#I CAN'T WAIT FOR THEM TO RISE

[nicocksucker]

probably been done before but who cares

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

There is a brutal contrast in how Megatron and Optimus's stories end. Optimus nobly surrenders his spark, along with the Matrix of Leadership, having been sent off by his dear and trusted friends after giving them a fond farewell. He has accomplished his life's greatest goal; now he is able to rest. He dies willingly, at peace, bringing hope and giving life to the next generation by restoring the Allspark.

Megatron had already been killed, and was told that he can never join that very Allspark. Having been enslaved, and only released because of Optimus's actions, he is now reanimated, inhabiting his own corpse. His only remaining ally, who has constantly betrayed him, does not understand him. He flies off, alone, having lost all his forces and failed in his mission, and realizing that his life's greatest purpose was misguided. He is left, we can only assume, to live a hellish and hopeless life--a shell, consumed by the past.

And he did not tell Optimus goodbye. He knows that Optimus will leave him behind, will obtain the heaven he can never enter. He gives him the parting gift of his repentance, to acknowledge this. But in his refusal to say farewell, there is an echo of his own wretched endurance. He does not get to rest. Megatron will remain, eternally alone--eternally waiting for a reunion that will never come.

[tapakah0]

"Bring me back to bright days" Little gift(?) with Big thank you to @somerandomdudelmao for bringing me happiness over little things

(References)

[acewithapaintbrush]

@somerandomdudelmao s latest update for the Cass apocalyptic series has given me mental damage so I'll make it everyone's problem

🐢🐢🐢🐢

Donatello remembers falling asleep. It's a generous word for dying, but that's what it felt like. Closing your eyes and just drifting off, just a feeling of contentment and peace. As peaceful as dying can be. 

It was painless at least. That's a plus if you ask him. The constant heaviness in his bones, the itching at the back of his eyes, telling him to close and never open them again, the constant buzzing in the back of his head. It all just went away the moment he let go. 

For a second he'd felt weightless. Free. He'd felt young again, had imagined himself jumping over rooftops with his brothers and feeling the wind on his skin. The battle shell a comforting weight on his back instead of the crushing burden it has become during the last few weeks of his life. He'd imagined himself jumping and landing, jumping and landing, effortlessly. Had imagined himself looking to the left and seeing Leo, keeping pace, grinning and whole. Looking to the right and seeing Mikey and Raph, happy and laughing. He'd imagined looking forward again and seeing April and Dad and so many others, standing there, waving at him, their silhouettes stark against the sun lowering behind New York's skyline. 

He'd thought "Ah. This must be heaven" 

And then nothing. 

And then too much, all at once. Like a computer going into overdrive, a hard drive rewriting and deleting itself over and over. He feels torn apart, his body rearranging itself constantly, nothing but a mist of energy one second and in the next blink of an eye a solid mess. When he has eyes and he can look down, he sees hands and arms glowing and glitching, but before he can panic or make sense of anything, he is gone again, just shadow and clouds, scattered across what his world has turned into. 

This is nothing like what Raph described. Donnie expected some mystical mumbo jumbo, thanks to their ninpo and their connection to their ancestors. But what he'd expected had been Gram-Gram and Dad, waiting for him with open arms. 

Not whatever the shell this is! 

Figures! Even in death this mystical stuff manages to screw him over. Paint him surprised. NOT! 

Time seems to be meaningless here. It feels like forever and it feels like just a second before something changes in his new world. The light changes, the texture of his surroundings solidifies. His body is as stable as it ever is, glitching and oozing with overflowing ninpo, but here and real. 

There is a figure in the distance and Donatello can't make out who it is but he knows, knows as instinctively as he knows himself, as he knows his brothers. 

The figure comes closer and they collide and Donnie feels himself rip apart AGAIN, but this time it's different. This time it's like coming home, like breathing in after years of holding it all in. 

And then there is nothing and then there is a lot again. Not too much this time, just the right amount. But confusing and dizzying. Donatello is still not quite back yet, still feels alien to himself, but he's as whole as one can probably be after dying. 

