#my soul to keep

[askthelovenest]

"Good morning, Love~"

I'VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT HIM OK???

[eruden-writes]

Enjoy some soft (and slightly off design) Uzgamal and Patience from My Soul to Keep.

Maybe this is an AU version where they met a little earlier in life. :P

[libraryleopard]

reading a book published in 1997 #classicliterature #darkacademia

[xxloveisnotenoughxx]

current read 📚

[my-romance-library]

'A Soul to Keep' (Duskwalker Brides #1) - Opal Reyne

Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice – be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster.

However, he is not what he seems. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.

All Orpheus ever wanted was a companion.

Each decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorise the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil – the place he lives and the home of Demons. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short.

He'd thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. She’s not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens

within every moment of her presence.

But will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she’s lost to him forever?

[chernozemm]

want runs deep in you, heavy and thick, and the dam is creaking under its weight.

want is like dust, thousands of years worth of dust on your heavy shoulders and you dare not move. if you stay very still and keep to yourself maybe no one will notice.

want is like grief, love left unclaimed. want is like hunger and you are famished.

wanting is dangerous, so you smother it.

[ace-lemonade]

I'm still not over this actually

[lapparitionistl]

[allsystemsblue]

Yasmine Wüster

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

got a worm nibbling my brain. can someone help me find a piece of obscure media?

webcomic/indie comic from the 2010s. basically a sci-fi short story about a young girl (with red hair?) who was being raised by scientists as part of an experiment. she receives a haircut/has her head shaved, in preparation for her annual brain scan/testing. it is revealed that while her body is human, her "brain" is artificial, made of computer implants throughout her skull and spine. at some point her biological mother (also a scientist on the same campus?) encounters her and is repulsed, viewing her as a machine who has murdered her daughter.

it was very poignant and it bruised my heart and i can NOT find it anywhere

[askthelovenest]

❤️ + Mordekaiser? (@justrandomselfships)

His voice for sure! Dark, intimidating, sexy~

Plus I LOVE his design! It's so cool and creative!

[libraryleopard]

Adult horror/science fiction/urban fantasy (?) novel about Dawit, a 500-year-old man from Ethiopia who was inducted into an all-male cult of immortality

When he marries and has a child with a human woman in 90s America, he contemplates breaking his brotherhood’s covenant of secrecy to tell his wife the truth about his unnaturally long life

Suspenseful modern-day storyline with flashbacks throughout Dawit’s life 

Nuanced characters and an interesting exploration of what it means to navigate immortality as a Black man

Ethiopian main character & African American main character

Spoiler below the cut

Didn’t love the novel’s treatment of it’s only gay character, though (he gets violently murdered early on)

[sketchy-tour]

These were meant to be warmups. ANYWHO!

Went to a random palette site and picked ones that were reminiscent of Wally's colors but still very different that I liked and grabbed some outfits to do a sort of challenge for myself. Idk, thought it would help me out of my funk.

Suffice to say, I'm feeling a bit better now~ These were really fun to do!!!

[sheerakk]

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Wacky relationship dynamics that I love:

Edit to add:

Alchemy of Souls, Doom at Your Service, Extraordinary You, Moon in the Day, Marry My Husband, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, Oh My Ghost, W: Two Worlds