#sneaky touching

[energ00n]

An apprentice garment shouldn't be touched carelessly because it's a symbol of devotion to the Prime. Thus, to let others touch it is to say "I'm devoted to you too"

Orion doesn't know and D won't stop him

[thisdudedoesntexist]

Danny has been out of the hero game for a while now.

You see, when clockwork reset the timeline to one where the disastroid didn't happen Danny made it his mission to quit the job for good. This involved forming an actual defense from Ghost invasions (though he's sure his parents loved testing out what the magic community likes to call "An awful combination of sentience and technology.") and also giving rights to ghosts. Hell, even Vlad's started to come around. The old fruit loop actually changed his ways and is setting him up to the heir to DALV.co while trying to fix the shit they did to the environment when doing trial runs of Val's suit.

(Mostly because sam threatened to break Vlad's knees, both of the halfas think she could do it.)

He finally do what wants with his life and satisfy his obsessions with space and protection. Danny's got all sorts of projects he's tinkering on like air purifiers and growing food in space. He's been just, doing his thing for so long that his powers had gone into a kind of reserve mode. Danny's strength and speed are back to just above average, his ice only good for ice cubes and being a human AC, can't even feel ghostly presence if it's not right on top of him.

But Danny is actually happy.

Or he would be if not for Lex Luthor. He hates that vindictive, capitalist egg. The male pattern baldness horror story managed to weasel his way into a partnership with Vlad when he was still trying to put the (now reformed) GIW on his leash.

The first time Danny met the man his hair nearly turned all white, literally. He's lucky Lex was more interested in Vlad, his investment partner than him otherwise he'd have seen. He wouldn't have been that mad if not for Lex's pocket full of (condensed mass of kryptoian suffering.) kryptonite, and his kryptonian clone? who kept eyeing that pocket. Kon was the kids name BTW, also he DEFINITELY saw Danny's hair change.

Now he has to deal with the pair every other week, one reason being Lex is not so subtly trying to get his hands on some ectoplasmic generator schematics. The other is that Kon is helping him catch Luthor before he does.

[drulalovescas]

THE FUNNIEST THING ABOUT ANGEL OF THE LORD CASTIEL GOTTA BE HOW HE TOUCHES DEAN WHEN HEALING HIM (EVEN THOUGH HE REALLY DOESN'T HAVE TO) WHILE NOT TOUCHING ANYONE ELSE

[shijiujun]

SIR WHERE ARE YOU PUTTING YOUR HANDS ON DIANXIA?!

[self-made-purgatories]

For The World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, but it's just horny Spirk getting in each other's personal space

can't stop thinking about the way they're walking down this hallway so close they're practically cuddling. they actually might be holding hands just outside of camera shot.

they pause here for a second and kirk completely tucks his body into spock's. spock tilts his head toward kirk and curls around him. so now they are basically spooning in the hallway.

then they're hiding in the dark behind this pillar, which is actually really hot. i'm willing to bet that spock is going to grab a handful of ass and grind up against kirk as soon as the camera pans away

they finally make it back to the ship, back to kirk's private quarters even (so close), but of course there is still work to be done. kirk takes a call from starfleet while spock thinly veils his impatience behind crossed arms.

kirk finally turns away from the call, and all the shadow truthers ("they're making out on the wall!") are going to love the way the shadow of kirk's head hovers on spock's dick for several seconds. but then Bones calls from the surface and they have to beam down to rescue the cockblocker... I mean their OSO who ran off with a girl and is currently having a het stroke or whatever

now they're both squatting on the ground side by side and, once again, their bodies are completely tucked together. their whole upper arms and part of their legs are pressed together. jeez louise get a room you two

(sidenote spock's tits are popping today and i'm also in love with his little tummy in this position. it's no wonder kirk is all over him)

Plot summary: Bones is going through it in this episode and these two are genuinely concerned about him and about the impending disaster that threatens to destroy a whole planet, but they also can't wait to get back to the ship and take each other's clothes off later

[lulublack90]

Prompt 24 - First Pet

@wolfstarmicrofic January 24, word count 746

Every day for the past two weeks, Remus had been stalked on his way to and from work. His stalker knew exactly when he’d leave the flat or the school, then from out of an alley or around a corner he’d appear. Remus had tried running, he’d tried shouting, he’d even tried squirting water at him, but nothing worked, the little, scruffy, black puppy always found him. 

