#Stone Figure

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Yea no title here because it contains serious stuff. [Stone Figure]

The soft tapping of rain. The gentle whistling of wind filled the air along with soft coos from a sleeping Figure.

A curious eye blinked open from a crevice in the dark cavernous wall.

It scanned the cave for a few seconds as a dark black liquid began to seep outwards and form smaller cracks eroding just tiniest bits of the cave’s wall.

Small pebbles from the newly emerged crack tumbling to the cave floor with a small ‘skksksks’.

The Figure slowly felt its consciousness wax as it let out sleepy “cccht..?” Before giving the air a sniff and letting out a trill of annoyance and lowering its head down unto its nest. “There’s an entrance you know..” it murmured.

Seek’s mass spilled downwards to form a puddle. A few eyes poured out of the wall and the large one one that originally peeked in squeezed its way out of the crevice with a ‘pop’ and joined the rest of its eyes in the large puddle Seek made for itself.

“Mm..no, this way is much more convenient for me..” It said as its body began to take shape into something more recognizable.

“Your wrecking my cave, you fool.” Figure hissed before pressing its head into the softness of its mossy nest once more.

“I have no ill feelings towards your cave! I simply need a connection between my city and your den!” Seek retorted. “Besides, your ‘entrance’ if you can even call it that is a thin crack in the earth concealed by many, many trees. Not an easy find.”

Seek took full humanoid form and sat down nearby, while Figure grumbled an expletive and dug it’s muzzle deeper into its nest. Seek came in slightly closer for a moment.

“I’m trying to sleep.”

Seek reached behind its large eye and pulled out a small green box with golden trim and flowering vines that encircled it.

“I come bearing gifts-“

“I don’t need anything.”

“It’s from Snare.”

Figure perked up slightly and raised its head. ‘Staring’ for a moment. “Give it to me.”

Seek carefully set the green box down on the floor. One of Figure’s oversized arms reached over and felt around for a few seconds before slowly picking up the box cradling it on its chest.

It leaned forward and pressed its muzzle against the box and sniffed before letting out a purr. It gently unwound the vines and opened up the box before reaching in to feel a small pile of seeds.

Seek watched as it trilled and cooed as it got up and encircled the little box. Seek couldn’t help but ‘smile’ a tiny bit. “I take it you like your gift?”

Figure took just a tiny bit and sprinkled some on its tail. “Treasure it.” It softly murmured.

Seek quietly sat down and watched as Figure gleefully paced around the box for a few more moments before lying back down on its stomach.

The plants on its back bristled in the in the soft breezes of cave. Along Figure’s back grew various flytraps, asphodels, poppies, amaranths and even a bouquet of lavender around its head.

“I didn’t know you were a living botanical garden.”

“Let me die in peace.”

“I am obligated by our children not to. But humor me: What’s with the garden?” Seek scooted even closer toward Figure who grumbled raised its head to acknowledge Seek.

“These plants serve a purpose like those silly needles. They keep the bugs away and the ones around my head.. keep me…calm.” Figure gave a hesitant thump of its tail and it pulled the box closer to its chest.

“They all come from different places I’ve wandered…So they need different things..I have to nap on different parts of the cave so they can be cultivated better…Sometimes, I can even get them to bloom all at once and it’s very satisfying..” Seek could see a rare smile grow on Figure’s face. It couldn’t help but look on in mild interest itself.

It stayed silent for a few moments before speaking again. “So they’re from your travels..?”

Figure nodded. “I’ve been places.. hot places..cold places- Smelly places.”

Seek chuckled a little at that last quip and pressed just a tiny bit closer to Figure.

As Figure continued to talk about its plants and of its travels with a now completely engaged Seek, who gradually pressed it for more and more details. One of its eyes drifted towards the cave floor below it, taking in the various cracks, glowing crystals and all the beautiful sight surrounding them.

..This was bliss.

Author’s note: if you want to end it here, you can and are valid for doing so.

Warnings for: Self harm. (Seek discovers scarring from when Figure attempted to rip the rocks off of its thigh.) Seek takes notice, and invites Figure to stay with it for awhile. Figure accepts.

