#he is my little babyyyyy

[mothworth]

big heart eyes!!!!

[bumblingbabooshka]

Sveyko and her adoptive father, Sek. [Patreon | Commissions] [Context under the cut]

Sveyko struggled a lot with her emotional control as a child and often had apparent mood swings where she'd become incredibly violent or fearful for reasons others couldn't understand. She herself couldn't understand it most of the time and being so young it was difficult for her to articulate what was wrong. Her twin sister S'veyk did not seem to suffer from these issues, causing Sveyko feelings of deep inadequacy. Like she was stupid, a failure, no-good. She often thought to herself that if she weren't born and it was just S'veyk, everyone would be happier. The above illustration is a moment that happens after Sveyko attempts to run away. While bringing her back home, Sveyko starts fighting back against Sek and ends up striking him. Fearful and guilty, she immediately begins to cry and Sek wordlessly carries her home. At home, just outside the door, Sek tells her she shouldn't hit people and she apologizes. She won't look at him, trying to hide her face because she's still crying and thinks she'll be scolded for it. She worries that the only adult who's ever been kind to her...this is it. This is the moment where she's tried his patience for the last time. She wants to be better but doesn't know how and she's done it, this is the end. He's going to be angry with her. He's going to abandon her. Sek calls her name and she reluctantly looks up at him, apologizing again. But there's no anger in her father's face as he sinks down to one knee, looking her in the eye. "Sveykokam," he says, staring at her earnestly. "If it were possible for me to love anyone, it would be you." It's a moment Sveyko thinks of often and never tells anyone else. Even as an adult. She'll think of it until her dying day. "If it were possible for me to love anyone, it would be you."

[into-the-feniverse]

Some more Vashes as Howl Pendragon

(Pssst, you can get them as a sticker pack on Redbubble)

Edit: the stickers got taken down by Redbubble 🙄

[silverhalla]

AFRAID BY THE NEIGHBORHOOD GOES ON THE LUCANIS PLAYLIST

[sprolden]

wait i just remembered max survives the shadowhunters tv show but when watching it i really hated his character so i kept waiting for him to die but obviously it didnt happen so i thought they were just drawing it out which annoyed me too and as time went on i became more and more aggravated until one time while watching i had the realisation that i was really begging for someone to show up on screen and smash that small child's skull in with a hammer. good times

[pokemonruby]

it's been a bit of a debate for a while now as to whether volo genuinely cares about his pokemon and i always in the camp of he does, in fact, he just grew up in a harsh environment so he had no choice but to depend on them as tools of survival which is perfectly valid in my opinion, but i like to think that he has bonded with them in his own special way, evil machinations besides.

i think that paints him as a far more interesting antagonist; the mistake i've kept seeing was that people were trying to make him out to be like ghetsis when at the end of the day volo is just a guy suffering from intense religious trauma, though not necessarily overlooking the matter of his outrageous god complex, but with the way that they've decided to take his character it's clear their intent is to go down the path of redemption which could theoretically work, and this could act as foreshadowing for the personal dilemmas he would have to face later on when his plans come to a head that challenges his longstanding nihilism.

[killuaisaprincess]

🐰🐰🍭🍭🐰🐰

[thatautisticemo]

my little plant baby. geofffff. plant geoffffff. GEOFF. ugh he's so precious i loev him so much

[swampndn]

Things that made me cry today: (1) a little 18 month old baby boy waving hi to me, talking to me, and wanting a high five; and (2) my bad baby cat letting me give her scratches for 15 minutes while she purred on my chest then went to sleep when I *almost* pushed her off instead

[teastasis]

3am scarameow from two months ago or something as prompted by my sibling (I just wanted to try out the watercolour brushpack I downloaded)

[httpiastri]

i genuinely teared up a bit

[cream-and-tea]

how do werewolves work in lmd (plus anything else like that)

OK SO.

