#it’s be a good ride folks

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Congrats on making it through, kings…

Some closeups cause I love drawing the sanajim interacting with humans so much:

Oh and the kings too:

#ohsama sentai kingohger #kingohger #super sentai #fan art #what an incredibly optimistic tale. i loved every second of it. #geez i’m getting as mushy as i do on new year! #good show kingoh. what a good show. #lets all continue to do our best out there folks. #glad to have been along for the ride. #とさ

[sparring-spirals]

how better to describe my love for the Mighty Nein than "one of my favorite episodes was the one where they needed to stealthily climb up/get down a fucking huge tree only for it to get Very Loud And Chaotic Very Fast Due To Competitive Tendencies And Poor Decisions".

Except that describes TWO completely separate episodes (and trees), one involving romantic shenanigans, a baby roc getting hit on the head with a staff, and a shitty leaf costume, and the other involving a good ole footrace and also a bullet to the ass. No, no enemies had a gun.

#i do gwnerally mean the roc situation if only bc we got the visual of yasha and caduceus sitting below the tree with newly-made sunhats on #while their friends loudly fall out of a tree with angry roc noises from above #critical role #the mighty nein #:) #c2e65 #c2e66 #c2e73 #(65 was them climbing up a tree and 66 was them falling out. golden.) #fjord also rides the orc like a true cowboy only for it to get polymorphed and him to get thrown full speed into the dirt #god what a great ep #shitpost #fools <3 #its a real shame i didnt set up my tagging system very well back then one of my favorite screenshots is from that episode #okay folks Look At The Follow Up Reblog for good screenshots #spar speaks

[things1do]

random drawings

red-orange stanley in the second image goes to @jardiiin

#the stanley parable #the sword-fighting one was made in august 💀 #i dont know if i can imagine the narrators voice coming out of danny devito but you know I want to see danny devito in the stanley parable #like how he was in that m&ms commercial #on twitter people said i shouldnt go on car rides any more #cant have shit on the internet /silly #anywho have a good one folks !

[whywishesarehorses]

She's looking pretty good at the moment!!!!

#blm mustang #mustang horse #horse #thea #equestrian #horseblr #number 88 was a short ride because I wrecked my body with stress #number 89 though was a good one! lots of other folks around. got some flying lead changes

[captaincleverusernamehere]

Oh god. Do I go back to the community theater that’s half an hour away that had a kinda shitty director this summer just because they’re doing Newsies and I genuinely think I have a shot at Davey and I REALLY want to play him?

#I’m conflicted #if no one else in my school decides to do it then I won’t because I won’t be able to get a ride anyway #unless I learn to drive before then I guess lmao (I really should know how to drive by now…) #but it’s NEWSIES #and I’m playing Toby in Sweeney right now and I genuinely think just doing the beginning of pirellis miracle elixir would be a perfect #audition song #AAAAAAAAAAA #I could always just audition and say I’ll drop if I don’t get a good role #I don’t think the director likes me very much anyway. but the music director does and I love him so much so I still have a chance #but idk #bc it’s a really annoying time frame and rehearsals go till late at night (later for folks farther away like me) #and it’s an itty bitty stage with no wings and they didn’t make any cuts last year and just had two casts so either way it’ll be a huge #ensemble and a busy stage #im going to ask if anyone else is thinking of doing it and I’ll decide based off that I think………….. #newsies

[youssefguedira]

Yusuf is there when Nicolò enters the old temple, not a vision of him, no portal behind him that will take him somewhere Nicolò cannot follow yet again before he has the chance to reach him, just Yusuf. He's alone, his head tilted upwards and eyes closed, illuminated by the shafts of sunlight that fall through the cracked ceiling. The sight of him - here and safe and whole, finally, after everything Nicolo's fought through to reach him - takes his breath away.

"Nico," Yusuf says, and opens his eyes to look at him. He smiles, and he's still Nicolò’s Yusuf, even after everything that's happened.

Nicolò can't wait another second, then, sheaths his sword at his back and walks up the stone steps towards him. Yusuf's smile widens, and then he's stepping into Nicolò's already open arms, laughing. "I missed you."

"Missed you too," Nicolò says. He kisses Yusuf's temple, holds him close. "So much, Yusuf, you have no idea-"

Yusuf leans back, cupping Nicolò's face in one hand. "I know. It's okay. I'm here."

