#haven't seen this but it looks like absolute kino

[twinsoftheday]

today's twins of the day are:

hanni and nanni sullivan from hanni & nanni

[strawberry--bride]

The results are in!

// Yesterday I posted a poll where you guys could vote on which DL boy you would ship with Sharon and these are the results...

In last place ーー Laito and Kino with 0%

Laito I can understand but honestly I kind of enjoyed the few Sharon and Kino interactions I've had on this blog. 🙈 While Kino would obviously abuse her kindness, I also think their dynamic is kinda cute idk??? Is it just me???

In fifth place are the Tsukinami brothers, Ruki and Kou with 1.6% each.

Sharon has had a few cute interactions with Shin, but I haven't interacted too much with Carla, Ruki or Kou muses. And if Sharon did interact with Kou, it was also under the presumption that she's already dating Subaru.

In fourth place are Reiji and Azusa with 4.7% each.

Reiji is too strict/serious for Sharon imo, but I think she pairs up quite nicely with Azusa? Although I don't necessarily see their relationship as a romantic one, but more so Sharon acting as a caring, older sister.

Third place goes to Yuma and Kanato with 7.8% each.

Okay, I know, I know. Sharon and Kanato look really nice aesthetically since they're both small and like to wear a lot of pastel colors. But let's the real, she would probably not survive very long around Kanato. She might survive a couple of weeks by bribing him with sweets but then it's game over for her lol.

As for Yuma, that's totally my go-to ship for Sharon when it comes to the Mukami's. I absolutely love the farmer boy x foodie girl dynamic. uwu Also the height difference is an added plus!

In second place we have another tie between Shuu and Ayato with 10.9%.

Shuuron was the OG ship of this blog so that one's hardly surprising to me. I think Sharon would be a nice fit for him too with how caring she is. (Also have you seen those thighs? A++ lap pillow material right there)

Ayato is the real shocker. I know he's a boobs guy and Sharon does not lack in the chest department, but I have barely interacted with Ayato muses. I'm honestly not sure if I can see them together but you guys clearly think there's potential. :p

And in first place - by a landslide - we have Subaron reigning supreme with 48.4%

I guess you guys love this ship just as much as I do. uwu While I don't rule out the possibility of shipping Sharon with one of the other boys, or even an OC, my go-to partner for her will always be Subaru.

[moonsdancer]

—your brother's gone | mel, kino, ambessa & grief

For a character who doesn't even appear onscreen in the flesh, is only mentioned 2.5x in dialogue, and is, in fact, deceased in the current timeline on the show, Kino Medarda has a pretty profound impact that I had to write about it (some more, since I find excuses to write about him already).

our first mention of him

is in episode eight, mel's nightmare-memory prologue:

Kino says war is a failure of statecraft—young Mel who's no more than twelve years old.

That one line is enough to help us understand almost everything Mel's been doing since the show began, and what comes after only reinforces that. We also see how much she admires, maybe even idolizes her big brother, and takes his wisdom and lessons as truth. We can safely assume that at some point between that nightmare and the present, that Kino eventually did become more of an embodiment of everything expected of Medarda heirs—otherwise, he would've been banished along with his sister. Such is often the plight of eldest siblings.

how much hearing about his death impacts mel.

From the moment Ambessa looks at her with a crushed expression because she's dreading having to tell Mel this news - a first indication that all the brash insensitive talk hides a mother who does care for her daughter, even if it's not in the healthiest ways at times - we start to see shades of Mel we haven't really seen before, not like this. You can see the shock and dawning grief on Mel's face. In the second row image, you can see her face half crumpling as if to cry but she quickly marshals herself and hides behind her righteous fury at Ambessa angling for weapons a few seconds later.

Throughout Vi and Caitlyn's petition before the council Mel's really subdued. In a way that's really noticeable if you watch her closely, which I do. She still holds the tether on herself though and focuses on the task at hand but she’s not herself. She's short with Jayce who keeps pushing for violent retaliation on the undercity. The last thing she wants, she’s never wanted this, and now the one person who absolutely understood why is dead. Haunted but firm, she tells Jayce, You don't know war—I do.

