#my perception of the characters change

[sentientsky]

Kristin Chang, "Churching"

on apotheosis. on rage that has nowhere to go

[waitineedaname]

I was thinking about this post comparing sqh and jgy, and then this chart happened. this is less about what they're Actually like, and more about a combination of intentional persona + public perception of them

[kaetor]

I swore to myself I'd never redesign the black mask fit because I think it's perfect the (horrible) way it is but then I got bored and had an idea.

[katabay]

THE JETSET LIFE IS GONNA KILL YOU, ERIC CARTER!

my laptop charger uhhhhhh. met its end in a very permanent, very fire hazardy kind of way last week. while waiting for a replacement I decided to try and get some work done at the library and was asking around for some urban fantasy (extra points for a mystery plot of some kind) recommendations to check out while I was there

the eric carter series was mentioned a couple of times, AND had the added bonus of having a necromancer for a main character. I love necromancers. someday I'm gonna play one in a game instead of immediately defaulting to vampires.

Fire Season, Stephen Blackmoore

[98chao]

more sonic doodlin

[dukeofthomas]

Jason is only loved when he is mourned. He is only loved when he can't say or do anything. He is only loved as a concept, not as a person. He is loved for what he represents, what he used to be, but not who he really is.

They loved him when he was dead.

[erabu-san]

tighnari saying cyno and sethos are like brothers at the end of this quest... cyno really is collecting siblings like pokemon. good for him!!

Yeeeessss!!

In my HC, Cyno put a lot of attention in family.

Firstly because Cyrus was his only one family when he was a kid with amnesia, but also he grown up with Lisa as colleague under the same professor, but both of them consider Cyrus as a parental figure : without saying anything, a link it made of brother/sister. Cyno never knows his family by blood, and I think he was curious once. But he is satisfy with his current family ! And for him, family doesn't need to blood related. And if I remember well, Cyno said (during Windblum event, EVENT EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR ME 😭🫶) something like it is pretty current people in Akademiya becomes a family for study. It was his case ! Cyrus becomes his dad figure, Lisa, her senior, is like a big sister (I wouldn't never forget when she calls him little brother/baby brother) (AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA !!! <3). And when in windblum Cyno came visited Lisa, during their conversation, Cyno is the one mentionning the family bond she has with Cyrus "you are also part of the family, Lisa. It is normal for a daughter to talk like his father" (*CRYING*)! It sounds a tiny detail but I feel like this is so important for him.

Then came Tighnari, aka the first friend he had ever ! (I am a bit lost in chronology tho. In Tighnari's backsto, we learn they met when Cyno was already the general mahamatra while Tighnari was a student new-ly popular. But in Cyno's quest, we learn that they were student when they met ?? So Cyno was student and General ? 🤔 welp, I am still unsure but now I include it in my HC/brainrot kskdkd). And also Collei ! Collei is a bit more complicated, in term that she wasn't comfortable around him for a long time being. But even when she wasn't comfortable around him at first, she still gave him a bookmark handmade during windblum and saying he is like a family for him (I AM ON THE FLOOR). Tighnari and Cyno both consider Collei like a little sister, and bahaha when they "fight" about "who is the older one" and tighnari don't want to admit this loser being the older oh gosh i love theeeeeeem (I will never recover from "oh yeah but you're younger in your head, Collei could be your big sis !" "I wouldn't never say I am the youngest !!! Except if it is for an opportunity for winning TCG by shocking my opponent.." cyno you are so real). But during this windblum event again, Cyno said something like "you know Collei, tighnari said we are not an akademiya family, and he doesn't want to work on a post together" and this is SUPER IMPORTANT because for Cyno, as you can see earlier, only had family by study (Cyrus, Lisa). He worked, studied and published with his father and Lisa. And also, he did homework with Tighnari that he considers like a brother in soul. But the fact he was "refused" to do work with Collei and him, kind of make him feel to tell Collei "yeah we r family but, tighnari... ):"

As Tighnari answered "You know, we can consider ourself as a normal family" AND THAT'S SOSO IMPORTANT. In my HC, Tighnari is the one in group having a "good family" (not in sumeru cast, I believe it is Nilou who has the healthiest family). He knows what a family is supposed to, he grew up with parents who teach him a lot of thing and he explored with them. Anyway Tighnari is a healthy kid, he knows that they don't need to work on a project together to be a family. Oh and that's also why I HC him Aromantic, AroAce persons value platonic and familyship a lot more than romantic, so he doesn't know mind that Collei and Cyno who are not blood related to him are like a true family for him !