(this got very very long)

(just as a warning)

(also i’m going to tag @transmasc-wizard bc i remember you asked about this a while ago and a lot of this response comes from what i had typed up to respond to YOU lol)

(okay here we go)

there are (putting it very very basically) two main kinds of magic in the Ghost Story Universe: mortem (Death Juice) and vita (Life Juice). they draw from the same source (God Juice) (which is also the source of the apocalypse but that’s another post entirely) and are kind of different aspects of one thing, but still act as opposing forces. equals and opposites, can’t have one without the other, etc etc. the point is that even though they’re two different types of magic they share the same set of rules and operate under the same basic facts. one of the most basic being that magic is physically taxing to use. no magic comes without a cost

so this is pretty straightforward. and generally it isn’t anything too debilitating, but the more powerful the magic and the more magic used, the more damaging the physical effects become (for example: early on agnes’s chitchats with the ghosts she sees don’t really wear on her because it’s a very passive form of her power, but as the plot progresses and she actively draws on it more and more she starts to develop chronic headaches). the more active magic bullshit you do in succession —> the worse you’ll be feeling the next morning. people would usually need to rest for upwards of a few days after performing a major act of magic and the reason The Library focuses so much on endurance and repetition is to prevent that from happening. it’s to the point that some majorly powerful stuff is possible but the benefit of it is almost completely outweighed by the potential damage it would cause.

rambly worbuilding aside, this is really just a preface so it makes sense when i say: vampires and werewolves are what happen when people push their magic to far.

they’re basically the most extreme end of the spectrum for either kind of magic. vamps are a result of overusing vita (blood life stuff), and wolfs are a result of overusing mortem (spooky death stuff). this happens to people when they’re drawing on so much magic that their body literally cannot support it anymore and starts canabilizing itself in order to support the magic and prevent the person from just. coming apart at the seams. a Regular Person body is just incapable of handling that amount of power, so in turn they have to draw their sustenance from a different non-human source. the comparatively small piece-of-magic-apocalypse-juice in them mutates and co-opts the functions of their body in order to save that body from collapse. both vamps and wolves have to feed CONSTANTLY or they risk their bodies giving in and all their organs straight-up failing. it’s a slow transformation process and sort of representative of how much Whatever Caused The Apocalypse has become so deeply ingrained in every part of the new world. again: it presents differently but it’s all the same stuff in the end.

the world is full of monsters and weirdness and general spooky bullshit but vampires and werewolves especially have an ENORMOUS amount of stigma surrounding them because of the fact that most people still see regular magic users as recognizably human, and view the transformation as a transition from Human Person With Emotions Who I Should View As Such Despite This One Weird Thing to Inhuman Monster. most magical creatures aren’t seen as sentient in nature and many of them are actively dangerous to humans, so if someone pushes their abilities to far and ends up undergoing the transformation then it’s seen as a shift from being one of Us (normal people just trying to survive this crazy broken down to world) to being one of Them (unnatural monsters that came about as a result of the evil forest and apocalypse and want to destroy humanity), except that obviously the people who are turned are the same people they were before, just with an extra set of challenges and probably more bloodlust (which i can see being a bit of concern but c’mon. are u really going to let a little killer instinct get in the way of a lasting and meaningful relationship. weak).

They’re also used as an excuse when it comes to hatred of people born with magic at all. bc sure it SEEMS harmless when you kid is learning from their dead grandma or healing a little bit faster than normal, but with ONE WRONG MOVE they could become A VISCOUS BEAST or a BLOODSUCKING MONSTER and do you really want to take that risk?? wouldn’t it be better to stamp that out now before someone gets hurt??? even in places like The Library, which usually serves as a safe-haven for people born w magic, vamps and wolfs are seen as somehow Lesser. The Library toutes them as cautionary tales and failures of magic, basically a warning of what not to do to their students.

to get into the more specific abilities and effects and What Being A Vampire Or Werewolf Means i’ve made some handy little lists (ft. calliope and luca macnamara, a book 2-3 character that nobody knows about lol) (please click tumblr absolutely wrecked the quality):

so. yeah.

[nosygay]

cat obsession rotting my brain

[gregmarriage]

my brother had the audacity to say if greg left succession, it would be inconsequential to the show and i felt the spirit of tom wambgans possess me and i was like “what are you even talking about?!”

[glass-trash-bab]

Nevermind I thought about the bunny dads and started crying again

[vallytines]

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH baby fever AAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH