#monkey's paw curling

[himbeaux-on-ice]

6:31pm ET. book it.

[mrghostrat]

fucking incredible art by @chernozemm (full on ao3)

flawless (E) (35k) (1/5)

When Crowley had snaked himself across the bar top, half purring, half snarling for Aziraphale to live a little, this wasn’t exactly what he meant by it. Not exclusively, anyway. If there was a list of possibilities, it may have been on there somewhere; scrawled as a hasty afterthought, perhaps under a subheading of Things That Would Surely Never Actually Happen. But the sight of Aziraphale lying naked and debauched in the middle of his black satin sheets was not something he was about to hesitate over. (If there was a second list, one surreptitiously scribbled on a napkin in the dark corner of a crowded bar, it would be titled Things Crowley Had No Right To Crave As Much As He Did, and it would start and end with this single bullet point)

@goodomensafterdark

[heartludwig]

“Maybe you can even grant a wish in a couple hundred years”

Thinking about how Scarabs wish got sort of granted at the end

[glitter50000]

Pete in NPMD

[ithinkimnormal]

cursed with loving jayce talis too much in a fandom that absolutely refuses to treat him like a human being. cursed with loving jayce talis too much to humor the heinous boring compulsive heterobait created to retcon a decade of him being obsessed with the man of his dreams. the hardest battles are mine but we will ride again in s2

[fujii-draws]

On that note. I am my own greatest comedian.

[dapper-lil-arts]

I been writing a lot of Sunset's childhood for a fic and this is all I can think of the entire time lmao

[gros-chat-fait]

A man and his god.

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Got around to binge the Loki series and honestly? Besides my beloved Rocket Raccoon, this might be my favorite Marvel media yet. Mister Mobius M. Mobius has a choke hold on my heart <3

[bonefall]

with how little relevance characters often have outside their introduction arc, its genuinely WEIRD how relevant tree constantly is. which is an odd criticism because characters should remain relevant after being established but in warriors it feels like blatant favoritism. i dont even dislike treee and i liked him a lot in tbc but its ODD

Mr. Gas Leak has a very distinct feeling (an odor, if you will) to me. It feels like he became so relevant because people were frustrated that he wasn't doing the Very Special Job they'd invented just for him back in AVoS, so the writing team tried to "respond to criticism" by making him show up all the time.

But like... that wasn't really the heart of the criticism. It wasn't a clamor to bring back Tree specifically. It was frustration that they would set up worldbuilding elements and then forget about them when they became inconvenient.

SkyClan's return, negotiator role, the border guard between the DF and StarClan, voting to oust a leader. We've gotten at least one (sometimes multiple) additions that threaten to shake up the status quo in every modern arc-- and then they're forgotten about or not used to their full potential.

In honesty though, the more he appears, the more I actively dislike him. I thought he was cool at first, I enjoyed the idea that SkyClan was going to bring some new dynamics to the politics at the lake. But every role he's had since his introduction has been insufferable.

I HATED how he absolutely refused to do his job in Squilf's Hope because of personal bias

I can't stand how the Sisters have been willing to help the Clans after their treatment in that book, and the constant narrative derision they get in spite of that

The fact everyone just forgot Tree existed in ASC until Nightheart said something was astonishingly bad writing. If I forgot about a major worldbuilding element like that I would be genuinely embarassed, not cutely lampshading it

Even the way he ended up "helping" when the narrative remembered him was annoying. Like, "Oh right! Having this role just grinds the action to a screeching halt! Instead of the Battle Cats doing Battles, they argue offscreen about things! Wow, this was a terrible idea to begin with!"

There are waaaay worse characters in WC, and I can't bring myself to hate him the same way I hate some others like Gray Wing. But boy, he has found his way down my list of "least liked WC characters."

[kooldewd123]

i'm glad that the leaker is currently refusing to give any information on future projects. game freak taking so long to give us this information is an incredibly good sign and it would suck so much if when they finally did choose to reveal it, this guy stole their thunder. i don't trust this guy not to spread it closer to release, or for the info to not fall into the hands of people without the same reservations, but for now this is the one thing i'll give the hacker.

[dykedvonte]

I think Curly being fired a long with the rest of the crew even with the recommendation still invokes he did not get what he wanted through that.

Curly was feeling unfulfilled at work and in his career, yes. He was considering quitting along with sticking it out cause it’s what he’s known and feel secure in, even if not satisfied. You think getting fired would be a great thing for him, that’s a part of Jimmy’s scathing thought process and twisting of the cock pit conversation. However, the most important aspect is that Curly got to make that final decision for himself.

