#haughty being haughty

[enden-k]

we know haitham simps for eremite kaveh hard, especially for his strength.

but what kaveh likes about him? specifically to the au, I mean (or I could rephrase that as "when does kaveh realize he's into this bad-at-dealing-with-weather-and-generally-a-little-pathetic-scholar as well?")

and for purely scientific purposes: does kaveh ever see haitham actually wield a sword and be badass and get flustered by it in return?

im so sorry for rambling sm omg, i somehow got distracted and suddenly it was this much

(haitham is rlly into kaveh but not only bc of his strength but bc of his very being)

anw

kaveh is quite interested in haitham from the beginning already since hes not used to this kind of ppl and they end up debating and bickering a lot (which both secretly enjoy since ppl cant keep up with him (haitham) or ppl generally dont dare bc theyre intimidated or too fond (kaveh))

(kaveh also enjoys the way haithams eyes seem to glint when he goes "oh?" before he starts spouting all his smart things)

(haitham is positively surprised and thrilled that kaveh can easily keep up, as if theyre both scholars)

haitham is incredibly smart, more so than other scholars kaveh had met or got hired by, but unlike those haitham doesnt boast with his intelligence or tries to put kaveh down for being "a mere eremite who doesnt know a thing unlike a scholar hailing from the akademiya", like some of the more rude scholars had said - haitham listens and answers to his thoughts and arguments all patiently, really listens to him

haitham speaks in facts and constantly questions things, no shame in correcting or exposing others very bluntly to get to the truth but the smart things coming from his mouth are not to prove or rub it in that hes intelligent or wise or always right and superior or anything; no sign of arrogance or haughtiness. he simply states things as they are, this is the way he simply is and kaveh already guesses haithams confidence in himself is easily mistaken with arrogance by people who dont know him well or are not looking deeply, thus feeling inferior to him and accusing him of being arrogant and acting like hes above everyone

so apart of that, haitham speaking all factual and straight to the point (its very cute when he pauses at seeing paimons confused face and starts rephrasing in the middle of his speech so even she can understand) and treating him like an equal, it rlly comes down to it when he sees another side of this man

(before i take away too much from the comic im doodling rn, i cant talk too much about it KJABCSKJ but the accident that killed kavehs father and left him in the desert made him develop a fear of falls and dark places; bc of smth happening he got a panic attack and haitham eases him through it with such love and care and patience that kaveh isnt used to and it makes him feel so much. kaveh is strong and doesnt like to be treated like hes weak or stupid or in need of someones care and protection but haitham doesnt treat him like that, haitham knows how strong and sharp he is and doesnt take this away when hes this vulnerable. kaveh (who always cares and protects others) is on the receiving of such care and protection after all these years of not allowing it, and coming from this seemingly stoic scholar....

basically, when kaveh sees haitham treat him with respect and care, like an equal on all levels, and returns this care and protection in his own way, it fills him with warmth and the need to get closer to him to share this warmth with him, to get more of it

(also ofc shortly after that kaveh gets to see haitham slaughter his way through enemies to get them out and the sight of him covered in blood and not only being sharp and quick with his words and mind but also with his sword and body triggers some feral part in his brain that wants haithams clothes gone so theres that, his nerd is not only sharp and clever and confident and pretty and a secret caring softie but also able to fight, feeble scholar his ass)

#haitham keeps saying he doesnt need to fight he only needs to think but kaveh thinks after that that he should think less and fight more #prob JKABSCJK #tho he finds his thinking and being smart without being annoyingly haughty about it also very sexy #rambles #eremite au #reply

[grimalkinmessor]

Yes Reigen becoming Hanazawa's new parental figure and essentially adopting him but only post-s3 finale to make it clear that he's filling a Mob-shaped hole and only if Mob gets super jealous and guilty and weird about it 🥰

