i-am-weis:

And We’ll Be Running by @littlespooneven (here’s the tumblr link too)

“It had been six months ago when Kevin called him,
sounding drunk off his ass and on the verge of a breakdown, begging Neil
for help. Andrew Minyard, guitarist for The Monsters, had been
assaulted by his old foster brother and it finally convinced the courts
to take him off the mood altering medication he’d been taking since
almost two years prior after an incident where he’d defended his cousin
from a bunch of homophobic assholes outside a club.

At the time,
he’d had nothing else going for him so he said yes. It was just meant to
be something to do for a few months. Now, well, he doesn’t really want
to leave.”

omg so over the weekend i read this wonderful band au fic and died and y’all should read it bc i’ve been thinking about it ever since

(refs def used lmao idk how guitars or anything work)

everyonesamadao:

i never want to stop rereading what sorachi said about why he created gintama the way it was.. that his hero didn’t need a great big shounen dream because people don’t need big dreams to live through life and how he proved that he can make an amazing series without a main character that ‘’followed their dreams’’ like those other shounen heroes. he made a series filled with characters that live through their lives day by day without knowing exactly what their goal is and saying that’s ok and thats just how life can be like…thank you for giving us characters that we could relate to and a series that brings us never-ending joy and inspiring quotes about how to live life beautifully 

thank you sorachi 

czarrish:

when anyone begrudges adam his pride i really have to wonder if they have any idea what adam has been through? because abuse is fucking humiliating. it is degrading and dehumanizing and it takes and it takes and it takes until all you have left is this voice in your head saying the people who are biologically inclined to love you think you are a worthless piece of shit, so who are you to think any better of yourself? 

sometimes abuse means groveling and begging and pleading for forgiveness for things that you didn’t do, or that you don’t understand the cause of. sometimes abuse means being told that you aren’t wanted over and over until you internalize that. none of that leaves room for pride, for dignity.

adam’s pride is all he has and he probably clings to it so strongly outside of his family home in part because he doesn’t get to have it inside. he doesn’t get to have dignity or humanity or pride when his father is near him in that house. he needs to have control over his situation with gansey and ronan; he needs to put up those boundaries; he needs to know that he can make it without them. leave the kid alone, honestly.

abramsjosten:

ways andrew and neil show affection part 1 / part 2:

  • when neil is too tired after a game to shower properly, andrew hopping in the shower with him claiming he ‘wouldn’t be able to stand the smell’
    • andrew pretends he doesn’t care about anything but his fingers in neil’s hair, softly untangling say otherwise
  • andrew’s hands on his chest, neck, hips, covering neil’s fading scars with love bites and a few accidental bruises that make neil smile when he presses on them
  • sitting on the sofa, andrew with a book in hand and neil bothering him about the plot and the characters until andrew kisses him silent
  • silent confessions exchanged in the darkness of their bedroom, truths that don’t require anything back
  • laying in bed together, andrew making up constellations out of neil’s freckles
    • sometimes he names them, and neil ends up kissing him until he’s the one seeing stars
  • andrew’s hand brushing on neil’s back or lingering near his waist when he’s on edge, a silent promise of ‘i’m not letting you go’ 
  • andrew allowing himself to be vulnerable around neil, learning to accept proximity and human warmth again
  • andrew holding neil’s face in his hands when he’s self-conscious, thumbs brushing against his scars until he’s okay again
  • neil ripping to shreds anyone who dares calling andrew a monster or soulless
    • andrew intertwines their fingers or puts his hand on the back of neil’s neck and neil can’t help but wonder ‘is this what a monster would do? they don’t know you like i know you’
  • andrew ordering too much food for himself on purpose when they eat out to give the rest to neil because he knows he still feels bad about spending too much money
  • half-whispered ‘i love you’s against each other’s mouths, ones they don’t always say back, ones they can pretend they didn’t hear, but ones they always believe