#And I have no regrets

[backgroundagent3]

[olrinarts]

fastest and laziest comic i've ever made

@lordlyhour and i were talking about 'what if the Goat is Narinder sneaking in to help somehow' and then this happened

[orphicmeliora]

"Kidnap me," you say, as if it's the most natural thing to ask of someone. Anyone else would've given you the side eye and left the moment the words left your lips. "It'd give me the much needed rest I require."

But Sylus only raised an eyebrow, quite used to your straight-forwardness by now. Even though you sit with your back to him, you know because of the mirror placed strategically so that he would be visible but you would be obscured. He seated himself on the chair beside the windowsill through which he'd broken into your bedroom. You frowned, how exactly does he manage to unlatch every lock there, you'd never understand. "What's the occasion?"

You don't know what to tell him because there was no simple way to put it. The ache in your heart felt like it had turned into a virus, infecting every single cell in your body. It had made a home for itself in the marrow of your bones and nerves in your brain. A weight so heavy placed on your shoulders like a scale, it was only a matter of which one would tip first and send you careening into an abyss so dark, so steep and you'd fall and fall and fall until—until—

(—there was nothing but a void and silence around you, profound and loud, and then maybe there would be peace. Maybe the fall would split your spine and crack your skull and maybe then you could rest.)

But you couldn't tell anyone of what goes on in your head during the darkest hours of the night even if you tried.

So you tell him this instead:

"I let him die."

Sylus barely blinks. Maybe he already knows what happened, what with all the eyes he has watching you. How much does he already know?

"Do you understand what I'm saying, Sylus?" You finally turn to face him, tired of scrutinizing his expressions from the mirror. And Sylus looks at you, absorbing every detail of your features.

At first glance, nothing appeared out of the ordinary but there was something odd, something missing.

The light in your eyes had disappeared but you were smiling and not the pretty kind. Your smiles were always radiant and sweet, you never knew how to fake one, so you only smiled when you truly felt happy. Right now, it was neither radiant nor fake, where your lips would twitch every two seconds.

You stand up and inch closer toward him, another oddity. It was him who erased the distance between the two of you, you'd never dared. Sylus had always chalked it up to you being afraid—not of him—but yourself and the events that would follow.

It seems the fear has eluded you tonight.

You gripped the back of his chair with one hand and the armrest with the other. Then you bring your face close to his—in other circumstances, he'd be quite content with this development but not like this, not with that dead look in your red-rimmed eyes.

"I. Let. Him. Die." You repeat. "Don't think I wouldn't do the same to you."

Sylus fixed his intense gaze at you. This face that he'd dreamed of for so long even before he'd met you, had never looked more foreign. He hated that. The uncertainty. It made him anxious.

So he bared his teeth, unwilling to show even a moment of weakness. "I wouldn't expect anything less."

[falling-enthusiastically]

AJ and Tom 'not getting it':

[the-mother-of-lions]

blue submarine no. 6 (1998-2000)

[gremlinscomics]

Tl;DR of the most recent update of SOOP-

This audio was certainly not playing in my head the entire time I was working on pages 17-21...

[the-witch-in-the-elder-tree]

Find yourself a show that has witches, portals to other dimensions, a spell that makes someone forget who they are and assume a more or less normal human identity (wow that one's specific), camp, queerness, horror, weird family histories, a son who kick-starts the whole plot, amazing costumes and an evil gremlin that may or may not try out a redemption arc.

[justrustandstardust]

geto, gojo and the sun ☼

it’s pretty well established that geto and gojo are the suns of each other’s worlds. we know, and are reminded regularly, that the sun is a consistent motif in their relationship. despite this, the metaphor actually runs much deeper than what we see on the surface.

geto associates gojo with the rising sun. in the opening sequence, all of his moments with gojo are dappled with streaks of sunlight. when they’re on the bike, when they’re walking through jujutsu tech, when they’re poking each other’s faces or getting stuff from the vending machine— it’s all so bright.

for geto, gojo is the rising sun that parts his clouds, literally exemplified in the ending sequence when geto is impatiently waiting for gojo in the rain. not only does gojo bring an umbrella, (which he himself doesn’t need) after he picks up geto, they walk together into the sunlight. like a cloudy night, geto waits for the sun to return every morning.

contrarily, gojo associates geto with the setting sun. when they break up in front of the KFC, the sun is setting around them. gojo’s eyes, which usually shine so brightly in the sunlight, are dampened by the waning rays of the sun. in gojo’s memory of the breakup, there’s no sun at all— it’s completely grey.

for gojo, geto is like the setting sun in that no matter how far he extends his hand, he’ll never reach him (as mentioned in the light novel). gojo can only watch as geto slips into the horizon, bidding him farewell at every dusk as he takes all the light with him, leaving gojo alone in the night.

when gojo meets geto at the end of his life, the sun has almost completely set. as he’s dying, geto is illuminating the vestiges of the last sunny day gojo will ever have. the sun sets for the last time, and geto slips through his hands even as gojo uses them to kill him.

what’s interesting here is that both of them associate each other with the same thing. geto is the center of gojo’s universe, and vice versa. the setting sun becomes the rising sun— they're an ouroboros, cycling through day and night as one.

suns are also solitary creatures, doomed to be alone whilst being the most powerful thing in the universe. we need the sun to survive, but we can’t get too close or we’ll die. we can only admire the sun from afar, basking in its rays on the condition that we can never openly embrace its warmth.

i'm reminded of a tolstoy quote that speaks to the nature of the sun as a literary motif:

"he stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."

the sun is always around us, even if we can’t see it directly. geto and gojo may be apart, hidden by clouds or the horizon, but like the sun, they remain at the center of each other’s worlds— steadfast, ever-present and never waning.