But Nicolò knows him well enough to know something's wrong. "What is it?"

"It's not over, yet." Yusuf steps out of Nicolò's arms and back a few steps, leaving him cold. "There's so much more you don't know yet, but we're running out of time. He will return, soon, and we're not ready."

"Tell me what I need to do," Nicolò says immediately. He can't bear the idea of Yusuf disappearing again, not now when he's finally here, when every other time Nicolò has tried to reach him he's been a second too late. "Anything, and I'll do it, whatever it is. Just tell me what you need."

Yusuf smiles again, sad. "It's not you, Nico. We need more time. And I can buy it, but-" He cuts himself off.

"Then I'll help you."

Yusuf shakes his head. "You don't understand. For this to work, I need to reform the seal, and I can only do that by" - there are tears in his eyes, now, and dread running down Nicolò's spine - "by sealing myself away along with it."

Nicolò realises just a moment too late what that means. "Yusuf-"

"If I seal myself here, in the past," Yusuf continues, "when you return to our time, it will be just strong enough to hold. You will have the time you need to finish this. And once all this is over, the seal can be broken in our time."

"I can't," Nicolò says. "There has to be another way. This can't be it."

"It's the only choice we have," Yusuf says. "I cannot - this was always my path, Nicolò."

She's manipulating you, Andromache had said, the goddess. She's using Yusuf to make you do what she wants, can't you see? If Nicolò hadn't understood then, he does now - neither of them ever had a choice in this. Yusuf was chosen because Nicolò would follow him anywhere, and Nicolò was chosen for the same reason.

Nicolò realises something else then. "If you seal yourself here, you'll be trapped for thousands of years."

"I'll be asleep," Yusuf says, soft. "It'll be like the blink of an eye. So when this is all over, you'll have to come wake me up." He smiles, then, even through his tears. "Just like old times, no?"

And before Nicolò can say anything else, the air around him begins to glow gold, condensing around Yusuf, who tilts his head back and closes his eyes, and Nicolò cannot move, frozen in place by something beyond his control. All he can do is watch as the light gathers around Yusuf, blindingly bright, until Nicolò cannot see him anymore. Whatever's holding him releases, and he runs towards Yusuf even though the light hurts his eyes, and just as he reaches out the light fades.

Before him is what looks like a crystal, tinged orange, clear enough that he can see Yusuf inside, his eyes closed. He looks like he's just sleeping, like this is one of the mornings Nicolò had had to wake him but had paused for a moment just to watch him.

Nicolò lifts his hand to the crystal. It's freezing cold when he touches it. Yet again, he's too late.

"I'll come back for you," he tells Yusuf, even though he knows Yusuf can't hear him. "I swear it. I'll finish this, and I'll come back for you." His voice is trembling, but he can't let himself break down now, not when there's still work to be done. The faster he finishes his task, the sooner he can wake Yusuf.

(Nile is the first to ask when he returns through the gate, waiting for him with Andy, Quynh and Sebastien nearby. "Where's Yusuf?" she asks, looking behind him - the plan had always been that Nicolò would bring Yusuf back with him, after all.

Nicolò can't bring himself to say it out loud.)

--------------------

It feels like an age before Nicolò returns to the temple, now in the present. It's over, finally - the five of them have sealed the demon king away for good. The others are outside.

The crystal is overgrown with vines, now, just like their old favourite meeting place on the island where all of this had started. Its surface is scratched and clouded with age, but Nicolò can still make out Yusuf inside it, looking exactly as he had when Nicolò left him in the past. He hates to think of the crystal here, alone, for so much time.

There's a glowing mark on the crystal's surface that hadn't been there before. Nicolò approaches it carefully and places his hand over the mark.

Almost immediately, glowing cracks begin to grow from where his hand touches the crystal, spreading across the whole thing until it's glowing as brightly as it had when it was formed, but he can't look away. When the light dies down, Yusuf hovers in the air for just a moment before whatever spell had held him there finally breaks, and he collapses, but Nicolò is there to catch him, sinking to his knees and cradling him close. He doesn't move for a moment, and Nicolò is terrified, because what if something had gone wrong-

Yusuf gasps awake, his eyes fluttering open. He looks around frantically before catching sight of Nicolò above him, who nearly sobs with relief, holding him impossibly closer.

