#bloodfruit

[chrisfriel]

Ambrose Akinmusire / a blooming bloodfruit in a hoodie

TRACK

[darkpurpledawn]

my favorite Batman fics from 2023, part two

and here’s the rest! favorite bat fics completed in 2023--the previous list had harlivy, batcat, batfam/gen, and bruce-centric, now we’re walking on the less canon side

Riddlebat

april showers bring may flowers by paprikaflakes (@paprikaspice)

What’s better than sex pollen fic? Sex pollen fic with two deeply repressed nerds and a giant chessboard!

folie à deux by bloodfruit

super cool and beautifully written Riddlebat 2022 fic using a console-style format

Misc rogues

i violated professional boundaries (and all i got was this stupid tee shirt) by paprikaflakes (@paprikaspice)

An immensely fun Scriddler fic in which every line is worth savoring

Let it Slide by finnieston_crane (@finniestoncrane)

Incredibly true-to-characrer Batman Unburied Riddler/reader smut oneshot

Bruce and Harvey by burninswell

Bruharvey smut fresh and hot, come and get it!

Batjokes and Joker centric

burn it to ashes by distortopia (@distort-opia)

An absolutely scorching batjokes fic based on the Deadly Duo comic that uses the (canonical!) gimp mask for all it's worth =))

Grudge Match by frickityfrac (@fractualized)

You'll never be able to think of Dick Grayson and the Joker the same way again--a pairing that seems like it shouldn't work but becomes both plausible and hilarious in this masterpiece

Pierrot by Vampowerment

Gorgeous and well-realized fic in which Harley pines for Joker and Joker pines for Batman, absolutely a top read of the year

Two weeks til the music stops by MargueritePoretesDefenseAttorney

Actual laugh-out-loud fic about the Batfam investigating Bruce’s suspicious new relationship with a guy who looks weirdly like the Joker. I was wheezing

Take Me From Within by Shiny_n_new (@shinynewwriting)

Joker, in Santa Prisca, talks to the Batman Who Laughs. Taut and tense and captivating

To the Victor Go the Spoils by ArgentNoelle (@argentnoelle)

I’m cheating here as this is part of a series, but it’s a series I’m obsessed with and highly rec this chapter as well as the whole thing

what cuts is not the horror by distortopia (@distort-opia)

Joker/Bruce Wayne, all the content warnings, all the fun

Woman in the Attic by DesdemonaKaylose (@desdemonafictional)

spectacularly, wonderfully, intricately Messed-Up

link to part one

[haveyouatethisfruit]

Bloodfruit

Also known as khoon phal or roktogula

Not to be confused with tamarillo

[dark-lina]

[ nails ] - for receiver to tidy sender’s nails and/or do a manicure

Maia brought Victoria into her realm, The Flores Manor, to spend time away from the camp. She wanted to do someone's nails other than her younger twin siblings. As she pulled out her nail set, she starts to clean the vampire's nails and began the painting process.

"Is there a colour you'd want to pick? Any designs?" Maia asked in a gentle voice.

Victoria looked at her nails…she couldn't remember the last time she did them, it must have been before she ran away. She shifted in her chair and nodded her head. "Mmmm black…I like black…but maybe we can paint some little white spiders on them or red ones, that would be cute?" Victoria befriended Maya, well, she still didn't quite understand the mist… and she didn't have to worry about blood thanks to her bloodfruit seedling, but still the world was incomprehensible to her.

[kharrneth]

Khornate Biology: Hypercarnivory

Though one might imagine Daemons of Khorne to be strictly carnivorous, this would be in error. Insofar as daemonkind aligns with any notion of biology, the Daemons of Khorne would be most accurately described as hypercarnivores: most of their diet is other creatures, but it is supplemented by fruit, fungi, and plant-material. However, it should be noted that most of the material involves blood-- from Bloodfruit to the corpse-flowers that Bloodflies feed upon.

Khornates prefer flesh from creatures and alongside being a dietary requirement, much like battle itself, there is rank and dominance underpining the consumption of blood and flesh from "proper" creatures vs plants or insects. Similar to Chimpanzees, the highest ranking and fiercest Daemons of Khorne in a given blood-pack or blood-host consumes the most meat.

