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prapais · 1 year

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don’t you want me? i do.

LOVE IN THE AIR ⋮ EP 11.

#asiandramanet #asianlgbtqdramas #asianlgbtqdrama #love in the air #prapaisky #lita #fortpeat #mygifs #sorry had to run into oncoming traffic before i could start giffing this IM SO.............. IM #the amount of forehead kisses pai got is insane and exactly what he deserves!!!!#this was so well done.............im ahhhhhhh

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awesomechocolatesauce · 16 hours

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"I wished they scrapped Astarion and given that amount of content to Wyll!"

Or...maybe not scrap another character's content and give Wyll more than what he's got? You don't have to sacrifice one character to want more content for another. 😅

#I know exactly why they've said this #because they hate Astarion #but you know #Wyll did deserve more than what he's got #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #bg3 #astarion #wyll ravengard #bg3 wyll #text post

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smallest-moon · 11 months

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thinking about kaveh building a humble but obviously aesthetically pleasing, safe and just very him, home in the desert

he'd have a steady job building different infrastructures to slowly but steadily improve the lives of the people in the desert

he'd get sunburns at first because he's not used to the harsh sun but thanks to cyno, he finally stops getting himself burnt... unless hes deep in his mindset, busy with work and forgets about it, which happens often until candance puts the fear of god in him and now hes very careful about it

in the beginning everything is very chaotic and he loses a lot of nights of sleep, doesn't feed himself right and is generally a hot mess for a good while but once all is set in place, things get better

at this time, his hair has grown a bit. who has time for haircuts when there's work to do? he finds that he likes it and keeps it that way. he generally leaves his hair down but on certain occasions he puts it up in a ponytail or a messy bun or even a braid (he never notices it but it draws a lot of stares to him)

as life goes on kaveh notices his home suddenly became fully surrounded by desert foxes. which is rather impressive as theyre extremely skittish of people and the only time desert foxes ever followed him was because of the interdarshan championship task where they got confused because of the ley lines

theyre still very skittish of others but somehow kaveh ends up being different, perhaps the other foxes communicated to their buddies that he was safe

one time alhaitham comes and visits him, naturally they start to bicker. sensing kaveh's distress one of the bolder foxes jumps and bites alhaitham in the hand, effectively surprising the scribe

kaveh worriedly brings alhaitham inside and insists on (tenderly) care for his wound, nothing too serious. still he carefully wraps a bandage around his hand and in a fit of courage kisses it, leaving alhaitham shocked for the second time that day

much later after they finally kiss, eat dinner and settle in bed together, kaveh starts to laugh uncontrollably at alhaitham getting bit by the fox

"see now you have to be nice to me, there's no choice unless you want my foxes to gang up on you" he said with a smug smile.

and with a soft indulging smile, alhaitham agrees "i guess i do"

#just thinking about all that #this somehow reads as a sort of drabble and it honestly wasn't my intention for this to get thia long #i just remembered kaveh the foxes and how funny it would be if alhaitham got bit because the foxes love kaveh and wanna protect him #also forgive me its 4:02am and im on my phone just spilling nonsense #im not sure what exactly this is but have it anyway i guess byeee #genshin impact #kaveh #alhaitham #kavehtham #mine.#writing #i guess #desert fox #they deserve to be tagged

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rawliverandgoronspice · 4 months

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On one hand, ToTK not getting game of the year is great.

On the other hand, good god I can't imagine how MAD the fandom and Nintendy are.

Honestly, I think this, combined to the way Aonuma was treated when he did receive the (again, in my opinion well-deserved) award, which was utterly unnacceptable --both for him and for any gamedev who just wanted more than 30 seconds to celebrate their insane achievements in an otherwise very hard year-- might lead to some degree of animosity between the two entities moving forward. Maybe they will move past that, but I don't know a single person in the industry who are happy about how this all went down --from ignoring the open letter about Palestine to refusing to acknowledge the layoffs bleeding talent and leaving them out to dry in a year of record profits, the commodification of gamedev achievements as a platform for more ads and more desperate and gross flirting with Hollywood... A bunch of people are also assuming the 30 seconds rule was explicitely put into place to prevent devs from talking about either topic during their speeches given the amount of buildup and controversies surrounding the event before it even started (I am one of those people), but that it then ended up hitting Aonuma just as much as anyone else might have worsened everybody's relationship to the event...

