnoises · 2 months

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#hes dissapearing guys someone save him #hes beginning to blur #nine inch nails #trent reznor #charlie clouser #why havent i seen this pic before lol

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ruinedholograms · 1 year

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ナイン・インチ・ネイルズ

#music #nin #cd #obi strip #with teeth #trent reznor #2005 #right where it belongs #the line begins to blur #love is not enough #all the love in the world #rob sheridan #music collector #nothing records

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t-800 · 1 year

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Nine Inch Nails - The Line Begins To Blur April 30th, 2005 // Las Vegas, Nevada

#nine inch nails #nin #trent reznor #the line begins to blur #2000s #wt era #with teeth era #gifs #flashing #I don't know

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starculler · 1 month

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strap in for this week's fic flavor: the failsafe episode of season one of the young justice cartoon except the simulation just won't. fuckin. end.

(fics that inspired this at the end)

If I ever did sit down to make my own fic, I'd split it in 3 parts:

The Simulation: bits and pieces of the 40 years Dick lives after most everyone he knows has died

The Return: the immediate aftermath and healing from the trauma of having not-quite-actually lived a whole life only to wake up and find out it was all fake. nothing traumatizing about that whatsoever.

The Unintended Consequence: aka the twist I'd love to add and would hint to in the second part - finding out the simulation, through martian mind fuckery, pulled from the real world (and in many cases, from real minds). Dick meets a bunch of people he didn't think were real outside the confines of his simulated life. A bunch of rowdy, heroism-inclined teens across the years get to meet the sibling/friend/mentor figure they all dreamed up one night.

(actual idea snippets under the cut)

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Dick Grayson is 14 and most of the world's heroes have died. He planned a suicide mission that left him the sole survivor of a doomed team he helped found. The invasion may have been stopped, but is this really the price he wanted to pay?

The first face he sees in the infirmary is Roy's, and he has to close his eyes and just breathe for a few minutes because for one painful moment he'd thought it was Wally. But this isn't the world where his best friend miraculously survived alongside him. This is the one where he got his best friend killed and didn't even give him the courtesy of following behind him. Behind them.

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Dick Grayson is 27 and has lived longer without Bruce than with him. The invasion's anniversary is always a tough day for him, but that morning seems especially harrowing. He'll get shit for it later, but can't resist stepping out onto the balcony of the manor's master bedroom (Bruce's old bedroom) for a smoke -- his first since he'd promised to quit if Jason, just 15 then, did too.

"Bad habits tend to pile up," he'd said, a rueful quirk to his tired grin. He'd tapped the cigarette twice on the railing and added, lower, "and this one's especially nasty, huh."

He inhales, watches the sun creep across the horizon, and lets acrid smoke burn through his lungs for a long moment before blowing it out in a small cloud. His eyes water, but he doesn't cough. It tastes just as bad as it did the first time he smoked one, not even a year after the invasion and treading water as Robin proved insufficient.

There hadn't been enough heroes to go around then, and Dick had been trained by one of the best. It hadn't been fair, but it had been his plan that had ultimately stopped the invasion. His shoulders everyone's expectations fell on.

He takes another drag, then smudges the lit end against the rail he's leaned on when he hears a boot scuff purposefully against the roofing above him.

"Todd and Pennyworth will be upset with you."

He doesn't turn around. Damian doesn't jump down to join him.

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Dick Grayson is 54 and wakes up in a room full of ghosts. He hears his long-dead father-figure tell his long-dead team about a simulation they weren't meant to win. A training exercise gone wrong and only half a day spent under their mentors' careful, if slightly panicked, supervision.

He looks at his hands, watching the way his gloves crease when he flexes them in and out of tight fists. He looks at his team, their eyes a little haunted but shoulders slumped with relief even as they grumble. Batman's heavy, gloved hand settles on his shoulder and the weight of it is a nauseating mix of foreign-familiar.

He opens his mouth. Closes it.

Tears prick his eyes behind his domino mask, and he tells himself the suffocating, acidic void building in his chest is just some leftover side effect of the ordeal and not the grief-guilt of outliving yet another family (no matter that they hadn't been real in the end).

