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[thewistlingbadger]

@tairona-is-taken @rebelrebelwrites @eowyn7023 @helenvader @penelopeloveshere @haladriel @thecoziestbean @meilas @ninman82 @livelybook @skyz8 @assorted-fandom-things @cliffdivingsblog @princessfantaghiro @lady-sigyn @kadiyab @galstelperion @wordsmith-storyweaver @folatefangirl @psychicexpertlover

Hello! Sorry for the random tagging, but I've made a discord server dedicated to the show rings of power and saurondriel (or haldriel? Haladriel?). Since all of you interacted with my post talking about the ship and the show, I figured some of you would be interested.

[wizardpink]

I'm watching s1e1 and just got to the part where Louis says he's come to embrace his sexuality, and asks, "but you knew that Daniel, we met at a gay bar." And Daniel brushes it off as just something he did for drugs, so Louis presses, "you've been married?" And Daniel says "twice. But we're not here for me, are we?" So Louis pivots to asking about the best drug he ever had, and they go from there...

I always thought it seemed kind of oddly provocative and forward and even unnecessary for Louis to basically say, "of course I'm out now, but you knew that, since you're gay, right?" Like what is the point of breaking the flow of the story to talk about Daniel here?

Of course it could just be a directorial decision to break up the flashback sequences and remind the audience that this is taking place within the frame of the Dubai interview. But plot wise, I just...

I can't help thinking about Louis continuing, as the interview goes on, to try to open a dialogue with Daniel about his sexuality, his past lovers (specifically Alice, never the second wife), and becoming a vampire. I can't recall Louis ever asking personal questions about Daniel's daughters, and in fact when Louis is talking about Claudia, Daniel is the one who says, "I've got two," without Louis asking.

This could all be writing and directing choices made to underscore that this is a Love Story between Louis and Lestat, but it's also a story about Family, and to my recollection it's almost always Daniel who brings up his daughters, and Louis who brings up Alice and Polynesian Mary's.

So yes it's a wild stretch but... if you're someone who like me has entertained the theory that Louis is doing this interview not just because he regrets how badly it went the first time, not just because Daniel doesn't have much time left for them to wrap it up, not just because Louis wants to warn humanity of the impending Great Conversion, but that he is doing it for Armand...

Well, I'm just saying, the breadcrumbs are there.

[commandertartarsmoocher]

idk *technically* possibly?? sugestive (I doubt it counts?) but idk Do some mettaton poses with them BIG OL LEGS my boy!!

How could I ever turn down a request as ✨fabulous✨ as this?

I can't help but ponder if more people were willing to be a part of The Promised Land if Commander Tartar was like this instead...

[rpmemes-galore]

only post i'll be making on this, but

to my American peeps, make sure you get out and vote tomorrow!

[shady-tavern]

Sneak Peek

A little sneak peek for "Paint the Town" a, most likely 2 (perhaps 3) part story. Warnings ahead for mentioned death and injury, as well as semi-graphic violence. Please take care of yourselves.

*.*.*

Colossus clearly had had a grand old time tossing an under-qualified hero around, as well as injuring helpless civilians. Nothing new here and Olivia didn't bother to hold back.

She had, once upon a time, done her best to avoid injuring villains beyond knocking them out, but when ground-pulverizing powers rose to her fingertips now, she focused on packing as much as she could into every hit.

Colossus and she had clashed once before and he had gotten away only because she hadn't quite figured out the full scope of the powers she had gotten saddled with when facing him and because he had swiftly collapsed a house on a group of terrified civilians.

Villains were nothing but a scourge of the earth.

This time, Olivia knew what she was working with and most importantly, who she was dealing with and the lengths he was willing to go to in order to win or escape.

It was clear he had expected the same slap-dash, somewhat sloppy fight from last time, back when Olivia had been scrambling to figure out how to use her powers most effectively.

It took two hits before he was on the ground, visibly reeling, struggling and failing to sit up again. It was clear he wasn't getting up anytime soon, that the second hit to his face had fucked with his head plenty.

Other heroes would stop here. They were, in fact, instructed and trained to. To stop when the enemy was down and apprehend them instead. To be better than villains.

But Olivia knew how much the prison facilities struggled to contain people with superpowers, how often they escaped, especially when other villains attacked the place.

