#DID SHE EVER GET HOME????

[sm0lcatfish]

can we talk about the ending to shubble’s afterlife series?? please??

like yes, mechanically, she lost her tenth life. she jumped and died from fall damage. but that’s not how she ended the story.

shulk shubble (shulkble?) had just witnessed the death of the only other person properly remaining, the inverse of herself, shadow joey/shadow boy/shadow 2.0. the last thing she wanted to do was watch the sunset and have a picnic, the one thing she endlessly craved on her first life back when she was the shadow.

“everybody’s kind of.. long gone and dead. onto the next… life. after-afterlife?”

“…i don’t really know what comes next.”

and then she simply vanishes. she simply says this is goodbye, and then the camera is obscured by a stray leaf and she’s gone. it’s quiet, there’s just the sound of the wind as it goes dark.

she always loved watching the sun.

[todayisafridaynight]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

I still cant believe i get two big sexies for my birthday what if i passed out i have never won so hard

[dukeofthomas]

"Angry robin" "violent robin" "misbehaving robin" shut up and accept my alternative; spunky Robin. Determined and head strong, can out-stubborn the Batman, has a strong moral-backbone and does what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else says, Robin. Jason who was sassy and quippy and made crude jokes with a smile on his face. Jason who hid in Bruce's cape and whispered gossip to him. Jason who, if Bruce refused him something, could keep bothering endlessly until Bruce caved. And also dramatic Jason. If Bruce tells him no, it becomes a whole theatrical show; a monologue, a narration, embellishments, and falling onto the floor in his grief upon the fact his cruel father has denied him once again.

(Jason who has suffered through abuse and homelessness and poverty and starvation, who is the Fight out of Fight or Flight, who's built up defenses and walls and when pushed and triggered responds with the thing that's always protected him; anger. He's sweet and kind and funny, and when he sees a pimp hitting a prostitute he gets furious and responds with violence.)

[luck-of-the-drawings]

IMAGINE. working at ur stupid uhhh job or whatever. pulling into your drive way and ready to work on some crazy project in your garage. opening the door to the most unfamiliar silence. did your wife and kid leave for something? could you imagine knocking on your kids door, hardly getting an answer, and opening it to find the splattered remains of your wife across his room your child is scared! hes hardly consolable, in a state of shock and terror. you are too, but youre the adult here. you need to take charge. you need to protect him. you need to do something. you need to do something.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

😐 no one told me id burst out crying in front of my best friend watching past lives

[ibetittering]

Fuck all of y'all in Florida how dare you misrepresent my liberal king that man loves women (not in that way) and he would not STAND for this smh

[deoidesign]

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[eudico-my-beloved]

IM GOIGN CRAZY RN

[dent-de-leon]

wait your tags is that really what happened to lucien????

yES and it's absolutely haunting. So, Lucien's childhood: he came from a little family of traveling players in Shadycreek Run. He had an older brother and younger sister, but the eldest brother Elric was always their parents' "favorite." (This did not stop his parents from abusing him either, and there's a flashback where Lucien tends to his wounds while he's still crying.)

His parents end up deep in debt to the Jagentoths--the...the same family in Shadycreek that the Iron Shepherds work for. And when his parents can't pay up, Elric is the one that gets killed for it. His parents, distraught with grief, put Elric's body in the snow until they "decided what to do with it," tried to keep the body fresh.

Maybe at some point they tried to look for a cleric. Maybe. But what they ended up doing was digging up their son's body and handing him over to a hag in the Savalirwood. A witch who has this habit of sucking souls out of people's bodies, skinning their corpses, and sewing them back together as life sized puppets and dolls to display in her little cottage. It's referred to as "Hollowing" someone, because you just carve out their very soul and just leave them "empty"--and it's Lucien's greatest fear.

There's something to be said I think, for Lucien's parents getting too deep into debt with the Jagentoths, and their oldest child being the one to pay the price for it. Then they make a deal with a hag, but it's Lucien who's forced to uphold their end of the bargain. His father gives him a list of people--with the implication that they are not good people--and whoever was chosen, that's who Lucien was tasked with luring back to the witch's cottage.

Lucien is still just a child, couldn't have been older than ten (because by the time he's twelve, he's already been living alone on the streets of the Run for a few years.) And what kinds of people was he trying to get to follow him out into the cursed Savalirwood? Thieves, murderers--and any number of them could have hurt Lucien before he ever made it back to the hag.

