#but I love getting to revisit this AU

[softquietsteadylove]

During the show the tightrope breaks and Thena falls. Luckily Gil catches her but gets injured. The whole crew protects both of them when kro is very angry that Gil touches Thena. Some drama for the circus one

"Thena!"

It felt as if it happened in slow motion. Thena was in the middle of the routine as usual, and things were going well. She and Angus were both strong and ready for the show.

But something wasn't right. Gil had watched as Thena froze on the tightrope, her whole body locking up on the spot. He had looked to where her eyes were anchored, running out from behind the scenes. Something was wrong with the joint where the line was attached.

Then it snapped.

"Thena!" He ran as fast as he could. There were no nets, as per a certain ringleader's demand (because it didn't instill the right excitement in the crowds). There was no protecting Thena from a bone shattering fall.

He plowed into her, just barely managing to catch her as they both rolled and skidded from his momentum. He somehow managed to keep a hold of her within his arms. His shoulder was most certainly jostled from where it was supposed to be, and he wouldn't be surprised if he had a number of bruises along his ribs and arms.

The crowd was up on its feet, women and children screaming. Kro was already trying to assure them and tell them there was no need to panic (no need to ask for their money back).

"Gil?"

He opened his eyes, scared to look at what happened. But he grunted as Thena leaned over him, her hair pooling on his chest as he lay on his back. Her hand trailed over his cheek. "Are you okay?"

"Oh Gil," she whispered, her hand sliding down his cheek and neck and over his chest.

Gil looked around them. It was chaos, and this was definitely a worst case scenario. At least Thena wasn't hurt, but the repercussions would ripple through the whole crew. They had to check the equipment, they would have a meeting with everyone from every department. And Kro would be furious.

"Hey!"

Gil saw from somewhat upside down as Kro caught sight of them. He didn't know why the guy was anywhere but by his wife's side, but he was too tired to think about that now. He watched as Kro began the process of storming over to them.

"Get your filthy hands off of her!"

Oh, he was talking to him. Gil blinked, feeling as if he were hearing everything underwater, and his head hurt something fierce. But Thena was unharmed, that was all that mattered to him.

"Gil," Thena whispered to him. There was a flurry of motion around them, the crew rushing to talk to Kro about what to do about the broken highwire. They would serve as a barricade for them. "Can you see me?"

He could only ever see her. He nodded, groaning as he tried to sit up.

"It's okay, easy," she cooed to him as she helped pull him up. "We're going to get you some help."

Gil tried to hold himself up, but damn it felt hard. He didn't think he was really this heavy, but he couldn't keep his feet straight. He was like a newborn colt trying to walk for the first time.

"Come on, big fella," some of his friends from the crew got on either side of him. Of course Thena couldn't be the one to help try to walk him to the medical tent. But she smelled nicer than these guys.

"Gil," she called to him again, dragging his eyes up to hers. "Just look at me. You can't fall asleep."

Why not? He was dead tired and he felt like he'd been wrestling with the elephants.

"Just keep looking at me," she whispered, leading him with the sweet lyricism of her voice. Like a damn angel, that woman.

Gil sighed as they finally got him to the medical tent and seated on a bale of hay. He really was ready to lie down, but he let Thena drag his head upright again. Although he did whine a little as she shined some kinda light in his eyes.

"You can't sleep like this," she sighed, and then put something cold on the top of his head. His eyes naturally rolled upward, not that he could see whatever it was. She smiled, "it's just from the icebox. We have to keep the swelling down."

Oh, it was his head. That made sense why his ears were ringing, at least. "Are you okay?"

Thena looked at him in a way that made his heart melt. She sat beside him, even letting her knees in her sparkly stockings brush against his in his regular, ratty old trousers. "Thanks to you."

Gil looked at her, now that the chaos from the main tent was behind them. She did look fine, which was a relief. "Couldn't just let you fall."

It was almost not within his control, that was to say. But Thena took his hand in hers. "I know you couldn't. But I owe my life to you, all the same."

His mind was a few steps behind his mouth as he blurted out, "where's your husband?"

Normally he wouldn't bring him up, even just so as to not upset the lady.

But Thena didn't even blink, rubbing her thumb against his, "don't worry about him, for now."

"I wish you didn't have to worry about him," Gil mumbled out. He really was saying whatever was on his mind, huh?

Thena sighed, though, looking at him with those stunning green eyes. "I know. I wish so, too."

Gil closed his eyes as she adjusted the cloth bundle of ice on top of his head. It did feel nice, but it also gave him the chills. "He's gonna blow his top if we can't get the highwire restrung."

"That man would blow his top at the sky if it were the only thing around."

Gil chuckled, although it made his head hurt something awful. He groaned.

"Sorry." Thena brushed the backs of her knuckles over his temple, soothing the ache from the outside in.

Gil looked at the cloth walls of the tent. It was just some canvas, and it was far from impenetrable. But he looked at Thena, feeling like he really did have this moment to keep just to themselves. "Thena...if he ever hurts you, I swear-"

His eyes slid closed as she leaned forward to kiss him. Her lips were as soft as the light of first dawn. If he never believed in heaven before, maybe he did now.

Thena leaned back, her thumbs on his cheeks, "don't worry about me, Gil."

But he did. Every second of every day, he thought of her.