#asks #totk #tga #thanks for the ask!!#I think this award was 100% deserved #BG3 also 100% deserved game of the year #they did revolutionize a whole genre and brought some deeply-needed fresh air to rpgs at large #alan wake 2 also deserved its sweeps from what I saw (I need to play it)#((fun fact: I got pretty far interviewing to work for AW2! but in the end we both agreed that I wasn't exactly what they were looking for))#((for the specific title they were interviewing for at least))#((and I think I wasn't healthy enough to jump back into AAA at the time anyway))

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ctrl-lupin · 22 days

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Yes, I would be very interested hearing your head canon (@tim-ribbert-56) (in response to this post)

I have decided for my personal entertainment that Clarisse de Cagliostro is related to Lupin III, and here's why.

-pulls out Arsène Lupin's Wikipedia page-

In the novel La Comtesse de Cagliostro, a young Arsène Lupin (at the time going by the name Raoul d'Andrésy) was courting Clarisse d'Etigues, a young lady of a well-to-do family, and trying to win her hand, despite her father's disapproval.

Throughout the course of the novel, Lupin meets and falls in love with Joséphine Balsamo, aka the Countess of Cagliostro, and abandons Clarisse in favour of her. To clarify, Joséphine is not actually countess of anything, she is (or claims to be) a descendant of Giuseppe Balsamo aka the Count of Cagliostro (who was also count of jack shit), a famous conman from the 18th century.

Shenanigans ensue, which I will not go into in details on, but oh my god I am insane about Raoul and Joséphine, I want to dissect them and study them under a microscope. It turns out Joséphine aka Cagliostro is evil as fuck, Raoul/Lupin realizes that and goes back to Clarisse (whom he had previously abandoned like an old sock, I fucking hate this guy), marries her, and a few years later has her kid.

Unfortunately Clarisse dies in childbirth, and Joséphine, who was still around and very very pissed at Lupin (and jealous as hell of Clarisse whom, may I mention, had never personally antagonized her in any way whatsoever, Joséphine is just fucking bonkers). Joséphine also kidnaps Lupin and Clarisse's son, Jean, and raises him as her own son. (I have not yet read the following novel The revenge of Cagliostro so I don't really know what Jean's deal is, I just know he's an antagonist).

The following is my headcanon, based on these events. In the universe of Lupin III, Joséphine Balsamo was actually countess of the small kingdom of Cagliostro (maybe Giuseppe was count, maybe he conned his way into becoming count, maybe he bought the land and built a fake kingdom with a fake history, who knows).

After the events of The revenge of Cagliostro, Jean settles down in the country of Cagliostro, gets married, has a child, and that child will later have a daughter of their own, who they name Clarisse, after their late grandmother. Clarisse de Cagliostro, of Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro fame, would thus be the great-grand-daughter of Arsène Lupin, making her Lupin III's cousin/niece/whatever you call this specific degree of separation.

I am choosing to make Clarisse de Cagliostro a great-granddaughter of Arsène Lupin, rather than a granddaughter, because Arsène Lupin was very young when the events I described unfolded: he is 20 years old when he meets Clarisse d'Etigues and the whole Cagliostro debacle happens, and 25 by the time Jean is born. I'm assuming he had Lupin II much later in his life. So Jean and Lupin II (half-brothers) would have a significant difference in age, and so Jean's hypothetical child (grandchild of Arsène Lupin, so of the same generation of Lupin III) would be much older than Lupin III. Clarisse de Cagliostro is younger than him, maybe around the same age if you stretch it, so she's have to be a great-grandchild.

Now I need to read The revenge of Cagliostro and study Arsène Lupin's wikipedia page in more detail to determine when exactly Lupin II was born and who his mother was. And also where Albert's family branched out, because the fact that he's called D'Andrésy should theoretically place him as a descendant of Arsène Lupin's mother but not of Arsène Lupin himself; but Jean was also going by that last name, so who fucking knows.

No I am not insane I promise, I am just a gigantic nerd.

