#that's why i cannot get anything done

[morgana-ren]

Here, take my cheese. I’ve felt like garbage lately which means you lot get a short sap. Short and bad, just for you. 

"Merciful Gods, you wear that dress well, darling."

There's the ever playful lilt that is so signature to his tone, but the low drifting of his russet eyes denotes something far less innocent. He doesn't admire the taper that gently sways around her legs nor the flattering way it hugs her soft curves. 

Rather, his vision seems unceremoniously stuck on the low scoop where her ample cleavage lies, stuffed plump beneath the neckline— perhaps more than a little of the reason he'd acquired such a dress for her in the first place. 

Though his compliment is genuine— most evidenced by the rather conspicuous tightening of his breeches between his thighs— his beloved doesn't seem to blush or smile. Rather, she studies him through a grumpy side-eye, lips downturned in a distinctive pout and looking decidedly surly. 

"This is your fault, you know." 

He takes heed of her irritation, though doesn't faze him in the slightest. If anything, he finds it all rather adorable. She was always cute when she was angry; little nose crinkled and lips scrunched in a cranky huff. 

"I hardly can take credit for your beauty, my love," He reaches a cold, pale hand to caress her cheek and she swats him away. 

"I mean this!" She motions two angry fingers towards her swelling belly, currently hidden tastefully beneath the wispy fabric, adorned beneath a silken crimson cloth she's tied around her waist as an accent to draw attention away from it. 

He chuckles low and deep, scooting close enough to where she sits on the bed to wrap his wiry arms around her torso, squeezing enough to convey his tender affection but not enough to cause her discomfort given the circumstances. 

"Be fair, darling. It takes two to do the sinful tango, and it's hardly my fault you're so fecund," He giggles again, placing his palms face down on the rounds of her belly to feel the growing presence of life beneath her round flesh. "And in my defense, I thought it was as impossible as you did!"

"I'm not sure I believe that anymore," Her lips purse and she scowls at him. "Because here we are! You're telling me you had no idea this was possible? In two hundred years, you never heard a thing about this?" 

"Not the foggiest, my dear. Cross my unbeating heart. It wasn't a subject on the table most evenings." 

He gives her his most charming simper— one that drives her mad because she can never quite tell if he's telling the truth, even after years at his side. He doesn't let her linger long on the subject either way. The pregnancy hormones have taken root rather fast, and she is prone to moodiness— and an extreme thirst. 

"Either way, my dear, you look positively good enough to eat—"

"You're a pervert!" She wiggles and bats his hands away. "You can't talk to me like that anymore! I'm going to be some little one's mother." She straightens her spine proudly to convey a sense of austerity. 

One he immediately ruins. 

"Oh yes, you are," he giggles. "Two or three little ones judging by these alone—" 

He cups her breasts and jiggles them both in his palms as a dopey, lecherous smile spreads across his face. 

"Stop it!"

"Don't be greedy, my love. You have plenty to spare!" He laughs and shields his face from her barrage of playful slaps. 

"You're foul."

"And you're the most beautiful woman I've ever laid eyes on." His expression softens ever so slightly and he places a gentle kiss on her temple. "And growing ever lovelier."

"Why did I agree to marry you?" She sighs at the sheer cheese of it all, petering out into a soft laugh as she exhales. 

"Because I'm the most handsome being on this side of Toril, quite obviously," he runs his slender fingers through his well-styled flaxen hair before tugging her close again. "And because I swept you off your feet long before they started to swell."

"Not enough."

"Because I'm the father of your future half-vampire children? I do assume that's how it works though I can't be entirely certain—"

"Nope. And I don't know. According to you, we're in uncharted territory here."

"How about because I adore you, worship the ground you walk on, and revere you as the baneful goddess you are —" He punctuates it with an elaborate, dramatic gesture, and she only blinks at him. "—and more importantly, you love me."

"I guess." She snorts. 

"The ring adorning your lovely little finger says otherwise," he intertwines his hand with hers, bringing the crimson bloodstone to light. 

"It is rather nice, isn't it?" She flexes her fingers in front of her as if to check her nails before planting a chaste kiss on his cheek. 

"Kept in the Szarr Family for centuries. He used to brag about it whenever he could— and I could swear it still has his blood on it in the right lighting. I suppose some stains never quite come out," A rueful smile plays across his pale-pink lips, rising just above the sharp of his fangs. "And now it's all mine— as are you." 

[inthegloomglow]

“The Sullys didn’t owe Spider anything, they didn’t adopt him.” It is basic decency to not leave a child with the murderers that kidnapped him. Much less a child you knew since infancy, much less a child who at least two of your children love like he’s their own brother.

[bruhstation]

checking out theodore tugboat right now and all I can say is that foduck would really benefit from reading the dsm v

[askamnesiamoonjumper]

aau rework version of the overload/boss fight where it actually has consequences and bearing on the character dynamics save me,, save me aau rework,,,,

[imwritesometimes]

in one week it will officially be one year since I finished a fic edited it & posted it hahaha 😵‍💫😖😞😑

[the-casbah-way]

not to beat a dead horse but jesus christ can you just leave people alone in public bathrooms i just want to fucking piss girl i'm so tired of feeling anxious and trying to avoid using public bathrooms because of how fucking weird cis people are about it. i tried to go into the bathroom at work today (i have worked here for years) and this woman who has worked here for two weeks and doesn't know me laughed and tried to like. steer me in the direction of the men's toilet instead and was like "wrong way!" are you fucking kidding me fuck off

[xhanisai]

I am so, SO happy that I'm seeing more people on twitter defending Alya and talking about how SOME people have done Marinette dirty in s5 and how said snakey characters continue to get their feet kissed by the fandom and have their actions blamed on "bad writing uwu"

There is a reason why the only characters I give a shit about are Marinette, Adrien, Alya, Nino, Tom, Sabine and kwamis atm

Many people need to understand that their fave characters aren't affected by "bad writing". They're just shit people in general sometimes lol.

