#`always by my side.` || musings

[tempestchxsen]

permanently bouncing between tdmg yasuo having a fully decorated discord profile and being pretty active. but also yasuo having a generic low quality pfp with only a "👍" in his bio and hes active like 2 days out of a month. i genuinely cant decide.

[virsancte]

as the clock strikes twelve 👀

look at how gorgeous angel looks with this hair!!!!! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH RAHH when i grabbed them into cas i legit teared up over how pretty they are. they're everything to me;-;

[sevikas-biceps]

Sometimes, I wonder about Ren; Marcus' daughter. You ever think she thinks of her father and the funny man with the weird eye? The woman with the metal hand and chopped hair, and the man always looking in two directions?

You remember our old friend Vi, don't you? Vander's daughter? She was about your age! Her father went on a long trip, and Daddy here assured me that she left with him. But it seems she never made it. Isn't that sad? Could you imagine being separated from your father?

Right after those lines; I remember finding it odd that Silco dared to explicitly talk about the matters at hand with Marcus in front of Ren. Yes, you can excuse that she's a child—she likely won't remember it, she likely didn't even think anything of the interaction; yes, you can compare her to the Undercity children, who in comparison would no doubt pick up on the undertones and the implications of Silco's words, and to whom in contrast Ren would fall short against. But you also have to note that that day with this funny man was also one of her last days with her father. Doubtlessly, the poor girl was devastated when Marcus died.

She's going to remember it. She's going to remember those last days.

Can you imagine? They're both gone, now. Just like that Vi friend of theirs. Daddy's gone, and I'm alone like Vi. Where's Daddy? Why isn't he coming back? Where's Mister Silco now? He's Daddy's friend, isn't he?

Ren would be looking for her father, yes, we can reasonably assume this—but no doubt she'd also ask around about his 'friend'. Silco, who came to the house unannounced and presumably one of the most interesting people she'd've come across by then. Silco, who showed up for exactly one day and played wooden cards with her, and toppled the little house back down with a giggle. Silco, who she'd recall as a distant face as she grows.

But that name. Silco. She'd learn about him, maybe, if ever she bothered to look into Marcus' old files or decided to go the way of an enforcer. That's far, far off into the future, but it's possible. Ren would want closure. And then she sees it, she sees traces of him: Silco, who was never actually given a mark of identification on official papers—not like Jinx, not like the terrorist who'd come and ruined the relative peace of Piltover.

Imagine if Jayce or Caitlyn recorded him on ink. Slim, slight, rather finely-dressed; with his most notable features being the left half of his face scarred and grey, and a fiery-glowing iris atop a black sclera. Wait. I remember you. You played with me, a long time ago. Daddy was there. You were there. I'd let you into the house. Ren realises just who she'd invited in. The leader of Zaun, or at least one of the businessmen behind it. The pieces come together. Marcus' old notes make sense. Jinx and Silco. Silco and Jinx. Marcus and Silco. Silco, Silco, Silco.

Maybe Ren would understand. She was in direct interaction with one of the Undercity's most notorious figures. At the very least, Silco didn't actually harm her—even if the warning had been clear to Marcus himself.

Maybe Ren would look back on those last days with Marcus and be saddened by it—and not just because those were her last days with Daddy, but because there was also another father in the room. Silco. He wasn't making threats just for the sake of it.

Maybe Ren would also realise what might've been. She'd recall that name. Vi. Vander's daughter.

Maybe she'd hear it in the police department. Vi. Commander Kiramman's former partner. Vi. The girl in Silco's story.

And the thought really hits its mark; she's had it before, but it's only now that she comes to terms with its significance: Oh. She was separated from her father. Vi's just like me. That's the lesson Silco was trying to teach me. To teach Daddy. Would you be so cruel to separate family from one another?

And then the pieces come into place. Marcus was an enforcer—the Sheriff—and it was an open secret in the city that the enforcers as a whole held little to no love for those filthy street rats. They've always been a part of the problem. Why the violence? Why the utter hostility against certain individuals? Why this wall between Piltover and Zaun?

The pieces come into place. It's about family. It's about community. It's about the people you belong to. It's about the people you're willing to protect. Daddy made deals because he had her; Marcus had Ren. His daughter. He was willing to make sins and sacrifices just for her.

Silco threatening Marcus wasn't just a power play. It was also a question of empathy. You deal with yours, I deal with mine. We don't want to end up like Vi and Vander, do we? Imagine being separated from family like they were.

