#so that really had me frothing at the mouth

[talesfromawannabewriter]

@things-arent-what-they-seem66

Adele couldn’t help as her face flushed pink. The color painted her cheeks like a canvas. Never before in her past life had she ever received flowers.

She didn’t count the ones that were given to her during a performance. Back in Heaven she was quite the rockstar.

Every single time she went on stage she would be covered head to toe in roses by the end from her adoring fans.

She could even re-call a certain blonde who manned the front gates. He never missed a concert. She could remember how he screamed her name as he frothed at the mouth.

But other than that she never had gotten a flower from anybody. So, she was both flustered and a little more than surprised when she received them from none other than Leo.

Adele: These….are really for me?

Leo chuckled: Well I don’t see anyone else here who is my wife. Or with the name Adele.

He pushed them slightly forward and she could feel her heart racing from beneath her rib cage. She finally accepted them and took a whiff.

Immediately her nostrils were blessed by the most sweetest of scents. It brought a smile to her lips which caused Leo’s to brighten.

Adele: ….Thank you Leo, this is very kind of you.

Fruitful

@things-arent-what-they-seem66

(Inspired by art done by @evilmenshoe80)

Warning: Domestic Abuse

Adam was no stranger to pain. In fact, he would say that he was friends with the feeling. In an ironic sort of way.

Ever since he was first introduced to his first bride all he knew was pain. Which was truly something since they were ordained as husband and wife the moment, they opened their eyes.

He supposed that would explain why she immediately resented him. She wanted nothing to do with him or any of her given destiny. However, the angels pushed them to be together.

That is what caused her to lash out and take all of her frustration out on him. She would scream, hit, and hurt him in any way she could.

His only saving grace was the little angel who would fly down from Heaven and fill his life with joy as they played, laughed, and even sang together. Lucifer was possibly the only reason why he could still smile back then.

However, this happiness did not last.

Lilith discovered Adam's own personal guardian angel, and she was disgusted. Why should he have an angel?! Why should he be happy while she stayed miserable?!

That was when Lilith came up with a solution to her problem. Using her charms, she seduced Adam's angel and convinced him that he was nothing more than a brute trying to control her.

Because of the seraphim's dimwitted nature, he believed her and the two of them ran away from Eden and away from Adam. While he was glad that his abuser was finally at long last gone. He still wept over his only friend leaving him in the dust.

Not long afterward, he was given his second bride Eve. While she was beautiful and sweet he was so scared that she would leave too that he didn't allow himself to grow close to her.

Maybe if he did then she wouldn't have been tempted by the snake.

After she had bit into the apple and convinced him to do the same, they were kicked out of paradise for breaking the only rule given to them, and helping bring sin into the world.

After that, Adam had hurdled through one tragedy after the next. He thought that when he finally made it through the pearly gates, he thought that at long last his pain would cease.

But he was wrong.

Not even a few hundred years later and he was given a new task of guarding Heaven from sinners. He wouldn't have minded so much ridding scum from existence if it wasn't for the fact that he had to have annual meetings with the two people who ruined his life.

They made it no secret to torment him every chance they got. But what really hurt him was how they seemed to be happy with the other as well as loving.

It was what made his once warm heart turn cold as it hardened so badly that he didn't let anyone in it. Save for Lute who he was glad to have at least one loyal friend.

Then came the last extermination.

He knew that he should have just left the stupid brat alone but like an idiot he attacked her. Drawing Lucifer into the battle.

His words honestly hurt him far more than his fists. But what helped kill him, besides that sinner stabbing him, was the blank stare Lucifer gave him the whole time.

As if his death meant nothing to him...which it probably didn't.

Soon, he could feel the cold embrace of death take him once more. As his eyes slipped closed, so did his consciousness. The last thing he heard was his name being screamed by the only true friend he had.

--

"Time to wake up, little one."

Adam groaned as he woke up at long last. He didn't understand was the battle...just a dream?

"Open your eyes."

He hummed at the soothing voice. It sounded like Sera. What was she doing in his room?

Sera: Cmon, you can do it. Just open them.

Adam did as she requested and opened both of his eyes slowly. Only to immediately close them when he was greeted by the harsh blinding light.

Sera: It's alright, don't be afraid.

With a voice he hadn't heard in so long from her he felt his heartbeat lower as he slowly opened his eyes again. When the blurriness was gone he was greeted with such a sight.

In front of him was none other than the garden of Eden.

Adam gasped, not believing what his eyes were showing him. This...this can't be real...

Sera: Welcome to life first woman.

[that-butch-archivist]

As an act of what is perhaps futile masochism, I counted how far my collection is & then got the numbers for my archival wishlist. I just wanted to see how far along I am in achieving my own unreasonable goals. These are the results.

Current archive count: 263 books

Current to-buy list count: 900+ books

Playing loose and fast with math that means I'm, what--20-22% of the way there? With that in mind, if there are any sugar mommies out there who have a niche interest in insane & unreasonable nerds, I would like to point out that I am available and also capable of mostly behaving. <3

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

"Was... a waste of your time...?"

