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Charles has always left Edwin little notes slipped between the pages of his favorite books, in his science equipment, places he knows Edwin loves. Just silly things—post its that say “hi Edwin :)”. doodles of Edwin with his nose stuck in a book. reminders to stock up on wolfsbane. but.
Then, post canon, Edwin tentatively starts dating people. And it’s ridiculous, because Edwin’s right there, all the time, but Charles..misses him a bit. And his heads a mess, and he can’t sort out what the hell he’s feeling most of the time, and whenever he tries to say any of it out loud it comes out rubbish.
So. He writes down some of the shit he can’t say right, and because he’s a coward, hides them so he doesn’t have to see Edwin’s face when he reads them.
then Edwin starts writing back.
Neat lilac blue little envelopes appear in Charles coat pockets. In his bag. Once, in his shoe? Some nights, Edwin will clear his throat and mention something from a letter, offhand, like they’re just picking up conversation, and Charles can pretend they are. That they always have talked about the basement, the belt, the nameless fear that chokes him every time Edwin walks out the door with someone else on his arm.
Sometimes he can’t. The words get stuck in his throat. Edwin’s not mad, he’s maddeningly, stubbornly kind about it, which is worse.
Some nights they trade. A secret for a secret. Charles learns about the novels Edwin used to hide under his mattress, about all the lonely years before Charles got there. About Simon.
Meanwhile, Edwin is losing his mind, because Charles has accidentally stumbled onto what was a fucking courting ritual in his time. Love letters were something engaged couples treasured for years, kept and reread over and over. (Edwin does. keep them in a special box, will take one out and trace the words, tuck it in his breast pocket for courage).
Edwin would rather have to reattach a limb again than lose Charles trust, all the dark and beautiful things he shares with Edwin only. He knows—knows Charles doesn’t mean to make him fall more in love with him.
#payneland#dbda#dead boy detectives#charles rowland#edwin payne#mini fic#charles x edwin#chedwin#fic#anyone is welcome to write this!#maybe I will eventually once I crawl victorious from the mountain of my 10+ wips#either way I’m a strong believer in the 2 or more cakes principle#would love different peoples takes on this#UGH BUT JUST IMAGINE… Edwin being scared to date & try new things#reading over and over how Charles is scared too how he’s faking being brave most of the time.#keeping the letter over his heart for courage#(I do think Edwin should date people for a while because like. he’s hot! he never got to be a teenager!#let him kiss cute boys for a bit! realize there’s nothing wrong with him! become more confident! more centered!#maybe it makes Charles a little crazy! proud and possessive and confused horny!)#they have time! :) & sometimes you need to go on your solo journey so u can then become more freakishly codependent with your#work bestie husband ride or die twin flame in the future. yk
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the first step into the rest of your life is the hardest. but you have to take it anyhow!!!!!!!!!!!! <- remember this. repeat it like a prayer.
#im gonna admit something. for all its warts and all my grievances with it and all the valid critique..#i think c3's finale got me so good its. changing my life. ? or maybe im just having a moment.#idk. idk! like well jeez if the gods are gonna try to embrace all that mortal stuff. sighhhhh. maybe i should too#c3 finale + reading stone butch blues + 2nd semester of college starting all at once is doing things to me#i had a similiar sort of revelatory moment near the end of c2 (decided i did not want to kill myself and would aim to#keep my head down and survive until some distant future where everything worked out and was magically awesome)#n now its like. well shit! i gotta work to build that future actually!#(cool impassive butch voice) i mean i am totally unaffected and nothing has ever made me feel genuinely emotionally moved ever#whatever im allowed a few massive outlook changing moments in college. that happens to everyone. runs away#aceart#werewolf#werewolfisms#original art#ramblings#wolf#art
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Imagine Merlin BBC being a romcom teenage series!!
Imagine the trailer be like:
"Prince Arthur was a regular prince"
*cut to show Arthur smiling and pretty*
Brave
*Arthur fighting against someone*
Charming
*Arthur flirting and/or smiling lovingly*
Responsable
*Arthur suffering with his duties*
And like most princes
...
A total prat.
*Arthur laughing out loud*
But some things might change
*Cut to Merlin arriving at Camelot*
When a certain young warlock
*Merlin doing magic*
Becomes his manservant
*Scene where Merlin is "rewarded" after saving him the first time*
Unwillingly
*Merlin and Arthur fighting over Merlin's chores scenes*
The once and future king
*Arthur with his armour all smiley*
And the greatest warlock to ever walk on earth
*Merlin with his eyes glowing gold*
Before those titles became official
*Scenes with both of them being stupid*
Merlin
Coming soon
#bbc merlin#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#merlin#merthur#merlin x arthur#trailer#morgana#arthur#once and future king#greatest warlock to walk on earth#i have this idea in my head#i cannot get it out#someone please edit this#or maybe i will#saving this for later
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what a coincidence anon, me too!!
