#whoops that was dark. kinda.

[ofallthingsnasty]

Oh depressed darlings…I love the dynamic of a yandere being both the source of your suffering and your comfort at the same time

Or a yandere giving you an outlet (whether willingly or not) to let out your feelings

Hmm, delicious.... You get it 🤤 I especially love the thought of you being beaten down so hard that you don't have it in you to fight anymore - and the yandere being either so smitten with lifeless you or so delusional that they think they're truly helping you with all of their efforts to peel you out of your depression nest...

You know, I rarely talk about my own OCs but I think my boy Evan from capture kill would be all over a heavily depressed darling. You could live in the most rancid mess of an apartment with just tiny little pathways to walk to and fro in between all the trash and he'd be frothing at the mouth like '... they need me SO BAD'. And once he has you - and you're just lethargic, barely able to get out of the bed, he'll just tend to you. You can't brush your teeth? Oh, he'll do that for you. You can't get up to go for a little walk? A ride in his car to the next fast food chain at 2AM is good enough, no? He never grows tired/gets annoyed by your behavior (read: your illness and it worsening because of your... circumstances), no, he eats it up. He feels like you can't live without him - and that is balm for the soul to a man who feels like drowning when he thinks about not being with you.

[erregiulydraws]

niigo

[blackjackkent]

A few random words to pick from (picked with a word generator). Characters/pairings of your choice!

Noble

Sacrifice

Illusion

Seaspray

Shiver

(Drop a word in my inbox and I’ll write three sentences of a fic based on it)

Niiiice. :D We'll do a different character for each cos why not. XD

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Noble - Jaheira

Jhessem, it seemed, pictured the nobility of Tethyr as storybook figures, gold-robed and gold-crowned, something to be aspired to by a child from the dirty streets of Baldur's Gate. She begged Jaheira for stories of the place where she was born, and imagined herself returning to resume the family line amid the tall buildings of the nation's capital. Jaheira never knew for sure how to answer her, for her memories of those people held no glory at all; they were dim, shrouded by the smoke of a burning city and the sound of screams.

Sacrifice - Rakha

Sceleritas, when he made his ill-omened appearances, always seemed to describe her murders as gifts - sacrifices to appease the monster in her head, or some force beyond it. It was one of the things Rakha hated about him. There was nothing sacred in the blood on her hands; it was only the stains left by a raging animal beyond control or salvation.

Illusion - Karlach

Surely it had to be her imagination, when she thought she could look up and see Hector watching her longingly from across the camp - just her mind playing tricks on her, making her see what she wanted to see instead of what was really there. She'd learned a long time ago to mistrust hope, and the vainest hope of all was that, after everything, that monk with the soft voice and gorgeous grey eyes might ever feel for her what she was starting to feel for him. But her hopes were stubborn things forged in the fires of hell, and this one lingered, a warm touch at the back of her mind no matter how hard she tried to push it away.

Seaspray - Wyll

He liked to sit beneath the bridge to Wyrm's Rock and fish off the sea passage, smelling the salt spray and watching the ships drift past. He never caught anything, but that wasn't the point. He liked to hear the sailors shouting from the decks, and the cries of merchants from the South Span, the breathing lungs and beating heart of the city his father had raised him to protect.

Shiver - Minsc

He did not remember being a statue, nor did he fear what had happened to him; Minsc was a creature of the current moment, always looking forward, not back. If anything of the experience lingered, it was a memory of terrible itching as the curse finally broke and the stone stiffness sloughed away from his skin. It meant nothing, certainly, that some nights he would wake shivering violently with a sense of bone-deep cold and the feeling that he could not move his legs.

[thelooniemoonie]

Dark Miku my beloved

[chloelouygo]

Ah yes, dying my hair 2 hours before I leave for work is definitely a good idea

[flamingredanon]

*crashes through the void with another shorter Wilford thought*

I know we've had Terrences with timeline powers and Henrys with timeline powers and even Galeforces with them.

But what if Sir Wilford IV had timeline powers and the reason no one mentions what happened to him was related to that?

Maybe while using his timeline powers he found what he saw as the perfect timeline and went there, just leaving the current timeline without the Toppat leader.

Or in his quest to lead the Toppats with as little problems as possible, something went wrong and his powers went haywire and sent him somewhere beyond time and space (maybe even somewhat being able to communicate with others with similar powers within a degree, maybe even be the one speaking from the fail screen that Henry sees?)