#mobreimob #mobrei #reimob #hanazawa starts living with reigen and when mob finds out he fucking. hates it #like hes happy for hanazawa bc he seems much happier but also why did HANAZAWA get to see his shishou's living space before him #mob would know that he's being irrational and that reigen and teruki look far more like father and son than anything else but it would CHAFE #and reigen. reigen is missing mob and trying to let him go since he doesnt need him anymore and. well. #hanazawa needs someone #he doesnt need REIGEN specifically but he likes reigen and reigen is an adult willing to help #hes already gone up against claw and he knows how to deal with espers #he doesn't mind teruki being a little arrogant and haughty bc reigen himself is arrogant and haughty sometimes lmao #they get along really well #mob almost explodes when he comes by one day to hear dimple saying something about how reigen finally found an esper that wants him around #bC HE WANTS REIGEN AROUND. HE WAS HERE FIRST DAMMIT. FINGERS TWITCHING FOR AN EXORCISM EKUBO #mob psycho 100 #hanazawa teruki #reigen arataka #kageyama shigeo #mob #mob is vibrating with how jumbled up he is #he sees hanazawa and reigen having ramen at THEIR usual place and every firs hydrant on the block explodes #momataka #just for teruki tho

[chickensoupleg]

-pokes head in with a prompt- Hi, it me, Brightside!

Billy gets brought back 'wrong', Eddie gets brought back 'wrong', but one thing Vecna underestimated was the homoeroticism of one Steve Harrington. Now all three are on a cross country road trip in a stolen bus or RV to save the world. These are their stories -dun dun-

Your thoughts?

STEVEN NOT AGAIN.

Okay so what I'm imagining is the Upside Down after Vecna's defeat is repairing itself back to what it used to be, and since everything is a hivemind it just repairs everything. That includes whatever was left down there, including Eddie and Billy's body. Billy's body technically isn't physically there, but since he was hive-minded and kept in one piece at one point there is a Billy somewhere down there.

Except of course humans don't naturally exist there so they get revived using non-human materials. My idea is the UD repaired them like they did the Mind Flayer body so they're semi... liquid. Not entirely! But whatever was lost was filled in with evil putty. And the evil putty may or may not be controllable.

To make it cool it looks like tattoos once their bodies (forcefully) accept the goo. I am a sucker for sun scar Billy and bat scar Eddie, so that's what the 'tattoos' look like, which are entirely black. They're not entirely controlled by the Upside Down, but there's a part of it still in them. It freaks Billy out way more than it does Eddie since he's half convinced that he's not in control of himself again, but Eddie manages to calm him down and get everything explained for him.

After a while Vecna (>:() gets a hold of himself and decides to try yet again! Man is as stubborn as a toddler in search of ice cream. Eddie and Billy find out somehow, perhaps through a democreature they managed to befriend to their side and decide 'Yeah no that's not gonna happen again' and figure out a way to portal back into the real world. They're not the greatest at it (all hands on deck), and only manage to open a rift near the closest person they could imagine.

That being of course a Steve Harrington. Steve of course is besides himself because not only is Eddie alive, so is Billy. They're both supposed to be dead! Eddie and Billy find out that after Hawkins was destroyed Steve stayed just long enough to help with reparations until he disappeared with Robin out across the country, back in sunny California because where else would it be. Perhaps Steve wanted a taste of the sea, reminiscing about stories Billy told him by the quarryside and needing to see it for himself out of memoriam for both him and Max.

Except, well. Turns out he's back.

And after a tearful reunion and some relaxing they explain what was going on in the UD and Steve decides (after a lot of griping) that he's going back into the fray.

Lucky for him, he's gotten the RV of his dreams and now his Billy and Eddie back. He finds out about their new abilities a few hours in when a bump in the road knocks over a cup and before it shattered Eddie caught it with a black vine shooting out of his side.

... So there's that.

For a lingering danger over their heads they sure do take a long time getting there. Why stress? The world is their potato. Perhaps the black duo still have a connection that tracks how close Vecna is to coming back again and know there's a lot of time (Steve and Robin get a lot of congratulations for defeating Vecna so hard he's taken this long to collect himself). Steve's learning a lot about his feelings towards the recently revived and also a lot about his body's feelings towards the recently revived.

Robin comes along as well. She has to leave the RV often for the privacy of her best friend. Perhaps even picks up a girlfriend on the way who is oddly very okay with what's going on in the studio. Maybe even two girlfriends, Robin has two hands.

They have a lot of souvenirs as they go along and the RV is just filled with trinkets by the time they return to Hawkins to save the world a fifth time.

