#i just adore thus

[queenlucythevaliant]

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I would love a good dark poem.

--Rain on Main

Okay, this is maybe my favorite really bleak Russian poem. It's called "In the Bottomless Pit," but there's this tinge of hope in it that just makes the whole thing work so well. Anyway, I hope you appreciate:

In the Bottomless Pit In memory of Alexander Blok and Nikolay Gumilyov Day by day more brutal and more savage, deathly horror holds the night in thrall. Putrid winds extinguish lives like candles. No more strength to scream, to help, to call. Dark the destiny of Russian writers and inscrutable the roads they trod: Pushkin stood before a dueling pistol, Dostoevsky faced the firing squad. I shall draw my lot and know my fortune, bitter Russia, fierce infanticide. I may slip on blood outside the dungeon, or I may perish wretchedly inside; but your Golgotha I never will abandon, and your graves shall never be denied. Whether slain by hunger or by hatred-- I shall choose no other lot instead: if we die, then let us die together and arise like Lazarus from the dead.

--Maximilian Voloshin

[orengejoshi]

Pregnancy as a kink makes me uncomfortable so man am I glad your pregg Flug stuff is explicitly not kink oriented!

yeah I... don't wanna judge anyone... but it's more than that, it's downright terrifying to me. Blame my hormones bc I'm expecting irl but wow... I'm very sensitive and it feels dehumanizing. but ig that is kinda the point of the kink(?)

it's so common in fandoms!

I'm completely vanilla anyway tho, so not surprising.

I've tried to pretend for a super long time that I'm into kink, but most of them are off putting and I consider them intrusive thoughts, not fantasies. I'm kinda fluctuating between sex-repulsed and neutral (aroace) even fictional... ig kink just isn't for me. I tried so hard to get over it. I know some people in my asks/requests are gonna be disappointed but I'm sorry💔

I'm slightly ashamed of how boring I am and I have serious trouble connecting to anyone in fandoms due to this actually🤕 feel like the most NT autistic person ever.

anyway here's a doodle!

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[starpros-sunshine]

Look at themmmmmm look at my images people observe them and rejoice!

[serpentface]

Hibrides and Brakul having the world’s saddest booze-fueled girl’s night, probably a few months before the start of the story.

Anyway here's an extensive rundown of their shared history.

Hibrides Uryashta was the eldest daughter of a chancellor of the imperial city-state of Erubinnos (his lordship Erub Uryashta). She was brought up with great privilege and security, but (like most daughters of noblemen) was destined to be used as a bargaining chip in a political marriage arrangement. She was taken from her friends and family and moved to the city of Wardin at the age of 16 to complete her pledged marriage with Janeys Haidamane, the failson of the trade magnate Haidamane family. Janeys spent about a week poorly attempting to behave like a husband, and then took the first excuse to flee and engage in a petty military campaign against raiders on the Yellowtail trade route. She found herself left alone in his villa for three years with only hired servants for company. She made a few attempts to break into the city's elite social scene, but was quite shy and failed to make any headway.

Brakul had just spent a year and a half in a bit of a whirlwind. He was brought into a skirmish at the behest of an allied clan, who had been raiding the Yellowtail route and now was under attack by combined forces of an enemy clan and Imperial Wardi mercenaries. He killed one of the mercenary commanders and was captured as a prisoner of war, but was spared at Janeys' behest (who fucking hated that guy thought it was awesome that he got killed with a rock) and was ultimately recruited into the group. He had a chance to go back home, but actively chose to deadbeat dad out on his wife and child to be with his newfound lovequest, Janeys. He spent a year and a half as a mercenary, bonded closely with Janeys and swore brotherhood with him, and was eventually brought home to the city of Wardin with him. He found himself in the odd position of being simultaneously scorned as a foreigner and 'heathen', and the legal kin of one of the richest families in the city (and effectively the secret male concubine of their only male heir).

It was in this context that the two of them met, with Hibrides now being 19 and Brakul turning 27.

