#its been a while since i posted anything at all

[kickcod]

short fic inspired by @rawme-price 's post (check it out if you haven't already its so good) and all the comments hybrid!au 141 with wolf!hybrid!soap and reader, misunderstandings get cleared up, bit of angst with fluff. enjoy!

Your pack was rejecting you. That was the thought that had you shooting out of your hospital bed in a panic.

Only a few days ago, you had been on a helicopter, watching Soap- the other wolf hybrid on the squad- getting all the attention you had been craving. You had been jealous, but tried to ignore it. After all, You weren’t as visibly a hybrid, and didn’t want to be accused of being insensitive or trying to play into your instincts too much. Unfortunately, the situation had spiralled since.

It started almost the next day, with everyone giving you the cold shoulder. You weren’t sure why- had you done something wrong? Over the next few days you tried to ask, but found yourself scoffed at. Your pack was avoiding you, and when you asked about it you didn’t get a clear answer. You were shut out, and it hurt. Pack instincts were especially strong in wolf hybrids, even if your hybrid nature wasn’t instantly visible aside from your small yet sharp canines. Your brain slowly clammed its way into a dark place, instincts taking over in a way you’d never fully experienced before.

You weren’t sure what exactly had happened, only that you had wound up in a bed in the medical center on base, being checked out for self-inflicted wounds. Bite marks marked your skin up and down, your own sharp teeth had drawn blood in several places. The doctor had done well to patch the wounds up, but also ended up calling Price- the captain being the last person that you had wanted to see. 

“Right- What the hell is your problem?” Price’s smooth voice filled the room, sending shivers down your spine. The glare shot at you was far from friendly, akin to a frayed wire that was about to snap. You failed at suppressing a whine, only to get a sigh from the captain. He began to search through your files, ‘tsk’ing disappointedly while he read.

“First you’re uncomfortable with hybrids, now you’re trying to act like one? You-”

The captain pauses in his tracts. He looks up at you, back down to the file, and back up again. The anger turns to confusion. The confusion ebbs away into a sudden understanding, as the species clear as day states ‘wolf hybrid’. He clears his throat, swallowing down all the bitterness he had held towards you before.

“..Why didn’t you say anything?” His voice comes out softer, suddenly more understanding. You pause for a second, only easing up slightly as you realized what the situation was. They had all misunderstood jealousy for hatred- which was understandable, considering how much shit hybrids get in general.

“I get a lot of shit for it. Either I act too much like a human, or too much like a wolf. I don’t want to act like,” you pause for a second, collecting your thoughts, “Like I’m doing it for attention.”

Your words only succeeded in getting the captain to frown.

“You know we wouldn’t think that way about you, right? We’re s’posed to trust each other.” You look up at him, watching as he grabs his phone to, presumably, send a message to the rest of the squad. He looks back at you with something akin to pity, a strange feeling pooling in the gut of your stomach. Slowly, he makes his way over towards the cot, and runs a hand over your scalp. Instantly, you can feel the change in your instincts, the tension in your body easing out slowly but surely as blunt fingernails scratch at the base of your neck. 

You’re not sure how much time passes, but after a while you hear the door opening, followed by the rest of the squad walking into the room sheepishly. Gaz looks more than slightly embarrassed, with apologies slipping out of his mouth the second he sees the state you’re in.

“Oh my god I’m so sorry, I thought-” The rest of his sentence is incoherent, but you can roughly tell what he was getting at. He thought you were a human who didn’t like hybrids. The rest follow suit, murmuring soft apologies. You can’t help but laugh awkwardly, your instincts finally resting as the notion that your pack had rejected you leaves your brain.

The rest of the night is spent cuddling together, with the rest of the team giving you the princess treatment to make up for the past week.

[disheveledapathy]

Hunted and Beast, the largest of the voices and vessels - the line where it says hero is to give size perspective and so far all of the voices have been with in heros height (i have another sheet that has him on there that i use as a ruler, on this piece tho i couldnt cuz otherwise these two wouldnt fit on the page lol)

Hunted:

Frekninn - as posted before a frekninn is the narator worlds version of a griffon, a wolf like being with hawk/crow features. theres actually still some around that do invite hunted to join their pack. it declines in favor of its fellow voices

It/its - hunted and beast are it4it, just two not so wild animals circling each other

Two mouths - frekninn are known for their perculiar ananotomy where their speach comes from a lower mouth below a beak but the eat and intimidate from a wolf snout that rests abt that beak. they also have two sets of eyes but on set is always closed depending on with mouth is open. when the wolfs maw is closed it give the impression that theyre only wearing a fur hood

hunted and beast woke up in a clearing of tall grass in one of the few remaining forests. it was obvs terrified of beast intially and hid. but then was confused when beast simply turned around and chased after a different easier meal. it remembered how troublesome hunted had been in the cabin and now that they were both out it doesnt feel the need to eat hunted anymore

but that doesnt mean beast was prepared to hunt for other creatures. after watching it struggle to catch anything of substance from a distance for a while hunted put its quick and quiet skills to use. in a show of peace hunted offered beast the first bite. beast in a surprising turn tore the strage deer it caught in half so both could eat at the same time.

from then on both had a bit of a silent agreement and they traveled together for sometime, both bonding over what they could provide for the other as a pack

however, when it came to other voices (and vessels) they were torn. hunted as a frekninn was more pack oriented and it wanted strength in numbers. beast felt nervous both as sphinx which is a solitary creature, and because dispite its ability to ignore the urge to eat hunted, it doesnt have quite the same restraint towards the other voices. they both decide to go separate ways but to reconvene secretly so not to scare the other voices

basically by the time most of the voices and vessels group back up again, hunted and beast have had a secret relationship the entire time, theyre practically married by the time all the voices and vessels are together - and no one fucking knows

also to be clear, hunted is the more flirty of the two when theyre alone, in canon if given the room to be confident hunted has shown that it can be both self-assured and also knows what flirting is (anyone else think forever abt how hunted was the first to be like "the look! weve all used it" bitch this man (gender neutral) has rizz)

Beast

Sphinx - flightless big cat creatures of the old world before the construct. most believe they were purely myth and only one is know to exist besides beast (tho her existence is a long kept secret by a certain settlement that will come up later with adver and stubbs) ive posted abt them before, theyre clever collectors , nomadic, mostly solitary

it/its - beast and hunted are it4it

Wild connection - Fauna - it can command and sense the creatures of the wild, which it hones to better hunt or to intimidate to protect its partner Hunted

It has complicated feelings abt hunted, since theres a part of its mind that is still animal, but between the connection lq made in den and the fact it can think more clearly now that its not in the cabin it has realised it doesnt want to hurt hunted anymore. it remembers being the wild and being one, the feeling of being one before sm and lq were split apart, the connection they made - it cares abt hunted. even if it does look v tastey

it helps that it no longer needs to swallow hunted whole to get out of the cabin, a good portion of its motivation for trying to eat hunted was less abt sustenance and more abt freedom. now beast is free and can do what it likes, and if finds it quite likes hunting with the little fledgling as opposed to hunting the voice

it also enjoys collecting things , little baubles or trinkets from ruins whatever feels like it has a story. hunted quickly picks up on this and in true crow/bird fashion leaves trinkets it thinks beast will like around when it knows its following the group hunted gathered

while not as clever with wprds as other sphinx, beast is clever in other ways, thinking outside the box with solving things or using the trinkets it collects to solve problems. it is more quiet verbally tho, soft and conscise and communicating through looks with hunted

Hunted and Beast Playlist:

[syhli]

ANGELKISS. PART 01.

wc: 1.4k words | this chapter contains: cannibalism, murder, animal death, allusions to reader having an eating disorder. frequent descriptions of vomiting and consumption of gore. (not proofread!)

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A few things had led to this point.

One: considering it was just you and your grandmother living in this sodden neighborhood in an equally dull house, it meant the pale stench felt colder, lonelier, with her deciding to go on vacation. You’re alone for two weeks while she’s away to some resort that’s seemingly brighter and full of life with a name that you hadn’t heard before.

You wouldn’t be able to reach her, she’d blurted the night before leaving. You didn’t think much of it, how she carelessly dropped these tidbits as if she was still young and full of life’s spunk. For an eighty year old woman, it didn’t surprise you much.

And while you had a somewhat sustainable part-time gig to keep some steady flow of cash, she left you with God knows how much to keep yourself afloat with food for 14 days. You’d been monotonous in your thanks, bidding her goodbye with not much inflection of care in your voice that early morning. At least, her excitement was the most color you’d seen in the neighborhood over the past two years since moving in with her.

Two: you had a rather unique diet come up suddenly.

It’s day three of having the house to yourself but you’ve been incapable of digesting anything. Leftover pizza on your first night alone was instantly regurgitated through your mouth, leaving a bitter aftertaste that mouthwash couldn’t even cleanse. The second day took in Chinese takeout—settling just fine for a few hours until it all came back out the next morning.

Which was hours ago.

Followed by a hot shower and brushing your teeth thoroughly—you tried for a simple, flavorless ham sandwich. Like everything else, and no longer to your surprise, it excused itself from your stomach faster than the rest. Nothing of typically palatable taste was appetizing. Where any person’s most exquisite craving would be a medium rare steak with stir-fried vegetables; the meal itself only made you churn in disgust.

Three: you’d gotten a new neighbor.

(Right after you caught a wild rabbit in the backyard. Right after taking it back inside and holding it over the kitchen sink and took a chunky bite out of it and well, fur didn’t taste all too great but the tang of its raw flesh while it squealed ferociously—)

(Oh. There goes the doorbell.)

