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[tushanfoxspirit]

The Story Of The Four Monkeys - Part Six

To protect Tushan and the world; both Dongfang Yuechu and Tushan Honghong (YueHong) cooperated with the Third Young Master (San Shaoye). The details of that cooperation and their plans have not been revealed yet. Thanks to YueHong's sacrifice, peace came between the Humans and the Yaoguai after a long conflict extending over many centuries of past time and they finally began to coexist peacefully together to the present time. But despite that, YueHong still has not returned yet, knowing that this peace was just temporary because of the real enemy that threatened this peace, which was that rift, so they sacrificed themselves to reunite with each other again and through “reincarnation” they made a plan to confront this threat together, which the details of it have not yet been revealed.…

[journey-to-the-attic]

funny picture allsort :^) (reference photos below)

[fyoht]

season 2 + nods to 'crowley was raphael' truthers

[sketchy-tour]

Slow on art but hey, yall wanna see me open an ItemLabel blind box???

Warning, it's got my lame ass voice in it. I recorded this for my friends cause it was more fun to unbox it that way. Now I'm sharing with yall!

[deus-ex-mona]

kinda thinking about t h e m again…

[asterlark]

just finished system collapse and i literally almost CRIED reading the last two paragraphs, not because anything bad or upsetting happened, but simply from the power of murderbot & ART's friendship. what the fuck!!!!!!

[kasienda]

Written for @ladrienjune Day 25 - Goodbye Kiss

Read on AO3

Chapter 1 - Adrinette - Kiss in the Rain

Chapter 2 - Ladrien - Goodbye Kiss

She’s out during the middle of the night again. It’s the fifth night in a row. Adrien watches her swing gracefully from one building to the next and contemplates joining her. But whatever is bothering her, she won’t share with Chat Noir. Each time he asked, she insisted that with him there, she knew they’d be fine.

And when she offered him the brightest smile - a smile he thought existed only in their Jubiliation inspired shared dream - he couldn’t bring himself to argue. And he spent the rest of their shared patrols making her laugh with his antics. He thought he had turned each of her nights around, but clearly any positive effect he was having wasn’t providing any lasting benefit.

Because each night, she was out again, clearly trying to run from whatever kept her mind spiraling in circles.

Before he can overthink it, he whips out his phone and flashes his light at her. And almost immediately she changes the trajectory of her current arc towards the mansion. It’s almost as if she was already watching him.

She lands gracefully on the edge of the window sill.

He reminds himself to breathe. He’s always more taken by her presence when he’s sans the cat ears. He’s not sure why. Perhaps it’s because he has nothing to hide behind. He’s always wanted her to see his face, so when she can, he feels something. Or perhaps it’s because of the way she looks at him when he’s not wearing the mask. Her eyes are bright and pink dusts her cheeks.

“Good evening, Adrien,” she says, grinning.

“Hello, Ladybug,” he breathes. “It’s very kind of you to go out of your way to stop by.”

She nods deeply, acknowledging his thanks. “What can I do for you?”

His hand flew to the back of his neck. “I uh… just noticed you’ve been out a lot this week–”

“You’ve noticed that?” she asked, the pink on her cheeks darkening.

“–and I wanted to ask if you were okay?”

She stares at him for a moment, and he has to look down at the floor.

“Why wouldn’t I be?” she asks.

“Umm… last time you were here all the miraculous were stolen and you broke down in my bathroom?”

Her shoulders stiffen and her eyes blow open.

He wants to kick himself. “Not that I blame you for any of that! I was just worried about you!”

She glances away. She looks defeated and he wishes he had opted to go out to meet her as Chat Noir afterall. If he was wearing the suit, he would at least be able to pull her into a hug.

“That was months ago,” she says quietly.

“Doesn’t mean you’re over it,” he says.

She remains silent, her gaze locked on her yo-yo as if everything that has happened since that night is its fault.

“Though I don’t mean to presume,” he adds. “I’m sure a lot has happened between now and then.”

She turns towards his window. “Have you ever been in love?” she asks, taking a step forward so they’re standing side by side, looking out over Paris’s skyline.

He wants to laugh that it’s her asking him that question, but he doesn’t. She’s too quiet.

“Yes,” he says, looking straight at her. If she turned to him would she be able to see his feelings written on his face?

“Have you ever had to pretend that you didn’t love that person?”

He turns back to the view. “Yes,” he says, feeling the weight of that one word.

She turns to him with furrowed eyebrows. “Why?”

He shrugs. He can’t really explain why he had to turn down Marinette as Adrien. But maybe he can explain why he had to turn her down as Chat Noir. “Anyone I love, anyone I show any special attention to is likely to become a target. To get eviscerated, tortured, and harrassed by my fans. Especially if my father is not on board.”

