#saph's stuff

[saphstories]

Self-Preservation

For @e-vay. Happy Birthday! 🦇🦇💖💖

She stood on the outskirts, leaned against the wooden wall of a tiny shack, swirling more than drinking the amber ale in the metallic tankard within her grip. A burgundy cloak covered her upturned pink quills, cast shadows over her narrowed emerald eyes. The thumb of her unoccupied hand idly stroked the grip of her most favored weapon, sequestered away on her hip, awaiting its master’s call. From the sidelines, she watched the townsfolk of this simple village dance and drink around a roaring bonfire in the square… some celebration that she hadn’t bothered to discern the meaning behind.

She was here for a singular reason, after all. Once she saw it through, well… A full moon shone bright above them, but unlike many other regions she’d visited, this village had no fear of beasts awakening by the moon’s light and ravaging their homesteads. A smirk fell on her lips, and she sipped her tankard. Her ear twitched.

The tankard hit the snow, staining the glittering white amber, and she whirled around, nothing but a blur with a singular streak of silver cutting through the air, but still…she was not fast enough. A hand closed around her throat, claws threatening to break skin, and whatever oxygen in her lungs vacated in a whoosh at the searing red that invaded her vision. Her body was slammed into the shack wall, the hand carrying the silver blade pinned against the boards, and she froze at the firm press of his body against hers, nothing but his own stature holding her in place. With her characteristic speed, she gripped the wooden stake in her free hand and drove it towards his back, but he caught her hand and pinned it to the wall beside her head, opposite her other hand. The stake and knife clattered to the disturbed snowy ground.

His icy breath tickled her ear, his lips brushing against it. “Too slow, little light.” His searing red gaze overwhelmed her vision, and while warning bells rang like gongs in her head, her heart raced and by his smirk, he could hear it. “I could just eat you up.” He murmured, lowering his head to sniff at her throat, his smirk widening to display fangs that glinted in the faraway firelight at the sight of her pulse jumping. Her fists clenched and unclenched, and she wriggled in his grip, her chest heaving, and he tsked, his nose brushing her collarbone. “So impatient…” His lips brushed against hers, and she could take it no longer.

She surged forward, breaking free of his grip to grab onto his coat and yank him to her, slamming her mouth on his with a needy whine. He growled and tangled his fingers in her quills, forcing her back against the shack wall, deepening their kiss with daring presses of his fangs against her lips. She let him ravage her, taking everything he gave with gasps and whines, clinging with one hand to his waistcoat and tugging his quills with the other.

Finally, she broke away with a gasp, her beautiful face flushed as red as his eyes, and he chuckled darkly, pressing kisses to her forehead as she panted against his shoulder. “You’re late.” She accused breathlessly.

“I got hungry.” He flashed her a grin, and she snorted, smacking his shoulder.

“Catch anything good?”

“Mm-hmm,” He purred, and let his hand slide from her hip to her back quills, chuckling as her emerald eyes fluttered. “My most favorite prey: little huntresses with no self-preservation.” She rolled her eyes and shifted in his arms, pressing another kiss to his lips with a hum. “Don’t you have a hunt tonight?” He whispered, pressing a kiss to her cheek.

“It can wait.” She murmured, tugging him down to meet her lips.

“Aurora,” He chuckled, stepping away from her and picking up her stake, careful to avoid the silver knife, and handed it to her. “I agreed to help you with this one, so unless you want a pile of ashes for a boyfriend…”

Aurora pouted but took the stake, sliding it back into her holster along with the knife. “You’re no fun, Shadow.”

Shadow smirked, and in a second, had Aurora pinned back against the shack, chuckling darkly at her blown emerald eyes and flushed cheeks. “You finish this hunt by sunrise, little light, and I’ll show you just how fun I can be.” He growled, nipping at her ear, then vanished into his namesakes with no trace he was ever there to begin with.

“Cheater.” Aurora grumbled to herself and rolled her eyes with a smirk when a chuckle emanated from the darkness. She rolled her shoulders, double-checked her weapons, and she darted off into the night, leaving the bonfire and celebrations behind without a backward glance. She had a hunt to complete and prey to catch; her most favorite kind: arrogant vampires with no self-preservation.

[the-sky-queen]

*Gives Demon Sonic a fish.

Nom :3

[dear-ao3]

every time i dont believe in myself i remember that one time i emailed nearly every person at my college begging and pleading my case for them to fix my financial aid after they changed systems and stiffed me of a solid 10,000 dollars because i could not afford school if they didnt give me back the money and managed to get back the money plus a few hundred dollars extra two days before i was leaving the country to study abroad

[saphstories]

I have been summoned...

