#distractions and consequences

[lancabbage]

All these posts and subsequent fan art showing (incorrectly...) JC with multiple whip scars across his chest. The dude was hit once with his own clan's discipline whip. Just once. We're told as much on two separate occasions as well.

The first thing he noticed was the bloody WHIP WOUND across Jiang Cheng’s chest.

Whip wound - singular...

While Wei Wuxian had never experienced this particular lashing himself, Jiang Cheng had. Wei Wuxian had wracked his brain to help him lighten that humiliating MARK, but all efforts had been fruitless. Wei Wuxian would never mistake the sight of such a scar.

Mark... Also singular...

Not only was JC only whipped once, but he then had the audacity to complain about the lasting mark on his chest to WWX... You know, the kid his mother whipped for the most insignificant of reasons? Who had multiple scars all across his back from being hit with a high-class spiritual weapon that was like lightning? Yeah, him.

Wei Wuxian, “Uh-huh, that’s right.” He felt his back, COVERED IN SCARS BOTH OLD AND NEW, and still couldn’t hold back the question he’d be thinking about, “How awfully unfair. Why is it that I’m the only one who gets beaten up, whenever something happens?”

Literally showing and telling us WWX was physically abused on a regular basis.

I swear people just conveniently forget WWX was abused in such a way and love to make JC a martyr so that he and LWJ are "the same" by "sacrificing" so much for WWX. LWJ was whipped within an inch of his life. Thirty-three lashes of the discipline whip...and it took him three years to recover! JC mostly recovered in three days, and that was only because he was coreless! LWJ is by far stronger than JC even when they both had cores lol - there's no way JC would heal so quickly if it wasn't just one whip.

With the needle securely embedded in his head, Jiang Cheng slept for THREE DAYS. His broken bones repaired themselves and his superficial wounds smoothed over, but he was destined to never fully heal—THE LASH from the discipline whip could never be erased, and his golden core could never be recovered.

Lash - singular yet again btw...

So please, stop exaggerating his scars in an attempt to make him more "heroic" or "fragile" the dude murders people for kicks, slaps his nephew around and doesn't give a shit about an innocent toddler dying in the siege he organised ffs. Get over it lmao 🤣

[lover-of-mine]

[lemonbaristas]

The thing about mahiru tsuyuzaki is that for someone who consistently sees herself as behind her classmates in skill, in both the show and movie she has very commanding stage presence. Obviously the revue of competition is the more direct example of this, but the first chunk of the revue of jealousy is essentially her toying with Karen in a way that’s not too dissimilar to how Maya treats her in the revue of pride, just played a bit more for comedy. Considering many of the revues show the participants being on close footing skill wise and focusing more on the individual’s willpower (again, barring Maya and Nana in the anime) both of the revues mahiru is in she’s the star even if she doesn’t always see it.

[mixelation]

i might have told this story here before but once my friend was like "what would your OC's pokemon teams be" and i was like "i can't answer this question because they would be very strategic with forming their team and i don't know enough about pokemon to design such a team" and my friend kept being like "what are you talking about? you just pick some pokemon" and that's how i learned some people genuinely just do not think that much about decisions

however i DO have other OCs that would just be like "yeah my team is all purple guys :)"

[respiratory-kristem]

*He's silently sitting on the floor, pant leg rolled up, pressing lit cigarette butts to his skin and watching it burn*

[malk1ns]

1st sentence ask - "It's gameday so you better not knot me"

Zhenya blushes when he says it, but with the way Sid's been following him around all morning, from the weights room to video review and even into the trainer's despite Zhenya's protests, he thinks it needs to be said.

The team is already on tenterhooks, watching them like hawks—with Zhenya's heat approaching like a freight train and the way Sid's been haunting his footsteps, they're ready to pull the plug on the whole experiment if it looks like it's going to negatively impact the on-ice product, and Zhenya thinks both of them missing a game because Sid pinned him down and tied them together would definitely qualify.

"Hmm," Sid says, crowding into Zhenya's space; he's shorter, but the width of his body makes Zhenya feel small, even younger than he is, like he wants to curl up in the protective crush of Sid's arms and let Sid do whatever he wants.

Omega instincts are a real bitch, but Zhenya's made it to the NHL on nothing more than will and grit, and he's determined that he won't be.

Sid's voice is hypnotic when he puts his lips to Zhenya's year and murmurs, "I think you don't mean a word of that," and Zhenya shivers, because it's true.

first line ask game!

[skunkes]

[eybefioro]

When I look at you

The stars shine back

The stardust lingers on my vision

The vantablack of no light

Of vastness

Of me, of you, of time

Screams and embraces me tight

When you look back at me

Yellow against blue

Blood red against snow

Do you see the same?

Do you see the universe first hue?

Do you see the spark of life,

Do you see the weight of time?

Or is it only the cold,

Only the absence,

The chains,

distance,

That reach your eyes?

This is for @crowleys-bentley-and-plants that have been inspiring me with her stunning and devastating poems, and @thestrangestperson that shared one with me that is so beautiful I will never forget 💛

[techn0tony]

I drew maskless Donnie from my Sep!AU (past timeline to my F!AU) so that I could show some of his burn scars. The right half of his body was burned from a chemical weapon explosion. The scars and his eye are blue because the weapon was a mystic weapon that has magic associated with the colour blue is all. Also he is totally blind in his blue eye

[caelum-wittebane]

Redraw of the Lumity screenshot from ‘Thanks To Them’ with me and Belos. I’ve always been obsessed with this scenario, plus it’s quite literally canon to our memories, so I just had to draw it! Also, I’m testing a new brush, hehe :D My outfit is a reference to these two drabbles, by the way.

[ineloquent-tumbling]

Sometimes. Having a high pain tolerance. Is bad. 😓

[hel-phoenyx]

You know I already feel tired/like shit for a lot of reasons tonight

So I played Scarlet Hollow to distract myself

We get to the end of chapter 3 with my current (and first) MC

And I'm not gonna lie

Sacrificing years of my life in game had the same feeling of sacrificing years of my life IRL

I just

Had to stop the game because I coudn't bear the weight of my decision and if I don't get better tomorrow will probably rollback my save

Damn what a game /gen

[doglike-sparky]

dogs on a beach

[ruvviks]

made the realization my vampire story would work best as a video game and now i can't stop thinking about it