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⠀ ⠀ ⠀THE UNIVERSE HAD THE HUMOUR OF A DRUNKEN PLAYWRIGHT AND THE TIMING OF A FALLING SWORD.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀The Sanctum Sanctorum did not protest her presence. That was the first warning. Its thousand whispered wards, usually quick to hiss and sputter at trespassers, merely flickered once and then sighed. They gave in.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀The sorcerer had been mid-ritual, or perhaps mid-regret. One hand still gloved in ash and gold leaf from the handling of an Eastern grimoire, his other curled around a cup of tea long since gone cold. Stephen wondered if he would have to clear his favourite reading arm chair of cat hairs later.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀" You ... dropped in through a protective hex older than the Byzantine empire. I assume this is the part where I offer you a drink, and you decline it because you already poured your own. You have an uncanny sense for weak points. " The man's gaze flicks to the wine glass. " And a weakness for my 1450s greek extravaganza. "

magnetic-regent-magneto asked: " To what do I owe this ... pleasure? " - Stephen (@monachyric)

she curls her wine glass in. feline green eyes do not leave her reluctant host for several moments. " thought i'd drop in. you don't mind , do you ? " a cat on the prowl . . .

lithe form makes way towards a stylish armchair. she'd blend entirely with it , be consumed by it , had it not been for those piercing eyes.

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“kiss me, darling.” / for otto

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⠀ ⠀ ⠀TEMPTATIONS OF THE FLESH

⠀ ⠀ ⠀An utterly despicable rumble originates from the man at his desk. Soft protests, though half-hearted, mainly to be attributed to the focus on his work. The glasses cover his eyes but the furrow of his twitching brow is a familiar sight.

⠀ ⠀ ⠀The actuators act, simply pulling him away from the desk on defiance and towards her awaiting figure drenched in neon lights. One actuator gives a soft nudge to her. Otto grumbles even more protests before being placed in front of her and with very little reluctance, he lifts the glasses from his nose and presses the bridge of his nose to her face, nosing softly before kissing the corner of her mouth.

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Alfred Molina as Armand Gamache in THREE PINES (2022-)

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Doc Ock with hidden actuators

(I found the image on Pinterest)

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Noxus has endured, because Noxus is strong. But the Grand-General Jericho Swain knows there are many kinds of strength—and the greatest leaders of the next age will be those who can wield them all...

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Laying awake in bed and I think about the fact that Morgott if not striken by the Omen curse might have been the demigod of care and healing as he is so good with healing incantations and golden order apothecary and the nature of plants. Instead he has a curse that is considered the plague of gods. And his brother becomes a symbol of letting blood and using health to kill.

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woof

meow

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My beautiful wife and his self doubt issues. He can fight just fine, I know that in my heart.

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I wanna show this party girl, old man a good time. If you know what I mean. ;]

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PASSION AND OBSESSION SENTENCES QUOTES. all sentences and quotes are taken from goodreads quotes archives with the key word: obsession. bare in mind some of the language includes possessive love and mentions of stalking and obsession in general. change names, locations, pronouns as you see fit.

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”

“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

“If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”

“When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.”

“I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”

“Don't be self-conscious, if I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.”

“You become what you think about all day long.”

“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”

“Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”

“I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.”

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

“I think you can love a person too much.

You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. 

“This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.”

“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.

“The truth was...he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit.”

“I will be with her again, or I will die. There aren’t any other options”

“From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”

“Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope.”

“I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they would do, even for someone they love. I have none. No God, no moral code, no faith in anything. Except you. You're my religion. I would do anything you asked. I would fight, steal, kill for you."

“If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.”

“It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.”

“You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.”

“How did one not obsess over something wonderful? How did one like something a reasonable amount?”

“My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?”

“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”

“There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.”

“The outside world holds no interest for me without you.”

“...an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.”

“I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.”

“But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].”

“You don’t always get to chose who you fall in love with”

“Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!”

“When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?”

“She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.”

“Determination could easily become obsession.”

“Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.”

Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once.

“You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life”

“All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.”

“Passion out of passion's obstacles.”

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping...waiting... And though unwanted...unbidden... it will stir...open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?

If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank... Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

“How do you manage to make me feel like this?'

'You give me nothing, absolutely nothing, yet I can't stop wanting You.'

“We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year”

“I am the scourge of God”

“I love you. Everything and anything I do is for you. Only you.”

“But it is easy to call a man in love a mad man.”

“I write to explore the spaces between love and obsession, truth and illusion.”

“There were no constellations bright enough to blind me to him.”

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Caravaggio (1986) dir. Derek Jarman

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bombastic side-eye/

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" I have not committed the sins of greed or pride or lust. But tell me, do the gods care for the fact that I have not committed other sins than my birth? " - teaser by fen

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-- mun ||: Moving done. University done next week. Fen mun is slowly returning from war (real life)

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Completely forgot about this beard Ratch!