#OOP HERE WE GO

[steviemaylane]

Stevie was going to give him options. Multiple options for him to take. That was her plan. If he wanted to sit in the silence, she’d gladly sit in it with him. If he wanted to go for a walk, she’d gladly do that too, but she wasn’t going to leave him be. She needed to make sure Mikey was okay, and even if they weren’t together (she really didn’t know these days), she wasn’t going to completely ditch him. That wasn’t her style at all. She had just dropped Elijah off at a friends house for a sleepover, and thought this was the best chance she’d get to see Mikey. Bouncing on her toes in her converse, she stood at the door for a second before knocking loudly. The thought of Kit opening the door didn’t even register. She wasn’t sure what she would do if it was his roommate. It didn’t take long for the door to swing open, and for her to open her mouth really quickly so he didn’t shut her down.

“Okay, hi. So I know you weren’t expecting me, but isn’t that the fun part? If and only IF you wanted company, I figured we could go for a walk and maybe go sit in the park and have a picnic? Or, if you didn’t want to get out today, which I think isn’t great but i’d respect your wishes, maybe I could come in and watch a movie? Or if you’d want to take a nap, I brought my headphones and I can listen to my audiobook if you need silence.” She let out in a huff, oddly surprised that he hadn’t stopped her from speaking. Her voice got softer, almost a whisper but just loud enough for him to hear her. The change in her body language immediately became more anxious and nervous as she wrapped her free arm around her stomach. “I just didn’t really want you to be alone.”

[scarred-but-still-smiling]

Suddenly thinking about my Man Out Of Time AU again and had the heartbreaking thought of what if The Ancient Capital, and thus Zloy, were from more than a thousand years prior to Pix's arrival, and what if Zloy, when still alive, was friends with a certain king from the desert.

What if the first face Zloy sees in over a thousand years is the face of a man who he always knew had a close connection with death? What if he sees the concern in Pix's face and the first words past his lips are "Pixl? Is that you?" only to see no recognition in response. Not even just in the 'who is this person?' way, but like this dude doesn't understand him at all.

The aching pain in his chest as he's walked out of the catacombs and he sees his home in ruin. He knew what he was getting into when he volunteered for the zombie curing experiment; he knew there was a chance he would never see his family again, there was a chance the cure wouldn't work, but seeing what was once a beautiful city naught but piles of stone...

Every day that passes as he and the man who looks so much like his old friend, The Copper King, slowly learn to communicate is a day that eats at his soul. He desperately wants to know what happened, how long it had been. They'd had visitors, people who looked eerily like rulers he knew, but who dressed so differently and spoke the same strange language his rescuer did.

Eventually, after a long time, he learns that his rescuer was also called Pixl, though this Pixl doesn't think he was named after the man Zloy remembers. He learns that more than a thousand years had passed since he was entombed, and in that time the world had ended.

He learns that every ruler he knew had either vanished or died.

He learns that the kingdom of Pixandria had disappeared in the sands, leaving no trace of it or its king.

He realises that he might as well have died.

He wishes that he had.

But...

But there's something about New Pixl that keeps him there; something in the way he wants to preserve The Ancient Capital as much as possible, the way he reveres the past and asks Zloy all about his home.

As he looks up at the statue of his goddess above the catacombs, almost as beautiful as he remembers her and clearly preserved with so much love and care, he thinks that maybe it was her will that he was rescued by this man.

Maybe she had plans for him.

[vampyredefender-a]

closed starter for @acevxmps

in the dimly lit, pulsating heart of the nightclub, lexi moved with a fluid grace that was both hypnotic and irresistible. her body swayed in an effortless grace that drew the attention of many in the room. her own hands roamed her body in the rhythm of the song. her flowing dress shimmered under the colourful strobe lights, casting an enchanting aura around her.

her eyes closed as she lost herself in the music, a slow smile spreading to lexi's lips as she felt a strangers hands moving to rest on her hips, the firm build of a man pressing against her. she was hungry, and wanted to feed. snatching eating and erasing was a lot easier with a willing man ready to take her to an alleyway for his own idea of fun. a soft hum passed through her lips, body arching into his as she felt his lips pressing at the nape of her neck.

