#“god loves you but not enough to save you”

[punishertruther]

"son besos diferentes, mamá." pronunció la pequeña riendo mientras terminaba de desayunar y les pedía permiso para ir con el camaleón. tras dejar que se bajase de su regazo, se quedó sonrojade mientras le daba el último trago a su café. "puede." comentó con aire pillo, levantándose a recoger todo lo del desayuno con ayuda de alicent. una vez hubieron terminado y dejaron todo limpio, aprovechó que estaban a solas y helaena no les veía para dejar un tierno beso sobre sus labios y acomodarle un mechón detrás de la oreja. "voy a darme una ducha, ¿vale? que me he empapado al sacar a syrax y tengo algo de frío." le hizo saber. "después si quieres puedes ir a ponerle la comida a dahkar y yo me quedo aquí con helaena."

helaena era más que consciente de que la situación había cambiado para bien. sus adres volvían a estar bien, a charlar sin ningún tipo de tensión, a como todo era antes de que se complicase la cosa. por lo que tratar de evadir unas preguntas o mentirle, simplemente prefirió hacerle ver que solo el tiempo diría. al verla reír, esbozó una amplia sonrisa, dejando una tierna caricia después en su mejilla. sin embargo, ante aquellas palabras, alzó sus cejas en señal de sorpresa y después miró a la pequeña con curiosidad. "¿cómo que lo dice ada? ¿acaso tú no lo dices?" cuestionó haciéndose la ofendida, para terminar riendo cuando la escuchó reir a causa de las cosquillas y las palabras de rhaenyra. cuando la pequeña se marchó, la miró con una sonrisa, y seguidamente centró su mirada en rhaenyra con una sonrisa pilla. "así que mis besos son los mejores, eh." comentó acabándose su tortita y levantándose para ayudarle a recoger la mesa.

[croutoncretin]

La pietà

[blorbusshmorbus]

Lestat would 100% cry to Sun Bleached Flies by Ethel Cain

[sauronism]

cw : religious trauma / parental neglect

i've been holding this back for so long, but seeing your abuser live a happy life and unharmed despite neglecting you and fucking up your future, really got me heated. i really try my best to move on, but how am i suppose to do that when i cried my eyes out every night praying to be protected and for justice to happen, only to be met with nothing. no answer. no justice. nothing. she get to mock me and parade her son around while she shun me away. her daughter.

[lexishoney]

one day i'm gonna make a post with descendants x ethel cain lyrics

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

Macaque spent the whole season Big-Damn-Hero-ing and was NOT happy about it xD

[losergender]

whatever you do, don't imagine luke castellan to "sun-bleached flies"

[lotus-pear]

charm stat at debonair ‼️‼️

[miserytrain]

[mourndecay]

i’ll rot with you, my dear.

[sunderwight]

Shen Yuan who glitches in his transmigration, but the original Shen Qingqiu still dies of a qi deviation.

So the System still needs someone with narrative relevance to throw Luo Binghe into the Abyss. In a fit of desperation, it contrives circumstances after Shen Qingqiu's death to move Luo Binghe to An Ding Peak (not that difficult), and then the System makes Shang Qinghua be Luo Binghe's new scum master who casts him down.

Airplane's thrilled, really. Cultivators aren't supposed to get ulcers but damned if he doesn't come close to one anyway. Between Shen Qingqiu and then just a while later Liu Qingge both dying from qi deviations, and Shang Qinghua looking like a stiff breeze could take him out any day now, poor Mu Qingfang is also just about at his wits' end.

But it's not all bad news! On An Ding Peak, Luo Binghe actually finds himself surrounded by the kinds of people who are accustomed to being bullied by the rest of the sect. So they're pretty sympathetic to him, and it's easier for someone with basic laboring skills to advance on that peak too. His chores don't decrease too much, but he actually gets rewarded for doing them well, and no one tries to kick him out of the dorms or anything. Shang Qinghua doesn't either go out of his way to bully or praise Luo Binghe, correctly reasoning that his best shot at not getting a gruesome death is to just be a more forgettable bad guy than an abusive dirtbag or a heart-wrenching betrayal. He doesn't sabotage Luo Binghe's cultivation (no point, and it would just farm resentment later) but he also doesn't go out of his way to help him improve (not gonna arm his inevitable maybe-probably-murderer with better weapons!), so Luo Binghe's situation sees an overall improvement but not the zero-to-hero treatment he'd have got with Shen Yuan either.

