#Anyway let's throw

[eydilily]

would you bite the hand that feeds you?

[perelka-l]

WOW IVE BEEN GONE WHOOPS LOL

but i gotta know your thoguhts on archer/silver … your hcs and such …. they have such a messy fun potential i think

- ☔️

Ahhh hello!!!!! It's lovely to see you back!!! 💕

Silver/Archer is so good to ponder on... I love how you can consider how their relationship could develop...

Archer I'd consider is with Giovanni for a long time, and could see Silver grow up and develop and he as well has a certain way of perceiving him, as the heir and in a way extension of Giovanni himself. Like, he'd see Silver as own person but with a certain role to fill in and it would be Archer's role as well to do what he can to help Silver do this. And Silver as well has Archer as a constant in his life - Archer is very, very reliable and Silver maybe even at times could take him for granted, at least until his divorce with dad disillusionement. I wouldn't say that Archer has a paternal relationship with Silver at all, I'd also say that Silver sees him as extension of Giovanni as well, so I'd say it goes both ways...

I like to think that the reason why Silver survived on his own for so long was due to Archer's teachings, I assume that Archer taught him also plenty of, let's say, unusual skills for a kid his age and more usual for mobster so I'd say that Silver is a tiny, tiny bit grateful for him for all that, even if Silver does perceive Archer as, ultimately, weak (which Archer doesn't deny at all).

And as for more shippy stuff... I enjoy the thought that Silver could abuse his power over Archer a bit to get to test some stuff. At the same time Archer would absolutely enjoy to please him, of course I wouldn't say he indulges Silver in everything but if he sees it as beneficial... Plus let's not assume that Archer wouldn't be a tad selfish to get a bit of a taste for himself given a chance.

Point is I really can imagine Archer coming over to Silver's bedroom upon his request :3c like, no romo and stuff but they both plenty out of this.

(Silver also gets thrill from putting Archer on the line, since I'd imagine Archer is risking quite a bit by getting a piece of, you know, Heir of Team Rocket. I don't think Giovanni would be very pleased by knowing what Archer does to Silver, but Archer was told to do best he can to bring Silver up best he can and well)

After the divorce... It would turn a bit complicated. I like the thought that Silver can just come in to TR whenever and gather himself up a little (I like to think it's his point of pride to not use TR resources though) and Archer would ask over and over for him to return, would beg like a starved dog he is :) and Silver is a bit cruel about denying him and yet coming around :) dangling a treat in front of his nose just by being here. I wondered if Silver would use him in any way but I don't think so... Kicks out of seeing his teacher on his knees suffices.

I also drew a thing recently but I'll put it under cut~

No tattoos for Archer bc I didn't feel like it lol but yeeeeeee

[hinamie]

I'm always pushing you away from me / but you come back with gravity / and when I call, you come home

[azuronel]

my predictions for the end of book 7

EDIT: part two here

[cherrirui-official]

I hope u guys don't mind me posting these au doodles while I work on things ahaha

I also gave JD slightly longer hair in these doodles as a funny haha but I don't think it's funny anymore he looks genuinely good with his hair like that ahahaha I hope you're not mad at me for changing his au design a bit

[stefisdoingthings]

silence

also this is from Wolfwood's POV (in case it isn't clear) i have 0 normal thoughts (every song ever is VW)

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

imagine being a shy little intern at jujutsu high and getting the fattest crush on gojo because he’s just. so strong and cool. you idolize him. you want to be his friend. and he seems to take a liking to you; he’s cheery and encouraging and sweet in a roundabout way. you feel like you’ve grown pretty close to him.

imagine him falling asleep right next to you on a sofa in the cafeteria. you can barely tell, with his blindfold still on. but you scurry away to find a blanket, happy that he trusts you enough to rest in your proximity, ready to wrap it around him —

only for it to slip right off. rejected by his infinity.

(he never turns it off, around you.)

