#reference to death

[witchofthesouls]

Please...I need more DinoDad!Starscream crumbs. It's too cute.

Beg more, anon! It pleases me...

I'm just kidding, here's a snippet about them:

The names for the two more unfamiliar beast-modes came far more easier for Starscream. Quickstrike for the more mobile one as they scurried everywhere, pitching out a low, terrifying vocalizations that seem to echo throughout the cave. The name derived from the large, sharp talon on a spread, segmented pede -more akin to a servo and startlingly similar to the Earth avian creatures- used to hook across surfaces with little care. Undertow for the other as it suited the aquatic nature, disappearing down in the pools to wait for Starscream to venture into it and ram against his legs as well as the proclivity for scurrying underneath to trip him over like an overexcited turbo-hound or a durasteel brick of photovoltaicat sitting in the most inconvenient spot to its master.

The Predacon, however, proved more difficult...

Skywarp whispered his tribe's tales in Starscream's left audial, and Thundercracker murmured in the right one; their ghosts as haunting as the little one's blazing pink optics, tracking him quietly in that predatory manner.

It wasn't an focused sight of a small, clever creature, but with a gaze that shined with intelligence.

Starscream's throat constricted, intakes clicking and shuttering as he tried to dig through the buried memories of Skywarp's heritage. The little one was a Wild thing, so it was best to give a name suited by his Wilder trinemate's standards.

Vosians had done it by combining celestial power and future aspirations for the newspark or mentee. Praxians followed a tradition by imbuing a name with hunting. Those raised in the Wastelands were a brutal, practical people, and they have a waiting period to see what potential abilities emerge as well as to see if the newsparks survived in the first three cycles.

It took three months, but eventually Starscream settled on Tempest to honor the massive storms that once plagued Cybertron's surface and Thundercracker's own name as she once devastated a battlefield with sonic booms and for a similar nature to his former Right-Wing. A quiet, steady presence by his side, dropping a hunk of Energon crystal into his lap as the Predacon nipped the others into line, often herding them back from the opening of the cavern. There was a gentleness that he would never expect from the long-extinct species, but it wasn't a weakness as he witnessed the ferocity in that frame, a roar that cowed the others into submission and the strength and tactics to back it up.

Perhaps Thundercracker (along with Skywarp because he never turned down a setup with explosive raw chaos nor had he denied Thundercracker anything in life) had managed to bargain with Primus and Unicron to give Starscream a child of her own temperament because who else but the Creator and the Unmaker could give life to extinct frames and create new ones from organic bones?!

[pokemon-teacology]

I know I was supposed to post something around Halloween but I'm ignoring that this year (maybe I'll upload a picture of my costume within the next few days) in favour of like,,,

Why don't we ever talk about the Darkest Day? The most recent one that happened within almost every living person's memory???

I'll tag this with all the appropriate tags so folks don't have to read this if they don't want to, but holy shit I haven't seen anyone talk about this since it happened???

Like,,, it's a story that we heard as little kids, the worst thing that ever happened to our region, a terrifying period of time that destroyed livelihoods by blocking the sun from the sky and making our Pokémon companions huge, an enormous Pokémon (a monster, they'd said. Bigger than the tallest scyscraper, coiling into the shape of a hurricane, bright red like the beams it ripped from the ground beneath our feet, a huge, gaping maw at the centre of the enormous hand-like structure that made up its head, stronger than anything we could have ever imagined) draining energy from the earth and poisoning the land. I used to have nightmares as a tiny child about this legend that we never really stopped talking about. As you get older, you reason that it's just an old story, that it didn't actually happen, and even if it did it's unlikely that anything that huge will happen again, even as you hear whispers of terrible events happening in other regions, yknow?

But then it did happen again.

We're lucky as hell that it only lasted for the better part of a day, that our champions (former and current) were able to fight it off?? Obviously there wasn't a huge amount of information given to the public other than "chairman rose is now a wanted criminal for causing this" and "yeah that huge fucking gigantimaxed Pokémon you all saw was real and very dangerous and just as terrifying as the legends, and is now in the possession of a 14 year old".

Seeing the sky go dark, the red beams of light, the massive Pokémon everywhere, with no sign of whether or not it'd be fixed, no word from our government other than "stay inside, the champion has it handled". I was scared for the safety of my family, my friends, my home and everything that I've ever known. Hell, the little kids I babysat when I was in secondary school were at the forefront of it, a boy that I grew up with from when we were littlr babies fought against it head-on. No matter how miraculous it was that they fixed it, it was fucking terrifying, and I haven't seen a single person from Galar talk about it here.

I'm just tired of people pretending it wasn't a big deal, like it wasn't the scariest thing most of us will ever experience. It felt like the ground beneath our feet was being ripped up, and for several weeks after, we were still dealing with the aftermath. It's still affecting us. The power vacuum from chairman rose and a pretty sizeable chunk of Macro Cosmos' higher ups being exposed as corrupt, a new champion and the old one becoming the head of the league, the retirement of our professor in favour of a new one (a good one, but a new one nonetheless). So much happened within the span of like 3 months and nobody's talking about how fucking scary it was.

Anyway, sorry for the heavier subject after being gone for a while, it's just been in my head for a bit, and I figured I'd talk about it here, if nothing else than to maybe just get it off my chest.

[visionaryoflife]

who's this guy your posts are about?

Something tells me I shouldn't tell you.

But he's a man. A beautiful, intelligent man. Smarter than any man you likely know. There's so many of him here, on the Rotomnet, and none of them are mine, and I'll never have any of them. He's perfect in every way, and I want him in every universe.

[bamsara]

Finor, the first follower.

[kaipassedgo]

every day i wake up and am mad at the end of steves storyline and the full and complete lack of people who GET IT

[lyoneve]

May I offer you some fluffy Stede/Ed that I put off finishing for two years?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

We're going on an ass kicking adventure.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[paracosmicka]

Forgot to upload this earlier with the sketch dump bc the file wasn’t working for some reason

Anyway you know that thing that’s done in movies when the two characters in love just stare at each other but the camera shifts to only one of their faces and you can notice all the little details of their eye like how their pupils dilate and as they just look at every part of their partner’s face ugh. Idk why it feels so intimate but it’s so good

But yeah here’s a sketch of that lol

[sadagios]

a wip of a scarian au idea so ambitious it might outlive me

UPDATE: first part of the AU posted here

[ofswordsandpens]

Percy, who had finally accepted to bear the burden of the great prophecy after agonizing over it for years only for everyone to repeatedly tell him in the final book that he's not the hero and its not about him:

[rakharo]

mari and travis’ comments about “two versions of reality/do you ever wonder whose reality we’re in” had me thinking about how we viewed the pilot hunt vs s3 finale hunt — both being different realities of the situation and how it’s changes how i view the finale now.

like travis said, do you ever wonder whose reality we’re in? and for the pilot we’re in the outsiders pov/reality bc we don’t know the yj’s all we know is that we witnessed some cannibalistc cult in the wilderness who hunt with death traps and in that moment we’re like the scientists and guide who stumbled upon them and witnessed the horrific scene of a decapitated coach scott with a bunch of feral children howling at the moon, dancing around a fire and eating human flesh in the wilderness.

but by s3 finale? we see the actual reality of the situation bc we now know the yj and their story (not all but up to what the pilot shows). we see how all the yj survived the loss and trauma with all the fucked up & unforgivable things they did. we see how they each fuel each other in different ways that pushes everyone to breaking points & pivotal changes. we come to learn that mari wasn’t suppose to be pit girl and that she wasn’t being ritualistically hunted by all of them, just shauna bc they were trying to keep her distracted for natalie to escape for rescue. we learn that it was travis who built the spikes into the pit that was meant to kill lottie bc he felt trapped by her influence on the girls, that van was looking into the pit only to be find out she’s broken by mari’s death, that gen tried to help her friend and was then forced to drag and string up her dead naked body and cry while eating her, that hannah (someone just trying to find frogs) was forced to butcher a teen girl to not expose their plan of escape. that misty wasn’t smiling bc she’s enjoyed the violence of the hunt but bc as the shot in the pilot pans to the mountain she’s happy bc they outsmarted shauna so natalie could go find rescue.

[bamsara]

Sleepy gods. Some stuff in the future of The Rehabilitation of Death.

POV the object of your affections nightmares presence gives you a good night's rest that you haven't had for centuries and vice versa, wyd

[willyhoos]

alfred livestreaming his breakdown to the entire us public (as his pr team devolves into chaos)

[luckyorchid]

Aventurine nicknaming reader sunshine I NEED IT

[numbuh424]

it's going to go exactly as written.

[lotussart]

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