#i have very mixed feelings about Papy Lupin Original Flavour #cuz you see in the first books he was pretty much like his grandson #a charming little bastard; smug as hell but also charming enough to make up for it #like. an ego the size of the eiffel tower but it's highly deserved #if he robbed me i would just thank him #you wanna punch him in the face but like. lovingly #then around The Hollow Needle he started acting weird #and after that his ego grew into a god complex the size of the eiffel tower and he just lost all the charm #like. just a huge dick honestly.#i thought that was a logical evolution after (SPOILER FOR THE HOLLOW NEEDLE) his wife got brutally murdered in front of his eyes #mere HOURS after they got married and he gave up his whole career as a thief for her #which would be an understandable evolution #but no he's also retroactively an asshole in The Countess of Cagliostro which is a prequel #i guess leblanc just decided 'lupin's a dick now'#which sucks #but on the other hand it's very funny to kinda hate-read The Countess of Cagliostro #i was honestly rooting for Joséphine for most of the book #she is fucking insane which is exactly what raoul/lupin deserve #you know that Mountain Goats song 'no children' ?#'hand in unloveable hand; i hope you die i hope with both die'#or that post that says 'i don't ship them they're too toxic / well i hope they kill each other mid-fuck'#well that's me with them #just reading on to see how many more life-ruining decisions raoul can bodily throw himself at #also leblanc did joséphine dirty!!!!!!!!#LET MY GIRL BE EVIL FOR GOD'S SAKE #none of that 'her fragile feminine nature' and fainting after murdering someone because deep down she can't bear her own cruelty #what the fuck #let her be genuinely unhinged!! let her bash raoul's head in with a meat hammer!!!!#(yes that is something that she tried to do)#anyway. justice for Joséphine Balsamo. god forbid women do anything

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journey-to-the-attic · 3 months

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bold of you to assume we (or atleast i) dont want to read paragraphs about ik's and belphie's dynamic 😈😈

if you feel like writing that, i'd absolutely love to read about it!!! ^^

RIGHT YES this took me a hot minute but let's go!!!!

so the main points that this is all built around:

belphie is someone who is absolutely shit at understanding himself

ik is someone who has a knack for understanding anyone she talks to for long enough

belphie's first resort is usually to leave things to someone else, but easily asserts the things he wants

ik will actively pursue you if she thinks she can help, despite usually feeling guilty about requesting anything

they both have very simple views of very complicated things

building from point 1: this is not entirely belphie's fault - i've talked about this before, so i'll just paste the pertinent bits here:

belphie, as the youngest brother, has been detrimentally coddled in regards to these things, and has NO fucking idea how to properly deal with loss the others haven't tried to talk to him about his grief for lilith, nor about their experiences during the celestial war; when they all had to support each other after the fall, they comforted him, but never ever discussed the pain of it all it's like the doctor refusing to talk about your actual symptoms because they're afraid of making you uncomfortable, and instead just soothingly going "it's okay, just take some ibuprofen and see me in the morning"

belphie underestimates himself and, at the start of the year, is convinced that there's no way forward - 1. he feels he's left it too late, 2. he feels he's the only one still hung up on lilith's death, which only makes him more bitter, and 3. he thinks that the hatred and grief is just who he is now

now take ik, who finds him in the attic and takes worryingly little convincing to help him - even more concerningly, she decides to go through with it even upon finding out he was lying about his identity. this is a direct contradiction to his conviction that humanity is selfish and cruel - more than that, the more ik visits and chats with him, the more he remembers why he'd been so fascinated by humans as an angel

except it also reminds him of how much lilith loved humanity. belphie doesn't think he's capable of letting go - he doesn't think he's allowed to, and to him befriending a human and moving on is the same as betraying his sister's memory. so he represses any feelings of good-will and continues to nurse his hatred

i think it's important to note that belphie's hang-ups have always been self-destructive before this, but the more he lets his own grief fester, the more it threatens to burst. his threat to lucifer about destroying humanity is an early indicator of this, and it culminates in a moment of extreme emotional distress where it finally all implodes

so ik - in the wrong place and the wrong time (in the literal sense) - finds him in the middle of a nightmare, wakes him up, and gets murdered for her troubles

belphie shuts down immediately after, because to him this is a point of no return. he's already convinced himself that nothing can be done for him, and this is the proof. except then everyone else forgets what's happened, and, panicking, he goes along with it - out of fear of losing his family if he comes clean.

