#Deadcrush

[igotsnothing]

» [Deadcrush, Alt-J] « 1:26 ─〇───── 4:58

[originalhoneys]

Lee Miller

[animusrox]

Fargo (2014 - ) S05E05 "The Tiger"

[goblinbeetle]

Nosebleed

[imgradi]

SHADOWS

[cloudbattrolls]

Deeper, Yet Deeper

Jikiro Takami | Present Night | East Alternia/??????

This drabble is preceded by In All I Am, Retrace Me.

The tealblood stumbled back, eyes wide with shock.

“What the fuck - what the fuck -“

He cursed in worse ways as well as the teal eyes regarded him, and he felt something looking through them. 

Then a voice came, though the mouth didn’t move. A deep, smooth voice that carried a hint of amusement.

“Welcome, Jikiro Takami. I was promised you would come.”

The ink maker blinked.

“What.”

“You want a cure for your kismesis, don’t you? His poisoner promised you to me, confident you would make a deal for his life.”

Jikiro couldn’t move. Couldn’t speak.

It had all been a trick.

Izanam hadn’t been sloppy. She’d planned all of this. The lesser demons...no wonder they were gone. She must have destroyed them herself so he’d unwittingly walk into her trap.

What was going to happen to him?

“Yet she did not make a true bargain with me.” Continued the demon lazily. “She only asked that I consume your power. She thought your magic would be enough to tempt me, as if I were a beast so easily satisfied.”

Jikiro blinked, then scowled. 

“Wait. So. You don’t have to do what she said?”

“Not at all.” Replied the creature, very amused.

Despite the danger he was still in, the tanuki troll primarily felt annoyed. Izanam had put him and Jamie through all this shit and she couldn’t even finish her own plan properly? How could she be so clever and yet so dumb? It’d make his kismesis ballistic.

He smiled grimly at the thought.

“Izanam Takami thinks herself too good to offer me anything.” Said the demon offhandedly. “She resents me for the existence I grant…but she refuses to try and change the bargain Tsuaki made. A wonderful contradiction of a woman.”

“Speaking of.” Jikiro raised a finger. “Why the fuck are you using her body?”

“As she was old and dying, she came back to me, so I could have her as my vessel. She did this to keep you inscribed from having to be full hosts. There is great power in the first of a bloodline, so the terms were accepted.”

Jikiro marveled. Tsuaki had offered herself up instead of them, as her final act. 

He felt humbled by how the Inkblade had provided for them all. Angry that Izanam hated him for something he couldn’t control. 

He set his jaw and looked at the demon.

“Okay. So. You know what I’m here for. I, Jikiro Takami, offer my kismesis Jameth Abnale’s business Starsight Industries in exchange for the permanent removal of Izanam Takami’s poison from his body in a way that causes him no pain and ensures he stays alive both during and after the process.”

“Not the name you were hatched with, but the one that suits you best.” Observed the supernatural entity. 

Jikiro snorted. “Why do you get that and Izanam doesn’t?”

“What do silly troll genders mean to me?” Answered the demon, amused. “In any case, I cannot accept that bargain.” 

Jikiro stared blankly.

“Why.”

“A life you value so highly for the loss of his business, which I cannot profit from? It isn’t a fair trade. Nor is Jameth offering it himself.”

Jikiro gritted his teeth. Hanabi had warned him this might happen, but it was still frustrating. How the Inkblade had had the patience to bargain with this creature so extensively, he didn’t have a clue. He wished Viltau was here to help him.

He thought, and realized there was something he should’ve asked before.

“So, even though Izanam didn’t give you anything for it, why aren’t you taking my magic anyway?” He challenged. “Is that something you can do, or do you need permission?”

“Your magic is in part my magic, Jikiro. I sustain you, and you feed me in return. Taking your power would remove a longer-term source of energy for me. Unless I had a compelling offer, there is little reason to reabsorb it so soon.”

Huh. Surprisingly straightforward. Now he had a better idea of the demon’s priorities.

“All right.” He said, thinking. “So. I need to offer something of my own. Or I need to figure out…wait. Couldn’t I just bargain for how to make the cure to whatever Jamie’s got?”

The demon laughed. 

“You could.” It said, still amused.

Jikiro thought. It could be a trick; maybe there was no cure, or maybe it required something he couldn’t get ahold of, so the information would be useless. 

