#something im very normal about

[liodain]

Gab and Hugo indulging in some Xeheia's fold culture for @ockissweek

[starchaser4]

I love it when characters are experiments. Clones, robots, mutants, being made, altered, and tested on by someone who is looking to understand what they are and why, but crucially does not think about *who* they are. They're still a person. They're just someone who wants to live and experience things that others take for granted; things they can't have, either because of how they were born or what their creators have done.

[mohntilyet]

illario as the grandchild that is most like caterina is something i'm loving to chew on. the grandson that took her lessons to heart the most. kill anyone who sees your face and knows your name, "we are not revolutionaries", the first out of the two to prioritise the contract. power at any cost, and the only one to lean into the unnecessary abuse that their grandmother told them was tradition. why is anyone surprised he allied with the venatori? and then there's illario's considerable skill in infiltration and manipulating any mark, he has always had the charisma that lucanis lacked. illario isn't attached, he has/can/will use someone and immediately drop them; "that does free me from promises i don't intend to keep". he can lie about how much he cares so well that he fools a magister into believing he loves her. he kills zara without hesitation to cover his own tracks, meanwhile lucanis blindly promises a young girl in the middle of a siege that he will help her find her father. even the lessons about family stick with him, and in this entire messy power struggle, he never actually orders anyone to directly kill caterina or lucanis, not until he's backed into a corner.

and even after all that. despite even lucanis believing illario should be first talon, lucanis is still the better killer. illario is not strong enough to be the brutal assassin caterina needs him to be. so when lucanis seems to fill the role his mother left, grief and love for her dead heir apparent remains, and any of the other qualities caterina needs in her next talon doesn't matter. whatever his mother was, lucanis has to be. what illario does doesn't matter, because he will always be second best to caterina's memory of her favored daughter.

[trauma-bot]

patron saint of never growing old

[andstuffsketches]

Maybe not Impulse, But I think she would date Cissie

a glimpse into a possible future....

[the-knife-consumer]

"I'm going to have you play a scene from Ol' Yeller. Tell me you've seen it."

[setacin]

tous les mêmes.

[lokh]

also i think if roleswap laios and canon laios met theyd immediately start fighting.

[s0fter-sin]

nikolai hunting ghost down whenever they're on the same base and plucking him from whatever duties he has to whisk him away somewhere private. he has no authority, nothing more than his reputation as a rogue pilot with a few screws loose, but the way he fearlessly manhandles the ghost has people ducking out of his way anyway

behind a locked door, he offers ghost the choice of either curling up at his feet or sitting pliant in his lap, his full weight against him with his head lax on his shoulder; warm, comfortable, boneless

he then tucks his mask up above his lips and plies him with fruit and sweets; things he'd never buy for himself, indulgences he’d never entertain, wasted on a hollow shell like him

but nikolai? oh, he knows how much he deserves them; these precious moments of peace where the only thing ghost exists for is the next delicious bite

he feeds them to him one by one; thumbing strawberry juice and powdered sugar from his lips, humming in pure pleasure as he sucks it away, and smiles at ghost’s involuntary shivers when he feeds him his favourites. ghost doesn't even know what most of the sweets even are; what they’re made of or even what country nikolai buys them from. he just knows he loves them; loves the chase of nikolai’s fingers on his tongue after each one even more

nikolai always brings plenty for him, always draws it out, wanting these rare breaths of contentment to last for ghost’s sake as much as his own; offering plump bites of tart, homemade treats, letting rich chocolate melt between his fingers so it's soft in his mouth and watches his eyes flutter shut as he savours it

decadence incarnate; slow taught and hard won

ghost licks the dregs from his fingers and suckles them long after they're clean; the thought of an empty mouth so wrong to his sweet-clouded mind. nikolai coos in russian down at him, brushing his fingers through his hair as he holds him close, but he's too far away to take in any of it; the only thing holding him in the present the sugared fingers held gently in his mouth

after all, nikolai's always been his favourite sweet

[ph-cutie]

'31 fun

[rookdaw]

monster X monster hunter

[silvers-starrway]

I miss him every day!!!! Urg.... MDAU!Sonic post EP 8 thoughts are ruining my brain rn you have no idea.

[cubezart]

TIL IT CEASES TO BEAT, PLEASE BE MINE !

[cheriecoke]

happy valentine's day from me and the guy i swear i'm not in love with (everyone is begging me to get it together) ❤︎

literally a year later, 3 comms, and 1 fic into this and i'm still convinced that no one actually perceived me and this selfship is a secret LMAOOO.

[mousemannation]

it’s kind of fucked though that the format of tennis is that there is a Final and there is a Winner and a Loser of that final and every other match played up till the final just doesn’t count anymore because you lost this time. And it’s only you on the court, no team to share that loss with, so you know it was your fault, you made it all this way but you couldn’t win when it counted. So you leave the tournament a loser despite the fact the wins outnumber the one bitter loss.

[birrdify]

jeez smg3 really fell for 4 there