"Nicolò?" Yusuf whispers, his voice hoarse. Nicolò nods, unable to speak just yet, blinking back his tears and brushing Yusuf's curls away from where they've fallen into his eyes.

Then Yusuf asks, "Did I oversleep?" and Nicolò has to laugh even though it comes out sounding more like a sob, kisses his forehead and smiles. "It's over, then?"

"It's over," Nicolò confirms, and then, "I love you."

Yusuf sits up and wraps his arms around Nicolò's neck, buries his face in Nicolò's shoulder and holds on tightly. "I love you too."

(When they return, Nile is the first to them, hugs Yusuf so tightly he laughs, and then it's Sebastien's turn, then Andromache and Quynh both.

They choose to stay on the surface, all six of them. And neither Yusuf or Nicolò are the same people anymore - sometimes Nicolò wakes screaming, sometimes Yusuf gets a distant look in his eyes and it takes a worryingly long time for him to come back to himself. Sometimes there are things Yusuf still can't tell Nicolò, and vice versa.

They make it work, though. They find a quiet place in the woods, far away from the temple and any danger, and they're safe, and happy, and together.

It's all Nicolò's ever wanted, really.)

#neon writes #posting this separately in an attempt to unbury it a little #the old guard #kaysanova #ANYWAY guess whos playing skyward sword. thats right folks this is ANOTHER different zelda au #ive condensed the entire thing into this because im not going to write much else for it #but. the plot: #nicolo and yusuf are childhood rivals-to-friends-to-lovers. at the time when Shit Goes Down they're coming up to the point where they have #to pass a specific test to become soldiers/knights/whatever. the wing ceremony if youre a zelda fan but theyre both participating. anyway #they both win (andromache and quynh are two years ahead of them nile and booker are the year below but they're all like. adults. not 17) #anyway they win and go on some kind of flight around the clouds because the kicker is that this takes place on a sky island and they get #around by riding giant birds i love ss. anyway while they're flying around (victory lap or something) yusuf mentions weird dreams he's been #having. then a giant tornado appears things happen yusuf falls below the cloud barrier separating the land from the sky nicolo is thrown #from his bird. wakes up explains this to andy who is like Well Shit. cue epic quest to find yusuf who has some destiny shit to do #gods and all that. its not important #but theyre trying to defeat an evil demon king before he comes back. merrick with horns can be the visual for that. nicolo spends half of #his time chasing after yusuf who always has to leave before they can talk. maybe quynh isnt with them on sky island and is the one guiding #yusuf instead i dont know anyway eventually nicolo has to do some hero stuff and all that. and this happens when theyre running out of time #as a kind of last resort. but then nicolo nile booker andy quynh defeat The Evil and rescue yusuf and its all good #the plot of this isnt very well thought out. i just thought about that scene with zelda and then about them and had to make this about it #enjoy #the reference to yusuf oversleeping is bc there's a bit in skyward sword abt link always sleeping in and then having to wake zelda and it #causes me 10 psychic damage so i had to adapt it here. that line is the whole reason this fic exists

[saintlesbian]

god forbid a lil sheepy has a fun weekend

#pentadraws #general hospital #michael easton #josh swickard #heyyyyy so. i know i told myself i wasn't gonna go to anymore of these til i got a job #and i was kinda on the fence about going to this one in the first place #but then i had a REALLY good job interview on thursday #it went so well they hired me the same day :3 so this sheepy is now officially emPLOYED #and i thought id get a ticket to this weekend's event as a treat for myself #anyways. did the sketches on the train and did the watercolor part during the show #they signed my sketchbook and they even liked my animal print sketches so much they to pics of them #also yall remember the playboy bunny chase drawing i did right. well i gave JS a tiny print of it >:) #he liked it :D they both found it amusing so. mission accomplished #also some folks recognized me from the last fan event i went to and from the sprina fanzine! #sidenote i was really hoping the funny waitress w/ the deep voice would be there so i could draw her picture #but alas she wasn't working today... maybe next time #also i remember i gave my lunch to some homeless guy bc i was afraid i was allergic to it #tried a virgin bloody mary today and it was. very weird! #and i spent the train ride home playing pmd on my ds #also im gonna go see spiderverse and eat crepes for breakfast ttomorrow #all in all! pretty good way to end the week! #thanx 4 reading gn :P