The two were initially wary of each other (Hibrides was particularly put off by his 'heathen' status) but bonded very quickly, partly due to their mutual states of being unmoored from their old lives, but in large part being just a natural chemistry. They had a lot of common interests and enjoyed learning from each other. Hibrides introduced him to traditional verse poetry (of which she was very fond). Brakul taught her how to ride khait, and even gave her a gelding from his own collection as a gift. They became very close friends over the next couple of years and spent much of their free time together.

A big part of the dynamic was that both of them are gay in a cultural context where there is no concept of Being gay, marriages are usually arranged and always between a man and a woman, and having children is a societal expectation. Each of them began to see the other as an ideal husband/wife, ie "if I had to marry why couldn't it have been him/her?". For Hibrides' part, Brakul had all the traits she would want in a husband: he was a pretty good friend and easy to get along with, he seemed like he'd do an excellent job of fulfilling expected roles as a husband and father (she didn't know about the wife and kid for a while), he treated her as an equal, and, most of all, had no interest whatsoever in fucking her. They were both in a sort of platonic emotional affair, and grew to love each other deeply.

Hibrides was pretty quick to catch on that something was going on between Brakul and Janeys, and found it strange and offputting but ultimately none of her concern. Her husband only being interested in his sworn brother and leaving her to her own devices suited Hibrides just fine, and Brakul always just kinda being There meant she was living with what had become her closest friend.

The stable state of this Feelings Triangle began to change in the wake of the brilliant plan to get Janeys (gay) (probably infertile) children he could pass off as legitimate via a Brakul/Hibrides pregnancy. It was something all three agreed to as a necessity; it was already drawing scrutiny that Janeys and Hibrides had been married for several years without a pregnancy, and producing heirs is a societal expectation and a central point of an arranged marriage between wealthy elites.

It was especially critical in this case, given Janeys was his family's only male child and only hope of continuing the family line, given both his golden-child sister Faiza and black sheep half sister Couya were Odonii, and thus sworn virgins and would never marry. (There's also a level to this that Janeys was regarded as a complete disappointment by his parents, and his mother made damn sure he knew that his only value at this point was to produce a better male heir to inherit the business. So this was a big fucking deal to him, and to Brakul by extension).

This was also not a route any of them wanted to take on any personal level, least of all Hibrides. She consented to the pregnancy and everything it entailed, but it was inevitably a painful and distressing experience all around. She had never wanted to be a mother to begin with (though had long accepted it as an inevitability), and now found herself with an infant daughter, which only meant it would have to happen again (they needed a male heir after all). And it would be utter social suicide and a profound shame upon her if the child's illegitimacy was discovered, which only added to the stress.

To make things worse, her first pregnancy shifted the entire dynamic with her husband and brother-in-law/best friend. Janeys changed from completely indifferent to actively spiteful and hostile towards her, and things had become extremely uncomfortable between Hibrides and Brakul. It only got worse with Brakul (the only one of them who actually WANTS kids) (kind of haunted by skipping out on his first child) finding it unbearable to be so close to HIS daughter and having to keep up an act that she was not his own, having no direct role in the kids life. He desperately wanted to be a father.

Hibrides, who was going through a fucking lot, started to become vindictive towards him for his role in things. She resented him more than Janeys, because Brakul insisted he cared about her and would desperately try to pretend things were normal, while consistently siding with Janeys against her wishes, including in preventing her from getting a divorce. (His excuse is that the children's legitimacy would be interrogated in a legal setting, which Is likely and Would be absolute social suicide with very real consequences. But the real reason on his part is that if she got out of the marriage, he might never see her or the children again). Hibrides began to do everything in her power to prevent him from having any relationship with his bastard children, even in secret or under the guise of a relative. Sort of an “if I have to suffer to keep up this facade so should you” thing.