He was painfully in love with someone else's wife. "But-"

She kissed him again, more softly, and more chastely too, leaning back even quicker. "No buts, just try to rest. I can handle Kro."

Gil tried to protest again but Thena stood, leaving him alone on his little hay bale island. He blinked as she exited the tent, the warm glow inside contrasting the cold, blue light outside.

"Is he in there?"

"He's resting. Leave him be, Kro."

"Like hell I will. Bastard thinks he can put his hands on my wife?!"

Gil tried to get to his feet, stumbling to his knees at first. He tried again as the crack of a palm against a cheek sliced through the air. "Th-Thena?"

"He saved my life! More than you've ever done, and if I see you bothering him, I'll give the crowd something that will really scare them away and right out of your greedy hands."

He had never heard Thena raise her voice. He had seen her stand her ground with Kro, and he had no doubt she was as tough as a lady got, even with that brute of a husband. Maybe because of that brute of a husband.

"Ungrateful little whore."

"Call me whatever you want. Gilgamesh is not to leave his own sleeper car until he's healed."

She only ever called him Gil when they were alone.

"Fine, but the show goes on, even if the vet starts bleeding from the eyes."

Gil tried to stand again. He had to say that he would be fine. He couldn't let Thena be left alone with that devil. He groaned, managing to stand and take a few steps.

He only made it out of the tent in time to see Kro all but dragging Thena away, probably to berate her for talking back to him in front of the crew like that. But she turned and waved to him, assuring him of her well being.

Gil stood there, watching the woman he loved get dragged away by her husband. He couldn't make out any of the words his fellow crewmen and friends were chattering at him. All he was thinking about was how Thena had kissed him, and in such a way that could only mean that she loved him too.

#Thenamesh Circus AU #the drama!!! #I love it! #thank you for the ask! #honestly it's more dramatic than my usual stuff #but I love getting to revisit this AU #so I'm always happy to get the chance #and listen can you say star crossed lovers? #because oh my god it's so painfully obvious #talk about right person wrong time #Thena is on the ground with her hand on his chest like he's sleeping beauty and she's prince charming #and Kro is like huh...something's not right here #meanwhile everyone on the crew is gossiping and weeping on a nightly basis #they're so in love it's so beautiful but so sad!!! #so they create every window of opportunity for them that they can #Gil does get to eventually go to bed #and he sleeps for like 16 hours #when he finally wakes up he's got a dislocated shoulder and stumbles out #they get him some food and tell him everything is okay #he asks if Thena's okay and they say the lady's practically calling the shots since he got hurt #she's barking at Mister Kro an awful lot lately

[macchitea]

haven't drawn them in so long aaa

#rain world #kirby #rainland au #metacat #kirbpup #im on break week so i get to draw smth for myself >:) #i MISS THEMMM #comfort characters to draw <333 #would love to revisit this au again one day;; wrote a whole thing for it but never got the chance to draw them out aaough #macchiart

[brother-emperors]

BROTHERS

The river Weser ran between the Roman and Cheruscan forces. Arminius came to the bank and halted with his fellow chieftains:— "Had the Caesar come?" he inquired.​ On receiving the reply that he was in presence, he asked to be allowed to speak with his brother. That brother, Flavus by name, was serving in the army, a conspicuous figure both from his loyalty and from the loss of an eye through a wound received some few years before during Tiberius' term of command. Leave was granted, and Stertinius took him down to the river. Walking forward, he was greeted by Arminius; who, dismissing his own escort, demanded that the archers posted along our side of the stream should be also withdrawn. When these had retired, he asked his brother, whence the disfigurement of his face? On being told the place and battle, he inquired what reward he had received. Flavus mentioned his increased pay, the chain, the crown, and other military decorations; Arminius scoffed at the cheap rewards of servitude.

They now began to argue from their opposite points of view. Flavus insisted on "Roman greatness, the power of the Caesar; the heavy penalties for the vanquished; the mercy always waiting for him who submitted himself. Even Arminius' wife and child were not treated as enemies." His brother urged "the sacred call of their country; their ancestral liberty; the gods of their German hearths; and their mother, who prayed, with himself, that he would not choose the title of renegade and traitor to his kindred, to the kindred of his wife, to the whole of his race in fact, before that of their liberator." From this point they drifted, little by little, into recriminations; and not even the intervening river would have prevented a duel, had not Stertinius run up and laid a restraining hand on Flavus, who in the fullness of his anger was calling for his weapons and his horse. On the other side Arminius was visible, shouting threats and challenging to battle: for he kept interjecting much in Latin, as he had seen service in the Roman camp as a captain of native auxiliaries.