[fireworkss-exe]

same person, different century

#newsies #livesies #rtc #ride the cyclone #overachieving academic ginger who looks down on less privileged folks but has (somewhat) good intentions #and eventually learns to keep her ego in check and treat others as equals

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Sometimes I take a new set and even if I really like it ✨aesthetically✨ I still worry that it's Not Horny Enough and that it'll scare off my paying subscribers if I'm not constantly being as lewd as possible

#creator concerns #took an outside set today that I liked a lot (mostly because I used a bubble machine and it made for some very fun stills) #but there was less cover/privacy than I would have liked so I didn't really strip down as much as I had originally planned #so like kept thinking dang am I going to lose what few subscribers I have if I don't act sluttier? #but ultimately i am doing this as a way to try to stay connected with my own body so maybe it's ok that I just take sets that *I* like too #extremely grateful that I can just do this as a side hustle and not have too much riding on it financially #which is good because I mostly average >$100/month after OF takes their cut #plus the awesome stuff folks send me from my wishlist sometimes 😊 #I've gotten more wishlist gifts in the last year than I've gotten regular birthday and xmas gifts combined #so that's a win

[raynavan]

Ok so, turns out this “princess Mononoke” Submas au was a bit big for a single post (and also I can not do all of this in one day) so I’m only going over the beginning of this story.

Dw if you know nothing about princess Mononoke or have never watched the movie. I’ll fill all that in (to the best of my ability) as necessary.

This is not a fic, and I would not have the energy or time to make this a fic, but I will be treating this a bit like… a campfire story. 

(I am shamelessly stealing this from @/coramatus sorry not sorry love the way you tell stories)

Oh and, I hate that I have to say this, BLANK SHIPPERS DNI yes I’m aware the two characters that are Ingo and Emmet in this au like each other. This is not the case in this story, they are brothers. Please go somewhere else. Thank you. 

Alright so, part one here we go:

Emmet and Ingo live in a small town in the east. There aren’t many people living there and everyone knows everyone. Ingo and Emmet usually are the ones on watch, or leave the town to get goods from other places far off, because they have a particularly large Pokémon team. 

See, while the town is known for taking care of Pokémon and respecting them, not many train their pokemon (or having Pokémon willing to) to such a strength. Mostly, the important thing to note is that they love their partners dearly. 

They carved pokeballs out of stone and wood to keep their partners safe when they go out. The Pokémon enjoyed it as it meant they could be right by their partners side even as they slept.

Ingo was out on an expedition, one that was supposed to only take him a few days. When a week goes by, people begin to worry. 

Emmet had been patrolling the forest's edge, being careful not to enter the forest itself, for over a month looking for him. His partners were tough, but the larger portion of their team had gone out with Ingo, and he did not wish to take any risks. 

It is during one of these patrols that he spots a shadow shifting behind the trees, and huge creeks of straining wood as trees fall down in a straight path. Immediately Emmet springs to his feet and runs to warn the rest of town, as whatever is knocking down the forest is heading straight to the village.

As he glances behind him, though, he spots a horrible mass of pitch black tendrils leaping out of the forest and killing the fields of grain. He can’t even see the things face behind the black- just two bright red eyes. 

As the beast just keeps up with him, Emmet realizes that the town wouldn’t even have time to prepare if he did warn them, so he sends out Eelektross and calls out to use thunder- a devastating attack that… doesn’t really do much but stumble the strange thing from the woods. 

Emmet comes to realize that this must be one of the forest gods, as they are some of the most powerful Pokémon known, and that only they could have shrugged off that kind of attack. Emmet shouts at the god to please not attack the village, but the god does not listen.

It does stop to properly face Emmet, however, bemoaning about the human race, and how destructive and cruel they are. How they deserve nothing but distraction and pain, if they were filled with such greed. 

Emmet asks what the god means, but it isn’t listening, only screaming out and firing a tendril at Emmet that he is too slow to dodge.

“You shall feel my hate! You shall be consumed with it!” 

The tendril wraps around his arm in burning pain, leaving behind deep marks on his skin. Emmet's Pokémon react, shooting attack after attack at the god, only managing to knock off some of the black mass covering its body. 