(Leave the carcass in the sink. Wash your hands. Messy eater. There’s so much blood. A lot of it—)

The new neighbor was rather tall, broad shoulders complimenting his mature form and giving indication of a well-toned physique beneath his comfortable clothes. He introduced himself as Sylus; his voice carrying a cool, captivating baritone that was like a gentle seduction. He was compelling, in a way. Elusive, curious, but you still remained wary in spite of it all.

(“You look… rather pale.” He spoke with a slight undertone of amusement, concern mostly curtaining it, “Are you alright?”)

(You nodded, breaking from your spell and chuckling awkwardly. “Yes, ah… sorry. Normally my grandmother would be answering the door, but she’s not home.”)

(Sylus, then, flashed a soft smile: “I don’t mind. I’m just glad to meet a kind face. Everyone seems a bit on edge, neighbor.”)

You had been blind this morning. (And you could semi-blame your hunger.)

—Oh yes. The fourth thing.

Four: around 10:13PM, you heard distressed cries from the house next door to the right. You had rushed over, unsure if others within streets’ proximity had heard the unsettling disturbance that was rather unique to the quaint atmosphere.

You didn’t care about the possible charges as you broke the window to get in, not minding if your freshly changed pajamas would get scrapped up somehow.

But for the cat’s curiosity would deem it trouble, your efforts would present you with the grisly sight of a man heaving over his wife’s bloodied corpse. Disturbing, tense silence prefaced your murder-ridden neighbor’s head slowly turning to face you. His expression seemingly distant, a frenzied look in his eyes.

In his hand? A classic kitchen butcher knife, drenched in the fresh corpse’s blood.

You reacted quickly when he lunged towards you.

A few split seconds of dodging sloppy, weak movements. It was only once the knife slipped from his wet hands that you finally gained the upper hand—tackling his stout figure to the ground and gouging his eyes with both of your thumbs.

His screams lasted for twenty seconds. His body twitched for forty.

For you?

You stopped keeping time the moment your hands dove into his stomach, ripping it open to reveal the very feast you’d starved yourself of for three days. Delectable. Glistening under piss-yellow fluorescent ceiling lights. Red red red red.

Beautiful and vibrant. Staunch in rouge. It shined like oversaturated glamour shots of bold, satin red lipstick they force actresses and models to wear especially when it doesn’t match their complexions.

You tugged at intestines, breathing hard as salivation bubbled from the back of your throat to the tip of your tongue. Eat, your impulses had screamed. Eat.

Feast.

This point.

Here.

Now.

You can’t describe the taste as your teeth sink into flesh. Squelches of moist texture and thick fluid sticking to your bare palms, now spilling over your chin and painting the corners of your mouth and everywhere else it may splash to amid the lower half of your face. Big bite, chew, swallow. Again and again.

Feast.

Feast.

Feast.

“Now just look at this.”

You freeze, caught by a stricken gasp. Messy eating now at a halt—it was quiet enough to hear the droplets of blood falling from your chin, landing with a soft splotch.

You feel it again, hearing and knowing that husky, enthralling baritone. The compulsion.

Sylus, despite his large stature, is elegant with each step he takes, letting out a soft whistle as he circles the scene. He chuckles, completely unperturbed by the gruesome sight. In fact, he admires it like he were looking upon a garden with newly blossomed flowers. Ones that were perfectly aligned with their rightful season to thrive and be well.

“Your indulgence is like that of a newborn’s,” he chides, crouching before the husband’s corpse on the other side. “Eager. Theatrical. Disgusting.

“You’re of sound mind to have learned proper table manners.”

For however long he took to finally speak more, you didn’t care. You started to eat again. The squelches return, more dramatic sloshes and splashes only sounded when you tear some pieces of spleen into smaller chunks to bite like they were fruit snack gummies. Your body’s hot with the adrenaline, thankful that it’s finally being fed.

Sylus watches you as you enjoy yourself.

His smile never wavers. Then—he reaches forward with a hand, his finger close to dipping into the open display of the husband’s insides.

You stop him with a hardened glare. Everything you hold drops to your thighs, then the carpet. Your hand catches his wrist just as his nail barely grazes your meal. At your defense, a gleam could be seen shimmering in Sylus’ ruby gaze.

His eyes remind you of the revolting atmosphere that surrounds you both. A color much prettier than spilled guts, for sure.

Then he laughs, heartily. He retracts his arm, thoroughly amused.

Where you anticipated returning to your meal, uncomfortable stirs make themselves known in your stomach. You gag, your hunched form turning aside, away from the viscera as you cough and hack violently. Your head is spinning, tears brimming your eyes as the itches in your throat feel like parasites aching to gnaw through.

Your back contracts first, then red spillage regurgitates. A ghastly sight of crimson chunks and bile projectile onto the carpet.

For your feasting, you shall suffer, too.

Sylus says nothing.

The corner of his mouth twitches, grinning as his gaze flutters between your debauched form and the puke. While he’s not the biggest fan of warm-toned lighting, there’s something about the putrid overlook that paints you like a standout over everything else. You are somehow the brightest thing, the centerpiece of an illustration.

He, who has been a firsthand witness to eons of humanity’s unraveling, is finally intrigued.

Sylus likes you very much.

© SYHLI 2025. DO NOT TRANSLATE, COPY, OR FEED TO TRAIN A/I.

[insignificance01]

ilike reblog games ill jump in here real quick... under a readmore cause its a lot of talkin

xiu xiu: kind of forget... its been a bit since i got into them. ive been aware of them for a good while but i think talking to some friends about them finally made me bite the bullet and listen to a promise and i dont think ive cried as hard over an album since...... actually maybe some parenthetical girls stuff. and also fabulous muscles lmfao. dunno for sure

the blood brothers: my dad popped cecilia and the silhouette saloon or peacock skeleton with crooked feathers on in the car on the drive home from a dentist appointment years ago and ive been deep in love ever since !

tdep: i listened to calculating infinity and got a little high on accident while i was at my mom's friend's house and wanted to do anything but watch waynes world lmfao. kind of hated it at first actually.......but i did meet another really avid dillinger fan who infected me real bad with them so im stuck posting like an actual freak about them

bubblegum octopus: they had intrigued me for a while because i knew people online who loved them and hated them but i was feeling really utterly depressed and just fucked all over and decided to pop on 'the album formerly known as eight legged dance moves.' life changing shit for me tbh... bgo remain really deeply important for me

jeff rosenstock/btmi: my mom loves his shit ! practically grew up with it. simple as that really. same also applies to ajj

racebannon/rapider than horsepower: had an acquaintance who was cuckoo for racebannon and in the grips of the light is about the farthest you can take hardcore in the direction of terrifying manic shit. one of my favorite albums ever i dont connect with too much music to the degree I connect with it.........also a close friend of mine sent me a song off rapider than the world and that changed me a bit. whose ego my ego is a "literally me" (ish) song if there ever was one for weirdo indie sass pop lowkey post rock

jim orourke: very recent addition. i listened to eureka a whiiile ago and didn't fully get it...but a diff close friend of mine posted herself listening to insignificance and i dreamt about it so I thought. "Well if its something I dream about i should surely listen !" and that. Was a great and terrible decision. Get a room makes me sick its so great one of my favorite songs ever

of montreal: ive held an affection for them for so long I kinda cant remember...i think a friend had me listen to hissing fauna and it made me so utterly depressed I was in love immediately... same with paralytic stalks ! In a different timeline I would go by Kevin id say

animal collective: another band i was aware of for a while but never really fully listened until i started talking to a good friend (same friend as the jim orourke friend) if im not mistaken. I mightve heard spirit theyre gone spirit theyve vanished before that but I cant remember. I listened to danse manatee and loved it and I listened to hollinndagain and it is one of my favorite albums ever and i dont think theres much more emotionally resonant with me

the mars volta: my dad put on drunkship of lanterns in the car and I hadn't heard ANYTHING that sounded so cool at that point and I think its where a lot of my love for weird proggy stuff comes from... similar to how ttng is where my love for mathy stuff comes from id say

fuck buttons: street horrrsing's title and album art immediately grabbed me. i had heard some of the blanck mass material before, and i knew i had a good friend who looooved them, so i decided to put them on... that while album is less an album and more experience. life affirming. gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous so wonderful perfect listen to sweet love for planet earth NOW. Their other stuff also rawks

the mae shi/gowns: friend who's cooler than me had me listen to terrorbird... didn't entirely get it at first. listened to the mae shi / rapider split... still didnt really get it. fast forward a good bit and I find someone talking about broken bones on a rym list they made about albums they'd kill themselves to. it intrigued me from their description of it and i really liked the album art so i put it on and. theres no real words to describe what gowns do but i like "post rock on the fringes of post rock" a bit. I guess. but it is just.....fuck. all of their music is unrelenting and bleak its the best shit ever. come to find out ezra buchla is in both the mae shi and gowns ! i put on terrorbird again and i fucking loved it this time around, the weird bullshit glitchy tracks were much appreciated and ezras vocals and his work generally has become very very dear to me...erika m andersons work too !!!!!!!

an albatross: we are the lazer viking appeared to me and I wasn't too interested by their brand of sass at first but some friends were discussing blessphemy and joked that it was the shortest prog album ever. naturally this piqued my interest...I put it on and OUGGSGGFHDHHCHDHHDHDH NUTTING EVERYWHERE. idk how else to describe it its just sexy compositionally they dont have a bad record idk what to say theyre the best shit ever to me

OK so

Another tag and reblog game! (I love making these with my fav moots </3)

Tell me how u discovered your favourite music artist!

