#anyway THANK YOU ahhh

[thevikingwoman]

👄👁️👂

mery/tansui saladspinning thoughts pls?

OKAY HI thank you Meg

Currently I'm working on some writing pieces that will lead them to actually agree on a defined relationship (instead of Is This A Fling Or More), so I have some thoughts on how, esp Tansui feels about it, but also how things may go now & in the future.

One of the things i keep coming back to is that Tansui's life has been - pretty stable? He (wiki info 😔) left his home as a child and joined the confederacy (and I do have - a whole additional head canon here but it's mostly just spinning him) and he's been with them ever since. I count 25-30 years?

Pre-invasion, occupied, freed Doma - it's technically all the same to him and the Confederacy. they tax the boats, they live their life. Hingashi's non-interventionalism did stabilize the region I think, regardless of what we (the scions) think of it.

The idea of helping Doma is - more or less Rasho's, in the msq Tansui gives him the ability to pull back too

So regardless of romantic entanglements (which i'm getting to, in a min!) with the whole helping the scions, the Confederacy's life is somewhat changed - though it was probably necessary. But they keep helping Hien in the SB patches, including Hien's baby Eastern Alliance.

add to this that Tansui's - kinda girlfriend is, well, the warrior of light? She has places to be, things to do (disregarding if she wants to do them or not). he has to relate to Everything Is Now Different.

there's a line somewhere, where the Confederates are say - once you join you have to be loyal, even if you have to work with former enemies and lovers etc. So I think, well, he's used to maybe having relations with other Confederates and not someone so far outside his world? He can't (and won't) leave, and he's unprepared to be longing for someone. I also think he's protective (for background reasons too) and he can't protect Meryta. So he has to come to terms with this.

and she has to figure out her desire to turn to him, and how she feels about having to leave- but frankly i think she's better equipped to deal that he is. She's younger (by quite a bit) and in constant change and motion anyway.

anyway this was all a very very long rambling on right now my thoughts on Tansui is that he's struggling with 'how do I love this person' and it would be - easier if he didn't? But he does love her, and it's terrible and scary and very different.

[senkamikakushi]

I’m curious if you’ve come across this pic of chihiro and lin before!! A couple months ago I found it on Pinterest and was so confused and excited cus i had never seen it before. Came to find out it was part of a ghibli merch calendar someone was selling. But it looks straight out of the movie! I wonder if it was from a deleted scene. (The movie was supposed to be around like three hours I think)

I saw that image on Pinterest too! I was so excited because I thought it was a deleted scene or extra official art.

So it's from a merch calendar! That's really cool, actually. I know the Ghibli team had to cut out a lot of extra scenes just to keep the movie short enough (and even then it's really quite long), which always made me really curious about the scenes we never got to see. This would fit perfectly as one of them! It's honestly so warm and endearing.... Maybe we could've seen more interaction between Lin and the other worker girls, or even some development between them and Chihiro. Especially since the girls in this image look suprisingly young! Anyway, it's nice to see Lin and Chihiro making up for the food that was spoiled by the river spirit.

This seems quite random, but while we're on the topic of "Spirited Away images that seem official but are suprisingly not as well known as they feel like they should be",

Would anyone happen to know about the origin of these two images?

I've heard they're from the Japanese Studio Ghibli Twitter, but whenever I follow the source links, nothing comes up. Did they delete the posts or the whole account? It's honestly a bummer because these are such sweet and adorable images and I was really excited to read through all the reactions to it. If anyone knows what happened to these posts or the original source of the images, I'd be really grateful to hear about it!

[sainz100]

📸 by Mark Sutton

[sleepykas]

God i love Hireath so far. Like you don't understand how refreshing it is to find such a well written fabrication where Sun and Moon act like their in-game self. Also I live your asshole Sun like WOW he's amazingly written- the passive aggressive and straight up aggressive uncalled for behavior has me wild. Not even to mention Moon- he's my favorite character thus far. He's just a little prankster guy. He's just so him. Rrr I love your writing style and Y/N like yay! We have a backbone! Very good. Anyways, I will be eagerly awaiting the next chapter! Love your work!

WAIT HOLD UP. WAIT. YOUR HONOR. I'M SO FLATTERED OH MY GOD. THANK YOU!!!!!

