#hopefully more regularly

[starklyscifi]

Bluebirds by the Sea

It is hot. Too hot. Everyone in their right minds is following the lead of the locals and taking a mid-day nap in their hotel rooms.

The beach is empty.

“So that’s it then?”

Sweat drips down her back, rolls uncomfortably into the waistband of her jeans.

“It’s over?”

She couldn’t not wear jeans. No one looks badass in shorts.

“Really over?”

Thank God for linen shirts. And the well known fact that leather jackets were only a necessity for being taken seriously in the cooler months of the year. She is boiling alive as it is already.

“Shelia?”

She blinks, the fake name taking too long to register.

“Sure.”

He looks down at his bloody hands.

Amateur.

“You’re lying,” he says.

At this point, she’ll say anything to get out of the fucking sunshine. Tell him he’s a purple unicorn with wings, or that he’s good at his job. Or that she likes spending time with him.

“Will you take care of that already?”

He seems to register for the first time that he’s covered in blood, his eyes darting around nervously. She doesn’t move. It’s noon in the middle of July in a resort town in Spain. There’s no one to hide from.

“Everyone’s asleep, just wash up and let’s go before that’s not true anymore.”

He wonders down to the water’s edge, looking like a puppet with a bad master pulling the strings. All jerky movements and feigned nonchalance.

She rolls her eyes behind the high-end sunglasses. Looking badass requires sunglasses, and specifically high-end ones. She spent the entire payout from one job on these, and they’re worth every penny. If no other reason than to hid her irritation from a partner she never asked for.

He comes back, looking like an idiot, but blood free enough for the short walk back to the hotel, where she has to wait for him to shower and scrub the remaining stains out of his shirt.

Anyone worth their salt knows a knife makes a terrible assassin’s weapon.

She ticks off everything about him she doesn’t like as he takes too long in the bathroom. He’s slow. He’s clumsy. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

He thought that trying to slit someone’s throat was a good idea when she was right there with a syringe in her hand.

Men.

So messy.

“You’re an assassin,” he’d said, the first time she’d complained about his love of knives. They’d been on a train, heading out of Germany and into Denmark. She likes Denmark. It’s one of those places that almost stays a leather-jacket-wearable temperature all year.

“Doesn’t mean I have to be a slob.”

He had looked genuinely offended by that one. But then again, he looked genuinely offended by most things.

He walks out of the bathroom, breaking her reverie, wiping his hands with a plush towel before throwing it on the pile of clothing to be burned. Or discarded in someone’s dumpster, just before trash pick-up. There was no way she was letting him play with matches. He’d burn the city down.

“Is it over?”

She shakes her head, and tells him to leave it to her this time.

Later, when they find the tourist trap they're looking for, he waits outside, lingering in the falling dusk. The heat is just as oppressive in the dark.

She asks for a drink she doesn’t like in a language she doesn’t speak, the order memorized carefully. The bar is filling up with tourists. Perfect cover. No one notices one woman standing at the bar, slipping powder into some God-awful cocktail and swapping glasses out with the old, fat white guy sitting next to her and drinking the same.

On her way out, she takes one sip and grimaces.

Anyone who liked something that sweet deserved to die.

He’s waiting for her in the alleyway, like a bad hangover that just won’t go away.

“Is it over now?”

“You’re not very good at this.”

“I’m new.”

“You’re fundamentally not very good at this.”

He looks her up and down, massaging one hand with the other.

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

He takes off, in the confident, assured, male way that assumes she’ll follow. He never looks back. She never looks forward.

“Are you coming?” he calls out.

She is.

She’s always hated summer anyway.

