One of my grief balls took a weird bounce yesterday because someone else’s sibling also died, so yesterday really sucked. Which is hard to explain to outsiders without making it seem like you’re trying to make someone else’s grief all about you.

https://themighty.com/topic/grief/ball-box-analogy-grief/

obsessed w these boneheads as of late :]

"We never said that we think you should've been with grandpa." "You won't even tell us what happened to him."

SELINA calling Batman petnames | THE BATMAN (2022)

day 19: royalty

They are never beating the cozy allegations.

the more i rotate him in my mind, the more i really enjoy a genderfluid transmasc tim who is pretty freaked out by his own more fem days because he is so set in thinking he's a guy. he made himself into jack drake's all-star american son as much as he could for years, and it feels like a betrayal of all that time he spent being the son his father always wanted, if he "regresses" into wanting to be a girl again.

what he doesn't realize is that there's a world of difference in being closeted and pretransition vs sometimes wanting to be a masculine figure presenting fem. it's not regression but he's convinced it is bc he has fucking issues. he can separate out disguising himself as a woman as playing a part, but wanting to dress more femme himself sometimes - wanting to look like a boy dressing as a girl? oh that must mean something is wrong with him. he's going to repress this urge really, really hard every time it comes up. and if he snaps at kon for looking like a boy dressing as a girl one day (he's jealous. he can't admit it. he envies that shy delight on kon's face when bart compliments his dress. he knows kon is still exploring and feels tentative and fragile about it. why can't he do that? he just can't. and then kon asks why he's so tense and if he's okay, and a cutting comment he doesn't actually mean slips out...) oops!!!

(of course it gets talked out and resolved. cassie might threaten to throw him off a building if he doesn't admit what's actually bothering him, but they work it out.) but anyway that's beside the point. the point is i really like transmasc tim who isn't as binary about his gender as he has convinced himself he is. and it gives him Problems and Fucking Issues. he needs more problems and fucking issues

Stupid idea for the stupid idea vault but.

Glenn and Darryl making out in the Odyssey and like feeling each other up and Glenn pauses and furrows his eyebrows. And he's like " wait....if I'm a switch.....and you're a switch.......then whose driving the van"

And it hard cuts to Ron in the driver's seat, giving a thumbs up in the rear view mirror.

Anyway.

murph king of dreams and his *checks notes* very alive magpie

[Image Descriptions:

Imagine 1: A digital bust portrait of Morpheus, Dream of the Endless, holding Jessamy in his hands against his chest.

Dream is a very pale white man (/anthropomorphic personification) with very messy, short-ish pitch black hair and eyebrows. Tiny stars and galaxies seem to glow in his hair. Jessamy is a Pied Crow, a medium-large iridescent black corvid with a white feathered breast and collar. She is resting peacefully within Dream’s right hand, his left stroking through her plumage. Her head is tilted upward, her beak placed underneath Dream’s jaw. Dream’s eyes are closed, and his lips slightly parted. He does not seem to be wearing clothes. The painting cuts off below his elbows.

The painting is heavily stylized with multicolored brushstrokes on highlight and shadow points. Deep, vibrant purple, turquoise and blue in shadows, soft, pastel yellow, cyan and green in highlights.

Image 2 is exactly the same, except now deep red liquid runs down Dream’s fingers to his wrists. He is still holding Jessamy. Her plumage is clean and untouched from the blood.

End ID]

I think of you everyday

My baby passed today so here are my favorite pictures of her, she was the prettiest girl I've ever seen in my entire life

How would Michael react if William got Gregory in ur Ball pit au?

it’d break him. bad.

i always forget how despondent the first issue of the flash 1987 is. the narration is curt and every page features a new setting. there is that long monologue as wally is running, reminiscing about the books he’s read in college, the heart that he’s delivering to the author, of how dissimilar he now feels to his uncle. it’s how he’s so separate from the rest of the world, be it through the people he interacts with or the lifestyle that he’s struggling to maintain. he’s constantly reminding people that he’s taken up the title of the flash. he comes home to see his birthday party celebrated without him. it’s just so melancholy and apathetic and lonely. genuinely one of my favorite issues ever.

rip to mbappe but if I was playing for the current World Cup holders and my best friend and teammate on the opposing team was setting records for his country. I’d kinda sort of let him win 🤷🏻‍♀️

I dont think of grief as a ball in a box that gets smaller but still hits the sad button. I think it's a weight you get used to but can't put down.

so glad i'm past that "jokes are only for chatfics every proper fic i write has to be super serious" phase because why can't i have both. why can't i have angst and sprinkle in a little jokey joke. or vice versa.