#tightknit

[plagalkey]

late night takeout (street racing au)

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

Every morning Dad got up early and made breakfast for her. If it was the dead of winter he pulled Mom’s car up to the front of the house, cleared off the snow, and turned on the heater for her. Every night after work Dad had a cocktail with Mom and they chatted about the events of the day. We went to family gatherings, where Dad was always well liked and lively. He was a great dad—very loving and attentive. He doted on my mother and was very much in love with her. I never heard him use profanity or witnessed him losing his temper. He never raised a hand to us kids when we didn’t deserve it—and there were plenty of times we did deserve it and didn’t get it.

~ Michael Sobel (Sobel's son)

[local-falsettos-obsession]

I feel like the TKF had family days. It started with them all going out to the beach during the two year gap. Then it evolved to an at least once a month thing. Go out for dinner, Zoos, museums, parks, just going for a long walk, going to see the newest musical/play, going to a concert, a nice little cafe, playing some sports, or seeing historical sites, they’ve done it all. When Marvin and Whizzer got back together they dragged Whizzer to the beach and had a great time, they added racquetball to the sports days and had quite a few days at Whizzer’s photography studio.

[moonstandardtime]

havent advertised my discord in a while. so here :D its mostly intended for ppl who read my fics but its not centered around that so anyone can join

[hiemaldesirae]

Question: how would your characterization of demon Alastor react to finding out for the last 60+ years that what he thought was Vox breaking up with him was actually Demon!Valentino drugging/r**ping him with his venom/aphrodisiac and Vox has No memory of what he and Alastor actually had? No memory of anything except maybe the last month? And to find out Valentino only did this so Vox (who was becoming a TV mogul) would put his pornos on the tv. How would he help Vox remember? What would he do to Valentino? Would Velvette also suffer?

okay so. nonny, i wont blame you for not knowing, especially since ive never explicitly talked about it on main, but for future reference, im not that big on the whole abusive staticmoth dynamic. i can see why others enjoy it, and i do read stories with it from time to time simply because the premise captivates me that much, but in general id say i much more prefer a version where val and vox are at the very least best friends if not crossing into the sort of blurry best friends who smooch sometimes territory.

now having said that, i'll still answer your question because again, not very fair of me to just brush you off for no reason when i never made my preferences clear beforehand. (this gets long, so i'll leave a readmore.) warning: my demon radiostatics are always freak4freak no matter what. so this does get a little iffy in terms of ethics

my favourite interpretation of radiostatic is two sickos who are just as closely obsessed with each other, so in the unlikely case that al would let vox go for that long, when he realizes again the first thing he's going to do is go and. well. for lack of a better term, atticwife him (i hope to god this isn't just a term used in east asian fandoms because if i have to explain this ill eat lead). maybe after a little bit of time, he'll allow vox some liberties, but even then it'd be very little. ill put it this way- imagine the most toxic irl relationship you can: someone who tracks and micromanages their partners every move, barely lets them outside the house without going with them, monitors every friendship that they allow their partner to have, and there you have it. thats radiostatic! ah, young love. so sweet, dont you think? after all, alastor can't risk his muse's eyes slipping off him again. he's been deprived of that attention for far too long, and it wasn't even by his own doing! that's an offense in and of itself.

now im assuming that its only val who's doing the exploitation here so presumably vel would have no hand in any of the mess, and perhaps not even be fully aware of the nuances behind the scenes. i mean, it wouldn't really matter either way because once alastor finds out the reason why his other half hasnt been reciprocating their insane little song and dance he's getting rid of any and all obstacles, permanently. vox doesnt need anyone else so long as he has him- and hey, he was friends with him, rosie and husk first, so its not even as if its much of a loss. the only people he'd presumably leave alive would be voxs own contracted souls, and even then thats a bit of a gamble depending on just how bad i want the both of them to be: without his contracted souls, vox would be weaker and more susceptible to whatever alastor wants, so i guess its a matter of whether or not i want the freak4freak relationship where theyre both equally strong but vox willingly submits because he gets more thrill out of it that way or whether i want freak4freak where vox has to struggle way harder and still ends up giving in anyway because al is simply stronger

as for what he'd actually *do* to val. i mean. he does still have that radio broadcast of his, doesn't he? i think you can probably put the pieces together. the thing with animal sinners is that theres simply so many parts of them to break... show-wise, i never understood how overlords like alastor or val could even rise to their position, with the amount of weak spots they must have. that broken antenna vox and val share is certainly something that speaks to their higher vulnerability. and moth wings are especially fragile: i owned little silkworm moths at one point (they were my babies, i loved them for the month or so i got to care for them) but their wings were so thin they were wearing holes in them by the second or third day. val's coat-wings look much thicker in comparison, but of course, my perception is limited by the show only. so i mean, who knows? im sure whatever happens, itll make the best entertainment in al's eyes :)

[adderallfrank]

something something fob announcing their new record via a fucking newspaper is very “Do your part to save the scene and stop going to shows” of them, if you catch my drift

[highmati]

I also got the feeling that the "found family" in canon never actually felt earned because it's so obvious to me (as someone who hasn't read all of it in its entirety so take this however you may) that everybody in the Inner Circle aren't even good friends to each other. Rhys is absolutely not a good friend to any of them. So I just think that they all need some therapy and to actually acknowledge that they're not this top most echelon of family and friendship and respect and trust.