so: point 2 - consider that a big thing with ik is that she just doesn't get why belphie acts the way he does after killing her. she's been able to get into the heads of his brothers before him, and even now can somewhat rationalise them forgetting, but she has no idea why belphie - who first killed her and then acted like he'd forgotten about it - would suddenly seem so wracked with guilt upon finding him in the dreamscape

belphie does not think he is strong enough to move on. ik, somehow, intrinsically, already knows this is not true. this is why she's so bewildered by belphie telling her lilith's story. he's convinced this is some kind of damning evidence, but ik doesn't get how this explains anything. and because she doesn't understand, she seeks answers.

now take point 3 and 4. belphie does not attempt to seek forgiveness - he just sits in the cell solomon locks him in. he doesn't try to get out, he doesn't attempt to repent, and he doesn't want to, because as far as he's concerned there's nothing to be done

ik, on the other hand, is going to put her home back together by force if necessary, so she goes to find him. multiple times, she climbs up the tower stairs to rescue him from a waking nightmare - the same thing that killed her - because her family is still his family, and she knows too well what it's like when you go without.

belphie has been sitting stagnant for millennia on end, and now ik has decided that she is going to KICK him along until he figures out that he can stand on his own two feet and keep going. and it works, because for some reason digging demons out of emotional pits of their own creation is ik's specialty

and now point 5: ik and belphie fall quite easily into a typical sibling dynamic of the "i'll make fun of you constantly, but if anyone messes with you they're dead" kind. they never really sit down to talk out all the residual Baggage of everything, because neither of them are the type to overthink these things

but EVEN THEN. they may be simple-minded but the complication of the everything that led up to this means there's little hidden meanings even in the normalcy of their behaviour, and neither of them ever register it

for belphie it's "i'll never understand you. thank you for understanding me. i don't know what to say, so i'll tease you for tripping on your laces instead. i'd throw someone down a gorge if they made you cry. let's go shopping. i think i'll spend the rest of my life wondering if i can ever close the wound i tore in your soul."

for ik it's "i'll never forget what you did to me. i see you in my nightmares sometimes. thanks for waiting for me after school. quit making a show out of helping me reach the top shelf. sometimes i'm glad you regret things so much. can you help me with this homework? i think we're alright."

and for both of them it's "i like hanging out with you. sleep well. i'm glad we're home."

in conclusion,

i am crazy about things i made up entirely. perhaps i am cringe but i am free

#answering asks #valenrien #and also #anon asks #i meant to write this out like two days ago but i got Super Invested out of nowhere #in drawing this one thing of solomon and mephisto #idk if i'll get around to fully finishing it so like 75/25 whether i'll ever post it #but it's been very fun. i finish my work and then get to go 'hehehe time to go draw gay people'#for brief moments my youth was returned to me and i was fifteen years old #and drawing godzilla going on dates with various dinosaur and dragon ocs again #i haven't drawn godzilla in years. i used to be so good at it. i should draw him hanging out with ik #but anyway. in conclusion #belphie is a wounded animal in a beartrap and ik is the farmer's boy who loses a finger trying to prise it open #ik's unrelenting and fierce campaign for everyone she loves to just be NICE to themselves is almost frightening to belphie #who doesn't quite comprehend how she does it and doesn't feel he's quite earned forgiveness #except what ik's forgiveness forces him to confront is exactly what he deserves

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quirkle2 · 2 years

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4 with Warriors? :D

what's he excited about !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[expression challenge]

#qktalks #qkdraws #anon #this is not a recent challenge in the slightest this ask has been in my inbox since like june i think #maybe. idk #i reblog art challenge prompts and then store the requests i get for when i hibernate during the winter months #obviously . duh #GVEIYAGV #linked universe #lu #lu fanart #lu warriors #sorry if it looks a bit wonky i didn't flip the canvas much #also sorry if the expression is a bit lackluster im . well. not the best GVEIAYGV #not exactly the emotion i was aiming for and Also it looks kinda bland . wars sweetie im so sorry u do not deserve this #i accidentally put the white shine in his hair on the same layer as the lines . haunting i know GVYAEGV #had to spend like ten whole minutes fixing that mistake. my wrist is Throbbing rn i shouldn't have dedicated the entire day to drawing #got nothing done except this and it took like 4 hours for some reason. literally why GVYEIAV #im like less than 1k words away from finishing my fic too jay just fucking write . what is stopping u #well. my shitty ass phone is stopping me but. Excuses Excuses Jay Quirkle Dot Tumblr Dot Com #wow i just wont shut up huh. it's like im a fly and im incessantly trying to climb into ur cup of tea #those r my vibes. i've found them GVEAYGIV #that doesn't make any sense it's 12:30 am i usually go to bed sooner i am not made to stay up past like 11 #i simply stop functioning #anyway goodnight . ty for the ask anon i enjoyed drawing.... Him :)