Tacitus Annals 2.10-11

there's a lot going on in there! Arminius switching to Latin is a detail that always makes me feel a deep kind of sadness, especially with how it's preceded by mention of their mother. I wonder what she thought of what became of her sons, on opposite sides of everything but still, inescapably, brothers. even when they want to kill each other. there sure are a lot of fucked up and unhappy brothers around. and Arminius asking about Flavus' injury............I also had a whole thing typed out about the horror of imperialism and colonization and the trauma of assimilation but I think this sets the tone better

Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest, Adrian Murdoch

and also this, just for fun

(ibid)

this post is already a mile long, so lets add another mile to it: a little scene at the start of their conversation! tfw you go in for a hug and your younger brother who also ended up being taller starts roasting your hair style

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app⭐ko-fi

#long post #SO LONG #roman empire tag #tbh im not jazzed about using that tag when rome is not actually the setting here but i do not have a good era tag for this yet #i'll figure it out later eurhghghesuerhgh #komiks tag #arminius & flavus #idk. maybe also #eye trauma cw #anyway it's all very 'he's my brother and i need a shovel to love him' kind of deal #this (wheezing) this is an idea i had LAST YEAR but it was a solo illustration #i had it posted for about ten minutes before i decided it sucked ass and needed to be revisited as a comic #FINALLY. the idea is complete. im free. it's been bothering me to have it unfinished while the original idea was haunting my drafts #as a reminder to get it done. and now i can delete it. au revoir illustration you will not be missed

[missrosegold]

Okay okay okay so I know I tentatively put out the idea of MMA fighter!Dabi/Touya, BUT -- what about Cyberpunk!Dabi??

Think about it: the LOV is still a terrorist organization, but with cybernetic enhancements - most of them are damn near on the verge of going Cyberpsycho as it is with how much chrome they're packing.

Their fire fights with the NCPD/Militech and Arasaka are legendary and brutal; no one leaves unscathed, and even the rest of the gangs that terrorize Night City give them a wide birth - least they get pulled into a turf war with them.

Poor little you is just trying to get home after a particularly long day at your job (your hours are shit and the pay is arguably worse), and you find yourself running for cover as a gang fight breaks out between the LOV and Maelstrom.

One thing leads to another, and suddenly you find yourself looking up at a white haired man - more chrome then flesh - learing down at you with a grin so terrifying, you almost think he's gone full psycho, had hd not made any move to snap your neck.

Giving him a quick scan, you can see that he has a cybernetic arm that spits out blue hell fire, and mechanically enhanced eyes so insanely blue it's a new shade to you completely, amoung a plethora of other enhancements that make you question how he isn't a fully fledged Cyberpsycho.

You know who he is, everybody in Night City knows of the white haired pyromaniac with specialty fire resistant implants, and of how dangerous he is.

It's Dabi from the LOV. You're in trouble now.

#dabi #touya todoroki #dabi x reader #dabi x you #touya x reader #sighs dramatically #guess i'm adding this one to my wip's too #i have so many other things to work on but this idea was too fun not to share! #i still wanna do a little story for mma fighter!dabi #but i love cyberpunk and i wanted to get this idea off my chest too! #dunno if it'll ever become a full story but i definitely want to come back and revisit this idea soon #rose rambles #cyberpunk!au

[phantom-fleetways]

I loved your neo chaos sonic au

If it's okay to ask could you tell us more about it👀👀

Oh! Of course!

Frankly I haven't done much world building for it, since I have other AUs who are utter attention whores and life just LOVES to make me unable to draw for some stupid reason or another. But I do have some simple concepts I would love to share! If you feel like you can bare my aimless rambling, feel free to read the rest under the cut.

First off, setting. Generally speaking, Neo Chaos Sonic's timeline takes place after the events of Season 2's finale and the early portion of season 3's episode one.

But instead of Building Alpha Grim Sonic after a lot of dilly dallying on Nine's part, he decides to fight fire with fire. (And maybe he's a little scared of being alone, although he would never admit it.)

So he rebuilds Chaos Sonic instead. And to insure that he'll be able to beat Sonic, Nine decided to give him untethered access to the Paradox Prism.

This of course leads to Chaos Sonic deeming his normal build being to... Easy to deal with. And he is allowed a modicum of freewill by Nine. So who is he if he does not ascend to godhood to ensure the plan's execution? It's gonna be a temporary upgrade. And Nine did give him full access to the Paradox Prism.

Leading to this beautiful outcome!

It's a MAJOR upgrade. And it comes with a hip skirt! And who is she to go against a hip skirt?

After choosing a new form of befitting of his newly born Goddess status, NCS decides to make the Grim their perfect little paradise. Their powers are simple, as she is all powerful but not all knowing or anything.

NCS can change their appearance however she sees fit. Although due to his vanity, he mostly stays hedgehog robot shaped. And generally before war is brought to her doorstep, she just stands about as tall as NMS would. So they definitely Tower over Sonic and Nine easily. They also can pool liquid metal off of them and when the liquid metal touches the ground, they become Grim Sonic Troopers. All of which seem to reflect different small aspects of her personality. Also she has glitter beams and shit. He's a magical girl, they gotta have their glitter attacks.

After a while of their new arrangement, NCS stops referring to Nine as either "Best bud" or "Sir". And starts calling him Martyr or Prophet. Treating Nine as a prized possession and less like a friend or even someone they wish to protect and keep happy.

Nine isn't initially concerned about this though. Since he's certain that they are still loyal to him. Which is true, he is. But ultimately that loyalty does not outweigh her natural selfishness.

I believe that inevitably, there will come to pass a point where Neo Chaos Sonic decides to "sacrifice" Nine to herself. If only to make Sonic run a fool's errand. If you know ANYTHING about the ending of KH3 and the whole "Save the 7" segment with Riku? Like that. (For those who don't know, imagine Nine floating above an altar of some sort with his body partially transparent blue.)

