#Desert Devil

[brooklynnchristine]

[crazyfoxfur16]

House of the Dragon Mood Boards #29

Princess Reayx Targaryen 

“The Terror”, “Rai-Rai’, & “Ray”

Wielder of the Valyrian Bow “Scorpion Stinger”

Rider of Desert Devil

“The Flying Scorpion”

Author’s Note: Reayx and Desert Devil are ocs in my Fan-fic, Reayx is the daughter of Rhaenyra. Please enjoy and feel free to ask any questions. Love y’all ;)

[coldturkeybabe]

when u do sketches of one character and ur two faves somehow invade the page

[thomaswaynewolf]

[desertfangs]

The way Armand can’t stop smiling when Daniel asks him if he likes him now, and if he’s pleased with the way the turned out. They’re in so much danger and Armand is scared shitless and only wants to find a way to protect them both and yet he can’t stop smiling like an idiot when he says he loves the way Daniel is now. “I might’ve fucked up plenty but I did this one thing right” my heart 😭😭😭

I DID THIS ONE THING RIGHT. Anon, my heart!! But listen, I totally agree with you. Armand may have been uncertain about ever turning anyone and about turning Daniel specifically, but he's obviously not disappointed with the results.

Armand is absolutely thrilled with how Daniel turned out. That big smile gives it away. He loves his messy, giggly fledgling. There's that scene a little later, too, where he's just staring into Daniel's coffin while Daniel sleeps. 👁️👁️ Just watching him, full of love and adoration.

And I think, having seen so many vampires turned over his years, he's especially enamored with the idea that it's his blood animating Daniel now.

We don't know how things devolve for them--we can certainly guess, and by TVA we know they have not gone well 🤧--but whatever happens later, Armand is very clearly happy with Daniel as a vampire. He did not mess it up.

[nicheguides]

Thing You Find “Out West”

There is so much to explore and it’s all for you to take

[toodefendorperson]

Descendants is for idiots who drink blood.

[filmkatt]

شيطان الصحراء * Youssef Chahine * 1954

[bitchofdarkness]

Btw, I love it when my ship is clinically insane for each other

[stellacadente]

شيطان الصحراء | The Devil of the Desert (1954) dir. Youssef Chahine

[tomicscomics]

02/24/23

He's makin' Jesus an offer He can refuse!

___ JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. The devil is not a muppet snake this time.  I'm sorry.  I wanted him to seem serious at first before the punchline, and the muppet snake is impossible to take seriously.  It will return again, I'm sure. 2. Jesus goes out into the desert to fast, and the devil approaches Him with a temptation: "You must be hungry; why not turn some rocks into bread to eat?"  Jesus replies, "Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word from the mouth of God."  In this cartoon, the devil gives a truncated version of this temptation, as if he hasn't spent much time fleshing it out yet.  Instead of insisting Jesus turn rocks into bread to eat, he just skips the middle-man and tells Jesus to eat a rock.  Jesus refuses, because man also does not live on rocks alone.  Man does not live on rocks at all.  Rocks are not food.  Rocks are rocks.

[reavenedges-lies]

[thomaswaynewolf]

[desertfangs]

Just thinking about that bit in DM where it says that seeing Armand truly angry is rare but Daniel is 100% into it. “How he loved this anger, his knees went from under him.”

Literally everyone else: *gets understandably terrified whenever Armand is pissed*

Daniel: “yep I’m hard” 🙂‍↕️

I hope you'll forgive me, anon, because I know you sent this a while ago and I saw it while my brain was freshly mashed from work and said 'I will come back to this' and then promptly forgot about it. 😅 You have my apologies, because hot damn, this is an amazing thing to call out?? So thank you! I'd kind of forgotten it.

Here is the quote from Queen of the Damned:

Why the urgency of the command when the hand that pulled him forward was so strong? Such a rare thing to see Armand truly angry. Ah, how Daniel loved this anger! His knees went out from under him. He felt himself lifted. And then the soft velvet of the back seat of the car spread out under him. He fell over on his hands. He closed his eyes.

This is when Armand finally comes for Daniel in Chicago, and he's so happy to see him that he thinks for a second he's imagining it! Which... god, I just love them so much.

I think you're right that Daniel is a little turned on by Armand being angry (Daniel Molloy being horny for this angry fanged monster is how he rolls), but he also just appreciates the intensity of Armand in a way I think maybe others don't always. Lestat, for example, is often taken aback by the intensity of Armand's anger (and other emotions).

But the other thing I think is going on here is that Armand is very often stoic. He keeps his expression unreadable and blank. He holds in his emotions and I think this is doubly true when Armand is upset or mad.

Daniel, over the years, has obviously seen the range of them--he's seen Armand cry, he's seen him rage and laugh and be excited and angry. But I think Armand still tends to hold things in and I think that can be frustrating, because Daniel can't read his mind and doesn't know what he's thinking. So getting Armand to show his emotions probably always feels like something of a victory. I imagine when they fight, Daniel feels like he's beating against a brick wall until Armand finally cracks.

In this particular case, Armand finding Daniel and being visibly angry is sort of a relief. He's not holding back. He's emotional and he's angry because Daniel put himself in danger, because he loves him and had to track him down while immortals are being exploded by some mysterious force left and right. The anger means he's not being rigid and unreadable, but open.

Anyhow, that is me rambling, but yes, I think Daniel does like his displays of emotion and that he would happily take his anger that over the Impassive Statue Act any day... err, night.

Thank you so much for the ask, anon, I love when y'all send me little bits from DM that have burrowed into your mind. Please keep doing it.

[matt-barber58]

Badwater Basin

Feb 10, 2024

[warlordfelwinter]

i signed the neopet devil contract and now all the happy posters are evil and threatening why did neopets decide to go full horror for april fools jfksld;ngh