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Helsknight in 16?
Their dreams just keep dripping out of their golden cups I'm starting, I'm starving, leftovers ain't enough
Finish Line -- Skillet
#the barking artist#countthelions#helsknight#wither#minecraft wither#helsknight karaoke night#had a lot a lot of fun with this one i feel like thats obvious :3#i think the wither is by far the spookiest critter in the game#idea-wise anyway#big creaming skeleton critter with three heads? i mean come on
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I would loveeeee to hear your weird creeper hcs 🙏🙏🙏
YES YAY THANK YOU 🌟
okay so i guess first off. i hc silverfish to be larval creepers. that, in addition with a creeper's diet (and silverfish's, of course) consisting of ore, is why creepers explode players. see, when creepers explode, their eggs are embedded in the surrounding terrain. as players often carry ores on them, a creeper managing to explode a player and drop their inventory means the silverfish that hatch are almost guaranteed a very generous meal upon first hatching. after that, silverfish burrow underground to continue eating, and to stay safe until they're ready to metamorphise into creepers
(bonus doc lore at the end of the post 🐐)
creepers emerge from the ground at night because that's when it's generally safest for them to finish the final stages of development and gather their bearings. creepers themselves cannot dig or burrow, so they stay on the surface (or in a cave, if that's where they emerged) for the remainder of their life.
the combustion is the result of a chemical reaction- they store reactive materials in chambers in their body, and when they're released and come into contact with each other it causes an explosion as a side note, creepers can eat meat, but are more scavengers than hunters, and only eat it when it's readily available with little to no risk.
moving onto doc (because i'll never pass up a chance for blorbo talk), his anatomy is somewhat different from a standard creeper due to all the modifications to give him a more 'human' bodyplan and appearance.
his forelegs were originally removed and reattached to act as arms, however his spine and leg joints weren't built for a bipedal upright stance, so it gives him back, knee, and ankle pain to walk like that too much. his retractable robotic forelegs were a later addition he made for himself as a mobility aid to help relieve that pain. because of that he has a slightly more 'taur' like body structure, vs standard creepers whose necks are centered between all 4 legs. originally both his arms had 3 digits each (as they were made by modifying his legs), but when he made his right arm prosthetic he gave it a 5-fingered, more human-like shape for easier manipulation of stuff designed for human use
his combustion chambers were also removed long ago, so he can no longer explode himself (which he doesn't really mind. not big on the whole 'one panic away from exploding himself to death' thing)
he can digest a larger range of food than standard creepers can, but he still needs to eat ores to keep a nutritionally balanced diet. mostly he eats non-mineral foods just because he likes the taste, rather than actual nutritional value. it's recommended not to eat anything he makes for himself, because even if it looks like smth a human can eat, it's probably seasoned with redstone or iron shavings (he is good at making human-safe food, but he has no reason to make his own meals human safe. only eat doc's cooking if you know it's meant to be shared)
his scales are also softer, fading into something more similar to rough skin on a lot of his body. his 'hair' is thicker than a human's but thinner than a creeper's scales- it has almost a quill like texture. he can still 'hiss' by rattling them, but it's a somewhat different pitch than your standard creeper.
he also has a lot of mods on his neck to allow him to speak, and his robotic eye sees far better than a creeper's (slightly above human average, vs creeper eyes which are far below a human average). also a lot of questional brain/head mods to give him a more human appearing face and human-level cognition. his horns however are purely aesthetic.
#this kinda turned into doc hcs but. whatever. little bonus for yall <3#talking#hermitcrap#docm77#answers#countthelions
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the sea and the sky and you and i
relationships: gregory house/james wilson words: 8k summary: Wilson keeps secrets, and House avoids him. Everyone said House was gonna be the death of him.
Wilson gives himself six months to live. It’s not the worst prognosis he’s ever given. He goes through all the regular emotions, starting with pissed off and ending up mostly resigned. Everyone said House was going to be the death of him. This is probably what he deserves.
