#linger is the title

[tangerine-dream-machine]

anywhere your blood flows red, i’ll make you just like me

Vampire AU, anyone?

Arthur Kirkland, a privateer during his human life and now a feared vampire, haunts the shores of the New World. Alfred F. Jones is was the son of a preacher with an unbecoming penchant for seeking out the rowdy sailors detested by the rest of their colonial New English town.

Pictured: Shortly after Alfred has his first (very messy) meal as a vampire, Arthur “examines” his fang growth. Alfred is taking his transformation and newfound bloodthirst disturbingly well.

For this AU, I’ve been toying with the idea of two-sided corruption. On the one hand, we have Alfred abandoning his passage to heaven for a creature of the night who can grant him eternal life if he’s willing to become just like him—a monster. On the other, we have Arthur, jaded but principled (in a twisted vampire way), being enticed into bloody and chaotic indulgence by his new protege.

I made a playlist for this concept (which is actually a subset of a 9 hour playlist) but I’m not sure how to share it yet T^T

[sysig]

Utterly Defeated (Patreon)

[blmpff]

✨ Various Tropes: Back Hug (1/?) ✨

TITLES IN ORDER: 1. Some More (2018) 2: Destiny Seeker (2023) 3: I Feel You Linger In The Air (2023) 4: La Pluie (2023) 5: Love Class 2 (2023) 6: Moonlight Chicken (2023) 7: Only Friends (2023) 8: Sing My Crush (2023) 9: April In Tokyo Is... (2023) 10. The Whisperer (2023) 11. Playboyy (2023) 12: Our Dating Sim (2023)

[deadbeatprince]

DESPITE EVERYTHING I PERSIST

the only thing currently keeping me around other than when I have enough spite is peanut butter, juice and current [hyper fixation] also writing 'trans rights are humans rights' or the sort and hiding it in all my artwork, I've hidden words from time to time in art so this feels fitting, you may not beable to find it though

[phy-be]

sharing a little moodboard because... I finished the first draft of the 1901 supernatural queer club book! 🦇

Now I need to edit this baby hahaha. But stay tuned for some more art, and a beta reader search in the future 🐈‍⬛

[eldragon-x-moved]

they put something in the isat title theme that makes me fall in love with the game all over again everytime i listen to it

[jmlascar]

The Alcove

[a-memory-a-distant-echo]

i got tagged by @where-the-water-flows and @bbcphile—thank you! also, um, i'm sorry.

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

these are all my mysterious lotus casebook things where i've written more than like three sentences in the notepad file of doom. many of these have even been moved into the fic files of doom, which is either a discord channel in a server that's only got me in it, or a gdoc that has bits of like seven stories in it but they're not necessarily organised or even with the other parts of their own narrative, or—this is the worst one—both. i have an entirely separate document that tells me how things are being called. :)

it is a system, but it is also, it must be admitted, a bad one.

i hear the river say your name

safety of the shoreline

send my waters ashore

drop by drop, like falling rain

still with hearts beating

never to be moved by the words of a liar

y tu cuerpo es un recuerdo

with my back to the shoreline

comfort in the coldest stone

nine people is a lot 😅

ok, i'm not caught up on reading tumblr today, and i'm not checking to see who's done this or already been tagged, so please interpret being tagged yet again as enthusiasm/encouragement. but also feel free to ignore this totally. also feel free to do it if you're not tagged. i just think more people should talk about their wips. i think it's fun.

@busarewski @difeisheng @kingsandbastardz @lianhuajing @littlelindentree @momosandlemonsoda @nutcasewithaknife @thesilversun @vgreysoncellars

[patchwork-crow-writes]

65 - A Pocket Full Of Smoke

My hands pass through the ghost you left behind; Memories of a smile that ne'er was mine, Clinging to my fur like a bad habit Or ill-fitting clothes. A musty nostalgia For a home now lost, a heart turned to stone; There's a chill in my soul now I'm alone.

Is it too much to ask for one last touch As a memento, proof that we were real? Oh woe! Scour my heart and make me unfeel The exquisite scars left by your embrace! Wipe clean the tears I left upon your face; Grant me grace to turn from your loving gaze!

I suppose I should send you on your way; And yet my fingers refuse to unfurl From betwixt the curling, coiling vapour Of your dear-departed breath. Here you stay; My lungs full of the smoke left in your wake, As warm as the promise you had to break.

A shadow can't cradle you as you cry And a flame trapped in sable can't survive. So leave me and my ersatz love behind And I'll remember how it used to feel; The promise in the soft light of your eyes That a dream could dare to dream it were real.

