#ougha

[climbdraws]

made a small /joke/ to my mom this morning about offering a gay pride discount for June and she immediately launched into “isn't that sexist?? how is that fair that they get a discount but straight people don't???"

ma'am I dont think sexist means what you think it means

[mango-fizz]

also i have this that i never finished but the splatfest is over so i doubt i ever will now LOL

“You lip-synch, we drip ink!”

“Ay! (It’s Shiver, Frye, and Big Man!)”

“Aren’t they so cute? Takes me back to when we used to do Inkopolis News,” Callie giggles as Marie settles next to her on the couch.

“I dunno, I think we were way cooler,” Marie says, but she’s smiling into her coffee mug. Deep Cut’s voices sound out from the TV.

“What’s got you so excited, Big Man?” 

“Ay, ay! (It’s Splatfest time!)” 

“Oooh!! What’s the theme, what’s the theme?”

Deep Cut’s anticipation is contagious as they wait for the theme to be revealed. Callie finds herself leaning forward in her seat.

"What do you think it'll be this time?" Marie muses.

"I dunno, but whatever it is I bet it'll be tons of fun as always!"

Frye makes a drum roll sound as the results come up on screen. "Bam!"

Marie chokes on her coffee. Callie pats her back as she goes into a coughing fit.

Frye jumps in surprise. "The theme is…! Uh, what?"

Shiver looks caught off guard for a moment before continuing seamlessly. "Who would make the best leader? Shiver, Frye, or Big Man! Quite the interesting theme!" 

"Obviously it's me, I mean, look at me! I'm adorable! And I'm super strong and an awesome dancer," Frye pumps her fists in the air.

Shiver flutters their fan. "That's great, Frye, but I'm the obvious choice for this one. My vocals are unmatched, and I'm graceful and cool and I literally ride a giant shark. What's not to love?"

"Yeah, but who always gets us out of trouble during raids? I always come up with the best escape pla-"

"Ay… Ay! (Frye, we're not supposed to talk about that on TV… But anyway, I'm the best leader! I'm always the one looking out for you guys. Vote for me!)"

The Splatcast fades into background noise as Callie and Marie sit dumbfounded. Marie can't will her hands to stop shaking. 

"This Splatfest…" 

"It's going to be so much fun! Right?" Callie smiles widely.  

"No! It's not!" Marie's brow creases so deep her manager would scold her about wrinkles, but right now she can't bring herself to care. "Cal, they're gonna- This splatfest is gonna hurt them."

"That's not gonna happen and you know it." Callie holds her cousin by the shoulders and smiles in that disarming way she's perfected for years. "This is not the same as last time. Everything is gonna be alright, okay?"

Her voice cracks embarrassingly, so Marie clears her throat. Her voice is smaller than she intends when she asks, "Are you sure?"

The grip on her shoulder tightens, but only so briefly that she thinks she might have imagined it, before Callie's hands pull away. "Deep Cut can hold their own, trust me. It'll take some sort of world-shattering event to tear those three apart. Like a pineapple-tomato-pizza splatfest or something!"

Marie laughs despite herself. "I think this theme is pretty world-shattering though." 

She sighs and slumps back onto the couch. She searches Callie's face but all she finds is unwavering confidence. She hasn't stopped smiling, sitting casually on her hands. 

It doesn't seem necessary, but she'd rather not make the same mistake twice. 

"You okay too, Cal?"

Callie looks at the buildings outside. "Yep! All good." 

Finally, she looks back at Marie. "I promise, Deep Cut will not end up running away and getting hypnotized," she says with a chuckle. "Even if they look really good with shades."

Marie huffs and flicks her on the arm, earning her a pained giggle from Callie. "Good. They better not." Then, more quietly, she mumbles, "I wouldn't wish that on anybody." 

[hollypies]

Heyo! Just wanted to drop in and say that I love your art style!!

OUUUGHGHA THANK🥺💗💗💗💗 !!!!

[kakashihasibs]

I'm playing the new zelda game and I'm loving so far >.> link hums like zelda songs while he cooks now

[radiumbath]

big sigh

[the-mythos-collection]

OUGHA OUGHA!! Merry Christmas!! I hope everyone has a lovely day (no matter what you celebrate) o(^▽^)o

creechmas :D

[the-scungles-of-crungles]

Ugh. Late night fucking destruction of pasta new kind of stuff like thisis newnewofofofkindkindkindnewnewFUCK

[rnekopallet]

🐹 *cough*

yeah

[cherubchoirs]

How did it feel for Gabriel to fall? His decent into a deep depression over everything that has happened. His slow transformation with all the new growing pains, the loss of his ability to summon light constructs and flight... for him to go through so much pain and yet choosing to let V1 inherit his light. Does he feel ANY regret at all in his choice there?

definitely, gabriel has many complex and varied emotions that surround his fall from what has changed, what he has given up, and what his life looks like now. being fallen is, by design whether purposeful or not, a very miserable state. angels are so wholly defined by their work, by their relation to god, that to be severed from him will naturally make one feel incomplete and comes with predetermined guilt and regret. gabriel has come to understand that the system he worked so hard for was broken - the council, despite believing in the word of god as much as he did, was tyrannical, yet he now wonders if the fault lay in its root or its stars, not those that carried it out necessarily. the council had not really strayed from god, they carried on his will as they interpreted it, and so gabriel sees, logically, morally as he now defines it, that god had been. wrong. he had done harm and so had not been infallible as they believed. yet this was gabriel's world, it's what he believed and what he cleaved to, and beyond that it was the foundation of the entire system the universe operated on. and he had preeminence in it. he was an archangel, beloved in heaven and the one who announced the coming of christ. yes, there are many flaws in retrospect, in the life he had to lead in heaven and what he had to do, but gabriel existed in eternal light and paradise, he carried out some of the highest of god's will. and that's hard to part from, no matter what he's come to realize.

