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[deathandnonexistentialdread]

Two sides of the same coin!!

I tried to make them stand out while having unifying elements but idk if I succeeded but they look colorful

Merlin is night and Arthur is day and i love the symbolism of that as well as all the references of various eps in the colouring page

Colouring pages by @neptunesyellowsands !!

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[kabumisun]

plug a little weird but they chill

[fantasylandblues]

pov: you're in my modern hotd universe and you just opened your tumblr dash

based on viral textposts- part one!

part two

[dailyhtfboards]

Day 17

Today’s Board is:

lol he looks like he’s gonna eat the glass lol idiot critter <3333

(From TV episode 6C Gems the Breaks)

[lunarharp]

played dragon age 2...just simple scribbles

[sonlc]

hi everyone. yesterday my friends and i got on the topic of sonic rarepair ships because my friend cat @/silvers-starrway is doing sonic rarepair requests. I wasn't sure about what exactly constituted a rarepair wrt sonic, so i asked. the answer i kept getting was "below 500 fics on ao3", so for fun i decided to have my friends give me a few ships and i'd look them up on ao3 to see if they qualified as a rarepair according to these parameters. this devolved into me getting really curious and making a whole spreadsheet dedicated to figuring out just how many fics each sonic ship has on ao3-- excluding those below 10 fics because at that point i find it kind of impossible and a headache to keep up with the amount of pairings a character could have. i have also excluded proship ships for this.

there's probably quite a few ships i missed due to the sheer size of this franchise, so feel free to comment one if you don't see it and i'll add it to the spreadsheet if it has enough fics to qualify! again this was just for fun and out of interest to see which ships had the most/least amount of fics. maybe ill turn it into a visual dataset at some point

[sleepyc63]

-> this post contains spoilers for the watcher dlc!

completed a watcher ending yesterday, so I'd like to dump some thoughts + some art because my brain is rotting rn

oh spinning top how i love you... their story made me so emotional, truly i’m not exaggerating when i say i cried for half an hour. it was so so bittersweet, the toys you get to play with at the end was such a nice way to end it off (even if this technically isn't the end of the campaign). spinning top i’m proud to say i loved you from the moment i saw your OA!s in the arg discord

the whole finale had me floored, the visuals were stunning as always. and the ancients/benefactors reveal??? insane. i was flabbergasted. we FINALLY get to know what they sounded like!! (my theory of them just sounding like iterators was right hell yeah). also, canon heights!! not the guys in the window i’m a firm believer those are just giant shadows. they're like, 3 slugcats max.

but oh my GOD that reveal was insane. i’m not over it even almost a full day later. will i ever get over it? no probably not.

a random detail i like is that the watcher can hear the characters talking while also being able to understand their dialogue, and even without a mark. what does that mean lore wise?? who the hell knows. maybe it's implied in the rot ending(at least i’m 90% sure the other ending is a rot ending).

speaking of rot, the rot prince is SO cool. the rot taking what remains of the iterators it's eaten (or even originated from) and making itself a puppet?? god. damn. cool as fuck

that theme song man,, i played the game without the song announcement mod on and i regret it so bad. its so fucking good man. the distorted iterator voices gave me chills. i swear if you listen closely enough you can hear pebbles voice, but maybe i just miss him lol. anyway bet you 10 bucks its called rotten gods or something

(*** the OST dropped while i was writing this paragraph LMAOOO. the soundtrack is a banger as always, james primate & co. you never disappoint)

hmmm i love the new regions. my favorite was signal spires, love the whale guys :). liked nearly all of them, only exception being aether ridge tbh.

i need to know what's going on in the backgrounds of outer rim and signal spires. both of them have views above the clouds, but not a single iterator can in sight. i’m assuming the pyramids & temples we see in the distance are different variants of iterator superstructures??? i’m guessing based on the early sketches of five pebbles being a pyramid. if i’m right that's SO cool, and such great oc potential :D

the dlc isn't perfect obviously, i don't like the warp portals, and the lore implied for them (that being that the regions aren't related to eachother, both in location and in timeline). i guess dislike is an exaggeration, i like it for the lore of the watcher itself, but i hate how it strays so far from the original concept of rain world. you can't piece together what the regions used to be, not easily at least. theres no cohesive map (I HATE THE WARP MAP i get so disoriented), and it just feels so?? new?? i guess?? its fresh and original, and that in itself is cool!! don't get me wrong!!! i just think it takes away from a lot of the original game's charm. not to mention karma not only being essentially useless until almost the end of the game, but being replaced entirely by a new (assumingly meaningless may i add) karma wheel. i liked where they ended up going with it, i just think removing the difficulty of the karma gates made it a little? underwhelming i guess?