Ill tell you how I discovered mine (Michael Jackson♥️)

Okkk so like I was playing just dance (My fav game when I was little ^_^) and I saw the song "I want you back" by The Jackson 5 on. I had already heard of MJ so I was like "Ok I think he might have been in this band" so I ask my dad who was playing with me and he was! I was like "Ok cool!" Then i decided to listen to some of his music (Beat it was the first song I heard by him!) and HOLY SHIT THAT WAS THE DAY MY LIFE CHANGED FOREVER!!!!! I asked my dad to teach me more abt him and I know basically everything about him now, I have heard most of his songs by now and in case ur curious my fav song by him is "I just can't stop loving you" and my fav album is Bad (BAD IS BETTER THAN THRILLER CHANGE MY MIND!) and my fav Music Video is Smooth Criminal!

Also with Bowie:

It was like very close to valentines day this year and at the time I HATED Bowie with a passion (idk why cuz I had never even heard a single song by him) and "Starman" Came on the radio and I was like "OMG TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF" and my dad kept saying "you'll love Bowie if you give him a chance" and he was like "Y'know what, imma keep this on cuz you WILL like it" and he was right I guess! 😭

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[pubbamoon]

Domicile, Exaltation, Detriment and Fall

Hello! I'm starting a new series here on Tumblr: Essential Dignities. In this series, I'm going to explain how planets work and in which signs these planets function the best and the worst. There are many ways to see if some planet is dignified or not. In this post, I'm going to focus more on the most popular way to describe the dignity of the planets, which are domicile, exaltation, detriment and fall. I have been planning to make this post for a months, because I think the dignity of the planets is very overlooked on the internet for some reasons. People just don't talk about that. But it's the key to describe if the planet is functioning good or bad in someone's birth chart. I hope you'll find this post interesting.

The planets are one of the most important things in astrology. They're a celestial bodies which influence our life, basically. Each planet represents the area or the certain circumstance in our life which makes our life harder or easier. The planets want to do something, while the zodiac signs show if the planets can or cannot do something the planets want to. For example, the Sun wants to see things as they really are, the Moon wants to blend and belong, Mercury wants to contradict, to fall apart and come undone, Venus wants to be accepted, Mars wants to separate, Jupiter wants to unify and organize the community, while Saturn wants to isolate and end something. The dignity of these planets shows if the planets can do all of these things and it depends on the zodiac sign they're placed in.

There are seven traditional planets in Hellenistic astrology, which I practice. In this post, I'm going to explain to you how each planet functions when it's domiciled, exalted, in detriment and fallen.

Domicile

When the planet in in its own sign, that means it's in domicile or is domiciled, however you wanna call it. A domiciled planet has a strength on its own, functions very well, is fully autonomous and can do whatever it wants to do. Having the planets in its own signs indicates being in an environment where you're fully supported by the people around you and where you can achieve something you want to achieve easily. That is usually because the planets in their own signs have everything they need, so they don't need validation from others, if you know what I mean by that.

Sun in Leo: The planet Sun rules Leo, meaning that the Sun is domiciled in Leo. The Sun represents the light, father, authority, intelligence, wisdom, logical thinking, the norms and everything that is consider as normal. The Sun is very important planet because without the Sun, we wouldn't see anything, since the Sun brings light to the world and allows us to see things as they really are. In Hellenistic astrology, Leo is present in the middle of a summer solstice, where people have fun the most and think that the Sun is going to shine forever. That's why Leo is always considered as a sign which entertains others to make people feel happy. Having the Sun in Leo usually indicates having a strong father figure, being intelligent, knowing exactly how the norms work, even being very noticeable and famous.

Moon in Cancer: The planet Moon rules Cancer, so the Moon is in domicile in Cancer. The Moon represents mother, family, our roots, mind, appearance, body etc. It can also represent travel, since it's the fastest moving planet, so it's always moving. Cancer is the zodiac sign which starts the summer solstice on June 21st each year, where the light is at its peak and where the days last longer than the nights. By saying that, Cancer represents a climax and reaching the extreme. The Moon needs that climax in order to function optimally and it has eight phases from the New Moon when it's literally a newborn to the Full Moon when it's at its full potential. Individuals who have the Moon in Cancer usually have a strong mother figure and a strong sense of belonging. These people find it easier to change their mood, to move and to travel. They also have a strong intuition.

Mercury in Gemini or Virgo: Mercury rules both Gemini and Virgo, which means that Mercury is domiciled in both of these signs. Mercury is a messenger, it receives a knowledge or an information from the Sun and it shares that knowledge/information to the other planets. Mercury is one of the fastest moving planets in astrology, so it's constantly changing. That means that Mercury's nature is to contradict, to fall apart and to come undone. Mercury represents trickery, cheating, commerce and the people who are trendy and who sell us things. Gemini and Virgo are mutable or double bodied signs, meaning that they always change their narrative. Gemini is a masculine expression of Mercury, while Virgo is a feminine expression of Mercury. Both of these signs relate to chaos and saying one thing, but doing another thing, a.k.a. contradiction. Having Mercury in Gemini or Virgo indicates being multi-talented, sharing the information with ease, being good at natural sciences (math, physics, chemistry etc.) and having an access to easily fall apart and come undone.

Venus in Taurus or Libra: Venus rules both Taurus and Libra, so Venus is in domicile in both of these signs. Venus represents love, sex, romance, desire, art and everything that is pleasurable. It's a benefic naturally, so it represents the privileges in our life and good things that happen in our life. In our birth charts, this planet shows something about our partner/spouse. Venus wants to be social and to be accepted by others. Taurus is the feminine expression of Venus, while Libra is the masculine expression of Venus. People who have Venus in Taurus or Libra in their charts can lead a social life and are accepted by everyone. They find it easier to connect with other people and to enjoy things in life. These people are prone to hedonism and laziness rather than into productivity and hustle culture. They have a good eye for aesthetic, art, music, fashion etc. They also tend to accept everything as it is, since Venus seeks acceptance.

Mars in Aries or Scorpio: Mars rules both Aries and Scorpio, so it's in domicile in both of these signs. Mars is the planet which represents war, violence, action, separation, injuries and negative things that happen in our life. This planet forces us to do things we naturally don't want to do. It can also represent people in our life we're not in contact with, who force us to get out of our comfort zone etc. Aries is the masculine expression of Mars and is more direct while arguing or fighting. Meanwhile, Scorpio is the feminine expression of Mars, it wants the world to become a better place by separating negative things and keeping the positive things in our life. Those who have Mars in Aries or Scorpio in their charts are good at commanding and at saying what's good and bad, making them a good soldiers, investigators or cops. They have a power to separate things that are no longer needed and to take structural and revolutionary changes which can be beneficial for many people, but in order to change something, we need to fight for that.

Jupiter in Sagittarius or Pisces: Jupiter rules both Sagittarius and Pisces, meaning that Jupiter is in domicile in these signs. Jupiter represents law, order, morality, friendships, brotherhood, community, unification, children etc. It's a benefic which shows the favorable area of our life. It also deals with places like schools, universities and churches where there are many people with similar beliefs unified. Sagittarius is the masculine expression of Jupiter, it gives law and order to prevent the world from falling apart. On the other hand, Pisces is the feminine expression of Jupiter, so it makes this sign more compassionate and forgiving. Remember that Jupiter also represents forgiving, freedom and giving second chances. People who have Jupiter in Sagittarius or Pisces are social and have the power to integrate many people and to make communities.

Saturn in Capricorn or Aquarius: Saturn rules both Capricorn and Aquarius, which means that Saturn is domiciled in those signs. Saturn is the least visible planet among all seven traditional planets, representing darkness, death, delays, occult, the things that are forbidden or outside of the norms and infinite possibilities. It's also the slowest planet, representing the people who progress slower than average people. Capricorn is the feminine expression of Saturn, making a Capricorn more creative, imaginative and melancholic. Meanwhile, Aquarius is the masculine expression of Saturn and is a more logical sign which is more about idealistic ideas that are not always practical and realistic. People who have Saturn in Capricorn and Aquarius are prone to melancholy and isolation because of the awareness about how the material world is limited, making them glorify the darker parts of life and even death.

It's important to understand that when some planet is in a domicile, that planet is at its home, it has everything it needs and it functions at its finest. In whichever house that domiciled planet is placed, the area represented by this house is more prominent and that area is likely easier for you. For example, having the Sun in Leo in the 7th house means that you might be good in relationships and dealing with other people, since the Sun is domiciled, in its own sign.

Exaltation

Exaltation is another positive placement for the planets. Having exalted planets in natal chart is beneficial because the exalted planets are the privileged planets. Exalted planets from your natal chart give you a privilege in certain area of your life. That's the area of life that is way more easier for you that for the other people, because the environment you live in favors you at some point. For example, having the exalted planet ruling or sitting in the 9th house might give some form of privilege in regards to education to the individual. That individual possibly has a close person working at the University or just has a strong support system in regards to higher education.

Sun in Aries: The planet Sun is exalted in the sign of Aries. In traditional tropical astrology, the Aries season starts at the spring equinox (March 21st), where the days and nights are balanced. What's going on in the majority of the Aries season is that days slowly dominates over the nights. Considering that the Sun represents light and it basically gives light to all the other planets, there's no brainer why the Sun is exalted in Aries. People with the Sun in Aries could be very intelligent, noble and gentle, since the Sun represents intelligence, nobility and authority. Both the Sun and Mars are associate with authority at some point.

Moon in Taurus: The planet Moon in exalted in the sign of Taurus. This sign is ruled by Venus, representing fertility, creation and giving birth, while the Moon represents manifesting, starting anew, mother, change and also fertility. Considering that the Moon and Venus represent the similar things, they must to have something in common, right? Taurus is a fixed sign which continues the spring, representing stability and growth. People with the Moon in Taurus in their natal chart are creative people who are able to do a certain thing over and over again, since the Moon represents change and different phases of life, while Taurus is a fixed sign representing consistency.

