#she runs with the wolves

[stardustedknuckles]

Beau and Caleb get teleported directly on top of the bad luck bandits. It's unclear who is having the worse day.

[pien-art]

wot s1 basically <3 (click image for optimal quality)

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[charmtale]

Shameful secrets cause a person to become haunted. She cannot sleep, for a shaming secret is like a cruel barbed wire that catches her across the gut as she tries to run free.

(Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves)

the fact that no one* knew about akio's abuse of anthy is far from the only thing wrong with it, but the inherent shameful secrecy of it was an integral part of her abuse, something that significantly served to isolate anthy from her peers.

it was definitely akio's plan for utena to see anthy and akio at the end of ep. 36. (anthy's hands disappear into her hair = she had no hand in this. + the way the scene lights up like how lights come on at the beginning of a new scene in a play (anthy's previously black silhouette gaining color and features) = it was staged. not to mention her bleak expression) akio thought that utena would just be disgusted by her, and/or feel betrayed, and that would be that. however, he sealed his fate (anthy being able to ditch him) with this action, because utena offered anthy compassion and understanding instead of condemning her.

utena acknowledging anthy's pain as a result of being abused by akio touched anthy more than any of utena's other actions up to that point. while utena says a lot of stuff in that scene about utena's ego and being a prince, anthy only has visible reactions to two of utena's lines until utena is completely done speaking.

"And the night I learned about you and Akio...!"

the camera focuses completely on anthy, nothing else shown, as anthy slightly tilts her head up. there is no dialogue while anthy makes this small movement; anthy is listening intently for what utena will say next, and the show wants us to notice that.

"I thought that you had betrayed me. Even though you were suffering so much...!"

when utena talks about suffering- acknowledging that akio's treatment of anthy caused anthy pain- anthy uncurls her body significantly. a visual indicator of feeling less shame, immediately in that moment.

anthy does not move in reaction to anything else utena says until utena is fully done speaking, when anthy and utena are now shown kinda-holding eachother. utena may or may not know the full impact of her words, but it is clear to the viewers what moved anthy to say:

"It doesn't matter now. Just leave this school. Forget about everything that happened here!"

in anthy's opinion, this has to be the kindest, most honest thing she can say in this moment. utena leaving would ruin akio's plan and anthy would be the obvious reason why (likely leading to punishment), not to mention how anthy would obviously miss utena. the fact anthy said it anyway shows how impactful utena's statement was

it's good to talk about utena's obsessive girlprincing and how it was damaging. it's good that utena acknowledges it herself. but i think the fandom commonly overestimates how much that mattered to anthy, especially in relation to this scene. i feel that people sometimes abbreviate it as 'utena apologized to anthy for her egotistical behavior, and that brought them closer together!' like yes, she did and that was positive and indicative of utena maturing. but i do not think that was the most important aspect here

[cry-ptidd]

girl idc how long it takes to get Laura high ass hell, she needs that cannabis.

Get this poor bitch some weed omg

[emergingghost]

ziptie can in fact get more devastating and beautiful

[somestreptomyces]

~I'm running with the wolves tonight~

[nightwolferebornii]

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[onewolfaday]

025. yasha nydoorin but werewolf au

[seijorhi]

Rhi, are you still into monster content?

I was re-reading scar tissue and I couldn’t help but think of a predator/prey situation with Inarizaki as a wolf pack instead of it just being Atsumu.

Team manager darling thought she had it bad but this would be so much worse.

