Elpickett - El Pickett

It is okay if you do not do better tomorrow than you did today. It is okay if you do worse tomorrow than you did today.

If you have made it through the day, that is enough. It doesn't matter if it's been less productive than you wanted, sometimes all you can do is get through the day. And that is okay, even when it feels bad, especially when you used to be able to do things.

It is okay for you to get worse, it does not reflect on you as a person.

Sometimes things aren’t going to get better

If you have a chronic illness or a disability, and that’s going to be with you forever

So sometimes things don’t get better, but that’s okay

Sometimes what you need to do is work on managing things instead of trying to see how the situation could be better or worse, and that’s okay

I love this show with all my heart

Interstellar Overdrive

A Tess x Joel bodyguard/boss AU set in the 1970s whew

His fingertips brushed through the curtain of hair hanging to her waist. Dressing like a goddamn hippie with motivations that were resolutely square. A capitalist muckety-muck playing dress-ups with the beautiful people. Tess had some goddamn nerve and he wanted every last piece of her, Duke’s warnings be damned.

Because Duke was right – he’d never met anyone like her before. And maybe by getting a little closer he could unravel the enigma, because he’d meant what he’d told Duke – one woman was, essentially, the same as another. There were a finite number of parts people could play. And she was just playing one of them, concealing it a little better than most.

Tess whispered again in his ear: “You answer to me, now.”

Chapter One now on AO3! HNY!

dude it's wild how I can write 11 pages of fic and not even blink an eye and then I go to write a six page lab report and it feels.... insurmountable

and to be fair to me the lab report is in my second language but still the relative amounts of emotional energy do not add up here

anyway the lab report is getting done four hours before it's due and there is more Tommy X Maria fic coming lmao

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I really agree with the point made in the comments / reblogs about the fact that people are pissed because they can't sexualise Ellie any more because Bella looks as young as she actually is, and doesn't fit their ideals of what women should look like, and it just highlights to me one of the biggest differences between uk and USA TV: the us, especially when it comes to network shows, prioritise the women looking gorgeous to an unreal extent. It doesn't matter what the show is or is about, it doesn't matter how irrelevant a characters looks are, the actresses always have to be unrealistically pretty. And this just isn't a thing that exists in the UK the same way - the BBC has a bunch of shows about middle aged or older women, and there just isn't the same level of 'these women must look sexy'. It's super interesting to me because the shows I like that come out of the us tend to follow the UK way much more, like in the last of us. The women aren't expected to be pretty because it's the fucking apocalypse, and they have bigger priorities.

also Bella is great and I will fight anyone who says mean things

If I see one more Bella Ramsey hate post I’m going to riot.

BeLlA dOeSnT eVeN lOoK lIkE eLlIe.

Man fuck. Off.

Tbh they genuinely do in my opinion but besides all of that. Bella’s acting is insane they did that part so unbelievably well. It’s funny that out of all the cast ( in which a few are notably not like their game counterparts) Bella is the only one people bring up CONSTANTLY

just grow up my god

the tabby is Leia (here we have her helping with two different sewing projects) and the tortie with the half and half face is Cassie (her hobby is finding which blanket in the house is folded over the most times and napping on it!)

current least favorite thing about my latest chronic illness flare up is how boring it is like I'm stuck lying down in bed and my brain won't let me do anything

like I was going okay I can't go into uni but I guess I can write my papers but nope not an option so then I was like well I can write fic but no also can't do that so then I was like okay let's watch the eras tour movie and I only got half way through that!!!

the point here is I'm bored and have most of the next chapter of my Tess lives story written but it's all disconnected scenes that I need to join up and I want it done and it's not :(