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the-wardens-torch · 1 year

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Prism

((This one is inspired by real life events. My father was a musician, and before he died - 6 years ago today, actually - he gave his old acoustic guitar to a friend of his… Which made a few of my relatives quite angry, but struck me as perfect. I don’t play guitar after all. So now instead of being buried in my garage, it helps a queer woman teach music to autistic kids.))

Falerin had his eyes closed, but he could tell by the murmur of voices and the shuffling of feet that he had gathered a small crowd. Breathing deeply, he moved his fingers across the keys of his accordion, touching each one as if it were a tiny, delicate bird. The melody that issued forth from the instrument was soft and low, and as he sang in accompaniment, his voice was like blue smoke on black velvet. The song was lonely and wistful, a song of sea and sky that seemed otherworldly echoing through the streets of Ul’Dah.

When the last of his song’s ghostly notes had been whisked away on the stiff desert breeze, the small crowd began to disperse. Falerin graciously accepted their tips, meeting each with a charming wink or a friendly quip. The last one to approach him was a Roegadyn woman about his age, who furtively handed him enough gil to buy several decent meals. When he looked up to thank her, he noticed that her eyes were red, and she was clutching a handkerchief to her nose.

“I can’t have been that bad… Or else I don’t think you’d be tipping me this much.” he said, his brow furrowing with concern over his sly smile.

“I-I’m sorry… Its just…” the woman took a deep breath and twisted her handkerchief in her hands, not meeting his gaze. “I’m sorry to ask this, but does that accordion… I think it was... “ she shut her eyes tightly and paused for a moment “Does it have a… little carving of the sun on the back?”

Falerin’s eyes grew wide and his face paled slightly. He knew without even looking that the drawing was there… Crudely but lovingly scratched into the red enamel just behind the keys with a sharp bit of metal. The voice of an old sailor named Rymmharr Sylbundsyn’s voice drifted into his mind on a salt-scented breeze of fond memory.

I scratched it on there on the day she was born because her name means “Sun Daughter.”

“Are you… Sunnthota?”

The woman nodded her head, meeting his gaze for just a second before squeezing her eyes shut as a fresh flood of tears came.

“You know my name… He must have talked about me.“ she said, a wistful smile coming to her tearful face. “That accordion was my father’s. When his accordion didn’t come home with his body I… wasn’t sure what had happened to it.”

“I-I’m so sorry… He, he talked about you all the time… If I’d have known where to find you I would have…”

Fal hesitated, looking grimly at his feet, not able to finish his sentence. Would have what? The old sailor had given the instrument to him with his blessing. He could even prove it with a letter written in the man‘s own hand… But how would Sunnthota feel if she knew her own father had given his most prized possession to someone she didn’t even know? He didn’t want to break her heart any more than it already had been. He took a deep breath, hugging the instrument to him for a long moment.

“If you want it back, its yours. I never meant any harm… An officer gave it to me when they came to send his body home. I-I would have looked for you but all I knew was that you lived in Ul’Dah.”

Falerin had intended to hold the instrument out for Sunnthota to take, but his muscles were paralyzed by the love he had for the wonderful old thing.

Sunnthota closed her eyes and crossed her arms in front of her chest, holding the handkerchief to her face.

“No, no… I’m not here for that. Its…. He would want someone playing it. I-I‘m… happy. If I had it, it would just gather dust. No one would know how to take care of it, let alone play it. The last couple of times that he was home before he… passed-” -she paused here to take a deep breath, as if just saying that he was gone was like losing him all over again. “-before he passed away a few summers ago, he told me about a Hyuran boy he’d met in the Cieldalaes who could play almost as well as he did. He seemed to think that your talent was being wasted. I… I can see, well, hear, that you‘ve gotten to be even better than he was.” She blew her nose politely and cleared her throat.

“Your name is Falerin, isn’t it?”

Falerin choked back a lump in his throat and nodded, now fighting tears himself. She had said his name with a reverence one might normally reserve for a long lost family member. As she spoke, something opened in his mind’s eye like a dusty brown moth, spreading its wings to reveal a whorl of heretofore unseen colors. For the first time in a long while, he was at a loss for words. But in a situation like this, words in conversation were clumsy things; wan and dull. Recalling a single line of postscript in the old sailor’s hand, Falerin stared down at the rickety, crooked-rayed little sun.

