#i need to re-read it

[beevean]

Related to that ask I sent Skaruresonic, I just realized that that whole "I don't have to keep my promise to you if you're not here anymore" logic is...pretty much what the Beast of Darkness tried to convince Guts about when he started to travel with Casca in her regressed state

Yeah, it is, isn't it?

Casca is, in that moment, worse than dead. She is almost like a zombie shambling around, only a shell of the woman Guts loves. Taking care of her is so much effort for what seems to be nothing, because he has to be hypervigilant and protect a completely helpless person (which hurts even more knowing how great she used to be in combat), because he scared her and now she won't trust him anymore so she won't even stay put and she's basically just a mouth to feed...

And the Beast preys on it. It represents Guts' mindless thirst for Griffith's blood. It's all too happy to convince Guts that Casca is just in the way - or worse, nothing more than a memento to remind himself why he has to forgo everything and keep pursuing Griffith. An object to be used and discarded ("Tear her up like Griffith did.") No use loving a dead woman. Only hate will give him meaning.

In a way, the Beast wants Guts to ignore the last request Casca made him:

Casca wanted Guts to live his own life, free of Griffith or even her. She knew how much Guts wanted to be Griffith's true equal and friend, and leaving him be was the best way (I guess they didn't really understand how much Griffith snapped at Guts leaving).

Pursuing Griffith in revenge would go against this principle. Guts' very life would depend on Griffith. He would always be the pitiful worm squirming at Femto's feet, to paraphrase him.

So yeah, the Beast during that scene was trying to break Guts free of his love for Casca and everything he cared about her for the sake of feasting on his hatred.

And while sadly Guts ended up hurting Casca, not only he managed to snap out of it before doing the irreversible, not only he understood how low his obsession with revenge brought him, but that is also the reason he decided to place his trust in other people again, and it paid off.

It's a visceral scene, and treating the Beast like a demon separate from Guts and not the incarnation of his own dark side, the feral side that has killed in cold blood, and even his repressed lust for a woman who is now lost to him, makes it a disservice.

[darkkfaery]

Noemi... Cheyenne Isabel Wells

Francis... Kit Conner

Catalina... Lee Rodriguez

Virgil... Cody Fern

Florence... Rebecca Ferguson

Howard... Bob Gunton

[mycatwantstoeatpins]

[Description: fanart of Mobei Jun, Shang Qinghua and Didi standing posed. Mobei Jun holds a sword in his right hand and has his left on Shang Qinghua’s opposite shoulder. He wears dangling earrings and geometric hair ornaments and is showing many inches of cleavage. Shang Qinghua wears Mobei Jun’s colours, including blue tasselled earrings, and has his hand on Didi’s back. He and Mobei Jun both have grave expressions. Didi has a hair crown and a single visible hoop earring; he is scowling at the viewer as he clings to Shang Qinghua’s thigh with one arm and holds the edge of his sleeve with the other.]

The Crown Prince And The Young Master, Attended By Appointed Steward - circ. 43rd year of 7th Mobei Jun’s reign

Fanart for the lovely @tossawary’s fic, Babe in the Woods (one of my absolute favorite moshang fics, easily). This is post-fic, maybe a few years down the line, when Airplane has unknowingly taken over like, every management task in our Mobei Jun’s faction, including taking care of Didi, but he still thinks he’s just the nanny. Mbj’s father ordered a royal portrait of the princes and mbj was like um my human wife will be joining. Airplane, frantically putting on the nicest clothes mbj has given him: why does the babysitter have to be in the photo?? Didi does not hold still for even a single second of the portrait sitting.

(I cannot lie to you, I started this portrait well over a full year ago, and in the last week finally finished the lines and colored the whole thing.)

[reinbouxsworld]

twisted wonderland × kimetsu no yaiba (au!)

based on this post here.