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storytellering · 8 months

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the moment I see someone unironically make a "deadweight" nero joke or seriously refer to him as "deadweight" i know i can't trust them

#its the like king of the unfunny dmc dudebro jokes #like I hate to be the 'UMMMM ACTUALLY' guy but tell me you were playing with your eyes closed without telling me #the POINT is that he was never a deadweight not even to Dante #he just took it to heart because he was so desperate for Dante to acknowledge him and to feel up to task and his own inferiority complex #but the POINT was that dante blurted out something he didn't mean in the heat of the moment just to get nero out of there and #as words you dont think about in the heat of the moment often do #it stuck and cut him deeply #do you ever hear anyone refer to him as a dead weight besides the one dante line?#no!!!#the word is said exactly four times in game and three of those are nero talking back at dante since the one time hurt that badly #anyway yada yada i know its a funny haha #but it always communicates such a lack of care and respect for the source material and nero as a character to me #you can make deprecating jokes about the characters you like!#hell i insult vergil all the time #(he deserves it)#but its one thing to make actually funny and accurate insult-jokes about a character out of fondness #and another to just blindly parrot back a line that meant something completely else in context clearly without understanding what it meant #lol sorry rant over this got a bit longwinded #but the type of fan to unironically do that just bothers me #lo and behold its always the gen nonship and anti people wonder why /s

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ysbrydthespoop · 8 months

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One thing I absolutely love about Soul Eater (though there are many) is how everyone basically adopted Crona after the academy took them in. After one conversation with them, Stien understood Crona more than Medusa ever tried to. Marie is Crona's true mother. I'd say fight me on that, but I don't think anyone's going to. The main seven all adopted them into their friend group very quickly, especially considering everything that happened between them. And though I think this was mostly out of their trust in Maka, I think Liz especially wanted something like this to happen. Because even before this, she saw herself and Patty in them. I don't Liz thought back then that she and Crona would be friends, but at the very least, I think she hoped Crona would get a chance like she and her sister did, and she wanted there to be someway they could help them. This was their way, and this was the chance Crona needed. And I don't even think I need to talk about Maka. Their relationship grew so much and so fast into something wonderful. Their relationship is probably my favourite relationship I've seen in anything. Platonic, romantic, doesn't matter. It's beautiful. Pretty everyone around them got to know Crona for two minutes and decided, Medusa? Ragnerok? Who those bitches? Fuck those bitches. We're thier family now.

#and that's EXACTLY what Crona deserves #crona gorgon #soul eater #although (still haven't watched/read the whole series) I wouldn't be surprised if Crona's relationship with Ragnerok got more development #and improved over time #and I'm hoping it does #honestly I think Ragnerok has a lot of potential for some really insteresting character development

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xhanisai · 5 months

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#Delete later #Don't read this if you're a fan of kagami cos today I'm feeling livid about her behaviour and actions in s5 #Everything that salters claimed alya would be is exactly what kagami was #I feel like the reason I'm so pissed is cos I've had bitches do that to me in my school days too #Marinette gave her so much and this is what she got in return #She had her important secrets told to the person who helped the enemy and whose morals didn't align with hers #She made this girl a fucking superhero and brought her into her friendship group #AND THIS IS WHAT SHE GOT IN RETURN LOL #And the worst thing for me is that I don't see anyone talking about it and being like #Uwu kagami is such a helpless lonely girl uwu #FUCK HER #Don't get me started with the way she bitched at adrien for not standing up to gabriel at the end of s4 #She was terrible to both adrinette!!!#Alya and nino deserve a better fanbase #Adrinette deserves a better fanbase #If you're a fan of kagami that's completely fine and you're well within your rights to love her no matter what #But I will forever be pissed at her for this so don't expect any fanart or fics about her from me #I won't draw or write her unless she's needed for a plot or whatever #And don't worry I'm not gonna write salt about her or anything like that #And any of my work that involves her will stay in a positive or neutral light because we don't need more negativity in this fandom #I know this is a long rant but I'm just so annoyed #It just hits close to home for me #Cos I've been in Marinette's position #Lol

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sherlockruiningmylife · 10 months

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I will read heavy merthur angst without batting an eye. But give me some sweet domestic fluff, especially immortal merthur domesticity, and I'll be on the floor in tears.

