#dontturnaround

[vicsage2005]

Friends, I would be lying if I didn't admit I let out a strangled yelp upon turning the corner and spying this particular ventriloquist dummy while visiting an antique store. If you've ever had the pleasure of listening to the Retroist Halloween Special V podcast - you might recall the nightmares of my youth...and adulthood involving this once cherished toy. #horror #poltergeist #saturdayfrights #dontturnaround #popculture https://www.instagram.com/p/CjXRZbIu3D_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[blackcatsnyc]

#happyhalloween #halloween #trickortreat #BLACKCATSNYC #GATTINERINYC #BLACKCATSofNYC #comealongfortheride #MichaelMyers #horror #beware #scary #boo #original #famous #endoftheline #dontturnaround #gonner #lol #heyisDeeDeehome #ChineseRocks #Heartbreakers #DeeDeeRamone #halloweenmovie #comicbookart #coolcats #rocknroll #FrancescoDAmbrosio #AndrewGiordano #JasonReddish #MobyMedina https://www.instagram.com/p/CHBG_dyjqYk/?igshid=z1jl3lzsvcla

[misheldar]

Dedicated to #aceofbase Legacy 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 I see lies in the eyes of a stranger Voulez-Vous Danser avec moi All That She Wants for Living in Danger I saw The Sign so close a ce soir Don’t Turn Around can you Hear me Calling Just walk away inside of My Mind Waiting for Magic when I am falling Into your arms to finally find Beautiful Life for Happy Nation Life is a Flower Remember the words Linked all my life with sweetest salvation You are the magical wonderful chords Your Wheel of Fortune endlessly spinning Where Lucky Love belongs to the sky Opened my eyes indeed I’ve been meaning Always I Have to get ever high You are Unspeakable Whispers in Blindness When He Decides Don’t Go Away Wrap me around in all of your kindness Experience Pearls for all that you say...©️ #aceofbasetribute #allthatshewants #voulezvousdanser #thesign #dontturnaround #happynation #wheeloffortune #livingindanger #hearmecalling #mymind #waitingformagic #beautifullife #luckylove #flowers #cruelsummer #unspeakable #hedecides #whispersinblindness #rememberthewords #experiencepearls #dontgoaway (at Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEpDcXqFUWD/?igshid=gloavvx7r7av

[whileiamdying]

My #TinaTurner collection keeps on expanding: #TypicalMaleDanceMix #TypicalMale SingleMix #TypicalMale DUBmix #DontTurnAround #12InchVynil #BreakEveryRuleAlbum (at Twin Falls, Idaho) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEnOK5rhuhe/?igshid=d2jk7jkfs6og

[cingcharm-blog]

Don't turn around. Keep moving forward. 🏃 Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true. 不要轉身，繼續前進，在彩虹彼端，天際蔚藍，而你那些勇於憧憬的夢想，終將會實現。 . . . #keepmovingforward #dontturnaround #somewhereovertherainbow #dreamcometrue #cingcharm #繼續前進 #實現夢想 https://www.instagram.com/p/B_6bhzcBdJ0/?igshid=xq11q5ljexqu

[thiscapriciouslife]

There will be winding roads, potholes and fallen branches. Never let them stop you from reaching what lies at the end. #road #longroad #dontturnaround #wi #doorcounty #doorcountywi #wisco #wisdom #prose #writing #sisterbay #hill #spring #fall #ooenroad https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ObjH7H25Z/?igshid=1s82g377b8p8k

[phoole]

Cha! Cha! Cha! Let's see how long Der Komissar of Instagorm leaves this video up 🤣 Enjoy the entirety of our 80s Show via the archives at the links in the linktree in my bio! #derkommissar #dontturnaround #uhoh #jaja #80s #80smusic #80snewwave #80spop #1980s #1980smusic (at Milwaukee, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6LScFiAX2g/?igshid=18574m1wpovxt

[top-form-fitness]