P.S - Her favorite song is The Briar and the Rose.

Concentrating on the whorl of color, Falerin stood up straight and began to play. That particular song was so familiar to him that scarcely had to think about it, but the lyrics caught in his throat somehow. As if the moth-turned-butterfly could only escape through his fingertips. But a gently hollowed-out song was a beautiful place for memories to nest, and perhaps she was imagining his voice singing over the notes the same way he was. For a brief second, two complete strangers shared a memory. An overlapping rainbow of two spectrums wrought from the same prism of song.

When he looked up from the song, Sunnthota was watching him with a sad smile. Tears were streaming from her eyes again. Eyes that he now saw were the exact same frost-gray as her father‘s. Looking at her, he could almost hear Rymmharr’s voice telling him to press the keys more gently, and smell the aura of spiced rum and sea salt that always seemed to hover around him. Had anyone on Sapphire Avenue been paying attention, they might have noticed which one of them reached out first to hug the other. Was it the sister meeting her new brother, or the brother meeting his new sister?

It really didn’t matter.

((And here’s your reminder that every work leading up to this is on my Ao3))

#my writing #Falerin Arcita #Sunnthota Rymmharrwyn #final fantasy XIV fanfiction #not a fan of the ending #and the title is meh #but i gotta get to bed

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tianhai03 · 1 month

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im a little late to it but have a dante for dmc1's anniversary 🫶

#ive been busy all day but i had to do smth for it... i couldve cleaned it up more but i gotta get in bed </3 #its ok im still happy with how this turned out it was fun playing with gradient maps again :)#devil may cry #dante (dmc)#allyart

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egophiliac · 11 months

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this is basically what happened, right?

(these guys are very lucky that everyone at NRC 1) has the combined intelligence of a sack of bricks, and 2) is easily distracted by shiny things.)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #stage in playful land #stage in playfulland #these two are SO sleazy and i am utterly delighted by them #can't wait to find out their tragic backstory in approximately 3-4 weeks!#fortunately i have like a month to figure out how the heck to draw their hair (spoiler: i will never figure it out)#also. god. i love it whenever leona accidentally reveals his Mom Side.#he doesn't care about any of this but he WILL be tagging along to make sure no one else gets into trouble #once again he has to be the Responsible Adult and he hates it. the whimsical hat weighs heavy upon his head.#anyway this is me so excuse me while i now talk about diasomnia for three hours #but lilia being all 'kids gotta have some adventure in their lives!' is hilarious #specifically because you know silver would NEVER.#100% silver not only never snuck out but he always went to bed on time AND brushed his teeth AND flossed even when nobody made him.#lilia: aww but you should be enjoying your youth! >:c #silver: i am. i enjoy being respectful and disciplined and honoring you as my father.#lilia:#lilia: maybe i'm TOO good at raising kids #you know i was going to say none of his kids would be involved in this but i actually think malleus definitely would #he would not see it as a moral quandry though. he would just be excited to be invited along.#(the only reason he isn't there is because he was busy admiring a termite-infested beam somewhere and yuu didn't get a chance to ask him)#i mean MAYBE if lilia as his single authority figure told him no then he would have some reservations #but lilia's the one who's screaming HELL YEAH LET'S SNEAK OUT AND DEFY AUTHORITY while dabbing so moot point there #sebek would never and he would rat on everyone else. unless malleus is going in which case he's already there.#and i guess if everyone else is going silver probably would too #but he'd. y'know. feel conflicted about it.

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hinamie · 3 months

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giggling kicking my feet twirling my hair @ geto carving the necklace you've really done it now hina

have i ? :3c

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

#answered #kikuism #my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #gojo satoru #geto suguru #satosugu #fanart #jjk fanart #jjk atla!au #atla!au: illust #atla!au: art #looks at clock by talos this cant keep happening #ive set a precedent of doing draws for asks and no one is making me do it but i get the Visions.....#ive been pavlovd... :(( i see ask i think o draws time.....#gotta draw gojo speechless fr the first time in his gd Life #anyway ive had enough of these homosexuals /affectionate #put a ring on it geto i am going 2 bed VGHDSF

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hor3nee · 2 months

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cw: nsf/w shitposting

Leon gets whatever the fuck is the opposite of post-nut-clarity as in pre-nut-happy.