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Dick Grayson is 16-going-on-56 and well used to the coincidences piling up between his simulated life and the real thing. Some of it -- missions and villains he remembers cropping up -- he's marked for Bruce to review and sort as he pleases. Some -- security for the cave, team building anecdotes, and training regimens -- he's shared with the team. And some he keeps only for himself.

Tim is one of those. He knows it's not fair to the kid (so much smaller now than he ever was when Dick lived his simulated life), but he can't help being selfish just for this. Tim is the one kid he's sure he didn't make up, and if Dick's taken to babysitting the kid just to be near at least one member of the family he built for himself in the wake of the worst days of his life .... Well, anyone who says shit about it can happily stand in line to have their teeth kicked in.

Despite this, it still catches him off-guard when he sees a familiar face pop up in one of Bruce's reports.

Jason Todd, caught boosting tires off the batmobile, is nearly the same age now as he was when Dick met him. He stares at the words, but none of them really sink in beyond the kid's name and address. He's moving before he's even made the decision.

He's used to the world kicking him when he's down - lived it for 40 frustrating years. But he has Bruce again. And things with Tim have been so good. And he's always been selfish when it comes to family. If he could just see Jason. If he could just meet him. If he could talk to him.

If if if if if--

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Inspirations:

Circles in Shattered Mirrors by InfinityIllusion

Fine (But Not Okay) by CharlotteDaBookworm

Verisimilitude by mutemelody

#young justice #young justice cartoon #batfam #batman #dick grayson #thoughts and headcanons #the heart wrenching inability to cope with the fact that you've lived a fully realized life #you've loved and lost and loved again in the face of every unending tragedy #until you've forcefully carved out this one little safe haven for yourself #only to be thrust back to the beginning of one of your greatest traumas - esp one you're partly responsible for!#gotta love it #anyway i am and always have been obsessed with dick grayson and no one can stop me #the simulation was fake but some psychic bs means real world elements filtered in #cue several children with weird dream-memories of half-lived experiences and a massive sense of deja-vu #when they wade into the superhero world #all i can picture is the spiderman pointing meme but it's the batkids at dick lol #my favorite idea is that once Dick gets his grubby hands on Jason and Tim it's all over from there #he's pulling late nights and researching and scouring facial recognition databases until he finds his kids #(he blurs the lines a lot when it comes to considering them his siblings vs kids #on the one hand they're not super far apart in age bar Damian #on the other he hasn't been a kid in any meaningful way since he was 14 and he very nearly raised half of them in some way #(plus side to an au is that i can space the ages out more as needed compared to the show haha)#jason and cass are firmly siblings close as they are to his age #steph tim and duke fluctuate depending on how in trouble or injured they are #i will die by dick being damian's dad tho lmao #babs is more platonic life partner than sibling but very firmly family regardless #this is the dick grabs on to any shred of family he can with both hands and drags them in kicking and screaming if he has to au

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pastafossa · 3 months

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I'm not sure if this was already asked, but if Jane had skipped town when she had planned to, would Matt ever forgive her? How would he react?

Ooooh, now this is an interesting question.

I definitely think there's a small part of him that never would have forgiven her for it, especially since he'd already had a few vulnerable moments with her where he'd opened up and she, seemingly, had opened up with him, too. But mostly, it would have simply... broken that part of him that felt hope, that felt that maybe, just maybe he deserved to have someone care about him, or even love him one day, because he'd have read her letter - the kinder one, the gentler one, the one that said without saying, 'I could see myself loving you if I stayed.'

Ironically, despite her intentions - that she leave him a kinder letter, one that was honest and told him how much she cared for him - reading that letter after dhe left would have broken an entirely different part of him.

