#oooooh nice

[slapthebass]

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[aniseandspearmint]

Men like me must live with their sins A boil in my blood like a fire ‘neath my skin As I search every face for the marks of my kin For no one else may know What I became with the moon overhead In the glow of their torchlights when they caught us in my bed When I found him in the churchyard he was already dead My lover, my sweet darling one When man lies with man we are killed for our crimes But they’ll wish the first life they’d taken was mine For wolves hunt in packs, and the death isn’t kind The forest looks out for her own (Here there be Howling) It was full harvest moon on the night we returned I knelt by the spot where his body was burned And I tore off my clothes and I howled my grief And then we turned our teeth on the town And it wasn’t my first taste of the sweet flesh of man As we descended on the town every wolf in the land And our hot breath and our white fangs grew wet with the blood Of the men who murdered my love (ahwooo… Ahwooooooo… AHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!) Men like me must live with our sins The boil in our blood like a fire ‘neath our skins As we search every face for the marks of our kin For no one else may know

[forthetaintedsorrow-whump]

Nice! Really interesting. Always posed as a moral choice but logically speaking, choosing to leave is the best way for whumper to get caught. Repeat criminals are more likely to screw up and get caught, and even better whumpee has the opportunity to spill everything he knows to the cops. And whumper could be lying about kidnapping someone else, whumpee doesn't know.

Whumper gives Whumpee the choice. The offer of a lifetime. They can't quite believe their ears.

"Do you want to go home?"

It's too good to be true. But it is. If Whumpee answers yes, Whumper will oblige and respect the decision. They'll be returned home within the next 24 hours, they'll never have to see them again.

But they promise to take another. With whumpee gone, they'll be replaced.

So what can whumpee do? Accept? They get to put an end to their own suffering at the cost of starting another's? Dooming an innocent to a life of torment and anguish, and dooming themselves to a life of guilt. Is it worth it for freedom? To be away from Whumper?

Or stay...and suffer for a stranger. But to sleep at night knowing that they did the right thing. Stuck as a prisoner but at least it's them - it was always meant to be them.

[barghest-land]

RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE HIM SO......!!!!!!!!

[bunnyboy-juice]

whining

[fallout-lou-begas]

it happened to me: warm-up sketch turned out really good

[raiswanson]

another Burning One excerpt~

Hey! Been a hot (ba dum tss) minute! Still working on the WIP but haven't had many pieces I've thought were suitable for a tumblr post. Still going strong though! Sitting pretty with 23k words in the writing file right now ;D

Anyway, I picked out a little snippet for you all! Enjoy!

Previous excerpt [here]

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One evening a whole group arrived, led by a well-dressed man with sharp, quick eyes. The tone of the roost shifted as he lined his fellows—sad, scruffy people full of more exhaustion than life—up behind him and ascended the platform with a confident swagger. Without even awaiting a greeting or invitation to speak, he puffed up his chest and launched into his speech.

“Burning One, I’ve traveled far to reach your home. I trust you will not let me down as the forest beast who dared not even showed its face did,” he sneered, and I stared open-mouthed at his brashness. “I desire the greatness that you have granted others. I too wish to be able to take and do what I want. If the vermin I’ve seen on the way here were worthy, surely I am even more so. A man, an upstart, in the city thinks himself deserving of competing with my business. He will fail, of course, but I would expedite matters with a flame none dare challenge.”

A breeze stirred the roost as he paused, and I watched the curtain with unease. The Burning One didn’t respond. Didn’t even move. What was He waiting for?

Finally, His voice rolled through the roost, low and thoughtful. “You wish for a flame deserving of one such as yourself?” He asked, and my jaw lowered even further. He intended to hear the man out? Or was He as taken aback as I?

The man scoffed and buffed his nails against the fine trim of his coat, waving his other hand dismissively. “Of course. I expect only your finest, naturally,” he sniffed, then met the Burning One’s amber gaze with staggering confidence. “I pledge my life and wealth in exchange, as those cretins before me have. I’m certain that alone earns me power the hills have never seen, but I am a businessman after all. I offer my staff to you as well to sweeten the deal. They’re tragically meek and pious, but perhaps they can tidy your nest, or...whatever it is you need doing around here. Or eat them. I don’t care.”

The Burning One’s eyes glowed behind the curtain for several lungs of breath. He watched the man in silence, thoughts unknowable, until the man began to tap his foot in irritation.

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

Our Hideous Progeny

historical fantasy set in 1850s London/Inverness

A young woman and her husband want to become renowned paleontologists, but are dismissed by the scientific community and struggling with money

When they find her great uncle Frankenstein’s notes, they construct a plan to recreate a dinosaur to prove their theories and become acknowledged by their peers

But her attachment to the creature and their dissolving relationship over his gambling habits change their plans.

[seoulmatez]

omg i just came up with the best way to end this last chapter of little miss city girl

[outlawssweetheart]

I haven't seen Saltburn, but I have read the main spoilers and I've seen some clips, and here is my hot take:

Michael and Felix should've become boyfriends and ditched Oliver's bitch ass.

[chimeofthecomet]

maybe there can be too much rationalising of randomness producing patterns cause did it really just take five songs from the same show in order to realise my spotify shuffle was turned off…….

[nottherealmax]

I finished the new ep of doctor who and man, seriously, what the actual fuck (affectionate)

[poltergeist-coffee]

oh my god the delight i just got realizing tubbo could talk with tazercraft and they could teach him all about create mod oh my god oh my god

[crimeronan]

someone on nextdoor told me that chronically ill people are all sick because they don't drink enough water or eat the right foods so i hit her with the "i'm so sorry you're suffering so much that you feel the need to say such ignorant things :( i hope you get well soon 💕" uno reverse card. oh yeah honey i did call you unwell and broken. i DID insinuate that your worth is intrinsically tied to your health and that your health is also bad. get PATRONIZEEEED motherfucker

[pluto-sims]

what’s your favorite soup?

anon did you read my MIND???? i am literally eating a bowl of soup as i type this asdfghjklkjhgfdsdfghj. I am a Soup Enjoyer but I think my favourite soup would have to be my mum's homemade leek and potato soup - I've not had it in YEARS but I can still imagine the smell of it cooking asdfghjkkjhgf

[quietlyblooms]

me: chiyo is difficult to ship with. it takes time

also me: kicking my feet as chiyo smooches certain muses within the first few interactions