#they don’t die actually

[tankuare]

Nora said that she knows who dies first between Neil and Andrew and I am BEGGING her never to release that information for my own mental health

[biboomerangboi]

Hua Cheng essentially cockblocking himself for possibly all of eternity will literally never not be the funniest thing MXTX ever wrote.

Xie Lian was pretty much completely in love with him the second he saw those lanterns (and completely oblivious about it) and then we get the wonderful first kiss underwater moment and Xie Lian is basically drawing hearts around Hua Cheng every time he sees him. While like quietly dying cause he literally has no idea what to do with it. Like at this point he doesn’t even really understand that he is head over heels totally gone for this man.

Until Hua Cheng is like I have a beloved I just haven’t won them over yet. Which he thinks is perfectly reasonable because his self esteem is the worst and he doesn’t understand how he could have won Xie Lian over yet. (He’s only on step 22 of his Marrying Dianxia 3000 step Master Plan ((that he debates throwing out on a regular basis because he doesn’t deserve to even dream about wanting Xie Lian)). So course he’s like yeah I have this wonderful noble beautiful beloved I just haven’t won them over yet wink wink nudge nudge.

But Xie Lian is like oh of course obviously I don’t deserve nice things and fuck I actually wanted him so badly I’m actually in love with him and now I will resign myself to never being happy for his sake. (Their combined self esteem is truly a so low it’s a hole in the ground which is hilarious because they think the other person is to good for them and unattainable forever because they literally have the same neurosis.) So he starts boxing up his feelings forever constantly wanting Hua Cheng and feeling guilty about it and literally dying inside because he wants Hua Cheng like he’s never wanted anyone.

Like essentially books 3 and 5 only happen because Hua Cheng has now cursed them both by saying he has a beloved because Xie Lian believes he isn’t wanted and therefore any nice thing Hua Cheng does is just him being nice and not Hua Cheng pulling out steps 23-34 of his plan thinking he still hasn’t won Xie Lian over. (He has he so has but he shot himself in the foot so badly it’s painful to read).

Like thank the Gods Hua Cheng is so unhinged and created the cave of 10000 Gods cause Xie Lian would literally be at his own wedding to Hua Cheng still convinced he wanted someone else and this was in fact a thing they were doing to solve a case together otherwise.

Like he needed something that unhinged to put 2 and 2 together otherwise he never would have caught on he’s Hua Cheng’s beloved. Meanwhile Hua cheng is like 🥺 he’s going to think I’m a weirdo now and I’m only on step 50 of the plan 🥺 like the two of them wouldn’t have been fucking nasty 2 books ago if he just kept his mouth shut and didn’t cockblock himself so violently.

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

actually can we stop talking about “deserve” when it comes to characters dying in fiction. not everything is a fable with a moral lesson to be learned. romeo and juliet didn’t “deserve” to die. bambi’s mom didn’t “deserve” to die. izzy dying in the finale doesn’t mean ofmd is saying that certain types of queer people “deserve” to die. fictional death can serve more narrative purposes than just punishment for the character doing the dying.

[lustlovehart]

Warnings: Spiders, Murder (through suffocation), Obsession, Kissing (not on lips)

Despite Skully’s insestance on smothering your arm with affection, you hesitantly look behind him. A webbed figure fighting within the threads, muffled screams the only proof of your suspicions.

“Skully… Did you—?”

“He said you were a criminal.” the feeling of fleeting kisses on your skin disappear, only bright blank eyes staring into you. “Went on about finding justice…” it feels like hundreds of tiny legs crawl up your body. You might very well be imagining it, but it feels too real. “I couldn’t let him deface you like that…!”

“It would’ve been okay—“ the feeling of lithe fingers find themself in your face, no longer gentle but much harsher as Skully posses your head. It’s only a few seconds when he leans his forehead on yours yet it feels much longer.

“It wouldn’t be okay. Not at all.” The muffled gasps increase into screams from your co-worker. You’re quick to pry off Skully’s fingers, running to the man in webs. Your fingers dig into the thread, desperately pulling for his freedom. “… It won’t work.” You fall to your knees, still pulling at each string. The hunters cries drown out the slow steps Skully takes toward you. When he finally reaches, his shadow looms over, each arm and leg a reminder of his bloodline.

“Skully you have to stop…!” He doesn’t budge from the floor, only watching as the breaths within the trap lessen, until there’s no sign of life.

“I don’t know why you won’t listen to me. He was being an idiot…” his hands massage your shoulders for a moment. When you don’t reply to him in the voice he adores, he removes his comfort, only placing his chin on your limb. The way six eyes stare back at you, only unnerve you more. “You deserve better than that.”

“And what would that better be, Skully?”

He opens his mouth a smile on his face, ready to reply, before he stops. He closes his lips, moving his forehead to where his chin once resided, no longer looking at you.

