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drowninginthoughts27 · 7 months
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(Panic attack, discussions of child abuse, discussions of trauma) @jegulus-microfic
It’s dead silent when James gets home. But not in a comforting way. It’s the type of cold, ghostly atmosphere that instantly hits him like a brick wall as he walks through the front door. Only the soft hum of rushing water serving as white noise. 
Worry immediately sets deep into his bones.
He carefully toes off his shoes, loosening his tie and dropping his bag as well. He walks into the kitchen, checking the time before plugging his phone into the outlet. It isn’t until he flinging his keys onto the counter that he’s able to put his finger on what exactly is wrong. 
Placed there unassumingly on the counter next to all of the miscellaneous papers and near-empty mugs of once hot beverages is a small green envelope. On it his address has been written in neat scrawling cursive. The envelope has been torn open, the letter that was once in it now nowhere to be found. 
The recognition is almost instantaneous, fear sinking deep into hit gut. The crest of the house of black stamped on the front of the envelope, ‘Toujours Pur’ printed in bold, though there is nothing pure about it. He’s seen his fair share of small green envelopes, never once have they meant anything other than certain misery. 
As if by muscle memory he springs into action, scouring the house for any signs of Regulus. The lights throughout the flat remain off, only the streetlights shining through the dark night left to illuminate the rooms. 
Despite the odds he finds Regulus relatively quickly. In times like this he’s almost always in one of two places. Either nestled deep into the corner of their closet or tucked into himself in the bathtub. Today the sound of the shower running gives away Regulus location. 
Sure enough there he sits, cold water spraying out from the shower head soaking him to the bone. Breath heavy and shaky. His arms are wrapped around his knees which are pressed up to his chest tightly. He has one of James’ hoodies on engulfing is figure entirely, hood up covering his face as he rocks back and forth slightly. 
James isn’t sure if Regulus is aware of his presence, none the less he runs over to crouch next to the side of the bathtub making himself eye level with the other man. 
Regulus is clutching a waterlogged piece of paper so tightly in his fist that it crumples and tears and his knuckles have gone white with the sheer force of his grip. James doesn’t need to read a single sentence in that letter to understand its message. The black family crest visible on the corner of the paper solidifying his suspicions. 
“Regulus,” James says, firm enough to snap him out of his trance but not harsh enough to send him spiraling any more than he already is. 
Regulus stills in response, relaxing slightly to the sound of James’ voice. 
“Can I sit with you?” James asks. 
As expected Regulus didn’t give a verbal response. He only nods, lifting his head up to make eye contact with James. The tear streaks coating his rosy cheeks break James’ heart.
James decides against sitting in the bathtub with Regulus. There isn’t a whole lot of room to begin with and such close contact is often to overwhelming for Regulus. Instead he sits down cross legged on the bathroom floor next to the tub. Reaching an arm out to run his fingers up and down the notches of the other mans spine. 
After a couple of minutes his’ breathing has slowed and the rocking has stoped entirely. James is now also wet from the constant flow of water from the shower. Squeezing Regulus’ shoulder lightly to remind him that he’s still there he reaches forward to turn off the water. 
“Do you want to talk about it?” James asks.
The other man sniffles, rubbing the sleeve of the hoodie over his eyes. He nods then opens his mouth to speak. Regulus is quite, whispering when he starts,  
“It’s all my fault,” he begins.
James gently tilts Regulus face to look at him, cutting him off, “No, if your talking about what I think you are it is not your fault, nor is it Sirius’, or anybody else’s but theirs for that matter.”
Looking back to the floor of the bathtub Regulus lets out another shaky breath, “If I had just stayed around, another 3 years maybe, it would have been better in the long run.” He’s is sobbing now, stuttering on his words. 
“We both know thats not true.”
“My collage would have been payed for! My collage and my car and my housing an-“
“No Regulus, nothing is worth putting yourself through more trauma then you already had to endure,” 
“But after Sirius left they never laid a finger on me. Not once. A-And all the good memories James. The summers spent on holiday, the games of chess we would play whe- where we would act like a real family. All the places they would take me just because I mentioned wanting to go. James, they weren’t bad people.” He cried.
