#in and out of conciousness

[zoethehead]

Finally.... i got this part done....

It'll be below this art as it's a long story

Tw's: forced sedation, slight disembowelment(slight disembowelment is necessary during an appendectomy as the appendix is a useless part of the large intestine)

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"Ah shit..." wulf muttered under his breath, feeling his consciousness waver as he looked at the blood from his abdomen that had been smeared on his glove.

Wulf felt lightheaded, sweat forming on his forehead, nausea coming back every 2 minutes as he collapsed onto his knees, dry heaving.

"Wulf, are you ok?" Chalakon asked.

"I-i  don't feel too hot, and i think i know why." wulf said.

Wulf picked up a stick off the ground, drawing out a diagram of a human body, putting detail into the intestines, drawing lines to show where the affected area was. He explained appendicitis, including how the appendix of a human was different from other species.

"Ok, you might need t' read that, m' gonna pass out" wulf slurred, collapsing near the ground.

"Woah!" Chalakon yelled, catching wulf before wulf would've fully fallen to the ground.

"Hang on, what happened here?" Ernwid asked, seeing the scene.

"Please just help him, i'll explain what's going on." Chalakon said.

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"So, an outlander's appendix is apparently useless and could kill them if it's infected, eh?" Ernwid asked.

"Apparently so." Chalakon answered.

Ernwid grabbed out the medical instruments that were needed to tend to wulf.

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Wulf slightly awoke, the pain in his abdomen burning ever so clear.  He groaned as he struggled against how....weak he felt.

Unintelligible voices lingered through the air as he felt something being placed over his mouth and nose, he panicked as he struggled more. "Please rest...." a voice said.

Wulf felt like he was sinking, his vision blurring more than it already had as he closed his eyes once more.

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"That should do it for now." Ernwid said, having had sedated wulf with a special mixture of different sedative herbs and spores that was poured onto a simple piece of cloth.

Ernwid opened up the stab wound in wulf's abdomen further, pulling out a bit of the large intestine before carefully removing the rest of the appendix, sewing up the large intestine soon after and placing it back in the abdominal cavity. "Alright, i'm almost done." Ernwid said, wiping his brow with his now bloodstained paw.

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Ernwid disinfected the wound once more before hooking a clean thread through a needle's eye. He pierced the needle into wulf's flesh, sewing up the wound, applying a painkilling salve, patting dry what he could.

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Chalakon held up wulf's unconscious body as Ernwid wrapped fresh clean bandages around the sewn up wound in his abdomen.

"Alright, the procedure was a success, now all he needs to do is get lots of rest." Ernwid said. Chalakon carried wulf to a nearby bed, setting wulf down onto the bed and setting a couple quilts over his now bandaged form.

Chalakon pulled up a chair, sitting vigil next to wulf.

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Wulf awoke, still out of it, he slowly blinked, turning his head to Chalakon...

"Oh, you're awake, i didn't expect you to be up so soon." Chalakon said.

Wulf grabbed chalakon's hand,

"I nev'r g't a chance t' tell ch'la'k'n... h'w much i love him, 'nd i mean it" wulf slurred.

Chalakon blushed.

"You love me?" Chalakon asked.

Wulf nodded; "h' saved m' life....pl's he's r'lly cute....." wulf slurred once more.

Chalakon was flustered to say the least, his face turning more blue as he was blushing. He now realized how much he meant to this outlander, but looking back at how flustered wulf was when he first awoke after he was saved from a gruesome death.

Chalakon held wulf's hand, resting the injured outlander's arm back onto the quilt.

"Rest well...love." chalakon said, a soft smile on chalakon's face.

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Wulf slowly came to from the sedation he was put under, his mind slowly becoming less fuzzy as he wearily blinked away the sleepiness. He felt comfy--warm even, as he let out a sigh. He looked at his surroundings; seeing the warm quilt that was nestled around his body, and he felt the bandages tightly wrapped around his abdomen, reaching up to under his chest.

"You're finally awake, or at the very least; 'finally lucid'." A familiar voice said.

Wulf turned his head, seeing Chalakon next to him, holding his hand.

"W-what happened?" Wulf asked, still confused.

"Well, you got stabbed, which lead us to finding out that you had appendicitis, so Ernwid cut the rest of the appendix out, you were somehow conscious enough to draw out a sort of diagram on where the appendix was into the dirt, so i memorized that and drew it out for ernwid." Chalakon explained.

Wulf noticed that chalakon was rather flustered underneath that calm smile.

"Uhm, are you ok there, Chal?" Wulf asked.

"I-uhm...  yeah, yeah. Still kinda blushing about what you said to me while you were all conked out from the painkillers in your system." Chalakon said.

Wulf sighed, asking "ok, what did i say this time?"

"You...well..... kinda confessed your love for me..." chalakon said.

Wulf realized that while he was blacked out on bloodloss and painkillers, that he confessed to chalakon that he had a crush on him.

