Be Kind And Be Safe

No apprentice has ever chosen a new Oakleaf for themselves.

@brilliantinsultsgalore ‘s hc ^ (from a post of rangerthursday’s) has spawned this devastating idea in my head.

imagine an au where halt dies for will somewhere in the whole skandia plotline. and will does this. gilan taking will aside on the docks as crowley stood, frozen, unable to comprehend that halt was dead and gone, and tying the leather cord with shaking hands around will’s thin wrist. tears sliding down both their faces.

gilan probably took will on as his apprentice. their mentor-apprentice relationship was a little unique for its near-equal, older brother-younger brother dynamic — and part of that was very intentionally done by gilan because he wanted will to be sure that he wouldn’t ever try to take the place of halt in will’s life, but also partially because gilan was unsure of himself and felt he couldn’t teach will as well as halt would have.

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2021

so my landlord died recently and his son inherited everything all of a sudden. and there's this huge storage shed out behind my apartment building that the dude's been cleaning out the past few weeks

and i was taking my cat out for a walk and i see him there and we start shootin' the shit. and he's like "yeah, i locked my keys in the shed, don't know what i'm gonna do now. i'm gonna replace the doors soon anyway but i'm not sure how to break in"

and my cat decides it's time to go back inside so i grab my lockpick set and go out there and i tell him i can try to jimmy the lock open, but i'm only experienced with padlocks.

then i realize i probably sound like a criminal. but telling him the real reason i taught myself this (being a d&d nerd and also briefly getting into lockpickinglawyer's videos) sounds fake as FUCK. so i decide i need to make up a lie that sounds more believable than the truth. tell him my dad had really bad adhd and lost his keys to the barn a lot (that is true) and that he taught himself how to pick locks to let himself in and passed that down to me (that is false)

so i start picking the lock and it takes a few tries. i've only practiced on one lock so it's hard to get a feel for a new one, especially a (mildly rusty) door lock like that. but i eventually get it and we get the door to open.

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

The Last of Us HBO season 1 poster concept by me :)

me: I keep explaining to you that in order for it to be 'suffering time' /now/, 'suffering time' must have stopped at some point.

brain (a little louder): I said, it's suffering time now.

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yes he is a handsome and fluffy boy

yes he sits super weird all the time he’s a proper young gentleman

yes that chair has been through it; no one else touches it anymore it’s been surrendered to his control

no i did not ever name him he’s a shadowy figure of mystery (we call him fluffbutt)