#A Day In The Life of Grave

[floodleaf]

[54625]

"Have you no more memories?"

I am made of memories.

"Speak, then."

[rhiangalaxy]

It was always going to be like this. (IAC pt.8) ((First/Prev/Next))

[ID: A Scum Villain Comic. Panel one depicts Luo Binghe having been stabbed in the abdomen by Xiu Ya/SJ!Shen Qingqiu. LBH's arms are slightly raised in surprise. It then shows SQQ with an angered expression, his arm slightly swinging down as if retracting his sword and saying "No. I was right! You. Are nothing but a little BEAST." LBH reels back with a shocked and hurt expression at his words as his hands have raised to cover the wound in his abdomen.

Panel two depicts SQQ pushing his other hand outward with a qi blast towards LBH, as his other hand has pulled back with a now bloodied sword. Wtih a determined expression SQQ states "Now go where you belong." To which LBH raising one hand up as if to defend himself in horror replies in a small voice "Wait-" It then cuts to a view of the ends of SQQ's robes and LBH's left hand reaching upwards as he falls backwards into the Endless Abyss.

Panel three shows how LBH's hand/arm is suddenly grabbed by Gongyi Xiao. Chibi!LBH looks up in concerned surprise, saying "Gongyi-?" GYX now reaching down with both arms with a concerned and frightened expression yells "Hold on Shidi!"

The final panel first depicts all characters in a chibi style. A cracking noise is shown that causes GYX to stumble downwards with a surprised expression going "Wh-" before both him and LBH fall into the Abyss. Wtih GYX still holding onto LBH's arm and LBH looking up towards him in horror as bits of rubble from the cliff face fall behind them. End ID]

[macking-cheese]

POV: You're stacking cubes instead of figuring out how you're gonna pay rent next week

[swan2swan]

Brooklynn's dads really went to her funeral twice, huh.

[finleycannotdraw]

can anyone hear me

[bloodurged]

"know that, when I'm braver, it's 'cause I learned it from you."

[chelseaaasmileee]

what yall know about the emo trinity

[the-barefoot-hatter]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63239368

Relationship: Bill Cipher/Ford Pines (Implied), Bill Cipher/Ford Pines (past implied)

Characters: Bill Cipher, Ford Pines, Stan Pines (brief cameo), Henchmaniacs (discussed), Jheselbraum the Unswerving (discussed)

Additional Tags: Bill Cipher Actually Was Just Minding His Own Business, Ford Pines Has Issues, Ford Pines is Trying, Bill Cipher is Trying, Bill Cipher Has Issues, billford relationship status: still so very complicated, henchmaniacs are not actually good friends, you know that story about the kid who always has m&ms and uses them to bribe others into friendship, well Bill is out of M&Ms, Bill Cipher has a pretty messed up view of friendship, Friendship is not magic, Ford probably yelled half of this at Bill's grave, catharsis doesn't work when they come BACK TO LIFE though, here it comes, The rain and sun, The what I was & what I have become

I can walk you back to Heaven but it's just too far

Summary:

Ford thinks he found a loophole in the Axolotl's decision to send them his worst patient- they just have to pass the problem into anyone else willing to help him! Good thing Bill has so many caring friends, right? AKA, that loophole might as well be a noose. (Blind Bill AU, early, probably the first weekish)

[floodleaf]

[candycryptids]

POSTED MY HAIR MASHUP! [XMA] Insomniac is now available for download ;w; Taking a preview image nearly broke me so sorry this is so ? hasty looking LOL

It doesn't support hats (but it won't explode, it'll just clip) or Hroth or M'roe, but you're free to do whatever the hell you want with it cos it's all Square assets.

also if you read webtoons give Eaternal Nocturnal a shot it's finished but I think it's a fun story and I like it ;v;

[it-is-theatre-my-dudes]

guys guys guys im losing my mind over episode 9 of the new season and i have nobody to even talk to guys guys guys GUYS

(MAJOR SPOILERS IN TAGS)

[screechingfromthevoid]

Orym told derrig he didn't know why he didn't come see him last time he was home. That is a fucking lie. He knows exactly why.

He couldn't bring Dorian to his father and husband's graves.

Which. Is fine I guess. Grief is a bitch and not linear. But I'm going to write a fucking thesis on Orym and his inability to face the truly fucking hard stuff in his life.

Because sure. Being a widower and mourning your husband is super fucking hard. Especially when it came at the same time as the only home you've ever known no longer feeling safe. FINE. That is incredibly hard.

BUT. Orym will barely let himself admit that he has feelings for Dorian let alone navigate what it means to love again.

Orym feels such immense guilt about Will's death that he considers moving on to be the biggest betrayal. That survivors guilt combined with him swearing to put an end to the people that took Will from him truly stops Orym from actually feeling his feelings about even the idea of loving again. He can't process loving again because he feels like it's unfinished business. That he hasn't earned love again.

Which is bullshit you dumb little halfling man.

