#burning bright

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: animal

[lady--vixen]

[theladyofshalott1989]

As a little treat to myself for the first anniversary of my Sebastian Sallow x m!mc series (Like Moths to a Flame [ Wattpad link ] [ AO3 link ]), I commissioned the absolutely spectacular @rhewart for a scene of Sebastian and Damien from chapter 34 ("Happiness, Its Gates Guarded by Dragons") of the sequel, Burning Bright, and boy, did she deliver (and then some)! My jaw is still on the floor. Happy one year, Sebastian and Damien <333 It's been such a joy writing you two.

[tylidae]

I AM A FIELD ON FIRE.

no lyric alt versions! :-D

[burningfeathersx]

Irene is going to climb all the way into his lap, clinging to him and burying her face into his neck.

“You know I love you right? Like more than anything in the world.” She murmurs. She waits for a second before continuing. “I…I’m sure you’ve noticed but…Rook and I have been getting along really well and nothings happened but…I..I know you don’t actually care but I need to you tell me you won’t be mad if something does. Please. I don’t want to be like my mother.”

He's surprised, but not concerned with that turn of events. He'd simply adjusted to hold her in an arm while the other hand continued articulating a pen across some paper. Only pausing when she started speaking.

Lucifer rubbed her back and when shew as done he set his temple to hers during a soft cheek kiss. Ah, this.

He opened a drawer on the desk to take out two things, some official looking sheaf of paper and a small ring box. He set the ring n box in her hand and then went about writing on the paper. Which he folded and held out to her as well to take.

"You've got some bad memories mixed into the idea of love and relationships, and I understand that. I love you. I love Rook. Those that I love have my heart in full. Equally. I'm not a jealous sort. All I have ever needed is for you to communicate and not hide from me if you find others that you want to give your own love and attention to." He gave her a wry smile. "Which you have done just now."

He nodded to his two 'gifts'. "These are yours. One to remind you that I hold you equal to the others I have. One to a reminder that you are safe to love others. I hope."

The box had a ring. Size right. Currently silver banded to contrast the gold gem. He'd taken a heart shard chip and affixed it. It wasn't wildly large or gaudy or ornate. Lucifer tended to make simple and bold statements in general. "If you wish to stylize it more to your preference, there is a slip under the cushion that has the address to a trusted jeweler to make the changes." [x]

The paper was a humorous, but heartfelt hall pass so to speak. Something he wrote as a formal Deal contract as well. Binding.

I, Lucifer, hereby give you, Irene Axis, permission to enjoy the physical and emotional company and love of anyone you wish. Including and not limited to anyone in my network of poly-paramours. Singularly, I request that such encounters are not hidden from me and are at least mentioned to me once at the start of any ongoing encounters. A window of a week is requested if such events are to be reported to me post-dated to the encounter in question. I promise to be patient, loving, and accepting. If I find some unusual and unlikely reason to be bothered, jealous, or upset by any such encounter, I will speak with you first. Even in these instances, I will not take violent action against you, your family, or our children. I will not do so at the moment of discovery or at any point in the future. This contract does not apply to instances where you have been harmed or been forced upon. I reserve the right to act violently and expeditiously on any offending party that does you harm.

Below were spaces for signatures. He'd already applied his own with a pen that contained a small amount of his own blue-tinted blood. Already binding himself to his own contract in full. There was room for her signature, but that was more of an acknowledgement space for her.

[call-sign-shark]

"How could a woman like her be into men like him? Crazy, disturbing, unpredictable, and vaguely creepy men? The more he encountered her -- or, to be more precise, the more he fucked her, he got to understand why. It was because Taissa, despite the luxurious and glimmering appearance, was worse than him."

Merry Sharksmas, @darklydeliciousdesires :). I know you're going through a lot lately so I hope it will make you smile. Just know that I'm following your wonderful and spicy story Burning Bright, but I haven't had the time to comment on it yet.

