INFINITE JULIE GIFS: 84/∞

thinking about this gifset, specifically in context of the talk that firefighters give to elementary schoolers, when they come to talk about fire safety. see, they cover "stop drop and roll," and staying low, but they also talk about how, for a lot of young kids, a firefighter showing up in full gear can look scary and inhuman, but that kids shouldn't hide even if they're scared, because underneath all that is just a person who's there to help.

and saleh isn't a kid, but really, even as an adult, isn't there something more than human, something invincible, about someone walking through fire to save you, covered head to toe in protective gear? the mask is protection from smoke, but also protection from scrutiny, something that marks a firefighter worthy of following on an unlikely path through hell to the salvation on the other side.

except, they don't get to salvation. and saleh ends up trapped. and firefighter buckley takes off his mask, and suddenly he's not more than human. he's not invincible. he's just a guy, looking down at saleh with wild eyes and single-minded purpose.

and saleh asks him, "but how will you breathe?" and firefighter buckley - buck - this man who is just a person who's there to help, says, "i'm gonna hold it for as long as i can."

The math just adds up!

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

beloved friend sent me one of scar's newer tweets and i HAD to draw it

there wont be a beach episode but there will be a creek episode anyways strawberries !

(this is like the 4th time ive made a nod to the fact Carma just folds as soon as Sīdus is anywhere near his shoulders(( but yea hes getting better at displaying affections

missing someone bad for you

trista mateer / trista mateer / sue zhao / u.k / u.k / clementine von radics / trista mateer

does 1 (one) task and i’m done for the rest of the day. productivity complete. life won. ignoring the twenty other tasks i need to do. got 99 problems and i’m ignoring them all.

meeting on the fire nation stairs [ids in alt]

There’s something horrifyingly beautiful about Tess’s final moments. In the midst of the most dire chaos, as she waits for her death to come rushing past so she can blow it sky high and give cordyceps a big fuck you one last time, one of the infected stops. It looks at her, really looks. Her own mortality is personified in this infected. It’s death that’s looking at her, and it sees her. She looks her own death in the eye, and the suspense is so high as it approaches. But then, it doesn’t bite her throat out like we all expect it to.

It kisses her. What’s more, it kisses her gently. And I think it was a brilliant choice on the writers part, because it reminded me that the infected aren’t supposed to be evil. Sure, they’re scary as hell, but really, they’re just trying to survive. They’re connected to one another, they can feel each other from miles away. They seek out and want to be close to their own kind, just like the human survivors do. And when they do find each other, they kiss hello.

And after so long apart from a loved one, someone you know and trust with every instinct in your body, wouldn’t you want to kiss them too?

forever obsessed with dynamics between vampires, specifically that of a maker and fledgling, as a way to explore abuse. the creation of a vampire itself can so easily be a literalization of the lasting impacts of trauma and also much more simply the ways a perpetrator might shape their victim’s very identity. the extremes of isolation in the way that the new vampire, in most narratives, must cut all ties to their mortal life, or else go through an elaborate charade to maintain the facade of humanity, while forever still being removed from it. and the sheer dependence and vulnerability of being in an entirely new state of being, wholly uncertain of what it entails, and relying on another person to define… everything.

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 (soon))

CROWLEY SSR THOUGHTS

there is zero basis for this, but I can't get this thought of my head

I don't know why I decided to draw it this way

i'm not late for royai day if every day is royai day to me 🔥🪶 also for royai week day 1 - raison d'être

house's little laugh as wilson openly flirts with him through an MRI microphone is Doing Things to me