#cruel truths

[m00wd]

You are so in love with the idea of being in love that you will fall in love with anyone.

— Your heart will still kill you one day

[rose-vybe]

This, ladies and gents, is my muse.

She's vile and absurd, and will go in the toilet a second after she's made me open up a Word document.

We have a toxic relationship like you've never seen 🙈

[bouncinghedgehoghasattitude]

[sunderwight]

Bingqiu AU where Luo Binghe's the chosen village sacrifice to the evil deity who lives up the mountain.

Normally the village sends maidens, but they've more or less run out of expendable girls of the right age and, ahem, "virtues". So of course Luo Binghe's early life bad luck kicks in. In the wake of his mother's death there's no one to really care about what happens to him, he's fairly pretty, and the village leaders decide that if they dress him up like a girl the teenaged homeless kid should pass well enough. And hey, y'know, he's probably got a hard life ahead for him anyway -- dying in a brothel of some venereal disease or on the streets of exposure or starvation. At least as a sacrifice, everyone else gets to benefit from his loss! And the kid will get added to a shrine and be remembered as a hero! If anything, he should be happy about this!

Binghe is not happy about this.

But he's also a skinny underfed nobody who is easily overpowered, dressed up like a bride, and tied to a post. So. Not much he can do but wait for the evil deity to come and do whatever horrible thing he's gonna do to him.

Meanwhile, Shen Yuan is pretty sure he's been isekai'd into the over-powered hero of some kind of supernatural adventure story? He's not totally sure because he doesn't recognize the setting, but the signs are there. He's got a shrine-like base of operations (though it seems to have become corrupted/ruined, probably he has to restore it somehow), he has a very resilient and handsome new body with spiritual energy of some kind flowing through him, and a very clearly magical sword. Plus lots of neat starter powers! Though it feels like he has other abilities that have been blocked somehow? Probably he has to level up in order to access them.

When he treks out of his "base" and finds what seems to be a distressed maiden, he takes it for his beginner hero mission. The girl claims that she's been doomed to be sacrificed to an evil god. That sounds a little above Shen Yuan's pay grade for dealing with, so he unties her and decides that they had better just get out of the whole region altogether. He already packed up anything useful from his base, anticipating he might get caught up in an adventure once he left, so they follow the river away from the settlement until they reach another one.

While they travel, Luo Binghe tells Shen Yuan about the cursed deity, Shen Qingqiu, who was cast out of the heavens for slaughtering one of his brethren and has apparently being do-who-knows what to maidens from the local village in exchange for his "protection" ever since. Sounds like a real asshole! And also mid-level boss type bad guy at least. Shen Yuan hopes he doesn't have to fight him, but he probably will.

Thank goodness he found Binghe, though! Clearly the helpful little sister type! He's definitely going to require her assistance if he's going to figure out how to navigate this world and level up his skills enough to take on a god.

[justaz]

post magic reveal merlin who is so used to working in the shadows and continuing on as if he wasn’t dying the night before disappearing for a day and showing up like nothing happened until someone points out blood seeping through his clothes and merlin going “oh! whoops! lol” and arthur has a heart attack

[justn0t]

I cannot stop thinking about this scene

[junessquill]

Not to be this person but I think Oak Greenbriar is about as feminist as it gets..He grew up with three sisters, is a little mommys boy, was partially raised by lesbians, and was also literally willing to go to jail at the expense of a silly little monster girl even if she fucking killed somebody right in front of him he would still "no it's ok I believe u if u say u didn't kill them u didn't 😢😢😢" 😭😭🙏

[sweetmapple]

Pest control

[cipheramnesia]

"Luigi Mangione was framed" is such a gentle and calming phrase to me, it doesn't need anything after it. Sure and likely enough, with the NYCPD alone, sure, sure. And with no trial and no conviction and no real reason to argue, yes, it's right and fair to say it. Luigi Mangione was framed.

You know they're gonna kill him anyway.

[demonadelem]

I don't think Apollo would be unaware of Klavier's flirtations.

He would pretend to be unaware but he's known since "first time I felt this way about a man." Pining unaware of each other's affections is NaruMitsu's thing.

Apollo thinks Klavier just wants to sleep with him but he's not "that kind of guy," and "Klavier isn't really in love with him". Apollo catches every double-entandre and complimentary remark when he starts hanging out with Klavier with Trucy but for some reason he doesn't want to give Klavier a solid rejection. Trucy constantly teases Apollo about them but it's true, he secretly enjoys it. Maybe Klavier isn't such a bad guy.

During turnabout serenade, Daryan recognizes Apollo as Klavier's latest project and gives him fair warning, confirming his worst suspicions. Klavier is a bit of a player, a serial flirter as much as he is a serial dater, jumping from girlfriend to girlfriend to boyfriend to girlfriend. As much Klavier rattles on about love, when he is asked commit to a relationship, he can't. Daryan speaks with an air of first hand experience.

But Klavier is earnestly in love with Apollo.

This entire time he's been afraid of commitment out of fear of making them the target of Kristoph's wrath. Now Kristoph is in prison, he's not scared anymore. Apollo is the first person Klavier has ever seen stand up to his brother. The rockstar really thinks Apollo is the most amazing person he's ever.

Klavier doesn't care what other people think about him being friends with a defense attorney. He'll help Apollo with cases he isn't prosecuting and befriend Trucy, Athena and any other friends Apollo has to get close to him and die inside every time Apollo brushes him aside. Klavier even stopped going on dates, he doesn't want anybody else. Not that Apollo knows any of this.

This is their stalemate, this is how they would pine.

[transmascutena]

the fact that he spends all his time grooming kids into believing they're mature enough to consent and then turns around to condescend to them about how young and stupid they are and how they actually don't understand anything makes my fucking blood boil. i need to kill him

[jichanxo]

subjugate your shame (uncropped under the cut)

i like yasu's face too much here to not post it uncropped....

[thejudeduarte]

Being a reader has corrupted me. Like, there are some things in life which I cannot truly see the same again. For example; every time I see an apple my mind immediately goes "JACKS!!" and every time I see some kind of black bird I always have to guess which crow it is. I'm like "well that one's on the roof so it has to be inej" I do it, often, it's disgusting and I can't stop 😭

[tornado1992]

Sonic never speaking again if he loses Tails.

Tails’ eyes no longer shining if he loses Sonic.

[qoldenskies]

i think about raph in CL a lot for various well-discussed reasons but mannnnn the fact that he didn't get involved in the final chase at all until leo got hurt fucks with me so bad. the fact that he didn't actually want to kill donnie fuuuucks with me so bad. the fact that he was crying when he thought he HAD to kill him FUCKS WITH ME SO BAD

[buildingabetterfuture]

hey builderman have u heard of cruel king ? that guy with the ice dagger ?

Is that what he's going by now? The Cruel King? That's a rather inaccurate moniker.

Roblox HQ oversees all of Robloxia, that would include Blackrock Kingdom! I even attended his coronation. He's one of the nicest people I know!

But I haven't exactly gotten the chance to catch up with him after the whole… kidnapping thing…

I feel… scattered, broken apart. It's weird. Sometimes I can see glimpses of those swords and their wielders.

Almost like parts of me are trapped within those swords.

I saw what happened in that throne room.

...I need some time alone.