so there are many times gabriel is angry, hateful, despondent and regretful of his choices and what they've come to. gabriel, at least for quite some time, continues to actually be religious, he continues to pray and to practice as he always has but not simply out of routine. he still needs god, still speaks to him and asks him why, asks for comfort, asks still if this was the right thing for him to do. he reads scripture when he can, though it becomes increasingly difficult as he turns into a fully fallen angel - the words begin to blur in his vision, they begin to burn in his throat, they eventually make him so nauseous he can't bear to see them. and it causes a deep, aching rage in him. his comfort is in service and that is stripped of him, it's just hell in a new body and a new life that he can't navigate when he's never even considered an identity apart from heaven. he doesn't know who gabriel is. he doesn't know what he wants. he can't fix anything, so many now dead even in hell and he without anything to offer even if he could. he can't turn back time, he can't right what was done wrong, and he lives now with some constant pain, a deep set cold that could freeze him into place. his halo has crumbled, his wings have withered away so that he can never fly again. it's devastation, it's loss. a loss of everything. part of him, knowing it's not true at all times, prays this is a nightmare he might wake from. his love for v1 is true, his convictions and morals remain, yet this could never be taken graciously.

it's why he descends into a full demonic identity for a time, why, once his transformation is complete, he refuses to adhere to rules or any code of ethics. he is angry to his core, with himself, with v1, with the council and with god. with the whole world. some of it too is in rebellion for how he had to live, but so much of it is to release his pain lest the pressure destroy him from the inside. there must be something salvageable, some identity for him in this, and so he becomes the stereotype of a demon, bloody, crass, ruthless. he does begin to work through it during this phase (surprisingly) but it's not a quick process, and gabriel carries his regret for a long, long time. so much of him is happy in finding who he really is, adores v1 and the life he builds with it in the depths of fraud, yet his soul seems forever rent, at least in part, for what it cost. he begins more to wish not that he had made some other choice or even had stayed ignorant, but wishes instead it had all been different, from the very start. it stays in him like a rot he can't work out, knowing he did right, knowing he has gotten a chance to live as himself, but forever burdened with losing paradise. there is some envy reconnecting with his brothers, particularly irritable at times with michael who should be sharing his place in hell yet remains prince of heaven. and he KNOWS it's ridiculous to feel any jealousy for mike's position, but in the back of his mind....he starts to wonder....if there's any truth in michael's words. did god save him in some way from falling? was gabriel not enough? (ironic really, considering mike is jealous of gabriel for parallel reasoning)

truly, i don't think there is a fully satisfying ending for gabriel's emotions here - he does arrive in a place where he is glad he did what he did, he accepts the burden he took on and believes it was necessary. not only that, but he's glad he was able to open his eyes to what he had done, glad he could love and carve a path no matter how terrible it may seem, and get the chance to do what he can in recompense though it is little. but discontentment remains in some small part of him and he wonders if that's just a part of god's awful design, for a fallen angel to never be happy. but, he supposes, he likewise would never have been happy knowing what he does now and doing nothing about it. he ate the fruit, though not by his own choice, and there is nothing to be done for it. by the time he gives his light over to v1, he has made the most of his peace, though there is something bittersweet in the donation. v1 revives with many of the powers he lost and there is an ache seeing it, but ultimately it's small considering what he's come from and worked through. the light feels like home still when he holds v1, it welcomes him back and it's good to know how in some way it's still his. in fact, i think it heals some little part of him to know the council or even god himself could not truly take his essence from it, and it had been waiting to see him again even after all this time.

[defiledtomb]

should I just move to Spain???

[ficyorick]

6/12 chapters which means i am officially 50% thru with the planned chapters... well i might end up doing an epilogue as well so it might be 13 chapters but i dont think the epilogue will be long so... i think its safe to say i am 50% done with the story.

[jils-things]

eheheeaeremr oh ma gahhh hiii general mahamatra hiii helleoggfos

[kakashihasibs]

I'm REALLY feeling number 2 🥺🥺🥺 i just wanna

Yaknow

Things i wish i could do but i can't bc the world is cruel and indifferent

Slap kakashi's ass just so incredibly hard

Rub my face against the back of kakashi's dumb stupid head like an overly affectionate cat

Hold Yamato's dumb handsome face lovingly between my hands looking him deep in the eyes while i tell him he's allowed to ask for things for himself

Have nasty gay sex with Gai while he's wearing a green velvet suit ...and also tell him he doesnt have to pretend to be happy all the time

[dan-despairing]

forgot my bosses know im prone to wanting to die and let me tell you what for they did NOT appreciate the "I'm gonna take one million ibuprofen" joke i made when i had a headache yesterday

[james--murray]

Oh my god my bones are snapping in half

[hollypies]

@reveks had to draw the girlies hehe ^^