@flashfictionfridayofficial

#flashfictionfriday #flash fiction #starkly mine #dark fiction #assassins #we're baaacck #hopefully more regularly #grad school is wrapping up #writers of tumblr #original fiction #fiction writers #tw death #tw blood #tw violence

[collieii]

someone probably said this already but in spiderverse i think it's interesting how when pavitr was first introduced everyone thought something bad was gonna happen to him bc of how confident and optimistic he was. and then in the actual movie we see that something bad was supposed to happen to him (police chief dying!) but it doesn't! miles stops it! and miguel berates miles for this, says it's going to cause the universe to collapse or whatever.

there's this idea that tragedy is inherent to spidermans growth, and while it's true that some spiderpeople learn important lessons through loss, no one stops to ask, is it really necessary? yeah, maybe the chief was supposed to die. but why does spiderman have to be formed through tragedy? why do we (as heroes) have to let people die? pavitr didn't lose anyone, and he's still a good spiderman! maybe, if he doesn't suffer, he'll end up better off for it!

so while miguel is arguing for all this big picture stuff about saving the multiverse he's lost sight of what it really means to be a spiderman, he's not looking out for the real individual people. yeah it's just one person who would die, but that one person means something to someone. shrugging and saying "stuff just sucks sometimes, we can't do anything about it" is the opposite of what superheroes do. pretty obviously, miles arc is also a reflection of the struggles people face in real life, working within unequal systems, where it's easy to shrug and say "that's just the way it is" and not ask "but why does it need be this way? can't we do something about it?"

miguel is arguing that you can't have your cake and eat it too. presumably, miles and co. are going to find a way to get around that and change things for the better (and maybe that's why miles has that line about two cakes in the advisors office!)

#across the spiderverse #across the spider verse spoilers #break from my regularly scheduled trigun posting for spider posting #i'm actually kinda eh on the idea of the canon and police chiefs dying it is not my favorite plot point #but like any sane person i love spiderverse so #actually still think i like the first one more but wroaw much to think about #spiderverse #atsv #.lieii #i only watched the movie once so hopefully this is all accurate #i feel like this is all really obvious my point was like #pavitr being an example of a spiderperson who is still successful without going through all these awful things #and you think despite all this stuff about the multiverse how does he feel about the chief being saved? hes probably rly grateful right? #i mean maybe something terrible will happen to him in the next movie but. yk what im saying #.lieii txt

[lunathrix]

How pk figured out void can be made into babies: An essay in four panels

#hollow knight #comic #pale king #the soup #hi hello i am still alive btw #i was real busy teaching but now that the semesters almost over hopefully i will return to posting more regularly :D

[bestrollever]

Grilling soon...! Meet Mustard&Pickle, the friendly staff at Paw Burger's joint!

#hamburger #burger joint #food illustration #food illustrator #food art #finally I remember to post more regularly.....hopefully more tomorrow lol

[popponn]

there is something about how when anime official art gets yoichi right fashion wise it's always a comfy bf look like look at him

very fluffy. very huggable. i want to poke and pinch his cheeks. also he often has those lil blushies when he eats and for some reason it's cute. the gap moe between on field and off field is still something else to see each time i remember it. i love it ofc 💚 but it's still something else

#his nickname is egoist. he gets heated and shittalks regularly #deadass say 100% k word kaiser in a panel that is pretty wild. also get d threats regularly (rin barou im not even gonna try to list em) #friendly reminder that i love him even when i do not post about him #comfort character that literally make me look at him when im stressed and just sigh come on lets go #kind of like a bit pavlovian if i wanna bully myself about it. but honestly he is just #but honestly seeing him work hard and being passionate makes me admire him in the “i wish i am like you” all while going #“uwah” in the way that i very much realize i can't never be him and that very fact make him even more admireable to me #everyone has their own pathway and process. and his story is honestly something that makes me soft #hardworking people are something else. always a sight to watch and it's beautiful #okay wow im yapping but it's yoichi what's new. hopefully i can write something for u this valentine babe #babblings

[dunkinbublin]

man

#sth #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #tails the fox #dunkinsart #another whiteboard piece lmao #id post the full thing but whiteboard fox fucking murdered the quality #its all the art ive done in the last week man this shit sucks #i hate the start of the semester gRRRR no ones got their shit together #hopefully i get my routine down and i can get back to drawing the guys more regularly

[naelmasn]

"If she never discovered the auracite—had never fallen under its influence—would she have lived a normal life? Would she have been a mother to me?"

