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[zukkaoru]

gentle beast

Ranpo strolls over to Nathaniel and Fyodor, looking down on them both. “What’s the cake for?” Nathaniel blinks. Fyodor answers: “Your birthday, of course. Did you forget?”

or: ranpo dies again on their twenty-seventh birthday

🪽 2.3k words || ranpo-centric 🩸 inspired by taixu (by @justadino-ig)

[capn-twitchery]

i'm caving in. the twitch sacristan tattoo can be canon. getting a petty tattoo after getting zee immortality is too Twitch to pass it up

also for extra pettiness (after evolution when they thought they killed the sacristan) they give their ship black sails like the Delight had. are they useless in a cave with less wind? yes! but it's about stealing the dreaded points

now Their ship can be the most feared and stylish vessel on the zee instead. until the sacristan comes back anyway. then one of us is going to have to change

[meownotgood]

Prince Aki doodle 👀

I forgot the little cross on his earring lol

AAAAAHAHSHSHSHAHAHHAhahjajnsnsndnsnsjsjs listen......... LISTEN......... today is not the best of days but seeing this made my day so much better 🥹🥹🥹🥹 he's so cute I will cry.... his cutie earssss ahhhh!!! I love how you draw him so much!! 💞💞💞

[spotaus]

HEY!

It is me!

I had a thought concerning New Age AU :D

I spend some time thinking about waht you said.

That the castle Nightmare (and dream and their family) lived in. The royal castle.

Is the tree of emotions.

So. So hear me out.

I wonder that. if the castle is the tree. does that mean it may be a bit sentient.

You said that nightmare can easily change it because he is conencted to it (the apple ritual) but i wonder if the castle itself is kinda sentient.

And VERY mad about how its powers got used.

Maybe the story of the twins. OG story. is connected to the prophecy. But it was a warning.

It was a warning to remain united. To trust your family and to listen to them when they ask for help. To believe them when they notice things about people youdon't notice.

To warn away from going out on your own. warnign away from searching for power that you shouldnt take. (the apples were never suposed to be eaten after all.)

And of those twins the one who ate the apple actually succeed in killing their twin. that the grieve of that moment intensified the emotions based power source into overdrive which caused the one who ate the apple to even gain godlike abilities.

the whole prophecy was a warning.

The royal family that settled in this place. found the story. found the tree (having recovered after the twin who ate the apple died) and instead of seeing a warnign. saw a to do list.

The lessons they took:

power makes you undefeatable

the power makes you stay in control

the best way to gain this power? eat an apple and kill someone important to you.

attachment is a weakness waiting to be used to grow more powerful.

sadly after they grabbed and misused one apple? they got paranoid. if they can use the tree to gain power others can too! so they cut the tree down. and to make sure it could never grow back. build the castle on top of it.

Meaning there is only ONE apple. the one consumed by the one true ruler. and the ruler neeeds to willingly summon their apple/soul to give to eat to the new ruler. to pass on the forbidden knowedge and power through lessons and traditions.

over time the trees influence took over the castle. but because the ruler ate the apple and has a direct connection they can still control the castle.

the tree/castle watches as nightmare broke the cycle. as nightmare refused to hurt ccino (adn so his brother) nightmare, even through fear chose love and trust.

the castle willingly helps and protects nightmare.

and when nightmare lost the apple's power? officially breaking that godforsaken cycle? the castle is just more protective. thorn now protect the castle and the trees around it hide it.

this is of course. lost knowledge. the royal family made sure to destroy the knowledge in fear of someone standing against them.

but nightmare managed to break it still.

and maybe... just maybe... now somewhere deep in the castle. deep underground as a forgotten meadow deep underground. in a beautiful little cave. a new tree starts to grow to truly help heal the land.

haha sorry this got long again lmao.

but yeah! If you have the tree/castle kinda sentient you can have that the very land was trying to sabotage the old rulers but couldn't do a lot because of the one apple's power and so having to listen.

it would be the source of all that powerful magic.

