#Will he even remember? Or is he gonna think it was a fucking nightmare? 💀

[aemcndtargaryen]

THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER THAT THIS CHAPTER WAS I-

the kunimond bits were excruciating, but that ivygon exchange with soft!aegon soothed my soul, even if only for a lil while

WHEN AEMOND RUSHED INTO IVY'S CHAMBERS? FINALLY PUTTING THAT BEAR RUG TO GOOD USE? OMGGG

AEGON??!! talk about awful timing 😭

Now I’m Covered In You [Chapter 6: Dawn]

Series summary: Aemond is a prince of England. You are married to his brother. The Wars of the Roses are about to begin, and you have failed to fulfill your one crucial responsibility: to give the Greens a line of legitimate heirs. Will you survive the demands of your family back in Navarre, the schemes of the Duke of Hightower, the scandals of your dissolute husband, the growing animosity of Daemon Targaryen…and your own realization of a forbidden love?

Series title is a lyric from: Ivy by Taylor Swift.

Series warnings: Language, sexual content (18+), dubious consent, miscarriage, pregnancy, childbirth, violence, warfare, murder, alcoholism, sexism, infidelity, illness, death, only vaguely historically accurate, lots of horses!

Word count: 6.4k.

Link to chapter list (and all my writing): HERE.

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She’s worse than you could have ever imagined.

She’s dignified and graceful and courteous, stunning like an opal or a pearl, a portrait in motion. She has hushed footsteps and large bright eyes that dart around taking in every detail. You can tell she’s intelligent, everyone can tell, and that’s worse than all the rest of it; as she and Aemond stroll together through the gardens, she asks him questions about history and hunting, and then has clever retorts to his answers. Their conversation has the seamless, pacific quality of language between people who have known each other for years. It’s just like the Duke of Hightower said it would be. She is precisely the sort of woman Aemond would have chosen for himself.

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[azz4me]

K.I.M J.O.O.N.G.O.O

I love him. No new news. But I fucking love him. I love that adorable little fluffy haired bastard more than words can explain, more than I can talk, more than my entire life. I use pictures because I can't find the corecct words to use most of the time and expressions are the only thing i could show. OK.

Starting from his first appearance

I CAN'T- I-😭😭😭😭😭😭😭twink I don't remember what I exactly thought of him when I first saw this, probs some lanky guy gonna solo some side bitches and save vasco buttt

this pannel

I fucking loved vasco, ok? I loved little vasco and his backstory I am a fucking sucker for gap moes BUT THEN! GOO CAME WITH THIS GOOFY ASS LINE AND I WAS SOLD. SOLD MF. Srs who wouldn't, look at that goofy ass smile, with goofy ass eyebrows, with goofy ass glasses, with goofy ass hair and then that twink ass bod. But this face fr be the I pull when I am with little kids.

I am honestly crying and dying looking at this😭😭😭😭Look at him pull some karate kid move and he is so kjgwbdvk happy and smug😭? HIS HAIR!! HIS HAIRRR💀💀IT'S FUKING GLOWING AT THE BACK LIKE BITCH HE IS MFING GLOWING anddddddd he looks so little here ahkjsgvsgvc

this. I love this. Pookie showed up for the first time and already cracked some eggs. Who wouldn't love him???? First impressions are important. And Kim Joongoo slayed it🦅🦅👄

and this is one of my fav pannels of Goo.If you understand you understand, if you don't then try harder to understand. Because LOOK at that hand, that pose? that smile? like????😭? GAWDDDDDD I WANT TO SQUEEZE HIM SO BAD AND SHAKE HIM LIKLE A MILKSHAKE👹👹👹

currently break dancing to "She's crazy but she's mine'', thanks to hamburger

ANYWAYS i still don't know if I should lable this nightmare or best dream of my life if I saw this on my dream

he still cute tho<3333 but I wouldn't dare go near him, jut a little pat on the head wouldn't hurt tho ;P

that chair was actually me ya'all, he was throwing me😋😋

proof👆

but srs I love this pannel so myuch like he is throwing chair while saying carrying knife is cheap??? mhm Such a cutie pattootie💗💗💗skhdikvckvbsh simply truly adorable you know muy baby😭😭

yes love break all his fingers, break his skull too, break him💓💓💓 how dare that thing touch you. nothing much for me to add here. Slay.

if any one of you dares to say he looks weird. I will come for your throt even tho you are correct but you will be deemed wrong because I said so. ok? lets just all agree he is stuill cute here '3'

And this. Good loard. If this didn't make you stan goo then I don't know hat else will. He looks so chill and goofy eheheheh I love him so much ❤❤ Look at him just munching on snacks while he gets 'accused' my lil meow moew <33333

You might be thinking to just not talk about this, letting it pass as PTJ's old artstyle but NO. He is Kim Joongoo and we love kim Joongoo in amy form of matter or shape. NO KIM JOONGOO PANEL SHALL GO UNLOVED UNDER MY WATCH. Comeon he looks like he might bite but I swear he doesn't. He is just a little silly that's all🥰🥰

coming on to his second appearance

OUR FASHION KING, OUR MESSIAH, OUR BABYBOY, OUR BABY ❤❤❤👄👄💟💟💟❣❣❣💞💞💞💞💞 he was born to slay, if you don't agree go argue with a wall. That long coat >.< i have never seena man wear that long coat and when I searched it, it specifically showed just for women only, baby boy is rocking with that striped socks💞💞💞

understandable I love deadpool and spiderman too<333333

That little heart could end me in less than a second. So if he did talk like how deadpool talks playfully...I am a dead man. I could not be under the influence and still think I would survive a nuclear bomb dropped right above me but this? THIS?? Neh eh I could never survive if I hear him talk like that. I would be a dead piece of meat INSTANT. Gone like the dinosaurs in an instant.

