#RAMBLING ASIDE—

[vacantgodling]

🦋i got her song stuck in my head so i had to draw her🦋

ranpha from mermaid melody 💛

[queerofthedagger]

I'd truly be the worst person to stick into a timeloop because I'd really just spend the first 5 years catching up on my book tbr, the next 7 on all the movies and shows that've Been On My List for ages, and then another decade on ao3. like sure nothing may stick but my memories will and i can just go into a supermarket to get snacks and wine each day, and i have art to indulge in. like thanks for the hints on how to get out but respectfully, I am busy

[noodles-and-tea]

Just some more thoughts on that jayvik dbh au

[cj-the-random-artist]

Is this my best comic ever?? Nope. Do I think I characterized either of these two particularly well in this comic?? Not really. Did I spend an unreasonable amount of time on it to the point that it would be a waste to not post it?? Yes, yes I did.

I really committed to this one, spent a lot of time on those backgrounds and treated myself to ample suffering with the perspective, which is not my strong suit but I am happy with how it ultimately looks. Yay perspective and background practice!!

(Tbh I shouldn't talk like I think this one sucks, I think I've just been staring at it for so long that my brain has decided it's not good and it's actually way better than I think it is, and honestly I am quite happy with it. The artistic process really is something, isn't it?)

The inspiration was basically me reminding... myself... to take breaks sometimes... by drawing for several hour stints during my only little bits of free time. Which totally tracks. Probably. But I've been rolling around in my brain this idea that Lambert is a very uptight people pleaser and anxious workaholic, but Narinder, at least since adjusting himself to the circumstances (which probably took at least a century, maybe two) has discovered the joys of self care, and has made an active effort to chill tf out. This has not made him any less terrifying to the cultists (save for Lambert's closest disciples), nor has it made him friendlier to really anyone but Lambert (and maybe his siblings), but he sure has found some serious peace of mind. That said, I can't place what his motivations are here. Perhaps he is secretly concerned about Lambert's sanity, because he doesn't want them to turn into what he was, or maybe he's just trying to steal away some quality time with his one and only friend, but regardless of the reason, I spent too much time on this for nobody to see it, dang it.

That said. Enjoy this silly little comic that I spent way too much time on, and I hope this silly comic brings you some joy today.

[lazylittledragon]

i will never listen to anyone saying that being a child/teenager is the best years of your life because when you're 22 you can just decide you want cookies and then in like 25 minutes you have cookies. could a child do that i think not

[k3n-dyll]

ugh, look at how sexy she is when you don't draw her pale as fuck <3

[nugulover69]

Who up klonning their peag

[morganmnemonic]

I can't stop thinking about the relationship between Jon and Helen as perhaps one of the most important ones in the entire show. They are narrative parallels for each other, and they both know it. They've both known it from the very start!

Helen walks into the Archives, paranoid, unsure of who to trust, and Jon sees himself in her. And he thinks "If i can help her, maybe there's hope for me too." Then he can't save her. The next time they meet, she's a monster. They're both monsters. There was never any other way their stories could have gone, their fates entwined from the very start.

And Helen answers his original thought with one of her own: "Maybe if we can help each other, there's hope for us both." But Jon looks at her and sees everything that he fears becoming, and so he turns her away, and refuses to accept that their stories are still one and the same.

Helen went to the last person who was ever kind to her, the only person who both knew her as a human and had the context to understand what she'd become, and he hated her. He hated her because he liked Helen, and told her that she couldn't be Helen.

So she stopped trying to be Helen, and embraced being a monster. Reveled in it even. Then Jon wakes up from a six month coma, more monster than person, and tries so hard to cling to the things that mattered to him when he was human. Even with no support, even with the entire archives staff against him, he chooses humanity and compassion over and over again.

And this is a direct threat to Helen's world view. Their stories are entwined. If Jon can continue to be a person even after everything he's been through, then she could have clung to her humanity too, if only she'd tried a little harder. And that terrifies her! She wants to conceptualize herself as someone who was completely overwhelmed by forces beyond her control, who never had a choice but to become a monster. She want's to be an innocent victim. But Jon argues with his actions that they'd both had choices.

And, Jon, in turn, holds out hope that she might make better choices until the very end.

This is the conflict between them for all of season 4 and 5. Jon wants to prove that they can both be decent people, and Helen wants to prove that they were never going to be anything but monsters. This is why she's so devoted to trying to goad Jon into enjoying his newfound godhood. She knows that they are the same, and wants that to mean that he has a spark of evil inside of him, and not that she was always capable of doing good.

