#undiluted

[dacuslucy]

who else up missing their wife? my wife (amelie) has left me (actually hasn’t gone anywhere) so i’m left to sob alone in the bathroom (sit on the floor and take off my makeup)

me personally i also miss my wife (talia) who also left me (went to a party awhile ago but is back now) and all i can do is look at the picture of her in my locket (gracie on her tumblr blog) and wait for her to come home (to my askbox)

[glitters-world]

Glitter's World Honey

We sell Original Honey to save lives.

[reecedarlene]

Something is Pulling me Towards You

I am drawn to you

But does that mean I desire you?

Or is it just exciting to meet someone new?

You invigorate me

Is it because our energies match?

Or do you just remind me of a mistake from my past?

I want to know you

The undiluted version

I want to see who you are

The most authentic version

Away from the bustle and the expectations

Away from the strangers and the friendships

Maybe if I heard you fully

I could make sense of this static

That overtakes my senses when I think of you

Maybe if I knew you thoroughly

I could untangle all of these emotions

That threaten to escape me

I want to write beautiful metaphors

Express how I’m feeling under the guise of

Rainstorms ending with the sun splitting the clouds apart

Symphonies slowly crescendoing to a swell that reverberates through my body

A tidal wave cooling the fire in my brain and bringing me peace

Is this because of you?

Is this in spite of you?

Does this mean anything?

If I could only speak the words

I’m sure you could understand them

Perhaps even explain this

Better than I could ever dream of

But for now, I’ll just sleep on these feelings

And wonder if you ever

Find yourself questioning

How you feel about me.

[graceandpeacejoanne]

Revelation 14: Fire and Brimstone

Expositors agree this is one of the strongest supporting passages for the doctrine of hell. But is it a literal description? #Revelation14 #Hell #CupofGodsWrath #FireandBrimstone

Then another angel, a third, followed them, saying in a mighty voice, “If anyone fawns and worships the dangerous creature and its image, and takes on a graven etching upon their forehead and/or upon their hand, then that one will drink out of the wine of the wrath of God that having been mingled undiluted in the cup of God’s fury, and will be tortured in fire and brimstone before the presence…

[bet-on-me-13]

The Fentonworks Mega-Lab.

So! AU where the Fentonworks Labs actually stretch Miles upon Miles below the City of Amity Park.

It started when the Fentons wanted to add a simple addition to the original Lab when they ran out of space to store their more dangerous weapons. They didn't want their (at the time) young children getting their hands on their experimental Weaponry, it could blow up in their faces!

So they built a different Wing of the Lab to hold all those Inventions.

Then they ran out of space and added a few extra Storage Rooms. But then they decided it was a hassle to have to carefully transport their Dangerous Inventions all the way to the Storage Rooms, and built a Lab specifically for Dangerous Experiments near that same Section. Then that Lab was occupied for a while, and Jack wanted to start a different experiment as well, so they built a few more.

In the end they just never stopped building onto their Labs.

There are sections of the Mega-Lab that are entirely walled off because a few of their more unstable Experiments contaminated the area. Walking into them was not recommended, else you could walk out with an extra eye or 5.

In other sections, their Captured Ghosts had taken over a few Labs and created a sort of Mad Max style civilization using their discarded weapons and vehicles.

In another, all Ghosts became Humans and all Humans became Ghosts. That was a weird one, to this day they still didn't understand how they pulled that off.

In another, some type of Eldritch Time Ghost had been born, and now sort of always existed and never existed, and began experimenting with its powers. They nicknamed it Clocky because it liked to carry around a stopwatch.

And so many more. At one point a failed Portal Experiment messed with the internal Space of the entire thing. Now there was literally no way of Mapping it. The Fentons still somehow managed to navigate it perfectly.

When Jazz and Danny grew up, they too learned how to navigate the Labs, which is how Danny managed to show his friends the Portal Experimentation Wing in the first place.

Unfortunately, it wasn't safe for anyone aside from the Fentons to enter the Mega-Labs, so one day when the Fenton Family+friends left town on a Week Long Camping/Road Trip, they put up a few Ghost Shields to keep both Humans out and the Ghosts in.

This drew some unwanted attention after some tourists saw the giant Glowng Green Building in the middle of an Illinois Town, and rightfully called the Justice League.