AHHHH PLEASE I LOVE HIM SO MUCH AHHHHHHRFEBETNRYJN😭😭😭😭😭😭 PLEASEEEEE GODDDDDDD

i miss these type of lips not that I am saying the ones we get now are bad but these are just a whole different typr of beasts compared to now. Look at his lips, i want ti pinch it and then apply lip balm to it the wipe it off and apply lipstick on it. Look at them It's so glossy and juicy like for who did he get his lips so plump for WHORE🤨🤨??

silly goo doing silly stuff<3333

sksksksksk I love how his hair looks here. Reminds me of Donald Trump's hair or is it wig idk but I love how Goo looks here

ew.

seeing this bitch made my mood sour. I will continue the ramble later.

[whispence]

show your ocs :3

alrighty then, here we go

they’re mostly quite strange since idk shit about character design, be warned

i only had time to draw a few of my creatures so many are missing 😔

there are quite a few and a there’s an UNGODLY amount of yapping underneath so uhhh

first up is (unless i can find a better name) ispen, who actually used to be my old sona, hence the name

basically their whole thing is being a ghost companion thing who just wants to help but usually fucks up instead. they’re also very shy and scared of everything and almost always hides behind the mask (as shown in the first pic) as a comfort thing. they only take the mask off when they feel comfortable and like they don’t need it, but usually keeps it on their head just in case.

the current design likely isn’t final as i’m still trying to figure out wtf their face is meant to be and other things but it’s staying for now.

(man i sure do wonder who this is based on)

next up is jackie, my personal favourite in terms of design

she’s literally just a ghost pumpkin who is a bitch to everyone

i love ghost pumpkins (which are literally just white pumpkins) and i also love ghosts, so i thought it’d be fun to make a literal ��ghost” pumpkin

she’s remained practically unchanged and funnily enough came about because i was making a drawing of some kinda night parade of spooky creatures and i needed another creature at the back because it was looking kind of empty and just kinda added her in the back without thinking 😭. there was no thought behind her design whatsoever. literally all that had changed since then is the colour scheme and the nose shape

this one is just fai. i hate them because they’re just impossible to draw right without looking like absolute nightmare fuel 😭

why are they holding a doughnut? i have no idea, it just felt right.

i know this one’s slightly on the more uninspired side but tbh i just thought it’d be funny to have this stupid annoying ghost child and so this gremlin was born

i don’t even remember anything else about how they came about tbh, as far as i can remember they just appeared in my sketchbook one day and then just became a recurring character for no reason lmao

can you tell i like ghosts?

so yeah, this is naira, my silly fruit bat <3

she is pretty much just there, doesn’t talk to anyone, and stays in the corner 24/7

she’s kinda meant to give “older cousin that was forced to hang out with the younger cousins but really doesn’t want to” vibes

idk, it’s kinda hard to explain

okay so THIS guy is the BANE of my existence because i love skeletons and really wanted a skeleton character but cannot draw skeletons for the LIFE of me and so i have only drawn him like thrice??

i was gonna do a full body but nah fuck that he already looks wonky enough 💀

ANYWAY i almost forgot to introduce him: this is skelegy and he’s a skeleton butler guy who inhabits an abandoned house called the nightshade abode, which hasn’t been lived in for years, but he refuses to leave, still keeping the place functional and homey. well, as homey as a house that’s haunted by a skeleton can be, anyway.

he pretty much just uses it as a shelter for anyone who has lost their way and lets them stay in it, and takes care of them for as long as they’re there

he’s overall just a kinda sweet guy who wants people to care for and a house to keep, but people are usually repelled by his face

i literally cannot come up with a name for this guy. none of the ones i’ve come up with suit him, so i’ll just call him kai-masu for now because why not he’s a shopkeeper

you ever just make a character and say “screw design conventions, i’m going to make the most ridiculous design for a character possible”?

yeah, that’s kinda what i did here.

i kid you not, he was made when i had the symmetry tool on, and accidentally swiped my pen across the screen, and it made a weird shape and i thought “yeah, i can work with that” and then just kept adding onto it until it was a full on character

he has quite a lot of “lore” but icba to write it all here this post is long enough, so put simply, he runs a shop but instead of paying him in money, you pay him in souls. and he eats them. i mean, if i’m gonna make a character with such a weird design OFC i gotta give them weird lore

he’s so ugly i love him 🥹

okay so i wasn’t gonna include her because my back was breaking by the end of this but i had this (albeit crudely drawn and not entirely accurate) picture of her laying around so why not

so yeah, this is ashley. she basically just follows that trope of “kid who just happened to be in the right place at the right time starts seeing ghosts/monsters/whatevers and making friends with them.” yes i’ve seen this in like 3/4 different franchises and i do not care because it’s my favourite trope ever.

without spoiling too much, she comes across a strange charm that made her start seeing the unseen. unknown to her when she first picked it up, it holds a lot more than it seems.