So he goes to work. He meets with patients. He does his clinic hours. He avoids House, but not enough to look suspicious. He goes home to the condo, he goes to bed early. He wakes up and does it all again. The good news is that these last sixth months are going to feel like forever. And House has always called Wilson an optimist.
The nights are too long this time of year. Wilson spends hours in bed, staring at his ceiling. Especially now. He feels feverish, a lot of the time, and it makes it hard to sleep, too warm under the blankets, too clammy to go without. He sometimes wakes up with blood in his mouth. The petals aren’t too frequent so far, and he’s yet to choke out a whole flower, which confirms he was right about his timeline. For now, he has some discomfort, some inconvenience, some moderate humiliation. Things could be worse.
read more on ao3
#house md#hilson#hate crimes md#gregory house#james wilson#listen i know full well this fic isn’t going anywhere#but i only have fifty some hits and someone’s already bookmarked it with lovely tags so#it’s good! i think it’s good! it’s fine that no one is gonna read it because the ten people that do will like it!#anyway this is all the fault of a handful of you driving me to madness#ayda-aguefortified#countthelions#in particular#so here’s a thing that exists now#my fic
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16 with doc? Or whoever fits the song <3
You are my angel
Come from way above
To bring me love
-- Angel by Massive Attack
#ask#countthelions#scribbles#doc#noir au#LOL SORRY FOR AU-ING THIS ONE. NOIR AU DOC IS ASSOCIATED WITH ANGEL OF DEATH SYMBOLISM. TO ME
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Trick or treat!!!! 💀
HERE YOU GO FRIENDO 🍫🍫🍫
this is a snippet from a fic i'm about 20k words deep into, which was a commission with the prompt "loki and clint forced to team up, post avengers" and i was just. unbelievably stoked to write it. after chatting with the commissioner (commissionee?) we landed on an alternate universe where, after the avengers, loki stays on earth and is detained by shield (cough hydra cough) instead of going back to asgard. a few months later clint gets abducted by hydra for nefarious evil supervillain reasons, and loki's also currently detained by hydra... you can see where this might be going:
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Look. Clint can admit when he makes a boneheaded move. He can admit when he lets his biases get the better of him. And now, in hindsight, it’s pretty clear that that’s exactly what happened when he saw Loki step into that room.
These are the facts Clint has now:
Loki was being detained by S.H.I.E.L.D. until he vanished. S.H.I.E.L.D. has been infiltrated by Hydra. Now Hydra has Loki instead. For the brief few seconds that Clint saw him, Loki somehow looked even more like shit than he did when he spent a week letting a couple Infinity Stones suck the life out of him, even worse than he did after going a few rounds with the Hulk. And he was accompanied by no less than three Hydra agents, all of whom were decked out in full head-to-toe Kevlar and wielding automatic weapons.
So, either Loki is not here of his own free will, or he’s making one hell of an effort to look like he isn’t.
And what’s worse: That Hydra is capable of keeping Loki detained against his will, or that Loki’s here on purpose and he’s actually playing them all for idiots, building up to some grander, more terrifying plan than the one he enacted in New York?
The second one, dumbass, Clint thinks immediately. The second one’s worse.
#this has been a blast to write tbh#i'm trying to wait until it's totally done before i post any of it to avoid leaving it un-updated but we'll see how long i hold out#thank you friend!#countthelions#sam answers stuff
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Fanclans!!!!! Whats your favorite part of the territories?? Is it multiple clans, one clan? What's it's name :o?
I have been redesigning the characters slowly, they can be found on tumblr and on toyhouse! Here are the links-
Tumblr - Meadowclan | Cragclan
Toyhouse - Meadowclan | Cragclan
As for the territories, I have not yet been able to create a solid map, though I do have an extensive cave system planned for Cragclan that will include a lot of fun stuff.
As for the name of the project as a whole, I haven't yet been able to come up with something. Though as soon as I get to updating the bios of the characters I am making, I will probably get a better idea!
