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8:11 but Vittorino has roller skates
#8:11 vittorino#can you guys tell I’m a genius yet#first it was the canoe au and now it’s this. I’m literally the best#art#8:11#8:11 game#doodle
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"Charles, will you ride with me?"
"Always."
I just got to the Murfree Brood mission again and I just can't with the two of them. Just peak Arthur and Charles. And this line
#always#my fave charles quote 🥲#it truly is just the peak arthur and charles dynamic in that mission#i never noticed that at one point during a canoeing cutscene#arthur taps charles on the shoulder to tell him something#and charles just gives him a little nod#it's so wholesome#also they really 'there's only one bedroom'ed them#but with a boat#there's only one canoe#anyway as depressed as i am about chapter 6#i'm gonna enjoy doing more missions with charles#(and sadie)#also sorry charles about this mission 🥲#i didn't mean to get you killed#twice#i hope you can forgive me 😭#steph rambles#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#charles smith#arthur morgan
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Taz characters who aren't skinny and in fact are fat:
Duck Newton
Garfield the Deals Warlock
Taako
Lup
Error Ryehouse
Nadiya Jones
Irene Baker
Amber Gris
Merle Highchurch
Gandy Dancer
Beef Punchley
Randy Randsbottom
Crawford Muttner
The Firbolg
Festo
Any character that someone tries to reply to this and claim is skinny especially if listed here
#taz#saw a skinny duck and got angry#the adventure zone#oh but they said theres no cano- SHUT UP THEYRE FAT NOW#griffin told me theyre fat and you can die mad about it#m post
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Okay I’m back on my Mummies nonsense and I’m thinking about the untapped potential of Amanda Carnovan and wanting to bite something.
Like, I get that this is a late 90s Y7 show so of course the normal adults aren’t necessarily going to be involved very much given who the target audience is but we could have had SUCH FUN DYNAMICS between Amanda—technically mother of the pharaoh and also a certified Egypt nerd—and the Mummies. The Mummies, who would be an ancient civilization researcher’s WET DREAM because they’d be the ULTIMATE primary sources to their era of ancient Egyptian history. I may be projecting a bit, but having people who LIVED IN a civilization three thousand years ago AND who would be able to verbally talk about their experiences (biases and all) would be so cool.
Plus, I think Amanda and the Mummies would have gotten along so well. Like, they canonically respect her despite never really interacting with her purely on account of what Presley says about her.
I can see Amanda talking parenting and leadership with Ja-Kal and them confiding their doubts and hardships to each other that they wouldn’t talk about with anyone else. Like, for example, Amanda is a single mother working a full time job, and Ja-Kal struggled with balancing his responsibilities as the prince's guard with his duties as a father and husband. I think both of them would have a lot to talk about regarding work-life balance. Plus, Ja-Kal in the show was edging very close to "dad who stepped up" territory. I'm not saying that Ja-Kal and Amanda would get a romantic subplot (Amanda doesn't seem to be interested in looking for a boyfriend and Ja-Kal isn't either) but I feel like they'd become platonic co-parents in the right circumstances.
I can see Amanda just absorbing every historical and arcane lesson Rath gives and chiming in with her own knowledge. They’d butt heads and argue over specific facts for hours, both being entirely too stubborn at times to give the other an inch, but at the end of it all they’d do it again because they’re both nerds and love the pain of their research.
I can see Amanda and Nefer-Tina becoming gal pals, maybe at first being friends solely because they’re the only women in the group but ultimately enjoying each other’s company; Amanda affirming that Nefer-Tina isn’t wrong for being fascinated by modern advances while Nefer-Tina gets Amanda to break out of her shell a bit by dragging her along to experience the modern world with her (I can see circumstances conspiring to get them stealing a car together and I think I’m right about it).
I can see Amanda and Armon bonding over cooking and exchanging recipes from their respective cultures, even if they may have to substitute a few key ingredients for Armon’s recipes (I doubt Amanda would be able to get her hands on hippo steak, sadly).