[starlitcrows]

[ GIVE ME YOUR LOVE ], a grima/robin animatic.

based on the “divinities rend dreams” FE13 AU on AO3.

song is “love me love me love me - rock arrange (english cover)” by will stetson.

happy valentine’s day, everyone!

[ you can also watch it here on youtube! ]

[themisterhip]

HE'S GONNA BE THE PRETTIEST BOY AT THE PARTY!!!✨❄️

Artist inspiration: J.C. Leyendecker

(His art work is INSANE, such an inspiration for this)

[knightkaito1412]

Ta da! It's not a whole set of doodles, but this ink drawing of Goku doing a spirit bomb certainly took the whole page! It was so much fun to draw Goku again, and I had a blast doing the inking this time! I even felt more confident in using my brush pens. ☺️🧡🐲

[Ramble just below cut if you want to read...]

I remember that when I was a young teen, I wanted to learn to draw because I loved the anime Dragon Ball Z so much. So, I found an old promotional poster for the DBZ DVD collection of Goku doing the Kamehameha on a random movie and painstakingly taking hours to get it right in a very crumbled lined paper.

So, with Daima airing, I just had to draw Goku once more as seeing him in anime again brought back so many good memories of my childhood. That's why, although it's a little late, I'm glad to pay my respects to Akira Toriyama by drawing Goku cause he not only inspired me to draw, but his character has always served as a role model for me while growing up.

I am very happy that I drew Goku as it almost felt like I was greeting my dear and precious friend after a long time... <3

[chaosduckies]

What is something that genuinely makes Ryker angry?

Ryker doesn’t get mad often, and really the only thing that will is if someone hurts his siblings (and Nathan of course) or if he’s just really sick or stressed and does not want to be bothered by anyone. (I may or may not have an angsty ask waiting to be written!)

He’s genuinely not a very angry person though! As long as you’re nice to him and his family members he’s absolutely be friends with you

Thank you anon for the ask! :3

[rebornofstars]

Hey! How do you feel sepfember is going? I've enjoyed seeing all the lovely art and writings. Hope you're doing well!

luna!! hi!! thank you for the ask 💞

sepfember is going more brilliantly than i ever could have hoped. it's been absolutely wonderful seeing people coming together to create things! i've been trying my best to express my joy in the tags of my reblogs, but i'm not sure anything ever could! it's been truly wonderful. i have loved every minute of it so far - writing the prompt drabbles every day, and checking the tag for other people's work to reblog, and sniffing out beautiful art for the queue... a couple of times people have pinged me on the LU discord too, to show me sepfember art, and it entirely melted my heart. and i can't tell if it's coincidence but i'm seeing more sepfember-unrelated/untagged female focused art on my dash too!

in a franchise that caters a great deal to male gamers (and in my own linked universe bubble where all of our main characters are men), my only wish for this event was to balance the scales just a little - create a little bit of brainspace in our minds for the women. show more people who they are and what their names are and what they do! spare a moment to wonder about their goals and motives and characterisation. because they do exist! there are more women in this franchise than even i thought before this event! and i think they're worth celebrating, don't you?

[stabbyfoxandrew]

just got a notification from my phone calendar saying "It's almost alfo's birthday, do you want to plan something?"

[sainz100]

two more small Friday moments ❤️ | 📸 via Guillermina Cardoso

[paintedkinzy-88]

Ohmigosh!! Future drogbois!!! Have you read... (or watched it dubbed on youtube) Cass Apocalypse AU?

Cass was an OBSESSION, don’t even get me started. I think I joined in somewhere around the tiny Donnie arc??? I think??? (It was early on, I know, but not from the very beginning.) Then proceeded to read every page from then on—

When that comic updated, I dropped everything to read it before going on with my day. O-O

[perilegs]

8, 13 for moss/fenris :3

thank youu!!! <33 questions from here

How do they communicate with each other? Are there any recurring phrases or gestures unique to their relationship?

Oh I love this question! I can't say I've thought of this much for these two, but I am thinking of it now. Fenris and Moss have known each other for long enough to have developed Meaningful Looks™. Neither one of them is afraid to keep their mouths shut (Moss being incapable of doing so), but sometimes, people don't need to say anything to communicate something. It's a classic for a reason I think, you know, just two people looking at each other, knowing exactly what the other is thinking. Though this isn't unique to Fenris and Moss as this happens with most ppl who have known each other for a long time.

