#it FELT like months tho

[kazzledazzleandstretch]

That time Cardan banished Jude & expected her to unbanish herself tho 😂😭😭

That time Jude ACCEPTED IT AND DIDN'T EVEN CONSIDER THE POWER SHE LITERALLY JUST MARRIED INTO

That time Cardan wrote lETTER AFTER LETTER apologizing & begging Jude to come back bc he thought she got the joke & was just punishing him by giving him the silent treatment

That time all of Jude's letters from Cardan were interceded so she lived for MONTHS thinking Cardan maliciously tricked her bc she never got any of the letters

These two have more misunderstandings than any couple ever lmfao.

#the folk of the air #tfota #queen of nothing #queen of nothing spoilers #tfota spoilers #putting under a readmore bc it's the big one lmao #i love this series so goddamn much #just finished the wicked king (again) #i'm hyped for everything to come together #i don't actually know how long she spent in the mortal world? #it FELT like months tho

[even-disco-baby]

COASTAL SHACK — You wake to find yourself lying in your bed, still very much alive.

PAIN THRESHOLD — Barely.

ENDURANCE — Don’t be dramatic. Aside from a headache and dry mouth, you’re fine.

PAIN THRESHOLD — It’s a *bad* headache.

ENDURANCE — You’ve had worse.

Ouch… No thanks, I’m going back to sleep.

[Try to sit up.]

ENDURANCE — You try to push yourself upright, but your head and your heart pound with the effort and your arms feel weak.

…Look, I said you’ve had worse, I didn’t say you should push your luck.

ENCYCLOPEDIA — It’s the blood loss. A common side effect of getting shot.

YOU — Thanks. Very helpful.

ENCYCLOPEDIA — You’re welcome!

PERCEPTION (Hearing) — As you drop back down to the pillow, you hear a familiar sound. A shuffle of nylon.

PAIN THRESHOLD — You force your eyes open just a sliver, squinting. Despite how dim the shack is, that hi-vis orange is unmistakable.

The lieutenant’s jacket is laid over you, the sleeve of it nearly brushing your cheek.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY — You catch a faint whiff of Taiga Super Special.

+1 MORALE

Oh shit! I’ve always wanted to try it on!

Does that mean he’s out there somewhere *without* it? That mental image is just not right.

I wonder what he keeps in his pockets… [Snoop.]

INTERFACING — Blearily, you reach out and feel for the jacket’s inside pockets. Predictably, most of them are empty. Obviously, the lieutenant didn’t leave any of his essentials behind. His badge and notebook are nowhere to be found. Nor are his Astras.

But…

YOU — But?!

INTERFACING — But in his left breast pocket, you feel something small and flimsy.

PERCEPTION (Touch) — Feels like… photo paper.

YOU — [Pull out the photo.]

MIRACULOUS PHOTO — It’s you.

You, reaching out a hand toward the miracle— the Insulindian Phasmid.

INLAND EMPIRE — No. It said that *you* were the miracle… violent and irrepressible…

MIRACULOUS PHOTO — The phasmid unfolding its impossibly long limbs, its eyes fixed calmly on you, the foam and the sky and your small silhouette, wreathed in sunlight, reaching, reaching…

It’s a great photo.

EMPATHY — In his left breast pocket… The lieutenant keeps it close to his heart…

KIM KITSURAGI — “…You’re awake.”

COMPOSURE — You jump, nearly dropping the photo at Kim’s voice.

HALF LIGHT — He’s caught you red handed.

“I wasn’t snooping! It just, er, fell out of the jacket and I…”

“God, Kim, you scared me…”

KIM KITSURAGI — The lieutenant stands in the doorway in a white tank, his silhouette strange and unfamiliar without the bulk of his jacket around his shoulders. In his hands, jugs of clean water from the well. He sets them down by the door and then comes to sit at the table by the window.

“Sorry,” he says flatly, glancing briefly at the photo in your hands, then away. “How are you feeling?”

“Like death.”

“Like there’s a little guy with a sledgehammer knocking around inside my skull.”

“Okay, I guess. Tired.”

KIM KITSURAGI — “Mm. You’ve been sleeping on and off for a couple of days now… I’m not surprised. You were bound to crash eventually, after everything your body’s been through…”

He glances again at the photo, his expression difficult to read.

