#ALSO THE WAY HE STARTED WITH “LIGHT”

[iluumey]

BRENNAN WITH MAKEUP AND ITS SO PRETTY???????? THE SPARKLES???? THE EYE SHADOW??? SLAY??????

[linoyes]

bonus worm time

[somegrumpynerd]

Truce is going well

[ginpotts]

DOCTOR WHO 1.06 ✧ dalek

What the hell are you here for?

[mixedstyles]

i LOVE watching driver cams before and after a race. i feel like such a little fly on the wall. it’s amazing. you start to notice things with drivers too. tom and oscar always fist bump before a race, kimi and bono do a little clasping of hands, isack seems to often close his eyes to get in the headspace before racing, after a race alex always takes off the headrest but lando just slides out. it’s so FUN.

[cybernomads]

you got a fast car // i want a ticket to anywhere maybe we can make a deal // maybe together we can get somewhere

[sillygoofyqueer]

I'm becoming sick over the mad scientist AU and it's negatively impacting how I view everything in life (I was in Psychology and I started thinking about how Wen Ruohan would so take a look at Milgram n fucken Bandura n Skinner n be like "how can I use this to fuck up everyone around me") so I'm fuelling the addiction. Wei Wuxian. Whipped, recovering from a fever, slowly starting to ponder the reliability of what the Wens have been telling him, as well as the implications of it. Turning to Wen Qing while she's rebandaging his wounds after he opened them during sword practice - she's not allowed to heal them, they're supposed to be a message - and asking her if she would tell him the truth if he asked her something someone else had lied to him about. She pauses, and he isn't able to see her expression as she tells him that no, she wouldn't, not if it meant the rest of her family being in danger of death. Of course, this is more than answer enough, and he doesn't ask her any more questions; he can't have his family getting hurt in his hunt for the truth, and he can more than definitely find out everything without having to get any of them involved.

He starts his hunt for knowledge with a carefully timed trip; the moment that his back is given a (sort of) all clear by Wen Qing, he's back to his regular self, bounding around the place and telling Wen Ruohan that he wants to go back to the cave of the Xuanwu of Slaughter to see if there's anything cool to be found in its remains. "After all, it was built off resentment!" He explains, carefully not mentioning the fact that there was anything in particular so that the man doesn't get suspicious. Wen Ruohan allows him to go, but Wen Zhuliu (who is basically assigned to him, much to Wen Chao's chagrin) has to go along, 'just in case'. That's fine - Wei Wuxian's used to getting things past him at all times, so it's easy to get a messenger bird to start following him from a distance on the travel there, and embarrassingly easy to get a message attached to it under the guise of climbing a tree just because. Wen Zhuliu doesn't question it when a bird flutters off, obviously just startled by the boy disturbing its home.

Then there comes the actual searching of the corpse - it absolutely reeks already, but he's more than used to the smell of rotting flesh and doesn't even blink twice before he's diving into the water to search for that sword he lost earlier (yes, Wen Qing did tell him not to get his wounds wet). Wen Zhuliu watches carefully from atop the shell of the corpse, but a well-timed talisman that sets off a crumbling near the entrance to sound like someone slipping or something sends him darting off to check it out just as Wei Wuxian locates the sword half buried beneath the corpse sludge pouring out of the shell. He shoves it into his qiankun sleeve and then grabs a couple other old weapons that could be used for some experiments to appease Wen Ruohan and beams at Wen Zhuliu as he returns with a "look what I found, Zhuliu-ge!! These are going to be so fun to work with!"

It's a few days before he gets a response; he's just glad that the messenger bird managed to make it to his chosen correspondent without getting shot down or lost, and it's made better by a response from the boy (he shouldn't feel so surprised, Nie Huaisang most certainly owes him after what he's been through after letting him escape). He just asked him to tell him about the different clans, and Nie Huaisang has gone above and beyond with a letter detailing the basics of each main clan, and then going into extra detail about what the Nies are like. It's different to how Lan Wangji talked about his home, much more excited and enthusiastically proud of Qinghe compared to the other boy's quiet pride of the Cloud Recesses, but they both just have so much love for places that Wei Wuxian had been raised believing were literal hellholes of their own special kind. Not fit for someone like him.