Think, Jikiro, think. What would Viltau do?

Viltau wouldn’t play by the rules at all. He made his own. 

“Okay.” He said, slow, still thinking. “You say you can’t profit from that deal. But I know damn well you feed on more than just the creative potential of ink. Jamie’s a designer. He creates as much as I do. Taking his business…you’d take his ability to see those designs realized. If it’s a connection to it you need, I have his business card.”

Jikiro took it out of his sylladex, the small dark rectangle a deep blue with stars, the text a beautiful gold. 

Hanabi had told him how ancient this demon was; enough that even she knew little of it, for she’d been young in the Inkblade’s time. It had been present when the first troll writing had appeared, she’d said. Fascinated by the potential of trolls to remember, to learn, to use accumulated knowledge to change the world around them. 

The corpse’s body turned to match the direction of the head. Nauseating to watch and listen to as the ancient bones and muscles ground together and stretched, but Jikiro knew he had the creature’s full attention. 

“Interesting.” It mused, and extended a hand to take the card. Its eyebrows raised and its mouth widened in a grin Jikiro recognized as uncomfortably familiar to his own when he was riled - teeth sharp and dripping with ink.

“Ah…such a price. More than you know.” It murmured, as ink enveloped the card and it vanished.

Jikiro did not like the sound of that, but he knew this was still the best option he had. Jamie wouldn’t like it, to put it mildly. At least it was better than the alternatives. 

“Do we have a deal?” He asked. 

“Yes, Jikiro Takami, we have a deal. Are you using your already spoken terms?”

“Yes.” He said, staring directly into the dead eyes of his ancestor.

He didn’t know if he’d missed something, if he’d been fooled somehow. The Inkblade could’ve done it better. But damn it, he’d tried. At least he’d saved Jamie.

The eyes closed and ink streamed out of the corpse, forming out into floating East Alternian characters the size of a troll’s head, gathering around Jikiro and the demon in a shifting mass. More and more formed as the tealblood watched, wide-eyed. 

They turned from black to glowing teal and cobalt, spinning in the air so fast he was almost dizzy from watching them, and the demon whispered words in a language he didn’t understand.

Finally they stopped, the characters still. 

There was a moment’s pause.

Then the demon laughed, and the words turned back into pure ink, flowing into the corpse again.

Except for a tiny amount that flew directly at Jikiro, hitting the spot just above his bloodpusher and disappearing through his clothes without a trace, leaving him gasping.

“Wonderful! The deal is complete!”

“The fuck was that?” Jikiro coughed, putting a hand to his chest. He couldn’t feel anything under his shirt, but who knew with this shit. 

“A sign of our bargain.”

“Great.” He muttered. “Can I leave now?”

“Yes.” It said, amused. 

He turned and walked back, making his cautious way to the point he’d come in. The warped trees seemed to be getting a little healthier, patches of dark moss appearing on the rocks that dotted the landscape. 

Had his deal caused that? 

He made it to the entrypoint, and returned to the tree archway.

Immediately the crackle of magic sizzled through the air, tingling on his skin - the tell-tale sensation of a ward being tripped.

Jikiro’s eyes narrowed. He hadn’t been affected…was this the demon’s doing? Or had Izanam left something else to try and trap him? A final fuck you if the demon didn’t take him?

A burst of psiionic sparks that knocked him to the ground answered that question. Jikiro saw one of the trolls from before standing a few dozen feet away, eyes dazed - clearly controlled, unaware of their actions.

He swore as he quickly drew on himself, making a psiionic shield - just in time, for another troll jumped at him with a dagger, going for his throat. They stabbed him in the shoulder instead as he struggled to move away and he screamed in pain, his dark blood gushing out. 

The deer lusus leapt in, planting its front hooves on his chest, crushing his bones as it went to bite him. 

He screamed again.

The troll went for another stab.

The tealblood’s eyes went inky, his teeth sharp, and he used his spilled blood to rise and choke the dagger wielder, to wrap around and break the legs of the deer. The troll slumped over, unconscious, and the deer wailed and fell over, kicking frantically. 

Jikiro had no choice. He hated it. He hated what Izanam was making him do. 

He lay there, panting, wracked with agony. 