EMPATHY — He didn’t mean for you to find it, but he isn’t upset, either. Strangely, he almost looks a little guilty.

“…Thinking about changing careers, Kim? You might not make such a bad cryptozoologist.”

“…Pretty scandalous of you to keep a photo of me. Whatever will they say back at the precinct?”

“…Lena and Morell let you keep the original?”

KIM KITSURAGI — “They did,” he says. And then, somewhat awkwardly, “Sorry. I should have offered to let you have it. It was your discovery, really…”

HALF LIGHT — He’s almost scared to let you take it. He doesn’t realize it, but needs it.

“But it’s *your* photo. You’re the only reason we got a picture.”

“That’s true. Does that mean I can keep it?”

“It’s okay. Something tells me you need it more than I do.”

KIM KITSURAGI — He raises an eyebrow, but doesn’t ask you to elaborate. Just stares at the little piece of paper in your hands.

COMPOSURE — It stirs something in him. Something he doesn’t know what to name.

KIM KITSURAGI — “…You said something about having a vision,” he says suddenly, frowning. “When we encountered it, I mean. Something about the… *khm*… the fate of mankind.”

INLAND EMPIRE — He would not understand, even if you told him…

“I say lots of stuff. For no reason. I was probably just goofing.” [Don’t tell him.]

“…I did. The phasmid spoke to me about it.” [Tell him.]

KIM KITSURAGI — His eyelids flutter, processing your words. “It… *spoke* to you?”

“Um, no, I’m just kidding, Kim. Don’t worry about it.”

“Yes. Those few minutes I was just staring at her, we were actually speaking… She said such beautiful things… Beautiful, but scary, too…”

KIM KITSURAGI — The lieutenant’s mouth opens, as if to speak— and then promptly shuts again. His brows knit, lips pursed. He looks at you as if he isn’t quite sure what to make of you.

INLAND EMPIRE — I warned you. He cannot understand…

KIM KITSURAGI — But then his gaze falls back to the photo, and he seems to waver.

“…What did…” He pauses. Swallows. “What did it say…?”

EMPATHY — He is trying not to doubt you like he doubted the miracle held in your very hands.

“She said that our existence must be hell… The fire and the swirling glass and the agonizing awareness… It’s a madness unlike anything else on this planet.”

“She said that she loved me. That she would benefit from our closeness…”

“She said that there really was a Seraseolitic civilization! It’s waiting to be found… right beneath our feet… They really did exist. We just forgot.”

“She said that there was a nearly universal agreement between all other life on the planet that we will be the death of them all. We brought the pale with us… *We* shattered the face of god…”

“She said that we can’t forget anymore… We can’t look away… Or one day, we’ll blink, and find that none of this ever existed. How could that be? I didn’t really understand…”

“She said that the insects are all watching us, in awe of us. That *we* are the miracles… To be able to live like this…”

KIM KITSURAGI — The lieutenant’s lips part in surprise. “We?”

“Yes. You and me. We’re a miracle, Kim. Don’t you think so?”

“Yes. All of us. Humanity is a miracle. That we persist at all is a testament to that. Don’t you think so?”

KIM KITSURAGI — He does not answer. He does not seem to know how to.

EMPATHY — He wishes that he did.

ESPIRIT DE CORPS — Your faith is what’s miraculous, detective…

KIM KITSURAGI — The lieutenant leans over and rests his arms on the table, his shoulders hunched and small.

“What else did the phasmid say?”

YOU — “A lot of things.”

KIM KITSURAGI — “I’ve got time.”

EMPATHY — He means it.

YOU — “She said that when we die, the insects… they will bloom from us like banners, raise us up from the ground and carry us into the sky, all in our honor…”

KIM KITSURAGI — “Mm…” He looks out the window, the light glinting off his glasses and making it hard to see his eyes. “Is that a… comfort to you?”

“Yes. It’s a comfort to know that something is watching. They love us for trying, even when the trying isn’t enough.”

“No. It’s not about comfort. It’s just a fact. We’re horrors, but we survive. Any creature would admire that.”

“No. It’s scary. Is that all that this amounts to? The admiration of *insects?* I don’t know what to think of it.”

“Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. Right now, I just know that I’m not ready to die yet.”

KIM KITSURAGI — He nods silently.

ESPIRIT DE CORPS — I’m glad to hear that. Truly.

