#it was a courting ritual

[frankensteined]

casting spike growth during the cadazor fight resulted in a visual that i could write essays about

#the ritual circle only being half visible and what IS visible is soaked in cazador's blood! #a jagged hateful world behind astarion and a clear free path ahead of him! #Cinamatique. #court vs bg3 #astarion

[justaz]

country bumpkin merlin not knowing anything about city life and accidentally courting arthur without knowing

merlin, watching gwen give lancelot her favor: why do you do that

gwen, heart eyes at lance and not paying that much attention to the conversation: so he knows i’m rooting for him

merlin, with an Idea: ah.

gwaine, lover of chaos, pisser offer of nobles and royals alike, ultimate wingman: merlin…you have such lonely lips. shall i introduce them to mine?

merlin, unaware of the game gwaine is playing: so you can steal my breath away? i think not, scoundrel

arthur, crushing his goblet in his hand:

merlin: arthur’s been in a bad mood recently :( i should cheer him up

merlin, remembering when arthur was put out when merlin brought morgana flowers and not him: i know just the thing

merlin, bringing a bouquet of carnations, roses, and tulips and setting them on arthur’s table while he’s eating breakfast: good morning, sire

arthur, trained on flower language in hopes that one day when he was to take a queen he could woo her easily, trying not to audibly choke on his sausage as he reads merlin’s declaration of love sitting in front of him:

arthur, who recently found out about merlin’s magic and was trying to find a way to bring it up, catching him in the act and watching merlin panic to explain himself:

merlin, Freaking: and i swear to you arthur, i have only ever used it for you. my magic is yours. my life is yours. i am yours. i would never do anything to harm you. i have protected you for years and will continue to do so at your side if you’ll have me

arthur, already believing them to be courting, desperately trying to figure out if that was a proposal for marriage or not but tired of being confused and deciding fuck it: here.

merlin, taking it: i…uh…huh?

arthur, watching merlin with hawk eyes and trying to figure out what he’s thinking and feeling: it’s my mothers sigil

merlin, confused as FUCK but is focusing on the fact that arthur is handing him something of his mother rather than a death sentence: my…my lord?

arthur, realizing how scared merlin’s must be about him finding out about his magic and trying to comfort him while also proposing, killing two birds with one stone: i will always keep you at my side, merlin, so long as we both shall live. if you’ll allow me.

merlin, almost collapsing with relief and tearing up, smiling at arthur as if he had parted the storm clouds to allow sun to shine down on them in that moment: of course…of course, arthur. always and forever.

merlin, watching the castle staff rush this way and that: wow. this banquet must be incredibly important

sir leon the long suffering, day one ride or die, one of the original merthur shippers: banquet? merlin, this is for your wedding

merlin, overworked and exhausted: my WHAT? to WHO??

leon, regretting everything he’s ever done in his life that led him to this moment: to…arthur?

merlin, over joyed but also absolutely befuddled: i’m getting married to ARTHUR?????

leon: you two have been courting for the past year or so, have you not?

merlin: i’ve been COURTING ARTHUR?????? FOR A YEAR?????????

#merthur #i spent like an hour researching medieval courting rituals to make this #and even then #i did not find much #so if there’s someone out there who is like weirdly knowledgeable about 6th century courting rituals #feel free to add on #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #sir gwaine #sir leon #sir lancelot #guinevere #i literally started this post bc i was thinking about the misunderstanding between merlin and gwen and merlin’s giving arthur his favor #and then i kept going #but i didn’t have much else in the ole noggin to write #i’m sorry #please forgive me

[zombie-bait]

These two have big “no one’s allowed to kill her except me” energy and I think they should kiss about it

(i think they also deserve a nice break)

#bg3 shadowheart #shadowzel #bg3 laezel #shadowheart/lae'zel #lae'zel #sapphic #bg3 fanart #baldurs gate 3 #enemies to lovers #you know how it is #bg3 #Fanart #video game #wlw #in my playthrough shart has a hat so her alt hairstyle is how I imagine her lmao #Might draw the girls fighting at some point #Cuz that’s canon babeyy #Its all they know #Standard githyanki courting ritual #Standard Sharran show of affection

