#might as well make use of it

[pinnithin]

re: that poem. oh im in a bad mood tonight better harness that beast and write good

[winterdawnzephyr]

don't slip away from me // six of crows; kanej

Summary:

“Keep talking, Wraith. Don’t slip away from me,” he had said while he was carrying her back to their boat.

“But it’s what I do best.”

He wondered how, even as he was walking towards her, closer to her, it felt like she was slipping away from him, yet again.

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Kaz's POV at the very end of Crooked Kingdom as he watches Inej be reunited with her family, ready to sail away from Ketterdam for good.

Word Count: 658

Link to AO3 post:

Kaz’s hand still tingled from Inej’s touch as she sprinted down the quay, towards her parents.

He wondered what it would feel like to reunite with long-lost family. He would never know himself. He didn’t want to.

Jordie’s ghost seemed to creep around the edges of his vision. Kaz closed his eyes and forced the ghost’s whispers out of his mind. He would never see Jordie again--Pekka Rollins had made sure of that.

Brick by brick. 

Monsters like him didn’t dwell on such things. Dirtyhands didn’t have the right.

The Wraith was different. She deserved it. After all that she had been through--the slave ship, Tante Heleen, the Ice Court, himself--she had somehow remained kind and gentle and strong, always seeing the good in everyone. 

Kaz wanted to destroy Pekka Rollins for revenge. Inej wanted to hunt human traffickers because it was the right thing to do. Because it was a noble cause. Because she didn’t want others to suffer like she did.

She deserved to be with her family. She deserved to devote her life to hunting down slave ships. She deserved to be free.

He didn’t deserve to be with her, and he sure as hell would not hold her down.

The look in Inej’s eyes as she saw her family on the ship--he had never seen her so startled and speechless before. Inej, the Wraith-- to whom the laws of physics did not apply, who was always light on her feet, who defied gravity--had grabbed onto the sleeves of his suit to steady herself. Kaz could still feel the rapid hammering of her heart when he had put his arms around her, holding her up. 

For a moment, he had thought he’d done the wrong thing. Maybe Inej didn’t want to see her parents after all. Maybe he should have asked her before he planned everything.

But now, as he watched the three figures hugging on the distant platform, surrounded by the grey sea, all the poise and the grace of Suli acrobats vanished, he knew it wasn’t a mistake.

A waving hand shot up among the huddled figure, beckoning him to join in on their reunion. 

Leave. You have to leave, now. Every fibre in his body urged him to walk away. It wasn’t something foreign to him. He had done it so many times, with Jesper, Wylan, Nina. What made this different?

It was easier to let go.

He could turn away right now. He knew Inej would understand. She was used to it, anyway. 

But he had promised her. This was the least he could do. 

It was a joke, really, how after the two of them had spent so many hours plotting and taking on jobs together, spent so much time side by side with knives drawn, pistols blazing during the countless attacks, ambushes and heists, watching each others’ backs, he still felt uncertain about something as simple as meeting her parents. 

But of course, ‘simple’ had been taken away from them long before they had the chance to grow up.

As he made his way hesitantly across the quay, he couldn’t help but remember what Inej had said to him as she was on the verge of dying in his arms--how long ago was it? A year? Months? The Ice Court heist seemed so long ago. 

He had found her, almost lifeless from a wound meant to kill that she made by digging the point of her sharpest dagger into her chest. She was ready to kill herself to avoid dying by the hands of the Dime Lions. She had single-handedly saved them all. 

“Keep talking, Wraith. Don’t slip away from me,” he had said while he was carrying her back to their boat.

“But it’s what I do best.”

He wondered how, even as he was walking towards her, closer to her, it felt like she was slipping away from him, yet again.

[lornaka]

Old Cross can have an earring, as a treat

[24bughours]

Mini comic because i like this idea

Once Toshi retired and no longer had to pretend he's invincible, he began to warm up to the idea of using mobility aids. He mentioned it in passing to Midoriya and, with Bakugo's reluctant help, his protege latched on to the idea until they could make it a reality.