I should keep talking about how Wei Wuxian becomes more aware of the surrounding world and how he corroborates those answers with different books smuggled in by Xue Yang (who found all of Wei Wuxian's correspondence with Nie Huaisang and demanded to be included because heeeyyyy :[) He's obviously leaving a paper trail so that in case of something going wrong, nobody else can be blamed for Wei Wuxian finding out about the lies the Wen have been raising him on. I actually don't want to because I'm tired and this part is boring me - it's basically just hyjinks mixed with Wei Wuxian slowly starting to break apart because he's learning that he's been assisting the real monstrous sect all along. He's killed people, innocent individuals that had not volunteered to have different resentful energy pumped into them and their organs be systematically taken out. He's really not doing well because of it while trying to act So Normal around everyone else.

I think this all comes to a head when Wei Ying finds out about his parents. He's just received a new letter from Nie Huaisang, yapping on about how honestly, he thought that Wei Ying would "not be this chill at all!! You know, considering all of the horror stories and the experimenting and the blood and the fact that you work for the guys who killed your parents-" W h a t . What. What. He keeps rereading this sentence, over and over again, but it doesn't seem to stick. He feels colder every time the words slide through his brain. No, his parents were killed on a night hunt. The Wen had...but why would they? It's become clear that they don't care about things that aren't useful to them. This teenager, this boy who is already emotionally unstable right now, snaps. Qi deviation mixing with the resentful energy crawling through his body just grab him all at once.

Wen Zhuliu is standing outside Wei Wuxian's experimenting rooms as usual, ignoring the noises coming from inside as usual, until there's a particularly large crash inside. At this point, he can't ignore it anymore and opens the door to be greeted with Wei Wuxian obviously qi deviating and covered in blood which would be normal if not for the fact that he just got new robes and there is no corpse in this room. So it is his own blood. His breathing is heavy and uneven, his fingers are curled inwards with Suibian ever faithfully in his hand. Raw qi and resentful energy crackles around the room and Wen Zhuliu is ready to call for Wen Qing when their eyes meet and he realises that they are clear. Focused. They look upon him and they are filled with a visceral, feral hatred of what they see. The man of course tries to brace himself for an attack, gearing up to crush Wei Wuxian's core, but he is not ready for the power coursing through the teenager's veins in his distress.

When other guards (and Xue Yang) come running at all of the commotion, they are met with Wei Ying sat in a pool of blood, using nothing but his bare hands to rip at Wen Zhuliu's already mutilated body, chunks of flesh and muscle dropping around him and different shredded organs splattered around the gore stained room. The man's throat lies next to his head. When Wei Ying notices the other guards, the only thing stopping him from attacking them as well is the fact that Xue Yang is the one standing in the doorway, staring down at him with actual, real concern and horror - not for Wen Zhuliu, but for Wei Ying.

[youngpettyqueen]

I know the decision to have Julian's parents have him augmented was made on the fly but imo its pretty obvious from early on that Julian has Family Issues because he avoids talking about his family like the plague and I think they should've incorporated this into the Julian and Sisko dynamic right from early on because I think it would've made for some really compelling stories and moments and could've set up a REALLY interesting Julian and Jake dynamic which they kinda started to do but never fully went for

[sealrock]

febhyurary, day 18: shadow

"when dad was losing his mind, he stopped seeing us. when he lunged at me with that knife, he didn't recognize me. in a short moment of lucidity, he came to realize what he had done to me. after months of watching him sink into a deep, black pit, I finally had my dad back. even now, I could feel how tight he hugged me as he wailed out a thousand apologies... but it was too late. dad was sick, he couldn't sleep and could hardly eat, he lashed out at anything and anyone. his migraines only exacerbated the issue. but mum had been so absorbed in her work back then that she was hardly home to get dad the help he needed. the constant fighting they had ended up pushing her away. she didn't want to deal with dad and how he was deteriorating before our eyes. it wasn't just her; no one helped dad, they pretended nothing was wrong like they do with gammy's 'fits'. but they don't make my blood boil nearly as hot as mum. mum treated him poorly during that period, she put her work above him and above us. when dad finally snapped, she abandoned him in that house. I hated her for it. we were just kids, we had no idea what was going on. the twins don't even remember him, they don't remember how much dad loved them, or how he wished they'd stay small forever. I'll never forget his screams, the desperation in his voice when mum snatched me away. I didn't want to leave him. we locked up any aethograph of dad from that time. we didn't want to remember dad like that, we didn't want to be burdened with those memories. but there was another reason why we stored those away—in almost every aethograph, there's a shadow."