[clown-owo]

a little bit obsessed with this guy

#og post #my art #WxS #wonderlands x showtime #project sekai #pjsk #rui kamishiro #tsukasa tenma #ruikasa #i will not tag emu or nene because they are kind of in the background. even though i tried very hard on them #<- first time drawing any of these guys #i'll be honest i haven't even done much of the stories at all just WxS's main story and One Event Story (the first rui one i think) #had to learn what the fuck is goin on with tsukasa's goddamn jacket. what the fuck is on the sides. i lied i didn't learn #i just drew it #i drew rui's outfit and went aw fuck now i have to draw tsukasa's #the ruikasa isn't important like yeah sure its ruikasa but what's important is rui's strange love language #that one 4koma about rui's flowchart leading 2 an explosion stunt? courting ritual /hell

[kindaorangey]

woah, hey, guys... i'm not sure i should be here for this....

#jerejean #yeah yeah the rituals are intricate you heard me #jeremy knox #jean moreau #aftg #all for the game #aftg tsc #the sunshine court #nobody talk to me about my jerejean designs im still working on them. im Uninspired #i gave jeremy stubble cuz i thought he looked too young but im not married to it.. >.< #thunder's art #described

[lanirawhoney]

I can finally post this!

A gift for timidtoast in the Alpha/BNHA/Omegaverse Exchange

#my art #first date #courting rituals #lgbtq #bakudeku #dekubaku #bnha #my hero academia #midoriya izuku #bakugou katsuki #boko no hero academia #illustration #art #artist on tumblr

[blood-starved-beast]

Big fan of how Farcille as a ship is undercut by Marcille's issues with aging/death and her own elven biases and Falin's issues with undercutting her own autonomy to mask and the challenges faced by trying to break away from that mindset. Especially how these two facets of these characters ultimately serve as a blockage for the development of a legitimate romantic relationship. It's an interesting development in a ship that by-and-by is pretty vanilla all things considered (dark magic aside). The fact that Ryoko Kui portays that level of complexity in this relationship not only highlights her mastery of character development and worldbuilding but also is a great example of how something "vanilla" can be made complex or interesting if done in a way that is interesting.

#Farcille #marcille donato #Falin Touden #Dungeon meshi #like in any other fandom I would like this ship but not really Think about it all that much #but the fact we've got this nuance in this one #that's the good Shit right there #and I really like the idea of Falin after some years of Finding Herself and coming to terms with who she is and what she wants #returning to Melini and deciding she Does Want That Elf Actually #and does an absolute Power Move of a Courting Ritual #And it would be 1000 times more interesting than simply Farcille immediate dating post canon and happily ever after The End #especially if Marcille is completely swept off her feet/caught wrong-footed about it #Cause I mean it took Donato 17 years to romance Marcille's Mom #It Will take time for Farcille is what I'm saying

[inchidentally]

I think they only used the deck of cards officially for the house of cards video? but I realized they kept playing around with them just for fun together for Lando's impromptu shuffling in the mobile home and also when they were on the jet together

#landoscar #mctwinks #twinklaren #courting rituals #the way they started having lunch together and then playing little games during down time ??? #b a b i e s #house of cards #instagram pics #mine

[aziraphales-library]

Hi! Anything you recommend involving Angel or Demon courting? I love a good “old fashioned courting” fic

Hello. We have some angelic and demonic courting fics here. And you may also be interested in our #wooing and #nesting tags, as these fics will somewhat similar. Here are some more fics featuring courting rituals...

Falling Free by Sodium_Azide (T)

With nothing holding them apart anymore, Aziraphale takes the first steps and first offerings in making things formal between himself and his demon. His Crowley deserves to be wooed the very, very old-fashioned way.

One More Chance by greygerbil (E)

Aziraphale is painfully aware that he may have rebuffed Crowley one time too many to still hope there will be anything else between them than friendship and the occasional tryst. Still, he was never one to give up easily.

