#again meant to be doing drafts

[ricky-mortis]

They're the best of each other!

[ph-cutie]

trustworthy interviewees

nonshiny version belowcut

[tezzbot]

I really like the headcanon that a very select amount of people are allowed to actually call Tails 'Miles' and Shadow is on that list, it's very cute to me ^_^

[agentmoppet]

Erised Fic Claim: Where Starlight Falls

Author: agentmoppet (Me!)

Recipient: @citrusses (Happy Erised! And thank you for all your amazing fandom works over the years, and your gorgeous comments as you read through this fic and I silently squealed and sat on my hands so I didn't reply immediately)

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60618175/chapters/154777987

Pairing: Harry/Draco

Rating: Explicit

Word count: ~33 000 words 

Summary:

The magic concealing Sirius’s Last Will and Testament doesn’t reveal the full extent of Harry’s inheritance until two years after the war. When it does, it turns out that Harry has inherited more than just the Black Family vault—he’s inherited the family’s magic, too.

He just has to find it first.

And he needs Draco Malfoy’s help to do it.

Tags:

Minor Sirius Black/Remus Lupin; Brief Sirius Black/Others; Drinking to excess; Kissing While Drunk; Grief and past loss; Guilt; Shame; feelings of worthlessness; Mental Health Issues; Smoking; Additional Warnings In Author's Note; The difficulty of redemption; Magical Theory; Mystery; Tenderness; Slow Burn; Competence Kink; Pining while fucking; Frotting; Blow Jobs; Hand Jobs; Anal Fingering; H/D Erised 2024; Clubbing; Legilimency (Harry Potter); Astronomy; Dancing; Gay Awakening; Sectumsempra Scars (Harry Potter); Apologies; Forgiveness; House magic; Punk!Harry Potter; Number Twelve Grimmauld Place; Constellations

Excerpt:

Harry couldn't look away for five whole seconds before he wrenched his gaze to try and see what Malfoy was seeing.

“What is it?” he asked in a hushed whisper, ignoring the crowds of tourists moving around them. “Did you find part of the constellation?”

“I did,” Malfoy said in a very strange voice. “Tell me—what are stars, Potter? What are they made of?”

Harry grimaced. “Gas?”

“Gas captured in a state of nuclear fusion,” Malfoy said, distantly, seeming completely unaware of the oddity of a pureblood wizard using the phrase ‘nuclear fusion’. “There is no way to record or obtain a part of a star down here on Earth without disrupting that chemical reaction in a way that fundamentally destroys it. But with this process of nuclear fusion, they produce light. They shine and they shine, Potter. And so the best way to translocate a constellation of light onto the earth without destroying it is to trap. That. Light.”

He looked at Harry suddenly, his gaze so sharp, the silvery depths of his eyes capturing Harry and holding him still.

“We couldn’t just draw a picture?” Harry suggested in a daze, moving his finger vaguely around in the shape of a star. “Five points, call it a day?”

Malfoy ignored him. “We trapped that light with mirrors. At some point in time, wizards reflected the beam of light from those constellations and then enchanted the mirrors’ reflection so the light never escaped again. And there was the constellation—translocated onto the Earth.”

Harry looked up, alarmed. “I don't see any mirrors.”

“Think smaller,” Malfoy breathed.

Thanks so much to the mods for all the amazing, difficult, exhausting work you put in behind the scenes!!

[gemharvest]

These are like a month old whatevurrrr. Cyborg!BF AU by @lycankeyy - silly alt for the last one under the read-more.

[nina-ya]

GOOD MORNING HAPPY FRIDAY TO YOU ALL!!!! ITS THE END OF THE WEEK WE PUSHED THROUGH ILY ALL 💞💞💞

[vhstown]

reminder that ppl who make stuff on the internet for free don't actually owe you anything at all like ... as sad as it is that ur fav comic / fanfic hasn't updated in god knows how long that person has a life 😭 can we not harass people and be compassionate and patient and understanding thanx

[nabaath-areng]

" Och lägga ned, mitt huvud uti ro På gravens bädd, mitt sista lugna bo. "

[kkmcshouty]

Trying to catch up on the stuff that got posted to insta but never posted here and first lets start with the quick reel I made to show off the new hero villain background style, though uh. it did end up changing slightly after this post but you'll see that in a day or two

[beevean]

The more I think about S4 and how much of a rushjob the Styria plotline was, the more amazed I am at the utter failure that the ring is. When you really, really think in detail about how it works, it's so easy to see the gaps in logic in it.

