#closing in

[kiachnishsblog]

It's closing in

It's always been this way?

It's closing in

Not sure if that's okay...

It's closing in

Constantly from day to day

To lay it on the line, it's closing in on me

#scott the woz #wozblr #borderline forever #closing in #scott the woz fanart #fanart #hello wozblr do you still exist #I wish this art turned out better #but whatever #kiachnish art

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

I got 44 seconds of my John x Aeryn fanvid edited, and I love it so much so far lmao.

This song is like 4 and a half minutes long, tho, so I have a feeling I'm going to get tired of this song while I edit this...

#farscape #fanvid #john x aeryn #imogen heap #closing in

[youaremysunshine-court]

Big anxiety tonight about really vague things idk wtf my brain is doin

#my heart is beating so fast over like... something thats a month away #but i thought it was two months away #and forgot time #and its just alll #closing in #idk #i hate it #i hate losing time like this i was meant to be getting my life together and suddenly its the end of may what the fuck #what the fuck whst the fuck what the fuck im so #god i hate this #i wish i was doing somethign worthwhile #i want to contribute something and the days just keep slipping away and before you know it its all gone

[howifeltabouthim]

Every time she thought she had a way out, she found the path sealed off, the maze closing in.

Soman Chainani, from A Crystal of Time

#the worst feeling #trapped #lost in a maze #closing in #hemmed in #running out of options #panic #horrible #no way out #no escape #inescapable #nightmarish #story of my life #personal #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #soman chainani #a crystal of time #the school for good and evil

[pearls-dream]

i can JUST FEEL the Imogen Heap renaissance coming… and while im excited… Half Life is Reserved,, tik tok stay away from that one for all of our sakes

#and maybe #closing in #But it is not my music I have no right to reserve anything’ #BUT STILL #For all our sakes

[hate5sixofficial]

Closing In 2023-01-29 Foto Club Philadelphia, PA

#Closing In #Foto Club #hate5six

[sylvanfreckles]

No. 22: Closing In

Part 22 of Deck the Hells

Fandom: Critical Role Rating: T Warnings: violence

Summary: Lost in the tunnels beneath the core spire, surrounded by shade creepers...Fearne's in a tight spot. (Read on AO3)

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“Boy, I sure thought we’d seen the last of you,” Fearne commented, swinging her staff around to slam another shade creeper into the tunnel wall. She tried to back away, but there were too many behind her and the tunnel was too tight, and the creeper exploded close enough to singe the hair on her arms.

The tunnels were like a maze, twisted around deep beneath the core spire. What had started as a simple survey mission for an old contact of Lord Eshteross’ was quickly becoming another foray into danger. When the shade creepers attacked, they’d all gotten split up in the darkness of the tunnels.

Fearne bit back another word of annoyance and shoved her hand forward, spraying another three creepers with poison. She could barely see, with only Mister’s flames to light her way, so she missed the creeper closing in behind her before it leapt onto her back to tear into her.

Mister shrieked, flames flaring higher. Fearne swung around and rammed herself back against the wall of the tunnel. The creeper gibbered in anger and raked its claws across her throat, so she slammed back again and again until it finally went limp and slid away.

It detonated on the tunnel floor, and she stumbled forward to hit up against the opposite wall. The creepers around her were shrieking and calling, circling in like they could sense she was wounded. Fearne took a second to catch her breath, then focused on her staff to summon a sphere of daylight to brighten up her surroundings.

The creepers hissed and flinched back from the light. Fearne leaned against her staff, panting, staring up and down the darkened tunnel. There was no sign of her companions, and shade creepers seemed to twist about in dimness of the tunnel beyond the light.

She knew the light wouldn’t hold them forever. Even weakened by it, they had the numbers to overwhelm her. She just hoped that the daylight would alert one of her friends to her location—unless they were all in the same sort of pickle.

One of the creepers overcame its hatred of the light to charge at her. Mister jumped up to her defense, firing a ball of fire into the creeper’s face and detonating it a safe distance from them.

“Good job, Mister,” Fearne whispered. It wasn’t enough, though. Despite its defeat, the other creepers were emboldened by the charge. They swarmed toward her, skirting around the edges of the tunnel and darting straight into the light on either side. She switched her staff to one hand and flung scorching rays with the other, trying to explode the creepers before they could get close.