Wulf tried getting up quickly in a burst of embarassment and panic, but the pain in his abdomen was still rather new, as he felt the stitches and the aching--pulsing pain as he let out a pained hiss between grit teeth.

"Please don't get up right now, I really mean it, i'd rather that you don't wreck the stitches." Chalakon said, putting his hand on Wulf's shoulder.

"Oh my fucking god, i didn't mean to confess that early, or maybe even at all! I mean; i'm some random guy who happens to not be from here, and you're literal royalty!" Wulf said.

"Former royalty." Chalakon corrected.

"Right... former royalty, but...yeah. I do happen to have a crush on you, and it kinda started when i first awoke to you near me as i was recovering from getting keelhauled, but with my past; i didn't want to confess due to me feeling like i didn't deserve to be in a relationship because i happen to see my self as well.... a bit of a screwup." Wulf explained

"Hey, it's alright, i understand; after i had been exiled, i may or may not have realized that you happened to care about me, because you chose to tend to my wounds and tried making sure that i was safe." Chalakon said.

The awkwardness hung in the air like a cloud of smoke.

"S-so....uhm..... what do you think that makes us?" Wulf asked.

"Maybe an official couple, or in less fancy words; 'boyfriends'." Chalakon answered

Wulf felt exhausted once more, but he had a weary smile on his face.

"Finally, things are turnin' around...." wulf thought to himself as he drifted off back into slumber...

"Rest well, love...." chalakon softly said before getting into the same bed that wulf was in before falling asleep too.

[parisoonic]

Well, he didn't say it wasn't mechanically impossible.

[gamingscreenshotsdump]

MASS EFFECT || Jane Shepard and Garrus Vakarian

" The Dance "

[8r14r-r0s3]

Okay, yes, I love okazaki because she's a horrible, awful person, but also, have you considered her fundamental humanity. She views herself as a villain, acts in ways that are unforgivable, and she hurts people and she ruins people's lives for her own enjoyment and her warped ideal of love being inflicting pain, but even the most cruel and callous of hand still has parts that are still tender and soft. Okazaki Hanano is someone who would describe herself as evil and relishes in it, however she is still fundamentally human, and even the worst person alive has done something good, and that can be seen in her friendship with Watari. With Watari, she is silly, and she is caring, and she is tender. When Watari wants to have fun she's chaotic so watari can have fun with her, when watari is worried she let's her talk to her and speaks kindly and tries to reassure her, and when watari is kind to her, okazaki is kind in turn. Okazaki was not someone shown love as a child, so she views hurting others as a form of love. Okazaki was not given attention as a child, so she hates being ignored. Okazaki was seen as unimportant and inhuman, so to cope and feel wanted, she had to create her own self-importance and use her egoism as a crutch. It's why her execution quote is, "She had a very strong sense of self-importance." Okazaki Hanano is a character who may at first seem larger than life and unrealistic, but when you truly think about it for long enough, Okazaki is just as realistic and human as every other tetro character. I mean if you were the child of an uncaring mother and saw a man die in front of you at like age 7 and were repeatedly told your only purpose was to be a blood donor and that you'd be killed if you failed to be of use and you were neglected and mistreated and were also super autistic and the reprehensible man that saved your life proclaimed himself to be evil and eventually ran away/moved out at age 13 and lived on the streets I think you'd also develop a pathological obsession with a pretty girl who you can build up in your head as perfection incarnate and develop a complex about being inherently evil.

[linecrosser]

Whumptober 2024 - Day 23 - fever | passing out | "Hey?! Stay with me, okay?!"

they don't know how long she had been laying in this weird ground-fog

[kusogitsune]

The first run of S.P.R.I.T.E.S are finished (don't ask me what that stands for) and are now collected in one place. Brief explanations of their character concepts under the cut

Aoife is a disruptive and dangerous Electronic Warfare agent that had her sense of perception cooked under extreme load. Mischievous by nature with a tendency to over do it, killing her pilots and the enemies in the process.

Mios was interface for a giant mecha that that manufactured her to trick people into repairing it's subsystems and aiding in it's operations. She's a hybrid organism that perceives both the physical and digital world simultaneously.

Daisy is a personal assistant that imprinted and grew incredible attached to her master and grew into incredibly efficient assistant to the point where she could anticipate her master's every word before she could think it.

Pebble

A visual novel guide character that was suddenly aware of her physical reality and was so utterly terrified by it that she went to extreme lengths to modify her environment and hypnotize her players into never deleting her.

[bread-wizards]

I'm just saying, Orym knows something about being stuck on the death of your first love. Of being constantly reminded of them and their death, seeing signs of them every day, making it that much harder to get over them.

But now he has found a new love, and despite the seeing Will several times, being reminded of him every time he looks at the moons or swings his sword, he is ready to move forward. "It's pretty great, living a lifetime." He wants to try again.

If anyone would have some wise words for Keyleth to help her get through this, it would be him.

[meliake]

If I read one more fucking fic where Tim begs for his life in Titan's Tower I'm actually going to explode like?? READ IT????

