#gambling hall

[fallen-leibchen]

live and die by Las Vegas

[salsaagrodolce]

[astrhae]

i really enjoyed your latest six of crows fic!! this is probably going to sound so strange, but kaz's brief cameo was so on point that it made me wish for a concurrent fic of the other crows and what they're up to in this au

hi hello!! thank you so much 🥰 and that isn't strange at all! i'm really glad that you liked it down to all the little cameos 💙 i can't promise a concurrent fic but here's a little scene i deleted that has kaz in it (this is when wylan actually first meets kaz, a little bit after jesper reads their marriage contract for them)

"Why the change of mind?" Kaz didn't bother addressing Wylan. "All your letters until a month ago told me you despised your husband."

Jesper swallowed, and cast a guilty glance at Wylan, his fingers drumming nervously on the windowsil they were perched on. "I, uh," he shrugged, smile turning suddenly coy to smother his guilt, "was reminded of some things."

Kaz didn't look remotely impressed. He simply stood in the palace guest rooms they'd prepared for him and Inej, looking both distinctly out of place and perfectly suited to the gilded halls and carpeted floors. "I need to know I can trust your reasons, or I'll be taking my kruge on my walk to the palace vaults."

The only reason he doesn't steal from me, Jesper had told Wylan, is because good standing with the royal family is a better long term investment than a crown jewel.

"I blew someone up for him," Wylan answered before Jesper could, and that made Kaz turn to him, a hunter catching a sniff of prey.

"After I shot a guy for him," Jesper grumbled.

Kaz ran a gloved hand over the corner of a framed oil painting. De Kappel, the matching painting given to Wylan's father as part of his dowry. Stealing Wylan's flute from the mansion had turned out to be proof of concept: that it could be done.

"You didn't tell me your husband had marketable skills," Kaz said.

"I'm not for sale," Wylan frowned.

Jesper snorted at Kaz. "And if he was, you wouldn't be able to pay for him."

"Is that a challenge?" Kaz asked.

"Wylan's a sure bet," Jesper said, "Besides, it was a change of heart too."

What? Wylan didn't catch Kaz's little scowl, or what he muttered next, too busy running his mind over possibilities, turning Jesper's words around in his head. A change of heart -

"I've decided my terms of payment," the snap of Kaz's cane as he walked closer was muffled by the carpet, but it was sharp all the same. "I'd like Wylan as my consultant."

Jesper scrunched his nose. "No."

"Yes," Wylan said. He knew what Kaz had planned was likely illegal. He also knew that Jan Van Eck's accounting books never added up. "I can tell you everything you need."

"Let me rephrase," Kaz said. "I want you as a permanent consultant."

"He's a Prince!" Jesper protested.

Kaz raised a brow. "So are you. It's called career diversification."

Jesper groaned when Wylan laughed. "Wylan's already diversified into a royal mess."

Wylan sniffed. "I melted a table once, and I cleaned up the mess."

He declined to supply that he'd spilled the chemicals because he'd been a little distracted, by Jesper's little laugh, and the spin of the gun that followed.

"Melting tables," Kaz didn't allow himself to be sidetracked, his eyes taking an edge of wildness to them, a stormcloud flashing lightning. "What about melting locks and safes?"

Wylan nodded. "I just need to change the formula a little."

"See?" Kaz smirked. "Marketable skills."

Jesper groaned again, and Wylan wondered what he'd gotten himself into. Marriage, his mind supplied, and then friendship and family, and, as he thought of Kaz burning Van Eck's power to the ground, he thought, just maybe, home.

[quixoticanarchy]

given that this is tumblr I’m surprised I haven’t seen any posts yet about the relevance of color theory in goncharov (1973)??

[sibillascribbles08]

Finally a crossover with @nardos-primetime, I have a lot more ideas tbh but I don't want it to end up OOC so I wait alsdkjf but I figured this one would make sense.

Holly Blue hanging out in his clone turtle AU for the record

ID under the cut

[ID: A three panel comic featuring an anthropomorphic wasp, Holly Blue, sitting at a table on the left side and smoking from a cigarette holder. On her right is a clone version of Leonardo from Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, named Lee.

In the first panel Lee asks, "So I heard you were a famous employee here once?" Holly Blue answers, "I was."

In the second panel Holly Blue takes a drag of her cigarette while Lee says, "Any advice for an upcoming employee like me?"

In the last panel Holly Blue blows out some smoke while simply saying, "Quit." Lee is visibly shocked and shouts, "HUH?"]

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

Do you have an ao3?

yep! i'm rain11 on ao3 and my fic sideblog is @rain11-fic. here is a handy guide as to where i put my fandom content:

i just don't particularly enjoy drawing angst or sex so if i have a good idea it gets turned into a fic :) same goes for more drawn-out conversations, i just dont have the CON stat to make long comics. i'm keeping the ao3 acct separate from my main for now because it gets very kinky over there and my art blog (@lazycranberrydoodles) is like... the maturity level of a classic 80s movie.

[crowshoots]

absolutely in my grief tonight about how jesper views his addiction and how much he fucking hates himself for it

[muirneach]

honestly it does suck how many shows ive missed for years and years just because every venue ever is 19+ like damn they’re cutting out a huge demographic like teens notably love music… show us a little love. >gets into modern and slightly popular music so i can actually go to concerts cause everyone i like is dead or old. >cant even go to the damn concerts

[theskeletoninthegarden]

Heaven Official's Blessing has me yelling; why didn't I pick this up sooner?

[just-antithings]

[ID: a tumblr post reading: DNI if you...

Hate Gacha

Support anything Problematic

Part of anything Problematic

18+ Blog

LGBTQ+ Phobic

Or just Toxic in general.

The post is dated 1 month ago on April 06, 2022 at 8:38 AM. end ID]

What could you possibly hope to gain from something this vague??? I'm baffled lmao

This is so funny to me. “Hate Gacha” “Support anything Problematic”

As if Gacha itself isn’t a predatory system designed specifically to make money off of people who fall for its pay to spin mechanic not realizing it’s a gambling mechanic that sets off the same parts of your brain as any other gambling addiction except now it’s in the phone game that your eleven year old plays every day instead of at the casino you have to be at least 18-21 years old to enter.

But you know, nothing problematic is allowed here! /s

[goldensunset]

i’m eating this sandwich that has three slices of bread in total. bread on either end and then of course sandwich fillings in between them but in between each layer of fillings there is another slice of bread. why. who designed this. tastes delicious though

[kaphkas]

“Me and the bad bitches I pulled by being autistic” but it’s just Fetch and every single person he’s had sexual tension with

[ace-but-not-a-pilot]

in other news, i keep purchasing playing cards and i desperately need to stop

[jansengs]

(via "Bingo Night - Gambling art - Gambling graphic" Magnet for Sale by JansenGS)

Bingo Night design fitting for people who loves colorful gambling illustrations. It can also be given as a birthday or christmas gift to your best friends or family who also loves funny and cute bingo game quotes

[fluffypurpleglitterdemon]

During the "flirting while betting on Lang Qianqiu" scene, when cutting over to how the ghosts react to all this, the text repeatedly emphasizes that this is Chengzu's first time betting against someone. I wonder if this is something that gets contradicted later/wasn't meant to be taken as fact rather than Xie Lian's assumptions, or if my impression from fandom of what goes on in the gambling den was wrong?

[pwrn51]

OJ Simpson and the Pitfalls of Sporting Stardom

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