Aka. me giving All Might a mobility aid that has additional self defense features because its epic and he's epic and i need more dadmight that includes Bakugo

[lazylittledragon]

isn't it weird how if you get up at 7 or 8, do your work all day, then have free time and go to bed at 11 that's absolutely fine

but if i said i get up at 10, do fun stuff in the morning then work in the evening and go to bed late, i could be called lazy, nevermind that i'm getting just as much or MORE work done as i would in a traditional work day

[shorthaltsjester]

the mighty nein - critical role

this is a place where i don't feel alone. this is a place where i feel at home.

[sysig]

Those wacky skeletons ♥ (Patreon)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The girls are plottinggggg

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[cartilagexfluid]

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all night long the widow sends valentines to bitter friends

all night long the widow sends valentines to all my friends

'cause one good turn deserves another, one good turn deserves another, one good turn deserves another, another, another, a sister, a brother

get fucked

she's got a lot of legs just like a centipede

'cause I'm her kind of girl and she's my kind of boy

she takes a photograph and kisses it goodbye

because everyone everyone everybody dies in the cathedral

everyone everyone everybody dies in the cathedral

[ultrataintedviolence]

deepthroating a bottle of cherry coke rn

[apparently-artless]

●◉✿ SOUSOU NO FRIEREN ❀ FRIEREN & HIMMEL ✿◉●

Anime: Sousou no Frieren Characters: Frieren & Himmel Song Lyrics: Outnumbered by Dermot Kennedy

↳ requested by Alice (@alice-chan-chan)

[livsmessydoodles]

plleese suurrrr... neeeeedd darilymm... i cannto surviive on teh crumbzzzz...

a little sneak peak of something im working on.... dinostar nation YOU WILL BE FED SOON!!!!

[implied-divinity]

im feeling sappy tonight. shoutout to the baby tboys begging to be forcemasced. one day you will become the man you want to be. within the kink its wonderful when another man grabs you by the shoulders and pushes you headfirst in. its wonderful to share in the joy he felt when he started. in reality know youre afraid. it takes guts to let yourself be who you want. dont take your feelings lightly and let yourself explore. you are not alone but its also up to you. take care. much love.

[transmascjfk]

no you didnt miss ashs birthday yesterday

[egophiliac]

I always though Mal's mom was meant to be like "Eleanor" but they stuck an M at the start honestly, Sobbing Emoji. But "Maleanor" also makes me feel less insane since in that scene where she's just handed egg Malleus to Lilia and went to battle, it sounds more like Lilia is saying "Maleanor" than "Meleanor" (Japanese accent pending). Mayhaps they went more with what it sounded like the characters were saying :0 (we don't talk about Doodle Suit to Paint The Roses)

the transliteration of her name is Marenoa (マレノア), which is what all the voice lines are saying! all the Draconias' names start with マレ (Malleus' grandma is Maleficia/マレフィシア) as a nod to Maleficent. :D it's almost certainly a take on Eleanor, which is Erenoa (エレノア), but her name is written in English at a couple points, and I was pretty surprised to see it was Mel instead of Mal!

and, like, that's fine, it wouldn't be first Twst romanization that's tripped me up (like Keito for Cater, I know that's something to do with the loanword specific to playing cards(?) but it's just not how my brain wants to read it). but now Eng has given us Maleanor! and someone else said it was spelled inconsistently between Maleanor and Maeleanor??????? so WHO KNOWS it's a SPELLING FREE-FOR-ALL

I AM torn on which I want to use, because Mel just sounds so cute to me (and is what I'm used to now), but...the Mal consistency is kinda too good to pass up. alas, alas, truly these are the most difficult conundrums of our times. 😔

[fishyartist]

Ui idea tests, thrown together bc im eepy. Was planning on doing more but I spent all my days energy on the second one oops