#idk how this turned out so well

[carr10nb1rd]

nerd sketch

[angsty-art-ist]

my magnum opus actually

[doodlefox2]

good girl

[mohntilyet]

illario as the grandchild that is most like caterina is something i'm loving to chew on. the grandson that took her lessons to heart the most. kill anyone who sees your face and knows your name, "we are not revolutionaries", the first out of the two to prioritise the contract. power at any cost, and the only one to lean into the unnecessary abuse that their grandmother told them was tradition. why is anyone surprised he allied with the venatori? and then there's illario's considerable skill in infiltration and manipulating any mark, he has always had the charisma that lucanis lacked. illario isn't attached, he has/can/will use someone and immediately drop them; "that does free me from promises i don't intend to keep". he can lie about how much he cares so well that he fools a magister into believing he loves her. he kills zara without hesitation to cover his own tracks, meanwhile lucanis blindly promises a young girl in the middle of a siege that he will help her find her father. even the lessons about family stick with him, and in this entire messy power struggle, he never actually orders anyone to directly kill caterina or lucanis, not until he's backed into a corner.

and even after all that. despite even lucanis believing illario should be first talon, lucanis is still the better killer. illario is not strong enough to be the brutal assassin caterina needs him to be. so when lucanis seems to fill the role his mother left, grief and love for her dead heir apparent remains, and any of the other qualities caterina needs in her next talon doesn't matter. whatever his mother was, lucanis has to be. what illario does doesn't matter, because he will always be second best to caterina's memory of her favored daughter.

[hinamie]

so just know, I'm healing / even though it don't feel like it

insp

[choccy-milky]

bird in her gilded cage 💙🪽

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

We need media, visual, audio - we'll need music - and text. We had to hit them with everything.

still not over That conversation from System Collapse. what a two-hit combo. what a scene. chefs kiss 🤌

[the-meme-monarch]

loop my beloved

[cicada-candy]

Gonna be gassed tonight, if we're never gassed no more.

Gpt ver w/ text vvv

[hollowaluminumvessel]

THE SPANNERS ARE HERE!!!!!!!!

Finally finished this one, after getting sick for a week it was really something 😭 but hey!!! Its done!!! I like how it looks!!!!!!!!! THIS IS A WIN!!!!!!

@cherrifire 's DTYISnails pt. 2!! I drew Ren and Martyn already, right here if you wanna see ❤️:

https://www.tumblr.com/hollowaluminumvessel/767981793630683136/cherrifire-s-dtiysnails-im-not-exactly-the?source=share

[arielluva]

look within

[the-quaint-quail]

get stuffed!

jade leech x reader

jade fafo when he messes with the wrong shark.

i can imagine reader purposefully cuddling with a large stuffed animal because jade is being a bastard asshole refusing to snuggle you in favor of space.

fine. cool.

you understood, you get it you do.

jade’s just like that sometimes…

so he should be fine with sharing a bed with sharkie right!

jade’s eyebrows furrow and head tilts to the said, parroting what you said as you excitedly jump off the bed. matching pj set, courteous of jade, rubbed against itself as you made your way off the bed and yo your bookbag.

floyd’s curious now as he rolls on his side and haphazardly drops his home onto his bed.

you find what you’re looking for after removing a few belongings…. and y/n, he’s gonna be honest, how the fuck did you fit that in there??

the shark is a fat, fluffy navy shark the size your upper upper body.

floyd rolls back in hysterics, looking at you then his frozen twin as you skip your way over. falling onto the bed with a giggle, you land and bounce on the shark until it rolls you onto your side.

you squeeeeeze what would be considered the shark’s neck as you feel pairs of eyes watching you intently. you squeeze in intervals, breath and body relaxing with each tensing of your muscles.

it’s only when jade sees your body limp a few seconds later does he realize you’re asleep.

“ha! looks like your future mrs. would rather squeeze a shark to sleep than you” floyd teases, screaming when jade launches a pillow mock 5 at him in retaliation. 

jade looks back at you ignoring his twins whining and the pillow that smashes into his head.

he stares like this for a good ten minutes, unmoving despite floyd publicly stating for the record he’s creeping even him out. jade ignored this as his wrist and elbow cracks with disuse. hos hand slowly reaches for the shark with concentrated look.

once he had the shark’s nose in his grip it expertly yanks it out of your tight embrace and switches it with himself.

