#something cosmic

[ohhmydyosfics]

(Haobin) Something Cosmic

After three weeks of knowing Hao, Hanbin has already envisioned their perfect first date. Hao has other plans.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48455389

[far-constellation]

Immortality is the digitization of the soul. Everything I am is encoded in zeros and ones, my existence is mythologized and diluted until I don't really exist, I only seem to.

[hemlocksandfoxgloves]

All the covers for my Twin Flames universe

[soaked-doors]

when it rains, it pours

[skltart]

it's them <3

[valtsv]

Underused psychological/body horror concept: Character who knows their body was changed without their knowledge or permission, but also realizes their mind was affected because the change itself doesnt bother them at all. They're in a form unrecognizable to how they've been the whole rest of their life, and the most upsetting part is the realization that they're unable to be upset about it.

oh fuck yeah. i'm definitely projecting here, but there is something so satisfyingly horrifying about being able to rationally recognise that you should feel a certain way, but being physically and psychologically incapable of it, because the part of you that would enable you to access those emotions has been cut away, torn up by the roots and cauterised shut before you could feel the pain of the wound it left behind. the added insult to injury of not only having something stolen from you, but taking all of the rage and pain you might have felt at its loss with it. the body-mind entanglement; phantom limbs and phantom grief.

[that-wildwolf]

hey, remember being 18 years old and playing mass effect for the first time and it's got this like intense aura of being very small and very insignificant in a very big, very empty galaxy? remember playing mass effect for the first time and everything all of this is so new and mysterious, and it's 2am and you're sitting in a dark room in the light from your tv and you're playing through feros for the first time and you feel that this is someting very old and very ancient and you are somewhere you shouldn't be and you don't know what's going to happen or where you're going but you keep on. there's a tingling in your stomach and you're playing mass effect for the first time. the thorian is a milennia old sentient plant being. the rachni queen is old and telepathic and a hive mind and in pain. sovereign is an ancient machine that has not been built but is, and has always been, and this is something so alien and so unlike and beyond anything your human mind can comprehend, and this is something unexplainable and huge and as uncaring and indifferent as the empty galaxy around you. you're playing mass effect for the first time and you're walking on the surface of an almost completely empty planet with nothing but your two companions silently walking beside you and everything is so huge and empty and silent and you're so small and insignificant and it's so beautiful and so scary and you feel like you are on a rollercoaster about to drop down. you are playing mass effect for the first time and you're playing the mission on the moon and you stop and just look up at earth visible in the sky. you know this. this is home. you are playing mass effect for the first time, and the galaxy is so big, and you are so tiny, and everything is about to change for you.

[venic-of-paper]

Quick sketch.. they would not fucking do this. But a guy can dream

[hinamie]

もう一回、もう一回

[mimimar]

♡cosmic love♡

(art prints)

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Orym from Critical Role. He is drawn very small, floating in the middle of the image. His body is made of plants and he is shielding his eyes with his hand as a bright light shoots towards his face. Around him are messy drawings of snarling wolves, two hands made of plants intertwining, human mouths screaming and bearing teeth, bones and teeth, a green eye crying, Ruidus, and flowers. End description.]

A hunger you cannot fathom, a screaming you fail to recognise as your own

[hoarding-stories]

Going wild about how each chapter shows a different facet of horror

The circle of Vassal and Veil: horror in the environment.

A classical look at things, there are forces in this world beyond your understanding, they will chew you up and spit you out. See them, know them, survive them, adapt to them.

The circle of Needle and Thread: horror in humanity

Really powerfully done, a showing in how people can be horrifying, do horrible things to each other with the most human of reasons. Nothing beyond our ken is necessary for true horror to take place.

The circle of Tide and Bone: horror in the self

Rather complex and with a sprinkling of cosmic flavoring there but, where did you start? Where will you end? It is always a rough road and how will you change, be changed? What will you lose, what will you give up? What parts of yourself are worth the losing if it means you get a step closer to what you want, what you need. Who are you, if not for the people and things you care about, what happens to you when they're gone, how far will you go in their absence? Will you look back and see the person you were as someone entirely different, something in you twisted, lost? Will it have been worth it? The horror in change and the fact that you cannot go backwards to the way things once were.

Cannot wait to see what the Circle of the Crimson Mirror has to offer

[groovygrub]

[buqbite]

Halo

[whimsical-sonic]

soup

[theindiscreetbookworm]

I'm never done being insane about the way Silver equates himself with both Thomas and Miranda in that conversation they have while Flint buries the cache at the end of s3.

Like, he essentially says he inhabits the place in Flint's life that they both used to. The people he was closest to! The people he loved! His ideological partners! He sees himself that way!

Does he imagine how they felt in that place at Flint's side? Does he look back at how many times he made choices with the express purpose of getting there? Or were his motives opaque even to himself? Does he see them then, in the forest?

Perhaps, in the days that follow, he believes he is distancing himself from the path Thomas and Miranda both walked. Perhaps he believes it will save him.

At the end of the episode, he is not at Flint's shoulder any longer. He takes his own seat at the table. Perhaps he thinks this is the moment he steps out of that role.

And, of course, it is just that kind of gesture that Thomas and Miranda both would have - both did - make in their lives. They were independent, strong people. And it didn't make them any less Flint's, nor did it make Flint any less theirs.