#i call her Bella

[0perfectimperfections0]

What if the robot dog bitten Lou. (When he broke the portal or during the gauntlet)

Alright! I made a wheel with keywords for each of the (14) asks in my inbox. So, I'll be tackling them in the order of which the WHEEL has decided.

All hail the magic wheel.

Lucky you, Anon! Yours is the first.

I may also need to mention that I had just written down the 14th ask when I realized there were also drafts of asks that I had started on...

But I'll get to those...later. These 14 are the majority anyway.

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Of course, the dog would be the first obstacle in the house. It loomed over them, pupils dilating as it looked at each of the dolls. Nolan had skidded to a stop and just barely dodged having metal jaws clamp on his legs. Lou turned to run, shoving Tuesday out of the way before the dog could pounce on them.

Even then, something pinned Lou down to the floor. It wasn't until he turned to see the dog's head laying on the ground, holding one of Lou's legs in her mouth, that he realized she had pierced through him. He bit down on a scream, feeling hot white pain shoot through him.

This stupid, ignorant, mangy, mutt--

He clenched his fists and bit down harder on his tongue. The pressure was released just as fast when the dog realized what she had done. She was only meant to serve as a hindrance to the dolls. It was not intended for her to actually hurt them.

Bad dog, she whined, leaning over Lou as he turned onto his back. Bad, bad dog.

Lou glared up at her through watering eyes and barely spared a glance at the decently sized hole that his stuffing was escaping through. "You st--" he cut the insult short as he breathed heavily. She just got carried away. She just got carried away. She didn't mean it.

The other dolls, outside of the Uglies, hurried to finish the Gauntlet. Moxy and the others did a double take, debating if they should go on or help Lou. Mandy urged Moxy forward. "He'll be fine. Serves him right for what he tried to do to us."

They left.

Red ears and black eyes peaked around the wall. Luckybat quietly hung back from the group and stayed to make sure Lou was alright.

The blond grunted and tried getting back up on his feet. The dog whined again, ears drooping. "It's alright," he huffed through another sharp pain, "it was an accident."

No matter how hard he tried, he could never find it in him to get mad at her. It wasn't the first time he'd tried going through the Gauntlet (in vain attempts to leave this forsaken Institute) and on more than a few occasions she ended up hurting him. But they were both stuck here. They had been for at least a decade, now. That understanding was what kept him from spewing out his anger toward her.

They both got carried away sometimes with the training.

Lou felt something push under his arm. The dog was nudging it up with her nose, giving him something to lean his weight on. "Good girl," he praised quietly.

LuckyBat watched, curious. This was...a new side to Lou. He never acted this nice with the dolls. Why was he so nice with this robotic dog?

"I need your help," Lou looked at her. "Those Uglies are about to ruin everything. I need a way to stop them."

She whined again. You keep fighting and never get anywhere, Boy.

He could practically see the statement in her eyes. "I can't let them pass. It'll all be over if they do. I'm going with or without you to stop them." Lou took a small hop forward on his good leg, prepared to do just that. The back of his suit was pulled taut and he was lifted off the ground. The dog angled her head to gently ease him onto her back.

It would be a fruitless effort, she knew. But when the boy had his mind set on something, he saw it through. It was best to let him follow whatever plan he had in place and let him realize it wouldn't work out.

It humored her, really, watching him run the Gauntlet times before. Especially when he had very little knowledge on how it worked. The fumbling little doll could barely beat the clock, even without her interference.

She noticed the red bat on her way down the stairs, but made no sign that she acknowledged him. Her Good Boy wanted her help.

And no, they didn't beat the timer. They didn't stop the Uglies. The dolls still revolted against her Good Boy.

But she was there to catch him when they so ruthlessly tossed him.

She was there to carry him toward the least fatal punishment that had been thrown out there.

And she was there to gently pick his water-logged body out of the washer and to someplace safe where she could take care of him.

His plans didn't usually work out. But neither did hers. Only one of her plans ever came to fruition each time.

And that was to always be there when he needed her.

