#circle table

[daisy-source]

Minneapolis Kitchen Large rustic l-shaped eat-in kitchen concept with an island, recessed-panel cabinets, medium tone wood cabinets, and paneled appliances.

[bu99erfly]

10 years with RED VELVET ♡♡♡♡♡

[zaynsource]

Library - Living Room Example of a mid-sized eclectic enclosed ceramic tile living room library design with gray walls and a wall-mounted tv

[forsongqian]

Minneapolis Kitchen

[queenoffoliage]

Your honor, he was indeed spinning

[yaralulu]

I desperately need a scene where the IC are having dinner and the topic of tamlin gets brought up and they start talking shit about him and going on about how he deserves everything thats happening to him and lucien’s just sitting there gripping his fork,jaw twitching,eyes simmering,hands shaking with rage as he tries so hard to keep his mouth shut because now is not the time to say something stupid—but they just keep talking and talking and talking until eventually he has enough and gives everybody a vanserra style telling off 😁.

[cactuslester]

they’re so cute gross for sitting right next to each other at this round table instead of across from each other like we get it the universe would rip in half if you move more than 3 ft apart

[wereshrew-admirer]

The Figure goes to Phrygian for some rest and relaxation and what do they get? Chine and Duvall and the Baby, (mostly) tragedy free!

[available as a PDF for easy viewing]

EDIT (01/30/24): updated to correct some missing dialogue!

This year's secret samol for @thelostlarrikin! I chose to combine two of his prompts (queerplatonic Figure&Phrygian + "Chine, It, and Duvall being a cute weird family"), and hopefully delivered (I, like Phrygian, don't always know what counts as "cute".. but i think i've got a handle on weird!)

content warnings for: body horror (not treated as horror), reference to past trauma and shitty (read: homo/transphobic) family member(s)

[i-just-want-to-destroy]

THE LAST THING I NEED IS ANYONE TO COME FUCKING TAKE CARE OF ME!

[torchstelechos]

Genuinely think there should be an AU/fanfic where the party post-canon end up in another time craft bullshit wish and end up back in Dormont except there's past version of themselves also right there so the post-canon party have to like, explain what happens to pre-canon party. The mental image of Post-Canon Siffrin looking at Pre-Canon Siffrin is amazing, imagine the angst but also unhinged levels of OH IM LOOP NOW :D!!! I think it would be sssuuuuuuppppeeerrrrrr funny

[hyunpic]

240722 hynjinnnn instagram update

[fantasykiri5]

I don’t remember much from my dream last night other than that Goblin fWhip was there and for some reason he was wearing this. Honestly? I don’t entirely know what’s going on with it but it’s kind of a look.

[hauntedfalcon]

there's no hiding a flame hand :)

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Candela Obscura: Needle & Thread is about, if it is about anything, parent-child relationships and the desperate desire for a closeness in the face of a yawning chasm of separation, physical, emotional, or both.

Sean and Margaret, the creature and mother, Nathaniel and his father, Jean and hers, Allison and Lucas. Even Beatrix and the child she never had, transferred onto Sean. (Marion is the only major character who does not fit neatly and completely into this pattern, despite the brief look at his relationship with his father.)

That desire for closeness—even when there is immense strain in the relationship, even when that desire has been suppressed into more of an involuntary instinct—escalates over the chapter until incredible violence is being committed in an effort to reduce these distances.

These parent-child relationships are even weaponized repeatedly in the finale. Sean takes the deal to save his mother. The person in the cage observes that Nathaniel's father never liked him as a device to rattle him and his father's face is worn to force him to hesitate. Violet lashes out at Jean before she dies by telling her that her father was happy when she told him that Jean was no longer going to visit.

There is so much longing for a parent or a child in this chapter. Sean wants to be with his mother again, and Margaret wants her sons. Nathaniel craves his father's love, and in the end, his father reaches for him. Jean grieves for her father. The creature wants to be with their mother, and their mother is distraught when her child is killed. Beatrix is wistful for the child she did not have. Much of Lucas's screentime is devoted to missing his mother, and Allison misses her son terribly.

There is also much to be said about sibling relationships here: Sean and his brothers, Nathaniel and his, the creature and their sister. Sibling dynamics inform the relationship between Sean and Marion, and Sean and Nathaniel. That's not the focus of this post, though.

I believe that it is specifically this web of parents-children and the various distances in their relationships that really is the core of the chapter. This is about a desperately intense, even violent, desire for a closeness in those relationships and the willingness to do basically anything to overcome the distances.

[every-eye-evermore]

I think about this moment often

[thatoneacecryptid]

My favorite thing about Circle of Needle and Thread fics is that basically everyone looked at Marion, Sean and Jean and said, “You know, we could argue over who to ship Marion with, or we could just have fun and ship them all.”