Curly does not get to decide if he’s actually ready to take that step and branch out and it likely worsened whatever was spinning in his head into a spiral because now he has to think of what he’s gonna do. It can’t wait and I believe his misplaced idea of curtouy in telling the crew was his way of not invoking the same feeling within them. For him to be able to sit on it for months while they couldn’t, it was not fair the same way it isn’t fair to assume he would wanted that as an excuse to leave piloting.

It’s good to note that no one really got to fully choose what they wanted to do. Just a whole lot of reactions…. And inactions.

[frog-inthebog]

well. they finally went dancing

[boltlightning]

obviously there's a lot of wasted potential in veilguard but in particular i keep coming back to nevarra. like what is going on in the rest of the country, i thought they just happened to bury their dead in the necropolis, not have their entire way of life revolve around it? is everyone in the country cool with necromancy? what are the circles like? how do templars decide when an animated corpse is too dangerous? how do they get along with the rest of thedas? they were a city in the free marches once, they have family ties to the orlesian imperial throne, they are the only other mage-forward country with tevinter—surely there's SOME sort of interesting tidbit about the country outside of their burial practices? which are implied to be archaic and unsettling even to their own citizens, let alone the rest of the world?

and lest we forget the dynasties of nevarra have famously been fighting very bloody feuds for the last 300 years. the pentaghasts are such a fucked up huge family. they were dragon hunters, once, shouldn't they be concerned with the lords of fortune? shouldn't there be coup after coup in the wake of king markus' death, wouldn't such a thing be highly publicized in such a cutthroat political country? why is this discussed in a throwaway line of banter???????? where is cassandra is she alright???

and i think this sort of questioning is why, even when you set aside the plot, veilguard feels so thin. the world isn't lived in, all the internal conflict of any organization is handwaved away. i chafe at the idea that these giant and powerful countries would do nothing of import to fight against elgar'nan and ghilan'nain, because the threat is immediately real and actionable. but if the game wanted to, there are easily plausible reasons the nations wouldn't be fit for fighting, yknow? and reasons beyond the venatori. like king markus dying and there being a succession crisis in nevarra, or the tevinter war with par vollen reaching a head after centuries of stalemates, or something. anything. anything besides silence, then devastation off-screen. why.

[opossumcuntboy]

I need him to stop giving me earth shattering orgasms while he's literally in another state. It defies physics. I can feel him holding my hips down and using his hands on me. I can feel him biting my neck and whispering in my ear. How does he do that.

[joechoui]

Hey, I just want to let you know: I started playing Bloodborne because of your Frasier crossover. I've always been too afraid to play a Souls game because of their reputation, but I'm really enjoying it so far!

That rules!! Bloodborne rules!! I'm gonna make more crossover comics about stuff that I think rules!!

[bitchfitch]

Like. Ok so I started the process of getting rid of these molds on dead twin day bc my dad and I had gone to this pottery painting place to celebrate dtd, and we were the only people there so we ended up chatting to the lady who runs it (it's a locally owned mom and pop place) and I mentioned these molds and how I don't use them blow blae bla. and she offered to take them off my hands. and I warn her, it's a Lot of molds but it's primarily holiday and southwestern themed, but if she wants them I'm Happy to part with them for a few free firings . and she goes :D yeah thatd be great! but are you sure you don't want more for them? and I say Nope! Take them :) and she starts to see the inklings and so she asks :) oh are they in good condition? and I say :) oh yeah they're mostly in perfect condition! no cracks or pitting or anything:), :) are you sure you dont want more for them:)? :) Nope:).

(I sent her pictures and descriptions of the whole collection when I got home to make sure she wanted That many. I'm not an asshole, but I don't think. a person can grok how many fucking molds it is until you're having to move them.)

So we come back today to drop off the first load. and pull up to the front of her shop as we were told too and she looks into the bed of my dad's truck (it's(Ford 250) suspension was bottomed out from the weight of the molds) and she goes o.o Maybe come around to the back to unload those into the wearhouse part of her shop. and it was a small joy to offload the curse that is 1 million fucking molds onto another person but also another person who might actually get to use them. Bc I bought those kilns for Glass i never fucking wanted these molds.

and then she finds out this was only about 70% of the molds and there's still another closet full of them. and she goes well :) you can bring those too :) If you want :). And I said I do :). Two extremely polite people staring eachother down bc neither of us want some of these giant fucking molds to be our problem but don't want to say it.

She got a bunch of things she can absolutely use, and then a tax of a couple hundred pounds worth of Christmas tree bases and wreath molds. the curse has changed hands!