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[needleandstory]

[ @desertfragments ;; ask ]

Kai twitches, instinctively twisting his wrists away from Iroska's eyes. The netting of scars carefully hidden under a dark tattoo was broken and marred by a few bright red, half-healed slashes.

"It's." Brown eyes flash with a glimmer of fire-flickering gold. "It's none of your business, Iro. I'm fine." And he needed it. The power he had held in the palm of his hands was slowly bleeding out. Weakening. Spent and dying.

And the rush of power and love made his soul laugh, bright and vivid and alive. Every ruby red drop burned on his skin, searing his veins as it rushed through him, charging every part of his body and making his heart beat brightly until he can hear it, feel it, sing in perfect harmony with the music of the world. Every bleeding drop made everything right and perfect and good and beautiful.

So why would he stop? He doesn't want to think about what he would be, what he would do, how weak and useless he'd become without it. He runs his palm over the scars, the open wounds with a hum. His fingers twitch as the sparks of his magic shimmer over his skin, wrapping his wrist in a quiet illusion.

Kai grins- sharp around the edges- and holds it up. "It's fine. See?" Don't ask me about this don't press it don't don't don't--- Please.

There was no mistaking what Iroksa saw. Kai cringed like a servant caught stealing, and lied just as poorly. A pity. A servant was, after all, just another form of family, and a good one closer still, an extension of one's own body. It was the duty of the master, should a part act awry, to gently and firmly correct it.

But Kai was no servant, and Iroksa was no fool. He would be wise to remember that.

Iroksa caught Kai's wrist and rubbed their thumb over it. As the leather passed over his skin, it left behind a faint, sparkling chill that crept into his veins through the open wounds before fading as rapidly as it appeared. I know. They released him.

"Yes, I see, you're right. Just fine indeed." They smiled. "But if you were having some trouble, you would tell me, yes? We are two of a kind; I wish to support you in your troubles as I hope you would me."

[bleaksqueak]

He got The Swag

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The penisest of tunes.

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[katabay]

WOW this has been ROUGH in the Life Events category of things, but. slowly crawling out of that. hopefully

this was the opening scene for a something I started writing after watching the Manben inverview with Nishi Keiko and thinking back to all the classic shoujo manga I stayed up reading back in the day, like damn that's so true Urasawa Naoki

it's partially a love letter to all the greats of the genre that I read, and also to the late night teleseryses that captivated me over the years lmao. it'd be nice to find the time to tackle it properly as a comic, but I'm having fun working on it recreationally :)

✨but since it's recreational, some character info✨

the first character seen is lawrence 'law' valenciano (late 30s), the one with the glasses is cris volante (mid-later 20s). law works at a karinderya, cris is an extremely broke university student.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta / tip jar!

[astearisms]

may you find peace 🌾

[meteortrails]

it’s literally endlessly fucking funny to me how certifiably insane post timeskip sabo is about his brothers. he remembered who luffy and ace were and they immediately rocketed to #1 on his priority list with absolutely no contest. he devotes himself to being an older brother with the same fanatical obsession that he’s been using to lead revolutions and luffy is so used to ‘older brother’ meaning ‘guy who has attached a significant portion of his self worth and meaning in life to you’ that it fully doesn’t even register as weird to him. he manages to secretly make luffy a vivre card and luffy acts this is reasonable rational behavior!!! just normal older brother shit for them to be fully neck deep in your business without ever mentioning it!!!! cannot believe they ever managed to make us think sabo was the normal rational one. what the fuck lmao

[volchiitza]

clearly trying to stop fixating on "productivity" has actually improved my focus

[ricky-mortis]

Hatchetfield @femslashfortnight Day 1: Make It Sapphic AU

[daily-odile]

1,,,, 100 days,,,,,,,,, and 800 followers,,,,,,,,,,,,,

From the bottom of my heart, thank you everyone.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[naamahdarling]

You know what? You know what I think?