“Hey, Mr Lupin, your puppy is waiting outside the gate,” Gavin piped up during personal reading time. Remus looked up. 

“It’s not my, oh, never mind,” He moved over to the window and looked out at the sad puppy eyes staring back at him. He warred in his head for a few minutes before he sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose as he came to a decision. “Is anyone going to dob me in if I bring a puppy to class?” A chorus of no’s sounded around the classroom. “Do not misbehave while I’m gone,” He warned them, he didn’t have to, as all the students in his class were amazing and as usual the best behaved in the school. 

He’d taken his big coat out with him and hurried across the paved court at the front of the school. As quietly as possible, he opened the wrought iron gate and whistled for the puppy. The puppy came plodding along, tripping over his too-big feet. “Hi,” Remus breathed as he stroked the scruffy puppy for the first time. He picked him up and bundled him into his coat. The puppy was so light. Remus hurried back into the warmth of the school. 

“He’s so cute!”

“Can he come in every day?”

“He’s such a good boy,” Remus’s students gushed. The little puppy was having the time of his life, going from student to student before settling under Remus’s desk for a long nap. 

Somehow, Remus got to the end of the day without anyone finding out about the puppy sleeping under his desk. Remus put his coat on and tucked the puppy down the front, holding his little butt to keep him from slipping. 

“Oh, Mr Lupin,” Ms McGonagall called out, just as he was about to walk out of the door. 

“Yes, Ms McGonagall,” He turned his head and smiled pleasantly at her.

“Don’t forget it's parent's night on Friday,” She reminded him.

“Of course, Ms McGonagall,” He said, forcing his smile wider. He turned to leave again. 

“Oh, and Mr Lupin,” She called after him again. He stopped walking. “Please refrain from bringing your dog into class again tomorrow.” Damn it!

“Yes, Ms McGonagall.” Finally, she let him leave. 

Their flat was only a short walk from the school, and he knew just how Sirius was going to react when Remus showed him the dog. 

“OH MY GODDDDDDDD!” Sirius squealed when the puppy jumped into his arms, putting his huge paws on Sirius’s chest so he could lick all over Sirius’s face. “Remus, I love him!” Sirius said, wrapping his arms around the wriggling pup. “What’s his name?” 

“He doesn’t have one yet,” Remus told him. The puppy jumped off Sirius’s lap and began exploring the flat, his enormous paws making soft padding sounds as he did. 

“What about Padfoot?” Sirius suggested. 

“No, that’s totally lame,” Remus scoffed. 

“Alright,” Sirius pulled a face at him. The puppy was snuffling around making a terribly loud noise as he sucked in air, smelling everything in front of him. 

“Snuffles?” Sirius asked, and before Remus could say anything, the pup had launched himself at Sirius and was licking him again. 

“Snuffles?” Remus said. It was almost as bad as Padfoot. The puppy jumped off Sirius and landed in front of Remus, plopping his little butt on the floor as he looked up at Remus, wagging his fluffy tail. 

“Yay, Snuffles,” Sirius cheered, and Snuffles ran back over to him. 

That night, Remus’s stalker ended up in bed with them. But only after the bath, Remus insisted he needed and took up far more room than a little puppy should in a kingsized bed, but he was so damn happy that Remus couldn’t find it in his heart to tell him to get down. They slept surprisingly well, Snuffles between Remus and Sirius, snoring softly. “We’re keeping him, right,” Sirius asked quietly, stroking Snuffles’s head. 