[edwardsdeathcabcd]

i've said it before but it will forever and always make me insane that jacob's ending is to join the cullens for the sake of bella not having to give anything up. they find out jake will be immortal & tied to renesmee forever, so bella gets to smile & say "my family is finally complete! ^-^" but jake already HAS a family. he has a father and 2 sisters. quil, embry, seth and sam are like his brothers. jacob and leah were planning to run away together. he's always been welcome in emily's home, sue has been a family friend since before his birth. bella abandons her mortality by choice because she feels no connection to the people around her, but jacob has really strong bonds. it's clear that every character we meet in la push is like family to him, he's an active member of the community. jake would've graduated high school and been a mechanic, would've grown into a young man. a good friend, a fun uncle, a present son. he's set up to have such a rich life. and he's just magically compelled to give that up. beyond his control, he loses sight of everything, because his high school crush's baby is now the singular most important thing to him. he's perpetually 18 with his perpetually 18 year old girlfriend, running around vancouver or alaska or wherever with the girl who friendzoned him at 16 & her in-laws (who were antagonistic to him for months). and i'm just supposed to say omg yay now he doesn't have to let go of bella! everyone is happy! it's complete madness

[soft-cryptids]

“Nice.”

[im-a-twilight-fan-i-guess]

Edward: "Are you wearing the-"

Bella: "Floor length khaki skirt? Yes, I am."

[flying-fangirls]

THE girls ever <3

@zalemmoon-veeveestar A certain someone's transfem Yellow headcanon kind of took over my brain last week, so have some doodles of these lovely gals

[fishareglorious]

i think it was the gameplay that pretty much kinda made me apathetic and kinda burnt out to battle related events after it but i'm kinda pumped for 1.9's Echoes in The Mountain 2: Electric Boogaloo Series of Dusks just for the semmelweis lore continuation.

anime girl father of handwashing what have you gotten up to in vienna.

why are you a vampire. who the hell is bella and why does your weird alter ego thing whoever she is have the name of the twilight protagonist. why are people drawing art of you two making out. what's up with lorelei and valentina.

[muttsandmustelidae]

whyyyy do some people care so much about their dog’s gender presentation 😭😭 the dog doesn’t care if she gets misgendered why does it matter this much to u i don’t get itttt

[helenofblackthorns]

OH???????

[branch-wdk53]

Finally showed part of his actual skin, huh?

Been thinking abt these two. @uniquezombiedestiny

(I had to fight Procreate cuz it kept miscoloring stuff when exporting as a gif.)

[omg-snakes]

How does the narrow face affect the chance of that snake’s survival? Or is it just an indicator of probable other defects?

It's pretty bad and I'm not sure if he'll be able to eat. He emerged fully so I was able to get a better look at what's going on.

His bottom jaw is reduced and twisted. He can open his mouth but it looks like his glottis is very narrow, too, and pushed close to the front of his mouth. His trachea may be pinched. The quadrate and/or supratemporal portions of his skull (top back) are also deformed and jut out slightly.

There may be other defects at play. I know it's a boy because his hemipenes are currently everted, which is not normal. He did manage to absorb his yolk, but his navel is not fully sealed shut. He's not kinked, though, and he moves normally so we'll see if his condition improves and if he's able to eat once he's completed a neonatal shed.

He reminds me of an Italian greyhound with a severe overbite. I'm going to call him Iggy, which is the most common name for that particular dog breed.

[philtatosbuck]

no matter how strange marcel and rebekah is they could have easily fixed it with having rebekah be daggered while marcel was being raised sure it'd still be weird but it wouldn't be As weird.

[the-sparkling-diamond-satine]

21. Friends hear through hotel walls? (Arabia and Ivy) for the WIP Ask Game !!!!!!!!!

Send me an ask from my WIP List and I'll post a little snippet or tell you something about it!

