#Tenderness in Parting

[wickedzeevyln]

Goodnight, Speak Plainly

Goodnight,the colors have bursted,the angels have sung,kindness have been given,and kindness on our pockets we have hoarded all year round,will you give some more?All the promises you’ve made may they wake with you tomorrow. Goodnight,all the love dancing in your eyes tonight isn’t a nightmare, and the life still yet to unfold isn’t a dream.Wake up with hope in your heart, but hope has her hands…

[korralone]

Vi taking a moment to just hug Caitlyn in the middle of this scene makes my heart clench painfully in my chest

[vaguely-concerned]

can you even imagine what a fucking horror show the early game is from spite's perspective, though. not only is this funky forcibly severed little slip of the fade having to deal with the reverse cosmic horror of physical reality as perceived by a spirit and being trapped in it against its will -- existentially confused and disoriented and hurting and nothing makes any kind of sense, at the mercy of human cruelty at its most deliberately sadistic. and then the one source of comfort and compassion and some kind of safety and clarity that lucanis surely must have been to him in the ossuary despite everything just goes and shuts himself in his room inside with a seemingly passive aggressive number of locks between them and no explanation and won't speak to him and they're STILL in the fucking ossuary. rook came and found them and they could be free now (rook is here!) and still lucanis keeps them in the ossuary even though he PROMISED he promised they'd get out of there together!!! what the fuck DO you think at that point? like did he trick me that whole time??? he wasn't like zara before, so why is he doing this to me now? why isn't he saying anything? 'he won't move. I can't reach him'. at least in the ossuary they had a deal, a goal, a hope -- each other. at least he wasn't entirely alone, before.

this poor poor poor little spite spirit really was ferried into the real world like 'hey welcome to reality! as your first introduction to it you're first getting horrifically tortured and then getting to vicariously experience one of THE most distressing and harrowing psychological conditions the human brain can cook up for itself (a fully fledged and deeply entrenched freeze response flaring up with catastrophic severity due to an unbroken ongoing and unlikely to let up any time soon chain of Unfortunately... Recent Events). I think spite is being extremely reasonable and patient about the whole thing, when you put it into perspective. I'm not saying let him eat the self-lighting candles or anything, but he's got some extremely valid points along the way lol. spite is not only child-like, the metaphor work going on is a lot more pleasingly flexible and complex than that, but he is also helplessly existentially dependent on lucanis in a way that, if anything, is a heightened version of the way a child (or child part) has to depend on a parent to navigate the world and survive.

tl;dr: we truly don't give enough sympathy to spite for having to live in the head of lucanis dellamorte. a place even lucanis dellamorte would prefer not to be. to be fair to him I think lucanis would be the first person to agree with this lol

[chaeul]

A moment of appreciation for how tenderly Cir glides the back of his hand over Phu‘s tummy, not missing a moment to touch him now that he‘s finally allowing himself to 🥺

[chimerafeathers]

i love that isafrin can be the most straightforwardly romancey, wholesome pairing on a surface level and then you go one (1) level deeper and run into siffrin’s seething guilt and convoluted feelings around touch and intimacy and the extent to which they want or don’t want those things in a specifically romantic way or if he was trying to seek connection and love in any way he could once he knew that Isabeau wanted those things from him in that context, and the combined power trip/self disgust at “manipulating” Isabeau’s desires without his knowledge to make themself feel wanted and in control. and then you keep going and there’s also Isabeau’s own warped self image (still, in spite of all his changes, fearing that he’s someone that would be shameful to know), his “emotionally stable pillar” role and self-taught therapy talk masking his deep fears of real confrontation (struggling loop after loop to confess, not wanting Odile to confront Siffrin about their weird behavior in the sus quest bathroom talk) and how Siffrin’s fear of vulnerability and Isabeau’s fear of Pushing Too Hard allow both of their issues to fester unspoken long after it’s clear that the problems exist.

all this to say. duality of isafrin. makes my heart full and warm and happy to see the sweet, fluffy, silly love and connection between them (mutually romantic or otherwise). and then also. the delicious, delicious complications. gnawing on them like a dog with a beloved bone

[aprilblossomgirl]

Let's be a couple.

PERFECT 10 LINERS | EP.22

[tohruies]

karasu knows you’ll end up his wife when you share the very first bite of your food with him on the first date btw :-)

[wizardsimper]

There's something about how in Act 3 after Gale has visited the Stormshore Tabernacle, he tells the player (if romanced);

“I would much rather gaze into your eyes than hers. Yours are capable of tenderness, and feeling. No god could ever compare.”

It's worth noting that throughout the game one of Gale's most prominent characteristics is his very expressive eyes, we see it in almost all of his scenes when he looks at the player, in particular his Act 2 and Act 3 romance scene, as well other instances throughout.

But compare that to Gale after he becomes a god, his eyes are no longer the same soulful, emotional eyes as before, but glowing with ambition even if he's trying to express his emotions. He'll never truly look at the player like he once did, even if he still loves them.

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Ellie saying “I’m going to be a dad?” was so adorable.

[fushiglow]

something that has fascinated me about this fandom since the very first day i set foot in it is just how many artists are utterly taken with ✨ geto suguru ✨

when you think about it, we get so little time with him in canon. yet he seems to capture the imagination of some of the best minds this fandom has to offer like nothing else. almost all of the most moving, thought-provoking, meaningful fanworks i've seen across my entire time here have been geto suguru centric.

and i think that's beautiful.

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

the infinite forms of something that perpetually creates and undos

[blank-house]

Sitting in the back seat, driving with my sunshine baby~

Talk about a blast from the past~

Elio had a small redesign since Keyframe's first release, but for today we welcome it all back with this guest art from Vika!

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5 days left to our campaign!

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[theonyxstate]

cw: lighthearted suicide joke

moonkiller but its told exclusively through their accidental study sessions together - barty's trying to study for OWLs and NEWTs simultaneously ("its a great idea, lupin, you just dont see my genius") and remus is trying to manage being a chronically ill werewolf with homework. the fic consists of 50% curse words, 20% coffee, 8% enhancing potions, 7% of falling asleep, and 3% of "i'm either going to sleep or kill myself, but either way, i'm not doing this shit anymore"

the last 2% is mental breakdown (and holding each other through it)

@butterli5 for you🧎🏽🤲🔪🌙

[lovsome]

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

[sunnibits]

potentially hot take but this is a pet peeve of mine

[sleepy-writes-stuff]

DP X DC WRITING PROMPT #22

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Bring on the Night

What if Danny's white hair and green eyes showed up under blacklight? No nightclubs for him... of course, knowing him, he'd definitely still go.

Imagine someone from the DC universe gaining a crush on the mysterious alt looking dude but he's impossible to find outside of nightlife parties.

To make it more interesting, what if the nightclub he frequents is actually owned by him? Even more interesting if the nightclub is used as a sort of no man's land where ghosts and humans knowingly/unknowingly peacefully mingle with each other? Some of the more ghostly individuals are also Danny's employees and humans just see them as enthusiastically trying to fit the theme of the club. What exactly is that theme? You decide.

I feel like Danny would just make a really good host and it would easily fit in with his obsession to protect. Like a side project/hussle, but for ghostly core health.

Also think of it as kinda like vacation time for his rogues from trying to throttle him. They get a nice, safe space to freely feed into their individual obsessions without wrecking anything/anyone.

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List of roles are in the tags but can changed around however anyone pleases. Just thought this would be a fun idea for anyone to pick up and run with.