The psiionic lowblood came in closer, taking out a wrench. Jikiro gritted his teeth. He’d used all the blood he’d shed. 

He took the dagger from the unconscious troll, and cut himself again in the chest with a shaking hand as the psiionic swung for his head.

A surge of ink-blood pushed them over, knocking them unconscious as well.

Jikiro closed his eyes. He was just going to…rest. 

—

When he opened his eyes, he was somewhere else entirely. 

A dark gray expanse of rock. No moons. Things that looked like stars, but he didn’t think they were. Otherwise, it was terribly dark - darker than the demons’ land, which is how he knew this must be a different place. A horrific stench filled the air. 

Something loomed over him, and he felt dread in the pit of his stomach.

It was a mannequin. 

It had no eyes.

[irelandking]

avenger/agent reader fic recs

bucky barnes x reader

❤️ = fluff 😔 = angst 🔥 = smut 📱 = social media au

multiparts/series:

single bed - @sebbymylove16

Part 2 & Part 3 You and Bucky have to share a single bed on a mission and it prompts him to say what’s been on his mind for a while ❤️

sly as a fox - @sunmoonandeddie

Part 1 (master list links are broken)

After the blip, the Avengers continue on with business as usual.  But they soon find out that while they were away, someone took it upon themselves to do the job they left behind. ❤️📱

catch me - @buckyywiththegoodhair

In which a bet leads Bucky to have to catch you every day for a week, no matter what. ❤️😔

honey and the bee - @chrevastan

One sleepless night brings you to the large communal kitchen at the Avengers Compound. Fully furnished and equipped but barely used, you decide to give the room a little culinary love. Little did you know, your new hobby would bring you some special moments with your friends and opportunities to get to know the newest addition to your team—Bucky Barnes. [chef!reader, baker!reader, avenger!reader, t: enemies-to-lovers] ❤️😔

10 signs an introvert likes you - @andyl394

Bucky wasn’t the type of guy to show his feelings and neither were you the one to notice subtle things, until you come across this video; A guidance that may help you discover rather The Winter Soldier likes you or not. ❤️

mirror for the sun - @imhereforbvcky

Nat tricks you into leading a road trip with Bucky, Sam and Steve. Her plot is partly to get the boys to travel for fun for once but mostly to get you and Bucky together. You and Bucky, who seemingly despise each other. ❤️😔

guiding light - @wkemeup

It was supposed to be a simple mission. Get the intel and go home. Until everything goes wrong and you’re taken captive by Hydra. While you struggle to stay alive and hold your sanity, Bucky begins to lose himself to a darkness and gives into the soldier because he doesn’t know how to breathe without you. Not until he brings you home. If he even can. 😔

deadcrush - @heli0s-writes

Part 2 & Part 3 Deadcrush, a game played based on the question “what historical figure would I want to take on a date if they were alive today?” ❤️

best boyfriend you never had - @language-rxgers

When you find out your sister is getting married and expects you to bring a date to her wedding in two months, you panic, having not gone on so much as a coffee date with a guy in far too long. After all, being an Avenger doesn’t leave too much time for a life outside of work. So, when your best friend, none other than the James Buchanan Barnes himself, offers to pretend to be your boyfriend and plus one, how can you refuse? It seems like something that would come out of a movie. However, real life is never like the movies, and stories like this never go as planned. ❤️😔

the coupon book - @tuiccim

12 part series each part a sexy coupon being used 🔥

play pretend - @wkemeup

part 2 When Bucky is injected with a substance that leaves him desperate for release, you offer your help. But once that line is crossed, Bucky’s not sure he can ever go back. (sex pollen) 🔥

almost had me believing it - @tuiccim

An undercover operation playing Bucky Barnes’ wife is a dream come true. Playing house in the suburbs while trying to take down a drug ring brings you and Bucky closer but a nosy neighbor causes trouble in paradise. ❤️😔🔥

[budgie2budgie]

URL Song Tag Game

@capptrash @jayveesim @zosa95 @happy-lemon & @simmenycricket thanks for the tag, guys! ❤️

B - bending hectic/the smile U - up all night/SAULT D - deadcrush/alt-j G - grace/IDLES I - if you were someone i loved/s.g. goodman E - exile/bonny light horseman 2 - 2020 vision/raury B - big smoke/matt corby U - under the moon/070 shake D - dorian/agnes obel G - glacier/john grant I - it probably matters/interpol E - earthly happiness/tunde adebimpe-mia doi todd

i'm tagging @sirianasims @someone-elsa @streetlites @sunsettsimss aand @nilonne !