I’ve struggled with similar things in the past. Please take care of yourself and know you aren’t alone. Stay safe, Stay hydrated. I love you. /p - Warden

As it continued doing so, the eye snapped to something pinkish on Figure’s lower thigh. As it scrutinized the part much more intensely it realized what it was looking back and pulled away.

Scars..many.. many bite scars surrounded the rocks on its thigh. Some of them were even lodged deep into the rocks themselves.

.. And then bliss turned to sickness.

Another thing it didn’t notice.

Though they weren’t recent, perhaps even a few years old they were still quite..no..painfully deep in Figure’s flesh and was very much..

Concerning.

“You still care, ya know.”

“I know you won’t say it. But please, at least show it.”

“Things can be as they once were if you want it to be. It still loves you too.”

Those words echoed around Seek’s head like a small voice in a vast lonely cave.

Cave..A lonely cave..this place was beautiful, yes. But..it could be quite isolated…

..

Figure had been as silent as long as Seek was.

Had it done something wrong? Did it say something offensive..?

Did it..see something it didn’t like..?

“Figure..?” Seek finally spoke, a distant look in its eye.

Figure tilted its head slowly, trying sound as relaxed as possible. “Yes..?”

“..Do you want to stay in my city for a few weeks?”

[chrismighton]

Tectonic

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Stone Worshipper

Stone figure worshipping the Buddha on the outside of the main image house at Kelaniya Temple, near Colombo, Sri Lanka. Kelaniya Great High Temple is one of Sri Lanka's most revered sacred Buddhist sites as it is believed to mark the location of a sermon given by the Buddha during what is believed to be his third visit to the island of Lanka. Kelaniya is one of 16 Solosmasthana sites on the island that Sri Lankan Buddhists believed were visited by the Buddha during his 3 visits to the island. Most of the structures at the temple are built or cut from a beautiful gold-coloured stone, as can be seen here.

Photographer: Denish C

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(I point. Gently, in the voice of somebody who’s mind touched by the outer gods, i whisper truth in your ears:

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i am at the point where if i dont finish now i'll newer finish so yeah the rest of the gaaaaaang

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i love this brand of image so much

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Substitute City Ghost

Clockwork had a plan. Their young king needed to learn how to take care of people without the kind of hero like fighting he did in Amity Park. There was a lot to learn for the young halfa and his king classes could only cover so much. Thus he had found a plan that would give his king the perfect learning expirence while also helping out his recently new friend. Well not that new since his friend was quite an old ghost of their own. But he had only recently made direct contact with her.

Lady Gotham was an old and powerful ghost. Born from the beliefs of her city and strengthened by the once living and protecting it. But she was stretching herself thin. Managing her city, helping the dead find their way, looking out for the shades, and protecting the weaker entities, was already a lot of responsibilities for a city ghost. But Lady Gotham has added more to her plate, supporting those that protect her city. Mortals that she called her knights. Aiding them by controlling the shadows, guiding those that need help toward them, or the other way around, guiding her knights to those that needed help. She was strong, but even a ghost like her could grow exhausted. His friend needed rest and recharge. Surely Lady Gotham wouldn't say no if he invited her to a vacation to the Realms, and in that same invitation, he would direct his king to his new hands on training.

The bats and birds knew something was different about Gotham lately. It was strange and slightly unsettling. The change felt like it had just happened overnight. They were suspicious, wondering if they were sensing one of their rogues planning something big. Jason and Duke appeared to sense it the most.

At first, it didn't appear to be too big of a problem, but then strange things started to happen. Their rogues started tripping over, seemingly nothing. And if that wasn't enough it appeared like their rogues were a whole lot more inattentive to their surroundings. Now the Bats and birds were good at sneaking, but they had human limits. Yet there were times they snuck up on them like they weren't even seen.

Dick swore that one of the goons had stared at him and didn't see him, even though he had tried to pull the tap their shoulder and greet them before punching them act. The guy had turned around and stared at him before looking around like no one was even there until he punched the guy anyway.