A community of Khornate daemons may keep a communal grove of sorts, a practice that is viewed with a range of attitudes. This grove serves as a reliable source of sustenance, both of blood and battle. Many creatures of Khorne roam the Ragelands and all hunger for blood, meaning these communal blood-gardens ("Goredens") attract all manner of "guests". In many cases, this is the point, as interactions between the grove keepers and intruders of all stripes inevitably ends in battle.

Not all visitors are animals; those blood hosts more given to roaming often target the sedentary grove communities the way raiders might a village in the mortal world. These battles are particularly vicious, as the Grove-Daemons are defending a shared territory from conquerors and the raiders believe they are purging weakness from the land.

Much blood is spilled and the Blood God is pleased indeed.

[thedarkcircuswritings]

Aight hear me out. OC time.

Bloodfruit "Cookie". A sentient blob taking forms of other cookies. Basically a mirror fighter but in crk.

Nuff said.

This just makes me question if Bloodfruit would change to Jamfruit or not since, like, a Cookie's blood is jam? Would Cookies be aware of the concept of blood? If blood is jam, would Soul Jams be technically made out of blood??

One oc is making me question reality /silly

[crush3dmary]

A pal asked me for some ygo fic recs and I know I had a post before but I can't find it so here's some stuff that scratches my brain just right. No particular order.

shine a light on the good things that we did by youremyqueen "He’s not going to come out. If he was he would have done it by now, so if you’re only here to see him, you should probably just go." (tornshipping, oneshot, 1k)

loosen your grip before i choke by bloodfruit bakura ryou was born without a string of fate. (tendershipping, 5 chapters, 34k)

diorama by thebindingblade He wakes up to a miniature in his left hand and a paintbrush in his right.

Ryou tilts his head. He swirls the small plastic human round his fingers like water in his palm, watching each of the delicate folds in its robes ripple at its surface, light dancing across the tiny, intricate patterns carved at its ends so fluidly he can see its cloth sway and shift in the high tide. Bangles clink across its arms, wrists, and neck, yet do nothing to weigh it down, as the figure floats through his grip. Its doe eyed gaze stares back at him, so innocent and inviting, watching his face inch ever closer, until, he too, joins it in the water, and its form, from head to toe, is so white as to be artificial that he jolts and he’s back in the present, in his seat. He smiles.

He likes it.

He’d like it even more if he remembered how he’d got it. (gen, Ryou centric, oneshot, 2k)

H0URGLASS by SheIsHoldingACat hour·glass noun noun: hourglass; plural noun: hourglasses; noun: hour-glass; plural noun: hour-glasses

an invertible device with two connected glass bulbs containing sand that takes an hour to pass from the upper to the lower bulb.

~

Two character studies of Marik Ishtar and his darker half, meant to parallel each other and explore the cross-contamination between them.

INSPIRED BY CONTAGI0N by crushedmary !! (some eclipse/thief/mostly gen, two fics, 60k including optional second chapter of each)

nobody here but us ghosts by orphan_account Every good king has an heir. (Or: Bakura plans ahead. Ryou does not.) (implied tender, oneshot, 1,3k)

To the Heart by girahimu_sama The secrets of the Millennium Ring were never meant to be uncovered, but that wouldn't stop its host from digging. Meanwhile, an alliance formed between the Spirit of the Ring and a certain tombkeeper makes the matter all the more complicated.

A rewrite in which Malik and Bakura form their partnership before Battle City, spanning from there until Millennium World. Generally follows manga canon with some anime elements mixed in. (thief, 23 chapters, 128k)

Rien by AlexMartin (RandomDraconic) Alone, well and truly alone for the first time in years, in a decade, Ryou cried, and no one stopped him. (gen/implied tender, oneshot, 7k - one of my favourite fics of all time. If you only read one from this list make it this one.)

hello, i'm a monster too - by Ariasune It's not stockholm syndrome, thank you very much. (gen, Ryou centric, oneshot, 1k)

Can't Take it With You by Parsonsaj It was his first experience with death. He would have given anything for it to have been his last, but it was far, far from it.

