#a nice end to a shit week

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

do you get incredibly excited over cataloguing candles or are you normal

#HAVING THE TIME OF MY MF LIFE RN #decided to put together some index cards into a little flip thing #and list down all of my candles #sorted into seasons / vibes #currently i have 24 candles #but some are running very low... rip #like my really good peach ones. sigh #BUT OHHHHHH CATALOGUING CANDLES #LOVE ME SOME CANDLES #absolutely unprompted #today has been unusually good! #a nice end to a shit week #got my boba. got some errands done. finished my crochet sleeves. organizing my candles rn. hell. fucking. yes. #and then im gonna draw!!! yippee yahoo!!! #might even be able to respond to messages!! #the energy is genuinely ~high~ and ~positive~ for once #i even found some good cardstock and stuff #so i can print out a couple things ive been dying to #namely a commission of My Specialest Boy that i need on my wall #i need more commissions of him... i need a full wall of him to gaze at... #i need to make that 'do it for him' board thats been hanging in my brain for the past eight years #BUT THATS LATER. NOW IS CANDLE TIME #i gotta rank them from favorite to least as well...

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

#so confused about people saying the season finale feels like the end because to me it didn't at all #there's like 5-10 issues immediately set up for another season #they're in a happy place at this point because they've both realized their love is bigger than anything else #and makes it worth working on their problems together #the problems are still very much there #both of them have deep self esteem/self loathing issues that haven't been resolved in the week since ed woke up #ed doesn't know about stede's trauma #they haven't talked through anything #and they'll be shit at starting/running an inn lmao it's not gonna go well #and those are just some of the internal issues #then there's prince ricky and all the authorities that would very much like to get their hands on both blackbeard and stede bonnet #because stede just full-on kept using his government name after faking his death. nice one #the crew are not “gone” they're more like off to college for a bit but will probably run into trouble immediately #again because while they escaped to the ship they didn't eliminate the threat (the british empire) #it's not a forever goodbye #ok this got super long already anyway i have a whole fic marinading in my brain until i've finished these 4 wips i'm in the middle of ✌️ #hope we get a renewal soon because i want to see the rest of their story!! #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd #our flag means death

[syrupyyyart]

Biggest folley of Motley and why it got so difficult for me to write was because I kept getting so caught up on trying to represent every aspect of their stories all at once anytime there were on screen, when really I need to remember that they are in fact Just Little Guys

#aaah. the difficulty of writing ocs youve had since middle school #to me they are at the end of their story. but to you ..... they are just random characters by a stranger on tha internet #i need to break them down to their core essentials again ..... work backwards #first few chapters are gonna get some minor edits to the art and dialogue #but i have a clearer view of what the next few chapters will be #glad i paused for a few weeks to work on far out (which is also looking super good. i love jane and galactica. theyre so funny) #its nice to make new characters fron scratch #the first few motley chapters are gonna get punched up and future ones will be overall funnier #kept trying to make it serious but it needs to be funny. otherwise this shit is gonna get depressing real quick lol

[thedustyleaves]

Revisiting another childhood show for a quick warm-up! Feels good to be able to sit down and draw again <3 

#american dragon jake long #americandragon #jake long #drawings #these take about 1 hour from start to finish and are a nice way to loosen up and draw something simple with a feasible end goal #it's nice when I haven't drawn shit for weeks lsakdja

[raineandsky]

The Villain's Housekeeper

(part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5) (part 6) (part 7) (part 8) (part 9) (part 10) (part 11)

tw: implied torture

“[Hero], I– I’m so sorry…”

The hero doesn���t even look at the villain. Their head is bent, staring distantly at a crack in the concrete floor. “It’s okay.”

The villain had called the superhero’s bluff. Tried to, at least. They never thought a superhero could be so cruel to one of their own. But the superhero had been more than happy to prove them wrong, to make the villain watch him inflict nothing but agony on the hero until they’d finally spat out exactly what the superhero wanted.

The supervillain probably doesn't stand a chance now. They don’t care.

Even from their own dingy cell the villain can see the blood seeping mockingly through the hero’s shirt. Their palms rub together mindlessly like that’ll erase the crimson nightmare from their hands. They seem like they’re barely conscious, blankly honed into the tiny blemish on the floor like it’s a portal they’re waiting to open.