i’m also not a fan of how disorienting and overwhelming it is to navigate regions in general. i had to do a lot of backtracking to find the rifts, a problem you never run into with karma gates. i wish the rifts were shown on the map, i hope that gets added in an update because its the only part of the dlc i genuinely hated lol.

oh also fuck the sting crabs those motherfuckers deserve to know nothing but pain and suffering for all eternity (yes i did try hitting them yes it did help but not when you are cornered beneath 5 of them in a pool of water)

but besides those criticisms (mainly just my opinion), FANTASTIC dlc, absolutely worth the wait. can't wait for it to come out on console so i can discuss it with my friends :))

[canadianno-gravityfalls]

hey mootie! i bring questions about the weight of the world au!!

i don’t know if you’re planning on making a long fic at some point, so feel free to cherry pick which questions you want to answer if some are spoilery or if you just don’t know yet! i honestly just love the idea so much and wanna hear more!!!

- how does dipper cope after the incident? does that happen toward the beginning of weirdmageddon or toward the end?

- tell me more about stan 🙏😭 anything. how does he react to literally losing every member of his family. what does his relationships with wendy and soos look like?

- how long would weirdmageddon be in this au? years? months??

- what does the pines family reunion look like? IS there a reunion?!!

Dude I wish you could have heard the way I shrieked when I saw this in my inbox. Back at it again with scaring my poor cat. He's so tired of me <3

I am planning on making some sort of fic for it at some point!!! I've got most of the story down, and I've figured out how I want Weirdmageddon to end (previous very large roadblock), and now my only challenge is how I want to format the story. There's so many ways I could go about it- I only really have experience with just. Y'know, writing it like a book, but there's so much I COULD do!! I'm very torn.

QUESTIONS!!!! QUESTIONS MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEE God I'm scaring my cat again hol d. Okay. Okay. I made doodles to go with most of these too because! Um! I do whatever I want!

How does Dipper cope with The Incident? Does it happen towards the beginning or the end?

He copes. Really badly! The Incident acts as a sort of turning point in the middle of the story really, a turning point of what exactly it's hard to articulate? Beforehand Dipper is really.. idk how to explain it, he's scatterbrained and he's doing his best and he still pokes fun at his peers and he still talks himself to sleep about how much he can't wait to hug Mabel again, and that he thinks he could probably beat Stan in an arm wrestle now, and how proud Ford will be of all he's managed on his own. Afterwards though... He stops believing that there'll be an end, kind of? It's weird- it's not like he hasn't seen death before. Hell, he's probably had people die directly next to him by this point. Maybe it was the fact that it would've been him. Maybe it's the fact that the monsters didn't kill her. Who knows!

How does Stan react to losing every member of his family, what is his relationship with Soos and Wendy like?

I think I've mentioned it somewhere before, but at the beginning, when he's at the shack on his own, he tries to hold on to the hope that Dipper and Mabel are with Ford, and if anybody knows how to survive all of this it'd be Ford. When he finds out that's not the case he takes it. Really hard. He tries not to show it- Wendy is hurt, Soos is terrified, they both need him, he can't give up now. He doesn't let the two of them ever stray too far away. What if it's them next, who vanishes into the woods? I imagine he kind of relatively holds himself together until after their first search expedition, when he sees what's really out there in those woods. When they get back to the shack, it's the first time Wendy and Soos see him truly cry.

How long does Weirdmageddon last? Years? Months?

At least a month minimum! I haven't fully worked it out, but it's definitely less than a year. My main challenges with timeline is that Dipper and Mabel have parents expecting them to return by a certain time, and when they don't, people start searching. I've got to try and find some sort of balance in time where after Weirdmageddon is over, whatever excuse the town manages to come up with is plausible. This is something I really haven't managed to work out yet. I do know that Mabel and Dipper spend their birthday apart. Because . Angst :]

What does the Pines family reunion look like? Is there a reunion at all?

Yes there's a reunion I promise!! All of the Pines family members survive Weirdmageddon. Infact, all of the big main characters survive (minus Bill obv,) because I just. I like them all too much. They're my sillies.

But! What does the reunion look like? Well.... The apocalypse might be over, but the work isn't done yet. Unfortunately, someone's so used to being the one people are relying on, and everybody is so used to relying on him, that he doesn't exactly get to be a part of the whole teary-eyed reunion thing. Infact, I don't think he's even registered that Ford and Mabel are even there- they're simply two more numbers on the headcount.