I don't really know if Sonic and Co from prime would succeed, since I really just designed Neo Chaos Sonic for the sake of designing him. But I would say that in order to take down Neo, Sonic would need to brace the abyss™️ to find Shadow's missing Chaos Emerald. Since I'm a wedger a bet that Shadow would be logically able to use Chaos Control in the prism that Neo Chaos is using to power themselves. Buuut in order to do that, Shadow would have to get close enough.

There is the possiblity that allowing Sonic to shatter himself would fix everything too. But ultimately I have no clue cuz I just haven't thought far yet.

Overall, the AU is very shallow at the moment. And seeing as I have other far more complex AUs I'm working on, it might be this way for a while. So, I'm sorry about that! But I did enjoy rambling a bit, albeit a bit aimlessly.

I just really love this design and I really love how pretty they came out! Neo Chaos Sonic is a treat of a concept to me, since I adore Neo Metal Sonic. Favorite flavor of Mets to be honest. And I figured a Neo form for Chaos Sonic would do them good!

#!!! #Storytime #Phantoms #neo chaos sonic #chaos sonic #i really do love this concept #i just wish i could really think of a good plot for it #i got nothing unfortunately #all my resources have been put into the AU that's connected to my page banner #but i do hope i get to revisit this concept some day! #i really do love it!! #thank you for asking me about it! #anon ask

[jamiethebeeart]

(Ref/insp: 8eyestheband on youtube/tiktok - the conversation mashups and the song association game) supplemental info/explanation in the tags

#spinnerdabi #mha spinner #dabi #dabi todoroki #shuichi iguchi #bnha spinner #bnha #mha #people in the comments of their videos keep talking about how they look at each other/ship them and I of course went “how can make this lov #which spiraled to “who do i think would/could sing with spinner on camera” and went not shigaraki (rip) and landed on dabi #i cannot defend this because its purely based on gut feelings #(im not a spinnerdabi shipper but this just fits for me... i may or may not draw more for this au) #so! conversation mashups: take two songs and “what if they were a conversation” so its a back and forth mashup #im obsessed with the i will wait/dial drunk and this town/stick season ones. #the song association game: person gives a one word prompt and they have to think of a song with that in the title and sing it #first to think/sing a song with that word gets the point #anyways i feel bad for them :/ so many ppl in the comments are talking about them romantically and im like Stop It!!!! those r real ppl!!!! #but the premise of band members falling in love with one another and balancing that with their public image? obviously v v v good au fuel #i even made band au stuff back when it was popular on mha cosplay tiktok (with aizawa) and now im revisiting it :))) #in this au im imagining shigaraki as aro/ace (just because) and handling the behind the scenes stuff. lighting. camera. social media. ect. #these tags are a mess lmao #do you guys see my vision? do you get it? #im planning on a toga duet one rn #(now i hear ya: why not compress? well :) i feel like he'd be a prev boy band member turned solo artist. v flashy v performative) #toga would def be an online singer (lots of covers. lot of gay/bi covers of straight songs. some original stuff. maybe some makeup videos?) #oh! she'd pull uraraka and deku in for a make over. thatd be v cute. she'd have 2 persuade both of them and uraraka would be quicker to agre #idk where twice would fit in. magne would be a makeup artist (for her? or other ppl? idk but she'd rock a social media platform) #mustard? i feel like he'd be a minecraft streamer or smth #kurogiri would somehow be teamed up with compress from time to time. #not to get too korean drama-y but afo feels like a management company person? he's got a spotty track record w recruits tho so hes a lil sus

[mxwhore]

Can your sphynx jon (in the universe with human martin) turn back into a human if he wants or is he stuck like that? How does that work

hi! in that universe, Jon is practically an avatar of all the fears, since he was the phisical vessel (the Pupil) in which they travelled to Somewhere Else

When he feeds, his human form cannot handle it, so thats why he progressively transforms into an eldritch monster. He will turn back into a human once he blows off some of that eldritch energy, visiting the people he tortures in their dreams and grating them divine knowledge. Then he'll turn back into a human in his sleep and will enjoy a few blissful weeks of normality before he has to go hunting again.

#until he doesnt. but dont worry about that #martin and amyas love him sm even though the babe doensnt quite understand whats hes getting up to #speaking of i had a concept of showing the different aspects of the entities in sphinx jon. i should revisit that #ty anon! #tma #tma au #monster jon #tessa answers!

[fandom-blackhole]

for sleepover ask 💌 :

historical!au + bookstore!au

obi-wan (mullet!wan) is a quiet (but sometimes bitchy) bookstore owner. period piece. could be ye olde bookstore in medieval times, a bookstore next door to a saloon/brothel in the wild west, etc.

Come Celebrate with Me!

6. Bookshop AU 1. Historical AU (Wild West)

Bookshop Owner!Obi Wan x Teacher!Reader

You were still rather new to the small town when you'd entered the small bookstore looking for materials that'd be good for your newly acquired teaching position. Upon entering the store itself gave off a first impression of being heavily disorganized and all over the place, but with closer inspection you'd noticed it was rather neatly organized just in the owner's own self appointed system. 