And then, there's that name again. It isn't spoken aloud in the police department. Hush-hush, you see, we don't want to piss off Lady Kiramman. But Ren remembers that name. Vi. And she remembers Silco. She remembers his story about a girl separated from her father. She remembers his little pout to Daddy. Silco wouldn't've asked such a thing if he didn't know the experience of separation—or if he was also facing the threat of it.

And then it's not just business. It's not just politics. And suddenly, Silco himself isn't just a funny man with a weird eye, and his friends aren't just strangers with odd body parts. They're people. Zaunites, and terrible ones at that, but still people.

And maybe Ren would understand.

[iamnmbr3]

consider how confusing tom riddle's powers must have been to him. his childhood magic wasn't just random things he could dismiss; he gained a high degree of control over his powers and developed them substantially. and yet he lived completely cut off from the magical world. maybe the first time a snake spoke to him he too wondered if maybe he was going mad. and even after he determined that wasn't so he had no idea why he could do the things he could do or who or what he was.

[alchemistdetective]

Sister of the Devil

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Me, trying to write a sanguine: What would Chester Arthur do?

[twistedappletree]

hiii apple 🩵 how do you think married or established relationship zhuiling handles mornings? I think Sizhui is fine with them because he grew up with the Lan sleep schedule but sect leader Jin is probably impossible 🤣

What a perfect time to answer this as I’m laying in bed dreading waking up and wanting to go back to sleep lmaooo

Oh, Jin Ling is absolutely impossible which makes it a good thing that it’s Lan Sizhui waking him up because he’s the only one who can (aside of Jiang Cheng who would probably just barge into his room and push him off the bed, lbr 😭)

LSZ is gentle and patient with him, though. The Lan schedule doesn’t apply to Jin Ling but it’s also not good for him to sleep in so much that it makes him groggy and tired the rest of the day, so LSZ tries his best.

But JL is in full mistress mode when he’s tired. If Lan Jingyi thinks it’s bad in public, he’s never had to live with him. He likes to make waking up a monumental task for LSZ because he’s used to getting his way and LSZ wouldn’t possibly deny him, right?

After enough pestering from LSZ, he raises his hands like a zombie so LSZ can pull him up, then crashes against him, snakes his arms around his waist and drags him back onto the bed with him.

Literally impossible.

So LSZ works around it by carrying Jin Ling around who’s clinging to him like a koala, still trying to sleep, while he makes them tea, sets out their clothes, brushes Jin Ling’s hair, etc (Lan arm strength and Wen multitasking, you know how it is).

It makes him laugh because it reminds him of how senior Wei acts with Hanguang-Jun but he keeps that to himself since Jin Ling would probably go feral after getting compared to Wei Wuxian. 💀

[sci-firenegade]

Checked around and saw no one has posted these before. Publicity pictures from Liebe Macht Blind (1925). Nicked from Ebay (because we all know they'll disappear when they get bought).

[tempestchxsen]

personal headcanon that musicverse yasuo definitely has like 40-ish different playlists. one for every genre. any time hes asked about his music taste he just gives someone the spotify link and then stares expectantly. he likes to say that there are only 10 genres in total, but that each playlist has 4 different subplaylists "made to curate a certain vibe"

[gu6chan]

Not to be dramatic and point fingers but why is it that the worst people with no respect towards art or anything that doesn't involve mindless consumption for "the lore" always have to be drakengard 3 and nier fans. like i don't even try to look and search for things to complain about regarding them but somehow every stupid fucking thing in this fanbase comes back to them

[multlfarlous]

———— ηιккι

Sooooo .. 2 years later huh .. I'ma make this a pinned post cause two years is a long hecking time.. I'm going to empty current drafts just because it's been so long..

LIKE / REPLY to this if you wanna interact ? new & old ! If you wanna pick up an old thread/interact that's also fine !

bare in mind most of that was images and meme's more than actual replies lmao;

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editing this to add cause was just gonna change some stuff around on my muse page but

broooo :(

Slowly just making a side blog to list them all - how did that never occur until this problem?? I guess side pages felt easier sdfghj

[transs3xualmagg0t]

hair long enough that i can put it in shitty little bunches and a shitty little ponytail

[gently-decaying-flowers]

i love smelling like campfire

[lipstickontheglass1985]

in another world i am absolutely studying something to do with linguistics. but alas. i am stuck with this stupid baka girl in stem life

[tweeds-rp-hub]

Muse Drop;

Miss Oleana from "Pokemon Sword & Shield"

[heartbeatbookclub]

I really do have to go back to the original game at some point soon, because I make frequent reference to things I remember in contrast to how + handles things, but the last time I experienced the game start to finish was when it came out, so...

In particular, I think there are a lot of things I need to investigate more closely in order to really reconcile all of my thoughts on the main game with the Side Stories.