#Knots Of Fear

[wickedzeevyln]

The Song I Live In

A song can hold me togetherwhen I’ve been torn apart,when I’m at the vergewhere jagged edges jut outpopping bloated brightmany a things of life. Lost notes coming togetherand stitching my seamswith threads of sound. Music doesn’t ask for permission—it breaks in, a trespasserwho knows all the rooms of my head,who rewires the walls with chordsuntil they buzz and climb on air’s back.On the top of…

[yes-asil]

Absolutely in love with @kyri45's Sky Cotl AU, it's honestly so galaxy brained

[expolikestoart]

. I may have gone a bit crazy but also. why would scar say this/lh

outfit is based off of a skin by @ink-ghoul

[shima-draws]

Ideal ending to WCI is Luffy seeing Sanji cry and then awakening his devil fruit and unlocking Gear Fifth out of sheer RAGE and saying the classic line of “Who made you cry, Sanji?! I’ll DESTROY THEM!!!” and then proceeding to go on a rampage and fucking absolutely EVERYBODY up including the Vinsmokes, Pudding, AND the Big Mom Pirates. Toss in the trope of came back wrong and Sanji can immediately tell something is not right about this Luffy, whose smile is too wide, whose eyes are too distant, who continues to beat upon his enemies long after they’re down, who seems to take a sick sort of pleasure in hurting others, who grins and giggles and tells Sanji he’ll obliterate anything that makes him cry. Eventually he starts to scare Sanji so bad that even Luffy notices his reaction, and immediately turns on himself because if HE’S the one making Sanji cry then he’ll just have to destroy himself too. And that’s when Sanji finally leaps into action and does whatever he can to reach Luffy—including kissing him. Luckily that was exactly what Luffy needed to snap out of it, and when he comes to the Whole Cake Chateau is in broken pieces, the Big Mom Pirates are battered beyond fighting and the Vinsmokes are nowhere to be seen. And softly, tiredly, he asks if they won, if he can bring Sanji home, and Sanji cries again and says yes, take me home to the Sunny, I want to go home with you.

Meanwhile the rest of the Strawhats are like

[wikitpowers]

ik everybody thinks that "his face crumpled. "he hates me," he said. "all i do is love him, but he hates me, he just hates me, i don’t know why." is gonna be ty talking to dru but what if it’s julian????!?

[forgettable-au]

How far are you with the story? Like, how far have you gotten with the dialogue and scenes and comic planning or whatever

Oh also I saw you said you were going to not include scenes you don’t feel are completely necessary towards the story

If the comic ever gets completed would you give us info on some scrapped scenes and whatnot

I want to eat every morsel of this AU it’s so yummy (it’s my favorite flavor)

Hi! First of all,

Thank you sm, I'm so happy u like it so far and find the concept just as interesting as I do:D

So, when it comes to the story

Most of it is already planned out, but I'm really stuck on figuring out how to make a character do something or be motivated to do that thing that I need them to do... I'm not sure how to make it play out smoothly, but I'm getting there...

I've been stuck on that FOR A WHILE, before I paused this blog

About the scrapped content, sure! That would be fun to share. I changed a lot of stuff during the early development, wich was mostly me making little funny drawing to show my close friends

Here are some very early design ideas I had for Wingdings:D I have some that were even BEFORE these but those are kind of ehhh, not interesting

I changed him A LOT, things that only I would notice but I think are very important and differentiate him from your typical Gaster design (He's more colorful for starters, not only black and white, and his hands are still perfectly fine), still, events will lead him to the same conclusion anyways. Poor guy's gonna have a self destructive arc and become less "Wingdings" and more "W.D. Gaster"

[medicalunprofessional]

flood

~♫

[wineanddineloseyourmind]

i really keep thinking i’m free of my unhinged libido for a while and then i just start squirming panting whimpering growling rutting thinking about what i would do to a subby tboy or prey-coded lesbian right now

[etruatcaelum]

[ @nothingbutthenight \\ for cinder]

Cinder isn’t altogether sure what brought her back to the convoluted ramble of Mistral’s lowest slums. Maybe a vague impulse to recapture the clear, burning sense of purpose she’d felt the last time she found herself stranded here, alone. It had been raining then; it’s sleet now, pelting down in miserable formless globs of slush.

Prowling through the deluge with nowhere to go and nothing to do is not how Cinder imagined this would go.

