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[nekrosmos]

Couldn't even wait to take out their clothes huh

Sequel to this

[mienar]

small town buzz

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[rjshope]

SYS Final Kim Taehyung

for @kimtaegis ✨

[loversmore]

LE SSERAFIM x pink for @lovemelikeyoumeanit 💗

[chipou-art]

Oops i almost forgot to post it! I'm slowly but surely catching up with Essence of October 2024, the prompt for day 5 was Autumn Festival! I bet Majima and Makoto are going to buy some good takoyakis :)

[eaion]

生日快乐, 晏无师! - Happy Birthday, Yan Wushi!

[enigmaticgale]

APOTHEOSIS

a fanmix for the Demi-Fiend who gained his Freedom.

The mourners play a melody, while the eleventh moon quietly rises. It was the start of a stormy night— fierce and drenched with blood, yet somehow overwhelmingly sad.

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MY APOCALYPSE escape the fate 👹 READY FOR THE WEEKEND calvin harris 👹 SUICIDEPROTOTYPE lucid [utsuP] 👹 RUN AWAY trevor something 👹 BROKEN ENGLISH rise against 👹 MOSH 'N CHURCH (DEMO) the used 👹 DOWN the birthday massacre 👹 DARK TIMES AT THE BERLIN WALL blaqk audio 👹 LAST TO DIE bruce springsteen 👹 THE FOUNTAIN pendulum 👹 I HAD A DREAM I DIED le loup

❝Call it what you will—A revelation from God, or a curse of the demon king. The fact remains that our world came to an end. A heretic called upon an unearthly light, and devastation ensued. Chaos crawled out of the depths of the ocean, from the black abyss. Death upon death… nothing but death in this barren land. Who can we pray to? There are only demons and fiends here…❞

(cover art done for me by the talented @jadesnapart. thank you again!)

[starrysupercell]

this may be a weird-ish thing to ask but I was looking for some cool official art of Colette and stuff on here and found a post of yours with official-looking art, but it wasn’t the full image. do you have/can you find the full image of this? this is an entirely voluntary request you do not have to answer this ask!

Not weird to me :> This is that picture in its entirety!

And, I feel like I should make this a Coke master post while I'm at it! Because once I made an incomplete compilation for Fang and someone liked the fact that all the neat Fang pictures were in one spot.

So here you go! Colette may not be the focus in all of these, but she's in every one! I'm not completely sure if it's all of them though.

💝 Bonus:

A lil loop with her buying stuff!

[hopeswriting]

i miss when i was writing khr meta on the regular and being unwell about it on here with you guys. i think i like having the time and energy to be chronically online actually

[egginfroggin]

Sketches of the Pine Nut

Baby............. ;-;

Transcription/notes: Pg. 1

wanted to test out a fit idea; also gave him goggles. Don't. don't ask how those'll work with his glasses. maybe they're really big or something

awkward teenage smile (it gives Mabel life)

he SPOOKED oh NO

Pg. 2

gave him a gun to reload (what me avoiding complex items like crossbows? never) - shoulder holster under coat - bag strapped to thigh/hip (arrow) "gathered sleeves" (arrow) "fingerless gloves" give this boy explosives

(arrow) "Oh noes he too smol/tired to pull heself up "also gravity's prolly weird here"

[space-writes]

Chapter Three

In which it's time for some good old Ashenivir angst, and the romance part of this erotic romance starts to earn its keep.

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The air smelt different. Brighter? Fresher? A cool breeze brushed Ashenivir’s skin, a shiver catching him by surprise. “Surface in five!” Master Do’tyl announced. “The shrine’s making ready for us—there’ll be hot food and plenty of wine tonight!” A cheer erupted down the entire length of the caravan, the loudest it had been since they’d left Mythen Thaelas. Ashenivir’s spine prickled with anticipation, his stomach awash with nerves. The surface! In no time at all he’d be up on the skin of the world, with nothing above him but endless sky. “Here,” Rizeth said, depositing a bundle of heavy fabric into his arms. “It is autumn on the surface; it will be colder than you are used to.” It was a cloak, of similar kind to the one he’d replaced his own piwafwi with the day before. Ashenivir didn’t have a piwafwi to swap out, or any cloak at all—he hadn’t even remembered to bring the one Keszriin had gifted him at graduation, a fact he’d kicked himself for not long after they’d left. The wool he now wrapped around his shoulders was twice as warm as that one, though, and much more practical. He fingered the soft grey fur at his neck. Autumn. The surface changed, didn’t it, as the year rolled by; cold and heat in a regular cycle, wind and rain, mist and snow, thunder and lightning and— “I take it you are excited.” Rizeth’s voice held the subtle cadence of amusement that warmed Ashenivir without need for a fine fur-collared cloak. “It can’t all be true, can it? All the things I’ve read?” “Certainly not all the things you have read,” Rizeth said. “But you will see for yourself soon enough.”

