#painfully slow

[musicprincess1990]

I Know No Other Way

Chapter 13 || Read from the beginning

Jesus Christ, this was hard to finish. And it certainly wasn't helped by half of my family interrupting me numerous times throughout the day. Love my family, but man! JUST LET ME WRITE!!!

Anyways, the long overdue next chapter is here at last, though it is definitely a filler chapter at best. Thanks again for being patient with me, and here's your sneak peek:

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The afternoon passed, mercifully, without further incident, though Sherlock’s vexation had not abated. He stormed the grounds as his mind waged war on itself, all but upended by the absolute fiasco his day had become. A scandal narrowly avoided, a wife he hardly recognized, and exile from both Baker Street and Hive Cottage—both of which he owned—and to cap it all off, the light drizzle of rain began falling in earnest. Were he a believer in signs or the supernatural, he might have thought the skies were mirroring his foul temper.

As the rain seeped through his greatcoat, he cursed aloud and turned back to Hive Cottage. Mrs Holmes would simply have to make do with his presence, as he had no desire to catch cold. Fortunately, he saw nothing of her as he entered the house, and for one blessed moment, all was right in the world.

[andfinallywecansee]

[pretendnormie]

Once more! This time, I'm going with a more casual look. I'm wearing a pastel pink sweater, with long bell bottom jeans. Hoping that things are less awkward this time, fingers crossed🤞

[quirkle2]

a little bit crazy

[c6jpg]

Hunters fight not for fame, but to aid the people whenever they are summoned.

[tanjir0se]

Muzan pulling up to the Master’s Mansion in his cunty little cape at 0.0002 mph on his way to just call him ugly and end the episode there

[violetvulpini]

I forgot to post my Pit Secret Santa! My giftee requested a Ghost from @amevello-blue's Ghost in the Shell which everyone should go check out!!

[nylarac]

extremely cool being able to play romhacks natively this is so sick

[myymi]

Wholesome prompt: sonic teaching tails how to play guitar?

word count-971

ao3 link

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“Dude, this isn't rocket science.” Sonic said, laughing at the confused look on his brother's face as he repositioned the younger’s fingers again.

“Of course not. Rocket science is easier than this.” Tails grumbled, shifting to sit in a more comfortable position.

“You're being dramatic.” The hedgehog rolled his eyes before plucking the same three cords again to remind the kid of the melody. “It's not hard. It shouldn't even hurt, your fingers are destroyed.”

“It doesn't hurt.” The fox mumbled, pulling at the first string. He frowned at the guitar, “Even if it did, that's not the problem.”

“Then what is?” Sonic asked, gently placing his paw to cut off the noise. The younger seemed to shrink into himself at the fact his hero's attention was now fully on him.

Tails debated with himself on whether he should talk about his concerns. He ended up deciding against it and gave the guitar back to its owner. “Nothing.”

“If it's nothing then why are you giving my guitar back?” Sonic asked, raising a brow as he nudged the instrument back towards the other.

“Don't worry about it. It's not a big deal.” The kit said, setting the guitar in his brother's lap before standing up. “I should get back to working on the weapon upgrades for the Cyclone anyway. I still—” He was cut off by his own yip when his wrist was grabbed and pulled, landing him right in the hedgehog’s lap.

“Not today, kiddo.” Sonic shook his head as his arms banded around the fox's middle, the guitar laying on the floor of the workshop beside them. “I won't force you to learn it, you know that, but you seemed excited about it when you asked me to teach you. What's going on?”

Tails groaned at the tone of the older’s voice. He leaned his head back against the teens shoulder, “It's stupid.” He grumbled, “Seriously, I–”

“What did we talk about with that?” The kit bit his lip at that and started to fidget with his fingers. The older sighed, one of his paws gently taking the younger’s two to stop him, “If it's bothering you, it isn't stupid. Not to me.”

Tails stared at the paw atop of his own for a few quiet seconds as he argued with his own brain. He knew he wasn't winning this fight, so might as well let it play out. “I play the violin.”

“..Okay?” Sonic hesitated to answer, not having expected that. “What about it?”

“I looked it up. It's easier to learn guitar than to learn violin.” The kit explained, letting one of his tails drape across his lap as the other wrapped around the hedgehog. “And yet I keep screwing up the basics that I already know from violin.”

Sonic thought on it for a minute, his eyes trailing around the room before they landed on a cupboard. “Maybe we need to treat you like a true beginner, then.” He said, setting the fox on the ground before running to the cupboard to search through it.

“But I'm not a full beginner.” Tails said, his head tilting to the side in confusion as he watched the older, “Regardless, how are my mints going to help anything?”

“Just trust me, will ya?” The older grunted, pulling out a square package of some mint flavored gum. Tails wasn't crazy about gum, but he kept it so he'd have something to chew that wasn't his lip, tongue, or whatever writing utensil he used.

Tails’ confusion only grew once a stock of gum was presented to him, but he took it anyway, “What do you want me to do with this?”