Plus! I also want to see Amanda’s reaction to hearing that 1) her baby boy is the reincarnation of a murdered Egyptian prince from three thousand years ago (and one she made a full exhibit about and probably rambled to Presley about for months), and 2) the man who killed him the first time is still around in present day trying to not only do that AGAIN, but use her son’s soul to attain immortality for generally nefarious purposes.
What I’m saying is I wish we could have seen Amanda’s reaction to the Mummy Nonsense because she would have been a WELL of interesting character interactions and also likely caused Scarab headaches personally by beating him up for trying to repeatedly murder her son.
And don’t even get me STARTED on Walter! He was presented to the audience as Presley’s best friend but we hardly see him at all! We could have had Walter as the best friend sidekick! The non-chosen character stuck in the chosen’s orbit! He could have been a Toby Domzalsky or a Connie Maheswaran before those characters even EXISTED! We could have had Walter struggling with pressure from the Mummies to be as dogged and dedicated in his defense of Presley as they are because they see Walter as Presley’s last line of defense, someone who can protect Presley where they can't. After all, the Mummies can’t follow Presley into school and have to be careful about going out in public on account of their whole undead situation. It could be really interesting to see Walter get continuously pressured by these adults who literally died in the line of duty to follow in their footsteps, even if it meant meeting the same fate as them. It would have been interesting to see the Mummies be struck with the realization that they made themselves forget that Walter is a kid too and someone very dear to Presley, and that they were wrong to try and pressure him into becoming a warrior like them. It would have been interesting to see them try to atone for the way they treated Walter as another soldier for their cause. It would have been interesting to see how Walter buckled under the pressure the Mummies heaped on him and even more so if Scarab tried to exploit it because in his darkest moment, Walter would have just wanted all of this Mummy Nonsense to STOP and for everything to go back to how it was before (even though that’s impossible) and almost costing Presley his life because of it.
And Elaine! How cool would it have been if she didn’t have her memories conveniently wiped and she just elbowed her way into the Mummies’ and Presley’s crazy world of gods and monsters out of rabid interest in getting the truth, even if she has to learn a lesson about how not all truths are created equal and sometimes lies and secrets are made and kept to protect the innocent! We could have had an episode where Elaine gathered proof of the Mummies and Presley’s involvement with them and was SECONDS away from publishing before she’s confronted with the reality that Presley keeps his involvement with the Mummies under wraps (ba dum tss) because the anonymity surrounding his modern identity is the only thing keeping an immortality obsessed madman from turning up on his doorstep or in his class to LITERALLY KILL HIM AND EAT HIS SOUL. We could have had her be the reason Scarab learns Presley’s modern identity and her having to atone for putting him in MORE danger.
Ugh. There's just so much wasted potential and it makes me sad.
#screaming from the void#mummies alive#go watch it pls. you can watch the full series free on youtube bc I don’t think anyone cares enough to copyright claim it#it’s so 90s in both the good and bad way but the writing slaps surprisingly hard when you least expect it to#the fandom is so itty bitty and it makes me sad bc I don’t have people to rave about this dumb toy show with#like I’ve seriously been working on a rewrite of the WHOLE SERIES and EXPANDING it since it got tragically cancelled#ill paddle this canoe by myself and FOR myself if i have to but im still going to ramble about it
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Hi it's me again with a tutorial on clicking out of a fic you do not enjoy. I hope it helps!
Hope y'all have a good day
#and stop fucking hurting my friends you douche canoes#I like their writing#I like them as people#I like them period#can you stop making my friends leave the fandom space#grow the fuck up#and click OUT#fanficwriter#fanfiction
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sometimes i think about g.arland’s whole modus operandi in the beginning of f.fi and i . have . Questions .
