#short boys have my heart

[angelcakegf]

I am first and foremost a short king enthusiast

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Luo Binghe? Sorry, I only know Binghorse now.

[yourlocalabomination]

Saw this while in the middle to drawing Ted with a ponytail-

[emborami]

Through the years, from popinjay to coxcomb to maccaroni to dandy to dude

[karleksmumskladdkaka]

Diabolik Lovers Dark Fate Vol. 3 Chapter of the Last Quarter — Short Story Translation

A short, sweet, and comedic tale about the Mukami brothers being supportive siblings… and nearly committing accidental fratricide in the process. Meanwhile, Yui watches with increasing concern as the disaster unfolds.

Please refrain from using or reposting the translation anywhere without my permission.

[Note: The story is written in Yui's POV.]

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"Uh...something's wrong..."

Kou-kun groaned as he stared down at the pot.

"Should I help after all?"

"Eve, you mustn't get involved...okay? Just quietly watch over us."

Even though he said that, an increasingly terrible smell was spreading throughout the kitchen. Despite being told not to interfere, I was starting to get a bit worried.

"Maybe it needs some sugar-chan!?"

"Ah!!"

Before I could stop him, Yuma-kun dumped several sugar cubes into the pot, filling the room with a foul stench. I felt a sense of despair.

The whole mess had started when Ruki-kun injured his hand.

"Ruki-kun always cooks for us, so let's all pitch in today!"

And so, Kou-kun's plan of making dinner ended up as disastrously as I had feared.

"...This is...?"

"Well... It's supposed to be curry..."

Kou-kun glanced at me as if pleading for help. When I looked at Yuma-kun and Azusa-kun, they averted their eyes. In short, something horrible had been created. Its color was... to put it nicely, pitch black. After tasting it, Yuma-kun commented nonsensically that it was "bittersweetsalty". Dubbed "Mukami Brothers' Style Curry" it had transformed into a mysterious substance resembling anything but curry. Just by looking at it, anyone would instantly recognize it as inedible.

Yet, Ruki-kun was peering at the plates lined up on the table with a happy look on his face.

"Maybe it's better if we don't eat this..."

In spite of Kou-kun's uneasiness, Ruki-kun scooped up the substance with a spoon and brought it to his mouth.

". . ."

"It's disgusting."

We all shared the same fear. That even though he's immortal, Ruki-kun might die from this.

Despite his words, Ruki-kun's expression suddenly relaxed. We stared at him in amazement.

"R-Ruki-kun...!!"

"Ruki..."

"Ruki...! Damn it! Yer such a...!"

The three brothers, seemingly drained, collapsed to their knees on the spot. Ruki-kun simply watched them in silence as he continued to eat.

And then, afterwards—Ruki-kun was bedridden for three days and nights. Even though Vampires aren't supposed to get sick...

Seeing this, his brothers made a firm vow to themselves. They would never try to cook again.

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[pinksilvace]

“It’s cold." “I know. I know, but we’re going to be alright. Do you hear me? You’re alright now. You’re going to be okay.” “I want to go home.” “We can’t go back home. We’re—we’re orphans now, remember? Nobody’s waiting for us back there.”

[bismuthburnsblue]

while i was away the other week, i picked up a potential trim for my lady Stede dress, and i wanted to talk a bit more about it with you guys and see what you think !! (you can skip to the end for an opinion poll if you dont wanna read all the background spiel!!! tldr: do we like what i picked?)

so, Stede's costume is not particularly historically accurate, but the use of trim between mens & womens fashion is completely different anyway, so im not too worried about trying to find something that matches 100%. i mostly want something that brings the same effect to the garment, particularly in the colour. i went and found some high def images, so you can sort of see the structure of the trim.

The colour is somewhat hard to pin down, but i tend to see it as a sort of antique gold colour? it looks to me like tarnished metal (but i would love to hear about your opinions on the colour!)

