#by the broken lock

[inexplicifics]

For the WIP list ask, could we please have some Broken Lock - Marika & Milena? Thanks!

Have some joyful reunion:

“You’re really here,” Marika breathes. She knew Milena was alive, but hearing it from a bard and a witcher is one thing - having Milena here, warm and real in her arms, is quite another. “I’m here,” Milena agrees. “Oh, Mari, it is so good to see you again.” Marika pulls back enough to take her sister by the shoulders and look her up and down. For a woman who has been traveling with witchers for two years, she looks astonishingly healthy. Her dress is much plainer than Marika’s, and linen rather than silk, but it is well-made and decorated in Milena’s own delicate embroidery. Her boots are sturdy, simple things, meant for travel and long wear. She wears no jewelry but a single silver pendant on a chain. She is tanned darker than she ever was in their father’s household, and there’s a new strength in her arms, but her carriage is as proudly elegant as ever, and her eyes are full of joy. She has no scars or bruises that Marika can see. “You look well,” Milena says softly. “Marriage agrees with you.”

[cutetanuki-chan]

so Alecto the Ninth

[inexplicifics]

Eeee, look at them! Gareth and Pounce cuddling! Milena learning to drive!

Inktober #18 'Drive'

"By the Broken Lock that Freed Me" By @inexplicifics

I had several attempts at a close up of Aiden and Milena, but drawing the damn carriage worked the best.

[poetryincostume]

The Saddest Girl In The World

Edwardian-ish ribbon corset with beading, 2023

Silk ribbon, cotton taffeta ribbon, Czech glass beads

[nicolloyd]

ok part 2 is here!!!!!

special special thanks to @witchyy-kittyy @poppitron360 and @moominvalley-state-of-mind for inspiring 😭

i plan to make nicos entire slideshow lmk if yall want other characters tho

link to part 1 part 3

[smapis]

🫁 cover for @mercyisms’ necro elysium (yuck!!): a combination of my two favorite things (mercy and disco elysium’s skill system)

[cipheramnesia]

Based on life experience.

[gfbrokenlocksau]

Ford doesn't own a car, and Stan doesn't want to get near the death traps.

The walk into town is half an hour long, and the twins aren't used to that kind of trek during the summer.

What else was Stan supposed to do?

more

[aratribow]

Warning: Yanqing MCD

"You promised."

A sorta follow up to this

[budd-ie]

We as a fandom don’t do enough with how silly every single martial god is, so much so that they have “classic” behaviors like breaking stuff as their first solution to a lock, complimenting the opponent’s sick martial skills even if they’re in mortal danger, or the constant insatiable urge to prove their strength. Xie Lian is like, the worst offender of this too. I always think about that part during the black water arc when Pei Ming, iconic top martial god and Extremely Strong guy with a ton of spiritual power at his disposal, said the ship’s rudder won’t budge and Xie Lian’s first reaction was “oh, what?” and to go verify with his own strength that the rudder is, in fact, stuck. He had zero reason to distrust Pei Ming’s conclusion or strength but he just had to check himself.

Anyways kissing is cool or whatever but have you ever considered all the martial gods versus the pickle jar that’s cursed closed forever? Unstoppable force (martial god desire to conquer every test of strength) versus immovable object (jar that can’t be opened). What shatters first, their spirits or the jar? More shenanigans like this, please. Now go wild

[inkskinned]

am i gonna put you in the book acknowledgements am i gonna be able to say your name without flinching am i ever gonna get a word in edgewise am i ever gonna recover the time i spent with you. computer virus kid; i arrived in your life already begging to be let in. somehow insecure i could even be your friend. like you had a line outside the door and we were all shifting our weight, begging.

you're so fucking good at that - at making people feel like they need to earn you, like you're a commodity none of us can afford. no kindness or careful communication could work on you - you were so good at just going-ghost, about deciding someone just wasn't cool-enough. something about that is super ironic. even the parts of it that weren't romantic felt like a romance book. i wanted you to like me so badly i scrubbed myself clean just so you'd spare me - what. your favor? a look?