she’s the main character of that comic that i was meant to start posting in APRIL but other things kept popping up and i just forgot to, so you never know, i might just stop stalling and start posting it sometime soon. no guarantees though, the smallest inconsistencies drive me wild and i would not survive if even the smallest thing was wrong after i posted it :P

holy fuck what a yapstorm 💀

[whatudowhennooneseesyou]

I've been to Korea a few times and lived there for a few months at one time. That country does have a special place in my heart and I love many aspects of it. Outside of the big cities, the nature is beautiful, people are a bit blunt but they're kind and they help you if you need it. They don't expect you as a foreigner to get there and know all their norms and their language (I had the opposite experience in Japan 👀) and they're usually excited as long as you're respectful. However. A lot of guys are extremely aggressive in their advances, they think every non Asian woman who ends up there wants to fuck and they have a hard time understanding NO. If you do go out to the bar/club, you absolutely need to be careful with men (as you would anywhere else bc the world is a nightmare but I find men in SK more aggressive than some other places). The body shaming is very real too nejdiwiw. I'm not fat nor skinny but over there I felt like a whale the whole time 💀 you do need to have thick skin over there and not expect the perfect paradise many k pop fans seem to think they're about to find. Depending on how you approach it, it can be a wonderful time or hell on earth. I wouldn't go live there permanently but I go back every couple of years and I always love my time there.

Hello @escapetheshark and thank you for providing your insights, it is expensive to travel anywhere outside of Australia so I wouldn't be going to South Korea for awhile but my high school had a 'sister school' with South Korea and 5 of our students would go over there.

This was in 2016 and it cost 10K for them to go for 9 days so Idk how much the price would be now.

You seem very worldly lived and are you European? How did you afford to go these places? I suppose airfare might be different if you live closer haha.

I have heard that A LOT online about issues of consent and I don't know if this true, I hope but but I remember reading an article about how if a guy offers to buy you a drink in Japan and you accept, then you're technically giving consent???

I see so many Tiktoks about the experiences women have in Hongdae and Gangnam and the DVD rooms and love hotels.

I've heard SO much about the body shaming and it's kinda scared me not gonna lie, I'm 5'7 and 108 kgs so I just know that none of the clothes would fit me and I'd stand out.

Sorry, I lost focused because I'm rewatching one of Channie's Room lives on Youtube and he was talking about how Aussies barely pronounce anything properly and I was like- He has a point.

I've always wondered how Chris was able to balance the EXTREME differences of South Korean and Australian cultural norms in his life.

The age thing still confuses me because in Australia, if you're a year younger than someone, you are treated the same age and people will say '1 year? That's nothing'.

Whereas in South Korea, you can't be 'friends' with anyone that's not born in the same year as you and that's such a confusing concept for me because even though I was born in '98 and Chris was born in '97, I view both of us as being the same age.

So, it's interesting. I've learnt a lot and It's nice to be expanding my knowledge on different ways of living.

Thank you for sending in your insight!

[themightymoose]

Blythe's Big Adventure Part 2

how tf are the Baxters not dead at this point

I remember when I was first watching this at age 5, I legit had no idea she was a dog

can you blame me??? She's fucking purple

also is no one gonna question why there's an actual panda and monkey, that are kept as pets

Why?????

Russel is so done with everyone's shit already I love him

Russel is a saint compared to me because if someone spilled an entire bucket of paint on me fists would be flying

Oh yeah we got Blythe's ragtag group of friends right here 😎😎😎

does Sue and Jasper actually do anything??

I remember Sue having some focus but I don't remember Jasper outside of his introduction

and of course we have Youngmee who's probably the main one if I remember correctly

love their impressions of the Biskit twins

yesss bully the bullies 💅💅

Blythe ain't slick

"Okay! It's officially official! Those girls... are mean!" gee thanks Jasper I had no idea

that was the most confusing nightmare sequence I have ever seen in media

was it even a nightmare

who knows

Zoe should be a va

bruh Blythe literally put as many posters as she could in front of the other pet shop out of pure spite I love her

besties how did you write "come get free money!" in such limited time on so many posters what

everyone's just chanting money now oh my god💀

GIRL! HOW DID NO ONE REALIZE SOMETHING WAS OFF IF YOU KEEP SLIPPING UP LIKE THIS

please stop

they look so concerned for her

why are you guys mad about there being no free money you guys didn't think it would be a scam you just went along with it

that's your own fault guys

WHY IS NO ONE QUESTIONING A PANDA AND MONKEY BEING THERE

this is going to bother me for the rest of the show

the pets are slaying better than I ever will

god I hope the hedgehog/porcupine thing will become a running joke

wait

hold on

pets go by human years

a pug just said he was 27 years old

[dear3st-dead-diary]

D3AREST DEAD DIARY.

I think my boyfriend and I broke up?? I went too hard partying and currently experiencing delirium and alcohol psychosis so that's fun.

I just woke up from near sleep paralysis, I scared my other boyfriend awake.. poor guy :(

One bf is pissed at me while the other just wants me to be happy. Both of them know what I did while manic and high & intoxicated... but I kind of don't.... this past week until a couple days ago I was simply drinking till even the idea of a previous I'd forget... self destruction 💯 👌 (why are those the suggested emojis for self destruction? xD.. anyway)

I had a dream something large was charging up the stairs and each time I panicked the charging got faster till the walls and bed were shaking and right as it was about to round the corner I woke up wailing and whimpering.

