#The Princess and Her Knight

[moonlight-as-my-paint]

listen I get hard over a dom coming home from a long day and their sub immediately getting on their knees to be used as much as the next person but there's something about a sub coming home and flopping down exhausted on the couch and their dom joining them, kissing and hugging them and muttering sweet nothings and slowly drifting a hand down their back to cup their bottom, shift the sub into position and sweetly take care of them. you've had such a long day, love, let me be your stress relief.

[psychewritesbs]

I am a sucker for the Princess and her Knight (or soldier in Athrun’s case) trope in media.

Most especially when the Princess in question will not hesitate to shoot and pilots her own Gundam we don’t talk about the fact that it’s pink tho!

And given the relationship of the Knight and the Princess as an archetype to Pygmalion, I just find that Athrun and Cagalli’s development as a pairing is so good because Athrun ends up falling for the girl who is totally not Princess-like.

Kind of cool how romantic love really is all about grounding love into the human realm by seeing the real person behind the projection.

[thesinglesock]

in a modern AU Link would be Zelda's only friend with a driver's license and their chat history would look like this

[n0ahsferatu]

ℑ 𝔪𝔢𝔱 𝔞 𝔩𝔞𝔡𝔶 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔰,

𝔉𝔲𝔩𝔩 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔣𝔲𝔩—𝔞 𝔣𝔞𝔢𝔯𝔶’𝔰 𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔡,

ℌ𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔯 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤, 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔬𝔬𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔩𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱,

𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔰 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔡

- John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1819)

(based on the eponymous painting by Frank Dicksee (1901))

(prints available on my inprnt ! :))

[dappy-dappernette]

I keep on hearing people go all "The voice of the Smitten is such a creep. All he wants in the princess is someone to control and keep as a pretty object. He'd drop the princess if she wasn't the perfect petite maiden like in the damsel route." and I will not stand for the Smitten slander.

Like- He's been in love with her as a burning corpse ghost lady:

A terrifying ghost woman who wants to bring fear and chaos to the world:

And even a murderous blade monster woman who would kill you and enjoy every second of it:

Like, he ALWAYS loves the princess no matter what she looks like or how she acts, he loves her for being herself no matter what or who she is. That's the point of his character and I'm tired of people slandering my boy.

[arcadechan]

You know what would be amazing in your style? Vampire sucking the blood of her maiden 👀💕

ohhhh, when she gives you her neck for the first time...

[joyfulmagic]

@ofheroesandscholars​ || a starter you didn’t ask for but need

“Dorothy,” Illya began, visibly nervous - an emotion rarely shown by the super soldier. He was asking her an important question, one he wasn’t sure she’d answer in the way he hoped. Taking her left hand, he placed a small, velvet box in her hand. In it was an emerald and pearl ring, with the words “always and forever” engraved in both English and Russian. 

“I wish to be your beloved for a long time...” he trailed off, hoping Dorothy understood what he was getting at. It was a promise ring, one saying he was devoted to her and only her. He couldn’t even imagine life without Dorothy by his side.

[9ndreus]

Do you think Aziraphale is the literal origin of the damsel in distress trope or did he get the idea from reading books

[identityquest]

old oc i've never posted, she was once a princess kidnapped by the demon lord but she took his job when he turned his back

[nicollekidman]

one of the richest most interesting facets of rhaenyra and alicent’s relationship is there are zero universes in which they get to be together while retaining the core of who they are. like even as we speed closer and closer to annihilation and the spectre of former “girlhood” hovers between them…. there is no future which allows them anything more than shared adolescence. they are not equals. aemma lives? otto arranges an advantageous match for alicent. rhaenyra is not named heir? she would still be a princess, probably also matched and sent away from king’s landing. alicent is her lady, and rhaenyra is always her princess. daemon or no daemon, aegon or no aegon, they are always destined to be longing for a fairy tale that doesn’t exist. and that’s so compelling because it doesn’t matter that it could never be, it’s comforting! they want to reach for each other! but it’s never anything more than a mirage, even without the dance.

[tales-of-the-ghost-zone]

DP X DC crossover prompt

Sam and Tucker, thanks to living in Amity Park and being overshadowed and controlled by ghosts so many time, had become very liminal. Until an accident while trying to stop the newest ghost enemy led to the two of them becoming halfa’s. Sam’s ghost form looks like what she looked like during the whole Undergrowth thing. And Tucker’s ghost form looks like his King Tuck design.

After a reveal gone wrong, Danny, Sam, and Tucker flee Amity Park. The trio run away to Gotham, and using money Sam managed to snag from her account before they left, they buy a nice sized building right in the middle of Crime Alley. They decide to turn it into a bookshop and cafe. There’s a garden/greenhouse attached to the back end of the building where Sam grows all her plants and herbs. Tucker has his own tech room in the basement alongside Danny’s tiny lab space. They live together in the apartment above the bookshop/cafe.