Ough. It SO is slightly sentient.

Ancha once again you have obliterated me w/ ur storytelling istg-

Okay. I love that this info has been lost completely to time. Like. The only one that's aware is the tree/castle itself.

I think the interpretation I like here is that, the stump is somewhere within the grounds, maybe even in the treasury or armory, but the *roots* make up the building kinda cypress tree style, so as they cut down the tree, the once vibrant life in the old roots turned to stone and was left almost completely powerless. (I am, unfortunately, a sucker for the idea that there was a time that *someone* treated the tree with respect 😔) (Also hense the new young tree sprout growing out of the ground deep in a hidden cavern, because the roots relocated the power to a safer location.)

The castle, desperately grasping for that power back, so no one might mis-use it ever again. And then seeing Nightmare resist its twisted urges (like u said) in the name of love and care? It rips that power away the moment it loses its hold on Nightmare, and takes the seeds of magic away from harm's reach. But... Nightmare isn't upset by the loss. He doesn't go digging to get the power back. He... doesn't dig for *any* power.

Less blood is shed in vain on its land, more plants and ecosystems are allowed to thrive.

And gods, just the idea that the castle grows up plants and trees to better defend itself abd the people inside? This reaction is spontanious and Night assumes it connects to the state of the magic leaving him, but it doesn't harm anyone so ehhh. But the tree is trying to encourage and protect those who helped it without knowing...

And dude the whole story of the og story and both twins dying and then a family misconstrued that entire story into one of power and consumption and betrayal??? Waughhh it's beautiful....

I'm losing my mind here at the storybook level magical healing and forgiveness and learning lessons, I love it so so dearly <3

[albaharu]

Choose your Mission Part 4

Masterlist ; Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3

You are in a thought spot. Not all is lost, but it's very likely one of you won't survive this.

Good luck.

The 8bit theme was done by this youtube user years ago, give them a like!

The game is done with RPG Maker VX Ace. Most of it is either the default tilesets or made by this user: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/candacis-resources.19694/

Also depending on the last poll results this one would be more or less difficult, but I won't say what level of difficulty was each one except maybe at the end.

[ginger-grimm]

MEET WILLA DARLING'S FAMILY

George Darling - Maternal Grandfather

Mary Darling - Maternal Grandmother

Edward Darling - Father

Wendy Darling - Mother

Jane Darling - Oldest Sister

Daniel "Danny" Darling - Older Brother

Willa Darling

John Darling - Maternal Uncle

Michael Darling - Maternal Uncle

TAGLIST: @waterloou @eddysocs ​ @ocs-supporting-ocs @foxesandmagic @veetlegeuse @decennia @hiddenqveendom @arrthurpendragon @luucypevensie @nikosasaki @noratilney @wordspin-shares @oneirataxia-girl @endless-oc-creations @lucys-chen @andromedalestrange @wewereforever @daughter-of-melpomene @bibaybe

[waytooinvested]

Tagged by the lovely @fazedlight 💥

rules: shuffle your spotify 'on repeat' playlist and list the first ten songs

The Last Man on Earth by Grace Petrie (it's like a supercorp yearning fic... except without the happy ending where it turns out neither of them were straight and they were both pining for each other all along)

Dragon Orchid (How David Attenborough Saved My Love Life) by Kate Rowe

Nasty - Unfortunate cast recording

Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Fucking Perfect by Pink

Make America Hate Again by Grace Petrie

Gotta Have You by The Weepies

Black Tie by... yep, Grace Petrie again... I swear I do have other artists on this thing. This one is delightfully queer though, I recommend a listen.

Never Know by Jack Johnson

Dumb Blonde by Dolly Parton

No-pressure tags for @kimmania-sg, @christinahennie483, @theredcapeofk, @luciantlux, @hakethishere, @cynicalrainbows and anyone else who'd like to do this!

[ask-teambaam]

What animal would you associate yourselves with? (Everyone says Khun is a Catboy any thoughts on that?