The loss of her, the idea that he'd been left alone again by someone who might have loved him, would have been all the proof he needed that he was a fuckup, that everyone in his life that he cared about was destined to leave him. He'd spiral, spiral right down into the decision that all he could do was leave them first before he hurt them so bad or put them in so much danger that they left him behind and, subconsciously, before they hurt him like the loss of his parents had, like Stick and Elektra and now Jane had by walking away. He'd retreat in on himself, curling up tight around that hurt and hiding behind the ferocity, darkness, and rage of the Devil because that seemed like the only way he could protect himself from being abandoned again when he wanted so, so desperately to have just ONE person who might... love him. It would have been a ticket to the S3 mindset basically, but because Karen and Foggy at that point didn't know about Daredevil, and because he hadn't met Maggie yet, no one really would have been in a decent position to help drag him up out of that spiral.

And Stick knew that, which is exactly why he tried to talk Jane into leaving, and why he gave her that letter to ensure she truly broke the more gentle, tender part of Matt. He knew this would push Matt into the mindset Stick wanted: that Matt was meant to be alone, that there was nothing for him but his 'duty', and there was certainly no room for friends, for lovers, or family.

One day it's possible he would have pulled himself out of it, and by then he likely would have forgiven her - either because he recognized she ran for fear of Cyrus, or because he simply blamed himself instead of her - but either way, if that domino had tipped, a part of him never really would have recovered or felt safe reaching for that kind of gentle connection again.

#the red thread #it's not something i ever confirmed in canon but in my head that's basically what would have happened #he'd just experienced Claire kinda backing away from friendship and her being hurt 'because of him' so he was in a VERY vulnerable position #which he shared with Jane. like he OPENED UP to her and he was finally feeling like... accepted and cared for #and so when you consider where he was mentally/emotionally #and his prior history #it would have taken him a looong time to claw his way up out of that darkness if he ever did #and even if he did he'd always have a wound there #one that never really healed over #especially if he'd read her letter that explained her feelings for him #because that letter and what happened after in the warehouse was sort of the 'soft' beginning of their real relationship #I intentionally set it up so there's no real point you can look at and go 'ah it started here'. it was a gradual thing. a blur #but that moment was foundational where that blur really started #and so yeah if that moment had gone the OTHER way #...poor matt #basically #(not that jane would be much better off but that's another story since she'd have been captured by cyrus without matt's help later)

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auntieoneandauntietwo · 4 months

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All I want for Christmas is for Jaxom and F’lessan to be more distinct foils of each other

#there’s so much POTENTIAL #both raised with the weight of expectations by someone other than their parents #lessa gave up everything for jaxom and nothing for f’lessan #jaxom inherits both gemma and lessa’s inheritance but f’lessan would never inherit benden #lessa being unable to look at jaxom because he reminds her of fax and her dead family #and lessa being unable to look at f’lessan because he reminds her of the children she can’t have #fax killing f’lon and f’lar killing fax and lessa debatedly almost killing gemma #the fact that in another life they could have been friends or rivals in the holds #all culminating in:#jaxom the son of a villain set up to repeatedly save the world and f’lessan the son of heroes set up to do not much at all #jaxom getting protagonist specialness with his special dragon #and f’lessan honestly being more of an ordinary dragonrider than most of the major characters #the beginning of dragonflight drawing this extremely clear line of right v wrong good v evil #and then that getting blurred as the story goes on #pern #dragonriders of pern #dragonflight #dragonquest #dragonquest reread #character analysis #jaxom #f’lessan #lessa #fax #stubbornly tagging pern characters names #also what’s up with f’lessan’s name #why could he not drop the last syllable like everyone else in his family

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sleepanonymous · 7 months

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As promised, since the majority of you voted that unpeeled hands were not illegal, I present a piano cover of Mastodon's Oblivion (below the cut for the few who were concerned about this being put on this blog).

I'll bet you anything one of those Xbox games on his desk is Halo 3 😂😂 Literally everything in this video is so interesting though. Like the fidget magnets, the super old YouTube homepage, and there's even what I'm assuming is the fabled LARGE MUG MORNING ESPRESSO mug behind the Xbox controller.

#lost media #circa 2011 #video #motion blur #in the beginning and end #piano cover #mastodon #mastodon oblivion #mastodon oblivion cover #he's totally lying btw #that's right #i'm calling ves's bs #he just didn't want to translate the guitar solo onto the piano #also “very unprofessional of me” sir please you're on youtube its okay

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oflgtfol · 17 days

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