Mercury in Virgo: The planet Mercury is exalted in the sign of Virgo. Mercury is the planet that constantly contradicts itself. Virgo is one of the few signs which allows Mercury to go back and forth all the time and to constantly change its motion. Virgo is also a mutable sign, meaning that is always contradicts itself. It says one thing, but does another. The Virgo season happens between the summer and fall, representing the chaos that goes before the transition from one season to another. Virgo is the sign which breaks the illusion of thinking that the summer is going to last forever and that the darker days are actually coming. People who have the Mercury in Virgo are basically allowed to go back and forth and are good at interpreting the messages, since Mercury is the interpreter among all of the other planets in the sky.

Venus in Pisces: The planet Venus is exalted in the sign of Pisces. Venus is the planet of love, comfort and pleasure. This planet wants peace and accepts everything just to be in peace. Pisces is a mutable sign which its season goes in the transition between winter and spring. Pisces is a forgiving sign which represents light at the end of a tunnel and it gives second chances. Venus and Jupiter (ruler of Pisces) are both benefic planets which represents the area of life which goes in our favor. People who have Venus in Pisces are usually compassionate people or are just around compassionate people. They have a luck in terms of love and relationships.

Mars in Capricorn: The planet Mars is exalted in the sign of Capricorn. Mars is one of the malefices in astrology, representing war, aggression, destruction etc. It's a force which makes our life harder. Capricorn season starts in winter solstice (December 21st), the darkest day of the year. The days become shorter, while the nights start to dominate in winter, making the Capricorn all about dark, death and the end of a cycle. People with Mars in Capricorn in their chart usually experience drastic changes in life. For example, your boss dies and now it's your turn to lead his company.

Jupiter in Cancer: The planet Jupiter is exalted in the sign of Cancer. This sign is ruled by the Moon, which signifies the people, union and making people close to each other. Jupiter is a planet of collectivism. It represents places where people with shared beliefs go and unify together, such as schools, universities, churches etc. Cancer season starts in summer solstice (June 21st), the brightest day of the year. The days are longer than nights during the summer. Because of that, Cancer represents the beginning of a new cycle, manifesting and bringing things into existence. People who have Jupiter in Cancer in natal chart find it easier to connect with others and form some kind of unions.

Saturn in Libra: The planet Saturn is exalted in the sign of Libra. This is another cardinal sign where its season starts in fall equinox (September 23rd), where the days and nights are balanced. But what's actually going on in the majority of the Libra season is that the nights start to dominate more than the days. Saturn is the planet of darkness, representing mystery, rebellion and ignorance. The combination of Venus and Saturn makes Libra the sign which accepts the darker side of life which might be rejected by the norms. People with Saturn in Libra in natal chart usually are able to seek and accept the forbidden things or knowledge and they usually fight against the status quo.

What it's interesting about exaltation is that you can use those seven planets as the exaltation rulers of a certain sign. For example, The Sun is the exaltation ruler of Aries, Jupiter is the exaltation ruler of Cancer, Saturn is the exaltation ruler of Libra and so on. It's completely literate to say that Mars is the ruler of Aries, Scorpio and also Capricorn.

Detriment

Now, the detriment is usually the challenging position for every planet to be placed in. Having the planet in detriment is like being in the environment which doesn't support you or feeling like you don't belong in the place you live in. Detriment is the opposite of a domicile, which represents a planet being at its home. This means that the detriment represents being out of place.

Sun in Aquarius: The planet Sun is in detriment and it doesn't like to be in Aquarius. The planet Sun represents the light, authority and norms and it's a cosmic opposite of Saturn, which represents dark, mystery and rebellion. If you have the Sun in Aquarius in your natal chart, you might be a walking contradiction in terms of following the norms of your environment. For example, if the people from your environment are into the right-wing politics, you might be into the left-wing politics. If your environment is into Christianity, you might be an atheist. Since the Sun represents the light, visibility and seeing things as they are, with the Sun in Aquarius, you might have a blurred vision of reality. You may also think in the way that is outside of the norms, since the Sun also represents logical thinking.

Moon in Capricorn: The planet Moon is in detriment and it doesn't like to be in Capricorn. The Moon is all about union, collectivism and bringing people together. It's the cosmic opposite of Saturn, which represents isolation, death and being an outcast. Capricorn is a sign influenced by Saturn and Mars and it's about melancholia, destruction of what we already know and to starting a new way of thinking and seeing things. The Moon also represents light and visibility, so people with the Moon in Capricorn find it harder to see things as they really are. Those people cherish for something that doesn't exist yet, making them hate the limitations of reality.

Mercury in Sagittarius or Pisces: The planet Mercury is in detriment and it doesn't like to be in Sagittarius and neither in Pisces. Those two signs are both ruled by Jupiter and Mercury is the cosmic opposite of Jupiter. Mercury represents things like contradictions, chaos and trickery, while Jupiter represents law and order. People with Mercury in Sagittarius or Pisces could struggle with Mercurial things, such as numbers, solving math problems or interpreting messages, since Mercury is associated with interpreters, researchers and scientists. Mercury in those signs finds it harder to be in a neutral state of being and to go back and forth all the time, forcing it to choose a side.

Venus in Aries or Scorpio: The planet Venus is in detriment and it doesn't like to be in Aries and Scorpio, because those two signs are ruled by Mars. Venus is the cosmic opposite of Mars. Venus represents love, pleasure, harmony and things that make our life easier, while Mars represents war, violence, destruction and things that make our life harder. People who have Venus in Aries/Scorpio in their chart usually are into relationships which are unusual to their environment, so to speak. It can signify being into forbidden relationships, such as being in love with LGBTQ+ partner in a Christian or any other religious environment. Venus likes to say yes and accept things as they are, while Mars likes to destroy things and is very ruthless. That's why Venus cannot find pleasure in Aries/Scorpio.

Mars in Taurus or Libra: The planet Mars is in detriment and it doesn't like to be in Taurus and Libra, because those signs are ruled by Venus. As we already know, Mars is the cosmic opposite of Venus. Mars likes to take action and doing things, while Venus is more into being rather than doing. People with Mars in Taurus/Libra in their natal chart do not tend to rebel against the system, because they don't have a natural survival instincts. These people likely give up every time where something becomes too hard due to the fact that Mars in Venus-ruled signs finds it harder to say that something is wrong and to fight for anything.

Jupiter in Gemini or Virgo: The planet Jupiter is in detriment and it doesn't like to be in Gemini and Virgo, since those signs are ruled by Mercury. Jupiter is the cosmic opposite of Mercury. I've already said that Jupiter represents law and order, while Mercury represents chaos and contradictions. People with Jupiter in Gemini/Virgo in their chart have a hard time connecting with the people or forming any kind of unions. They may want to collectivize the people around them, but Jupiter in Mercury-ruled signs can signify being into a chaotic environment where every person do its own thing, which is more a Mercurial trait. Jupiter cannot really unify people in Mercury-ruled signs.

Saturn in Cancer or Leo: The planet Saturn is in detriment and it doesn't like to be in Cancer and Leo. These two planets are ruled by the luminaries, the Moon and the Sun. Cancer is ruled by the Moon, while Leo is ruled by the Sun. Saturn is the cosmic opposite of the Moon and the Sun. If the Moon and the Sun as the luminaries represent light, visibility and seeing things as they are, then Saturn represents dark, ignorance and imagining or seeing things that don't even exist. People who have Saturn in Cancer/Leo usually find it harder to cope with reality than most of the people. They can see things that are not there at all, making them have a strong imagination, but false perception of reality.

Planets in detriment don't operate the way they should do. Having a planet in detriment is like being a male in a job environment where all the other colleagues are the females. People may look down on you, but you break the societal stigmas, at least. Having a detriment planets can just mean that you're a little bit odd or different among the other people in your environment, so it's not all bad.

Fall

Fall is another challenging placement for the planets to be placed in. Objectively, having planets in fall is worse than having the planets in detriment. Fallen is the opposite of exaltation. While having the exalted planets mean having access to do something we want or need to, having a fallen planets mean your access for anything is denied and it shows a less easy path than having the exalted planets.

Sun in Libra: The planet Sun is fallen in the sign of Libra. This sign is ruled by Venus, making the Libra all about integration, connection and accepting things as they are. Saturn is exalted in Libra because the nights become more dominant in Libra season, making the Libra about accepting the dark and forbidden things which are rejected by social norms. However, the Sun represents social norms, authority and how things should be. The Sun struggles to be in Libra because that planet is then forced to accept or to deal with the things which need to be rejected at all cost. For example, not having filters and showing a real face on social media where there's a rule to look in a certain way is basically a Libra trait.

Moon in Scorpio: The planet Moon is fallen in the sign of Scorpio. The Moon represents home, the people, fertility, start of a new life and bringing people together. However, Scorpio is ruled by Mars, the planet of destruction, war and violence. Scorpio is about acknowledging what is wrong in society, rejecting or cutting that negative thing, but keeping the things that are worthy. The Moon cannot start a new life in a sign which is about ending and destroying things. The Moon also cannot bring people together in a sign which is meant to reject people or some things.

Mercury in Pisces: The planet Mercury is fallen in the sign of Pisces. Mercury is analytical planet which rules over the numbers, communication, speak, math and science. Meanwhile, Pisces is ruled by Jupiter and is more an idealistic, forgiving and compassionate sign which gives second chances. Venus is exalted in Pisces, which makes this sign creative and artistic. Mercury is the cosmic opposite of Venus, because Mercury is about transaction, while Venus is about connection. People with Mercury in Pisces in their chart mostly struggle with math, speaking or just expressing themselves. These people might be great artists, but end up poor because they don't know any business skills. Mercury basically represents commerce.