“threes a crowd, dont you think” he looks over your sleeping head, tucking it into his chest as he heard a soft thud in the other side of the room. floyd’s complains but eventually pack his things and calls azul, most likely going to another guest room so jade could have more… privacy, with his courting partner.

he untangles himself from you momentarily and rushes to the plushie. with the skill of a soccer player he manages to wedge it between the door that floyd was in the middle of closing. sharkie can only stare in horror as jade’s face was covered from the darkness of night.

he was sprinting towards the sharkie before punting it out the door and down the hallway. the stuffed animals thumps against the wall like a ping pong ball. he stares into its beady eyes the moment it stops ricocheting off the lilac walls and comes to a sad roll.

he closes the door with a victorious smile.

“jade leech.”

his eyes widen and shoulders hunch as he spins to see you sitting up in bed, arms crossed. he couldn’t see your face as the water’s netty light didn’t reach that far up and instead illuminated the carpet.

“where’s sharkie.”

“ in a better place” he says earntsly eith a hand across his heart.

“you better bring him back or i’ll withhold sex from you for a month. a month. “

his smile falters… so no kitty time? 😞

“she’ll miss me” jade whips a tear as you throw a pillow at him.

“2 months and i won’t help you during your season!” you hissed, flopping back into bed with your arms crossed. jade pictures steam blowing out in steady streams from your ears and nose.

“it was good while it lasted.” he sighs, fighting a smile at the annoyed whined at his name.

“i won’t cuddle you then.” you’re pouting now. upping the punishment has jade’s smiling slightly faltering… he could live with that as you’ll get tired chastity eventually.

jade climbs back into bed ready to snuggle when you jerk away, feet kicking at the covers as you shoot up from bed.

dropping to under the bed jade pens over as he watches you stretch and feel around. he’s able to catch a glimpse of your distressed look as you scurry around the room in search of your shark plushie.

after snooping around, you’re facing the door angrily when he you break the pregnant silence. “jade, if he’s in the hallway im not giving you kisses for 2 whole months”

jade’s body moves instinctively as he shoots up in bed. eyes blinking owlishly as you open the door.

wait, were you actually mad at him? for booting out the competition??

you peek around the hallway bobbing your head to try seeing through the flashbomb of light. after a few minutes you close the door sadly, your head thumps against the wood as you let out a shuddery breath.

jade stand immeditaly andslams open the door.

the shark is gone.

he butes bacl his toothy grin. you’re his again. all his.

…so why were you crying, “it’s a stuffed animal, you have me to cuddle and dote on instead. not some inanimate object incapable of reciprocating affectionate. lets go to bed and look for it in the morning.” jade steady hand finds your shoulder, attempting to guide you back to bed when you flinch out of his touch.

body contorting like you’d just been touched by a a cough. you bend down towards the door to your bad, gather your things and jacket as its colder outside this time of year and sniffle out “im gonna go back to ramshackle… back to grim tonight” you dont look at him when you slip through the door.

…”is my relationship dependent on a stuffed shark?”

yes jade. yes it is.

you ignore jade for an entire week after sharkie goes missiong. floyd sends his deepest condeolences and gives you a free meal at the lounge to ‘soothe your heartache,’ you ignore jade the best you can throughout your meal.

but jade is a D1 problem starter and annoys people for a living.

he pomes you once when you drop your fork and knife, pick up the plate and walk out the lounge. azul is furious that you stole a plate, running after you like he was on the Jerry Springer show.

he comes back after an hour and redirects his anger to jade. “look, what you do in your relationship isn’t any of my business- just give her the blasted shark back”

jade’s had enough of this childishness as it’s starting to bleed into his work life, his social life was drastically altered now that you saw him as the plague- and jade was sick of it.

he’s about to barge into ramshackle when he hears your cried through the rotting oak door. he peaks through the tiny door window to see a mountain of blankets and pillows.

a frown is on his face when he sees you, sobbing your eyes out into a blanket.

“he- he’s so mean” you hiccup “ he won’y cuddle me to sleep so i i brought sharkie right, but then he killed him and destroyed his body” your haggard breathing has you falling back into a pillow as you nuzzle it.

a whine leaves yiu as you throw it across the living room.

