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[fantasiadodev]

[fatedroses]

Zenos viator Galvus and him trying to deal with actually feeling things for once (Even if he doesn't really understand how to handle the comfort he receives from others for it)

I am also giving this man a dad that actually cares, because this brainworm have gotten me and there is no saving me from them.

[ndostairlyrium]

I'm glad I have these two angry middle-aged women watching over the south (off screen) <3 Arl Teagan's worst nightmare

[fuzzyoctoplushie]

Posting these with zero context

[melting-sugar-cubes]

[armandposting]

i hate this paragraph so much btw (marius, on seeing Armand in qotd). like literally how dare you put all this on the abused nearly dead child that you bought. first of all you suck SO bad second of all this is literally pathetic. third of all i can't believe he can think all this with a straight face when he also chose to abandon that kid because the kid got tortured into a cult. like oh you counted totally upon his love in Venice? cool well exactly how much was he able to count on you in return, bud

[question-another-doctor]

doodles.

[qiu-yan]

EDIT: just realized that i should clarify something. what i meant by "feel bad for nie huaisang :(" was that jiang cheng felt bad for nie huaisang after nie mingjue died, because having to assume the burden of sect leadership while still grieving was something jiang cheng understood as well.

that poll option does NOT mean "jiang cheng thinks nie mingjue is abusing nie huaisang" or whatever. i should have made that clearer and i'm only realizing now my phrasing was in fact Dogshitte. i'm sorry.

[hitthatapex]

writing all the angst and confrontations in 'cause fuck it I was in love made me sad so now I started writing a crack/fluffy piece??

anyway here is a little snippet:

His boyfriend was ranting, complaining about something or another, Max was just content to listen to his voice and imagine Charles was here, with him on this lounge and — Lando yanks the phone out of his grasp and before his drunken brain could understand what was happening his friend was already talking to Charles. “Mate. Lando here.” He loudly declared, swatting at Max’s hands. “Are you jealous Max is richer than you or something?” Max squawked loudly, renewing his attempts to get his phone. He was bigger than Lando, it really shouldn’t be this hard but then Lando was turning on the speaker and Charles was unusually quiet. “Charles?” He gently called out. “Yes yes. I’m here.” He sounded a bit choked and Max immediately plotted Lando’s death, because he just made his beautiful boyfriend upset but — but then Charles bursts out laughing? 

[bibiana112]

"girlie did very much fail at solving a sudoku puzzle to save her life though" NO! SHE ONLY HAD HALF THE NUMBERS YOU CAN'T SOLVE IT LIKE THAT MUCH LESS ON A TIMER

[dust-wizard]

no no no i don't want the muppet au i don't want the muppets......

[stunfiskz]

i was obsessed with the hazbin pilot when it first came out so i’m going to be seeing this shit to the end unfortunately. anyways with watching the new episodes i’m just thinking about like. i do think there’s a fair argument to make that given the time period he’s from + commitment to old fashioned “professional” ideals alastor would straighten his hair but also like. why would it be fluffy emo boy hair then. why.

[non-un-topo]

Icky and gloomy vibes, weehee! <333

[amischiefofmuses]

-- ❝Anyone gonna tell these old guys they've already won the award for longest emotional edging session with the decades of work they've put in, or am I gonna have to be the one to point it out?❞

[blackjackkent]

So, what Rakha really wants to do right now is go kill the people hunting Karlach, because they don't have anything else that would qualify as a direct plan other than the creche, and the "paladins" are closer. However, I happen to know that the paladins are level five and Rakha is level 2 and could be knocked over by a stiff breeze, so I think a better bet is a more full exploration of the Emerald Grove first.

I'm guessing that this is the result of a concerted effort on Wyll and Shadowheart's part, primarily - Wyll already knows the people of the grove and Shadowheart has fixated on Halsin as a useful lead. Gale doesn't seem to have any specific plan in mind and, left to their own devices, Lae'zel would already be heading for the creche and Rakha and Karlach would be after the paladins. But between them, Shadowheart and Wyll manage to convince everyone that at least TALKING to the healer in the grove would be a useful start before everyone goes off half-cocked.

Amused because I stopped in to talk to Zevlor and got a disapproval from Wyll purely for leaving the conversation without asking the question about whether the ritual could be stopped. XD Sorry, Wyll. I swear we'll get to a point where you like Rakha, somehow, but I doubt sincerely we're there yet.

Speaking of the ritual, down we go to the grove proper - with a quick stop to talk to the teeth-ling kids.

"Whoa. Hey! Can't say I've ever seen someone like you before."

Without preamble, he shows his hands to her, empty. Then a quick flick of the wrist, and suddenly he's holding out a tarnished gold ring between his fingers.

"Go on," he says cheerfully. "Take this ring. It's lucky."

Rakha, who has very little context for anything she experiences, has never seen slight-of-hand magic done before, nor is she familiar with the concept of a con man. So she watches this little display and is immediately fascinated. Magic - but with no surge of that visible tapestry around the boy, the network of power that Gale calls the Weave.

How?

"That was a fancy trick," she says slowly.

His eyes narrow and something subtle shifts in his expression, a flash of interest. "You haven't seen anything yet, lady," he says dryly. "Go on - take the ring and watch your fortune change!"

Take the ring.

She takes it and looks at it carefully. There is no magic on the ring either, nothing that she can sense. But the boy looks up at her earnestly as he draws a coin from his pocket. "Call it! Heads or tails."

She blinks at him, puzzled by the question.

Pocket the ring.

"Hey, hold on!" the boy cries at once. "You gotta pay for that!"

She does? She withdraws the ring out of her pocket again and squints at the boy, incredibly baffled by the entire situation.

("The boy seeks to deceive you," Lae'zel says impatiently under her breath. "His magic is mundanity. The ring likely the same."

Wyll sighs. "Be kind, the both of you. He wants to show you a trick, that's all. Let him flip the coin.")

Rakha's eyes narrow. She stands there with the ring sitting on her palm and feels foolish. "It's only a joke," she says slowly after a long silence and trying to sort through the words from her companions. "Go on... flip your coin." If anything, she is curious to learn what that means.

"Real sweet sense of humor you got there, chum." The boy looks as if he's starting to regret his choice of mark, but he presses on gamely. "Anyway, you gotta call before the flip. Heads or tails."

A long pause. "Heads?" Rakha says cautiously.

The boy grins, tosses the coin in the air, catches it, and then shows her the side with the head facing up. "Heads it is!" he crows. "See? That's the kinda luck you get from just one of my lucky rings! I've got more where that came from. Real cheap, too. Interested?"

Rakha is starting to understand the situation now that she has seen it play out, and her lips twitch with irritation. [SORCERER] "If there was magic in this ring, I'd have felt it," she says bluntly. "It's nothing but junk."

The boy flinches and raises his hands defensively. "Not so loud!" he hisses. "You caught me, all right? They're not lucky rings." His eyes grow wide, his expression twisting with sudden, exaggerated pathos. "I'm just... trying to earn money for my family," he whimpers. "My father left and my mother... she's so sick. I wish I had better things to sell than... trinkets, but it's all I have!"

Rakha squints. The shift in tone is abrupt enough that she is certain it's disingenuous and that Lae'zel is right - the boy is making a fool of her. There is nothing of value here.

Wordlessly she shoves the ring back in the boy's face.

Return the ring and leave.

[silverhand-j]

Are you fucking kidding me