#curses and destiny

[rainpebble3]

Whumptober 2024

Oh yeah Rain, you can barely keep up with your main fic, and work, but let's give in to the new brain worm... Presenting a new fic which follows the Whumptober prompts as I go back to a character I've always wanted to explore.

Presenting Ielle and her world before she becomes... (spoiler!)

First chapter is up, and as always, it is not beta read and fuelled by angst.

[tanglefriend]

*drops this and runs away*

[brodorokihousuke]

burnt out on my big thing so i doodled them

art archive blog @brodartrokihousuke

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

Propaganda I’d post if I was an acolyte still devoted to the sword

[zalia]

I am so excited with where I managed to get last night! The Hangman's pass radio tower, with the Cult of Osiris room and the book used to let Sagira possess the Guardian's Ghost all the way back in Curse of Osiris. It is pretty much the reason I started OOBing – I didn't play back in Curse of Osiris so I never saw the place – but I hadn't been able to get out there before. But there's a new tech I was able to use and I finally made it! It was nice to see the place in daylight rather than the glimpse we got during the Espial mission of Episode Heresy. Interestingly, some of the Taken Blights and the eversion anchor from that mission are still there, although the ones blocking the entrance to the Cult room are gone. Not entirely a surprise since Espial is connected to the rest of the EDZ – if you still have the mission available, once you get driven away from the tunnel and drop down the cliff (with the half-moon bridge) you can backtrack through a tunnel there and go explore the whole of the Lake of Shadows area which is pretty fun! But yes! I am very pleased with finally getting here!

[thelilylav]

“I take it back… come back to me.. please…”

- Apple watching over Briar after her story plays out (and trying not to kiss her)

My ref:

[thefirstknife]

Some lore tabs that killed me dead and I'll never recover from them. Seasonal gauntlets are about Zavala realising and coming to terms with the fact that he is mortal and has mortal pains. Also, finally, the full confirmation that Guardians resume aging when they lose their Light:

He moved his chair back and considered his knee. What had he done to hurt it? He had not exercised yet, he had not gone on his usual patrol… he had done nothing. Why would a knee hurt from doing nothing? The riddle dissolved. He was starting to age.

But also:

He allows a hand to rest on his aching knee. To venerate it. He feels it solid under his palm. It is his, it is real, it is both portentous and precious. He is aging. He will age. An absurd and joyous thought warms in his chest: how fortunate, to have lived long enough to grow old. How invaluable, to make the space between himself and the horizon matter. How much time is left? And is it best spent with his knees under a desk?

Genuinely crying over this. How fortunate to live long enough to grow old. Man. Also at the end he asks for a break for one week and Ikora offers him two weeks.

The next one just... I have no words. It has to be read in full. It's about Saint going through it, having memories of his past and also dealing with the guilt with what's happening to Mithrax. Truly every sentence in this one is a gutpunch all the way to the end. Excerpts:

The hum of activity was overpowering yet reassuring to Saint-14 as he stopped to watch an older Eliksni expertly weave fabric on a well-worn loom. The woven symbols were unique and unfamiliar to the Exo, but he watched in awe as an iridescent glow emerged within the vibrant cerulean cloth. Fit for a Kell, Saint mused to himself— Breath caught in his throat; hands shook— Flashes of memory echoed in his mind. All he could feel in this moment… was shame.

Saint remembering his crimes against the Eliksni and feeling shame.

He hurried past the weaver and through the crowd, landing squarely in front of a tea stand, a sample placed in his hand before he could open his mouth to refuse. He looked down. The opaque liquid steamed in his cup, pungent and medicinal. Like distilled Darkness, Saint realized— Breath caught in his throat; hands shook— Flashes of memory filled his sight. All he could feel in this moment… was sadness.

Tea reminded him of all the stuff with Osiris and he is not processing it well. I say excerpts but I have to put the rest entirely because like. Okay.

Saint placed his favorite keepsake, a small stuffed bear, on the Kell's throne. Gently, he adjusted the lavender ribbon at its neck; the crisp satin sat in stark contrast to the bear's hazy black eyes, to its slightly worn ear and well-loved fur. A gift, once a comfort to a child of the City. A gift, once a comfort to Saint in the face of loss, in the face of— Breath caught in his throat; hands shook— Flashes of memory swelled in his heart. Osiris. His strong laugh. His deep, soulful eyes. The warmth of his smile. Of his touch. Memories of comfort, but all he could feel in this moment… was guilt. Intense and overwhelming, like daggers cutting through him, sharpness bleeding through sweetness. Saint breathed deeply and stared at the medical equipment around the empty throne before him. "The cost of my joy," Saint whispered, and he wept.

