#enjoyed this pairing so so much!!

[mostlyfate]

[deecotan]

anyway here's wavewave

[goffredos]

Goffredo blamed him. Of course, he blamed him.

It was a ridiculous thing to do, really, but the other one could hardly fault His New Holiness on the outcome of the events - nor himself, naturally; so he blamed Thomas instead.

It was like a game they were playing; still, after all this time. And oh, Goffredo got good at it.

"È colpa tua," he simply said, and Thomas could taste Goffredo's breath - cherry. One of Thomas' favorites. And, given the smirk his counterpart was sporting: a deliberate move; a well-calculated one at that.

"Temo che dovrai pagare per il tuo errore, mio caro."

What may have sounded like a threat to others, Thomas knew, was a promise. A promise so loaded that it sent shivers down his spine. A promise so propitious that Thomas couldn't help but smile.

[narugen]

LOVE his kansai dialect so much huge shoutout to his seiyuu (kengo kawanishi) here’s 34 seconds of it from the new episode

(also whilst confirming that i wasn’t saying the wrong shit i found a thread on how his dialect gets translated in the manga from an official translator!)

[bacchuschucklefuck]

and! barbarian!fig! its her

[burningcheese-merchant]

Okay I was scrolling through the Hollysugar tag after some screenshots from a yuriful trailer popped up on my FYP, and I saw someone begging that Hollysugar be not toxic and able to be healthy, and that ‘Holly is forgiving’ and cursing out Shadowvanilla. What’s funny is 1. This was worded in such a way that it made it seem like OP though Pure Vanilla was also complicit in Shadowvanilla’s toxicity for… fighting back against Shadow Milk (I knew it… PV was the true manipulator all along… oh yeah it’s all coming together…) and 2… why can’t women be toxic, op? Huh???? Why can’t we have our well-deserved toxic yuri??? What do you, hate women???? /lh

Some dumb little stupid baby: pLeAsE dOn'T LeT HoLLySuGaR bE tOxiC waaaaaaahhhhhh I'm too cowardly to accept the dark reality of the Beasts' and Ancients' connection and do proper character exploration of both sides of the dynamic waaaaaaahhhhhhhhh I'm too weak to handle toxic yuri waaaaahhhhhh I dabble in mild sexism by thinking women are incapable of wrongdoing, thus denying women agency and the capacity to be fully realized complex human beings, instead forcing them to be perfect one-dimensional angels that exist only to soothe my paper-thin skin and cater to my boring modern fluffy coffee shop AU fantasies waaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

(I'm exaggerating for comedic purposes lol. But regardless, that person genuinely is lame. Eternal Sugar is evil. She has committed heinous crimes against countless innocent people. There is simply no way for the relationship to not be toxic, at least to some degree, as ES is now. That stuff is part of the Beast x Ancient deal. It's enemies to lovers. It's hero/villain. It's forbidden love (but also not, because they're soulmates, forever bound to one another). You either accept that or you admit that Beast x Ancient is not for you. Come on man, have fun, live a little, it's fiction)

[luminique]

HEAR ME OUT, one sided love?? Imagine s/o doesn’t like lighter back, being oblivious about lighters feeling and only see lighter as a friend meanwhile lighter is so MADLY in love with them and is aware of s/o not liking him back but he can’t help it because you’re the only one that makes him feel this way even if his feelings aren’t reciprocated… they’re so doomed think about the potential angst!! 🫤

lighter isn’t perfect. his body is littered in scars of his past, his actions are solutions to mistakes he had made before. to say that he deserved something as rewarding as love didn’t sound right to him, but oh, would it feel right if it was from you.

it was definitely not an immediate fall, rather it was slower like starting a fire. you bring the materials you require, some wood and a starter. it’s difficult to get a fire going, even he knows that with his lighter in hand. his hand gets warmer the longer the flame is out but it doesn’t compare to the accidental grazes of your hand against his gloved ones.

he had poked you once with the spikes on his gloves. the look on your face when you brought your hand up to rub it while you apologized for it. why were you apologizing? every soft “sorry” that came out of your mouth was like sprinkling water onto the fire. best to get fresh firewood so that it doesn’t go out.