It was as you trailed your finger along several titles stopping to gently pull out a weathered copy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, that you'd noticed a brush of movement, silent in every way but to the eye. Just barely seen over the top of a neighboring shelf, you'd spotted a person puzzling over the books in front of them, or at least it seemed that way with what little you could see of flickering eyes that seemed bluer than the sky outside and furrowed brows. You hadn't meant to watch the person, but each time you'd tried to pull your eyes away, back to the shelf in front of you, you'd found them drifting back to glance at those clear blue eyes. After the third time this happened, you felt an embarrassed frustrated flush heat the tips of your ears as you made yet another attempt to page through the copy in your hands, only managing to leaf through a few more pages before finding your eyes trailing upwards once more, only now your eyes met the clear blue as they'd finally noticed your own quiet movement. 

Fully embarrassed now, you watched with a bit of alarm as the person moved in your direction, the clear blue of their eyes now shining with curiosity. In only a few seconds he'd made his way to where you stood clutching Frankenstein to your chest like a lifeline once you got a full view of the man.

Clean. That was your first impression of him. His hair sweated back behind his ears and fell in soft waves to the very top of his shoulders. Shoulders of which you couldn't stop your brain from making an appreciative note were broad with strong looking arms and a full chest connected. He wore just a simple loose cream button down and brown trousers with a set of similarly colored suspenders, of which didn't seem to be doing much as they hung loosely around his waist, and what a waist it was.

Thoughts leading nowhere good, you startled and snapped out of your revelry, dragging your eyes up to meet his again, only pausing once to take in the pin secured to the not of his loose blue neckerchief, small and weathered bronze, obviously old and loved it was circular and printed with what looked like a set of wings with a star connecting both sides in the middle, it was quite beautiful in a plain sort of way. 

Once your eyes met again, you found a soft smile and crinkled eyes to greet you along with a just as softly accented, "Hello there."

Still embarrassed at your gawking, you cleared your throat and answered with your own soft, "Good afternoon."

The man unphased, and seemingly endlessly curious leaned forward, smile somewhat mischievous now, said, "I truly hope its not too forward, but I've never had the grace of seeing you around before, let alone in my shop, may I ask for your name?"

Stuttering out your name, you felt the heat return, but more as a simmering in your chest as you heard the man speak more, his accent a perfect compliment to the rest of his perfectly imperfect-ness. But the man, completely oblivious to your quiet replies, only smiles wider at you and bids you welcome to his shop once more as he introduced himself to you before asking, "And what brings such a fresh face to this part of the world?"

"Oh, I've, uh, I've been hired on to be the town's school teacher. I haven't come with too much and the books at the school building seemed a little worse for wear, so I'd thought I may come refresh the shelves, so to speak."

Brightening even more- you were almost certain he was partially made of pure light at this point, scared if he got any brighter you would no longer be able to look at him, and what a shame that would be- he pointed to the book still clutched in your hands.

"And a wonderful start to your new collection if I might say. A quite many lessons you can squeeze out of my dear friend Ms. Shelley for any age group, I believe," pausing he clasps his hands behind his back, getting a bit of afar off look to his eyes, one that lead you to believe he was deep in thought, before humming and asking, "Do you have any more books in mind you want specifically, because I'd be more than happy to help find anything as well as make any of my own suggestions."

At his offer you felt a bit of relief, and nodded just slightly, "I more so just came in to browse, shocked a store like your own would be in such a small town, but any and all help would be much appreciated Mr. Kenobi."

"Please, no need for formalities, they make me feel stiff and always seem too polite, just Obi Wan is fine. Well as long as you are comfortable with that, my dear." 

With his words, the never ending flush of heat returned once more, as you just nodded a but speechless following the pet names and in his earnest gaze.

After that he led you around the shop offering several more books as he told you a bit about the town and the people, but especially focusing on the children. He'd explained that he'd been holding a story hour for the younger of the town for the last few months and was quite overjoyed that the younglings, as he liked to refer to them as, were finally going to be receiving a proper education.

You truly hadn't meant to spend more than just a few minutes in the bookshop, and possibly only grab two or three books, but you'd noticed that as you'd stepped out of the building after nearly fight with Mr. Ken-, Obi Wan, over whether you were paying for the books or not- he'd eventually won out in just giving you the books, but was unaware of the pennies you'd dropped onto the table quietly by the door as you'd walked out- you'd noticed the midday sun had dipped down as the gold and red hues of sunset started to take over.

As you headed to the small home next to the school house, you felt a nagging sensation at the back of your head, and in turning, you found Obi Wan standing outside his door watching you walk away. Still close enough, you could see his lips turn up once more into a smile as he lifted his hand in a wave, which you returned both, before turning away once more.

The last thing you thought as you'd turned away was how his hair wasn't the sand blonde you'd thought it was in the low light of his shop, but in fact had a coppery hue which formed a glowing hole around him in the dying light of day. 

#obi wan x reader #obi wan kenobi x reader #1k followers #mutuals <3 #<3 #i love this au so much omfg #i might have to revisit later and make more for these two #bc omg omg omggggggg #this i just more or less made them pining fools (whats new really) #but like the idea that later after they get together (bc its the wild west and well tragedy) #they end up taking on some orphans from the small town as their own after their parents pass #so they have a cute lil mismatch family #im buzzing over this if you cant tell #im also not completely happy with how this turned out #but its still cute and needed to post it

[rindomness]

BTW I genuinely love that night in the woods does not, in the end, tell you if it was all real or not. It does not even explain whether the goat was real. It gives you mundane explanations - mae's mental health history, gas leaks, the strikes and structural instability in the mines - but also it's juuust legitimately supernatural enough that you end the game going... well. was that all imagined? how much of that was legitimate? the cultists all talk about getting abilities from the pit, and mae's friends are there and are confirming this is actually happening, and I think that was the first time in the game I actually approached the idea that there really was something else going on and it wasn't all just things we the player are experiencing because we're getting it from mae's perspective and mae is a truly intense unreliable narrator.