None of this is okay. The hero’s just saying that. The villain kind of wishes they’d just gone and died in the street like the supervillain had intended. At least that would’ve saved them both from this.

The hero is sitting on the floor, not moving except to scrub at their hands, but the villain is restlessly pacing back and forth. They have so much pent up energy from the last hour—it has to go somewhere.

“We’re gonna get out,” they say into the silence.

“We’re not.”

The villain turns to the hero a little harsher than they meant to. The hero flinches even from several metres away, and the villain’s heart crushes just that little bit more. “We are, [Hero]. We’re gonna get out and [Superhero] is never gonna touch you again.”

The hero makes some noise that is clearly meant to be a scoff but comes out as more of a broken sob. “Big dreams.”

The villain doesn’t bother commenting on that. “No window, no lockpicking.” They glance around for ideas. “No bribery, I’d assume. No help.”

“How long were you here before… we spoke?”

The villain pauses. “In prison? I don’t know, a few days.”

The hero frowns. The villain doesn’t like it. “Have you not tried breaking out before?”

“I didn’t think I had anything to live for before.” The villain carries on glancing around to avoid looking at the way the hero’s face twists like they don’t believe them.

-

“There you are, you little shit,” is the greeting the superhero gives the villain. “Your codes were bullshit, weren’t they?”

He glares at them expectantly. There’s a lump in the villain’s throat that words seem to be stuck behind. “I– I gave you what you wanted.”

“Like hell you did.” The superhero throws an aimless hand over his desk. The villain’s papers are all over the place, various scrawls across their pages in a clear attempt to figure them out. “Your so-called codes didn’t work.”

The villain’s mind is blank. That can’t be right. They gave him the fucking codes. He should be descending on the supervillain this very moment, but instead he’s here, claiming they don’t work—

“Wouldn’t want your special sweetheart to feel the consequences of this, would we?”

The villain’s gaze snaps back to where the superhero’s smirking at them knowingly. They want to smack that look clean off his face. He knows too much, and now he’s using it all against them. The hero is back here, suffering the fate they fell into the villain’s grasp trying to escape, and they’re back here because of them. The villain feels sick at the thought.

“I gave you the fucking codes,” the villain spits. “It’s not my fault if you’re too thick to use them.”

The superhero’s face momentarily twitches in hatred, but it doesn’t last long. “Not to worry,” he says smoothly. He waves a hand for the security guard at the door to step forward. “I’m sure I can get an answer out of you pretty easily, hm?”

For a moment the villain can feel the burn of rope on their wrists, their throat sore, their eyes hot with tears of sickness and horror and guilt.

The security guard touches a hand to their arm, and before they can think about what they’re doing they turn around and punch him in the face.

The superhero’s on his feet immediately but the villain’s already moving. A quick boot to the middle keeps the security guard on the floor, and they meet the superhero at the desk without a thought. He tries to point a pistol at them but they butt it out of his hand, kicking it across the floor for good measure.

The superhero throws a fist at them and connects with their shoulder with the fury of the sun. The villain stumbles and the superhero’s confidence throws him in for a second blow. They dodge back, just, jabbing an elbow into the side of his face. The superhero staggers with an enraged cry and the villain leaps the desk to make for the gun.

It’s in their hand before either of the two can realise what’s happened. “Okay,” the villain says slowly. Their shoulder is throbbing but they have no time to think about it right now. “I’m gonna leave, and you’re not gonna say jackshit when I do.”

The superhero laughs, the sound wet with blood. “You won’t get far without death following you.”

“My paperwork’s still encoded. I’m not too worried.”

And with that they’re out into the corridor, more than happy to spend the superhero’s bullets on anyone stupid enough to come near them.

An alarm whirrs, drooping the halls in flashing red light. They’re lost, unaccustomed to wandering the corridors alone, but it doesn’t matter. They’ll get to where they need to be. They just have to survive first.

“Don’t worry, [Hero],” the villain whispers, like saying it outloud is a promise. “I’m coming.”