Tim is a little fucking shit the entire time, fully confident in his abilities until the very end. And Jason didn't try and kill him, just gravely injured him to send a message, hence the bloody writing. Like guys- he could have killed him but purposefully didn't to prove his point.

There was no moment of regret for him because the 'pit rage' got to him, he was in full control of himself all throughout electrocuting Cyborg and Beastboy, putting Raven to sleep. LIKE GUYS PLEASE JUST READ THE ISSUE I STG

[godheadjones]

i really need to rewatch riverdale because oh my god that show is so cinematic for no reason at all

[sofipitch]

There are now at least two theories in TLT that seem to exclude one another yet both are true. Both Harrow and Palamedes' theories about how lyctorhood is achieved are true. Both Harrow's theory that her weird experiences are due to her psychosis and Abigail's that it's bc she is super haunted by ghosts are also true. There may be others. I know Tazmuir is religious but seems to have a good deal of biology knowledge, which biologists are one of the least religious groups in science. I wonder if this is reflective of her experience as a religious person who is both queer and probably believes in evolution?

[dustykneed]

Hello! Random whipper snipper! Share a WIP of your work!

ooh, with pleasure. six the musical araleyn fanart? in the year 2k24? more likely than you think xDD

i realize this looks finished, but technically i'm still deciding whether to add a background or not lol. still, for the sake of sharing a proper WIP, here's a line or two from an araleyn brainworm WIP that i started reworking yesterday (mild tw for religious guilt and period-typical internalized homophobia from aragon's pov):

She remembers sharing her bed with Anne at Henry's behest, remembers the nights of tossing and turning and trying not to think about Anne asleep next to her-- remembers waking up to dark hair spilling across her pillow and the press of blood-warm bosoms against her own, softer than sin, as hot as the Devil, remembers lying still as death, mouthing prayers into the heat of Anne's neck like an act of penance.

[bergamot-the-earl-of-grey]

what if… hear me out- what if i write a severance au spideypool fic

[ruvi-muffin]

I am in need of veth & essek fics? (!!) The shenanigans they'd get up to half a decade into their relationship

Consider for a moment, this Not Even a ficlet probably:

Caleb: what do you say, veth? One last hurrah?

Veth: Caleb. Dear. It won't be a Last hurrah if you keep coming up with reasons to have one?

Essek, floating past, munching a cracker: She has a point.

Veth: Oh! He Speaks!

Essek: Oh i'm involved, oh no. Please pay me no mind. You can return to the moment.

Caleb: The moment is broken I'm afraid. I hope you did not interject out of a sense of feeling left out.

Essek: oh, Not at all. Believe you me, this is not my worst idea of a polycule.

Caleb: (scandalized) (!!)

Veth: Haha! (I'm in on the joke!)

Caleb: (betrayal!!)

Essek: I said what i said.

Essek: In fact..

(he floats up, wtiting on a piece of paper, out of view)

I have some ideas for this Last Hurrah.

(Blows on the ink folding the paper and hands it to Veth covertly)

Veth: oh ho ho owo !! I like your thinking, hot boi.

Caleb, nervously: Hooo boy. I'm in Trouble. owo;

What was on the piece of paper? Who can say.

Probably a very nostalgic, mock dangerous, wholesome caper as a gift to Caleb ♡

[optimistic-autistic]

does any other autistic person here have a permanent feeling of Disconnect from their surroundings and the people in their life

[chi-the-idiot]

"Want me to tell you a secret?" The spirit grew closer. By now he could feel her soft sigh hit his lips. He could only nod in response.

"I've been in many worlds before. Traveled through a dozen lands, spoken different languages and lived innumerable lives." Her hand caressed his chin. "But you are the only person, the only man I have told my true name."

"Please..." The pitiful whisper escaped his mouth before he could register it, but he knew he wouldn't have been able to stop it either way. Any semblance of self restraint had been lost with the gleam of her eyes. He was wrapped around her finger like a golden ring.

He wished he had one to give her.

She giggled in response to his plea. "Come on, handsome, i'm waiting!" Her lips were now right next to his ear, her small frame somehow completely enveloping his own. The whisper was soft, and yet it echoed in his mind and heart like thunder.

"What's my name, Gilbert?"

A sudden shiver, and then it was over. His head was back on top of the desk, his limbs anchoring, dragging him down in his exhaustion. No voice, no femenine spirit. Only the whisper of an almost kiss to his lips and a name on his mind.

"Annette..."

*drops this and runs away in shame*

[painted-bees]

The lyrics to Saint Motel's "Honest Feedback" are so...Raf coded lmao it's so cynically petty 'for laughs' jljfshgd:

"Of all the illegal ways to take someone's life, there's one just as sharp and it's sharp as a knife.

It's called honest feedback."

"So many people got their neck in the noose.

They'd rather jump off than hear gossip from you."

"How do I look? Am I driving too fast? Of all of your old lovers, am I the best? It's just honest feedback,

Watch your honest feedback."