#yep. that makes sense

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

it all loops back around to voice tap, it's inescapable-

[wikitpowers]

the stupidest thing kit convinced himself of is that he was forgotten by ty. bc dear kit, we are talking about the ty that slept outside your door to make you feel safe and at home after your father’s death? the one who gave you your first rune? the one who was desperate for you to be the watson to his sherlock? the person who gifted you your first witchlight so you would feel like a true shadowhunter? who seeks you out for comfort whenever he’s overstimulated or stressed? the one who tries to wear his headphones less around you so he can hear all the interesting things you have to say? the one who didn’t only bring back his dead sister for himself but also bc he was convinced you were in love with her? and who then was practically begging you to forgive him the one time you saw each other at blackthorn hall? we are talking about that ty blackthorn, aren’t we? the one who supposedly forgot about you? yeah ok

[sableeira]

I love how bsd is starting to bait us with death baits. We expect that characters are coming back so we are left on a cliffhanger of what looks like a death bait reveal that is like 99.9% a bait

[mutatedleemon]

your art is so good! I would like to ask, what tricks did Bill pull to escape from the Therapism since the book makes it clear that the idea of him escaping is literally impossible. It’ll be really interesting and I don’t mind if you don’t want to answer it straight away

CW self-harm (yeaaah)

Long answer - it took a lot of preparations, planning, lying and all in all it was a hard process, escaping Theraprism, especially considering that the therapists weren’t satisfied with his progress, no matter what Bill did (he did try to redeem himself at some point, listening to everything he was told to do, thinking that it will help, but nothing was changing, so he gave up and his well-being got worse)

Short answer - Axolotl saw him struggling and let him escape ;-)

And let’s not forget that whatever The Book of Bill said might undergo some changes, because this is an AU after all

[acehardys]

when they tell the story of my life...

[nonexistent-alfa]

The LCF readers experience of faux angst

The Soos.

Me, after binge reading 600 chapters: *sobbing uncontrollably because of the Soos*

Me, at the end of part 1, after learning the OG CJS and LSH are coming back: hol' up, what.

Me, 200 chapters into reading part 2: forget Cale, I want my tears back. The tears I shed for three hundred plus chapters... All for these two to rise from the dead in part 2? Like, huh???

[allastoredeer]

I like prejudiced holier than thou Lucifer and I also like Lucifer who thinks of Alastor as a brat

Holier-than-thou-Lucifer is so 😩👌 however lowly he thinks of himself, he thinks of the sinners even lower

And what a tasty morsel that is.

Alastor isn’t the brat Lucifer wanted, but he’s the brat he needed

[strandedtoodeep]

yeay it's poolverine tumblr text time (tiktok inspired me with silly goofy ideas)

[jeeaark]

Part 3. (pain)

So uh. First of all. I don't deserve Lae'zel but I will forever love her until the end of time, my gods. Actually spat my coffee when she uh-still enthusiastically held nothing back in this timeline.

Second. I REALLY wish I knew what character development Lae'zel went through to go from betrayed by lover-turned-squid to somehow loves squid lover even more now. How? HOW?????

Can't believe this game actually had an actual piña colada ending. Just had to eat Orph's brains is all. Sorry Orph.

I think Greygold's only regret was accidentally building an empire with Emps. Got a lil over-ambitious while they were under the Grey weather, whoops~ Is cool. Easy to fix.

[orymofthepieashari]

THE CURTAINS ARE WHAT???

[florsial]

Fully convinced that no one can match each other's freak better than Rabastan and Regulus. The funny thing is that they both think that they are the normal ones in the relationship.

they are making out on the table after a DE meeting and thinking, "Merlin, I'm the sane one between the two of us aren't I?" (spoiler: they are both not normal, there is something wrong with them)

[scarapanna]

[WIP] Back on that grind wooo!!!

Old people beef, gotta love that/silly

[Link to the finished piece]

[vanesssa]

Went through my old drafts and found this

[sashimew-the-cat]

Everything ‘eye’ hate

(Click for better quality)

[plate2]

Okay okay I know Kipperlilly was never taken over by rage. She didn't die, she didn't chose it in that way like the rest of them. She had no rage crystal. It was voluntary.