#stranger things #steve harrington #billy hargrove #eddie munson #robin buckley #vecna/henry/one #harringroveson #vecna on the other hand since he isn't connected with billy or eddie doesn't find out about their abilities until the fight #he thinks the only power-inclined people are him and el #he gets all haughty upon seeing billy again and thinking he can tempt him back over to his side #except turns out vecna promising love is WAY different than steve and eddie proving it time and time again to him #he may not like himself but DAMN does he love his boys! #sadly eddie and billy did not get bat related or sun related superpowers #eddie would have loved to fly around like a bat #alternatively though.... they do #with eddie being chewed on by bats and billy feeling the effects of fireworks and the whole failed sauna thing #they ended up inheriting that as well and steve finds out during the massive road trip #it was totally by accident #billy got so excited he threw his fists up and suddenly there was a whoosh and a crackle above him #and there were fireworks startling everyone #afterwards they try to see if eddie got rabies (kidding) and find his bat wings #robin finds it OP because billy can fight with fire now and that's the UD's weakness #the fireworks affect billy and eddie some but as long as it's not actually towards them they're fine #billy's hands can take it #vecna doesn't understand why he can't control the UD that is in the mungrove #its because the gay gay homosexual gay is stronger than forced control #the kids are still back in hawkins because max is still there #and they refused to leave her side #steve and robin while they do love the kids needed to leave #it was hopper's decision because steve's been battered to hell and back and his noggin can only take so much

[iwonderwh0]

I think it's funny that Connor can adapt to work with pretty much any human team, but if you form a team exclusively of RK800 models, I imagine it to be kind of a mess. All of them would strive to be the leader and would see other Connors as competition and it'll stress the hell out of each of them. No, they'll accomplish anything they ought to accomplish, they'll work as a powerful team together if necessary, but man they'd be so dead serious and uptight about it, they will start overheating just from the stress of a pressure they put on themselves to be the best one.

#dbh connor #dbh rk800 #rk800 #dbh #dbh sixty #like their second nature is to adapt to people #but what if they're the people they need to adapt to #this would be different #this would be difficult and confusing #if some of them will show a sign of a weakness there'll be no compassion #other Connors will be haughty about it #No mercy for his own kind is acceptable #man they'll be too hard on themselves #like other androids generally see other androids of their own model like separate people and are chill about it #but Connor? #he would see other RK800's as variations of himself #he will feel obligated to prove to others and himself that HE is the special one among them #after all he was made to be special #to be the only one of his kind #being challenged in this aspect will make him so stressed

[rottingraisins]

Are you using gouache or water colors for your traditional art? If so, How do you get such clean shapes and lines? Do you work wet on wet or do you let it dry in between?

- (Art nerd anon)

its both actually!!! theres usually a watercolor underpainting, either one solid color or, for more complicated pieces, blocking in a few different colors or patches of light and shadow, and then i paint over that in gouache. the lines look so clean bc after letting it dry i usually put down a layer of fixative (ive found the one made for oil pastels works well) n after letting that dry too, retrace some lines using my ink pen. truthfully this burns through ink pens quite fast bc the gouache pigment can still dry them out, but its the best solution ive found.

i do let the watercolors dry properly before bringing in the gouache, but i dont rlly deliberately take breaks to let the gouache dry in between as gouache dries super quick anyway, especially when u work as small as i do (my most recent sketchbook was an a5 one), so id hesistate to call it wet on wet either. i just kinda alternate between patches of color so everything has a bit of time to dry. idt i really could stand to take breaks from painting bc i get distracted rlly easily, so id never finish anything, haha!

if u find ur gouaches bleeding into each other a lot or taking rlly long to dry u might be mixing them w/ too much water, gouache is rlly supposed to be at sort of a pudding like consistency when u work w/ it, unless ur trying to deliberately thin it out to get a lighter, more transparent shade, though id rlly recommend just using watercolors if ur trying to do that. this can happen easily by accident if ur paintbrush is freshly wet from cleaning it out, i recommend always keeping a bit of paper next to ur paint water to be able to dry it off.

