#my little trophies

[tinyfaust]

genuinely love how every time I go to paint, all my ds9 novels are Right There to cheer me on.

also I’m finally painting full things (and enjoying it) again for the first time in literal years (3??4??). mainly tos bc their colors are so fun but I’m hoping to do some goofy super colorful ds9 stuff because I think it would heal me

[loseractivities]

sillyposting day 1

[yennao]

Have these. Gotta warm up those Zoro doodlin muscles. It’s been a minute or six.

[wiscats19]

Princess trophy with a Tiara

you didn't specify which tiara to draw him with, so...

[beautifulstorms]

Alysa Liu, Promise • NHK Trophy 2024

[maddyscrsideblog]

God bless to Vax's one beautiful year in Zephrah as the Voice of the Tempest's trophy husband, full respect to him for going the opposite direction to Vex with regards to being married to the leader of a town, he went full pretty boy arm candy and as far as I'm aware was not involved in running Zephrah at all. It seems like Vax committed himself to the royal consort sugar baby life and let his powerful wife do the actual leading a society stuff, I wonder what the rumours in Zephrah about that pretty goth twink who walks around on the Tempest's arm were like. You're a guard in Zephrah stationed near the home of the Tempest, a very trusted position, it takes all of your strength not to gossip about the god damn NOISES you hear at all hours of the day, you had to knock on the door one day to deliver something and the Tempest's "friend" answered in nothing but a short black robe. You're pretty sure the leader of your people has a trophy husband. He's nice though.

[midnightwind]

you guys like me going off on random DA tangents and musings, right?? because I've been awake too long so you're getting another one

I have been sat here trying to figure out Why Lucanis' prison looks like a bunch of ice and why it was so far away from the "lab" settings for a while now. (arguably two rooms fit this description, the one where Lucanis tells you about Zara and the one right outside his phylactery room) Like, even without that bridge being broken, it's in such a bizarre corner of the Ossuary. And I mean, it wouldn't really matter with a normal prisoner, but Lucanis was a notorious Crow and mage killer on top of that, plus he was Zara's special little guy to fuck with. You would not want to take him for a long walk to experience the worst shit on earth every few days. Maybe it's close enough to the little room where he mentions Zara and maybe she wanted him close to the door so she didn't have to go far to torture him, but again, leaving such a challenging subject close to the exit seems like a bad choice. You want him to have to get through so many guys and doors before escaping so you have time to take him down.

This also ignores the magic required to leave, but they're not clear on what that is and not all the Venatori are mages so there's gotta be a mundane way out he could snatch off a guard. I digress, the whole ice cage and far off room doesn't make sense. But we know they were shipping demons to Zara. (I'm pretty sure the few demons you confront in Minrathous were Zara's little pets set loose so we can assume she wanted them in the capital for the eventual Venatori coup on the crown) If Zara was about to be stuck in Minrathous for the foreseeable future, setting things into motion for Elgar'nan, I could see her wanting her pet Crow at her side. Especially if you consider the initial idea for Lucanis: he was going to be a mind controlled murder puppet before you break him out.

Sure, Spite didn't crack open his ribcage and crawl out like some new horror, but having a demon in Lucanis lets her control him via the phylactery if not just outright with her blood magic. Maybe his will was too strong for mundane control, but the phylactery works. We know it works based off of Lucanis' dialogue about it. So we know she had a surefire way to keep him under control. (There's a whole other post exploring the amount of dead Venatori and the fact that Lucanis still has his leathers and weapons [which would make sense if he was Zara's murder puppet, but alas] and whether Lucanis recently made a break for it or if the loose demons/spirits/undead killed them all) Maybe he kept his leathers because Zara wanted him presentable upon delivery, I don't know.

But I do think he was being prepped to move. The Ossuary is falling apart, Zara is pulling all the best results, they're losing personnel and servants without being given more; Zara was clearly moving on from that location. But she wanted her little Antivan prize. He's too dangerous to move normally, a Crow is likely to escape if given an inch especially a skilled one like Lucanis, so they need to lock him down somehow. Ropes and chains aren't reliable, not with a Crow, but he's not a mage. You can use magic. You can literally put him on ice. I think they were packaging him up in an ice cube and doing it next(ish) to the door so they could more easily move him. I think Zara was going to take him and his phylactery to Minrathous and use him to cause some absolutely ruthless mayhem in the city before her cult took it over.

I think Rook showing up weakened the spell being cast just enough for Lucanis and Spite to break out, and I think it saved a whole lot of lives.

[strawberrylemonchai]

he's so stupid ❤️

Og image under cut:

[reminiscingtonight]

Last year Kimmy basically had to drag Leah to lift the trophy with her and this year Leah knew exactly what they were gonna do

[royaltea000]

the bride and the ugly ass groom

[which-qsmp-egg-would]

Congratulations to Flippa for winning her first ever poll! Here's the drawing I promised :D

[silversupremacy]

sweater weather :3

[ellmovy]

the current situation

(i'm team finland btw but i actually enjoy all the nordic entries)

[alukaforyou]

sometimes i think about this txt cover of invitation and... that long haired guy is just choso with his hair down TO ME

[beautifulstorms]

Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko, FD Carmen • Nebelhorn Trophy 2024

[scorchedmazes]

rip minho you would’ve loved closing all the fitness/activity rings on an apple watch.