But: how much does it matter if there's actually an eldritch goat god underneath possum springs, or if it was all just a delusion on mae's behalf, or if it's a gas leak? that isn't the point. that was never the point.

also that maintenance guy is a ghost im 90% sure

#nitw #revisiting this game for. reasons (dndads au) #i have to be sooo careful with nitw bc while i LOVE this particular brand of spooky shit #it also definitely fucked with my brain in less pleasant ways. so. oops #OKAY STORYTIME IF YOU'RE DOWN HERE IN THE TAGS: #the first time i played night in the woods it was entirely on a recommendation from a friend #i went in completely blind. i did not look at the genre tags. i went oh! that's right! my friend likes this game! #i've heard very good things about this game! so i bought it and i started it and i realized VERY quickly it was a Certain #Type Of Game. yknow. so i went ok its gonna be a cutesy game that talks about Real Shit but otherwise is silly and fun. alright. #and then i hit the halfway point and i realized oh. oh this is sort of a horror game. isn't it. it scared the hell outta me #i LOVED it. getting hit with that midpoint scene with the red and the silhouettes and the well and that was when i decided i loved this gam #but anyway yeah can you imagine being slightly obsessed with ghosts and going into night in the woods without a single expectation #and then getting hit with ALL OF THAT? delightful. wonderful. most unnerving game experience ive ever had in my life.

[crescentfool]

i cant believe i forgot that im a fire emblem enjoyer 🙄 i was reading some of my notifs/tags from that one post about the video game series you've played the longest and oh my god.

i would like to apologize to fire emblem for forgetting that i've played it even though it's probably one of the longest standing series in my life next to pokemon and xenoblade... 💀 (<- they have 565 hours in fire emblem, 170 in awakening, 45 for fates, 75 for sov, and 275 for three houses and perhaps a few hours from feh but we don't talk about that)

anyway. did you know i like fire emblem. and that i like reading tags. i hope you all have swag times with whatever game series makes you happy! 💙

#lizzy speaks #i wonder if i'll ever get around to emulating the other fire emblys... i do find the tellius games + fe4 to be of interest but also #im so so slow at playing through things... it's never really a priority to me anymore (sad face) #these days i feel a lil too perfectionist about playing games and 'seeing everything it has to offer' so i get kinda exhausted lmao #especially when there's a lot of text bc i. i enjoy being cognizant and interacting with the storylines and appreciating the tiny stuff #but i will never forget the joy that fire emblem has given me when i was in school..... #maybe i will revisit fire emblem by shooting beams of ryomina at it... ryomina is going to be in every video game series ive ever liked #IM BEING FOR REAL ABOUT THIS i think it'd be cool to think about ryomina as different fire emblem classes... #maybe i'll do something about that p3 x fe3h au i did nothing with :')) or not it'll just collect dust in my head #also happy mochizuki monday today i offer nothing but my love and appreciation to my fellow ryoji havers #i hav a sillie crossover im cooking though :D (has not started on said cooking) #so maybe somtime this week y'all will see whats going on in my head >:3c (hehe)

[fortune-maiden]

Random TGCF AU of the day

Something something SWD goes on a long term trip and leaves SQX with Pei Ming. Pei Ming is determined to be a good temporary guardian/older brother figure. SQX is determined to destroy him.

#random tgcf thoughts #I picture this as a Royal AU for some reason #(some reason being the danmei novel snippet that inspired this xD) #the way I have it in my head is Rong Guang visiting Pei manor in order to scheme #Pei Ming trying to talk him out of scheming #and their not-so-secret meetings constantly being interrupted bySQX’s own schemes #RG finds this hilarious #sqx just misses his brother #and is convinced pm knows more about this trip and when he’ll be back #pm doesn’t but has suspicions #and keeps pointing out that swd writes more to sqx than him anyway #then later swd does go out of contact for mysterious reasons #which really strains their tumultuous cohabitation #RG is also investigating something in between schemes which SQX later gets mixed up in #so PM gets involved to bail him out even if that means he now owes RG big time and will be a part of Schemes #an exchange I see happening at some point: #pm: you’ve been skipping your lessons. what are you going to tell your brother? #sqx: if my brother really cared about my education he would have left me with ling wen #pm: that just shows how much he loves you. lw wouldn’t put up with half the stuff I do #when I can finally read the danmei novel that inspired this maybe I’ll revisit this AU #also I need to go back and develop the calamity swd AU at some point

[softquietsteadylove]

Thenamesh smut in Amazon

"Hey."

"Hey," she whispers back as he comes to sit beside her again. They're waiting for Druig. He says he needs time, so he's given them rooms to sleep in while he decides what to do.

Gilgamesh sits heavily. He's tired from the journey, just as she is. He's had an eye on her this whole time, carefully watching every breath and look and flinch. "It's been a long time, huh?"