She’d planned to run.

Salem would come after her, and the unsettling mask of magnanimity would end. There would be pain enough to make what happened on the whale seem like a kindness, and Cinder would endure it all. No more pretending. No more games. Just the unvarnished truth Salem thinks she’s too stupid to realize, that Cinder is nothing more to her than a pawn, dredged up and laid bare.

Exactly none of that has happened. The dark glint of connection through her arm has lain quiet and still for eighteen days. Cinder made it to Forever-Fall like she’d planned—and there had been no chase, no hunt, no vindicating struggle against her fate.

Nothing.

Several tense, sleepless, uneventful nights led her to conclude that Salem believes she’s bluffing, and even worse was the uncomfortable realization that she might be. Alone in the wild dark of that forest, Cinder found that she could think of nothing she wanted that wouldn’t lead her right back to Salem. In pursuit of a new world…

Fuck her.

Cinder scowls, kicking disconsolately at a loose paving stone. Slush splatters everywhere. She’s not going to give Salem the satisfaction of crawling back empty-handed. She won’t.

She can’t. She won’t.

The problem is that Salem has the lamp and the staff, Cinder can’t retrieve the crown for her without first going back to Beacon, and with the whole world forewarned and rallying to Vacuo’s defense, she doesn’t like her odds there alone. And all Salem cares about, the only thing she wants, is those damned relics.

Snarling under her breath, Cinder whips around a corner. There has to be something–

Cinder never gets cold, but few other people are willing to brave the slum’s tangled byways in such foul weather; so her eye narrows when she sees another person coming her way, bent against the driving wind.

No one down here is worth robbing, and the stranger doesn’t have the bearing of a huntress. Still, Cinder draws an obsidian knife out of thin air to hold in her palm as they pass. Talons on the one hand, a blade in the other: if the woman recognizes her, she won’t have time to scream for help.

[blue-rose-soul]

How does Heaven react once the news of Alastor being Lucifer's son gets out in The Devil's Bastard AU and the Raised Together/Kid!Alastor branches? They certainly won't be happy that Lucifer has been going to earth in secret. Given Alastor isn't Hellborn I could also see them arguing for him to be killed or sealed in some way. "Nephilim of his sort were wiped out for a reason after all, right?"

Weeping, I started to answer this then accidentally refreshed the page and lost everything I'd typed. Lemme see if I can remember all my thoughts...

Their first major concern would not be Alastor himself. Not that another branch of the Morningstar bloodline isn't cause for alarm, but with Charlie as a precedent and Alastor's carnage restricted to Hell itself, he's a secondary concern to Hell's leadership. Their primary concern surrounds the fact that Lucifer broke the terms of his banishment and left Hell an unknown number of times without them being aware. While they watched him closely in the beginning of Hell, fearing he would attempt to retaliate against Heaven, in the three hundred thousand years since his Fall* they've clearly grown complacent. They're fearful of what kind of evil he may have sown on Earth, or if he's created any more yet undiscovered offspring who may be corrupting mortal souls. Could Lucifer's visits to the living world be the reason Earth is in such a miserable state?

(It's not, but of course they'd like an easy answer, one little problem they can snuff out that will fix everything forever.)

Sera orders Lucifer to meet with her in the Heaven Embassy and she brings along a couple of archangels* as backup to ensure he doesn't try anything. She wants Lucifer on the defensive. Lucifer does have some leverage though thanks to Adam's pettiness. For one, Heaven promising not to touch hellborn wasn't dependent on Lucifer adhering to his banishment. The exterminations came a long, long time after the Fall. Even if it was though, no one in Heaven, least of all Adam, even knew about Lucifer's excursions until after the final extermination. Adam knowingly choosing to target Charlie - not just a random hellborn but Lucifer's daughter who had absolutely zero ill will towards Heaven and only wanted to protect sinners - out of nothing more than malicious spite, gives Lucifer a leg to stand on when it comes to negotiating with Sera. She knew what Adam intended to do because he'd declared his intention to Charlie in front of Heaven's court, but she did nothing to stop him. On top of which, Sera also can't provide any evidence of Lucifer leading humans towards evil acts on Earth because he never did anything like that. Even in the rare cases of cults forming to worship him, they were done independently by humans who had no idea what Lucifer was really like and Lucifer himself had no contact with them. In other words, Sera in breaking her word to Lucifer caused more harm to him and his than Lucifer did to her and hers in breaking his banishment.

