#I'm a dishonour

[bunny-hare]

Embeces hay que decir chale y seguir con la vida.

Redraw of a old doodle I made aeons ago before I wrote certain crack fanfic.

OG doodle+few others under cut.

Also tiny bonus with tiny Ninten and Giegue.

[nariism]

Cyno never tasted defeat until he met you.

It wasn't a particularly scary feeling— the General Mahamatra was rarely shaken. But the plummeting of his heart to the pit of his stomach was something he was unprepared for, and only you could be to blame.

He found himself in utter submission in your arms, surrendering to you like he was worshiping an oasis in a desert. A drop of water in a bowl of sand; a momentary lapse of the moonlit sky above his head keeping him sane.

No matter how much time passed, he continued to surrender to your every whim, unable to stop himself so long as there was a smile on your face. He was willing to abandon all rational thought if it were you.

"Climb the Divine Tree with me," you demand with your lips against his. He has no choice but to accept— if you started pouting he would just want to kiss you over and over until he missed his regular duties.

"Let's carve our initials!" You light up, handing him the broken tip of your polearm. He indulges you, gently hacking away at the trunk until your names are both etched there eternally, sealed with the promise of a heart. (His heart, he realizes, when you laugh and it feels like the earth has opened up to swallow him whole.)

"Kiss me," you whisper. He yields without question.

"Again." And again.

"Once more?" He could do this until he drew his last breath.

"Be mine," you murmur against him.

Cyno would always concede to the soft upturning of your lips.

"I am already yours," he tells you.

And he is. His entire being is yours. If this is what defeat is like then he never wants to win again.

© ALABOADOA 2023 — please do not translate or post my works to other platforms.

[mysunfreckle]

I've been getting nice spam comments on AO3:

I've blocked out the names, because while they are all guest comments, the names that have been filled in all belong to real, active AO3 users. Just not ones that are at all connected to the fandom this fic is for. So whatever the hell this bot/program/demon is doing, it's stealing user names for it

It genuinely took me a couple of days to get suspicious because these do sound very nice! The tone is a bit off, but I figured it was non-fandom culture folks. But when the fifth one came in it occurred to me how generic they are. No character names, not a single story or fandom specific detail. And some of this stuff is just wrong.

Action and suspence? In an Austen fic? Start to finish? It isn't finished! Plot twists? In an Austen fic??

[torchwood-99]

I feel like the moral of Eowyn's and Pearl Took's story is that it is inadvisable for one family member to be singularly responsible for the caretaking of another.

[estarion]

btw astarion might just fucking die soon bc no way is he letting @astralrogue or anyone dominate him ever. bYE. TIME TO FRY .. . . . ...

[firebirdsdaughter]

Also…

… Just bc I feel bad saying I was lukewarm about him in my other tags… I do like Ichigo. He's one of the more well rounded shonen protags in that he's actually allowed to fail from time to time and while he's overly powerful, isn't treated as the super ultimate power, necessarily. He just happens to be a weird chimera of powers that allows him to to do things people of one aspect can't necessarily do.

And he doesn't insist he's the most powerful either. Him chronically trying to help everyone is his nature, not him looking down on them. He respects the powers of all the Captains and his friends, he just wants to help.

And everyone else is allowed to be strong, too. Kenpachi is an absolute wild card, and I think Byakuya's also up there (not favouritism, I swear—okay, maybe a little bit) if he's fighting without being conflicted (I've come to theorise that first big fight between them would have gone on longer/differently except Byakuya didn't really have his heart in it, he'd just convinced himself he did), Hitsugaya's got a massively powerful sword and he's probably just going to keep getting stronger. Renji and Rukia achieve their own bankais and defeat enemies on their own. Ikkaku and Yumichika are no slouches, either. Despite some questionable writing, Orihime is allowed to be strong as well, having powerful defence and healing abilities, and her kindness is often treated as a strength. Her having no killing intent isn't treated as a bad thing. You've got Shunsui, Ukitake, and bloody Yamato in the mix. Uryuu fights on even footing with plenty of super powered enemies, and though he does go out of focus, Chad is never made out to be the weakest or anything.

Like I liked that in the end, they defeated the overpowered invincible big bad through teamwork the Old Men Brigade set things up, and then even Ichigo couldn't get a hit in until Uryuu used what their fathers made to help (and I'm glad that it was Ichigo and Uryuu working together, bc that was super poetic).

I'm just rambling now, but the point is, Ichigo is a good example of making powerful protag who doesn't (always) come off as too overpowered.

It's often treated as more he happened to be the right combination of things or the right circumstances to prevail. Wasn't hypnotised, already had a little hollow in him, is just really bloody stubborn. He's also just a nice guy! He cares about people he befriends and will work his ass off to help them bc that's his belief.