#i think its because the show itself is angst #at least season 5 is #so you know #it isn't too dissimilar to canon #but immortal merthur #thats exactly the opposite of canon #and what i crave so so much #its what merlin deserves #but not what he got #and knowing that makes me heart break #merlin #bbc merlin #merthur #arthur pendragon #immortal merthur

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the-cosmos-withinus · 11 months

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Shadow Puppets AU - Wittebros + Evelyn Lore Dump

tw: Sexual assault

Disclaimer from myself and Bragi

-While the story went that Caleb and Philip arrived in Gravesfield alone as orphaned brothers, the truth was actually even more horrible. Philip is not Caleb’s brother, and is actually is nephew through a teenage sister, the product of a rape and since she could not name the father the baby was condemned as a son of the Devil -Caleb and his sister managed to escape their hometown with a small group undesirables and traveled together for a couple of years with Caleb becoming Philip’s primary caregiver when his mother wanted nothing to do with the child and eventually abandoned them all together. -This is a truth that Caleb took to his grave, Philip never learned of this while he was alive and only kind of learned about this upon his return to Gravesfield and encountered a certain member of the community that claimed to be a descendant of this long lost sister- Philip refuses to believe it. In fact by the time of his death, Caleb himself had actually forgotten they weren’t really brothers. -Philip was six when they arrived in Gravesfield, Caleb was twelve. They had nothing and were taken in by the town Preacher, Father Josiah and allowed to live in the church and attend the Sunday school where they were taught to read and write. -As much as a blessing as this at first seemed, Father Josiah was secretly molesting Philip behind closed doors. Caleb found out, but Josiah had also found out about Caleb’s sister and threatened to expose them to keep Caleb quiet while telling Philip “The Lord has big plans for you” to control him. -This situation did not change until Philip met Astrophel at eight years old and he was able to manifest long enough to attack Josiah to protect Philip. Amidst the accusations that Philip had summoned a demon and the debate that he was protected by an Angel, other children came forward to admit that Josiah had been assaulting them as well, leading the town to suspect Josiah of being corrupted by a Demon himself and burned at the stake. -While not entirely evident in the early part of his life, Philip is an autistic savant with a talent for engineering, and struggles to socially connect with anyone outside of his brother and his mysterious friend Astrophel. He was a hard worker though, and when he finished his chores he would help Caleb with his so they had more time to play. -Caleb also knows about Astrophel. They didn’t know that people could only see the Collector if they touched the disk until they tested it with Caleb. He wasn’t as certain as Philip that Astrophel was an Angel, but he was just glad his brother had a friend. -The brothers began dabbling in Witch Hunting after the death of Father Josiah, and Caleb first met Evelyn as she was using her powers as a real witch to save accused human witches from being hung. Caleb at first lied to her about not being a witch hunter and they became friends. -Evelyn had several vials of Titan’s blood at her disposal which she used to create portals to Gravesfield, but rarely met Caleb in person after their initial meeting and mostly used her Palismen, Flapjack to send letters between them. -She had only met Philip a handful of times and never actually saw his face because Philip always had his mask on around her, which she admitted to Caleb, creeped her out a lot. -Philip never suspected that she was a real witch until he saw her taking Caleb to the Demon Realm, he just didn’t like her because she...lightly bullied him, I guess is the best way to put it? Like, she didn’t intend to be mean, she was trying to be affectionate, giving him the nickname ‘Philly’ which he hated, ruffling his hair and breaching all sorts of personal boundaries that he didn’t like, but she really was just trying to bond with him. -Also during one of their in person visits, Evelyn suggested Caleb run away from Gravesfield with her, which Caleb refused to do because he couldn’t leave his brother behind, and Evelyn said something along the lines of ‘C’mon, you gave up your childhood to raise your brother, its time to do something for yourself for a change.” Philip heard her say this. Thankfully he also heard Caleb get mad at her for suggesting that taking care of his brother was a burden. -Caleb and Evelyn had a couple of personal conflicts throughout their friendship, actually, including Evelyn finding out that Caleb was a witch-hunter in training and saying their friendship was over -Eveyln had heard about Astrophel from Caleb and recognized the disk from ancient scrolls and returned to the Demon Realm to refresh her memory on what it was. After their fight about the Witch-Hunter reveal, she returned with a warning that the Collector is a dangerous being that was responsible for wiping out the Titans of her homeworld and convinced Caleb to take the disk into the Demon Realm with her for his brother’s sake. -Knowing that Philip would never believe that Astrophel was dangerous, they stole the disk in the middle of the night. Evelyn only had two vials of Titan’s blood left and they had to make a choice between taking Caleb with her and bringing him back or leaving a vial for Philip to find and meet them in the Demon Realm later. -Caleb left a letter explaining the situation to Philip, including instructions to find a map that they had hidden in ‘the secret place’ (under the floorboards) which would lead him to the vial of Titan’s Blood to follow them. -Things would have gone down much differently if Philip had ever gotten this letter. Unfortunately, he woke up when Caleb was leaving to meet Evelyn and saw them go through the portal with no context. He immediately went to get the Witch Hunter General and a few other Hunters to go on a rescue mission. -The letter was recovered from the abandoned Wittebane home after their disappearance which is how the story of the Wittebanes got passed down through Gravesfield, but the map was never found. -Philip was twelve at the time of his brother’s disappearance, Caleb was eighteen. The Witch Hunters all slowly died during the rescue mission leaving Philip on his own by the time he was fifteen after which the worst possible thing that could happen to him happened and he still didn’t find his brother until he was in his early twenties and then it got worse. -After Caleb’s death, Philip began searching for Astrophel with Evelyn creating false disks to throw him off and hot on his trail trying to kill the monster he’s become for many years.

