#like a cat in from the rain

[lwjsbedtime]

Okay, so I was feeling nostalgic and started editing the dragon sacrifice fic to Thirsty Merc's In the Summertime (youtube link), because I'm delusional and sometimes like to pretend I enjoy heatstroke season. Anyway, it's honestly a very WWX song imo.

Imagine; Rocker!YLLZ crooning out the lyrics while Omegaji swoons in the front row. This is his first time going to a concert - he's just moved to Yiling to study at the local university, which means he no longer has Uncle forbidding him to be seen about without a beta chaperone - Ge says what LQR doesn't know, can't hurt him.

Truthfully, Omegaji didn't know what kind of band he was going to see today, but the other omegas in his dorm seemed particularly enthused about YLLZ and the Fierce Corpses playing locally, and so he grew curious enough to book a ticket. LWJ hasn't really had friends before, but he's making an effort. Maybe if he and his dorm mates have something in common to talk about, he'll be able to forge a deeper bond with them? It was a good idea, born of innocence.

Unfortunately, at this moment, he understands the other omegas all too well. Standing right before the concert stage, leaking a puddle of slick into his new jeans, LWJ has been entranced. And now he knows - YLLZ is dangerous.

LWJ has always been an insensitive omega, never before feeling compelled to submit to an alpha's will. But YLLZ is different - clearly cut from a different cloth, with how easily his scent makes LWJ ache for him without even trying.

LWJ feels a spread of heat rise up through his chest with each sound out the alpha's mouth. He feels winded just looking on from the crowd; if he were to inch any closer, he feels he'd be completely in the man's thrall - at his mercy.

Halfway through a particularly passionate verse, YLLZ locks eyes with LWJ. The alpha has just slid down onto his knees to play into the audience, and LWJ is now mere feet before him. Still singing, YLLZ licks a bead of sweat from his lip as he strums the bass, eyes never leaving LWJ's.

LWJ begins to feel faint. YLLZ's coal black eyes trail down his face to his bare, unmarked neck, completely blown with the force of some dark, unnamed emotion. Unknowingly, the alpha begins to project his scent out into the crowd - a tantalising mix of sun-blessed waters, and spice.

LWJ's knees buckle out from under him. He expects to fall limp to the ground, every inch the weak omega he's been warned never to become. But suddenly, YLLZ is there, lifting him up; cradling him in his arms.

When LWJ whines, the alpha pulls him closer, holding him safe to his chest.

"Let's get you somewhere quiet," he says, voice hushed and lyrical against LWJ's ear. "You're going into heat."

LWJ belatedly realises this is true. Shortly after, he recognises that YLLZ's rut has also begun. The tabloid articles that come later proclaim them to be true mates; LWJ can't find it in himself to disagree.

Anyway, they 🌸mate🌸, then WWX writes this song for his bf while they're apart. He has the band's schedule carefully arranged to always free up around LWJ's heat. For reasons. 😏

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WWX: Come on, baby. Let Alpha take care of you.

WQ:🧍What the hell, WWX?! Who is that?!!

WN: SOLO GHOST GENERAL TIME!!! 🤸🎸🗯️🗯️🤪🤘

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[juniper-clan]

Moon 14: Birth of Venus

(AKA the twins!)

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[lovesickeros]

zhongli and neuvillette fighting over their reader 🤭🤭

scary dog privilege wherever you go, draconic courting gestures that would scare any regular person, they send each other deadly glares the moment you turn away,

stealing your clothes to just get a whiff of your scent, marking their territory all over your house - making it a battlefield basically, neuvillette (in my hc) is cooler and zhongli is warm so the cuddles are always so comfy ☺️😍,

they give you anything you want - you don't even have to lift a finger, they make you travel between the nations a lot though 😒 sooo clingyyy, extra gentle in their dragon forms as to not squish you, don't even get me started on the size difference 😍😍

just a little thought 🤭☺️

- 🐈‍⬛

Neuvi being colder is so real and canon. I see him as being colder + a lot more lithe, kinda lanky with smaller but sharper canines versus Zhongli who's warmer and a bit shorter then Neuvi + bulkier with bigger but not as sharp canines.

They've also got very different habits – Zhongli is very prideful not just of himself but his nation. He'll personally give your a tour and purposely drag it out as long as he can. Complimenting Liyue is basically complimenting him, checkmate Neuvi. Especially if he convinces you to try on some local Liyue fashion. Harmless and just a nice gift to anyone else but Neuvi sees it for what it is (since your wearing something from Liyue, technically wearing something of his. He loves his technicalities when it comes to staking a claim over you). Adds salt to the wound by touching you in totally innocent ways like to adjust you towards something he wants to show you or accidently brushing against you when he takes the bags of spoils he's practically drowning you in but really he's just making sure his scent sticks. He's just a sweet, nice gentleman with absolutely no ulterior motives trust.

