#but the perfect pacing

[ifwebefriends]

In honor of Tears of the Kingdom coming out tonight, here is by far the greatest video I ever took during my Breath of the Wild playthrough:

[tzarrz]

i listen to fog lake too much

[cuntylestat]

everything is romantic with vampires!

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[heartstopperthoughts]

Anyone who’s been saying that Nick and Charlie are too sexually pure like “oh they’re teenage boys, they’d be having a lot of sex” has clearly never read the novella

[vuelode-irbis]

Been wanting to draw some fanart for Poor George MAP since it's my favorite one, and because it was its anniversary recently, I finally did it :>

ID: A digital drawing in two panels with characters from Warriors. In the panel above, there's Yellowfang watching Brokenkit play with a moss ball, she looks endearingly at the little kit; they're in a green environment and plants surround them. In the panel below, Yellowfang is in the same possition, looking down at an adult Brokenstar at her feet, already dead, she looks sorrowful. Fireheart is by her side, looking at her with compassion. They're at ThunderClan's medicine den.

[batcavescolony]

just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

[twig-tea]

Both of our mains in Jack & Joker are competent but exceedingly naïve in different ways; Jack thinks if he keeps trying to do good the right way the world will work out for him despite how unfair he knows it to be, and Joke thinks if he does good even by illegal means his efforts will make a positive difference and win his parents' respect despite knowing how they would disapprove of his means. And both of their efforts have blown up in their faces by the end of the first episode.

[capsiclesteebrogers]

polin carriage scene will always be so loved by me. months after and i still feel so giddy when i see it.

[hyakunana]

The Former Most Miserable Man That Ever Stepped in DGP is found saving the future with a shield and FIVE CHAINSAWS

[submissivekillers]

kinktober day 2 - voyeurism (billy lenz)

gonna slap a cw for dubcon/noncon on this one folks - reader knows/is heavily implied to know what billy's doing, but there's a third party who is unaware. if that's not cool with you here's yr warning ✌️ also some billy-typical violent thoughts, not directed @ reader tho

Billy doesn’t know whether he loves or hates nights like this.  

On the one hand, he gets to see you — all of you. He sees you all the time - in your room, in the shower, in every state of dress or undress - but there's a side of you that doesn't come out when you're alone, only when you've got some pretty, desperate thing spread and whining on the bed beneath you. He knows what you sound like whispering gentle praise or snarling insults. He knows the line that forms in your brow when you're fucking into someone on their knees and the grin you wear watching them bounce on your lap. They might warm your bed for the night, but he's seen parts of you they never will. 

On the other hand, Billy hates watching you fuck someone else. You bring a stranger home at least once a week now — never the same person twice. None of them deserve it. None of them know you like he does; none of them have seen you like he has. It should be him in your bed. 

The sound of a stranger’s voice in your hallway makes his throat burn with jealousy, hissing curses through his teeth and tugging at the roots of his hair as he paces furious and lightfooted around your attic. But all the same, when he hears the soft click of your closing door, he’s flattening himself to the floor so he can stare through the crack in your ceiling, a t-shirt he’d snagged from your dirty laundry clenched in his white-knuckled fist. 

The boy you've brought home tonight is tall and muscular, with straight blond hair and blue eyes like a china doll, which is annoying. Billy likes it better when you bring home people that resemble him, that have his messy curls and skinny build. He can pretend that you're seeking them out because they look like him, that it's your secret signal; you know him, you've seen him, you want him. Still, he shoves a hand between his thighs and grinds into his palm as you bend low to sink your teeth into a suntanned throat, huffing deep lungfuls of your sweat through the fabric pressed to his nose. His stomach roils, jealousy sour on his tongue. 

You're already naked, straddling the stranger's lap, grinding and rolling, making him let out pathetic little keens. Billy likes the sounds he makes even though he wants to bleed him like a pig for being under you, in his place. He's responsive, pliant beneath your hands. Knows how to behave. Billy likes that. He'd behave for you, if you'd let him; he’d try so so hard to be good and you’d never call him nasty or filthy or bad. He whines into the drool-soaked cotton over his mouth, fucking into his hand and imagining licking the sheen of sweat off the nape of your neck. 

You’re talking to the boy beneath you, low and sweet — he can hear the smile in your voice. Two fingers are buried in his throat down to the last knuckle, pulsing in and out at the same pace you buck your hips. He makes wet, choked noises around the intrusion and Billy echoes the sound, eyes rolling in his skull at your satisfied coo. 

“There we go, baby,” you purr before tugging at the blond’s jaw, spitting into his mouth. He swallows without a second thought, presents his tongue for more. Billy moans, nearly sobbing, throbbing with envy. He worries your shirt between his teeth, panting furiously through his nose and watching the boy gag and cry around your fingers. “So pretty. My puppy loves this, doesn't he?” 

Puppy. That’s new. He likes it.