#I am having a slower time with Meadowclan bc all the characters from crag were already made in 2016 I just revamped them#but I stopped making meadowclan cats right as I joined my first wcrp and never went back to updating them so its taking me some time#wc fanclan#meadowclan#cragclan#text#response#countthelions
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what sort of information will you be wanting with the application? will there be a 'preserver' discord to chat with everyone before acceptance, or will it be submitted separately and if you're accepted, you'll get the invite?
Thank you for your question!
It will be a pretty standard roleplay application, with a section asking for the applicants information (preferred name, tumblr url, discord name, etc) and then an application for your starting character!
The second section will ask for basic information on your character so that we get a good idea on who they are and how they can fit into the group. This will also include a question asking for a roleplay sample as well as a section for extra notes if you would like to include something about your character that doesn't fit in any other section OR if you would like to request something about them that you aren't sure can be assumed as ok.
All questions on this application will be answered before you are added! As for the invitations, only those who are accepted will be given invites to a discord at the end of the acceptance period (may take a few days after the official closing so that reviewing can be done).
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ooh random questions time!! what's your favorite part of grillby (any au version) to draw? what's your favorite part of gaster to draw :O? which of your skellys lives rent-free the most often, like when you see a random thing and your brain goes: yeah it's X time
ohohoho >:] thank you lions!!!
I love drawing all my flames, but the particular fave right now is Kindling's little fangs and sneaking in little hearts into both his flames and FRECKLES!! I love drawing his little freckles...
For Gasters in general I just. Love drawing their faces and figuring out how to get the emotion I wanted from them, even if the results aren't the most stable ""model""-wise lol. And with TD Gaster in particular I love the little dark specks around his neck and hands - guess I'm a sucker for small details ahaha. + one other thing about him but That's Technically A Spoiler For Now.
As for which skelly lives rent free in my brain the most, uh, erm..
Two deaths Gaster still takes the cake lol. I've picked up caterpillars off the curb and thought of him wheezes, and I mean. The newest post in the tag I keep for him on my main is a drawing of a pathetic-eyed moth. He's got my brain in a stranglehold, despite not being the skele I draw the most rn lol. I just. There's so much to TD that I cannot talk about yet so my brain compensates by spinning him constantly. It is Always the Many-pocketed-mop-of-a-skeleton time.
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Reaches!! OC lore whoever pops into your heart first
I'm talking about this guy <3 His name is Luna
The setting is pirates. I wrote it when I was very young and read one piece once. It has since Severely Diverged. But anyway.
He's a giant sea serpent. He has 3 forms, Giant snake, half snake as pictured above, and human with legs. The sea serpents are colloquially called Basilisks. No one knows a lot about them because they literally just sink your ship and murder you, but for some reason he saved the other main character, a pirate named Crest, from a ship wreck in a storm, and has since been following her around, much to the horror of literally everyone who has a sense of self preservation.
Also he's albino. Most Basilisks blend in with the sea.
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ALTLast 20 rows
then this bad boy is ready
to be washed and blocked
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Last 20 rows then this bad boy is ready to be washed and blocked
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Mind control tanguish?? (i was gunna offer time loop for the hell-raisers as another one, but ut canon is Basically a time loop aint it SO!! Make tanguish do something wild)
Helsknight hummed tunelessly under his breath as he cooked dinner, piling some chicken and mushrooms into a pan to fry. He didn't know when Tanguish would be home [every trip to Hermitcraft was a gamble, when it came to time] but he figured whenever the little pest came home, he would be hungry. Besides that, Helsknight was hungry, so he might as well do something about it. Worst case scenario, he would just reheat a plate for Tanguish on the furnace when he got here. Or threw away wasted food. The point was he was hungry, so it wasn't wasted time at least. He pulled some flour out from a cabinet, frowning down at it and wondering what his chances of making a decent gravy were.
[Gravy was the bane of cooking. It either turned out like wallpaper paste, or it turned out like soup. Rarely, when every god and saint turned their greatest blessings on Helsknight for a moment, and every star in every heaven aligned, and every angel and allay and fairy-dust creature held its breath and crossed it's fingers, he would make a passable gravy.]