There are many new sensations pressing down on him. All of it familiar yet unfamiliar. The ninpo of his brothers, but much too young. The familiar energy of Casey Jones surrounding him, in contrast older and much more burdened than it should be. 

But no time to panic. Assess and analyze Donatello, it's what you do best. There will still be time to freak out once you have figured out what the hell is going on. 

"You know, I think I might need to invent a new scale to rate this rescue experience."

[thebonekingdom]

Here’s a "little" compilation of what we know from Will/Sarcean’s memories of his past life in Dark Heir (Because I thought it could maybe help us untangle what is true or not about the old world and Sarcean):

In his first life, Sarcean was the Dark General, one of the army commanders, of the Sun King. He had been the one tasked with taking care of the Sun King's secret deeds and was feared by most. [Edit: he also was "lithe as a fish" and had long silky black hair. 🧜‍♀️]

He was also friend with Anharion, who wouldn't be called that way until much later, "in the far future".

At the time "he wasn't wearing the Collar. The affection in his eyes was real.", and while an intimate relationship between the two was forbidden, due to the vows Anharion had taken, it didn't stop him from sometimes watching him "like this". His words had "the sweetest hint of flirtation"¹ he "offered to no one else"¹ but Sarcean. [¹This last quote is from when Will is freshly awake, but the narration makes it clear that it still is Sarcean's memory and not an interpretation from Will. It says "Sarcean knew well that Anharion would never—"]

When Sarcean met Anharion under a spray of orange blossom, he was already entertaining the idea of him becoming king and Anharion being his queen. He asked him what he thought about it, becoming his queen, and "the words were [...] too soft to be entirely playful".

Later, during a procession, not long before the lady-to-be-Queen arrived, Sarcean had a plan and wanted to take the "true secret that lay deep in the heart of the palace" to use it to do something unmentioned. [But that we can guess following the following events in the pit.]

But for that, he was waiting for the lady to arrive, and then he could set it in motion.

[Did that procession happen before or after his first meeting with the lady, I can’t say for sure.]

The Sun King was riding first "with a gold mask covering his face". Then followed his golden general, Anharion, and next "white-cloaked soldiers".

Sarcean was the only one dressed in black on his equally black steed Valdithar.

This is during this procession that he felt Visander eyes on him, the new Sun guard who "shared Anharion's colouring" and decided that if he was feeling magnanimous, he might give him his attention later. Which he eventually did.

When he first met the lady, Sarcean had carefully chosen a time "when the Sun King would be absent." and feigned stumbling upon the lady by accident.

She wasn't what he had excepted, a "formidable sorceress", on the contrary she was a "young lady, stepping unawares into a darkly tangled web.".

She told him she wasn't believing the rumors about him, unknowing he was Sarcean from what he knows. He felt surprised and after she continued talking, he was watching in shock and "had never felt anything like this sweet exhilaration".

They spent a night together and, later, he left the palace for months and only came back when she called to him, knowing it was a trap.

His feelings for her were still sharp and intense, and proximity to her was painful.

When he told her he knew of the trap, she "sounded like it hurt her" when she asked him why did he come if he knew.

It's Anharion who put the manacles on his wrists, which was like being "braced for the blow, and instead to receive a knife to the heart". His beauty was painful to look at, "Yet Sarcean had never been able to look away.".

The Sun King had told them Sarcean had tried to "ensorcell [him] against his will" and Sarcean asked "Is that what he told you?" and he almost felt pride that the king considered him "enough of a threat" that he would "move openly against him." But he also felt anger, and when facing the Sun King, his "anger burned like acid in his veins".

When Sarcean asked Anharion what he would do if he fought instead of surrendering, Anharion replied “You know my power is the greater.”, and when he asked about what if he ran, Anharion told him. “I will find you. [...] I will always find you, try to run.”

[It is interesting to note that this last quote is the one James remembers/hears when the collar closes around his throat.]

Being arrested was the first step of his plan and as he knew it, the Sun King locked him beneath the throne room, where blood and "the memory of blood" remains and he knows that "in blood there is a great deal of power.". He had studied the place.

