#etc red strings

[ending-the-cycle-ask]

What's your sister like?

Caring, cunning, calculating…Good at playing piano… Fiercely protective… A real family woman, above all else.

This clan is her lifeblood, and I can’t imagine anyone better to lead us~

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Happy 4th Anniversary to the webcomic that changed my life <3 I haven’t had the time to make a big poster or anything this year, since I’m back in college now, but trust that we’ve been working hard to get Act 4 prepped and ready :) All the backgrounds have been a pain in the ass, but the next big post is juuuust about done. Gonna do a couple more asks with Strings, and then finally move on! Hope you guys are excited! ^^

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[ohtendril]

2.07 - 3.08

[slythereen]

driver no. 16 getting #33 again because why wouldn’t he be

[bialoops-in-time]

"Hold me Icarus" / "Bound by Red"

New sideblog hiii

[sideblogdotjpeg]

ive been thinking about the red string superstition recently and also sol bufo always and it makes me sick how uncannily caldwell tanner has made sol to perfectly target me personally

(+ cropped versions !)

[r0bzombixx]

— smoke signals, phoebe bridgers

[remyfire]

BJ has been here for One (1) week and he is already so comfortable with Hawk's constant handling. What the heck, man.

[where-the-water-flows]

canon divergence where the poison kicks in earlier/harder, and so instead of having their Dramatique Divorce Hatefuck Fight in the east sea, Di Feisheng gets to whatever beach he's going to storm the sigu sect/fight Xiangyi on etc, and finds Li Xiangyi face down in the sand, poisoned to shit and barely breathing, clearly in zero state to fight because of the near death experience he is currently, uh, experiencing.

no worries though, Di Feisheng has medicine demon on call. Clearly whatever the fuck is going on here is uhhhh Incredibly Sus, given someone has now tried to murder both of the leaders of Sigu sect and apparently actually succeeded killing 1/2, but honestly, not really Di Feisheng's problem! his problem is getting Xiangyi back into fighting shape and then, y'know, fighting him. best of luck to the Sigu sect but he's different.

except of course he -- and everyone else on the boat, one assumes -- rock back up to medicine demon's weird offsite lab living situation, and medicine demon is like good news boss I recognise this poison! bad news boss it's super ultra fatal and also the poison is coming from inside the house alliance

which is very extremely no bueno, both because uhhh who the fuck betrayed him like this he needs their heads on spikes yesterday, and also because what the fuck do you mean there's no cure, fucking work one out!

long story short: di feisheng spends the next mmmmm several years laying low, maybe kinda faking his death/seclusion a little by implication of dropping off the map after a big duel was meant to happen, while he and the few people he's sure he can trust go right the hell through the Jinyuan alliance trying to find all the people who betrayed him.

and also playing the world's scariest nurse/buddy cop duo to Li xiangyi, who is not yet dead of poison thanks to medicine demon's questionable approach to medical ethics and informed patient consent, is very fucking angry about life, and very fucking determined to find out who murdered his shixiong and made him break the treaty under false pretences.

(and also poisoned him, he guesses).

[1driedpersimmon]

Thought I’d give this piece I did, a few months ago, another go since now I know how to draw these two a lot better 🤭🤭

[homoeroticgrappling]

Whenever there needs to be someone on the line, someone people can target to cut Orange deep and break through his lackadaisical attitude, it's always Chuck Taylor

[ending-the-cycle-ask]

Red: Loud and clear, Grave. What’s the situation?

Red: …No, I’ll handle it. Head back, I’m sure we’d all rather have you here for the party.

Red: I’m sure. They just reentered my range, Life and Death can keep a close eye on them. Have a safe trip home.

Red: Goodnight.

Red: Well well well… Look what the cat dragged in. Some eavesdropping little rats.

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[Red Strings is now available for asks.]

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[thedeadthree]

𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖙 𝖆𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖊 -`. 𝔟𝔤𝔦𝔦𝔦. 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔪𝔬𝔬𝔫.

MOON HALF ELF. FIGHTER. ELDRITCH KNIGHT. WIZARD. NECROMANCER. NOBLE. ❦ 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱.

[lady-harrowhark]

I would love to hear the megatheorem

It's not ready for full publication and won't be for a while tbh, but like, maybe before the end of summer? If I'm being optimistic? It will definitely go up here when it's finished, although probably in parts because it's an absolute beast, currently weighing in at over 25 pages and nearly 13k words.

Here's a sneak peek at the table of contents though 😎⚔💀

Also I'm just now noticing that I have "Empty's as Good as Clean" from the draft version of the poem instead of the published version as a section title, whoops. Pretend that's on purpose. Maybe it's a nod to the like, three hours where we thought @torbooks was speaking to us in code. That sounds like both a regular thing to happen as well as to reference, right?

Some segments have stuff I've pulled in from things I've posted here before but off the top of my head I don't think any of the sections are fully anything I've posted here. That is to say, as the draft currently stands, every section has new analyses in addition to anything pulled in from previous posts, though I'd say most of the sections are things I've haven't posted. I believe the sections that have the most pulled from "old" content are Lyctorhood Lite, Resurrection vs Waking Up, and A Cavalier by Any Other Name, which would all be under my "tlt meta" tag - I'll tag this one for ease of navigation if you want to poke around.

But don't worry, when it's ready, I will make sure everyone is subjected to my theories.

[anemia-rp]

The other night I met this guy in a bar. While drinking he silently looked at me, almost long enough for me to snap at him and punch his face.

But then he suddenly said: "You've got BPS, right? Borderline?"

At first I thought he was kidding, so I snorted. Showed him my - tattooed - wrists.

"I'm not a fucking wristcutter, man."

Though I've had cigarette burn marks on them. And they didn't have been there accidentially. Plus I like knifeplay, and not only being at the giving end when it comes to that.

Anyway, he then started to explain what symptoms this disorder actually comes along with.

It hit home. So fucking much.

At some point I asked him how he got an idea I might have BPS.

"I've seen the pain in your eyes", he said. Quite a little over-dramatic I guess.

However, I ended up with two empty bottles of vodka and a new cigarette burn mark on my arm.

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

I don’t like hanahaki disease for the same reason I don’t like soulmates. It removes the choice. All the love and feelings feel instantly dampened by the lack of choice. I mean I get that with hanahaki disease there is technically a choice, but “love me back or I’ll die” isn’t really a choice, and the other options aren’t much better either

“Either you love me back or I loose the ability to love/ loose all my feelings for you/ forget about you entirely”

“Love me back or I’ll live with this chronic illness forever”

These aren’t good alternatives, if still feels forced and one sided

[aropride]

bro i got fresh out the slammer'd