The trim is much more subtle on the style of dress im making- most of the decoration is created through pleated stripes in the same fabric as the dress, with the decorative element lining the edges (and occasionally running down the centre). looking at extant examples, ive seen many different shapes of trim, though most of it seems to be looped cord or "fly fringe" - loose filament tied into little puffs or flowers (its super cute but hard to get a hold of and i dont think i care enough to make it)

im not quite sure how im trimming this garment yet- i dont want to commit to anything until ive played around with what looks good on the actual dress, but i know i want to do at least some of this pleated design on there, so these styles are what i went out with in mind.

(ok, context established, onto my specific picks!) i really struggled to find trims i felt would work for this project- i wanted gold, but everything i was finding was too bright and shiny and not at all what i was going for. I ended up picking two things in the same dark gold colour that felt a bit more worn in, but definitely needed work to get the shapes i was looking for- one i think ill dismantle entirely and use the cord to make something new, if i end up using these.

the other was much closer to the kind of thing i wanted, but still needs work. it had two lines of loops and my plan is to remove one of the lines to create something more like the looping of the historic trims. ive pinned one line out of the way in the pictures below to give you a bit of a better idea of what i want, but please know this was a 5 minute edit, and the final result may be different!! (i also want to add that i dont think ill leave the border edge as wide, either- i want the trim to be a hint, not overwhelming)

(these images have been edited a little to try and capture colour accuracy, as my phone Did Not want to make the blue blue :/ the last image is the most accurate to the trim, i think)

i think my pick was absolutely the best option out of the ones i saw... only now im looking at it with my fabric, im not sure. it was the best kind of gold colour they had, but i feel like stedes is even darker and cooler in colour, almost a brown-grey tone. (honestly, this one is pretty brown when you look close, but what matters is the bigger picture, so :/ ) it feels to shiny and sparkly, and like it might stand out in the wrong kind of way.

i want this dress to feel like a genuine historical garment first and foremost, id rather it look cohesive and intentional than be accurate to the show and im doubting myself with this trim- but also i know it was by far the best option that i saw when i was actually looking at hundreds of gold trims... so, what do you think?

[robotsafari]

a mind palace’s (unasked for) renovations [DO NOT TAG AS SHIP]

bonus under the cut:

white mushroom more like “butlershroom.”

anyway. yep! my headcanon is that the mushroom series of heartless were essentially like early versions of ansem. experiments to see if creating a heartless with a will of its own were even possible. (the mushrooms just wanna play charades and go on nice walks! they wont steal your heart because their instincts tell em’ to! they’ll only snatch it if they feel like it <3) how can you make an “immortal” successor if they cant even understand the research you left for them? so thats why they were created!

[werewolfsmile]

HI! Hi hi hi hi hi, it's @scotchiegirl

So I've been distracted by an Eliot-adopting-Molly-Connell fic idea that's coming together scarily smoothly but I also wrote some wolfy playdate and thought you might want to read a snippet

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Quinn raised his hands in surrender–or at least one hand, the one that wasn’t hauling a dufflebag–and ducked his head, dipping it to the side almost automatically. 

“I’m not here to cause any problems,” Quinn soothed, voice measured and calm and light all at once. “I was in town and decided to stop by for the full moon. Didn’t realize there’d be quite such a party, but I guess it makes sense.” 

“The full- wha'd'ya mean you stopped by for the full moon,” Hardison asked, brow furrowing and glancing between Quinn and Eliot. Eliot shot Hardison a glance and the younger man’s face dropped. “O-oh… you’re…? Too? Oh. Well. That’s… great. Great. Fun. Woulda been nice to know. You do this often, then? Drop in on random ‘wolves on the full moon?” 

“Hardison,” Eliot sighed, moving forward into Parker’s space to get her to back down and shooting Hardison a glance. “It’s okay. But seriously, Quinn, what are you doing here?” 

Quinn’s eyebrows shot up in surprise. 