This is my new neighborhood watch uniform. I've been giving back to the community by anonymously following people home (to make sure they arrive safely once it gets dark)... you're welcome, neighbors! 👍 . . . #neighborhoodwatch #watchout #safetyfirst #whoarethepeopleinyourneighborhood #peoplearestrange #whenyoureastranger #strangerdanger #Halloween #devilsnight #thepurge #purge #costume #dontturnaround #frightnight #goodsamaritan #service #helpful #mask (at Top Form Fitness) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4JDiuyDGWm/?igshid=3dsglbxh6515

[mysanityreplenished]

The Woopening is upon us. ~ @modern_monster they're coming for you ~ #mood #mooddrawing #Pokemon #PokemonGo #Wooper #TheWoopening #AdorablyDangerous #DontTurnAround # #mysanityreplenished #anomander1989

[misterlivingstone-blog]

🇮🇹 • Me ne stavo tranquillamente mangiando un mega hot dog nella piazza principale di Skansen quando all'improvviso sentii provenire dalla parte opposta della piazza una strana canzone, così mi avvicinai e proprio in quel momento la consapevolezza mi colpì violenta, come un pugno sul muso! Esiste dunque la musica tradizionale svedese! Ed è veramente figa! Io ho sentito solo un pezzo, si trattava di un folk un po' andante che doveva essere molto divertente da ballare in passato. Preso coscienza di ciò restai qualche minuto ad assaporare la dolce melodia swingando leggermente prima a destra e poi a sinistra... e poi me ne andai per la mia stada. . 🇬🇧 • I was eating a big hot dog in the main square of Skansen when suddenly I heard a strange song coming from the opposite side of the square, so I approached and at that moment the awareness hit me violently, like a fist on the nose! So there is traditional Swedish music! And it's really cool! I only heard one song, it was a somewhat wacky folk that must have been a lot of fun to dance in the past. Having become aware of this, I spent a few minutes savoring the sweet melody, swinging slightly to the right and then to the left ... and then I went on my way. . .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .📸 - Sony Rx100m5 .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #swedishmusic #swedishmusician #dontturnaround #swedishband #skansenlive #mrlivingstone #swedishfolk #bigskycountry #svenskfolkmusik #svensk #swedishfolkmusic #instrument #wishlist #nyckelharpa #wow #treasurehunt #musician #worldpop #beautifulmess #vilsevind #musicafolk #musicacelta #celticmusic #folkmusik #folkmusikk (at Skansen) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzdASImiyPy/?igshid=1fjq2y4rpixmt

[lucurti86]

#SisterDate #TexasForever #BFF #SisterLove #AGirlLife #My2017 #GirlsNightOut #DontTurnAround #AceOfBase #ATX (at Austin, Texas)

[dondidonde]

#aceofbase #dontturnaround #dianewarren #tinaturner #thesign #alberthammond #coversong (at Weehawken, New Jersey)

[enlightninged1]

If Paris doesn't make eye contact it's like Ginger is not there. #denial #dogvscat #minpin #cat #ginger #paris #pets #dog #pup #dontturnaround (at Braeside, Calgary)

[thebiscuiteternal]

“Sacrificial” Sangyao ship, Nie Age Swap, Murder, Guilt and Grief, Nightmares, Future Necromancy. Warning for abuse because Jin Guangshan is a prick.

__________

It always starts the same, with the feeling of elegant, clever fingers combing through his hair and deftly separating tresses to begin weaving.

"You two watch each other's backs out there. Yao-di, make sure my hot head brother doesn't get himself stabbed."

He covers his mouth with his sleeve to hide a smile as Nie Mingjue, his braids already fixed, rolls his eyes at his older brother. "I don't need him to hide behind."

"That's exactly the attitude I mean, didi. Don't be so eager to pick fights."

"I'll be happy to help the young master watch his tongue," Meng Yao teases, earning a scowl from said young master and a snort of amusement from his sect leader.

"At this rate, I should be expecting any minute to receive word that you two burned down Langya," Nie Huaisang says dryly as he finishes fastening a guan around the already completed braids.

Before Meng Yao can mourn the loss of contact, he and Nie Mingjue both are swept into an embrace tighter than outsiders would think Nie Huaisang could possibly manage.

"Both of you better come back safely, understand?"

"Yes, mother hen," Nie Mingjue snipes as if he isn't perfectly content being trapped in the circle of his brother's arms.