#*〘 ooc 〙.#kidnapping tw#honey i get it#kidnap the princess#do a lil ransoming#get the whole kingdom#and maybe you can get the princess too because usurping the king will make you the king#and you won't have to worry about pesky class differences#BUT#you take her to a shrine in the north of c.ornelia#and the entire area has been presumably isolated for at least 5 years because of the broken bridge#there's nowhere else to go#you don't got a canoe ( which wouldn't even help you ) or a ship or an airship#did you have a plan b#( ofc i have hcs for all of this i'm mostly goofing but )#😏 🤭#long tags for ts
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I thought the porn ads were bad Tumblr just showed me an ad for a kayak with a trolling motor
#just get a canoe dear l-rd#i don't think you can call that a kayak anymore#every once and a while i prove that my father is a fisherman#a
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soooo I'm in the final dungeon of the main arc now 😅😅😅 sorry for not posting for so much of the story, hopefully I can come back and explain my many thoughts about it later, albeit very out-of-order. But I've always loved the endgame, so here's my very biased thoughts on a few of the skits at least:
ajskdsjf great question. I'm just gonna let Asbel pitch my long fic for me from now on 😅
On that point though, this is just further proof of that recurring character trait in which Asbel doubts his own virtues (probably because he "doesn't know [his] own feelings very well"). The backstory skit prior to this really drives this home:
Even I, an angst-loving fanfic author writing this exact premise, didn't have him go that far, though like Asbel I can't say with complete certainty that no possible universe could exist where this happens— extreme degrees of isolation, manipulation, and insanity could maybe get him to that point. But from my own fanfic take on his character, which I try to draw from canon evidence as much as possible, Asbel doesn't reach the "i wanna destroy the world" level simply because he's NOT like Richard, or Lambda for that matter— he's actually quite opposite from them as their foil.
Asbel's never been shown to harbor resentment or want revenge— not at Hubert for usurping him, not at the unknown Fendelian soldier who struck down his father. There's no skits in which he joins Richard in despising Cedric, even though the man murdered the king and tried to kill Asbel's dear friend too. Even Asbel's KO quote in battle isn't resentful, lamenting that "[he]failed everyone" instead of cursing his enemies for striking him down. I genuinely cannot think of a moment in canon in which Asbel seems to hate someone, but maybe my confirmation bias is blinding me to a good example (funnily enough, the closest moment I can think of rn is a skit in L&L in which Hubert tells him that Raymond's been stalking Cheria, and Asbel responds with a forced compliment laced w barely suppressed rage bc he doesn't want to insult Hubert's family 😅 but that's still more indicative of protective jealousy than resentment).
Asbel does get angry and defensive sometimes, but any hate he has is nearly always directed inward— for example, he doesn't swear vengeance against all monsters after one kills Sophie, he instead vows to make himself stronger so he'll never fail to protect someone again. He's driven by a sense of justice and protecting others rather than getting even or inflicting pain, he empathizes readily with his enemies even when they've hurt him or his loved ones, and he refuses to accept a reality in which others must suffer (and if anyone should have to suffer, he'd always rather it be himself; that's what it means to protect someone).