Crowley's attempts at courtship (5+1) by p0psicle_ashtray (M)

The year is 1813, Crowley is currently in a gentlemen's club in Scotland when he runs into a familiar angel, they talk and Crowley realizes that he must do whatever it takes to make Aziraphale fall in love with him. He was going to court the pants right off him.

I slithered here from Eden, just to sit outside your door by doodlegirll (T)

Courting, in heaven, was all about pageantry. Crowley had been an angel, once. He remembered the pomp and circumstance of it all, how his fellow angels would damn near lose their minds trying to make sure that every little thing was absolutely perfect, to the letter. It had all seemed so silly back then, back when Crowley had gone by a different name and had woven galaxies and stars into nebulas across the cosmos. He’d rolled his eyes at it all, but he’d always secretly wondered what it would be like, to find someone that made all that fuss seem worth it. That was before the Fall, and the Garden, and a wall where a swordless angel asked his first question and shielded a demon from the rain. Crowley knew that if he was going to win the Principality’s heart, he was going to have to do it the old fashioned way.

The Courting Habits of Doves and Crows by vaguelydemonic (T)

Aziraphale and Crowley's tendencies to beat around the bush finally start coming to an end. They've been at their careful back and forth for millennia, but when notorious Gift Giver Crowley receives a present from Aziraphale, the ball truly gets rolling and the limits of how oblivious a pair of immortals can be are tested.

Pining and Posturing by Kittyknowsthings (T)

When Gabriel proposes an angelic bond to Aziraphale and won't take no for an answer, Crowley challenges him to a competitive courtship instead - and while Heaven considers courtships a mostly private matter, Hell's delegation to the Ineffable Parley certainly isn't going to politely ignore an Archangel walking into the negotiation room bearing an unauthorized demonic geas.

- Mod D

#good omens #ineffable husbands #courting rituals #getting together #mod d

[valyrfia]

fp2 was so late at night that max and charles in their delirium forgot they were on camera and were caught in 4K flirting (trying to race each other in a free practice session)

#I love them and their weird courting rituals #lestappen #charles leclerc #max verstappen #las vegas gp 2023 #formula 1

[hoomanbeaning]

"... some are very old now 🫦, most are dead 💅🏻, some we 🏳️‍🌈 simply drained for sport 😼 ... well 🤪 ... generally ME! 🥰 ... "

*homosexuals 🙄

#no but wtf armand why you suddenly purring for them old man yaoi #armand is such a cat ISTG #loumand are so cuteeeeeee (they're both insane and gay gay gay) #poor old man daniel forgetting how very much he was into such psychotic courting rituals #armandaniel #armanddaniel #armand iwtv #daniel molloy #armand x daniel molloy #interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire s2 #iwtv s2 #iwtv spoilers #amc interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #devil's minion

[ineffabells]

hey, you know what's a fun thought?

what if one day, pre-ascension, Mobei-Jun was beating up Shang Qinghua as usual, but this time when he threw him, SQH hit his head on a jutting out piece of rock or wall in just the right place

and instead of crawling onto his knees and doing his over-the-top wailing and begging for mercy routine that MBJ had come to expect, SQH just lay still.

and a dark pool of blood, impossibly big and horrifyingly still pouring, spread from skull, on the floor aroud him, soaking through his sunny, ink-stained an-ding robes,

as Mobei watched, a cold horror settling over him. and SQH didn't get up.

#happy ending: mbj runs sqh to cang qiong and sqh is okay and this is the catalyst for him realising that you should not beat up your humans #and learning to manage his anger issues and researching proper human courting rituals #bad ending: sqh never gets up again #mbj just stands there #...qinghua? #mobei jun #moshang #shang qinghua #cw blood #cw abuse #cw death #svsss