KIM KITSURAGI — “Sounds like I missed out.” He gives you a wry little smile.

EMPATHY — And yet, deep down, there is a real disappointment that he doesn’t want to acknowledge. He wishes he could have heard her voice.

YOU — [Hold out the photo to him.] “Well… that’s what you’ve got me for, isn’t it?”

INLAND EMPIRE — You were born to detect her, precisely because no one else could.

KIM KITSURAGI — He looks at you, then at the photo. Then, he reaches out to take it back from you. He has no pocket to tuck it discreetly into, so he just holds it, his thumb creasing the margins of the paper just slightly.

“I guess so,” he says softly.

VOLITION — *That* is the miracle.

#disco elysium #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #kimharry #harrykim #however the heck you wanna tag it #sorry more of the dora saga is coming soon i prommy #but i felt like posting this old one i wrote a few months ago #‘’how come they’re at the coastal shack but kim has the photo even tho he’s not around to take a picture of the phasmid in the bad end’’ #well you see. i don’t know. 👍

[ourhouseishaunted]

trips and dozens of shitty sketches of trigun women fall out of my pockets

#this barely even scratches the surface im burdened at all times by the women who haunt my sketchbooks #some of these are like months old tho i just pulled out a grab bag #the chronicas are newer tho im trying to figure out how her face works #bc i have to make up for the utter devastation i felt when i first finished trimax and looked up her tag and there was Almost Nothing #shout out to the chronica content creators i wish to be among you one day #meryl stryfe #rem saverem #chronica #trigun #trimax #trigun maximum #.txt #my art #apologies for the quality of my scans. i know they r ass i am Sorryyy

[brainworms-all-night-long]

here the drawing I've been sort of live posting about. my ass cannot decide on the final color assembly so you get two versions, pick your fav

#sonic prime #cant wait to see what this kid has cooked up in the grim #ough january cant come faster #jk jk it will be here in like..two weeks felt time watch #the trailer gave me the much needed motivation to bite through shading the tails. you see I still have no clue how to shade metal #possibly never will #just like math #imma just put lines there and hope they look good #also yes drawing witha a color palette is my new fav thing #is so fun #but so diffucut to hold myself from wanting to blend the colors #sharp color contrast isnt my thing but it looks sooo pretty when done right #idk if its my case tho #ill see in a feew months from now on #miles nine prower #nine the fox #mah art #me does arts #actually finished doodl

[dovesick]

it’s all chaos for the birds (april 2023)

#anthro art #furry art #anthro #bird anthro #artists on tumblr #i put up my art vs artist post on ig this year #idk if i’m gonna upload it here tho. go check it out if u want #this is one of the pieces that made it into the grid #bc it’s my favourite piece i’ve drawn all year #& sure it’s p old now #i’ve improved a lot since then #but i absolutely love it anyway #i remember how i felt when i finished it & i haven’t had that much pride in my work since then #still have been proud of lots of pieces ofc #but this one was like….woah dude #esp as 2 months earlier i was still drawing simplistic bgs #& i drew the inside of a car & a gun etc like woah #(it didn’t do as well as the pieces before & after it on ig hahah but still) #cw guns #cw smoking #cw alcohol #i’ll have some new art soon. been working on a commission & had wrist pain so yaknow

[wishfulsketching]

Here's more of my new OC's. Using these as warmup doodles.

#my art #sketchy sketch #my oc #original character #new ocs #vampire #werewolf #wlw #mlm #finally I'm back in business i guess #i've felt like a failed artist for month now but now I' #m feeling a bit better #tho...I mean....I still feel bad for ditching fanart but also like it's stupid to feel bad about it #anyway yea posting art is hard #aalis is one of those “when she has to be with ppl she is all put together but at home it's victorian nightgown and cocoa time”

[spaciebabie]

sometimes when I have a moment ta think ta myself I step back and really reflect on how out of all the characters I've simped for, springtrap has been the longest lasting. and for what reason. why did my brain pick that guy. you know. the rotting corpse inside of a moldy bunny suit. that's the guy we wanna be insane over? okay.