[hcllishsins]

closed starter > ft. @gluttonybound

" ... and what the fuck are you supposed to be ? " adam scoffed , pointing a finger in the direction of the other . through his time in hell , the fallen angel had decided to make it his business to know exactly who all the big hitters were . he wanted to take them all down one by one , maybe then heaven would take him back ..

[draconxs]

@sillygum gets an envious starter

With his mood ruined and his buzz killed, the first thing Kaido did was demand more sake be brought to him. The next thing he did was visit the brat that dared to so brazenly face him only to be one shot by his kanabo in a disappointing one-sided affair. It was thanks to him he couldn't relax in a drunken stupor and that his entire ploy with the smile fruits was screwed to hell which is why he wanted to personally ensure the boy was kept secure at Udon.

What came unexpected was the drunken mood he swung to by the time he reached the prison with his men making way for their boss in droves. Prisoners near death and working in the yard were ignored in favor of approaching an empty cell Kaido had his men throw Luffy in for an audience with the emperor.

An odd sense of envy blossomed in his chest as he drank and waited for the boy to wake up all tethered in seastone chains and head to toe with gauze. Despite being imprisoned now, Kaido could not stop his envy for his fellow pirates' own sense of freedom and was blubbering wetly with tears by the time he could hold a conversation.

"What makes your generation so special huh, boy!? Think you're better than the emperors that rule these seas? Look around you, you will rot in this prison before you ever create change in this world!"

[fkevin073]

Chapters: 11/13 Fandom: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Aemond Targaryen/Original Character(s), Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen/Original Female Character(s), Helaena Targaryen/Jacaerys Velaryon Characters: Original Characters, Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen, Jacaerys Velaryon, Helaena Targaryen, Rhaenyra Targaryen, Lucerys Velaryon (Son of Rhaenyra) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, or what if Jace has a twin, vicerys puts his foot down and betrothed Rhaenyra's daughter to aegon, and Jace and helaena, in an effort to nip any treason in the bud, wtf even if this, who knows? not me, Incest, I fuck around with the timeline btw Series: Part 1 of two marriages that save Westeros Summary:

Or: Rhaenyra's only daughter is set to marry Aegon. She falls for a different brother instead.

[illyaoakheart]

|| illya & lucrezia ||

when: during the tme skip, the morning after Illya and Cedric’s bethothal was solidified. before Lucrezia departs for The Arbor.

where: highgarden, the reach.

@lucreziasredwyne​​

The day that stretched after her meeting with Cedric and her father had left a heavy burden on Illya’s heart. Life had completely changed with nothing more than a conversation. One moment, she’d simply been Illya Oakhear —  lady of a wealthy house who did her duty, who respected her parents as she was meant to. Now, and though Joseph Oakheart had been forced into submission and his plotting put to an end, she was the daughter of a traitor. She would soon be Queen of The Reach.

And Lucrezia had told her none of it.

It was a strange feeling, learning that someone so close had kept something from her — that there had been long conversations shared between the Small Council about the volume of her father’s wrongs. That Lucrezia had sat there, listened, even more than likely spoken on it. The letters, his work, how he had schemed against Cedric and his crown. Had she sought to punish him, perhaps? Had she and the other lords called for his death?

Whatever the words spoken in the privacy of that room was lost on her — but she knew that words had been said, and that neither Lucrezia — nor Cedric — had thought it best to tell her. It made Illya feel… alone. On the outside, like she did with her mother and brother and father. Like a barrier had gone up, and she was screaming on the other side of it despite that no sounds came from her lips. Yet, Lucrezia was the person she craved to see more than anything in that moment, when night yawned into morning and the sense of the world seemed to be slipping.

