#and key differences in their dynamic

[supernovaa-remnant]

Oops, my hand slipped.

Repentance AU Snippet:

“Would you be mine? Forever? Would you swear it?” Wilbur manages to gasp out between short breaths.

His chest is tight and his heart feels as if it will strangle itself at any moment. He thinks his hands might be shaking, fingers trying desperately to maintain a strong grip on the fabric of Dream’s shirt. But he doesn’t dare look at the other man (a friend? a companion? a savior? his savior?) in fear of rejection. So, he keeps his head facing downwards, watching almost absentmindedly as droplets of water fall onto the stone beneath him. But the panic is subsiding, at last, having felt like it lasted eons but probably only lasting mere minutes.

Dream’s hands take his own, carefully and with far too much ease prying his fingers away from the silk fabric the blond wears.

“No,” Dream says, his voice barely above a whisper yet firm.

Panic seizes Wilbur once again all too quickly. Blood rushes to his ears, and his head snaps up to stare at Dream in disbelief as more tears pool in his dark eyes. He wants to run away and curse himself for being so stupid. He wants to grab Dream by the shoulders and make him stay and change his mind.

“No,” Dream repeats again, softer this time. His palms cup Wilbur’s cheeks, and his thumbs gently brush away the tears. A smile graces Dream’s face, and the confusion Wilbur feels is enough to cause a sliver of clarity to break through the haze of panic.

“No,” Dream says for the third time. “I will not swear to be yours. But, you could be mine.”

Wilbur’s breath hitches. His entire life, he’s viewed others in terms of their relation to himself. He’s always been the one to claim other people. Having Dream propose an opposing truth—to be the pawn rather than the chest master—sparks a flame in Wilbur. It feels powerful and destructive and intoxicating. It’s addicting, and Wilbur can’t stop the giggle from climbing up his throat.

He’d run away from his past to save those he loved from him (and to save himself from the consequences of his actions), and he’d been so so scared of hurting Dream as well. But right now? Right now all he can think about is what a beautiful explosion they could make together.

“Yours, then,” Wilbur says breathlessly, the words falling from his lips like a prayer.

And, in this moment, kneeling in a long abandoned temple in the wake of a panic attack and high on the idea of possession, Wilbur can’t help but picture himself worshipping Dream. His God, he practices in his mind, and any thoughts of how blasphemous it is to think of a mortal as divine are washed away by the giddiness he feels.

“Mine,” Dream reaffirms, and the smile on Wilbur’s face grows stronger.

(Wilbur’s eyes shine with the glow of something sinister, a darker emotion usually bubbling under the surface, and, as Dream feels old habits clawing at the back of his mind, he wonders if he’s just doomed them both).

[fem-the-artist]

I LOVE YOUR ART STYLE!!!!

Ngl, Timatha is like too adorable in your art style! I was showing some of it to my sister and she was joking how Remy would see her and just be like "Wait, ho-hold on- that's-you're-" and just keep going in a circle red in the face

AWWWW THANK YOUUUUUU, Timantha is like my favorite character to draw.

In my sort of weird AU headcanon thing, by the time Timmy‘s egg has cracked. She’s already dated and broken up with Remy, at least five times within their early to mid teen years. so by the time they’re in their late years (Which is when she fully embraces he/she pronouns) Timmy’s kinda over him

Remy’s mo to to get back into Timmy‘s good graces, is and has always been giftgiving and love bombing and finding out about his Timantha persona I think just opens a whole new possibility for the types of gifts he bombard her with 

Make up, dresses and all sorts of accessories wrapped up in the prettiest of boxes with beautiful ribbons and flowers, though Timmy is not gonna entertain the idea of dating him again she’s not one to say no to gifts 

[weirdmageddon]

sorry for liking davejade in 2023 btw its in a cool way though

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

The fanon interpretation of Vox and Valentino's relationship really is just Satan and Saddam Hussein in South Park huh.

[dailykugisaki]

Day 341 | id in alt

when you've become attached to your own guilt LOL

(right to left)

[windydrawallday]

"All the love that we had / And the love that we hide / Who will bury us / When we die?"

After finishing the more complex artworks (that I want to post properly tomorrow) the impostor syndrome nagged at my brain and AGH. SO! I did these to shake that feeling and be proud of my chicken-scratched doodles and I ENJOYED IT A TON! Even to the point of doing all the lettering/handwriting on the go using lyrics from "Opportunities" by Pet Shop Boys ♥.