This is one of my favorite lines from The Three Sovereigns:

"I said no homemade fireworks!"

"It wasn't me, I swear!"

I shall tag @e-vay @maddiebwrites to play if they so desire!

Out of context line tag

Thank you @late-to-the-fandom! I actually have a perfect line I just wrote that's stabbing me in the chest rn so I need to post it.

He could only be loved as much as he could live up to perfection. And he had known, for a long time, that meant he could not be loved at all.

Yes this is from a Sonic fic but I'm not saying anything else about it yet 😈

Tagging: @sparkles-rule-4eva (I'm chasing you down for more Enchanted content lol) @mama-qwerty and umm I don't remember who else writes stuff at the moment cuz I'm tired so open tag please jump if you want!

[fcthots]

thinking abt wearing jason's initial on a necklace but in a taylor swift kind of way

-🕷️

THIS THIS THIS CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT

I WANT TO WEAR HIS INITIAL ON A CHAIN ROUND MY NECK CHAIN ROUND MY NECK NOT BC HE OWNS ME BUT CAUSE HE REALLY KNOWS ME WHICH IS MORE THAN THEY CAN SAY-

ANYWAy

Here's the thing about the fucking press, since the moment they found out Jason was alive, they've never let him breathe. Your relationship went public against your will only two months after he was declared legally alive. Since then the opinion on your relationship had fluctuated. Sometimes there were fan accounts and other times you were sent death threats. Jason did what he could, but he couldn't stop everything.

The worst that happened was when you went with some friends. It was just dinner on a balcony at a nice restaurant. Jason had gone to some concert with one of his siblings. To be honest, you were too drunk to remember which. You were out with three friends two of you were drunk. The birthday boy doesn’t like to drink, but he gave the ok for everyone else. One other friend stayed sober and offered to be the designated driver.

You're solidly drunk. Drunk enough to actually be excited to take pictures. Drunk enough to be laughing the whole time. Drunk enough to try to call your cat on the phone.

Either way, you're singing happy birthday while your friends are taking pictures so you lean over to kiss the birthday boy's cheek and tell him "HappsyBirthay!" He laughs and thanks you. It's a good time. Your other drunk friend kisses him on the other cheek and takes a picture of it on his phone. It's cute. It's fun. But it is 11:30 pm and time to go home.

You're about to get in the designated driver's car when he asks for your address. You don’t invite people over much, what with Jason having to go on patrol and bloody bats dropping in. You're also drunk enough to not know your address. "That's a relly diffisult queshion. Do you know the answer?" You look over to the birthday boy; he's been to your apartment a few times to have lunch and feed the cat.

He looks over at the designated driver. "I don’t know the address, but I know to get there... Don't worry about it. I'll take her home."

"We goin home?"

He laughs. "Yeah."

"Holy shit! Is Jason gunna be there?" He puts his arm around your waist to guide you into his car so you don’t fall.

"I don’t know. You said he was going out tonight, but I don’t know if he's back yet." He laughs again and waves goodbye to your other friends before he buckles himself into the driver's seat.

The car ride home is mostly quiet. You're half asleep, and it's not long until your friend is pulling into the parking garage. He taps your shoulder and asks for your key. You don’t know where it is. He asks for your phone. You hand it over, and he asks Siri to call Jason.

Jason picks up after half a ring.

"Hello?"

"Hey, man. It's me. We're in the parking garage and your wonderful girlfriend is too drunk to find her keys. Any chance you're home."

You hear Jason's voice ask something about articles, news, and pictures before you fall asleep again.

A few minutes pass and someone's calling your name and unbuckling your seatbelt. You look over and see Jason leaning over you.

"J'son!"

"Hey, sweetheart."

"I missd you." He grabs your bag off the floor.

"I missed you too. Hey can you give me your phone?"

You nod your head and hand him the phone.

"I'm gonna pick you up. Ready?"

"Yeah!" He lifts you up while you shout "Weeeee!"

He closes the car with his shoe and turns toward your friend. "Thanks, man. Happy Birthday. Sorry about everything."

"'s no problem. Take care of her. Bye."

You don’t remember much of the elevator ride up or getting in pajamas or getting in bed. But you remember waking up. That wasn't fun.

Jason makes you breakfast, and that in itself isn't out of the ordinary at all, but he's acting weird. Every time you ask for your phone he says "I'll give it to you in a minute."

You can't take it anymore. "Jay, just tell me what happened. You're killing me. Did I post anything dumb while drunk again?"

