#love after death

[loveafterdeath-if]

Hey there! Ekissa's POV is out now! (~2.5k words) HERE

Hope you'll like it, I've already started Athiel's POV while writing chap 2 btw

[filmnoirsbian]

Spilled Inktober day 16: inspired by your favorite autumnal food or drink

[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 🔥

[darkartfinds]

"Love after death..." by Junaid Mortimer

[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]

Your demo is amazing, I wasn't expecting it to be so long for a new release but it just kept going. The heartbreak and void after what happened to El..

I thought about it when MC was having the dream about El but how would the characters react to MC sleepwalking or sleeptalking after El's accident, like they would wander outside like a ghost calling for El or something

Athiel would stand nearby but wouldn’t intervene. They know MC probably wouldn’t want their help, so they’ll just observe and ensure MC doesn’t fall or bump into anything while sleepwalking.

L would press a hand on MC's back to gently guide them back to their room, murmuring soft words to soothe and comfort MC as much as possible.

Ekissa would likely guide them back or, if MC is shorter, carry them to their room, stroking their hair until they’re sure everything is "okay."

T wouldn’t hesitate to take MC’s hands, rubbing their skin gently with their thumbs and softly calling MC’s name to wake them. T wouldn’t allow MC to continue dreaming, especially not if MC is mumbling El's name in a heartbroken way.

[filmnoirsbian]

Spilled Inktober day 5: This haunting is a love story (ghazal)

[joselandsallee]

The best parts of me live in heaven along side you. You’re not entirely gone. Part of you still lives within me, and that’s enough to keep me going.

[ruporas]

kiss of the divine

[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)