Why do I do this to myself? Cause fuck it honestly.

Fuck my neighbor for being a Karen and "I'll cAlL tHe POlicE AaAaaAa..." when I rang her doorbell at 1 am (on a friday) to tell her I scratched her car. SHE WASNT EVEN FUCKING MAD ABOUT THE CAR!?!?! So? Why threaten LIKE WHAT? And her son just looked at her with such destiny and embarrassed no wonder for the past 2½ years he told me to never bug his mother. Fuck that asshole. Sheeeeeeeesh bitch.

And FUCK MY BOYFRIEND for being mad I didn't shave?? Sorry baby I didn't have the ducking time since you RUSHED ME to be as your house A. S. A. FUCKING. P.

And to top it all off I witnessed a homeless person possibly overdose so I called somebody for that and panicked and IM THE ONE WHOS IN THE WRONG? Sorry I inconvenienced your fucking live asshole and furthermore sorry I can't be your perfect hairless prince princess 24/7.

Fuck. He hasn't even texted me since I called him a couple days ago and he just played it on me without actually telling me exactly what I did wrong. Same shit as always. No one ever tells me what I fucking did and then wonders why I don't feel bad, it's cause I. DONT. Bitch? You never told me explicitly WHY I'm in the wrong. Whatever.

I also drunk called 3 girls and I think 3 or 4 guys to talk STRAIGHT DIRTY to them... I don't remember exactly what was said but some of those Cals were almost AN HOUR 👁👄👁💀💀💀💀💀.

So, I'm not a mind reader, don't wanna tell me there's a problem? Then there's no problem, is there? So no, I don't feel bad for my actions and I cannot take accountability for my actions if no one's gonna tell me.

I'm so pissed at the "world".. my "world" right now.

ALSO I MAXED OUT MY CREDIT CARRRRRRD FUCK.

I still haven't paid my phone or internet bill or my utilities but.. fuck I have 4 to 5 days to figure something out. I paid my rent though. So thank goodness for that.

I have bipolar and sometimes I hallucinate during an episode. Sometimes I'm delusional. And sometimes I'm convinced everyone around me wants to be my friend.

Do antipsychotics work? No..

Here's with luck work picks up again, and my drinking isn't the only thing people worry about. And here's hoping I can afford my bills.

Shit sucks but it will get better.

Right?

Your bi(sexual)polar bitch head.

- A

Also p.s. as of almost an hour after writing this post... I just remembered I had I dream about Jennifer's Body and the nightmare part was mom's dressing as Hannah Montanna for Halloween in the 80s... like before the show existed???

Anyway.

[katyahina]

What do you think vermin actually is? I've seen it portrayed as the actual physical embodiment of infection or smth that only grows inside strong beasts/enemies. Maybe they're not even "real", since Hunters have to choose to actually see vermin, and its just there to give encouragement and incentive to kill. It could also just be whatever the person deems impure too. What do you think?? Do you think it could be a combination of all this? Vermin is whatever the person thinks it is?? Why are they centipedes!!??

Mainly what makes this really interesting for me is because Yamamura just saw.. an ABUNDANCE of filth. Wayyy more than the average confederate. This makes me think that maybe since he was a foreigner, his untainted influence of Yharnam and different background made him really see how fucked everything was💀💀😭(??)

Oh well, that's a good question actually! Not gonna lie Vermin as a concept drew my attention from design alone (as centipedes are the best insects, after butterflies of course), plus I love metaphors! So yeah, as for 'whether Vermin is real or an illusion' question, I just...

Basically, I think Vermin is a real thing, but what is questionable is the PURPOSE of even seeing it. Well... You cannot really last long without a purpose in this shit town tho, so fair enough. Let me grab a few excerpts from what we can say about the concept so far (very cranky wording warning, because I am using the document (X) by Last Protagonist for more nitpicky wording as always)

This one is from description of Impurity rune, however yes, originally it is named 淀み (yodomi), and IS, in fact, associated with water that is not 'moving', thus it becomes dirty and all kinds of things can settle in it! I kinda owe this one to Last Protagonist again as he explained implication of water comparison in his essay (X) in a way that clicked with me, because I do understand things better through nature metaphors, and symbolism of fire in pursuit of evolution just was not cutting enough of my questions so yeah. Give me a second...

It says you can only see them if you want to, which refers to usage of the rune, that is unusual kind of 'specific' Insight? Not unlike how you can only see blood dregs with Corruption rune equipped, and I remind you:

(By the by according to LP, 'impurity' (穢れ, kegare) ties more to cainhurst vilebloods rather than what League finds, but the difference is redundant as concepts are similar, I am only picking on 'stagnation' for easier personal understanding)

Dying wills are literal translation of Blood Echoes, so in this case, you only find these things within blood-drunk hunters. In the original, there is no connection with what 'stagnation' (aka League's concept of 'impurity') is refering to, however I found it interesting that in Hunter's Nightmare, you find Vermin within old hunters whose eyes are not yellow but are like this:

Which is like eyes of Abhorrent Beasts:

I agree that it's too easy to get lost between what's just gameplay element (they did need to mark WHICH hunters you should target SOMEhow!) and what is a legit thing, but yeah this instantly made me think that you should be a biiiiiiit closer to being 'bad' than regular person to develop Vermin, plus when you attack Valtr he screams at you as if you'll have Vermin within BECAUSE you're bad, so. But okay, here is also this:

So what we DO know is that snake had Vermin within and it ate beasts, whereas Impurity rune was discovered within a "forbidden beast-eater", and Valtr is the only person explicitly refered to as such. (Lore says that rune is SAID to have been discovered inside of him, and that him surviving and eating the beast is a 'tale', but it clashes with how I see this character that he'd just assume role that isn't his, so I write it off as FromSoft doing the good old 'did they didn't they' to make us fill the gaps by ourselves. But remember kids, the most walked path is not the only path, so always explore opportunities if you like them more!)

