#and nothing else. life is. a trip.

[dykedvonte]

It’s crazy how expendable all the crew members were to the Pony Express.

A 30% chance that your shipment would be lost. Cargo and crew are inseparable if we are to believe the shitty layout of the Tulpar. People use it because it’s cheap. The labor is cheap. The lives are cheap.

They are all relatively easy to forget about. It’s implied Anya and Curly don’t have many friends or much family to be concerned about them back home. She mentions nothing and no one to fall back on and he feels like wasted his life with the company. Jimmy probably only has Curly, otherwise people wouldn’t care or ask. Of course Daisuke and Swansea have family’s but Swansea thinks poorly of his and Daisuke’s poorly of him. All people in the companies eyes that wouldn’t stir up too much trouble if they became part of the 30%.

It makes it so much sadder because that ladder they were climbing was so small and shitty. There were rungs, ranks, but even the highest was barely off the ground. Jimmy wanted to reach the top of something that was brutally cut off and knocked everyone else off just to not see it.

[desultory-novice]

Treasured Treats

@jojo-schmo

[spotaus]

Hi guys, this is usually what a doodle page ends up looking like <3 (oh, and @ancha-aus thought you might like this! Not writing but certainly fuel to my fire lol-)

This one is New Age filled!!! (Close-ups abd Lore beneath the cut!)

1) Night and Cross!

Night is actually very clingy once he's a teen. He doesn't usually realize it, but around the castle he'll snake to be closer to his Knights so long as there's no one he needs to keep his composure infront of is nearby. Cross is the one who's not used to physical touch (when it's not Ink ofc) so Night in his personal bubble makes his heart melt but also scares tf out of him <3

2) Error and Night's Meeting!

Error was carrying his whole life on his back and trying not to get arrested for unintentional property damage at this point, so when he saw the chance to get back at his brother and prove he was strong enough? Yeah, he got that on chance instantly. And was VERY smug when Nightmare chose him. (Also, Error is wearing gloves, so less Haphephobia)

3) Dream and Blue designs!

I think these are good tentative designs! Dream probably has a more regal fit, but he likes to play up that rugged exile look- He's inspired by Archers, while Blue takes on that classic Knightly-vibe. Their equipment is mostly stolen from Night's troops or brought with them from Blue's home kingdom.

Also, Dream is approx Killer's height at this point, shorter than Cross and *much* shorter than Apple!Nightmare. (Hc that Skeletons tend to be tinier in stature thanks to weird monster beauty standards. Horror and Geno's fam are outliers.)

4) Horror and Dust designs!

Horror is naturally a very *large* monster. He's very malnourished when Nightmare meets him, but by the time he's a Knight Nightmare has made sure that's no longer the case. He actually loves comfy, simple clothes, but to play up the whole 'strong mysterious' bit he wears a more barbaric Knight's garb. He doesn't mind acting scary, it's more fun that way :]. Dust is very very small, and envies horror sometimes for his size, but his tiny stature let's him control his body and move a lot quicker. He's very much based on a rogue, and usually covers the lower part of his face w/ a black cloth, and the upper part w/ his hood or mask. Dust only removes both to bathe, eat, or relax in a safe location. (Ignore that I can't draw the stupid gaster blaster lmao-)

These last two were space-fillers, but Cross and his Borzoi (Windmill, otherwise known as Milly (Killer named her-)) and really bad first wips of Ccino! I think Ccino was a chubby, happy toddler, but lost a lot of 'weight' (bone mass? Magic?) due to stress and pressure and bad eating habits. So it isn't until a while after the Coronation that he starts to relax abd feel safe enough to eat normal meals (Nightmare used to guilt him into eating snacks together, but as his boss (and younger brother) he can encourage it more often). By the time Killer shows he's still not quite healthy, but he's better. As more weight is lifted off his shoulders, the better he is. (That 'beauty' most people saw was a more stereotypical slimness, but Killer never stopped seeing Ccino as beautiful-) I think he never looked traditionally underweight, so no one noticed, and it was only much later that Night processed it. (And maybe it's why Dream hardly recognized him later on-)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also "textless" versions of these, wahooo

[kirkwallguy]

genuinely the only veilguard thing that's doing it for me is varric having an affair with a younger man who reminds him of marcus when they first met.