They had two children in a span of three years, two girls (ruh roh!) named Erubi and Livya. By this point, Hibrides and Brakul were both experiencing what we would now call Clinical Depression and Alcohol Use Disorder (especially in the latter's case). Hibrides started to have affairs with both men and women, which she was sure to be very obvious about to insult Janeys and Brakul, but was mostly out of loneliness. Brakul turned his complete focus to Janeys and started avoiding Hibrides entirely, in hopes that she would become desperate enough to be willing to make amends (shockingly, this did not happen, and the rift only deepened).

In the present, their relationship status is: fucked. Both of them do still love each other on some level, but this is probably beyond repair. What little time they've spent with each other in the past year is sitting around being miserable and getting plastered. And now Hibrides, Janeys, and Brakul are all forced into the public eye on the pilgrimage together, and with a third child on the way. So that's probably going to be everyone's problem.

[babymillennial]

Not at all at the point of writing it but my current brainworm is Aaravos loving and doting on every infant he ever meets to a level that surprises/concerns everyone in his immediate vicinity.

[brainrotcharacters]

"After everything you've done-" holy shit do you ever shut up Poseidon

[toiletpotato]

hello music enthusiasts of tumblr!

does anyone happen to know of any academic sources that discuss specific styles of hip hop and rap (such as: how early 80s hip hop is has its own distinct style when compared to that of the 90s and that of the 2000s and into the 2010s) as well as any sources that discuss the global diffusion of rap, (and, only if you happen to know of a source) how it got to South Asia

for those that were in tune with the pop culture and music scene of the 2000s/2010s, how would you all classify Akon? Would it be best to describe him as a rapper popular throughout the 2000s, or more so late 2000s/early 2010s?

thank you in advance!!

[calperna]

if you are not playing rook / do not have a rook canon to your portrayal, i am in general picturing my rook - theodosia ‘theo’ laidir, elf spell blade lord of fortune who is just a ball of chaos and sunshine and who calpernia has no idea how to interact with despite an odd and tentative understanding of each other and their pasts. generally the friendly + humorous choices and the definition of “here for a good time, not a long time”.

[mishy-mashy]

Shinomori is cute. Here's a post.

He is so baby-faced. He hasn't changed at all since he was 22, to when he died of "old age" at 40

(Old age? With a face like that? 40 years old?? Gimme that kind of youth and hotness Shinomori-)

He has tiny eyebrows. Like a puppy's (rottweiler's, for example). So cute and tiny and fuffy

He naturally frowns. Look at him and his mouth and his lil nose

He has a thing about keeping his arms near his chest. He sits with his arms crossed, introduces himself with his hands over his torso, and even walks with his arms crossed toward Midoriya

He has such clear skin for someone who lived the rest of his life in a forest??? Why do Hikage and Yoichi have such nice skin despite living in terrible environments? (forest and vault + abandoned streets respectively)

Is easily scared

They knew their Quirks could be used, but Shinomori got scared of it when it happened. Even though he gave Midoriya his support and access to his Quirk beforehand. Depending on the translation; "it startled me", "you scared me", "it surprised me"

I'm not going to hold running from AFO against him because he knew he was running for his life. Who wouldn't run for their life when it's in danger? Shinomori was being chased by the strongest person in the country (and likely the world)

His sense of self-preservation is probably heightened by the nature of his Quirk to keep him out of danger too. Which makes him all the more sensitive and jumpy to danger and anything that startles him, especially when he has no warning

He's actually extremely tall, but is so socially inept and jumpy it's adorable. He's taller than Bruce.

Bruce is as tall as a vault door that the 2m AFO used.

(Meanwhile Kudo is down there-)

He has such a bad sense of humor that it's cute (his puns off Danger Sense)

It's also adorable how Shinomori just doesn't understand social conventions sometimes. He lived in a forest, so it made sense, but also— Midoriya shows up in the void to the vestige platform for the first time. He has no mouth, no clothes—and Shinomori's first idea is to stand in front of him menacingly and go: "I shall explain. I am Shinomori Hikage." SIRRRR

This.

