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"D'you think she cares?" His voice came across as a little worse for wear than it oughta. Death usually restored the body to peak order aside from a few scars, but here Martyn's throat was, scratchy and harder to parse than he woulda liked.
"What?" Came the reply. Scott shook his hand out, dirt particulates separating from his fingers as he did.
"Cleo, I mean. Obviously." Martyn laughed, leaning back against Scott's pretty little house, hand waving in a mockery of one of Scott's common gestures.
"Why would I know what Cleo thinks of you? We aren't teammates this go around." Scott turns back to his work, but it's still obvious how the previous victor felt about this game by how his voice catches at 'go around'.
Martyn winces, but he shakes it off within milliseconds. "You two are always allies! There hasn't been a go when you two haven't been conspiring. I'm asking because--"
"Martyn." Scott's voice was sharper than he meant, and it softens as he continues. "For one, I won't ask how you know more about mine and Cleo's relationship than either of us have told you. You and Grian get so clammy about that nonsense. For two, she hasn't mentioned you."
Martyn doesn't flinch, but Scott can tell that hurt him. Scott lived with him for a while, he knows. Martyn thinks himself infinitely cool and collected, but he isn't. He never has been and Scott's pretty sure he never will be. The blonde coughs. "Cool."
"Cool?" Scott laughs, looking up. Arcing underneath his hair from his right temple under his hair and around his throat is a lightning scar, and it glows slightly at the middle of his throat in a cool cyan. It aches. Martyn knows it aches, especially when Scott laughs. "Martyn, you were soulbound two goes ago. I know she's cool and all, but what's your hangup? Are you this hung up on Ren? Me?"
"What! Scott, you're having a giraffe. I don't get hung up on people."
There is a poignant silence. Martyn shifts uncomfortably. Scott rolls his eyes and returns to his work.
"Scott, I just wanna know how she is. If she ever thinks about me. I don't--I try not to think about it. The past, I mean. But it just... I may die but the soul lives on. Bones are buried but the soul is still here and it still feels that little string, y'know? We had the same soul, for a while. The same beating heart." Martyn finally moves from his ramrod straight stance, squatting beside Scott, a gloved hand extended.
The palm is cold. Ice fucking cold. The diamond shaped mark seems to give his flesh freezerburn as he nears the scar to any other living being. Any that are around, anyway. Martyn is cagey about it--Scott wasn't being mean. He has four of those diamonds across his body, though he supposes he's lucky that they're all... eh, relatively easy to hide. The one on his cheek, the back of his neck, and right over his heart were harder to conceal, though. That, and the massive ragged timepiece seemingly slashed across his back. The scar that never healed. The reminder to keep his ears open. To listen. To betray when it suits him. That one still pulses red, sore and obvious.
Scott doesn't know that a diamond burns for him as Martyn nears him. He doesn't know that it gets a little harder to breathe as the scalding diamond on the back of his neck makes itself very known. Bound, again and again, had he always found himself following after another? Hitching his soul into pieces again and again? Where would a diamond appear this time, for Jimmy? Where else would the cracks spread? Scott flicks his nose.
"You're absolutely doing that thing again where you just stare at me and look pensive. Fine, you want to know so bad what I think they think? Fine, if it'll get you to either go away or help me plant." Scott finally stands up fully and stretches his back out, then his arms high above his head. He reaches over to grasp Martyn's upper arm. "Cleo is a complicated person. They do care. They also don't. You aren't the center of her universe and that is fine. For both of you. Worrying about what they think won't make you less afraid of what comes next. Holding onto us--me, Cleo, the Ahaliance, Ren, that won't give you the peace you're looking for. You and Grian hold on tighter to the past than the rest of us. Let us go, Martyn, and let what joy you can have now happen."