Ack sorry in advance this one is... Not Fun??? *hides under my desk* idk where this idea came from but I ended up writing it as a way to feel more comfortable writing Arabia/Ivy (there's nothing quite like putting character's in a crisis to get to know them better I guess??). Anyways, idk if I'm gonna post this one because everyone will banish me to angst jail and attack me with hammers and mean comments haha. But uh, here you go?? Enjoy???? (abuse tw)

Arabella curls up into a ball with her back against the headboard, trying to make herself as small as possible, trying to get away from the awful sounds coming from the next room, now entirely unmistakable as Satine’s boyfriend hitting her while she begs for him to stop. “You’re okay, Bella,” Ivy murmurs, momentarily covering the receiver with one hand while she rubs Arabella’s leg with the other. “They’re on the way. They’ll be here in a few minutes. It’s going to be okay.” Arabella shakes her head; she can’t seem to stop trembling, but it feels like it’s happening to someone else. Something glass shatters next door and Satine sobs and Arabella thinks she’s going to be sick right here on the mattress. Nothing about this is okay. She wants to lean closer to her girlfriend but she can’t seem to make herself move; besides, everything inside her is screaming at her to get away from everyone. Arabella covers her ears and squeezes her eyes shut tight, trying to block out the sound of her friend’s suffering, feeling guilty all the while that she has this option. There’s another loud thump from next door and Satine’s voice cuts off mid-scream. Ivy drops the receiver, her hand stilling on Arabella’s knee. For a moment neither of them moves or even dares to breathe, both imagining the worst. It turns out there is a more horrible noise than her friend’s cries for help, and that’s them going abruptly, horrifically, bone-chillingly silent.

[ohbutwheresyourheart]

after spending all of season 2 gleefully imagining hannibal getting his comeuppance... I think mizumono broke me

[masterpieceofunderstatement]

[beansnpeets]

Bella almost never makes noise, but the last 2 days she has decided to bark at me.

[randomwriteronline]

Pyea, Toa Mangai of Stone, bearer of the Kanohi Deremios - the Mask of Animation

aka MY FUCKING GUY!!!!! whom i talk abt under the cut!!!!

Pyea (portmanteau of Pygmalion and Galatea, from a greek myth in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue he made that Aphrodite then brings to life) is a former Nynrah Ghost and tool maker. He spent many of his first years as Toa in a fortress but never ascended through the hierarchy, being mainly tasked with the building's maintenance due to his quiet and passive nature - though it was rumored that his good looks, notable even among his brothers of Stone, caused his fellow Toa to keep him off the battlefield "in fear he would get scratched".

His insistence on personally aiding Metru Nui when the Kanohi Dragon attacked the city was so surprising that nobody really argued against him. After the Dragon was defeated, he remained in the City of Legends as the protector of Po-Metru, sometimes even working directly with the Matoran on statues or repairs - maintaining a craftsman's mentality all his life, much to the puzzlement of his brothers and sisters.

(him face :) )

His manufacturer's approach to fighting allowed him to employ his element and tool, a clawed mortar, in creative manners - he was especially known for molding stone to look and behave like fabric due to a personal fascination for drapery. His readiness to follow orders made it easy to work with him, but his tendency to only verbalize the last part of his thought process often gave others the impression that he was cryptic or dim-witted.

Despite this, he enjoyed his days as a Mangai and his teammates. He was unexpectedly fond of Nidhiki - who often used this knowledge to ask him favors - for his brash personality, worked fine with his Earth brother, and accidentally swept all four Toa Mangai of Ice off their feet by dispatching a Kane-Ra Bull with nothing but his tunic (made of rock). It is unknown if he was aware of their admiration.

(doodles of a proper head ref, other poses, and a better look at the Deremios)

He wore the Kanohi Deremios (anagram of Remedios as in "la bella", character from the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez), the Mask of Animation, which allowed him to animate objects for a brief period of time and direct them to act upon his whims. The object would need to not be capable of thought and not have any flesh of its own to be affected, and would only be able to move based on its existing joints and shape: for example, Pyea used it to animate humunculi and crude statues which he created on the fly from the sorrounding stone in order to distract the Kanohi Dragon.

A hypothetical more powerful version of a Deremios, akin to the Nuva masks, could probably create and control Vatuka or beings similar to them, but would have no effect on already existing Vatuka.

(the full body sketch before i added clothes and mask)