In short, I think that if Lambda had been with Asbel and forced Asbel to choose between saving himself or saving the world, Asbel would always choose the world. Even if he had lived through additional horrors bc some bastard author wrote him into a miserable role-swap AU 😅
#dolphin plays graces again#dolphin noises#2hcb1#wips#whoops! it's just another excuse to talk about asbel and my fic 😅#i remembered asbel's whole arc of empathy here but i didnt realize he pitched the entire premise of 2hcb1 as part of his musings 😂#i don't blame asbel for misunderstanding his own personality i actually find it quite in-character and endearing 💜#his self-doubt and hypocritically higher standards for himself are also quite relatable#as well as his compassion. i too was making sad noises during all of lambda's backstory 😅#along w commentary like 'poor little meow meow he was raised in a cardboard box all alone maybe we should be niceys to him' 👉👈#lambda is such a bastard but. what if he was misunderstood. what then.#anyway If you're curious about how I chose to answer Asbel's question well that's exactly what the fic is for!!#...i'll post it someday i promise 😅 but i think you can surmise from my conclusion here what direction the plot ends up taking#after all it wouldn't be a very interesting story if asbel acted exactly like richard did. role swap AUs are *supposed* to differ from cano
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name some canonically nonbinary characters why dont you
#toy txt post#those 'name 10 female characters' posts got me rolling my eyes again. just ultimate performative bullshit huh#its giving i think picking a favorite blorbo os activism. by shipping an appropriate amount of femslash in a way that is genuine#but not overbearing or that might be fetishizing! and im not forgetting the characters for the ships not like those nasty m/m shippers!#and by doing this i will reinstate abortion rights. with my Feminist Tastes. im putting words in ppls mouths and being petty but good god#like everyday this shits on my dash. can you all just start blocking the annyoing misogynist m/m shippers you dislike then?#'dont name a male character you just call babygirl' are you normal about trans headcanons? im sure im SURE you are getting the most#annoying fuckers in the world in your notes just calling male characters babygirl without it being a trans headcanon but i have seen so#many posts of this flavor now. are you consuming media correctly? are you consuming the correct media correctly? are you doing it right?#are you meeting your ship quota? are you caring about the characters outside of their ships enough? are you shipping the characters of#color the right amount the right ways to the right characters but not too much cos that might be fetishy? are you headcanoning them aspec?#are YOU aspec? we'll give you a begrudging pass for headcanoning marginalized characters as Aspec MAYBE but dont get too annoyed about#seeing ships and you have to be so polite about everyone equating aspec headcanons with infantilization with no thought to the irony that#in doing so theyre infantilizing aspecs. its honestly 50/50 if you get a pass to headcanon a character as aspec. but we will talk about#doing so as a one to one example of writing the character out of the way of your ship. you and i are not the same. name ten female#characters. name 5 of their albums and recite all the lyrics from memory. produce 5 pieces of heartfelt fic or fanart to prove your genuine#love of the character. are you going to be normal about it if someone names a cano ically male character they headcanon as a trans fem?#or will you start on some shit about how that doesnt count cos shes not a real girl? or do you know better than to say that bc that would#be genuinely shitty. are you doing it right? are you doing it right? are you doing it right? prove your fandom activism to me. write a#feminist retelling of the narrative. what if i name 10 female characters that im headcanoning as transmasc or nonbinary and calling them#babygirl? are you doing it right? am i doing it right yet? am i performing fan engagement correctly?#am i correctly engaging with fan content? is this going to please your algorithm? but not too much. just a little spicy. a little punk. but#not so much i get banned from the platform. for fandom. am i doing it right? are you shipping Pure and Wholesome Ships?#are you Cool and Edgy? do you only ship characters that hate each other that kill each other that are siblings that are problematic? have#you gone so far the other way you think youre cool to scoff at those silly tiktok puritans who only ship pure ships? you wont even think#about a show if its Politically correct you want it to call you a slur. cos youre tough and cool not like those mentally weak uncritical#tiktok puriteens. are you winning son? are you winning? are you having fun yet? are you doing it right? pass my gauntlet#are you a fake nerd girl? name five obscure comics characters to prove youre a real fan. do you hate women? are you winning?#are you winning at correctly engaging with media content? do you get a sticker? is there a sticker for naming 10 female characters? what#about 20. do you completly write off media with Less Women? put your money where your mouth is then. ship the girls in fast and furious
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🛶💙🩵💚🩵💙 it's a love canoe! send this to all the blogs you love! 🩷💙🩷
tysm Hana I’ll paint something cute on the canoe and you can name it!!