[seventh-district]

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[ratcandy]

my classmates will go thru 6 hours of class the day after a long excursion through the countryside and then just get up and go run around in town for hours going to movies and shopping and whatever and I'm just sitting here like Aren't you all exhausted . Aren't you all sore and pained. Where are you getting this energy. Can we calm down

[thefabelmans2022]

CHRISTMAS IS NOT WORTH IT!!!!!!! NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT!!!!!!!!!

[aceteling]

But hey I managed to cry haha maybe now I'll be free of the headache 🤞😔😊

[seaofreverie]

Every once in a billion years I suddenly get very lucky and pick up one band merch delivery on one day, and then get another band merch delivery from another band on the very next day

[dykedvonte]

See like the only reason I think the others seriously believed Curly may have crashed the ship is cause he basically had a 30 Rock "I lie to myself" momentary breakdown in front of them after one too many mocktails and like completely forgot about it.

[pepprs]

feeling despair i don’t know how to put into words. im trying to figure out why im like this and how i got to be this way but i can’t even do it bc of the way i am and what im like. if that makes sense. like the problem prevents me from fixing the problem bc i can’t get to the root of it. despair despair despair

[veikkoalen]

i hate one particular post on ogata that i won't quote

[theworstcreature]

YOU GUYS

IM GOING ABSOLUTELY FERAL AB THIS PIKMIN AU I FOUND

ITS LITERALLY ONE OF THE BEST FICS IVE EVER READ LIKE TOU DONT UNDERSTAND IM SCREAMINF. RYING THROWINF UP SHAKING THROWINF MY PHONE OUT THE WINDOW AAJSJXJSJSHFHDHHWJF ITS SO GOOD I CRIED I LAUGHED I FELT GENUINE EMOTION OVER A RANDOM AU I FOUND AT LIKE ONE AM

ITS LIKE 90 SOMETHING THOUSAND WORDS I SIMPLY *aADORE*

ITS A LITERAL MASTERPIECE OMFG

[daydreaming-in-daisies]

me: *constantly daydreams about moving out of my hometown and restarting my entire life somewhere that I actually want to live*

[randomwritingdrabbles]

Imagine the reaction when shen yuan manages to drag his ass back to binghe though. Like I'm thinking it was a 'I am a demon so I must throw myself into the abyss else binghe will kill me' situation but this is Shen Yuan we're talking about and dude probably gets Mobei-jun to teleport him back to the peaks just so he can watch binghe from a distance.

So like imagine being a disciple and seeing what you're 90% sure is the ghost of your ex head disciple just hiding behind a tree and watching your shizun. Suddenly your shizun's habit of talking to air and seeing Shen Yuan where he shouldn't be takes on a much more concerning vibe.

Meanwhile Binghe can 100% sense Shen Yuan and is having one long mental breakdown over if he should go now or if he should figure out why he jumped first before he makes contact again. He's considering getting an apron that says "I miss my demon wife" but Meng Mo (who is a hall master in this because it isn't binghe without a grumpy old man judging him at all times) told him that that was coming on way too strong and also raised way too many questions if anyone other than shen yuan saw it.

Shen Yuan keeps 'stumbling' across abandoned picnic baskets full of Binghe's delicious cooking and he's very apologetic but he can't help but steal them each time. (Binghe constantly has at least one of them prepared in case he senses Shen Yuan anywhere)

Mobei-jun is torn between wanting to murder his new weird awkward boss and being happy about the fact that with Shen Yuan's advice he seems to actually be making headway on the seducing shang qinghua front. (He has no idea why bringing his advisor rare trinkets and food from far off tribes works better than demonstrating his strength but a win is a win; shang qinghua is a bit weird anyway, he knew what he signed up for)

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.