#cmon it was obvious

[lovelytayforce]

I think I'm gonna watch a thousand nights go by

The musician in the background can take me on a ride ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Hmmm~♫”   “

A lone hum rolls across the quiet unutilized path below the large trees surrounding them. They teemed with overgrowth and unswept leaves.

He kicked a stray rock around as he walked with his hands in his pockets, his eye caught dimmed windows above, only a select few lights were still ablaze at this late hour.

Yellow eyes watched him from those houses built around those trees.

The melody continued to travel as he made his way to the very edge of the village, this is where everything cleared away, feeling more akin to any other city or village he had visited.

The feel of a stone path was comforting.

The wind picked up its pace, causing his red scarf to flutter in the wind, he breathed in the fresh air catching the crisp scent of water and pine nearby.

He threw a couple of golden coins toward an offertory box with only a slight glance to an old owl, watching him not from above but at his eye level.

The stranger smirked as that old man took in his visage with a mix of wonder and concern, it wasn’t everyday you saw such a dapper fellow as himself, draped in gold and red from head to toe but not in a tacky way as the Emperor’s of old he once knew.

‘I have much more style than that.’ He thought with a laugh he could not contain. Why should he? Life was meant to be enjoyed in the moment.

The wind howled louder as he approached the main shrine, wooden fixtures clattering loudly with the tree’s branches shifting as he bowed toward the main shrine with a toothy smile.

“Ah, I see you are awake, good.” The stranger spoke up with a delighted tone. “I have given your shrine the proper offering and people say I never learned my lesson ehe! Now,” Blazing gold eyes meet another pair of yellow within the dark shadows of this decaying shrine. “Show yourself,”

It was connected to a large tree, one towering above the rest he had seen on his trip here. Even after many decades, this lone tree stood the tallest among this land, hiding away the lights in the distance across the lake.

His tail twitched at the sound of heavy footfalls and claws scraping against aged wood. Seems as if his friend was not fully awake as he had expected, and by the wind’s course. ‘He seems annoyed uh oh…’

Despite this clear indication for him to leave as if the person within the shrine thought this would be enough to make him leave. It made him laugh again.

Ding.His laughter stopped and his body came to a standstill as he noted the metal bells had not ringed yet at all.

The sound of creaking wood grew closer and in the subtle light of the moon, did he see his shadow.

“Fei Lian…” The stranger lifted his head, marveling at how even his old friend seemed enamored with his growing collection of gold trinkets and jewelry across his body. “You’re control over the wind never ceases to amaze me, tell me how long has it been now? Two hundred or maybe it was four-”

“Speak quickly.” Fei Lian demanded and even the shadow of his horns reached the tip of his own shadow from the safety of the shrine. Ah, it seems things had escalated as he had foretold.

“Why?” He couldn’t help but whine as the wind picked up again, but he simply leaned on his heels, no longer feeling the need to kneel much less bow to someone he knew was faltering. “We’re old friends aren’t we? And what do you have to do that’s so important? Sweep a land that is no longer truly yours-”

The gale he experienced alone was sharp, tearing parts of his clothing as a warning. There was a sharp slam of a door behind them, most likely the old man.

Fei Lian hadn’t hesitated to grab his collar, lifting him off the ground only slightly. “Heh…Is this all you're capable of now? Even after all this time…” There was a tinge of sadness to his voice, it was unintentional but really, watching a god fall so far was tragic.

And not in an entertaining way. - This is a piece of writing from let's say from the beginning arc of my new Fic "Starry Invader" featuring a couple of immortals let's say, the age of gods have seemed to pass this era by. But as we can see here, they desire for that era to return, in different forms and for very different reasons? I wonder if the flowers will grant Fei Lian's wish? Stay tuned to find out!

[alicent-archive]

Rhaenyra's flirting early on was NOT subtle at all.

Little miss bisexual was really like "haha since they'll be ROOM ENOUGH FOR TWO you should ride Syrax with me haha but only if you want to" and "I don't CARE about the political landscape of Westeros what I really care about is how SOFT your THIGHS are like this is my favourite POSITION to be in because it's so COMFORTABLE."