I think that if we lived as we were meant to, in larger intimate ("extended family") groups and with more shared labor and time to do it (UBI NOW) people like me would not feel so useless and burdensome because there would be people around to help and to do what neurodivergent people can't while making valuable space for the neurodivergent to do what they ARE good at.

The way we live right now, all right, the way we live right now forces units of two adults to be able to do EVERYTHING or PAY to have someone come do it for them. I have to do the housework. I have to do it! But I am having to do a million different things and most of them I am not good at. I suck at them.

I wouldn't feel like shit, okay, if I had more than one other person around who was not a child and who could do the things I can't, like do the yard and cook and do repairs and basic maintenance; and someone else to split everything else that I like but is too much for me. It would free me to do what I am good at and enjoy. Cleaning, as in the sink and toilet, the windows, the blinds. Taking out trash. Folding, hanging, and sorting laundry.

But because all the shit I can do often relies on other shit being done first, and I can't do or have trouble doing those things, the shit I can do often can't be done. And even the shit I can do, I can't do ALL of it. So I can't keep up, and things get very bad.

We aren't meant to live like this. We are not meant to live like this.

That thought hurts so much because being able to flee the birth family is integral to survival for so many people. I'm so afraid that living in larger family groups would create more opportunities for, say, queer kids to be isolated, rejected, bullied, and abused. But if we gave people enough money to survive, and stopped considering children the property of their parents with no system in place to help them escape bad situations except a system that is often just as bad, just different.

I'm aware that communes and collectives aren't all that successful and are kind of a joke. I don't mean that. I mean a fundamental shift to multigenerational families where taking in "strays" (which my family did) is also normalized so people escaping abuse into existing households was accepted, with these families centered in maybe a couple of different larger residences so not everyone has to buy and maintain their own fucking washing machine and vacuum cleaner, and so people can benefit from large group meals that yield leftovers, and so child and elder care can also be centralized.

Then disabled people and the neurodivergent and sick and injured people, and pregnant people, and grieving people, would not have to either labor through all those stressors or consign themselves to living off an unlivable pittance or being put under legal guardianship.

I'm not saying anything new. People live like this in other parts of the world and maybe it sucks and I am wrong. But I'm just really mad right now because I can either do laundry or clean the sink but not both, and I really think we could improve society somewhat by making it so I did not have to choose one without sacrificing the other.

[shummthechumm]

assorted (rewrite) designs that i never posted here? das crazyyy

[storytellerofuntoldlegends]

the flower ranchers energy is something else this season. they hate each other but also can't get enough of each other. tango's scathing "it's you" to scott at the beginning but his teasing "pumpkin boy" towards him in the last session. scott generally being a menace to jimmy but also trying to help him make a guess on tango's task. jimmy rushing to defend tango and trying to say scott was making things up (and then also the teasing/crooning way he went "he's gone shy, tango!" to scott HELLO??) meanwhile tango was absolutely cackling on the inside bc scott was right and jimmy wasn't getting it.

idk i need to examine that trio under a microscope bc we've never really seen those three properly interact and this is what we get??? /pos

[thefirstpaleontologist]

Anatomy of Alastors demonic forms

[stairset]

I do feel like the way Kyoshi was written in the Avatar reboot was lowkey influenced by the fandom's perception of her. Cause like in the original show she's really just portrayed as a pragmatist who's willing to kill if necessary. Like Aang is conflicted about killing the Fire Lord and she's like "well if I were in your position I'd do it but that's just me. Good luck." And then people started making memes where she's like a murderous psychopath who thinks extreme violence is always the solution. And it was funny at first cause it was just exaggerating for comedy but now everyone thinks she was actually like that in the show when she really wasn't. And then in the remake her introductory scene is her angrily yelling at this 12 year old that he needs to stop being a little pussy and be a ruthless warrior or whatever and the only explanation I can think of is that someone in the writer's room maybe looked at a few too many of those memes.

[kiivg]

.Gossip.

[elation-station]

You know she would be parading around in a different fancy outfit everyday just to show off to the farmer ♥