[thwispsings]

the idea came to me in a migraine induced dream but now im obsessed with the concept of a mu qingfang who knew the abuse bunhe was going through at the hands of og!shen qingqiu/shen jiu and did his best to treat the kid whenever he could (and bring his concerns to zhangmen shixiong, which were obviously very much ignored) and his constant worry over the situation means that when the qi deviation happens he is suspicious of shen qingqiu’s changes for all different reasons and very much protective of luo binghe -who is a sweet child and an earnest disciple who seems to always find the most incredible medicinal herbs to bring to his mu shishu as thanks for the care bestowed upon him- which means that when the whole shen qingqiu dying thing happens instead of bad mouthing luo binghe or fighting him at every chance he does his best to come over and keep an eye on things to try and help him and make sure luo binghe won’t kill himself trying to bring shen qingqiu back because he remembers that earnest kid and he’s witnessed luo binghe’s devotion to this shen qingqiu first hand and knows there is no way that the kid who cried when ning yingying found a bird with a broken wing and begged mu qingfang to fix it and the kid that would always borrow medical texts and try to find new herb combinations as if it was a game between him and qian cao disciples is actually doing anything nefarious to shen qingqiu’s corpse.

anyways in this essay i will-

#listen #binghe needs to have more people in his corner #and for some reason i have imprinted on mqf #so you get cool healer uncle #who probably smoked weed with binghe and made him promise to keep quiet #lbh and mqf bonding activity was teaching lbh to properly roll joints #anyways mqf understanding that the rituals are intricate and lqg doesn’t have any other way of coping with his grief #but the first time lqg injures lbh almost to death in a fight they get into a screaming match so violent #that no bai zhan discipline will look at him in the face without going pale for the next month #that is his nephew! who found several thought-to-be-extinct herbs for him! #also him telling sqq that lbh might have forgotten what he did but mqf certainly didn’t #a healer never forgets the wounds they heal #and sqq is just like yeah brother me neither :( #mqf is going to therapy these idiots so fucking hard #lbh also keeps trying to matchmake him with some nice demons in his court like shamelessly trying to poach his mu shishu #also he and shang qinghua are the only ones who still get the full shishu treatment #except lbh kinda bullies sqh a little for the virtue of the whole mbj situation #(hes never gonna let them live that down) #anyways it’s whatever at first but at one poont years in the future it does become a point of contempt with the other peak lords #nothing can take away from me that when bored they will squabble like children #such is the way of bored adults #i have rambled enough so normal tags now #svsss #svsss writing #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #mu qingfang #bingqiu #svsss au

[oftenlyshitposting]

sabine would definitely comission a full set of beskar to the armorer for shin, discounting the helmet

sabine would also comission for a set of new vambraces and shinguards for ahsoka

sabine would paint the finished beskar pieces, customising each specifically, tailoring them to both shin and ahsoka's tastes and histories

sabine has a new signet of a moon and a wolf imbued on her pauldron, and the same can be seen on shin's

the first time sabine saw shin with the beskar fully adorned, she couldn't help but feel her heart skip a few beats as she mutters, "gar mesh'la."

sabine's love language is gifting shin and ahsoka beskar armours and the finest of weapons; she would also definitely teach shin her extensive weapon skills

#sabine wren #shin hati #wolfwren #ahsoka tano #the armorer #ahsoka series #ahsoka #the mandalorian #oftenlyspeaks #oftenlywrites #sabine wren headcanons #shin in beskar >>>>> #just sabine and her mandalorian courting rituals #...dont look at me like that #i love the idea of sabine just wanting to keep her gf n master safe #so she gifts them beskar #wolfwren in mandalore series

[theroundbartable]

One day, Arthur finds a book.

Love deprived as he is, Arthur thinks the book is about friendship. He's never learned how to do friendship, so everything is overwhelming for him anyway and he decides to the Tips that are written in the book with Merlin.

It's a book about courting rituals.

#bbc merlin #concept #has this been done before #merthur #courting rituals #oblivious idiots

[klayr-de-gall]

Day 28 - Farm/Ranch

"You want anything from the city?"

-

As always, all entries for this week (Day 27 to Day 20) can be found on my Patreon soon!

[Social Media and Patreon]

Masterlis

#auaugust #luckae #genshin impact #diluc ragnvindr #kaeya alberich #my art #Farm AU #don't ask me what time period this is #look at them flirting #young people and their courting rituals