Her lips twitch. It's been longer than she cares to count since they last left Australia. "It has."

Not that he feels he needs the privacy, but in a room with just them, he freely raises a hand to her cheek, his thumb brushing over her cheekbone. "You okay?"

He asked her that when they were with their family. When they had been seated in that suffocating little chapel and he had finally dozed off after being hyperaware of everything about her over the course of the trip.

She nods, leaning into his touch and all but purring. His concern is not unfounded; she has been nothing short of overwhelmed by things since they left their arid little paradise in the outback. But he has also been there to anchor her every step of the way.

He pulls her closer, so her head can be tucked into his shoulder. He kisses her forehead. She smells the remaining scent of Australia and the musk of the rainforest around them on him.

Gil's hand slides up her back, rubbing soft circles as she nuzzles his neck. "Remember this place?"

She does. She remembers prowling around up on the high walls of their temple over the city. She remembers the gentle, almost musical clinking her chainmail would make as she moved. She remembers the weight of his arms as they would encircle her, swaying them both in the breeze like palm fronds.

Gilgamesh turns his head as she nudges his chin. She tips her head up to kiss him, their lips soft against each other. "Thena."

She cuts off whatever he is about to say with another kiss.

His hands are careful with her, as they always are, but especially here. He pulls back, holding her cheeks, searching for the faintest flicker of white.

He finds only green, her pupils growing as she takes in the man before her--the man she loves.

She leans forward again, and he's more receptive this time, letting his lips bend against hers. She sighs as she slithers into his lap. "There were so few left."

He lets her speak her mind, idle as she paws at him, undoing his vest and slipping his suspenders off his shoulders.

"We had such free time, then," she purrs, eyeing him like a fine cut of meat. He smiles a little and she knows she almost has him. She slides her hand into the two tiny little buttons of his shirt to his chest. "We didn't do much watching when we were on watch duty."

"Oh, I remember," he finally grins that big smile that makes her feel funny--her brain shuts down all other thoughts and feeds her only the bliss that is Gilgamesh unfiltered. His arms come up behind her, supporting her back and gripping her delicate shoulders. "You, me, a little shelter of trees in the back?"

They may not have always been as cautious as they should have been.

"Hm," Thena moans gently as he finally takes a more active role in his own seduction. He unbuttons her dress for her, kissing her neck to keep her occupied during the laborious task. "From the side--you held my leg up."

He groans at the memory of it. "That tree ended up falling later that night."

Thena smiles, turning her head to let him nip at her pulse. "Sersi knew--she pretended not to, but she did."

Gil pulls her dress off her shoulders, sitting rumpled around her elbows and revealing the white slip underneath that protects her porcelain skin. He buries his face in the silken material, pushing at her breasts, "like they were always so discreet."

Thena pulls his head up to kiss him again, leaning into him and letting her breasts meet the firmness of his chest. He sorts through the material of her dress from the bottom up with her knees on either side of his hips.

He finally parts it enough that he can pull her slip up her legs. He inhales, dragging in a breath like he's coming to life again. His hands grip her behind.

Thena kisses him again, hoping to speed things along. She climbed on top of him for a reason.

"Okay, okay," he chuckles, because of course he knows that she's being impatient. He lets her snap his suspenders off and reach into his trousers. He grunts and flinches as she grips him. "Easy, sweetheart."

She loves it when he calls her that.

Gil helps her sink onto him until their hips meet in a blissful and ecstatic grinding motion. He holds her, their breaths rising and falling until they're on the same rhythm. He pulls her forward, their foreheads meeting gently. "You okay?"

"Hm," she nods as she starts moving. He rocks against her, just enough, letting her set their pace. Her hands trail over him liberally, soaking him in, drinking in every drop of him. Her mouth hovers between kisses and trying to breathe in the hot, sticky air around them. "Gil."

He holds her tighter, bucks harder. He leans back a little on the tiny bed provided to them. Druig never did like thinking about their relationship too much. He's never been one for affection, and Gil thinks he's fond of Thena in a way that prevents him from thinking of her like that.

"Gil," Thena moans again, louder this time as their hips start really moving. The little hut gets filled with the sounds of their breathing, of him moving in and out of her and how slick that movement is. She grips fistfuls of his shirt between leaning in for greedy kisses. "More."

He never denies her anything.

Gil wraps her waist in one strong arm, leaning all the way back and thrusting up and into her at an angle that makes her vision go white--in a good way.

She keens, letting out a mix of a moan and a whimper as he scrapes against a particularly sensitive spot. "Gil!"

She comes undone first, as is almost always the case when they're entangled. Something about him undoes her--unties all her knots, unwinds her tightness and relaxes every snag and wrinkle until she's as smooth as a pool of water.

He follows her, happy to go where she leads. He groans as he comes to his own undoing, letting himself go. She braces against him until they're both a limp puddle in the aftermath.

His arms fall around her. She falls onto his chest, still connected to him until he eventually slips out of her softly. She moans at the feeling.

He rubs her back again, making sure she knows that he's there, that he loves and cherishes her. She snuggles into his chest in reply. He kisses the top of her head, "you okay?"

"Hm," she smiles, burying her nose in the warmth and the smell of him and Australia and the rainforest and their lovemaking.