What were the issues of using Hector to create an army for the Styrian council?

He would be able to create an army for himself that he could sic against the sisters. The ring allows them to assume control of the Night Creatures. We only see this as a short flash when Hector forges a creature, but he has to cut his own finger to force his army to stop attacking Isaac, so the ring solved this. One point!

Striga wants to strike the iron while it's hot and take advantage of the chaos in the region, and Lenore is taking too much time in "domesticating" him with good ol' fashioned gaslighting and manipulation. The ring brutally speeds things up: this could have been a nice plot point to show how prideful and eager to prove herself Lenore is, but in S4's quest to woobiefy her, it goes nowhere. Still, it can be seen as an answer to Striga's issue, so two points.

However, in the same scene, Striga also points out the paradox of relying on dead bodies to make an army when they need living humans to feed. This is straight up an issue with Hector himself, not the way he would be made to work. While we see mercenaries in the castle when Isaac assaults it, this problem never comes up again, and Hector is delivered as many bodies as he needs.

He doesn't want to be there. The ring binds him to the castle. However, considering Hector's plan apparently involved creating an escape channel that would connect his forge to Carmilla's quarters at the top, which he apparently planned to use to run away ("I had to assume I might be running from the top of the castle one day"), it seems that his own magic would have been strong enough to break the spell.

He doesn't want to work for people who hurt him. Lenore was actually doing a good job at convincing him to work for them with solid reasons, such as the fact that they shared the same plan and Lenore was willing to improve his life conditions and, by the time the idea of mercenaries comes up, she liked him enough that she was his only chance of being kept alive... then she raped him to put the ring on him, and as the beginning of S4 shows, Hector can stall for time as much as he wants. He still doesn't want to work, as we see later he's actually doing things behind everyone's backs, and nothing forces him to obey any orders. Lenore, his own mistress, has to plead to get him to move on!

That's two out of five, by the way, and one point only lead to bad consequences.

Lenore really did the exact same thing Carmilla was chastized for, breaking Hector's trust before securing his cooperation, and the story... is odd from now on. If you lay down the events, it seems that the ring's failure was an intentional plot beat: of course Hector would refuse to work for the woman who betrayed him. It looks like an honest mistake on Lenore's part, much like Carmilla beating him and then expecting him to do her bidding. But Hector actually doesn't display any anger like he did for Carmilla, and the two are on good terms... even though he planned to run away and bring back Dracula... even though he also waited for Isaac to kill him... even though he spares Lenore's life because she doesn't deserve to be hurt... even though he completely destroyed her life by causing Carmilla's death...? I honestly don't understand if it's a writing failure or not... which makes it inherently a writing failure lol. At least Carmilla got thoroughly called out for her idiocy.

The more I think about it, the more this mess seems to be caused by two ideas badly meshed together: it's possible that in the first draft, Hector was meant to betray Lenore and the others (remember the foreshadowing with the fireplace), which would explain his plotting behind the scenes, his little "thanks again for that", and the way he caused Styria's downfall... but then someone in the team decided to ship Hector and Lenore together, so the ring got completely nullified to remove as many reminders of her past cruelty as possible and he displays zero emotions other than vague fondness for her. With this in mind, it becomes effectively impossible to determine if the ring's ineffectualness was planned to facilitate Hector's revenge or was a result of rushed writing to facilitate Lenector.

A very, very simple solution to this entire mess would have been revealing that Lenore... never wanted Hector to work in the first place. She didn't like Carmilla's plan, but she wanted to save his life because she found him cute and wanted a sex slave pet, and she knew that the others were waiting for a good reason to get rid of him. So it was for her sake, and in her mind Hector's, but not for the council, who was planning to do something she didn't approve of and doesn't respect her anyway. That would have been nice, fit Lenore's established moral code (to be fair, she does look a little miffed at the idea of keeping humans in pens, and while she tells Hector that it's their plan, it's obvious she's only trying to manipulate him and has no feelings on the matter), and very selfish personality. Who cares about the livestock? She wants this new puppy! And she'll save it from mean Carmilla, because despite all the gaslighting and sexual coercion and trickery, she is a good person and likes feeling good! And if she can stick it to Striga who underestimated her, even better!

In short: no, the ring wasn't meant to work, only keep Hector docile!