As in he starts laughing and twirling his hair at you when he's horny and hard. As in skipping through the house and batting his lashes when he's in the mood. As in getting on his knees and kissing your hand and foot before he stuffs his face into your cunt and laps at it with a stupid smile shoved against your pussy.

#I also think he gets post-nut-happy TOO #there's no clarity #like he's emptied his balls and he has someone in his bed beside him #bro's over the fucking moon- how much more could he ask for?#I think Wesker the opposite. he has horrible post-nut clarity and starts raving about he's GOT THINGS TO DO!!#like why am I stickin my dick in u girl I gotta go do global saturation BYE #blabberings!#leon kennedy x reader #afab reader

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spaciebabie · 9 months

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auuuugh he has no fucking idea how much i love him

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krysmcscience · 4 months

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The Lamb is malicious in a funny way and the Goat is funny in a malicious way. No, I will not elaborate.

Anyway, everyone give thanks to the Lamb for interrupting what was sure to be a very boring and patronizing PSA from their grouchy cat hubby. Truly, they are doing God's work. Granted, the Lamb canonically is God now, so, uh. Mostly they're just doing their own work.

Speaking of their grouchy cat hubby, yes this is absolutely still Narilamb, Narinder is 100% into his goofy-ass spouse always no matter what and we all know it, he just wasn't expecting his brand new adopted kid to share the same single goofy-ass brain cell as the Lamb. :)

#fanart #comics #cult of the lamb #cotl #narilamb the goat AU lmao #cotl narinder #cotl lamb #cotl goat #did i look up a photo of billy the kid to base the goat's outfit off of?#i plead the fifth your honor #for real tho guys #rams and lambs are for sheep #for goats you want bucks and billies #or if you're afabing your goat - does and nannies #(tho to be fair ram IS sometimes accepted for male goats also? instructions unclear on that front tbh)#also don't worry - i am never gonna be all YOU GOTTA USE THESE TERMS OR YOU'RE DUMB AND BAD #it just kinda makes me giggle when i see mixed up animal deets #don't even get me STARTED on cat deets tho lmao #if i had a nickel for every time i saw a fanfic writer give narinder a knot #i would have two nickels #which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice #at least the one where he was a wolf instead of a cat because the author didn't KNOW he was a cat made sense LOL #yeah i'm over here outing all the lemon fics i read idgaf #if you know which fics i'm talking about you can't even judge me anyway cuz we both been at the same devil's sacrament #i should go to bed

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nebuladreamz · 3 months

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A little different than last year's, but here we are again. To say that this past year hasn't been absolutely wild would be a lie, cause HOLY SHIT MAN

This year's birthday is. A little different for me, but you already have the silly comic to show that so I won't make like a broken record oops

But, despite the changes and hills that life's decided I should climb or throw at, it hasn't changed the fact that I'm so genuinely fucking thankful to the people that I've known since joining this fandom. I'm not even kidding when I say that being here has actually changed my life for the better. I know I said something similar last year, but this time, hoo boy it sure turned up the AMP and test how far I could go.

So, to everyone, both new and old; thank you for being here :D

@garbagechocolate @darkxsoulzyx @smoljeanius @bunmuffin @skizabaa

@tuzesdays @sleepykas @fernzwing @kandidandi @starsketchez

@just-a-drawing-bean @notdysfunk @ilsole @amberluvsbugs @cloudyvoid

@nomsthecat @alfinefalf @nosleepygay @theblog-with-thestuff

@cacaocheri

(Edit: ty kibbits for informing me of the. Fuck ass tagging system)