[batz]

painted the stairway the first coat of purple so it can be less scary<3

[bloodywonder1846]

I know this isn’t what I normally post about, but I just think it’s really cool that Patrick Page has the Barnabas Collins cane

[readthephible]

granted i did have other forms of media to keep me sane during the time, but god i wish i would’ve been watching smosh during the worst part of my life

[slugpup2]

literally the day touhou 19 was announced i finally did touhou sort since i was like "hey a new game is probably gonna be announced soon so i might as well do this before we get some newhus"

anyways the top 5 do not surprise me in the slightest but i feel like it gets kinda weird afterwards

[sakura-fraust]

QOTD, elf. What would the Now you tell the you of 10 years ago?

Dear 2013 me,

Congrats on getting out of that house! I know it wasn't easy, I know you're still uncertain about this new path, but trust me in saying it was the right move. You and your lovers have set something grand in motion, but despite all their foresight and planning, even they couldn't have seen how things panned out.

The path you're marching through now with your loves isn't going to be an easy one, but its worth it, you'll all stick with each other until the bitter end and they'll raise you up and prime you for something so much more. If only they could have told you what that something more is. Be sure to cherish them as much as you can.

Nothing I could say or do would ever prepare you for the hardships you will have to face. Nothing could help you brace for the blows. The only solace I can truly offer in those moments is; Even when you feel like you're at your lowest, when you're losing your will to live... You will persist. You will continue to adapt and learn. Time and time again you will stand back up and try to find another way up. And the pain? It'll always be there, but it gets easier to mitigate and tend to. But before you know it, you'll find people with good hearts who help brighten your dark days and inspire you to keep trying. Cause you know, why not? The time will pass anyway :)

Also please spend more of that time with creative endeavors, you'll regret it if you don't, trust me I know ;w; Oh and please take better care of yourself! I know its hard and it sucks ass, but you'll save yourself SO MUCH strife in the long run. I don't want ANY of that "This is a problem for future me" garbage either, your future self (me) is paying for it now! Literally! >:I

Oh, and the family is doing really well for the most part, but mom is still a cunt. Though it'd be a cold day in Hell before that changed. Oh well.

In 10 years you still won't be good at sending emails or ending letters, so... it is what it is lol

LATER NERD, 2023 you

PS- You'll love powerlifting btw, just do it nerd PPS- Also get on fucking meds sooner than later, TRUST ME PPPS- Get over your baseless weirdness about weed, its good shit and probably could've helped you sooner instead of waiting for tragedy to strike like I did

[rangers-are-cool-moved]

“ mirror mirror “ (Arathorn 👀)

No one know what had happened on the mission. With the exception of Hal and the Commander of Esteldin hadn't spoken a word since reappearing. Not even those closest to them could get any information about the mission or where Arathorn was.

Hal had a tendency to disappear for a few days after their return and on this occasion, someone had asked Beleg to follow. The Ranger headed to a long forgotten farmhouse with a faint layer of darkness emanating from it. "Thorn?"

A wolf like growl sounded, before Arathorn stepped from the doorway. Yet something was wrong with him. One arm pulled Hal in closer while a now sharp burning yellow eye landed on the approaching elf and a snarl echoed. Not recognising Beleg at all.

@thegreatstrongbow

[mrs-jamesbbarnes]

I’m not sure whether it’s my natural detective instincts, thinking like a writer, or the amount of spent on booktok hearing about Casteel. But I called it two chapters into the first book.

I especially enjoyed every time someone said “I hope the Dark One isn’t anywhere near here” with Hawke standing right there like a little sh*t agreeing with them.

[herald-of-aurene]

I got tagged in an Music Game by @forsaken-constellation!

The Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!

1: One Wrong Turn by Alec Benjamin

2: Solitude by Sorry, Peach

3: Gone Forever by Three Days Grace

4: Ashes by The Longest Johns

5: Villian by Atara Ara

6: C'est la vie by Weathers

7: Friends by Sonic Sea Turtles

8: Too Far by Jorge Aguilar II

9: Devil Doesn't Bargain by Alec Benjamin

10: A Good Thing by Kyle Stibbs

i have too much anxiety to tag anyone so, if you see this and feel like doing it go for it (◠ω◠✿)

[krysmcscience]

Full view here!

