#cruel stories

[siryl]

Cover art by K. L. Turner for Cruel Stories by Donald Tyson.

[harrison-abbott]

I remember this boy in high school. He was a bit goofy, different – not like the other kids. [Not that I was any different from this description.] He fancied one of the girls who was in the ‘popular’ crowd. And he wanted to tell her how he felt and so he wrote her a little note and gave it to her. The note said, simply: ‘You’re beautiful’. And the girl didn’t fancy him back. She didn’t open the note in front of him but instead showed it to her clique of girlfriends. They thought it was brilliant. Just the funniest most sadistic thing that they could think of, because the weird lad had no chance whatsoever with this popstar girl. So the clique of girls formed a plan. To send a note back to the boy, as if it was from the girl who fancied him. They wrote on the note: “I think you’re beautiful, too!” And they got one of the other girls to walk across the playground and give it to him, to tell him it was from popstar girl as a reply. And then the gang watched him from afar, to see how he would react. And he opened it and read it. I know all of this because I heard one of the girls (who was in the gang) telling the story afterwards. And she said, “You should have seen his face when he opened it! He lit up with this huge smile.”

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i love the DLC man

[gentil-minou]

I am not an artist but I never want to forget this.

I am not a number.

I am a whole planet.

-Khalil

[thejudeduarte]

I read somewhere that this was Cardans' first genuine hug and wtf why is there water leaking out of my eyeballs

[murasaki-cha]

Jude and Cardan on a flower field. Cardan laying his head on Jude's lap. Jude makes a flower crown for him and puts it on his head. Cardan tilts the flower crown succeeding in making Jude laugh. The flowers bloom brighter all around them. That’s it, that's the post. Just happy and soft Jurdan.

[beloved-daydreams]

I will never get over the fact that Jude and Cardan just kissed in bed after their wedding vows. Because that's?? The sweetest thing ever?? Like Jude was stuck in the Undersea for a while and Cardan got poisoned and almost died as well so they were both tired and probably wanted to be vulnerable with eachother after their vows of "partnership" (ahemMarriageahem).

Just imagining them all tangled up and in eachother's arms... Exchanging soft kissies under the covers after Cardan made flowers bloom in their room... Them probably caressing eachother and holding eachother as they kiss, their eyes closed but then they sleepily open them from time to time to look at eachother under the moonlight. I abduzjejzjsjzj

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Instead of going for Tim, Jason goes for the easiest way to utterly destroy his Replacement and kidnaps his civilian boyfriend to demonstrate just how easy it is to lose something (or someone) you love in this line of work.

And while the whole “make the Replacement beg” part of the plan is going amazing…. Jason really didn’t plan the whole “keeping a conspiracy theorist teenager hostage” through to the end.

Bernard just wants to know what the new crime lord’s deal with Robin is. And why— and how— exactly he’s supposed to be a bargaining chip when he can count the times he met Robin on one hand. oh! and could someone maybe tell his boyfriend, Tim, that he’ll be late for their coffee date on Tuesday?

[dykedvonte]

I think depictions of Anya being cruel to Curly or drawing out his suffering are artful and chilling but completely miss the point of the story and her character.

I'm not saying she doesn't deserve to have that "I told you so" moment with him but not in something callous or cold. Even if that is how it happened, she'd immediately feel guilty cause at that point she's not tormenting her tormenter or even the person truly at fault. She's doing something cathartic, similar to how Jimmy likely hits Curly to release rage he can't against the rest of the crew. She'd see herself as no different when she'd come back from the moment and see Curly cowering at her. She wants someone to take responsibility but how does being cruel to the defenseless help? Why would she want the power Jimmy has over her over Curly?

The idea of her extending someone else's pain is just so against the struggles she already faces and how she can't even bring herself to cause someone pain even to help them. Her very desire is to release herself from her own suffering and I doubt she'd even fine some sort of guilty release in being cruel to another.

[praisethelorde]

Cardan Greenbriar:

[kaipaedyn]

no but cardan stealing jude's ring when he kissed her hand and then giving it back to her as a wedding ring had me giggling and kicking my feet. he was a smooth operator 🙂‍↔️

🎨: ritta1310

[planetmars732]

how it feels when i get really excited to talk ab a special interest and my friend goes "yeah you've said that before"

[reu8ell]

Cardan being self-deprecatingly honest

[always-reading-fantasy]

Fuck all love letters except whatever Cardan Greenbriar had going on when he wrote “my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. it was yours before i could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain”

[cardanapologist]

😭😭😭 he LOVES HER

[rebouks]

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