"Good puppy. T-Take Billy home, take Billy," he slurs, fluctuating somewhere between your voice and his own. Your movements grow frenzied below him, bouncing on the blond's lap with abandon. He can hear the wet sounds your bodies make together, slick and obscene beneath your soft panting and the boy's pitchy moans. “Billy’s a good dog. W-Wanna be your pretty puppy, piggy's pretty puppy.”   

“Come on, come on,” you gasp. Your head lolls back, hazy eyes fixed on the ceiling beneath your fluttering lashes. There’s a determined tilt to your kiss-bruised mouth, a furrow of concentration between your brows. “Let me hear you, puppy.” 

Billy comes with a yowl only barely muffled by the shirt pressed to his face, so hard his vision flashes white, skull blessedly empty if only for a moment. When he comes to, his face is tacky with tears, a puddle of saliva cooling on the floorboards beneath his cheek; his thighs are soaked with cum, a dark stain on the front of his trousers. It makes him feel gross, filthy, which of course he is. He wiggles his hand free with a hiss as he brushes the oversensitive flesh of his cock, lifting it to his face and suckling at his sticky fingers. 

The blond boy is in your lap when he focuses through the crack again, resting on your thighs with a dazed smile as you lift a glass of water to his lips. You run your nails through the short hair at the nape of his neck and Billy burns, a whimper escaping around his thumb. Unfair that this stranger gets to lay on your soft, warm thighs, while Billy has to roll around in filth on the cold attic floor. He imagines wrapping his hands around the boy's long neck and squeezing 'til the whites of his eyes turn bright cherry red. It makes him feel a little better.

Once the glass is empty, you pull him up and out of your room; Billy knows you can't stand going to bed sweaty. Limp and weary, he scans the room for any trophies — and lights up at the scrap of red fabric he can see peeking out from your tangled sheets. He can see the slick that stains it from his peephole, a giddy, girlish giggle cracking out of him. Silently, he creeps towards the trapdoor, ready to scurry downstairs as soon as you're distracted in the shower. 

You're usually careful not to leave your underwear lying around. It must be Billy’s lucky day.

[coline7373]

"They were pressed so close, he could feel the warmth of him through the clothes, under his fingers. Then Obi-Wan bended slowly, like honey, and pressed his lips, gently, against Cody's neck. He could feel the hair of his beard."

Hello! My first entry to the @codywanfirstkissbingo !!!!

I suck at drawing people kissing so, of course, I decide to try to go for the full bingo 😆

A full bingo is 25 fanarts. Yes. Lol. We will see...

It's going to be a marathon as well as a challenge of olympic level for me. Wish me luck 🧡🍀🧡

[acecroft]

LEE PACE in The Keeping Hours (2017)

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Got an itch to play Sunless Sea again and it's always such an odd experience because. Like.

I know this game. Any other game, the level if knowledge and research I have put into this would make me a confident fucking master. And yet.

I can be reading text I've read dozens of times before and i still feel...not clueless, but absolutely off the mark. It all feels so familiar and yet I've never seen a victory condition. I've at least started pretty much every storyline but I'll still see something new each time I sink some time into it. I have a fucking JOURNAL of TRADE ROUTES and REQUIRED ITEMS and somehow that's only mildly helpful

That and the fact Fallen London's lore is so fucking batshit and honestly kind of hard to research (thr wiki's are frustratingly structured for me and the browser game is just. A bit inaccessible for me) means I can have a pretty solid understanding of what's going on in each port and what each faction is about and still ZERO FUCKING GRASP ON LITERALLY ANY PLOT

[galstelperion]

Continuing with my love for Morfydd Clark: Galadriel in Rings of Power is such a perfect reflection of her family's grief, anger, sorrow, and arrogance. I can never take the criticism of her depiction in the show seriously when all the complaints are about how she didn't stand stoically in a corner the entire time, or that she needs to be next to her husband, Celeborn, with her head turned down, while the other far superior male characters in the story take the lead.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Chapter 110 is 13 pages long welcome to hell!!! so in a lot of ways this is just more fuel for a theory that I've had for a few weeks now, that's only gotten stronger with each recent season 5 episode, which is that the last episode of the season is gonna end on 110, and that Asagiri/Harukawa and Bones have been collaborating to make this happen, specifically because it's a major turning point that would be the only good place to end the season on.

When we started getting especially long chapters again (like from 25-35ish pages, with the exception of 107.5, the last two being some of the longest we've ever had), at first I just assumed that Asagiri/Harukawa got freed up from some other obligations they'd been having to cause the extremely short/half chapters, like promotional stuff for the anime/Beast movie, or working on light novels. But then 109 happened, with the "supposed" death of Dazai, and heavy emphasis at the end on how literally everyone is at their lowest point right now, and I got to thinking. 11 episodes is a strangely specific number for an anime season -- why not 12, or 13, or even 10, like you'd usually see? Why have we gotten suddenly gotten two 35 page chapters out of nowhere, that's almost unheard of at this point? They're both beautiful chapters, don't get me wrong (as always), and maybe A/H simply just didn't want to cut them in halves because they felt like the full emotional impact wouldn't hit/that there were no good cutoff points in them, but you can't deny that it's surprising, after all the shorter chapters we've been getting. Why has the anime been going at such insanely breakneck pacing for the most part ever since around the Sunday Tragedy chapters, even more so than it has in the past? So much so that it feels dangerously close to overtaking the manga?