"No." He sighs and grabs your phone out his pocket before opening up an article. You take your phone from him and read the headline. You feel sick.

"Jason Todd and Girlfriend Broke Up! Finally She's Gone"

You take a bite of eggs off Jason's plate and keep reading.

"Here's the evidence:

"nobody's heard from the couple for months, not even so much as an instagram post from the once vocal couple

"Todd was seen last night at a concert singing his heart out to breakup songs, images below

"and most damning of all: the now would-be ex-girlfriend was spotted last night getting cozy and leaving with new man, exclusive photos below!"

You scroll and see zoomed in photos of you kissing your friend's cheek and getting into his car. You bang your forehead into the counter repeatedly. Jason puts his hand over the spot you're hitting your head against. You look to him and he looks apologetic.

"I'd prefer if you didn’t read the rest. I don’t think Vicki Vale likes you very much. I'm having Bruce sue the company right now."

You try to hit your head into the table again and he grabs your cheek to stop you. He leaves his hand there. This time, you look apologetic.

"I'm sorry. It just makes me upset when people think I don’t love you or that you don’t love me." You meet his eyes and he's smiling.

"I had an idea."

He pulls two small boxes from his pockets and you stop yourself from making a comment about the size of men's pockets. Before you have the time to freak out, questioning what's in the boxes, he opens them. They're necklaces with the initials of your first names. He takes the one with your initial and puts it around his neck. The chain on his is longer than the other one.

"Obviously you don’t have to, I just had a feeling you might want to. I'm not trying to put a brand on you-"

You cut him off with a kiss.

"I'm never taking it off."

[saphflare]

Won't lie, I do think it is wild to think about the fact that probably a majority of people that enjoy Content SMP only know it from the videos on Youtube.

Like they don't know about the secret Arathain and Luxintrus tumblr lore posts, or they aren't in the Rattiest Gang discord to see the lore discussion where the ccs sometimes drop pretty significant teasers or answers regarding the server and its characters. Like they might know the overall story, but they certainly do not know the lore lore that like fundamentally changes how you see certain characters and certain plot points.

Like the fact that most people probably know the Mason as just a silly guy that just snuck in the increased netherite rates and was probably a decent dad to Lux, instead of the Wheelbearer that committed multiple atrocities, including kidnapping at least two children that he psychologically manipulated and subjected to a whole lotta trauma of the religious variety and much violence against (one of which is Lux), and that the increased netherite rates were part of some deal he made with Charter is slightly insane to me. Like just everyone acts like this guy just was there as a guy and that is the extent, when oh boy fellas you don't know the other half of it.

This is also not getting into like any other characters, though compared to the Mason, I can't say the perception difference for any of them is as signficant. But also yeah the Charter lore is also a whole nother can of worms that even I haven't been able to dig up and understand everything about in the discord. But people also keep mistaking Arathain as the characters and that the character that appears after Lux gets killed is not the Mason, but the Augur, who you only know their name if you read the most recent post from Arathain and also fucking ate Mouthpiece in the metaphorical and/or literal way.

Like I am glad that by itself the videos themselves show a clear and enjoyable story for the people only knowing about it from there, and that is the extent they might need to do to engage with it as a fan. But it is just absolutely crazy to me that like a significant amount of people that like Content SMP just will never know the extensive lore because it is never mentioned at all by the ccs themselves and you never would know unless you like happen to accidentally stumble across it and after a few times you get enough clues to try to actively look for it and suddenly it feels like you are now on a scavenger hunt for lore 😭

[nomorethoughts]

>:3 Can I get either a grumbo or mumpearl pls?

hi there! sorry for the delay! some college au grumbo for you!! thanks for voting mumscott and enjoy! <3

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Absentmindedly, Mumbo almost brushes right past Grian as he exits the lecture hall. He has to double take, in fact, when he hears the familiar sound of his partner’s laughter, and doubles back instantly to find him sitting casually by the entrance, seated comfortably on an ornamental stone ledge by the doors. 

“You almost missed me!” Grian giggles, hopping down from the ledge. “How in the world did you almost miss me, Mumbo?”

“Where did you come from?” Mumbo asks with a little laugh. 

“I was waiting for you,” Grian says simply. “I brought you tea, how’d the exam go?” He hands a paper cup to Mumbo, who, for a moment, just stands there dumbfounded before accepting it. 

“The exam was… rough,” Mumbo says with a numb laugh.

“I can tell. You seem out of it.” Grian finally joins Mumbo at his side and loops one arm through his. “It’s over now though, and we’re one day closer to break.” 