Her hair was singed and her arms were shaking from the long battle. She stared wildly up and down the tunnel—was one side clearer than the other? Could she leap over the creepers and make a run for it? Or would that just lead her deeper into the maze of tunnels, away from her friends?

“I don’t know what to do,” she panted to Mister, smearing the sweat and soot off her forehead. Her hair and fur were singed, and one of the creepers had nearly yanked one of her pouches off her belt.

“Fearnie!”

She twisted around at the call, just in time to see the brown-and-green blur of Orym leap from wall to wall over the heads of the creepers to land at her side. “Orym!” she gasped. “Oh, I’m so glad you’re here.”

“Hey, best friend,” he replied, smiling up at her from his crouch. “Back up a little, would ya?”

She let him herd her closer to the wall as he took up a defensive position in front of her. They’d be okay now. Orym wouldn’t let anything happen to her, not if he could help it.

With him defending, she finally had a moment to focus. She tucked her staff into the crook of her elbow to weave an entangle spell into the air and fling it at the creepers to their left. She and Mister fired on the ones that were trapped, detonating them safely out of reach.

“I thought we were done with these things when we killed their mother,” Orym commented over his shoulder. He was a little singed, but he was better at dodging their fiery deaths than she was, so he wasn’t hurt.

“Well, maybe they had two mothers,” she replied. A creeper had gotten past Orym’s defense, and she caught it with a vine whip and flung it away. “I know a lot of families like that.”

“Don’t think it works the same way.”

“Why not?”

“I just…never mind.” He bashed a creeper out of the way with his shield, then shoved his sword forward to impale it. The creeper hissed at him, clawed hands going to its belly, but Orym simply yanked the sword free and spun it in a graceful arc to decapitate the creature.

Not to be outdone, Mister fired a flame seed that should have gone over Orym’s shoulder to strike the next creeper…but it went a little wide and splattered on the wall instead.

“You’ll get the next one,” Fearne called in encouragement. She could hear voices now, from the left-hand side of the tunnel. “Orym?”

“The others must have noticed your light,” he said, drawing close to her again. The shade creepers had drawn back a little, now that they’d lost their easy target. “Nice job on that, Fearne.”

“I’m just saying, maybe if we didn’t keep fighting in dark places like this, I wouldn’t have to use that spell as much.”

He laughed. “Come on,” he said, reaching for her hand. “You don’t look so good. Let’s see if Letters can take a look at you.”

“I’m just a little singed, that’s all. I’ll be okay.” She wouldn’t say no, though. Not when their friends were surrounding them, and Fresh Cut Grass was fretting over her injuries while Laudna gushed over Mister and his cute little pepperbox. Not with Orym leaning against her hip, teasing Ashton about not being nimble enough to keep up. Not with Chetney stuck behind Imogen and Dorian, jumping up and down as he tried to see over their shoulders to make sure she was okay.

The darkness might be ready to close in around them, but with her friends here she had all the light she needed.

…Well. And her daylight spell, of course. A girl couldn’t see in the dark from friendship alone, after all.

#whumpbcember2022 #whumpcember2022 day22 #closing in #violence #critical role campaign 3 #bell's hells #critical role #fanfic #fearne calloway #mister #orym of the air ashari #she was a girl and she was a slug #can i make it any more obvious

[starjunco]

Day 22: Closing In (Ao3)

Chapter Text

Arcade?

Not today -- got to study.

Come over and we’ll study then.

Thanks, but I got this covered.

He didn’t -- at all -- but that wasn’t something Noct could understand. Noct was the type of guy everything came easily for -- popularity, sports, school, money. What did tests even mean when you had the best job in the world guaranteed from your birth?

Well, maybe not the best, Prompto thought. He would be miserable trying to make all the decisions the King had to -- too much responsibility for too many people. He was lucky some days to manage to tidy the house in case one of his parents came home.

Today, it was less than tidy. Books and loose notes were strewn over the dining room table. It was the week before finals, and honestly, he didn’t even know where to start.