#Thenamesh AU #Thenamesh 18+ #a little something while they're revisiting Tenochtitlan #because I fully believe that by that time they were comfortable in their relationship #maybe a little too comfortable #at least it's not in the sand #and because this is an au Druig left with them after this and nothing bad happened the end #he came to get them and immediately turned around again #he orders Sersi to get them and she resents being told what to do #until she gets to their little guest hut and immediately knows why Druig wouldn't even set foot on the front step #she sighs and knocks and tells them to get themselves together #thank you for the ask my love! #I hope you like how it turned out!

[justyouraverageomniversedreamer]

Just caught up on pure love operation! (Ch.87)

Genuinely hoping nothing goes wrong!!!!

Haha heehee hoohoo crying emoji

This is a romance webtoon

Having hope like this has killed before

#also if we could get a poly route i #i just want them to be happy #and i genuinely think that this is a relationship that could work #not holding my breath tho :( #i am readying myself to burst into tears at any moment lmao #depending on what happens next in any given chapter all the way till the end #haha #pure love operation #operation true love #disclaimer i dont usually ship in the context of wanting it to happen in canon because writing decisions would have to be made and besides #not trusting the writers to make something that i personally would enjoy uhhh i just think there are more possibilities in fanfic where #people can write multiple aus and i can revisit the same characters and story over and over <3 #and it will give me the same feeling of intense affection (almost) every time! #my txt

[brother-emperors]

‘Is there a point to any of this or do you just want to see how much more I can take?’ snaps Crassus. ‘Oh, I knew there was still some bite left in you,’ says Cethegus, thrilled. Cethegus teaches Crassus the art of politics and the ways of business. Sulla is not a fan.

Sulla: the Last Republican, Arthur Keaveney

Crassus, Catilina, and the Vestal Virgins, Ronald Syme

Sulla: the Last Republican, Arthur Keaveney

#WAHOO i had a lot of fun writing the comic arc for these three #absolute nightmare dynamic from hell #cethegus has a line trying to figure out what crassus likes before realizing that it's less a matter of preference and more that sulla #got to him first. and you never forget. uh. the guy who unmakes you and leaves you rendered raw or something #like everything after is this weird intersection of love and hate and revisiting old wounds because they're familiar and feel like home #AU cethegus chokes crassus with a rosary because sulla choked him with a chain necklace that had his patron saint on it #same thing. you can never go back home but you can press on the bruise and the satisfaction is the same #tldr; crassus is just so fucking weird about sulla it is in the marrow of his bones. odi et amo. outliving someone is the ultimate payback #build on top of their bones like they built on top of you. #hang on. what is it. lucullus calling pompey a vulture. same with sulla and crassus only crassus won't say it #he'll kick out pompey's legs from under him for doing the same thing tho. only one person gets to treat you like that and so forth #komiks tag #drawing tag #roman republic tag #publius cornelius cethegus #lucius cornelius sulla felix #marcus licinius crassus #that other guy with crassus is cassius' father probably. or some guy. there are so many guys #OH cethegus is kind of driving a knife into the sulla shaped hole in crassus' ribcage by greeting him while he's out with sulla #he's doing that on purpose. it's like. it's fine. he's also doing it to annoy sulla. #what are sulla's feelings on the matter? well. he's responsible for the eyebrow scar crassus has. so. #hi to everyone who read these tags. crassus is a psychosexual mess. please clap for sulla.

[libelelle]

Are you ever going to buckle and give us a full fic of you Time Twins AU? Or better yet a complete comic?

JASDHFAHJ oh my goshhhhh thats the question isnt it.

i have like. lotsa reservations with doing this. like for one the problem with a fic is i maybe write once every 3 months and usually about 1000 words before i give up. i also am miserably bad at planning a plot (has been coming up with a bare-bones summary for my ocs since 2020) so like yknow

a comic on the other hand... also kinda unlikely. dont get me wrong id love love love to, but comics are super time consuming for him and again. im not good at writing them

biggest issue is that this would be a long term project. i lose steam fast and hard so a lot of big projects dont really make it to completion. if i started an actual like. au comic with a plot and arcs etc, idk how fa id get before i burnt out.

having said this, making a comic has always been a dream of mine and i think i will make a few comics surrounding certain events or concepts. i need the practice <3

#ITS SO TEMPTING! #i love comics but the process is so long #maybe if i get enough interest i can come back to this and revisit the idea of it later #but as of right now im deathly afraid of losing interest once i've started #super flattering that you want this btw!!!? #honestly this is so nice <3 i love making things <3 #thank you for the ask <333 #killedbysandvich #ask #time twins au #talk tag

[pyrriax]

<3 your welcome

this chapter is turning into pandora picking up dead-pan humor because he remembered his brother's humor

(which was, well, deadpan humor. it's also just because that's what i feel like writing and this scene isn't too serious)

#ask a ghost #asker: wetcatowner #au: where the dust settles #literally this part isn't planned AT ALL and it's probably gonna reach 1k. i'm revisiting 0-1 mark my words #whether it's in a canon exploration or an alt pov of it being shown. i AM writing more of this sector #i love it so much the concept brings me joy and if i could get create (and my laptop) to work i would absolutely make it #i love just talking at you when you just said your welcome #this is your fate bc you are like half the reason i'm still writing this lol