There had once been a time when Olivia had thought it didn't matter, that second chances were all the rage. She was done with that, just like she was done with fighting people over and over again because they kept escaping, arriving to ongoing fights to find weeping and bleeding and at times dead civilians and even heroes.

Olivia raised her leg just as Colossus turned over to try and get up, bringing her foot down on his back with a flare of her powers. There was no noise from his throat, not when she heard the sound his spine and ribs made and he fell still, only his chest moving in little gasping breaths as his brain got overloaded with pain. 

He would never again get back up, not after that hit and that was all that mattered at the end of the day. No more hurt civilians, no more broken colleagues. One less evil, permanently removed.

A sudden tingle raced across her skin, making her feel like gravity changed its course and her gaze snapped up, just as the sky grew a deep, dark red, lightning flashing across it.

Floating above her, having managed to sneak up on her, was The End. A villain only three heroes were capable of fighting, herself included. Fuck.

Olivia didn't waste a second to let the changed, new power coursing under her skin out. She could never waste so much as a split second when faced with The End. The grip of gravity shifted within a heartbeat, like the snap of massive fingers, the noise of it cracking through the air. Just in time to slow the descend of The End's meteors and forcing them to a glowing stop right above the skyscrapers of the city.

It felt like her bones were made of metal and at the same time, as though she weighed nothing at all. She felt as though she was as liable to find herself crushed to the ground by the entire universe as she was to float away like a speck of dust on the wind.

"Little Rescue, ruiner of lives," The End shouted, fury making his voice sound like a guttural snarl as he pushed back against her powers, the sky growing darker still. 

Olivia was faintly aware of people screaming in panic behind her, ahead of her, as civilians ran for their lives. Others crawled for their lives, legs broken or bleeding from wounds inflicted by Colossus that needed immediate treatment. 

Treatment they wouldn't get, for ambulances were not allowed near active fight zones and the specialized removal teams were only sent out for severely injured heroes, not civilians. Too many paramedics had lost their lives or use of their limbs when they had gotten caught in battles.

Not that The End cared, of course. Villains never did.

Colossus at her feet was breathing in high-pitched, panting little wheezes, his body utterly unmoving.

The End had always kept his distance, but today he descended when he couldn't force his meteors further, slamming into the ground before her, his meteors crumbling to nothing and lightning started to flash like a thousand storms were getting unloading at once. 

Olivia hurriedly dodged his fist, the air around her heavy and vibrating all at once as Gravity and Space started to clash.

"What a joke this world is," The End growled. "For a monster like you to be seen as good."

"And what a joke," Olivia growled right back, dark anger and fury beating in her veins in tandem with her heart. If she could take down The End, the city would be safer for it. "That you were born."

The End's next punch was heavy with the power of impacting meteors and the empty coldness of space, lightning crackling between like a hungry beast. He laughed, brief and hard and hateful and he snarled, "Well, if you want to act like a hero, then die like one."

[wojtekaneko]

Yay! Tanabemas!!! Here's my gift for @desfraisespartout - some domestic scenes with the girls!! They're having fun, going places, and generally being together c: Wanted to draw them for a while now, and I'm happy how they turned out ^^ (close-ups under the cut)

[tragedynoir]

— TRAGEDYNOIR'S MILESTONE GIVEAWAY

We recently hit over 100 members in our server, and I'm so thankful for all your support in helping me reach this number so quickly! Every like, reblog and purchase has warmed my heart, and I read every lovely note you leave in your tags. Doc making has been a way for me to unwind and have fun, so I'm very grateful that so many of you love what comes out of it! I hope that you will continue to enjoy the releases I have in store.

As a token of my appreciation for helping me come this far, I wanted to give a little something in return!

— THE PRIZE

One lucky winner will be chosen at random for a free 4-page google doc template commission. I will be working closely with them to create a template tailored to their tastes for their personal use! This template will not be sold after, so it is exclusively theirs to use & keep.

— HOW TO ENTER

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+ 1 entry for joining our discord with the member role

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you may reblog as many times as you want, but please do not spam reblog all at once. ensure that you space out your reblogs!