In the end, Lucifer is able to get Heaven to back down from trying to imprison him or Alastor. He agrees to increased surveillance - he hasn't gone back to Earth since his meeting with Nicaise anyway - and calls an end to the meeting.

And then as soon as he sets foot through the front doors of the hotel he promptly passes out from the stress overload.

(*Early modern humans started out in Africa approximately 300,000 years ago, so I'm timing Lucifer's Fall to align with that.)

(*I was going to say Michael at first since he seems like a popular Bible character to adapt into Hazbin Hotel fanon, but with him supposedly being the leader of Heaven's armies, I feel like he clashes with Adam as the leader of the exorcists. So now I have this headcanon that after Lucifer's banishment, Michael fell into a depression of his own. He spiraled deeper and deeper until ultimately he retired from his position which was then passed to Adam.)

[spence-does-life]

i’m actually not concerned at all that Basil knew how to tie a noose at the age of 12 - i also knew how to tie one by the time i was like 10 or so.

i’m more concerned that he knew that was the suicide knot. and about how to do a suicide cover up. like okay - you can definitely know about suicide at that age, but to know that the noose is the right knot? nope, slightly more concerning. there are a lot of types of knots, so why did Basil already know that the noose was the hangman’s knot? to me, that does speak of a darker mental state even in his childhood. not malicious to others, but to himself.

also, it seems likely that Mari - who was already dead after the fall - had died by snapping her neck. the impact of the stairs makes it a likelihood at the very least. and a snapped neck is what a noose does. maybe that isn’t uncommon to know when you think about it, but it’s still a bit worrying to know that a 12 year old may have known it killed by a snapped neck. it paints a dark image if Basil knew that already and therefore was able to make the connection between the deaths.

i can brush off Basil knowing the knot. i cannot brush off him knowing it as the suicide knot - because i have no doubt that he did know how that knot killed for the worst reasons.

(also, i don’t mean this in a ‘Basil knew exactly what he was doing because he’s evil’ way. i seriously just mean it in a ‘i’m worried that this 12 year old knew what a noose could be used for and likely how it killed’ way.

i don’t think Basil was calculated in his hanging Mari. i think he was just as terrified and shocked as Sunny, maybe more even because he was the one who first acknowledged that Mari was dead. i think hanging Mari was a hastily put together plan born of pure panic. i think he connected those dots somehow and just went with it. i fear it was because he may have had intrusive thoughts - maybe even suicidal thoughts, and therefore knew what a noose could he used for.

what Basil did was undeniably awful. but i do believe he was a panicking child. he wanted to protect, but it came with more pain.)

[deerboybreeder]

Someone's gonna find, hunt, cut, rape, knot and impregnate you soon enough hun, dw. Not saying it's me, but... that howling in the distance is getting rather close isn't it?

🌙

Oh I just sent you that ask with the 🌙 signoff, didn't notice you had an anon with a moon in their signoff already! I'll use the 🪢 signoff in future asks if that's better :3

The howling is getting closer, isn't it? I hear it in those quiet moments between my heavy breaths and behind the rush of blood pounding in my ears. I keep trying to outrun it, but I know I won't. I hesitate every time before I take off, just half a beat before I start running. Because I know that it's a waste of time and energy. Because I know no matter how hard I run, no matter how far, I'm going to get caught.

And that despite it all, I know it's my purpose. I know that instinctually, my body craves it even when my mind recoils in terror. But when I get caught, pinned down, torn into, my boy will yield as much as it would if I got on my hands and knees and begged for it. My hunter's pleasure of using my exhausted prey animal body, my fate of being their sex toy and breeding victim- no matter how much I run, how strong I think I am, I am going to get caught.

The howling is getting closer.

[mallevsmaleficarvm]

i should have left the class immediately. why the fuck did i keep trying to be friendly with him. it's all fear. i should have stopped talking with him, even looking at him immediately after that. what the fuck

[badly-drawn-pigeon]

It's so funny to read CFYOW after WDKALY because in WDKALY, the narration just randomly drops the info on who the new Soul King is and never makes a big deal out of it, while CFYOW builds it up as a great dark secret with a dramatic reveal

[menlove]

I need to get up and do dishes but what if I just rotted instead 🫶

[femboycharles]

you people keep making me read things I hadn’t thought about, I’m telling my therapist about you