BUT

Something in her must have snapped when Lucy died. Something must have given way, taken over not in the typical rage-star way, but in her own way. A rage god did not take over her mind. Her own rage took over her mind. It was voluntary but at the same time there was no way back. She didn't need a god to light her anger. She just needed herself. Something about a teenage girl's rage (no matter if her reasons were selfish or bad or anything else) being the same as a god's. Something about holding your dead friend's hand (who you killed) and snapping. That was her death. It was Lucy's death, but it was hers. Either they both lived or they both died. We know what happened.

God I wish I could do a coherent analysis on her. I know her character is meant to be how she is. She's meant to be Like That in her creation. She's meant to be unlikable, especially with her view on why the bad kids are ahead (thinking they have an advantage by having it worse, thinking it's unfair for Her which is definitly wrong and I know this and I acknowledge this). But I cannot stop thinking about what-ifs and divergences.

Even when it just comes down to that night in the forest. I want to know everything about it. I want to know how far Kipperlilly had to go to kill her best friend. I want to know if she felt guilty even for a second afterwards or if it immediatly moved to something else (always wondered if she blamed the bad kids. It wouldn't be accurate obviously but she hates them. Her anger was towards them. She did this because of them. In her mind, maybe They Killed Her. She didn't need a rage crystal, they were her rage crystal and she was her own god).

I don't know if any of this even makes sense but I cannot stop thinking about her. Goddamn. Didn't think the rat grinders and their stories would do this to me but here we are

[lets-try-some-writing]

Death's Embrace

The Thirteenth Prime was never meant to remain on the mortal plane. His work remained in the space between the living realm and the one after. He was to ferry sparks to their destinations, be it to their frames or back to the Allspark where they might find rest. This was his design, and he never rushed the children of Primus to come to him. They would all meet him eventually.

This is what he believed, and so he never tampered... that was until the chosen Primes began to fall.

(Simply put: Thirteen/Optimus is literally death and has to go be a normal mech for a while to figure scrap out)

━━━━━━ ⊙ ❖ ⊙ ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⊙ ❖ ⊙

He hadn't known what his purpose was at first. He fought the Unmaker alongside his kin and watched them all in mixed love and a degree of apathy. He didn't have a form like theirs, his was nothing but energy barley contained within a shell, and in all honesty, he had no issues with his form. To his knowledge he had no power, no gift like his siblings, and for a time this was acceptable to him.

Then Solus fell and as if a switch had been flipped, he found his design.

His frame changed and shifted, the bindings he hadn't known tied him the mortal realm snapping all at once. Then as he felt the void become accessible to him, he took Solus's spark and he walked with her, leading her along a path he didn't know he knew until she stood before the Allspark. He hardly knew what he was doing as he guided her there, but it felt right and he found himself with a sense of purpose.

When he returned back to the mortal plane, his frame rematerialized and he found his brethren engaged in battle. Where before he might have intervened, now that he knew his purpose, he did not. He watched and offered advice, but he let events play out however Primus wished them to. All his previous opinions and ties fell away and he devoted himself to his task, eventually leading Liege Maximo to the Allspark as well. His brother fought him all the way, but within the void the Thirteenth had as much power as Prima, if not more so. The void between the living realm and the Allspark was his domain, those who walked it were under his dominion.

In the end he watched several of his brothers offer themselves to the well, to which he did not move. He was not needed, for Primus accepted them without his aid. Megatronus was exiled and others fled to the stars, leaving only Primus, Nexus, and Alpha Trion behind. The Thirteenth did nothing save nod to them and wave in farewell before he turned to his new role, allowing his body to fall away so that he might walk the void, watching the world but not interacting with it. That was his reality and he felt more at home in the space between the stars than he ever did walking Cybertron's ground in the closest thing he had to a physical frame. He was the guardian of the fallen, their guide back to Primus, and it was a role he took with joy.

As time passed, Thirteen felt nothing but near parental love for the little children of Primus that emerged from the well that sprang from Solus's spilt energon. He admired their initial purity and accepted the little ones who perished too soon with a loving embrace. His spark sang with sorrow when the little ones came to him, often in tears and confused. However he was always gentle with them, shifting his form slightly to be more appealing and carrying them to the Allspark while singing a soothing song from the age of Primes. The little ones needed him most and he never held anything against them, for they were more pure and innocent than any other.