Neuvillette does love Fontaine, but his habits are more about himself then the nation. He'll take you around if you ask or if the idea strikes him, but you'll probably stay around the making city area or the opera house specifically. He enjoys more personal time with just you and him then anything else. He values the immaterial to the material. Zhongli spoils you with gifts, but Neuvi tries to offer quality time irregardless of physical gifts (though he still gives them just not to the extent of Zhongli). He'll take you to see different operas if that's to your fancy, or leverage a bit of his authority to maybe see a few films since those seem to be hitting off in Fontaine recently. Bet that creaky old archon doesn't have those huh. He feels awkward if you want to watch a trial, but he'll reluctantly agree because. well. it's you. just don't wave or anything he's trying to work and he just Really wants to see you smile at him like that again and it makes him lose his train of thought. gets custom clothes designed by Chiori to replace your clothes from Liyue because they smell of Zhongli and it makes him sulky + he likes to match.

G-d forbid these two are in the same room as you because it's a war of attrition at that point. Constant accidental brush of the hand against your shoulder or elbow but it's just them trying to get rid of the others scent. they are side eyeing each other behind your back while being all smiles whenever your looking. If it's hot and you lean into Neuvi more he's practically GLOWING. not even smug he's just absolutely smitten and happy to be of service. immediately takes off his gloves and presses his hands to your face asking if your okay and if you want to go back with him. if it's cold out and you seek out Zhongli more hes smug as hell beneath the calm veneer. Offers you his coat and stay as physically close to you as he can under the pretense of being worried you'll catch a cold if he doesn't warm you up.

don't even get me started on your house either because you probably have tons of gifts from both of them accumulated everywhere. if Neuvi sees you use a tea set from Zhongli suddenly he had a fantastic gift idea he thought you'd like. he even got some tea included with it so why don't you let him make you some? Zhongli sees you using a goblet Neuvi gave you (totally a coincidence it's similar to his) and suddenly you have 27 square cups in your cabinets that you have no idea where they came from. if the goblet is mysteriously missing oh well. who knows :]

[foldingfittedsheets]

My mom has this awful friend, Cynthia. My loathing goes deep enough that I’m not even going to change her name. If she ever finds this she knows what she did.

On multiple occasions my mom asked this horrible irresponsible chicken brained woman to watch after our animals while we were away. I don’t know why once wasn’t enough, because the first failure was so spectacular that anyone in their right mind would know she couldn’t be trusted with any level of responsibility or direction following.

You might be thinking to yourself, FFS, this level of antipathy is surely unwarranted! But you’d be wrong.

To set the scene, we were living in downstairs of our house when I was about fifteen. My mom has always wanted more animals than can reasonably be kept indoors which is how we ended up with three cats. When she wanted to kick them all outside I protested, and so all three cats lived in my bedroom with no access to the rest of the house.

That really wasn’t great, so in an attempt to give them options we made a window cutout with a cat door in it to give them access to the outdoors. Looking back on this as an environmentally conscious adult it’s wretched, cats should be indoor only, but at the time I was desperate to give them some freedom because one bedroom is too small for three cats.

So my parents and I went on a week long trip to visit family out of state. We told Cynthia to come feed and water the cats, and to scoop the litter box. Most importantly, don’t lock the handle of the door, because we only have the key to the deadbolt.

I’m sure you can see where this is going.

Cynthia locked us out. We arrived home after 12 hours on the road, desperate for the comfort of our own beds. We were met with an unyielding door. With a sigh I volunteered, “I can punch in the cat door and climb in the window.”

I slipped behind the bamboo outside my window and pushed in the cutout. A horrible insidious reek wafted out at me. I paused, prickling with foreboding. But I had a job to do, and by god I’d see it through. I hefted myself up into the window and my hand immediately landed in something wet.

Skin crawling, I pulled myself up and surveyed the darkened room as a miserable odor of decay and suffering poured out of the room around me. I could see dark shapes littering the carpet and it didn’t take a genius to guess that the cats had taken up hunting in a big way during my absence.

I pulled my hand out of the pile of vomit it had landed in and dropped into my onetime bedroom turned now into a hellpit of decomposing wretchedness. I turned on the light. I wished I had not turned on the light.

My eyes scanned across the floor, tallying as they went. Two dead birds, a dead baby rabbit, five dead mice, and one dead snake. I paused on my alarm clock, perplexed to see a stain of white on it. I stepped closer and saw a furtive movement.

The tally suddenly contained also: one live bird that had shit in several places, probably in pure terror to find itself trapped in a room littered with decomposing woodland creatures, which honestly, fair. I coaxed it out the window and finished the survey with five discrete piles of vomit.