When the King and his court left for Garayan, it's Visander who came to him to help him out, even as Sarcean secretly hoped it would be Anharion, and this is when he killed his last alive ally for him to be reborn.

The Sun King was furious about Sarcean's escape and his now dead followers were "brought out [of the pit] and interred".

Now, his followers would rise again when Sarcean would need them the most and it would be directly inside the Palace's magical defence to help him take it.

According to Kettering, he "warred with the Sun Kingdom for years before he conquered it"². [²Not out of Sarcean's memories, but to have little guess about the time that has passed]

Once he took the Palace, "a great deal of time" had passed since Sarcean was cast out of it. At this point, the Sun King had fled with Anharion, his stewards and inner guards.

When he stepped into the throne room, it was "piled with the dead" and "the slaughter pleased him". He liked the irony of a Dark Guard to replace the Sun Guard and a Dark King to replace the Sun King.

In here, he faced the Queen and her champion, Visander, and in that moment, she told him "You will never be the true king. Those who serve you will only ever be unwilling slaves. No one would ever join you by choice. Not if they knew what you were." ("And what is that?" "Dead" said the Queen)

"Decades later"³ Sarcean "commanded his army to die when he did"³ and when he was scrying, Anharion was the one who stood guard since "his loyalty was absolute, because he was bound by the Collar."

[³Again for time purpose, said in the narration but not 100% sure if it’s a memory or an interpretation of what Will was told.]

Somewhere during his story, the Queen said "I cannot return when I am called to fight. So I will have a child." This quote was written on her medallion. [I believe she would have said that near the end of Sarcean first life or after his first death, but I could be wrong.]

[truths33k3r4]

Mkay- for all those who need a new tmnt comic au to freak out over- GO CHECK OUT @brightonstudios's Alone Together!! Thanks to @allyheart707, I was able to start reading their comic, and GUYS. I can just FEEEL the gears twisting and turning for the story!! I love it so far, and I can't wait to see what happens next. :)

Also~ MANNNN ALIVEEE DOES IT FEEL GOOOOD TO DRAW AGAIN!!!! :) Thanks, Brighton, for inspiring me to draw fanart!! I really needed the extra creativity boost!! :)

~ Melissa

[secondtolastfr]

I love having maxed-out gathering levels and spending 18 gathering turns to get only 1 black tulip! I love having to coli grind to be able to feed my dragons!

[luckyshinyhunter]

⏰⏳Gotta love time travelers who aren't afraid to fight evil!⏳⏰

[ophionyx]

It’s space dragon hours baby

[figs-oliomedley]

me watching Evil Jay get hyped up just to lose his first match: THAT'S MY LOSER! THAT'S MY FUCKING DIPSHIT!!

[writing-hat]

!!NINJAGO DRAGONS RISING S2 SPOILERS!!

Thank you Dragon Rising for making Lostshipping almost-yet-undeniably-definitely canon. Please make them kiss in the second part of S2.

Amen.

I'm really happy they didn't overdo their relationship though. I was so fucking scared they'd see the hype and actually like use it and push it forward but in the awkward non-honest way, you know what I mean?

But they didn't and now I'm screaming inside with happy noises of happiness EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Gay dads imma right <3

I really really hope they delve more into the character of Geo tho. I don't want him to just be a boyfriend; I want him to be his own person which explains their current beautiful chemistry and brings everything together and just AUGH LKGMEHGEHRKSEF

I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM-

[penofwildfire]

silly Finders-centric doodle page (have I mentioned I love this family so goddamn much?)

[leisi-lilacdreams]

Purple Squared

making my favorite fic writers cry as payback for making me cry and the cycle goes round and around

parry's wrinkly cause he's oooooold dude's like 40, stressed, and a single parent of 10 kids lol all things considered he's aging well

[otiksimr]

Velkhana, Ruler of the Frost

[neo-shitty]

i've let myself be fully absorbed by minecraft :')

[fabiolajyx]