#mari answers#we can share the love canoe since we’ll both have put something into it!#you can help paint too if you want :0c
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they make me ILL
#this relationship is so obviously emotionally abusive and im going to scream about it#“ill give you some peace and quiet which i know you love” END ME#this is right before the cake scene AKA the scene where scott intentionally makes jimmy scared for his life and then treats that reasonable#fear as pure paranoia and tries to bully jimmy into something which is making him feel unsafe#look im trying not to say anyones interpretation is wrong but im just. so shocked that people can treat cute healthy domestic 3L!FH as cano#flower husbands crit#<- finally giving in#trafficblr#3rd life#3rd life smp#smajor flaws
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— Tim Finn “Carve You In Marble” music video featuring Greta Scacchi
#he knew what he was doing#i wish that was me#i cant believe she got with her first cousin after tim like how can you fumble like that??#tim finn#greta scacchi#split enz#crowded house#80s#music video#neil finn#big canoe
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sometimes im just like. what if i went and got my benthic invertebrate monitoring certification for fun. what if i got my wetland botanical classification schema. what if we all ran away into the woods and looked at bugs forever
im not a biologist anymore but that just sounds like a fun thing to do, and i don't even have to recert it, i can just steal that knowledge and keep it in my brain! cant stop me now!
#original post#thinking about all the certs ive lapsed and haha! i can still paddle a canoe and patch up a wound and identify those plants just fine#im just not allowed to do it beyond my so-called scope of practice lol#but the knowledge is in my brain forever!#not allowed to give people grades in canoeing or be paid to save someone from drowning atm but i could still be useful if i had to you know#god not canoeing & kayaking much the last few years feels like having my arms cut off though#i need to go back out for my damn mental health#this post was revealed to me from my queue
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i registered for a canoeing class. because i could. im gonna canoe babey
#im like man i wish i could take like a fun one credit class :(#literally whats stopping you babe. you can do that. look at whats available.#CANOE
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Why you ship Masato/Ryo with Daigo? Ain't Masato homophobic
i cant answer this ask seriously because i love how the only stipulation here isn't that it makes no sense to canon but only that masato's homophobic
#snap chats#he can be gay AND homophobic anon you ever heard of that 🤨#it just makes him bullying daigo make more sense#internalized homophobia real#i gotta stop cause then im gonna start my insane rambling again#WAIT BUT I LOVE THE COFIDENCE IN SAYING MASATO'S HOMOPHOBIC#like he PROBABLY is- its never alluded to in cano but i wouldnt doubt it#we all just know and we're all right
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Pottery Makes Nothing Happen: Kaebedo Modern AU
Inspiration: The poem "In memory of W.B. Yeats" by W. H. Auden, the vlog "Maybe Art Only Needs to Be" by John Green, and the broken vase I found in my aunt's house. Setting: Modern AU Kaebedo. Romance-adjacent, homoerotic life advice cosplaying as a birthday ficlet. potter and artist Albedo x office worker Kaeya
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There's a very distinct smell of Cecilia when he entered his office building that Friday. He'd arrived fashionably late, only wanting to finish up what little work he had left before he leaves town. It was almost mid-day, and his office had a visitor that day. A scientist by the name of Albedo Kreideprinz, who he knows mostly casually, while conversing with others.
He wouldn't necessarily say that they're on bad terms, Albedo's sister Klee is a regular visitor of the office, and she has spent her time with Kaeya on many occasions. It wasn't that he isn't close to Albedo specifically, Kaeya is just bad at making close connections with anyone in his life.
So he greets Albedo, notices the vase in his hand that wasn't there before; pale white with gold accents holding a pair of Cecilia flowers, and asks him, "Is that for here?". Albedo answers, politely, "Ah, yes. Huffman had requested me to bring some after seeing them in the upper floor. The flowers are from my sister."
Kaeya wonders why Huffman would request the scientist for a piece of decoration that seemed so expensive, but he didn't want to pry and instead discussed about Klee's next visit. He left the office that day without the smell of Cecilia, but the sight of the added decoration is nice, he thinks in passing, and made a mental note to thank Albedo next time they see each other.
It's the first year he really celebrated his father's death anniversary; the first year he does after speaking to his brother again, at least, and Kaeya took the week off. Despite his reputation to slack off, he doesn't actually take that many leaves, and he had more than enough paid vacations to cover it. So, he took the week off, because he needed to, because he found that he needed a place to face himself without facing others.