Venus in Virgo: The planet Venus is fallen is the sign of Virgo. Venus is a planet of love, connection and pleasure, while Virgo is ruled by Mercury, which represents commerce, transaction and science. Those things are very opposite to each other. Venus cannot find pleasure in the analytical sign like Virgo. Venus values commitment since it's associated with love and relationships, but Virgo is a chaotic sign which says one thing, but does another thing, struggling this sign to take it seriously. People with Venus in Virgo in their natal chart may not have a very strong appetite for sex, love and relationships. They might also tend do overanalyze any artistic expression (music, film or portrait), not allowing the art to speak for itself.

Mars in Cancer: The planet Mars is fallen is the sign of Cancer. Mars is a planet of war, violence and destruction, while Cancer is ruled by the Moon, representing the start of a new cycle and devotion. Mars teaches us to let go of things that no longer matter and is always in action, while Cancer is a devoted sign who never lets go of things because of the memories or sentimental reasons. Mars cannot let go of anything in a sign which is meant to connect and stay devoted to things that matter. People who have Mars in Cancer in their natal chart tend to struggle to let go of some things because of sentimental reasons. For example, they're not able to end up the relationship with a partner who is betraying them because they still love that partner.

Jupiter in Capricorn: The planet Jupiter is fallen is the sign of Capricorn. Jupiter is a benefic which makes our life easier, while Capricorn is ruled by Saturn and Mars, which are two malefices in astrology. Also, Jupiter likes to collectivize people with same beliefs, while Saturn tends to isolate people and Mars is here to reject the people and to destroy things. Jupiter cannot unify the people and forming friendships in a sign which represents death, darkness and isolation. People with Jupiter in Capricorn in their chart usually feel like whenever they want to connect with people and make some friends, there's just no place for that.

Saturn in Aries: The planet Saturn is fallen in the sign of Aries. Saturn represents things like darkness, death and unlimited possibilities. That is because when we die, we become free from limitations of reality and we start to have unlimited possibilities. Meanwhile, Aries if influenced by the Sun which is exalted in Aries, making this sign a little bit more realistic rather than imaginative like Saturn might be. Aries is also ruled by Mars, which make this sign more direct and impulsive, rather than slow and steady like Saturn can be. When Saturn is placed in Aries, it's forced to cope with limited reality where there's no unlimited possibilities. People who have Saturn in Aries in their chart tend to struggle with using imagination in the environment where they have to use logic to survive.

Having fallen planets usually means not being able to access things in the environment where any other people are able to do so. It's like being in the place full of wealthy people with connections, while you are isolated, poor without strong connections. You don't have something which everyone else has in your environment. Fallen basically means being fallen from grace and it can be very frustrating to have fallen planets in natal chart.

Remember that these are general observations about planets being in a certain placement. My goal was to describe every planet in any possible dignity/debility. Having domiciled or exalted planets doesn't mean that someone has everything together and neither detrimental or fallen planets means that someone is going to struggle whole life. Every planet in astrology says something very specific about your life and it's not always about you. It can also be about the circumstances of your life you don't have any control. Anyways, I hope you can find this post interesting. I wish I posted more here on Tumblr. We'll see.

Best regards,

Paky McGee

[try-again-bissh]

"Imagine Being Loved by Me" Pt 10

Smoke X Annie X OC Sinners Fic

Modern AU

Posting two parts again today! Part 11 might be my favorite part I have written. I dedicate today's bathtub softness to dear @thebumblebeesworld enjoy, its soft and sweet just like you wow!

Word Count: 2604

Warnings: Much like Kdrama 10-11th episodes we have angst sorry!

Enjoy!

Day 13 of 16

“I didn't think I would have to remind you this but I'm not your woman Smoke, watch how you talking to me” 

He scoffs, yes, she was his woman. She had been his woman for a while now. “Given how often I pry my head out from between your legs I think I've earned even a little bit of honest from you” 

Cassie’s eyes narrowed sharply, “Ah that's it then? I let you drag your dick along my face, I swallow when you cum and suddenly I belong to you, you can demand answers from me?!” 

“Cassie..”  Annie tried to interject, not liking where this was heading at all.

“We more than just that and you know it. I didn't take you for a coward. You big and brave enough to run through me but you can't say shit that matters when it comes down to it.” 

“Y'all let's not do this” Annie stepped between them. 

“Stay outta this Ann” Smoke snapped. Cassie flinched, Annie didn't. She looked to the other woman, their eyes meeting briefly as Annie seemed to beg Cassie to calm down.

“Aye, don't fucking talk to her like that. That's your wife. It's me you mad at, not her. I'm the one that came up in here and I'm the reason for all these fucking fights. Don't you dare yell at Annie.” Her eyes were hard, tone firm and unwavering.

Smoke’s eyes darted to Annie, they softened as he looked over her for a moment before flashing back to Cassie. “If it's your fault, how you planning on fixing it huh? You so quick to take blame. What's your plan then?”

“Elijah c'mon now.” 

“No Annie, she had one foot out the damn door since we started this. She wanna act like I'm overreacting when she wanna pretend she don't give a fuck about any of this.” 

“You knew what it was before you laid up under me, Smoke. I told both of you I was here for a short time. I have a life in New York, my family, my friends, my community not to mention my fucking business. Everything you asking means you haven't listened to a fucking thing I've said since I've been down here” 

“You gon stop talking to me crazy” He demanded, Cassie scoffed in response, rolling her eyes. 

“No one is asking you to leave your life! I'm asking you to stop pretending you don't give a shit about us, stop acting like we was just having fun! That's what I'm asking” 

“We weren't just having fun! You happy?! And what now? Nothing.” She exclaimed, throwing her arms out.

 “Ain't shit changed. I am leaving in two days and y'all will still be here and still be married. That's it. End of. Entertaining anything else is foolish and naive. This whole conversation is a waste of my fucking time” 

Smoke's back stiffened sharply, like he had been stabbed. Annie held her breath. 

“I poured my heart out to you. Told you things only my wife and my brother know about me. Given you so much of me. All I'm asking is that you be real with me, with us. But you running scared like we not even worth a try. We a waste of your time” 

Cassie blinked rapidly, eyes and nose burning at the rawness of his voice. She turned away to face the windows, unable to look at either of them. 

“I guess I'm the bad guy cause I gotta say it. Ain't no room for me in your life. And ain't no room for y'all in mine.” 

She grabbed her bag off the table and made her way out the door, ignoring Annie calling her name behind her.

“Fucking bullshit” Smoke muttered, his jaw clenched tight teeth gritted. 

His wife didn't do this to him, nobody got him worked up like this. 

Cassidy could pretend all she wanted that she didn't feel something for them but he knew she did. He could see it, he could feel it.

Day 12 of 16

Annie leaned back in the tub with a deep content sigh. The water was just the right side of too hot, calendula, mullen leaves, peony and rose petals floating in the water, bubbles mounded up to her chin. 

She was with her last client till 8am. Labor started around 10pm, she wasn't fully dilated till 2am. Cierra was strong and determined and now her and Sasha had a beautiful baby boy. 

Annie was exhausted, Elijah usually always made sure to be here with her after a rough delivery but Cierra water breaking had caught them both by surprise. He was out with Elias meeting a new artist who wanted to do a residency at Club Juke. He wasn't due back till tomorrow afternoon. It's fine, Annie can decompress and relax on her own. 

“Annie? Smoke?” 

Annie felt her heart skip and a smile broke out on her tired face. She had forgotten to text Cassidy. 

“Back here!” She called out. The door opened not too long after, and like a beam of light in the darkness Cassie's smile appeared in the doorway. 

“Hi baby” she said sweetly. “Where yo husband at?” She leaned her arms at the top of the doorway, her tall, thick body stretched out. 

“He's gone, him and his twin out of town on business” 

“Oh. So you got the house to yourself and you pampering yourself. Amazing, good. You deserve it” she nodded approvingly. 

Annie giggled tiredly. “How's your clients, the lesbians?” Cassie asked, crossing her arms and leaning against the doorjamb. 

“Good, delivery was long and rough but baby and Mom were well and healthy when I left this morning.” 

“This morning?” 

“Yeah I didn't get in till 9.” 

“Oh my God, you slept right?” 

“Yeah, woke up couple of hours ago. My sleep schedule is fucked but it's alright.” 

“Don't worry about that now. Get all the rest you need. Have you eaten? I can't make you something before I head out?” 

“Head out? Why?” 

“Uh well I just thought, I don't know. I thought you might want to enjoy having the place to yourself. You look hella cozy” 

Annie looked up at her, “No, not at all” 

“You not hungry? I can make something fast, I'm not as good as you or Smoke but-” 

“I can eat later, come join me?” 

“Huh?” 

“Water’s fine and there's plenty of room, Elijah fits in this tub wit me that's why we got it.” 

Cassie's eyes practically glowed imagining Annie and Smoke in this bathtub together. 

“I'm sweaty and gross, I don't wanna ruin your bath.” 

“You can shower off and join me.” 

Cassie looked at the shower like she had never seen it before. Like her and Smoke hadn't pinned Annie to the wall inside of it just two nights ago. 

“You sure?” 

Annie nodded. “Hurry, please” 

After the fastest most thorough shower of her life, Cassie padded naked and still dripping wet over to the huge claw foot tub where Annie was still lounging. 

Cassie could feel Annie's eyes on her like hands, hot and everywhere all at once while she showered. It made her want to linger and rush to finish all at the same time. 

“I added more hot water” she said as she leaned forward. 

Cassie slid smoothly into the water right behind her. Situating her legs around Annie and wrapping her arms around her body. They sighed in unison. 

Pure peace and contentment. 

“You okay? You seem down?” 

Annie took a deep breath. Elijah was right Cassie could see right inside of them. She left nowhere for them to hide and they didn't want to anyway. 

“Most deliveries are hard. This one was long and arduous. I'm drained after each. I think this couple just hit close to home.” 

Cassie hummed. Her warm hands came up and began rubbing Annie's shoulder with such mind numbing pressure. 

