#Could be something in the air

[1800titz]

HI BESTIES THIS IS AT LIKE 8K AND NOT EVEN CLOSE AND MY HEAD HURTS AND SO this is definitely a project to be released tomorrow morning/afternoon 👍

He splits your lips with his fingers. Pries them apart like a butterfly to pin up.

Mental snapshots to encase on a shelf, mounted beside your underwear and a pushpin map with your face smattered in uneven, sawtooth cut-outs. All raw, and sloppy, and wet. Gushing down to the cleft of your ass— he can see everything, and his eyes rove like he’s mapping every bit of you to memory, your underwear balled and tucked into the pocket of his coat. Drinking in every delicate detail, your pebbled clit twitching under his thumb scuffing, and it’s so—

Humiliating.

Embarrassing— shame clots in that interstice between your battering heart and your ribs, that soft spot it’s been dribbling into since he perched you on his lap like a little girl begging for a present, brimful. You screw your eyes, cup the heels of your palms over them. You can’t look— can’t—

He purrs again. A heady hum nearly as slick with want as you are between your thighs. Only, his is oil to your honey. Motor fluid to your syrup— a slippery smear of grease to sap. Rotten. Thick and coal-dark, like tar. Something gritty that catches like sand between his teeth when you try to close your knees. It’s a faulty maneuver, with your feet pried apart on his elbows, and you can only latch your knees, and—

It’s the wrong thing to do.

[pocket-dragon]

At dawn, we yearn.

[weaverofink]

AU where Belos DOES manage to successfully possess one of the unfinished grimwalkers and poor Hunter has to confront yet another thing wearing his face

[epiphainie]

i simply can't get over how tommy immediately opens up to buck about his feelings over the current 118. like saying "i wanted to be a part of that" is such an honest and personal admission to a person you barely know, especially to a person who is a part of that thing you wanted in. choosing the words "i was jealous" is a direct admission of being envious which is hardly considered the most admirable or desired feeling by anyone. it's also him admitting that he lacks that type of deep connection which is not something many people are very forthcoming about, let alone with people they met two weeks ago. and you can see in his body language that everything he says at that moment comes from this very real and honest place. it's not calculated, it's not just him trying to make buck feel better about his own feelings of jealousy. it's personal to tommy, honest, real, even a little uncomfortable as it takes a bit of effort but tommy says it anyway because he genuinely feels like he can be vulnerable with buck about this because buck has been vulnerable with him. it's like the truest moment of connection between two people.

[lgbtlunaverse]

Horrible thing to say but I think there's a real chance Jiang Yanli was both of her parents' least favorite child and knew it and just kinda. Had to go on with her life knowing that.

[wildstar25]

To this day, Arsay still holds the record for "fastest climb up a palm tree" in the South Seas (though there's no real competition for it).

Cultural context:

edit: if you see the version with a word missing no you don't

[septembermonologues]

once again thinking about the sending stones. and how neatly situated oryms is. how much care and intent goes into making sure it gets tucked in with a piece of his home without hiding it- framing it, even. making it as clear of a "look at this! look at this symbol of my relationship with the person who has the other half!" as dorian wearing his against the center of his bare chest. and then dorian, who leans towards cagey when pressed for personal information, putting his stone somewhere so open and vulnerable. wearing it somewhere where people can't ignore it. literally a glowing symbol of their relationship right by his heart for everyone to see.

[valtsv]

VAL's mom's name is probably candice, given that it makes more sense for her to give her victims her actual mother's name in order to reenact her violent revenge narrative rewriting fantasies with them than it does to make one up wholesale, and that it lends a horrible irony to the tragedy of VAL being unable to recall her own name, which got me thinking. based on what we know about silt verses naming conventions ("mallory" = "unfortunate, unlucky" - carpenter is the gods' fool, and dogged by misfortune, no good deed goes unpunished; "richard" = "strong ruler", but is also the name of several english kings of mixed repute, some great and some monstrous - faulkner is a strong leader, but also befallen by self-made tragedy as a result of poor decision-making and over-ambition; "paige" = "young helper", literally "page" - paige is helpful and a young (in the newly-formed sense, rather than necessarily in terms of physical age) servant to her god and her followers, but her surname, duplass, calls to mind the word "duplicitous", which is in line with her family history; "shrue" sounds like "shrew", a derogatory gendered term for someone who argumentative and easily offended, which reflects their reputation as a politician, but also evokes the word "shrewd", ie: astute, discerning - which shrue increasingly is, especially in comparison to their peers) and VAL's observation in that one episode about her mother's rather vulgar comment on her singing voice, and the scarcity of her kindness, "candice" is very likely meant to evoke the word "candid", ie: honest, to the point of brutality. which is interesting, because VAL is brutally dishonest, and weaponises lies, while her mother probably wielded the truth (or at least her version of it) in a similarly hurtful (though less literal in its impact) way.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