#my art#sasosaku#based same age au#sakura haruno#sasori#lady chiyo#konoha critics shiver when a REAL hater enters the room#ive drawn blank period sos with chiyo maybe once so here it is again#actually most underrated trio fr fr#sasori and sakura enter their 20s and glow up as god intended#chiyo: what do you mean youre making us stay in a 5 star ryokan and not your parent's house. who do you think we are#like thats HER future family... smh#nobody tell sakura#im ignoring hashtag that outfit from hashtag that ugly ass movie
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In your Spitfire AU, since Zuko is looking after Lu Ten II, what happened to Ursa?
Zuko is slightly older in the Spitfire AU. He was banished at fifteen, his head a little clearer and denial a little weaker than in canon. After his first look through the Air Temples, Zuko decides that if he can't find a myth, he might as well search for the next best thing.
Finding Ursa isn't easy, but in time he makes it to a secluded house in a near-forgotten part of the world. His mom is there, older and stronger and alive.
But she isn't alone.
And Zuko, as it turns out, didn't keep the best company during his search.
When Ursa is discovered and her secrets are laid bare for assassins (for Ozai) to find, she begs Zuko to take his little brother and run. She'll do anything it takes to protect her children, even if that means leaving them behind to keep a target off their back. Ursa diverts attention from them and allows Lu Ten's ancestry to be kept a secret. She orders Zuko not to follow her again, and disappears.
Zuko is left with a little three-year-old brother to raise and a mother he cannot hold onto.
#dema answers#atla#spitfire#Spitfire AU#prince zuko#atla ursa#Lu Ten II#The Ursa/Hakoda parallels are going to be insane in this one I swear#It's okay tho#It's absolutely intentional#(The other option was killing her. But I happen to find family conflict and abandonment issues way more compelling to write)#Luckily Zuko isn't alone. He's a mess of course—and raising the little brother you never knew you had isn't easy.#But he has Uncle and (once those loyal to his father have been taken care of) he also has his crew.#Look three years into the future and you've got a six-year-old Spitfire running around the ship and giving Zuko early gray hair#Ursa will be reunited with them in the future. I just don't know when would that happen yet.#Probably post-war#She returns to her children only to come face to face with their overprotective found family (aka the Gaang)#Their reunion would be quite messy at first but...it'll all be okay#They all love each other deeply. And sometimes love isn't enough. Sometimes there are things that you can't forgive or forget.#But Ursa did everything she did because she loved them. And Zuko knows that. Zuko understands that.#(He was forced to make the same decision in Ba Sing Se—giving yourself up and leaving the people you love behind so that they're safe)#(He understands)#But Lu Ten II doesn't#He doesn't remember Ursa. Not really. He knows of her what Zuko and Uncle tell him. But he doesn't remember ever having a mother.#(Tara is soft and warm and kind to him. She holds him and takes care of him and makes sure he's well-behaved. And he loves her.)#(Is that what makes a mother? Or is it the blood you share?)#Ursa isn't much like Tara. But she loves him dearly—there's a reason he has the name of someone who was so dear to her.#She is Lu Ten's mother. Zuko's mother. Uncle's sister.#And she isn't like Tara. But she loves him even if he can't remember her.#So maybe he can learn to love her back.
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@madatobiweek Day 4: Children // Vows
My original setting for Think of Me was after a bunch of clans had already moved into Konoha, and Tobirama was going to have a horde of children following him around as his self-proclaimed students including Uchiha Kagami, which catches Madara’s notice.
The plot has since shifted but I left minor things like Hiruzen’s monkey Shadow in as a random kid’s Shadow playing ninja at night :)
#senju tobirama#tobirama senju#uchiha madara#madara uchiha#madatobi#naruto#my art#sanskart (naruto)#shadow animal au#There’s maybe a minor spoiler for a future chapter but its not vital to the plot so eh you guys can have it#queuing for once#mdtb wk
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ever since I had a thought of them also putting Gideon in the tomb at the end, I have known no peace
not the same one on the ninth, just in similar stasis as Alecto and willingly, don't know why maybe some shenanigans so the sun won't collapsed
and not for good, that would be too unfair for her, but Harrow is a lyctor, she can wait for a hundred of years
#it's not the best outcome but at least there's some hope for the future#maybe Harrow can learn live for Gideon#the locked tomb#just thinking of Harrow putting her to sleep and Gideon keeps laughing it off like#'I don't need you withered here everyday just checking in once in a decade to wipe the drool from my face'#'and make sure I'm not sleeping in a weird poses#'and I'm also kicking in my sleep a lot'
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It’s just like. We have Robby, the kid who grew up with no one. Whose only friends were two adult men who used him and turned violent the second he pushed back. Who slept on the couch while his addict mother brought home strings of random, strange men over and over again. Whose dad was never there at all. Who got drunk for the first time in his life and was sexually assaulted. And then we have Tory, the girl who watched her dad hurt her mom. Who bragged about needing to fend off creepy men with a spiked bracelet. Whose landlord tried to extort her for sex at 16 years old. Who has been repeatedly sexualized throughout the show. These are the kids who become karate influencers—not because of their skills, not because of any victories or trophies, but because they kissed on live television and people want to objectify them. Because they’re good looking kids and sex sells. That’s their happy ending. Trapped forever in the cycles of violence and abuse that have consumed their entire childhoods. What the fuck.
