#they're dead lmao

[reikodoesfanstuff]

Hello, I'm sadly (for you) back on my Durgetash headcannon writing. A lil bit of marriage hc for y'all:

Enver stirred to a dark room. Only a faint glow of moonlight behind the heavy curtains let him know it must still be early... or late. His hand wanders to the warm, empty spot beside him in bed. Enver sighs gently and raises to his elbows, despite his human sight preventing him from seeing anything in the pitch black room.

"Where are you sneaking off to at this hour?" he asks to the still room. In the silence, every rustle too loud. The brush of fabric, the creak of the bed, his own heart beat. There's no sound from them but only a brief moment's pause before he feels the bed dip next to him, and a warm hand finds his cheek. His assassin ran their thumb along his lips ever so faintly, as if thinking of silencing his questions with a kiss.

"There's something I have to do before today. Something I have to finish." they say gently, almost tentatively.

"You mean someone." it's not a question and he says it with a touch of amusement. He takes the hand on his cheek in his own, feeling the simple metal band around their ring finger on his lips in a light kiss. "Does it have to be today? Right now? Surely whoever it is will still be alive after tomorrow."

The calloused hand slides from his own as they stood, leaving only the cold in their wake.

"Yes. It must be today. I just... have to secure... this." warmth radiates from their hand as they press it to his chest, just above his heart. He chuckled. They were more than secure in Gortash's calculations but if one more death would satisfy his little Bhaalspawn, so be it.

"Fine. Go on and have your fun. Just don't be late." he let their hand fall away as he relaxed back into bed, content to return to unconsciousness.

Lips press to his temple and they mumble "Wait for me, even if I am?" even though it's a question, Durge disappears without hearing the answer. They don't need to. They know.

"Lord Gortash? Sir?" Enver is pulled from his thoughts and glances to the man from the window he was pretending to gaze out of.

He puts on an easy smile, "Yes, Cleric Novek?"

"Its quite late now, would it be okay... if I...?" were the words he spoke with a gesture to the door.

Gortash has a look around his chambers: The candles were beginning to burn out, both of their favorite foods laid out in a spread (which only the Cleric nibbled on), a few bottles of wine, some opened, some empty, a simple little cake, but their favorite flavor, and a pair of elaborate, matching rings in his palm.

"Of course." Enver said nothing more and turned back to the dark night beyond his window.

The Cleric's footsteps echoed off the regal walls of his room for just a moment too long. He was silent until he reached the door;

"I'm sorry... truly." but Enver didn't feel sorry. He didn't feel much of anything as he spoke.

"Don't be. They're just late."

[cosmokyrin]

my contribution to the RWBYtwt selfie trend rn LMAO

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[srenorsomethin9]

[TW: BLOOD]

"Look this way & give me a smile"

[graciousdragon]

everyone needs to look at this fucking tweet from chelsea rebecca that had me cackling

[homoquartz]

i think it's worthwhile to think about how crystal put the pause on her and charles's fling.

because i'm sure there were a lot of reasons (including getting her life in order), but her breaking things off is immediately preceded by her having a nightmare where charles's rage and violence towards the night nurse was framed in direct parallel to david's abuse of crystal.

i think charles is a source of great comfort for her, but he also triggers her. his anger SCARES her, which is part of why she yells at him in the next episode about his rage issues.

it's something i think would be good for them to work out a bit in a second season.

[temeyes]

I feel like Ghost would be too powerful if he had Nanami’s cursed ability. Take from that why you will, I just think it’s a super cool idea

(Soap with Sukuna’s flame arrows would be hot pls ignore me)

you're so real for that!! + his military training would enhance the ratio technique by a TENFOLD i think, he would've gotten rid of Makarov and his army in one hit LMAO

meanwhile, nobody will ever convince Nanami to join the dang army (mfer hates working overtime saur bad ASHAHSAHHA)

[dailyloopdeloop]

loop and mirabelle. That's it that's the ask

DAY 84: enrolled in the gossip wars

[thegrimreepurr]

here it is this is the thing i said i was cooking up

nah jk here's the real thing [under the cut]

outlineless is fun i went a lil crazy with it but i like how it turned out :3

killer sans by rahafwabas dust/murder sans by ask-dusttale horror sans by sour apple studios

[pinacoladamatata]

quick Maximus sketch my beloved

[kimdokjas]

We are alive. And we will continue living. So long as you remain by my side.