[victimized-martyr]

digging thru south park history sure is fascinating. I know Liane’s whole intersex bit was hilariously retconned years later in 200+201, but it’s interesting to know that 1# she was a fucking playboy centerfold and 2# I know for damn sure that Playboy is Kenny’s.

[hydr0phius]

Sorry but Thra'lani (as a platonic and a romantic ship, tbh) has taken over my entire brain right now. They are sOoOooo- ahkajsjjdjssksjirjdjjrjsjfw.

[chaika-jpeg-shitpost]

Yamazaki Kore was waiting for her chance to use the "my parents sold me to pay the loan and I ended up marrying my buyer" trope since 2013

[stanestreet]

Tut mir Leid, Captain.

[bmpmp3]

also guess which complainer about cevio/voisona's supposed lack of vocal dynamics controls finally Looked Up. and Discovered.

[azuree1733]

Y’all don’t understand how much I want a Kon, Jason and Kyle team up ik that’s so random but I swear it would work 🙏

[beggingwolf]

why does no one talk about alex rider. that series had me in a chokehold through all of elementary school. when he "killed off' alex at the end of scorpia I fully went insane

[grumpygilly]

im sure ingo still scratched that itch in his brain to look out for his immediate family - him being close with the clan is why he takes no action during the MCs banishment - but i know this fucking bloke became his new pookie the minute he watched him trip over his own feet

[reachexceedinggrasp]

So when I've been complaining about even fanfiction not being romantic enough, part of what I mean by that is that people take huge, gothic characters in pairings with gigantic, dramatic stakes full of titanic emotions and then make them feel small and mundane. Stripping the very romanicism from the bones of the romance.

There are many things that are deeply appealing to me about B&tB pairings or 'unlikely' pairings or Gothic romance in general, but something that is less structural while still being absolutely key is that it's not an easy relationship to get the characters into. It's not something that would happen under ordinary circumstances for either person. It's not a bond that can be forged without some form of pressure preventing these people from continuing in their regular patterns.

If you're writing an E/C fic where you start from scratch, the moment they so much as touch for the first time should be absolutely show-stoppingly prodigious. It can never be casual, not between these two, the idea of a touch being allowed should be an Event. The reader's heart should be thundering in their chest, the suspense should be palpable, the consummation divine. A single touch is a consummation for them, there should be that much tension. If they hold hands and I'm not holding my breath, you have done it wrong. The first kiss should feel like an atom bomb going off, the world should shift on its axis, a line is being crossed which has left both characters forever altered.

And people will instead write them like a standard romance novel couple who make standard pervy comments in the narration, get a bit flirty, casually hook up and then weigh pros and cons about whether dating fits into their life plans or not. All of this being totally without weight, without feeling like any kind of Rubicon has been crossed or that it's significant for the characters to have entered into something which must foundationally alter their worldview.

Reylo brushing fingers across the galaxy and it being the turning point of the entire narrative, given the same majesty and mystical significance as Luke's vision in the cave or Yoda lifting the X-Wing is the exact correct amount of emphasis for them reaching towards each other in tenderness. You have a character defined by abandonment and loneliness and a character who is surrounded by people but never touched, both unseen by anyone else, both aching for connection, both never having felt anything like this before, both aware of the galaxy-spanning consequences of what they're feeling. Them touching is le big deal.

The kiss for the B&tB pairing, the EtL pairing, any Gothic pairing has to feel out of reach, a chasm that cannot be crossed- until it happens, impossible yet inevitable. Something the characters could never have conceived of taking place at the beginning of the story, an infinite abyss of which they have somehow found themselves on the other side. You have to do the work to get them there, you have to build that bridge stone by stone, and it should be a sublime agony of seeing the path take shape while it still feels like the gap is just unbridgable, that no matter how close you come, it will never be complete, they can never get all the way across. Until they do.

If you write characters who have (or should have) that kind of vast gulf separating them as just kind of falling into an intimacy which isn't earned and thus means nothing, I just have no idea why we're here. Why buy a giant gothic castle of romanticism and then bulldoze it to build a minimalist condo? Everything about the pairing that makes it that pairing is stripped away. If these were people who could just meet at a party and end up in bed, they would be completely different people.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

"until i realised you wanted me to be doing what was right for some reason beyond the fact that you wanted me to"