“sh sharkie was the only thing i brought with me from home and and he’s gone- im gonna break up with him if he doesn’t find him at the end of the week!”

jade’s blood freezes when he hears voices of approval and comfort. telling you that ‘they didn’t like jade anyways’ and ‘you could do so much better’

.. they’re not wrong… but, he had thought your friends finally came around to your relationship, it appears that was just wishful thinking.

jade himself doesn’t really know why you said yes to him. pausing the moment you said yes to a date to ask if you were sure. that you didn’t mind his cruel reputation and eccentric habits. you embraced them, yet he couldn’t embrace yours…

you had given him space when requested, and sought out an alternative source of affection and comfort because jade withheld it from you. he didn’’t expect you to pull out a damned shark, thinking you’d whine and crawl on him like usual until he’d give in with a sigh and secret smile.

letting you know he’s allowing you to cling like a barnacle to him.. the shark just accepted and soaked up your love like a sponge.

jade turns his heel with a sigh, he needs to fix this. immediately.

it isn’y until three days later, on friday do you text him with a ‘we need to talk.’ it was the only text sent by you in the entire week, jade being moved to ‘silenced’ as another string of barbs around his body.

but not to worry, he called in a favor.

there’s three confident knocks on ramshackle dorm. fanning your heated face you prepare yourself for the breakup.

you open the door-

“hi y/n! i missed you so much!”

you gasp “sharkie!”

you thrust yourself at the slightly discolored shark and trap him in a tight squeezing embrace as you take a long, deep inhale. the scent of laundry detergent and lingering dirt fills your nose as jade watches you visibly relax.

“don’t forget about me” jade’s hiding his face again as he talks in a silly voice. you look up at him ready to chew him out when you close your mouth. in his hand is a long, thick stuffed eel. its eyes closed with a smile itched with black thread. its teal green body had speckles of lighter blues running along it as you excitedly gasp.

jade wraps it around your neck and lands its smiling head on top of yours. your smile falters at his serious face.

“…i didn’t know how much the shark meant to you.. i apologize for the distress i’ve caused you as it wasn’t my intent”

you nod, listening to his apology.

“ i had no idea it was from your home…” your eyes widen, you never told jade that but just chalk up the sudden information leak as jade being jade. you side step him and motion for him to come inside.

he declines, “i have a shift at monstro in 10 minutes so i must be on my way.” he’s about to bend down for a kiss when he stops himself with a hand politely covering his mouth.

“dear me, almost forgot i have another 7 weeks to go with no kisses” he deflates “ill be on my way then”

just as expected you grab for his collar and yank him to your height. smashing your lips onto his jade hands reflexively goes to your cheeks, smushing them slightly as he deepens the kiss.

“next time” jade pulls away, wiping your lip of salvia, then swiping his on lip his the covered thumb. “don’t bring ‘sharkie,’ as eels are very territorial of their mates.”

[drenched-in-sunlight]

probably a weird read of all the mending rune endings but I feel like Marika guided a Tarnished of no renown to become the next Elden Lord because, should the new Age still has her as a God, at least the new Lord would not prioritize their feelings for her over the world anymore (like Godfrey & Radagon did).

as Ansbach said “a Lord not for Gods, but for men”.

She’s already a really flawed God with too much love and hatred and humanity even after her ascension, a God who is willing to break rules for her loved ones (at least from my interpretation), and 2 previous Lords are…too involved with her. No matter if one interprets that as love or duty, you can’t deny those two guys act in accordance with their interest in her. Look how well that turned out.

So I feel like the reason a random Tarnished got the chance to become the next Lord is because Marika wanted them to know the Lands Between first, to love this land & the life within on their own term, with their own journey separate from her.

We don’t need to love or to know her at all.

And so she can trust us to always choose the greater good over her.

(But joke is on her I’ll suck af as a Lord I love her too much I’ll literally just be Godfrey Radagon 2.0 😭😭)

[nenestansunsthings]

having svsss au ideas beyond my station

thinking. shang qinghua goes on a mission as a young disciple to some town in fuckoff nowhere and finds himself in the qiu household. and there he finds a young shen jiu, undergoing the plot he originally intended for him and hadn't realised had become real and he's so young oh god hes so young why is he so small what do you mean that part was real, he hadn't kept it why is it real—

and he panics and sneaks him the Fuck out of that house

and he's not sure what to do but surely sending him to cang qiong will fuck up something in the plot and he can't come under even more investigation and cang qiong tryouts dont happen for months anyway and his system would probably never allow it (it doesnt. it would interfere with yue qingyuans story) but shen jiu is refusing to stay anywhere near this place and wants to learn cultivating to protect himself make sure nothing like this ever happens again and sqh panics harder and

calls mobei jun.

okay. on second thought, maybe this was a bad idea. but he stumbles over himself and shushes baby shen jiu's very understandable freaking out and asks his king for the first thing hes ever asked for other than his own life.

is there any way this human child could learn cultivation in the demon world?

[chamoemileclown]

StarBobby!

[sesamenom]

realized the @blumineck pose was perfect for celegorm so here he is!