Quiet observer of life

30s, she/her. Reblogs a mixed bag of fandoms (which lately means 9-1-1, The Mandalorian, Final Fantasy, and Marvel), sprinkled with other interests. Firmly Team Iron Man and Team Tony Stark. AO3 is journeythroughtherain. Don't be afraid to ask me to tag things!

[journeythroughtherain]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Squall Leonhart/Cloud Strife Characters: Squall Leonhart, Cloud Strife Additional Tags: Alternative Universe - Merged Worlds (FFVII and FFVIII), Post-Time Compression (FFVIII), Post-Meteorfall (FFVII), Not Canon Compliant with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, exploration of game mechanics, Established Relationship, Fluff, Misunderstandings, but like very harmless ones, Strifehart Week 2026 Series: Part 3 of You Say Ochu And I Say Ho-chu Summary:

When Cloud comes back after a mission acting a little off, Squall decides to cheer him up to the best of his ability.

Strifehart Week Day 5: Forehead kiss/Nursery

[moniquill]

[dannyvantass]

This Alaskan parka is windproof, waterproof — and made from bear intestines | CBC News

It's waterproof. It's windproof. It's lightweight and durable. And it's made from the intestines of two bears, painstakingly cleaned and sew

I really wanted to know more about this, especially how the water proof stitching works. Here's more information on this project, and hopefully more in the future!

[tehnakki]

This is amazing! I need to make a note to play around with that water proof stitch technology soon.

[sail-not-drift]

June Pardue has a video on YouTube demonstrating the waterproof stitch!

[hopefullywelsh]

very dumb thing to make but I love it

[tobiasdrake]

My favorite thing about the Kefka confrontation is that they do that thing where each character summarizes their character arc and what they're fighting for but there's 12 of 14 characters in this scene in a game that has more characters than arcs, so you end up like

Celes: I fight for people who accept me for who I am! Terra: For the love I've finally found! Edgar: For my people and my kingdom! Sabin: For my brother, who I have the strength to protect! Gau: Gau is also here! Mog: Kupo Kupo! Umaro: Various noises!

[purpleisdebeste]

I’m sorry Orpheus i was too harsh on you…

[purpleisdebeste]

i was in the physics lab today and we were working with lasers, so the Lab Freaks (legal name) were being very careful to stress that we Do Not Turn Around or Look Behind Us because we’ll get extremely blinded by the power of high strength lasers

and i’m not gonna lie it was actually extremely hard to resist turning around. i misjudged orpheus it turns out this isnt extremely easy actually

[purpleisdebeste]

okay i’ll be honest i 100% looked back at the lasers. actually multiple separate lasers multiple different times. they were pretty

and i didnt get blinded. so clearly lab safety isnt real and you should always risk it cus taking risks is awesome #gambling

but uh. my ass is NOT making it out of the underworld 🔥🔥🔥

[overnightshipping]

[homunculus-argument]

I've been fed, walked and watered and I've slept enough and been out of the internet and I'm doing crafts.

Why am I still angry.

[homunculus-argument]

I walked right into this one like a blind horse into a revolving door.

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

Getting fixated in a piece of media will make you very curious about things you have never once in your life cared about beforehand just bc it's relevant to said media

[pangur-and-grim]

who’s my happiest little guy! it’s you!

[cat-faces]

[slicethepi]

you can't just leave this in the replies @all-i-am-is-pharmacy

[pies-in-the-skies]

me: truly a well crafted tragedy is such a bittersweet pleasure to take in and serves a purpose, not just as a sad story but as a reminder that even that which ends badly might not have happened in vain or for nothing. The love, the grief, the actions still meant something simply for having taken place and for us partaking in it.

me when said tragedy is about to actually unfold, sweating: ok but consider this. i dont want this to happen

[intermundia]

"Anakin's relationship with Palpatine eclipses his relationship with Obi-Wan," Christensen remarks. "But he doesn't really have a clear devotion to one or the other. Anakin as he will be played is—I don't want to say naïve, but his belief system is still open. He still isn't exactly set in his devotion to the Jedi or to Palpatine. He is looking to see how he can get more power, but his ideas of good and evil are not black and white."

reading about hayden's understanding of anakin's psychology in revenge of the sith is so illuminating. his fall is not about his moral convictions or about loyalty to a mentor. he's selfishly looking for ways to increase his own power to resist change, without regard for any ethical boundaries, he simply doesn't care about that. he's apolitical, amoral; it's all about what he wants.

anakin just doesn't love obi-wan and the jedi more than he loves being important and having control over the world around him. he doesn't love freedom or justice more than he loves license to do and have whatever he wants. it's really what makes him so dangerous, such a malleable weapon to be wielded. he doesn't have ethical boundaries or convictions to keep him steady.

lacking firm definition of what is good and what is evil allows anakin to redefine those terms to suit his needs. it's what allows him to kill innocents and still not think of himself as evil. it's what allows him to tell obi-wan that the jedi are evil, despite it being an obvious self-delusion. he's lost because his moral compass doesn't point north, but spins freely to face whatever he wants.

[taurzza]

and a little borzoi design

[bigfatbreak]

Zutara week 2026 prompt: Warmth

I'm too busy to do all the prompts but here's some love for one of the classic ships of my childhood <3

[shira-satsu]

Strifehartweek2026!

Day5 Forehead Kiss💕

[nanomias]

mid-century modern edgeworth

[fraddit]

When you stay in a hotel room, do you unpack your suitcase into the provided closet and dresser?

always

sometimes (explain in tags if desired)

never

never been in a hotel room/bald/etc

Remaining time: 1 day 14 hours

[spicyvampire]

The way all the 2020s have done so far have been making me categorically against every new generation of tech that comes out is insane. Like I'm from a technological boom generation, saw the first portable phones, nokias & blackberries & flipphones etc, and the first smartphones, and the first ipods & ipads & tablets in general while still having cassettes & DVD & MP3 players around so I know how all of it work, I had computer classes in high school, I did the transition between home desktop computers to laptops and back to gaming computers. But then they started to put internet in your printer & microwave, everything has ads & AI now and every update is worst than the last. I literally loved technology and they ruined it

[sarahluann]

Would Din Djarin own a picture book? No, he would not. Do I care? No, I do not.

I don’t think anyone is surprised that I had to combine my obsession with drawing people reading with my latest obsession, the Mandalorian.

I tried to embrace the “just scribble it!” attitude for this piece and let it be. Stop polishing, don’t make it be perfect, close enough is close enough. I think the messiness fits with the vibe of the show? Maybe? 🤷‍♀️