(Before continue, I want to talk his bond with Collei ; I believe he can relates on how Collei suffered from the seal, because Cyno who might forget his past, he remembers the pain. That's how in Tighnari's voiceline, Cyno often check how Collei is going w/o her noticing. Even when Collei was aware of Cyno and under Tighnari care, he was ready to help her. And in the first story quest, Tighnari said that she still awares of him. I wonder how often they talk abt Collei !! I am sure Cyno shares to Tighnari how much he woud like to get along with her, and that's how Tighnari gives him opportunity like this one official art when in description Tighnari said "I asked Collei to bring Cyno")

And so, that's how in Cyno's quest we were able to see all his closest friends. Tighnari Collei Kaveh Alhaitham Candace Dehya Faruzan (and Traveler). Everyone was worried for him, was wishing to help him, and was here for him. And Cyno also noticed he is less alone (GOOD FOR HIM). And now, there is Sethos, a man coming from nowhere in this life, but an important man ; they didn't spend life together but they can feel a deep connection bcuz of both of their backstory. Sethos might be the closest to understand all his doubt a long time ago (and Cyno IS the closest person for Sethos to relate). And IN CYNO'S VOICELINE ABOUT SETHOS "Aren't we his best friends of whole Sumeru city ?! 😐" Cyno pulled the power of friendship and adopt him in his big family circle.

ANYWAY WOW IT IS ONLY 8AM AND I AM HERE ALREADY YAPPING ABOUT CYNO BAHAHAHA

But genshin impact is for me more family impact that anything 😭 🫶 (and that's also why I am stuck with sumeru while FONTAINE AND THE HOUSE OF HEARTH ARE JUST RIGHT HERE ?!?!) after all, we are playing a traveler who is searching their twin !

Thank you for reading my talk, anon

[renmorris]

really hope the kids today have access to random stashes of books in their teacher’s classrooms that contain healthy radicalizing content.

every time there's a protest outside the white house I immediately remember this one passage from a book series I don’t remember that described peaceful protesters being gunned down on the white house lawn and men with hoses coming to wash off the rose bushes

I was 10 or 11 when I read that and now I’m nearly 30 years old, and I will never forget that shit even though I’ve forgotten nearly everything else about the book

[somewhereincairparavel]

Being a Jason Grace truther is bracing yourself everytime you see videos talking about "unbearably boring character povs" knowing dam well who the comments are going to be talking about and skipping the video all together because of that reason

[transmasc-rose]

Aro Nine makes sense with Eccleston talking about how he sees ninerose as something sort of beyond the sexual/romantic/etc. I wonder if he had any say in how this went??

And for those who don't interpret Ten as aro, I feel like this adds a fascinating new aspect to his regeneration into that face, and both face's relationship with Rose.

Still have to listen to the whole thing, but I've listened to the clips and. Holy shit.

[firstkanaphans]

Desperate for some domestic horny SandRay, like deep in their DEFINITELY EVENTUAL relationship. If you'd ever spare some mercy on my soul and decide to write something about this I'll be eternally grateful 🥺

Hiii!! Since we just met these characters and they’re both disaster muffins in their own unique ways, I can’t actually picture them in a long-term relationship right now. I can, however, picture them in a slightly toxic situationship that they both refuse to acknowledge is real. So I wrote that instead. It’s definitely horny, though, so I hope you still like it! 💕 [Rating: Explicit; Word Count: 1542]

Sand would be lying if he said he wasn’t exhausted. Between school, the three jobs he was currently juggling, and the nights he spent entertaining Ray, there was hardly any time left for sleep. And yet, as soon as his alarm went off, he sat up in bed and silenced it. Next to him, Ray grumbled out his dissatisfaction at the noise, but he didn’t open his eyes. Unlike Sand, he wasn’t beholden to any schedule—a few missed classes were nothing a hefty donation from his father couldn’t handle—and although the system that allowed such inequality to exist irked Sand, for some reason Ray didn’t. 