[jq37]

So, that lady FH episode was amazing and all, but...

Hoo boy, I already see the discourse around the Ratgrinders' fates forming and it is going to be painful. Be careful around the fandom space.

(I mean, resurrection is still on the table for them, but that's based on if the players feel like it and right now, we're looking at 50/50 odds at bests)

Yeah, don't worry about me. This isn't my first rodeo and also I post a lot about D20 and respond to asks I get but I don't actually personally engage with any of The Discourse (tm).

And I'm not really surprised at the reaction. I know people have been opinionated all season in two main camps (that have a lot of overlap): people dissatisfied with the narrative direction and people deeply sympathetic to the Rat Grinders to the point of being mad at the Bad Kids.

The first camp I mostly understand. I get wishing the cast would explore a certain storyline more. For example, I've been on the Aelwyn redemption arc train since literally the first episode of Fantasy High so I was a little disappointed that when that finally came to a head in Freshman Year, it was a big fight and then very little aftermath/unpacking because Aelwyn was sent to jail right after. And Sophomore Year hadn't been announced so I had no idea that she was gonna get another shot. But I wasn't upset or anything. Adaine at that point still hated her sister. She had no reason to want to reach out. And at the end of the day this is other people playing a game. Brennan presented them all the possible plot threads and they were most interested in self discovery, hanging out with each other, doing Shenanigans, and playing Tomb Raider re: Ankarna. Those are all options they were presented and it's not like they were doing crazy off-roading. It's well within the parameters of what D&D is. If you're gonna watch a show like this (or honestly any show), you have to accept that what's most interesting to you isn't always going to be the most interesting thing to the people in the driver's seat.

So yeah, I feel like this side of things I get (even though I'm fine with how things turned out).

The other camp--people being legit mad at the Bad Kids (and in some cases the actual cast) for treating the Rat Grinders like antagonists instead of victims that they were responsible for empathizing with and redeeming--I find kind of wild.

Like…you're mad at the kids who go to Child Murder School for killing kids who want to end the world and kill them specifically? Literally the first day of school the principal of the school says that adventurers are violent wanderers who engage in shenanigans and enact violence. This is the exact assignment they were given and that's what they're doing.

I think it's wild to at the same time believe that the Rat Grinders (who have killed people) are not responsible for their actions and deserve to be talked down while in the process of causing an apocalypse because they're just kids who were manipulated while at the same time calling the Bad Kids evil lunatics for trying to stop them by killing them (in a world where Revivify and Resurrection exist) even though they are ALSO kids who are doing what they've learned at Child Murder School. The Bad Kids have to be mature enough to thoroughly investigate the situation and have nuance about it but the Rat Grinders don't have any responsibility to not join a shady evil murder plan*? And do the Bad Kids really hate the Rat Grinders to the point where they're doing some overkill in this fight? Absolutely. But it's not like they're killing them because they hate them. They're killing them because they're trying to end the world--and they also happen to hate them. Are we forgetting that Kipperlilly killed Buddy--her own teammate--with a gleeful smile on her face? That was so out of pocket.

They're adventurers! Not guidance counselors! If Jawbone was like, "We need to kill these kids," yeah that would be weird but why would the Bad Kids extend an olive branch to the kids who (1) famously hate them, (2) killed at least one maybe 2 of their own party members, (3) endangered the entire student body population an hour ago, (4) are currently trying to end the world. Hell, Adaine was ready to be mean to her own sister in elf jail literally up until the point Brennan described how rough she looked from the torture and that's when she changed her mind. The Power of Love and Empathy is on the menu but it's a special item you only can get if you know the chef. Everyone else is getting a serving of These Hands. Just because you can find a vegan solution to a problem it doesn't mean you're obligated to.

This all comes down to, "Maybe teenagers shouldn't have godlike powers and the ability to play judge, jury, and executioner" but that's literally the premise of the entire show so you can't get around it without rejecting the show's entire premise. If they were like, "Hmm the systems that underpin our world are questionable and we should change the power structures" instead of, "Let's kill some bad guys!" then that's a totally different thing we're doing here!

