#poor an

[socratesgirl]

the hells bells scene makes me want to start drinking

[meganskane]

watching the new 9-1-1 episode so heres a laptop selfie of me doing such

[artoutforblood]

How do you think the non-native English speakers and signing LL kids would react to Skids approaching and starting to communicate in their native language?

Sumaira watches his hands sign with fluid care and nearly cries. This is the first time she’s seen anyone use sign language since she left home. Jedah might’ve understood sign, but rarely used it, and she was giving Duiri lessons but it wasn’t the same. A startling pang of homesickness and gratitude fills her from the inside out and there’s tears rolling down her eyes.

“I thought I would take a shot at sign language. How am I doing?”

“You’re doing great. Thank you.”

Duiri doesn’t show any outward emotion as she joins a Skids in a conversation about last night’s bedtime story. Her hands still fumble a bit over difficult signs, but watches his fingers sign with slow consideration and she doesn’t feel ashamed. Slowly, tears move from the back of her eyes until their falling over her cheeks and her lungs constrict with emotion and every breath burns. She stops in the middle of her sentence and presses her palms to her eyes and breaks.

“Hello, Duiri, doing okay? Didn’t see you at breakfast today.”

“Yeah, I’m doing okay. How are you?”

An hears the words coming out of his mouth, but the metallic edge to it makes it foreign to him. It scares him, because this familiar and safe thing is now becoming alien. He shuts down. Thankfully, Skids picks up on his anxiety and stops. His holoform appears beside An and he switches the communicator back on and is gone just as fast. He doesn’t try to speak in Japanese around him again.

“Japanese is your native language, right? Is this good?”

“…”

Marie squeals in delight when she hears him speaking French and immediately charges into a riveting conversation about cats and aliens. She’s beaming throughout the whole thing, relieved that she didn’t need a communicator to translate for her and make her feel anymore handicapped than she already is. Her timid nature is all but gone as she babbles about her pet at home and the possibility of alien dogs.

“Marie! It’s good to see you, girlie, how are you feeling today?”

“Skids! SKIDS!! Is this - Are you French!?”

[togethernow]

Y’know, reading the vivid old tale’s story after knowing about what happens in light up the fire is just…

Rrrrr…

Heart wrenching…

[anweenaisenhart]

“I get forgotten, or I was never the first one noticed at all. I wish so badly that neither of these things were true. But they are, and that’s my life. An afterthought or a vanished memory. Only family cares. Only family notices. The only man I’ve ever been the most important woman in the world to is my son. The only genuinely awesome thing I ever did, and am proud of.”