#is getting put through the wringer

[arcxnumvitae]

Now that he thought about it, instead of "fight and fuck" wouldn't "beaten and fuck" be a more apt descriptor for him?

[harmonysanreads]

Phainon has the very bad habit of not being able to control the rush of gratitude he's splashed with whenever you're minding your own business in a shared space. One passing thought that you're really there, that you're his and he's leaping to you ; picking you up, twirling you around as dizzying gibberish fill the air, squeezing and pressing kisses with all the affection his little heart fails to contain — you know, the whole shebang.

[tokidokifish]

dawntrail levels 90-96 vs 96-100

[amaltheas-garden]

I miss when Alicent was allowed to have emotions

the range 🤌

[reallilystuff]

that sounded kinda gay

ref below cut

[deconstructthesoup]

Every single Quangle Gorgug has been in has just been Gorgug's Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

[jellyskink]

I would absolutely love to see what Ford was doing the last time he "fucked up" enough to get punished by Bill in the mindscape.

Ford didn't tell Stan that this was the result of him urging Ford to stand up for himself in this small way. He just said, "My Muse is looking into it"

[aceouttatime]

Deso Tevvitus, Citadel Special Tactics and Reconnaissance

Yet another First-Contact-War-era character of mine who has become a bit of a brainworm. Was this just an excuse to draw another turian? Why, no! Of course not!

Yes. Yes it was.

[epicfirestormer]

Okay look, I've never really read Greek mythology (my only exposure is EPIC the musical and I've never read The Odyssey or The Illiad so bear with me) but I feel like Odysseus is cursed to always suffer. Not in the same sense Cassandra or Sisyphus are actually cursed, but in an almost unwritten rule sort of thing. Like, how much of an unlucky bastard do you gotta be to constantly be thrown around by one god to another. How are the gods so involved in his life. First is Athena, which fair enough, she chose him as her champion. That one wasn't a problem. But then he runs into Polyphemus, who is POSEIDON'S SON. which, talk about unlucky. then he runs into Aeolus, which also wasn't actually a problem until the crew fucked around and found out with the wind bag, then he runs into Actual Poseidon, gets most of his crew obliterated and then yeeted to CIRCE'S island after that, because of course he does. Only after he found out his leftover crew ran into Circe of all people and was about to go confront her, does he run into Hermes who genuinely has no reason to be here and doing all this besides maybe helping his great grandson and also for entertainment purposes. Then he runs into Circe and it turns out she's pretty chill actually when she realized that he really just wants to go home and not stick around to do anything bad. Anyway, they don't run into any gods for like a saga and a half, which is a new record really, but shit still goes wrong because Of Course It Does and THEN Eurylochus tries to kill one of Helios' cows and then fucking ZEUS comes in to chime in and give Ody the illusion of choice (where he'll suffer no matter what he chooses). Zeus is literally just taking the piss out of this whole thing, and when Odysseus makes his choice, he STILL gets fucked over by being sent to CALYPSO'S island and being stuck there for SEVEN YEARS. Like, at that point it's just Zeus being petty. I'm more surprised that we don't have more scenes of Odysseus breaking down in tears during the entire musical. He's just being used like a ragdoll and thrown around.

Like. Odysseus' story is only a tragedy for everyone involved. It's actually a comedy of error for all the gods who are watching.

[freewayshark]

It really does make me wonder what else has been shot down by Fox. Because buddie is obviously the thing that we’re more able to clearly connect dots on even before Oliver started saying anything about any of it, but you know it’s not the only thing, we just don’t have the threads to pull on for anything else

[radiantmists]

Something I was thinking about while writing my chorb fic for Charles Week is that I don't think there's actually any canonical suggestion that orb form is something ghosts fall into naturally. If I remember correctly, the only time we see the orbs is when Esther captures the boys, and she specifically mentions that she was keeping Charles trapped that way, which suggests that it's something she did to them to keep them docile.

However, I do love orb content. I ran with the fanon interpretation in the fic because it's fun, but while I was writing it, another thought occurred to me: what if Edwin, in a last-ditch attempt to keep Charles safe from some threat (or prevent him from dissipating due to a grievous injury), turns him into an orb?

Presumably he'd run across the spell in some evil wizard's tome, recorded as a way to conveniently store ghosts for later use (since apparently they're a nice magical snack). He probably only memorized it so that he could recognize if someone was trying to cast it on them in the future. But now he's got Charles' soul trapped in his hands, neatly packaged up for someone to steal or consume.

He's probably still stuck in a desperate situation. Maybe in this state he can't even feel Charles, just a well of magical energy that would be so easy to tap into. And of course Edwin is never tempted for a moment to do that, but now he has to carry Charles safely out of there and figure out how to turn him back. Maybe the book he saw the spell in is in Charles' backpack and therefore inaccessible, or maybe it didn't include a method for undoing the spell at all, leaving Edwin to choose between two terrible options: experimenting on the orb, or looking for someone familiar with that spell-- ie, a magician who collects ghosts-- to teach him how to undo it.

I don't really know where this goes from here but the idea has so much potential to put Edwin through the emotional wringer, it's fun.

[wisteriaclaw]

odos!!!! slimegirl with the forlornest eyes. something abt him is just so hard to capture but i tried very hard

[zeb-z]

I love the Tina ‘build a pond with fish!’ and Bad ‘make a statue for capybaras!’ federation tasks, with good rewards and payment vs Cellbit ‘investigate the horrors’ tasks, getting paid in fake currency and pocket lint. it’s the opposite of favoritism. like Bad gets three stacks of gilded blackstone, an unobtainable nether block, for cranking out a real quick statue - while Cellbit has to present several investigative journals, photographic evidence, and theories into some obscure threatening mystery, only to get photos of the dude he hates most on the entire island. he’s employee of the month and they are not paying him a dime

[nightingaletrash]

Viago lost his curls because of all the stress Alessia puts him through on a regular basis :)

[starsprlte]

down the waterfall and up through the clouds!

[simbleleven]

Three of Swords: The Villareals

You guys already know what Teenage!Max looks like, but what about the rest of his siblings? After all, I keep mentioning them; Luna's now taken over as the head of the family, meanwhile Hugo continues to do his own thing. Despite their first introduction, the siblings are much closer now, no thanks to the elusive Villareal Incident of six years ago. They now live in a townhouse in Havisham Street, Windenburg – sure, space-wise a real downgrade from their childhood manor, but these new walls...feel much homelier.