“Yeah, I think we are,” Remus smiled at him, leaning over and kissing him before turning off the bedside light and snuggling down to sleep. 

[britcision]

Hey by the way if anyone tries to deny Kabru is a judgy bitch I’ll send you the panels of him calling everyone worthless

Respect his duality he’s a good boy who genuinely wants the best for everyone but also thinks he has to do everything himself despite being the Least Qualified Ever because no one else lives up to his standards

He doesn’t even want to look at monsters but oh well every single other person is a piece of shit let’s go get my friends killed over and over again

He’s interesting BECAUSE he’s not one dimensional Good Pure Boy all the time, he’s a judgy manipulative little shit who will eat monsters if it gets him towards his goals, which are “nobody should be killed by monsters actually” and “i want to know what the fuck is going on”

He coulda had ONE honest conversation with Laios and known literally everything about him, Laios has never met a filter

But Kabru was raised for a good chunk of his life (6-18) by Milsiril, and for all he believes elves can never understand short lived people… he picked up the whole “I must be secretive and always conceal my own motivations”

He only breaks under literally the most intense high pressure situation he’s likely to see in his life, which along with being the potential goddamn apocalypse is also a rehashing of All Of His Personal Trauma oh and also Every Suspicion He Ever Had About This One Guy

He’s not more honest because he’s an honest person, he’s more honest because he forgot how sentences work when he finally caught Laios and doesn’t have the bandwidth to play the constant 4D chess in his head that underpins his EVERY INTERACTION WITH EVERYONE EVER until Marcille takes the lion

Kabru’s a pretty good person, with extremely good motivations and goals.

He’s a manipulative son of a bitch who will do anything, anywhere, anytime, to meet those goals, and spends a solid chunk of his time and energy on reading people so he can be someone they like… regardless of his own feelings.

He’s the living The Good Of The Many Outweigh The Needs Of The Few, and solidly puts himself in with “the few” by doing shit he hates because he thinks it’ll help.

Isn’t that more interesting than “oh he would never manipulate anyone, he’s so nice and good all the time”?

[shadowboxmind]

Maybe a hot take, but I don't think the Traveler was being inconsistent or out of character in the last archon quest at all. People are getting upset at their reaction to Lyney and Lynette's behavior from the perspective of players, with meta knowledge of the story that the Traveler, the character, doesn't have.

The players know, for example, that because they're playable characters, Lyney and Lynette are ultimately friendly and on "our" side, and we can also trust that what they told us about their backstory is true. The Traveler does not have that knowledge.

TO BE CLEAR this post is talking about my thoughts on the TRAVELER'S thought process. If we want to talk about how I personally would have reacted to the situation, I'm an overly trusting bleeding-heart who would absolutely get scammed and probably murdered by Fatui in this universe.

(Also characters, even main characters who you normally like, can do things you disagree with and that doesn't mean they're badly written. I mean, sometimes they are, but I don't think that's true in this particular case)

But think about it! Looking at the entire situation from an in-universe, in-character POV, it's a really bad look for Lyney and Lynette overall, because here are the facts as the Traveler is aware of them:

Lyney and Lynette are not only members of the Fatui, the primary antagonistic force in this story, but are specifically members of the House of the Hearth, which is known to specialize in espionage, subterfuge, and sabotage.

Both of them also work in a field that would further require them to be masters of misdirection, audience manipulation, and drama.

They "coincidentally" ran into the Traveler right as they arrived in Fontaine and immediately began to do them favors and be very friendly, including saving them from Furina, bringing them to meet their family, and gifting them VIP tickets to Lyney's show.

During the trial, the twins withheld key information, and not just about their identities (and listen, I get it, I fully empathize with why they did it, I get the reasoning, but it's still a bad look when it gets figured out) but also about what they were doing in the tunnel.