(Don't worry, he gets his reunion at some point! It's kind of like trying to stop a spinning tire with your bare hands, though. You'll scrape the skin off your palms if you reach out to early, you have to wait for the momentum to slow on its own.)

[hyydrochloricacidd]

Illustration of my oc Anala and @blackkatdraws2 / @blackkatdraws tsp narrator.

Kept thinking abt how if this AU was a game how would It pan out and then gave me the idea for this illustration

[internetegoist]

Explaining why Shidou is trans: The idea of being stuck in a restrictive environment for so long and not being to do anything in your own body that when you finally have full autonomy over it, you decide to overcome the concept of what most people around your life have seen and declared as impossible. His entire thing of being free of restriction and to do whatever he pleases can also be seen as being free from the conservative societal values. The concept of otherization and loneliness from peers especially in Blue Lock where he is demonized by a majority of the characters for acting differently as well as how mentioned majority cannot match with his philosophy of living with the explosions- Explaining why Sae is trans: It'd be cool if he was :)

[oros-ash3s]

WIP Folder Tag ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

This was requested by @theink-stainedfolk <3 Thanks for the wait and thanks for being so curious about my WIPS ૮₍ ´ ꒳ `₎ა

“(Not so cursed) Cursed Polycule” is not a WIP to a drabble or chapter of mine, but instead a doc I was working on to figure out Odesa, Ryuji, and Dior’s relationship inside Metamorphosis.

I felt it had begun to feel a little plain and neglected, so I wanted to figure out how they interact with each other and why they get along so well.

Here’s a little excerpt on their backstory:

Dior arrived at the Sector shortly after. Ryuji and Odesa were both 13 by then, the bestest of friends, and had well-adapted to their lives at the headquarters. Ryuji had been spending his time working alongside his mother, Ophelia, in the infirmary, when a particular new recruit caught his eye. 

Dior, upon arriving at the base, was terrified. Everything was so bright and new, so very unlike the constraints of the basement that they had come to know. Stuck inside the infirmary, the other doctors scared them. Although at first they were soft, with sweet as honey promises and reassurances, when their tactics did not alleviate the child’s stress, their patience very quickly grew short. Someone who was so scared of a place like the infirmary meant they had no chance surviving inside the Division, a place built upon blood and war.

But Ryuji was unlike the others inside the infirmary. Younger and with a softer, unburdened heart, due to his youth, he was slow with Dior. He did not push or prod, helping keep them both calm yet doing what was needed to improve their condition.

He quickly earned their trust, leading Dior to utter the first words they’d spoken in a long time. As the months passed on in the infirmary, the two began to become fast friends, growing immensely close despite their differences. It was a nice change, to the two lonely souls.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

“Me when they have childhood rivalry” is a part two to this WIP, and basically was a fic idea I head for Ryuji and Odesa’s backstory.

It takes place when they’re both around 9 or 10, and shows how their relationship started off kind of rocky. Personally I love it because in canon (due to Yara being the narrator most of the time), you don’t get to see Ryuji’s softer, more caring side.

Ryuji does not know what exactly compels him to do this. He shouldn’t have to. Anyone else would leave, abandon her here. This isn’t any of his business, shouldn’t ever be any of his business. Odesa Alves has made his life a living hell since the moment she stepped into his classroom so many months ago, why should he ever offer her grace and do something so vulnerable as comfort her?

But Ryuji finds himself sitting next to her anyway. Maybe a part of him knows he doesn’t really believe that, when Odesa has not truly ever hurt him, not in the ways that count.

And maybe it’s the fact that she is not so different from him after all. He knows how she is feeling right know, the humiliation and shame an emotion that has followed him around for too many years to count. He knows what it’s like, and he knows that as annoying as Odesa can be, nobody deserves this.

Odesa does not look up at him, even when he scoots into the alcove beside her. They are squished close, something Ryuji rarely allows, even with Aster. There is something different about this time though, this change in the air — the silence in his head. He doesn’t mind the feel of her clothes against his, doesn’t mind the shake of her sobs. He wonders if she feels the same.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

“Meet Ryuji” is a WIP from Metamorphosis that I actually already posted a snippet of a little while back. You can read that HERE.

It takes place when Aster and Yara first come to the Seventh Sector, and serves as Ryuji’s proper introduction. (Though he may perhaps show up beforehand….)

Here’s a new excerpt to that:

“Ryuji!”

“I said to shut the fuck—“ The boy whipped over in their direction, expression twisted up into a snarl, rage lingering beneath his features. A dark swirling eye then landed on Aster, standing with his usual wide smile, Yara cowering behind him, and his face softened. “Oh.” He mumbled, appearing to be almost sheepish. “It’s you.”