(next part)

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@runarelle @thiefofthecrowns @morning-star-whump @epiclamer

#creative writing #writblr #writers on tumblr #writing #writing community #heroes and villains #hero x villain #the villains housekeeper #tw implied torture #today was my last day at work before crimmas!!!! #and tomorrows the crimmas partayyyyyy #and the break will be nice but god im mostly glad todays over lmao #why does everyone decide they want shit done 2 hours before the end of the last day before i disappear for a week #and why is it ME who has to sort it D: (it is my job to sort it) #the lie in tomorrow will be godly i know it

[sarioh]

full day late to this but i finally watched the life series finale and i cant believe etho is actually kind of beating the washed up allegations. the biggest twist of the entire series so far was him outliving all the cockers

#HE KILLED SO MANY PEOPLE !! IM SO PROUD #he started the episode with lowest time and ended top 5. NICE #i am running on 2 hours of sleep and also am a little drunk right now so i cant say anything articulate #the DIAMOND SWORD MOMENT. WHO CHEERED #also holy shit the cockers spectating him. awesome #gonna watch the rest of the episodes next week bc im not home rn. but. yea

[mokeonn]

One of my favorite things about being in my early 20s is that I'm starting to understand that I can use things not for their intended purpose. When you're growing up, you get told what an object is and what its intended purpose is, and as a kid/teen, I just accepted all of it at face value. As a young adult it's finally clicking that I can simply do things a different way if it makes me happier. Sure, I was taught that you stand to take a shower, but there's nothing stopping me from just sitting if I don't feel like it, ya know? I might have always had my medication in the kitchen, but if I'm no longer remembering to take it, I can just move it somewhere where I can remember. You don't have to specifically store all food in the kitchen, you can have a little snack cart or snack station in another room.

The downside to finding out the various ways you can use objects is that you develop habits that would probably go on an r/relationships post where everyone says you're a little freak.

#simon says #i just developed a new habit (it's too tmi to put here) and I just know that it's some weird shit #it works and it makes me feel better so I'm gonna keep doing it #but it's some shit that would end up viral where everyone would go 'yo op you should break up with them thats weird' 😔 #i was just thinking about this though because every week or so I learn that I can just do what I want #because there's no fucking object use police I can do what I want #i HIGHLY suggest getting into this habit. if you find something annoying or frustrating you can just do it differently #'I hate washing the dishes because my legs hurt from standing for so long' you can bring a chair and sit or you can break it up into chunks #like on the one hand I'm learning this because I have autism and a plethora of other mental disorders #and it's FINALLY clicking that I can self accommodate whenever and however I so please #I'm just sorta learning that if doing something makes me feel better/happy/gets the job done to do that thing #even if it requires using an object in an odd way #hell there's even some little things I've been playing with #for example: my whole life we sorta just lifted blinds only about halfway up #just sorta how we did it ya know #well recently I decided I wanted more natural light in the sunroom/my office so I wouldn't have to turn on the lamp #and I lifted the blinds all the way up to the very top #and honestly?? it fucking rules. the room looks nicer; i get natural light; i can see the forest out back and it's quite calming and nice #like for ages I just never thought about doing that because it just never occurred to me that I could #i just always put blinds about halfway up because that's about how high blinds do in my household #another little one I learned is that I can just... wash my hair #sometimes when I get too depressed or if my body doesn't need a shower but my hair is greasy #I just shove my head under the bathtub facet and wash my hair #it's just a small thing but for years if my hair needed to be washed I would just take a full shower #now I just fix my greasy hair. bc greasy hair is a huge ick for me but sometimes my body is still clean or im too tired to fully shower #like there's nothing stopping me from doing that and it doesn't hurt anyone. it's just a way of bathing that I wasn't taught #but yeah those are some recent examples of me learning I can just... do stuff differently #the free will is kicking in babes and it has decided I love finding ways to use things differently #it's why im doing a bg3 run where I just press loot all no matter what and use whatever I can in odd ways #anyways I might delete this later might not who knows

[waluigisgaybf]

Lineart turned out well!!!!! and I added colour to his eyes for a nice lil pop of red 😩👌

