#chains and rings

[ginapott3]

A small big problem

Original Killer belongs to RahafWabas

Original Cross belongs to Jakei

Chains and Rings Au belongs to @/pyscho-chair and @justanidiotartist

Cross POV:

I was at home, almost a day off since my boss is checking out another guys I could fight or probably this kind of shit

... I'm so damm tired, Killer put up a good fight, even though I won... But God my neck is hurting as hell and so is my body. I used some ice on it but it's still stinging even if have some days of the fight

Suddenly I hear my phone ring close to me, a message of Hyena... That's weird, we haven't talk much since that day because well... Was our day off and we want some peace, at least I do

I take my phone to see a big message write with despair

"Come to my place now, it's important" - I wanted to ask but he wasn't online anymore... Goodbye day off, that bastard did shit

^ There ^

I knock on the door of his small apartment... The place is nice but I really thought was bigger, maybe inside is a bit better?

"Enter" - I hear his voice... Pained. Because of it I enter and close the door behind me - "I'm in the bathroom... Don't worry, just please come"

So I do... To see he sitting on the toilet... Wrapped up in red bandages and panting hard and also sweating... I know that face... Is pain

"... I.. I need your help" - he said, barely looking at me and I approach - "what happened?" - I him, trying to keep things calm and don't stress him further

"... The.. The bites... They... They got... Infected..." - he said, probably in shame with that look - "... I need your help... It started yesterday, it can't be so further in my ecto... So... Could you... Cut the bad part?" - ... My eyes get a bit wide

"Dude, you're sure? Like... This is dangerous! What about a doctor-"

"I'm broke, I can't afford a doctor, I know my fights get me some good money but I have bills! And I need to recover..." - he didn't want to admit but the pain was getting in his head - "just do it already, I have alcohol to take the infection off the wounds a med kit and also a knife... But I can't do it myself, so you'll do it, or I call another guy to help me out of this hellish shit..." - he said, in some breathes

... J sigh and nod taking the knife and starting to take the bandages off... The infection was bad, but not deep... But I'd have to cut the bad parts off... Jesus...

I take a cloth and give to him so he could muffle screams or loud groans... And I start it

Every muffled scream got me with a thing in the stomach... But I did it anyway... Treating every bite as he couldn't bear the pain of the alcohol dropping in the wound like fire... Each one, I saw his eyes, begging for me to be fast and at some point for me to stop this...

When I finally finished and patch up his wounds he lean his head on the wall behind his... Some tears falling a bit as he curse under his breath. I gave him the alcohol, that was a bottle of it, and he took some sips to calm down and then gave me...

"... N-never again" - he said and tried to get up bit his body was shaking as hell, so pick him up, he was almost passing out at this point... I had to take many part of the skin off and I bit him like a dog with his toy... So I lay him on his bed... He look over me and gave a weak smile - "... T-thanks..." - I smile back - "you're welcome dummy..."

... He pass out... And... I couldn't bring myself to leave him like this... Do I lock his door and keep checking his heartbeat and his breath till he wake up... What will take time

[unknownarmageddon]

Hunger games simulator but it's just Kross aus

OH MY GOD you’re so right. hang on

[my-little-black-heart]

[martanis]

"you can't kill me" ⛧°。 ⋆( •̀ᴗ•́ )و ̑̑⋆ CHARLIE VICKERS as SAURON/HALBRAND in The Rings of Power 2.01 "Elven Kings Under the Sky"

[visions--of--collisions]

all the lyrics turn to Miles.🎸 by Doufu_Fu

[weareravershq]

REMA | Blacked Out w/ the Rolls-Royce

[nightmaresyrup]

I like the Buff Thiollier joke I saw, but accidentally refreshed and can't find anymore 😭

[putitonmydash]

Jaye Carrero

[ginapott3]

Boss problems

Nightmare belongs to Jokublog

Epic belongs to yugogeer012

Cross belongs to Jakei

Killer belongs to RahafWabas

Chains and Rings by @justanidiotartist and @/psycho-chair

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Nightmare POV:

I was in my office, my fighter was in his day off today so I'm planing other fights and also of other fighters I might hire more since five is better than one.... Suddenly I receive a call of Epic... That's bloodhood boss... Weird

"What you want? Another fight?"

"... What about... We turn into partners? Uhm? I know your brother is getting more famous time by time with his two fighters fighting together... And I know you both have... Problems and so-" - I gang out, heard enough of his shits, then another call, I sigh in anger and hang up - "PLEASE DON'T HANG OUT OK?! Sorry for being a dick about your family problems but you know we're both broke and if our next move doesn't work we'll probably die down, we aren't so famous anymore, people call us of some weird violet pornography! And we have to enter better fights... Ok?" - he said in one breath panting... I sigh

"Let's met, bring your fighter and I bring my, what about it?" - I said, and I hear him hum in agreement - "at the bar, at nine" - u said and hang out... Why I feel anxious

~ There ~

I was with Killer, who's groaning in pain since I picked him up at his apartment, so he was leaning on my shoulder with a tired face. Was a cold day and suddenly I feel him shivering like a dammit leaf, I sigh and cover him with my coat

"I can't have you damm sick idiot" - I say and he look at me surprised... But it quickly fade when he fall asleep and I see almost the same situation with Epic caring Cross with a little difficult

"Heya friend" - he said and sit Cross down - "... Dammit" - he said and sit - "you're broken too aren't ya?"

