#MOVE AETHER

[nastylittleghouls]

All Aether wants for Christmas is Dew

[cupid-ghoul]

okay hear me out

aether has one of those desks that you can move up and down so he can work while he's standing/sitting. It's better for his back. however, that means that every time dewdrop, or any ghoul for that matter, comes into his office for a quick sex break with their favourite big boy there's a high chance that aether can't bend them over the desk right away and instead they just have to stand awkwardly in front of the desk while it slowly (with a funny mechanical whirring sound) descends down to a good 'over the desk bending' level

[gravehags]

me too boys, me too

[mousetrappa-fr]

She's up for 5kg! Message me for mixed/full treasure payment.

Sold! Thank you!

[whalemarch]

you don't have to dance alone

[iiping]

my heart is soft for them 🥹🫶

[ievaxol]

no one can unring this bell

on good days, the creaking hardly bothers him.

'tis simply part of the daily routine to draw from the well of his aether and breathe life into his limbs again upon waking, to close his eyes through the initial panic of being pinned to the bed by dead weight and then the secondary, slower burning one of that dead weight being attached to him.

it took a couple of years, but he got the hang of it eventually. for all the theatrics of his youth, g'raha has discovered a pragmatic streak that runs deep within him.

he'll trade an arm for a settlement, half a leg for a child with eyes the color of lakeland -- he'll barter, give and take and move the pieces he has with lips pressed together and eyes cast to a future that may well lay hundreds of years ahead.

his own body is merely another resource at his disposal. he sits down with stacks upon stacks of books on anatomy to find a way to have the aether penetrate all the way out to this fingertips, not for himself but because the dexterity is needed in order to fight.

lyna smothers him in salves and ointments and he lets her, if only so she can feel needed. there is no need to tell of an itch that goes deeper than skin, not when she frowns in determination and sets his heart to bursting with affection.

on bad days, it does bother him.

those days he lets the sleeves drop a little lower and he stays in the tower if he can, both relieved and sickened at the familiar hum of aether that cocoons him.

relief at knowing he'll be able to move the way he wants. that he'll be able to fool himself into thinking there is nothing wrong with him so long as he doesn't look upon himself and see the tattered remains of his dress branded into the mockery of flesh provided by the tower.

nausea at the calculations that perpetually run in the back of his mind, reminding him of the fact that his body is no longer his. how many ilms of skin does it cost to save a life? what limbs would he trade for the crystalline mean? does he have the right to grieve himself?

it would probably do him well to remember that the tower isn't sentient as such, yet he can never shake the feeling that it hungers for more. some days it feels as though he has placed himself in the maw of a starving beast that is simply waiting for him to grow a little more before its jaws snap shut.

and time is notoriously not on his side.

on the worst days, the creaking is all he hears.

when he's called out on extended business, or another summoning attempt falls flat, or someone dies, or, well --

it's so loud those days. the scrape of rock against rock, slow and relentless. it is inescapable, too, as his chest heaves with every breath he takes and the crystal moves with it, groaning and cracking like a live thing.

the warmth is siphoned first out of his skin and then out of the very air, leaving his teeth chattering and lyna's face engraved with a silent worry that he's scared will grow permanent, and he wants to weep at how the one supposed to protect her ends up hurting her the most.

every swallow is a struggle, every step a fight. the seams of his transformation cracks and bleeds pain until he's half delirious with it, overcome by the need to claw his way out, out, out of his own body and the prison it makes.

it's basic survival instinct after all, to run away from what's killing you. and here he is. walking toward it, sprinting some days, as if he truly can't wait.

he has a thousand things to do and a hundred places to be, and yet all he is capable of is humming under his breath to try and drown out the never ending sound of his own corpse being puppeteered.

a small prize to pay on the grand scale of things but gods.

gods does he long for silence.

[sealrock]

tell me, what makes a human?

[ayalatusss]

#Genshintober2023✨

Prompt 3: A fallen star🌟

Probably will color it later too! It was supposed to be a mashup with ghibli but something went wrong and I got unhinged Ae instead

[puppsworld]

more quintessence ghouls in their natural forms <3 Based off my headcanon that quints come from a completely separate place from the Pits called the Void, where literally only their small subspecies of ghoul can survive. They just adapted to have no physical form to be able to handle the immense pressure and sheer cold. They're just large masses of light that have pseudo-nerves so they can interact with each other.

its goofy and weird but idk it's fun to ponder glowy light guys

dont ask me why omega looks like that btw, i dont have an answer

[anisohtropy]

actually I don’t think we’re processing how good a howls moving castle AU would fit Kavetham. a romance in the midst of political conflict? Kaveh being a dramatic, self destructive blonde? Haitham’s gray/white hair and simple life that is disrupted by the aforementioned blonde and a political conflict? annoyances to friends to lovers? THE THEME OF DESTINY?

[7-andahalf-rats]

sjsm doodles that I did because I suddenly remembered it

[tallbluelady]

🗝️

It was only in private, Urianger noted, that Rowan's playful side came to the fore.

[theriverdraws]

Took a break from the gacha game so I could draw fanart for said game

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

you’ll have to forgive me but i cannot get this au out of my head

so here are the twins and xiao

(as it always seems to happen with my posts, check the tags for my rambles)

[jansendraws]

Рисовала к новому году кроссоверный календарик, несколько иллюстраций из него 🤲✨🎄