#happy new year lmao

[lowstakesvampires]

the only sparkly vampire in the world

[hirazuki]

For Now [Chapter 16 snippet]

Sasori/Haruno Sakura, Sasori & Haruno Sakura | T | Blank Period | canon divergent | angst, hurt/comfort, enemies to friends | ongoing [AO3]

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“Oh, my.” 

Sakura's attention snaps. 

Her body whirls on its own, as though she is camped out in the wilds of Grass and a twig just broke in the darkness, because she knows that voice – its soft rasp snaked into her ears long ago and sunk its fangs into her dreams – and, more importantly, Sasori knows it too.

She’s only a split second faster than him – she’s still in active service and completely healthy and he isn’t – but that’s all she needs, because, once she grabs hold of him and it comes down to a contest of strength, she’s always had the advantage. 

Her hands close around Sasori’s forearms and she disrupts his chakra flow with her own before he can shoot any threads from his fingers, grappling him from behind and forcing him to the ground to keep him secure, safe, from both Orochimaru and himself; even as he fights back, viciously. 

“Stop,” Sakura frantically whispers, as close to his ear as she dares without risking him cracking his head back against hers. “I get it, I really do, I promise, but you need to stop.” She pins him down with a knee on his back, digging in until his torso is virtually immobile against the pavement. “You can’t attack him in the middle of the village!” 

He’s not listening at all, though. 

It’s like all of his composure, all of his apathy, all of his progress has fled in the face of this man standing before them, this rottenness and ruin given human form – and she has to bite down her panic at the familiarity of this, at the remembrance of someone else’s composure and reason falling to this very same person in another time, another place – and, it turns out, Sasori’s joints are as bendable as his puppets’; despite her strength, it’s taking all of her attention to maintain control of his hands. 

Orochimaru – for better and for worse – has not moved a single step.

“You really do see some interesting things if you live long enough,” she hears him remark, perfectly placidly, from somewhere above them.

Sasori increases his struggling at that and, between the angle that his right arm is at and Sakura’s absolute terror that she’s losing her grip on him and he’ll break away and fight and draw attention, and get hunted and captured and killed, her chakra control – always so precise, so exact, her longtime pride and crowning glory – slips, and she feels two of his fingers crunch loudly, sickeningly, under her own.

He doesn’t scream – he’s too well-trained, too war-wrought for that; he only goes still, completely still, for a single moment and that’s somehow worse.

“Get lost!” she snarls at Orochimaru, in a voice that she hasn’t used towards him since that awful day, when Sai proved to be a double agent and Naruto burned from the inside out and Sasuke-kun left again and Kakashi-sensei wasn’t there; the day she thought she’d lose her whole team, really lose them this time.

She didn’t, but she may very well be losing someone today.

Orochimaru chuckles but, thankfully, humors her – although he does make sure to pass right by them as he does so. 

“I do hope you found it well-kept for you,” he says – how can he sound so sincere? –  as he disappears into the darkness between the buildings.

There’s a shallow breath and then two and then five, and Sakura counts ten whole breaths before she very, very carefully pries herself off of Sasori, moving as though he is an explosive tag she has stepped on and set to detonate.

Free of her hands and her weight, he scrambles out from under her and doesn’t stop until he’s several feet away – shuttered, wordless, cradling his right arm to his chest.

The resulting hurt at his reaction to her is excruciating, but she reminds herself that she has no right to it. She doesn’t even know where to begin to give voice to her mortification, or her remorse. 

“I – I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, here, let me –”

Sasori levels a glare at her – of the kind that she’s seen him throw at Chiyo-baa-sama and Orochimaru, at the mention of Kabuto and, more recently, Akatsuki; the kind that’s personal, poisonous, and brimming with betrayal; the kind that she’s never seen directed at herself, before – and vanishes with a body flicker.

Sakura lets out a shaky sigh and falls back on her feet, utterly uncaring about the dirt on her expensive yukata or the mess that is her hair or even the fact that no one saw this happen, since the crowds started thinning from this particular street some time ago and she’s all alone, on the ground, on a dark, empty sidewalk under a multi-colored sky.

She only has enough in her to pick herself up and walk herself home, before collapsing in a sobbing heap as soon as the apartment door closes behind her, feeling like time has turned back and she's twelve again – small and useless and like the world is ending.

[gender-euphowrya]

i've got a steam key for hollow knight that i don't need & have been sitting on for a bit so ykw first person to ask for it gets it

[matthewsturniolos]

I FORGOT ABOUT THE MERCH SALE AND EVERYTHING IS SOLD OUT

[brwnsugcr]

just know I read every tag in her voice @luckycharming

people need to have more fun with shipping again. have an otp. support multiple ships. enjoy the Big ship of the fandom. indulge in a rare pair. make a crack ship for shits n giggles and end up really into it. ship oc x canon. hell, ship an oc with your friend's oc. make a polycule of your favorite characters. have fun with it!!!!!

[sophsun1]

Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (1985) dir. Sam Jaimes & Bill Melendez

[lo-cinno]

It’s been a year since I’ve seen you guys

[andstuffsketches]

vanity

[shutinthenutouse]

[hinamie]

i'm back from vacation have a belated new year draws <3

[maplebitts]

That one short with Hermes and Tiresias

[cringeyvanillamilk]

Made a redesign of Monster High characters! 💀⚡

[firestorm09890]

actually Zexion is sooooo attached to the narrative. unbelievably so. I made that post about him haunting the narrative after his death but here the narrative dictates he needs to live despite his supposed physical weakness so he can suffer a worse death at the hands of Axel and Repliku later. you’re fighting through the grievous injury even though you can’t stand up straight anymore! book boy!!!! you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was going to make a whole post about Zexion's Re:CoM battle that was super long but it's so much so this post is just going to be about his stance.

He stands very strangely, sort of hunched with his arms pulled back. His books (3 of them) float around him. He looks cornered and poised to do... anything a cornered being might do.

The reason this is so strange is because in his kh2fm fight, he stands in a completely different way: back straight, book in hand. Confident and powerful.

considering they went through the effort to give Riku signs of a wrist injury, I'm choosing to believe that he's holding himself like that in Re:CoM because, well, he is sort of in a cornered and desperate situation but primarily because Riku already injured him.

It's a pretty devastating blow, Riku winds up and goes for a huge cross-body slash that cripples Zexion. I don't blame him for avoiding a fight in GBA CoM.

But in Re:CoM he takes the injury and goes for a fight anyway?? One of the most challenging battles Riku has to contend with in the campaign and it's with someone who's already taken a massive surprise attack. And not only that, after the fight, he doesn't just start disappearing like a lot of Org members do, he takes a SECOND massive slash attack. and then he STILL doesn't die, he runs away and someone has to finish him off. he's like the hardiest organization member in that way.

so what I'm saying is Zexion's even more powerful than people give him credit for and his shitty defense and hp stats in 358/2 Days mayyyy not be accurate

[yhwcomeback]

Blue Jay

[kimtaegis]

Destination: your heart Estimated Time of Arrival: whenever you need him ➤ for @jung-koook ♡

[returntosunder]

Masterpiece