She had not slept, and had not touched her breakfast — her hair was lose around her shoulders. Illya paced back and forth in her apartments, waiting for her sister to arrive. A temporary place to sleep. She’d be moved, soon, after they spoke their vows before Gods and men. The door finally opened — and she’d found herself twisting a lock of her hair between her fingers, staring out of the grand window as morning light began to seep in. The beginnings of dark circles under eyes that looked twinged with red. She’d been crying — when she was finally alone. Not because she was sad, but because…

“Lucrezia. As salamu alaykum.” Because she felt betrayed — kept in a pretty little box with a tied ribbon. The sister she’d chosen had left her in the dark, and so she did not look upon her as the door opened and closed behind. Not yet.

“A traitor, with letters to prove it.” She said, her voice far away yet eerily present. “Between Tarly, Hightower, and Oakheart.” Illya said her own house with more venom than she ever had before. Daughter of a traitor. Queen to be. The Rose of Old Oak turned to her friend — her sister — and felt tears well in her eyes as she finally looked upon her. It had only been a matter of weeks since their last meeting within the walls of her own home. Lucrezia had known then, too. She’d known. And she hadn’t said a word.

“Florence, Alaric, all of it.” Illya twisted her hair between her fingers, looping it over and over. Her other hand? She clenched it so tightly into a fist that if one looked close enough, her nails had left impressions of crescent moons upon her palms. “You knew. You knew, and you said nothing.” Illya had to close her eyes as a tear finally spilled past her lashes. Blinking hard, she looked upon Lucrezia, face twisting with a sort of pain she never thought she’d feel. My sister, who kept me blind. “You said nothing, Lucrezia.” Her voice cracked -- Illya had to pause to compose herself, but despite the anger she felt, she knew she could not hide herself from the other woman. “Why?” Had she known Cedric would ask for her hand? Was it but another secret to add to a list she wished did not exist? Then, in their shared tongue, she whispered. “When did I lose your confidence?”

[infcinity]

sarra palpatine && rhaella targaryen (( @svnlvght​ ))

“sorry, did you say something?” sarra asked as she looked up at the other - she’d been too engrossed in the papers she was looking through to realise that there was actually anyone else in the coffee shop besides her and her thoughts. she’d decided to get out of the office for a few hours to clear her mind, but it hadn’t helped. 

[thewanderingmask]

so yea

1-2 months of on and off effort later IT'S MY FIRST EVER HERMITCRAFT (by which i mean exclusively tango tek) ANIMATIC

IN WHICH A MAN TALKS ABOUT BINARY FOR ALMOST 3 MINUTES (it's based actually. and was really fun to animate)

[nebuladreamz]

A little different than last year's, but here we are again. To say that this past year hasn't been absolutely wild would be a lie, cause HOLY SHIT MAN

This year's birthday is. A little different for me, but you already have the silly comic to show that so I won't make like a broken record oops

But, despite the changes and hills that life's decided I should climb or throw at, it hasn't changed the fact that I'm so genuinely fucking thankful to the people that I've known since joining this fandom. I'm not even kidding when I say that being here has actually changed my life for the better. I know I said something similar last year, but this time, hoo boy it sure turned up the AMP and test how far I could go.

So, to everyone, both new and old; thank you for being here :D

@garbagechocolate @darkxsoulzyx @smoljeanius @bunmuffin @skizabaa

@tuzesdays @sleepykas @fernzwing @kandidandi @starsketchez

@just-a-drawing-bean @notdysfunk @ilsole @amberluvsbugs @cloudyvoid

@nomsthecat @alfinefalf @nosleepygay @theblog-with-thestuff

@cacaocheri

(Edit: ty kibbits for informing me of the. Fuck ass tagging system)

AND TAGGING OTHERS BECAUSE. POINTS. BONKS WITH HEAD. GETTING TO EITHER INTERACT OR TALK OR WHATEVER IS ALWAYS A DELIGHT

@ohno-the-sun @kibbits @ink-yy @saltyfryz @kaprisvn

@hierba-picante @sunny-sophies-garden @cookiiemancer @sneeblbop @justaduckarts

@pepethehumanz @crystalmagpie447 @woolysstuff @mocha-illustrates @duhsty1

@sanchensky @pillowspace @victarin @witherfide

[I DEFINITELY GOT SONAS WRONG AND THESE AREN'T ALL THE SILLY PEOPLE I KNOW BUT IM SITTING HERE AT 2:30 IN THE MORNING JUST KNOW YOU'RE THERE IN SPIRIT HANDING YOU ALL POPTARTS WAUGH]

[pepurika]

She is beauty she is grace... AND SHE IS A LIMITED PLUSH CAMPAIGN WITH TEN DAYS LEFT TO ORDER

[ask-mirage-mews]

Joyce: “…Heh…Our family’s really grown this year, hasn’t it?”