So I presume partially it is self-inflicted. Beasts are humans, after all, just twisted and dirtied by blood into something unrecognizeable and unsightly - so moral questions of TECHNICALLY eating another human aside, Valtr very much consumed a lot of 'filth', thus that might have triggered understanding of something awful. He could have even gotten Vermin himself, but he can tolerate it, really, focusing on killing it elsewhere, who knows.

It is interesting how it says that rune was discovered INSIDE of him, whereas Ludwig and Adeline outright envisioned their runes themselves... And both have/had eyes on the inside, too. Makes me think that someone who COULD envison runes literally leaning against him to listen until they could make sense of the weird sound inside and write it down xD Just handing him the result all like 'wake up beast-eater you fucked up a big time' sdjhdsfds

However:

This one outright calls them 'illusions', I checked several times, which alludes to how they might not even be real! But yeah, with everything I already brought up, here is what I think/headcanon:

Parasites are like, definitive thing within the setting, but unlike Kos Parasites for example, Vermin cannot be seen by just anyone as it is a parasite tied to humans. Basically it's unaccessibility to normal eye - heck, even very insightful one either! - has to do with complexity of what 'humanity' IS. What the line between human and beast really IS? Is beasthood (by extension, 'evil') cultivated or revealed? So yeah, Valtr being able to comprehend the concept like nobody before has to do with his ability to draw the CLEAR line between innocense and sin - ability that he now can pass to others through the rune, but it will still allude to one's personal views. Ability that might be your doom if you are too open-minded, impressionate and sensitive (what happened to Yamamura, but about that later). Yeah maybe do not accept people who are more brain than brawl in the League xd

It has to do with real 'filth' that now almost everyone has - from all the blood-drinking and beasthood and madness and god knows what else, though, but it is evasive as even Great Ones are clearer concept than what 'nature' of human is, whether we are naturally evil and should fear it or whether we are naturally good but reject it. Connotation of beasthood with psychology is what makes Vermin invisible unless you have the rune.

However, Celestial Emissaries are examples of exceptions - being completely 'purified' from curse of beasthood (and from humanity as well...). Think back on how mind is a 'lake' and if water within it stagnates, it becomes a swamp. So speaking with a Great One brought Choir members (at least later ones) secret of being pure - basically imagine it like a river put through this metaphorical lake, but this river rushes SO fast that it is now JUST river instead of lake, and not only dirty things cannot settle within, but good sort of life can neigher. My inspiration was lack of cosmic Kin in Nightmare Realm - they cannot go to Hell! But at what cost..... It is also what drove Fauxsefka insane, as she resigned to 'cleanse' everyone from beasthood with her own hands, even if she has to do it one by one (SIKE she has ALWAYS been mad but you get the point).

It is also the basics of Research Hall experiments - early attempts at dealing with the beasthood and nasty things within humankind in general. Laurence does drop Eye Pendant - and alas, patients were a failure. I mean, their boss variant is LITERALLY called Living Failures...... With more eyes on the inside, they started to get a hunch of what lurks within, but not able to cleanse from it unfortunately. Kinda stuck in the 'lake', unable to reach the 'sea' from it. Sorry, I just get these things better through metaphors.

So yeah, I think Vermin is a real thing, but it is very abundant (if not everpresent) within humans, the only confirmed way to heal it non-murdery way is to "heal" oneself from humanity ITSELF which is a no-no, Valtr doesn't mingle with madmen! And essentially League's mission boils down to destruction of all sentient life doesn't it... But he is a stoic man with more sanity than he lets on, he just does what he must, maybe unable to destroy all 'sin' but not giving up and not taking anything less as his motivation! It is his duty to kill it once it shows up, not questioning it!

Also an idea I had is that Vermin might come in more kin/floral variant - such as Fluorescent Flowers being one of the results to 'heal' people from 'filth' pacifist way, but it led to Vermin within to like... grow so bad that it swallowed original host's body to the point of practically BECOMING it... Not unlike it happens with Snake Parasites sorta. These Flowers always looked resembling of a centipede for me, so why not

It says that he is not able to see Vermin anymore though - which I think alludes to psychology again, how he concluded that literally everyone deserves to die so he doesn't see the 'border' anymore - but when you attack him? His little speech sounds for me as if NOW he can see it again really xD You showed him 'clear' evil - betrayal, something clear to hate even more than Literally Everything Else deserves to be hated, which is fucking terrifying but that's why I love this character so much lol

