Delusional Introspection

Your body is there. It’s really there. I saw it. Did I look good? Yes. Your body has grown.

Susshhiii 🍣🍤

In Russia a man named Ivan smashed his way through icy water to save a stray dog from drowning, he adopted the dog afterwards and named him Rex.

Guess I should be glad I was a skinny kid. Otherwise, you’d have delivered me to this maniac.

No, seriously: I genuinely believe that Peter and Yondu never communicated between vol 1 and vol 2, and that Peter truly believed he’d severed their relationship forever over that trick and was quietly grieving at the same time as he was trying to process his (justified, again) resentments. You can actually see him grieving at Gamora in the end of vol 1, and she just totally fails to get it; to her, Yondu is clearly taking the role of Thanos in her head. 

Anyway, I love your point about Gamora thinking of Peter’s relationship with Yondu through the lens of her own experiences with Thanos. I’ve occasionally seen meta and fic taking for granted that Gamora’s comment to Peter after Yondu takes the orb is objectively accurate, that she’s an unbiased observer of their relationship, but she’s really, really not. She’s trying to comfort and reassure Peter like she wishes someone had reassured her about Thanos (it doesn’t matter, he’s no kin of yours, you don’t owe him anything) but she misreads the situation completely. Not that her reasons aren’t valid – not only is she drawing on her own experience with Thanos, but the one time she saw Peter and Yondu interact, Yondu was threatening to kill him! But she doesn’t have the whole picture.

It’s really interesting to me that part of the communication gap between Peter and Yondu seems to be that Yondu expects Peter to be able to read between the lines more than he actually does? And it’s not without basis - there are lots of things Peter seems to know instinctively that he doesn’t know consciously. He’s not actually surprised to learn that the ‘eat you’ thing was a joke, he’s just angry about how inappropriate it was. He’s not even surprised to learn that Yondu didn’t keep him for the reasons he said he did; he’s just indignant about being lied to about it in a way which hurt him. He is surprised - awed, even - when Yondu admits to being his dad, but even that isn’t shock - it’s not something which had never occurred to him; it’s something he hadn’t dared to allow himself to hope for. That’s the pattern with them - Peter isn’t afraid of Yondu but he is badly hurt by the way Yondu treats him, whereas Yondu expects him to understand why. It kind of reflects how situational the abuse in that relationship is - I don’t think Yondu would be dad of the year under any circumstances, but if he hadn’t been surrounded by a volatile crew who jumped all over indicators of softness he would have done better, and so I suspect he was inconsistent with bb Peter in a way which was deeply confusing. I don’t think adult Peter ever got far enough away to contextualise that confusion, so it still defined their relationship.

… I mean, that’s obviously not the only thing going on; Yondu DOES fail his responsibility to a small child who depended on him (and he knows it!) and, as you mentioned above, he can’t admit to how he feels about Peter even if he wanted to, because he’s leading a pack of hardened killers who will jump on any hint of weakness. But I also think he doesn’t quite realize the extent to which Peter (socialized by equally touchy-feely Meredith Quill up to the age of eight) fails to notice what Yondu might have thought were fairly obvious tells that he cares about him.

I’m not 100% on whether I think Yondu understood that Peter took the ‘eat you’ joke seriously, but if he didn’t, Peter’s whole rant to him about it in volume one must have been completely, hilariously baffling. Like, they’re right at the edge of everything falling apart, Yondu makes his stupid dad joke to let Peter know they’re still playing the game, and that’s the thing Peter chooses to rant about for five minutes???

A father’s love. (via Kieeraaa)

So has this been done yet?

Also, it looks considering how close they cut that it went fairly well. I see like 2 nicks maybe, but with the photo it’s hard to tell. I mean, unfortunately, you’re going to nick a few animals because they don’t understand the order of “stand still” very well. 

Also, their skin secretes lanolin, which quickly soothes and heals any nicks they get during shearing. 

Witchcraft starter kit

Watch Lil BUB’s Super Bowl instead.