Helsknight sighed, tossed a few spoonfuls of flour into a pan, and resigned to try his luck. He didn't feel very lucky today, but then again, any day he made gravy, he didn't feel lucky, even if it did taste good in the end.
"I should learn how to bake," he grumbled to himself, eyeing the little bag of flour dispassionately. Tanguish would certainly appreciate it, and it would be cheaper to make a batch of muffins from scratch, instead of buying them from a cart four times a week. Helsknight stirred his fledgling gravy absentmindedly, waiting for the flour to brown, and considering his chances of finding a half-decent cookbook the next time he went to the market. Behind him he heard a clatter of claws, the unmistakable noise of Tanguish stepping into hels. A soft breath of chill dampened the room like a breeze. Helsknight threw a glance over his shoulder.
"Hey, what's your opinion on homemade--?"
Instinct made Helsknight slam to the side as Tanguish propelled himself over the kitchen island, Helsknight's rondel dagger in his hand. The point dug itself into the wall over the stove at about chest-height, a very intentional, very lethal lunge. It missed him by a decent margin; Helsknight was quick, even when he was caught off-guard. That one look over his shoulder, and years of Colosseum training and instincts, had saved his life.
Anger, hot and baffled and electric, raced through Helsknight's chest. He backpedaled towards their little dining table as Tanguish yanked the dagger out of the wall. He needed distance, he needed room to move. [He needed a house that wasn't so saints-damned small.]
"Tanguish, what in hels--?!" Helsknight managed before Tanguish was lurching for him again, a sharp, quick, dagger-pointed shadow dappled in flickering stars. Helsknight snapped a hand out, trying to bat him aside, only for Tanguish to duck nimbly beneath his outstretched arm. The dagger stabbed in towards him again, and Helsknight barely twisted away in time.
"Tanguish! Stop!" Helsknight shouted, confusion and adrenaline crashing together in his chest, muddling up his instincts. His training, his impulse, his experience in the Colosseum, demanded he fight back. He was unarmed [why would he stay armed and armored in the safety of his own home, when he planned to stay in the rest of the day?] but that didn't mean he wasn't dangerous. He knew a few ways of disarming someone with his bare hands, and he knew how to punch, and kick, and break bones. But his louder, conscious mind screamed at him this is Tanguish! He can't break Tanguish.
Tanguish didn't give him long to be horrified by the thought. He was lunging again, arrow-quick, and this time when Helsknight jolted backwards the blade nicked his out-flung arm. He didn't know if he was proud, or if he regretted how sharp the blade was -- his training had come in handy.
[It was marvelous really, how deadly his little pest could be when he put his mind to it. Helsknight had always thought Tanguish learned more than he let on. He was simply too scared of causing harm to use it. But he wasn't scared of causing harm now. No, he seemed hels-bent on shredding Helsknight where he stood, and he didn't know why.]
"Could you at least tell me what the hels I did to bring this on?" Helsknight demanded, a grin writhing across his teeth. It was something he knew intimidated people, intimidated Tanguish. There was something about baring teeth while fighting that seemed dangerous. If Tanguish cared, it didn't show, and he didn't respond. He just crouched low and gazed back at him, eyes half-shut in something like concentration. It gave him the look of a sleepwalker, and Helsknight didn't like it. He was used to the wide, curious, cat-like gaze, glittering in dandelion yellow.
"Tanguish?" Helsknight breathed, taking advantage of the pause. "Look, I don't want to hurt you--"
Tanguish lunged again when he was mid-sentence, something that might have killed him, if he hadn't seen Martyn do it a thousand times. Even with that knowledge, he almost reacted too late, side-stepping and slamming a heavy palm into Tanguish's shoulder, tossing him off-balance. Helsknight let out a short breath through his nose when Tanguish regained his feet, undaunted.