Older ones came to him with time. They were different, more mature, and with so many more attachments. They were more difficult to guide, often fighting against him in their desire to linger. However Thirteen loved their uniqueness and seeing their experiences as he led them home, sometimes leading him to allow them to walk the world as a specter for a time. Sometimes he spoke with them by taking on voices they knew, other times he merely extended a servo and guided them quietly all while singing his song. He cared not for their actions in life, only that they lived and learned. He washed their pains away and brought them back to Primus, uncaring of who they were in life so long as they did not break the natural laws or turn to the Unmaker.

Thirteen did not weep when the children came to him, nor was he angry when they fought against him, desperate to avoid his embrace for but a moment longer. No, he adored their struggles and their achievements and left most ample time to escape the death that loomed above them. All the children would come to him eventually, there was no need to rush them. Let them live, let them learn, and let them fight for their future. As children of Primus, they had much to do and so many possible roads ahead of them. Thirteen wanted them to live out their lives to the fullest, although he would not turn them away if they came to him sooner than he would have liked.

Sweet little children, his pride and joy. He loved them dearly and always watched on fondly when the most beaten down rose up to become something greater.

He only began to grow concerned when the number of children coming to him increased exponentially with the arrival of others from the stars, Quintessons they called themselves. So many children fell to lack of energon, to injury, to abuse. Thirteen was well aware that some of the children were not kind to their kin, but this was a whole other level of brutality. The children were being changed, he sensed it when they began returning to him and took longer and longer to know who he was.

Even still he did not act. The children would resolve this with the help of Thirteen's fellow Primes and with the aid of Primus's chosen champion. That was the way it always was and that was the way it was supposed to be.

In a way Thirteen was right. A champion was chosen, Sentinel Prime, and he led the children out of the control of the invaders from the stars. He freed them, and after guiding a worrying amount of children to the Allspark, the children stopped coming in such droves for a time. Thirteen was relieved... and then he watched as things grew to be far worse than anything the Quintessons had done.

The Quintessons abused and killed, altering the nature of the children for their own selfish gain. But the mech who called himself Prime did the same and delved further and further into dark territory with experiments, the caste system, and the way he threw lives away in the arenas and the mines. And that for the first time led Thirteen to be enraged. Invaders were not expected to feel love or compassion for those who walked the surface of Cybertron, but an actual child of Primus inflicting that same pain upon his kin? That made Thirteen seethe. He couldn't sit idly by, he couldn't watch it all silently, not when none seemed to be acting.

His kin in the realm of the Primes were not pleased with his deviation, but they allowed it since he couldn't linger for long anyway.

As such Thirteen made a choice he was not at all fond of. For the first time since those early years where he fought alongside his kin, he took on a physical form, at least as much as he could considering his near non-existent tie to the living realm. It was not at all "normal". He had seen plenty of memories and children, but he had never had to recreate what made them so distinctly Cybertronian. His limbs were too long, his denta too sharp, his frame gangly and uneven in places, and his spark chamber partially exposed. It was not what he intended, much less to manifest out in the wilds. Thankfully Alpha Trion seemed to sense his formation and came to collect him, taking him back to the archives and assisting Thirteen in learning how to be like the children he cared for so dearly.

Thirteen stayed with his brother, learning slowly how to be "normal" while he searched for someone capable enough to stop all the death and needless suffering. He was forced to release his form every now and then to guide the sparks that built up back to the Allspark, but most of his time he spent searching. He cared for nothing else, only taking on a name and working in the archives to try and learn how to best approach the situation.

He was largely left alone as most could not sense him. He faded like a shadow, present physically but not projecting the same aura that indicated that he was alive. At most he was asked curt questions before being allowed to continue his work... then he met Ratchet.

Ratchet: Hey! Can you help me find a text on T-cog functionality?

Thirteen: ... Yes.

Ratchet: You don't sound very confident.

Thirteen: You want the text? Follow. I will bring you to it.

Ratchet: Alright. What's your designation if you don't mind me asking? I haven't seen you around here before.

Thirteen: I was granted the designation Orion Pax.

Ratchet: An odd way of saying it, but its nice to meet you Orion.

Thirteen: ... Likewise.