When Shang Qinghua shoves Luo Binghe into the Abyss (he just full on picks him up and tosses him like a sack of beans, better to rip it off quick like a bandage), LBH is upset, but he's not especially surprised or dismayed about Shang Qinghua's part in it. Later on he'll be kind of confused, because he just assumed that of course the righteous sect cultivator would abhor the demon, but it turns out Shang Qinghua has been working for a demon since before Luo Binghe even came to the sect? But then it still kind of makes sense because a Heavenly Demon would definitely pose a risk to Mobei Jun and to Mobei Jun's rule. Shang Qinghua, he supposes, is just really loyal to his specific demon.

Luo Binghe's subsequent revenge quest is also somewhat mitigated by the Abyss actually not being that bad.

The Abyss is not actually that bad thanks to the glitched out Shen Yuan having been camping there for several years now.

So when Shen Yuan's transmigration failed it failed because he "woke up" during the process, realized where the System intended to put him, was like no way in goddamn hell am I being that guy about it, and actually kind of won the ensuing tug-of-war. The System couldn't put him in Shen Qingqiu but Shen Yuan didn't want to go back to his dead body either, so he ended up stuck in the nearest available space for lost interdimensional beings. Which was the Endless Abyss.

Luckily Shen Yuan's quasi-transmigrated imparted an equivalent cultivation level as Shen Jiu's to him, and the glitch made him able to sense and manipulate certain extra-dimensional energies, so he manifested as this weird godlike being able to manipulate and control aspects of the Abyss. So he set about transforming Airplane's Torment Nexus into a viable ecosystem (the current version would not be anything approaching sustainable were it not for divine/narrative intervention, and is constantly on the verge of destabilizing into unlivable ruin that would only be fit for some particularly hardy microorganisms).

It's still like, a monster land full of demonic creatures and terrifying phenomenon, but with Shen Yuan's assistance it becomes something more like a demonic wildlife reserve than a dimensional horror plane. Though it is still a dimensional horror plane, and Shen Yuan is its chief dimensional horror. He treats it sort of like those dungeon building or wildlife park sims, figuring out how to keep everything in balance while still preserving all the interesting parts. A lot of the extreme survival issues of the Abyss are more of a result of it being environmentally unstable than a result of its actual denizens, and once he smooths out a lot of the messy dimensional edges and creates stable vents for the fluctuating energy run-off, the demonic inhabits start behaving less like horror movie monsters and more like animals. They're still wild and dangerous and prone to killing one another, but also more cautious, and able to access enough stable resources that they can even start to be picky about what they pursue.

Turns out that a lot of creatures in the Abyss actually don't like fighting and dying and being brutally injured on a regular basis, even if they can heal from it!

Shen Yuan has even discovered that some like chin scritches (he's not terribly worried about habituating them to people, given how rarely any people actually access the Abyss, but also because he's not really all that people-ish himself these days).

This means that one of Luo Binghe's first encounters with the horrible creatures of the Abyss, is in fact a pack of wolf-like monsters thoroughly avoiding an actual fight with him. In fact most of the denizens of the Abyss just avoid him. They can smell the Heavenly Demon energy rolling off of him, and given the current abundance of alternatives to dealing with that, virtually none of the monsters actually choose to challenge him. There are still a few that will go after anything that's bleeding, but that problem stops once Luo Binghe's physiology heals his wounds, which takes like... a couple hours, max.

Despite the stories he's heard, Luo Binghe is relieved to find that the Abyss is not quite so terrible as all that. Normal survival skills suffice for seeing him through much of it. He's able to hunt for food, scavenge for tools, and even finds potable water fairly easily. After a few weeks, he also comes across a ruin which seems to be inhabited.

The being inhabiting it is plainly a god, although he demurs and refutes such assertions whenever Binghe is too frank. He's a strange being, at turns looking like some queer approximation of a human, at other times blinking and winking in and out of existence, in patterns of strange lights and oddly geometrical fire. But he's surprisingly not hostile, letting Binghe rest in his residence, and even directing him towards points of interest. Accompanying him, too, though he seems to think that Binghe doesn't notice the odd almost spiderweb-like patterns that appear on things which he's influencing. The god calls himself The Peerless One, or at least that's what Luo Binghe infers from some writings on the ruin. The Peerless One offers instruction, seemingly without thinking about it, and gets flustered at being addressed by title, so Binghe also begins to refer to him as Shizun after a while.

[greengirllover]

[angeleternity]

[preacherscainnibal]

[vampiricfungi]

[3therals]