“A good person wouldn’t abuse and manipulate their own children,” James reminded him. Though there wasn’t a single sharp edge to his voice, it was nothing but soft and reassuring. “The god memories don’t outweigh the bad Regulus.”
He was now leaning most of his body weight onto James’ shoulder as he spoke. 
“But I still love them, and they love me, that I’m sure of.” He mumbled, almost inaudible. 
“I’m not denying that, I’m not denying that they did good things, I’m not denying any of that. None of those memories are invalid. I’m simply saying that part of you died in that house, and I’m not prepared to lose more of you to them if you go back. I don’t want you dead even if it’s not physically.” 
Regulus only turned toward James, nestling his face into the crook of his neck. 
“No matter your decision I’m not gonna leave you to go through it on your own, I’ll be right by your side through it all if you want me there. But I do want the decisions you make to be rational, and I don’t think the decision right now you make would be any where near that.” 
“I know,” Regulus says in agreement, nestling himself deeper into James’ neck. 
“You ready to go to bed, it’s getting late.” James asks.
Regulus leans back away from James, nodding in agreement and allowing the other man to scoop him up out of the bathtub and place him on the counter behind them. 
James towels the other man dry, kissing his face as he dose so. 
“I’m gonna go get you something dry to change into, okay?” James says, continuing to keep his voice soft and reassuring. 
“Okay,” Regulus replies in acknowledgment. Eyes still bloodshot from crying. The sight of him makes the feeling of tears prick at the corner of James’ eyes, threatening to fall. 
James hugs him again, going into their bedroom to get another of his hoodies for Regulus to change into. 
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Not much later James watches as Regulus finally drifts into sleep, cuddled close up into James’ side. 
As much as the thought of what both brothers went through in that house pains him, it almost pains him even more that there isn’t much else he can do about it other than help them through it in the best ways he knows how. 
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icewindandboringhorror · 10 months
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a quite simple outfit, trying to use the little blue and white apron thing (which is actually a dress I think, that I just leave un-buttoned in the back and added an apron-like tie to lol)
#self#mori kei#jfashion#NOT really but like.. it's.. adjacent I guess.. forgive me .. I may try using tags again though I kind of got out of the habit ghhj#I need to be... Seen to some degree. I want to start selling clothes and sculptures again to recoup the costs of having to euthanize my cat#and stuff . but that won't be very successful if I have like.. 15 people to sell to lol...#the eternal Hermit Conflict where you hate attention and Being Percieved in general yet in todays capitalist society it is nearly#a necessity to have some form of social network or media presence especially in creative fields. etc. etc. ... kicking screaming wailing#sobbing so on and so forth.. tearfully punching the cold mossy stone walls of my evil wizard tower...#I was also thinking of maybe opening a few sculpture commission slots and maybe Tumblr Blazing that post or something#but.. again.... sobbing crying interacting with the general public oughhf ouuch -500 HP#why can't I just be approached by some wealthy 65 year old woman who is nonsensically infatuated with my art for no#reason and gives me like $10.000 a week for food and art supplies and etc. and I can go fuck off into a cabin in the middle of nowhere#in the uk and just be left alone to work on my projects without even needing to build any form of connections or social presence because I'#already set for life and can just get funding and connections whenever lol.. WHICH not to be ungrateful like obviously I still appreciate#anyone who follows and interacts with my posts. I dont mean it in a 'grrr fuck all of you imbeciles I wish I could delete my blog!!!' or#whatever hhjkjk.. I just mean it more in a like.. I am very socially inept and my mental illness gives me severe social issues so any situ#tion where I'm expected to self promote or network or interact with others generally is nightmarish and stressful for many many reasons#and if I could somehow skip that part and just go straight to being a famous author or somethin.. that would be cool. Which I know EVERYONE#hates networking and stuff but I mean like.. on a level most people could not possibly comprehend.. I am not just an 'introvert'. I am like#doctors declare me incapable of functioning in general society very poor mental health prognosis probably should have a caretaker at#some point type Hermit lol.. ANYWAY ghbhj... alas.. I also feel weird about the sculptures in terms of what to charge for them#and always have which is part of why I stopped selling them. If I charged a fair even like $15 an hour many of them would be like#close to $150+. and nobody is going to pay that for a decoration. that doesn't even factor in like.. supplies or time spent communicating/s#etching the concept (if a commission) etc. etc. I thought it'd be better to just auction them then and let people pay what they want inst#d of a set price but etsy doesnt allow auctions and is it weird to just.. link people to an Art Ebay or something lol..#AAAANYWAY.. the outfit.. I still love these shoes. they're nice and a little Older Style looking. always into pastel florals too lol#(everything is thrifted as usual. excited about the shirt because it's so puffy! it was in the halloween section though ghjhj.. like when i#s october and they make the special aisle in goodwill for 'Costume' clothes even though theyre all just normal stuff I would wear ghg)
