#aw : sms.

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike meets Jeremy Fitzgerald

[bagofdo-ritos]

The Ceaseless Watchers' Archive

[quirkle2]

it's nice to feel childlike wonder again

[gunsatthaphan]

"I now have the courage to do things I never thought I'd do."

[mossgrem]

spammed tong.........

[tryingtostaysilly]

More Nevermore textpost but its the Special Clusterfuck Edition™ this time because I had too many about them so dumbasses had to get their own post.

[l1-b1]

If I don’t draw Nya within every 24 hours, I go insane

[levilxvr]

comforting postwar!levi after he wakes up from another nightmare🫠

it’s not uncommon for both of you to experience nightmares especially after what you’ve been through the past month. But sometimes what worries you the most is how bad levi’s nightmares are. He would shoot up in bed in the wee hours of the morning, gasping for air with his eyes wide open and heart racing like crazy. Sometimes you would even wake up to see him with tears streaming down his cheeks.

You’ll stir beside him, quickly realising the situation as you sit up and take his trembling hand, placing it over your heart. It’s your way of reminding him that you’re there and that everything’s alright. Sometimes he just needed to physically feel you to remember it’s all just a dream.

And it always works. You can immediately feel levi become less tense, then ease him back down onto the pillows as you wrap your arms around him and bury your face in his shoulder. “I’m here,” you whisper, “it’s alright.”

“I dreamt that I lost you.” he squeezes his eyes shut and grabs your waist, pulling you close so your bodies were pressed against each other. You close your eyes and rest your forehead against his, assuring him that he didn’t and never will lose you because you’ll always come back to him no matter what.

He’s repeating your soothing words in his head, steadying his breathing as his palms rest on your face. You stroke his dark hair, sweeping the damp strands of fringe off his forehead.

“I love you.”

three simple words that hold such deep meaning. you know levi takes love seriously and for him to allow himself to be vulnerable around you like this..

“I love you too. always. never forget that i’m always here.”

when you look at him minutes later, his eyes are closed again, breathing softly in his sleep with your comfort easing the turmoil in his heart.

[jeanivere]

rip van winkle or whateva

[6aykus]

its dangerous to go alone!!! take This...

[the-darkestminds]

Rhysand better have fuckin apologized for this later cuz why did he make it so personal ☝️😭

[greatpistachiopie]

where the wave has grazed the reach of green

and the wood by gentle sea

we count the coming of the tide

by a love as old as time

[kiisaes]

u ever just have some time to urself to think about bkdk (ur first mistake, bc u are now spiraling) and how it's the "[A] fell first [B] fell harder" trope and how that's like. more or less canon now. perhaps not romantically but how else are u gonna describe bkg's whole ... thing

[voidzphere]

*may i also get a kiss from killz?

YOU MAY, SAEJUN <333

killer sans belongz to rahafwabas farm sans/saejun park belongz to GuinongTale_AU

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

This was so much fun to film

[artheresy]

I can’t stay quiet about this, I need to scream it to SOMEBODY ANYBODYYY

Dan Heng and Blade were Dan Feng and Yingxing. “Dh and Bld are Df and Yx!” Nope, their current selves aren’t them, that lacks nuance. “Dh and Bld aren’t Df and Yx!” THAT ALSO LACKS NUANCEE they are still connected and fundamentally shaped by their past identities, they aren’t entirely separate from them while also still being separate in a way. The best way I can describe it is like a venn diagram, there is overlap, but there also are still areas where they don’t.

To expand more, I wanna talk about the way they foil each other a bit in this sense. For Dan Heng, even if he is a botched rebirth, simply a “de-aged Dan Feng” not fully reborn, he is still not Dan Feng. While Dan Feng has made up the basis of his personality and he accepts him as his past, I think we forget that Dan Heng had his own entire childhood after the molting rebirth was completed. One he spent imprisoned by the Ten Lords Commission, and then he was exiled when he was old enough leading to his whole journey until he became apart of the Astral Express crew etc etc. Dan Heng is made up of a basis of Dan Feng + All of his own memories and experiences. While he shares traits with Dan Feng such as personality aspects like his stubbornness, his technique with a spear, and being able to connect with his old items, he also is very much himself with his own outlook and traits shaped by what he’s learned rather than what he has been born with. To treat him as if he is Dan Feng exactly is a disservice to both of their characters and the greater narrative that they apart of. He may still carry the burdens and karma of Dan Feng, but Dan Heng is still making his own future.