"Brat," Nie Huaisang chides fondly and doesn't let either of them go before making his little brother gag and squirm with an overly messy kiss on the cheek.

Meng Yao can't help laughing at their antics, his heart aching with affection at being included in them.

He will miss this.

The goodbyes said, he and Nie Mingjue collect their things and head for the door to go join everyone else.

When his fingers touch the doorframe, his insides go cold in a sudden wash of fear.

Don't turn around, he wills himself, don't turn around, dontturnaround, dontturnaround-

His body acts without his permission.

In the true memory, his lover had simply given him a sad, affectionate smile and waved him on. Here and now, Nie Huaisang stands before him, ashen pale, eyes rolled back in his head, a shattered teacup at his feet.

The sect leader crumples as if someone cut the strings holding him up, and Meng Yao lunges forward to catch him before he can hit the floor.

"Why?"

The question is only a figment of his mind though it sounds like it comes from his lover, struggling for air he will never breathe again.

"What have you done?"

That question comes from Nie Mingjue, who stands in the doorway and stares at them in shock, then fury. "What have you done?!"

The last thing he sees is Baxia aimed for his neck.

---

Jin Guangyao jerks awake, a sound somewhere between a gasp and a scream lodged in his throat. Every bit of him trembling, he sits up and rakes his hands through his hair in a desperate attempt to ground himself back in reality.

There are no braids, not even a crimp.

He is Jin Guangyao, not Meng Yao.

He is in Koi Tower, not the Unclean Realms.

He is dressed in the umbers and golds of a Jin, not the greens and silvers of a Nie.

He squeezes his eyes shut and bites his tongue to bleeding as he forces himself to acknowledge the last truth of his situation for yet another time.

That Nie Huaisang is dead by his hand.

---

He can't help the hiss of pain that escapes his mouth as he carefully paints makeup over the new bruise.

The new Sect Leader Nie may not have voiced any suspicions of him specifically, but it is clear that he believes Lanling Jin to have had a hand in his beloved brother's most untimely death.

Father is, of course, displeased.

Displeased that Nie Mingjue is not actually a mindless, easily controlled brute, that Nie Huaisang had managed to grind some measure of politics into that thick skull, but most of all by the fact that the man will not let the matter of his brother die as easily as his body had.

And when Father is displeased...

Jin Guangyao winces again when another bruise pulls, and his gaze is drawn to a small lacquered box carved with intricate mountains around its sides.

The rolled up scroll inside, barely wider than his palm, is one he had stolen from Nie Huaisang's room that night.

Or, not stolen. Simply claimed. The list of rules so carefully penned to the paper had been written for his sake, after all.

-"For once, I am quite serious, Yao-di. Before we take this even one more step, I need to know what you're okay with and what you aren't. I don't want to risk the possibility of hurting you, even just by accident."-

His hands clench on the dresser as he tears his eyes away from the dark wood and stares at the bruises he has yet to cover.

The longer he sits, the more the knots that have been steadily twining themselves in his heart and stomach tie tighter.

He can't help but laugh at himself because gods above, he is a fool.

He sacrificed a love freely given for a love dangled just out of reach, and in the end, he has nothing at all.

---

Of all people, it is Xue Yang that gives him a spark of hope, and not even intentionally. It's an idle comment tossed out in the midst of complaining about local corpses rotting too fast before he can get to them for his experiments.

"Doesn't the Nie sect use stone coffins instead of wood?"

"They do," Jin Guangyao murmurs without looking up from his notes.

And Qinghe is still half-frozen by winter, unlike the milder temperatures they have been experiencing in Lanling.

His heart begins to beat a little faster as the realization sinks in. It's... it's possible.

It's possible.

But there is the little nagging voice in the back of his mind that worries he will be too late. It has been over a moon since the funeral. What if-

He breathes in deep and braces himself.

He has to try.

"Change out of those clothes," he says as he gets up to begin putting their study materials away. "And gather what things you might need for a test run."

Xue Yang blinks at him, then a sharp, eager grin slinks across his mouth. "Yeah? What for?"

"We're going north."

[mermaidstarfire]

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[infernal-jokesses]

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