Aster laughed hard, eyes brightening. “Man, don’t try and sound too happy to see me.” He skipped over to the boy, opening his arms wide. “Where’s my hug at?”

Ryuji rolled his eyes. “Don’t you start.” He huffed, leaning over his paperwork once more.

Aster just laughed, taking no offence to his clipped, and rather harsh, tone. He clapped the taller boy on the back, laughing good-naturedly. There was a certain excitement inside his eyes, gleaming within the gold, that Yara had never seen present before. She wondered how he could’ve known this mystery boy. And why he’d never mentioned him before. “C’mon, I know you missed me.”

“You wish.” Ryuji grumbled, scribbling something down onto one of his array of papers. “Oh, don’t be like that, you old grump.” Aster flicked him absent-mindedly, turning back to Yara with a smile and waving her over.

“Yara, come on in!” He called, grinning. “We don’t bite— or at least, I don’t.” He added with a snicker, moving to lay his body weight against Ryuji, causing the boy to stumble. He shot Aster a quick glare, jabbing him in the ribs. “Quit.”

“Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.” Aster whispered in a sing-songy tone, laughing again. He turned his attention back towards Yara, still not forgetting about her despite his excitement. “Yara, this is Ryuji,” he said, mussing up the boy’s already dishevelled mop of hair. “My baby brother.”

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

“Run Boy Run” is a WIP from What Lies Below. It’s an idea I had for a to-be chapter two of the story, and takes place in the past, offering exposition and backstory for the events that took place in the prior chapter.

It would centre around Crow, the second primary main character of the story. It’s about his life on the run as a teen, and how he came to this live in his tiny little apartment downtown.

Here’s an excerpt of that:

December, 1987–

The boy was always good at running.

He couldn’t recall a time when he hadn’t been fast, flighty. It seemed from birth this very notion had been written into his bones, coded into his very genes. He was good at running, good at escaping. To a boy born with a target on his back, he had to be. There was no other way of survival.

Running had kept him alive up until now. Against all odds, it was the thing that had his back, through it all. In the face of betrayal and hatred, he would always depend on it. For it had protected him, sheltered him. Kept him safe.

He was not built for a life of luxuries, of relaxation. He had made his peace with that. For a split second he was almost fooled by the idea of shelter and warmth, but he understands now. The days of sleeping, of home-cooked foods and soft smiles under the sunlit mornings: Those are times he can never return to.

But shivering in the cold, hiding in a corner clouded deep in black shadows, the boy could still not stop himself from dreaming, for wishing. A different time, of youth and freedom. A time where he had somewhere to call his own.

Death would have been a more merciful fate than this.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

“Felix and Reagan save me” is a fic idea I had for my WIP Saudade. If you’ve never heard about it before don’t worry because I’ve only vague-posted about it once.

The story is about two siblings, Felix and Reagan Rodriguez. From the outside, their life is seemingly normal, despite the hardships the two young people have had to face since the passing of their parents. A dedicated older sister doing her best to raise her baby brother and get through her online classes. And a rambunctious but good-hearted teen, with an eye for photography and sports.

But as the two move yet again, and Felix starts to make friends, it becomes suddenly very apparent to the other folks in their town: Not everything is as normal as it appears on the surface.

Felix and Reagan have a secret. And it may threaten to put the lives of everyone around them in danger.

The snippet takes place near the end of the story:

Not a day has passed where Reagan hasn’t thought of Felix.

She has not seen him in years. Years that have not been kind to either him or her, nights spent searching for a boy who did not want to be saved wearing both of them down. They are not close to who they were at the start of this, before the rumours and the gossip fully caught up to them. She fears they’ll never be those naive kids again, stuck in the belief that they’ll really make it in this world that is so set against them.

Reagan wonders if they would’ve ended up right here now, if things had been different. She wonders, for a split second, where they’d be. If she was stronger. If she was an easier person to love, a better parent. A proper sister. She wonders—

Would he have stayed?

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

“Toxic yaoi” was a fic idea I had for my (more neglected) WIP Golden Veins. Without giving away too many spoilers, it’s a scene between one of the main villains, Rex, and one of the primary protagonists, Arcturus. I actually posted a snippet of it HERE for WIP Wednesday a while back.

In the scene Rex appears in Arcturus’ room, offering him a proposition for something that may well change everything Arcturus had thought his life to be.

Here’s an excerpt of that:

But the one thing, out of them all, that Arcturus didn’t think he’d ever be able to get over, even after months of them all, was the boy’s appearance. Unlike the prim and proper facade that he had grown to know the boy to be, his appearance now was the clear opposite of that.

