#and tremble in fear.

[satonthelotuspier]

Me: JC is unaware of the power he could exert over ppl with that face.

Brain: But what if Madam Yu had trained him to make the absolute best of himself and use his wiles to have the whole cultivational world eating out of his hand. With the Cloud Recesses teaching conference being his debut. 🤔

Yu Ziyuan to Jiang Yanli /Jiang Cheng: If you open your legs for someone be damn sure they’ll at least treble your net worth, or are able to give it you so good you forget your own name for the rest of the night. Accept nothing less. You are my precious babies, and you will do better than I did.

The Yunmeng disciples turn up at the Cloud Recesses having forgotten their invitation. Jiang Cheng can't believe what a forgetful fool he's been, *huge almond eyes with a dramatic shimmer of tears in them*

What's that? The gate guards can waive it just this once?

Jiang Cheng: But I wouldn't want any of you strong, handsome cultivators to get into trouble *innocent eyes with the eyelashes batting so slowly the guards can almost count every individual lash*

Yunmeng Jiang disciples are waved through. The guards will hear of nothing else, and if their reward is to see that flush of embarrassment, (faked), and watch that enchanting waist above that tempting ass as the party walk into the Cloud Recesses, then they'll consider themselves well-recompensed.

Lessons, and WWX is being a gremlin?

Jiang Cheng: I'm so sorry for how badly behaved my Shixiong is, Lan-xiansheng. *patented wide-eyed look that not even Lan Qiren can withstand*

Meanwhile the seat behind Jiang Cheng in the classroom becomes prime real estate that the other disciples start fighting over (including Wei Wuxian, who is aware of Yu Ziyuan's teachings, and intends in future to catch Jiang Cheng on the rock his world technicality, seeing as he knows he can't improve Jiang Cheng's financial or political standing).

They just want to sit behind him and watch that elegant line of his neck and the tilt of his jaw as he tips his head and listens carefully to what Lan Qiren says; or watch the light play over his inky dark hair as he bends over his work.

Oh dear! Jiang Cheng has dropped his inkbrush! Thus ensues a mad scramble as virtually everyone in the classroom struggles to assist the young Jiang heir in the retreat of said implement. In fact, that brush is dirty now, Jiang-gongzi, and the bristles might cause it to splatter ink on you, please use mine!

Jiang Cheng: Oh that's too kind *lowers his lashes coquettishly*

Jiang Cheng thinks its time to use the cold springs for a little meditative bathing? So does every living being in the Cloud Recesses too, purely coincidentally! It's worse than a crowded market in the area around the springs as Jiang Cheng carefully removes his outer robes and sashes. There isn't a single breath allowed to escape as his inner robe is untied, and every eye is lazer-focussed on him as the silk slips slowly from his shoulders. The first glimpse of prominent collar bones and winter-pale skin is too much for some, while other, braver watchers gird themselves.

Those manage to make it all the way to the point at which the now bare-chested young lord of Yunmeng reaches up to make sure his hair is tied securely, before he steps into the water with an audible gasp at the shock of the temperature. For the very few hardy souls left at this point it's the cold-stiffened nipples that finish them off.

The Lan healers are so busy treating bumps and bruises and injuries gotten during faints or embarassed flights from the springs, a new rule about private bathing appears on the wall overnight.

[hyunpic]

[kelin-is-writing]

WAKE UP BABIES!!!!!! WE GOT NEW DABI VISUALS TO OBSESS OVER 🛐

[post-it-notes7]

Happy 3rd anniversary to Heart and Soul!

There may not have been much writing this year, but thank you to everyone for your comments, support, and patience as I've been on break from working on the main series! I love these idiots and their stupid idiot actions that have stupid idiot consequences, and though they've sat cozily on the back burner as of late, the plans for them remain. Cheers to another year, and many more unfortunate instances of MK getting clocked out while GK yells about it. It's what they do best.

[foundfamilywhump]

a character who has bottled up something terrible that happened to them. maybe it's something they saw, maybe something done to them, whatever it is it's profoundly traumatized them. they keep going, pushing it down, dismissing concerns, or even having suppressed it long enough nobody even knows to be concerned at all. and then one day they talk. one day, because they finally can't take it anymore, or they were so triggered they can't keep it in, or something messed with their control (fever, drug, etc) that they just spilled it out.

and the entire time they're talking, they're shaking so hard it makes it difficult to speak. their friends/teammates/whoever try to listen and try to help, extremely alarmed with how seriously they're affected, but the shaking just keeps getting harder. they're not crying, they're just. shaking.

[philosophybits]

Faith is not an aesthetic emotion but something far higher, precisely because it has resignation as its presupposition; it is not an immediate instinct of the heart, but is the paradox of life and existence.

Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

[eddiegotout]

we must stare the oncoming storm in the face and brace against the waves and stand fast at eddie diaz's side. we shall not abandon him in the face of darkness and will shoulder his burdens alongside him. hark, eddie, for we are no fairweather friends, to abandon you the moment it seems it is 'so over,' for one day, like all the times before, you will be 'so back' in a 'major way'

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Danny had always wanted a brother...but not like this! And not so many either!

It had started when he was fighting Desiree. Everything was normal-well, as normal as fighting an undead genie could get-and then a kid fell out of a portal onto the rooftop next to them.

They both looked over at the kid as he picked himself up. Danny glared at the genie and she held her hands up in a placating gesture, "I swear it wasn't me this time." Judging by how she seemed just as baffled by the situation as him, he believed her.