A character study of Ryou Bakura, beginning before Season Zero through to The End. COMPLETED. (gen, implied tender, 41 chapters, 212k words)

[wolfsbanemanor]

How healthy are they? Are they conscious of keeping fit or maintaining a healthy diet?

They're as (physically) healthy as vampires can be. Lilith always loved to exercise, and she didn't stop doing that once she became a vampire. She spends a lot of time at the gym, and in my main save, she married Marcus Flex. That being said, she sometimes overdid it, and still does. She doesn't eat anything other than blood (or bloodfruit juice), because she physically can't anymore. (And I feel like maybe as a human, she didn't have the best relationship with food.) Caleb never really was one for working out, or sports, or anything like that. (Which got him teased and bullied to no end by the other boys in school.) But he's not a couch potato, either.

[alphabitchnkari]

@skxrbrand

The keeper returns from his own palace with self-satisfied smile. He carefully hands a Skarbrand a large bowl of gelatinous translucent orbs, doing his best not to jostle them too much. They about the size of a bloodfruit and smell faintly of rose water and starch. 

N’kari looks at the reaper expectantly. 

[loominggaia]

What about the other nymph’s? How do they react to being vampires?

Limniad: Weak in darkness, strong in sunlight. Can grow "bloodfruit" as a way of preserving extra blood for later.

Dryad: Weak in darkness, strong in sunlight. Feed via roots rather than fangs. Can store blood in roots to feed later.

Hydriad: Cannot drown so they're a real threat to other Aquarian species and any Terrian who enters the water. They can be active 24/7 if they stay in murky waters during daylight hours. Can cast water spells on victims to draw out blood without biting them.

Aurae: Can create a dark cloud around themselves to protect them from the sun at all hours. Most vampires can only fly in bat form but aurae can fly in their native form too, making it harder to escape them.

Isanae: Can freeze victims for preserve them for later. Immune to cold temperatures and frost spells. Weak in the presence of heat and fire.

Pyriad: Immune to fire, unlike most vampires which are highly flammable. Can tolerate sunlight.

Oread: Can quickly bury themselves to escape the sun. Physically strongest of all vampire species. Immune to silver.

Faunae: Super strength, agility, and speed. Can enchant animals to capture victims for them. Can eat meat but only from peoples, making them more efficient feeders.

Maenad: Super seduction/mind control powers. Dream manipulation. Feeds off psychic energy rather than blood, draining their victim's sanity until there is none left.

Pleiadae: *teleports behind you* nothin personnel, kid

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Lore Masterpost

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[lainxsolus]

for: @thegoodfellow

Where: Ruins of Rome

Time: Day 9, before she gets back in the fey megazord 

Notes: the drug addicted dog came back but he bites now :( 

Thanks to the power of the bloodfruit, for the first time since Lain had been bitten, he felt like a proper lycan and not just some sorry excuse for one. He had never tasted raw power until now, his wolf form doubling in size and tenacity. But like every other good thing in Lain’s life, it did not last. How could he have known that the magic imbued fruit that he had consumed a week ago could be so easily manipulated by the Drow?  The corruption coursed through his veins, constricting his mind and bending it to their dark will.  Fate was cruel.  Of all the eladrin that would cross his path at this time, of course the person standing before him had to be Robin.  One of a select few that it would absolutely destroy him to hurt.

“Robin,” He breathed out, his skeleton already snapping and shifting.  “I can’t make it stop,” his voice was a deep, distorted growl.  Another violent shudder passing through his body, bluish-grey fur sprouting on exposed skin. The changeling heart he had come to rely on so heavily was malfunctioning, the unstable lycan no longer had that crutch to lean on. There was no stopping this, the transformation was inevitable. “Run!” When his new body fell into place, he charged. He leapt at the fall chancellor, blood stained claws slashing at flesh.  When the two of them had been entwined, Lain had always hid this side of himself. But now against his will, his true nature was on full display. There was no coming back from this, he feared.