I like this idea of Lenore having her own agenda and being with the council only out of mutual convenience: they don't like her but use her, and same goes for her. As long as they live nicely without causing issues, she cooperates, but Carmilla's plan is idiotic, so she snatches the pet for herself: from there, it's easier to have an arc where she grows to care for Hector as a person, without the pressure of the council who she doesn't care for in the first place, being fully aware of being nothing more than a tool to them (hint hint). And Hector can be as torn as he is supposed to be, but ultimately choosing to make Styria fall and only keep Lenore alive, but in a way that crushes her heart.

And since it's common to whitewash Lenore in S3 and assume she was a better person than what she actually was, no, I don't believe this was the intention:

Lenore wouldn't have pitched her deal to Carmilla, which was "he'll work for us in exchange for the castle". She wouldn't have even set up the expectations, because then no shit Carmilla would get "very cross". She could have kept it for herself and agreed with Striga's suggestion to hire mercenaries.

In fact, the very first perk of the ring she mentions is that now Hector's Night Creatures would obey the council as well, eliminating the danger of him using them to attack them. This is literally the only function of the ring that is shown in S4. Lenore expected Hector to work for them and was happy to reassure the sisters that he was no longer a threat.

In the dick jokes scene, Lenore sounds worried that she can't keep Carmilla at bay, but her solution is pleading pretty please for Hector to work, in a tone that implies that it's what she expects from him as well. The complete lack of apology for any morally questionable action she has taken doesn't help assuage the impression - as I have stated multiple times, the show is not subtle, and if Lenore meant to go behind Carmilla's back and was deliberately being twofaced, she would have admitted it.

Related to what above, Lenore keeps insisting that she's loyal to the sisters, and her whole angst is that she feels out of place among them in a way that implies that it's not just about her pride, but because she genuinely cares. Sure, she still comes off as a selfish brat who ragequits life because she lost all her power, but it's safe to say that we weren't meant to interpret her like that lol.

So yes, Lenore really expected Hector to work for her after breaking his heart, and pulled the mother of all shockedpikachufaces.jpg when he didn't. Although he still fell in love with her. Although he still planned to betray all of them. Although he still cared to save her life letting everyone else die.

It's just amazing to me. The more I try to meet the writing from different angles, the more issues I find. true peak.

I guess I can chalk this up to yet another way I could fix the plotline: have Lenore be a wild card in the council, and have her using everyone around her, to the point that no one can trust her, and she's only a Queen because someone like her is best to have as an ally and not as an enemy. Only after Hector betrays her, she starts to regret her actions: because for the first time in her existence, she had grown to care about someone other than herself, but by then, the damage was irreparable.

[space-writes]

i so desperately want to do kinktober but also i have this entire novel to finish, and a viz-fic that's 90% done and apparently time actually exists and there are only so many useful words you can type in a day

[theunconcernedembalmer]

WAIT MAN IN GREY IS GONE??? NOOOOOOO

Then besides you. Who else in the Aesop community/family is still alive? I havent been on tumblr much so it was a shock not being able to find Man in Gray anymore 😭😭😭😭

Ah... I'm actually kind of surprised that u think that my blog is still alive (well, barely, but i try) (work is seriously draining nowadays among other life tm stuff)

Tbh I feel like I've fallen out of the ask blog community for a while now. I always say that there's definitely some out there that are vibing, I'm just not aware of them since most of the blogs that i tend to interact with n know arent exactly very present in the scene anymore, but just cos I'm not aware of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Probably.

[waywardsalt]

ok this month i need to finish at least one of the following:

ganonbeck chapter 2

bellum x linebeck chapter 1 draft

damibeck smut

maybe the other damibeck smut

???? something else i might start idk

[dizzybevvie]

boy how do you reblog such great things

been cultivating my dash for years. i also found most of them in my drafts

[tree-of-olives]

Counting this as the first official Arcade Army oc design reveal! As part of a Dance Dance Revolution x Just Dance style game called “La Marionetta”, the girl above is the puppet dance coach for the songs. It’s undecided if I want her name to actually be Marionetta, but that’s what I’m going with for now at least.

The actual arcade machine is made in a way that in addition to floor buttons similar to other dance games, there are gloves that dangle down and have to be pulled at some parts of the dance, which make the players look like puppets while dancing (which is the reason for the puppet theme)

The picrew picture is one of her casual outfits when the arcade is closed, and the gacha design is closer to what her dress looks like on the machine and what she wears when coaching for most of the songs (the bow in her hair does not come out)

picrew i used under the cut :))

[houndfaker]

quinn...!!!! believe in yourself!!!! write for yourself, who cares if people dont like your ideas? and there are people who will like them and they will fight to their dying breath for your work!!!!!!! i love you!!!!

do you know id kill for you