SIDEBAR | A lot of people don’t seem to realise that the memory is just one incident. Mel would’ve been exposed to that kind of thing and much, much worse again and again over her childhood/teen years because it’s not like Ambessa was running around conquering once in a blue moon. War and conquest are a way of life for the Medardas. In episode 5, when Mel tells Jayce that she doesn’t want to be like other Medardas who just take, take and take from the world—it’s not just about wealth or knowledge, it’s about warfare, conquest and the terrible death, suffering and horror for those left behind. And there’s no way Mel wasn’t trained / expected to engage in the warfare and conquering herself before she was banished. So, when she says Jayce doesn’t know war—if his vomiting over the side of the bridge while Mel looks on at the carnage with a horrified but painful familiarity is any indication —she knows what she’s talking about.

Much has been said about Ambessa and how her attitude/demands spur Mel’s decisions in this final act. But I think so much of the underlying motivation for Mel’s actions in this act are Kino. It’s her mercy and compassion, and it’s Kino’s philosophy of being the fox rather than the wolf, of using diplomacy rather than war that drives her on. She doesn’t want to fail, and she doesn’t want to fail him.

In that last row at the council meeting, Mel seems about one nudge from shattering any time the frame focuses on her. She appears more vulnerable than we’ve ever seen, more brittle, more fragile, and deeply, deeply sad.

We have never seen her like this.

When she looks down at the Medarda ring almost like it’s a last albatross she needs to discard, it hits even harder once we find out that mere hours before she was destroying the painting—a representation of her yearning for home and for family, for a life to which she never really belonged, to a world that she feels has nothing left for her no matter how much she still loves her mother, especially with Kino gone.

[dixbolik-lovers]

(nsfw) bro i might have missed it but i haven't seen any requests so far about the a/b/o au yet, so let me be the first to get this sin train rolling: can i Mayhaps ask for all the boys experiencing an overwhelming, over-sensitive heat/rut/whatever and desperately needing their s/o's help

Thank you for correcting yourself! :D It would have been a shame not to be able to do this one~

. . .

Shuu (Rut):

-His Rut gets bad enough that he’s left barely able to move-- only capable of collapsing into his bed and stroking himself off again and again, getting more sensitive every time. By the time you find him, his cock is red and chafed, and he can barely even sit up to look at you. Your mouth on his cock is soothing like nothing else, leaving Shuu helpless to do anything but moan and struggle to find the energy to thrust up into the wet heat. 

Reiji (Heat):

-For Reiji, Ruts are tolerable. Heats make him feel filthy and shameful-- and never good enough. He hides the problem from you for as long as possible, but by the time that his own hands are just making him more desperate, he caves and begs for you to help him. You push him through orgasm after orgasm, not letting up until he’s shrieking and now begging for you to stop. Filling him up drives him to a point of shame that nothing else reaches. 

Ayato (Heat):

-Ayato absolutely despises his Heats, and yet, he gets so painfully aroused that he can’t help but give into them. Instead of going to you, he fucks himself on the few toys he can stand to own-- growing increasingly oversensitive and desperate until he reaches a point where he breaks and pleads for you to help him. Your touch makes him whimper and get even wetter, and even though he hates the situation itself, everything you do feels so good. 

Kanato Heat):

-He holes up in his room in whatever nest he can make, begging for you to come and take care of him. He cries and whimpers... but just as quickly shifts into tantrums when he gets frustrated with the endless arousal. You have to be gentle with him-- he’s so sensitive that just fingers can leave him yowling. Kanato just wants to snuggle up to you and be babied, but when the Heat really kicks in, he gets aggressively desperate for you. 

Laito (Heat):

-Heats are a time when Laito tends to lose control. If you’re in the same room as him, he’ll be begging for cock, to be knotted, to take whatever you have to give him, all while making a truly shameful face, and all but climbing into your lap. He can’t stand not being touched, and wants to be skin-on-skin with you at all times. You have to fuck him silly and knot him good before he’ll calm down, and even then, he’s still squirmy and needy for more. 

Subaru (Rut):

-He’s so aroused he can barely take it. You find him in his room, holes in the walls, and nearly everything destroyed. Subaru wants to be an Alpha, to pin you down and take you, but as soon as you get your hands on him, he’s collapsing into your touch, nuzzling into your shoulder and begging for some kind of relief. Nothing helps when he’s on his own, but the feel of your body locking around his knot will actually do something to calm him down. 

Kino (Rut):

-As a Beta, he alternates Heats and Ruts. Heats are something that can be soothed by curling up somewhere small and safe, but Ruts... he’s came four times by the time you get home, and he’s still so desperate he could cry. Nothing brings any relief. If he wasn’t so exhausted, he’d pounce on you the second you get close, but instead, all he can do is allow you to help him through an orgasm once more-- this time soothing the need a bit.