#the departures

[cinnabarsilly]

crawling back to this tumblr account after the tiktok ban feels like driving back to my old home in the countryside,, gently wiping away the cobwebs and the dust that's settled in my absence,, nothing changed, nothing out of place,, a memory of a forgotten era; frozen in time,,

[arealtrashact]

Blood of my blood

[violent138]

Clark probably had a stroke and thought Dick was possessed by Bruce the first time he heard Nightwing's leader voice in the field.

[karrova]

Agnes Pelton, Departure, 1952

[luxmoogle]

So I just kept going after drawing Ven--

[asterdeer]

i know the original poem is over 100 years old and loreena mckennitt's rendition is nearly 30 but i don't think i'll ever get over "the highwayman", it gets better every time i listen to it. just the parallelism of the way he and she strain to reach for each other -- he for her hand, she for the trigger -- and the descriptions of their faces -- "his face burned like a brand" when she lets down her hair, "her face was like a light" when she hears him on the highway (and then, rule of three, "his face grew grey to hear" when he finds out that she's dead). it's unbeatable romance for me, this is my "the gift of the magi," this is my orpheus and eurydice

and the way both characters are framed...........it's named for him but she's the closest we get to a hero. we see and feel from her perspective, she's attacked and abused and she keeps her composure, she bloodies her hands to either free herself or free him, she wields the weapon, she is the one who gets a win over the redcoats. she's noble, she's strong, she's faithful, and, you know, she's in love with a highwayman. meanwhile, he does not keep his composure, he goes wild with grief and rage, his emotions overpower him -- and when he dies, it's not heroic, it's an anticlimax, it's undignified and abrupt and almost shameful. but they're both so HUMAN, it's not a lovely innocent woman wearing white waiting, faintingly, for him by the window, and he's not a strong brave hero who sweeps her away to safety. the romance is in the fact that they are not Romantic. the romance IS her bloody hands and her undone hair and his shriek of grief and his death like a dog in the highway. does any of this make sense, am i coming thru. orpheus and eurydice want what they have

[beaulesbian]

Luffy & Zoro + reunions

The world's greatest swordsman?! The Pirate King would need no less than that on his crew!

+ bonus, one slightly different reunion

[sheepoftheseus]

to go gentle into that good night

[omagpies]

(cw: self-mutilation, mental instability)

uh oh! canon atdbis-verse event. context under the cut

within the game events timeline, curly's mental stability was so poor he began to hallucinate, struggling to tell where he is, who is with him, what is or isn't real

now, about a year post-atdbis (so, between its main events and anya's epilogue) anya came home to something completely unexpected. it will later be figured out that curly's latest box of medication came from a faulty batch that was messed up just enough to unbalance his already fraught and sensitive nervous system. until they realise this, however, they will spend some time wondering if this is curly hitting a sharp and irreversible(?) decline.

[clown1nc]

Nothing particularly interesting today besides some vandermatthews angst!!

[refinedstorage]

qunari of the olden days

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - The Land of Departure

[ruuari]

unhinged little transgender man

[luxmoogle]

Hmmm… I think I’ve still got some leftover lux from my Khux days….

I’d trade it for a young eraqus sketch?

[pollyna]

Ice: he steals all the blankets!

Slider, jokingly: if you aren't careful he's going to steal your heart too!

Ice, blushing: I'm afraid it's a little late for that.

[gummygoatgalaxy]

Redesigns!!

I will be making more, and also these are going to be used in my Departure AU comic!!!