#eighty eight

[herpsandbirds]

Texa Eighty-Eight aka Yellow-rimmed Eighty-Eight (Callicore texa), family Nymphalidae, Cristalino River, southern Amazon, Brazil

photograph by Charles J. Sharp 

[beatsyncer]

Icons from 88☆彡 by marasy & kemu

Like/rb if saved ☆彡 Credit Nonoko if used

[marsh-potatoes]

meet a new oc: crescendo!!!! theyre a part of this band me and my irls have named 88 that features them and the ocs of my irls ^.^

cres is the lead vocalist and their voice is super powerful nd leans very heavy into the rock genre but offstage theyre incredibly socially anxious to the point of being selectively mute + in general theyre very soft spoken and meek,, however theyre also incredibly kind and smart (bro is studying literature 😭) and do their best to be reliable!!!!

i took inspiration for their style off of jirai kei bc i thought that kind of look contrasted w their actual personality would be very gap moe yk.. like them on stage vs them offstage but its the same fit nd everything theyre just 🥺🥺🥺 now

[javelinbk]

Paul McCartney in a deleted scene from Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

[ominouspuff]

just wanna say your art is PHENOMENAL! omfg your Commander Fox art has me screaming with how badass it is!

There’ll be no living with him now

Thank you so much!! This is sweet of you to reach out to say; I’m glad you’re enjoying!!

[natureisthegreatestartist]

Say hello to Diaethria anna, aka Anna's eighty-eight, a type of butterfly named for what appears to be numbers on its wings.

[daily-pearl-doodles]

...Artic fox pearlie pop?

She would be so fluffy! :D

she is very fluffy!

(day eighty eight)

[dogstar9069]

88☆彡/Eighty Eight Stars - marasy x kemu

Translation credit Hiraethie

Somewhere along the way I had realized (that this was…)

Just some childish play (La~La~La~ sparkling, twinkling)

You showed your smile and

You say, I’m the anticipated pierrot, yeah! (That’s right!)

And I’ll never back down (La~La~La~ causally, casually)

I’ll smile with you now

With every strum of the melody, my heart is crying out for me

The world is full of life, frenzied by the sight, as moments pass by—bursting open!

Become a fool and fly away!

It’s okay to not remember all the tiny things

‘Round in circles, we’ll keep going

If you slip and fall, know it’s not the end of all

This is it! I surely see!

I’ll keep chasing all my hopes and dreams yet to be

There they shine—my wishes in those

88 stars, that illuminate the sky

This or that, wonders of delight, hug them all tight, then drift to sleep

(Still is it not enough?) Is there more to this?

Maybe a bit further?

When morning comes, it’s fine to sigh

It’s okay to add some color to your dreadful days

Can’t taste or savor the flavors?

I pray happiness finds you when all is said and done

Raise your head and fly away!

It’s okay to take a break, don’t neglect your own worries

‘Round in circles, we’ll keep going

Make some noise! It’s your life—enjoy and make memories!

This is it! I surely see!

I’ll keep chasing all my hopes and dreams yet to be

There they shine—my wishes in those

88 stars, that illuminate the sky

[strangersatellites]

trouble’s always gonna find you, baby (but so am i) 🔗

for the @steddiebang

art from @becomingfoxes and art @amethyst-crowns

with bonus art from @jellyfish-confetti and ames

explicit | 88k words | complete

Steve Harrington has spent the better part of the last five years knocking out hit after hit for the Assassin's Guild and becoming one of the most lethal agents in the business. After a series of unprecedented, wildly successful cases across the country, his boss pulls him off the active case roster for eight months. He's been keeping tabs on the Chicago Syndicate for years and has finally deemed Steve ready to take out their leader, The Sandman.

The only problem is that undercover agents have been able to turn up little to no information regarding The Sandman's identity. The only information the Guild has been able to dredge up is the name of one of their business fronts: a sophisticated private nightclub called Hellfire, and the name of its director, Syndicate member Eddie Munson.

or: Eddie is a low ranking member of the mafia and Steve is the assassin hired to kill his boss.