Then, holding love in your heart for your first love and spouse while finding yourself developing feelings for another is a hard thing to juggle. So he doesn't. Which only leads to feeling worse when he remembers Will.

If Orym really sat down and thought about how Will would feel about him moving on, he would probably come to the conclusion that Will would not want Orym to live his life alone for his sake. I feel like Will is the type to say "it is very sweet that you want to only love me. But you're not proving anything by not loving someone else"

Because Orym might want to be that guy? He always thought he would be? He was a widower. He loved Will with everything he had. He was not going to stray. He wasn't going to betray him like that.

But falling in love is messy. He couldn't help himself falling in love the first time. And he shouldn't punish himself for falling in love the second time. Because he couldn't help it. Suddenly he was just. In love.

And Dorian knows about Will. Dorian knows how much Will meant to Orym. He'd never make Orym get a cover up tattoo or stop seeing Will or tell him to never talk about him. Dorian understands that Orym will always love Will. He just hopes Orym might love him also.

If Orym was better at his feelings, if he was better at facing the hard shit in his life, he would have taken Dorian to see his father and Will. They would have mourned together. Dorian would have said hello like Fearne did. He might have left a stone or praised Orym. And Orym would have been able to see his two worlds together. He would be able to reconcile his past and future and anything in between.

[dent-de-leon]

wait your tags is that really what happened to lucien????

yES and it's absolutely haunting. So, Lucien's childhood: he came from a little family of traveling players in Shadycreek Run. He had an older brother and younger sister, but the eldest brother Elric was always their parents' "favorite." (This did not stop his parents from abusing him either, and there's a flashback where Lucien tends to his wounds while he's still crying.)

His parents end up deep in debt to the Jagentoths--the...the same family in Shadycreek that the Iron Shepherds work for. And when his parents can't pay up, Elric is the one that gets killed for it. His parents, distraught with grief, put Elric's body in the snow until they "decided what to do with it," tried to keep the body fresh.

Maybe at some point they tried to look for a cleric. Maybe. But what they ended up doing was digging up their son's body and handing him over to a hag in the Savalirwood. A witch who has this habit of sucking souls out of people's bodies, skinning their corpses, and sewing them back together as life sized puppets and dolls to display in her little cottage. It's referred to as "Hollowing" someone, because you just carve out their very soul and just leave them "empty"--and it's Lucien's greatest fear.

There's something to be said I think, for Lucien's parents getting too deep into debt with the Jagentoths, and their oldest child being the one to pay the price for it. Then they make a deal with a hag, but it's Lucien who's forced to uphold their end of the bargain. His father gives him a list of people--with the implication that they are not good people--and whoever was chosen, that's who Lucien was tasked with luring back to the witch's cottage.

Lucien is still just a child, couldn't have been older than ten (because by the time he's twelve, he's already been living alone on the streets of the Run for a few years.) And what kinds of people was he trying to get to follow him out into the cursed Savalirwood? Thieves, murderers--and any number of them could have hurt Lucien before he ever made it back to the hag.

And then there's the hag herself, who confesses to Lucien that she always wanted to add him to her "collection." So much of Lucien's story is about loss of autonomy--being controlled against his will, or else coerced into following orders. He's continually manipulated by powerful mages, only ever knows magic as another source of pain.

Eventually, Lucien can't bear it anymore, can't take all the blood on his hands, can't be complicit in his parents' sins any longer. He sets the caravan on fire and escapes with his little sister. Spends the next several years doing whatever he can to build a better life for her, get her a way out of the Run. Eventually, things fall apart.

Lucien spends the rest of his childhood trapped in the Run. Doing odd jobs for other families like the Mardoons to try and survive. He spends most nights going cold or hungry. Waking from nightmares screaming, still feeling the heat of that fire.

He loses touch with his sister. Gets her a way to Rexxentrum, but is too ashamed at himself for not having anything to "offer" her--just barely scraping together enough coin to get by, but nowhere near enough to give her the life he promised. He feels like he failed her, and he stops responding to her letters.

Eventually, he joins the Claret Orders. Nineteen, impatient and impulsive; eager to finally have the power to kill the monsters that always haunted him as a child. Goes back to the Savalirwood, stabs the hag in the heart. But for all he'd dreamed of the revenge, it feels so hollow and empty. She doesn't even fight back, and it makes him feel sick.

Oh--Lucien is also fate touched, which is one of the few things he doesn't loathe about himself. It's something to hold onto, this faint hope that maybe he's destined for greater things, for more than just dying in the Run, that one day he'll escape all this.

There's more, but. That's a good bit of his childhood.

Lucien ends up alone. And when the philosophers start sinking their claws in him, the dream they promise him is a world where Lucien's family actually loves him. It's just....all so very tragic and really drives home that, in comparison to Ludinus, Lucien just....feels like a kid who got in way over his head and just couldn't find a way out--

[firstkillers]

Anyways this whole submarine thing has proven that people on this site aren’t actually able to commit to eating the rich.

[ai-higurashi]

Get in loser, we're going shopping