When Jon kills her, she loses her life, but wins the argument. Helen is nothing but a dangerous monster who needs to be killed for the good of everyone, and in the moment he decides that, Jon dooms himself to the same fate. Their stories are one and the same. "If i can help her, maybe there's hope for me too." he thought. But he couldn't help her, refused to, even, in the one moment when it actually mattered. And thus, there was never hope for him.

[dreamyblanket]

GC n Pink Peppercorn!Y/N give much rival vibes in how they go about their greed

Lol what if they kiss-/j

Pink peppercorn the kinda person to pretend to like gc for her spear then actually fall in love later tbh.

[that-oracle]

All the AA games are on sale on steam rn (as well as a bunch of other capcom games but this aint about them). If you've been wanting to get them now's a great time. They're on sale until May 6th ^^

[loosesodamarble]

I fell down a rabbit hole because of @meo-eiru's yandere character Micah and I had thoughts about a potential plot for Micah and a darling of his. Apologies if it's sloppy or ooc but my brain kept coming up with ideas!

..........

It all begins when Micah is walking through the streets of the town he serves as a priest in and sees an unfamiliar face.

The person in question is a young woman in plain clothes. The colors are faded and faint patches that look like they might've been mud stains could be seen. The woman carts around a wheelbarrow full of flowers still in soil. When people approach her, the woman greets them, smiling, before gesturing to her wheelbarrow.

Micah observes as the woman plucks a few flowers and ties them together with twine before handing them out to people.

"Please come to my family's shop when it opens!" the woman tells the people she hands flowers to.

The woman pushes her wheelbarrow until she and Micah cross each other. She offers Micah some of her flowers. Micah looks over what she has and notices some blossoms that he doesn't recognize and asks for those.

He takes the new flowers back to the church and plants them in his garden. He doesn't think much of the unfamiliar woman aside from the fact that he appreciates that chancing upon her led to him gaining something new for his garden. Unless that young woman begins attending church, Micah doubts he'll see her again.

.....

A few days later, Micah goes out to the church's garden to do some tending. It’s too early to tell how well the new flowers have taken to the soil so he wants to put a little extra effort into their care. When he arrives in the garden, he sees someone there crouching down by the flowers. It is the young woman with the wheelbarrow.

“Ah, it’s you,” Micah says, making his presence known.

The woman is standing up and facing Micah in seconds. Her eyes are wide and her expression bashful.

"Uh, hi?" she says while she waves to Micah.

"What business do you have here in the church’s garden?" Micah questions her.

"Uhp! W-well... I heard this building had a garden and I wanted to see it for myself," she answers after a moment's hesitation. “If I’m trespassing— I probably am, what with the wall…” Her face is turning bright red. “Sorry.”

Micah chuckles. "The church welcomes visitors of all kinds, not only those living within the convent or those of the faith," he explains with a gentle smile. "If you wish to visit the garden every now and again, you are more than free to do so."

"Really?" A smile breaks out across her face. She faces the flowers and bushes again. "Hopefully my family's flowers can bloom just as magnificently."

"If your family's business is to sell flowers, then the best of luck to you in cultivating them," Micah remarks.

For a moment, Micah wonders why he is bothering with this conversation with this woman who seems to not even understand what the church is. But the smile on the woman's face during the brief talk... The sparkle in her eyes as she glances around at the garden... And the way she spoke with Micah, not with any sense of reverence but still showing a gentle cordiality...

Her presence is... it's not a bother at least.

.....

Micah begins to see her more often.

It’s not every day Micah sees her, but she visits often enough that the nuns and acolytes start to recognize her. Early on, the woman remains within the garden. She approaches each flower, bush, tree with such a delicate hand and truly admires Micah’s work in bringing the garden to life. She speaks words of adoration to them like they’re her beloved children. The woman and Micah exchange their experiences with raising plants. Given her profession being the selling of flowers - and herbs, as Micah comes to learn - it comes as no surprise that she takes gardening seriously. She is almost as meticulous as Micah when it comes to the topic.

Almost.

The woman has an air of fancifulness to her methods. She talks of making the plants “happy” and “encouraging” them. She apologizes when she has to trim away diseased parts of a flower. She never disposes of any plant that doesn't grow as quickly or as fruitfully as its peers but instead gives them more time and attention until they flourish. The woman sees her own garden not as specimens to cultivate and prune away as she sees fit, but as individuals to care for as they came into their own.