BUT GOD, Im legit so happy with this

#there’s obviously parts Im not fully happy with or sure about- #but thats just how it be so like- #BUT IM STILL JUST FEELING REALLY GOOD AFTER GETTING THIS SKETCH OUT BECAUSE IVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO DRAW FOR FUCKING WEEKS #I push WAY to hard with my pencil- still to this day- #so shit like his teeth got all sorts of fucked up by the end of ahdjdjdk but they still look nice!!! #Astarion Acunin #Astarion #BG3 #waluigisgaybf #waluigisgaybf art #my art #sketch #Astarion sketch #bg3 Astarion #Astarion art #character sketch #Baldurs Gate 3 #Baldurs Gate 3 Astarion #fangs #red eyes #bg3 sketch #vampire #eternallyodd #eternallyodd art #idk thats my other handle I used to use so- #idk ????

[saturngalore]

i keep forgetting that sfs is down and i thought i could download some 🏴‍☠️ early access stuff and of course….i couldn’t

#ohhhh whyyyy #atp somebody not weird needs to create something similar to sfs #cause now i gotta make my patreon look all nice and shit like man what happened to just downloading stuff and go #alt links will probably go up by the end of the week idk #i wanted to release a hair this week and now who knows #the ppl that run sfs pls do something i beg #🪐 speaking

[yoru]

i just finished trimax and oh my god how am i going to function now

#THE PART WITH KNIVES AND THE TREE LIKE HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE AFTER THAT SCENE #the small bit of character development he showed at the end was just so… unexpected? #like after all the shit he pulled throughout the series i didn’t think he was going to show any change but it was really nice to see tbh! #ALSO i am so glad it ended in a happy and silly way because idk what i would have done with myself if the ending was sad lmao #it took me so long to read it after volume 10 like i literally had to take 2-3 week breaks in between each volume afterwards #and i’m still not over the events in volume 10 and i don’t think i’ll ever be tbh 😭 #trigun #trigun maximum #trigun spoilers #trimax spoilers #salo.exe

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hm! i have never stimmed so violently (yippee yahoo!) in my life!

#that was very well timed i was starting to have a bad day! the entropy was starting to Kick In! #bad day's over everything is wonderful life is worth living etc Etc #that being said yes see this hole i am laying comfortably in #yeah see those shovels over there #i want each of you to take one and then toss a shovelful of dirt into the hole. right on top of me #yep yes keep going till im covered thank you <3 #the mortification of being Perceived vs the sheer joy of it all FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT #woah... clown likes how i draw barnaby.... i feel peace in my soul.... #absolutely unprompted #a nice end to a relatively shitty week lmao!!! #first the update and now this!! wowee!!! yeehaw! hawyee! holy fucking shit! #gonna be thinking about this all month! an instant picker-upper!

[jess-abides]

Talk nice bc the 🐱 game mean, ho

#me #I guess I’m having a beige day? lol #went to the gym early and started a new monthly program #ended w the stair stepper 😭 he’s making me do cardio finishers now lol #having breakfast and a bowl on the porch and a nice slow morning getting my shit together for the week #also lol @ the caption v much not matching the vibe of the picture but this song is stuck in my head so that’s what y’all get #Spotify

[toytulini]

thinking about that post about keeping a house clean organized w adhd with like dump zones and shit and i need to. do stuff to my room. hh

#toy txt post #they should invent a way to put away laundry that doesnt feel actively hostile and sisyphean #oh i put it in the closet and its so nice and out of the wa-oh i wore it once time to go into the dirty clothes and #get washed and end up in The Laundry Pile where ill wear it like 3 more times and repeat this cycle until i get the power to put away #laundry again ! and its back in the pile #i gave up folding my clothes out of the dryer save for the like printed button up shirts bc half the time they sit in the fucking pile #getting rifled through so long that it feels pointless and the extra step of folding them out of the dryer had me liable to leave my shit #in the dryer for a week if no one forces me to take it out :/ #i was interested in sort of an open concept dresser while i was looking for a dresser and ended up not getting that but like! come on #ig incorporating like multiple hampers or smth would be useful but i have nowhere to put fucking anything #ugggggh #and i still need to put the shelf back up and a new shelf and lamps i bought and replace the shelfs i bought for the tank stand plant #stands with something more waterproof and leas ugly (thinking tile could be fun?) #so much to do all the time and im not doing it im just having ideas and rotting and i need a job but the depression is kicking my ass #wahhhhh #okay. okay. im putting down the phone #no longer will the caffeine compel me into Posting

[starlooove]

I’m trying not to be a hater but that tiktok and comment section pissed me off so bad.