His Ability is basically like glorified anxiety. What if something is coming to hurt him? If something can hurt him? What if that tree falls while he's under it? And the ideas come so hard they hurt (although yes, it does detect ill intent and that's what sets it off)

He talks weirdly. Formal? Old-fashioned? Listening to him speak Japanese compared to others, it just sounds a bit different. (Translated subs don't show it very well, it's the voice itself methinks)

"This too, is destiny." *about Midoriya having OFA*

Kinda wise or sage-y. He did spend his life in solitude in the forests so he definitely spent a lot of time with his own thoughts. Maybe he found the meaning of life in a centipede or something one day

For someone so cute, he is also such. A fine. Specimen???

Look at those back muscles, dang.

LOOK AT HIS CALVES AND ARMS DANG.

[elizabethrobertajones]

jump scared by the 4th Doctor saying "well" with an uncanny intonation to how 10 says it, except I thought that was just a David Tennant-ism considering he does it in everything eventually, like, that CAN'T have started with him copying this cadence and absorbing it into his being? Right?

[necrotic-nephilim]

https://www.tumblr.com/necrotic-nephilim/761714083447898112/do-you-have-any-fucked-up-babscass-headcanons?source=share

Different anon, but I saw your tags on the BabsVass post, and I think I had the perfect idea for how they can involve Tim in their dynamic.

For Cass, Babs is mommy, and Dick is hers and mommy's boyfriend. It's perfect, and Cass has all the love and positive reinforcement she needs, but Bruce is still being stubborn and refusing to connect with his Birds, especially Tim, who's had to pick up after Batman to keep that man from killing himself.

Tim could use some love, and anytime I look at Tim and Cass together, a significant part of me goes "ah yes, the twins from different mothers". So imagine that's how they initially pull Tim away from Bruce.

Cass always sticking to his side whenever possible while she's not with Babs. If you can't find Cass, and she isn't with Babs or Dick, then go find Tim, and Cass will be right there, almost fused to his side.

Their first moment of anything more than the sibling-like relationship is when Tim comes back from a case tired and sore and needing a good hug, so he beelines for Cass, who's also coming back from a stake out, and holds her, their similar heights letting tim perfectly prop his chin on her shoulder and just cling to her, while they slowly strip each other out of their suits.

And then she's right there, all gorgeous and strong and so so soft under his hands that Tim can't help but lean closer and kiss her. He pulls away almost immediate, stuttering and flushing a deep red, but Cass just pulls him in again and kisses him in return.

From then on they start sneaking kisses here and there. The physical closeness doesn't change, Cass and Tim always like to practically glue themselves against the other's side, but now there's a lot of kissing and groping involved, and the kisses slowly become more tongue than lips, until Cass is throwing Tim on his back and straddling his hips.

She grinds against his cock as she tells him about Babs, about how her mommy makes her feels so so loved, his Dick likes to have her on top like this, and how Tim desperately NEEDS love too, because Bruce doesn't appreciate his Birds nowhere near enough.

Everytime Tim tries to come up with an argument, Cass will grind her hips down harder and dig her nails into his chest just that tiny bit more, like she sees Babs do before clawing red lines down Dick's chest when he's inside her and she's about to cum.

Tim decides that he wants to give it a try, at least, and is rewarded with Cass taking him side her and leaning in to hug him while they both rut into each other, both needing hugs mor than they need to chase an orgasm. It's slow, and a little clumsy, because Cass refuses to let go of Tim, so he has to grab her hips and move her himself, but they make it work, and they both cum line that, hugging and shaking in each other's arms.

Tim meets Babs at her place, dragge there by Cass, and immediately becomes Cass' twin in the bed too. They always look so much prettier when they cling to each other while Babs and Dick fuck them, and Tim loves it when Babs sits him on her lap and moves him like a doll to fuck him with her strap, while holding hands with Cass, who's fucking herself on Dick while he's all tied up in pretty shibari, and letting her use him for her pleasure.

The first time Dick and Tim fuck there's a lot of tears and apologies for past misdeeds, but Dick calls him beautiful as he fucks into him slowly, with Cass laying on his side sucking hickeys into his neck, and Babs watching them go at it while keeping Cass busy with her finger, and Tim falls just that bit more in love with these three.