I unlocked the door and let my parents in. They exclaimed in disgust at the horrible smell. We stood together in my doorway floored by the magnitude of neglect. The unscooped litter box was a subtle footnote in the tangible reek my living space. I disposed of the parade of ecological disaster, cleaned vomit, and scooped the box after a brutally long day on the road. The cats were fine, and happy to see me. They had a huge dish or food and water so Cynthia’s neglect at least hadn’t harmed them.

Then I slept on the couch while my bedroom aired out, the windows flung wide to dispel the uneasy ghosts of the hunted. I spent the whole night cursing Cynthia’s name for this evil she’d visited upon me. When my mom asked her, "Cynthia, didn't you see the dead animals?"

Cynthia responded, "Yes, they smelled so bad, I just ran in and out as fast as I could." I fully don't believe she did any caretaking, and I'm personally of the opinion that she locked herself out on the first day and never came back.

The next day my room had returned to a habitable level of smellscape and I gratefully crawled into my bed that night. I stretched out and froze as my foot brushed something cold and wet?

The final indignity: one last dead snake, inside my very sheets.

Fucking Cynthia.

[peppermint-moss]

oh what a shame that you came here with someone..!

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my DIE YOUNG Needletail AMV is finally done!!! it goes through needletail's character development through AVOS and the blue, pink, and purple colours are tied to her relationships and character (Darktail/her loneliness, Rain/her selfish joy, Violetshine/her selflessness)

I've been working on this one for more than a year and completely in a new editing program too so im soooo happy to finally have it done ;w; this might be one of my last big amvs i'll have time to make so i hope yall enjoy!! (music in the video is ‘my die young’ by penny parker @snapscube)

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[merakiui]

many unholy thoughts about this specific image here. :)

[ratatatastic]

the things ekky has done or said that i cant stop thinking about. the 4 minute cut.

[delicourse]

most wonderful girl named mold

[flowerakatsuka]

@/girlymatsu suggested i draw shin-chan kuroba and i'm easily influenced soooooo—

[lagomort]

I have nothing left And all I feel is this cruel wanting Thank you to @insertdisc5 for creating In Stars and Time to hurt me specifically ✨

[eeveekitti]

WC/RW DAY 7: SAINT

the senior healer of drizzleclan, pinesight, is a bit... odd compared to their clanmates. most notably, they're a lynx!

no cat quite knows how they came around drizzleclan territory, but no cat is asking either-- those paws are the size of their heads! fortunately for everyone, the wildcat [simply named pine at the time] was peaceful, and asked to join the clan, as they had a connection with their ancestors

it is customary that healers carry flowers, herbs, or other plants in their pelt to symbolize their rank, but pinesight insisted they do not, as it 'tied them too close to the physical world'. they're odd, especially in clan terms, but well-respected nonetheless

[grumpyghostdoodles]

Is Asriel scared of the hit horror film the shining?

Those two were left to their own devices for, like, maximum two days, and they managed to kick a gods ass and free all monsterkind, i do not blame him

(Post that Ask is referring to)

[kingofanemptyworld]

I’m still thinking about Umemiya’s team as well as everyone else involved in the AU but! For now! Take our beloved blushy boy!

Current Team:

Absol (Partner Pokemon)

Riolu

Eevee

Togepi

Pichu

To address the obvious theme here: friendship. Yes, they’re also all adorable and Sakura deserves cute things, but primarily they’re a good representation of his canon-typical character growth — as in, you’re going to see these babies evolve at crucial moments during Sakura’s journey, and almost exclusively to show he’s opened his heart to another traveling companion.

And then there’s Absol, my personal favorite misunderstood Pokemon. A so-called harbinger of disaster who’s actually vital to preventing loss of life and resources. It’s my favorite pick for Sakura because it’s just so damn fitting for who he is and how his friends come to see him.

I’m leaving the last spot open for now but I’m leaning towards having him run into Type: Null at some point (don’t ask me how, this is all vibes and no plot at this point). It’s another friendship evolution so it’s especially good for this line-up, plus I appreciate that its in-game relevance lines up with Sakura’s canon themes again.

[xenomorphicdna]

Vision robes 2

Not a redesign but I just think he'd totally have different outfits

[local-lover-boy]

Manifesting that it starts raining so I can sit outside in the rain (and also my kitten comes back to sit with me)

[moeblob]

I vote for Argenti! I hope you feel better soon!

Thank you ! I do feel much better (though I admit I hurt a little for very much my fault reasons but it's mostly manageable through light pain meds).

Take an Argenti o7 I got lazy and didn't draw the roses I was gonna draw to the left so there is now a wide open blank spot.