#together with the sundown

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

they are so so soooo Important to me...

[losersimonriley]

Soap is falling apart ugly cry style in sundowning right now and ghost is just like 🧍🏼‍♂️o fawk

[peachshadows]

Okay, so...hear me out:

I get that SD!Macaque is angry and betrayed and C!Macaque is shit-stirring as much as he can but...well, we already established that the Macaques aren't quite against the idea of getting together with their alternate selves, right? So, what's stopping SD!Macaque from storming away from SD!Wuking (because obviously it's all HIS fault) and grabbing C!Macaque and MK with him? I mean, it's both a way to keep the kid AND pettily take his husband's lover with him in a "I'm taking your lovechild AND your lover with me in the separation!" kind of way.

The question is if C!Macaque would willingly go with his counterpart. And, while there is a possibility that he'd resist, I'd bet that the pettiness will win. He'd relish causing chaos and strife and upsetting another version of Wukong (he still has his hangups). He also needs a place to crash while he tries to find a way to get himself and MK back home and why not FFM?

To summarize: The Macaques get together out of spite and make each other worse (or better) while MK prays for all of it to be over already please and SD!Wukong is in both heaven and hell because 1) two Macaques and they're together (hot) but also 2) he can't join 'cause he's in doghouse for something he never did.

(Meanwhile, Azure is sobbing, crying, throwing up. The Macaques removed themselves from the equation and got together and he STILL can't bag Wukong. Wukong is too busy looking wistfully down at his wife and his proclaimed lover like he's a poor street urchin starting longingly at sweets he can't afford behind a glass window.)

WAIT I LOVE THIS ITS SO FUNNY

Just imagining poor sd!Wukong's expression at seeing both Macaques get together (while also taking MK with them) and he's just in distress cuz he can't get EITHER of the Macaques at that point like

sd!Macaque: no more cuddles from either of us!

sd!Wukong: but-

c!Macaque: rules are rules, my emperor

sd!Wukong:

[sinister-shark]

various sundowner doodles ive had and dunno if i will be able to finish,,,

I think the red barcodes look like his pubes...

[marypsue]

I don't, unfortunately, have any kind of a story to hang it on yet (she says, furiously sawing and hammering away at some trope-by-fours), but I would really love to write something where Sam and the boys, especially David, are forced into interacting for an extended period of time (and for Contrived Plot Reasons nobody can kill anybody else). I just think. It would be funny.

[pillowspace]

Is eclipse himself like a own person? Like can he himself communicate or have own thoughts? Cuz when sunna and meno flirt his expression is kind of like ah here we go again like he a third wheel lmao.

As for sunna and meno talking, can y/n hear them? or is not talking but more of like inside voice that only eclipse, sunna, and meno, can hear.

Sorry if is confusing idk how to uh words-

The expression Eclipse had was more Meno's, but the "third person" thing is so funny to imagine. Imagine sharing a body with two other people who just keep flirting with each other. That is tragically not it though, I WISH it fit

He can become one person, but it's less of a third person thing and more just Sunna and Meno both fading into the background so their behaviours merge into one personality

They can talk to each other in their head, but they prefer talking aloud since internal dialogue can get messy. If I get far enough into the fic to introduce Eclipse, I want there to be a lot of scenes of Y/N listening in like "??? Who is he talking to" meanwhile Eclipse is having a full-blown argument with seemingly himself

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: August 1

“Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand

[pollyna]

Long stretch of deployments in the middle of the ocean, with bad weather, meant this: nine o'clock breakfast, Iceman spooing around him and his face smashed in boyfriend's chest, three blankets on them because of the fucking humidity and slow hours playing poker or shitty games Wolfman made up in his sleep. Goose's head resting against Slider's shoulder and Sunny moaning about how he was missing out the hot chocolate from the coffee at the corner of his new house and Chip rebutting the only thing you miss is the free stuff the batista who has a crush on you give you asshole! Mav loved those days as much as the one where they flow.

