#maybe one day i'll share some of it

[melverie]

What are your opinions on the reapers? I love the the lore surrounding them and the theology and mythology

And I love Thirteen

They're protector of souls

Personally I'm just a sucker for the idea of a kind and gentle Death that protects and guides you until it truly is your time to go to the point I even came up with lore for my ACNL town of all things that involves exactly that, so I like to imagine that the reapers in Obey Me work in a similar fashion

Plus we actually do get to see how Thirteen embodies exactly that. Just her expressing how much she used to dislike the human world back when death was at an all time high already shows that she's not really interested in the mere act of reaping souls or in the death of other beings. When she sees the way MC's soul sparkles for the first time in NB, she says she'll be looking forward to reaping it--once their time comes, that is

Then there are the soul candles, hidden at the very end of the Reaper's Cave, protected by various rules, and breaking any one of them results in being hit with a powerful curse. There wasn't really any reason she had to do it, it's just something she decided to implement after learning the Fountain of Knowledge functions similarly. When Lucifer is about to cursh MC's windpipe 'og lesson 16 Belphie' style, instead of jumping in and saving MC herself, she hands them the grimoire, letting MC decide for themself how they want to handle the situation. Also, if she truly is the friend Solomon referred to when talking about his childhood, then she's the one that asked him to protect humanity

So even if reapers at large aren't like this, at the very least Thirteen is essentially the embodiment of a kind and gentle Death that's rooting for you but that also won't stop you if you're stupid enough to go to a place that's literally called Mt. Imminent Death, and I think that's very sexy of her <3

Also YES, Thirteen is A QUEEN and deserves THE WORLD

[cutiesigh]

❤️🖤🩷

Wuthering Waves has taken over all of my free time recently, so here's a sketch of Scar!Ren I originally shared in da 14DWY Discord!!

[amogus-real-not-clickbait]

part 1 of a little comic / art sequence that i've been working on! :D it's part tribute, part experimenting with brushes n colors and trying new thingz :]

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and thus continues my endless quest of spreading the carrot fics like a plague! if you've seen my art floating around you probs already figured that this au holds a very special place in my heart, forever and always!!

if you haven't heard of it, it's a fic series by @crowned-ladybug called carrot soup!! it made me wish i could speak colors and i need more people to share my struggle xd

go check it out if you're into sweet voice lore and qpr level gayness and just wanna feel warm and soft and warm (hurt/comfort my beloved) <333 there are some heavier themes cos everyone's traumatized but they're working through it! be sure to check the tags and stay safe! <3

[arttsuka]

Look at what I made

From this drawing

[pearlofthewoods]

Spuffy band-fic ramblings (long-post)

I think about this scene so frequently because…"Well, I sing.” 

Yes, of course he does. That man was a poet, he could write such gorgeous lyrics, and no one can tell me Spike wasn’t an active part of the rock scene in the 70s.

Honestly, a whole Spuffy band fic has been marinating in my brain for like a good 6 months now, (like seriously, it even has its own playlist, that’s when u know it’s getting real)… but since I’m only a baby writer I wanna get some writing practise in before I embark on the project, so that I can do it justice. 

However as I literally cannot keep these thoughts to myself, allow me to invite you into my brain for a while. 

(Be warned I'm basically spoiling half the plot of a future fic under the cut so scroll away if u only wanna read it when, or if, it gets written.)

So in my fic idea, there’s a huge underground vampire music scene (particularly in LA), since because vampires are immortal, they’ve lived through so many different eras of music that they have a really deep understanding of music history. They’ve seen so many famous bands live etc (which obviously is one of the few human experiences open to vampires, since so many gigs take place at night and are tied to nightlife culture). 

I’d also say that since vampires have no need to work, if they can get their hands on instruments they'd have plenty of time to practise/dedicate themselves to the craft. 

One head-canon that I have comes from the idea that Billy Idol “stole Spike’s look” from him. What if he stole something else too?

Bear with me here. 

Vampires don’t age, so they could never risk becoming famous in the human world, since people would very quickly notice that they weren’t human. Vampires need to keep a relatively low profile. They also can’t really make money easily from music by playing for other vamps, cause it’s quite unlikely the vampire scene has much money flowing around. Why would it? Everyone can just steal/mug to get what they need.

So in the vampire music world, they’d mostly just be playing for each other to stave off the boredom of eternal life, but with no worries about finances or putting food on the table. 

And dear God that music would be experimental, with none of the usual restraints of human life.

Like I think their music would be very interesting/ outside the mainstream. Perhaps they’d play stuff from entirely different decades which had completely gone out of style, but not amongst vampires who never aged/got uncool (unlike the humans who played it)….

