#and The PRINCE to be Dusk

[coatl-cuddles]

Two Embers my beloved I am eagerly looking forward to you

[sukirichi]

Please indulge us with the other princes (ushiwaka, Kita, Tobio, akaashi) too 😭🙏 I beg 🙇‍♀️

ushiwaka is methodical when it comes to sex. he sees it as a form of fulfilling his duty, and takes into account the importance of pleasing his partner well. he likes to think he’s prepared for it - he’s spent hours on women’s blogs reading where the clit is, the g-spot, and how to curl his fingers just right when he’s knuckle deep inside you. he finds no shame in his actions because a well-informed man is like a man going to battle fully geared. he also has a playlist (courtesy of the twins) to ‘set the mood.’ he’s prepared for it, or so he says, because nothing ever really gets him ready for the first time he sinks himself into your heat, feels your walls clench around his girth, and he realizes that nothing could be compared to the real thing. or how he never saw himself to be someone who spends hours between your legs. its only inside the bedroom that he uses his strength willingly to pry your legs apart when your knees close in on him. ushiwaka remains methodical even after years of marriage, though, and follows a strict pattern that he needs to make you cum first - once with you sitting on his face, twice with his fingers buried within you, and three more times around his cock where he takes you in his favorite position: pronebone.

kita is the gentlest lover you could ask for. he loves kissing and does it like he’s taking his last breath. he starts by kissing you on the neck, then down to your collarbone as his expert fingers pop open the myriad of buttons you have on your top. he’s tender with each touch that has you keening under his palm, but all that gentleness flies out the window the moment all your clothes hit the ground. you see, one thing about kita is that he is a man of restraint and the epitome of self control. surely you could let him indulge in losing that control every once in a while. and you learn sooner than later that kita loves using his necktie to keep your wrists in place, caressing your jaw as he gazes over the helpless look on your face upon wanting to touch him, but he doesn’t let you. he takes his sweet time with you too, his strokes agonizingly slow yet precise. he’ll keep his eyes on you the whole time as he ravishes you, your nipple in his mouth and his thumb flicking your clit. and when you scream his name? he’ll just stuff your panties down that pretty mouth <3

and pretty boy tobio, sweet boy tobio... he’s shy, and unsure of himself. he’s the youngest of his brothers and have always felt like he was most lacking, but when he sees the way your eyes widen and your jaw goes slack with the struggle of taking him all the way to the hilt? perhaps he isn’t so lacking after all. but he’s still so shy even when you’re impaled on his cock, your breasts bouncing in front of his face. he’s unsure whether to put his hands on your hips or bring your face close for a kiss, because everything feels too good that he can’t form a coherent thought. deciding to just go with instincts, his hands end up wrapped in your throat. choking, you clamp down on him with stuttering hips and oh, tobio’s sure to do that again. again and again until you’re nothing but a sweaty mess on top of him and he chuckles, kissing the top of your head as he praises you for how good you’ve been. it’s his turn now to make you feel good. flipping you onto your back, tobio presses your legs against your chest, his weight crushing you as he fucks you all the way in the morning

akaashi needs a lot more convincing that you want him before he believes it. how could you like him, after all? he’s not rich, not the most popular, and his title is nothing but a joke. it takes more than a few heated kisses and with you guiding his wrist to feel the wetness in your cunt for him to finally snap out of it. inexperienced as he may be, his eagerness to please you makes up for it. it’s worth all those weeks of flirting with the easily flustered prince, all those hours of pining and shamelessly batting your eyes at him. because now the prince has your cheeks pressed against the glass window, your breath fogging up the glass as he ruthlessly takes you from behind. it shouldn’t be romantic, the way his hands dig into your hips as he murmurs sweet nothing’s in your ears. it should feel filthy - how he’s sucking at your earlobe as you watch the way your cream forms a ring around his cock. akaashi is surprisingly messy as he fucks his cum back into you, his low groans like a song accompanied by the loud, wet squelches. instead it’s just heavenly, even more so when he reaches for you even in his sleep, his arms wrapping around your torso as he sleepily mumbles, “want you again. s’that okay?” and because its akaashi - sweet, loving akaashi - you let him take you in your sleep-filled haze. there’s no complaints when you wake up with his cum sticky between your legs, and your entire body sore

[eshildora]

Rotoscope of Azura saying the intro to Morrowind. Always found it chilling and ominous, so I made her all tall and divinely terrifying. Had I more time, I’d have given her a background and some color, but for practice, this will have to do.

[raywhitfield92]

When your supposed to be doing important detective work but the brainrot is real. 🤣😅

[starrystillness]

Sometimes in snows in April...

Lodge Moor, Sheffield

[dreki]

2023 is already over, holy shit. what is time.

Drawing VDF and AWO fanart has made this year immensely more tolerable and I intend to keep drawing the same 3,5 blorbos on repeat in 2024 :')

[sam-glade]

WIP Intro: The Prince's Shadow

(Original Fiction, Days of Dusk book 2)

Pitch: What do you do when the target of your revenge turns out to be immortal? Genre: sapphic adult fantasy Themes: revenge, grief, power Word count: 110k (expected) Status: Rewriting the latest draft for NaNoWriMo.