ensuring that the fire is a consistent flame is also important to prevent accidents. accidents like playfully taking off his sunglasses and putting it on yourself while imitating him. somehow, that didn’t cause the fire to go out, in fact, it made it burn even brighter than before. the redness on his face when he watched you was comparable to the orange and red hues of a fire.

he stayed close to the fire, close to you. feeling the warmth of love on his skin, finding it calming but also terrifying. it doesn’t rain often in the outer ring but that doesn’t stop him from worrying that it would all of a sudden. so he lies awake at night, thinking about all of the possibilities, the what ifs and its outcomes.

he thought he had considered everything. from keeping the fire from going out, to ensuring it was a stable flame, to tending it slowly and carefully. what he didn’t consider was getting too close to the fire, burning through what he thought was tough skin.

he was too focused on trying to maintain a certain personality, not quite showing his interest in you. so when caesar was talking to you about her love stories while everyone was hanging around the bar, his heart rate increased. just like how consuming alcohol affects one’s mental and physical state, so does it affect a fire. maybe someone poured his drink into the flames as he watched it burn even brighter than before, making him eavesdrop on your conversation.

but a large flame meant a higher possibility of getting burnt, and soon he saw the burn marks on his skin. as you continued to talk with caesar, the longer he let the fire burn him. how you had said that real love wasn’t like the stories, how you seemed disinterested in romance, how you had believed that no one was interested in you. at that moment, he ended up getting more drinks from burnice, hoping it would soothe the roaring flames within him. he drank so much and fell asleep to the soft crackling of the fire, your voice acting as background noise.

he woke up to the coldness of the bar counter pressing on his cheek. the fire had been put out by you when you tapped on his shoulder. the memories of last night flooding into his mind like water. maybe it was all some nightmare and you did like him back, but the sudden coolness of your touch made him realize the reality of it all.

you didn’t like him, and not because he did anything wrong but because he didn’t do anything in your eyes. you were feeding the fire in his heart and he mistook that fire for your heart too. he sat up straight, took one look at you and shook his head. you still cared for him, came with water and woke him up gently. he never intended to get so severely injured because of his own growing feelings for you.

his own feelings, you didn’t even know he had any for you. the pile of ashes, you both stared at it and yet only he knew that fire existed. the flames had misled him, danced around his heart that craved for you, that only asked for you as its fuel. now all he can do was sit next to what was once a big fire, feeling the cold on his skin despite the layers. no warmth left, no light left, no love left.

[creativenicocorner]

...lately I've been thinking a lot about Susan Sto Helit. Specifically her introduction and farewell in the Discworld series.

About how her introduction in Soul Music is through the eyes of Miss Butts who goes on describing this recently orphaned girl as:

"something frankly unloveable about the child. Academically brilliant in the things she liked doing, of course. But that was just it. She was brilliant in the same way that a diamond is brilliant, all edges and chilliness." *

And then the very last we see of Susan within the Discworld series, is in Thief of Time, ending with... well no matter one's personal opinion of Susan and Lobsang Ludd... the Death series ends with love. ( I could go on a tangent about how each Death book is about some version of Love but thats for another time)

ANYWAY the last we read of Susan is:

"She put the chocolate in her mouth, and shut her eyes. A faint cardboard-y sound made her open them. The lids were lifting on the boxes of stars. They spilled out, and whirled up into the shadows of the cupboard, brilliant against the darkness, a galaxy in miniature. Susan watched them for a while, and then said: "Alright, you have my full attention, whoever you are." At least, that is what she meant to say. The peculiar stickiness of the nougat caused it to come out as: "au-rite ou av my full at-em-ntion." Damn. The stars spiraled around her head, and the cupboard's interior darkened into interstellar black. "If this is you Death of Rats," she began. "It's me," said Lobsang. Tick! Even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment."

It ends with love!! Love for a girl who was described as "something frankly unlovable" we bid farewell to Susan in the series with a Perfect Moment!!

Does this mean anything? Do you see the glimpses of what I'm feeling and barely managing to articulate?!

*Please forgive me if the quotes aren't entirely accurate in terms of punctuation etc, I only have the audio form and transcribed it while listening.