(credit to @serenan2d on tiktok for providing the initial analysis that inspired this post. check her out, she’s amazing)

[magniloquent-raven]

I COULDNT RESIST

[theficdealer]

Pain

That's what Tim feels when he comes to. All consuming pain.

His abdomen feels like it's on fire. His head feels like someone is taking an ice pick to it. He can feel his heartbeat in his eyes.

"You have the ability to overcome great fear. Welcome to the Green Lantern corps"

—Summary of Green rings and red things (part 36 of Tim Drake AU’s) by siren_of_the_ocean on ao3

In which Tim Drake gets a green lantern ring instead of a splenectomy and the universe is better for it.

(review+rambling below the line)

This fic is 40k words long and i genuinely forget that every time because all I can think is “it’s too short and I want more.” The concept is fantastic, to my layman eyes and a few google searches it seems like the author actually knows their canon shit (well, that and the fact that they have a reacting to cannon series that has continued to be updated for actual years at this point) and have a fixation on tim drake, which is fantastic because so do i. The ending is a bit…abrupt? It’s not bad, it just hits you out of nowhere and leave you wanting more.

Things I Love About This Fic:

Tim “i will do what i want to do or die trying” drake

Tim vs the JL: The Emotional Beat-Down

Tim: *takes one look at the guardians* there’s somethin’ fishy going on around here

Tim: since i had some downtime, i told the ring to tell me everything. /The other earth lanterns: 👀 / Tim: aaand i’m getting the feeling that’s never occurred to you before

Kyle: He’s the enemy! Run!/ Tim: how about instead i stay and politely ask some questions / Kyle: that is literally the opposite of what i told you to do

Kon: *is alive* /Tim: *is having a mental breakdown* / Kon: is this a good time to mention Bart’s here too? / Bart: got something you want to share with the class, timmy?

Stopping here so I don’t seriously spoil anything too badly. Go read it! Or if Green Lanterns aren’t your thing, this author had literally over a hundred other fics you might enjoy! Other favorites include Into the Deep Dark Night (part 75 of Tim Drake AU’s) in which Tim becomes a Russian water spirit(??) undead entity type deal and lives in the sewers, Bat in a Flash (part 17), where Tim becomes a Flash during an accident with lightning, and The worst year of his life (part 40) in which the justice league, the bats, and a few others react to the red robin (2012) run (also good if, like me, you can’t afford the comics and want to get the gist. They’re currently on issue 29 of 90s yj later on, if you’re interested).

(No this is not an add, i just Love this series

[permanentlyexhaustedpigeon88]

"For soon, it (the sun) will be gone. And with it, the part of me that knew its warmth as well. I shall miss it." ~Adar, Rings of Power

You'd think with as many times as I've rewatched RoP and seen this entire sequence, that Adar would stop punching me in the feels with this line. But...apparently not.

The guy is ruining me. Send help?

[neuroticbookworm]

Since I got multiple people in the feels about Jashn-E-Bahaaraa (it all started here with a tag game, leading to @hyeoni-comb's heart strings getting tugged, and finally me turning evil in the tags here), I figured it would be wise to make a post sharing the Tamil version of the song and the English translation.

But first, a little background about the movie and the characters involved: The movie Jodhaa Akbar depicts the story and romance of Mughal king Akbar and his wife Jodhaa, who was previously the princess of a Hindu state. The movie is loosely based on the historical events (Wikipedia links for the movie, real-life Jodhaa, and real-life Akbar for further reading). Their marriage is arranged to forge a political alliance, and the characters grow to love each other throughout the course of the movie, amidst religious, political, cultural, and inter-personal conflicts.

The song Jashn-E-Bahaaraa is more melancholic than romantic, pining for a love that has not yet blossomed. Muzumathi, on the other hand, is more descriptive, basking in the beauty of his paramour's presence, with a touch of sadness stemming from the distance between them.

Here's the doc of the lyrics with English translation and transliteration.

While putting this doc together, I was delighted to find that there was a continuity (of sorts) of one of the metaphors shared by the two songs. In Jashn-E-Bahaaraa, the narrator (Akbar) describes him and Jodhaa as two banks of a river that never meet:

Karte to hain saath safar Faasle hain phir bhi magar Jaise milte nahi kisi dariya ke do kinaare We journey through life together, But there exists a distance between us Like that of the two banks of a river that never meet

And in Muzumathi, the metaphor is enhanced with a description of the river that runs between them:

Oru karaiyaaga aval irukka Maru karaiyaaga naan irukka Idaiyil thanimai thalumbuthae nadhiyaai As she was one shore and I was the other shore In between (us) gushed the river of solitude

But don't worry y'all, by the end of the movie, they get together and live happily ever after. There's just a lot of dramatic pining, aesthetic withering and beautiful longing before they do.

The movie is available on YouTube (with English subtitles!) if y'all wanna check it out. Here's a sneak peek at just how pretty everyone is in this movie:

[veirsewrites]

THIS IS BEING WORKED ON???? oh god im- *screams in addiction*

im normal. yep. totally normal. not freaking out or anythin.

#thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou

This is being worked on! Well, was and will be.

I was working on it a couple months ago and making great progress with the chapters 1-3 re-vamp and then I moved and then I downloaded that one game that’s very popular right now… so it’s been a while since I’ve written. These next two months are going to be busy for me again but who knows what’ll happen.

So that is my update and happy to hear people are still interested in this little story ❤️

[yoondepity]

pansexual king iktr

[quantumcartography]

hi because im a normal human with normal feelings i made a playlist reimagining harrow the ninth by tamsyn muir as a They Might Be Giants concept album

thank you

[arcanumofthestars]

Having an unhealthy obsession over Tolkien characters at the moment. Made this 3am yesterday with images from pinterest cause I couldnt sleep