#(That is a distractable reference)

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[powerup-the-revolution]

ah yes, my new favorite ship: The Truther x The Bullshitter

[esprei]

wimdy

(reference image below cut):

[plum-pudding-everywhere]

im not gonna finish these

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

save me mid-century pulp romance illustrations...save me... I liked the pose on Walter Skor's illustration for The Dear Friends and i thought that a composition with "friends" right there was fitting for buddie

[spookberry]

AU of my ocs based on this post

[winepresswrath]

one thing I like about tazmuir as an author is that at any given time she will be like "here is a character," and I will think "that's nice, but I don't care. please return me to my beautiful Gideon" and then she'll be like "no. look at this other character under a microscope. they are so fucked up and full of love in such specific ways. probably they are bad at sex also." and I make a shocked face and welcome them into the pantheon in my heart, still waiting to hear from my beautiful gideon, at which point tazmuir will show me another character. and then.

[skecherss]

sunshine boyyyyy

[reverseisekai-richie]

Cover our souls with robes of black and take up the arms of night

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I wanted to design intermediary forms for the Lords in Black as sort of a Nyarlathotep/Messengers vibe.

Maybe they started out trying for intimidation when first summoned before going for whimsical terror, maybe they're forms that the LiB assume when visiting other worlds and dimensions to travel among the populace.

maybe I just really wanted to design more monster boys

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

Procrastination means drawing the good ol' comfort ships <3

[sunlight-shunlight]

attempt to deter the herald of andraste from reading an inaccurate treatise on "the magickal art of dalish fresco" out loud.

5 minutes later, deterrence successful. no one is reading anything.

ouch. anchor malfunction after closing a rift.

two elves, standing 5 feet apart, because they're Emotionally Detached Professionals™

(uhhh pretend the vallaslin is on there, it's deeply annoying to draw on a small scale without ruining the facial expressions fjfsfhg)

[catboygirljoker]

hey hi im having swirling and spinning luxubar thoughts again. let's look at these lines.

i imagine he phrases it this way because it's a casual, laid-back way of expressing this idea. "more recently, i go by the name Xigbar, but you can call me Luxu if you want, I don't care either way." (and the fact that he doesn't have a strong preference about the name he's called still says something about his relationship to his own identity, i think!)

but absolutely i feel this can be interpreted on a deeper level, too. the question is about who he is—about his identity in isolation—but the way he responds defines him relationally—"these days they call me Xigbar, but hey, whatever suits you." a sense of identity that is fluid, dependent on who he serves, on what role he plays.

a sense of identity made even more tragic by the fact that, no, Xigbar isn't his real name, and neither was Braig, but neither is Luxu.

[this is Chirithy, speaking about the Master of Masters.]

even the name Luxu, considered his "true identity", was bestowed on him by his master. every identity we have ever known for Xigbar, every name he's ever had, has been a name he assumed in pursuit of someone else's goal. Braig and Bragi were names he acquired from his vessels. Luxu and even Xigbar were names he was given by his superiors. he has only ever been defined in relation to someone else, by someone else's past or someone else's ambitions.

[neversetyoufree]

I know this would never happen in canon for several reasons, but can you imagine being some random gossipy vampire who somehow finds out about Domi and Noé's whole Deal? Like.

"A noblewoman has been low-key letting her platonic friend drink her blood, and even sometimes drinking his."

Seemingly acceptable in vampire society, if maybe a little saucy. Even if we swap in the equivalent human "canoodling" (to use Vanitas's word), they're not the only ones in high society doing some casual messing around.

"The friend she's letting drink her blood is her grandfather's non-noble ward."

Potentially adds some scandal for those that care about class, but it's not too much crazier for the time and place.

"The noblewoman has been secretly in love with her friend since childhood, but the man sees their intimacy as purely platonic and physical."

Oh honey.

"The friend genuinely doesn't seem to realize that chewing on each other's necks could have any implications other than platonic."

We've entered weird territory. Does this guy live under a rock??? Has his friend encouraged this??

"The friend seems like he might be gay, or at least actively falling in love with and physically attracted to a man, despite his ongoing physical involvement with the noblewoman."

So is this guy using her? Is he an idiot? This poor woman has to be in some level of denial not to realize this is a doomed entanglement, right?

"The friend was in love with and used to drink the blood of the noblewoman's dead identical brother. He thinks about him when he bites her"

Girl run.

[arcturus-night-star]

Wrong species of snake, but vaguely inspired by A Snake Named Voldemort. He's Nagini shaped and Harry's most favourite plushie cuddle buddy.

Timelapse under the cut

[clownstowns]

holy fuck he’s beautiful

[starbluethunder]

some girls