#the way the fics end in Bruce saying sorry and everyone coddling tim and tims like ‘well I was just a placeholder 🥺’ #the fun part about tim is that he made grown ass decisions at a little ass age that literally everyone told him would turn out bad #and then it turned out bad and he knows he dug his own grave so he just has to pretty it up as best as he can #and if he could go back in time he would do that shit again BECAUSE HE LIKES IT! BECAUSE ITS EXCITING! BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BE ROBIN #that Robin is a job shit is a lie he told himself that literally nobody around but YALL the stupid ass audience believed #that’s like the crux of him I think #lying to himself to get the job done because he can’t let his emotions get in the way but unfortunately that’s not how it works #and when he realizes that he gets pissed at everyone else for not letting it work and himself for not making it work #he somehow thinks that he can remove this attitude as tim Drake when Robin is the crutch tim Drake leans on in adulthood #which is an issue because now everyone around him is moving and he’s still stuck at 14 knocking on dicks door and hoping that he’ll have to #make use of the suit he brought with him. not because he’s excited or anything but just in case #his friends and family died and came back Gotham gets destroyed every other day and rebuilt every other week everything keeps changing but #nothing is and he’s stuck in that cycle and maybe it’s his fault for not letting things rest but he refuses to accept that because he’s GOOD #as Robin he does excellent work and always has and nothing will change that not even a new Robin. his friends are all making names for #themselves and he’s still stuck under Bruce’s cape fighting a teenager to be robin. #THATS whats fun about tim #the writing is stuck rn I’ll give u that but the next move should be an acknowledgment of that #tim doesn’t wanna peak in high school so he has to move on but he doesn’t know how and matter of fact doesn’t know why! nothings been this #permanent before (<-LYING!) #but no whatever everyone hates him realizes they’re wrong and he leaves Gotham bc he deserves better but comes back bc he’s so nice. ok.

[pomeraniandancer]

I would like to thank my body for waiting until *after* both of my very stressful end-of-semester presentations had been completed and presented to commence menstruation. It usually starts before such stressful occasions, so its tact and courtesy in this instance is much appreciated.

#menstruation #menstrual cycle #stress #end of semester #not quite finals week but getting there #my body usually likes to fuck shit up #but it was actually polite this time #so that's nice

[decembermoonskz]

update on flirty idiot that I may have a mini crush on bc I can

#izzy.txt★ #he invited me to hang with him for my bday (like on a discord vc) and we chatted a ton about random shit #he said happy bday to me and I just felt so relaxed laughing and joking with him #it was really fun and I also got to talk with one of his frens who I also really like bc she’s so fucking sweet #it was just such a nice chill end to my bday and even tho I said my bday was technically over bc it was past midnight #he was still like ‘well still happy bday’ and idk it’s so mundane but I was like >/////< #and I was like it’s my bday week and he agreed it was hhhh #and he was still his normal playful fun and flirty self and I wanted to kick my feet #he also said ily to me but it wasn’t like a deep one so it’s not a confession it was just like that playful love youuu~ toy of thing #and I said it back and then I hesitated bc I was like WAIT THATS TOO SOON WE JUST MET AND WE ARENT A THING AND I WAS OVERTHINKING #but like he didn’t mention it so I think he thought I was just playing too so I’m glad bc I wasn’t trying to mean anything by it rn HAHAHAHA #I was so nervous lemme tell you like WAIT WAS THAT TOO MUCH TO SAY IT BACK??? #anyways I sent him a ty for spending time with me and he sent a little hug gif and just ugh idk im a happy girl #he’s so fucking lame too like he’s just some dude but ugh I’m crushing I can tell #I won’t get ahead of myself tho bc it’s way too soon but like hhhhh it’s nice having a flirty experience like this