[starflungwaddledee]

running a little late, but someone's finally arriving at the @kirbyoctournament !

sent in to the tourney by her well meaning friends, starstruck is a Totally Normal adult waddle dee from king dedede's kingdom of dream land! she's here to try and meet new people, and maaaybe get out of her anxious shell a little bit!

equipped with her customary cheerful attitude, she's also sporting a brand new backpack full of lovingly packed goodies to help her through the event.

if you'd like to get to know her a little better, you can check out her tag on my blog, or these three important comics from previously! lastly, you can find the masterpost for her interactive tournament adventure here! this is an ongoing chronological story (separate to her canon story, but referencing it) that will last for as long as she's in the tournament!

a few notes for any interactions

🌸 despite being a waddle dee, other waddle dees typically don't like being around her, and folks who already know what a waddle dee should be like also tend to get a weird vibe off her. 🌸 she is quite friendly and approachable, but prone to extreme anxiety if she perceives she might have done something wrong or inappropriate. tiny wanya takes criticism the way a handful of hay takes a flame. 🌸 if you have wings and you take her flying she'll never leave your side. she's only palm sized, so if you are big and have wings or can fly, please pick her up and go flying with her please please pleeaase she wants to go go flying and fawn over your wings so so bad 🌸 for the purposes of the tourney, which by merit of its existence is something of an au timeline, consider this event to completely predate her ability to summon these.

[moffnat]

forcing them in their get along shirt because larian is too cowardly

[kindaorangey]

"are you asking me or making me?" is soooooo interesting to me because i think armand only asks it when he can't gauge whether he's letting louis down. it's barely even sexual - it's a hail mary. it's a show of trust, indirectly admitting that he wants to do something other than what louis expects of him, but that he's willing to obey louis anyway, for the sake of their relationship. it's sort of heartbreaking watching them at the sacré-cœur, because if louis had said "i'm making you" armand would've done it in a heartbeat. he would've taken it as a show of committment on louis' part, and he wouldn't have betrayed him. but louis takes the question just as an expression of disagreement, and so he doesn't play the game. ironically, he respects armand's independence too much to make him turn madeleine if he doesn't want to. and so armand isn't convinced of louis' commitment to him, and he betrays him.

and by the time we see them in san fransisco, louis knows what the question means now, and answers "no, arun, i'm not asking" without question. and armand accepts it without complaint, even as it pains him. companionship really is the most important thing in the world to armand, just like it is for lestat, and he's willing to do any number of horrible things to louis and himself just to keep him as a companion, just like lestat. louis' biggest mistake is not realising how to use that to his advantage sooner.

edit: HELP people are reblogging this again. i misremembered the context of the scene - louis is asking armand to witness the turning, not do it himself. still, if armand had gone along to witness, that would have 100% been taken as implicit permission for louis to turn madeleine (thereby adhering to the first of the great laws) and, in essence, "agreeing" with her turning where before he ordered claudia to drive madeleine out of town. this hypocrisy, and the further bending of the rules for louis' sake (he's given permission to turn a mortal despite neither of them being in the coven), would have been seen by the coven as betrayal. armand knows this; he doesn't think madeleiene should be turned for these reasons; that's why he asks, "are you asking me or making me?"

still. if louis had said "i'm making you" i think armand would've gone along to witness, implicitly giving his permission for madeleine to be turned and functionally changing his allegiance from the coven to louis once and for all. so the core point of the post still stands.

[chronologically-challenged]

I think that the party's communication issues can be summed up as "man, is it awkward to tell someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with them if you've only know them for a few months? Probably."

[scatterbrainedbot]

(okay so i wanted to play with this a lot more but its been like a month and @somerandomdudelmao has posted like twenty updates since so im gonna just slap some textures on it and call this donezo for now)

cass has given us so many amazing moments, and plenty are far more intense and emotional than this but like

theres just. something about casey saying this,

and having to then quietly go back down into the sewers, alone

bonus:

[lemongogo]

sry i dont know what 2 draw anymore T_T . elendira portrait #999

[foolsocracy]

babysitting

[lenateliier]

Maomao in various hanfu #4: WeiJin dynasty

[tippenfunkaport]

That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.

Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."

The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.

And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?