The diamond hurts like hell. Like Martyn has slammed back into a pool of lava and it is eating him alive. It feels like dying when Scott holds his arm. He doesn't react. Scott doesn't know everything. "Alright, alright, I don't need an intervention here, mate! I'm genuinely just trying to see if she's mad at me, and you're talking different breeds and stronger memories. Bah. Maybe you're holding on to Cleo."
"Am I, then?" Scott snorts, and thankfully releases Martyn's arm. The burning subsides, somewhat.
"I think you are, honestly. I look away and suddenly you're gaslighting and gatekeeping and girlbossing! What about my gaslighting?" Martyn holds a hand to his chest as he fakes haughtiness.
"You're a bad liar, Littlewood." Scott kneels back in the dirt. "Now help me plant before you go back to our canary."
Martyn snorts, this time. "Our canary. Yeah, Scott, only me and Grian hold on." He does listen, though, and helps cover wheat seeds with dirt. As his right hand connects with the soil, it aches like a red winter, cold and bloody. He misses Ren. He misses Cleo, and Pearl, and Mumbo and everyone. He feels like there's a world where they could have been happy together, where they played games and laughed around Christmastime. As he looks at Scott, he wonders...
"Do you know what Christmas is?" His voice is more hesitant than he means for it to be.
"No, why?" Scott replies, shoving half a tuber deep into the earth.
"No reason. Just an old story." Then, that was the difference. He and Grian knew there was something beyond. No one else remembers what life extant a Watcher's game is like. He raises his head to watch the darkening horizon. Scott boxes his ear with a smile, and he shrugs. At least they have tonight to pretend like She wasn't watching. Like they were friends planting a field.
#dont ask me what this is. i dont know. anyway have some headcanons abt both martyn and the victors in gen#each victor gets a scar based on what killed them post everyone else dying <3 pearl has burn scars#grian has a fuck ton of scars from where bone moght have pierced skin when his bones Bropke#very gnarly#martyn and grian both have extra scars though from Things.#bigb and ren also have extra scars because i like them#most folks lose all scars they didnt have session 1 of season 1! ie scars scars were there originally so they stay and arent weird#n every time someone dies they also get a scar from that death that go away next season#soulbonds each get the same scars etc etc#inthelittlewood#i guess?#scott smajor#secret life smp spoilers#secret life smp#trafficblr#traffic smp
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#this is very dumb lol#sonic prime spoilers#sonic prime#knuckles the echidna#gnarly knuckles#knuckles the dread#renegade knucks#aaphant art
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i think tim has a gnarly back of the neck scar from the explosion at the end of robin '93, and that its why he a) grows his hair out longer (aside from, yknow, the depression) and also b) wears a cowl afterwards. reinforced protection for his head and neck after All That.
i also think this scar is one of kon's favorite spots to kiss. do you see the vision,
#rimi talks#i ALSO think kon has a gnarly scar on his ribs and back from getting Fucking Impaled when he died#none of his friends really like to look at that one :') particularly not tim and cassie who SAW his bloodied corpse#theres probably a whole saga of kon not wanting to be shirtless around them for a minute#only for his costume to get damaged and voila the scar is Very Visible and. well. cassie can't stop staring. the war flashbacks.#it IS kinda funny to me how many times they have t shirt kon's shirt get obliterated in various fights ksjdhf#but i know in my heart he's got some wicked scarring after his resurrection#timkon#tim
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ANTONY cry 'havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war
earlier in my script (which is not Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar), Antony refers to Dolabella as one of his ‘dogs of war’ when talking to Cassius (which IS a reference to Shakespeare’s JC), and it comes back around after Cicero writes to Cassius and informs him of Trebonius’ fate
While these things were taking place at Rome, Cassius and Brutus were collecting troops and money, and Trebonius, governor of the province of Asia, was fortifying his towns for them. [...] Trebonius, who was captured in bed, told his captors to lead the way to Dolabella, saying that he was willing to follow them. One of the centurions answered him facetiously, "Go where you please, but you must leave your head behind here, for we are ordered to bring your head, not yourself." With these words the centurion immediately cut off his head, and early in the morning Dolabella ordered it to be displayed on the praetor's chair where Trebonius was accustomed to transact public business. Since Trebonius had participated in the murder of Caesar by detaining Antony in conversation at the door of the Senate-house while the others killed him, the soldiers and camp-followers fell upon the rest of his body with fury and treated it with every kind of indignity. They rolled his head from one to another in sport along the city pavements like a ball till it was completely crushed. This was the first of the murderers who received the meed of his crime, and thus vengeance overtook him.