(Bad weather, in the middle of the ocean, when he was on an assignment without his squadron, his people, ment this: nine o'clock breakfast but at six a.m., five blankets because no Ice meant his bones felt three times the humidity, gossip around endless hands of poker and so much paperwork it would make him cry. It meant, really, writing every single letter he could to whomever it came in mind because please, fuck paperwork. During that times Ice's letter where particularly long and detailed.)

Bad weather days now mean this: mornings in bed, heat pads under the blankets because of Ice's bad knee and Mav's bad shoulder, kissing until one, or two, hand end up under a t-shirt, or pants, and slow lovemaking because there isn't hurry to be anywhere. Breakfast in bed, jazz music as background and phones buzzing with three hundred notifications because the squad wants to share every boring details of a boring boring day and it means too hot tea in the afternoon and long conversations over Skype with Slider and the cat lazing around on their lap, people around for dinner and Bradley, and the squad, coming around for dinner and dessert and falling asleep in the den.

Mav loves these days as much as he loves sunny days. He gets to kiss Ice every morning and every time he wants, so for him, is always sunny. Even if it rains.

[moonchild-in-blue]

Thinking about Higher and that line:

And you need a melody, I only need the silence

As if Vessel is reminding us that this is his purpose - to sing and to worship Sleep, because he has to. No matter how much he wants peace, how much he wants to break free from Them, to live a normal life, he will always come back to this. To Sleep. As if his very existence's worth is measured only by the music he offers to Them.

It's also a weary sigh of admittance. He's aware of the discrepancy between him and Sleep, between the love he desperately seeks in Them, yet doesn't find, and the love he willingly gives away, and is ravenously consumed by Sleep, again and again.

'Cause I am a fire and you are dry as bone You are taking your time You are killing me slow (...) With all that you believe You still refuse to shelter me 'Cause I am a danger and you're A long way from home

I think it's interesting how he's constantly comparing himself to predators, to the things that hurt, and yet he's the one who's being preyed on, who's being burned. As if that subversion of roles is Vessel declaring how overwhelming Their power over him is; no matter how powerful or intense his love for Sleep is, it pales in comparison to Sleep's divine existence. As if loving Them both ignites his passion and drains his very being.

Because he could hurt Them if he wanted. Because the biggest betrayals come from those closest to you. And Sleep lives beneath his flesh, lodged in his mind, his heart. He knows their weaknesses, he has seen the ugly parts of them and took them to himself. Yet chooses not to - or rather, he prefers not to, but he plays along anyways.

And we are exhausted by all this pretending We just can't resist the violence

The price of absolute devotion is what fuels Sleep's attention, and for a man desperate for the slightest hint of comfort and care, this is enough - this is everything. So if fighting the one he loves is the condition to receive their love, then he'll spill blood and tear skin to keep their favour. Because the pain he endures under Sleep's touch is nothing comparing to the pain of being denied their affection. So he learns to welcome the violence, because the aftermath will always bring him close to them.

(There's something about Sleep showing him just enough love to keep him around, but not enough to satiate his hunger, that I find utterly appealing.)

Deep down he knows this is not right, that being loved is not something to be indebted for. He loves and gives himself freely to Sleep; for Vessel, loving someone has no cost. But if this is what it takes to be with them, so be it. After all, who else could love him but Them?

And you need a melody, I only need the silence

You need praise and entertainment; you need the games, the bloodshed, the sacrifice; you think love is destruction. You need to consume in order to give.

I only need you. To love and be loved by you alone. So come have your fill of me; empty me of everything. I will still love you.

---

[If TPWBYT is Vessel going through depression and grieving this relationship, and what it once was, and TMBTE is him finally coming to terms with its demise and accepting that there needs to be a change, then Sundowning is him recognising the toxic nature of their relationship, but being too captivated and weak to resist it. It's him knowing how badly he will burn, but choosing to fly towards the sun anyways just to feel its warmth.]

[specialc]

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

thinking about puppet tattoo parlors. A wall covered in so many different thread colors to choose from - swatches of different types of stitch for different textures / effects. modified handheld sewing machines for tattooing with multiple settings for the different stitches. individual needles + embroidery thread as stick n pokes...