[red-winter-is-coming]

Headcanon time :333

Ran out of room in the comic, but Sapphire doesn't remember most of his past due to the weird time warpy shit around the Spire, and despite being the youngest, he's the oldest when it comes to how long he's been alive!

Prune Juice doesn't remember much about Sapphire, but he remembers Raisin's face and would probably recognize her before she recognizes him.

Raisin barely remembers what her siblings looked like, but the drive to find them is part of the reason she defended the village so closely!

(Raisin and Prune Juice also share the same inability to have magic, although it doesn't affect Raisin nearly as much as it affects Prune. Sapphire used to have much weaker magic, but Shadow Milk boosted his power after he returned!)

[beaulesbian]

Rook choosing option Fight us or don't in the first Hezenkoss encounter and immediately getting called out for having a death wish and how that fits together with Emmrich is hilarious. How did she take one look at my Rook and knew everything lol

[ohnoitsz1m]

Hhhhhhhgghghg ive been thinking about them

[dutchs-paisley-vest]

Been thinking about Hosea a lot as I write this analysis on Dutch and Micah.

Maybe I’ll eventually whip something up about him, but for now I’m left with thoughts about knowing that not only is Hosea just as guilty as Dutch when it comes to how their boys were brought up (and continued to be treated through adulthood and ultimately up to their deaths), but also the way the two irreparably damaged John and Arthur’s entire lives beyond even their own comprehension. FURTHERMORE, they set forth a viscous cycle of familial violence and neglect that maintained momentum into the next generation. (See: John and Jack.)

The way Hosea’s action, but more importantly his inaction had in part led to… well, [gestures vaguely to RDR1 + RDR2].

Hosea might have been gentler than Dutch on the surface, but he saw it all, and at times both implicitly and explicitly encouraged it through the meticulous timing of his decisions to remain a “silent watcher.”

Yes, refusal to mitigate the violence makes him complicit, but the matter of the fact is… Hosea can’t even feign partial innocence as a third-party bystander because of how calculated he is in nature.

Additionally, there is no “third party.” Dutch and Hosea are a single unit. They occupy the same space even as two separate individuals in John and Arthur’s lives.

The deliberate nature of Hosea’s inaction puts him in the same position as the “perpetrator” because he isn’t just a watcher, he corroborates directly with Dutch and agrees with what he is doing on principle. He reenforces it in perhaps more subtle ways, but that doesn’t make him any less responsible for the outcome.

The only difference between the two is that while they’re dealing different cards, they are playing the exact same game.

[fake-mouthstatic]

expose

@118dailydrabble, day 48. bucktommy, rated G.

🔥

"Hey," Tommy says when Evan enters the kitchen, smiling until he notices how miserable he looks. "You okay?"

Evan steps into his space, wrapping his arms around him and clinging like a limpet.

"Rough shift?"

Evan huffs a laugh, pulling away just enough to hand Tommy his phone.

Tommy frowns as he sees the title of the video on the screen.

'Hot firefighter exposes himself on call… 👀'

"Oh no."

"Oh yeah," Evan replies, sounding dejected. "My pants split when I bent for the stretcher."

"Oh babe, I'm sorry," Tommy says, trying not to laugh.

"How can I go into work after this?"

"I mean…" Tommy says, smirking, "at least they called you hot?"

Evan groans.

"Yeah, not helping."

read the others here

[medusalith-amaquelin]

—JOHAN X NORTH · FOUREVER YOU ·

[sincerely-sofie]

Thinking about @gehtsis’s children and how terrifying it would be to get their team assigned to help you escape from a mystery dungeon.

If these are what my heroes look like I'm 99% certain I'd be screaming and running the other way. Menacing cryptid-looking grim reaper and cursed psychic clay doll. I love them.

[driftingballoons]

For the art requests: A Pokemon Mystery Dungeon team comprised of a Banette, Phantump, and Drifloon struggling to read a map?

(I was possessed by the idea of a trio team made up by these three spookies who have a neat possible dynamic when you look at their 'Dex entries, and I'd love to see your take on them in your style!)

Ooh this is such a good combo! All fantastic ghosts with that loose relationship to children falling to some misfortune

Team leader Phantump seems pretty confident, but hard to trust a pokemon’s sense of direction when their claim to fame is “child who got lost in the forest and died”