One day while out on a walk, Danny stumbles across two tiny twin half formed baby ghost cores. They’re nothing more than tiny little balls of glowing light at the moment. Baby ghosts that are just starting to form but are nothing more than cores at the moment. But they seem to be slowly fading. Danny refuses to let them fade away into nothing. He scoops them up, infuses them with some of his ectoplasm to get them going, and then shoved them into his chest for safe keeping and so that they can be close to his own core which starts slowly feeding them energy.

Danny rushes back to the shop and drags Sam and Tucker to the upstairs apartment and shows him the baby ghost cores he’s found. The three all agree that they’re going to help these cores develop into actual ghosts. They switch off on who carry’s the ghost cores around. Some days it’s Danny. Some days it’s Tucker. And some days it’s Sam. Each of them feeding the cores a little bit of their ectoplasm to help them grow.

One of the cores feels distinctly female and has a purplish blue glow to it. The three start jokingly calling her violet. The other core has a distinctly male feel to it. It’s an orangish red and has a small crack along one side of it. Danny jokingly said one time how he (the baby core) kind of looked like Nemo’s egg at the beginning of Finding Nemo and ever since they’ve been calling him Nemo.

The two cores have been developing very slowly, both seemingly unable to absorb the needed ectoplasm, to form into full ghosts, quickly. The trio is fine with this, they can be patient, and wait to meet their twins.

Then one day there’s some kind of massive ghost attack. Maybe a cult or something attempted to summon the ghost king but messed up the summoning and accidentally summoned something else. The Justice League try and fight the thing, but they’re no match for this ghost monstrosity. And the JLD aren’t available to help for whatever reason. The trio decides to step in and help. They kick the crap out of the ghost pretty easily and send it back to the ghost zone. Then Danny, in his King Phantom garb (crown of fire, whispy white fire like hair, a regal looking version of his hazmat suit, the ring of rage on one finger, and a cape around his shoulders, the outside being pure white but the inside looking like the vastness of space) approaches the cult and rebukes them, telling them how even if they had managed to summon him he never would have helped them take over the world.

After that the trio become members of the Justice League. Thanks to some of Danny’s previous time travel shenanigans, and Danny being the ghost king, and Sam and Tucker his consorts/mates(?) the Justice League all think that the trio are ancient eldritch ghost gods.

And then one day when the trio are in the Watch Tower with the rest of the League their twin baby ghost cores come up. Maybe it was time to switch out who was carrying them, and mid meeting or lunch or whatever, Danny just reaches into his chest, pulls out two small glowing orbs. He cradles them close to his chest for a moment, looking at them lovingly, and whispering something soft to them in ghost speak. Then hands them over to Sam, who does the whole cradle them close and whisper softly in ghost speak before shoving them right into her chest.

They look up from this to see the whole League staring at them wide eyed and confused. Danny just casually explains that those are their children but they’re still forming so the trio needs to keep them close to their cores to help them grow, but they like to switch up everyday who carry’s them. Every member of the Justice League becomes super protective of the trio after this. They see it as the three essentially being pregnant (sort of), and they don’t always know which one of them is carrying the baby ghost. So best to just be protective of all three. The trio finds this kind of amusing and a touch bit sweet.

When the twin baby cores finally develop into actual baby ghosts, the two kind of look like a mixture between Danny, Sam, and Tucker’s ghost forms. Though Violet has dark purple hair and eyes and Nemo has bright orangish red hair and eyes.

[psychewritesbs]

@ravisk yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees this, exactly.

I am having the darnedest time tagging you, so hopefully you’ll see this post on your dash.

[cowboyscaviar]

thinking soooo many crazy thoughts rn

[mangotelevision]

a seamstress and her knight

[forgetful-nerd]

Raph is so princess coded. We all deserve a princess with a volatile temper.

[windser]

absolutely glazing myself right now about capitano. but imagine being an part of the fatui. maybe you wanted to be there, maybe you didn’t. but the fact is, you were raised in the environment so there was really no where else for you.

there are other factions outside of the harbringer, and your father is the captain of one. hard but not cruel, respectful. just mindful and competent enough to gain the attention of one of the most revered harbringers, capitano.

adding on how maybe you were an only child or perhaps your father wants you to follow the footsteps of himself or an older sibling. the point is it gets you sat in his office daily until you learn to like being part of the fatui.

and try as he might, all your father’s efforts finally come to fruition the first time you meet capitano.

capitano who takes the time to visit military camps to assess the strength of the fatui.

capitano who is aware of all his soliders.

capitano who doesn’t yet know you, but the moment he sees you sitting all pretty to the left of your father, he’s already strategizing all the ways to get you on his right.

asdfghkjsjl and like at first when he asks about you i bet your father is trying to glaze you so bad. about how much promise you have even if you’ve never lifted a finger. and jokes on him, he basically handed you over at that point.

bigger joke is, rather than be capitano’s solider your now his princess. letting you do as you please.

you want to fight? he supports your efforts. but god save whoever bests you.

you want to never lift a sword? fine by him.

it doesn’t matter what, you’ll always have the captain’s favor.