Sand looked down at him, sleeping peacefully on a silk pillow, and instead of the irritation that had been commonplace when they first met, all he felt was fondness. Although their lives couldn’t have been more different, Sand knew that Ray needed rest just as much as he did. That should have been his first clue that he was already in too deep.

With a weary sigh, Sand stood and began getting dressed in a bedroom that was bigger than his whole apartment. Only once he was done did he turn to find that Ray had been watching him.

“Don’t go,” Ray said, his voice half-whine, half-command. Sand sat down on the edge of the bed and stroked Ray’s sleep-mussed hair. Ray still hadn’t picked his head up off the pillow and he had an air about him of a prince being serviced. He usually did. 

“Some of us actually have to work for a living, rich boy,” Sand said, but there was no bite to his words. “I have class in an hour. I have to go.”

“Five more minutes,” Ray countered as if they were bartering. 

“No. Now,” Ray said, but before Sand could stand to make his words a reality, Ray grabbed his wrist and held him in place.

“Please?” he begged, pulling on Sand’s arm like a child trying to get their mother’s attention. When that didn’t work, he pulled harder. “Please, Sand? Please?”

“Ray,” Sand grumbled, but—as usual—he found it impossible to say no when Ray was looking up at him with those eyes and that pout. Especially when what he was offering was so tempting. So, against all logic and common sense, Sand lay down in bed next to the boy he had so stupidly given his heart to and he watched as his face lit up like sunshine, pleased to have gotten his way. 

“See,” Ray said, stroking Sand’s cheek. “Was that so hard?”

No, Sand thought. Being with Ray like this was easy. It was the parts that came after that were hard. But before he could dwell on that too much, Ray closed the distance between them with a kiss.

The kiss was passionate and hungry—the way all of Ray’s kisses were, as if anything less were too intimate—and although his breath was stale from sleep and Sand was still on a time crunch, he found that he didn’t mind it. 

Ray threw his leg over Sand’s hip and flipped them so that Sand was lying flat on the bed with Ray above him, his hands resting on Sand’s chest as if to hold him down. When Sand looked up at him, he was smirking.

“I really do have to go,” Sand said, “unless you plan to support me financially once I flunk out.”

“Well…” Ray pursed his lips as if he was considering Sand’s request. “What if I make it worth your time?”

Ray liked to do this. He liked to pay for things. It was almost as if he didn’t know how to have a relationship that wasn’t transactional. Sand didn’t know how to make him understand that when Sand stayed, he stayed for him. He was pretty sure if he told him outright, he would leave. The thing about Ray was that he didn’t actually want somebody to love him because he didn’t believe that he was a person worth loving. It was easier to let him think that Sand only wanted him for his body and his money than to explain that he cared for him despite those things, not because of them.

He placed his hands loosely on Ray’s hips and sighed. “What exactly did you have in mind?”

Ray’s answering smirk could only be described as diabolical. He shuffled his way down Sand’s body, never breaking eye contact, and made quick work of undoing his pants. Then, when Sand didn’t stop him, he pulled them down completely. Sand wasn’t hard—not yet—but all it took was one swipe of Ray’s tongue to make him stiffen to attention. That was all the motivation he needed to forget his obligations and just enjoy it. After all, he knew that whatever this was was temporary.

“Do you want me to stop?” Ray asked coyly, nosing along Sand’s cock like a cat with a toy. 

“Ray, I swear to god…”

Ray smirked at his annoyance and then swallowed him down.