[checkers-dance]

checkers i had the most bizarre kpop related dream last night. so me and chan from stray kids were at my house hanging out. he showed me a song he'd been working on i think and i very vaguely remember how it sounded like. it sounded weird but good weird, not nct weird. i also remember telling him abt my mx hyperfixation 💀 and he was like ay, yeah i like them too :). basically i think we were friends in my dream and we were just chilling. so at some point we're about to leave my house and this is when the dream gets REALLY weird. so my sister's house is literally right outside mine so i look at her roof and i see this like. humanoid figure standing on top of it. it looked kinda femenine and was completely white except for the lips and eyes which were pitch black and it was staring at us. i immediately get really freaked out and suddenly i start to realize that i'm having a dream, and i get even more scared because i realize that by the way its going its going to turn into a nightmare. so i immediately start trying to force myself awake, and chan is looking at me very strangely, because i'm obviously panicking and he's like "hey what's wrong?"

so this is weird, but i know that to an extent my brain is capable of working alongside me to help me stop nightmares, sometimes even without me being aware of it, because it has happened to me before. it's very weird and idk how to explain it, but because i know chan isn't real and is just an extension of my thoughts, and clearly chan isn't a hostile figure in my dream, maybe i can get him to help me wake up. i'm very panicked at this point of the dream because the figure is still staring at us and i'm trying to explain to chan that i'm dreaming and that i need him to help me wake up. but instead the dream turns completely white, it's like i'm in a void, and in chan's place there's now this humanoid shadow. everything looks very blurry and in part it's because i'm not entirely asleep, but i still can't manage to wake up and the shadow thing is grabbing me. i can't move or run away, but i know that when i'm in nightmares like this, getting my eyes to open is usually the first step so i focus all my energy on that.

i wake up. i'm in my parents room and i can't move. i don't know if you've ever had sleep paralysis, but that's what this was. i couldn't move my limbs, but usually i can break out of it after a few seconds, and i do manage to move but barely and my eyes keep closing against my will, but i'm trying so hard to not fall back asleep because i know if that happens the nightmare is just gonna get worse.

and then i wake up for real, and i look around and feel confused because i thought i already was awake? why am i not in my parent's room? what the fuck happened.

anyway. very intense and weird dream.

Oh nooooooo, that took such a dark turn. Poor chan got turned into nightmare fuel by ur brain...At least the initial chan part was nice. It's so funny bc he IS actually a fan of monsta x (I think stray kids have said they look up to mx?). Also crying, "if nct was good" is exactly the niche stray kids carved out for themselves

[early20sfailingplenty]

Bo would have been six feet under without his brothers fighting to keep him alive years ago, and they all fucking know it.

Bo is shitty at looking after himself, but not in the ways you would think. His teeth are clearly well looked after, his hair is treated well and I'm sure he showers every morning and night (if only to get Lester's stink off him - you know they all hug!), but emotionally... that's where Bo falls flat on his face but doesn't bother to drag his ass up off the floor... sometimes literally.

When Lester and Vincent aren't there, Bo crumbles. He just can't survive without his brothers, but it's not just the canonical depiction of co-dependency which we see between him and Vincent. When Lester isn't out on the roads closest to Ambrose at sparrow's fart in the morning, who's gonna get to the animals before the sun bakes them up? Who's gonna take that meat to the Sinclair household and cook something up for the twins to make sure that they eat something more than the non-perishable food items in the grocery store which are so old that they're expired? (Their immune systems, I - 💀). Who's gonna shove a plate at Bo, thrust a fork in his hand and watch him eat?

Lester. Lester is the one who finds people on the roads coming off the interstate, Lester is the one who takes them to Bo under the guise of safety and a fix for their car, so it follows that Lester is the one who hands the keys to Bo in terms of what Bo needs to take care of himself emotionally.

"How're y'feelin', Bo?"

Bo wrinkles his nose up. "I'on know. S'tight, there." He rubs at his chest absent-mindedly and Lester weighs up his eldest brother.

"Y'need a night time drive and loud music, Bo," Lester shakes his head, claps his brother on the shoulder and tries to move past him, but Bo's fingers close around Lester's wrist and the youngest Sinclair is tugged into Bo's chest. It's a loose, uncomfortable hug at first, but then Bo melts into Lester and the youngest sighs. It's part irritation, part sympathy, but all love, and Bo soaks it all up like he's a sponge.

"I hear ya', Bo."

During the day, Lester takes care of Bo when he has the spare time here and there to do so. The nights are Vincent's, nocturnal is he and hopelessly devoted to his family, especially to his twin.

Vincent is the one who sees Bo sobbing on the bathroom floor at four in the morning, clothes rumbled, hair a sweaty mess from a nightmare he's just woken up from, fresh vomit in the toilet from where Bo's woken up so violently that his body rebels right along with his mind and he has to launch himself into the bathroom to keep from soiling the sheets.

Vincent is the tracker, the hunter, the spider in the web spun so expertly that you don't even know you're a fly until you're already entangled within the fine silk. Vincent is the killer, the one who does most of the 'dirty' work (though I'd argue that that's Lester, but that's a different post...👀), and the one who literally scoops Bo up off the floor, gets him in the shower... he leaves Bo to it with the water on already running, and Vincent grabs some new pyjamas from his room. Bo sleeps better when he can feel and smell Vincent close by. It's the co-dependency but also the yearning for something he was too young to remember losing but haunts him every moment of his life, whether he's awake to see it or not.

On the worst nights, when the voices are too loud and the vices too quiet, Bo wears Vincent's pyjamas; they're a bit too big and it makes Vincent smile so hard that his beautiful face aches. A single finger comes out of a black sleeve and pokes at Bo's chest. Bo swats the finger away.