He went to the mountains, as one casually does in the middle of September. He drove along the countryside, mind drifting somewhere between a bright summer day where he played hide and seek in the vineyards of his mansion and a gloomy winter rain where he finally left his home leaving his brother behind. As he drives to the outskirts of the forest, he comes across a path leading up to a cabin with a sign on it:
He ponders a little bit about what this means. Albedo, the chief scientist at a government office in the heart of a bustling metropolitan, shares the same common first name and, as far as Kaeya is concerned, utterly unique last name, as the apparent owner of a secluded pottery studio more than 2,000 meters above sea level. Just as he was ready to drive away and move on, because well, he wasn't too keen on making conversation that day, he saw what seem to be Albedo himself, walking around the side of the studio carrying a box of supplies.
It was not the snowy backdrop coupled with pine forest that drew him in; it was not the fact that Albedo's hair and complexion looked as pale as death itself in a way that was mildly concerning; it was not the idea of how some people, like Albedo, can get away from the same mundane job that he has, to a place of serenity and an art form as sophisticated as pottery; it was not, really, any of those, but somehow all of them combined made him stop and gaze at the figure busying himself with cleaning tools.
He was preoccupied enough, Kaeya notes, that it took him cleaning half the contents of his box to notice the car sitting just by the road; Kaeya also notes that he himself hadn't really done anything but watch Albedo clean half the contents of his box. He briefly wonders if that was creepy. He briefly considers why he was so enraptured by the image that he didn't think about driving away.
"Hello... How can I help... Wait, Kaeya?" Albedo's voice, noticeably softer than usual, broke him from his trance.
"What are you... doing here?"
"Uh. Hey. I was just passing, entirely a coincidence. I promise I'm not a stalker."
"Hm. I see. You mentioned you were going out of town for your leave. I didn't realize you meant to visit Dragonspine."
"Ah, well..." Dragonspine, at least in the city, has an image of being a place to brood and be depressed in instead of a tourist destination-- Considering that Albedo owns property here, he does not point out this fact.
"Since you're here... would you like to come inside?"
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So he follows Albedo inside. He talks a little bit about himself, he listens more to Albedo talk about pottery. About how he was born in the snowy peaks, about how his mother was a scientist and artist at the same time and how he secretly wants to be the same, about the vase of Cecilia flowers that he put in Kaeya's office at Huffman's request. Strangely, they never mention their work. They mention Albedo's sister, Klee, they talk about how Huffman found out about Albedo's side profession, they talk about their shared spaces and the vases that decorate Albedo's work floor, but it was like he was speaking to a different Albedo.
It reminded him that sometimes, he also wants to be a different Kaeya. Not Kaeya Alberich, who has never been and will never be Kaeya Ragnvindr. Not Kaeya Alberich, the government official who has connections all over the city and does his job when no one's looking and slacks off when paid attention to. No, he wants to be just Kaeya.
He thinks about this as they talk, and thinks about it some more over their shared lunch, Albedo insisting that he stays for a while if he has no other matters to attend to. He thinks about it even more when he asks Albedo if he could watch him "do some pottery", which he later learns, is not one singular activity.
As Albedo quietly works his way with the clay, somehow bringing life into what was previously a blob of pale dirt, Kaeya thinks about this enough to say it out loud,
"You're very different here from your... Usual self."
Albedo looks up a bit from his work, almost a glance and half of a smile, before focusing his gaze back down to the throwing wheel. "Is that a bad thing?"
"No." Kaeya says quickly, then after a pause he added, "You look beautiful."
And at the back of his mind he knew it sounded flirty and suggestive, but he didn't mean it that way in the least, and internally curses himself for being unable to escape from his habits, because what he wanted to say was, "I want to be like that too."
"Like what?" Albedo didn't look up this time, but his tone listened.