#Shadow Puppets AU #evelyn clawthorne #Caleb Wittebane #Philip Wittebane #I've said it before and I'll say it again #this is the AU where everyone is just doing their best and shit still finds every way to go horribly wrong #Except Father Josiah he deserved exactly what he got #also I believe in Nerdy Evelyn supermacy #Lore post

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aeide-thea · 2 years

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i wish there were more images of men photographed the way people so often photograph women, or women photograph themselves—soft, sensual, romantic, highlighting and enjoying underappreciated parts of their bodies in a way that felt like a lingering, loving, holistic journey and wasn't just an artless zoom-in on muscles or cock or whatever

#this isn't even that well-articulated but. idk. wish there were more space for men to be and feel pretty and luxuriate in that #probably there are some spaces where this is happening and i'm just not in them #just feels like. so much of the way we (or like. i guess i mean cishet america) conceptualize men is so‚ idk‚ utilitarian #like i guess there's the sort of quasi-hellenistic kouros sort of thing but that isn't exactly what i mean #not that i don't like it but. idk. what if the fuzzy and fleshy got lingeringly rosily romanticized too #although to some extent that's femme-inizing and like. i do want men to be able to be femme #but also i wish there were like. a model for the kind of aesthetic appreciation of looks femmes get‚ but for non-femmes #like. i used to get compliments when i presented femme and now i don't. even though i'm still thinking about aesthetics #and like. there are a lot of other factors there. but in general it's like. a particular kind of presentation that elicits rapturous praise #i don't know. maybe fundamentally certain things have to go together and certain things can't. i don't want to accept that though.#anyway this is a little about me but mostly abt wanting men to have access to a wider range of expression and affirmation #both bc i think they deserve it and bc i think it would be sexy‚ lol #anyway.

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diluc33rpm · 2 months

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the romance/relationship system in bg3 is genuinely some of the worst designed shit i've ever seen in any game with that feature but at least the memes we get out of it are funny. once saw someone comment something along the lines of 'patch note: waving at gale will no longer cause him to buy a house for the two of you to retire in' and i've never recovered since