"I'm not running away," Helsknight said witheringly, dashing for the door. He could feel Tanguish following like a wasp over his shoulder, more the impression of danger than a true knowledge of what he was doing. Helsknight ducked out the door and managed to yank it shut behind him before Tanguish could follow, and was treated to a heavy slam as Tanguish tried to follow. Helsknight held it shut for a second, trying to figure out -- trying to figure out anything.
[Would Tanguish try to break down the door? Surely he couldn't. Even as... weirdly determined as he was to harm Helsknight, that wasn't something he was strong enough to do, especially with Helsknight bracing the other side. But the house had windows. Would Tanguish care about glass? It would cut him to ribbons. He could seriously hurt himself if he -- why was he worried about Tanguish jumping through a window? If the little idiot wanted to deal with a face full of glass--]
Helsknight released the doorknob and stepped aside. He needed to get that knife away, pin him still, preferably without hurting him too badly. His guts gave an uncomfortable squirm.
[How bad is too bad? And why? Why was this happening? It wasn't just strange, it just wasn't Tanguish. He didn't have a dangerous bone in his body.]
The doorknob clicked. Helsknight pressed himself against the wall, hiding behind the door as it swung open. He just needed a few seconds. He was stronger -- that's all he needed. Tanguish stepped onto the street, and before he had the chance to look around, Helsknight lunged forward and wrapped his arms around him, pinning his arms to his sides. He lifted Tanguish off his feet, trying to keep the thrashing feet from kicking anything.
"Tanguish, I need you to--"
Tanguish's head snapped back suddenly, slamming into Helsknight's mouth and nose. He swore, and his grip loosened, and Tanguish's sharp elbow dug itself into his side hard enough wince away some of his breath. A clawed foot came down on his ankle, and then Tanguish was twisting, and Helsknight, whose only objective narrowed into [don't get stabbed you fucking idiot] drove a punch into Tanguish's sternum. Tanguish's breath left him in a whoosh, and he curled in on himself a little, some sense of self-preservation kicking in. But he didn't cry out in pain, and he didn't drop the knife.
A lancing, twisting feeling darted through Helsknight's guts. It was a feeling so unfamiliar it was nearly foreign, hard to place, and hesitant to name. Dread. Dread as Tanguish turned that sleepwalker's gaze on him again, re-positioned his dagger to continue fighting. His tail gave a contemplative lash, a cat figuring its best approach on a bird, and it had been a long, long time since Helsknight felt like prey. Dread made his mouth dry, closed his throat, blanked his already reeling thoughts.
[What should he do? What could he do?]
Helsknight took a hesitant step back. Tanguish's eyes narrowed, and glittered blue.
[Blue? Blue. A little ring of blue, like a clear, winter's morning, ringed his yellow iris. That hadn't always been there. He knew the color of Tanguish's eyes.]
"Tanguish, talk to me," Helsknight said, taking another hesitant step back. "What happened? Whatever it is, we can fix this. I promise."
Tanguish let out a slow breath, and the blue ring around his iris seemed to flicker, then flashed brighter. Helsknight swore again as Tanguish pounced. He caught Tanguish's wrist, and might have even considered breaking it, had Tanguish not twisted out of his grip in the second of hesitation he gave in to. Helsknight's perception narrowed to the point of the knife as he dodged it, sidestepped it, and then spun on his heel and ran.
Helsknight needed time to think, needed time to figure out what was, whatever was happening. And he was faster than Tanguish. Even if he couldn't fathom harming him, he would always be faster. And armor-less as he was, he felt unnaturally fleet, near to flying. He was down three blocks, into an alley, over a wall and two more blocks over before he stopped, panting, to check for pursuit.
"I'm not running away," he breathed again, to himself, to his Saint, to Tanguish. He wasn't. He just needed time. He just needed to pull himself together, to figure shit out, to stop shaking. To stop shaking? Helsknight looked down at his hands, at the tremor starting. He swallowed hard.