“Give it a little kiss, Tails.” Sonic teased before rolling his eyes and poking the fox’s nose, “You never eat gum before? Chew it.”

“How does this help anything?” The kid asked as he unwrapped the gum, placing it in his mouth.

“The guy who introduced me to guitar said it helps.” The hedgehog shrugged and tossed the package over to the general area of where the cupboard was, earning an annoyed glare from his little brother.

He didn't pay attention to or though, already zipping off to dig in a new cabinet. He quickly emerged with a pair of headphones, running back over to his original spot and pulling the kid back onto his lap.

“Headphones?” Tails asked, not even bothering to fight against the older’s hold. “How–”

“You learn better when other people can't hear.” Sonic winked at him as he dug his phone out of his shoe, plugging in the headphones.

“How exactly do you plan on teaching if you can't hear when I mess up?” The fox mumbled, his ears twitching at the sound of him chewing the gum.

“Just trust me, kid.” The teen smiled as he turned on his music app, letting the songs shuffle as he handed the guitar back to the fox.

He gently positioned the kit’s finger again before playing the three cords again, resting his chin on the younger’s head.

Tails went to say something, but decided it'd be easier to simply not question his brother's antics. He went to pull the strings, a bit surprised he managed to copy the melody almost exactly. He was just a bit too slow.

He rolled his eyes when he felt the older squeeze him, knowing there was a grin on his face. “Yeah, yeah.” He mumbled despite knowing the hedgehog wouldn't hear him.

“See?” Sonic's voice was elevated now due to the music blasting in his ears, causing Tails’ ear to lower slightly, “Big bro knows best, keed.”

The fox rolled his eyes and elbowed the older in his ribs, but couldn't help the smile that grew when the hedgehog laughed at him.

He had the best, most annoying big brother ever.

[thousand-winters]

Do you ever think about how insane Darius' teleportation is, actually? He can do that in very long range and to other people without him even having to see where he's taking them (like when he tossed the BATTs into the Conformatorium), and as far as I can remember, he's the only abomination witch who seems to have access to that specific ability (he has many of those that seem to be exclusive of the experiments he did on his own body, frankly, but this one is more external).

Where did he even learn that? How?

My running theory is it's an ability influenced by wild magic.

Hear me out here. I've thought a lot about Hunter's whole deal with his quick-step-thingie. It would be easy to assume that has nothing to do with him and Flapjack allowed him to do it, especially since it's the one thing he keeps after Flapjack's life is absorbed within him, but the thing is he used that already with his artificial staff, it just seemed to have a much superior range, so I can only imagine that what Flapjack did both alive and dead is give Hunter the magic energy necessary to still perform that move.

But once again, then where did Hunter even learn that?

The artificial staff in itself might have been it. Or, well, a mix of that and the way in which Belos himself fights, since he also has some sort of teleportation. We don't really see it a lot, and it might be a bit questionable if it counts when he does it inside of his own mind, but he also does it in his fight with Luz in s1.

Now, Belos wouldn't be fighting all that often, but given his insistence to isolate Hunter and the way in which he gave all of his grimwalkers an artificial staff, I find it likely enough that he taught them to fight too. Or at least did the mere basic of "I'm going to beat you up and you figure out how to fight me" 💀 However it was, they could have learned that move from him or drew inspiration from it.

And so what I'm getting to here is that Darius' mentor was the one who either taught him to adapt the teleporation move to his own abilities or inspired him to do it.

Why do I say it's wild magic? Well, what Belos does isn't exactly "traditional" magic in the way he puts it, which is very ironic, but he did use glyphs and other things to develop his own magic and create the artificial staves. More over, the other two characters we see using teleportation are Eda, notorious wild witch, when she still had all of her magic, and Lilith, who as part of the Emperor's Coven does not have her magic locked by tracks.

Aditionally, it's just the Clawthornes, and it seemed that they weren't all that interested in the norms Belos' reign was trying to implement, since Gwen only even joined a coven in order to try and cure Eda's curse. Very interesting that the sisters that could do that were from a family that sort of had predisposition to wild magic in the first place.

I particularly like to headcanon this because it would be another subtle way in which Darius is not conforming to what would be expected of him as not only a coven witch, but THE Head Witch of his coven, and right under Belos' nose while ironically because of the previous Golden Guard's influence.

[boiling-paint]

Help why have I woken up to Grian dressed like Flash from Zootopia on his YouTube thumbnail

[atimeforclues]

everyone’s talking about murph picking divorce as his thing for the horror season but we should be focused on the fact that he picked animorphs

[ranuunculus]

THORN (sept. 2023)

[lovelesswiki]

i'm nowhere close to being done with this but this is the best sky i've ever painted and it's on a loveless picture [clenches fist]

[absurdumsid]

the gremlin has woken up.

I see it's dinner for you. Mind sharing?

WHO are you calling a GREMLIN !!!! (silly)

[heres-to-all-that-is-mine]

Updating some old stuff for artfight <3