Fuji: “Arceus better not give us any more ‘family members’. We’re running out of room…”

[bigkickguy]

XZeroWeek - day 5 Promise!!! 'Promise me you'll come back'

X5 hurts so much haha :,)

[fumifooms]

"Marchil? I guess I can see it on Chilchuck’s end, but what about Marcille’s? What makes you think she could develop feelings for him?" I’m glad you asked!

The first thing to note is that she does think highly of him

In the page on the right, literally defending his virtues and literally comparing him to Dalclan. And oh…

She does love a brooding mysterious guy who closes himself to love. But surely, Chilchuck isn’t her type at all, right? He’s not princely or knightly at all. In apperances certainly not, both looks wise and demeanor wise, but then that’s why she seeks to know him on a deeper level, to not only look shallowly.

And hmm. Chilchuck really is quite selfless isn’t he? Always looking out for others, and saving specifically her often, always making sure himself and, staying in or even running towards danger for her sometimes. Modesty is often considered heroic…

And can we talk about that drowning one… You can definitely frame the special attention as him knowing she tends to hesitate or be clumsy, and then his insistance on pulling her out of danger that she’s the healer aka the most important to keep alive, but. From the one who says that he just keeps his ass out of fights and won’t help this is a lot of risk to take, and he does die trying to pull her to safety in the dungeon rabbits chapter. And the drowning bit??? That’s when the dungeon collapses. The only reason they DON’T die of drowning here is that the water then gives way to outside. There was NO hope of pulling her to safety here and resurrections would likely not work either, he truly preferred to die with her than try to survive himself.

Sit your ass back DOWN you are in no state, self-sacrifical hero much damn

And Marcille definitely noticed this imo, after all she loves learning all she can about him, remembering things like how he hates waiting on people too. She pays attention to him and what he does and what he says. This to say that it’s notable, whatever reason for it you may think (though we know by this point at least she was already aware he was an adult though it wasn’t internalized), out of everyone it’s Chilchuck’s bed that she wants to sleep in during the Golden Kingdom stay. He’s safe and comforting to her: dependable, the defining trait in her view of him as is shown by the relationship chart in the Adventurer’s Bible.

^ Lending handkerchiefs is a romance trope btw and handkerchiefs have irl history of being used for courting. Especially in old English literature and plays like Shakespeare’s Othello, and personally I do see a lot of Shakespeare in Dalclan (nobility political drama with some romance). There’s how his cowl is a dearly beloved souvenir from his family too, there’s a lot of aesthetic tropes you can apply to him.

All this to say you can 100% romanticize Chilchuck into a princely noble guy if you try and that’s exactly what Marcille does with the wife roleplay. She doesn’t need much in the first place, she latches onto crumbs and makes aesthetic narratives out of details, give her an inch she’ll take a mile.

But what’s interesting about the shift throughout the arc of her and his relationship is that she starts out idealizing him into a little angel of a kid (shapeshifter), and she ends it idealizing him as a virtuous husband and family man instead.

And what’s doubly interesting is that in the former, she’s actively warping who he is personality and demeanor wise to fit the aesthetic, he doesn’t have that bitter pride of not asking for help and the edges have been smoothened. But what she does during the wife roleplay is something else, she acknowledges the flaws and just… Accepts them, rolls with them. She’s aware of his flaws and implements them into the narrative, but the reason why his wife left doesn’t capitalize on them even, rather Chil is chilblivious and his wife loves him very much still, she’s just testing him after having had a night of feeling out of place at his side.