“You wanna talk about it?” 

Annie thought for a moment. She wanted to keep this light, beautiful air around them. 

“Can you talk later?” 

“Yes, of course baby.” 

“Thank you” Annie turned and kissed her. 

“Can you tell me about your day?” Elijah was upset he didn't get to see you before he left. He said Sammie must be plotting against him” 

Annie felt Cassie's laugh vibrate through her, she smiled. 

“I'll be here when he gets back, he's fine. Elijah is so used to getting his way” 

“Don't I know it.” 

“Um, you also get ya way. Especially with me” 

“I have no idea what you are talking about about” 

“Ah yes you do! I have my bag packed, Pearl ready to hop in her car and come get me and you just turn to me with them big ass eyes and I'm Sat” 

“No clue what you talkin bout, really” 

Annie turned and looked at Cassie over her shoulder, her brown eyes rounded and wide. Soft with an edge of pleading. 

“OH MY GOD THATS THE FACE” 

Cassie pointed an accusing finger at Annie's face, her eyes wide with shock. 

Laughter burst through her, Annie couldn't keep the expression on. She did know, Smoke was the same. If Annie asked for the moon while looking at him like that, he would be calling Houston and getting to work convincing them to let him retrieve it.

Annie couldn't take all the credit, Elias had apparently primed his brother since childhood. Huge eyes and a slightly tilted chin and Elijah would fold, not even realizing it. 

She wondered if Cassie pouted when she didn't get her way. She was determined and confident unless made shy. Her and Annie hadn't had a single disagreement since they met, her and Elijah sure had. 

Her husband had a way of bringing out such interesting sides of people. 

Annie was taken from her thoughts by Cassie rubbing her hands with firm pressure down her arms. She took her right hand and began massaging her palms, working her fingers and wrist. Annie didn't realize the tension there until it was gone. 

Cassie repeated the same with her left, before bringing both hands up and pressing kisses to her palms. 

Care, affection and love in each press of her lips. 

Love 

Yeah. Annie thought Elijah would be the last to realize it but Cassie's resistance surprised her. 

They were in love. Annie loved this woman. 

From the moment she saw her photo she was drawn to her, falling further and faster when they met. 

Cassie had her and her man bent outta shape from the second she stepped into Clarksdale, and as the date of her departure loomed closer and closer Annie was worried. 

Cassie had made no mention of what things would be like when she returned home, and if the way she was still trying to give them space and be reasonable was any sign, they weren't going to love the ideas she had about their relationship. 

She's known she was in love for a while now, since Cassie was floating on her back in that lake looking like something out of a myth. Annie felt ready to shout it from the rooftops when she came home and found Cassie and Elijah asleep on the couch, Cassie's arms wrapped around him like a shield even in her sleep. Tears dried on his cheeks. 

Of the little hoodoo Annie knew how to practice, she threw bones often. Premonition was something her Granny said was innate and couldn't really be taught. The spirits either speak when you call or they don't. 

They spoke to Annie. When she found both her and her husband tripping and stumbling around behind a woman who seemed to be caught between running from them and eating them alive, she threw bones about it. 

Annie and Elijah were to heal her. Holes had been gored into the loving parts of Cassie, and filled with cement made of fear. She wasn't sent there for them, they were sent to her. Annie decided to love her with her full self, holding nothing back. 

Still somehow Cassie was a woman absolutely bursting with love. She loved Pearline like a sister and treated Sammie by extension with so much care and affection he had called to threaten Elijah to treat her right,  in his own soft Preacherboy way. Cassie understood the measure of devotion and chosen family, and gave with her whole heart. 

She walked into Mississippi very much her ownself, unapologetically Queer, voraciously Black and cast a spell over all of them. 

How were they expected not to fall in love with her?

A confession would send Cassie out the door, holding on too strong would make them lose her. Annie refused to let this kind of love be lost. They all deserved it. And it seemed Cassie most of all. 

Annie would love and be loving whether Cassie was ready to hear about it or not. Ready to acknowledge what was all around them at all times. Elijah was another story, once he realized his feelings it would be difficult to convince him not to tell her. 

Now in this moment, Annie could practically see their love in the air around them. She could definitely feel it. Her eyes fluttered open, and she sat up slightly to look at Cassie over her shoulder. 

Her eyebrows rose slightly and she waited patiently to see if Annie would speak. Annie turned in the water and laid her head on Cassie's shoulder, her arms closed around her. 

It didn't matter, fear didn't matter, logistics didn't matter, being practical didn't matter. She loved this woman and she wasn't going to let her go. 

“My sweet baby. You work too hard” Cassie kissed her forehead. 

Annie hummed the affection and care melting her exhaustion away. 

“You need a vacation, you can decide if Elijah is invited.” 

Annie giggled. Then a thought floated like steam into Annie's head. 

“I ain't never been to New York befo. Elijah neither.”

“Really? I think you would like it. Harlem has amazing soul food and in my unbiased opinion, Brooklyn is the best places on planet earth” Cassie replied with a confident flourish. 

She hadn't caught the hint yet, no problem Annie thought. “Hmm, what about Seneca?” 

“Huh?” 

“You live out there right? What's it like, you think I would like it?” 

“Umm it's beautiful I can say that much. Mississippi looks very different than that part of the country so I think on a purely aesthetics part you would enjoy it, but it's farm country ain't shit to do.” 

“I like farms, I like cows and old horses and I like farmers” she leaned up and kissed Cassie's chin. 

Cassie was quiet for a long moment. She did this often, she understood what was being said to her and then her doubts would turn the words around. Annie gave her the time. 

“Vacations are for having fun Annie, there's so much to see and do in the city. You can't go to NY and just go upstate, that's not New York. 

“You on vacation now and you're in my bathtub in my small town.” Cassie laughed. 

“That's different, I came cause I got people I care bout here.” 

“I got people I care about in Seneca too, a whole lot” 

Quiet again. 

Cassie huffed and squeezed her arms around Annie again leaning her head back on the rim of the tub. 

Soon. Maybe she would be able to hear it soon. Annie thought. For now she held her woman tight and let the steam and hot water melt her other worries away

Thnks for reading!!!

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rottingbedpost gets vunerable below the cut!!!!!!

i wanna like not be annoying but i really wish you guys would tell me your thoughts and not just like it.... ik maybe i am not the greatest author & am pretty amateur. I know it is super short for how long it took me but I spent over a month thinking about and working on this just for.... idk ? like nobody really saying anything?(not that I expect SO MUCH especially so soon) I just want to be able to talk about it with you guys, if that makes sense. And this sucks because it's been a couple days since I put it out and I have already started working on chapter 3 & the interlude but when I try to write I am just kinda feeling hopeless about it. Like what am I doing this for & am I wasting my time?

Idk if I am being a baby but when I see that someone liked it I am happy but I don't really care? I want to know how it made you feel? What you like, what you don't like. What you think will happen next chapter? Are you exited for the next chapter?

And I get that maybe some people are dissapointed in the length, I am too. But I really didn't have more that I could work into this chapter.

I know this is my insecurities speaking but just seeing peoples thoughts makes me so much more inspired to write & when I was getting replies on the last chapters it made me want to work so much harder, but now its starting to click that most of the replies were just asking to be added to the taglist, which still feels great & I am happy you want to see the rest of the story but it is starting to make me feel more hollow about it.

This is about as long as the fic now so I'll stop while I am ahead. I hope I don't come off as complaining & I genuinly appreciate every note I get on this. But I think my brain just isn't very receptive of the likes and it makes me feel like I am posting it to nobody?

idk... thanks is you read all of this!!!

Chapter 2 - Girlfriend/Boyfriend

Tags - Idol/Canon! Yoongi x 8th Member/Idol/Fem! Reader, Friends/Band Mates to Lovers, Forbidden Love, 8th Member Au

Summary - A new staff has been hired at BigHit Entertainment.

Word Count - 3.6k

Chapter Warnings - Fluff, Angst, Yoongi POV, Love bombing, toxic relationships, The tiniest ity bittiest taste of smut but not really, cursing, women not listening to their intuition, horny Yoongi, reader is still dumb but please protect her, evil man, Min ‘Jealous’ Yoongi, the beggining… the middle… the end…, hints at readers past if you squint, MIA… if you squint…

A/N - Sorry it’s a short one!! But this is all I really wanted for this chapter… SHORT BUT PACKED…in my humble opinion. . . Also if you can tell me the canon BTS event in this chapter you get a cookie!!!

SONG: 4 O’Clock by Rm & V

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CHAPTER 2 - GIRLFRIEND BOYFRIEND

Your heart feels like it’s a thousand piece puzzle. So many pieces are missing. But Yoongi’s piece, You have it. It is flipped upside down, hiding under the table, when the other pieces finally fit, and you look for the ones that are missing, you will find it. Your final peace.

– – – 

February 2016

He just has to get it out of his system. You don’t want him. You are just friends. He has to move on. Maybe… just for a moment… he can fill this hole. If he can’t be around you he has to do something. Something to forget. To move on.

That's why he led her on, let Mia act like he was someone she knew, something she could possess. He just needs to let go of all of it. The tension that he has built up since he came to you on Christmas, looking for comfort. Comfort he knew you would give. You always do. But he took it too far. He took it too far and killed the friendship. If you don’t want him he will just have to figure it out by himself. 

For a while he handled it on his own, hiding away in his studio, keeping his distance, watching you from the sidelines. Averting his gaze when you look his way.

But he needs to move on. 

So he would move on with her. 

He tried, he really tried to be real. Tried to be in the moment with her. He didn’t want to use her the same way it feels like he had used you. But he keeps being drawn back, all he can think about is you.