I sigh... And nod, I don't want to admit it, but the sooner I accept, sooner I solve it - "and what's your damm plan?" - I say, looking at his face with disbelief that he's capable of understanding much

"... I know it sounds dangerous... But... Maybe we should... Enter not in so... Trustful fights" - I look at him in shook and anger

"Put my fighter under danger fights!? He can even get killed just by winning one of those! It was a stupidity come here!" - I start to get up but he get my tie e push me back in the sit

"But we can get money... By bets...!" - he said and look at me in despair - "they'll take my house and this dummy is living in a damm trailer, and soon enough I'll get kicked from there and maybe he'll quit this life... If I don't offer money... And he's also my best friend... I can't just leave him broke!" -... I can see despair in his eyes, begging for some help from ME...! Almost his complete damm rival... He's actually desperate...

"... Ok... I... I can help... I'm also broke, Killer is not so famous, and no one is watching him, saying he's too weak to fight...! Probably because he usually... Don't take breaks and neither I let him many times..." - looking over Killer, tired and still with a black eye and many facial bruises... All because I'm a stubborn bastard

"What you have in mind?"

To be continue...

[kissme-withyour-cherrylipstick]

I’m really enjoying doing these quick paintings. Featuring his mother's ring. 3.5 hours

[agendratum]

ai di and his collars for @vegaseatsass

[my-name-is-apollo]

So, Apollo and jewellery!!

I want to start off by saying that Apollo (or any male god, really) wearing jewellery is not a common occurrence in the ancient greco-roman art forms. So there's not a lot you can get, but I've put together whatever I've found so far.

On the vase paintings, you'll find body chains across his chest and there's bracelets too:

^ He also has a leg bracelet in this one

In this painting, along with a body chain and a bracelet, there's a thigh band and a finger ring as well.

Then we have waist belts. I did entertain the possibility of this being an embroidered belt. However in the first image, the belt is gilded with gold, so imo it's meant to be a belt with gilded gold, if not made entirely of gold.

In this Etruscan painting representing Apollo going to/coming back from Hyperborea on a swan, he's wearing necklaces.

Apollo wearing a necklace and an arm band seems to be a fairly common sight in the Etruscan art (so Aplu, technically ig), as seen in these two statuettes:

and some Etruscan mirror arts:

Now moving onto the diadems! A diadem referred to something you could tie your hair with - it could be a ribbon, a wreath of fresh leaves, or a jewelled wreath/head piece - it's the last one that I'm counting as jewellery. Diadems like the one Apollo is wearing below were usually worn by noblewomen.

You can also find depictions of Apollo with a jewelled wreath on his head. They resemble a laurel wreath, but they're made of gold, and have gems embedded. Here's a statue for example:

There are also Roman frescos and mosaics that show you what it actually looks like in color.

And here, you can see not just a gold diadem, but also bracelets on both his hands as well as anklets on his legs:

And there's what seems to be earrings as well? But honestly I'm not that sure, it could just be a damage on the fresco (even if that's the case, we can still appreciate the winged eyeliner amirite)

There's also this fresco of Apollo judging a beauty contest between Venus and Hesperus. Here he is not wearing a gold wreath, but there is a gold band upon his head:

And unlike other pieces of jewellery, you'll find literary references as well for Apollo's diadem:

"When Apollo was born, Zeus equipped him with golden headband and lyre and gave him also a chariot of swans to drive" – Alcaeus, Hymn to Apollo (trans. David A. Campbell)

"Apollo puts his hair in order by shaping his flowing locks with soft foliage and braiding it with a golden diadem." – Virgil, Aeneid 4 (trans. Ingo Gildenhard)

"...he fastens bay about his lyre and the woven brilliance of his coronet, and ungirds his breast of the pictured girdle..." – Statius, Thebaid 6 (trans. J. H. Mozley)

"But you will say, Phoibos has a goldgleaming diadem." – Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4 (trans. William Henry Denham Rouse)

[Inscription]: "Apollo the mighty, Lord incomparable of the Diadem, who hath set up statues of the Gods in this kingdom" – Ammianus Marcellinus, History 17 (trans. John Carew Rolfe)

[Inscription]: "Mighty Apollo, seated upon truth, Lord of the Diadem, who hath gloriously honoured Egypt as his peculiar possession" – Ammianus Marcellinus, History 17 (trans. John Carew Rolfe)

And that's pretty much everything I've come across so far. I was a bit surprised at the lack of literary references for the effeminate gods. Not just Apollo, even Dionysus' effeminacy is described by his fair face and long hair and perfumed garments, and there are no mentions of jewellery afaik. But of course, just like with Apollo, you can find jewellery on Dionysus in the visual arts.

[hansooyung]

ALIEN STAGE (vivinos & qmeng)

-> for jo @bixiaoshi ! happy birthday dearest <3 apologies for holding you at gunpoint to watch the entire series in one sitting, hope you enjoyed!

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[mattodore]

bleached his hair with box dye and would’ve went bald if he weren’t blessed with unfair genes