Bas is Tim and Cass' mommy, and Dick their boyfriend, but Tim and Cass are always their Sick and Babs' twins, and they love watching them come apart with orgasm after orgasm, especially because a fucked stupid Tim and Cass will cling to each other and become increasingly sloppy while kissing each other, and fall asleep like that.

Out of their bed, Tim and Cass are inseparable, always in some form of physical contact, and fully address each other as twins to anyone talking to them.

They do everything together, be that working on a case, sleeping in the same bed, sucking Dick's cock, or being dommed by Babs.

They're a little family together, and Tim has successfully been stolen away from Bruce by the power of being loved and appreciated ❤

(I hope that makes some sense, I have many thoughts about Cass and Tim acting as the other's twin, even if they aren't biologically twins. It's just that the previous ask about BabsCass and stealing Dick from Bruce gave me IDEAS and I had to share them)

(based on this DickBabsCass post) anon you are ENLIGHTENED i am obsessed with all of these thoughts on all levels-

first of all, i *always* adore any headcanons that play with the idea of Tim and Cass looking like twins or acting like twins. having a similar fighting style, being very in-tune with each other, being *just* similar enough that it throws people off and makes them double-take and question. i think it adds much more of an incest sort of factor to their relationship that's fun to play with- TIm was trained by Shiva and Cass is her daughter. i think it's perfectly reasonable for them to be mirrors in a way, with similar habits and personality quirks.

and i love the thought of Cass wanting to steal Tim. Babs got Dick, so clearly, it's possible. but with Tim i think it'd be just a little more difficult, because most of Dick's attachment to Bruce is emotional, but Tim's attachment is logical. so it's hard to convince him to separate himself from what he views as his "duty" as Robin. he signed up for this and sure, he *wants* an out. maybe he's had a crush on Cass for a while now, and of course a crush on Dick so what Cass is offering is everything he could ask for- but he can't bring himself to separate from the role he chose. he's thinking about all the logistics of where it'll land Bruce emotionally- how he'll handle that sort of isolation again.

so i think stealing Tim could be a more dead dove move, something that's *definitely* laced with manipulation and some guilt-tripping. Cass fuses to his side, both bc she genuinely loves him and feels comfortable there like you said, but also to build up his trust. to make him default to working with her instead of Bruce. bc going to Bruce for cases can be unreliable, at best. if he's off-world, doing something with the Justice League, or just deems it unimportant, Tim is left on his own. and Cass is the one swooping in to provide support and talk over his cases with him, help him on patrols anytime Bruce is gone. i could see Babs pushing Bruce out of Gotham more and more, sending him on distress calls that she *could* send the Birds of Prey or other League members on, just because she knows Tim is Cass' current pet project and well, she's all for encouraging Cass build strong relationships.

i *love* the thought of them slowly building up to intimacy. that it just sort of happens in a way Tim can't deny, one second he's helping Cass strip armor and the next their kissing and it just feels like a natural progression of their relationship. all his friends have been making jokes about him and Batgirl anyway, so he can't even deny it atp. he just kisses her and presses into her into he's practically codependent in a way that she has programmed him to be, but also how they naturally fit together.

and GOD i love her basically edging TIm until she gets what she wants. i think it's extra fun if Cass is just a little frustrated at how long this is taking. it was basically quick and easy for Dick and Babs compared to this. so she gets a little impatient and pushes a little harder. going further than kissing and groping until Tim is panting under her and she can tell he's so close, he doesn't even have to tell her.