[losersimonriley]

🫣 they’re embarrassing me

[ousama]

dude i dont even know why so many people have me blocked anymore i dont do shit. ok no i probably told someone they are friends with to die but like that aside i dont do shit people just assume things

[phoenixcatch7]

Totk end game/post credit spoilers

Me during the final blow and final cutscenes:

^ Link finally getting to beat up the guy that (caused the last century of problems, nearly killed hyrule, wiped out his friends and family, poisoned his friends homes,) took zelda.

^ me. The final dungeon (?) and battle was so so so good and I got to plunge my sword into ganons human body which I will admit I have missed. He tried to flurry rush me!! Failed but still. Rude. I styled on his soon-to-be corpse to show how it was done.

^ girls when the credits roll

^ girls when the credits finish and they see their favourite sage dying after showing her successors her favourite view and passing on the torch to the next generation ten thousand years late but assured a bright future free of suffering, oblivious to the curse of demise trapping hyrule in an eternal loop and link having to stand there and know better and then it cuts to the collapsed construct outside the temple.

^ girls internally when the door knocks and they've got to act normal about it for two minutes.

Notes about the fights:

The gloom shroud/Phantom ganon waiting outside was a pussy as always. Dropped his bow which I appreciated. The white moblin on the other side got shoved off onto his remains. Good build up to the main event.

The demon army was straight out of skyward sword, less satisfying given the lack of physical progress and implied time limit but it was still a fun treat. Didn't get to use any of my fun things though, and the sages made up for their lack of tactical usefulness and REFUSING TO LET ME USE THEIR ABILITIES and BLOCKING MY VIEW and INTERRUPTING MY ATTACKS by their sheer damage output, they deal with several monsters while I was busy. Then they immediately got pulled away by the temple bosses, which kind of dampened the mood. Bye, I guess.

Ganon was literally sitting in a malice hot tub. Straight up marinating in that hot tub like he was a washed up celebrity taking a fake candid photo at a blow out party he hosted at his oversized Beverly hills mansion months before he had to sell it.

Getting to fight rehydrated ganon was so cool! I will admit the way he built up the fight did something for me, the animators did a phenomenal job giving him a weight and power. I wanted to smash his smug face in so bad.

He was strong! Every hit from him knocked link over! But with his shield up it didn't do any damage, so I drew first blood! I always find that very important when fighting bosses XD. I actually had the biggest trouble with his sword, that thing was almost hilariously small on him and blended into the... Everything around link. When he switched to his club it went from worryingly hard to hilariously easy, I flurried literally every attack and didn't get a scratch! I was wary when he got his spear out but I'd gotten into a rhythm and took him out!

The demon king transformation was incredible! When that health bar just kept going I was so excited XD!! It's a fantastic trope/gimmick, love it every time! And the sages came back! And were somehow EVEN MORE HINDERING. He duplicated and everyone split up to fight one, which meant they were running all over the place. Unlike their vows these guys are fully opaque, and when three out of five are many times bigger than link it blocked out a significant portion of the battlefield, when I needed maximum vision to see and dodge the many shadowy ganons flitting in and out of view. I had a plan, I should have been able to pull it off beautifully - yunobo was closest so ram him into the nearest ganon to create distance to reach sidon and water blast through the forming line of ganons, climb mineru for a bullet time and fill everything with explosives.

What did not happen was all of that. I ended up taking the most damage by far in that portion of the fight. Instead of being a cool fight, a useful set of abilities or even an annoying but ignorable gimmick, the sages were active hindrances that blocked me at every turn, side rammed me with attacks aimed at the enemy, hid attacks aimed at me, and escaped my every attempt to reach them like their au was trained for that instead. The only success was reaching mineru to bullet time back flip from her, and by that point I was frustrated enough to use a significant portion of my ancient arrows. If I'd been using the vows I would have deactivated them barely a minute in and taken my chances with the phantoms! It was ridiculous! It was a relief when they got blasted away and it shouldn't have been!

