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[ventique18]

"I hope you can forgive me for what I'm about to do."

You flinch, terrified of what this powerful man could do to a person like you. But why? What did you do? You thought your dearest friend would never hurt you.

And then you feel it. The brush of his soft hair against your forehead. His minty breath blowing small puffs on your nose. The tips of his fingers warming yours in the cold night-- he had removed his gloves, you realize. You only barely register him weaving your hands together so he could feel your palms against his palms; holding them closer to his chest so he could sense your beating heart-- or perhaps so you could sense his beating heart.

And he holds you both like that. Perfectly still. Just for a few minutes. Just a few minutes of calm, of comfort, of warmth. And then it's gone.

"My apologies for suddenly holding you like that." He whispers almost inaudibly.

You pull him down and touch your lips against his cheek. Your mouth is chilly against his skin; are you nervous?

"My apologies for suddenly kissing you like that." You say with a tremble.

A pause. Then a smile.

"No... I don't mind at all.

... But may you kiss the other one as well, for symmetry's sake?"

A twinkle of a laugh.

"I think a good symmetry needs a perfect midpoint too."

It takes two kisses before he understands what you mean.

[eldritchamy]

HDG story alignment chart

[bubblybloob]

I find it very funny that supposedly every time our voices bicker and argue, the princess is just left there, totally unaware.

She seemingly acknowledges this too! After a while of back and forth in our mind, she’ll pipe up because she’s noticed we’ve gotten lost in our thoughts. She must think we have trouble with zoning out. She’s not necessarily wrong, I guess.

[gravidwithlore]

Changing things up around here and posting a very tasteful collection of some very demure men in their pure white wedding dresses that are as perfectly fitted and pristine as they were in their first fitting and none of them are about to have babies out of wedlock unless they hurry up and waddle down that aisle to say "I do."

[praisethelorde]

Remembering that Oak has goat legs is almost as shocking to me as finding out that Holly Black confirmed that Valerian was sexually attracted to Jude.

[gunsatthaphan]

"you want me to fall for you?"

[personthattoleratesme]

The way they both absolutely did not like the other’s fake spouse. Like they’re not real kings they’re not gonna steal your man 😭

[tanadrin]

terrible take I keep seeing is "well, if trump is as big a threat to democracy as liberals/leftists say he is, you should be glad someone tried to kill him. that you condemn political violence is evidence he isn't really a threat, or you're a hypocrite."

absolutely moronic. assassinations make more political violence not only possible, but likely. they are inherently destabilizing to democracy! and an assassination of a single far-right leader would not make the sentiment that supported that leader vanish overnight--the idea that killing one right person can irrevocably alter the course of history in a positive direction is a fantasy for people who write time-travel stories, not a useful model of actual politics.

[spiritsong]

After seeing @felassan's post about there being two different versions of Neve and Taash's cards, I needed to sate my curiosity and went digging to see if I could different versions of the other companions as well.

Lo and behold, there are! I found them for every companion except for Emmrich. There's no way to say with absolute certainty which is the old version and which is the new; hopefully we can get some confirmation on this.

For the time being, I went ahead and marked the differences for those who have trouble spotting this sort of thing. Hopefully it's not too overwhelming for the ones that are very marked up, but I wanted to include some of the more mundane changes as well.

Neve — The biggest changes are the crossed leg (making her prosthetic more visible) as well as the metal rivet detailing on her outfit (see: the collar, the shoulder pads, the sleeves, the skirt portion). Some of what I'm calling the more "mundane" technical changes include the lighting and shadows on her staff, her nose, and her chest.

Taash — The most notable difference here is the coins (I didn't circle all the individual coins but you get the point) and the dragon in the background. In one version, the eye is more distinct, and a bottom row of teeth have been added to the dragon's jaw. There have also been changes made in the shading of her face. Her body shape (namely, the torso and her arms) have also been changed, as well as the general shape of the "spikes" on her hips and her shoulders.

Harding — Just a couple changes here. Her eye is more white/ghostly looking in one version, and the shading on her face and neck have changed.

Lucanis — LOTS of differences. They're pretty inconsequential, by which I mean there hasn't been any added/removed/changed symbolism in his card. The shading on his nose has changed, as well as the shading on his collar, hand, forearm, armpit (didn't circle this one oops), hips, and hip dagger. The purple "wisps" have changed in shape here and there. One of the orbs in the upper left have moved, and there is another orb above that one which has been removed/added.

Davrin — Just a few changes with Davrin, though they are big ones. His face/head has been changed, and the vallaslin has been redrawn. The scar on his eyebrow has also moved slightly.

Bellara — Bellara's head has shifted and her neck elongated/shortened. There are stars in the background and around her arm in one version.

As for Emmrich, I mentioned I could only find one version. I did compare the image we currently have with what I believe is the earliest Emmrich art that was shared with us (a cropped version of his card) by overlaying the two on Photoshop and didn't see any differences.

And that's it! You might have also noticed that some of the versions on the right hand side have a white line at the top of the image. Make of that what you will.

(People viewing this post on PC will have an easier time quickly clicking back and forth between the images to spot the difference. If you're on the mobile app and care enough to do so, you might have an easier time saving the images and flipping through them in your photo album. At least I know it's easier if you have an iPhone, I don't know about other models.)

[shanastoryteller]

"I never thought wincest would be in this fic" says people who clicked on and chose to read a story with wincest tagged.

the. the thing that really gets me here is

in the first chapter, in the first scene where sam wakes up from his vision, the first time we see them interact

1. sam pins dean to his bed

2. dean goes limp and lets sam manhandle him (his default reaction to sam grabbing him out of sleep)

3. sam straddles dean's hips

4. they lie next to each other in one bed

5. dean forgoes sleeping in his own bed on the literal other side of the room to instead sleep pressed up against sam

and you're on CHAPTER FOUR going on I just looked at the tags, didn't realize this was wincest

is this a normal brotherly relationship to you??

[jouyato]

more doodles for my personal ita bag project ft. the enlightened ones

also if anyone wants to know how deranged the individual character badges are, here's enkiramus'

[taamlok]

i'm gonna start commenting on posts about loving a fictional man with like "omg me but about [fictional woman]" and just generally hijacking people's posts speculating about male characters to be like "wait you know who else would do this? [female character who definitely wouldn't do that]!"

[fastianini]

Valentino Rossi & Marc Márquez

[ happy (belated) 9 year anniversary to sepang 2015 aka the one weekend everything went wrong, everything changed and that still haunts motogp to this day <3 ]

history of man by maisie peters

[star-spangled-man]

between marvel throwing aubrey plaza's freaky fruity rio vidal and florence pugh's yelena belova with that gay little haircut in the span of less than 7 days, I have lots of feelings and none of them are straight

[moltensunlight]

Realm of the Departed

Character design belongs to @absolutelynotsanebaby

Artfight attack inbound!! >:) I love Ms. Departed's design so so much, and I was super excited to try and capture that otherworldly feeling they have! I hope I did them justice!!

[collabwithmyself]

Not sure if I'll finish this project I had an idea for, so here's some stills, since they came out clean