I’ll take this one before Khun can see it! Oh dear…

Viole says that he never really thought about it, but that if he were to be an animal, he would like to be some kind of bird, like an eagle, or just something that can fly, like a butterfly. He says he fought some Eagle Owls recently and thought they were cute, so perhaps that’s why he thought of them.

Khun says that he shares a lot of similarities with Sweetfish, as ambush hunters, and I think I would agree for other reasons as well. (Khun would not take kindly to being called a ‘catboy,’ so I didn’t bring it up to him, although Rak agreed that Khun is like a cat. In this case, Khun responded that he would like to be a fox or mountain lion, but Viole and I felt that the fox is the more fitting out of the two. Speaking of Viole, he found the idea of Khun as a ‘catboy’ very funny.)

Rak… says that he only sees himself as a Wraithraiser. This is not surprising.

Shibisu said that he sees himself as a Myan? He described it as a small creature that can transport things it eats to any other Myan in the tower, and said he related to it as they are physically weak but hold great potential as a supportive and protective friend. I thought this was very accurate, even though I haven’t seen these shinheuh.

Hatz answered that he is probably most like a dog. After meeting the Canine people, I have to agree.

Elaine still sees herself as a Grey Wolf, and Fenryl seems to like that answer.

While I have not properly met Anaak Jahad, Shibisu says he will relay Endorsi’s and Anaak’s answers.

Endorsi says that she sees herself as a tiger: a beautiful, elegant, and ferocious beast. Khun seemed to have something to say about this, but decided against it.

Anaak said that she sees herself as a Giant Six-Legged Lizard. Shibisu says that Endorsi found this very funny.

I think I would be a bird. One of my old friends once told me that it was my destiny to fly in a larger space than where we came from, and I want to prove him right.

This was a very interesting question! All of us (except for Rak) had to think about this one a lot!

- Hockney

[whollyjoly]

BofB as Killers Songs - Renée Lemaire

Renée Lemaire - Human

my sign is vital my hands are cold and i’m on my knees looking for the answer are we human or are we dancer? (there is no message we're receiving / let me know, is your heart still beating?)

pt 7/? - band of brothers as killers songs

playlist for the series

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[zukkaoru]

though i burn, how could i fall?

“Have you talked to Yosano-sensei about getting meds?” Kunikida frowns. He doesn’t have time for a doctor’s appointment, and— “Meds? For what?” “Your hand tremors.” Ranpo pulls a lollipop from their pocket. They tear the wrapper off and move to deposit it on the floor, but falter at the last second. Instead of dropping it, they simply ball it up in their hand. “My…” Kunikida’s voice trails off. He looks at his hands, as if he needs to visually confirm they’re shaking. As if they aren’t always shaking. Huh. “Medicine won’t fix it completely, but it should help. And I bet Yosano could get you a prescription lickety-split!” Ranpo sticks the lollipop in their mouth. They beam like they’ve just solved a new case.

kunikida assumes the position of agency president. somewhere between shaking hands, pastry boxes, and dazai leaving the door open, he learns leadership also means knowing when to take a step back and trust others will help you shoulder your burdens.

📗 kunikida-centric || 8.8k words 📗 based off @that-was-anticlimactic's prompt: "you always push people away. i just thought you’d never do it to me." + kunidazai

[capn-twitchery]

Grace: what holidays, if any, do you enjoy celebrating? can be neathy or not :)

"Oh. I-Hm," he stops, blinking in surprise, "Sorry. It's been quite some time since I thought about any of that...Back before I...On....On the surface, I mean, I'd not felt particularly fond towards any of them.

Had I not spent much of them working at ze-At sea, perhaps they may have held more meaning...I suppose I enjoyed the winter celebrations more than any other, if only for the food...But, ah, I'm afraid I seem to find myself less...enthused about such things, at present."

"And, I-please do excuse me, but I've yet to experience much of the Neath's celebrations. I've been quite...reclusive, since my arrival here. I believe I may have missed...a few..." He hesitates, as if unsure he should say more.

"....But Feast of the Rose was quite enjoyable."