[forestsofthenight98]

everybody wants to rule the world

Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down

When they do, I'll be right behind you

Hope you like it :3

[erisenyo]

I think I'm finished with the first art piece for "These things written"

^approximately how I feel right now!!!

This is AMAZING. The lighting, the expression on his face, the direct stare--I don't have the words, stunning job!!

Is there a dedicated post too? I will HAPPILY reblog that as well!!

[xxthefairywitchxx]

TFW you get kidnapped by a mob member when you're just trying to work your crappy retail job...Is this better or worse?

Alice don't you know candy is for kidnapping kids? That's a whole adult woman!...Why'd you kidnap this lady anyhow?

[mangacat201]

No Tease Tidbit Tuesday for me this week

(... cause I'm posting the whole damn chapter, lol. FINALLY)

Ok, so with this chapter 5, the main body of the fic is finished, just the social media epilogue to go (that I hope to put out as soon as I figure out whether I can make the coding work).

Thanks so much to @wilfriede, @sillyunicorn for the musical collaboration, to @michi-hawkeye for the gorgeous insprirational art, and bearing with me for such a long time as I blew past all the deadlines foreign and domestic.

And the amazing folks @911reversebang (who probably keel over backwards to learn there was still an unfinished piece floating around this place, lol, SORRY)

Taglist under the cut

@thewolvesof1998, @monsterrae1, @911onabc, @rewritetheending, @giddyupbuck, @cal-daisies-and-briars, @honestlyeddie, @loserdiaz, @the-marathon-continues-nip, @comfortbuddie,

@sam-t-a, @stormkitty97, @foxweddinq, @ligiapereira

[frecklesandpoverty]

[theladyofshalott1989]

Sebastian Sallow & Male MC (Damien Evans) NSFW ❗️ Fan Art & Excerpt

[ Ch. 20 (“Finally”) of “Burning Bright” ]

NSFW excerpt and art after the cut:

"Damien's thrusting and stroking was hypnotizing. Sebastian struggled to keep himself from going under, attempting to prolong the intoxicating sensations that were now overwhelming him.

Damien's lips hovered near Sebastian's ear, his breath caressing him gently. "Come for me, Bash," Damien whispered.

Sebastian couldn't hold it in any longer. He released a guttural cry, muffled somewhat by the duvet beneath him, as he climaxed under Damien's firm grip. Damien's thrusting escalated, and mere moments after Sebastian finished, he tensed and collapsed into Sebastian's back, moaning."

'Come for Me' by ✨ Aki✨

(See more of her stunning artwork showcased in the "Like Moths to a Flame (Or, the Redemption Arc of Sebastian Sallow)" series on Wattpad or AO3.)

[starcrossedjedis]

SARA did I just see you have a MK oc??! TELL ME EVERYTHING IMMEDIATELY -🍂

ALVITA you totally saw that right 😁

Mortal Kombat was my absolute comfort film of 2021 and I have watched it an unhinged amount of time 😅

So naturally an OC was spawned 🥰

Meet Detective Katherine Chen, currently undercover as a small scale drug dealer, because these jobs have a tendency of opening doors within the LAPD - and she has her eyes firmly set on the homicide division.

But even the most meticulus preparation doesn’t account for bad luck and so she's made by another dealer she'd taken in way back in her patrol days.

Kate makes a narrow escape and even manages to take out one of the drug ring’s most nefarius enforcers. But not before he puts a knife into her, leaving her to bleed out in a dark back alley somewhere in Central City.

When Kate comes to, she finds herself in an ancient Shaolin temple at the end of the world with a strange dragon branding on her torso and a mysterious man with glowing eyes telling her she killed one of Earthrealm’s champions and now has to compete in an ancient tournament called Mortal Kombat.

She has only a few months left to get battle ready with the help of two other champions and to unlock her Arcana - the ancient power awoken by the dragon mark.

She arrives a few months before the others, training with Liu Kang and Kung Lao - who make no secret of the fact that she probably killed the other champion by dumb luck and that while her martial arts training might have been enough to stun the guys at the academy, it's nowhere near where it needs to be with nothing less than the fate of all mankind at stake.