#i should rlly make more speedpaints to like show off how i work with paints‚ the ones i have up are from b4 i rlly knew how to use gouache #my current room is just a bit dark for it so i havent yet. maybe ill find a solution eventually though speedpaints are so fun to edit #hope this was helpful btw whenever i give art advice im always like. am i being haughty. is this obvious do people know this generally #the curse of being self taught i reckon. i figured out some extremely basic shit about painting embarrassingly late #not art

[mellowwillowy]

Selfcest about to hit these two for being too compatible with each other throat (literally too)

#XL the Capricious #Art Shelves #Adora being explosive and Shuri being haughty all the time #A nightmare for the enomies

[daigina-3]

Star Dust, Angel Dust

Anthony Donatiello was going to be a star. 

The dark cinema was buzzing. The joint was full of his family and friends- the place rented out just for them. Not that he thought his uncle’s meathead friends or his cousins cared much for motion pictures, unless they were the kiddie vaudeville types. They just didn’t have the taste Anthony did. Molly liked movies all right, but mostly because she knew Anthony did. She did anything he wanted, went where he went, liked what he liked; even if she didn’t, really. 

He sat back in the big seat- his feet just reaching the floor. His frame was slight even at eleven, when most of the other kids his age were sprouting up and out. He was hardly any bigger than Molly was, the two of them identical pointy limbs and round, pinched-cheek faces. Though Ma said he’d hit his growth spurt any day now and be taller than all of them, and be on his way to becomin’ a big man like his papa. 

Anthony wasn’t sure he liked the sound of that. He loved his papa, sure. But when he dreamt of who he would be as an adult, it wasn’t his father’s stubbly jaw line and gruff voice he imagined.

It was Roman Novaro, with his slender frame and shiny hair. It was Colleen Moore and her wire-thin dainty eyebrows and shiny bead-embroidered dresses.

It was Clara Bow. 

On the silver screen, Clara Bow’s big round eyes were pinched in anger as she was waving her cutesy little gun around (He didn’t know what she thought that little thing would do- he’d seen bigger guns in his pop’s bathroom), looking for all the world like she was about to jump out of the ten foot tall screen and into the room. 

Clara was the ultimate star- she had the face, the legs, the smile. She was everything. People called her the “it” girl- on the cover of every magazine, in every department store window on posters for perfume and powder- and always, always with all eyes on her. 

She was an angel.

Anthony had fallen in love with her the first time he’d seen her on screen with her thin painted lips and the way they quirked up in an impish smile. He’d made his mama take him to the cinema to see the movie three times. He practiced that smile in the bathroom mirror every morning for a week. 

Ladies of the Mob had been a funny choice for a family outing, looking back. Not that he’d really known then that the family business was anything more than some vague investment company or something else equally as vague and boring as shit to an eleven year old. He just thought that maybe all investment companies came with family bodyguards who were also his cousins- and also cousins that weren’t really cousins but they called them that anyway. And didn’t every family have weapon stashes in every room of the house? His pops always said protecting his family came first!

Next to him in the dark, Molly elbowed him gently and held out the little bag of popcorn for him to take a handful. Her big blue eyes were still locked on the screen as Clara’s lover, the poor crook who Clara was trying so hard to make a better man, grabbed her by the arms and shook her passionately. Anthony felt the tension rise as their faces got closer together and her lover shook her again, the piano music swelling. The gun fell from Clara’s hand as she stared up at her fella’s furious face.

“Don’t you know I love ya, ya dumb broad?” The title card read. 

Clara shook her head, moving her perfectly painted lips. Anthony mirrored her expression, copying the way she turned down the corners of her mouth.

“Well, you have a mighty good way of showing it.”

He yanked her forward with force until they were just an inch away, his mouth mumbling words that made Anthony’s tummy flip and his eyebrows go up in surprise just the same as Clara’s on screen.

“I’ll show you good.”

He crashed his mouth to Clara’s- Anthony didn’t have to look at his sister to know Molly had clapped one hand over her eyes. She still thought kissing was gross, the little baby. But he didn’t ever want to look away. In the darkness with stars in his little eyes, Anthony puckered his lips, instinctively copying Clara. 

Someone was gonna kiss him like that someday. 

*

“You're gonna be a star, Angel baby.”

That's what Val had told him when they first met in the corner of a hazy strip club. The moth demon had paid for private dances at the club, rented out rooms for days just to monopolize Angel's time and attention. And Angel took the compliment and the cash, batted his lashes and let Val flash even more bills than the day before or the day before. He was buying bottle after bottle without care. Hell, he was practically pouring the shit out on the floor. What did Val care? He could buy the whole bottling plant if he wanted. He had money, he had power, he had people falling at his feet.