What happens when a human has to travel around on a ship full of Impostors? Probably shenanigans. And drama. And hot sexy times.

Anyway, this is the main 'crew' in Breach, a story I've been slowly plodding away at for a few months now. The human on board isn't actually properly introduced to the entirety of the crew until halfway through the story, and a majority of said crew is mostly only talked about before that point, but I wanted to pin their designs down, so...here they are, I guess!

Character and story details under the cut, if you're interested~

The actual main and secondary characters are in the middle, so even though the narrative doesn't actually refer to anyone other than Red by color (since the story is only tangentially Among Us-related), I'll be listing them that way first. Aside from the main human, all names are assumed identities, as Impostors don't actually have names, or even words for anything due to the way they communicate with each other (even the term 'Impostor' is an in-universe Among Us joke gone horridly wrong). Their pronouns are also mostly suggestion, rather than any legitimate preference, as they have almost zero concept of gender.

Mains:

Blue, Qīng Summers (he/him) - Chinese-American goofball who ran away from his family to avoid being pushed into their marketing business, Qīng was on his way to a colony college on Titan when the research vessel he hitched a ride on was attacked. Having unwittingly gotten the attention of the alien infiltrator on board by admitting he thought Impostors were "kinda hot", rather than being killed, Qīng was instead dragged onto the infiltrator's ship in secret for some "fun", only to kick his captor in the dick(?) and make a break for it. Though he evaded most of the crew's notice during the ensuing chase, he was soon caught by the lead security officer, brought somewhere safe after some awkward dealings with the ship's captain, and quickly assured he would be returned to human society. As said security officer is incredibly kind, considerate, and attractive as fuck, Qīng is as of yet unsure if he wants to return at all. He is optimistic, a hopeless romantic, and wears his emotions on his sleeve; he often comes across as silly, and doesn't handle problems well. He enjoys parkour and dancercise, collects sci-fi B-movies, and has a deep fascination for all things alien - Impostors in particular, because he's a fukken xenophile.

Red, Jasper "Red" O'Floinn (he/him) - Lead security officer on the ship, Red was initially slated to become an infiltrator, with his scores outstripping the vast majority of his peers. However, he was caught in the middle of a secret drunken affair with a human, something seen as incredibly shameful for his species, and was rendered ineligible for field work just before assignment. He was only able to get his current position (years later) with help from his childhood friend, and while he still goes out in secret to illicit xenophilia clubs, he fully expected to never get involved with humans beyond the occasional one-night stand. Finding Qīng on board, and having to protect him both from the infiltrator who abducted him and the malevolent captain who would happily torture him to death, changes that very quickly. Red is as of yet unsure if this is a good thing, as while he would love to be in a proper relationship with a human, it would put him in a terribly compromising position, given that his species is currently at war over humanity's encroachment into their territory. Red is very practical and calm, and keeps his opinions and emotions mostly to himself; he is well-known for his ability to settle conflicts between others, and strives for fairness and compassion above all else. He enjoys farming and landscaping, often drawing out plans for his home territory in great detail, and finds Earth history to be fascinating.

Secondaries:

White, Daniel "Ghost" Fulton (he/him) - Front line infiltrator of the ship, and the reason Qīng is on board, Ghost is (usually) the best of the best at what he does: blending in with human research and military crews, and then quickly slaughtering them all before they can reach Impostor territory. Unfortunately, he is very much ruled by his passions, and has some xenophilic leanings he's been repressing all his life, so not only do his kills tend to be vicious, but hearing Qīng express an attraction for Impostors gave him some very stupid and awful ideas, which were not helped by the fact that Ghost is less than great at taking 'no' for an answer. Case in point: Ghost would be willing to sleep with just about any human, but especially Qīng, and has slept with nearly every single member of his crew, outside of Red (who has zero interest in other Impostors), the captain (who wants something deeper than mere casual flings), and Red's childhood friend (who has actual standards, thank you very much). Ghost is generally laid-back, and incredibly confident; he is widely seen as a flirt and a jokester, and has unshakable loyalty towards those he cares for. He enjoys fashion, often designing his own clothes, and is equal parts enamored with and derisive of the paranormal; his own nickname is a tongue in cheek reference to that conflicted interest.