And this is what separates the idealization vs romanticization, she’s not twisting him into someone else she’s just uplifting what he is and focusing on the good sides.

Marcille: "he has a shitty personality sometimes but if he was my husband I’d still cherish him" "If I were your wife I’d be overjoyed to go out with you and would get myself prettied up while you complain about me taking a long time, your friends would tell me that I’m nice and that’d make me happy, but I’d also be sad because you wouldn’t tell me that you love me enough"

He’s angry and his wife left him, he’s *flawed*, but he’s still worth hyping up, still worth having his own romance story, still has a shot of winning back his beloved. She sees him for what he is, human and real and not a carefully scripted character that fits an aesthetic, and she thinks it’s still worthy of love and admiration and fighting for

And what’s funny too is that you might expect her to cool down on him once she learns more about him but actually she only gets increasingly into his business. You tell her your age and next thing you know you promise to introduce her to your family. Give her an inch she takes a mile. And too the thing is, Senshi is equally mysterious but she doesn’t pester him like at all, asks him ONCE about his succubus and he doesn’t even answer and that’s like… It. With Chilchuck it starts off innocently enough with her wanting to know his age, hometown, the stuff she mentions having asked pre-canon. But it just keeps and keeps going and escalating. Think she’ll be satisfied now knowing you have a wife and kids, maybe she’s disillusioned now? Wrong! She wants to know their names and ages and occupations and hey how did you propose to your wife? Do you think she’ll stop after meeting them? What’s next? What will she want to know next????

She’s… Like it’s not a reach that Marcille is all over him. Like it doesn’t mean it’s romantic but she just is. She is not normal about him idk. Can you not ask him about what tongue technique he used when first kissing his wife, give the man breathing room

Marcille could literally go "if I was Chilchuck’s wife" having deeply pondered and thought out the hypothetical and people would still ask where anyone sees any romantic potential between them. Oh wait

There’s a platonic explanation for everything (almost?) in Dungeon Meshi don’t say I’m saying otherwise, but it’s definitely not like there’s nothing here to read into lol

Going off a bit more under read bc it’s my fave topic

Marcille has a whole theme with the charming prince trope with her idealization and storybook motif and Chil is kinda the "Well someone perfect like that isn’t very realistic and romance is usually more complex and that’s ok and good and flawed people can still be ✨virtuous✨" catalyst

Do you see do you see she starts canon thinking the most romantic thing is a prince charming but her arc in the end has her romanticizing an average, flawed, real and realistic family man, who’s on the poorer side and is on the verge of divorce. And that’s what he needed, too, seeing the positive of himself and the situation instead of focusing on the negative is explicitly what inspires him to hope that he might be able to reconcile with his wife, gives him the courage and self-esteem to shoot his shot.

He IS a prince figure instead that now it’s not about idealizing the grand and overt it’s about romanticizing the small things in real life!! About finding joy and beauty in things that seem normal or mundane and uplifting them to make the world feel kinder!!!!

He’s the devoted virtuous man that she wantsss not the storybook prince that’s unrealistic and could crumble like a script at any time. He’s the perfect example of a flawed realistic but virtuous & devoted & loving man. Far from a prince charming, but not fully detached from it either. Something worth fighting for despite the flawed cracks. Like literally, flawed romance being worth fighting for is literally the finale of Chilchuck and Marcille’s arc on the matter, where their separate arcs and issues intersect at the most crucial moment.