[bubblepopsims]

Deadcrush - alt j

Oh Izzi, Izzi , Izzi.... you kill me... i just mmmm you are a good looking sim. Izzi my brooding Hawtie XD I don’t know what I have been doing with them but they look more and more attractive as the days pass leading to the wedding XD. It also doesn’t help that I take them into CAs almost everytime I load into my game XD

[drifting-pieces-blog-blog]

Shuffle your ‘on repeat’ and post the first 10 songs!

Tagged by the lovely @nowritingonthewall

I don't use spotify or anything of the likes. But I know what I'm currently obsessed with.

So here we go in no particular order! .... It's been an odd ear-worm sort of couple of months for me.

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Deadcrush by Alt-J (this tickles my brain and I love the music video)

My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit (There's something about this one that just makes me happy)

Black Dress by 070 Shake (Heard it on the radio and it stuck with me)

I can Feel it (Michael Jackson x Phil Collins Remix) by SickKick (Look this one up on YouTube. It's amazing. You will not be sorry).

Piano Concerto #2 in C Minor, Op 18 by Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninoff went off on this one. Heck yeah!)

No One Dies by Love by Tove Lo (Tickles my brain so hard)

Hurriane by annons (Something about this and the music video that I'm obsessed with)

Silhouettes by Of Monsters and Men (Can't go wrong with Monsters and Men.)

The entire Escaflowne sound track (You have no idea. This sound track and I go way back.)

Saat Saat from Moon Knight (The best. You just can't beat blasting this one late at night and getting overly emotional)

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Tagging anyone that wants to!

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

Had a deadcrush on Alexander h Stephens tell me about him (sorry not sorry) and William h Seward😭

[kvltoris]

tagged by @thrashunderpressure

rules: list your top 5 albums from your top 5 artists (can't have a repeat of the same artist) on a poll, so your followers can vote which album they think captures your vibe the best.

no idea what my "top 5" albums actually are lol, but these popped into my head and seemed diverse enough in style

tagging @deadcrushs @treefcker @thatdykepunkslut @37q @balaclava-trismegistus

[robot-rarepairs-dotcom]

OK OK OK OK OK. Hear m out as Dratchets #1 hater. DeadCrusher is an affair. Deadlock simply found someone better. Like. Deadlock git bored with Ratchet and his snark nd annoyance and stuff. And he find Bonecrusher and thought "hey simple one-night lessgo" and then boom bam they've been breaking the bed frame every night Ratchets stuck at the medbay (yk every other night)

OK I'll leave you alone again for another month or soooooo-💥

When a fling turns into marriage and domestic life and neither of you know how you got here

[igotsnothing]

Shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.

Oh, yes: tag game me! I was tagged by @akitasimblr, who is one of the first simblrs I ever followed. I love her edits, her sims (Maria and her "Woof-Woof" live in my heart rent-free), the Harper legacy (OMG, what a lesson on how to play legacies and I am failing splendidly...) and of course, LE CHAT. I was also tagged by my dear @greighish, who is the kind of person who when they enter the scene, they class up the joint, conversations get smarter, the air quality gets better, the silver polishes itself...You get the (museum-quality) picture: cool writer, music connoisseur, creative simmer, and kind and lovely human.

Thanks for the tag, friends!❤️

Umm... so nevermind that most of the selections on my playlist consist of morbid-sounding titles that make me seem like a hella off-brand Wednesday Adams. I am actually quite cheerful and upbeat when I'm lip synching to Pantera’s “Walk”.

Deadcrush- alt-J

The Actor- alt-J

Ave Plague- King Plague

Half Life- Zola Jesus

Wolf Like Me- TV On The Radio

Forever Suffer- Dark

The Killing Moon- Echo and the Bunnymen

Bela Lugosi Is Dead- Bauhaus

Taro- alt-J

Riverside- Agnes Obel

Who is gettin' tagged? Cool peeps: @crabbeychick, @silentsundown, @box-of-sims, and @ladysakuraavalon. You know the drill: feel free to ignore, etc. etc. etc. ❤️