So who could blame Angel if he fell, too?

Well. He sure as fuck could blame himself. He'd been stupid. Naive.

Val had been good to him, at the start. For a long while, Angel was a free man who went where he wanted and did what and who he wanted. And who he wanted was Val. He ate up the gifts; the clothes, the free meals, the sex- he was peppered with kisses and pet names and promises and in return when Val was mean, Angel told himself that was the shit he was into anyway. Even if he wasn't really into how Val did it.

And he wasn't mean outside of bed, anyway- Angel would never let that happen to him. He watched, tucked under Val's wing as he was cruel and ruthless to waitstaff, employees, dancers, bartenders. Didn't matter. That would never be him. He was Angel Baby, his star, Amorcito. He was special.

Stupid. Naive. And humble, as ever.

Anthony never got to be a star. But Angel was. His face was everywhere. His legs and ass were in even more places.

Just like Clara, he thought to himself with satisfaction when he looked in the mirror before a shoot, giving himself bedroom eyes and admiring himself.

Just like Clara? He thought to himself with a bitter pit in his stomach when he looked in a mirror after Val manhandled him. kissed him so hard it hurt. Talked over him. Didn't listen when he asked for a pause, a moment to catch his breath.

Breaks were not in the budget, on or off set.

Angel Dust was a star. But Anthony was curled up in bed, the only one who ever loved him right snuffling at his tear stained cheeks. He drew Fat Nuggets in tighter to his chest, letting him nuzzle his neck and snort sweetly.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanfiction #angel dust #angel dust hazbin hotel #valentinto tw too i guess but its nothign thats not in the show #this is just me stretching my fingers and getting used to writing engel it hink #angel I think* #also its just me having fun w the idea of him being a baby in the 20s w it girls and slay queens and clara bow shooting to fame #also dont we all love the reflection on childhood dreams when youre an adult who feels like you're a failure!! #anyway I'm working on an actual fic thats half done and I'm injecting more humor because i love this side of angel #but i also love the humor and the funny little sex jokes and the haughtiness as a defense mechanism #and husk i love husk so much im obsessed w that stupid cat

[skruttet]

Edalia Day's wonderfully funny stamp-collecting hemulen

#feat. snufkin being a bit curt #he can be a bit haughty and boastful in this which i think is a fair interpretation of the novel cause he likes to show off a bit in it and #i think that may largely come from alex sounding quite older; usually i read comet snufkin as this sweet little boy who's just so so happy #to finally have friends to show off to so i usually read him as a bit more friendly than alex's performance lol #comet in moominland

[little-flame-prince]

Having a normal one.

#was talking with M about the new Kuroshitsuji season and was reminded of this #the chill normcore vaporwave ass stoner gamer catboy shit is like #a carefully constructed facade in a lot of ways #i mean thats still me too #things i enjoy and a lot of it being one specific person's good influence on me #but when left to my own devices i absolutely regress back to haughty brat mode #ive been noticing ive been especially bad about it lately #maybe Claude's fault? he encourages me to be an arrogant asshole for sure at least XD #nah I think that's just always who i am under the layers of masking though #but ive had to force myself to act more chill and casual for like. survival #ive always been a completr degen though thats nothing new #if anything ive gotten worse XD #which i think in a way has been part of what lead to me regressing #slutprince.info

[enden-k]

imagine falling asleep to 2 geniuses talking about something they are passionate about, Alhaitham is in HEAVEN

he really is kajbsckjasc

#combine this w my hc of hthm i made a comic of. he listens to them being so casually smart without being insufferable #or haughty about it like most ppl at akademiya #and hes fr in paradise #reply

[fragmentedblade]

Blade compared the relief from pain death brought him to the moments spent with his friends drinking together.