Unbelievable how a crumb of Jay has me acting

[andromeda3116]

look, i know everyone said that the new interview with the vampire show was incredible but holy shit i was not prepared for how incredible this show is

like, not only is louis interesting now, he is incredibly compelling! his once-bland internal dilemma is now given actual weight because it's not just the same old Thou Shalt Not Kill But I Am Hungry story, it's tempered through his righteous fury at how black people have been treated all these years, how many people have wronged him and laughed and expected him to laugh along, how his ties to the community that once saved him are now turning to nooses around his throat, how his family that he once provided for and relied on have now come to fear him

that, combined with his explicit homosexuality, and with lestat being the only one who seemed to accept him and love him for all that he is, and how that is both comforting and incredibly toxic and combined with sam reid's insane charisma and mania and gravity as lestat that make it completely understandable why louis would still be drawn to him in spite of everything

and how they've used the changes from the original to this one to examine how memory shifts regarding someone who was so intense and formative in your life even if they were ultimately so controlling and abusive but still left such huge gouges in your personality like knives

like

fuck

this is the best-written show i have seen in a long time like this is top-tier writing holy shit

[feroluce]

NO OK BUT I'M STILL NOT OVER BOOTHILL AND DAN HENG AND THE JADE ABACUS IN ENA'S DREAM!!!!!

For some extra context, I have a whole henghill manifesto I wrote over here, but the tl;dr is that Dan Heng decides to use the Jade Abacus of Allying Oath to save the Express Crew the first time. Boothill urges him to think it over carefully, but he doesn't stop him. And then, the second time Dan Heng decides to use it, we get this instead:

And just! That's so!! so!!!

Because like. We see in the first battle against Sunday that that Jade Abacus is effective, like we really do just get an entire army lead by a whole-ass Emanator of The Hunt right to our location and ready to fuck shit up. It's important. It's incredibly valuable. That is a huge amount of power to hold in the palm of one's hand.

But Tiernan's relic works the same way.

Galaxy Rangers are terribly dangerous. Boothill comments on this when discussing Acheron's motives, because he can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to get The Hunt on their asses. They're considered to be on a level even above The Annihilation Gang.

And now, with the burial relic, he has a way to get thousands of them, almost immediately, and all in one place.

And you can't tell me that wouldn't be something extremely useful to Boothill, like literally life-saving. He's wanted by the IPC. He makes his living as a bounty hunter. His whole driving motivation in life right now is to do whatever he can, up to and including throwing away his own human body, to ruthlessly hunt down one man and kill him in revenge. Like that has to be dangerous, the IPC is a massive entity with far-reaching influence and money and power and weaponry. He surely must have already had some close calls.

Like can you imagine it? Galaxy Rangers are solitary creatures. If Boothill were to find himself near death, he would probably be all alone. Do you think he had regrets? Did he wonder if anyone would find his own burial relic? Did it feel the same way it did when they melted his flesh, replaced it with metal? Did he lay there with his vision slowly blacking out until he thought of home, and family, and the little daughter who he never even got to hear her first word, until he was so full of fury that he could prop himself up on his rage like a crutch and find help?

Tiernan's relic would have been like a get-out-of-jail-free card. Just for one time, no matter where Boothill was, someone would find him. The Galaxy Rangers aren't sociable or organized between themselves, but they help their own. Someone would save him.

He chooses to give all of that up to help Dan Heng.

And I just cannot get over it, especially the wording of it, the pause before he speaks, the gentle way he tells him to hold onto his once-in-a-lifetime treasure...!! He wants Dan Heng to leave this to him! He wants him to keep this precious item that will help him save his companions again in the future! And maybe it's just...wishful thinking, me reading too much into it? But I mean. Just the way he says it...

I really do think it comes from a place of deep kinship and respect. That there's a lot of thought and feeling behind that statement. Something from one Pathstrider of The Hunt to another. Boothill fought for his home and his family, he fought really really hard! But. Sometimes that just doesn't matter. And now he's watching Dan Heng fight for his, too.

When he made that decision the first time, Dan Heng was in the parlor car of the Astral Express. He was completely removed from any danger. He could have chosen to get the hell out of Dodge and not look back. Obviously we know he would never even consider such a thing, but it was technically an option, and Boothill watched him decide to go back into the proverbial lion's den for his friends anyway. And I'm sure that was part of what sealed his decision, to later use Tiernan's relic instead of the Jade Abacus to summon enough people to disrupt Ena's Dream. Because he greatly values ideas like righteousness and justice and saving people, and Dan Heng so beautifully embodies all of that and then some.

Boothill doesn't have people to protect anymore, only ghosts to avenge.

And there is just something so endlessly endearing about him wanting to help Dan Heng, to make sure his friend doesn't go through that the way he did.

