#A sequel to come maybe?

[seriouslycalamitous]

CHAPTER 9 - THE FINALE OF MY GOD!SCAR x MORTAL!GRIAN FIC IS HERE!! THE END!!

Title: Be the Death of Me

71K Words

9/9 Chapters

Deity AU, DesertDuo

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59967808/chapters/152993515

[freyadragonlord]

Spent the last 3 episodes of Arcane S2 chanting "love can still fix this" over and over again, fully convinced I was just fooling myself, BUT GUESS THE FUCK WHAT

[oblivionsdream]

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I'm honestly not a fan of when books that were supposed to be single novel suddenly get a sequel tacked on usually years later. I just don't think that I have ever read one that I actually truly enjoyed and it always leaves me with a poorer impression of the overall story afterwards.

[2hoothoots]

I've always found it quite funny that Milla's level in PN1 tutorialises hazards like spikes and electricity, and then you proceed to encounter zero spikes or electricity the entire rest of the game

[meteor-moon]

i watched this movie a little late

(blood tw)

[bravecrab]

I think I might be getting a little too obsessed with Dimension 20. With the trailer for Never Stop Blowing Up, and the reveal of the players for this new season my mind was like, "with Rehka and Izzy taking part in this season, that increases their total number of seasons to 4 each. They remain in joint second place for player to appear most often in a non-Intrepid Heroes season, behind Erika who has been in 5 seasons."

[noirandchocolate]

Everybody's excited for the Tears of the Kingdom Masterworks book to drop tomorrow and that's cool and all but meanwhile I'm just wanting to see that sweet sweet shipping notification for my Great Deku Tree lego sets on Sunday.

[inkykeiji]

bnha manga spoilers!!!!!

EEEEEEEEE I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!

his hair!!!!!!!!!!!!! his fucking HAIR!!!!!!!!! i just AAAAH i cannot get over it because !!!!! that is exactly how i picture touya-nii’s hair to look 🥹🥹🥹 just down/undone n fluffy n shaggy n soft <333

anyway i am sickly in love with him, i’m not surprised to see what he actually looks like after the war, but the fact that he’s still got his eyes makes me think that his blue irises must be so stark and vivid and just pop against the rest of his injured body—which makes me both swoon and sad, because goddamn you’d recognize those eyes anywhere, the very moment your gaze meets his…but enji still didn’t, not even when he first came face to face with them, not until they were thrust in his face and screaming at him ._.

[katyspersonal]

Speaking of reusing the tropes and archetypes in Soulsborne, I actually did have an interesting Elden Ring moment in a dream I had tonight!

It was set far into future from game's events, and some powerful lady rediscovered legends of Malenia! But, only through the prism of "she was a powerful valkyre bravely battling 'stagnation of mankind' (Scarlet Rot in this case)!" So, she basically restarted the Cleanrot Knights, in a way, to cleanse the world from all kinds of human dregs (mainly Rot though, but Deathblight was spreading nonetheless).

Only, her and warriors that followed her (90% of who were women) missed the piece of the puzzle where Malenia not only was sick with Scarlet Rot from birth, but also fell for the urge to unleash it for not-so-dignified reason (unhealthy levels of wishing to serve Miquella well). Twice. All she and her comrades took from it was "wow she was so brave, why no one picked up the torch?!" So, they were a little bit heading towards their doom hahah.... I also have such vivid image of her. She was a very big and strong woman herself, only her hair was more deep carmine than Malenia's more orangey hair. But she already felt like Malenia was a kindred spirit on these similarities. "I am, too, a badass brave redhead woman that years for struggle!" She was also so furious, speaking maniacally about their mission xD

The thing is? This is a fuckin Abyss Watchers moment lol. All of it. XD They likewise picked up legend of Artorias, but without the piece that he actyally held a massive L on his own.🤦‍♂️ All they knew was that he was a heroic knight who fought Abyss and they should do the same! A battle with no real end as it deals with nature itself, but is about process. I just think this is so funny how my brain decided to repeat the pattern (and also unironically would be a cool thing to add in ER2)

[mattiebluebird]

Case fic AU of Duke's training year centered around his identity as Signal (big hero, works for/with Batman, above everyone else) vs. Lark (friendly neighborhood hero, fights for the little guy, does things his own way) told as he & the WAR crew investigate a strange new drug that gives people meta abilities, with several B-plots of the other Robins becoming heroes in their own right. Is that anything.