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[nekrosmos]

First piece of 2025 and it's a mob boss Nikolai AU, inspired by both @panchulien and @on-a-lucky-tide (this fic and this fic respectively)

[mienar]

from us it begins

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[rjshope]

I love I love I love myself I love I love I love myself I know I know I know myself Ya playa haters you should love yourself Brr

Happy birthday @raplinenthusiasts 💖

[loversmore]

sweet seungmin for minzbins 🧡

[hongluboobs]

book reader i have a copy of dream of the red chamber (volume 1) that ive been trying to get through for over a year how do i motivate myself to finish it

I'm recently coming out of a half a year ish period of not reading very much so trust me when I say the lack of motivation comes for us all. I think I have some tips for how to motivate reading in general+ some for DOTRC specifically :)

(Real quick, I assume because you mentioned a volume 1 you're talking about the Hawkes-David translation published by Penguin in five volumes under the name 'The Story of The Stone'. This is the translation I read through, and it's the one I see recommended most to english speakers looking for an enjoyable reading experience, so to any other prospective readers of this novel I HIGHLY recommend reading this translation as opposed to any other ones. I don't know if I need to say this or if it's well-known to seek out that version, but because Hong Lu's canto is coming up I want to make sure anyone interested in reading through the source material can have the best experience possible with it👍)

It's important to remember that reading is a hobby, and the best way to keep going with it is to make it a habit. Unfortunately, this means forcing yourself to read sometimes, but it comes easier the more you do it. The trick is: it doesn't have to be a lot of reading.

The hard part for me is really just picking up the book and starting to read. Normally with books I like to set a goal of a chapter or so per day, but because this book has longer chapters that wasn't always feasible for me, especially if I had stuff to do. But once I had the book in my hands and started reading I would usually go above my goal I had set :)

Last year a lot of my DOTRC reading was done while I was waiting in line for things, getting/eating food, waiting on the bus, or killing time between classes/during boring lectures (I don't know if I'd advise that last one). This is moreso once you get in the rhythm of things, though.

Another tip is sometimes the format is the thing to stop me. I don't know if you're reading from a physical book or an ipad/kindle/etc or a computer or what, but sometimes I read better on my laptop than other things because it's Always Around. Sometimes I don't feel like grabbing a book or I don't have it with me, but my laptop's already open and I'm bored so maybe I'll do a little bit of reading instead of scrolling social medias. Lately, i've been jumping between my laptop and kindle for reading (laptop for convenience, kindle for portability and reading before bed at night) but I've gone between physical books and digital devices before. (If you want the epub versions of dotrc, I'd be willing to share them as well. The only difficulty is page numbers change between reading formats so I can only really switch at the start of chapters or if I skim to where I last was.

Something that saved me while reading DOTRC specifically (as well as other sinner books) was having a place I could discuss/"liveblog" the book. These books can get LONG and the reading experience varies from "really interesting and compelling" to "oh my godddd I do not need 20 pages of Outdated Whale Facts right now". (no offense to Moby Dick. I'm only slandering that one because I read the whole thing and in spite of enjoying it I understand why there are SO many abridged versions around.) It's kind of just the classic lit experience to deal with these types of things, but it's a lot more tolerable to me if you can talk to other people about it.

When I read DOTRC I didn't have anyone else reading with me, but just having a place to tell people about all the things that happen in this book helped me to keep track of events and characters. It also motivated me to keep reading so I could tell The People what happened next. Having someone else read with me would probably have helped as well, but it's hard to sell people on reading a 5-volume behemoth of a novel with so much stuff in it it has it's own field of study dedicated to it.

You can really yap anywhere. I have a channel in my Limbus Discord dedicated to the books so I don't drive everyone insane with my rambling and it seems to have helped some of my friends get through some of the other books as well so I think this method is a pretty solid success? You could also pretty easily do it just in someone's DMs if they're already familiar with the book (this has the bonus of them potentially being able to clarify things for you and help you get a deeper understanding of the book) or even yapping on a tumblr sideblog or empty notes doc or something.

So TL;DR:

Picking up the book is the hardest part. Reading a little is better than not reading at all.

Subjecting your friends to this book will make it easier to keep going :)

Also: for Dream of the Red Chamber specifically: the book starts slow. I don't know how far in you are, but so many people drop it early. I started reading it during a 12-ish hour car ride and that might've been the play because i can see people getting bored during the first few chapters. It definitely picks up though, so trust me when I say it gets a lot easier to read as you keep going. Chapter 5 is an incredibly interesting chapter, and from there I find things pick up and start going faster. (It helps that chapter 5 is pretty relevant for the direction I think Limbus is going to take canto 8 in!) The later volumes were able to go by a lot faster for me than the earlier ones as well.

This is a long ass book, but it's gonna be a while before Hong Lu's canto drops and we get to Witness that Surrender. Or Surrender that Witness. I'm not actually sure. But regardless, you've got plenty of time to get through it, even if you're a slower reader or don't have much time to dedicate to reading. Steady progress is the name of the game for stuff like this.

Worst case, you've killed a bunch of time during the wait for Hong Lu's canto (because oh boy, I have a feeling this one's gonna be a wait) and you are able to gain a better appreciation for canto 8 by understanding some of the nicher bits of how it adapts stuff from the source.

Best case, you really enjoy reading it and end up like a bunch of the Hong Lu fans I know who were permanently changed by reading this book and started reading scholarly analysis of it for fun (or start seeking out every adaptation of it you can find, or read the book 5 times over... I am coming to realize this book does something to people.)

This book is legitimately incredibly good, even outside the context of me reading it because I was very invested in that beautiful cyan freak from a game I like. I might not have been able to get through it without Limbus providing me the push to keep going on days where I really didn't want to read, but it's a legitimate interest of mine now I will seek out information on regardless of its connection to Limbus! Trust me when I say it's worth getting through even if it feels hard or tedious.

(and if it helps- a solid amount of the stuff I feel is most likely to be Limbus relevant happens near the end of the book. There's so much in this book so things that could be relevant are scattered throughout almost all of it, but I've been picking up so many end of the book vibes from stuff we've seen lately. so you've got to get there!!)