A burst of electric blue hair, almost like a flame sitting atop his head, scarred brown skin the most ethereal shade of copper, and sharp, pointed features. Most noticeable out of them all, though, were his eyes. Silver and narrowed, eyeing Arcturus not if he was a person but instead a piece of meat, a meal for the boy to enjoy. It never failed to send a shiver down his back.

“What do you want?”

It has been weeks of this. This game the two seem to be trapped inside. This illusion they have been building, neither acknowledging it out loud. It is the first time that Arcturus has attempted to break the spell, spitting with a kind of terrified desperation the very words that the boy has been waiting to hear.

He grins, eyes flicking back towards Arcturus’ face. He has trapped him, even if the other does not know it yet. This was a game of wits, a cat and mouse chase, and to someone so blissfully ignorant, Arcturus never had a chance of winning.

“Oh, so he finally speaks.” He smiles, thin-lipped. The piercing wrapped around his bottom lip glints, sparkling underneath the violet hues of midnight. He has already won, and he knows it.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

“Icarus fell” also has to do with Arcturus! Although fairly rough due to me losing interest in it, the scene was supposed to showcase Arcturus’ downfall through the lens of his sister Evangeline.

The context for it is pretty spoilery so I won’t give too much away, just know that Arcturus is definitely an “Icarus” kind of character. Also, he originally had wings, like in the myth with Icarus.

Evangeline is stopped in her tracks.

Throughout all her years on this job, of all the horror and gore and terror she has witnessed, this is the first thing to truly scare her. Anything else she can lock in a compartment in the back of her mind, quickly pushing it to the side. Out of sight, out of mind.

But this? This is something entirely different. Something that Evangeline isn’t sure she’ll be able to stomach. Something that she is not even sure is reality, appearing before her very eyes.

Because only mere feet away, standing with a kind of reverence radiating off of him, stands her newly-deceased brother.

And he is hanging off of the arm of the very man that had ripped the two apart.

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[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Is there a mechanisms discord server???? Im seeing stuff about a semi-official server, my current assumption is that there WAS and no longer is (they’ve been dead for five years so it makes sense) but im stalking the lore archive and seeing the silly memes and such and now im sad

[moonpizzalol]

imagining smth in eastridge where people discuss how "veldigun" is pronounced and it turns into a fucking fistfight with some guy from texas and some fancy french-accent having nerd from quebec lankmann beating the shit out of eachother holy shit its just engineer and spy what the fuck

[flameofthescorpion]

"encountering a sweep in the wild was already rare, yet encountering a sweep lord was a whole other situation. A symbol of death soon to come, of bad luck and an even worse future, that is if the other bot usually comes alive out of the situation. Yet the lord did not attempt to attack, attacking a mere civilian was beneath their honor. They may have intruded on eachothers hunting territory but that night no dark energon was shed, only silent stares"

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Whew very small comic of Cyclonus and Scourge first meeting in my Deep Below Cybertron AU! ironically enough they did infact not meet deep below Cybertron but on the surface in a more rural part of Cybertron where Light pollution was mapped to be fairly low. Cyclonus back then was a mere Recruitment scout looking for potential targets, the night just made it easier to sneak around. Little to his knowledge where he stood was also the hunting territory of a (then fairly new) Sweep Lord. Usually Sweeps are fairly aggressive even against Terrorcons when it came to their space, however Scourge was always a bit different. Not to be mistaken for harmless, if Cyclonus did one wrong move they would have pounced. They didnt talk, they simply stared at eachother until Cyclonus showed steps of leaving, which in turn triggered Scourge to take their leave as well, seeing no danger present. Yeah save to say it was a bit awkward at first between them when Galvatron first recruited Scourge and they reunited- ------- Yessss Cyclonus looked very much different back then- alot of things messed him up physically after he started to follow Galvatron

[guardian-angle22]

Thanks to @paperstorm & @lemonlyman-dotcom for tagging me in Music Monday!

My brain is mush today due to work so I don't have the brainpower to think this one through super deeply...

BUT the song I've been listening to on repeat recently is a new release from Kris Allen called Too Good for Too Long and the lyrics give me major breakup era TK vibes.

Everything was going perfect But living right below the surface Was the feeling I don't deserve this

So maybe my momma was right This is why we can't have anything nice

Cos every time we're too good for too long I find a way to make it go wrong Turning waterfalls into rust And anytime it's going our way I can see the turn it shouldn't take Don't know why I fuck with our love Cos the truth is all I want for us is to be Too good for too long