App. Civil Wars III. 26
For Dolabella is in Syria, and, as you have foreseen in your prophetic soul and have foretold, Cassius will crush him while they are on their way. For Dolabella has had the gates of Antioch shut in his face and got a good beating in trying to storm it. Not trusting in any other city, he has betaken himself to Laodicea, on the sea-coast of Syria. There I hope he will speedily pay the penalty of his crime: for he has no place of refuge, nor will he much longer be able there to stand out against an army as large as that of Cassius. I even hope that Dolabella has by this time been overpowered and crushed.
Cic. Fam. 12.14
Place then before your eyes, O conscript fathers, that spectacle, miserable indeed, and tearful, but still indispensable to rouse your minds properly: the nocturnal attack upon the most beautiful city in Asia; the irruption of armed men into Trebonius’s house, when that unhappy man saw the swords of the robbers before he heard what was the matter; the entrance of Dolabella, raging,—his ill-omened voice, and infamous countenance,—the chains, the scourges, the rack, the armourer who was both torturer and executioner; all which they say that the unhappy Trebonius endured with great fortitude. A great praise, and in my opinion indeed the greatest of all, for it is the part of a wise man to resolve beforehand that whatever can happen to a brave man is to be endured with patience if it should happen.
Cicero, Philippic 11
Philippi and Perusia, Ronald Syme
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#the actual line cassius has here is 'tell mark antony im going to kill his fucking dog' but it doesn't work without the context#of antony earlier calling dolabella one of his dogs. so. i have edited it slightly to provide that context#this is also the one thing that cassius doesn't forgive brutus for because it's brutus who wanted antony left alive#and the dots are simply that if antony was dead then trebonius would not be#brutus can get away with everything else in the name of love. but not that one#(i'll do anything for love but i wont do that etc)#you might say. hey. it doesn't seem like you like brutcass very much. incorrect! i love it a lot! i just want to make them worse#also one of the most romantic scenes ive ever watched in my life in a show was a breakup scene and ive been chasing that high#ever since. but mostly i think theres a tragedy to brutus’ decision making and there should be narrative consequences#roman republic tag#komiks tag#drawing tag#gaius cassius longinus#marcus junius brutus#gore cw#In appian’s text. it’s pretty gnarly tbh
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“go on, praise me like a god!”
