#so i'm reposting it

[artaxlivs]

"Eddie, babe, you've seen this movie like seven times already." Steve whispers, rubbing his hand down Eddie's back as it hitches with sobs. "You know the horse comes back."

"N...Not this horse. That's a new horse. A new idea." His shoulders shake as he fights the build up of grief. "It's just *sniff* Bastian is a new reader, making a new story, making n-new w-wishes. This Artax dies."

Oh.

Oh.

Steve gets it, finally. Wonders just how long he's been missing the point here.

Because Eddie died. They got him back. But he'll never be the Eddie he was before. He's different now. It wasn't the Swamp of Sadness but it got him all the same. Maybe worse because he died full of hope and heroism. He died fighting. And when they got him back, they were still fighting. The story had continued without him.

Shifting them on the couch so they're face to face, Steve tucks Eddie's curls behind his ear, watches his face as he tries to calm his breathing, rubs Eddie's tears with his thumbs.

"If I got to wish the whole world into existence, you are the first thing I would wish for." Steve tells him, chest aching with weight of all the love he's been building up for Eddie since he'd taken his second first breath. "You. Every version of you is this one because you wouldn't be you without all the things you've learned along the way. Even death."

Fresh tears spill from Eddie's dark eyes and when he closes them against the honesty, eyelashes shadowing his pale cheeks, he shudders, "Promise?"

"A grain of sand. Just like in the Empress's hand. I promise on that grain of sand, you, and all the versions of you yet to come, are what I would wish for. Promise."

Steve tucks Eddie in close, holds him while he trembles through the last of his grief. Silently thanking The NeverEnding Story for showing them that there is hope after grief. Even if it starts with just a grain of sand.

[scarymath]

I was weak. That's why I needed you… Needed someone to punish me for my sins… But that's all over now… I know the truth. Now it's time to end this.

[wanderingmind867]

DC has too many characters. Like, all their books in the 40s and 50s and 60s were books with multiple features, so there's like 50 million obscure characters we could bring back from the dead. For what it's worth, i thought of a way to use three of these characters. Dr. Terrence Thirteen, Mark Merlin and Roy Raymond. Besides the excessive alliteration here, they're all detectives who deal in busting hoaxes and investigating the supernatural. You could probably give these three a detective agency together, and it might actually make for compelling reading. Someone should do something with these three men.

[in-sufficientdata]

[a-coward-who-is-worried]

[frenchublog]

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

The forest king and the postwoman

[ardentinwoe]

Surely The Time Has Come

[jagalart]

thanatologist

[originalartblog]

Apparently much-needed reminder that reposting artists' art (by saving the images or screenshotting them and reuploading them yourself) on other platforms without the artists' expressed permission and without credit is theft and an insult to their passion and craft. You are profiting (in views, in attention, in feedback) from someone else's work and ideas, who do not get that feedback for sharing their creation.

If you are an art reposter, you are a thief and I have no respect for you.

[cy-lindric]

Hi! So, while scroling through Pinterest, i came across this art:

which was credited to you. i cannot find the complet artwork in your profile, so i wanted to ask if youre the artist responsible for this piece.

(btw, your renditions of medieval clothing are beautiful!)

Hello ! I did make this a long time ago and the reason you didn't find it is probably because it's almost a decade old (and also very badly tagged). You can find the original post here. I think back then I had no idea what actual medieval clothing might look like, lol. How far we've come.

[woogiez]

[ruubesz-draws]

A very cool guy from Fortnite

(I'm sorry...)

So that was a f*cking lie...

[lastrhdesian]

he has such a way with words

[frenchublog]