#a two week break after this too

[thelilylav]

Idk man Faybelle and Bunny are such a compelling dynamic. Like what do you mean girl whose destiny is to not be invited to anything is rooming with girl who starts the plot of her story by leading the main character to the scene. What do you mean girl whose destiny is constantly trying to avoid being late meets girl infamous for the party she will crash halfway through. Also the fact that Bunny canonically takes care of Faybelle’s pomeranian, who is the only person/creature she will willingly admit to liking apart from her mom???

There’s just so much surface level animosity between them that’s undercut by a surprising amount of trust and care, how could you not like them?

[fastsalad]

my favorite scene in any movie ever is that scene in Maurice (1987) where Maurice has Hugh Grant in his lap in the most awkward position and they're stroking each others hair longingly while not making eye contact and then suddenly a dozen drunk british college boys break down the door chanting "TEA! TEA! WE DEMAND TEA!!!" changed my life forever.

[moodyseal]

No other god has taken as many Ls as the twins have in the entirety of the Riordanverse

[moongothic]

...I... I do not know what on earth compelled me to make this nor why, but I will not be taking criticism at this time

[disposal-blueeee]

" it's so stupid how we always seem to do it again . "

vargas by @zarla-s

frames under the cut !! XP

[lemongogo]

oo u want 2 draw soo bad..

[deiaiko]

#18.1 Rak

Rak let out a huff and sat down next to Agni. Agni peeked over at Rak, who was looking far ahead, as if his past were replaying right before him.

TW: Self harm and suicide…in a way? (Sorry if it gets too dark. I put the TLDR on the tags)

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"I met him back when I was young, about a hundred years ago," Rak started.

Agni was taken aback at how long the gap between their time travel was. He wondered how much his Rak had changed.

"It was getting cold, which meant it was hunting season. I got bored and picked a fight with the toughest and biggest prey I could find."

Agni hummed when Rak paused for a moment too long, "Let me guess. You underestimated it and you lost?"

"The river was slippery!" Rak crossed his arms defensively. "And I didn't lose!"

"Sure," Agni rolled his eyes, one corner of his lips upturned. "How come?"

"I didn't lose, but I didn’t win either." Rak looked away, probably in embarrassment. "Another spear pierced its head before mine. That's when I met him."

From the way Rak's expression turned fiery, Agni had a suspicion that that exact moment had affected Rak more than what he spilled out. It didn't surprise him however, since he knew Rak’s ego.

"He was around for a while, acting like he cared about me." Rak huffed again, more fondly this time, eyes closed and arms still crossed. "He taught me a few fancy tricks with rocks and how to hunt better. He talked a lot about turtle this and turtle that. There were so many, I don't remember. But Black and Blue turtles were the ones he talked about the most, saying something like 'no one else will be more worthy prey than them.'"

Agni felt his chest tighten. To think that their Rak had acknowledged them and even bragged about it…it filled him with a sense of pride and longing.

"I didn't believe him then, since turtles are boring and no way they could do what he said they could." Rak paused and untangled his arms, eyes focusing and turning predatory, "But when he said that these turtles were unlike what we had there, I have been wanting to meet those turtles he told me about and hunt them."

Rak's story was intriguing. But even if it flattered him, Agni was more curious about his Rak's whereabouts. "What happened to him then? Wasn't he…badly injured?"

Rak frowned and went silent. But when he found his voice, it lacked its previous vigor. "He was. It looked fresh and so impossible to walk with, but he did. I asked if it was painful, but he said he didn’t feel a thing."

Third-degree burn. Agni thought to himself. But there was no way it spread evenly. Some areas must've been painful.

"He definitely lied," Rak voiced Agni's thought. "He was just acting to look tough."

The edge of Agni's lips twitched in an attempt to suppress his smile. That's him alright. And of course Rak could figure his own self easily. 

"One day he challenged me in an all out duel," Rak's gaze turned dark. "His wounds had weakened him over the months, and it was obvious who would be the winner."

Agni frowned at the implication.

Wordlessly, Rak called out his arms inventory which held a familiar looking spear that shouldn't have been in his possession at this point in time. Agni would recognize that design anywhere, "...Mad shocker."

"He said he wanted to test me, and he gave me this." Rak glared at the spear as if it was responsible for his misfortune. "And later told me that I should be proud, for only a true hunter was allowed to defeat him."

Agni felt his throat going dry, and gulped. "He died, didn't he?"

Rak's eyes sharpened. Whether it was in regret or anger, Agni couldn't tell. "I killed him." 