He has a teddy bear. He once gave it to a child, but someone returned it to him when he was grieving about Osiris, to comfort him, and he'd kept it. And he put it on Mithrax's throne because he feels guilt that Mithrax is suffering because he helped him and Osiris.

I'm ending it all.

[luna-the-cretar]

Rewatching CoS is very fun bc how the fuck am I still laughing at these jokes while they’re looking at the corpses of literal children

Clayton, the WIZARD with MAGIC: Shepherd, can you tell if these objects are cursed?

Shepherd, the RANGER with NO magic: yeah, sure, let me just— *gives Clayton the finger*

(If they ever manage to make CoS into an actual animated series, they need to keep in this joke, it’s golden)

***

Clayton: we need to cleanse this place

Sarnax: with fire

Clayton: no—

[sweetybaty]

I would love to see Flaky in different hairstyles!!! Also which is Flippy’s favorite hairstyle on her?? ahaha ^v^ tysm!!

Thank you for this ask, anon, you gave me an excuse to draw her with hairstyles I really love doing it MAWHSJHASJHASJS He the one that proposes the hairstyles since she never really saw the point in doing them, it was itchy and it had QUILLS so it was a nono. The two braids one is a special memory for both, so it probably is the one winning, but any hairstyle haves it strong points for him Flippy panicking in the fic illustrated

The braids are cheating, also have more uses shown in other of my draws JSHJASHASJHAS

If there's time there will be flowers ! ! !

He basically commitin suicide everytime he helps (bcuz he feels like he getting a heart attack)

All hairstyles have their pro's tho(he licking)

This one she tried it out and awakened a monster

I editing a part in the fic to make it be like this bcuz I forgor

Two braids supremacy

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Track list for Fig and the Cig Figs independently published Junior Year album (officially named “Infaethable”)

Teenage Rebellion

Night Yorb (a heavy metal banger)

Summer Scaries

Devils Nectar

Time Quangle (a love song about Ayda)

Multiclass (Gorgug sings on this!)

The Ballad Of Lucy Frostblade (Kristen was the one who convinced Fig to write this)

So Late, So Tactical

Do You Have A Fucking Warrant

Cassandra (Can You Hear Me)

Hall Of Mirrors

President Applebees (written entirely in the night after Kristen gets elected by a drunk Fig with extremely drunk notes by Kristen)

Raging For Love (inspired by Gorgug, of course)

The Elven Oracle (Has A Day Job) (So Stop Bothering Her)

Maximum Legend

Fury Of The Ball

Cursed

Infaethable

The Bad Kids

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

guy who so desperately tries to find god. who wants to have faith in a higher authority to guide him out of the hole he's in. from the weight of guilt from simply existing, as the person he is. but every time he thinks he's answered his higher calling it turns out he's made the Morally Incorrect choice and his path to goodness and holiness was the road to the devil all along

[goodsniff]

We got a trailer and premier date!!!

YOLO Rainbow Trinity is premiering March 9th on Adult Swim 🌷!

I Art Directed again and also helped out in the writers room for this season which wuz cool 🤙. There are some eps that are going to reduce your brain IQ so look forward to it B^)

[boltlightning]

[sapphoismymuse]

legolas and gimli are those friends who go “idk i’m fine with whatever you choose” when you try to ask them where they want to eat while aragorn is internally screaming

“I said that it was a hard choice,” said Aragorn. “How shall we end this debate?”

“You are our guide,” said Gimli, “and you are skilled in the chase. You shall choose.”

“My heart bids me go on,” said Legolas. “But we must hold together. I will follow your council.”

“You give the choice to an ill chooser,” said Aragorn.

The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkien

[lunarxylem]

“Tell them the truth…?”

“Tell them the truth so they may watch the stars through tears?”

“Instead of following the one cold star that is their destiny…?”

“No, Dark Cacao Chocolate Cookie.”

“Let them think…You Never Loved Them.”

[chaoticallymuse]

Quote that reminds me of : Merlin

"If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."

- Margaret Atwood