#my pod

[exiledbabylon]

POV at your lgs

[universeleads]

Can you imagine witnessing your dad's biblically horrific violent death as a child with your brother and everyone thinks it's a tragic accident and your mother, who you were never really that close to before his death, gets irrationally angry at you whenever you try to talk about your father or the impossible circumstances around his death and tells you you're crazy and a pathological liar who can't be trusted, and your brother is so traumatized from also witnessing his death that he sides with your mother and lies to your face and also calls you crazy and a liar and turns a blind eye to your mother's increasingly severe paranoia induced abuse and manipulation, so you run away from home with your girlfriend who's a lot older than you when you're 15 and have no contact with your mom or brother, and then years later you find out your girlfriend, who's been a jerk this whole time, is leaving you for someone else and is taking the cat you adopted together, and while you're trying to get your fucking cat back, your brother breaks years of no contact to tell you that he's married, him and his wife are expecting a baby, and also now your mom just fucking died so you need to come back to your small town to help plan her funeral and sell her giant house full of secrets you frankly don't care about at all, and you are guilted into the entire thing because your brother is making her death due to an illness "worsened by stress" your fault because you ran away from home and ruined her reputation, and you're already in an insane post toxic breakup/mid feline custody battle bender, so you curse him out and break down about it but agree to go back to your hometown with the secret intention of trying to get your sister in law to leave your brother before their baby is born and to also maybe process some of your extensive childhood trauma you've been repressing with horrific attachment issues and untreated mental health issues, but it turns out things are even more fucked up in your hometown except for this lesbian with problems who adopts you as her pet freak because she's obsessed with how insane and dysfunctional you are who you sort of fall in love with and start being able to value yourself and others amidst The Genuine Horrors? Happened to my good friend Augustine Cruyssen

[w0rmsprite]

worth the $270 I THINK SO

[seraph-bile]

help! i’m stuck in my car!

not physically, but mentally

[queencalicoanne]

Blue fish. Photo by my buddy @dansbeautifulworld on instagram.

[universeleads]

Free OC lore: before they go anywhere or do anything that involves being social, Ivy has to go over the list of rules August has to follow in order to get her cigarette reward afterwards for good behavior. People assume that August having a list of rules to follow is a warning that Ivy is being controlling or the relationship is toxic, but the rules are all like "do not insult people when they are clearly within earshot" and "do not play gun and bomb sound effects on your phone when you're bored with the table's conversation and want to leave the restaurant" and "do not lie to the waiter and tell them that this is your last meal before going back to the military because you want a free dessert" and these rules are all based on real incidents that have happened in the past.

[universeleads]

Free August OC lore: she once got canceled and banned on twitter because she posted "I don't think we should allow gay people to have jobs" with no context. What she MEANT was "I'm a lesbian and I hate my minimum wage job and no one should have to have a job because capitalism is evil and we shouldn't be killing ourselves to survive." However, without context, it looks. Really Bad. And when people were like ??? and asked her to clarify, she just got defensive and started telling people that they need to learn how to read and stop harassing her. This is one of the very many times she's been banned from social media, and one of the reasons why she has a social media manager to manage her accounts for her business.

[universeleads]

Ivystine's dynamic was never Ivy going "I can fix her". Ivystine's dynamic is Ivy seeing August throwing things at walls after arguing with her brother over the phone over something that is clearly her fault and trying to light a broken pocket cigarette with tears in her eyes while looking around to see if anyone will say anything about her smoking in front of the smoke free zone sign, and Ivy is like "wow this woman is insane and has something so fundamentally wrong with her...... I need her so badly." In a way that's not entirely non sexual. Their dynamic is Ivy meeting August and being so curious about what her whole deal is, that she starts following her around town and inserting herself into August's errands while August attempts to plan her mom's funeral. Ivy doesn't want to fix August, she wants to study her and also have crazy yuri hookups in the woods. Let it be clear, Ivy is also Not Normal