They definitely have their fair share of inside jokes too, but I haven't decided what they are yet.

Do they have any disdain/contempt for each other? How do they show it?

Moss is a blood mage and Fenris' opinions in the beginning on mages in general is what it is. Also, they both tend to end up together in high-stress situations which leave them fairly reactive (which is understandable), and they end up saying things that hurt the other.

Though Fenris is capable of going to cool off (i.e. him leaving after "What has magic touched that it doesn't spoil" Also, he will apologize for saying things he didn't mean (Act2 AND Act3 romance)), and Moss has near endless patience for Fenris when it comes to most things. Both of them try to understand, where the other is coming from, and their values tend to align, so I wouldn't say there's too much disdain.

However neither of them is a perfect person so there is some mild disdain. Moss definitely tends to be a bit tactless or inconsiderate (joking about Fenris' memories coming back, Fenris responding with "Perhaps you don't realize how upsetting this is"). And, well, Fenris is more emotionally stable than Moss is, but he is also capable of hurting his feelings (Bringing up Moss' dead sister and mother on the topic of why magic is bad).

Also Moss would wait until the ends of time itself for Fenris, but, Fenris putting up his walls and leaving Moss for those three years did hurt him a bit, though I don't think that has caused any disdain.

I think they both tend to show any of their possible disdain in the heat of the moment, but I don't think either of them is particularly petty or stays angry for long, so they have made up after all their arguments as far as I can remember. That doesn't mean any disdain is just erased, they just, calm down.

[edns]

02. Blossom!

Thank you! I may have gone a little too ham with this... But enjoy! I'm a little rusty with writing and also I did this quickly so it might not be my best work but I had fun ^_^ P.S. I Swear I tried to write something cute or funny but I think I am physically incapable of making it weird or sad lol

It wasn’t often that the flower vendor passed by Garreg Mach these days, her good being greatly varied — from lush greens for a garden and potted plants to flower bouquets. As Dimitri took a stroll down the market, he was painfully aware of all the eyes on him… All this time, up until Rodrigue’s death, he had been looking away from them all, when they turned to him for help. Looking around the market, his attention first drifted to the armory. He went to check whether there was anything new there, when a thought passed by his mind.

He probably should have given a gift to the person who cared for him deeply, but got pushed away. Cyrus Lenz, the person who nursed him back to health when Dimitri lost his eye — he made it very hard to tell if he cared or not. Ever since Dimitri reunited with his used-to-be classmates and the Professor, Cyrus had been distant, spending most of his free time training and sparring with other sword fighters. However, Dimitri had seen him fight in the battle at Gronder Field, which made it clear as day that Cyrus still cared, deeply. Putting one’s life on the line was a Faerghan way to say that, after all…

Heaving a sigh, Dimitri perused the armory. The vendor started to fuss as soon as he recognized him.

“We have a new collection of swords and daggers available, Your Highness,” the vendor smiled. “They’re all a valuable find. Surely you would be interested.”

“Are they, now…”

Dimitri rubbed his chin in thought, as his mind wandered… Should he give one of such daggers to Cyrus? At first, this seemed like a great idea, but then he remembered the amount of times everyone made fun of him for giving a dagger as a gift to someone else he cared about… His mind wandered to that person, rage flashing in his eye for a brief moment.

Squeezing his eye shut, Dimitri turned away from the store he was browsing… Only to be met with a pleasant floral aroma. He opened his eye, and saw an abundance of colors. He found himself wandering towards the store. He touched one of the flowers as gently as he could — a rose. Its petals were soft, smooth… It soothed Dimitri. For some reason, it reminded him of Cyrus. The rage on his face was replaced with a soft smile.

“It’s not often I see a warrior such as yourself enjoy flowers,” the flower vendor grinned; she didn’t seem to recognize Dimitri as the Prince yet. Perhaps she was new around here…

“Do I really have an exterior of someone who would not appreciate their beauty?” Dimitri smiled; the lack of formality was also comforting. He picked up the rose flower by its stem, only to feel the sting of a thorn… He pulled his hand away and noticed his thumb bleeding.

“That’s roses for you,” the vendor looked at the rose flowers standing neatly in a vase full of water. “They’re beautiful, but they also sting… And they wilt so quickly.”