#my art #ff14 #ffxiv #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #erichthonios #I've been having the meanest artblock ever leaving me no desire at all to draw #so i tried drawing smth and i kinda gave up with this one bc it's not exactly what i had in mind but oh well #i still like it #hopefully I can get back to drawing more regularly soon

[deku-verde]

“Is This A Date?” Part 2

(part 1)

the end~

#bakudeku #bkdk #mha #my art #holy shit this one took me so long to get out #i kept rewriting the script at first #and then i finally settled on something i liked #and then i drew all of the roughs #and then i changed the script again #so i redrew some of the panels #and then i did the finished lines #and then i rewrote the script #and then i wanted to post it this morning after i woke up #but then i rewrote more of the dialogue #it has been #a ~process~ #i just had a lot i wanted them to say but also i didnt want this to be 20 pages long #it was originally supposed to be 5 not 10 #but clearly i got carried away oops #anyways hopefully back to regularly scheduled posting for a while #hello if youre reading this youre lovely

[human-encounters-diary]

We have received vital information from a contact that called itself "The author". We were not able to trace back the origin of the received message, so unfortunately, no further information could be found out.

The message itself was rather simple. The "author" talked about how they were "going on vacation" and there were no communication tools aside from their "portable cell device" available, therefore this story would undergo a "short hiatus" until "June 8th".

Although the message seemed rather simple, it was almost entirely unfathomable to me. None of us were familiar with the term "going on vacation" or "short hiatus". I assumed that "June 8th" may be a way to measure time and a "portable cell device" was most definitly a tool of communication, although I have never faced any records on this one in particular.

All of this information is still currently under investigation. Until we have processed and analyzed the given information, the usual updating schedule will be adjusted to the messages' contents. Until "June 8th".

#haha sorry for going away so quickly after only ten chapters #unfortunately I don't have my IPad with me on vacation so I can't update regularly #so instead of really choppy and confusing half-updates I'm just taking a short vacation #until june 8th :) #with hopefully longer chapters :) #hahaha I didn't mean to send you into a cliffhanger like that actually I'm very sorry about that #less of the science more of the fiction

[badly-drawn-bbu]

BDBBU Holiday Spectacular 2023 FINALE

prev // epilogue // start

#bdbbu holiday spectacular 2023 #admin maah #SORRY THAT THIS IS LIKE HALFWAY THROUGH JANUARY!! BUT SHES FINALLY HERE #hopefully next year we’ll be a bit more On Time with this stuff haha <:’)) THINGS HAPPENED!!! AAA #but thank you all for being so lovely with this year’s holiday special; we had SO MUCH FUN!!! #and we’ll be back to our regularly-scheduled NON festive bdbbu soon :-)) happy late holidays all!!! #billie bust up #badly drawn bbu #billie bbu #aristotle bbu #dutch bbu #hayes bbu #elaine bbu #barnaby bbu #fantoccio bbu #calico jack bbu #michael bublé bbu #basile bbu #oscar bbu

[ermg33]

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

#tf2 #Team Fortress 2 #tf2 pyro #pyro tf2 #The Pyro #pyro #Digital Illustration #my art #I'm beginning to post more regularly #hopefully i can keep this up #just the idea of pyro not fully understanding what he is doing reminded me of oppenheimer a lil #also the eras are similar #the second one is an experimental version from photoshop that i thought was cool

[the-squiptionary]

Squalloween - A squip-celebrated holiday set on October 31, overlapping with Halloween and Halloween parties. Celebrations are squip centric and include dancing alongside their hosts’ friends despite not appearing to them, letting their hosts drink copious amounts of alcohol, passing out because of alcohol consumption, and making losers cry in the bathroom.

#squiptionary #new squipfinition #be more chill #bmc #hi guys whoa i haven't been around for a hot minute! #got super busy w/ irl theatre stuff + hatchetfield hyperfixation lol #hopefully i can update this blog again regularly soon!