"Knock it off, m'fine," He tries to push past Vincent but Vincent steps up to the plate, chest to chest with Bo as he pokes at Bo's chest again. "Vince, quit it!"

Vincent shakes his head and almost crowds into Bo. His twin would talk to him. He signs so firmly that Bo reads him in a clipped tone. "Can't help if I don't know what's wrong."

Bo sighs and when he meets Vincent's eye, it all comes tumbling down and Bo follows the inward moving of his shoulders until the world has him on his knees. Vincent follows his brother, for nowhere can one go where the other won't find him, and Bo toys with the thread coming off the seam of Vincent's sleeve; a distraction and a grounding in one. "Too loud."

"You need sleep."

Bo scoffs; he already tried that and they both know it. But he only follows Vincent back to his bedroom and they lay there talking for so long that the birds wake up just as they're going to sleep, leaving Lester once again on the outside looking in, yearning for something which should always have been his. At least he has Jonesy, but even she is Vincent's.

Nothing is truly Lester's in this world.

In canon, Bo falls apart without his brothers. He is shit at physically defending himself and the second Vincent leaves town and Bo is truly on his own, everything goes to shit so fast that he never stood a fucking chance. When he's injured and Vincent is there, he lashes out in pain, anger, worry, and maybe even sadness - you all know the 🥺 face he makes - and doesn't let anyone help him, not even to help himself.

Bo probably would have died the night he and Vincent murdered their parents if his brothers hadn't been there to help him. Lester probably would have died as a child if his brothers hadn't practically raised him when they were still children themselves. Vincent may have had what his brothers didn't (the love of their mother), but even he was mistreated and abused and he wouldn't have survived for long, either. When one brother goes down, they all go down. That's the Ambrose way, and it's heartbreaking and sickening but all the same, they're messes.

They're our messes.

Controversial opinion but Lester and Vincent keep Bo alive. Without them, he crumbles so quickly that there's no putting him back together. Canon supports this in several places.

I have more thoughts on this so may elaborate later. Feeling out the reception of this post first.

[thaliasthunder]

grecia reading The Trials of Apollo #3: the burning maze

*eyes bloodshot and swiping her nose w her sleeve* oh boy this was a nightmare

Grover misses my baby boy percy me too boi 😔

THE EMPEROR IS CALIGULA WHAT THE FUCK

PIPER HI SWEETHEART

piper worrying about leo my sweet children <3

oh piper & jason broke up?- oh okay okay 👁

piper my love girl hugging meg and giving her a kiss on her forehead i cant cry this enough😭

omg ong piper using her charmspeak as if nothing: gaslight gatekeep gIRLBOSS

apollo thinking piper reminds him of aphrodite when she's mad <3

omg they're gonna go to find my thunder boy jason !! :3

WAAAAHHH JASON HI BABY I MISSED U 😭 HE'S USING HIS GLASSES 😭

thalia's pic on jason's wall ahh i love my thunder children 😌⚡

APOLLO SAYING HE ALREADY FLIRTED W THALIA WHILE BEING SIBLINGS KDFJFJDSK NAO PUEDE SERR 💀💀💀

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ONE HAS TO DIE

“Promise me one thing. Whatever happens, when you get back to Olympus, when you’re a god again, remember. Remember what it’s like to be human.” bro don't do this to me

jason & apollo's brothers moment <33

'"Im furious." "Oh." "Furious, but also empathetic." "Right."' what am i gonna do with these two 😭

apollo explaining to meg that maybe she's reflecting her anger to someone else.... dude this saga gets more into psychological stuff i love it honestly...

jason complimenting meg my sweet myopic thunder boy i love him sm <3

“Aphrodite pushed me into thinking I was…that I needed to…” .........my bestie can u please explain what exactly do you mean here? 👁

i never thought i'd see a god threatening to kill himself in order to safe his mortal friends oh gods apollo ily <\333

"This idiot cant even kill himself right!" skdjdf u really had to say this didnt u 💀

my thunder boy making a mega explosion how powerful <3

jason appearing thru the smoke with his sword on his hand such an entrance for my thunder son >:)

oh piper looks baddass all wrecked up and mad we love to see it >:))

WHAT TEB ACTQUL FUDK DID JUST HAPPEN???????¿¿¿????????¿¿¿¿¿¿???

NONONONONOOOOO TEMPEST GO BACK GO BACK FOR HIM

AH TEMPEST BROUGHT MY THUNDER BOY FUCK YES

HE'S STILL DE*D, FUCK NONONONO ¿$¡¿%#¡¿#*%!

apollo & meg's conversation in the car...... smiling thru my tears rn

"Her fury in combat had been rivaled only by the tenderness with which she spoke of her brother." I CANT STAND THIS ANYMORE

Απολλων = apollon

apollo cupping his face w his hands after the verse mentioned hyacinthus <\3 i love it sm that he's very sentimental <3

'“Meg,” I said, “can you attach yourself to the wall?” “Do I look like Spider-Man?” JFKFKSKFK 💀😭

"I wondered, not for the first time, why we Greek deities had never created a god of family therapy" this is a good question tho 😭😭

PIPER MY LOVE GIRL IS BACK

'“One good stab in the back deserves another.” Piper kissed Medea on the cheek. “I’d tell you to say hello to Jason for me, but he’ll be in Elysium. You…won’t.”' GASLIGHT GATEKEEP GIRLBOSS

