#Death Knells

[forestshadow-wolf]

The way Too Sweet has wedding bells in the pattern of death knells (knolls?) bc like.. the death of what could have been a great relationship......oh my heart!! It hurts

[townofcadence]

The Abyss: Death Knell

Shorthand to Nells, these creatures (sometimes also called Nellies) are of the abyss. They live in dense vegetation, using the coloration of their bodies as camouflage to hide themselves amongst foliage. Their coats function well for this, as do their tails, which can fold over themselves when they rest on the ground. They have some control over the tail feathers' texture and coloration, and given some time can alter them to better mimic the area, for more effective ambushing. They are carnivores, eating any animals drawn in by the flowery dapples to their coat or to the 'safety' of the thicket they can make with their tails when they are in wait, but they have specifically evolved to hunt humanoids and other large animals.

The Nells have multiple features that assist them in their hunts. They have prehensile claws on their forelegs, which allow for grasping and tearing when dealing with meat. They have spurs for fighting one another, but also a defense against creatures approaching from an angle that they cannot reach easily with their beak. The beak itself is tough and thick with a sharp tip, used for rending meat and snapping bones, and inside their mouth are serrated teeth, which allow for grabbing on and keeping something from pulling free easily if it still lives. Even their tails can be effective, able to to flip as they do and knock prey to the ground. The feathers may also be 'condensed' by folding over one another into a thick tail-like structure, which can be used for balance while a Nell is running, or weaponized by swinging it with less resistance and more weight to the impact.

Their camouflage is still one of their greatest features, as it allows for ambush to be further effective, and their head, often colorful in a geode shape with 'gemstones' inside, often attracts creatures who care for shimmering objects or stones of value. Inside the stone is where they can release black tendrils of varying thickness, as they stay curled up inside the hollow until an animal is too close. They are prehensile, and can be used as a mechanism for subdual, and carry an electric current that can incapacitate.

The most devastating for humanity is their voice, however. Like mockingbirds, they can near perfectly emulate a call they have heard, down to the pitch. Often, they will hunt a person, and then use their own voice to call for help often with their panicked cries, to attract others to their location. Using bodies as bait, they will lie in wait in their self-made foliage, and ambush any human that wanders close enough. They are fast moving on all fours with such long limbs, and can fold their feathers together to make one long tail for balance if need be, but it often doesn't come to that. Instead, they conserve energy and wait for their prey to come to them, using familiar voices, or ones in need, to lure others to them.

When their prey is dead, they will use their beak to feed and tear a hole in the abdomen, which they will then use their electric tendrils to enter. The electric current they possess can bring false 'life' to corpses, which they can use to make them move and twitch; such movements can fool humans into believing the body is still alive.

While they cannot mimic a person they have not heard, if they manage to find a body that is fresh enough, using the same currents, they may be able to force the lungs and muscles to constrict in order to 'speak', which may allow them to learn a new voice they can utilize.

Nells all have the same gemstone on their face above their beak, which for a long time was assumed to be their eye, and a potential weak-point. It was quickly discovered that was not the case, and their eyes are actually what appear to be nostrils on either side of the eye (it is thought that they might breathe through the geode on their head instead). The piece itself is theorized to be used in mating rituals for Nells instead, as larger or unblemished stones seem to attract mates more effectively, paired with tail length and thickness.

Nells have some degree of sexual dimorphism, with female Nells appearing in blues, with ripples in their coats that are more effective to hiding in aquatic environments. Their 'geode' head appears more like coral or stone, and they keep it above water to breathe, and the gem they use to mate will often be blue and much smaller than a male's.

Once a year, the males and females meet at a mating grounds to have offspring, which are born with blue coats and stay with the mother until maturity. The males (and a few females) will have their coats change over time into more vegetative coloration, while most females and a few males will remain blue into adulthood.

[yuta-is-a-little-shithead]

It's starting

[yeniihuenii]

jiyan bawling his eyes out bc i love making my blorbos cry catblush emoji

[mayasaura]

Hey, anyone else think it's super duper suspicious that the Reverend Parents kicked off their abominable baby scheme pretty much simultaneously to Gideon Nav, key to the Tomb, landing on the Ninth? Gideon's more than a year but less than two years older than Harrow. So give it nine months gestation, a few months for prep and planning, and Gideon's arrival lands at exactly the place on the timeline you'd look for an inciting event to the creche massacre

And like, the Revs didn't seem shocked when they heard Harrow had opened the Tomb. They listened solemnly to Gideon spill the beans and then quietly shuffled themselves off the mortal coil, intending to take their pint sized single-serving generation with them. As far as we know they never pressured Harrow to continue the Ninth, either. They checked to make sure she was a powerful necromancer, and that was it. It's almost like they'd been waiting for this.