“...I repeat,” he said, just a hair more slowly than usual, as if talking to a rather slow child. “It’s… the full moon? Don’t worry,” he tacked on at normal speed, “I’m a good guest, I brought my own food to supplement breakfast.” 

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(I love writing Quinn so frickin much XD)

I. am. SCREAMING OH MY FREAKING GOODNESS THIS IS INCREDIBLE???? I LOVE IT SO DAMN MUCH???!?!?

The way Quinn shows wolf submission immediately, the way he's like, oh there's more people here than I would have expected but that's cool that's fine I can roll with this and hey I'm connecting dots here too ahh yes makes perfect sense.

Hardison being all defensive and already low-key jealous. That one line about Parker!! She's so ready to throw hands in defence of her Sparky and I love it!!!

And then of course Eliot has no idea what Quinn is doing there, because why would he? They didn't discuss this. It has never happened to him before. Why does Quinn think this is normal? There is nothing normal about this!!

I am obsessed. Please send me more. I am frothing at the mouth, this is so freaking good aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

AND I'M SORRY WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE WRITING AN ELIOT-ADOPTS-MOLLY FIC???? BESTIE SHARE THE DEETS!!!

this ask reminded me i've drafted a reply to one of your previous asks/reblogs but i forgot to posttttt! going to do that now too!

[napstabl00k]

Those sonic prime gjinkas from my day out today

[h0estar]

YOUR HONOR, IT'S THEM !!!!

[thebirdandhersong]

the miserable angry person I become when I haven't eaten is, in a word, atrocious. it is 9pm I have not had my dinner murder is about to be on the menu if I don't fix this soon

[isan0rt]

Hot take but insisting on using they/them pronouns for Xion, the LITERAL ONLY character in Kingdom Hearts who aggressively and intentionally tells people she is a girl and expresses dysphoria about being misgendered as not-a-girl, is fundamentally no different than Saix refusing to stop calling her 'it' send post.

[lilcathsmith]

Greg in every episode of CSI (87/328) • Down The Drain •

[thealatvs]

smiles

tldr dante’s greatest enemy has always been himself

[thelastunicornflipouts]

Why is the scene where Schmendrick lies about what he sees so important?

One thing I love about rewatching - and rereading - The Last Unicorn is the amount of subtle details you can infere without further exposition.

Schmendrick lying about seeing just a white mare is just apparently a simple introduction of his character. The viewer/reader can immediately tell he is on the unicorn’s side and he is trying to protect her, still the real meaning of the scene it’s not clear right away.

Schmendrick lies about what he sees immediately after he has been teased about his capacity as a wizard, both by Mommy Fortuna and Rukh. A first time viewer/reader still knows nothing about Schmendrick, so this does not seem very important. Those who instead know Schmendrick understand how much he yearns for recognition and praise as a true wizard, as he is shown to do on later occasions in the movie/novel (especially). Schmendrick lying is essentially him biting down his ego once again and accepting to not be recognized for what he truly is just for the sake of having a chance to help the unicorn at a later time.  If he had been anyone else, he could have simply told the witch, “Hey, f*ck you! I know perfectly what I am looking at, who do you take me for?!” Instead, Schmendrick chooses to lie, even if that means more scorn and giving in to more insults and mockery from people who already see him as a hack. Nothing would have stopped him from telling what he truly saw, still he willingly lied for the unicorn’s sake (and this is especially true in the novel, where he is much more mean-spirited). It is such a short exchange between him and Mommy Fortuna, still it flawlessly introduces Schmendrick as a character. 

This makes the scene where Molly accuses him of not caring about anything but his magic even more tragic - and it is one of the very few times Schmendrick loses his composure in the movie. He cares to the point he accepts to be still treated like a worthless fool, in spite of his desire of being a true magician, contrary to what Molly is accusing him of. Hearing Molly - whom at this point should know the lenghts Schmendrick has gone to protect the unicorn - rubbing it in his face must have been devastating.