She nods enthusiastically. “That’s exactly it! Anyone I show special attention will become a target for Monarch, and can be used against me. That, and I can never share all of myself with them. Turns out lies aren’t great for a relationship.”

“Tell me about it,” he mumbles.

“But it makes it hard to want to keep doing this,” she gestures to her suit, “knowing that if I gave it up, I could maybe be happy.”

“Do you want to give this up?” He fears her answer though he knows he has no room to talk.

“I can’t,” she says, her gaze falling into her hands. “I almost did once, but I couldn’t go through with it.”

“What stopped you?” he whispers.

“A different love,” she says.

He breathes in again, and the air is sweet with the scent of her floral perfume. He finds himself smiling. It was the same for him.

“Paris is lucky to have you,” he says.

“You think so?”

He laughs and nods. “Definitely. You don’t?”

She shrugs, but doesn’t say anything and they go back to staring at the night sky.

“Ladybug?”

“Yeah?”

“Does the person you love know that you love them?”

She’s watching him, staring into his eyes, before her gaze drops to his lips. Suddenly he can’t breathe.

…

Marinette knows that she shouldn’t. He shouldn’t know that Ladybug loves him. They just established how dangerous that knowledge was. She’s already gotten her kiss. It’s supposed to be enough.

At least until Monarch has been defeated.

She promised herself it would be enough.

But she reaches for his hand anyway. Slides her fingers through his, and she can feel his sharp intake of breath, and the look of awe on his face is so worth it. She smirks at him. That seems to bring him back to life.

“I think one of them knows,” she admits. “You?” she asks, looking at his face, not acknowledging their joined hands. If neither of them say anything, is it really happening?

“I think both of them know,” he whispers, his fingers tightening around hers.

And now it’s her that gasps. He loves Marinette. She knows that he does. Is he saying that he loves Ladybug too?

Her eyes burn with threatened tears. It’s not fair. This sweet boy, who stole her heart the day she met him somehow along the way fell in love with both of her. She should be able to love him back. A single tear breaks past her defenses.

His thumb brushes it from her cheek. “What is it?”

She leans into the palm of his hand, and shakes her head. “Nothing.” She wishes she could tell him. She wishes things were different so she could reciprocate his feelings.

If she had never become Ladybug and never met Chat Noir, nothing would hold her back.

Not that she can ever regret meeting Chat Noir.

“I should go,” she whispers.

But he doesn’t let go of her hand. “May I offer you a goodnight kiss?”

She needs to say no. She should say no.

“It doesn’t have to mean anything,” he says.

But it would. It would mean everything. And that’s why she pulls him closer, and lets her lips find his. He is warm and velvet soft. Their lips part and they’re breathing the same air. She’s already kissed him once, but he doesn’t know that. She isn’t going to turn away one more stolen memory if it’s all she gets to have of him.

The kiss ends too soon.

“Thank you, Adrien.”

“For?”

“For understanding why I can’t give you my heart.”

He kisses her hand. And then she pulls away, and sends her yo-yo flying. Knowing that if she stayed, she wouldn’t be able to hold back.

And she has to.

She can’t tell Adrien who she is. She can’t love him as Marinette without lying to him constantly, and she can’t love him as Ladybug without putting him in danger.

But she wishes that she could. That she could give him all of herself.

…

Final chapter will be up in Ladynoir July!

[devicecontact]

I feel like there’s something to say about how the very first song you hear in Ultrakill when you start the game is called “The fire is gone”. like right from the getgo even if you don’t get what it means yet or even are aware that’s the title it’s telling the player about it. Idk! It’s just cool to me and I feel like it could be better said but I hope you all get what I’m aiming at here

[why-bless-your-heart]

“How come in The Nightmare Before Christmas Jack hates Oogie Boogie,” well you see, Jack is a skelliton and Oogie Boogie is bugs and I can see there being a grudge there.

[fruitsyrups]

Hey fruit syrups I hope you know that you are so smart and funny and insightful! Your art is amazing !!! but I would still follow you without it just to read your tags and text posts. I’m always excited when I have to expand the tags on one of your posts :D thank you and I hope you keep enriching the world with your silly humor and random observations and thoughtful commentary 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you 🥹 this is so nice!!!

[ingo-ingoing-ingone]

i trust in you and your writing, and i'm def interested in the fic - i actually am a twin who was conjoined at birth but we were able to be separated (iirc we were only sharing some intestines? idk the details, it was a pretty traumatic delivery and situation for our mom so we try not to ask about it too much) - so i was just wondering if the twins would end up physically separated at any point?

i'm neutral about it, but i feel it would be p traumatic regardless, so any sort of heads up would be nice. you can ignore this ask of course if you don't want to, no hard feelings.