Marcille is important to Chil’s arc not only because of her optimism, but also because of her interest and knowledge in romance & matters of the heart, and that’s what he needs to both open his heart up to hope and to try to reconcile with his wife, like idk sounds gay

Their arc together is literally learning to 1) see each other for how they are and not undermining their qualities capacities etc etc while still not leaving flaws unchecked either and 2) opening up to people. Marcille LITERALLY makes Chil open his heart up to hope like idk man. What do you want from me. He’s literally the guy helping her through deconstructing novels and fantasy and rose tinted glasses and like. Deconstructing the prince charming figure into something more real but still romantically beautiful like KUI KUI STOOOOP STOP I’M ALREADY HOOKED I’M ALREADY-

 Ok fine that’s me reading into the tropes too much forgive me for being storybook brained but like. Speaking his heart out to a lone woman on a balcony, Romeo and Juliette shit, asking if she, too, doesn’t want to meet his family, madly blushing. And like she’s learned with Chilchuck it’s all in the little things, all the implications he cannot speak aloud. She does reciprocate, does blush madly back, and the first thing she does is shower him in flowers and jewelry and what in her heart is coded as romantic gifts

A lady, stashed away in a high tower by her lonesome, waiting for someone to call out to her from below… Romeo courting type shit with an offer, a heartfelt spiel, implicit confession from underneath her balcony. Offering him flowers because he succeeded in calling out to her heart…….. And they have to climb to her too…. Crazy

Doesn’t it sound like a proposal. One that’s both so storybook-like and not, contrastedly real and grounded, all about the implications rather than in your face grand gestures, "Don’t you want to meet my family?". They literally have an arc about the topic of romance and this is the climax/pinnacle of it like god?? This is @ the woman who said "Chilchuck is a shy/bashful man so I know he wouldn’t tell me he loves me, but…" btw

To quote a friend, truly the shiny secret unlockable dating sim capture target : THE DUNGEON LORD BIT WAS SO FUNNY BECAUSE HE KNEW SHE'D TAKE IT HOOK LINE AND SINKER HES THE ONE WHO GOT HER TO TURN AROUND COMPLETELY SHES LIKE. WIDE EYED FLAG RAISED???? FLAG RAISED WITH CHILCHUCK 👀👀👀‼️👀👀‼️👀

And the way that this is the culmination of their arc together… Like people are not ready for the ‘Chil calling out to dunlord Marcille on the balcony has Romeo and Juliette romance novels imagery’ take. Or the ‘their arc is about growing to see beauty even in the non-idealized, in the flawed and in the real’ take which makes it so so perfect if she were to lower her ideal from a charming elven prince to a virtuous halfling man (which she does end up romanticizing)

So there, you got to witness in real time what happens when I think about marchil for longer than 2 minutes, there are so many layers it’s a deranged rabbithole. I saw the necronomicon of subtext and it’s driving me to madness with forbidden knowledge that no one else sees

……. Like what if I told you she implicitly picked Chilchuck over a "unrealistic prince charming who’s actually disingenuous" much earlier in the story already. If she was given the choice to think through going with a guy that seems perfect and chivalrous like her succubus she’d pick Chilchuck over the other actually. If I sound insane rn tune in for my full analysis on them coming this month hopefully thank youu. Interwoven arcs of fantasy vs reality and idealization vs pessimism I love youuu

So now you know the general thesis of my planned analysis about the importance of the prince charming figure in Marcille and Chilchuck’s arc, where she romanticizes things to a sometimes worrying degree or idealize people into something easy and digestible and poetic (like Chil being a kid, and then him being a virtuous ✨✨✨husband), and how she needs to value aesthetics less and actual acts and facts more, be more grounded (like seeing people for what they are flaws and all, and accepting that people need money and not pulling through on principles of honor or unity shouldn’t get Namari shamed) and a part of that is accepting that Chilchuck is BOTH flawed and virtuous, a loving husband that still has shitty moods and fumbled his marriage so bad etc etc. So it’s like, her image of perfect prince charming that will whisk you away on an ethereal romance -> realistic flawed middle aged dad with personality issues and a failing marriage but he still is worthy of love and having his cute grand romance story and his happy ending. Ik I keep repeating the same point through this but I need it to be burned into everyone’s brains it has its grip on me I can’t do this. They are so special……

[saltlog]

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

a small half-finished comic for my dentist au-i was gonna put more but I got tired

Eclipse notices something's missing, ehehe

(Context is that Sun let Eclipse (V2) go instead of shooting him in to another dimension with star power and kicks him out of the plex-he's out on the streets in the first panel)