[Okay, he was a little freaked out. He was allowed to be a little freaked out. His best friend was trying to kill him, and he didn't know why, and apparently the veil between "Nice Normal Tanguish" and "Silent Death-Machine Tanguish" was unnervingly thin. And Helsknight wasn't used to someone trying to kill him assassination-style, through dogged pursuit and bloodless silence. He was used to arena fights, and occasional back-alley brawls, where things were loud and obvious and made fucking sense.]
"I'm going to kill him," Helsknight hissed, stealing down the alley as fast as he dared. He didn't know who he was going to kill. Whoever had done this, maybe. Certainly not Tanguish. He hadn't really tried, physically he thought he could, if he'd just commit. But he had no weapon, and his options for killing his best friend [one of a slim handful of people he would gladly die for] were all slow and grim and painful, and not something he would inflict on anyone willingly.
[He would just have to evade, and try to knock some sense into him? But head wounds were difficult. The margin between unconsciousness and death was illusive, and he was a knight for helssakes he didn't bludgeon people. He was so ill-equipped for something like this, it was staggering. But why would he be equipped for his best friend randomly trying to kill him?]
There was a sound. There must have been. The whisper of breathing. The slide of claws. The crackle of gathering frost. Something set Helsknight's hair prickling, the gooseflesh on his arms raised.
[The rooftops.]
Helsknight didn't have time to look up. Suddenly a weight fell on his shoulders, and he was slamming to the ground. Tanguish's hand dug claws into the back of his neck, his knees dug into his shoulders. Helsknight twisted his whole body as hard as he could, wrenching his elbow back to slam into Tanguish's side. He flipped over, throwing Tanguish off him for just a moment. He got an arm underneath himself, tried to scrabble backwards, boots digging into tiles. Tanguish lunged on top of him again, and Helsknight threw a hand between them. A noise escaped his throat as the knife slashed through the webbing between his thumb and his forefinger, but he managed to wrap his fist around the hilt.
Tanguish was on top of him, bearing his full weight down on the dagger, trying to drive it into his throat. Helsknight clenched his bleeding hand around it, while is other arm scrabbled at the cobblestones, and through the haze of half-panic finally found its way around one of Tanguish's wrists. They were too close. He couldn't make full use of his longer arms, his strength, his leverage, and while his feet scrabbled, Tanguish's long tail twisted out for balance, and he held firm.
There was a buzzing starting in the back of Helsknight's mind, a panic he wasn't used to. His hands shook. His hand was bleeding, and it had to be his hand, didn't it?
[Note to self, Tanguish had laughed once, Helsknight is weak to hand wounds.]
He couldn't pass out. Little sparks and stars crowded his peripheral vision, his awareness narrowed itself to the space between his hands, and the slickness of the dagger, and the tear in the webbing between his fingers, and how stupid that was. A Colosseum gladiator, a knight of Blood and Steel, laid low by a flesh wound.
"Tanguish, you don't want to do this," Helsknight grunted, his voice buried beneath the buzzing of panic and his heartbeat in his ears. "You don't want to hurt me."
Tanguish threw his shoulder forward, and the twist sent tearing pain through his hand, and his grip slipped dangerously. Every muscle in his body tightened in dread and desperation, and he screwed his eyes shut as he clenched his bloody fist tighter. An undignified wince of a noise squeezed its way out of his throat, but it was better than screaming.
"Okay! Maybe you want to hurt me. Fine." Helsknight grimaced. He could feel the blood from his hand dripping onto his neck. A dangerous foreshadowing of just where the blade was aimed. "Tell me why. Tell me anything."
He managed to crack an eye open, to blink away the blooming stars. He gripped the knife and a spinning world in his bloody hands, and clung to consciousness and life with equal fervor. And Tanguish watched him, impassive and cold, that little blue ring a persistent chain around his iris. It reminded Helsknight of something, something that made his stomach twist. It took a moment to place a coherent thought to the feelings, a long moment where he breathed and shook and bled, and Tanguish watched.