[skxrbrand]

A muse's list of likes.

favorite fruit(s): Bloodfruit, No mortal fruits

favorite activity(ies):  Murder, Corruption of Others, Fighting Worthy Foes, Forging Armor/Weapons 

favorite flower(s): None

favorite season(s): Summer

favorite insect(s): None

favorite animal(s): Dogs, wolves, bulls, goats.

favorite gem(s): None

favorite time of day: Night

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

folie à deux

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5PWb0AS by bloodfruit bruce checks the riddler's website after the bombing. the riddler is waiting. a study on the connection between two men of different circumstances. Words: 4416, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: Edward Nygma, Bruce Wayne Relationships: Edward Nygma/Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Mentioned Alfred Pennyworth, During Canon, Missing Scene, Homoeroticism, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Religious Discussion, Relationship Study, One-Sided Attraction, Extended Metaphors read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/5PWb0AS

[xihaveaplanxx]

To Prove (Chp 2)

“Now please tell me, why I shouldn’t split you down the middle and leave your remains in bits around the village for your friends and family to find.”

“Please...I....”

“You what? You know, this house, my home, this hill...it is off limits to you beings in the town and yet, I find a parasite...in my garden. You know...I don’t take kindly to parasites.”

“Please...I...”

“You sure do say please alot. So pathetic. Haven’t you heard of me? I am dangerous, I’m crazy. Things shared from your friends, family perhaps.”

“No...”

“Then why were you in my garden?” 

“Please. I will...I will never come back here.”

“You are right, you won’t because I will scatter your body parts all over the town.  You won’t get a chance to break your feeble promise” I raised my hand ready to summon an ice spike. This man was going to get eviscerated and I was not shedding a tear for it. He was trespassing after all. He was going to be dealt with. I almost got it conjured when someone caught my arm. I frowned knowing exactly who it was and admittedly regretting not shooting a spike through his heart when he showed up here. “Adam Cole.....why must you interrupt me.”

“Don’t you think this is a bit much?”

“No.” I said, letting the spell fall so he’d let my arm go. I hated when he touched me. When he looked at me...when he smiled at me that stupid smile and his fangs showed. He was disgusting to me. Pale, sickly, feeble. Crystal blue eyes and pretty brown hair. He does this cute thing when he bites into a bloodfruit. No..gah...I couldn’t stand this fucking vampire. He was such a nuisance to my life. In every single way. “This man was in my garden poking around. He must be dealt with.”

“You can just let him go.”

“I can also kill him and be done with it.”

“What if I don’t let you kill him?”

“What if I kill you instead?”

“You wouldn’t. You’d miss me.”

“I don’t even want you in my manor.”

“And yet you’ve never kicked me out.. You even let me plant my fruits here and if they aren’t in season...you’ve let me trouble you for a drink.” He smirked. I didn’t have to turn to him to know it. I could hear the smirk in his voice and it made me want to fight him instead of this trespasser. “Now, let this man go. I’m sure he won’t make another mistake. You’ve not even asked the poor man his name.”

“I don’t care about his name.”

“You were always so rude but...it’s cute when it’s you.” He moved from behind me and moved my grip from the other man. “What is your name?” He asked him.”

“D-D-Dom.” He stuttered out. “I...I...there...there is a secret tunnel up here....I...I have taken fruits from here for my family from time to time.”

“You steal from me?” I glared at him. “Now you must die.”

“Dreama no! His family must be really suffering if he's stealing far from town.” 

“That’s not my business. He’s from that gross town as far as I am concerned he deserves whatever befalls him. His family’s suffering is what they deserve. I don’t pity them.”

“Is your family fine now at least?” Adam asked, ignoring everything I was even saying now. 

“Mostly...just things...th..things been rough.”

“Well, I’ll send you a few things and you can be on your way but please...don’t come back. I urge you not to. I won’t be allowed to save you next time.”

“T--Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it.” Adam smiled at him as he took a basket from my table and headed outside with him. He came back a bit later and sat before me. I wanted to punch him in the throat so badly and he did this thing, this thing where he would tilt his head to the side and then run his hand through his hair before talking to me. Obnoxious. “You know, you could do to be a little nicer.”