[kanonavi]

I am once again tagged by @radellama, thanks a bunch!

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Last Song: Song of the Ancients / Fate, by Keiichi Okabe

Currently Watching: Still Trigun (1998), I am unfortunately too busy to watch much else (Though I do sometimes think about how much I want to rewatch TGCF season 2....)

Three Ships: Xiao/Venti, Feng Xin/Mu Qing, Minamoto Kou/Mitsuba Sousuke

Favorite Color: Still cobalt!

Currently Consuming: Nothing at the moment, last thing was some chai tea. Now I'm thinking about grilled cheese again tho...

First Ship: Leo/Takumi from Fire Emblem: Fates

Relationship Status: Unfortunately, no

Last Movie: I genuinely don't remember... It was either Spirited Away or a combined Megamind/How to Train Your Dragon movie night

Currently Working On: A lot of my current angst is actually over the fact that I'm too deep in the schoolwork trenches to actually work on any of my own personal creative projects. But, my other project besides the Genshin Poetry Gala fic that I've been working on for months now is a TGCF essay about how the main couple are representative of the story's main themes. They make my brain explode <3

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Tagging: @hollyisanonymous, @rubberbandballqueen, @tempests-bards-and-birds, @sl33pyr3v3ri3, @stardustdiiving, @h4msanta

[millenniummmbop]

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[hella1975]

tbf i really deserved to lose that poll im stupid af

[reachexceedinggrasp]

So when I've been complaining about even fanfiction not being romantic enough, part of what I mean by that is that people take huge, gothic characters in pairings with gigantic, dramatic stakes full of titanic emotions and then make them feel small and mundane. Stripping the very romanicism from the bones of the romance.

There are many things that are deeply appealing to me about B&tB pairings or 'unlikely' pairings or Gothic romance in general, but something that is less structural while still being absolutely key is that it's not an easy relationship to get the characters into. It's not something that would happen under ordinary circumstances for either person. It's not a bond that can be forged without some form of pressure preventing these people from continuing in their regular patterns.

If you're writing an E/C fic where you start from scratch, the moment they so much as touch for the first time should be absolutely show-stoppingly prodigious. It can never be casual, not between these two, the idea of a touch being allowed should be an Event. The reader's heart should be thundering in their chest, the suspense should be palpable, the consummation divine. A single touch is a consummation for them, there should be that much tension. If they hold hands and I'm not holding my breath, you have done it wrong. The first kiss should feel like an atom bomb going off, the world should shift on its axis, a line is being crossed which has left both characters forever altered.

And people will instead write them like a standard romance novel couple who make standard pervy comments in the narration, get a bit flirty, casually hook up and then weigh pros and cons about whether dating fits into their life plans or not. All of this being totally without weight, without feeling like any kind of Rubicon has been crossed or that it's significant for the characters to have entered into something which must foundationally alter their worldview.

Reylo brushing fingers across the galaxy and it being the turning point of the entire narrative, given the same majesty and mystical significance as Luke's vision in the cave or Yoda lifting the X-Wing is the exact correct amount of emphasis for them reaching towards each other in tenderness. You have a character defined by abandonment and loneliness and a character who is surrounded by people but never touched, both unseen by anyone else, both aching for connection, both never having felt anything like this before, both aware of the galaxy-spanning consequences of what they're feeling. Them touching is le big deal.

The kiss for the B&tB pairing, the EtL pairing, any Gothic pairing has to feel out of reach, a chasm that cannot be crossed- until it happens, impossible yet inevitable. Something the characters could never have conceived of taking place at the beginning of the story, an infinite abyss of which they have somehow found themselves on the other side. You have to do the work to get them there, you have to build that bridge stone by stone, and it should be a sublime agony of seeing the path take shape while it still feels like the gap is just unbridgable, that no matter how close you come, it will never be complete, they can never get all the way across. Until they do.

If you write characters who have (or should have) that kind of vast gulf separating them as just kind of falling into an intimacy which isn't earned and thus means nothing, I just have no idea why we're here. Why buy a giant gothic castle of romanticism and then bulldoze it to build a minimalist condo? Everything about the pairing that makes it that pairing is stripped away. If these were people who could just meet at a party and end up in bed, they would be completely different people.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I love all of these goofy product photos where the water bottle is extremely obviously just photoshopped onto a stock image of someone pretending to hold something or whatever.. very convincing..

[the-way-astray]

holding out hope . . . don’t act like it’s set in stone . . . it’s not . . . yet . . .

(much ranting in the tags)

[starlightswordfight]

guys I figured out a canon divergent plot element that could make the infection au actually make SENSE if I ever wrote it out this is such fantastic news

[tamagotchikgs]

last post ended up deleting my tags so im continuing them here

[thedevotionaltour]

marvel should hire me to write bc i'd pull the funniest thing on earth where i am wiping his catholic slate CLEAN and i would explcitily have him go ehhhh i've never really been religious me and my dad went some easters and christmases and attended a few services outside of that but that stopped by the time i was around 10 and my dad just kinda gave up on it because he didn't particularly want to go by that point either. and even then we hadn't gone every year for easter and christmas in that time frame. and then we never bring that shit up again in the story. he is only catholic in the sense he went a few times and it's the only church experience he knew and his dad probably grew up going to church more in his youth being dragged in by his family but he never felt particularly compelled to go back to it once he moved out on his own. catholic only in the fact that his family was irish catholic but his dad is a lapsed catholic who did not give a fuuuuuck