Now, the Justice League had tried to call the owners of the house, but nobody picked up the phone. (An incident with Jack and a Canoe had knocked most of their phones into the lake. They weren't even at the lake yet.)

When nobody picked up, they decided to investigate personally.

After getting into the House, they quickly found a door labeled "Labs: Do Not Enter (unless it we are late for Dinner)" and went into ignoring all the warnings.

They quickly regretted it.

[lilianade-comics]

[proffbon]

Thinking about Crow Rook again (what else?) and, you know, Rook's "I got overwhelmed by enemies and dropped a chandelier on myself" and "I knocked over a couple of pillars and released ancient elven gods" is basically Zevran's "My target slipped, fell out of the carriage, and broke her neck" and "I was knocked out of the window during a major Crow operation and got robbed by street urchins".

[red-dead-sakharine]

WTF is this dialogue, Larian? I swear, they KNOW and for some reason chose to give us this stuff, but no romance. It boggles my mind.

Unusual how?

[jjbamomfriends]

You have no idea how excited I was when all these small things happened in the Phantom Blood musical.

[conceptofjoy]

bro meal

[y-rhywbeth2]

I found a possible explanation for why Bhaal crafted a titan from his own flesh to serve as a vessel when plan A failed and he couldn't make more demigods - and why plan A required half-divine children: if you go by the novels, living beings cannot house his divine essence as, predictably, hosting Death gradually kills them and causes them to rapidly deteriorate (forcing him to keep jumping to new hosts). Unlike mortals, the quasi-deities he creates should be able to host it safely.

It may also explain why Durge has free will - Bhaal cannot care for a host body for shit (as seen with both his mortal avatars and feral-Durge); he either cannot grasp the needs and limitations of a mortal body any more, or doesn't care, or both. So he crafts a fragment of himself into the Dark Urge and gives it some independence so he doesn't have to care for it; It's like Ao giving the gods free will so that they can do the jobs he made them for (being unable to do every job in the universe nor pilot that many minds by himself)

[see-arcane]

After reading and watching several adaptations, I have come to the conclusion that Quincey gets much more respect than Jonathan. Yes he appears much less, but he gets his heroic sacrifice when he does instead of getting bastardised. Three times I have seen him be the one who kills Dracula without Jonathan. In two of those he has the kukri.

Also idk if vampire Quincey is underappreciated, there is a novel all about him.

And in this one Jonathan is revealed to have been a cowardly cheater all along.

You know. Sometimes I think I might be going too overindulgent with my Harker Horrors and lavishing of attention on my favorite special little haunted gothic heroine lad.

And then I get lovely reminders like these that not only am I not being indulgent, I have to actively burn every daydream of an inhibition I have as a writer to unfuck 126 years' worth of doing the whole cast dirty, but Jonathan Harker the absolute worst.

[that-sarcastic-optimist]

Klaus: No one can hurt me if I’m cold and detached and not emotionally invested in anyone

Caroline: Hi :)

Klaus: * sweating * Shit

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Hey do you think ya can explain Barnaby and his illusion smoke a bit? It seems really cool and I don't remember if ya talked about it in depth before

sure! this got a bit longer than i expected!

so i was thinking that Barnaby seems like more of a hands-off kinda guy when it comes to altercations. would rather sit back and make funny commentary! so if he Had to get involved, i imagine it would be from a distance and still in an Entertaining Way!

thus - illusion magic! for this au i've been picturing that he got his paws on some illusionary herb in his early teens. for making people laugh, you know! and help out with the farm - illusions could distract animals, convince them to move on to different pastures, calm the chickens for egg-collecting, etc!

Ms. Beagle didn't really approve, since smoking is harmful, but lucky for the both of them this particular plant doesn't deal as much damage when smoked as normal smoking materials would - like tobacco! something to do with the magic properties! so Barnaby mostly used it for chores (when his mama wasn't paying attention, ofc - it's still a bad habit in her eyes) and entertainment purposes.