[manyothermusingsofmine]

the rollercoaster journey I went on with Gale as a character is legitimately wild from a character that really got off on the wrong foot with me on my first playthrough because his meadow-speech caught me right in a wrong nerve, to me banishing him to camp for a while as I tried to work through that feeling of being tapped right in the wrong feeling To bringing him back along because of plot reasons and warming up to him through his banter with the rest of the crew to being pretty sure that there was an actual friendship blossoming between him and my first tav as they often voice-of-reason'ed each other. To my absolute genius move to romance him with my second tav, my darling woodelf rogue Mydia who above all else wants personal freedom for herself and everyone around her and me genuinely having way too much fun in watching Gale flounder about trying to rizz her up to how genuinely loyal and fierce and complimentary he is as a lover I just fdgkdfgmrjm- The thing is while I don't yap on about Mydia and Gale (or Unleashed as I decided their shipname is) I am truly fascinated by how well they work for each other and how equal and healthy I think their relationship is where Mydia's ultimate goal of getting Gale free from Mystra through any means necessary means lowkey playing along to the Crown of Karsus plot makes sense for her even if she isn't keen on Mystra as a whole. And in return Gale grants her valuable peace of mind considering that she's been constantly on the move and constantly thinking ahead- he is the first thing in a long while to finally make her stop her pace and leave survival mode for a little while and just take a breather.

[blood-choke]

hi kit :3 do werewolves exist in this?

they do, and we will see a lone werewolf in the story.

though in general, a pack won't want to be in this city with all these vampires. not because they're enemies necessarily but because both vampires and werewolves in a single city hunting from the same population would attract way too much attention.

werewolves are also a bit more sensitive to the environment and wouldn't enjoy living in a big city like the one our vampires are in. maybe in the outskirts, like where V's mansion is, but they would avoid the city for the most part except for work and hunting.

while both vampires and werewolves can be territorial, there are plenty of instances of them also working together; they aren't enemies in this setting. they're the only supernatural creatures around, and there's not a lot of them, so more often than not they'll support each other. they kind of consider themselves like cousins :-) but in cities you are more likely to encounter lone wolves or very small groups, as opposed to a pack. and our specific city in the story is very much a vampire-controlled one, and werewolves will be wary about approaching.

there are some vampires that dislike werewolves, and vice versa, of course. but again they aren't inherently mortal enemies. and in this world the vampires eat very similarly to the way the werewolves do, too, and are compelled by a similar hunger.

the werewolf we will meet is actually part of another vampire group in the city that we'll get more acquainted with in ch3. you may have already potentially met their de facto leader, the bartender.

[heaven-dope]

rewatching the senior films from my class like OOOOGHHH I FUCKING MISS HERRRRRRRRRR

[bunnihearted]

not dan & phil being the only thing getting me thru december ._.

[iloveyoubecauseyouarelove]

Remembering my time on Quotev and Wattpad and how I ended up in microfandoms or whatever of real fandoms because me and my friends (mutuals) were using comments and activity feeds to communicate like we were using forums

It was healthy for my soul... Prevented me from going off the deepend in some really Bad fandoms

[rubalotl]

Maybe my art burnout came from not feeling like it was very rewarding doing art anymore. The effort outweighed the reward.

I got no comments of substance and a bunch of shallow micro-interactions. Not exactly motivating.

[inutaffy]

it is classroom etiquette if u see someone cheating shut ur MOUTH. help them even

[theheadlessgroom]

https://www.tumblr.com/beatingheart-bride/719524865478213632/beatingheart-bride-theheadlessgroom

@beatingheart-bride

“​Emily...”

Randall’s eyes were as wide as moons as he took the finished portrait in his hands: He had to say, she truly did have an eye for color, having done such a lovely job of painting his pale skin, his wide green eyes, his thick black curls...it was perhaps one of the loveliest gifts he had ever received in his whole life, and he could feel his heart swell at her sweetness, giving him something so beautiful, something she made with her own hands.

“It’s...it’s wonderful!” he grinned delightedly, cheeks pink as he resisted the urge to crush the gift in his arms, hugging it so tightly (mental note, see if he could find a proper frame for it; they had some up in the attic if he wasn’t mistaken, there must be one that would fit...) as he added, “It’s...it’s a wonderful, wonderful gift, Emily, it really is.”

Shyly, he punctuated this with a little kiss to her cheek before taking a moment to look over both the landscape illustration and the portrait of his father, smiling never faltering as he added, “Pa’s gonna love that picture, I know he will. A-Are you gonna do one of Ma, when you get the chance, I-I mean?” It’d be sweet to have matching portraits: Ma, Pa, himself...

…and his own illustration of Emily, all in a neat little row on the wall...

[asinglesock]

It's kind of amusing that in my German class (open to all grad students at the very large university I attend) ten out of twenty students are from the religion department