He helped Ratchet and went back to his work of searching without much thought given. Sometimes mecha saw him, and while odd, it happened enough to not be startling. Ratchet was just another mech who would quickly forget him. At least that is what he thought up until Ratchet came back requesting aid again... and again... and again. It kept happening, with Ratchet returning to the archives for new texts and always going to Thirteen specifically.

Before long Ratchet started coming to the archives just to talk to him and all that Thirteen could do was fumble. He was not used to such things and often slipped up while trying to talk with the strange medic who kept tailing him. Often he struggled to speak in a manner that was not fanciful or grim. He was used to having to console and guide sparks, not speak with them on casual terms. There were several instances where he straight up referred to Ratchet as "child" and "young one". The medic laughed at such mistakes and rapidly began worming his way into Thirteen's life in a way he hadn't thought possible.

Thirteen had always been set apart, not truly connected to his siblings or the children of Primus. As such having Ratchet talk with him, get to know him, and introduce him to the living realm was... refreshing. Thirteen only barely noticed when he began seeing himself as the mech that he claimed to be. He was Orion Pax, if only in the living realm. His form even adapted to match that mental shift, with his plating smoothing, his limbs becoming more proportional, and his overall appearance heightening into something that he quickly found that normal mecha saw as pleasing. Even when he shed his mortal frame to do his work, bits and pieces carried over with his form of pure energy shifting to take on characteristics of his identity as Orion Pax.

His search continued, but his focus wavered as he started to connect to mecha in the living realm aside from Ratchet. He found himself getting along with Jazz and learning how to express himself. He came to enjoy the company of his fellow archivists, chatting with them more and more often. He began to enjoy going out to see the sights of the world he had watched over for so long, even smiling when never before had he ever felt the need to do so.

He felt... alive. But evidently his kin saw fit to remind him of the fact that his focus was to lie elsewhere. It was nothing more than a quick warning, but it was enough for Orion to begin letting go of his physical form more often to clear his helm. He couldn't be getting attached, he was to be neutral... and yet after a particularly long stint of him being absent in the living realm, leading to Ratchet literally leading an investigation to find him... he gave up on that front.

Ratchet: ORION!

Orion: Ratchet, my apologies.

Ratchet: DO YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED I WAS!?!

Orion: No, but I can imagine such an emotional response is not comfortable.

Ratchet: You-! ... You are so dumb sometimes.

Ratchet was usually not a very touchy mech, but after Orion's return he wrapped him up in a hug so tight Orion wondered if he was going to snap. Oddly enough, he didn't hate the touch and even leaned into it, enjoying the sensation of aliveness that he usually kept clear of. Ratchet didn't know it and Orion refused to acknowledge it, but after that interaction the embodiment of death was willing to bend his own rules a degree to protect the medic.

Then Megatronus got involved and similarly gained the favor of death incarnate. To Orion he was the perfect mech to fulfill the mission he had originally come to search for a mech worthy of undertaking. When he first met with Megatronus his only intention was to direct the mech toward the path of changing things for the better. Sentinel may have perished and been ferried long ago, but the council remained. Then he began to speak with the gladiator, developing a fondness for the intelligence of the mech before him.

Orion Pax was death, he was supposed to be neutral, and yet Ratchet and Megatronus gained his favor. Orion was awkward, cold, and didn't present very naturally, but for whatever reason his two companions stuck to him like glue. Whatever they did, they dragged him along, a fact that swiftly gained him more associates in Soundwave, Prowl (due to an accidental arrest), and even Senator Shockwave. Orion hadn't expected this, but as Megatronus worked to fulfill the mission of freeing the children of Primus, Orion couldn't find it in himself to dislike the situation.

He was attached, he knew his kin would not be pleased. But Primus, he couldn't help it. He even found himself using his power to aid his newfound attachments as much as he could while still playing within the rules. No one said he couldn't shed his frame to scout and then return with information cryptically. Not a spark said he couldn't use his deathly aura to frighten threats or call upon the chill of death to settle into the frames of aggressors as a silent threat. He wasn't playing favorites, he was just keeping Megatronus safe so that he could complete the mission and perhaps even claim the Matrix.

Only once did he allow anger to bubble within him and lead him to warp his form into something eldritch to fight off an enemy. He did it for the mission, most certainly not because he didn't want to see Megatronus and Ratchet hurt.

Death didn't play favorites... at least that is what he told himself.