and Tim has sort of always known about the weird relationship going on with Dick and Babs and Cass. Dick and Babs call each other boyfriend and girlfriend, and it's a very open secret that Cass is sleeping with both of them and has been with Babs longer than Dick has. sort of one of those things everyone knows about but doesn't talk about, so Tim doesn't know the sordid details until Cass is whispering them in his ear. calling Babs *mommy* and describing exactly how Dick looks during sex, bc she *knows* about Tim's childhood crush on Dick and she's rlly leaning int it. she talks about how it feels to be emotionally taken care of too, that it's not just about the sex. and then she says Tim should join, and he's so close just from her talking about everything that he almost says yes on instinct. but he holds back and tries to say no. bc he knows what happened when Dick said yes. Dick has all but completely pulled away from bruce emotionally. and Tim is looking at it logistically, always thinking about Bruce's wellbeing. he knows he's going to get pulled away too, even if he'll still work with Bruce as Robin, he won't be the steady partner that Bruce needs.

but all of Cass' argument hinges on *Tim's* needs and wants. and so far, none of Tim's hero life has been about what he needs. for everyone else, they became heroes bc they needed it to be set on the right path. but not Tim. Tim's needs get compartmentalized so he can focus on everyone but himself and do what needs to be done. and now, it's vulnerable to have his needs on display. it's dizzying for Cass to be pointing out how Tim is neglecting himself and how very strong her points are about him burning himself out, and what'll happen if he has nothing left to *give* Bruce bc he's run himself too thin. and she's right, that he *feels* like he's on the cusp of falling apart under Bruce's pressure, so finally, he says yes without even meaning to. bc she's right no matter what he tries to argue, especially when it's so hard to think with her body against his.

i LOVE all the sexual scenarios you described too, oh my god. there's so much pent up between Dick and Tim that you're right, their first time would have a lot of tears and complicated feelings. it'd take a while before they got that all out, while Babs and Cass are just gently encouraging, telling them to take what they need. after that, Tim settles into understanding the dynamic. he gets to be used by Cass as she rides him under Babs' instruction as Dick is eating Babs out. he gets fucked by Dick while Cass is sitting on his face and whining. he gets to be the one giving Dick and Cass pleasure under Babs instruction, and sometimes even getting to give Babs pleasure, which feels like the highest reward, since she's their mommy. Tim slots into their dynamic so neatly that almost nothing changes- Cass and Tim are still glued to each other's side and Tim does still try to work with Bruce bc he's a stubborn bastard like that. but now he's more aware of Bruce's flaws and every argument he has with Bruce does more to push him away and toward Cass and Babs and Dick. Tim gets why Dick goes to Babs when he's angry at Bruce, now. he's doing the same thing, until he's angry at Bruce less and less bc he's working with Bruce less and less, completely buried in missions that Babs is asking him to do instead. and he likes it better when it's her in his ear instead of Bruce, she's kinder and gives him soft praise when he does well, and he knows when he comes home he'll get fucked nicely for it.

Cass is completely pleased, she has her twin, her mommy, and her mommy's boyfriend. Babs is utterly smug, having essentially stolen everyone right from under Bruce's nose. and Dick is just as content, having his girlfriend and Tim and Cass right where they belong. it's fucked up, and to a degree of all of them know there was an element of grooming from Babs (and even Cass, for Tim), but sometimes, that's just how things play out.

honestly i might write a fic of these four based on these thoughts if i dig my way out of my inbox anytime soon, bc this has sat in my inbox for like a week just so i can reread it and go feral again. anon ily. ty. (especially bc i also love the idea of TimBabs on it's own, but the Arkhamverse has saturated the content and made it boring when i want fucked up dead dove grooming vibes where Babs just has a weird Thing about the Robin mantle but no one ever shares my vision.)

[thegreatyin]

don't you just love it when couples match

[moeblob]

I have fallen down the anime sports hole and landed on Eyeshield 21 and I'm so sorry I'm adopting all these kids.

(I was actually going to like. Hold off posting my silly sports anime doodles until after commissions but no I wanna share them now. It's hard out here being me who thrives off interactions and this show is like "hey what if we gave you lots of interactions and also a secret identity for MORE interactions".)

[ygodmyy20]

"Every time I am around him now, I want to—I want to give him hugs back! And watch him play soccer! And hold hands!"

[lusalemaart]