#impending

[apologize-to-no-one]

[pixiesklove]

[lebuc]

spectre, impending

* the impending spectre gives - on it's own - no good reason for an optimistic outlook.

the state of the state engenders no shortage of angst, anguish & disaffection for all things political;

but, personal becomes political where your stance refuses to capitulate to intolerance

rejects those who refuse to seed & water human saplings with the largesse & finesse required for fruitful, joyous days unto years.

may our dailies reflect both our place, our respectful pacing in clarity, empathy, resolve;

outlasting any quadrennial onslaught with our own compass intact. * 2/25 - lebuc - spectre, impending

[simplykaren]

The little dog that lives at the clinic--Sharli--is finally winding down. She's estimated to be 18 now (est. for her birthday made by dental specialist--apparently they can get a pretty good estimate by how narrow the pulp cavities of the teeth are on x-ray), and her kidneys are giving out. She's declined a lot in the last week, and I had to syringe feed her today. (She's turning her nose up at a/d and cat food!) Unless she perks up in the next day or 2, I suspect the doctors will make a call before the end of the week.

The clinic cats--Meili and Paisli--seem to be sticking closer to her than usual. Sharli always loves having a heated, weighted blanket 3 times her size. One of her favorite places to be is squished under them in bed.

[zukosdualdao]

i have this plot bunny that doesn’t fit in the second half of book three in canon, but would if we assumed weeks pass between episodes (i tend to do this anyway for my own peace of mind wrt the timeline) and thematically makes the most sense there. it features zuko, katara, and toph (the others maybe too but those are the characters that have to be there) getting captured by members of the fire nation (it might make more sense of they’re soldiers but i think it’s more interesting if they’re citizens who are ozai loyalists) and take particular interest in harming zuko since he’s, you know. a traitor to the state. i can imagine a vindictiveness there that probably wouldn’t be quite so present with the other members of the gaang, who are enemies but impersonal ones they never expected anything else from. “poor prince zuko,” they snarl. “too bad the royal family doesn’t claim you anymore; you’re on your own. they want you dead, in fact. or captured. i suppose we’ll have to decide what’s more fun.”

anyway. they’re all being restrained by a type of metal toph hasn’t bended before. (toph knows she can crack it, but it takes longer than she’d like on account of ~new.) their capturers don’t know she can bend metal. one of them is threatening to (and coming very close to actually doing so) “burn off the other half of the traitor prince’s face.” this maybe gives toph the final push she needs to figure it out—and she actually bends katara out of her restraints before her own. (this is contingent on toph knowing a certain skill of katara’s and trusting this is one of the rare instances she’ll use it.) it is literally a millisecond just in the nick of time—katara implicitly understands what toph is expecting, and it’s what she was already thinking. she bloodbends the captor before they can burn zuko with cold, precise fury. “he’s not on his own.” zuko’s right eye widens in surprise, the other blinking rapidly—he was flashing back to a different time—why would she do that for him, he knows she has. very complicated feelings about that—but then toph metal bends herself and zuko out of their restraints. they knock the captor out. none of them say a word about any of it as they make their escape, nor the night that follows.

[readbythestarlight]

TW: pet illness/loss

We’re probably going to have to put my sweet boy down soon. He’s 15.5, and we already lost his brother almost 3 years ago. We have two new sweet girls and of course they’ll help, but we got the boys after losing my dad so there’s something extra painful about losing them.

It’s definitely time. He’s in pain, his quality of life is bad more days than it’s not. I know there’s never really a good time for grief (believe me, I’ve experienced it so often now) but when I’m already emotionally burnt out from work is definitely a bad time for it.

[davetada]

Impending cloud

Chinatown, LA, CA

[tyrnn]

Cities Skylines...

Dialuca sent me a screenshot of his current game of Cities: Skylines. I added some Lucario to it. Boop.

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