Blurb: Killing a Sword is tricky. First, you need to take into account the blast that will follow their death, which can level buildings in a hundred yard radius. Then, there are their combat abilities, and their inherent physical prowess, exceptional strength, supernatural healing speed...

Erya is never one to back down from the challenge. After ten months of stewing in grief and anger, revenge appears to be the only option, and so, with the First Prince's tentative support, she puts her plans into action. She doesn't care how the resident hero dies; all she wants is to see him turn to ash.

Note: yes, the protag of Gifts of Fate is now the antagonist. This is my NaNoWriMo project.

Features:

❄️ Revenge, no forgiveness ❄️ Secret identity ❄️ Spymaster x chessmaster ❄️ Angry butch x stoic femme ❄️ Cool Swords - with self-indulgent superpowered HEMA fight scenes ❄️ Protagonist with albinism ❄️ Trans love interest ❄️ Secondary world ❄️ Elemental powers

Content Warnings (CW) for recurring elements:

Gore, grotesque monsters, mind-affecting superpowers

I will post specific CWs with each snippet and update the list as the project progresses.

Days of Dusk taglist (please message me to +/-): @acertainmoshke @another-white-void @cee-grice @cljordan-imperium @elshells @poetinprose @sparrow-orion-writes

[dkniade]

Contrast and Unity in the White/Black Imagery of Genshin Impact Quest Titles

Dragonspine 1.2 & 2.3 Events, Fontaine Act I

Game: Genshin Impact

Developer: HoYoverse

Fan Localization: Dusk

An aside from when I tried to explain the meaning of Kreideprinz’s Chinese term—

In Chinese, 白垩 is used to refer to Albedo with varying meanings but in the English version the term is even less consistent: 

Concealed Talon item description 白垩层 (baie ceng) = “Cretaceous Layer” (of soil) localized as “Cretaceous”

Albedo’s Story Quest Chapter title 白垩之章 (baie zhi zhang) = “Cretaceous Chapter” localized as “Princeps Cretaceous Chapter”

Albedo’s second Ascension voiceline, 白垩 (baie) = “chalk”/“Cretaceous”, localized as “albedo”, the second stage of the alchemical magnum opus

(even though in the context of alchemy, the albedo (Latin: “whitening”) stage should be 白化 (baihua, whitening) in Chinese because the albedo stage does not refer to chalk/limestone)

Albedo’s title 白垩之子 (baie zhi zi) = possibly varies slightly depending on context that it appears in, localized as “Kreideprinz”

Xingqiu’s “About Albedo” voiceline, 白垩老师 (baie laoshi) = (teacher) “Mr. Cretaceous” (Latin) or “Mr. Chalk” (English) or “Mr. Kreide” (German) localized as “Mr. Kreideprinz”

Version 1.2’s name 白垩与黑龙 (baie yu heilong) = “The White Chalk and the Black Dragon” or “Cretaceous and the Black Dragon”

or one can localize it in German like how they did the 4.0 Chapter IV Act I “Prelude of Blancheur and Noirceur” (French: “Prelude of Whiteness and Blackness” or ”Prelude of Innocence and Darkness”)

though, officially, Version 1.2’s name 白垩与黑龙 is localized as “The Chalk Prince and the Dragon”

Speaking of black and white in titles, another aside—

Don’t you know that HoYoverse loves juxtaposing white/black or light/shadow in its quest titles

1.2 Dragonspine event

Chinese: 白垩与黑龙 (Baie yu Heilong) = “The White Chalk and the Black Dragon” 

Official English: “The Chalk Prince and the Dragon”

2.3 Dragonspine event

Chinese: 皑尘与雪影 (Aichen yu Xueying) = “White Dust and Snowy Shadows” 

Official English: “Shadows Amidst Snowstorms”

皑 from 白雪皑皑 (baixue aiai) usually refers the whiteness of snow specifically, so 皑尘 as “(snowy) white dust” is just their over-the-top way to say “snow”.

“Snowy Dust and Snowy Shadows” sounds too humorous though.

I’VE BEEN WANTING TO SAY THIS FOR A LONG TIME NOW: of course symbolism-wise it’s likely that “white dust” refers to Albedo, “snow” refers to the Cryo Whooperflower Albedo, and “shadow” refers to Primordial Albedo, with Durin encompassing all three as the shadow dragon that lies dead—like dust—in the snowy mountain.

HoYoverse being HoYoverse has found a way to say white and black without even using the hanzi for white (白) and black (黑) back in 2.3.

4.0 Fontaine Act I

Chinese: 白露与黑潮的序诗 (Bailu yu Heichao de Xushi) = Prelude of White Dew and Black Tides

Official English: “Prelude of Blancheur and Noirceur” 

with French terms translated: “Prelude of Whiteness and Blackness” or “Prelude of Innocence and Darkness”

Given the information in 4.0, I would assume that “white dew” refers to Furina and “black tides” refers to Neuvillette seeing how Furina’s always at the front of key visuals and Neuvillette’s always looming ominously over the background, but you can also think of it as innocence vs guilt, I suppose.