#mayor doidles#fanart#vocaloid#ghost and pals#pathological facade#kasane teto#digital art#painting#i am so texture-pilled rn all of my past few pieces have been nothing but noise and i wouldn’t have it any other way#anyway this one is sort of rough in terms of rendering#tho being honest the gnarliness of some of the shading did get smudged over by all the textures and filters lmao#i think i wanted to go for something less smooth cuz i like the look [and i want to overcome a habit of overrending]#but some elements like the fuckin glasses glare is kind of nonsense i made up#very much just a polishing of the sketch </3 ah well what can be done#hope you like it regardless!#art#artists on tumblr#illustration#vocal synth
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we lose the chase for nothing
#ah hello tumblr's habit of murdering photo quality; we meet again#they get a little better if you click on them but. still looking kinda gnarly. sigh.....ohwell#let's try and focus on the sweaty man rather than the quality#i have so much content y'all. had to start somewhere so. here is a glistening ashton making faces:)#anna takes photos#ashton irwin#ai2#pic#edit: the fact that my laptop and my phone displays colours and contrast and all that stuff in VASTLY different ways kinda forces me to--#--choose whether i want my visual posts to look the way i want them to look on either laptop OR mobile. can't have both#i tend to prioritise a good mobile look cos i get the impression that very few ppl use tumblr on their laptops these days#which i did in this case too. but that means that on laptop (at least on MY laptop) these photos do not look great#cos of the colouring-thing but also cos tumblr mobile prefers different post widths than tumblr desktop. which is...great:))
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tbh haven’t reached out beyond my lil bubble here, and I like for other AU creators to feel totally comfortable with any kind of interactions between their AUs and my silly little guy— especially since there are some Intense Themes in TNV and I don’t wanna intrude too much on others’ AU settings—
but with @intotheelliwoods ’s 2AL @dianagj-art Sep-Leo I think the silliest (and chillest) interactions would just include TNV-Leo getting fashion pointers from Sprout, Poptart, and One because those boys have Drip and my Leo does Not LOOOOL
#I would only make a Gnarly headcanon if both creators would be chill with it 👍#but of course the Gnarly would be on TNV Leo’s end not the others#there’s so much potential for the interaction between 2AL and TNV Leo#because Poptart is the version of himself that succeeded where he failed#not only that he gets such a good support system#I imagine TNV Leo would be very Petty about it#pastel prattling#tmnt au competition 2024
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GOOD LORD i have not been able to think about anything else but Fig's undying devotion to her friends since last night's episode. I wonder if she's actually going to persue the paladin stuff, and if she does I wonder if they're going to make her a custom oath??? i know mechanically, oath of devotion is pretty versatile, but ALSO it would be so cool to find something that's so Fig. the way you could combine the warlock "relationships & agreements" stuff to an oath.... her love for her friends is so powerful :(
#there's something about fig faeth that can be so personal#maybe i'll make a less jumbled post about this later#fig faeth i love you with my entire heart#im so excited to see what's in store for her#not to mention her generational curse 💀#fig faeth#dimension 20#fantasy high#fig and kristen are so fucking relatable this season#they're honestly everything to me#although tbh id be kind of sad to see the bard side of her go :(#jack of all trades is so good for her. bardic inspiration is so real. & i just really love a good gnarly punk rock bard#i know whatever happens is gonna be good though#very excited for next episode#fig and kristen are sooooooooo audhd coded#u can pry them from my cold dead hands
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the guys who think theyre the cool evil villains VS the actual villain
some mroe finalized crittertopia designs. smormu has been finalized for a While but i never drew a full ref of him.
#smiling friends#smormu#grim and gnarly#wulf art#crittertopia#werecritters#yes gristle can kind of fly now. good for him#not well. and very soon after he finds out he can fly his wings get torn up#so he cant fly anymore now. bcuz smormu doesnt want anyone else to have ANy power here.
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Oh shit it’s finally done
This is fanart for the incredible, amazing, heart-warming-and-wrenching (it has range) Coattails by @pain-in-the-butler which you can read here. It’s one of the best fanfics I’ve read ever, every chapter is an absolute delight, all the characters are so in-character and also so well and interestingly utilised, and if you haven’t read it you absolutely should. It will recover the years of your life that the season 2 rewatch everyone was doing at one point took off you.
So, I am a horse girl, I love horses, and I actually don’t mind drawing them, so obviously I had to do fanart of Ciel with the Irish and Avalon in chapter 23. The horses are truly one of the highlights of this fic: Ciel’s interactions with them are so sweet, and Sebastian’s are usually quite amusing.
