#just my musings as of late

[ruporas]

it's time to go, my love (ID in alt)

[anininas]

Screenshot redraws because I'm being nice to myself today

[bigdumbbambieyes]

"Do you ever think of me?"

The question is mumbled into the skin of his neck, where Steve's mouth is pressed.

Billy had thought Steve had fallen asleep, but. Surprise, surprise.

And it's honestly such a stupid question that he considers not answering it at all.

But, he knows better.

"Always," he murmurs, turning his head to press a sweet little kiss to Steve's forehead.

"You promise?" Steve whispers, his voice quiet and small, insecure. He gets like that, sometimes. Not as much as Billy, though.

"Cross my heart," he replies just as quietly, pressing another kiss to the bridge of Steve's nose, soothing him.

It works, if the soft little happy noise his boyfriend makes speaks for anything.

"Love doing this with you," Steve murmurs as he lifts his head, his face finally peering out from its hiding place and Billy can see that pretty face in the dark of their room.

He would know Steve's soul in the dark, just like this.

"You love doing nothing?" Billy smirks.

Steve nods, "With you."

It's so disgustingly sweet, it could almost make Billy sick.

What makes him feel worse is that he's been thinking the same thing for a while now.

Just laying here, in their bed, cuddled up and breathing has Billy beyond happy. It's peace. It's love. It's his.

It's theirs.

"Yeah," Billy whispers, turning onto his side to cup Steve's face in the dark, his lips finding that wide Cupid's bow far too easily, their noses gently bumping as he murmurs into his boyfriend's mouth, "Love doing nothing with you, too."

[ssluggart]

my contributions to the sonic magma tonight with @guiltypandas and @alvalorenzz :]

[bonnie-toyour-clyde]

later seasons Sam slamming Dean against the wall and his back cracks and he moans so loud and obscene Sam’s all cocky like “damn, already?” and Dean’s just like “no man my backs been killing me all week and you just popped it, fuck, don’t stop”

[hana-bobo-finch]

realizing i haven’t really been posting art much uh oh errrmrmmm quick here’s a leif and muse that I drew a couple days ago and then forgot about before I could finish it

smoochin his lil hand awww they make me ill 🥰

[birbleafs]

Was going through my screenshots of the Sabzeruz festival again… and out of context, this line is still so on the nose and intentionally written to be absolutely misleading LOL Reality: Kaveh insisting that his relationship with Mehrak is more than just creator and machine/automaton Everyone and their mothers eavesdropping the dirty deets: You mean the Light of Kshahrewar and the Scribe are not just roommates?????

I do have to point out that while the EN subtitles were translated this way to be ambigious for hilarity/fanservice, Kaveh didn't actually use "we" here in the original CN lines. Instead, he said "我和它 / wǒ hé tā" which, translated literally, is "Me and it (Mehrak)". So, there was little doubt that Kaveh was talking about his relationship with someone/something else (Mehrak), not his relationship with Alhaitham. EDITED (10/11/2024) because I'd misheard, Kaveh didn't use "bokura (僕ら)" at all ^^; Uchida speaks so fast as Kaveh sometimes and my listening JP comprehension is fail loool. My apologies for the mistake! In the JP dub, Kaveh uses "we / bokura (僕ら)", which has the same ambiguity as in the EN subs. But what I personally enjoy about the JP dub is how much more casual Kaveh's tone is whenever he's speaking with Alhaitham privately (hence why he used bokura here instead of the polite/formal boku-tachi (僕たち) that he uses in the presence of other people). I managed to find a video with the JP dialogue text and what Kaveh actually said was "僕とあの子の関係は冷たいものじゃない …"

Which I believe reads similarly to CN and roughly means "My relationship with it/that person (Mehrak) isn't cold...". Please don't quote me on this though and do take with a grain of salt lol, because I'm not a translator and I'm not fluent enough in JP (I just understand very, very basic stuff). That said, my initial point still stands, in that Kaveh's tone when he speaks privately with Alhaitham is still pretty casual, at times a bit rougher (even if the words he use remains polite), compared to how much more formal and "proper" he is with other people. Same goes with Alhaitham's tone too—there's always more of a teasing lilt, a slight smugness to his voice when he speaks to Kaveh, and he doesn't sound as stoic or impassive as he usually does. Which is what I personally enjoy about JP dub. It's a small detail but I find the difference in tone a nice way to show their closeness, and how Kaveh doesn't feel the need to put up any fronts or moderate his tone as much when he's alone with Alhaitham. He can simply be himself and speak his mind freely because they already know each other inside out.

[wurmwizzard]

I want harry and kim to hold hands, keeping eachothers fingers warm in the chill sea air. I want them to share a pot of tea, extra cream and suger in harrys comedically tiny mug. I want them to relax, enjoying eachothers company, without needing to full the air with words. I want harry and kim to bump uglies. I want them to get silly in public with no sense of pride. I want-

[undefeatablesin]

⊹ .+ Tag Game Rules: Shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people. ᅠ ⊹ .+

Take Me Back To Eden - Sleep Token

Divine Service - Lies of P OST

Bones - Equinox

Turncoat - Matthew Mayfield

Suffer - Hurts

Magdalene - Akira Yamaoka

Roxanne - Sting

Wing of Hypocrisy - Lies of P OST

Hail the Nightmare - Bloodborne OST

Yawning Grave - Lord Huron

ᅠ ⊹ .+ tagged by: @hymntosappho + @aligom-pink-coffin ✨ Thank you both! I love lil dash games like these omg ᅠ ⊹ .+ tagging: @harena-tigris, @ghostlyanon, @00x7, @bornetoblood, @butchladymaria, @galaxirin, @treeshrine, @karnaca78, @dulaman-na-farraige ᅠ✨

[mnemosyne-xiv]

𝔸𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕦𝕘𝕦𝕤𝕥, 𝔻𝕒𝕪 𝟙𝟞 - 𝕋𝕚𝕟𝕪

"𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘭𝘦𝘵, 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘚𝘰, 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵?"

