#assumedly

[raayllum]

Somewhere on the way to Xadia, Rayla had taught him how to punch.

Despite the fact that all of the days of sleeping side by side, from the dirt to the bird to the boat had a tendency to blur together, it’s hard to forget anything, like the merriment in Ezran’s innocent laugh, or the twinkle in her eye, or the burgeoning warmth in his chest as they steadily got closer and closer to the border.

His training with Soren had focused almost exclusively on sword fighting and other melee tactics, built upon the expectation that a prince would always have access to a sword or some other kind of weapon. And while it had quickly become clear Rayla would lend him one of her swords in a pinch without hesitation, he could tell neither of them really liked the idea of making her fight one handed again now that she can actually use both hands.

It’s on Villads’ boat that she first drifts by the idea of teaching him how to fight. It’s on the way from the port town in a forest, with a cave they’ll make their way to tomorrow, that Callum takes her up on it. (She doesn’t know this, but he hadn’t wanted to push her luck once the seasickness had finally abided. She’d been embarrassed enough about him lifting her hair back while she retched.)

Then she’d stood in front of him, angling her wrist to show him how to brace against the push of someone’s weight, adjusting his stance (had it always been so hard to focus when she got that close?), showing how to place his thumb so he doesn’t hurt himself.

“Or better yet,” she’d said. “Slap ‘em instead.”

“Slap?”

“Punches offer a bit more power, but it’s easier to hurt yourself that way, unless you do it properly. Slaps are more forgiving — for yourself, and slightly so for your target.”

“Right.”

It had felt like a waste of time in retrospect — no amount of slapping or punching would be much help against a dozen armed guards in the rain with a dragon — and then he’d had magic, and hadn’t needed to try it out.

Until now.

He charges forward without thinking, propelled solely by fury, a protective rage in his chest he hasn’t felt — or fully let himself feel — in a long time for anyone but Ezran, but it bursts out of him now, energy crackling up his arm to his fist and—

POW!

The banther yelps as it staggers off its path, and Callum picks Rayla up from the floor. “Are you okay?” he checks frantically.

“I’m fine,” Rayla gasps, clutching at his arm, and then his wrist. She flips it over to inspect his hand, his knuckles a tiny bit red but no other visible sign of injury. She raises her brows, wondering. “How did you—“

He allows himself a brief smile, pressing his forehead to hers. This, too, is achingly familiar even after two years without it. “You taught me well, I guess.”

The body always remembers, it seems, and the heart remembers even better.

[nyava]

Side panel insert art for @akaluan's fic for the @pridebleach zine, which you can now find on AO3!

[sector-three-speaker]

darkrai of Alamos? :3

she just has a hyperfixation on plants •.•

his actual Domain is nightmares >:€

oh! and she’s getting married soon, actually ^w^

antipathyGospel: Oh, well congratulations to her then. ...I can't say I blame him for the fixation. I've never seen this many plants in my life. I've caught bits and pieces of his rambling, it's genuinely fascinating.

[bubblegum-gf]

tried to study for my blood test by looking at the stains on kevins axe but i wasnt sure which ones were mine :(

maybe try taste testing them next time, much more reliable

[wolfgirltummy]

one of my mutuals from another blog followed this account, locking eyes with you, im cool with you if youre cool with me

[uncharted-constellations]

The Princess and Hero of the First Great Calamity

The orange snoot is very important to me….

[infizero-draws]

ouppy and kittycats.... so awesome and swag

[salemoleander]

Untamed Beasts Trilogy webweave

Created as a gift for a friend in the MCYT Recursive Exchange 2025 @mcytrecursive, recursing the Untamed Beasts series by @whisperwritingstuff !

// Sources under readmore // Webweave on Ao3 //

What is a webweave? Previous art: Third Life | Void Falling | Attempt 33 | Limited Life | Nightingale | solving counting sheep | Hunger au | catching signals that sound in the dark

Panel 1 (Grian / nothing you can say): girl help textpost/ @wizardpotions ◆ Projections (Rome 2007) / Jenny Holzer ◆ Excerpt from Kitchen Hymns / Pádraig Ó Tuama via @beguines ◆ Schrodinger’s Wood / Maskull Lasserre ◆ Zittend mannelijk naakt, met geheven arm / David Humbert de Superville ◆ Leonids / Heather Danforth ◆ Every Teenagers #4 / everyteenagerforfree ◆ Neighborhood Watch sign / @hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard ◆ Excerpt from on Sunday mornings I dream of koi fish / Ahana Chakraborty ◆ Free Will radio buttons / @screenshotsofdespair ◆ Untitled (A gift for…) / Lois Van Baarle ◆ Plaque Series / Jenny Holzer via @requiem-on-water ◆ Excerpt from What Good is Heaven / Raye Hendrix via @geryone ◆ Excerpt from Unravel / Tolu Oloruntoba via @geryone ◆ Rays / Anastasia Trusova via @boycritter ◆ tiny cuts. / @dappermouth ◆ Untitled (that bright glaring moon) / @incendavery ◆ can we merge souls, or… / @cannibalchicken ◆ Amethyst scepters / @nouveaucrystals ◆ Excerpt from The Accident / Anne de Marcken via @luthienne ◆ sometimes when I’m reaping textpost / via @girlmostlikely