I this this on a a japanese song only playlist and a wave of hiperfixation. So heres the context: Yuno (Yuu) and Leona were newly married and lived on his family’s land. On the night after the Town Below festival, Yuno returned home to find not only her husband’s family dead but also her younger brother, Grimm. Leona was the only one still alive, but as she tried to lead him down the mountain, she discovered that he was no longer human.

Silver, a demon slayer, confronted Leona. However, after witnessing him protect Yuno, he chose to spare the newly turned demon’s life, and send the couple to his master, Lilia.

Vil and Rook are the Tamayo and Yuuchiro of this universe. Vil lived more than 300 years only on serving face and hate, nonetheless showed kindness by helping Yuno and Leona after their encounter with the Demon King.

Ace and deuce are both slayers, one ranking above yuu. The three met during a mission, and the two decided to stick by her side from that point on.

[turndecassette2]

[kaijubrains]

Most typical fantasy dragons are huge, powerful things. Discworld is hilarious for essentially making them this but reptillian:

They also explode and die when they are upset/frightened. Which is uhhh... a lot of the time. Fucking pathetic beasts

[moonsun2010]

5 June - The Dracula Drought begins

a redraw of this art from DD2023!

[tzarrz]

i listen to fog lake too much

[yrsonpurpose]

"They [Casey] were commenting on all the little idiosyncratic things that Alex does, his little "isms". I had never heard anyone talk about it and I was so grateful that they had said something, because I did re-read the book and try so hard to find those little specific things that Alex would do." — Taylor Zakhar Perez

[nibbelraz]

I completely forgot about the second "Daddy Airplane" incident

[cowboycannibalism]

one of the things that annoys me so bad right now is seeing letterboxd reviews about Lisa Frankenstein being like "she's such a horrible character", "those people didn't deserve to be killed" blah blah blah

SHUT UP

it's a horror romance!! a girl keeps a reanimated dead guy in her closet and falls in love with him! what did you think was going to happen? it's SUPPOSED to be fucked up and weird and that's part of its charm. quit being boring, let female characters (esp in horror) be messy and chaotic and morally gray.

[katabay]

WOW this has been ROUGH in the Life Events category of things, but. slowly crawling out of that. hopefully

this was the opening scene for a something I started writing after watching the Manben inverview with Nishi Keiko and thinking back to all the classic shoujo manga I stayed up reading back in the day, like damn that's so true Urasawa Naoki

it's partially a love letter to all the greats of the genre that I read, and also to the late night teleseryses that captivated me over the years lmao. it'd be nice to find the time to tackle it properly as a comic, but I'm having fun working on it recreationally :)

✨but since it's recreational, some character info✨

the first character seen is lawrence 'law' valenciano (late 30s), the one with the glasses is cris volante (mid-later 20s). law works at a karinderya, cris is an extremely broke university student.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta / tip jar!

[tennant]

"Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend."

— Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

[lucky-fy]

For the Laicion nation (aka, me and three other people)

I had this illustration commissioned (a big thank you to @lunehowls) for my werewolf AU Laicion fic (still a WIP).

The general pitch is as follows :

AU in which Laios never got to meet his sister again, putting his life on a whole other path, a more desperate one. A military deserter with barely a coin to his name, Laios hitches a ride on a boat to one of the elven continents, where he learns about magical tattoos that binds one’s soul to a wolf’s, effectively making them artificial werewolves. Illegal magic be damned, this feels like the answer to… everything.

In the process, he learns about the existence of an illegal fighting ring in one of the elven cities, where beastmen gladiators gather. Freshly tattooed and without anywhere else to go to, Laios decides to head there, where he meets Lycion, an elf and artificial werewolf gladiator. If they first bond over a simple shared meal, by spending time together (sharing the same room in the barracks, maybe the same bed? gasp) they find that they have a lot in common, notably a shared distaste for the body they were born in, a dysphoria partially remedied by becoming a werewolf.

They bond :)

NB: I commissioned another piece, go take a look :D

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Danse Macabre

[Commission]

[chatlote]

Please answer me

(Heavily inspired in 17776, the online narrative of satellites talking to each other)