"Have a side that's different from my usual side. My day job, or whatever."
"Doesn't everyone have that? I'm sure you're not giving business smiles when in private?"
"Well, okay, yes. But my private life is... Kind of ugly."
As the silence is filled with the grind of Albedo's art coming into life, he realizes that he might be oversharing to a co-worker he barely knows. He remembers the reason why he's on leave in the first place.
Albedo gently lowers the speed of the wheel, and even more gently takes his hand off the bowl he's made. He looks up to Kaeya, seemingly deep in thought, and when he opens his mouth it's something wholly out of left field.
"Have you ever tried pottery before, Kaeya?"
"...I'm afraid not." He's not sure what Albedo expected from that question.
"Not many people have. When I started, I wanted to make something I can have for myself. That is to say... this is not something you would find in stores." Albedo cleans his hands in a bucket of water he puts by the sink and walks to the other end of the room, where a dizzying array of glazed and unglazed pottery is kept: vases, bowls, cups, mugs of different shapes and sizes. Yet what Albedo took and handed to Kaeya was a vaguely vertical blob of seemingly hollow clay.
It's shaped almost like a flat-bottomed egg, or if someone made a clay version of a roll-on deodorant. The glossy finish of the dark blue glaze is the only reason Kaeya isn't asking if this is an unfinished work, or a piece of a bigger shape, one that makes more sense. He spins it around on his hand, trying to make sense of it. On the bottom there is a hole, too small for even his pinky finger to go in. He was just about to ask what it was when Albedo explains to him,
"It's exactly what it looks like. A hollow piece of closed form pottery with a hole on the bottom. The shape is... not really critical to the art. My mother was more of a painter, but when I learned pottery with her, our instructor told us to make these things, he called them secret keepers. He told us that we can whisper into it our pain and difficulties, so that the body of the clay can carry it for us, and in exchange, we get our lives back."
Kaeya pondered for a bit the meaning of it. He feels the weight of the clay differently than before, but even as he rests this piece of beautifully glazed clay in his hands, he struggles to understand how such a blatantly white lie can ever help with the heartache that comes with adult life.
"My private life is ugly too." Albedo starts, and Kaeya feels like he fell from a dream, remembering that what prompted this was his accidental trauma dumping.
"I started to make pottery to distract myself from it." He sat down next to Kaeya, eyes looking distantly, as if to a dark place, pained.
"I didn't think that I would be able to escape that part of me."
And then he looks at Kaeya and gave him a bittersweet smile,
"You saw what I did with my pottery, what I put up in my mother's studio: a place both filled with fond memories and inexplicable trauma, and you told me that I looked beautiful in it."
"That's..." Because you are, he wants to say, because it is. But he knows it's different for Albedo.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say. And so maybe you should share your private life for another human to see, Kaeya, before you can determine if it's ugly."
"I don't really... have anything to share." He says doubtfully, tentatively. Because he doesn't; he doesn't have a secret pottery studio in the middle of the woods filled with years of tireless work worthy of an art museum; he doesn't have a single hobby, let alone a praiseworthy side profession.
"You can start by sharing tomorrow with me." Albedo states, and offers his hand in a handshake, smile fully gentle and endearing. "It's my birthday tomorrow. Would you give me the gift of making a new friend?"
And as Kaeya shakes his hand, he notices the roughness of his palm, and appreciates Albedo's work just a little more.
"If you'll have me, then I'd be glad." He says, genuinely. And for the first time in years, he's able to imagine spending time with someone else for the sake of itself.
Albedo, he thinks, is an interesting man. Interesting enough to spend his week of paid leave with,
And as it turns out, entire life with, as well.
Though he doesn't find out about that one until later down the road.
#writing#canoe works#art#genshin impact#albedo#kaeya#kaebedo#this got out of hand a little#the homoeroticism of it all#happy birthday albedo#im sorry this is very kaeya centric#also can you tell ive never thrown a single pottery in my whole life#is this too long to be put on tumblr? maybe
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