#// he kept hurting his hands!!!

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

me, bleeding all over my kitchen floor from a wound in my hand: oh my god this is just like that scene from Modern Love

[greatyme]

Remembering how devastating triage was when it hit peak angst and suddenly getting very scared for where 4 minutes could be headed

[allmyandroids]

Mr. Carbon Black hand appreciation ✨️

[rogueyami]

You can't tell me Garak didn't get 100x hornier when he found out Julian kept the secret he was genetically enhanced not only from him but also from starfleet.

[brown-little-robin]

story time!

What Happened to Dimple

In late summer, Ritsu got very ill. He couldn't keep any food down and he was too weak to walk. Their limited food supplies were running out in the middle of nowhere, and Dimple was the only functional person in the group. Ritsu was out of it, and obviously Mob, a zombie with no goals except "eat whatever is in front of me" and "hang around with little brother", was little help on the finding-new-food front.

So Dimple had to find some way to keep Ritsu alive.

Before starvation set in, Dimple decided to intervene. It played out okay at first. He tied Ritsu to a tree (tied ropes around his torso, knotted them behind the tree trunk so Ritsu couldn't reach) and took Shigeo with him to go acquire some food from whoever passed by on the road they're traveling on first.

(he took Shigeo because he couldn't leave him with no able-bodied guardian—better to be safe than sorry, especially because. y'know. they're on the edge of starvation, and Shigeo is a zombie. but obviously Ritsu, dehydrated and dizzy, interpreted this as "Dimple Might Be Finally Stealing My Brother" despite Dimple trying to explain.)

(Ritsu didn't really protest, though. he was too weak to do much and also he didn't want to get eaten. he just let it happen. he hoped Dimple would come back. he hoped he was just being paranoid.)

the first food source they ran into, unfortunately, was a group of humans traveling with a cart. Dimple didn't really have qualms about stealing, but he tried asking peacefully first, using his "power over the zombie" (e.g. he convinced Shigeo to take a few steps back and Shigeo obliges him) to demonstrate that they could be a major threat. (he was bluffing, of course. Shigeo wasn't being "held back" by Dimple, he's just vibing.) and he was given food! food and water and even toilet paper and a blanket!

so then Dimple returned to their camp with Mob and the supplies, but the people they stole from were a trap—a convoy that deliberately draws people in so they can gauge parties' strength before stealing from them in return. Dimple and the Kageyama brothers got attacked by one (1) guy with a gun, because that's about all the firepower the convoy thought they needed to risk on this little group.

Dimple could've just given up the supplies and tried again. But the thing was, Ritsu didn't really have enough strength in him for that.

If Ritsu didn't get food and water and rest here, he really might have died. Also, they'd have to give up their ammo, which was what they were planning to trade for food in the next settlement they come to.

Dimple looked around. He looked at Shigeo, a half-baked plan to get Shigeo to Do Something forming, and saw him kneeling by Ritsu, eyes half-lidded, looking unresponsive. but Dimple knew Shigeo's body language by then, and he saw how his shoulders were subtly hunched over toward Ritsu, and instantly Dimple knew that the kid's patience had run out. going away from Ritsu with Dimple had been a big concession and now Shigeo was done.

So. Dimple took the supplies and lured the guy with the gun a little way away from the boys, and then he just straight-up attacked the guy. not with a gun, because he was forced to leave the guns in the camp with Ritsu.

Dimple dropped the supplies and made a move. He got shot, and it was Loud. but it just grazed his shoulder, so he managed to drag the guy away from the supplies. Dimple's goal was to prevent the boys from seeing any more death, and he succeeded.

Ritsu, meanwhile, heard that gunshot.

He'd been sleeping most of the time Dimple was away. He was a little more alert by the time Dimple got back, although still physically wiped. He heard that gunshot and froze. And then, doing rapid calculations and realizing that he was danger if Dimple was dead, he started fighting the ropes. He had to get away he had to get Shigeo away he had to RUN.

He fought the ropes silently at first, and then, slowly, his brain progressed from the logical "if Dimple is dead we're in trouble because that man knows our location" to "Dimple is dead, Dimple is dead". he started making a horrible cry as he tried to get free. He wasn't crying, exactly, didn't let himself relax that much, he was just making this kind of frustrated, despairing wail sound.