They admitted that the entire magic show was a ruse to do, guess what? espionage! To break into the room with the Oratrice's core and find out how it works. To, through subterfuge, obtain Fontaine's secrets about the nation's most important mechanism and central source of power.

The Traveler has known these people for like, a day total.

So what conclusions might the Traveler draw from these facts? When the evidence shows that Lyney and Lynette have a record of misdirection and obfuscation for their own ends? When the Traveler has no way of knowing if even their initial meeting was orchestrated for an ulterior purpose? How are they supposed to know if the tragic backstory is even true, or if that's just Lyney trying to win back some favor and sympathy? In my opinion, at that moment, they don't. Hence the coldness.

My interpretation of events is that the Traveler does like the twins, and wanted to keep liking them, but was struggling to reconcile their initial impression of two friendly magicians with the realization that these two friendly magicians were dishonest with them for most of the time they'd known each other, so they needed to have some space to figure that out.

And for those saying the Traveler is inconsistent, here's the thing: they still helped Lyney. They still acted as his attorney, investigated thoroughly, won the case, and cleared his name. They've done similar for other Fatui members in their acquaintance—they helped Childe with Teucer, they helped Scaramouche/Wanderer with getting his memories back, they helped that other member of the House of the Hearth fake her death and escape the organization��whether or not they fully trusted them, and generally they didn't.

As for the Traveler's supposed hypocrisy, my view of their relationship with Childe is that it's only improved because, despite Childe trying to nuke Liyue in the past, the Traveler knows that

a. They can handle him if it comes down to a fight again; b. He likes them, regardless of if the feeling is mutual or not, and is indeed aggressively friendly to the point where it's easier to just be civil; c. Childe is generally upfront and honest about his actions and will strike from the front, not stab them in the back; and d. He's worked together with them before when they had a common goal (for example, the labyrinth they went through with Xinyan).

They know how his mind works and what motivates him. Childe is a known quantity, the twins are not, and it took in-story time and shared experiences for the Traveler to get to even this point of neutrality; they were openly suspicious of him during his story quest.

As for holding his Vision for him, the Traveler didn't exactly volunteer for the job, Childe literally threw it at them with no warning and peaced out. What do you expect them to do, drop it in the sea? That would be inconsistent with their characterization.

Wanderer's whole situation is even weirder, since the Traveler was able to experience his actual memories and emotions and therefore has good reason to trust that he's had a genuine change of heart. Not to mention that they're not friends, I'd argue they're in that same nebulous "neutral" zone, and that only because Nahida usually functions as a buffer (and also because, again, the Traveler knows that they can handle Wanderer in a fight, and Wanderer also tends to be blunt and honest).

Also, in Lyney's story quest it seems like everyone got over their problems pretty fast and they're all chummy now, so you can all rest easy that the twins' feelings weren't too hurt about it.

Anyways if you disagree go ham, refute my points, whatever, just keep things civil.

[sheepalmighty]

Deltarune Chapter 3 and 4 spoilers ahead.

This one's an observation on the roaring knight which I think is neat if true. Specifically, it's to do with the text in the book in the intermediary egg room in Chapter 4 and how that might relate to something about the knight in Chapter 3.

It might seem obvious in retrospect but, in the back of my mind I made a connection between the fallen star's tears, and the river made from them sprouting glass, mentioned in said book and the shadow crystals. When checked shadow crystals are described as moving like water, so with the water and glass imagery being evoked between this text and the item description it feels like there's a strong correlation here.

Running with this premise I was reminded that the knight sheds a tear before the fight (looked as much to me at least). It would have fallen on a black floor so I doubt it'd be easily noticeable, and you'd only have a reason to scour that area because of the black shard that is only there if you win against the knight (having knowledge you shouldn't beforehand doesn't change the type of interactions you can initiate within the game, unless I'm forgetting something). The rationale I'm going with is that because the shard is a weapon its significance is higher compared to a water drop on the floor. So, connecting the dots from what I've outlined, that drop from the knight is a bitter tear that formed the shadow crystal you pick up (which also makes the knight a fallen star or related to one? It being with the titan in Ralsei's explanation probably helps that idea). (Edit: I think "fallen star" is more of a descriptor than an actual object now that I've given it more thought.)