And, idk man, this show has always had a Who Framed Roger Rabbit style morality where the normal rules of ethics stop applying when it's funny. They beat the crud out of Ragh and then lied to him that he shit his pants just for the bit. A pirate was rude/kinda racist to Riz so they scared him into killing himself. Riz ate the remains of the sentient (albiet evil) dragon he killed. That's all unhinged behavior but none of that is meant to be serious. Getting upset about Fig sending Ruben to hell to me feels like getting mad that Jerry hit Tom with a cartoonishly large mallet.

None of this is new so I have to assume that people are having a big reaction because they relate to the Rat Grinders or just really like them so it feels bad that the Bad Kids are treating them like fodder rather than beloved NPCs.

But again, this is a world where you can bring people back from the dead and the Rat Grinders have showed intent that is grievously neglectful at best and insanely murderous at worst so I can't muster a lot of sympathy for the fact that the Bad Kids are just taking them down without remorse. I don't think you have to try to empathize with the people who are trying to harm you if you don't want to especially while they are in the process of harming you.

(*And we still don't know how voluntarily they joined this plan. We don't know if they were killed and basically forced into resurrecting with rage or if they just leapt at the chance to join a plan that would let them get one over on their rivals. It literally could be either. We've had kid villains on this show strong armed into being party to evil plans by threat of harm (Aelwyn) as well was kid villains who just had their own selfish motivations and weren't tricked at all (Penelope and Biz). We actually don't have any clear answer on how culpable they are. We don't know if they all have rage crystals (except for Buddy). And we don't know how much having a Rage Crystal effects your actions. The best indicator we got is in this latest ep when Brennan said that there was a mechanic where Porter was going to call anyone with a rage crystal to fight for him but that says to me that he's only directly puppeting them when he uses that action and otherwise they have free will and are just angrier. The Bad Kids don't have a reason to believe definitively that the Rat Grinders are just unwilling puppets even if that is the case so of course they're treating them like enemies. Anyway, this is a whole lot of "I don't knows" but that's only because I've seen a lot of people talking like the Rat Grinders literally aren't in control of their actions but that's not info that we have. It could be true but we don't actually know that so it's not a good argument.)

[metalheadobsessedrat]

kiss

[rox-of-iu]

ayoo guess who finally sat down and caught up with cultivate B)

is me. so you know what that means.

spoiler warning for cultivate ch 30-37

there was actually.... more things i wanted to draw but I already did so many I had to physically restrain myself hfsjkkdh anyway yes can you tell i love this fic very much

yet once again. cultivate by the wonderful @neonghostcat

[roomba-mangga]

thoughts on thistle and yaad's dynamic that i vomited in the tags of another post but will now try to articulate here: they're not actually family, or at least they shouldn't be. not in a conventional sense anyway. framing them as uncle and nephew (even in a non-literal, silly fantasy world way) rides more on technicality than anything concrete.

what i mean by this is yaad calls thistle by name and says he and delgal were raised "like" brothers. he talks about thistle like he's an outsider imposing himself into the melinis' space, and it's clear that thistle was never legitimized as a member of the family. for thistle's part, though we don't know how he would treat yaad pre-demon brainrot, it's safe to assume based on the way he punishes him—turning him into a doll—and how little is shown in the way of any sort of relationship between them that thistle only cares* about yaad as an extension of delgal (otherwise i'd expect something like kabru and milsiril, because it's not like another complicated interspecies family dynamic would be out of place, yet there's next to nothing on them even in bonus content, just their scant interactions in the main story).

in essence, they're strangers to one another. thistle's desperation to preserve the illusion of a family, a model where he doesn't even fit, was the snare they were caught in for the past thousand years of stasis. yaad-as-nephew is a prop to uphold that illusion, and thistle is playing a role he's unfit to play. in the context of post-canon interactions, attempting to reconstruct that facade would only be a reenactment of trauma for them both (in a deeply compelling way i'd love to watch unfold, tbh), as that "uncle and nephew" framing places thistle in an implicit position of power over someone he's already traumatized through misuse of authority in the past, a role which also perpetuates his adultification and yaad's infantilization in turn. it'd mostly be an obstacle to any real connection.

best to burn the melini family bridge, i think, and if there's still anything salvageable left in the rubble, let something different supplant it.

[drama-by-daylight]

Walk with me, ya'll

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[dixondean]

you can't tell me pretty privilege isn't real because despite it being a roast, Anthony had basically everyone telling him how hot he was the entire time