#teeth cw

[selfshippingquotes]

F/O: Can't find my toothbrush. Using yours.

S/I: No?

F/O: I'll rinse it properly after.

S/I: NO!

F/O: You kiss me.

S/I: I don't tenderly work the plaque out of your teeth with my tongue?

F/O: Yeah...Why don't you?

S/I, showing F/O a picture of cleaner shrimp: Is this me? Is this what I look like?

[mrkanman]

day after day after day after day after d

[schmergo]

Speaking as someone who had braces about 15 years ago, I can tell you that the experience is surprisingly similar to making a Faustian bargain with a witch. Real Little Mermaid energy.

You go to visit them and they’re like, “I can give you the beautiful straight smile your heart desires… for a price.”

“Yeah, I know, you told me, it’s $5,000.”

“Yes… $5,000… for now...”

“What?”

“What?”

To get your Heart’s Desire, you must go through The Trials. For a year, or two, or more, a painful torture device shifts your bones, like a slow-motion version of Ariel’s transformation, while you must follow certain rules to hold up your end of the bargain. No gum, no popcorn, no corn on the cob, no caramel apples, no gummies.

“Every three cycles of the Moon,” whispers the Witch, “You must return to my lair to tighten the Device. Do not stray, or the length of your Trials will increase.” You leave these harrowing encounters sapped of energy, barely able to even chew.

But it will all be worth it some day— won’t it— to get your heart’s desire? Beauty is pain, after all. Some discomfort is normal. That’s what the Witch says.

At last, the term of your Trials is over. The Device is removed from your face. A beautiful, healthy smile beams back at you from the mirror: your transformation is complete. “At last,” you say, “I’ll never have to return to this disgusting lair again!”

“Not so fast,” croons the Witch, and she leans down over you, smiling a perfect smile. “Didn’t you know? You belong to me forever now.”

What? Was this in the contract? They said a year, or two years, maybe a little more. Surely not forever?

“Funny, isn’t it, how something that can take years to achieve can be taken away in the blink of an eye?” She produces a little plastic case; you can’t help but think of a clamshell. “Did no one tell you of the Nightly Ritual? During the day, your teeth will be all you dreamed. But as soon as the sun sets…” Slowly, she opens the case to reveal clear plastic retainers. “You must wear THESE until the final crow of the cock, or a terrible curse shall befall you!”

“A terrible curse? What kind of terrible curse?”

“Your teeth shall be transformed once more. Oh, no, I don’t mean the way they were before. That would be too simple. No, they’ll be worse. Your bite will suffer. Your smile will be horrifying to behold. You’ll wish you never came to me in the first place.”

You already do, but you don’t say that part out loud. Instead, you say, “Are the retainers covered in the payments I already made, at least?”

“No. They are $500, not covered by your insurance, only last a few years, and will need to be replaced for the entire remainder of your miserable existence.”

“So you’re telling me…”

“That if you wear them, you’ll forever be my patient and forever remain in my debt, and if you don’t wear them, you’ll need to start the whole process again, so you’ll also forever be my patient and forever remain in my debt. Your smile is mine, dearie.”

You regret ever getting braces in the first place, but it’s too late for that now. You were but an impetuous teenager then and couldn’t see past having a perfect smile by prom night. Now, you’re older, wiser, the scales fallen from your eyes as the brackets fell from your teeth, but you can’t turn back time. You sign for the retainers, sign away the rest of your life to the Witch.

“Thank you,” she chirps, “for choosing Poor Unfortunate Molars Orthodontics.”

[greenteacology]

One thing about Matthew Mercer is he will put teeth where teeth should not be

[guardevoir]

100 days of art, 76/100 - I would say I'm sorry, but I'd be lying.

I think I got this one out of my system for now, but also I am just unironically way too fond of Vorcha. They're just such fucked-up, unlucky bastards.

(And on a meta level, they're so expertly designed to be off-putting that it circles back around to fascinating)

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 1B

Book summaries below:

The Raven Cycle series (The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily Lily Blue, The Raven King) by Maggie Stiefvater

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

Fantasy, paranormal, urban fantasy, series, young adult

This World Is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse.

The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a “self-cleaning” mechanism that New Belaforme’s scientists are certain only attacks invasive organisms, consuming them. Humans have been careful to do nothing to call attention to themselves until a rival colony wakes the Gray.

As Amara, Vinh, and Jesse work to carve out a new life together, each is haunted by past betrayals that surface, expounded by the need to survive the rival colony and the planet itself.

There’s more than one way to be eaten alive.

Science fiction, horror, interpersonal drama, novella, adult

[trashprinxe]

oh we're COOKING

Edit: I came up with a totally different version that is a lot better actually. Check the reblogs!

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[zeros-stimblog]

A stimboard with teeth, forest and angel stims for an anon’s OC!

(I made all of the teeth stims and the top forest stim! Please credit if you use them!)

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[snabie]

Hey! Hallo!! Your F/Os wanted me to let you know that they love you even when your teeth aren’t perfectly straight and white. They love you with receding gums or a gummy smile. They love you with spotty teeth, crooked teeth, missing teeth, buck teeth. They love you with dental problems. They love you with lots of fillings and root canals. All they want for you is to be pain free, the appearance of your teeth comes after that. Never be ashamed to smile around them, because to your F/Os, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world 🍀

[kiruliom]

mulviglitchteeth

a gender that can only most accurately be described by the moodboard below

please do not reupload without permission and credit

[animnightmare]

Ive sent this too like. 14 different ask blogs. So if you see it around. That was me

[bonezaw]

Say Hello to Sweet Tooth :3

[aestheticsoftheinternet]

Barbatos Stimboard

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[primalarc]

Oh look, Althi is making cursed shit again!

I wanted to parody the Jaws poster and no one could stop me. Fun fact: I modeled the SM-13 after a real iron lung! I'm so excited for the movie~

[nine-frames]

"Oh. Bleeding hearts of the world UNITE."

How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 2000.

Dir. Ron Howard | Writ. Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman | DOP Don Peterman