#i hate it here!!!!!!!!!!!!#there is maybe an argument to be made that Tory’s sponsorship was because of her victory and her performance#but the woman EXPLICITLY tells robby that he’s getting a sponsorship because people want to see them together after he kissed tory#and that’s supposed to be a good ending?#that his future hinges on his knee actually getting better. hinges on being with tory. hinges on playing to the cameras always#once again he is reliant on playing a role for safety and security#he had to run scams with his ‘friends’#he had to be the perfect miyagi-do for daniel#he had to accept blame and swallow any anger or resentment for johnny#and now he has to olay the perpetual doting boyfriend for tory and the cameras#or else he will be left with nothing at all like always#he doesn’t even have a fucking high school diploma to fallback on#how is this HAPPY. how is this a good ending in anyway shape or form#he’s gettin the Carmen treatment—forced to be a perpetual trophy wife#what the fuck lol#cobra kai#robby keene#ck spoilers#s6 spoilers#cobra kai season 6#tory nichols#cobra kai spoilers
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Curtwen Week Day 6: Happy Ending
#I like to believe that there is a universe where they get to grow old together#just one#look once upon a time I read a fic that had me bawling my fuckin eyes out where they get to grow old together#I do want to say that I believe in personal growth and I think that Curt can 100% have a happy ending without Owen- where he can grow#away from that experience and where he can healthily cope with the trauma he ended up with#where he can find solace in something other than alcohol and where he can find it in himself to forge new relationships and build his#connections with people like Tatiana#etc etc#I just want to make it known that this is one of many happy endings that could happen#(amongst the several sad ones that I know also exist)#ALSO I wanted to draw the old men and I do what I want#but yeah something something if the universe is infinite /ref#maybe this is a universe where the banana incident never happened and they were able to retire together#ough#the curtwen feels are really getting me today#I adore them#also I used a new brush ive been having fun with this past week#doesn’t it look cool?#I really like drawing with it and I like how it looks so#we might be seeing more of this one in the future#although 6b is still my guy#damn y’know hypothetically- if Owen (depending on the au) and Curt lived to be in their 60s (at least) they would witness the first Pride#god can you imagine that?#At the very least Curt being around for stonewall and everything that came after that with queer rights#FUCK anyways#fun fact: a group of frogs is called an army#isn’t that cute#reminds me of that one person on TikTok that raised like a thousand frogs- they had a literal army of frogs#crazy#curtwen week
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au where arthurs death only lasted like 20 mins bc merlin spent time setting up his little boat to send him out into the lake but before he could part with him, he gently kissed arthurs forehead and it was actually true loves kiss and they lived happily ever after
#yipeeeee!!!!#merthur#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#idk what to do about the rest of the mess#but thats not my problem#maybe they just keep up the rouse of arthurs death and merlin never returns to camelot#gwen is the once and future queen and leads camelot to glory and repeals the ban etc etc#merlin and arthur get to run away and live on a farm#like arthur always wanted
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I wonder if part of the reason for the neglect on shao yuanyuan's part is because she's even more reckless about the time travel
presumably, she's been diving in and out for years trying to save cheng weimin. I wonder if her mindset is something like, "once I figure out how to save my husband, I can just dive back to an earlier point in time and be with my son"
and she believes this for years until time has passed and cheng xiaoshi has grown up. but it's okay. she can take all the time she needs. this will all be resolved soon once she finds her solution.
after all, what is time to a time traveler?
#mine musings#liveblogging link click#link click#link click spoilers#it's the same trap lu guang could fall into except he makes it out by the end of yingdu#because lg acknowledges that this is the “last time” he'll make this timeline's present/future count#thus acting as a foil to syy who maybe (speculation) hasn't reached this realization yet#also i feel syy is strict with the 12h so she probably dives more frequently whereas lg only dives once and stays#the irony that cxs is the most responsible user of the photo dive ability. lmao. cxs you've matured so much in such a short time
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“People can sink or swim. All that matters is if I can stay afloat.”