He keeps his eyes squinted shut, and for a minute, it’s you. His hands are gliding down your waist, not hers. It’s all you, his knee is between your legs. You on his thigh. He swallows, hard, at the image he has made up in his mind. Imagining you, a mess, trapped between him and the wall, riding his thigh while he guides your hips with his hands.

He groans in your ear, nipping at your ear lobe, pressing gentle kisses down your nape. 

And then something awful happens. Her voice cuts through, waking him up from his fantasy. 

“Ugh… Yoongi…” And it isn’t that voice that he values so greatly, but someone else's. 

He needs her to shut up for this to work, he needs it to be you, to keep pretending for as long as he can. He can already sense this won’t fix any of his problems. But this realization is not going to stop him, he can pretend for a while longer.

“Be quiet doll…”

– – – 

April 16th, 2016

You sit on the edge of the bench, waiting, patiently. 

Parks have always felt sentimental to you. You spent most of your childhood there. Throwing mulch at one another, climbing up onto the roof of the playground and jumping off. You and Nora. You would bring her during the day each summer, to get out of the house. And then in the winters, sitting at a park table, not unlike this one, doing homework while your cheeks went pink from the cold.

But now isn’t the time to think about that. 

It isn’t winter, it’s spring. And you aren’t here to reminisce. You are here for a date.

You weren’t sure what had made you accept this proposal. Maybe it was his persuasion? Or his persistence in asking? A whole week straight of date idea texts… But nonetheless you agreed.

It still feels like a bad idea. The voice in the back of your head is screaming at you to run. Say you got caught up with work. He would understand, right? Or would he check your schedule and know you weren’t busy? He has access to your schedule…

Deep down, you know you are doing this for all the wrong reasons. But maybe this will work, maybe this will be a good thing.

It’s too late for any escape plans now. 

There he is. Tall, dark hair, and that smile. The one that brings out little dimples under his eyes. 

You brush your fingers through your hair. Is it nerves that you are feeling? Your chest aches. After all it’s a first date. The first date since becoming a trainee. Or something other than nerves? He sits across from you before you can decide what the twisting inside your stomach is coming from.

“Hey…”

“Hi…”

– – – – – – 

2007

Your first boyfriend was sweet, shy, the nerdy type. You’d had a crush on him since he won a game in class and shared his bag of candy with you while you were upset over losing. 

It was all so typical, you would hold hands in the hall, he gave you a hoodie. You didn’t know why something like that was important, but you knew it meant something, it’s what the older kids did. He held an umbrella over your heads when he walked you and Nora home. 

You would lie and make him stop a block away from your house. You didn’t want him to see where you lived, and you didn’t want your parents to see you with a boy, not that they were there paying much attention. 

You only dated for a month, you gave him his hoodie back and he started holding hands with a different girl. You were just kids. You used I love you carelessly. And you got over it before it even had the chance to end.

– – – – – – 

April 9th, 2016

You pant as you step off stage, removing the pink blazer from your shoulders and dabbing the sweat off your forehead with your sleeve. 

You hand the jacket off to your stylist as one of the technicians takes your mic from your other hand. 

“Allright, everyone, go get changed, the cars will be here in ten to take you back to the dorms.”

“Ah, can I go back to the studio? I need to work on something.” Yoongi says to your manager.

You make eye contact with Taehyung who, like you, wasn’t making the same worried face as the rest of the guys. Yoongi hadn’t slept in the dorms in weeks, apparently he had been sleeping in his studio. You don’t believe it. It’s hard to say what hurts you more. The idea of him spending weeks locking himself in his studio, or the idea of him. In bed. With her. 

But you can’t help the tinge of worry that lingers in your thoughts. What if he really is all alone at the studio? 

“Sure, I’ll drop you off.”

You let out a sigh and head to a dressing room to get changed into your actual clothes. 

It’s becoming hard to be around him.

You aren’t sure of why he is doing this. Icing you out. We are supposed to be over the kiss. Maybe it’s because he has a girlfriend now? Or because you cried, on TV, when you lost to said girlfriend. Of course he hasn’t admitted to it, why would he tell anyone. Only you and Taehyung know, not that he talked to you about it. Although everyone else is still worried for him, thinking he is going through it again. It makes you wonder. Every other time that he had gotten like that, unreachable. Had it really just been him being with someone? Separating himself from you all to be with someone else? Calling them that name you thought he only called you?

You take a few minutes to breathe before coming out. Yoongi and your manager have already left. The rest of the guys are standing in a group with the staff, chatting. You walk over and insert yourself in the group, squeezing in between Jungkook and Jimin. “Is the car almost here?” You ask the already changed boys. 

But you had failed to notice someone else in the group. Standing across from you, somewhat hidden behind Seokjin's shoulder.

“Wow, don't be so rude! You are making a bad first impression.” 

The staff. There is one of them there that you don’t recognize. Gazing in your direction. 

You frown, your eyes connecting with the sudden strangers. How can someone you just met melt your skin off with their eyes like that?

His eyes are deep, and warm. The corners lifted slightly. His hair dark and parted on the side. He smiles and reaches his hand out for you to shake. 

“Hi, I’m Hoon. I am new, I’ll be on your security team. It’s nice to meet you.” He’s? Charming? Adorable, almost.

You take his hand, it is rough like he has worked hard throughout his life, though you couldn’t tell by his face which was dreamy and that of a drama male lead.

“Hoon, that's a unique name.” You raise a brow and pull your hand away cautiously. There was something about the way he examined you with his eyes that you weren’t sure of.

“Yeah, uh, it means to teach.” He looks down a bit shyly. Would he be equipped as a security guard? He almost seems too sweet. He would prove you wrong on that guess, eventually.

“Well it’s nice to meet you!” You smile at him then look at the rest of the guys who were carrying on with the conversation. 

As you go on talking with the rest of the guys and staff, you can’t help but feel the gaze that stays lingering in your direction. 

– – –

May 2016

He texted you good morning the day after your first date. And every day again after.

Before you knew it he had slipped through the cracks, gotten under your skin, started calling you baby. He became a part of your life. Crawling in through some small hole in the wall. 

You had been wrong about him being too sweet to be a security guard. When he was working he was statuesque, the sweet look on his face turned serious and stern. But when he was with you he seemed so kind, so gentle. For the most part.

The first time he told you he loved you was after the third date. You still hadn’t told anyone you were seeing him. But he said it was love at first sight, the moment he saw you, he knew. You believed him, so you said it back. You aren’t the kind of person to not say it back. It didn’t matter how you felt. The way he talked to you, complimented you, it filled something. Like you needed to be told you were beautiful to believe it, and you did believe it.

He told you he wanted to know about your life, where you are from, how you grew up. Things you weren’t ready to share. He shared things too.

He talked about his ex, how toxic she had been, that she cheated on him.

For every step you took towards him. He took five more towards you. 

Almost immediately after your first date Yoongi had come back to you sneaking his way by your side any time Hoon was in the room. But he didn’t know, right? That you were seeing him?

You are starting to pick up on the subtle hints Yoongi had dropped. Growing quiet, more than usual, when Hoon talked to you, especially when you laughed at a joke he would make, or when Hoon would make those passes at you that you would have to beg him to quit making once you were finally alone. His silence was subtle, but the way he would– no, the way he wouldn’t look at you was deafening. 

When the guys had talked about liking Hoon back home at the dorms, after a long day of work, Yoongi had mumbled how ‘great’ he was through gritted teeth, something that didn’t go unnoticed by you, or Namjoon for that matter.

Three weeks after your first date, Hoon had told you that Yoongi wasn’t a good friend. You know it’s not true? Right? Yoongi has been there since the beginning. Maybe Hoon is right? Isn’t he seeing Mia anyway? You figured it was better to keep your distance. Drive a wedge further in-between you and Yoongi. But it was like he was reading you again. You are starting to hate the way he does that, you used to love it.

Yoongi had crept his way out of the hole he had been under, just to keep you from hiding from him. Taking the little shelter out of your fishbowl. But you are right to hide from him, aren’t you? You are doing what is right by Hoon. Listening to your boyfriend. Staying away from the person you used to have feelings for. 

Used to.

Damn it you don’t believe it no matter how many times you try to ingrain it into your mind through this brute force. Lying to yourself in your thoughts. Whispering it to yourself when you can’t sleep at night, which is every night. 

That reminds you of that night… before your debut… Shit…

No wonder it makes Hoon uncomfortable. You still catch yourself staring, thinking, your imagination toying with the idea of having Yoongi’s name attached to boyfriend and not Hoons. Is that infidelity? Infidelity is the last thing you need to add onto your list of wrongs. Is it wrong to think about him like that? Probably. Besides, It is impossible for you to be together, he has Mia. 

Yet you are in the same predicament you could be in with Yoongi that you are in with Hoon. Seeing someone you especially shouldn’t be seeing. A coworker. Part of it doesn’t feel as wrong, like it isn’t real. If it were Yoongi would it be real? 

Wait. Hoon is real. What you have. It is real. You love eachother, you said you love eachother. But it is moving so quickly it is hard for you to keep up. Hoon has become a part of your life so fast, made his way into your routine. Goodmorning texts. And yet you can’t even tell anyone about it. Because it would be worse. Worse than if you could be with Yoongi. So why are you doing this? Why does it feel like you are now dependent on this stranger. 

But he isn’t a stranger, right? You have known him for a month and a half? He must have passed some sort of background check to be in security? He has told you so much. How hard things had been for him. You should have more sympathy. He has been cheated on and now it feels like you are doing it too, in your mind.

“Anyone home?” You flinch, being pulled out of your thoughts.

He has been in a bad mood today. Bad moods have frequented him lately.

“God baby, don’t flinch. You are so sensitive.” When did he start calling you baby?