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melverie · 16 days
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Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh today I've been constantly experiencing the urge to un-private today-in-the-devildom & start writing for it again
#i'm gonna ramble in the tags but#i've been talking with starr (if you're reading this--hi starr!! <3) about the blog today and sharing some of the entries#and it just made me miss it so much#+ the conversation actually made me realize some other reasons why i didn't enjoy the blog in general anymore#like i genuinely love the blog and i genuinely loved writing for it & that conversation reminded me of that#but also there were so many reasons that ultimately pushed me to more or less abandon the blog & then later private it too#so i'm kind of at a loss here#tbh i think i'm mostly just scared to pick the blog up again only for it to end exactly like last time i picked it back up#i've actually always wanted for the blog to be a source of inspiration y'know?#like the things mentioned in the entries are kinda just small ideas right#i was hoping that people would read these & feel inspired to write or draw something of their own based on my entries#that was actually what made me start the blog in the first place. the hope that i could inspire others that way#aaahhhhhh.... maybe it's on me since i could have more openly communicated that idea......#i did get to meet one wonderful person who wrote a few fics based on my entries tho!! (hi ali <3)#but yeah..there's that#also the way engagement just dropped significantly after a while#like i know i was gone for a good while & that a lot of people left the fandom and all that#but still getting maybe one reblog if i'm lucky really feels like a punch to the gut#ESPECIALLY considering that i was close to 900 followers on there#do you guys know that feeling when you proudly show someone you care about something you did only to get a disinterested answer?#yeah...#that's essentially how it feels like to me#and well as you might know the feeling of “why should i keep writing if apparently no one cares” eventually won... haha.....#but aaaahhhhh i'm still clinging onto the hope & what ifs here#that conversation with starr really just made me forget about everything that frustrated me about the blog & left me with this#longing feeling to start again lol#hey if you've made it this far into the tags let me just ask--would you care if i picked the blog back up?#would you also *show* that you care?#i'm actually quite curious (you could almost call me george lol)#anyway maybe we'll see each other on today-in-the-devildom again in the future.. who knows
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streetslost · 4 months
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with any oc. if you're not going to give them the effort of reading all their headcanons and backstory or the like. the least you can do is read their basic stats. i don't mind helping people with cat's long ass backstory and intricate details.
but when people have no idea her basic stats then it just feels demeaning tbh.
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sidepod · 6 months
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genuinely why do people tag the drivers that their post is shit talking abt ??? like i follow the tag to see posts/updates abt that driver ... not see you shittalk them
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heyooo so i totally understand if anyone wants to unfollow, but i think i’m gonna go on a hiatus here on nancy until june 1st. i love nance, but the muse just ain’t there for the time being and i don’t wanna lurk on the dash and stress myself out over not having the will to write and then worrying that people will drop me for being inactive. SO— i’m just gonna bite the bullet and go on hiatus for a bit and then see about coming back. hate to leave y’all hanging like this, but i think i need a break from writing early 20s and teenage muses lol.
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mariyekos · 1 month
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Man. Interacting on tumblr is so much easier/nicer/common than on twitter. The tag system means it's much more convenient to search for posts outside of your direct circle, which leads to a lot more interaction, and a lot more fun. I made my tumblr in 2013 and my twitter in 2017 so this is where I got my start, but in the past few years I've been much more active on twitter and have really missed out. It's cool interacting with strangers even just for a post or two. There's a lot more sharing of headcanons and theories and meta/analysis, and I love it.