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The Dark Menagerie No. 65

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[mulling-over-milgram]

Haruka’s victim / butterflies / my interpretation of haruka’s murder

Inspired by bluuepink07’s amazing yuno post!

https://www.tumblr.com/blueepink07/731734712212668416/i-just-noticed-that-this-part-from-yunos-door?source=share

so before I get into the butterflies I want to establish how I interpret haruka and his victims relationship.

Its almost certain that haruka’s victim was his friend rather then a family member even though prisoners can lie I don’t see a reason to doubt haruka here so I’m concluding that she’s his friend.

I also believe haruka went to see fire works with her and that this mv shows them watching them

haruka talks alot about his weaknesses about not living up to expectations we see this consistently

But haruka implies he wasn’t always seen like this

So at some point something changed haruka got diagnosed? was devolving as fast? Or something else which is probably when the family get the dog. Idk if this is common in real life but it is some what a troop in fiction of getting pets for children how are struggling I think his mother bought it in hopes of it helping him become a “normal child” and we know how it goes from there…

Later he meets his victim and I think she saw how lonely he was and wanted to befriend him or something like that and at first haruka loves the attention

but what I think happened is his mother starts giving her attention.

We already know haruka’s mother wanted a girl and haruka’s friend was probably what she had wanted in a child

He finds it unfair and doesn’t want to lose the love of his mother to his friend and he already knows that killing the dog gave him attention and he probably saw this as some kind of betrayal

so kills her okay know I’v covered the generally accepted stuff now we’re on the same page time to get into this symbolism nonsense!

I think that the dead haruka and the butterfly are both representative of his victim.

I think haruka kills his younger self out of guilt that her life had more value so he should have been the one to die but also he see’s his victim as his replacement , his victim as himself as a child , the version of him when his mother still loved him as the version of himself that could be loved. She is a loveable version of him.

something bluuepink07 pointed out her post was this symbolism around butterflies

This and that butterflies can symbolise wishes this the main reason I think haruka’s friend reached out to him because he was lonely

she grained his wish of not being lonely of being loved as a “weakling” by being his friend but also he thought killing her would grant his wish of being loved by his mother and because he killed her he went to milgram a place where he gets attention she with her death further granted his wish. Butterflies can change , butterflies are beautiful , they can be loved and appreciated but haruka?

[deathbydarkelves]

re: queer people being so accustomed to queerbaiting that we're not as willing to engage with *real* slow burns/etc.

This is why every writer should do what I plan to do. Start with them fucking nasty and then do a prequel sometime later covering the slow burn. Have your cake and eat it too

[apocalypse-boogie]

I gotta be honest, I don’t engage with the Criminal Minds fandom (despite having watched all of the original show + Evolution and read up on as much of the spin-offs as I could) because I don’t like how prevalent the racism and sexism and infantilization is in the fandom. There’s just enough of all that shit upfront that I don’t want to dig any deeper than I already have. I’m good, I get enough of that shit in fandoms that I’ve been apart of for years I’m not gonna let this shit sully my love for this show anymore than it already has (especially considering the show’s writing itself is not devoid of these faults).

I’d rather just love the show and dissect it and write analysis and fanfic for it and shit on my own.

My fav characters (just cause & kind of in best to least order): Penelope Garcia (she’s literally me, I love her), Derek Morgan, Emily Prentiss, Jordan Todd, Matt Simmons, David Rossi.

[vraska-theunseen]

im so good at coming up with titles for video essays that don't really have anything there beyond the title but they're fun to think of. "the decline of the sitcom with the death of third places" "how to write a story and how to break out of it: the phases and psychology of a time loop narrative" ok that's all i got guess i'm not that good at it

[scarefox]

I feel like these two information will be relevant

... who's going to get poisoned by who? 👀

EDIT: WAIT IT MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE WHEN YOU KNOW THE ORIGINAL THAI TITLE

Reasons why I hate when they change the meaning of the title for it to sound cooler for interfans????? I don't even know! Isn't it also super confusing when interfans talk to thai fans / creators and then use the english title?

Like that flower is such an important connecting element between the mains obviously, to the point it is even hinted at in the title. But the english title is way too vague......

[crash-likes-cookies]

Physically bought single player games, that can no longer be played.

Live-Service games, forced always-online games, everything that is Steam...

The recent crackdown on ROM sites hosting software that has not been sold in DECADES...

Also, the subscription model for software, all that is fraud.

Nothing else.

[datastate]

i need to make a compilation of all the nonfiction i've read, bc some of these will haunt me forever, but i can't even remember what the exact phrasing was