“Sorry.” You mumble, taking a sip from the coffee he had gotten you. Iced americano. Yoongi's favorite. For whatever reason you had lied and told Hoon it was yours, you aren’t sure why. Maybe it tastes like what it would be like to kiss him, early in the morning after an all nighter in the studio. Something more gentle than the last time you kissed, sweet, warm, before passing out tangled on the studio couch.

You are zoning out again. “What were you saying?”

“Why are you not listening when I am talking to you? It feels like you are on another planet.” A lot of the time it feels like he is talking at you, not talking to you.

“I’m sorry, really.”

“Sure you are.” Sarcasm dripping off his tongue. 

“No, really Hoon, how can I make it up to you?” You look up at him, pleading, the two of you leaning on opposite walls of the narrow side hallway. 

A smirk creeps onto his lips. You know you shouldn’t have asked that. He hums. “Kiss me.”

You let out an exasperated sigh. “At work? Hoon you know I can’t.”

“What is the point in meeting in the only hallway without security cameras if you still won’t touch me?”

You don’t know what to say. You step across the hall towards him, looking both ways to make sure you are in the clear before you peck him on the cheek. He rests his hand on your arm letting out a harsh breath, annoyed. 

“You know you are going to have to do more than barely kissing me and holding my hand eventually, right?”

You nod. “Yeah, I know.” He is right. You owe it to him.

He slides his palm down your arm to take your hand in his, squeezing gently. You look down at his shoes, all black, Adidas. 

Yoongi usually wears Nike. Stop. 

You are with your boyfriend. You have to stop.

This is why he is so jealous all the time. He must know that you spend all your time with him thinking about another man, no, a man that you share a home with, a man who you have kissed, who you have feelings for.

Used to have feelings for.

Stop stop stop.

“Look, I’m sorry, I have to get to practice, ok?” You look up at him, eyes pleading.

He lets out a breath and nods, leaning in and planting a kiss on your cheek, squeezing your hand one last time before letting you go. 

“You know I love you, right?”

“Love you too…” The I is difficult to start with.

It makes you question if you are telling him the truth.

He leaves first, giving you a second to catch your breath. You count down before turning out of the hall, making your exits staggered.

But he is there. Leaning on the wall, arms crossed over his chest, as you turn the corner to go to the practice room. His eyes on the floor, presence radiating something that dares you to speak.

“Yoongi?” You furrow your brows. Oh no.

How long had he been standing there?

He looks up at you tongue prodding in his cheek. Is he mad?

“How long?”

He knows…

“What?” it comes out as a whisper.

“Don’t play dumb… How long have you been…” His words end like finishing the sentence will make him ill. You beg with yourself that he won’t.

“How long have you been seeing him?” He finally spits it out, and you feel the same illness. Your stomach twisting and contorting at his words. You think you could gag. Noticing him swallow hard after he spoke.

You bite your tongue before you reply, trying to form the sentence. “Yoongi… It’s… It’s…”

“I know what it is.” He looks mad, no. He looks hurt. And you know he can't know what it is, he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know that you think about him every second. 

And how dare he be mad? Be upset? As if he isn’t seeing someone too.

You huff. “Don’t worry about it, ok? We are being careful. No one will find out.”

Something in his jaw tenses and he throws his head back in frustration. “Do you seriously think that is what I am worried about?” He tilts his head back up, looking back into your eyes, desperate, searching for something. Something you aren’t going to let him read. Not this time.

“What else would you have to be worried about, Yoongi?” You spit out, cruel, crossing your arms over your chest.

He ignores your question like he doesn’t want to give you the answer. “Does he always talk to you like that?”

He was listening… But it wasn’t bad, Hoon didn’t do anything wrong.

You let him avoid the question, his distraction working. “Talk to me like what?”

“Come on? ‘You’re going to have to do more eventually’ Do you not see how fucked that is?”

Who the hell does he think he is? You scoff, turning your head away from him, not wanting him to be right. “You know what, you have no right to decide what is and isn’t okay in my relationships Yoongi.”

“You know what, I really didn’t think you were that kind of girl.” He says with his eyes puncturing you. 

What is that supposed to mean? What is his problem with this? Doesn’t he have a girlfriend of his own?

“What kind of girl would that be?” Your voice wavers but you hurry to mask it, you can’t let him win.

His eyes don’t break from yours. “The kind who lets her boyfriend talk to her like that.” 

Your mind runs blank.

“You did not just say that to me, Yoongi. I can’t believe you.” You are breaking. This is hurting you and you are mad, you are mad he isn’t stopping, mad he isn’t seeing through your front.

“What? I just listened to you tell someone you barely know that you love them right after they pressure you into something no one should be pressured into. You can’t believe that I think you deserve better than that?” You don’t notice the way he says love, the way he sounds pained at his words.

Then what do I deserve? Someone who kisses me drunk and doesn’t talk to me for months?

“Tell me…” You grit your teeth. “Tell me what I deserve, Yoongi.”

He runs both hands through his hair, aggravated.

“I can’t. Fuck. I can’t” He practically whines, but it only makes the heat in your chest bubble further.

“Why not?” You growl, thinking out loud. “You have no problem telling me what I don’t, so what? Should I just be alone? W-”

He shuts you up, stops your rambles, stops all your thinking too.

His lips crash into yours. Hungry, angry. Jealous?

Chasing something you both need to get out of your system. Teeth already clashing and hands grabbing like he has been waiting so so patiently to get you this close and couldn’t be polite once he had it.

And you know exactly what you are about to do.

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A/N - Got this done earlier than I thought, even though I definitely missed my monthly goal. I'll probably try to post every other month but close enough to once a month. Super exited for next chapter! Tell me all the emotions, all the thoughts all the questions!!!

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[invinciblerodent]

Who's going to tell this person that "incurable" and "untreatable" are not synonyms.

Like I'm not looking to fight, that's why I cropped out the name and all the tags on this post, I just screengrabbed it and blocked them, but this is a quintessential post that really exemplifies the essence of the kind of criticism of any media that grinds my gears the most: which is when I see someone claim that their own misinterpretation of not even necessarily the text, but the English language itself, is what a plothole makes.

When someone hears a word, misunderstands it, and convinces themselves that their faulty understanding (which obviously isn't supported by the text, it's wrong after all) is correct, therefore it's the text that must be wrong.

You can treat the Blight. You have always been able to treat the Blight. There have been characters who were able to either mitigate the symptoms of the infection, or even prolong the life of an infected person who didn't go through the Joining by a pretty significant margin. Alexius semi-successfully treating Felix for months (if not years) is what comes to mind first, but there's also the mabari in the bloody first act of Origins if you want to discount that, and for some reason claim that that was "just Inquisition" changing the game or whatever.

And yes, it's an existing theory (one that I honestly kind of subscribe to myself) that since the other ingredients of the Joining draught are unknown, it's possible that via consuming the wilds flower, whatever was in it interacted with the Taint already in its blood, and the mabari essentially underwent a crude version of the Joining without anyone really knowing. But, and this is important,

the Joining itself is a way to treat the Blight!

Sure, it significantly extends the life of the person who undertook it- but it's made very explicit, from Origins onwards, that Wardens are still Blighted. Every time there is a Warden character, we are told, often explicitly, that they are not cured, that they will still ultimately succumb to the Taint, and that they're going to die from it. That's what the Calling is.

You can absolutely treat it. You just can't cure it.

You can manage, for a while. You can ease the pain, or push it back for years, if you have the skill, the resources, and maybe the love bordering on obsession that it takes, like Alexius did.

It's just inevitable. Be it three days, three years, or thirty, the Blight will stay within the infected, and ultimately kill them, no matter what- that's the fucking point. That's what changes in the end of Veilguard: that by eradicating the very source of the living Blight, by cutting it off at the roots, severing it from the thing that made it so potent and inevitable, it is finally cured.

We can argue about why Solas made no attempt to save that woman in the memory (maybe she was too far gone and he knew it, maybe he thought that ending her suffering was a greater kindness than prolonging it, maybe it would have been too risky to his own safety to treat her behind enemy lines, or maybe he thought that she had already served her purpose- maybe a combination of all, I mean none of those reasons are really out of character for him), but let's not fucking pretend that Flynn said anything shocking, or even out of the ordinary.

[autismsupersoldier]

immediately thought of him

[animelover329]

Ok, I did more work to actually put this together. It's still ABSOLUTELY MINDBLOWING to me that everything happens in less than 2 years. No wonder Jessica thought Bella was pregnant at the wedding.

[odysseys-blood]

emoji set request for @nosleepforaiba !

using 😻👏🏾💃🏾

(pls click for better quality its getting crunched to hell)

[fatedroses]

And some days, I just wish you wouldn't look at me at all.

[joshuamj]

EoW Zelda and Link designs

[snailfen]

at the very least heres this. go my suitloon qpr

[artshokad2]

The unthinkable happened right when i was going to join in wip Wednesday unprompted @twodiamondhoes tagged me in it

I was going to do something a little more recent but the day snuck up on me so have a really old snippet from a fic i may or may not finish that i wrote in a haze of finals stress while listening to “Sleeping in the Kitchen” by Madilyn Mei on loop

Jimmy Solidarity my beloved

Its a little out of my usual style because music possesses me in a way thats a little concerning sometimes but i had fun with it!

Tagging @gladumfdoodles who i know always has a snippet locked and loaded, @raffi-cat who should share their writing more in my humble opinion, @sincerely-nines because my favorite moot you should write fanfic… if you want…

and my friend ani whose tumblr @ is not working rn so im just going to send this to them but they should share their writing on tumblr!!! Its so fun!!

(No pressure to anyone, tis supposed to be for fun :D)

[nabaath-areng]

I have way too many alts that I keep to myself (which is why I generally refrain from posting them), but I'm going to ignore that habit for a moment just because I'm feeling particularly insane about this guy.