Panel 2 (Cub / walk with my legs): Plaques Series / Jenny Holzer via @requiem-on-water ◆ let’s do something unethical textpost / @probuccalfat ◆ Danger sign / @anthropophage (Deactivated) ◆ the frost / mitski via @wovi ◆ Excerpts from Hansel / Richard Siken via @aridante ◆ Untitled / Pep Carrió ◆ Untitled / @ghost-honeyy (Deactivated) ◆ The Shore / Barry McGlashan via @huariqueje ◆ two guys who sleep textpost / @byjove ◆ scared animal textpost / @iregularlyevadetaxes ◆ holding up a fictional guy tweet / caranthirs via @mossy-aro ◆ Excerpt from Dig / Bryan Borland via @geryone ◆ Untitled (Meet me here) / @hillhomed ◆ “Tortured” bubble from Tis Time for Torture, Princess / via @vforvalensa ◆ Whos side are you on chat screenshot / @theonionsound ◆ Scriptum V / Rima Day ◆ 20 Inflammatory Essays / Jenny Holzer ◆ love when a dynamic is like. textpost / @willowcrowned ◆ Their Third comic / @its-arson-time ◆ Same old mistakes sign / @mutant-what-not

Panel 3 (Scar / find yourself, let me find you): A good thing you can do textpost / @nohoperadio ◆ Collage of: Phenomenon / Remedios Varo /// Lovecraft in Brooklyn / The Mountain Goats / @mountainqoats ◆ The Best Thing About A Poem / Max Lavergne ◆ Pandemonium / Kim Jakobsson via @pankurios-templeovarts ◆ loving humiliating haunting worshipping gnawing diagram / @dostoyevsky-official ◆ eat one of you eventually textpost / @1-beadyeyes ◆ I’m not ashamed to say tweet / silicone_angel via unbotheredmuse (Deactivated) ◆ Untitled (Geryon was a monster) / @kitmillsdraws ◆ Exponatus / Konstantin Korobov via @antonio-m ◆ Etruscan ring ◆ Shibari study / @tegelsteg ◆ i’d devour you whole if you let me / @castletemprwine ◆ My roommates and I textpost / @solidseater ◆ ohhh big stretch textpost / ne0scythian ◆ The Big Comet / Antonio Tonelli via @myfairynuffstuff ◆ Redacted / Dale Dunning ◆ Excerpt from This is How You Lose the Time War / Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone via @metamorphesque ◆ Plaques Series / Jenny Holzer ◆ Pressure / @susitseart

[sebastianhive]

Season 2 isn't canon HOWEVER I cannot exaggerate how excited I was when I first saw the ending and realized that demon!Ciel meant Sebaciel for eternity. I feel like we don't talk about that enough. It may be essentially AU fanfic at this point, but it's officially distributed AU fanfic that feeds Sebaciel fans so well.

[senseiwu]

You will never convince me that at their core, the fsm wasn't Just Some Guy

[pattymelterqp]

[may8elle]

i got all the way to year TWO of Fields of Mistria before realizing/learning by accident that pressing in on the right joystick lets you swap between inventory tabs/pages. i have been just suffering through scrolling through each item individually this WHOLE TIME, WHEN I COULD HAVE JUST HIT R3 TO GET THERE EASIER????

...did i just completely miss that tutorial/instruction, or is it never explained? like, how dumb am i here?? (i'm assuming: very dumb)

[telesodalite]

Never getting over Fulcrum being a project manager...

Idk why, but something about that is so funny to me. Not just because the title of "project manager" is inherently kinda funny for a Decepticon, but also because-

1. It's vague sounding and hard to explain irl because it technically exists in multiple fields, like healthcare or manufacturing, which surely translates into canon in some way.

2. In canon, it's simultaneously a really mundane, innocuous sounding job, yet it's also a super morally awful position to reside over depending on the context. (*cough* forced colonization and cyberforming *cough*)

And 3. It solidifies the fact that behind all the surface level militaristic work we get with both the Decepticons and Autobots, there's also Cons and Bots with "normal" jobs in both factions.

Like, sure yeah we get scientists and doctors, engineers and programmers, but usually in big important or warfront positions. (For plot reasons, understandably.) But it's also really funny and interesting to think of those that worked background positions, or minor jobs.

Like an Autobot working in their equivalent of an HR department, or a Decepticon who runs one of their outpost's or starship's kitchens.

Just all the pre-war jobs that didn't just disappear with the war, but instead evolved to exist within the factions.

It's particularly funny with the Decepticons though, because it could be a super mundane job or situation, but because it's them, it has to have an air of ~e v i l~ to it, either legitimately and/or merely for the vibes, like Tarn's "performance reviews".

[silverskye13]

Trying to draw my Oath of Conquest paladin, take two.....

[aringofsalt]

Bucktommy bones

you know what you are SO right. they absolutely do bone. often and incredibly well and in an extraordinarily kinky fashion.

and just for being so unbelievably correct, here's a lil snippet of something i've been writing (about them boning. which they do). just for you!

enjoy!

He kept touching, kept going until Buck couldn’t keep still, until he was reaching out blindly trying to get his hands on Tommy in return.

“Hmm, I don’t think so,” Tommy scolded him gently, removing his hands entirely. “No touching, baby boy, you’ll be patient and wait until I’m done with you.”

“Tommyyyy,” Buck groaned, pulling his hands back and pressing them over his eyes instead.

“Try again,” Tommy said, still not touching him, and Buck froze, thinking.

Oh.

He lowered his hands again, staring up at Tommy, looming tall and strong above him, looking at him like he was a revelation.

“Please, daddy?” He breathed, and was rewarded immediately by Tommy’s body pressing him down into the mattress, claiming his lips in a searing kiss.

“There we go.”

[chais-corner]

just beat space marine 2! 😊