[Wels. The open sky blue of Wels's eyes. Ice dagger blue. He clawed at his memory for any way that made sense, and in his flailing finally remembered what Tanguish had said about those golden, inescapable commands. How far could they compel? Surely not this far. Surely--]
Helsknight swallowed hard.
[Right. He just needed to break the command. That was all. That was all.]
Helsknight reached into himself for any lie of calm, any ghost of reassurance. He tried to steady his voice. Tried to force command, and calm, and certainty into his words. Stilted and shaky, and hoarsely whispered, he half commanded, half pleaded.
"Tanguish, let go of the knife."
Above him, Tanguish blinked. The pressure on the knife didn't relent, nor did the blue ring around his iris.
"Please let go of the knife."
Tanguish's fist balled tighter, and as it did the knife twisted just barely. He felt the burning in his hand, and Helsknight lost his words behind pain that should have been insignificant, and stars and noise in his head.
"You're scaring me," Helsknight whimpered, and then managed more firmly. "You don't scare people. This isn't you. You don't want to do this to me."
He searched Tanguish's eyes again. Was that a flicker in the blue? He couldn't tell. He couldn't tell.
"Helssakes," he swore. His hand grasping Tanguish's wrist reached up to grab the back of Tanguish's head, fingers tangling in his hair. He wished he could force Tanguish to focus, to center that sleepwalker's stare on something other than his general direction. "If you're going to kill me, look at me."
Tanguish blinked again. There was a shimmer in his eyes, and Helsknight winced as a tear dropped onto his face. A grim smile worked its way onto his teeth. No, that blue ring hadn't flickered. Tanguish had simply started crying.
"You're not going to kill me." Helsknight whispered. He closed his eyes, and his voice was a prayer, and it was a command. "You're not going to kill me."
He couldn't tell how much of the shaking in his arm was from him, or from Tanguish. He couldn't tell if the pain in his hand was from pressure, or from the wound. But he knew this was hurting them both, and he needed it over with, one way or another.
"You're not going to kill me."
Helsknight had been killed by wounds to his neck before. The Colosseum was a terrible place to die sometimes. He told himself he could bear it. Told himself if the pain came, he would try to hide the terribleness of it. He wouldn't gasp, or scream, or any of the other horrible, dramatic thrashings a person could do when they bled. He would make himself small and silent. He would respawn, if he could, and he would find his way back here, and he would find a way to fix this. Helsknight released Tanguish, and, eyes closed, braced himself for whatever happened next.
He couldn't stop himself from flinching when a few more teardrops fell on his face. But the blade didn't come. Helsknight dared to crack an eye open.
"Tanguish?"
Tanguish moved, and Helsknight stiffened, only to relax again when the blade clattered to the ground beside them. Helsknight let out a breath he hadn't realized he was holding, and before Tanguish could scramble away from him, or devolve into a blubbering mess, or shake apart or fall under some new spell, or any of a thousand other things Tanguish could probably do, Helsknight wrapped his arms around Tanguish's neck and dragged him into a hug.
"Helsknight--"
"You idiot," Helsknight snapped, crushing Tanguish against his chest. He had the grace to drag them over to the side, so he couldn't bleed quite so much on both of them, but when Tanguish squirmed he held him tighter and refused to let him go. "Don't scare me like that again."
"H-helsknight I'm s-"
"You're sorry," Helsknight interrupted him, screwing his eyes shut, suddenly scared he was going to start crying too. From relief. From the ridiculousness of whatever had happened. From the closeness to disaster. From how angry he was that Tanguish felt the need to apologize. "Gods. I thought I'd lost you."
Tanguish had the audacity to laugh, a miserable hiccup of a noise that tangled itself in growing sobs, and muffled itself against Helsknight's chest. "You thought you lost me?"
"You were so quiet," Helsknight said, feeling dread lance through his stomach like a knife wound. "It's like you weren't even there."
"I was there," Tanguish whispered, his fists balled into Helsknight's shirt, like he could somehow cling closer. "I was there."