The kid stared at them through the white outs of his mask. Danny stared down at him and yep. That was a superhero outfit. Complete with mask and cape. He quickly souped Desiree before she could pull anything and floated down to the kid, "Hey buddy-" he yelped and jumped out of the way of the kids sword.

Why does he have a sword?!

The kid didn't seem responsive to anything Danny was saying and Danny spent the next few minutes just dodging sword swipes until he managed to restrain him with one of his parents inventions and brought him home to FentonWorks and changed back into a human (away from the kids line of sight of course)

His friends were a bit shocked that he came home with a living person and he had to explain what happened while Stabby tried to wiggle out of his bonds.

That was when his parents walked in.

Danny had to retell them an altered version of the story from before and they began examining him. The kid was practically feral before his dad exclaimed, "I know!" And ran to the fridge and pulled out some of the Fenton Fudge.

He ran back over and popped it into the kids mouth before anyone could stop him. Everyone just stared as the kid calmed down, looking at them with confusion and wonder as the fudge melted in his mouth.

Aka Danny keeps getting Damian clones via portal delivery and his family keeps taming them with Fenton Fudge and adopting them. The League of Assassins have no idea where all thier clones are disappearing to...

[so-very-small]

the giant: i promise i’m friendly. please don’t be scared, i won’t hurt you <3

the tiny:

[whumpypepsigal]

The Boys s04e08: “I used to freak out whenever I saw blood. Now I barely blink at it. It shouldn’t be that way.”

[daysneezes]

Waiter! Waiter! More Misty please!!

[aleiiii]

WOH I almost forgot to work on this

Cover page for the comic :p

Also excuse to work on a painting for my lovelies

ANYWAYS ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!!! so if im dead for this weekend, just know…..my family is probably feeding me tequila shots

pero me vale bien 😋

[hyunpic]

HYUNJIN FOR W KOREA & KILIAN PARIS [scans]

[nyxi-pixie]

some christian seeing fyodor and assuming by the way he looks hes either gay or severely mentally unwell: Jesus is inside us all🙏🙏

Fyodor, remembering big JC has indeed been inside him, but wondering when his dead ex had the time to get around so much to have been in Everyone else too.

[hellishfig]

just finished listening to episode 34 of worlds beyond number, "something to remember you by," which is the end of arc 3 of the wizard, the witch, and the wild one, and i feel sick from how incredible it was. the physical reactions my body made to some of the words and music in this podcast really took me by surprise. i'm still reeling.

some thoughts:

i'm so happy that suvi is questioning the citadel, her reaction to silver's letter was inspired, and i LOVED her interactions with the quartermaster. she's so clever and intimidating (holy shit that was HOT), but i'm worried about what's happening to silver. i have an inkling that the witches may have already started making moves alongside the man in black, and i wonder how that will affect suvi going forward. and going to try and save silver before returning their "precious cargo" to the citadel... i hope suvi can keep questioning, and that whatever she faces, she doesn't let the justification machine run its course any longer.

eursulon meeting up with tefmet was really cool. i enjoyed the return of the strongest man in silbury immensely. it was extremely funny. and then, when eursulon asked to help and succeeded on his persuasion checks, it was solemnly touching. i love eursulon's power being in steadfast support and protection, and how to him, it's not about opposing the citadel in its entirety, it's about saving spirits, great and small, from those who would use them. and that's something he can do while still protecting his true friends.

ame let the chaos OUT this episode, and it was delightful and nerve wracking and thrilling to listen to. she's very bossy and it's so funny to hear how immediately eursulon goes along with it, despite not knowing what "it" is. growing up watching grandma wren, she seems to have gained a natural authority that makes people who love her listen to her when she asks them to perform innocuous menial tasks. but that's also interesting, because her chaos is focused, if imprecise. she knows what she needs to do and will do it, damn the consequences. as long as she can get away, who cares what she leaves in her wake? that's a problem for future ame.

they stole some brass knockers and a lion! they kidnapped nif to save her from being killed by indri! tof burned bright to free a vrock! suvi heads to war, eursulon and ame TO TOMA! (i almost cried when eursulon said those words and the music swelled. what the fuck, lou. what the FUCK taylor and jared. i'm not okay!!!)

and then of course, brockvale. holly hill. the resting place of sir curran of the hawthorn, who unknowingly sent eursulon on a quest that would lead him to our story. the man in black, the pilgrim under stars, the king of knight, the stranger, holds sir curran's shield. he comes to make an offer. will this poor old guard bid a weary traveler to step over this threshold?

this is why worlds beyond number feels so different to me from other dnd shows and podcasts. these artists have come together with the shared goal of not just playing a fun game that they all enjoy, but with the express aim of crafting a brilliant story. i love a goofy campaign full of shenanigans as much as the next person, but i adore how every choice in this show is given weight and meaning. there are no decisions made for laughs. it doesn't feel like playing a game. it feels like living in the story.

and there are also moments like the ending of this episode. a snapshot of elsewhere in the world, something the players don't know, but the audience gets to. it fills out the edges of the story and provides a richer tapestry of lore and reasoning behind the machinations of those who oppose our heroes. it gives life to the tale.

my heart is beating so fast. this show is incredible. thank you, @worldsbeyondpod , for the world you're creating.

[foundfamilywhump]

when a character is so afraid that they’re shaking. no matter how put together or stoic or compose they normally are, when they reach the point where they’re so terrified they can’t control their physical reactions? trembling, breathing hitching, maybe the clink of handcuffs where their hands are shaking in their restraints. shaking so hard they can’t escape noticing it - and can’t escape their captor noticing either.