#I think I would simply pass away

[rayllurn]

season 5 + little rayllum moments

[phoet]

i'd sell my left big toe to be able to watch the juno steel story as an animated show but specifically in the style of cowboy bebop

[emry-stars-art]

What was Abrams favorite thing that Andrew gave him during his courting attempts?

Okay I’ve been sitting on this one because I was trying to give it my best answer and like. I still don’t know lol

I know that people in the replies and tags are going to have incredible answers as well so I want this to be more of a “here’s a collection of things he likes the most” and I get to start so here’s my take:

It’s a book. I hear your valid confusion but LISTEN. In the stretch before Abram finally realizes what’s been going on with the gifts/etc, Andrew gives Abram a book - could be poetry, could be a romance story, idk - with a ribbon just barely peeking out of one page. Abram, obviously, doesn’t think much of it and he’s never been big on reading (I don’t know why I never have Neil liking to read lol is that canon) so he keeps the book on his dresser or something like “I’ll get around to it if he insists”

And then after Abram actually, clearly says he can accept Andrew’s advances, Andrew remembers about it and realizes Abram must not have ever opened the book because he would have figured this all out before now if he had

He asks him about it, if he ever read it, and Abram’s like “…no”

So Andrew tells him to. Later, when Abram’s back in his room, he picks up the book and checks out the first page, and it’s something pretty obviously unimportant or unrelated. And the next page. Eventually he thinks to check the ribbon; he flips to the pages and somewhere on them a quote is underlined in steady deep blue ink:

My glances through the eyes of friendship grow more brief by the day. You remain in the kindest, softest embrace of my heart, but now I find myself watching, hopeful, and friends do not look at friends the way I sometimes look at you.

Stunned, in a word.

But this is something he can figure out. This isn’t flowers - they’re lovely but die so quickly, and Abram doesn’t know the language of them or which ones Andrew would like. It isn’t meals shared, because that’s too common by now. It isn’t direct words or actions of affection because those are far too awkward for someone with so little experience with them. But Abram looks at this book, sees exactly what to do with it, and he knows certainly that this is a way the prince wouldn’t mind communicating because he was the first to do it. Abram doesn’t even have to be around when Andrew reads it.

So Abram spends the next several days scanning the book when he has time, finding many quotes he could perhaps imagine returning, finding a few he keeps marked just in case. Then he finds one that he doesn’t even bother marking with a scrap paper, he immediately picks up his pen and underlines it.

I look at the moon and she has your face: the brightest thing in my sky, the most beautiful, and so, so far away.

(And @jtl-fics had the sweetest idea of Abram pressing and keeping the flowers from the bouquet Andrew gets him in this post; and that he uses some to make bookmarks probably because he knows how much the prince likes books. He would definitely use one of those bookmarks to mark the page he underlined rather than the scrap ribbon 🥰)

Anyway the next time Abram sees the prince he wordlessly hands him back the book. Andrew sees the new mark but doesn’t try to open it yet (which relieves Abram more than he’ll admit), just keeping it under his arm until he has somewhere to put it. But it doesn’t take him near as long to find another quote, since he tends to get distracted reading the context or surrounding passages; he underlines the very next sentence and gets the book back to Abram the next morning. Understanding the risk of Abram’s misunderstanding and completely willing to explain himself in plain terms when Abram asks. Still with the pressed flower bookmark.

To have you near enough to touch should surely destroy me.

When Abram opens it later he first sees that the pages look very familiar - those passages look very familiar - that quote is certainly familiar. And he gets very worried very quickly. Maybe Andrew didn’t like that one, maybe Abram had chosen wrong and he didn’t know how to do this as well as he’d thought. But he doesn’t close it fast enough not to finally, mercifully read on and realize that some of the ink on the page is not his own black ink. After it, dark enough to almost be black in the wrong light, is Andrew’s dark blue.

But after reading Andrew’s quote he does in fact close the book quickly, sitting back and just staring, mostly because he’d surprised himself; he won’t know Andrew’s intention for certain until he asks, but this time - likely for the first time - Abram looks at the word destroy and doesn’t immediately think of the harm he’s done. (Andrew’s new, unfamiliar way with words had to work it’s way into Abram’s understanding eventually.)

They go on as long as there’s still quotes they like in the book, and only once does Andrew get frustrated that Abram stole one of his before he could get around to using it.