#he also doesn't really follow the pattern of characters I've simped for b/c they were all rays of sunshine #and then there's this stinky man #that beautiful beautiful stinky man #see look my brain is doing it again #the fondness I feel for him is uncomparable ta the feelings I've felt for other characters #like it's not even close #spacie spoinks #I was crazy Abt rengoku once upon a time but that only lasted a couple months #like yeah springtrap is a combo of every character type/style/trope i like but he sucks balls #major balls dude #sighs. #I need him #i want to court him springtrap why aren't you reallllll #okay I'm going ta bed djdjdndndnndn #maybe I'll have another cute dream of him giving me a hug or something (unlikely) #would be nice tho

[eldrichfuck666]

Logging in just to say that my forest cannibalistic gay trans man is wishing you a very happy & safe pride month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#I have no idea what is his name but when I was creating him in cas I felt like I'm being possessed #like wtf I created him under an hour?? yeah his true form is still work in progress I'll finish (not promising tho) when I'll be back #I have to work now :'<<< #tw blood #tw: blood #ts4 cas #sims 4 cas #sims 4 screenshots #ts4 screenshots #simblr #sims community #show us your sims #happy pride my loves! 💞💞 #I love you all ;'> #and as pansexual that have finally accepted myself I can't be happier this month although my mental health is horrible

[thexoelove]

Somethin slight…

Straight backs and green nails 🐉

#me #all black of course #happy black history month #i felt like a nigga in this lol #I need some new durags tho #black girl magic #all black everything #😜

[avallachs]

dancer in the dawn.

#** #ocs tag #oc: varinia #final fantasy xiv #ffxivedit #gpose #viera #rava viera #i left my dps until last but idr why. i levelled all my healers first bc they're my faves and i have no concept of best for last lol #i recently finished casters which i hated <3 i have only properly played red mage and black mage tho #i levelled summoner through scholar & only used it for job quests #and i liked black mage but not rdm ya girl is Not a caster <3 #anyway it;s time for phys ranged & we're starting with dancer so here's my silly rabbit dancing on a log #i spent months looking for this spot after i saw a friend on twitter pose here but was too shy to ask where #and when i found it i felt so silly bc it's in such an obvious spot #if u read this entire ramble umm hi <3

[yakny]

They're time anemones. We believe they form whenever there's been a disturbance in their timelines. Don't worry though, they've been around for about six years now, way before you've arrived. They're not here for you.

#no alt text #colored explorations‚ studies‚ and experiments #YOUR WORLD OF YESTERDAY #sonic #amy rose #silver the hedgehog #silvamy #an outdate wip that's now a wif (works i finished 👏😤). it was in the wips for a mere 8 months but it still holds up in my heart 🥺👍 #felt like it was missing something tho so i added some alien-esque monsters to balance it out. still proud of the background 👌😭 #i still dont know what to call this au 😭 but yes it's still part of the other silvamy wips #good morning good afternoon good evening and GOOD NIGHT!

[reineydraws]

summary of art 2023! here are some of my fave (non-zine) pieces from every month this year :) i'm most happy with the way my digital colouring process has improved from last year 🎉 it's easier now to make things look less flat after some tricks i picked up and practiced throughout the year ✨️✨️

thank you for all your support! it's always a pleasure and a delight to see your tags and comments in my notes. it really picked me up this year when i needed it. :')💖 let's all have a great 2024!

pieces: jan / feb / mar / apr / may / jun / jul / aug / sep / oct / nov / dec

#art summary #summary of art #demon slayer #batfamily #one piece #newsies #stranger things #kny #spot me going through my phases haha :') batfamily > renkaza > mishanks #fr tho this year's kinda scared me and im still dealing but it was always nice to open the app and see the enthusiasm for my art #thanks yall 💖💖💖 #i wish i could add my zine pieces to this cuz im really proud of them :') #i couldve added the six au batfamily one but i also realized i have no idea what month id put it in lol #i finished it in apr but i posted it in dec 😅 #so i decided to just. not. lol. but im proud of it!!! #the figure skating mihawk one was a surprise for me. i didnt expect it to turn out so good. #it was a rough sketch i only coloured cuz i coloured shanks's and then it felt like i was being unfair to mihawk hahaha #but the shading + the bg turned out really nice

[lavenoon]

Accidentally Undercover - That first system crash surprised them all, and for Eclipse, just highlighted that he really is separate from them.