+ 2 entries for each unique post in the discord server of you using any one of my templates

If you've already done any of them before this giveaway, you automatically get entries for those! ;-)

I will be choosing the winner randomly via a randomizer and contacting them by Aug 15th 2023 either via a private ticket on the discord server or tumblr IMs. They will have 24 hours to respond, so please keep those communication channels open! If you have any questions at all about this giveaway, please reach out to me. Thank you once again for the support, and good luck ♡

[siegelst]

Anyone else wondering what the present Louis & armand had for Daniel? They seem to be really want to go to dinner when they both had a blood snack.

[tiny-banana-time]

Jay's Terrible Day

I got to commission the incredible @daggertongue for a little bit of fresh ME2 existential dread, and he fuckin killed it. Thank you, Levi, for bringing this idea to life better then I ever imagined it. Ya left me an incoherent mess for a good day or two 😂

It's taken me a few days to post it, but that's because it inspired the most writing I've done in a couple months. Including a snippet below 👀

It's not until he can breathe through his nose again that he chances loosening his grip, not until he's reasonably sure he can raise his hand to examine the skin without finding himself mirrorless in the end that he touches his cheek. Fingertips join his gaze in tracing the fissures around an eye, disappearing down his sideburn to emerge over the length of his jaw. Each literal crack in his careful facade stings with direct contact, but it's strangely comforting in how uncomfortable it is – confirmation that he can feel it as he'd expected.

A small victory.

He turns his head to examine the other side closely and locks on to a jagged glowing line through a familiar place in his brow. Just like Kasumi had said. Cracks jut out over his cheekbone, down this side of his jaw, and a shaking sigh is released once he's finished the fucked-up little game of connect-the-dots. 

The sigh floats out from between his lips, and fuck, but he knows he's not seeing things.

There's a glow coming from inside, too.

One consistency, even if the nerve damage and scarring aren't quite the same, is the slight shake of his left hand as he opens his mouth wide for a finger to pull his lip up and away. The light is dull but the color distinct, and he lifts his tongue to find another bright rift in the flesh below. Eyes widen and he loses track of blinking while he stares it down. The implications of all the faults he could find if he looked closely enough hitting him then.

One small mercy comes from looking himself in the eye, finding that the little rings of red-orange outlining his usual brown – the last things he'd noticed weeks ago before the mirror splintered through his reflection – were gone.

He'll never doubt Chakwas again.

[criticallyobs]

So we did a thing...it is what it is. Check out our podcast for part 1/4 of episode 10 Not Me...

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[call-me-pup2]

Sooo I might have already went ahead and made a discord 😶 I got a lil excited when I started looking into it and made one to see what the features and stuff actually were

I'm still going to wait for the results of the poll to decide if I'll actually launch it and I also want my flatmate to check it to make sure I've done everything right before I set it off into the wild but looks like I might be having my discord kitten arc 😝

[rurpleplayssims]

[mechahero]

//Stylization thoughts and stuff.

[imsodishy]

For those of you wondering why vhagar-apologist deactivated, I've been in touch with her on discord, she said she was sick of the toxicity and didn't want to contribute to it anymore, and that since it was bad for her mental health she decided to leave.

💜

[nebuladreamz]

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH HOLY SHIT-

How are we almost already halfway to 1k huh- /lh

Jokes aside; thank you all so much for the love and support! There's more clown boy shenanigans to come!

[laurenttheninth]

my sanctuary (you're holy to me, you're holy to me)

on ao3

explicit - ch1/5 (~8k)

"I'm barely doing anything, and you're already panting, baby." Buck groaned, words failing him. He had his hands resting limply on Tommy's waist, grabbing fistfuls of his shirt to hold himself steady. "Look at me," Tommy whispered, and Buck tipped his head back just far enough that he could see him without going cross-eyed. Tommy held his gaze intently. "Do you like it when I call you that?" Buck swallowed, nodded, wanted him to say it again - "Use your words, Evan," Tommy said, thumbs rubbing over his hipbones. "Use your words for me." "I - " His breath was shaky. "I like it." "You like what?" Buck bit his lip. No one had ever made him talk like this before - he'd talked dirty, sure, but always from a position of... power. Of control. He did not feel like he was in control right now. And it was making him desperate. "I like it when you call me baby," he breathed. "Tommy, please kiss me - "

or: post 7x05; buck and tommy get hot and heavy, eddie tries to do right by his gf and her ex (the lord), and christopher joins the school GSA. mostly bucktommy smut with endgame buddie but also standard firefam shenanigans.