Yellow, Marisol Quinto (she/her) - Communications expert and Red's childhood friend, Marisol is the only reason Red managed to get a job on an infiltrator ship at all, and has spent much of her life building her skills, career, and social network. Initially, she wanted to use her keen understanding of human language, cyphers, and coding from within her home territory, with the expectation that by the time she and Red were assigned together, they would already be in the process of starting a family like they promised each other years prior. Unfortunately, Red being caught with a human sort of dashed that expectation, and with a hormonal disorder that leaves her less than appealing to other Impostors - and thus unlikely to have a family - Marisol decided to instead accept a ship-bound position. Concern and care for Red brought her to eventually assist him in getting more respectable work, and though she is still bitter about being blindsided by his xenophilia, she won't out his ongoing indiscretions to their crew. She hopes he'll change his mind about her, and can't help being suspicious of whatever is going on between her best friend and the weird human that Ghost smuggled on board, but she tries her best to stay positive and focus on doing what she loves. Marisol is social to the extreme, and a mother hen to everyone on the ship; she is the go-to person to spill woes to, though she guards her own secrets jealously, and tends to shut down when she feels lonely. She enjoys cute things, especially clothing, and loves gardening, with sunflowers being her obvious favorite.

Purple, Shio Musashi (they/them) - The First Infiltrator, and now prime captain of the infiltration fleet, thanks in part to a great tragedy that befell their clan, Shio has cultivated a great hatred towards humanity throughout the course of their life. This hatred has swelled to the point of them refusing any field assignment that would require consistent interaction with humans, and intentionally forgetting just about everything they were forced to learn about Earth and its people. Shio enjoys watching humans suffer, and upon being informed of Qīng - the first breach on a ship under their command (supposedly), and a breach that only Ghost, Red, and Marisol were aware of so far - they chose not to eject him, refusing to allow Qīng such a quick death. Mistakenly believing that Red hates humans as well, especially since his secret attraction had long since ruined any chance of him becoming an infiltrator, Shio offered him a deal: that in exchange for Red's silence on the breach, leaving the crew none the wiser, Red would be allowed to keep Qīng in private for "stress relief". Shio is as yet unaware that Red only accepted the deal to protect Qīng (with the added intent of getting him home safely), and thus they later allow Qīng among the crew proper in order to better witness his "suffering". Shio is, in a word, intense - to other Impostors, they are stern but fair, and viciously protective of those they're close with. To humans, they are callous and ruthless, going out of their way to ensure pain and suffering. Shio's career takes up the majority of their time, with their family-oriented priorities taking up the rest, but they enjoy making games of things, and thus have a penchant for making (perhaps ill-advised) deals for fun and occasionally profit. They especially like games and deals that lead to human misery, which plays a very large part in their affection for Ghost, who openly goes along with their whims.

Tertiaries (left side):

Orange, Cam Ngo (she/her) - Inventory manager and general spitfire, Cam knows barely anything about humans other than that she Does Not Like Them - humans have hurt a lot of people she cares about. Mostly no-nonsense, which puts her somewhat at odds with the more playful crew members on board (chiefly Ghost), and a bit of a bully to whoever she doesn't like (chiefly humans), though she has a secret heart of gold that only those who earn her approval get to see.

Green, Verdell Dubois (they/them) - Persistence infiltrator and the second most social butterfly on the entire ship next to Marisol, Verdell is all about learning everything they can about everyone around them. They don't necessarily care if what they learn is accurate, either, because they also thrive on drama; something they often drive Cam up the wall with. While they're not as efficient of an infiltrator as Ghost, Verdell is better at actually gaining the trust of their targets long-term, as they are quite adept at reading a room. They are also not vicious about their kills, as they have no personal beef with humans - although the one they love was badly wronged by rogue human soldiers, Verdell isn't the type to blame an entire group for the actions of a few rotten individuals.

Black, Daruk Varma (he/him) - Security officer, and Number One Human-Hater on board, Daruk takes his job very seriously, which means any human in his sights has to die posthaste. His entire clan and territory was destroyed by rogue human soldiers shortly before his career assignment, leading Shio to snatch him up for their crew in solidarity, and the two have been fast friends ever since. Qīng's presence on board the ship is a source of great fury for Daruk, as various things keep preventing him from killing the "threat" - said things range from Qīng's incredible running ability, to Ghost playing one of his stupid pranks right in the middle of the damn hallway, to Daruk's very own superior officer, Red, who is absolutely fucking Qīng on the down-low, Daruk has zero doubts about it. Putting that aside, he and Verdell bicker constantly thanks to an ongoing rivalry, the source of which Daruk cannot determine for the life of him, as he actually quite likes Verdell and would much rather kiss them instead.