Micah finds himself amused by how different her view is from his.

The way he sees it, plants are like humans. It is true that flowers can grow in the wild and people can take care of themselves well enough, but without proper guidance and diligent oversight, neither can truly prosper. If human hands don't bring water regularly or cut away parts afflicted with disease, then plants would wither and die in no time. Humans languish in ignorance and let themselves be led astray by temptations. And if one, plant or human alike, fails to meet the expectations set by those around them then they have no right to take space from those more deserving and are removed.

Their ways of thinking are different.

But Micah finds himself wanting to listen to the woman go on about how any flower, any person, can thrive if shown enough love. Her view is so simple... Naive... Pure...

Yet it never leaves Micah's head.

…..

Micah entertains the woman's presence at the church each time she visits the garden. And he uses her to entertain himself. Asking questions and learning more. He tries to piece together what about her he feels so drawn to.

Micah learns that the woman had never been familiarized with the church. She'd met the odd clergyman while on the road but faith, scriptures, and the like were all foreign to her. When Micah explains it all, she apologizes profusely for her lack of respect towards him.

The woman has a beauty and purity to her that was unlearned, something that came naturally to her.

The woman tells Micah that her favorite plant is the ivy. An ironic choice to say the least.

"I didn't realize it could mean so much. I just kind of liked it because no matter the time of year, some form of ivy was there for me to find," she says while helping Micah water the garden one day. "But knowing they mean something to your church makes me love them more."

She is surprisingly impressionable. Taking almost anything she hears to heart. Doing so is sure to hurt her if she's not careful who she listens to.

The family she speaks of, Micah comes to know, is nothing more than a list of people she's met and left. Her parents passed due to disease and from then on, she'd been on the move. Made friends in various places and always left with new seeds to add to her garden.

It's a contradiction. A world widespread and full of people she thinks of with love. Yet she was ultimately alone with only the lives she grew from the ground keeping her company. Micah finds it strikingly different to himself, where he's surrounded by many who adore and rely on him yet he's struggled to think of anyone with affection.

"I'm very glad I moved here. The soil is fertile here. The townspeople are kind. And most of all... you're here, Micah."

The fondness in the woman's eyes is different from what she looks at plants with. She is looking at him not to care for him, but to be cared by him.

Something clicks in Micah's head.

If that is what you wish, Micah thinks to himself as he steps forward and brushes back a bit of her hair. Then let me tend to you the proper way.

The woman had been letting herself grow like one of her plants, with care but no guidance.

Micah will change that. He will trim away all influence that he finds unsavory for her. He will give her a place, confined but cozy, to call home. He will guide her and she will bloom as he sees fit, even if that means hurting her along the way. After all, if she believes love can help both plant and human thrive, then she will have to appreciate the love he will give her to grow.

[fox-guardian]

i think my favorite part about the tma liveshow with the Dog Incident is the fact that it's canon. like the fluff episodes are cute and fun but they also aren't canon and weren't written to be considered potentially canon, they're just fun lil fan things. the liveshow tho is meant to be considered canon. which means that yes, jon did in fact canonically go "like, in general?" to being asked if he'd seen a dog (which let's be real that's a mood i would also do that if caught off guard)

but also essentially jon was like "okay so you work for me, cool, and i could Fire You If Don't Fix This Immediately" and martin literally Looked This Man In The Eyes and said "i mean yeah, probably heh :) oH-" with the gayest processing delay i've ever heard in my LIFE. i honestly don't think that was any of his little manipulations of getting people to underestimate him or whatever i really think he was just that gay about Handsome Man With Nice Voice Speaking Authoritatively At Him that it took him a minute to process. and that's CANON. that's REAL. he DID THAT. i can't get over that.

[fexarii]

Finally drawing the freak in my pfp and banner again,, oh and his wife ig. Happy deltarune tomorrow!

(no spoilers in tags or youll die from my curse)

[shoutmon1v1]

GET MY GIRL OCTAVIA AWAY FROM THIS WOMAN AND BACK TO HER DAD PLEASEEEEE

[prince-rowan-of-the-forest]

It's kinda crazy that in ROMAN'S fantasy/imagination we not only see Janus being chill with him, we also see him and Remus agreeing on something (albeit slutty costumes) and then we also don't see a single bit of criticism thrown his way.

Romans silly little scenario where everything is perfect <3

[pinacolada-posts]

hey not to be weird on main or anything but why does nico keep grabbing gabriel by the dick?? like yaoi aside why does he keep doing it 😭😭