Vampires would also have so many different first-hand musical influences that they’d create the most weird and wonderful sounds. Think Spike’s Victorian musical upbringing mixed with jazz mixed with rock, mixed with… well, you get the picture.

And tbh I think some people would try and capitalise on that, on that raw vitality. Perhaps there’s a demon who records demos secretly in the crowd or steals entire songs and sends them to someone in the know in the music industry. And since vampires don’t exactly have passports, social security numbers or any real documented presence at all, there’s nothing they can do about it. Like what if, in this fictional world, Billy Idol didn’t just steal Spike’s look, but his music too? Frankly, it'd explain the resentment.

Anyway, in my head Spike hasn’t played music for a while, he took a break to look after Drusilla and then got wrapped up in the scoobies and their shenanigans. 

But after Buffy dies? He needs somewhere to put all those emotions. He needs to write goddamn it, he hasn’t felt heartbreak like this for a long, long time. He’s not used to death, he doesn’t know how to deal with it. No vampire does.

So when he’s drinking away the pain in Willy’s one night, some demons he used to know are down from LA and offer him an open spot to sing with them at a new demon club. Spike’s about to turn it down, but they tell him things have changed. Like Wolfram and Hart, demons are all in business now, and this new club will pay.

Spike doesn’t need money… but Dawn does. Tara and Willow won’t tell him anything, (they don’t want to be put in the moral position of whether to accept mugging-proceeds from Spike), but he knows that finances are tight. And this is something he can do for Dawn, and in a way… for Buffy.

So Spike joins a band!

I think he’s probably pretty famous from his past in the 70s vamp rock scene, but this time he wants to change up the music genre. He wants a fresh start. It’s the nineties goddamn it, and he’s certainly not the same vampire he was twenty years ago. He’ll play, but he’ll play on his terms. 

I imagine his newer music to basically be Jeff Buckley’s (my fave 90s musician), which I know might seem a bit melancholy for Spike, but with his current grief, it feels quite appropriate.

Tbh since I basically know nothing about music and can’t even imagine lyrics for toffee, I'd probably even just give him Jeff’s discography and call it a day. It’s fanfic I can do what I like. Grace? Spike wrote it. Job done. 

For example, the lyrics to “Opened Once”?

"In the half-light where we both stand

In the half-light you saw me as I am

I am a railroad track abandoned

With the sunset forgetting I ever happened

That I ever happened"

Half-light = the twilight, the safest time of day for vampires (to quote Edward Cullen, sorry lol). also a metaphor for the place between the vamp world and the human world. A place where Buffy and Spike "both stand", as she’s the slayer and he’s a vampire that can’t hurt people.

‘You saw me as I am’ - After Buffy's resurrection, Spike’s the only person who truly understands what she’s been through, and the experience of crawling out of your own grave. They meet each other where they are.

‘Railroad track’ - ‘railroad spike’. Railroad is a pretty unusual and archaic way of phrasing that word. At least where I’m from. ‘Railroad spike’ is too good of a coincidence. 

‘Sunset forgetting I ever happened’ - Spike doesn’t get to live in the daylight. the sun (and the sunset) are both out of reach for him without the danger of dusting. He doesn’t fully feel like a true vampire anymore, but the human world won’t accept him either. In fact, his human life was so long ago that even the sun itself has forgotten William Pratt.

I also think Spike/ Jeff Buckley is a fitting parallel  since, if I stick to major-canon events, Jeff’s unfortunate passing very early in his career would also fit roughly timewise with Spike’s death at the end of season 7. 

The last unfinished album that Jeff struggled so hard to write? The one Spike wrote when he was getting over his ensoulment and entirely reevaluating who he is, and what that means for his music.

Unfinished final album? Yes. Unpublished? No. 

Because when he accepted wearing that amulet, Spike had a pretty good idea he was going to die. So he did something a vampire never plans to do. He wrote a will. 

If he’s dead, there’s no more worries about fame exposing his immortality right? So his music is published posthumously in the human world (with some bullshit about his talent going undiscovered by the industry during life).

And combined, the proceeds pay for Dawn’s college bills, and lift all of Buffy’s financial worries from her shoulders. 

In the end, that’s Spike’s last gift to Buffy, his music, his poetry…and it finally allows her to rest. 

[myreia]

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—compendium

[kyouka-supremacy]

Hi. I've calmed down a bit, and I think it's better if I just take a break from Tumblr for a while. Right now, I don't feel the fandom to be the same chill and safe space as I felt it to be, so I'd rather take some time until I can feel comfortable again with posting. All my side blogs will be on hiatus too. I'm terribly sorry for any discomfort this may cause.