"Of course you were," Helsknight murmured back. "Of course you were."
#Situation Asks#RnS asks#helsknight#tanguish#countthelions#you. you knew EXACTLY what you asked for you fiend#tw blood#tw fighting#tw wounds#gosh but it was amazing angsty fun to write#probably won't get to any more of the asks tonight this one took awhile#but feel free to send more#all terrible things happen in the kitchen jsyk#rns ficlet
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If you're still doing these, trick or treat efo style? Or just hermits if you don't have any etho wips !
out of context comic panel sketch
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New interview with a vamp or old movie interview with a vamp?
okay, this is VERY easy because i do actually really enjoy the movie (kirsten dunst's claudia i LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU), brad pitt fucking SUCKS in it. complete waste of air. like, cannot believe tom cruise didn't throw the most epic shit fit on trying to serve cunt while up against that complete wet sack
also AMC IWTV gave me assad zaman a person i'm completely COMPLETELY normal about and had real gay sex in it. OH and changing louis de pointe de lac to NOT be a slave owner. great choice. thank you rolin jones and also god
alright i'm online and ready to rumble
MAKE ME CHOOSE
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@countthelions (tumblr ate this when I tried to save my answer as a draft, so we improvise 🙃)
This one? :D
This whole stream was delightful. What a way to return 🤗
Tango was so happy energetic.
And from Tango calling Etho's storage system cute and Etho in gamechat going "CUTE?!" (00:41:07). To the razzing (and laughing) over shops (00:49:00 and 01:03:49). Etho taking Tango's head twice, and it all being so playful (00:58:11). Etho using Tango's catchphrases 🥹🥹🥹 It gets me every time! "porkchop power" "flee with extra flee!" And the way he said it was the cutest, and Tango's giggle about it too (01:00:59). Etho offering to give the tour Tango wanted. More mail talk and laughing guilt and planning and razzing and teaching Etho to do the stamps. Tango complimenting the path (and that Etho showed it to him when he first came back when Etho came to say hi) (01:15:41). They still plan on doing their sand-collection-off (01:35:06).
And of course the whole TNTificating with Etho's new "boom boom tech" (01:39:43--02:15:17) was just…the most fun. They are having the most fun together...it's an absolute joy. (And it's also them collaborating on how to figure out a redstone thing together which is just so satisfying.) Just...TOO MANY (!!!) (so many) fun moments in that whole TNT section that I can't even start on highlighting them all 😭 I'd need another mammoth paragraph...
Honestly??? Still smiling. Great great great stream 🥹
Timestamps are for YouTube not Twitch because Tango was so fast on getting the VOD up lmao
#HOW are they as a duo this underrated in fan spaces I DO NOT KNOW 😂#I'm sorry they're literally the best duo of all time and this stream proves it#and hey!! thanks for messaging :D always love seeing you in the notes#was gonna make this a bit of a masterpost of clips but tumblr only allows one video file upload per post lmao#though it's not like I could have clipped all of it anyway 😂#might put some as separate posts. we'll see#tango tek#tangotek#etho#ethoslab#tangtho#hermitcraft#hermitcraft s10#hermitcraft season 10#putting the twitch timestamps here too...used them first and might be easier if want clips later#cute 00:45:46 | shops 00:53:36 & 01:08:26 | deaths 01:02:48 | flee 01:05:36 | path 01:20:18 | sand 01:39:43 | tnt 01:44:21--02:19:52
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13 and 47 pls!! For ao3 asks
13. personal favorite fic you read this year
REALLY COMING OUT SWINGING with the hardest question possible okay fine i'll go with what it all comes down to by dollsome. INCREDIBLE post s2 good omens fic. made me cry tears of joy and conveyed such a love for humanity that it lodged in my brain for weeks
47. shout out an incomplete fic you read this year
Tequila Sunrise by soulfire003, EXCELLENT fic from my serrenedy binge earlier this year, beautiful luis character study, heartwarming slow burn, just all around chef's kiss
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Finished commission for @countthelions!
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