'"Hail the Meg, daughter of the creator!" "Hail satyr!" cute

im gonna fucking rip my neck my boy jason is in a FUCKING COFFIN OH GOD GET HIM TF OUT OF IT WAKE HIM UP WITH A ELECTRIC SHOCK OR SOMETHING

piper cut her hair choppier and she kinda looks like my thunder girl thalia i will cry <\3

PIPER AND LEO CRYING NO STOP THIS NOW

"I would be apollo. I would remember" ah gods <\3 <3

grecia reading The Trials of Apollo #1: the hidden oracle

first impression: the covers of this saga look actually dope

"My name is apollo. I used to be a god" hi sweetheart

"I inflicted a plague on the Greeks who besieged Troy." can u shut the fuck up

WHO TF IS LAST-NAMED PAPADOPOULOS IM CRYING 💀💀

A four thousand year old god being afraid of a 12y.o girl? this is amazing

“I know someone who might help. He lives on the Upper East Side. Take me to him, and I shall reward you.” let it be who i'm thinking of please 😭😭😭

"Zeus did not answer. He was probably too busy recording my humiliation to share on Snapchat." Help me 💀💀

“Let’s find Percy Jackson.”' WAAAAAAAA 😭😭😭😭😭

"For children blessed with an immortal parent, they were strangely sensitive about their backgrounds." this bitch didnt just say blessed

"the young man swung open the apartment door and said, “Why?” As usual, I was struck by his resemblance to his father, Poseidon. He had the same sea-green eyes, the same dark tousled hair, the same handsome features that could shift from humor to anger so easily." PERCY MY BELOVED SON, MY FIRSTBORN HI BABY BOY 😭😭😭😭😭

"sacred sybil" ??? "Are u cursed?" what the actual fuck apollo 😭😭

“The war ended in August. It’s January.” percy is 17 im gonna fucking SOB 😭

sally finally got to write her book <333

"He smiled, and some of that old demigod mischief twinkled in his eyes." STOP 😭😭😭

“Some of the best demigods have gotten their start by blowing up toilets.” *sobs in the lightning thief* 🤧

"I did not like the way she was grinning at Percy. I didn’t want the girl to develop a crush. We might never get out of here" LMFAO everyone falls in love with my boy i know he's so gorgeous he's stunning he's mesmerizing 😭

Because Poseidon 😭

“I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end.” “You haven’t killed me yet” “Don’t tempt me.” percy is so done w apollo's shit 💀

"The calmness of his eyes, the smile resting easily on his lips, the way his hair curled around his ears…" oh? look at that! im sobbing!

"crotchkicker mccaffrey" I CACKLED

WAAAAAAAAHH NICO HI MY BABY 😭

significant annoyance

"they were so cute together it made me feel desolate" istg 😭😭

not paolo's arms JFJKFKS 💀💀💀

"She's a communist!" JFKFKDJF THIS CSNT BE REAL 💀

apollo sayin' gay relationships w gods can also have children might be the best thing i've read

MY CHILDREN KAYLA AND AUSTIN ARE MISSING WHAT

paolo got his leg sewed for god's sake 💀

will being a doctor in charge and nico his little nurse this is good food

rachel elizabeth dare my redhead beloved so pleased to see u again !! <3

rachel jealous over apollo having more oracles bestie pls 😭

apollo using meg's rings as a necklace </3

apollo's thoughts about daphne in the woods oh the poetic tragedy of a lost love <\3

"rhea's laugh reminded me of a piglet with asthma" HELP ME??💀💀

who's the emperors??? nero??? caligula??? commodus?? TELL ME

OH IT'S NERO

apollo's melancholy singing for daphne & hyacinthus <\333

'“Sing. Sing like you did before" "I—I can’t. My voice is almost gone.” Besides, I thought, I don’t want to risk losing you again.' man dont do this to me 😭😭😭

"I love the Internet! It is impossible for me to fade completely now. I am immortal on Wikipedia!” i DID SEARCH THIS DUDE, sorry apollo 💀💀

MEG WHAT DID YOU DO

"Artemis shot me in the groin because I was flirting with her Hunters." JDFKDFK GO BESTIE💀

"I stared at my beloved Dumpster waif. Yes, somehow over the past week she had become beloved to me." awe 🤧

The dryads & zephyros helping apollo in the woods <3

"Will, Kayla, Austin. Come with me" "And Nico. I have a doctor's note" boi ur doctor's note only consist on being by will's side 😭😭

WAAAAAAAHHH MY OCEAN BABY BOY IS HERE 😭😭

"I wanted to flirt with Chiara and steal her away from Damien…or perhaps steal Damien away from Chiara, I wasn’t sure yet." this dude is so painfully bisexual it kills me 😭

percy & rachel together again it's been so long since i read them interact <3

MY FIRE BOY AND MY GIRL ARE BACKKKK 🔥🌿

they're beating the shit out of my boy leo 💀💀

"When they first saw each other, Percy and Calypso had hugged awkwardly. I hadn’t witnessed such a tense greeting since Patroclus met Achilles’s war prize, Briseis. (Long story. Juicy gossip. Ask me later.)" DUDE YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME

"piece of torta" help. also my water boi & fire boi giving each other a high five 😭

apollo, leo & calypso walking together to the amphitheater <3

more of my reviews & reactions of the rrverse books here: percy jackson & the olympians, the heroes of olympus, RRverse mini stories