Now, Blade. Blade similarly is not Yingxing, not completely. Though he accepts Yingxing’s sin as his own and is intent of repaying the sin of Dan Feng and Yingxing (and getting Dan Heng to repay it too), there still are distinctions between him and Yingxing. In fact, I’d argue there are more things separating them. I could talk for so long again about the layered use of craftsmanship to connect, or rather disconnect, the two identities of Blade and Yingxing, but there’s more than that. “Now, ██ had died. His first — and only — death.” “From this moment on, that body will be the one and only "Blade."” Although Blade was Yingxing, a disconnect exists between them through the death of Yingxing. He awoke with no memories of his past, no even his name, until Jingliu came along, instilled in him her ideologies, made him remember, not only his past sins but the feeling of death so that he might inflict it onto others. As she said, he was reborn and had even given himself a name…

I want to add that the specific ways in which their current identities exist in proximity to their past ones foil each other. As I said, Dan Heng, in part as his sabotaged rebirth, is built upon the foundation of Dan Feng and all of his own experiences and memories. He has the capacity to gain back more memories of Dan Feng as his DH IL character stories outline, and though he is still himself and still moves forward, we see him accept his relation to Dan Feng eventually. Though that past life of his is clouded by fog and mist, he may eventually be able to push away the clouds that block him and understand more, about Dan Feng and in turn about himself. With Blade, it is so heavily emphasized in game from his relic lore to the very sword he uses that his mind is essentially broken, due both in part to the trauma of Jingliu’s “teachings” and the mara that was brought on by those lessons. He can’t fully remember everything about Yingxing, in fact actively remembering such or seeing familiar things is harmful to him. Like his shard sword, he is made of broken pieces, put together in a way that can never erase the cracks, and continuously shattering before being glued together again. His life is shaped by Yingxing’s past, the trauma he has endured is directly caused by his past actions. Unlike Dan Heng, he hasn’t had this whole life to build up and live. Though he’s experienced new things, they don’t shape him and change him in the way that Dan Heng’s built his identity up.

Where Dan Heng basically has supplements to Dan Feng’s identity that make him who he is, Blade is the broken shards and pieces of Yingxing that weren’t lost to the waves, making him who he is. Dan Heng is a next chance, finally free from the Preceptors’ control and of the role that stripped his past selves of their individuality, meanwhile Blade is the husk left behind of Yingxing’s regrets, broken by trauma caused due to Yingxing’s past actions, forever tormented by his past until he inevitably is able to die. If Dan Heng is more than just Dan Feng which is why he is separate but intertwined with him, than Blade is less than Yingxing, in a way that has caused such a severe disconnect that has caused Blade to have his own identity still shaped. And looking at this, not to again bring up my craftsmanship post about Blade, Dan Heng can connect to Dan Feng. He can clear the fog, remembering his memories through dreams even if he can’t fully connect emotionally to him, and he finds sentiment in many of items that once were his, smth not many Vidyadhara actually are capable of doing. To contrast, Blade is forever separated from connecting completely to Yingxing’s identity. His memories will always be fragmented, his own path entirely changed. He can’t connect to Yingxing’s past goals and passions, seen through the distinct decision made in his character stories to talk about how he can no longer use his hands to forge weapons (something that completely defined Yingxing’s life and legacy, tied to his childhood trauma and hatred of the Abundance, something that became his genuine passion), and how none of that mattered to Blade.

All of this, the ways they foil each other and the separation between their past selves and current, just makes me love their dynamic and their lore a lot. Makes me want to cry most days of my life if I’m honest. And it’s part of why I do take issue with the way nuance has completely left this argument, only having two extremes of “Dan Heng is Dan Feng!” Or “Dan Heng isn’t Dan Heng!” Again… Dan Heng WAS Dan Feng, he wouldn’t be Dan Heng without Dan Feng, but he is still himself. That’s part of the tragedy between them. They are still fundamentally defined and shaped by their past selves, similarities able to be spotted if they can be remembered, but they’ve also experienced so much that has changed them, and they can never truly go back to being Dan Feng and Yingxing. It would never be fully the same again.