It's just a hell of a lot of coincidences piling up. Makes me wonder what they knew, who they'd been talking to. How much didn't they tell Harrow?

[chucktaylorupset]

I think there's something to be said for fanfiction that loves canon in a way that’s rude. Like thank you for this wonderful thematic tragedy made out of this character’s entire arc ending in death, it was emotionally and intellectually moving, but also fuck you fuck you fuck you they live, this time and every time they live, they never died, their flaws are not their undoing, actually they have no flaws, actually they save everyone, actually who cares about a story, any story, where this one dies, actually i cared about that story so much i made a new one, actually i cared so much i unmade the old one, you gave me morals and i left them for the mortal, but they’re mine now and i will never let them die, actually thank you, actually fuck you, strongly worded letter to follow

A kiss for canon and spit in its face all at once, it’s great

[moonlitministry]

Man I love river

[ghouliebabies-art]

Soul Songs: Death Knell 💜✨🦇

Hi everyghoulie!!! I hope y’all are well <33 I thought it would be fun to paint what I call my ✨soul songs✨ (basically the most significant Ghost songs to me 🫶). Starting off strong we have Death Knell. I cannot explain what this song does to my soul. No words can describe the feeling of Death Knell gives me. I tried painting how I see/feel this song and there’ll definitely be more to come MWAHAHA 😈 Thank you again for all the support my ghoulies 💜✨🫶 STAY SPOOKY!!!

[danthropologie]

Idk why but watching max holding Daniel’s umbrella makes me think…everything might just turn out fine

it IS gonna be fine cause the one constant we'll always have is that those two just like each other so fucking much that it's almost a little bit gross. no matter what happens, they can never take that away from us <3

but delusional tinfoil hat on...........just thinking back to how glued at the hip they were just before summer break when the swap was originally meant to happen........very much giving shades of that tbh.........

[kingofanemptyworld]

sometimes I think about the fact that Grimmjow never saw Ichigo after his Mugetsu transformation and I get sad because literally there would have been no one more ecstatic to see Ichigo’s sudden and explosive growth (and also the hair and outfit let’s be real)

[theiravshade]

Shoulder Snuggling™

[dedmau]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH JUNE 20TH BABY BEST OPUS SONG ARGUE WITH THE WALL

[fallenangelvexed]

Links under the cut

[dorindameddler]

iwtv speculation post, i want the tale to seduce me so i try not to get too attached to certain theories, and if daniel/armand only happens in the present that won't bother me, but i actually do think more than ever that devil's minion happened in the past. daniel talks again about how little of the 70s he remembers. louis said "this boy must survive the night" so i think armand was like alright well louis only said for the night so i'm gonna stalk him for a while to figure out why louis finds him so fascinating and then i'll kill him. but then. well. the devil gets minioned!

[remedyturtles]

DAMN. Just finished chapter 17 of Firefight and whooh. I cannot articulate how excited and thrilled I am for this new direction. I love your Death Wish fic and i'll be absolutely damned if I don't continue to love this one with just as much, if not more, fervor. You're an incredible writer. You immerse me in the environments, the sensations, the inner workings, and the emotions of these characters while your words seep both their souls and yours. I really just wanted to tell you how enjoyed your writing is. I look forward to each update with patience and support, and if you chose to end it, life got in the way, or any other reason, I would continue to support you as a writer and artist while repeatedly reading your works. Death Wish is the length of a decent novel and I've reread it about 4 times, each experience unique and loved because there's always something new and poignant to find in your writing. There's so much love and intent in your work, and it's so greatly appreciated. You're my favorite fic writer, thank you for all that you do. Keep doing what you love!!

waghs at you quietly. dude thank you so much you are far too kind to me aaaaaaaa

i have still a LOT of firefight to go!!!! there’s gonna be a planned hiatus in april as i am going away but i have never once abandoned a story and i won’t start now LMAO

[sunflowerdigs]

To your Season 7 finale relationship set up post I would also add that another prong in the "Eddie's Big Sexuality Debate" is Lou stating, apropos of nothing, that it was initially pitched to him as Tommy/Eddie and the only reason it was switched was cos they couldn't get Nat back. It says to me, or at least underscores what the canon itself and actual official interviews are saying- Eddie's sexuality was on the table in the writers room. They didn't change direction, they had to take a detour!

Good point! They would not have discussed having Eddie come out if they believed that there wasn't evidence in the show to support his being a queer character. This proves that a queer reading of Eddie is not only far from "delusional" (as I've seen some folks try to claim), but may also still be on the table. I think these last 2 episodes should tell us a lot, especially regarding that construction on Sunset.