He was so ready to tell you, before remembering something much crueler than any kind of murder.

You deserve better.

And with the way you look at him with so much fear, there’s no possibility the he is your better.

… But anybody else, everybody else, is not deserving of you. He’ll make you realize that.

You feel all his limbs wrap around you one last time, consuming each beat of your heart like it’s his last meal. The pinch of his pincers in your neck make you jolt at the pain, softly soothed by the feeling of Skully pecking the skin with chapped lips.

“Don’t worry, I won’t let them harm you.” You’re not sure if he means emotionally or physically but… the smile on his lips tells you it’s both.

[spooky-activity]

Practicing my comic paneling and action poses with some Firefly/Stelle angst. Set immediately after the end of patch 2.1, where we find out Firefly is still alive!

+ bonus

[yourlocalabomination]

The darkness will spare my soul.

[rainbowfartblaster]

VIKTORS HAND CARESSING SOOTHINGLY AROUJD JAYCES ARM I JUST DIED

[laniidae-passerine]

positively obsessed with how Rockstar Lestat is the exact kind of guy one of my friends would show me a picture of and swear he’s really sexy and cool and brilliant. Whole time I’m thinking “oh dear GOD” staring at a trainwreck weirdo and wondering what’s happened to everybody else that is absolutely missing me. jesus christ he’s blond

[kindaasrikal]

Morro’s last line in Ninjago was “You can only save those who want to be saved. Goodbye, Sensei.”

And the scene right mf after was THIS

HIM REACHING OUT.

REACHING OUT FOR WU.

Morro didn’t want to be saved. He was far too tired and far too uncaring at that point to have the will to live again. But he wanted a second chance. He wanted to do more. He wanted to have his choices matter and he wanted to leave on a better note and he desperately wanted to ignore that small part inside of him forcing him to keep his arm up, to keep reaching forward for something he doesn’t deserve again.

Something he didn’t deserve, and couldn’t get, again.

[starry-kittens]

Some drawings I’ve made!

[unlimitedbutchworks]

Listen. You’ve been an adult for years. You can’t substitute shrek memes for having a personality any longer. You will never be rewatching shrek for the 6th time in your family living room again. You need to let that shit go buddy

[seabeck]

Chum making their final journey

[shima-draws]

I’m still so mentally ill over the whole Luffy refusing to eat unless it’s Sanji’s food thing. Like. We KNOW how fucking feral over food Luffy is. He loves food and loves eating so much that he steals it off other people’s plates and out of their hands and is so impatient when it comes to meals that he’ll literally try and sneak into the kitchen to mooch before it’s ready. Or he’ll try to break into the refrigerator. I know Sanji mentioned putting a lock on it at some point bc Luffy literally wiped it clean. He will not hesitate to eat other people’s portions or literally an entire meal meant for a whole ship of people! He’s unbelievably selfish when it comes to food and that’s just SUCH a central part of his character that it’s become almost endearing. Even in Totto Land Luffy didn’t think for a second before devouring everything in sight, including an entire fucking HOUSE, regardless of the consequences or the people it might affect. Homie did not care!! He’s food driven first and foremost!!!

Until Sanji leaves him. Until he decides that eating—something that he loves and brings him comfort—isn’t WORTH it unless it’s Sanji’s food he’s eating. It’s been shown that Luffy has zero self restraint when it comes to food so the fact that he was SURROUNDED by food on all sides on a food themed island and utterly refused to partake in any of that? Even though he hates being hungry and will always make eating a priority over pretty much anything else?? The amount of willpower it must have taken for him to sit there and purposefully let himself starve, for SANJI. Even when food was offered to him conveniently (in the form of syrup rain) he stubbornly rejected that. Because it wasn’t Sanji’s food. Because it wasn’t Sanji who made it, who always puts so much thought and care into the food he makes, who always indulges Luffy and prepares extra because he knows how much Luffy eats and how much he loves to eat. Luffy literally took one of the most defining traits he has and tossed it out the window. For Sanji. I’m going to fucking blow up

[byleriscanon]

[luminacerin]

I can just imagine an interaction between Shen Yuan and Shang Qinghua where one of the Peak Lords (probably Liu Qingge) passes out during a Peak Lords meeting and Shen Yuan just drops to his knees like:

SY (with chest compressions): “… Ha - ha - ha - ha — stayin’ alive — stayin’ alive — ha - ha - ha - ha — stayin’ ali—“

SQH: “CUCUMBER BRO WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?”

SY: “CPR DUMBASS?”

SQH: “WHY MICHAEL JACKSON — MOVE ASIDE.”

SY: “. . .”

SQH (with chest compressions): “Tight as a virgin boy don’t get nervous — tight — I’m here to serve you customer service — right? — I save dick by giving it CPR — I save dick by giving it CPR — put my mouth on it lik—“