Because I don't want to make another post and it's also related to the crystals I'll write here that I really like when you use it in the final prophecy area. Usually it says the prophecy doesn't warp when you look through the shadow crystal in any other place showing bits of the prophecy, but in this area it additionally says that Kris shakes it and checks again but it doesn't change. So, Kris doesn't want whatever the end is to happen either and tries to hope for something different. Also, there's a harsh edge to some of the things the shadow crystal shows so maybe that links to the "bitter tears" part of that book text.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

tfw I wanted to do some silly video edits tonight but mother nature said fuck you tornado upon ye*

*ye as in upon a town 24 minutes away from me

[honey-lemon-halo]

you ask me not to tease you but I can't help myself. if I hear my name I jerk it faster and I move in closer. I'm at the edge of the bed now just watching and licking my lips. Do I dare help you more? I do. I remove your hand. It's mine now. I'm doing all the work for you and I'm looking deep into your eyes and keeping you quiet with my mouth on yours. big bro is here to help don't worry.

meanie big brother!!! I’m gonna get all worked up like this, you better do your part to fix it >:P

your hands are so much bigger than mine anyhow, it always feels better when you do it <3

(aaaand when you help me out I know it’s gonna lead to big brother breeding me ehe <3333)

[skunkes]

Your post about loving to study the beauty of the human body as well as wanting to love someone male while also be them is something I've been feeling for the past few years tbh but I've never heard someone put it in the exact words I use before. I think it's also because when it comes to topics like that I also feel embarrassed trying to explain a melded and complicated but beautiful emotion that doesn't have a word for it other than imagery in my mind

Sorry for the random soul post in your inbox but I get you! And that makes me happy

Also you're art is very cool and holds the very idea of human warmth and love within keep it up

responding to the compliment first, thank you!!!

as for the rest, yes! In the past I've definitely understood "love someone so much you want to crawl into them because hugging and physical intimacy isn't enough" as well as the usual "do i wanna fuck them or be them 🤪" sentiment floating around,

but it's not until very recently that I pieced together the, "well, what would I do if I literally got my hands on another [human being]. I'm not sure it would be enough to just Behold a [beautiful human being], I also want to be a beautiful [human being], but in the way this [person] is, which is. Unlike the way I am. Different from how I am. (In the many ways that can be interpreted)."

Which is adjacent to the "crawling into them", and adjacent to wishing I could be desired in the same way that I desire, and then directly connected to the way I am being genuine and casual when I say I love looking at and am in awe of the human form, but it's so very easy for that genuine love to slip into that intense and strange enthusiasm to map out, touch, explore, examine, open, crawl, meld, Be. Be!

[looniecartooni]

Me: *buys live plants for my goldfish tank*

Goldfish: *notorious for uprooting plants*

What did I think was gonna happen?

Honestly... shame on me for not expecting what I should have expected.

But also- shame on these little b*st*rds for knowing to do it when I'm not looking! It's all "we don't even notice the plants" until I wake up the next day to see it out of the gravel I tightly buried it under and even get a witness saying they're working together on it. The sly little babies! Well... at least they've got some better enrichment now.

My little criminals. Look at them with their totally not guilty faces. I knew I should have invested in only floating plants!

[bragganhyl]

Zokni is hilarious about the Christmas tree ngl

[bookwyrminspiration]

my teacher: everyone make sure you're using all five senses in this piece :)

me, writing from the pov of a spaceship:

[banhchao]

i just saw a guy on tik tok that was so my type i actually had to stop what i was doing. bro popped right out of my fantasies! 😱