AND TAGGING OTHERS BECAUSE. POINTS. BONKS WITH HEAD. GETTING TO EITHER INTERACT OR TALK OR WHATEVER IS ALWAYS A DELIGHT

@ohno-the-sun @kibbits @ink-yy @saltyfryz @kaprisvn

@hierba-picante @sunny-sophies-garden @cookiiemancer @sneeblbop @justaduckarts

@pepethehumanz @crystalmagpie447 @woolysstuff @mocha-illustrates @duhsty1

@sanchensky @pillowspace @victarin @witherfide

[I DEFINITELY GOT SONAS WRONG AND THESE AREN'T ALL THE SILLY PEOPLE I KNOW BUT IM SITTING HERE AT 2:30 IN THE MORNING JUST KNOW YOU'RE THERE IN SPIRIT HANDING YOU ALL POPTARTS WAUGH]

#nebula art and doodles #should. i even count it as that-#nebula birthday time #fuck it birthday tag go brrr #also if i. didnt tag you it is 100% because i'm. a fucking coward <33 and am not sure if you'd like to be tagged in a silly thing like this #(or i don't. know you. that also but shaky thumbs up)#god. this year has been. insane dawg #my goofy ass going through canon events like it's a buffet /silly #jokes aside #the fact that im still like. here. right here #posting or reblogging goofy shit #still in the process of making my fic (i prommy im working on it)#and just. managing to make friends with people despite shit happening #it's so wild to me #i know for some people i've tagged we either haven't talked that much or haven't talked in awhile #and to that i say #fuck it we ball /j #but seriously it's. honestly bc getting to interact with you guys at all makes or has made my day that much brighter #even if it's been awhile like i mentioned or for whatever reason #this is. getting long as hell and i need to go to bed oops #anywhooooo #gotta go fast or some shit #OH- and thank you all so much for. almost 3k. holy shit #where the fuck did you all COME FROM HOW DID WE GET HERE #big heart emojis and sending love to you all #thank you so much

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sugawara--san · 22 days

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deku is both a night owl and a morning person you know that bitch gets no sleep. and bakugou is neither but at least he gets his beauty rest

#i feel like deku will finish homework at 1am then have an hour of destressing before he goes to bed and then wakes up fine at 5 #like it's not healthy but also like how tf you do that #meanwhile bakugou goes to bed way earlier yet he's still cranky af when he gotta get up #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bnha #mha #midoriya izuku #bakugou katsuki #bakudeku #bkdk #otp #deku

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manchesterau · 20 days

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just saw a video of what appears to be dan calling phil daddy while dressed as sister daniel...that's my queue to get into bed

#*#like dfghjfgh i hate blogging from my phone but i gotta get in bed im exhausted now #titspoilers #flashing tw

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zillychu · 8 months

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Finding out the Danny Phantom pitch bible originally included more creatures other than ghosts really makes me want to just (DUMPS TRANSCENDENCE AU ALL OVER IT)

#Danny Phantom #tau #transcendence au #zilly squeaks #Danny would still be a ghost and not a demon. i think. brainworms pending #oh no here come the crossover thoughts #portal accident happens just years after The Transcendence #hear me out #Danny and Dipper bonding over becoming immortal nonhumans feared by the general public #'i rolled out of bed today and fell into the basement' 'that's rough buddy. i threw up glitter today' 'shit dude'#'you getting unsolicited summoning rituals too' 'yeah i found out how to make an answering machine for that' 'oh no WAY you gotta show me'#no but fr Danny Sam and Tucker deserve to have wacky adventures involving all sorts of creatures #PLEASE everlasting trio + mystery twins being very new and very bad at this and helping each other #are they the same age? canon ages?? i don't know what would be funnier

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skyloftian-nutcase · 1 month

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Sometimes work mode just doesn’t turn off

Four, driving home from work: *notices it’s 8:05* Oh. Top of the hour. I need to get the intake and outputs of my patient’s drains, and that blood sugar, and—

Four:

Four: Wait

XXX

Wild: *swipes work badge at door to Lon Lon Ranch* *swipes again when nothing happens*

Twilight:…Whatcha doin’, buddy?

Wild: My badge isn’t—

Wild:

Twi:

Wild: Just shut up

XXX

Sky: *freezes mid step towards his bed because he swears he heard the tones drop for a flight*

Sky: *walks to the window* It’s literally raining, there’s no way we’re gonna pass the weather check to fly in this.