{Unlocked Groovy Voice Lines}
#I’ll make the asymmetrical emo bangs apart of cloche’ sprite now ig- can’t fight it#y’all i had like 3 different sketches for this 😭���#anyways- Rollo hand cameo 😳#cloche better fix her face before he turns around smh-#or maybe the nrc gang mistakes it as mockery who knows-#once again- hidden mickey as always 😩#I AM SO SORRY IF YOU’RE WAITING FOR STUFF IN THE INBOX 😭😭#thinking of doing more full works in the future-#cat scribbles 🌸#oc: cloche🎊#twst glomas#twst glorious masquerade#glorious masquerade#twst fanart#twst art#twisted wonderland art#twisted wonderland fanart#twisted wonderland#twst#twst oc#twst ocs#twst yuu#twst yuusona#twst prefect
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happy new years 2025! it's been nearly a whole year since I started posting about fluffyriceshipping here, and my art has changed a lot since then! what better way to start the new year than with some sweet potatoes with their partners 🍠🌅
#kagarts#champion lance#lance pokemon#trainer riley#stat trainer riley#dragonite#lucario#dratini#pokemon hgss#pokemon dppt#fluffyriceshipping#🐉🍚🌊#trying a light noise filter + watermark with my fish! better precautions for the future...hopefully!#happy one year of fluffyrice! i think about these guys a lot ever since i posted about them so long ago#and a lot has changed since then! i want to properly compile my thoughts with a visual novel or neocities shrine for them#they're also part of why i'm learning how to use ren'py. these two are making me LEARN how to CODE things because i'm Insane.#on an actual art level though holy hell. i'm understanding colors somewhat. i can draw multiple characters in one scene#art goals this year: try out adopts(?) or merch (??); do more studies; show my original stuff (???); maybe draw some creatures#might put up a interest check for merch to make if anyone is interested? i'll need actual advice for international shipping costs though#i Am still trying to find a job admittedly (which is. not necessarily a fun addition) but i want to make building a portfolio fun somehow#year for trying out new things though! i'll show my site eventually once i get riley's shrine down if people haven't already found it bfdhf
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help i can't stop drawing this guy
#marty mcfly#back to the future#bttf fanart#bttf#the poses and expressions are all pretty random i was mostly preoccupied with figuring out his hair hahaha#think i've got it down now#looked at a couple other people's martys and i love how many of them drew those two stupid antennae hairs#he doesn't even have anything that looks like them that often in the films due to him getting a new hairstyle every 10 minutes#but good to know everyone was like yeah this is him. we're going to keep drawing his two stupid antennae hairs bc that's him.#half these doodles have freckles and half don't i was trying something there#bc his video game model definitely has them. and if you look very close on pictures of him i think he has a couple#but it's not really something that stands out as a trait of his#but also theyre kind of cute so maybe i'll keep em#once again please excuse the crudity of these doodles i really gotta start doing something about those sketch lines#kit does an art
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my first ever completely-from-scratch CPM model! it's my sweet ol' piglin, melora! 🐷 she's got toggleable bandages, emissive eyes & lantern, and, most importantly, sick dance moves.
#this was a really fun experiment in skill with the mod#n honestly i might *maybe* open for commissions once i'm a tad more comfortable with using it?#my art#minecraft#oc: melora#piglin#zombie piglin#mineblr#CPM#custom player models mod#my models#gold#pig#boar#swine#oc#im not super pleased with the walk animation but i'll be tweaking it more in the future.#wanted to stick to a very vanilla-esque look
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You know, I don't necessarily buy into the idea of "you die twice; once when your heart stops beating, and the second when you are forgotten" because I don't think we're truly forgotten.
Throughout history, we've found proof of people existing, well after their death, well after they've been forgotten by their community and time. Even if we do not have names for these people, we know they were alive. We touch their bones, and we internalize their lives. We learn how they lived through the stories we interpret from their bones, and then we tell others about them. They haven't been forgotten, and it's not unlikely that you won't be forgotten.
Why is it that we only "count" if we are immortalized in the history books, if we scar time to the point nothing would be the same if we were forgotten?
And, anyway, look at this cat, who died so long ago, but whose memory is still remembered:
#positivity#described images#image description in alt#death tw#this was partially to show off buffins because he's adorable <3#i always get so emotional looking at these old photos of animals just knowing they are physically not here anymore#but i am so grateful to have known they were physically alive once#and the same is said for humans#i cannot believe that we die ever in a permanent and true and final way#and maybe that is 'too hopeful' but i don't care🩷💛#we cannot predict the future and that includes if we will be forgotten. we never know
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