Well, maybe, just maybe, it's because..... Asagiri decided a long time ago that whatever happens in 110 is the only point that feels "season finale"-worthy enough, in an arc that still isn't anywhere close to being completely wrapped up, and so both the manga and the anime have been specifically coordinated to reach that part within 2 and a half weeks of each other?

I've seen a lot of people now think season 5 will end with 109, and as much as my sadistic side would find that hilarious, I honestly don't think they'd do that and realistically don't want it to happen; it'd be so cruel to cliffhanger the anime for years like that, and just doesn't feel like a season cliffhanger BSD would do, a series that is ultimately hopeful and uplifting. Seasons 2 and 3 had a positive, conclusive ending; the only reasons seasons 1 and 4 didn't was because they're technically not really full seasons of their own, and are more like the first cour of another "season" that also came out that same year (seasons 1 and 2 both aired in 2016, so they're more like one big season, and seasons 4 and 5 have both aired this year, so they're also more like one big season, again taking into account how episodes 12 and 50 are not satisfying finales like episodes 24, 37, and hypothetically, 61, are). I really can't see season 5 ending with Dazai and Fukuzawa's supposed deaths, Sigma being unconscious and maybe close to death, Atsushi being vulnerable and limbless again, everyone we love still vampires, and the entire world being basically doomed; that's just too depressing and not like BSD at all. However, having said that, if it doesn't end there, there really isn't any good place to end the season before that, either, that feels in any way satisfying or like a finale at all. And so, to me, that only leaves after 109: chapter 110.

I think things are really gonna turn around next chapter. Like I said, everyone is at their lowest point right now, it cannot possibly get any worse, the framing of Dazai, Fukuzawa, and sskk at the end of 109 is telling us that; this is the time for the heroes to finally start winning again, with Aya being so close to pulling out the sword, and for all the thematic reasons other people have talked about to death that I don't need to go into here again. This upcoming chapter being so short again makes a part of me wary of 110 being "the one", so to speak, I won't lie, but at the same time, it's very possible that it needs to be that short because that's all the final episode of the season will be able to reasonably fit in, since it's already gonna be VERY close if they do make it all the way to 109. And at the end of the day, I don't doubt at all that Asagiri and Harukawa can make these the most monumental and game-changing mere 13 pages ever if they wanted to; a chapter does not at all need to be extremely long in order to be an important and impactful one, even if short ones we've gotten in the past haven't felt the most important.

An additional thought I've had, though this is much more crack territory than all this already is, is that since we know from Anime Expo that a Stormbringer movie at some point is highly likely (judging from Asagiri's reaction when someone brought it up), it's possible that chapter 110 and thus the final episode will involve the long-anticipated return of Verlaine and/or Adam, or at least some other major reference to Stormbringer, that would naturally and smoothly lead into a Stormbringer movie to explain things to people who haven't read the novel. It would make a lot of sense, especially since the s4 OP has the Old World sign behind Chuuya, which might be a hint that this has been in the works ever since seasons 4/5 were first in planning with Asagiri. We also know that Dazai and Chuuya's voice actors apparently struggled to record their lines together this season, which probably relates to 101 and possibly 109, but it could be 110 too.... I could be very wrong, as I'm no expert on this kind of thing, but I kinda doubt they would bring Chuuya's actor in for just the vampire growls, and Asagiri placing heavy emphasis on Chuuya's importance this season in that one interview gives me the impression that he's talking about much more than just 101/109. But that's the least solid evidence I have, that's just mostly based on vibes I get.

So basically, I think a lot of factors -- the unusual episode count, how close the anime is to catching up to the manga with three whole episodes left, the seemingly arbitrary recent chapter lengths, and the climactic events of 109 -- can tell us that 110 might be a very, VERY big deal. Again, there's of course no way this arc is anywhere near close to being finished, with so much left to address and resolve, but since it is currently incomplete in the manga, unlike the previously adapted arcs, if the anime was going to adapt it at all, they'd have to find a place that feels satisfying enough to end this season, knowing there won't be more anime for a long time after this, and so I think they specifically planned for that, from both Bones' and A/H's sides. 10 episodes might not have been enough to reach that point, but 12 or 13 might have been too many it wouldn't have been if Bones actually decided to slow down and let the story breathe the way it needs to, but this post isn't meant to criticize the anime, so maybe 11 was just right. And maybe Asagiri and Harukawa specifically pushed to make recent chapters longer than usual, in order to make sure that the manga reached the story content in 110 the monthly release right before season 5 was to end.

Is this just copium? Absolutely. Am I going to look like an absolute clown in two days when this post ages like milk? Probably. But the evidence is There, so let me just enjoy my delusions until Sunday, okay 🥂🫡

[icangiveitback]

i did not draw what i wanted to with this but oh well

some fate!bend