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sysig · 2 months
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What are some rare characters you love that you think people don’t draw or write about enough
Do Max and Dex count I love them and I feel like I'm approximately 80% of the Helix fandom rn lol
Doug Peterson and Russ Frushtick from Law Abiding Citizen - the fandom has gotten real quiet over time but I still love them so much ♥ There's a lot you can read into or leave silly with their dynamic, I still wholeheartedly recommend the emerge, transformed series as one of my favourite interpretations of Russ especially 💕
The Editor from Jazzpunk - he's just a silly little guy! It's honestly such a shame that he's only really in the last chapter, I would love to see him explored more, he's the worst ♪
Tatsumi Souichi from Koisuru Boukun - genuinely one of my all-time favourite characters, and The Only Good Tsundere as far as I'm concerned lol. I'm gonna write about him! I've got my fanfic and video essay sitting in my drafts, but like agh!! He's so interesting!!! So beautifully flawed - he's internally consistent which is my Favourite - and watching him grow and change while still being himself over literal years has been a truly unparalleled experience as a reader 💖
Luke Wigglebig and Florette from Pajama Sam: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet - I joked before about being the only person on the internet who ships them but like, I'm pretty sure that's actually true lol. Even just more fanart of them by themselves would make me happy, they're so cute!! Especially Luke, his design is adorable
And then probably a more well-known one but I haven't been following his fandom popularity lately haha, Fai D. Flowrite from Tsubasa - him, Nova, and Watanuki move in and out of being my CLAMP faves, though Fai is probably the most complex of the three of them. And he's a trash man! A garbage fire of a wizard ♥ I love him
#This also made me realize I didn't have a Jazzpunk link in my taglist over on Drabbles lol - fixed now!#And also that I apparently have a fairly wide margin for ''Characters who I want to see more of'' and ''Characters I want to make more of''#How rare are we talking here 'cause uhhh#If you wanna get into fancharacters/OCs/etc. I have perhaps Too Many of those as well lol#That's literally the only reason Max and Dex are a strikethrough because otherwise 10000%#And y'already know about my big feelings towards many others - I wouldn't have a whole Vargas blog if not lol#I have other OC faves as well :D Cheerybot jumps out to me haha#As well as when smol shares her characters with me <3#There was this one story that I was told by an artist as context for a commission and I was enthralled but never followed up on - a shame!#I ended up making a little extra art out of inspiration haha ♪#Anyway lol - these are just the ones that immediately spring to mind since I've drawn them :D#I almost certainly have more who just haven't made it to my paper yet lol#Not enough girls in this list - tossing in Wendy (and Jennifer) from Rule of Rose as well ♥#I could probably talk about several of these at even further length lol - I already have for some!#There's also specific dynamics I rarely see - my favourite rarepairs are probably Krillin/Vegeta(/Bulma/18) and Thranduil/Bilbo lol#There is too little appreciation for polyships!! So many of my faves have two hands!!#And to be fair Nova is probably rarer than Fai - there's definitely not enough fanfic about her dynamic with Hikaru!#I kept almost including other faves but I was like No Wait this about rare characters lol#I'm delighted to see all of my faves! But I would doubly so to see these get the love they deserve hehe <3#Can you tell that I really enjoy ahem Interesting Personalities lol#All my faves are disasters I love them <3
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hubrishazard · 6 months
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I'm overhearing some middle aged person in a coffee shop talking about the latest doctor who episode, and saying exactly the same thing we've all been saying 😭 they brought it up and I was like "oh here we go" and then they were like "I wish they hadn't said that stuff about the doctor not being able to understand due to being male presenting, that just reinforces the binary theyre trying to break out of" and "I wish Rose hadn't called out the doctor for assuming the meep's pronouns, the doctor should've just asked for the meep's pronouns without needing to be prompted to" and "I really agree with what they're trying to do, I just wish they'd handled it better" and then after complaining about it all they were like "idk... maybe some people do need to be hit upside the head with it". Like. I know this is just one stranger but it feels so heartening. They didn't see One (1) heavy handed episode and decide to be mad about the trans representation. Like maybe things really will be alright
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teabutmakeitazure · 11 months
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Hello everyone
What were your yearbook quotes when you graduated highschool
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faultsofyouth · 1 year
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what i do respect radblr about is they pushback from conservatives radblr spaces like radtwt would be like ‘we should allow conservatives cuz they have the same goal we do 🤓🤓’ um no those bitches do not
Twitter in its entirety seems like a nightmare tbh. I seriously feel like people on there just use it to be political and stalk other people 🤦‍♀️ I have always preferred tumblr and I am definitely a feminist today because the women on here have offered me so many thoughtful and nuanced and Understanding perspectives, even when I was trans-identifying and totally closed off to what they had to say 💝
also I hate conservatism in both economic and social praxis and I think marxism has a huge influence over 2nd wave feminism in America and radical feminism all over the world, and idek How ladies get into "radical feminism" without realizing that conservative goals are Directly opposed to feminist goals. The only thing modern conservatives and radical feminists have in common is believing that people are the sex that they are born with, and the resemblance ends there.