[jerezjayne]

Galarian Ponyta / Rapidash combined with Blitzle / Zebstrika 

#pokemon #blitzle #rapidash #zebstrika #galarian ponyta #galarian rapidash #Been super busy but hopefully this month I will be back to posting more regularly #ponyta #pokemon fusion #pokemon variants #pokemon variations #pokemon combination #pokemon crossbreeds #nintendo #artists on tumblr #jerez jayne

[purity-town]

No update today -- this next page is a little more complicated as I'm playing with character designs and coloring, and I wasn't able to dedicate the time it needed as I've been swamped with a school project. Should be good to update next week, though!

#not an update #Things will calm down at the end of October so hopefully I'll be able to update more regularly then #It's just midterms + projects + job hunting + etc. all coming together rn

[serenescribe]

Three sentence meme!

Epel has a nightmare and Vil comforts him

[✐meme] three sentence fic meme [✐] ficlet frenzy

"Have you been awake all night?" Vil asks incredulously as he walks into Pomefiore's kitchen, halting in his steps at the sight of one exhausted Epel Felmier, leaning against a table with heavy bags weighing down his eyes. Pomefiore has a curfew in place, and as the housewarden, Vil knows it is his responsibility to make sure they all adhere to it — including Epel.

But when Epel doesn't react to his words, merely glancing over at him before returning to stare at the table, Vil... softens. He'd expected a snippy remark, or a reluctant apology, not complete silence — is there something else going on?

While it is true that it is his responsibility to make sure those under his dorm adhere to his rules... it is also his responsibility to take care of them where necessary.

Sliding into the chair next to the boy, Vil presses an elbow into the table, resting a hand against his cheek as he faces Epel. "Epel," he begins, voice gentle, "is there perhaps something bothering you? Why have you stayed up overnight?"

"...'m had a nightmare." Epel ducks his head as he murmurs, as if embarrassed by his words.

"What about?"

The boy sucks in a breath. "...STYX. The Phantoms. Idia's overblot. I know we've all gotten out fine, and that you 'n everyone else could take care of yourselves, but..." A shaky laugh. "I'unno," Epel mutters, raising his head though still averting his gaze, "it didn't really feel all that daunting while we were there, but when you're busy dreaming about you 'n Rook dyin', it... kinda don't make you wanna go back to sleep, huh?"

...Ah.

He reaches out to rest a hand over Epel's, causing the boy to glance over at him.

"I understand," Vil says softly — he has been haunted by these nightmares as well, jolting awake more than once with horrific dreams of Epel and Rook dying fresh in his mind, so really, who is he to fault Epel for staying up over it?

He can always lecture the boy over the importance of a good night's rest later and send him on his way with some concealer. For now, though...

"Would you like a cup of tea, Epel?"

"...That'd be nice. Thank you, Vil."

#my writing tag #tumblr drabbles tag #ficlet frenzy #twst #twisted wonderland #epel felmier #vil schoenheit #twst fanfiction #twst writing #i don't write vil a lot ahhhhhh god i hope this is ok #we interrupt your regularly scheduled diasomnia w a side of pomefiore! #@ the remaining two diasomnia asks i'll get to you hopefully later or tomorrow we'll see #these are fun btw you guys can send more till i say enough #go wild! #three sentences my ass. more like the mobile drabbles prompt thing

[visionkept]

Helping Tomo shave might be one of the most intimate moments your muse can have with them, particularly in the genshin verse if you have in consideration that they use their blade for said task ( something similar to this ). Tomo letting your muse have a deadly weapon so close to their face means that they truly do trust them, this is the kind of opportunity given to those above friendship level 10.

#have been very busy lately with the filming of a project but i wanted to share this lil hc for today #they don't shave regularly cause their facial hair doesnt grown fast so the chances are veeery low yet present #damn if they do feel safe tomo might as well lean against the touch and could even fall asleep #︾╼╼ █ █ ║˚ ▹ HEADCANONS.▕🗲 #ok possibly this week will offer me more time to write... HOPEFULLY I WANT TO SO BAD