Also this did take me literally forever because I took up cross-stitch and then life kept happening and also I struggled with horse shading for some reason
#black butler#please dont look too hard at the grass#its a strange thing to be my achilles heel#but here we are#also the rope? i guess i never dra rope#*draw#kuroshitsuji#ciel phantomhive#coattails#avalon is very shiny in this huh#sfikghsjkhgsd i love coattails so much#i learnt so much about horse anatomy doing this#and i looked at so many references#references people references!#just want to see the sonboy happy tbh#black butler fanart#i feel like i made the gate a bit gnarlier than it maybe should be#but thats what all the gates on the yard i ride at look like#so gnarly gates you are getting#original post#original art#my art
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Something that sticks with me is that Zenos not only committed suicide in front of you, he did it in a particularly gruesome way. Like you don't really see it because the ESRB rating and the game engine don't really allow for it, but like (I think) Lyse said he practically decapitated himself. He could have jumped off the building there (also gruesome but not as upfront and personal) but no he wanted his arterial spray on you.
#suicide#gore#final fantasy xiv#zenos yae galvus#which is why i like fan art of him and Elidibus!zenos later with a very gnarly scar there#a scene where I was like “lol??!?” in the moment but just kept thinking about later#just the WILL to do that man
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Um idk how to tell you this but the biggest bird I ever seen just swooped down and carried nails away.
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reverse verse where soap takes on the mask instead of ghost. he wears his red skull mask so you can see the lower half of his face and his chin scar extends along his whole jaw to look like exposed teeth
#his chin scar is so gnarly and i think we gloss over it just a little too much#i like reverse verses but i think they can change just a little too much#like i wouldnt have soap act like ghost#if anything id have him act the same just more unhinged#hes still extroverted and will talk to people but people find him very unnerving#theres just this edge to everything he says and does that lets you know just bc hes being civil doesnt mean he wont rip your throat out#with his teeth#and hes just brutal in the field#preferring hand to hand wanting to get up close and bloody#very berkeresque where other soldiers learn not to go near him or interrupt him bc he cant always differentiate friend from foe#except for one deadpan brit who had a soldier’s eyes long before he ever joined the military#dour and depressing until he cracks a messed up joke and everyones shovked when they hear a scottish voice laugh#just soap who goes through roba and simon whos still ghost after living through his fathers abuse#just slightly less self isolating since he still has his family#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#soapghost#ghostsoap#ghoap#john soap mactavish#soap cod#simon ghost riley#ghost cod#we’re a team. ghost team
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#also if she brings louis into this#I’ll counter her with at least 15 people i know#from different areas of the industry#some who have literally travelled with him as tour managers and assistant tour managers#to tell their stories about louis#because the dude is a fucking delight and doesn’t shut up#so people know more than you’d think#Christ this is gonna get so gnarly#if everything is true then fine cool#but it’s very hard to believe someone who has flip flopped and feels like they need to do story times to fans#without a lick of understanding on how this is gonna effect everyone involved
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I still have many questions, which makes it very irritating that it seems like he's gonna die. Or maybe do something worse?
if he turns into some kind of TimeHorror when he dies in this condition that would go a long way to explaining why his squad left him and he doesn't seem to resent them doing that.
#girl genius#page react#honestly this answered almost none of my questions.#like- was he stabbed by Gil? (and if so- How? and Using What?)#do they need help? Do they even want help???#like the star is supposed to be able to do gnarly tricks with time-#restoring the black squad to near-conventional linearity seems very possible#like this dude probably doesn't know that but??#Cmon guy you really don't have to die so embarrassingly?? Ask for Aid? Parley a little???
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having a cute idea of zagreus carrying love notes and kisses between achilles and patroclus while they’re still separated, very cute, very fluffye 🥰
what i wrote in the middle of the night when i thought god wasn’t watching
#this is a clear case of the story wrote itself and the characters are just doing what they want to be doing#what they want to be doing is pure fuckin degeneracy however#idk it came to me in a vision#and 3am writing is honestly unhinged i recommend it to everyone who wants to know what madness feels like just for a laugh#anyway glass slipper update day and instead of cleaning up my cute fairy tale story for the update im thinking very unhinged and unwell#pza thoughts#i saw some art yesterday that gave me the vapors#im fully insane now and writing this gnarly piece of shit no matter what#but i should wait for another 3am hysteria to hit me
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