Anyway thank you for the sweet ask, here’s a quick sketch of Andrew reading to Abram in the library

[soitsbee]

a little birthday gift to myself

[pocketramblr]

Time and the Deity

I am thinking of a land saved by a little boy, that saved a little boy.

Termina watched the stranger soothe the pains of another child gone, and gave him another song, another bit of magic. He acted to save. Termina's heroes were dead or dying, so the land gave them to the boy to strengthen him, to reforge a new living hero.

And he blossomed in this, collected such happiness, dragged the land back from the brink again and again and again, until he could save everyone. Until he and the land and the power shaped a deity, and did save everyone that had poured life into them.

And that deity is Termina too - it's people, their gratitude. Gratitude so divine it could cleanse a demon- or change a human into more.

But then the boy left Termina. And the deity is not known in Hyrule, not needed in Hyrule. The hero child isn't either.

Come back home, the god in mask calls. Come back to Termina. We need you. Why did you leave?

The child says nothing and ignores the call. He is looking for someone else. Someone that left him without a word.

But eventually, years later, he needs the god again- he puts the mask back on and draws a divine sword.

The enemies fall at his feet. And then his feet step over the bodies, moving back towards Termina. He cannot stop, he cannot turn the direction of home, the ranch, his wife and life there now- the god of Termina can move once more, and he is going back.

So the hero, no longer a child, cuts the godhood off him.

He can't put the mask back on, ever. If he does he will be whisked away to another world, and he won't come back. It's a beautiful world, Termina, one that he loves and is grateful to- but he chose to leave. After everything he has lost, he will not lose that too.

[that-vampire-loser]

The way I always forget that Kevin Day’s mom was the one that invented exy. Like, he’s got coaches kid syndrome already, but THIS. The poor Exites workers, just trying to do their jobs, when Kevin MymominventedexyandIknowmorethanyou Day walks in the store.

He’s a menace to society

[catastrothy]

i love ur art i love ur art i love ur art i love ur art i love ur art i love ur art i love ur art i love ur art you deserve such great things and i hope you get all of them and get so so much money and get to live comfortably and can drink all you want without getting a hangover

i forgot to respond to this but thank u for being nicies to me :3 i personally don’t like drinking very much (or using any substances aside what is prescribed to me, for that matter) but i dream of a world where i can endlessly drink soda without ever having the risk of kidney stones

[huginsmemory]

Bartolomeo is a sick fucking name. Fucking LOVE how he was introduced as the most annoying pirate to exist and everyone wants gone, 10/10 I like this dude. He's so rude, and like. he's not actually even that annoying but everyone is like I Hate This Man Kill Him. He's like a more laid back version of Kid, they both just do what they want and go fuck you in the process. Actually I wanna see what would happen if they met, it would be like, 99% likelihood to end in bloodshed and a 1% likelihood they would end up getting along and destroy things together.

[new-york-no-shoes]

What is Taylor’s most scathing lyric and why is it “I don’t have to be your shrink to know that you’ll never be happy” !!!

[reallifepotato]

me if i get within any distance of this man

[kisskissgotohell]

all the other juniors in lan sizhui's generation are secretly very glad wei wuxian took 13 years to show up again bc if he had come back sooner, lan sizhui would've OWNED on the gusu lan sect playground. insult the guy once when you're eleven and suddenly you're sitting in a parent teacher conference next to one or more of the following: the younger brother of the sect leader, potentially the sect leader himself, the ghost general wen ning, the goddamn yiling patriarch,

[sugarpopss]

Listen I love Vincent so much but I COULD NOT hang around in that workshop bc I sweat. So much. Like my makeup melts off my face if I’m outside for 5 minutes in the summer and the heat in there?? You cannot tell me it isn’t fucking stifling. Vincent sweetheart I will scuttle down the stairs and bring you a glass of water and a smooch but I’m scuttling right back up lest I sweat stain my dress to an embarrassing degree

[luchitohamilton]

god i wish that (die dame da hinten) were me

[footballfangworl]

For the sake of my mental health I refuse to entertain the Neymar to Barça rumors until I see him in a kit thx :)

[marshal-raylan-givens]

Not a girl at work yesterday saying “your boyfriend’s really cute” and my wallpaper was this specific picture of Raylan

[murdockiplier]

writing smut as someone on the aroace spectrum is so awkward