I didn't want to outright say so originally, but imo ignoring this just to keep an element of surprise would not be very kind.

Yes, since this is Ingo and Emmet and PLA exists, they do. It is not a great situation, and it would be a A Lot for some readers.

I will absolutely add tags to the fic when that chapter comes up, warnings in the author notes and on tumblr, and plan on having a small, simple summary for folks who want to skip that chapter to read.

It is one purposefully short chapter (and a few bad memories recalled later), and it is not at all the main focus of this fic. The main focus is like my other submas fics, and so many PLA era fics in general, is being apart and then how it goes when they meet each other once more. I just put a. bit of a spin on it, I suppose

There's also no magical cure-all for disabilities in this fic, so a heads up about that as well. I did not want to go that route!!

[unpopularly-opinionated]

I find it interesting that people are very against the various streaming companies that are nuking content off of their platforms, thereby erasing them and forcing you to use extra-legal means of watching them, but yet they’ll accept and even go as far as to praise other companies for doing the same, justifying it as “because someone in the content was later found to be a bad person, and this somehow justifies removing the content in its entirety”.

Could you even imagine how little content would still exist if we nuked everything that has ever had someone in it who was later found to have said something racist, or sexist, or homophobic, or beaten their spouse, or raped someone, or killed someone, or committed tax evasion, or fraud, or literally any bad thing ever in their whole life?

Unless the content in question is of said-crime, there is never a reason to delete content, ever. If you’re making something to be consumed by the public, then it belongs to the public, plain and simple. Laws be damned, I’m talking ethically or morally here. I don’t care what the reason really. As long as everyone in the content willingly signed on to be in the content, knowing it would be shared to the public for their consumption, then I don’t see any issue with it whatsoever.

It doesn’t matter if it’s owned by some big streaming corporation, or whether it’s owned by some nobody YouTuber. “For public consumption” should remain public.

[vio1315]

I have to tell you guys the secret

Kingdom Hearts is not actually a hard series to understand

It has some contrivances, it can be elaborate in places, but it’s not very hard to understand.

The issue is this: it’s long

It has a lot of games, and the games take about thirty hours to beat often times. Most things are actually explained in a straight forward way, and the concepts are repeated for entire games with each game building off the last.

That means a lot of details can add up so that it’s impossible to explain everything that will get referenced in new games in a short timeframe, but it has nothing to do with how difficult something is to understand, it is just a lot to keep track of, especially if you’re trying to learn it in thirty minutes instead of across like

Multiple work weeks worth of digesting a story

As was intended

When a person‘s heart is corrupted by darkness, they become a creature known as a ‘heartless’, and the body left behind becomes a ‘nobody’

These being the enemies to fight. Heartless introduced in 1, and Nobodies introduced in 2 (depending what the release order was but I am not here for that)

This is not a complicated concept, really. It raises plenty of questions, but this concept is explored in essentially 120 hours of gaming if not more.

Someone being unable to sufficiently explain a series with all of its intricacies is no indication of complexity or confusion.

For that matter, most of the things that are actually confusing are due to being vaguely explained within the series or outright miscommunicated. Most things don’t fall under this category, but even the things that do, aren’t really ‘complicated’, they just aren’t explained well in series.

Kingdom Hearts definitely appeals to people who like to piece together lots of details, but honestly I don’t think it’s very hard to follow for people who don’t get into all of that if they just play the games rather than watch 30 minute videos trying to explain like 13 games.

[todayisafridaynight]

Context: Gus Fring is basically what people think Mine is like. In the Breaking Bad Prequel, he's revealed to be gay, so thank god for that, but aside from that, Fring is focused 100% on efficiency, product, logic, etc. and his Gincarlo Esposito conveys this perfectly

Translation: If movie majima was more bonkers than in Canon, Movie Mine should have a colder machine-like demeanor than he ususally does in canon

(Also how could you not watch Breaking Bad uncultured pleb)

no i got what you were saying dont worry i understood thats just a whole lotta names i gotta read

AND LEAVE ME ALONE I HAVE THE ATTENTION SPAN OF A FRUIT FLY I CAN'T WATCH 62 EPISODESSS

[faithinlouisfuture]

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[ape-3scape]

I think I've decided I can't read a lot of "classic literature" unless something crazy is happening in it ala The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Count of Monte Cristo. Pride and Prejudice didn't do it for me.

I am now taking insane classic literature suggestions as I've been alternating between sci fi/fantasy and more classic options