[unplanned-parenthood]

the whole 'wilson actually never liked monster trucks' thing is so silly to me bc the whole face journey he goes thru when house tells him abt the tickets in s1....hes not THAT good of an actor. he was genuinely devastated

[yj-98]

six versions of kon! <3 and some conner kents, template from @/oliveroctavius! used this as an excuse for a style study :]

[cherie-luvv]

Newt I really don’t think pushing Thomas against the wall and looking at his lips multiple times means he’s just your friend

[khathastrophe]

GMMTV is just not ready for my vision

[kawareo]

The bg3 community has a big problem with not thinking the characters are pansexual, when they clearly are, here's all the bad takes i've heard (this from queer people) on tiktok/twitter/etc "Minthara is a lesbian and HATES men" "Gale only like women, and only feminine ones" "Wyll is a gentleman, he would only date women" "Karlach clearly only has dialogue talking about men because of her heteronormative upbringing" These people are insane

Where is that post about how bitchy or mean women in media are always headcanoned as lesbians

Minthara hating men is funny to me though because ingame she openly admires and respects both Ketheric and Gortash for their leadership and/or war mindset

Gale 'i quite enjoy your musk' Dekarios suuure likes only femenine women

I'm standoffish around Wyll so I might be reaching here, but to me it sounds like calling him a Gentleman is just a nicer way of calling him boring. (Also, why couldn't a gentleman date a man??) But also Wyll openly fawns over how pretty Astarion is and about Halsin, more than once, and that's just from the top of my head

Oh wow, a big muscular lady is a lesbian? Call the news, we have something groundbreaking. (I'm still playing a Wylach romance so I do have a bias but cmon) Idk what heteronormative upbringing they're talking about though. Having a mom and a dad? In a world where homophobia doesn't exist and never has? It's so stupid, especially with Karlach whos whole thing is being open and honest about her feelings; but sure, make up straws to reach for that explain away her straight up stating that she wants to fuck a specific man

Headcanons are one thing (like personally, i see Minthara as being slightly more into women than she is into men, and opposite with Karlach) but ffs I don't get it why people need to argue about canon so much when it's literally spelled out for them

Tbh I didn't know this was such a big problem, but i guess it just means I'm happy here in my oblivious corner where people make sense

[bbyboykit]

*watching Merlin*

“Why do you care so much about him? He’s just a servant.”

Me, who is 4 eps in and can already feel the sexual tension: Welllllll

(Psst @wikitpowers I’m pretty sure you were my Merlin mutual so👀)

[variksel]

dungeons and daddies s1 was, supposedly, about the funnies and it turned out to be about the horrors (and old man yaoi). we now need to make dungeons and daddies s3, which is supposedly about the horrors, into the funnies (and also old woman yuri)

[familyabolisher]

i liked the new doctor who but one thing that did really frustrate me was the idea that donna would give all her lottery winnings away to charity as a subconscious desire to emulate the doctor -- specifically to be what she calls 'soft,' or kind, or to act on a desire to help others precisely because that's what he would have done. when s4 donna was compassionate on her own terms, even more so than the doctor, to such an extent that the narrative at multiple points positions her as a spokesperson for a sort of kindness against the doctor's ruthlessness and cynicism. the runaway bride's "doctor, you can stop now" sees her stopping him from going "too far" (and turn left shows us what would happen if she hadn't been there to do so!); the fires of pompeii, again, show her making the doctor "save someone," retain and understand the importance of individual human life even in the face of mass catastrophe, not lose sight of the fact that everyone who died was a fully realised individual. and i have my ideological critiques of all that, but, like, it seems very absurd to just ... forget about it?

[rexscanonwife]

Inquisitor!Brea is one of my favorite angsty AUs cause I can just SEE how the drama would unfold, especially being one of the universes where Kepler actually lives 0u0 certainly that has nothing to do with her speech bubble!

(Taglist + alternate hairstyle under the cut)

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[boycaca]

I think its somewhat telling that the gnosis was placed inside the shouki no kami rather than scara containing it in his chest the same way that venti did with his gnosis. I get that its probably more so because scara needed a much grander body for his god form and the electro gnosis just so happened to be at the centre of it… but i cant help but think of it as the games way of telling us that he truly is not fit to contain the gnosis, even in peak form when all his powers are unleashed, he still needs to build a whole new body as the gnosis’ vessel, that the so called “heart” he thought was rightfully his would not actually make him satisfied or fulfilled, as it seems to be the embodiment of all of scara’s obsessions

[plbtoby-crashout-caesura]

after exactly 0 minutes of thought I have decided that it is time to start a problem on the internet

[skyward-floored]

When you realize your spot in the fandom is weird hermit with the niche AUs

[mookmayor]

can you believe 2024 will mean it’s been 12 years since the koopalings have been in a mainline game. yeah. they should’ve been in Wonder.

[gael-garcia]

watching a movie set in Asia directed by a Western director and it is immediately obvious why Western critics and award-giving bodies are eating it up : an Asian man listens to and adores English, Western music