POETIC ALLUSION UPDATE: 白露 alludes to the Chinese poem “蒹葭”(Jianjia) = “Reed”

from the ancient collection of poems, 诗经 (Shijing)

The poem is basically the narrator talking about not being able to reach their lover, who’s on the other side of the water (lake?)

The act’s Chinese title is already over-the-top—since most people would look at it and think “ah white and black and something about water, got it”—so localization’s aim is to match the fancy feel and not the accuracy ‘cause honestly if you localize all that into French it’d be too long. This makes sense…

Though, the implication that French holds such a high prestige that its mere presence is enough to balance out some loss of meaning from the Chinese title is… strange, now that I think of it.

白露与黑潮的序诗 (Prelude of White Dew and Black Tides) in French would be “Prélude de la rosée blanche et des marées noires”… I think. (Please correct me if I’m wrong.)

This time HoYoverse found another way to say white and black while using the hanzi characters AND STILL BE EXTRA BECAUSE THEY ALLUDED TO A CHINESE POEM OF COURSE THEY DID. ARCHONS, man…

New drinking game: take a shot whenever black/white or dark/light is juxtaposed in a Genshin title/name of any language, take another shot if they don’t actually use the word/character for black/white in the target language, take another if they alluded to a Chinese poem or literature in the original LOL

[speedysart]

Day 25 Mask

Together with the amazing pookie @buevitokun and his Onyx we crafted some idea for different AUs of the cuties.

One of them is a personal Knight/ Prince AU, with Alistair coming from a family of known knights, working his way up through determination and loyalty towards the royal family. Eventually he gets to introduced to the heir of the throne and something magical starts to blossom. Alistair would do anything to keep his vow of protecting Onyx to his death.

[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Print+Digital:

💘#IntheClearMoonlitDusk, Volume 7💘 By @mika_yamamori

💋Yoi’s affection for Kohaku remains firm in spite of this, but just as things seem to heat up between the young couple, an ill-timed miscommunication has them reeling.

[coatl-cuddles]

Hello, Sky? Yes, I'd like to order three (3) doomed, self-fullfilling prophecy princes? Thank youuu

[dark-angel-of-muses]

@breannasfluff inspired me a lot with her designs, so I tried my hand at designing the girls in a LU wing au.

Girls and the Birds I referenced drawing their wings in order:

Aurora - Pink Robin

Fable - Satin Bowerbird

Dot - Black-Capped Chickadee

Tetra - White Petrel

Lullaby - Snowy Owl

Dusk - Long-Tailed Hawk

Sun - Swan

Artemis - Peregrine Falcon

Flora - Mountain Bluebird

[sukirichi]

How likely (percentage is fine if you feel so inclined) is each prince likely to be end game?

Note: I am aware this does not mean the highest one will be end game as you have stated in the past that the ending has not been fully decided and/or could change.

ooooooh let’s get into it (i’ll answer this generally and not where yn’s emotions are at the moment)

kiyoomi has the highest chance to be endgame. i haven’t posted kiyoomi arc yet, but once its out, it will all make sense. but he has the highest chance of being endgame because the way he loves is genuine. he will always put yn first before everything, and he’s yn’s type, so. the only thing holding him back is that he isn’t very expressive with his emotions. he could love yn a lot, but because he prefers keeping to himself, yn might think he’s uninterested :( but out of all the princes, he’s the one yn could fall for the most (even after meeting suna)

rin has a good chance of being endgame, maybe 60%. there’s more of rin we haven’t seen yet, that not even yn has. why is he the way he is? why is he messed up? who is he, truly, when all we’ve ever known from him was when he was charming and pursuing us, to the lying and manipulative husband he is now? i feel like when he finally becomes honest with himself and with yn, their relationship can and will improve. not to say all is forgiven, but he’d be seen less as an evil man but more as a troubled person who only needed help

oikawa has the least chance of being endgame. not only is he the husband of maiko, who yn is friends with, but his feelings come more from a place of wanting to be ‘the good guy’ rather than the ‘worthless prince.’ oikawa is infamous for not having any good connections and an overall bad reputation + he’s pissy and rude to his brothers. no one really likes him. that’s why he wants to be good in yn’s eyes, and prove that he’s not so bad. his actions are motivated more by his self esteem, and not because he’s totally in love yet, although he is romantically interested. however, he is the most effortful out of his brothers, and he’s always the one helping her and staying by her side when no one else would (not even kiyoomi, bcos kiyoomi tends to come off as neutral due to his avoidance of conflict) so there is still a good chance he can be endgame once yn sees that oikawa is the most devoted

[themistdragon]

Give👏Callum👏a👏huge👏raptor👏familiar👏

Since Rayla is a cutthroat warrior with a soft, cuddly friend, Callum gets a gigantic, deadly bird 😤😤

[raywhitfield92]

😆 do you guys remember pictochat? I opened my ds to play Hotel Dusk Room 215 and am now drawing Stolitz in the note book and pictochat.

[crownedinmarigolds]

The main cast so far for The Poisoned Peach: ATL by Night.

I have so many drawings I just had to stuff them all in a post... sorry to spam repeat stuff!