But OH that TRANSFORMATION. I'd heard rumours of the dragon ganon, my own lack of blocking the totk spoiler tag being entirely my own fault, but it was still a shock to see him do what zelda had done, this time laughing manically, gladly willing to throw away even his mind and soul in pursuit of an ever foggy idea of power. (I can only assume he'd never actually seen a dragon before, and had only heard the myths surrounding then, because those guys are NOT designed for combat lol.) The fact that he went laughing as zelda went in pain and tears really cemented how far both were willing to go but how differently they saw it.

That evil dragon aesthetic was IMPECCABLE. 10/10 off the charts. The horns!! The eyes! The explosion! Forcing his way up through the castle with link trapped helplessly in a tooth! The giant claw emerging! The messed up dragon theme!!

And then ZELDA, my beautiful darling!!! I love her so much, even blind and empty, even gone and sleeping her dragon knew what to do against the thing she had been turned into to fight against. Oh she was BEAUTIFUL and so gentle with link, catching him on her fluffy head, she was so small in comparison! And link was absolutely tiny!!! Tiny boy!! She might not have known what to do herself, but she was pressed as close as she could get the whole time, darting about like a minnow in a pond compared to ganons barracuda thrashing. The sunset in the sky just made the whole thing look phenomenal.

The use of like like - esque stones instead of the calamitys eyes was inspired! The eyes would have been too much the same, and the introduction of likes trained us instinctively to hit the rock orb things as weak points. Unfortunately being that high up in the air and being so small comparatively meant judging distance was very hard, I wasted a lot of ancient and bomb arrows trying to hit them. It was only until the stone opened up (sir... Why did you put that BACK on your head?! Hide it in your body like the rest of the sane dragons!) that I realised you could land on him. In my defence he looked entirely comprised of gloom, which has spent the past month sucking my life out on contact so...

I was SO lucky to have my hero outfit on, ie the dyed travellers tunic and cap of the wild, it made every cutscene so cinematic! Sure felt like a zelda game! I took so many screenshots XD.

The final cutscenes though... I've been so worried about getting zelda back to human since I got the master sword glyph in eldin. I've been so, so determined to get her back. I would have done so side quests to do so - since she was a separate quest to defeating ganon I thought impa would give me the instructions! I was fully prepared to have to put in another ten hours or so and then fight ganon again to get the true ending!

And then Sonia and Rauru showed up again like 'that's our DAUGHTER' and gave link the power to rewind time over ten THOUSAND YEARS and turn her dragon soul back to a human ToT. And then they took links arm!! I was so mad! Give him his arm back?! Where did the flesh one even come from it got turned into a blackened lump on a pg screen! They can't even show blood! That arm was fully gone! You said yourself it was beyond - ohhhh they reversed time on his arm too. What is with Rauru and non consensual arm replacement?? I was a part zonai hybrid! The last piece of an extinct species! I could levitate and reverse time! Give me!! my arm back!!!

But Sonia finally got to meet link like she'd wanted and they got their closure after millenia and they said goodbye ToT.

And then link CAUGHT zelda. They landed in the pond he had all that time ago at the beginning, and he swam them to shore, and zelda woke UP and came HOME and SURVIVED after she'd lost all hope for herself and she got to come HOME 😭 (see pictures above for reference). And they SHOULD HAVE HUGGED NINTENDO, THEY SHOULD HAVE HUGGED.

I was crying so hard I literally couldn't see the screen ToT. I had to keep blinking and sniffling and I just SOBBED when the credits rolled. Wailing into the tissues. And then mineru and the sages! Dangit, not my favourite sage! Dangit, let me keep ONE zonai thing?? Thankfully I didn't burst into tears again but it got CLOSE.

All in all? 10/10 incredible showstopping unbelievable never been done before perfect amazing. Everything down to the camera angles were perfection made physical (or virtual). Just NEVER make me have to fight with the sages again.

[cyberhai]

Following Sundowner around throwing handfuls of them little rattlesnake egg magnets at his back as hard as I fucking can

[kulemii]

31 stops today. anyone wanna be my codriver? i'll let you dj and i'll buy you snacks