okay okay okay. it's just a friendship - if it was even true that we were friends, if you even saw me as someone you trusted. on reddit someone would tell me girl literally just cut her out of your life, it's not that difficult. even i was aware of how fucked up the whole situation was. like, why the fuck do i even care about your approval? you're like, not even that fun to be around. you are often a little bit cruel.

but for almost four years of my life, i thought i had found someone like me. somebody who liked the same things i do. someone who liked to read and who liked making jokes with esoteric references and who spent maybe too much time on the internet and who was absolutely a little bit pretentious. i don't know, something about that was powerful and addictive.

i keep thinking about our last conversation. about how i said - okay, enough is enough. you pushed me too far, you really hurt my feelings.

and how you laughed and said - you think you're the victim?

[inexplicifics]

Hello! (From Colorado Springs, Colorado, US) was curious if you could post a snippet for Cat!Milena or the Marika and Milena folders?

Hello in Colorado Springs! I've done a bit from cat!Milena, so let's have Marika and Milena having Sisterly Feelings at each other.

Marika likes being at court, but she and Dawid both felt it would be wise to take a few months in Montecalvo, to grow accustomed to each other and to being married. They will return to court for the winter season, assuming the weather allows. She takes another deep breath of the crisp fall air and then almost screams as a male voice from above her says, “Marika.” She springs to her feet, Claudin leaping to her shoulder with a snarl, and whirls to stare up at the roof, at the gargoyles on the corners - At the dark shape that is not a gargoyle, that stretches and leaps down onto the balcony beside her, sleek and dark as a shadow, familiar as her own hands. “Gareth!” Claudin cries, and leaps from her shoulder to twine around the panther’s paws, purring loud as thunder. “Gareth,” Marika breathes, and sinks to her knees in a puddle of skirts, staring at her sister’s daemon in near-painful joy. Yes, she had word that Milena was not dead, but a message is not the same as seeing her sister’s soul, large as life and twice as magnificent.

[bb-enablefreebuild]

Is this anything

[doki-doki-imagines]

There is no love in your relationship. At least not from Kaiser's side. He likes you, as he may like someone else, but you make him feel good, and most importantly Michael firmly believes your actions, your words aren't born from the heart, but from a deep desire to use him, to wrap him around your fingers.

The blonde never reveals his feelings to you. He keeps a smile on his face even when your honeyed words make him gag. They are mellifluous, and Kaiser can hear the lies dripping. He is always on the alert, waiting for you to drop the mask and show your true face. Michael tells himself he is ready for your betrayal and it's not like he is getting used to you, not moving a inch when you ask for something he doesn't want to do, provoking and teasing you, fueling the fire to see your real self.

The problem comes when he notices that there isn't malice in you, or at least there is no malice towards him from you. Michael isn't used to that, unloved since the day he was born, disliked by many, a disgusting guy that finds pleasure just in other people downfall. That's why when he starts to feel his heart beating dangerously fast when you smile at him, or when he feels the need to put a cover on you when you fall asleep on the couch, even tucking it in so you won't get cold, he starts to worry.

It's not the same affection he sports for Ness, more similar to the one a kid has for his new favourite toy, or as Alexis' parents would say, "an experiment well made". It's totalising, making him feel like dirt under nails, something that scratched old memories that still wound his mind. He searches for an explanation of his emotions in his psychology books and everything points at love. But the outcome isn't the same because Michael broke the first rule of a loving relationship; truth. So now worry and anxiety pervade Michael's body because now that he desperately cares about you, he understands that you'll never love his real self, would never love the corrupt person he is.

A laugh with no real joy leaves Michael's throat, hands scratching his eyes, blonde long lashes already sticking together thanks to the newborns tears. Fingers digging into the skin of his cheeks. Imagines of you smiling, of the handmade gift you gave him for his b-day, of your eyes filled with joy, of you angry but still loving him flash in front of his eyes.

But nobody loves dirt under the nails. Seems like he was born to be unlovable after all.

[bsptourist]

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[barachiki]

Fozzie, your intentions are good, but I don't think a knock-knock joke will help the situation.