so REVENGE, HUH? or justice, if that makes you feel better. it tastes the same when cooked just right. 'I REALLY WANTED A BROTHER.' such a shame to burn a bridge you so desperately wanted to keep, especially when it wasnt even you who started the fire. especially when you hope that not a single fragment of that bridge ever washes ashore.[MAY IT ROT FAR FROM MY SIGHTS] an unfortunate loss! atleast he has his friends.

[meamiiikiii]

5% of a color headcanon.... two versions since b&w emphasizes the dagger more i think but i still like the warm tones ASFSADA

i am not biased towards rainbow daggers whatsoever i promise (lie)

((also friend is streaming now and im there too!! bit more info linked here, its rated mature tho))

[beaulesbian]

I was once again thinking about this goofy Luffy moment after his Lucci punch™ and i had to see it frame by frame.

first the force of it throws them both away, and while Lucci is seen on screen tumbling for a long moment, Luffy is just away in a blink of an eye.

and then his funny scene - his legs are like jelly that he tries to get under control,

he stumbles, falls, rolls into a mix of all his limbs and eyes,

and then only the cloud behind him cushions his fall

- which would be interesting if he can subconsciously control that while he tries to regain the control over his movements - that the environment around him still adapts to his awakened Devil Fruit abilities and morphs to help him. Where others would probably fall through that cloud, for Luffy that cloud backs him up like a trampoline.

It's just fascinating!

[xuehina]

Gift 🎁

twt • insta

[caeslxys]

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere but it feels relevant again in light of the most recent episode. Something that’s really fascinating to me about Orym’s grief in comparison to the rest of the hells’ grief is that his is the youngest/most fresh and because of that tends to be the most volatile when it is triggered (aside from FCG, who was two and obviously The Most volatile when triggered.)

As in: prior to the attack on Zephrah, Orym was leading a normal, happy, casual life! with family who loved him and still do! Grief was something that was inflicted upon him via Ludinus’ machinations, whereas with characters like Imogen or Ashton, grief has been the background tapestry of their entire lives. And I think that shows in how the rest of them are largely able to, if not see past completely (Imogen/Laudna/Chetney) then at least temper/direct their vitriol or grief (Ashton/Fearne/Chetney again) to where it is most effective. (There is a glaring reason, for example, that Imogen scolded Orym for the way he reacted to Liliana and not Ashton. Because Ashton’s anger was directed in a way that was ultimately protective of Imogen—most effective—and Orym’s was founded solely in his personal grief.)

He wants Imogen to have her mom and he wants Lilliana to be salvageable for Imogen because he loves Imogen. But his love for the people in his present actively and consistently tend to conflict with the love he has for the people in his past. They are in a constant battle and Orym—he cannot fathom losing either of them.

(Or, to that point, recognize that allowing empathy to take root in him for the enemy isn't losing one of them.)

It is deeply poignant, then, that Orym’s grief is symbolized by both a sword and shield. It is something he wields as a blade when he feels his philosophy being threatened by certain conversational threads (as he believes it is one of the only things he has left of Will and Derrig, and is therefore desperately clinging onto with both bloody hands even if it makes him, occasionally, a hypocrite), but also something he can use in defense of the people he presently loves—if that provocative, blade-grief side of him does not push them—or himself—away first.

(it won’t—he is as loved by the hells as he loves them. he just needs to—as laudna so beautifully said—say and hear it more often.)

[kbsd]

you're gonna dance with me before this night is through

[crushedsweets]

If u consistently choose kindness on the internet in comment sections and dms and content I love you.

[itwoodbeprefect]

the great thing about falling really deep into a new media niche is developing opinions on many new things. the terrible thing about falling really deep into a new media niche is developing opinions on many new things