It Wasn't The Fact That Everyone Else's Parents Were Proud Of Them, Except For Mine

I saw Kakashi at Graffiti Alley in Toronto

i can't help seeing the concept of "coming back wrong" as reflective of the aftermath of attempted (and unsuccessful) suicide. whether you gratefully accepted death at the end, or you struggled in terror in your final moments and wished you could somehow twist out of the way of your oncoming fate, the choice to die was taken from you. you failed to achieve the inevitable. how wrong must you be, to be unable to even die properly? how horrifying - and how utterly infuriating - would it be, to have everyone around you expressing gratitude or disgust at your resurrection, while you cannot even begin to articulate the depths of your own conviction that death, the inexorable maw itself, must have decided there was something just not right about you, and spat you out?

Masks 🎭

so when i was making that last gifset i lost my mind (again) about this:

because... WHAT

but then i remembered this

and this

so yeah, catch chrisjen avasarala never passing up a chance to make eyes at a younger woman who kind of hates her guts.

“Your trauma made you stronger!”

My trauma ruined me.

He killed a woman I loved.

Every single time I look back at my failures, the steps I've taken that have led me down a less-than-ideal path... the mistakes I've made that weigh heavily on my mind, I remember one thing that eases my guilt. That any low I have fallen to or may fall to, I know I will never fumble the bag as hard as this jackass:

Actual fucking dumbass. This douche had Mizu herself giving up her path of revenge to settle down and rear horses with him. She loved him, actually fucking loved him and gave herself wholeheartedly, and he gets scared 'cuz his badass bride wiped the floor with him in a spar.

Remember folks, you can fail as many times in this godforsaken life we have, but you will never be as big of a failure as this dick.

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X!Alphys: I have a science headcanon.

XGaster: Can’t you just say hypothesis like a regular person?

X!Alphys: So my science headcanon is–