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pepprs · 2 years
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im discontent and tired but like too discontent and tired to put it into words i think. lol
#purrs#prefacing this as usual by saying that i love my job. but also… every single situation. EVERY situation. is a primal situation in one way. l#like either i am dying of hunger / thirst / sleep deprivation and feeling it so hard i can’t focus on my work or i am so stressed that i am#being chased into a hidey hole by all the pressures or i am projecting my parents onto ppl and reliving primal moments of abaondoment and ex#exclusion LMFAO. And it’s like there’s no wonder i am so fucking exhausted every day when i come home i have lived 746 lifetimes in the last#8-9 hours. but it’s just so insane and im so tired. i literally thought i was gonna have an anxiety attack earlier today and it was bc i had#health anxiety bc my heart was pounding so hard over my facilitation anxiety that i got scared my heart was legitimately going to give out a#and then i started spiralling and like. lol i don’t think that’s healthy. i just want the election to be over so fucking bad but also i cant#just throw up my hands and give up and hope for the best i am literally being paid to give everything i have to making the world better so i#im gonna do it it’s just i am so often like the youngest and least experienced person in the room and im insecure about that and also i am j#just scared like… as a person and it’s just a lot to deal with i guess. lol#guess i was able to put it into words lol. but the moments of me projecting shit are so annoying bc then i get mad and then my feelings get#hurt bc no one notices im mad but also i don’t want anyone to notice im mad bc im being stupid for literaly no reason so. idk im just#ear ripped tated right now over stupid stupid shit that genuinely does not matter and has no bearing but when it’s little things that build#up over the course of the day… idk. it’s just hard 💃🏻#delete later#this is abt smth that happened in a meeting today brw it’s not abt anyone including irls i saw today / this week i love u 😽#also side note i saw literally SO many of the ppl closest to me this week. like that used to be an almost every day occurrence and i think t#this week not only did i see… like not to name drop on my tumblr blog with redacted followers but not only did i see you markya and#david but i saw tirzah AND brandon AND radia. WTF!!!!! that’s so many of my favorite people all in one week!!!! :DDDDDDD#(omg pretend i put ‘you’ after all the ppl it applies to)
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silkylious · 2 years
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I'm genuinely not trying to be rude so I hope you don't take it that way but I followed you for your writing and you don't even write that much anymore
I'm just saying make a side blog for all the edits and gifs and art because people didn't follow you for that they followed you for writing (which you don't do much of anymore)
you know you can always unfollow this blog, right
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brianllama · 2 years
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Because my main account @brianllama is flagged as explicit I made this new one to eventually move over to.
This seemed like a great idea until I realised I would have to re-follow everyone again, maybe make some kind of post tagging my mutuals/followers to let them know about this new blog, and then figure out how to move my sideblogs onto this blog (I assume theres a way of doing it), and it seems like its gonna take me a little while to get around to doing all that lol.
If you get a follow from this blog don’t mind me, I’m just very slowly setting this blog up :)
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baby-prophet · 1 year
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tumblr in no world would I ever curse someone with tumblr "gifts" stop showing me this!! it makes me panic when I'm trying to block someone!!
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rosicheeks · 2 years
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You really need to open those DMs for a minute. Lol
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