#i love gale he doesn't deserve (most of) the incel slander #but it's painfully such a good riff because it really really does feel like that #the player choices being a b/w alternation between 'hey there' and 'YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF... NOW!' normally is already comical as is #the fact that it carries over into interactions with the party members who you're presumably trying to be close with is... something else #and what makes it worse is it ISN'T jokey hyperbole. anyone remember 'send a mental image of you kissing him or HIS HEAD ON A PIKE.' c'mon #trying to chat and vibe at the refugee camp celebration and the sum of conversation i get is one (1) line asking how they're doing #because going any further than that elicits marking you down for the path of boning take it or leave it #it's genuinely so hard to get to feel like you can deepen a relationship with the characters in ways that aren't trying to pursue them #yes! halsin! i really want to know you better! i just don't want the ass!! why is trying to hit the only option other than up and leaving!!#99% of the time i expect nothing from media creators in terms of writing interactive relationships #larian are beyond parody in that they've somehow managed to do worse than the already suboptimal majority #we're just going to impose the roadblock of do you want to fuck y/n right off the bat. good luck finding a way to talk around that if not #the obscuration surrounding where exactly the checks are really does not help at all either #when the shit's got even the allos complaining about it you know it's BAD #shame because i was excited for character scenes given that's a lot of what's hyped up about the game #but no it's all just the romances. 'what if i'd like to breathe in someone's general direction-' well now have you heard of our romances?#fish fear them party members fear them and tav is going to have to walk alone on this sinful earth #conservative bigoted relative at the family reunion withers era was a fucking time before they tweaked that line speaking of #just so crazy they can get away with this shit #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 liveblog

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kakusu-shipping · 1 year

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🤍 for Mariocest

The Mario bros..... married.....

🤍 - Kiss at the wedding

In which Mario dreams of a future he never thought he'd have

Mario collapsed onto is back in the grass of the castle court yard, knocking the wind out of himself in the motion. Married, he thought. Marriage. The big show of devotion.

He'd put the concept far out of his mind before he really even understood it. He was never going to be the kind of guy to be legally married, because the only one he could fathom to ever love that much was his brother.

But now here he lay, in a Kingdom Far Far away from the rugged, probably valid, laws of Brooklyn, New York State, USA.

Every day Mario was reminded just how different the Mushroom Kingdom, and the entire world it existed within, was from his home. How they perceived Familial Relations wasn't as black and white, related or not, as it was back on Earth.

The way Peach had explained it, everyone is related in the Mushroom Kingdom, in the biological sense, in an unseen connection way. Families, parents and children and siblings, still existed but they were always more of a choice one makes than people one could be stuck with through blood ties. A choice that could be edited, reversed, altered as the relationship changed.

It was all a little too big of a concept for Mario, and the Princess tends to Grandify her explanations, but what it boiled down to was so very simple.

Here, in the Mushroom Kingdom, brothers, sisters, cousins and whoever else, are free to marry. Legal, true marriages.

Mario felt his heart rate pick up speed as it sunk in even further. Marriage. A real wedding with guests happy for them. With food and flowers and gifts and suits and- Mama mia rings.

He could propose. By Stars he could propose, a real proposal, and have it mean something. A real question with a real answer and a ceremony with vows and a big party.

Mario's hands clenched around his overall straps as he kicked his legs into the air a bit, his heart pounding in his chest as he squirmed out his excitement. He needed to calm down.

With a deep breath Mario focused on the clouds floating lazily overhead. White and fluffy and calm, oh so calm. Drifting slowly through the sky.

Mario closed his eyes, his heart rate slowing, the burning in his cheeks dimming. A cloud blocked the sun over head, cooling him down.

He wondered what Luigi would want to wear to their wedding. Mario always believed himself a Tuxedo guy. He'd wear the occasional dress, but it really wasn't his style. Luigi on the other hand...

Oh.. Luigi in a wedding dress...

Mario could see him now. Long and frilly with puffy sleeves and short gloves, standing with a thin veil and a bouquet of those beautiful rocket flowers at the end of an aisle lined with pews full of people who are so, so happy for them.

He walks down the aisle, and Mario stands tall on the staged in his white tux, and he is mesmerized by his brother's beauty, and no one else in the room seems to matter any longer.

They say their vows, they exchange rings. Mario is holding Luigi's hands so tenderly in his own, and he is crying. They're both crying, and this is really happening, and neither of them can look away or think of anything other than how happy they are to be there. Together.

"You may now kiss the bride"

Yeah.. Luigi would like the sound of bride.... Wife...

The cloud overhead moved along with the light breeze, allowing the warm sun to shine down onto Mario as he napped in Peach's court yard.

It wasn't an uncommon sight, to see the Hero of the Mushroom Kingdom asleep in the grass on warm days, so no one dared bother him.

Besides. He looked like he was having a nice dream.