The weeks fly by and while her fighting improves greatly, Katherine still hasn't unlocked her Arcana. Much to Raiden's dismay, who likes to remind her that the clock is ticking for Earthrealm. And who suspects that his two best students might be finding it hard to train her with the appropriate urgency.

And when the others arrive and it turns out that it's not just Katherine who isn't ready for the tournament it soon turns out that a certain monk especially might be pulling his punches...

So, that's the (I'd say) first act on Katherine 🤗

Her Arcana is the ability to turn the kinetic energy of an attack into a shield (looking like a sort of glowing/fiery force field or throw it back at her opponent like an energy ball/sphere). She unlocks it during the fight in the temple, when she steps between Liu Kang and what would have been a deadly attack and turns it into a shield covering the both of them long enough for Raiden to get them out alive.

Liu Kang is in love with her and has no idea what to do with that, Kung Lao calls her mèimei (little sister) - losing him wrecks her almost as much as it does Liu Kang - and she hates Kano so fucking much she wishes her Arcana was to make people drop dead with a glare. Also, I am pretty sure that she'll gonna get along great with Johnny Cage (I love Karl Urban, sue me) and again, Liu Kang has no idea what to do with that 😁

I am always down to clown if you wanna know more and since it looks like my creative rut is still going nowhere, I am thankful for anything that keeps me working on any of my OCs in any sort of capacity 🤗

[veronicaleighauthor]

Fun Facts About “Burning Bright”

I’m behind doing a Fun Facts post on my story “Burning Bright.” It was recently published in the #44 of Pulp Adventures. If you’re interested in purchasing an issue, click here. Usually posts share some fun little tidbits about the story and what inspired it.

Let’s begin with the title. The phrase “Burning Bright,” comes from William Blake’s poem “Tyger, Tyger.” I’m not a great lover of poetry, but I do love this one. Another phrase from it, “Fearful Symmetry” is the title of a book in the story.

The author, Barbara Newhall Follett and her odd disappearance partly inspired this story. A genius, she wrote a bestselling book when she was young and though she published a few other things, she fell into obscurity. When she was twenty-five, she left her apartment and was never seen again. To this day they don’t know if there was an accident, if she was murdered, or if she killed herself.

Another inspiration for this story is Agatha Christie. After the death of her mother and break down of her marriage, she disappeared for eleven days and sent the world into a panic. When she was recovered at a hotel, safe and oblivious to the upset, using her husband’s lover’s surname. Doctors determined that she had memory loss. Some believed it was a stunt, to revenge herself on her husband for his infidelity and demand for a divorce. Other’s think it was a nervous breakdown, from grief and stress. Agatha Christie herself never addressed the episode in interviews or her autobiography.

In this story, a character is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their book. The first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer was Edith Wharton, for “The Age of Innocence,” in 1920.

While it’s only referenced briefly, this story takes place in Terre Haute in the 1930s. Yes, it’s one of my many Great Depression stories.

The Vigo County Poor Farm is referenced. In the 19th century, Poor Farms were set up for those living in poverty, who needed care. It wasn’t as altruistic as it sounded: from many accounts, Poor Farms were depressing places and didn’t treat their residents very well. The Vigo County Poor Farm featured in this story, was the one constructed in the 1930s, up in north Terre Haute, on Maple Avenue. Later, it was turned into a nursing home, and then torn down and new building for the nursing home was built in the area. For more information on the Vigo County Poor Farm, check out this article and this one from the Tribune Star. My great-grandfather was a resident at the Vigo County Poor Farm in the late 1940s.

Prairie Creek is shown in the story. My grandfather lived there when he was young and I have cousins who live in the home there.

Until next time!

[burningfeathersx]

@kingdomofbellows

He was fINALLY feeling well enough to be up and about. Not up and about and making a scene, but enough to make a trip out of the apartment. Rook only cleared that with the usual Devang supervision in tow. He was...getting used to that. And she did have decent driving skills.

[txt] you at home or office?

[aressida]