“I hate the town, I hate the people.”

“The people that you hate so much are long gone. Don’t you think maybe you should go, straighten out things show the people you aren't’ so bad.”

“No. I hate everyone there. I hate everything about the town. My old friends there. They let me think it was safe to be me around them and I showed it and they labeled me a freak...crazy....they mocked me and others did. They’d introduce me as the crazy friend, a psychopath. That shit fucking hurt. Now everyone thinks that bullshit is true. It’s not worth defending me to those people.”

“Dreama...”

“I don’t want to talk about this. I’m going to bed.”

“Do you want me to go with you?”

“No...you can sleep out here or I don’t know...leave my fucking manor.”

“Oh, I’d never leave your manor.” He moved forward in his chair. “Then I’d have to leave you. I don’t think I’d ever want to do that.”

“I’d like it if you did that.”

“Well then you’d be lonely.”

“Good.”

“You are so difficult.”

“And you are annoying but you are still here. All the time in my fucking way when I didn’t ask for you to be here. You just are here  with your fucking fruits and shit. I can't stand you. I was fine alone. I was fine before you. I’ll be fine after you. I’ll be fine without you! I don’t need you. I don’t want you! I never did. I never fucking will. So just fuck off!:

“......................That is the meanest thing you’ve ever said to me.” He said before getting up from the chair. “The worse thing....is I think you meant it.”

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

“Adam...please...”

“No.”

“Adam.”

“No.” He stopped what he was doing and looked at me. “You made it perfectly clear. You detest me. You hate me. You don’t want me here. Then I’ll go. Where? Who knows. Maybe I’ll go to town. I mean it seems they weren’t wrong about you. You are a horrible fucking being.”

“Take that back”

“Why? You proved what they said about you. You are a terrible being. You are crazy, a psychopath. Why would I waste my time with you?”

“Stop it, Adam.”

“No. You....you hurt me. I trusted you.”

“No one told you to fucking do that.” I was angry at him now and I knew... I knew full ahead that everything I was going to say to him was fueled by my pure rage at him for making me mad. For hurting my feelings. For echoing the town's sentiments towards me. Those friends' words to me. “You came to the house of a stranger and made yourself at home. Trusting someone who never fucking liked you.”

“You never liked me?” He crossed his arms. “Yeah? Do you kiss people you don���t fucking like then? Even fuss over them when they get sick.”

“I used you. For comfort. Now I know why I don’t like others. I don’t need comfort or friends or....whatever the fuck you thought you were to me.”

“I thought you ... I...”

“If you say you thought I loved you, you’d be delusional.” 

“I....”

“I never cared about you. I never have. I never will.” 

“You are a terrible liar but...I’m not going to stay here and let you hurt me. Not like this.”

“Then why are you talking...just go.”

“Because I’m giving you a chance to apologize.”

“I won’t apologize and I won’t beg for you to not leave.”

“Of course you won’t.” He shook his head. “For what it’s worse. I’m sorry for what I said earlier. I at least didn’t mean what I said to you. Not remotely. I got heated. I’m sorry for saying it in the first place. That was fucked up of me.” I was stunned. No one...ever apologized for saying horrible things to me....they just sprouted it out more and him saying sorry...it made me feel awful for saying what I said to him. 

“Adam...I....I’m sorry too. I shouldn’t have said what I said to you at all. You know that I don’t think that about you. I didn’t mean it. I feel bad you think I meant what I said. I just...I got upset...”

“But that was VERY cruel what you said.”

“I know and you didn’t deserve it. At all. I don’t want you to leave. In truth, you are the one thing that’s never left despite how dismissive I am of you.”

“Oh, you aren’t dismissive of me.” He wrapped his arms around me. “You let me sleep in your bed though I don’t need sleep. More like you let me hold you while you sleep.”

“Shut up, Adam Cole.”

“I find it cute when you call me by my whole name. It’s precious.”

“Shut up.” I shook my head and he kissed my forehead. “Does this mean you won’t leave me?”