Shigeo had been watching Ritsu thrash and wriggle in increasing certainty that something was happening, but he didn't know if it was good or bad. The sound, though, the sound was bad. So he tried to help.

He helped by just pulling on the ropes, first, which broke Ritsu's ribs.

but he stopped when Ritsu made a pain sound and, for one of the first times Ritsu has seen him do this as a zombie, did something related to tool use. he went to the supplies and brought Ritsu a knife.

so the Kageyama brothers survived! yay!

[sekiumiarashi]

your bugs too hot? giant oven mitts! (wonder if those can count as a business expense?)

check out my toku side blog @macheteddy!!

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

oughh......

[oldmanffucker]

Prue, Izzy, & Eden, 2003

Photo begrudgingly taken before Izzy went to the sophomore year spring dance (where he and Ed first kiss 👁️)

[jils-things]

my portrayal of soul catcher 💭

before you continue: any latinos who are reading this (hi friends) who feel the need to correct me on what i might say about dia de los muertos PLEASE SAY IT because im indulging in your holiday like a barbie doll and you gotta tell me if im ruining their dress so i can correct my mistake 😖😖😖 ive done a bit of research before making this but im prone to misinterpretation 👍👍👍

so soul catcher to me is a grim reaper, it just makes sense because his idle animation is him escorting a soul with what seemed like a marigold petal (you know, the flowers that are heavily associated with this holiday) and ive read that sta. muerte is known to deliver souls safely into the afterlife. so that's what he is to me. but at the same time he's also someone Helps separate the soul from the newly departed's body - something that a grim reaper does. they don't tamper with the cause of death, they just help direct the soul where it should be :] these two concepts go hand in hand to me :3

also i really like how his costume description reinforces this concept of souls :3

in my last soul catcher post (with eidolon) i mentioned how eidolon is also this wandering spectre/undead gal that has gotten some rumors spreading around the locals. i like to think that once soul actually got to meet her and tried to "separate her soul" from her body (its... his "job" anyway...) it didn't work because she's partially alive. you cannot take away someone's soul when they're still alive... but also at the same time, she isn't? it was truly a curse. it was a very perplexing issue to him - and even if he wanted to help her be free of her conundrum ... it really wasn't possible. it's like, the curse has higher power over her right to the afterlife

so, she was truly doomed to be stuck where she is today. there's no way to undo it, not even with the superior magic that soul has. so the least he can do is let her know that he's there to be her friend, and he'll keep her company - maybe for eternity.

[prettycoolducks]

It's really funny seeing new fans be like "Wait the doctor is gay/bi/nonbinary/etc???" As if they haven't been kissing men and women and all else left and right and ignoring gender as a concept since the very beginning

[tenok]

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[airasora]

Link

[smol-tired-binch-blog]

Hmm. I’m having yakuza!Makoto thoughts

[honeybabymp3]

the updates account i follow on twt cropped the pap pics and i was like omg she looks so cute why haven't i seen these on tumblr :~) and then i saw the video and realized he was also there lol. lmao

[mostlyanything19]

Well DAMN you guys, I just watched the part where, on the cusp of being arrested and possibly killed for being Empire intruders, Caleb pulls the lost Beacon out of Jester’s haversack and with one fell swoop shifts the atmosphere in the room, the possible trajectory of the war, and the ENTIRE game’s storyline 180 degrees on its axis. What a MOMENT. what a MOVE.

AND I also finally met Essek which is exciting, I’ve been VERY curious about him.

[dutybcrne]

While he’d had Diluc’s Vision in his care, Kaeya often spoke to it. Updates on how things were going in Mondstadt, on Jean and the Knights, quiet admissions on how much he missed him and hoped he was alright. Demands he come back to Mond alive, if not for the family he’d discarded, if not for the Knights, then for those at the Dawn Winery at the very least. They missed him more than anyone.

Kaeya doubted Diluc could even hear them, but if there was a chance those words could reach him, that Diluc could somehow be reassured through whatever turmoil he was facing in that moment and given some burst of determination to succeed through the worst from them, Kaeya would still ensure not a day went by without speaking to the Vision, conversations scarcely more than two hours apart if he could help it. It was a childish, most likely vain hope, he knew. But nothing and no one, including himself, would ever have been able to curb the habit.

Anything to make sure that Vision never once dulled to emptiness.