[moonchild-in-blue]

Calling out my Killjoy Mutuals - can we agree this is a song that both fits with the Sleep Token lore BEAUTIFULLY *and* Vessel would absolutely destroy (affectionately) in a cover??

Either as a Room Bellow piano version or a full band cover - he or iv would shred that solo so good mhhmhmgm.

[willysnylander]

May I ask for willypasta and 🌅

literally anything for these guys <3. hope you like it!!

send me a player/ship + an emoji and i’ll make a moodboard for it!

[iamtryingtobelieve]

If I never leave this dance floor, then I'll never leave you here

[bright-and-burning]

$170 for a welcome cut girl. GIRL.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

Kaiser came through the door with a girl on each arm, blondes with measurements like Playboy models.  Kaiser wore armor head to toe, elaborately worked and topped with a crown of blades.  The leader of Empire Eighty Eight.  The twins went by the names Fenja and Menja, and were decked out in Valkyrie-style armor featuring countless little steel wings, along with closed-face helms.  Had to admit, Kaiser liked his heavy hitters.  These two could grow to be three stories tall, and they were a hundred times more durable when they were. Purity entered a few steps behind him with several others following her.  She was dressed in a white costume without any markings or symbols on it, but the fabric glowed softly.  Her white hair and eyes glowed too, but it was more like they were made of heated magnesium than anything else.  I couldn’t look in her direction without getting spots in my eyes, and my mask had tinted lenses designed to reduce glare. The people that had come in with Purity were other members of Empire Eighty Eight.  Krieg, Night, Fog and Hookwolf.   It was interesting to see, because as far as I’d known, while every one of them had been a member of Empire Eighty Eight at some point in time, Purity had gone solo, while Night and Fog had splintered off to form their own duo in Boston not long after.  All reunited, apparently. That wasn’t even Kaiser’s entire team.  Aside from the rare exception like Lung reaching out to Bakuda when she’d been at Cornell, it seemed that most groups recruited new members from within their own city.  Kaiser was different.  He was one of the better known American villains with a white supremacist agenda, and people sharing his ideals were either recruited from other states or they came to him.  Most didn’t stay with him for too long, for whatever reason, but it still made him the Brockton Bay resident with the most raw parahuman muscle at his beck and call.

E88, I think, would absolutely be written differently if Wildbow was writing Worm today, but it is still done very interestingly, regardless.

The gang having more extensive linkages beyond just Brockton Bay, and presumably to the Gelleschaft (is that canon? WoG? Just a common fan thing?) to explain where some of the recruits he gets goes.

I do feel like it's a bit of a missed opportunity to not have E88 be bigger than just Brockton Bay - the degree to which Kaiser is monofocused on the city is a bit weird, but it does also fit with classic superhero tropes, which have a tendency to treat cities as islands unto themselves half the time (Most of the the rest of the time it's worldwide stuff. There doesn't seem to be a lot in between for the average comic book superhero story, from what I can tell. Regional/multicity narratives seem uncommon.

Then again, they seem uncommon in general. If you're going to spend any serious time in a given city for the story... you're gonna keep spending time in that city, I guess.

White Supremacy is a coherent (for a given value of the word) ideology that can serve as a motivating and rallying factor across the board for people well beyond the local area.

Technically the ABB sorta have a similar operating ideology, but in practice, it's mostly just Lung's self-aggrandizement, and recruiting for that, especially on a broader scale beyond just your local city, has got to be hard.

Probably one of the reasons E88 is such a big deal is just that it has what most villain cape gangs don't have - something to pull people in beyond the opportunity to make money as a criminal and have some cape cover and stuff.

I'm sure there's tons of that too, people who just join up for the money and the chance to be a brute, but if you believe in the ideals of E88, you can tell yourself you' re making the city a better place and all that.

Kayden/Purity certainly told herself that, and is telling herself that, now that she's rejoined.

Because she isn't willing to really do what she needed to do to change, to separate out from E88 and her past and so on.

[maxident-xx]

I was thinking about the tsukasa harem post again guys. he screams a millisecond later he's in denial.

[kyliafanfiction]

One thing that's fun about reading worm Fanfic is that we get to see Empire 88 get their shit kicked in over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

And that -

That will never get old.