#post let luce #fnaf sb #fnaf sb au #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf eclipse #accidentally undercover #doubly whammy of 'they're talking without me and I'll never get to hear that again because they didn't want me in there' #and 'we messed up and we didn't mean to but we don't know how to fix it because we don't know how to reach out' #it's very very rough #those first months of separation take their toll on all of them #they all got just a little used to each other; even tho they didn't like their situation #sun and moon sure felt like understanding their new little brother was easier when he *couldn't* hide from them #and eclipse is glad he doesn't have to listen to conversations that dont involve him anymore #routinely *surprising* them with his interruptions #because they *forgot* he can listen in #okay yes no I'm tag rambling again FGDHSJ #my art

[ruffgem]

My prof gave us this giant slab of plywood and said we had to cut it up in 4-6 pieces and rearrange it to make a painting about time and narrative (unless you don’t want to, he said, do whatever). This shit is heavy as fuck but it’s ok because I’m the strongest person in the whole world and nationally renowned arm wrestler. Anyway, I drilled through the front of my panels in 4 places by accident because I forgot to measure the width of the scrap wood i was using to brace the pieces. Idgaf though. Like genuinely I am not sad. Also, the school only allows gamsol in the studios and there are signs about that everywhere but my professor has old man cred and actually made it a requirement that I use linseed oil because he said it was a “shame” how my “beautiful colors” were not allowed to be luminous because the gamsol flattens them so badly. So now I’m being illegal in the studio, but apparently literally everyone has been doing that this whole time. Shout out to me for not being able to discern the severity of certain rules. You can already see the difference tho. The panel with the silhouettes, all the snow was painted with linseed oil. Every other dull matte panel is all gamsol. Anyway this is due Tuesday and I only consider it 50 percent done so wish me luck

#my art #wip #mine is about narrative and time btw!!! #it’s about two similar stories from two different points in my life and I’m trying to overlap them #one when I was 13… was walking around the woods with my brother and friend in the snow and found a severed dear leg #one from just a month or so ago… walked around behind the school with my friend and found a frozen dead fish in the grass #and I wanted to paint snow for this one before I even came up with the concept #AND it has to fit in some way with my first triptych with the hands and teeth… so I’m thinking about decay and preservation #I actually made a comic about the deer leg story for class. but I felt like it was rushed so I never shared it. it’s a cute story tho. imo

[sleep-sounds-nice-rn]

GUYSSSSS I failed a squat on like the fourth rep and this hot guy who was on the squat rack next to me came over to help me unload the weight from 175 to 135 (not a good squat day for me but shit happens) so I was looking at the bar with two 45s from where it was on the safeties and I was like yeah there's no way lol, so he was like do you want me to get that for you?? and I was like 🤭 if you don't mind, thank you, AND HE PROCEEDS TO SCOOP UP THE BAR AND PUT IT ON THE RACK LIKE IT WEIGHED NOTHING, I WAS FLABBERGASTED- LIKE BRO COULD THROW ME AROUND IF HE WANTED TO...GYM CRUSH‼️

#gym crush #it felt like the gymbro version of a kdrama meet cute #he was repping like 265 and I was over here on the leg day struggle bus #like why do you always meet hot people when you look (or at least feel) like shit #bc I wqs drenched with sweat and I looked like a wet rat #even tho i've been going to the gym for over a year #i've only been consistent with the gym for like 3.5 months #so sometimes I feel like I look like I dont know what im doing

[reitziluz]

Chapter 4 - Dating and Such

dazzling autumn colors. a cold shoulder. vending machine coffee. offer a finger, lose an arm.

chapter word count: 6,2K

a/n: well, despite all the obstacles, i'm back at it again! this one is a mountain of fluff, and i had lots of fun writing it! come get your fun tree facts!

(a hanahaki serirei longfic (reboot) - aimed to update monthly, but things got a bit crazy)

#serirei #reigen arataka #serizawa katsuya #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mob psycho 100 fanfic #hanahaki au #days spent dreaming shit-all #yea fic talk #cannot overstate how happy i am to be back posting #it's not very likely that i'll be able to fall right back into monthly schedule #but i will not have another six month break either #like what the fuck it felt so bad not being able to write #but well. sometimes there's just Circumstances #i had fun writing this! and feel p confident even tho i didn't have a test reader this time around #i'm also excited to get to the next chapter!! #hell yes hell yes hell yes