#love after death

[loveafterdeath-if]

El's special is out now! (16k words) HERE

Aaaand

Athiel's special is available on kofi (fr this time....) with 10k words. It'll be publicly available on December 25th!

[star-struck09]

I tried calling your phone once so I could hear the cadence of your voice in your voicemail. I fear it is as they say—there is so much love left after death.

[cosmonautroger]

Love After Death, 1968

[joselandsallee]

You were sad. I could see it in your eyes. 💔 I’m so sorry I couldn’t save you from yourself.

You’ll forever be my hardest goodbye. I miss you twin 🔥

[terrence-silver]

Does old Terry have any precautions in place to ensure Beloved doesn’t date anyone else after he dies? Or is it a they die at the same time type of thing?

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Wouldn't put it past him to put together a very elaborately crafted will that states beloved can't marry or enter relationships, legally so, if such a thing can even be legally enforced, and if it can, I'm certain Terry Silver of all people will and would find a way to enforce it, giving beloved his assets posthumously and making them his sole heir, but nothing being for free, the price for it ultimately being that they remain devoted to him for the rest of their lives, decades after he's died. That is, if he doesn't organize a joint suicide where they depart this Earth together sooner, because they belong to him and he's taking them with him.

But then again, contrary to popular belief...

Terry Silver isn't a proponent of force if there's other alternatives lined up on the table.

He likes people coming to him more.

Of their own volition.

Of their own free will.

Why? Because it's a testament of his power display in someone else's actions.

He relishes the fact that people can have every other imaginable option available and they still choose to turn to him.

He never forced Daniel Larusso to come train under him either, for example. He just made the offer, made it tempting, made it feel safe and Daniel Larusso came to him all on his own, behind his teacher's back no less. He never forced any other student under him, be it Mike Barnes, Tory, Kenny or literally anyone else who ever trained in his dojo to be there by force either. They all came because they wanted to (or had something to gain from it), one way or another. I feel Terry would enjoy for it to be the same case with beloved; they promise him that they'll be true to him after his death not because they're necessarily contractually forced or cornered into it. Because they're effectively blackmailed. Trapped. No --- Terry Silver would want it to happen because beloved truly means it. Because their devotion and desire for him are both legitimate instead of coerced. Because they love him so much that even after he dies they cannot conceive of being with someone like that ever again. He'd want to be mourned, cared for and remembered honestly. Beloved puts that chain of loyalty on themselves because they want to. Not to say he's this saintly romantic. Oh, no, he isn't. If push came to shove he'd contractually obligate beloved into celibacy and fidelity if he could and if he legally couldn't, he'd still find ways to do it --- but what would give him profound happiness? Not glee. Not a perverted sense of triumph. Not sadistic obsession. No. Happiness. The knowledge beloved will love him and stay true to him to the end of their days because that's what they've chosen. Now that! That would make him happy.

That's what he'd really want.

The idea that out of every choice, they'd choose him.

That his capacity for devotion and passion is finally matched.

[simrancafe]

"you, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive"

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

[chronivore]

Romeo & Juliet: Love After Death

[mavi-gozlu-meyve]

"You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away" : "There was nothing before her, and there's nothing after!"

[loveafterdeath-if]

Hello 😊are u planning on posting T's pov? I thought it would come before El's because of the order but i'm guessing you're holding onto it? No pressure ofc i was just curious

I'm so sorry for the delay! I also want to apologize to T romancers. T's POV will only be available when Chapter 5 or 6 is released. There are many aspects I want to keep under wraps until they’re revealed in Love after Death. It would be difficult to write their POV without spoiling key elements, so I hope that’s okay!

That being said, T will have their Christmas Special, along with L and Ekissa. It will only be available on Ko-fi, though. I made a poll on Discord a few days ago, asking which ROs should be public, and Athiel won.

I want to clarify that I intend to keep all of El's short stories free because, well, it’s El. It’d be too cruel of me to keep you from their stories, haha

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony

[ruporas]

kiss of the divine

[joselandsallee]

It’s gut wrenching, literally sickening, to know you’re gone. My heart can’t fathom. I see you sitting beside me in the car listening to music on my late night joyrides. I wait to see your face appear in our daily meetings, or for you to pop around the corner. I still hear you call me Jose-Land, because you never called me by my actual name. Good God I fucking miss you Shane. 💔💔💔 I still have hard time swallowing the truth. I miss you, always.

[ninamodaffari]

So happy to finally show off my final piece for the Tome of Pacts zine I feature in.

This is Hagne, the Herald of Rot, and faithful servant to her Patron, Cicardia. Her look was inspired by several things -- death masks, pomegranates, worn bronze, flies and centipedes. The butterflies she carries feed on death and decay. Hagne herself felt the cold embrace of the grave, but was blessed to find herself given another chance. She will not fail.

I am so honored to have been a part of this project, and this is one of my favorite pieces to date. I hope you guys enjoy it as well. :)

[guillotine-head-basket]

A song for my corpus

Wind running through fields of reeds

Sprouted from the dirt my bones fertilized

Rats gnawing away at my rotting flesh

My body returning to the earth

I can feel your sorrow

Lay in the field of reeds

Listen closely to the wind running through them

Listen to my song

Knowing my soul resides in the space where I love you exists

And when you come to join me

We can look at our small snapshot of life

And reside in our love for eternity

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still deep in the episode 7 brainrot. because OH BOY AM I

(also one more extremely, obnoxiously self-referential thing, I'm -- I'm so sorry)

[proxycrit]

(I point. Gently, in the voice of somebody who’s mind touched by the outer gods, i whisper truth in your ears:

Your honor the horses are now lesbians

(Anyways here’s the designs)