#absolute surrender

[prettysweetprettysweet]

huge fan of the way that Achi has just been floating where the gay breeze takes him for 10 episodes with relatively little pushback given the wild circumstances. agreeing to be boyfriends together after the first date, agreeing to move in with said boyfriend before a kiss or a third date, floating soul-binding krathong together and exchanging i love yous after like a month of dating [his new boyfriend, who he lives with now, but they did finally make it to the first kiss]. for someone who hadn't reached any milestones by the time he turned 30 he's really just casually floating past all of them now like a little dandelion fluff on the breeze. absolutely stellar.

[book-lover85]

Stay at home dad and artist on commission Keefe

[novelconcepts]

Do you ever just lay awake at night, turning over in your head the stark difference in delivery between Hewson's Van saying--steadily, unshakably--"it's just something that's happening to you...happening to us" and Cypress' Taissa saying--imploringly, whiningly--"this was not just my dream, this was our dream"?

Do you ever just turn it over and over, how often Tai tried to scare Van away, and how it only made Van set her feet more firmly? How Taissa's first love was this person who saw a problem fall into Taissa's lap, a problem that was quite literally trapped inside Taissa's body, and decided unflinchingly: No, that's an us problem now? How she refused point-blank to walk away even with blood in her mouth, how she flatly informed Tai "I'm never gonna be scared of you", and promptly turned a moment of pain into a declaration of love? And how this would etch itself into Taissa for the rest of her life? How she'd take these things that worked with Van--with the person Van was, with the bond they shared--and try so hard to run through an identical script with Simone?

Except Simone is her own person. A completely different kind of person. A person who hasn't been offered any of the context, any of the realities going on inside Taissa. So: naturally she doesn't respond the way Van did at eighteen--and will go on to do all over again in her forties. Naturally, she hears our dream as the excuse it is, not as a plea for connection. Naturally, she is scared away when Taissa pushes, and shouts, and begs. Because there isn't blood in her mouth, not yet, but there will be. And they have a son to worry about. And she isn't eighteen and a special kind of immortal, a special kind of romanticized. She's a grown woman with responsibilities, with priorities, with an understanding that you can't fix someone just because you love them. And Tai can't just perform a revival of the play she and Van had memorized twenty-five years later with a whole new performer in the works, and expect it to shake out the same.

Of course it doesn't work. But look at Taissa trying it. Look at Taissa trying to reframe her first love through a new lens. Trying to recast it. Trying to play it through again. Van taught her love was sticking out the blood, shaking off the pain, making a you problem into an us problem. Does it ever just eat at you, how tragic it is, watching Taissa try to shape her marriage around a woman who isn't even wearing a ring?

[evilhorse]

Surrender or pain

(Wonder Woman Volume 6 #13)

[infiniteglitterfall]

Welp. Just had the most horrifying realization.

What determines whether people want to punch Nazis or not isn’t the fact that they're Nazis.

People only want to punch Nazis when they disagree with them.

[kennyomegasweave]

Elyes replacing Paeng's candle at the shrine with his own and blowing hers out made me cackle. The man is so unserious.

And then he cut her little wood thing down to put up his own Elyes ❤️ Pat one. This is just so deeply embarrassing for a grown man (I'm guessing he's at least 30, yeah? Cause he's been the boss the entire five years Pat has worked for him).

I love him so much. I don't even care. He's so comically unwell.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

waking up means starting the day's long battle of fighting to stay conscious

[nyehilismwriting]

i wanted to thank you for writing and sharing project hadea, and ask a question that's been nagging at me since my last play through. on the route where the operative dies, what would've happened afterward? would Nash go Terminator and kill everyone involved? would they give up? it seems like whether or not the rest of the crew would survive would hinge on them, so i was curious. thanks again for this fantastic story, i hope you're doing well<3

ohhh anon this is SUCH a good quastion......

nash probably wouldn't survive; if they weren't killed by scytha there and then, they wouldn't survive the fallout, and the post-crash situation, unfortunately. more likely, they'd be killed on board by the soldiers, but they'd definitely take a few with them. one thing is for sure - maccready is not making it out of there in one piece.

depending on how much the operative told them, the civilians would likely end up dead or imprisoned permanently; the director hasn't got any use for anyone whose loyalty isn't guaranteed, and they don't have any particular skills that couldn't be trained into more agreeable people. ki-ha, in particular, would get himself killed before willingly making anything easy for scytha.

rohan would be taken into custody and never heard from again. it would be bad.

rhaxa............yeah. hm. not good. they'd take rhaxa into custody, and i don't want to give up any spoilers but it would Not Be Good For Them.

ivi would be retrieved, dismantled, re-engineered and implanted into another operative. with more safeguards.

[knightofwounds]

Tournament

For @adelarsims event.

Okay, I didn't bring the guy first, like was planned, but I still took the leap of faith as recommended. So, after silent first year in the community I am ready to introduce the two young participants of the tournament.

Is she li'l or is he tall? Yes.

Although… Miss Gemma Charm needs no introduction. The youngest daughter of the Charm family, an ancient magical lineage, she is set to make her 16th birthday debut at this year's magical tournament.

Traits: Goofball, Art Lover (+Creative and Perfectionist with mod). Aspiration: Spellcraft & Sorcery (in this family she had no choice, to be honest). Skills: Charisma, Comedy, Logic, Mischief, Painting. Likes (in the game process): Pranks, painting, comedy, new age, argumentative sims, silly behavior. Dislikes: Fitness, egoistical sims.

Her mother Minerva Charm is a powerful and respected witch, her brother Darrell is a famous duelist, she herself has been reminded of who she is almost every day since childhood - all of this is definitely exerting some pressure on the young witch, especially now. Oh, the status obliges.