All he knew was he had to pass -- everything. His parents didn’t have the name or the money to throw around to ensure he could stay in the Royal Academy if he did badly. Everything depended on him -- on these grades -- or he’d never be able to get a good education, never be able to get a job with the government, never be able to hang with Noct again, never ever ever ever ever…

But yeah, no pressure.

#ffxv #prompto argentum #over three weeks done whoot! #everyone's done with finals by now right? #hope it wasn't too stressful #day 22 #closing in #whumpcember2022

[em-writes-stuff]

whumpcember day 22

@whumpcember

prompt: closing in

warnings: implied panic attack

character: pix

124 words

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Pix clutched his hand to its chest, he pressed hard against the skin and counted his heartbeat.

Breathe in, one, two, three, four, five. Breathe out, one, two, three, four, five. Breathe in, one, two, three, four, five. Breathe out, one, two, three, four, five. Ok, you’re fine.

It opened his eyes and the walls were back to where they were supposed to be. 

He took a deep breath in through its nose and out through its mouth a few times before he pushed off the wall and steadied himself. 

“Ok,” he whispered, “Walls are fine, you’re fine, let’s go back out, yeah?” 

It smoothed out the wrinkles in his pants and pushed the door open, going back out into the main med bay. 

#whumpcember #whumpcember2022 #whumpcember 2022 #whump #whump fic #closing in #pix ashby #oh seas #my ocs #my writing #em writes #em writes stuff

[suiheisen]

i watch baseball for the side quests (ps: this baseball player also makes fruit cocktails midgame)

#please… when he started decorating it with sunflower seeds #when the commentators were like: he actually tried to pour water in the moat #;_______; i love #baseball can not be a real sport #my fave moment is still mantis-chan perched on victor robles’ cap. the tandem we deserve #but this. this come close #the nhl should let opposing players in the penalty box build a snowman together #lourdes gurriel jr #arizona diamondbacks #baseball #mlb

[nicetomeetmew]

This collab was not on my 2023 bingo card

(source)

#im this close to just becoming a chocolate guy fan blog #the chocolate guy #the chocolate man #amaury guichon #chocolate guy #tony hawk

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

#dyktc polls #polls #gandalf #the lord of the rings #category: live action #category: movies #hey guys just a regular poll here don't look too closely

[theblob1958]

people are saying do it scared, but you also gotta do it alone. you'll miss out on so much you want to do if you wait til someone will do it with you. do it scared and do it alone.

#missed out on a whole year I could have skated at my local roller rink because I didn't want to go alone #and now it's closed and I won't ever get that year back. sometimes you gotta do it alone if you want to do something

[caligmaera]

cant stop thinking about this scene

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #falin touden #fanart #do not look too close at the skeleton anatomy... i eyeballed a refrence briefly and said f it we ball

[bumblebeebats]

"Don't just throw ripped jeans away, you can repair them using these 10 cute Visible Mending techniques!!" unfortunately my friend the first point of failure for every single pair of jeans i have owned in my life has been the Crotch and Ass. Knees: fine, cuffs: fine; but 3 years in, and all that stands between the world and my astronaut-patterned taint is 0.5µm of denim worn so thin that every squat threatens to tear it to shreds like wet toilet paper. If the Tiktok craft community could figure out a way to resurrect jeans afflicted in such a way that doesn't involve adding a whole ass buttpatch like some sort of inverse assless chaps situation then that'd be great

#and yes i have indeed experimented with trying to add invisible patches on the INSIDE of the jean but unfortunately #trying to sew anything to the non-euclidean hellscape that is the crotch area of a pair of pants #inevitably ends up 1. (hand-sewing) puckered as hell or 2. (machine sewing) w me accidentally sewing a leg hole closed 😔

[whilomm]

happy almost extremely loud sound wednesday monday everyone!!!

i cant believe its already almost extremely loud sound TO BE CONDUCTED AT AROUND 2:20 PM EST wednesday monday

edit: reblogs turned off bc YALL READ THE FUCKIN DATE

#buzzy #WOOOOO EXTREMELY LOUD SOUND WEDNESDAY MONDAY!!!! #fema #fcc #uspol #...i mean close enough w/e #us govt #emergency alert