#i hope you like this anyway

[remusjohnslupin]

‘Lord, hear me!’ he said. ​‘Now we feel the per­il that we were warned of. Have we rid­den forth to vic­to­ry, only to stand at last amazed by an old liar with hon­ey on his forked tongue? So would the trapped wolf speak to the hounds, if he could. What aid can he give to you, for­sooth? All he desires is to escape from his plight. But will you par­ley with this deal­er in treach­ery and mur­der? Remem­ber Théo­dred at the Fords, and the grave of Háma in Helm’s Deep!’

(dedicated to @eomer // 'a whole decade!' celebration!)

[effervescentdragon]

charlos pac rim au

"I don't want to do it," Charles says, and Sebastian holds back a sigh. "I don't want to do it, Seb, what the fuck, they can't make me -"

"They can," he interrupts, because Charles looks like he's going to cry, and Seb sure as fuck feels like he will. "They can, because I'm," he pauses, makes himself take a deep breath. He can say it. "Because I'm not able to do it with you anymore."

Charles stops fidgeting, and his stillness is eerie. He's sitting in front of Seb on the table and the absence of his kicking legs and his shuffling where he sits is so unnatural. I know what you're thinking, Sebastian thinks, because you don't spend years in Drift with someone without knowing their thoughts. Don't say it. Don't lie to yourself, Charles. Let go.

"We can try again," Charles says stubbornly, not looking away, and not moving. "We can try again, it wasn't your fault, Seb -"

"Charles," Sebastian interrupts again. "I know - I don't - fuck," he closes his eyes, because he doesn't want to start crying. "I can't drift anymore, Charles. You know I can't. Transgressor fucked me up permanently, Charles, I was lucky to come out of it alive." He swallows around the lump in his throat. "I'm sorry."

There is silence in the room, and Sebastian breathes through it. He shuffles in his chair, and moves his legs, and opens his arms, and before he knows it, Charles is there, hugging him with his whole body. Sebastian breathes him in, and lets Charles hold him, and holds onto him as tight as he can.

"He'll be good for you," Seb whispers, eyes still closed. "Trust me. I know he will. I wouldn't leave you with someone who I didn't think could be your match. So try, please?" he whispers. "For me?"

"You saved my mind, Seb," Charles whispers into Sebastian's neck. "You shielded me from that fucking Kaiju, and I'm the reason you can't pilot anymore." Before Sebastian can protest - it wasn't Charlses' burden, it was Seb's own decision, it was inevitable, he wouldn't have, couldn't have done anything different, nor would he want to - Charles pushes away from the embrace, and Seb opens his eyes. Charles' eyes are wet, and green, and more determined than Seb has ever seen them. "For you, I'll try," he says, and it sounds like a promise. "I'll try."

"That's all I ask," Seb says softly. "All I ever asked from you was to try."

---

Sebastian watches them from behind the glass as they do a compatibility test. He didn't even have to bribe Toto to be here, though he was prepared to do so, but when he came into the observation room, there was a padded chair waiting for him already, and now he's on the edge of his seat, watching Charles and Carlos fight.

Charles is a beauty in motion, and Seb can see the moves he'll make in his head perfectly, a second before he moves. He twirls and jumps and hits, and doesn't lose his concentration. It's expected, and he's not surprised. He's done the same dance with Charles many times, and he can almost feel the adrenaline in his body, like he's the one on the mat. WHat he's more interested in, though, is Carlos.

Carlos, whose face is sweaty but who doesn't give Charles an inch. Carlos, who seems bigger than Charles but lets Charles lead, and steps in his way, moves him so they don't lose momentum when Charles gets impatient. Carlos, who looks steadier than Earth underneath them and who dances with Charles and never stumbles, never falters, observing as he fights and adjusting himeslf to Charles in a way Sebastian has rarely seen possible. Carlos, who smiles at Charles when he has him pinned on the mat, and winks at him, and says "That was good. Again?" straight to Charles' face, and means it.

Sebastian watches Charles try to hide his confusion, and succeed for everyone who doesn't know him as well as Sebastian does. More importantly, he watched Charles try to hide his blush as he looks at Carlos' throat as he swallows half a bottle of water. He watches Charles fail completely to hid his distraction, and fumble with his own water bottle, pouring half of it over his shirt. He watches Carlos notice, and say something to Charles that makes him laugh, and the easy way Charles lets Carlos touch him and pull him back in the middle of the mat, and he smiles.

"They will be a good fit, Sainz and Leclerc. I think so, Sebastian," Toto says from somewhere behind him, the question unasked, but implied.

Seb lets himself smile wider.

"Yes," he replies, and his chest feels lighter than it did since before he woke up in the hospital, Charles frantic at his side. "I think they will be a perfect fit, Commander."

[raveledits]

.THOSE WHO DREAM. Emilien Vekemans, as a pop punk rock star.

[youthofpandas]

What’s up with how the dunmeshi fandom just lies about this kind of stuff all the time. It is easily confirmable information that it was a monthly series, something incredibly common in the industry.

A not weekly magazine schedule is literally common !! Especially in the seinen shoujo and josei demographics, sometimes monthly, sometimes biweekly, sometimes every two months, sometimes seasonal! Please stop lying about how Dunmeshi was some special unique creation that defies all standards of manga just to hype it up because it is so clear that every single one of these comparisons is centered around Weekly Shonen Jump (and understand that SJ has many magazines under its brand that are monthly or semimonthly). Not everything is WSJ and it needs to stop being the only point of reference in conversations like this 🤧

[iscariotapologist]

today in church one of the priests referred to trans people as "those who are growing into the gender they were called to be" and i'm kind of enjoying the idea of like....divinely ordained top surgery

[kensatou]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

[snarkspawn]

based ofc on this

[kwadlayns]

Good detectives do what they need to in order to solve a case. 💀🔎✨

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

[hinamie]

I don't want to regret the way I lived

[marsipain]

Norwegian Mikus :)

Left is Miku as a russ and right is Miku in a bunad!

[ato-dato]

Aziraphale please! He’s been through enough!!!

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[tooquirkytolose]

~The Most Beautiful Woman in The World~

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[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?