And that wasn't even the weirdest part. Bullets, throwing knives or anything aimed and thrown at them never hit their marks. Not for the lag of them dodging but for the things they were sure they shouldn't have been able to react in time for. Tim espacially had pointed out that a bullet should have hit him once but it never even graced him. Yet when he checked the place after the arrest. There had been a clear bullet hole in the wall where he had been.

They weren't sure if it was a blessing or a curse. They had even tried to get a member of the Justice League Dark to look into it. But strangely enough Constantine had refused to even set foot into Gotham for once, and even insisted that the other do not either.

To say that Batman was not amused would have been a very big understatement. The man was brooding. And of course Dick had to jinx them too. The eldest bat kid had to mention that it at least wasn't getting worse.

And don't you know it. It got worse. Like weirdly alarming strangely worse.

Because, how else would you define it when you're in the middle of a briefing with your patrol partner for the night when suddenly a Lazarus Pit look alike portal opens below your feed swallowed you up and the freaking drops you into the middle of a crime scene or mugging.

It was only thanks to their training that they were able to react quickly enough after a bound of disorientation. But fuck did that gave them all a good damn heart attacks when that happened the first time to Damian of all people.

Something was definitely wrong with their city. Thankfully they had some sort of hint, because the first time the Pit portal happened to Duke, he claimed that he saw a white haired figure right before it had swallowed him hole and spit him out at a bank robbery.

Danny was honestly believing he was doing a good job as substitute city spirit while Lady Gotham was enjoying her vacation. Sure , he still had trouble with some things, but he was sure he was getting the hang of the whole supporting the cities vigilantes gig Lady Gotham had going on. The whole managing the shades and the dead spirits was still up in the air, though. But at least he had figured out a way easier way to guide the vigilantes towards the once that needed help.

Now he just needed to figure out what was wrong with that one guy in the red helmet and he was sure that both Clockwork and Lady Gotham would be proud of him and how he had managed her city during her vacation.

[raycatzdraws]

A Linked Universe meets The Dark Crystal AU! I don't even remember what started it at this point. I remembered that the Dark Crystal and Age of Resistance are things I like, blinked, and woke up three days later with an AU and a bunch of art.

The designs and the story are a wip and for fun so expect a lot of variation! (I have a few different beginnings, ideas for different designs, etc)! :D

In addition to #linked universe I'll be using the tags #the dark crystal lu au and #courage of the dark crystal!

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I bought a bootleg pink Jolyne for real cheap and she arrived today

the squeakquel

[doorrobloxstuff]

Starting work on what is technically the sequel to gay lizard acupuncture. Can’t wait to build up to the gay lizard kissing scene.

[punchhazard]

a man can only dream

[sleepy-crocuta]

They factored in their height difference are you kidding me

[c-kiddo]

^ hugs from ur gf and your friend The Creature

(pen drawings to appease the autism bc im so busy handing in work but also relistening to cr2 (ep72 and 73 and that whole arc) and i want to draw them so bad . explosion sound)

[cinnamon-kratt]

Watched TF One a couple weeks ago, and loved it. Got me inspired...to draw TF Animated stuff. This show just has a special place in my heart, and priority when I hyperfixate on Transformer content. I may do something TF One related in the future though, doing this has been putting me in the zone for it so let's see if I can keep it up!

Anyway, this thing that I did!

Pretty much an Age/(kind of) Role Swap of Team Prime, and other characters to come later hinted with the text. As also seen from the text, even though they've swapped places, events have shifted too and changed the story a lot. mostly because these guys are still largely the same, they're just in different points in time. Honestly, the arrows indicating who switches with who is more about the age aspect of the Swap than anything else.

More to come later, when I can. But until then, we have:

Ratchet, the dropout medic who doesn't need a license (thank you very much!)

Optimus, the scout who's always trying his best

Bulkhead, the war veteran who's seen better days

Prowl, the unwilling runt who broods and pouts in the corner

and Bumblebee Prime, the leader trying to serve his eternal probation