And then there's the hag herself, who confesses to Lucien that she always wanted to add him to her "collection." So much of Lucien's story is about loss of autonomy--being controlled against his will, or else coerced into following orders. He's continually manipulated by powerful mages, only ever knows magic as another source of pain.

Eventually, Lucien can't bear it anymore, can't take all the blood on his hands, can't be complicit in his parents' sins any longer. He sets the caravan on fire and escapes with his little sister. Spends the next several years doing whatever he can to build a better life for her, get her a way out of the Run. Eventually, things fall apart.

Lucien spends the rest of his childhood trapped in the Run. Doing odd jobs for other families like the Mardoons to try and survive. He spends most nights going cold or hungry. Waking from nightmares screaming, still feeling the heat of that fire.

He loses touch with his sister. Gets her a way to Rexxentrum, but is too ashamed at himself for not having anything to "offer" her--just barely scraping together enough coin to get by, but nowhere near enough to give her the life he promised. He feels like he failed her, and he stops responding to her letters.

Eventually, he joins the Claret Orders. Nineteen, impatient and impulsive; eager to finally have the power to kill the monsters that always haunted him as a child. Goes back to the Savalirwood, stabs the hag in the heart. But for all he'd dreamed of the revenge, it feels so hollow and empty. She doesn't even fight back, and it makes him feel sick.

Oh--Lucien is also fate touched, which is one of the few things he doesn't loathe about himself. It's something to hold onto, this faint hope that maybe he's destined for greater things, for more than just dying in the Run, that one day he'll escape all this.

There's more, but. That's a good bit of his childhood.

Lucien ends up alone. And when the philosophers start sinking their claws in him, the dream they promise him is a world where Lucien's family actually loves him. It's just....all so very tragic and really drives home that, in comparison to Ludinus, Lucien just....feels like a kid who got in way over his head and just couldn't find a way out--

[bunnieswithknives]

sorry if idk this but what do you think about Wordgirl now in 2024 do you still like it do you still want to make art or talk about it or are you just done with all of it forever and plus i seen that you haven't made art of it since 2022 so you just done with all of it oh yeah and what about The Magnus Archives + Wordgirl ao3 fic too like is that just going to be and i know that your working on 2 au's now just wanting to know that's all

My interests tend to come in intense bursts and then fade. Unless something like, big happens like it gets a reboot its unlikely I'll be coming back to it anytime soon. As for the fic I don't have any current plans to finish it unfortunately.

[bugsinshoes]

"won't you kiss me once, baby?"

yesterday was the one year anniversary of my first ever laurelyn drawing! it's crazy how much these two have changed, so, I had to redraw them. i love these two so bad guys (original under the cut)

[earl-grey-crow]

DON'T WORRY COLTON YOU'LL GET TO PLAY YOUR SONG FOR DEL FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE

[swordmaid]

pause. possibility of hag romance daughter following eilistraee.

[thebigqueer]

ok but also genuinely. how can she say she loves me for 2 montsh and then break it off with 'im not feeling an emotional connection'. is she aware she even started it.

[shigussy]

i keep getting tiktoks of these younger gen z kids referencing a time they did something relating to fandom in public and now they're embarrassed by it and everytime i see one i sit there thinking over all of middle and high school and having genuinely 0 moments that i feel embarrassed by, like i definitely did a lot of shit these kids would be embarrassed by but i think these are all just really fucking funny

also photographic evidence of the kinda kid i was. these are from 2014/15 when i was in 8th grade

-desolation row one shot(still on wattpad gerard way/reader smut)

-twerk it on (mcr crack fanfic no longer on wattpad but i have another fic in my library called twerking in taco bell which definitely ALSO used for my reading log)

-frank iero must die(a serial killer/assassin frerard fic, still on wattpad)

-hair (really vague maybe a phanfic? nowhere in my wattpad library rip)

my binder i used in 7th grade i had a blue one that looked pretty similar to this for 8th grade but idk where it went, also the parts i scribbled out are my full legal name i had written on it. i wrote it normally and then the big spot is where i wrote my name REALLY BIG in elysian code from the vladimir tod books. also the lines are from when i used an exacto knife to cut up some papers and forgot that my binder was underneath

in conclusion yall can now see why im so shameless about talking about shigaraki the way i do