Agni didn't know what to feel about that. On one hand, he could empathize with how much pain Rak must've felt from the injury, especially with the lack of proper treatment that could cure or even just lessen the pain. But on the other hand, it meant that his Rak was truly gone, in such a way, and he still couldn't wrap his head around it.

Rak put his pipe back to invisible mode, like looking at it had brought him so much grief. "I've never used that spear since."

The silence stretched, with only the loud noises coming from the training ground to fill it. Agni wasn't sure how to reply to that without being overly friendly nor physical, and he definitely wouldn't do that to Rak, who only met him today.

Sitting beside Rak like this reminded him of their chat before the workshop battle, on the balcony. It was when Rak truly let him see his buried feelings, his desire to climb the tower together with him and Grace. And with that, the grief finally started to dawn on him. The scar on his face felt itchy and his hand was already clawing at his mask before he registered the motion. He sighed and put his hand back on his knee, pushing the tangled feeling to the back of his mind to be dealt with later. And since the silence had stretched out for too long, he asked; "What was he to you?"

"A rival," Rak looked thoughtful before adding, "and family."

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[whenthegoldrays]

also I think it’s time for a little Elly Lore Update because I feel like I mention so many people on here and y’all need to understand who I’m taking about when you attend the virtual sleepovers 😌

[eyrieofsynapses]

me @ my professor: why tf did you have to put an exam the day after election day. wtf. we're already stressed out and bouncing off the walls. cruel

me, today: ...fine. maybe frantically studying is a distraction. whatever

[yuseirra]

162 rant~~

This one has a lot of spoilers so I'll use a read more!

Seriously though...it'd be so freaky if there's hundreds of dead bodies that start showing up the next chapter or so in the world of onk,

only after Kamiki dies or sth because he had some kind of godly powers that prevented them from being discovered while he's alive...

I' m actually scared to see that happen :/

I did say I wasn't too bitter earlier but I am a bit, they really didn't have to make his past so full of suffering if they were only going to make it as a convenient device to make him a criminal that'd have an obsession over his gf, I feel that's very rude and cruel. It can be handled better.

There are a few things that'd make me feel really unsettling if this is it, I still really don't want people lile nino and ryosuke get some type of justification or something that'd make it seem like they couldn't help being that way(it just doesn't make the manga to be that way;;)

And another bit would be about Ai...

Kamiki's probably really really broken to have become what he is now, but... Gosh, this chapter did not do Ai any justice. Sibling bond and the tender feelings that passed in from former lives are great in theory,

But I really want there to be a reason on WHY she had mothered the twins. It's like Ai is out of the picture in this one? She DIDN'T have to be there if this is it. I thought they were reborn into her twins have to do with her. So I'm really not giving up on this idea. I still believe the theories I had regarding this makes good sense. It's really how I see things, and I still don't really see it going any other way?

I want her wishes to come true and it should. A little bit annoyed on how Aqua is all about Ruby and not about what Ai's wanted, he doesn't mention of what she's wanted and I feel like Kamiki cares about her more lol(I do hope he loves her the right way.. Anyhow he does think about her till the end, it gets really creepy though? This can't be his nature. I refuse to believe it;) it gives me the idea that at least he didn't harm Ai because if he did, wouldn't Aqua have got to his throat about it, saying Ai really loved you but you killed her and all that? The guy fell into ruin AFTER having lost his half, that's how I think it is. Wow, but he really, seriously is in shambles rn, then just what was him in 154?? How is he so different from then? Is there a way to take of him in a consistent way?? I don't see it for the time being.

May write more later but this is what I need to get out of my head rn, it's not very good. So I don't think things are over just yet!

[meownotgood]

THAT'S 60,000 WORDS LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO!!

[averlym]

"what could possibly go wrong?"

[thebirdandhersong]

on the good news train today: I have finally finished the last chapter(!!!) of my Inklings challenge story, which marks the FIRST ever Inklings challenge story I've ever completed properly :'D coming in at 30,810 words (yikes) (it did get out of hand, I must admit), it is definitely not a short story, but it IS a piece that I think articulates a lot of what I've been thinking about lately re: love and death, and, considering everything, is probably something I needed to write. I am very happy!! It has been a wild ride, but a deeply clarifying one.

[cruzadocreacher]

new leather lunge line arrived today and I'm 😍

[seventh-district]

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[widevibratobitch]

omw to play emotional support for my mom disguised as ✨fun family bonding time✨ for the rest of the week <3333 there's something so deeply wrong with me uwu teehee