His desire for death as both a release from pain and from the condition of existence in which he finds himself now, so similar to that which he most hated (hated so much as to dedicate his entire life and self to fight, up to the point of crossing unthinkable barriers for shortlife species); but death also almost like a returning to the time that was, the joy and pride it brought him, and the friends and self he lost

#I have my qualms with this quest. I have them #But man. Man. I love him #They didn't have to make him such a good character. It could have gone wrong so easily with what they were doing #But I do love him very much #Yingxing the arrogant man the bashful teen and the stuttering kid. But haughty and determined and defiant at every stage #How smart and skilled and proud. How ambitious and revengeful too #I was going to talk about Jingliu and Dan Feng but I won't haha I may do later on #I don't know... I feel my chest so warm and so cold at the same time. I guess it's the fondness and the grief haha #I'm rambling though and I actually want to find this idea #Fragments and scraps #Yingxing #Blade #I've been told I can set the blog to private and that way I won't have the problem of throwing my posts in the general tag unwillingly #There's only one post I've wanted people to interact with and to this day no one has answered my question anyway #So I should consider that. It may be the best choice before half the HSR blogs block me for being annoying #I want to he able to find art and gifs haha #When I say 'life and self' I mean that not only did he dedicate his entire life to it on a temporal dimension #but he forged himself initially for this goal. Everything he was able to achieve he did by means of the skills he developed for this end #And that is what gave him the chance to craft a position for himself in the Xianzhou culture that looks down on shortlife species #His position as Huaiyan's apprentice‚ as a craftsman of the Zhuming‚ the Furnace Master‚ a legendary blacksmith and a hero‚ #and thus even I imagine his position as a civilian human man living in the Xianzhou without being looked down‚ all comes from that goal #With all that weighting on the matter the fact that he became that which he hated and lost his ability to craft #because of the chance to bring someone back from the death becomes even more poignant especially if we take Baiheng to be #the condition of possibility of that being he crafted taking place‚ due to little Yingxing not losing his drive and hope #And Jingliu asked them why they committed such a sin. He doesn't know what to say and knows she doesn't care #'I longed to be able to accept it‚ and I do not say I have not tried'‚ from Ovid. As Hozier puts it‚ 'the choiceless hope in grief' #I'm running out of space but I adore that these three people unmade themselves because of this. I think in Dan Feng's case there's also #a longing for a making in the unmaking process‚ that breaking free from the High Elder cycle that so tormented him and robbed him #from himself. The parallels both in similarities and oppositions between Jingliu‚ Blade (or Yingxing) and Dan Feng are so good #But I've run out of space and I wanted to save my thoughts on that somewhere else anyway. The Jingliu/Blade/Jing Yuan/Yanqing ones too

[nightingaletes]

I genuinely can't believe I've written more Taliesin-specific pieces than anyone else. And here I thought it was overwhelmingly Kaidan.

That Mer would be so god damn smug about it LMAO

#nightingale tales #cue taliesin being all haughty about being the sexiest in the group #kaidan throwing him two seconds later #alkjsjdsjkh

[remusawoooo]

oh I found a time travel fic with canon characterization for marauders!!! all before I even brushed my teeth, loving this day 🥹

#wolfstar is possible with canon characterization if youre not a little bitch #haughty sirius who has a twinkle in his eye #witty remus who is already hardcore crushing on sirius and is going through it every time sirius winks #their banter cause they can keep up with each others wits #insults are not banter #one being mean and the other being whiny isnt banter #just for one day i dont want to come across any fanon wolfstar #also cocky james!!!

[gomorrite-deactivated20270207]

no other blog blends as smoothly art, hot men and shitposting as mine

#not being haughty #just a conclusion to which i've arrived after checking all the blogs that free sample mine

[the-chickenshit-oddity]

B99 Holt&Cozner fam prompt

season 2 episode 4, Holt says his watch was Kevin's dad's and he's dead. at first i was gonna go with a happy story of Holt meeting the in-laws and them loving him, but i have vague memories of someone mentioning Kev's family isn't really cool with the gayness of their relationship, so instead, i'd like Kev's Dad dying of normal causes except he was an idiot who forgot to change his will so Kev gets the watch and because both him and Rayray are vindictive little shits, they get real pleasure out of Holt wearing the watch of the guy who hated that he married his son.

#well that took a turn #whatever #theres looooads of proof of what little shits those two are #i mean kev is real good at being haughty and shit #and need i even mention ray? #two words : wunch - balloon arch #okay that was three #but ya get me #the-c-odd-prompt #codd-sequel #raymond holt #kevin cozner