(Verdell and Daruk get marginally longer bits than the other tertiaries, as they have more impact on certain story beats than the others.)

Tertiaries (right side):

Brown, Alondra Novar (she/her) - Chief engineer, Alondra is shy and reclusive, but cheery and sweet once someone gets her talking. Outside of her two usual tagalongs, of which she is the unspoken leader, Ghost is the most adept at getting her out of her shell, as she finds his confidence bolstering for her. She is very outspoken about the family she wants to have, though she is an oddity in that she explicitly wants a willing human host for her young. This is odd because carrying Impostor young to term is, without exception, fatal to the host, and absolutely no human would want to do it outside of being completely suicidal.

Navy, Derya Lagunov (she/her) - Backup infiltrator and very much the strong, silent type, Derya is not so much shy as she is a supportive listener. She finds talking to be a hassle, and doesn't like the feel of it, anyway, so much of her communication is either through contact (the means Impostors use to 'speak' to each other), or a mix of sign language and written word (when she has to deal with humans). Though she is not shy, and likes social interaction just fine, Derya takes a very long time to open up to others, as she is an intensely private individual.

Teal, Tawoos Hafeez (they/them) - Security officer and self-appointed wingman/bodyguard, Tawoos revels in the safety and happiness of others. This has earned them a very close friendship (sometimes with benefits) between Alondra and Derya, and a consistent stream of invitations to literally anywhere Ghost or Verdell can scheme up at a moment's notice. As their general temperament is similar, Tawoos gets along well with Red, and has great respect for his ability to resolve conflict.

(Yeah, I know Navy isn't a canon color, and Teal isn't either and could just as easily be Cyan, but whatever, don't at me, bro.)

Extra fun tidbits before I go sleep:

Humans are accidentally but also kind of on purpose colonizers again (whoops)

Technology is powered by god magic so I don't have to explain too much sciencey shit

"God" is a very tired college student who rapidly ascended over the course of one semester and "fixed" a bunch of shitty Earth things three centuries before the story starts, but also they're still technically...around? Everywhere??? It's a whole thing and yet also barely mentioned at all XD

There are other aliens but they only get brought up just long enough to make it clear that Impostors are chill with every other species except Humans, Specifically

Earth is called Terra now, and pretty much everyone hates it, but all the people in charge thought the change would be "unifying" so now it's Official

Turns out the only thing unifying about Terra is the vast majority of humans thinking it's stupid and getting offended when anyone calls them "Terrans"

When infiltrations first started and weren't yet deadly (or even dangerous), humans made a bunch of dumb jokes and pop culture references about it, which of course included Among Us

The jokes stopped being funny when whole crews started mysteriously dying out and the only message humanity got from the culprits more or less boiled down to 'fuck it, we guess we're Impostors, then :)'

Human civilians are almost never harmed, and even Impostors who don't like humans will try to help them get back to their own kind; human researchers and soldiers, however, are a whole other ballpark (i.e. totes fair game for Murder Time)

Humans still have not made any meaningful contact with the Impostors - only the xenophiles have managed it, and they ain't talkin', cuz if they talk they lose out on all that sweet, sweet alien D and tentacles

Xenophilia fetish clubs are called host clubs, because anyone not in the know - Impostor OR human - would get two wildly separate ideas about what a "host club" should be and thus think nothing of it

Red was never actually referred to as "Red" until Qīng came along, and Qīng initially called him that for lack of anything else to call the Big Security Dude With Red Bandana + Tentacles; it pretty quickly sticks because Red doesn't care and Qīng thinks it's cute

There are other Impostors on Shio's crew, of course, since ten people does not a crew make, but these ten are the only ones important to the plot, lol

The crew normally wear safety suits, all in white, like typical human crews; there are some customization choices made for the sake of aesthetics, of course (Red has a red bandana, Marisol has a sunflower brooch, Ghost has Slimer stickers in inappropriate places, and so on...)

Impostors are a tribal society from deep inside Charon but because of magic they are also technically spacefaring; they are everywhere in the Oort Cloud

Aaaand an Impostor's form is determined at birth by their host and some hosts are Basically Dragons :)

Sleep time now

[rexscanonwife]

OH FUGG!!!

Little (work)Shop of Horrors AU???