Anyway, to complete in another direction (sort of), I was thinking about this bc of how when he reaches the Soul Society in the blood war arc, the first thing he does after getting Akon to help is go to see Byakuya. Probably bc he saw that Rukia and Renji were unconscious and Byakuya was fading, and probably knew he'd want to now they were alive, but like. While they're not personally very close, I do think Byakuya is one of the Captains Ichigo is closest to bc he's so close w/ Rukia and Renji. Just by virtue of that, he'll end up interacting w/ Byakuya more often. And he does respect him (I think he got over the 'I'll kill you' the moment Byakuya took Gin's sword for Rukia). He goes to check on him, and reassures him that Rukia and Renji are alive, even saying 'don't worry.' Like I said before, I totally think he would have lied there, if they hadn't been, bc he'd be well aware that information would completely break Byakuya. He thinks he's dying, he wouldn't leave him thinking he'd completely failed to protect them. But more to the point, he doesn't respond after Byakuya talks about how ashamed he is and begs him to help. He responds to the first question, but goes silent after that. And…

I love tranquil fury. I love it. I love this moment bc Ichigo's already fuming from sensing/hearing everyone being hurt. He's already super pissed. But to me there's some thing about the way he goes silent during that talk that feels like a switch is well and truly flipped at that moment. After that, he doesn't stop or pass go, just heads directly to Yhwach and is clearly completely enraged.

Bc until then, there's been a little bit of distance. He's angry bc he could hear it, he's even angrier when he gets in there and sees what's happening, but then he goes over to Byakuya and has one of the strongest, proudest, most level headed and noble people he knows break down in tears and beg him, while apparently dying, for help. The one who had previously told him that none of the Captains would ever need his help.

And that just hits the unstoppable rage button.

[takethelx3]

Beloved junior, Hat Guy (surely at this point he has a name now right?)

[ybcpatrick]

cannot fucking BELIEVE some of the canadian radio hits the rest of the world lowkey missed out on. like wdym you've never heard heartbreak coverup by jesse labelle? ghost by fefe dobson? this is what it feels like by armin van buuren feat. trevor guthrie? kiss goodnight by tyler shaw? break my heart by victoria duffield? hit me up by danny fernandes feat. josh ramsay and belly? goodbye by glenn morrison? inner ninja by classified? literally anything at all by marianas trench?

[daisychainsandbowties]

top five games!

oh wow this is so difficult i love viddy games 🥺🥺 my mom used to play them all the time and when i was like 6 months old she'd just put me in my walker and play super mario 64 so i'm pretty sure my brain was wired partially with mario going WAHOO over and over again

has to be Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. game of all time to me. beautiful platforming, incredible environments. there's a whole level called Spider Cave i mean. caspercore. (i've also been playing it since i was three)

pokemon!!! if i had to choose one game then probably emerald. no notes pokemon is just like a shot of pure adrenaline for the autism.

skyrim. literally a thousand hours of my life picking snowberries and sniping people with my bow. would not ask for a refund of that time ever.

dragon age!! origins or inquisition and probably inquisition the most because i don't have to suffer through the fade part of the Broken Circle quest. inquisition is one of those games that just made me. insane. for a length of time.

mass effect. again. it simply made me insane and also my first girlfriend lives there. never forget me saying loudly 'hey that's my girlfriend' and my mom bursting into my room with eyes like saucers going 'you have a gf and you didn't tell me i'm about to cry.' and i had to be like :/ uhm well she's my girlfriend but she's in a video game.

[ninedigitninja]

First attempt at honour mode in bg3 today and I made it as far as the abandoned ruins before my entire party was slaughtered by bandits. Not even an hour into the game.

[sorcerous-caress]

Omfg prey and dishonoured 2 deal is a literal steal wtf

[welcometogrouchland]

Not going to an event because you suddenly got scared vs not going to an event bc you talked to someone and they were like "yeah it's fun but kinda boring and I'm not going this year and neither is anyone else we know" (I'm in hell I'm in hell I'm in hell)

[allbeendonebefore]

i think one good thing about this year has been i have had opportunities to go to lectures again, so ive gone to one on sex work in pompeii, one on neolithic desert kite formations in jordan, and next i'm going to one on louise umphreville i am absolutely just living the life getting Information for Free but i leave my house for it and can even get a little treat if i so choose

[featherlouise]

WAIT THATS SUCH A GOOD IDEA. bc what if the mantis tribe are like the vikings where a death in battle is their greatest honour, and one tl was probably expecting. going out with a whimper instead of a bang type shit. and pk trying to wake him up that morning still not fully computing why he just?? wont?? amazing.

but also. consider. remember how pk died in rfdsbe. - 👹

YEA YEA U GET ME

OH A COUP????

U thinking just some randos or is there something deeper going on?? Cuz it would definitely make sense if the infection is mostly there just to weaken TL enough that he can be killed relatively easily.

ALSO a more public death would mean that word would spread to the Lords pretty quickly

If he dies in the Palace in his sleep, PK would have to inform the Mantises himself, and then the Lords would storm to the palace to destroy PK and collect the body, bc they'll each eat their nails before they let him be fertiliser for the resting grounds.

Dishonourable death or not, their brother deserves a proper Mantis funeral

OUGHRNFKF IDK WHICH I LIKE MORE

[rebuke-me]

me, writing my new niche au : hehe the hoes are gonna love this

[an-honest-puck]

you're telling me that bbc finally released the BBC Ghosts bloopers and they weren't the first thing to show up on my youtube homepage?!