Prompt list! for everyone who wants to join in! ((it's canon that mnemo has an entire collection of smol minions bc she misses everyone since she's sorta stuck in sharlayan unless something big goes down also, i've accepted my fate of being eternally one day behind on auraugust, but it's the thought that counts right? heh...))

[melverie]

WAIT I just realized something if Barbatos truly is Nightbringer

In normal lesson 9-A, Solomon has a run in with some sort of illusion (?) of Diavolo and Simeon and in 10-A he has a quick chat with Nightbringer, right

When asked to choose between demons and angels by Simeon and Diavolo,  Solomon says that he chooses neither and states that he doesn’t want to make an enemy out of either of them, and then adds that he just wants to be free and that that’s part of the agreement he has with “him” (him being Nightbringer)

And then in his converstation with Nightbringer, he says that he wishes Solomon would have simply chosen their side as that would make things easier and later remarks that Sol is behaving like a demon, to which Solomon replies with this

So could it be that Barbatos is actually the reason Solomon is immortal? He has the power to choose which reality becomes........well, reality as we were shown during the lesson 16 incident of the og game, so he might have chosen one that turned Solomon immortal. And now he’s using the fact that he can make him mortal again to force him into whatever agreement Solomon was referring to

The ONLY reason I’m kind of doubting Barbatos -or any demon at all, for that matter- is Nightbringer to begin with is because Solomon also said this to Nightbringer

Which makes it sound like he’s actually an angel. But if so, who? Angel Lucifer did mention that Michael was interested in a specific human sorcerer back in season 3..........

[studentbyday]

so my takeaway from the poem is...don't defer dreams so you don't have to know what bad things will happen to your soul by deferring. as if the existential crisis induced by reading that poem wasn't enough, there's the other existential-crisis-inducing question of how do you know the difference between a dream deferred and a dream you no longer want? i don't think i've lived and experienced enough to know yet. but i must continue to work towards whatever immediate dreams and far-future dreams i have now because that will give me even more options and tell me more about what i want and what i don't want so i can course-correct as needed. humans, at their best, aren't static creatures, so i suppose there just is no definitive answer to these questions, even when talking about the same human... 🤔

[wistrea]

starter call ☆ feel free to give this a like if you want me to write you something up from kira. specify verse if you want, and muse if you're a multi!

[offshore-brinicle]

Remembrance.

[beans-core]

*slaps harry potter across his scarred forehead* i can project so much trauma on this bad boy

[oh2e]

As much as I love Sense8 and its myriad of ways of depicting family and love, despite two of the cluster being in non-monogamous situations there is still an element of amatonormativity there that’s hard to overlook about s2. The cluster love each other dearly and will be there for each other no matter what, but outside of that they have very few friends. Everything hinges on the cluster itself, family (not necessarily by blood) or partners.

Will has Diego - but we know barely anything about him and only see him at the very beginning and very end. Nomi and Amanita seemingly have many friends but we see each one only fleetingly (bar Bug but he falls more into ‘chosen family’ than ‘friend’). Sun actually has more friends than anyone - her martial arts mentor (do we ever find out his name?), Soo-Jin, Lina, and Min-Jung - but due to circumstances we can’t see much of them. Riley is clearly well-liked and we see proof of her friends being generous towards her - but there’s no one she wants to return to. Lito doesn’t appear to have anyone who doesn’t want something from him other than Hernando and Dani, both of whom are family. Kala likewise has some people from work who want to chat and gossip with her, but most emphasis is on her family (including Auntie who is often seen with them). Which just leaves Capheus who has Jela, and Wolfgang has Felix. They’re the most fleshed out and recognised of the cluster’s friends and even then Jela is mostly used for comic relief and Felix as a contrast to Wolfgang.

At the end of S1 we have two couples within the cluster and two people in committed relationships outside the cluster. Sun and Capheus have no romantic entanglements or interests so much as even hinted at. S2 brings closure for Kala and Wolfgang, and love interests for Sun and Capheus. In the end the cluster all have at least one partner and they’re happy. I’m not saying that’s bad - I love all the cluster’s partners and the sweetness makes me very happy - but it does enforce the idea that a happy ending has to include a partner.

I would’ve loved Capheus to carry on owning his individuality, or Kala to concede that actually her career is more important and as nice a man as Rajan is, she doesn’t need to be married, or Wolfgang to happily continue his unattached life. (Lito and Nomi are the obligatory sappy couples - we can’t break them up. I find Riley & Will quite boring but I think Riley not finding love is the opposite of healing for her. And Sun so desperately deserves to be loved wholly as herself.)

Sense8 says so many wonderful things about love and the different ways it can manifest that I think I feel more let down by it partnering everyone up than I would with a less love-focused story.