A deep, wholehearted thank you to anyone who reached out in the last hours in replies, asks and dms to share their support and love. Seriously, you can't imagine how much it meant to me, how meaningful every single message I got was to me. Yesterday I was really believing my blog didn't bring anything but negativity and hatred to the community; thank you for reaching out to tell me I was able to share a little happiness, too. Words cannot express how indebted I am to you; you made me feel again like the posting I made on my blog was worth it, for you alone.

I don't think I'll deactivate for the time being. The temptation is still very strong, but I've poured so much time and dedication and love on this blog, I don't think it'd be fair to delete it. I hope in the future there'll still be people who my posts can make happy.

Lastly, I want to apologize once again to the people for whom my posts evoked so many negative sentiments. I know it's impossible to avoid, but I'm still sorry that happened. I apologize to you.

Please, be kind to each other. Make some ss/kk posts on my behalf while I'm away :)

[monotone-artist]

[id in alt]

giving them Magic Eyes so they can see invisible spirits ooooo

[mollysunder]

I feel like it should be really obvious to a good chunk of Noxian high society and majority of the civil service that Mel is Guile. It's not the fact that her new outfit has the symbol of the Trifarix around her waist, or that the simplified tattoos on her forehead (of her LoL version) makes the symbol for Guile. It's not the fact she and Swain have been hanging out since she returned from her exile. Everyone plays dumb for all that.

It's that Mel clearly makes very public stances on issues that seemed immovable to Noxian society at gatherings or whatever, and suddenly Swain makes public policy the next day! It's not word for word, because his proclamations usually have to include some "for the empire" slant, but sometimes that's just all that's added.

I can't imagine any of the new civil servants doing anything about it tho. Why would they? Their jobs exist because of the Trifarix so it's whatever. What are the nobles going to do? Attacking Mel is like attacking the Trifarix itself, except now the definitely know outside of the demon and hardened aar veteran there's a demi-god sorceress in their ranks too. How do you move against that?

The general public's probably the only group that isn't sure who Guile is, and the popular theory's still Mel! So popular consensus through most of Noxus is that Mel is Guile, because the only other reason she could have this much influence over the Grand General's agenda would be that they're sleeping together (which is very funny to Mel).

This post was brought to you by the fact that Mel isn't really subtle in what she does when you think about, she's just really efficient at executing her plans effectively. Also the one time she wore a "disguise" wasn't really a disguise.

[fr-thecollectors]

Agrius [he/him] is an artist, and sells his paintings and natural paints to other clans or travelers who come across the Collectors. he's quite the cheerful one, and sometimes lends a hand in the nursery, entertaining the hatchlings for a while with painting crafts

one of my beloved trans flag dragons <3 (although in his case, he's not a dragon ;) he's got lovely art in his bio that's more accurate to his appearance)

ironically, one of the most "normal" figures in my lore isn't even a dragon hahahaha

[fungus-gnats]

tiny life update - my job is just Fungi now :)

[moon-down47]

erm um I've been doing a silly thing on Instagram

I am. So normal about her. But also I got...

I made all of these too! You're free to use them as gif or emotes btw just credit me

[the lizard AGS drawings are inspired by @twisting-roads lizard AGS btw I'm so fucking normal augh]

[kenzan-kiwami]

everybody claims to be a kashiwagi enjoyer but the only time anyone ever talks about him is to say he's the hottest piece of meat in the series

[emoticonheart]

regarding the theme of “terms for burping” - i once knew somebody who whenever they belched , she referred to it as “ripping gut.”

i’ll probably never get that exonerated from my mind tbh. the idea of all that has concentrated in the stomach is <3

also as an aside, seeing u post more freely abt ur own belches n ur pride in it has strangely trickled down to me feeling more comfortable ?? idk , bodily self-love manifests in all sorts of ways especially w/ this kink . ripping gut as it may

-🪱

...

ripping gut is SUCH a hot way to say it. like just having so much air inside that you have no choice but to let it out all at once and it's so loud and powerful like a whole lion's roar... yeah. that's insane. whoever that somebody is is a genius.

also wow :,))) i'm so glad to hear that. i never could've guessed that my own journey of self love and acceptance could have an effect outside of myself. i'd love to continue sharing more of that journey if it's helpful and appreciated!! either way though, i hope we can all learn to be more comfortable with ourselves and our love for burps!!!!

[mo-ok]

Ive drawn every day this week 👌👌👌 please enjoy the unnecessary amount of Go On RPM content (I cannot be stopped)

[sentientstump]

i was on the verge of losing hope xD