“It’s over now,” Mumbo agrees. “Thanks for this, by the way,” he adds, nodding to the cup in his other hand.

“Don’t mention it, I had a feeling you’d need a pick-me-up after that exam. With how much studying you’ve been up to this week, I mean.” 

Mumbo hums in agreement. “You never wait for me out here,” he then points out, “it was a nice surprise but don’t you have class?” 

“Architecture was canceled today,” Grian says. “Besides, I missed you!” 

“You missed me?” Mumbo asks, turning to him with a curious little smile. “It’s been two hours, Grian.” 

“Two hours too long. You’re done for the day, right?”

“Thankfully, yeah.” 

“Great, then we’re having dinner together.” 

“Aren’t you going to ask me if I have any plans?” Mumbo teases. 

“No need, I already know you do. You’re having dinner with me.” 

Mumbo shakes his head and smiles. “You’re lucky I’m not a busy man.” 

“You’re lucky you have me to get you out of the dorm every now and again.” 

“Point taken.” 

Grian giggles, pausing to kiss his cheek. “Dinner?” he offers.

“Dinner,” Mumbo agrees.

[saphstories]

EXCUSE ME???

EX-CUSE ME?????

STELLA YOU-YOU-

ITS SO PERFECT I LOVE IT SO MUCH AJDNAKSJJWJWJW

HOW DO I HAVE SUCH WONDERFUL PEOPLE AS MY MUTUALS????

YOU ARE SUCH A STAR

I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT

[UNINTELLIGIBLE SCREECHING]

When Will My Life Begin - Blue Myosotis AU Animatic

For @saphstories' AU. Hope you like!

Fun fact! This took 156 individual frames and nearly 16 hours! :D

[signed-sapphire]

Hey *leaves a rare colored doodle of Cielo and scurries away*

Idk what they’re reaching for

His hair flip thing is too long but it’s the ides of march and that’s my excuse

[feelingsaph]

Can't take my eyes off of you~

Sengen nation please accept my offering 🙏

Ref:

[saphssapphire]

my favourite cryptonloids yay :D

[saphstories]

I'm thinking about getting a Duck sometime in the future

Just gotta figure out a few things first

You should call him Daffy if he's a boy black one.

[the-sky-queen]

If I can...

Imagine Shadow accidentally picks up a cursed object (or is cursed), and he's now a Unicorn Pegasus instead of a hedgehog.

And now Rouge and Omega have one very angry horned and winged horsey that they now have to figure out how to turn back before Commander Tower calls them in for another mission.

(And I don't mean a cute one like MLP, I mean ferocious and terrifying and magnificent.)

:O Oooooooooooooooooooooooo okay!

Honestly, the first thing that comes to mind is Rouge having to talk him down like in those movies where there's one wild horse who doesn't let anyone get near except for the one 'horse whisperer' character. So now we've got Shadouge where Shadow is a wild, extremely dangerous alicorn and Rouge is the horse girl. :D And she's literally the only person he'll listen to, so despite the fact that she's a city girl and had never dealt with horses before, she's suddenly forced into needing to learn how to deal with them.

I'm also imagining Shadow just being so wild and uncontrollable. And jumpy. He trusts literally no one else but her.

[dear-ao3]

baby girl i just wanna do my fucking laundry

[sexynetra]

hello! i was planning on drawing the rawnsyf characters, but i don't really have a clear idea of what every character looks like. do you have any examples of what the characters would wear on a day-to-day basis?

OMG WHAT THATS SO SWEET 😭 😭 😭

For Marcia I generally imagine her in like preppy pastel 2 or 3 piece sets that have a kind of 50’s meets 90’s vibe, very reminiscent of her premiere episode yk? Skirts and sweaters and matching tops. She also of course has her matching workout sets that she wears all the time :)

Anetra I think is a little harder to pinpoint, I don’t think her style is as distinct. I generally imagine her a little more on the light grunge side, like big t-shirts and cargos and flannels and leather jackets, but I also think she’s still figuring out herself and her sense of style so there’s definitely more wiggle room with the way she presents herself haha — just definitely not hyper femme and retro like Marcia

I hope this is helpful somewhat!!! Lmk if you want any other characters and also omg I am still kvelling this is so incredibly sweet I am HONORED that you want to draw my girls 🥹🥹🥹

[sapphire-to-the-rain]

OC drawing for @jessica199616 !!!

i had so much fun drawing this ^^ the colors of these characters are super interesting and it was so fun to get to work with nonconventional skin tones!!! thank u for sharing your OCs with me i’m super honored 💝