[jamietarttsnorthernattitude]

This is mesmerising. Thank you my lovely friend! It's not exactly the happy part yet of the loudest silence sequel but it's hopeful? maybe? (This is the post-series one. Not to be confused with the season 1 inspired version)

“How bad is it?” Jamie asked, his voice breaking. “Just fucking tell me, Roy. You’re the only one I can count on to just to tell me the fucking truth.”

Roy paused. Jamie’s words both hurt and touched him and he wanted to tell Jamie everything, but he’s barely been awake, Roy wasn’t sure if this was exactly the right time to do it, if he should wait until Jamie has some time to adjust to his injuries, some time to get used to the idea that his right leg was badly broken. Roy has had two weeks and he’s not sure he’s gotten used to it himself.

“Please,” Jamie begged, his voice hoarser currently than it was even earlier, the lack of use during the last two weeks becoming more evident with each word Jamie’s forced to speak.

“It’s bad,” Roy admitted. “It’ll take a lot of work, but you’ll be back out there on the pitch. I promise.”

“You can’t promise that.”

It wasn’t said in an angry or accusing manner like it could have been. It was just a fact, same as if Jamie was saying what day of the week it was.

“Yes, I fucking can.”

“No. You fucking can’t, Roy,” Jamie said, voice now the strongest it’s sounded since he woke up, but the hoarseness still cut through Roy. ‘What did the doctor say?”

Where was the fucking doctor he thought. He shouldn’t have to be the one to tell Jamie his career might be over that he might never dribble a ball that he might never run that yeah he’ll probably walk without a limp but they couldn’t even guarantee that and they couldn’t give a time table of when he would even be able to put weight on his fucking leg again.

Jamie was humpy dumpty and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t guarantee he’d be put back together again.

Jamie looked at him expectantly, his grey eyes glassy but open for the first time in more than two weeks, and at that moment Roy was glad the doctor wasn’t there. He didn’t want Jamie to hear this from someone he didn’t know. He wanted Jamie to hear it from him if he had to hear anything at all.

It has to be me. It could be no one else.

“The doctor said he doesn’t know,” Roy said, and Jamie’s eyes searched him for answers. “They don’t know shit for all their fucking schooling. They couldn’t tell me anything. Your leg should heal, but they don’t know to what extent, if you’ll be able to play or at the same level you were at before. But he doesn’t know, but he doesn’t know because he doesn’t know you, not the same way I do. He doesn’t know what a stubborn prick you can be, what a hard worker you are, how far you’ve come, on and off the pitch. Your story doesn’t end here in this fucking hospital.”

Your story doesn’t end because of me.

He doesn’t say that part, but he means it. Maybe even means it the most. But Jamie doesn’t need his guilt on top of everything he’s already fighting through. Jamie’s saved Roy once, but he’s not going to make it so the lad has to save him again. No, this time, Roy is the one that will help Jamie, save him if he needs to. It’s the least he could do after all.

Jamie looked at him, and a small smile crept into his face, “You did make me better than Zava.”

“You made you better than Zava. I just got your arse out of bed for 4 am.”

[the-unconquered-queen]

In view of Plus One having ended and Best Served Haute only releasing for four more weeks, I wish Choices would strengthen its Friday release schedule for non-VIPs. Because right now, having Crimes, Blades, Years Apart, and Face-Off all on the same day as of next week is seriously overpacking Wednesdays.

But the only books listed in their upcoming wide release schedule are My Fake Valentine, Alpha 2, and Inheritance, and given that none of those seems like my kind of book so far, Fridays are feeling kind of underwhelming and empty right now.

