#cruel memories

[gallusgalluss]

4 YEARS OF BUGSNAX!

[sweetvillainjude]

Jude was so deep in denial because what do you mean “The memory of his mouth on mine shimmers in the air between us” and still you’re convinced neither of you can even tolerate the other

[bonefall]

Do you have anything concrete for Jayclaw in BB? Curious about him since we never really learn how he dies. We don't really know much about him, besides the fact he's reasonable, fast and had a physical fight with his brother over a small mess.

Funny enough I have had a crystal clear image in my head of who Jayclaw is for years, and have not had to change it at all. He's a total background character but for some reason I just know what this dude's about.

Jayclaw was a dancer, a FANTASTIC one. He played Jingleshells, which are a full-body instrument made of netting and percussive beads. His performances were playful and dramatic, and he reveled in pulling off impressive movements while still keeping rythmn with his chimes.

His friend group was essentially a little band. His brother Owlnose played drums, his friend Podlight sang, and that connection was how he was introduced to Curlfeather. It was impossible to resist his charms once he started courting her-- he was fun-loving, romantic, and absolutely captivating.

Curlfeather loved him so much that sometimes it was hard to look at him. "I can't be seeing you right now, you're going to make me grin like a fool."

"Like it would be so terrible for you to brighten my day, gorgeous?"

Losing him was sudden, unexpected, and heartbreaking. I don't know what it was specifically, but I do know it was a freak accident and quite violent. He left camp one day in the prime of his life, and came back dead.

I don't think his passing planted any seeds in Curl's mind that weren't already there, but the combined stress of grief and the loss of her emotional "rock" was the catalyst.

In fact, at first, believing Frostpaw's bad dream had been a vision was probably something Curlfeather actually believed, or otherwise was something she came up with for non-nefarious reasons. Like maybe Frostpaw believing her vision "killed her mi," and Curlfeather meant to soothe her by explaining that visions simply predict the future and that his death wasn't something she caused.

In any case, after his death, Curlfeather was driven towards acting on her ambition. That's Jayclaw! Trophy husband who died ❤️

[slutforpringles]

Daniel Ricciardo at Goodwood FOS 2024 | via

[chaiichait]

Jude's list of near death experiences:

1. Force fed faerie fruit (basically saved by Cardan pricking her finger with salt and Locke)

2. Valerian trying to kill her

3. Valerian trying to kill her part two electric boogaloo

4. Almost getting trampled by courtiers and the gentry

5. The Undersea survival show

6. Getting married

7. Getting exiled

8. Being the in the court despite her exile (even though she could just go back, as per Cardan's words)

9. Madoc stabby stab stab

10. Falling off the roof AFTER SHE GOT HEALED

11. Cardan turning into a snake

12. Cardan when he turned back into a fae

13. Oak getting held hostage

[ollylotl]

hey guys youre not gonna believe this but... women.

[sapphiroth]

fell asleep on the couch and my blankie must have slipped off of me during the nap because I had a dream that it was illegal to be warm

[jadedwoman]

🖤 when I say you are mine, it is not just some silly phrase, you are mine. You do what I tell you to, you obey my words, you crave my command. You stay so helplessly entraced by me, that thoughts of running away never even enter your mind. I could torture you if I so wished and you would simply beg for more. But I do not always want the eager subject, so maybe I will use my tendrils to scrub your memory, allow you a fresh start, confused where exactly you are before I break you down once again, doing so in slightly different ways each and every time. Who knows, I could have done so already~

[angeleternity]

Cruel World

Shared my body and my mind with you

That's all over now

I did what I had to do

I could see you leaving now

[uncanny-tranny]

If you ever come across somebody who has lost a child but who still has other children, I am begging you not to say, "you might have lost a child, but at least you have others!"

It isn't comforting to be told that children are interchangeable, insignificant, and replaceable. It's not comforting a grieving family to be told that their loved one's memory is worthless because it can be replaced; it doesn't help the surviving children or the parent/s.

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

groovy!

[gomzdrawfr]

Hello again! I just wanna ask about Raven and Price. Since they’re MARRIED. Where did they go for their honeymoon though?

Hey there!

I have two sets of answers:

canon wise - they didn't spend their honeymoon, but they did go to Malaysia to handle some matters with Raven's real parents, who had passed away. Long story short, they got a pair of memorial plaques (神主牌) at one of the ancestral halls/temples. Afterward, they went to Hong Kong for more paperwork stuff, but they stayed there longer for a quick trip of sort before work drags them back :,> (Price do plan to spend their honeymoon properly one day, somewhere with the sea)

kids au (the au where they have Magpie and Sparrow) - I think they'd go to London (because Raven likes it there, maybe they visited Westminster and Soho) and Netherlands (fishing fishing fishing)

[yumenosakiacademy]

[bonefall]

Does leopard still have 3 lives in her final battle? Or was that changed?

Yep. I think she drowned her once, then Leopardstar lunges up refreshed, and she gets the upper paw on Mistyfoot with 2 lives to go.

(MAYBE tw gore, but I really did try to be tasteful about a head being smashed on a rock.)

On her back, splashing and thrashing furiously against Leopardstar's claws dunking her head under, Mistyfoot glimpses a wave breaking just over the tip of a stone-blue rock. Her only chance.

With a surge of power, her claws sink into her leader's golden shoulder and they tumble and roll to the right. Before the tyrant even realizes what's happening, she's yanked up, and then whipped backwards with a wet CRUNCH

And then again

And again

And again, until Mistyfoot can't even make out what's left of her leader anymore. All she can see is that it's a red, brown, and yellow blur, because her eyes burning with salty tears and her whole body is trembling.

She drops the corpse onto the stone and it slides into the water, lifelessly. After a moment it spasms aimlessly one last time, like an insect does after its head is bitten off, unlike the deliberate, agonized throes of Tigerstar suffering through his doomed lives. And then it's still.

There's only the tranquil sound of bubbling water, and Mistyfoot's frenzied panting. Her pounding heart makes it hard to hear either.

The blood is carried off by the shallow water in scarlet swirls, but the lake runs pale red as if it's washing it away. Some were aware of this prophecy, but Mistyfoot was not.

It isn't closure to her, or a fulfillment of divine decree. It's just blood that should be on her paws, slicked away by the complicit river. She wished it could feel like it's over, but she's smart enough to know the truth. Has been through enough terrible events like this to understand what comes next.

Her body will move foward. Her mind will need to consider her deputy. Her paw will come down on code-defying cats like Blackclaw and Greenflower. But her heart will stay here, next to the remains of Leopardstar, the same way another piece of it remains at Stonefur's side across space and time.

[beearcheops]

Guess who finished watching the cruel king and the great hero (and the liar princess and the blind prince) ◀️crying

(also jeez, these names are Long)

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