Do I still–

Nonnie the day I am not into monster fucking is the day I shut up shop entirely

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

I was rewatching The Stone Forest and I really like to think that Hilda had to pass by the Bell Keeper’s outpost on her way out of the city limits. I like to think that idiot looked at what was happening, shrugged, and said ‘eh, she’s the scariest thing out there’

[shivasdarknight]

you want a better story. who wouldn't? {ffxiv, one sided wolysayle yearning}

Chapter 4: Okay, if you’re so great, you do it—here’s the pencil, make it work

❆fandom: final fantasy xiv, ffxiv ❆characters: Ysayle Dangoulain, Redolent Rose, Mylla, elezen OC (Melisande), other OCs ❆relationship: heavily referenced wolysayle yearning ❆dynamic: gen, implied f/f ❆rating: m ❆key tags: fix it fic, Ysayle Lives AU, recovery fic, POV Swap (Melisande > Ysayle), flashbacks, Echo vision, character study, Ysayle's mine now so I get to decide how she develops from here on out, Spoilers for late Heavensward and Stormblood, Coerthas worldbuilding ❆content warnings: cursing, general crudeness, implied character death, canon typical existentialism, irreality, grieving, character death, references to atrophy and unbearable pain, mc hurts herself trying to rush recovery, family deaths, fire and related injuries, homophobic Ishgard as a setting, referenced animal death but no animals depicted dying (extinction discussed a lot, however) ❆chapters: 4/? {ongoing} ❆words: 23,512 {66,716 in total} ❆series: Snow and Dirty Rain {Ysayle Lives AU}

There weren't many things that Ysayle could call her own even in the modern day, having lost much of it in the Calamity and in her own recent folly. Loaned this and that as she tries to get back on her feet - quite literally, this time - the only thing she could really call hers was her first staff…wherever that went. It had a bloodied history that hurt to recall it - both in its nature and the lengths it took to get it - but now she's stuck with naught. She must find a way to build herself back up, and to that she must accept this aid that she feels she does not deserve in whatever form it comes in: be it rough handling so she might walk again, or clothing with far too much care put into it for someone such as her.

And all the while, Melisande remains colder than Ysayle's own persona - a bitter bastard to the very end.

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Fix it fic/Ysayle Lives AU that's part of my Snow and Dirty Rain au. Timeline goes over the end of 3.0 to 4.0, and is predominantly in Ysayle's POV (chapter 1 is Melisande's POV, chapter 2 is how things will go). From her recovery, to her building a new life for herself - Ysayle's newfound freedom allows her to explore what's going on in Ala Mhigo while the Warriors of Light are in Doma. A few misadventures, a lot of sapphic yearning - all of this to lead into i had a dream about you.

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[takeariskao3]

alright since no one else will do it on my tl today…

happy 33rd birthday dermot kennedy 🥳🎂 your music has inspired me to write more than any other artist i’ve ever encountered 💙💙

[starwrittenfates]

𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐒 & 𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐀/𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐊 — Trickster god plotting something else with her, or concerned papa!wolf knowing this is his Vhenan's pupil and if she were to find out what he did to her already, she might be mad?

My Rook is not only a mentor/pupil of Varric's, but also my Lavellan by default (unless rping with another inky.) Arlana trained under her before joining ranks up with the Veil Jumpers and getting recruited by Varric.

[dol-dee]

Hm I would love to continue Dee's dol journey and play it more but I feel like I’m starting to run out of stuff

[quibbs126]

Imagine if one day it’s revealed that Crunchy Chip is the oldest out of him, Caramel Arrow and Dark Choco. I mean as far as I’m aware, his age hasn’t really come up anywhere

I feel like so many people headcanon him as the youngest, it’d be funny if that ended up being the complete opposite of the truth

[dirtytransmasc]

self indulgent got concept.

Ned brings Jon home, Cat hates the boy, everything stays the same... until Robert Baratheon is charging through the halls of Winterfell looking for the babe, ready to butcher the poor thing where he lay helpless in his cradle.

in a matter of moments Catelyn learns three things:

The babe was never a bastard, Ned had only lied to her to protect Jon, and that she would die before she let Robert lay a finger on the babe she'd previously wished death upon.

cue Catelyn Stark snatching Jon from his cradle, holding him, protecting him, loving him as she would her own son, risking it all to keep him safe, all care for herself thrown to the wind.

like they say, what a mother's love holds no bounds, and what it makes her capable of had no limits.