[skitskatdacat63]

Boy King Seb :D

[sodalysm]

MEOW MEOW!?!?

[yellowloid]

hey! i was sort of reading “something to rely on” lyrics, and i remembered that you analyse some of miles, monkeys and tlsp songs. so, i just wanted to ask what are your thoughts on this song, cause i particularly think it’s about alex or some of it. anyway, other songs from cdg can be fully about alex, but barely no one talks about this one, so i thought it’d be great to discuss about it.

there’s also “adios tara tara” that i also think it’s about alex, as other songs from change the show, but that’s for another time! i also love your blog, your fanfics and song analysis, they’re always really good! 🫶

sooo first of all sorry for being this late lmao this is kinda embarrassing because this ask was sent MONTHS ago maybe almost a year ago it was so long ago i literally don't remember. i'm only just answering now BUT better late than never i guess skgshdfh

(as usual don't take this too seriously lmao this is just a silly theory, i'm in no way implying it's the truth. it's just delusion o'clock)

now, if you follow me you know what i think of coup de grace as an album - and that is, the fact that it's soooo about alex it's crazy like. bro was so angry and in love and heartbroken????? and he wrote a literal masterpiece of an album????? that's iconic if you ask me

so to no one's surprise, let's follow the usual theory - them having some sort of falling out after eycte because of miles getting serious and alex consequently chickening out, which led to Peak Gay Drama Year, also known as 2018, when they both release albums that - more or less explicitly - contain images that could easily be interpreted as references to each other. something to rely on is no exception:

"crescent moon, left in my drive / all too soon, you made your point"

the reference to the moon creates a pattern, since the semantic field of astral entities is also present in songs such as killing the joke, with "interstellar, dressed in leather, drinking bitter boy" - which as we all know is one of miles' most direct lines when it comes to referencing alex, and it can easily be linked to am's own space-themed album, which miles definitely got to listen before its official release date.

opening the song with a reference to the moon could be a way of @ a certain someone, letting him know that yes, this song *is* in fact about him, if he didn't get the other billion hints in the whole album. (however, for the sake of keeping it vague, i won't be referring to him directly but rather to a ~mysterious person~) (i'm sure you get my point tho *wink wink*) [gunshots]

mentioning the moon could also be a way of referencing the ever-present theme of nighttime encounters in the entirety of mk/am/tlsp's discography: sometimes those encounters are described as fun, sometimes they mean trouble; sometimes, they leave the people involved with a sense of guilt and/or shame, on which we'll come back later and which often leads to bad decisions ("all too soon, you made your point"). in this particular case, the first image that comes to my mind is someone leaving sneakily after a (series of) one-night stands, with the song obviously being from the pov of the person being left, who also gives us a reason why they think the other person left:

"keeping off the radar, how does that make you feel? / keeping it clean, through all the things you wanted me to be / out of touch, with all the rumors i keep hearing of you / keeping off the radar, how does that make you feel?"

this person doesn't seem to want other people to know about their affair, and that's why they keep it secret; it seems that they want miles to be something he's not, or something he can't be - or maybe they ask all these things of themselves, which would maybe make it easier for them to accept the relationship going public. this person wants to keep it neat and clean, picture-perfect and fitting to everything everyone expects from them; but as much as they try to stay lowkey and not attract attention, the narrator informs us that no matter how much this person tries to hide, there's still rumors going around about them, as an individual as well as their relationship(s) with other people, most likely with the narrator too.