how it works: on its own, it doesn't do much when burned. it's not like illusions will waft out of the pipe's bowl, or that sniffing it will give someone hallucinations. in order for it to work properly, the user has to inhale properly, form the Intent of what the illusion should be / look like / behave, then purposefully blow the smoke out with that thought firmly in mind. the reach of the smoke depends on the force of Intent, and the intensity depends on the amount inhaled. those that breathe it in / are surrounded by it will see hallucinations of whatever Barnaby - or whoever the user is - wants them to! it can be literally anything! whether or not the target is fooled depends entirely on the individual, but the herb is potent enough that most are convinced that what they "see" is real (auditory hallucinations only occur if the target breathes in the smoke)

upsides: this form of magic is great for distractions, cover, deescalation, and that kind of thing. if needed, Barnaby could stop a fight with one exhale! it's a pretty powerful trick! it also means that Barnaby has built up a tolerance to illusion magic over the years, so where most of the party would be tricked, Barnaby would be unfazed. the only one with total immunity to the form of magic is Wally!

downsides: if Barnaby uses too much in too short of a time, it will get to him. and since he breathes in the largest amount - undiluted at that - it can fuck him up! using it sparingly / using repeated small amounts doesn't do anything. the most it will do is make him feel slightly untethered, but he has an easy time ignoring it / shaking it off.

in mild cases of the magic getting to him, it's like a bad trip. his proprioception is messed with (basically he gets uncharacteristically clumsy & off-balance), he feels like he's falling, anxiety spikes, and his vision is just... off! there are blind spots (im talking actual blind spots, not spots of black), things are moving in ways that they shouldn't, he has mild auditory hallucinations. the others can help ground him by talking to him, touching him, and confirming what's real and what isn't.

in bad cases, it's like that but 10 times worse. on top of all of the previous symptoms being worsened, he gets extremely vivid hallucinations, and they're very often not fun! it's a simultaneous feeling of dying, going insane, and not knowing what the fuck is going on. Barnaby loses sense of where he is, who's where, what's happening. he can get lost in the hallucinations - he has no way to know that they aren't real. in these terrible trips, no one can really help him. they can't get through the hallucinations, and if they do, the magic morphs Barnaby's perception of them and they end up adding to the effects. honestly the best thing for him is to let him rest somewhere with as little sensory input as possible & leave him be until he starts to come down. physical contact does help, since Barnaby understands on an instinctive level that illusions can't touch him, but it doesn't help half as much as it does w/ the mild trips. and again, the presence of someone can make the hallucinations worse.

so! suffice to say! he doesn't like using the herb all that often, and it's why he Stays Out Of It unless absolutely needed. he has two pouches of the herb - one with the strong stuff, reserved for emergencies / one with just a tiny bit of it mixed in with Barnaby's own personal blend for recreational/everyday use. (he also has an emergency tobacco stash in his pack, but that's only for when he's completely out of his usual blend <3)

extra lil scribble that didn't make it into the lil doodle post... i broke his wrist...

[machalatte]

Heaven on No Man’s Land

(A VashWood, Trigun fanmix)

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Bury those skeletons deep beneath the sand.

(Vash and Nicholas carve out a piece of happiness for themselves. Forget the world and all it's burdens for a moment.)

LISTEN: [SPOTIFY] / [YOUTUBE]

Art credit: oniro_ro. Thank you!

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Tell me our story: are we impetuous, are we kind to each other, do we surrender to what the mind cannot think past? Where is the evidence I will learn to be good at loving?

Let me come back whole, let me remember how to touch you before it is too late. (Summer solstice, by Stacie Cassarino)

Track list under the cut!

"I will not ask you where you came from. I will not ask, and neither would you."

Like real people do - Hozier

Sleep on the floor - The Lumineers 

Hold you in my arms - Ray Lamontagne

My lover - Birdtalker

Call it dreaming - Iron & Wine

Real love baby - Father John Misty

Mystery - Tom Odell

London's song - Matt Hartke

Aging out of the 20th century - Trash Panda

What do it mean - Lord Huron

Lyric selections: here.

[weather-cluddy]

I like to think that the reason Mikoto cares so much about birthdays is because they're a celebration of you as a person. For something like Mother's Day or Valentine's Day, those things are dependent on what you did for others. But on your birthday, even total strangers will smile and tell you how wonderful it is that you're alive. Everyone gets one birthday every year, no matter who they are or what they've done.

And on the other hand, forgetting somebody's birthday is like saying their existence doesn't matter. Imagine remembering and just refusing to celebrate it! That'd be like saying that the fact they were born isn't a good thing at all, right?