[iztea]

things ~artistic talent~ does NOT translate well into

-make up

-techincal drawing like scientific diagrams/representations and what have you

-pictionary games

-cartoony figures that kids like

[apricustar]

do you think buck knows about his feelings for eddie?

hey nonnie! i love this question, thank you for sending it<3

honestly, on a conscious level, no i don't think he does. buck feels everything with his entire being, but he's never been great at naming the things that matter most—especially when they threaten to upend the shape of his life. he just kind of moves through the world with an unflinching loyalty he doesn't interrogate too closely. his bond with eddie is so foundational, so ever-present, that i don't think he's ever seen it as something to question. it's not a feeling he arrived at—it's a place he's lived in.

to buck, everything that defines his relationship with eddie—being partners, trusting each other without hesitation, stepping into christopher’s life like it was always meant to be—is just natural. it’s never felt like a choice, so he doesn’t think of it as remarkable. and that’s part of why he doesn’t recognize it for what it is. the love is there—deep and steady and sure—but it’s so tightly woven into his day-to-day that it doesn’t strike him as something to name. it’s not a revelation he’s had; it’s a truth he and eddie have been living nearly since day 1.

i don’t think it really becomes something he thinks about until the morning after with tommy this season. this is the first time anyone in his orbit has made a passing comment about him and eddie’s relationship that doesn’t sound like a joke. and it lands—not because he agrees, but because, for the first time, he has to ask himself what it is everyone else seems to be seeing. that what he’s always known as natural, instinctive, constant… might look different from the outside. might look like something more. it knocks the wind out of him a little. like a door’s opened, and he’s not sure what’s waiting on the other side.

it's one thing to feel something and not name it, not look at it too closely. it's another thing to have someone else recognize it first—to hear it reflected back to you like it's obvious. and that’s where buck starts to spiral—because if that’s how it looks to tommy, who else might be seeing it too?

so he goes to maddie. and when she gently suggests it wouldn’t be so crazy—being in love with eddie—he shuts it down. hard. says it would be. says it’s not like that. says everyone seems to want me to be hopelessly pining for my straight best friend—which, let’s be honest, is a much more specific kind of panic than anyone had actually accused him of…

and we also have to remember who we're talking about... buck sure i’ll check out a hot guy's ass but that’s normal buckley... buck i’m an ally buckley....

and! for him, eddie isn't just his best friend—he's eddie!!!! his most special and favorite guy who can do no wrong! the most gorgeous, most impressive, most infuriatingly good person buck knows. of course eddie is breathtaking. of course he's everything! that's just a fact of the universe—as undeniable as gravity or sunrise. and buck assumes everyone else must see that too, because how could they not?

it's not something he confronts on his own, because it doesn't occur to him to. eddie is woven into his days, his choices, into every version of the future he pictures; he just hasn't fully let himself look close enough to realize what that means. until (gag i know) tommy brings it up.

so, no, i dont think he knows, not fully at least. but the love is there, though—in the rhythm of their lives, the spaces between what's said, in the future he hasn't quite dared to name. BUT big questions have been asked now, and i don't think he's going to be able to un-hear them.

it's waiting for him to catch up. and when he does, it won't feel like something new. it's going to feel like something that's been true for a long, long time.

[upsidedownsmore]

Tennotober 2024 Day 7: Kalymos

what a little stinker lol

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my muses

[triglycercule]

hi Gang its murder time trio back with another Mettaton

haha! i guess you could say they Kist. wait that not the right ship whoops

[chiropteracupola]

the consequences of what you did / we won't forget (are you ready, are you ready, are you ready?)

[a bit of fanart for @emilybeemartin's creatures of light trilogy]

[raiiny-bay]

the kids released a new album

[coochellati]

HEY GUYS. I GOT THIS ITA BAG AND I WANTED TO SHOW IT OFF!!!

So this layout is actually just a rough draft—this isn’t at all what the final bag will look like. (I’m waiting on more merch to be shipped to me.)

BUT i just had to show it because I love the ladybug bag so much. <3