“No but don’t say what you said to me earlier, not ever again. That....really really hurt me.”

“I’m sorry.”

“I know you hate most things...I do but...would it be crazy to think that there are more beings like me that aren’t so bad and see the good things in you. I don’t think you are crazy or psychotic. You are mean sure but even then it’s not all the time. It’s just this wall you keep up.”

“You are an exception.”

“Well tell you what, I do promise no one will ever bother you so long as I’m here. I’ll protect you.”

“You let that man go.”

“He wasn’t a threat. He pissed on your floor did you not notice in fear. He wasn’t a threat to you. A real threat. I’ll keep you safe by any means necessary.”

“Yeah?”

“Of course. After all, you allow me to live here with you. I suppose it would be my honored duty to protect you and the manor.”

[wolfsbanemanor]

Headcanuary 2024 Day 28: Struggle

It's not easy being vampires. Especially when you're not used to being vampires, didn't choose to be one, never really wanted to be one, don't like biting other Sims for sustenance.

It's not easy relying on bloodfruit, med packs, and animal blood. They aren't totally useless, like Vlad had told them, but they aren't as useful as they could be. They don't satisfy as much thirst as drinking Sim blood, direct from the source.

It's not easy getting permission from other Sims to drink. Understandably, most Sims aren't too keen on being bitten. And some Sims have...opinions about vampires. Not all of them nice. Most of them, in fact, not nice. (And maybe those are true about the likes of Miss Hell, but not the Vatores. They don't see it that way, though.)

It's not easy being personas-non-gratas in their hometown. Lots of people in Willow Creek don't like vampires, or are Worshippers of the Watcher, who don't take kindly to Sims of the supernatural persuasion (even PlantSims!) People they once viewed as friends and neighbors, people who respected their father (and by extension, respected them) have turned against them.

It's not easy navigating life without the guidance of their parents. Shortly before they became vampires, their parents died tragically and unexpectedly. They're adults, but they don't feel prepared for this whole "adulting" thing.

It's not easy for Caleb, living with horrible memories and daymares of Miss Hell and what she did. Or for Lilith, living with guilt and shame for not being able to protect him, for having gone home with some guy whose name she can't even remember instead of staying with her twin. Or for the two of them, missing their cousin Lily, their only other relative, wondering why she chased them away.

It's not easy having had their skill sets wiped away by Vlad. If they thought they were unprepared for adulthood before, now they feel totally incompetent. They can't even make grilled cheese!

Speaking of which, it's not easy for Lilith, living with her new Withered Stomach. Every time she tries to eat normal food, she gets sick. Even if it was the best quality food Simoleons could buy, cooked by the best chef in SimNation. Even if it was her favorite food. And it's heartbreaking for Caleb to see this, especially since he knows she became a vampire in an attempt to help him.

[wolfsbanemanor]

A bit of lore: It is known that Caleb turned a girl named Inna Cents. (That's from the gameplay trailer.) Why? Well it seems that while he was a new vampire, training under Vlad, his thirst level got really low. He had been trying to resist biting Sims, much to the ire of Vlad (who was quickly losing patience with him), and had been led by Vlad to believe that blood packs and bloodfruits were completely useless. And he crept into Inna's room, as vampires do when that happens. And he drank deeply, and ended up taking a lot more than he intended. When he came to his senses, he realized what he'd done, and the only choice he had at that point was to turn her into a vampire, or else she would die. (Like, actually die.) When Vlad found out about this, he praised Caleb for it in front of all the other vampires, and threw a big party in his honor. But Caleb did not feel proud of himself. Not a day goes by that he doesn't regret that night. In fact, next to The Incident with Miss Hell, it's the thing that haunts him the most. (Sometimes, the terrible dreams merge, and Inna transforms first into her dark form, then into Miss Hell.) Caleb and Inna had a brief relationship, but since, well, they obviously got off on the wrong foot, it didn't end up working out.

“Why do you think the Vatores dislike Vladislaus so much?”

“I’m sure they have their reasons.”

Uncontrollable Thirst

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