It's no wonder that behind her carefree facade, Gemma is secretly afraid of not living up to the high expectations of her family and the magical community.

And perhaps the big event would have been an equally grandiose nervous breakdown and she would have given up before it even began if it wasn’t for Glenn O'Malley.

Gemma's stubborn and unpredictable school friend simply stated: "It's dangerous to go alone, take this! And by “this”, I mean “me”. Eh, shut up, Gem, that's not a suggestion, but a declaration."

Traits: Mean, Erratic (+Hot-headed and Loyal with mod). Aspiration: Renaissance Sim. Skills: Dancing, Writing, Painting, Mischief, Fitness. Likes: Red color, funny sims, writing, dancing, gemology, potty humor. Dislikes: Complains, physical intimacy, discussing hobbies, ginger hair (yeah, actually his own hater #1).

You might be a tough street guy, who dare not be teased for an old-fashioned name or anything else, but if your friend wants an one paired outfit for an important event and gain access to your face with her questionable makeup skills… okay then. But just one!

But who the hell is he and what happened?

To be honest, he wasn't even a spellcaster until recently: just a rather unpleasant person who, nonetheless, cared deeply for his small circle of people important to him.

And Glenn got used to the fact that usually in their duo, he was the always annoyed (and annoying) creature with a short temper, but not Gemma. And this time it was hard for him to say "okay, keep your little secrets."

Of course, his friend always had some weird secrets, but she never was so tense and blue because of it. And it was going on for a while, so…

He was smart enough to put together a certain number of details into a whole picture and crazy enough not to try and rationalize the strange result, but just to test the theory.

And a month before the tournament, he met Gemma in the magical dimension with the words "don't you want to tell me something at least now, girl?"

Does Glenn have decent magical skills? Not yet.

Does he have decent physical form and the ability to improvise and adapt skills from one area of ​​knowledge to an unrelated one, compensating for his lack of experience or tools, without worrying about how strange or contradictory it looks? Hell yes.

A guy with the behavior of a delinquent and dirty mouth of a sailor but the cultural background of artsy kid and vocabulary of a poet, he once applied his many years of dancing experience to the football field (also for another favorite person btw), developing unexpected tactics to deal with his opponents.

What will he come up with for magic? Who knows.

Anyway, now it's not so scary to be ashamed together, right? Maybe two Neophytes with a couple of entry-level spells, a pack of cheap cigarettes, creative brains and pockets full of love for shenanigans won't win, but now it's going to be a fun adventure.

(At least for them: this duo of unruly teens can’t vouch for those who meet on their way, oops).

[vazaymir]

I should be over all the butterflies But I'm into you

ft. @charm-in-spades

[rottapoika]

i got tagged by @byrnedavid to post my top 10 favourite albums and tag 10 people <3

this was fun but oh boy was it hard to choose just 10!! also these are absolutely not in any order

very - pet shop boys

tonight - franz ferdinand

absolution - muse

demon days - gorillaz

violator - depeche mode

the fame monster - lady gaga

folie à deux - fall out boy

actually - pet shop boys

kingdom of welcome addiction - iamx

velvet - adam lambert

tagging (no pressure, only if u want to): @vinylchemist @viir-tanadhal @my-name-is-siduri @dazaiconfused and i think of anyone else right now oops

[ihadtried]

I used to be so afraid right after I deconstructed that I would return to the church. That suddenly I would have to leave behind this new life I loved and enjoyed so much, be sucked back into the tiny box that was my religion. Give up everything I was only just starting to experience. Delete my blog and block my new queer friends and repress repress repress repress.

And now four years later every time I hear a passage from the Bible it sounds more and more ridiculous. It looks more fake with every passing day.

I’m just so much happier

[homicidal-slvt]

My mental health decided to drop into the abyss so if I evaporate then oops

[thetarttfuldickhead]

Am inexplicably and unreasonably upset about Jamie not liking scones. Like, obviously he can like whatever he likes and there's no accounting for taste and what does it even matter but also what the hell is wrong with you, my ridiculous muppet man? What else don't you like, huh - is it kittens and puppies? World peace? Fucking joy?

For my own peace of mind I'll be imagining him just saying that because he doesn't want anything from Roy at this particular point in time. Or maybe Simon's scones are JUST TOO GOOD, nothing else can compare, so Jamie just avoids all other scones as to avoid disappointment. Either work and make hell of a lot more sense that Jamie "not even liking" scones. I mean, come on.

[polarisbibliotheque]

To my peeps on the Shall Never Surrender project I haven't finished the requests yet and are wondering "what the hell, dude"

I just sketched Dante and Vergil for the first time again after, literally, more than 1 year.

And Vergil looks like Billy Idol 🙃

I'm trying to redraw an old drawing and maaaaaan, I couldn't get his proportions right for ANYTHING in this world hahahaha

Our rebel Vergil right there 🖤 *cries in the corner*

And Dante, as always, is so easy to get right. I love this man

I'm going for a redraw of a redraw. It'll probably be interesting if I get to finish!

(And just realised I gave an oc of mine Dante's hair while I was going for a Farah Fawcett look *cries again)

After I warm up and I'm actually able to draw them decently, I'll be picking up the requests!! Hopefully this week still!!

After Billy Idol Vergil stops haunting my dreams 🥲

[fellator]

omg I love it when two characters are best friends....

I can't fucking do it there's something so raw in it. when they say "you're the only person in the world im not tired of". when they keep sacrificing themselves for each other. when it's about being together. when it's a "before you came into my life i missed you so bad" kind of thing. when it's kind of romantic but also So Much More than that. when they fit together perfectly. when they make each other feel human again. when they're not together in the end. and it's about how they love each other so much they could explode. they care each other greatly