Those words etched themselves in Dimitri’s mind. He stood there, his eye jumping between the blossom and the cut in his already scarred hand.

“What is one more wound for me? As you said, I am a man of war. I can take the thorns.” He took the rose again, this time avoiding the thorns, and looked at it up close. With a deep sigh, he touched the soft petals again, an almost pained smile on his face.

“Are you thinking about the rose right now, Dimitri?” The vendor gave him a smirk as the question startled the prince enough to make him look up from the flower. “Or about someone you know?”

Dimitri couldn’t answer, even though his heart desperately wanted to. He stood there, still staring at the rose with a furrowed brow, but it wasn’t rage that was clouding his mind this time.

“If it really reminds you of them, you should give this flower to them. It’s on the house.”

“… No, I can afford to-”

As Dimitri looked up, he found himself standing in a lonely corner of the marketplace, in front of a bush of roses that just happened to bloom there. It wasn’t the first time something of the sort happened to him, causing him to wander off somewhere or speak to people who weren’t truly there, but usually it wasn’t something this… pleasant, so to speak.

After rotating the rose in his hand for a good minute, Dimitri turned around to leave the marketplace with it… Only to see Cyrus before him.

“Your Highness…” Cyrus looked worn out, his voice monotone and quiet, but concern still showed through his seemingly cold expression. Through the thorns…

Dimitri couldn’t bring himself to say anything, and instead just handed Cyrus the rose blossom, his heart aching as he hoped the other man would accept it. Taking the rose, Cyrus, for some reason, didn’t even look shocked… But he did smile.

“I only wish for you to know that I… Appreciate your efforts in battle,” Dimitri blurted after a minute of silence.

“You don’t exactly give people roses for that,” Cyrus sighed, deep sadness returning to his eyes after the brief respite of a smile. “However, I will continue giving my best efforts. Thank you, Your Highness.”

Saying that, Cyrus turned and left the marketplace promptly, leaving Dimitri alone, his palms stinging with pain as he realized that the cuts were plenty, instead of just one.

Perhaps a weapon truly would make a better gift in this case.

[afraidofchange]

a desperate kiss as if they are convinced they’ll slip through each other’s fingers  — neve & ilona

@hemerasiae | kisses for Ilona.

"Neve...wait."

Ilona calls out after the other woman, stopping in her tracks; even with her back turned, she can see the way Neve's shoulders shake, and the way her arm moves, bringing a hand up to cover her mouth. They stand ten feet apart, and ever so cautiously, Ilona takes a few steps forward. This is the first moment they've had alone since she'd been pulled out of the Fade - a hell, in its own right, one that Ilona fears she may never fully understand as one who has never dreamed before. She tries not to think on it for too long.

"I know what's at stake," She begins, carefully choosing her words; what would normally pass for a joke, she dares not mention. Not now. Not after everything. "And I know what we've lost... who we've lost," For a moment, her voice wavers; Harding's sacrifice had been her own choice, made not in vain, but the loss of Lucanis was because of her own decision.

"But you..."

Thoughts of the future, thoughts of after - little guarantee can be given for what Elgar'nan might yet have in store for them - but fighting until the end is necessary if they're to save the rest of the world from certain death.

"You didn't give up waitin' on me," Closing the distance between them, Ilona first raises her hand to the small of Neve's back, slowly moving around to stand before her. Despite the difference in stature, she doesn't break eye contact. "I want an after with you, Neve Gallus, whatever it might look like. I thought I was gonna be stuck in the Fade forever, but now... now I'm here. And I'm not goin' anywhere."

Ilona looks to the way tears stained on Neve's cheeks, deep brown eyes still glistening in the light of the hearth. It makes her heart ache. Calloused hands reach up to cup her face, thumbs just reaching to brush away tears beneath them. Her own throat feels tight all of a sudden, exhaling a shaky breath; it threatens to spill over if she were to speak again, but she manages a quiet, low "Come here", drawing Neve downward. She stands up on her toes to meet her halfway in a kiss, still keeping her hands cupped around her lover's face. In turn, Neve's arms quickly wrap around broad shoulders, nails raking along bare skin. But as it deepens into something desperate, Ilona's fingers slide into Neve's hair, against the back of her head, drawing them even closer, body to body, heart to heart.

Even as her calves begin to burn from the effort, she refuses to break apart. Not now, not ever.