[antilocaprine]

Im chewing on waterbounds new chapter forever…im one of the readers that never read the books with daemons in it but i was chatting about the new chapter with my friends- most people wont survive that, right? Is there a way to survive it? Im sure itll be answered in the next chapter so I could just wait and see but I wanna tell you either way this fic rules so far!

(Waterbound)

I'm delighted that people are enjoying this silly little crossover. And you're chatting about it with friends - it's like a book club! Amazing! I feel like I should give you homework, but the only thing I would suggest is to read the His Dark Materials series, because if the daemon aspect of this story intrigues you, you would probably enjoy the books. I haven't seen the show, but I've heard good things about it. I haven't seen the movie, but I've heard bad things about it.

As for if what just happened is survivable...the short answer is that there's no Major Character Death tag on the fic! I'll put the longer answer under a readmore, because this chapter only came out a couple days ago and people might not want spoilers yet.

So, longer answer: this is not an unfamiliar experience! We've already heard Benrey talk about it when he said he and his daemon were "separated." In the books, there's a major plot point of children being "severed" from their daemons, where a daemon is ripped or cut away from them with terrible machinery and in a single swift action. There are also adults who have had it done, and it makes them...odd. Doll-like, almost, very incurious, very susceptible to suggestion. If their daemon is allowed to remain close, they can survive, but the connection between them - the feelings, the thoughts, the joining of body and soul - is gone forever, and the daemon becomes "a lovely little pet," as one antagonist says at one point (which is awful - that's your SOUL). But if the severed children and daemon are kept apart, they will both eventually die.

Separation is different from severing. Separation is slower, more purposeful. In the books, we meet several characters who have separated from their daemons - as mentioned earlier in Waterbound, there used to be a race of people called witches, who all had bird daemons. In the books, one of the final trial for the girls who became witches was to cross a waste that daemons could not enter on foot, thus tearing themselves away from them consciously, for the ability and the skills that doing so would open up for them. Humans can also separate from their daemons - two of the main characters do in the main series of books, one of the main characters does it in the prequel, and then the main character meets...like...SO MANY more people who are separated from their daemons in the sequel series. All of those separations happened consciously, purposefully, relatively slowly, and almost always with the understanding of what was happening and what they were doing.

That's what happened with Benrey - after his family's boats were attacked and his daemon settled in her final shape due to the trauma, he was hurt from the attack and needed medical attention, but his daemon was too big to go with him, and certainly couldn't go on shore. So he had to leave her in the water and walk up the beach, pulling himself away from her, hating it the whole time, and hating himself for doing that to her and to them and not knowing they'd be okay, just hoping. Witches may be extinct in this fic, but they were real once, so everyone knows the stories. Benrey just had to test the reality of the tall tales, and discovered that, in this case, they were true. After all, his daemon just settled as a mythical creature - so why not? What's one more thing? Why can't separation be real? And so he did it, and it was real, and they were, eventually, okay. But the pain is also real, and the trauma is real, and you don't just forget about that kind of thing. So no, the separation won't kill Gordon - he'll just wish he was dead.

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

me when i can’t decide between writing a fluffy achey teen satoru drabble or a kinda angsty hurt/comfort cult leader geto drabble or a sickeningly fluffy hurt/comfort stsg fic ……….. 😔😔😔

[mabaris]

i am just being picky here but i feel like i keep seeing a reticence to create new things, not just in the fact that most npcs are cameos and the fact that a lot of the worldbuilding we know is just getting reframed, but also in the little things.

i think about it every time i look at the lighthouse monuments. “the warrior: a paragon who was the first woman in the warrior caste” and no one came up with a name?? same with the book bellara’s writing where the main character is just called “the hero.” idk man, i like getting details for shit that doesn’t matter

[faceless-crowd]

I’m close to writing a “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” fanfic you don’t even know.

(Yes I’m reusing my old drawing from awhile back I have no new drawings to use)