"all aboard the guilt train / last call before we leave / last call before we learn to love / the last call before we leave"

the line referring to guilt is insanely queer-coded and i will die on this hill because it just SCREAMS internalised homophobia, with which the other person might be struggling. it wouldn't make sense otherwise - because what would that person feel guilty about, if it were a straight-passing relationship? unless it was a cheating situation, of course... but it could be a cheating situation AND also a queer one, with this person being in another (het) relationship while having a same-sex lover (the narrator), which would give that line a double explanation. also every time i listen to this song i just can't help but think about 'all aboard the kane train' WHAT WHO SAID THAT

however, the narrator tells us that this is the "last call before we leave" - meaning, he's giving this person an ultimatum to make up their mind and decide if they want to be with him for real or not, since the latter possibility would result in him leaving - not necessarily for good, but... just trying to get over that person once and for all. at the same time, though, it's also the "last call before we learn to love" - which is incredibly soft imo, because it's him still putting trust and hope into that person and a positive decision on their part. he believes they will eventually choose to be with him, he hopes for it and trusts the other person to make the right decision, which would lead to them being together and learning how to love each other without limits nor second-guesses. the repetition of the leaving line could also be seen as a way for him to give it a new meaning compared to the first one: if they ended up together, they could leave that world based on nasty rumors and appearances, ignoring them all to just be happy together. because, after all, miles declares it openly:

"you're all that i wanted / all that i need / you're all that i wanted / you're all that i need"

i mean. does this even need an explanation. bro is down BAD

"something to rely on / something to get high on / i don't want to beg or steal, i don't want to borrow hearts / i just want to make it real / something to rely on / the making of a mystery, wishing on a falling star / i don't want to let this sadness rule my heart / your actions from the start / in spite of me insightfully inviting me to fall apart"

i left the chorus last because imo it captures perfectly the whole vibe of the song and what i think is miles' outlook on life in general: the narrator wants something stable and secure, an established relationship with the other person; he doesn't want to have to beg and argue and make it more complicated than it probably already is, he doesn't want to be a pastime or just some lover. he wants something thrilling and intense, almost addictive - but most importantly, he wants something real. this complicated situation with the other person is making them both suffer, and the other person's behaviour doesn't make it any easier; but in spite of everything, and in spite of his sense of self-preservation, he still finds himself unable and unwilling to resist them, to let them go for good. and no matter how self-destructive this might be, he doesn't want to be ruled by negative emotions; he's already fallen for them, too deep to even consider letting them go. he just keeps falling, and yeah, the outcome of their situationship might still be a mystery, but he chooses to be hopeful - "wishing on a falling star", bringing the song to a circular end by mentioning other astral entities that inevitably remind us of the "crescent moon" that opens the song. which also evokes the idea of circularity that is typical of situationships like the one described here, where the moment he seems to have made up his mind (or maybe the other person finally did?) it's like rinse and repeat, and once again they're back to square one.

[jils-things]

UUUHHHMMM...JMJM..M.M.M

Hi Jil 🥰

IAKIKGM IM SO FUCKIGN AWKAE I JUST WOKE UP INJEUTOWOERUOU.............................................................

[that-was-anticlimactic]

🛒🍦🤲? <3 (hi beloved ilyyyyy)

HI GRACE ILYYYYYY

🛒 what are some common things you incorporate in your fics? themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

okay so there's like the basic things like tourette's, tomatoes, references to very specific things... but o think also like... i think i reference specific body movements a lot bc i'm very conscious of how my own body moves bc tourette's, so that's something i unintentionally focus on a lot when writing. like, not like movement like walking and stuff, but the specific way their fingers curl into a fist or how they scrunch their nose... the way their muscles clench... little things like that! i think i also reference not feeling good enough and the magic of friendship a lot lol

🍦 what's the sweetest fic you've created so far?

oh god umm well, sweetest as in physically sweetest, then i was a child and she was a child lol but that's just bc of the ice cream lol ummmm other than that... probably painting you a thousand kisses which is my julerose fic poiugytfgyhujikfs

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?

trying to think of a snippet you haven't heard yet bc i usually share my favorites ummmmm forgive me if i already shared this with you lol but this is from my kunikida & death wip

Kunikida is twenty-two when he dies again. He kills himself this time, and lies dead with the bodies of his co-workers until the butterflies return and breathe life back into their lungs. Dazai isn’t there, and a part of Kunikida is glad he isn’t. Sometimes, he worries that if Dazai got a true taste for dying, he’ll actually go through with it.