[alohaasaloevera]

ok maybe klance is boring cause it’s everywhere and maybe they don’t share too many scenes together so but I don’t really give a shit! look at them! they’re so…klance. i say there’s another few months give or take before my interest in them finally burns out and it stays dormant for like two years before I pick it up again and i go feral over the two because they’re KLANCE

[thirstyforbettertwilight]

reading ch 13 is so bittersweet for me because on one hand, edward asking bella questions about herself and bella answering each one enthusiastically is sooo cute but also i'm like bellaaa you are literally just a girl. you have your whole life ahead of you!! but i know a year later she'll be a vampire, a wife, and a mother

[e-adlirez]

Spoilers for Sinsmas/Sinsmas ramble

So I had Sinsmas paused on my browser to do life stuff as usual, I Will Be Okay was in my head, and I walked back to my computer after life stuff and realized the frame I had it paused on was

D

Do you see what I'm seeing

Their positions aren't just similar, they're reversed. In "I Will Be Okay", Via is on the floor and Stolas's shadow is standing up, looking down on her and reaching a hand to her from above, which she swats away. At the end of Sinsmas, Stolas is kneeling on the floor, with Via looking down at him from above, and her hand resting on Stolas's, which she pulls away from.

AND THE PARALLELS AND REVERSALS DON'T END THERE

From what I could see, it seems like there's only one instance where the parallel doesn't totally apply.

This.

Merry Sinsmas, Helluva Boss fandom :D

:'D

[a2zillustration]

August Baking 2024

Oreo Cakesters - 5/5

Genuinely impressed these turned out as good as they did because SOMEONE (me) used twice as much butter as necessary for the cookies. Can't wait to try this one again the right way!

Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies - 3.75/5

These taste good but they're so much effort to make. Just find a really good snickerdoodle recipe you like more tbh, unless you want cookies that look cuter.

[waywardsalt]

i think elden ring will always be my favorite game in terms of environment. every area is so impressive, even the copy-paste stuff manages to be impressive with atmosphere, and the amount of just. stunning-looking locations is wild especially with how natural even the most amazing looking shot you can find is.

just the fact that you unavoidably see this when you walk into leyndell is incredible. one of my favorite environment views in all of the games ive ever played

[industria-adastra]

No but like Wiege was crazy

There's so many things I could say about this like Wiege quite literally feels like the climax of alien stage before everything perfectly goes to hell. (I just ramble about Wiege for like the next bajillion paragraphs lol you don't have to read this if you're looking for anything crazy I'm just breaking down over the entire tragedy that is the world alien stage is set in)

It's the way that it's truly the most idealistic, the most agonisingly warm and dreamy of all of the alien stage instalments. It's not just about Sua, Mizi, Ivan, Till, Hyuna, Luka and the cast. It's a video about everyone - all the humans - and what they had, what they're living through, how they persist to still try and be happy and what they could've had in a happier time, in a kinder universe. It's quite literally a punch to the gut with both the music and the visuals because interspersed between all the horror was just people trying to live, people trying to be happy and oh my god I can't take it I am being run over by a rollercoaster and on a rollercoaster.

Wiege has such an impact because it's taken that build-up of tragedy, of the small world the "rounds" and "extras" have given us, the way we're no longer just watching the tragedy of the main cast and slapped us in the face with the cruel reality of alien stage by showing us those moments of happiness and what could've been for everyone. It only works because we started out seeing the tragedy of a select few, and it only works because we expanded beyond just the cast to everyone.

idk i just, really like any work that takes a step away from the main cast and shows any sort of mundanity. It always seems to hammer in the tragedy of things so perfectly well and Wiege has done it brilliantly.

And while I know some people may not agree with the choice to let Hyuna die it kind of works for me. With the way alien stage has kept showing how things can just go to shit whether you planned everything out or not, or how the way the entire system of alien stage has just screwed everyone over that leads to tragedy over and over again - not just in how they are forced to participate in the alien stage without even realising it's not meant to be fun for them (but for the aliens), but in how it just massively kills any sort of future for the humans because all the value they hold is how long they can sustain being "entertainment" - or how love is not logical, not rational - you might think that X or Y would have been a better decision, but somehow before you realise it you've already done Z, and that's the end of it.

Maybe it's stupid, maybe it's meaningless, but ultimately, in the end, it was out of love. Alien stage has always, always been about love (persisting, despite everything).

[calumhoodgoss]

GUYS WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS

WHAT THE FUCK

[dennisboobs]

most annoying thing about being me is that i cannot engage with like. any fanon shit about dennis because i'm constantly on some advanced derangement and the stuff i thought two years ago when i was first getting comfy in the fandom is still the way everyone else looks at dennis but i'm like. yes but its Worse than this. you're like a quarter of the way there. this isn't the interesting bit, this is a symptom of it, keep going.

[voidplume]

sorry have to express Favoritism and agree with mac, this finale came out way too fucking fast..................

[loveoaths]

i finally visited Disneyland for the first time in twelve years, and i could only find one — ONE! — piece of padmé merch! meanwhile there were ten billion kylo ren/imperial merch options, including an empire/vader shirt that said, and i quote, “finish what he started.” madness. absolute madness. this anti prequels bias has gone TOO FAR!!

[helianthologies]

ok ive decided im actually not gonna rewatch any fantasy high stuff or finish the seven bc it feels like homework and i dont wanna. im just gonna wait for junior year and hopefully that will reignite my interest in d20 and THEN when its done i will re/watch all that other stuff IF I FEEL LIKE IT