Although Sand was loathe to admit it, Ray was by far the best sex he’d ever had—at least when he was sober. He’d told him as much a few weeks back and ever since, he’d noticed a change in Ray’s drinking. They now fucked sober more often than not and it was nice. When he looked into Ray’s eyes, he could actually see him there.

Sand moaned and let his head fall back against the pillows. Ray made quick work of him, sucking up to the tip and then back down far enough to bury his nose in the hair at the base of Sand’s dick, his rhythm slow at first and then unforgivably fast. He kept his eyes locked on Sand’s the whole time.

“Ray,” Sand said breathlessly. “I’m going to come.”

He wasn’t wearing a condom and it seemed polite to give a warning, but Ray didn’t seem bothered by the announcement. He did pull off of Sand’s cock though, replacing his mouth with his hand, and then he stayed there, his tongue resting at the tip of his dick, mouth wide open, as he jerked him off. It was that image that finished him.

Sand came with a grunt, closing his eyes tight, and Ray stroked him through it until Sand was spent and sated. It was only once he opened his eyes that he realized what a mess he had made. Ray’s face, smirk and all, was covered in come. 

Ray crawled back up Sand’s body and hovered over him as he licked his lips clean. Like he was proud of himself. Like he wanted Sand to see.

“Jesus Christ,” Sand groaned, throwing his arm over his face so that he wouldn’t have to look Ray in the eyes. “You did that on purpose.”

Ray removed Sand’s arm and then shrugged, not even bothering to deny it. “You like me when I’m dirty,” he said. Sand swallowed hard. He hadn’t realized he had been so obvious about it, but there was just something about seeing Ray without the crisp, clean, rich boy facade around him. It made Sand feel like the only person in the world who truly knew him. It made him feel special.

He sat up, forcing Ray to sit down on his lap, and kissed his own seed from Ray’s lips. It was intimate and seductive and he realized immediately how dangerous it was to indulge such an urge, but he was too come-drunk to care. He let his lips roam farther, cleaning Ray’s cheeks, his nose, his eyelashes, and Ray just sat there and let him do it. As if he had expected no less. 

This was Sand’s favorite Ray—sassy and spoiled, but sober. He wanted to reward him for it, to show him that the alcohol wasn’t the only thing that could make him feel good. So he reached into his boxers.

Ray smirked and let Sand get his hand around him, but before he could do more than touch, Ray stopped him and put Sand’s hand back into his lap. Sand looked up at him, baffled.

“You’ll be late,” Ray said simply.

“I’m already late.” 

“Not if I drive you,” Ray said, climbing out of bed. “Just let me wash my face and we can leave.”

Then he got up and did just that, leaving Sand dumbfounded in his wake. It was moments like this that made him wonder if what they were doing was more than it was, but he found it best not to dwell on the possibility too deeply. Instead, he cleaned himself up, straightened the clothes Ray had rumpled, and then watched Ray get dressed from his spot on the bed, pretending that everything was fine, but knowing deep down that he was already too far gone.

[vagun1ka]

i thought doing this would be funny

[spasikonik]

an edek themed collage 🪲

[ssstarlighttt]

PEDESTALS part eight: new horizons

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[kikizoshi]

can we form a coup against asagiri and make you the writer instead? genuinely... I am not taking the Fyodor immortal information well.. please help............................ ( ´，_ゝ` )

Oh, I would absolutely not do BSD well either. I just wish Asagiri had stuck to his roots more. He was a great comedy writer, and the beginning of the story was great for it. It's the action and Death Note stuff he can't seem to get mastery of. But for the immortal part: I'm not entirely sold that Fyodor's immortal, yet. It seems like yet another twists that will twist to reveal oh, shocker, he faked his memories to confuse Sigma/the ADA... or something. Could very well be immortal, but not 100% guaranteed.

[autumnalfallingleaves]

Re-watching Mountain King and whenever Johanna comes on screen I can't help but think "that woman is half-fairy. She's not even fully human herself. She's not fully human." and it's. Wild.