It starts towards the village again, where people are scrambling to get out, but just as it is beginning to enter its proper, a shadow ball hits its side, making it buckle. 

Emmet looks up and sees Ingo’s ace, Chandelure, screech at the god, covering it with flames. Five others come out and help, beating back the god with over double the firepower. 

They knock off just enough of the black tendrils that Emmet is able to see glints of a gold crown and a gray body. Yet it does not go down. It stands tall a screams out once more-

“YOU SHALL FEEL MY HATE!”

And disappears into the shadows. 

-

Emmet's arm aches as Elesa pours fresh water over it, and the skin hissed like a hot pan in water. The people are worried about a curse possibly befalling the village, but mostly they worry for Emmet and Ingo, who has still not returned and is now without his Pokémon. 

Drayden, the oldest and wisest of All of them, says that Emmet has been cursed with something he cannot mend. The magic is too old and powerful for him to do much, but in the east there is another god that could heal him. 

The god of creation, arceus. 

It has not been seen by them for a long, long time. But if this curse is not healed then it would seep into his bones and kill him from the inside out, while his hatred grows. 

Emmet agrees to go, both to hopefully find a cure, but to also look for his brother. With a hug and a sack of food and tools, Emmet sets off to the west. 

Perhaps, just maybe, he would be able to find out what had made that god so angry as well.

#submas #submas au #ray rambles #ig that fits? #Princess ingo au #get ready for a ride folks #this might take a while to finish up #oh. sorry for spelling/grammar in advance #im not good with that stuff. and though i do a quick read-through i might miss mistakes.

[dontflirt]

@WE_THE_BOYZ: Healing

#sangyeon #the boyz #tbz.socials #husband boy #well that’s it for me folks #it’s been a good ride #but I gotta go now

[victory-cookies]

my sisters thing may have gotten around to the parents by accident. fuck fuck fuck this is really not great

#it’s a very unlucky coincidence and currently my parents are confused by the info they have just uncovered but. idk #we could be in trouble here folks #bc the evidence is pretty incriminating when you put it all together #anyway. I’m about to panic and it’s not even me or my problem #I’m worried for her though #it’s really not good #I’m trying to act chill about it but I had to leave the room bc. I feel like my face may betray me #and bc it’s a snow day for everyone but me everyone is stuck at home together #and I’m also gonna be forced on a car ride with my dad #so I’m bracing for some really uncomfortable questions to be asked today #It’s also kind of my fault that they found it out?? idk I can’t go into details but it involves them doing a thing for me

[disaster-vampire]

why do culturally christian americans think it's okay to rewrite the mythology of cultures that have nothing to do with them to make them fit their ideals

#i see this done SO much to jewish culture both from actual practicing christians and pagans & atheists that were raised christian #like they seem to have that same belief of superiority over judaism and other religions more broadly #like folks appropriating lilith to girlbossify her #or rewriting every single greek myth again to girlbossify or generally give them modern politics & morals #for a while people were also doing it with like. old european fairy tales. #like remember that post that was like what if red riding hood was hijabi? like bro. have you considered maybe looking into actual #traditional muslim stories rather than slapping a muslim character over another culture and calling it a muslim story? #and there were various replies to that post. and these were clearly people with disney brainrot who wanted more diverse stories #but weren't willing to actually go look for them and would have rather slapped a different culture on a character who is still #fundamentally european. like. idk this is a whole thing. #like i kinda feel this way even towards disney's princess & the frog. there was an actual african version of that story. don't get me wrong #i liked it. and i don't have any say on whether or not it's good rep. because i'm not african american #like i like that it's an adaptation put into a different setting and different time period. but there was still already an african version #of the fairy tale. am i making sense #i don't even know if this has a name. idk if it can be classified as cultural appropriation. it's similar? #anyway. i hate this whole phenomenon.

[whywishesarehorses]

Thea about the mini: what the FUCK is that

#blm mustang #mustang horse #horse #thea #equestrian #horseblr #number 12/100 was good! riding with other folks. Got told my stirrups were too short

[trainer-loki]

You know sometimes I wonder if its worth giving the gym league a shot and then i am made to watch the matches on tv against my will and i can only go "no thanks"

#nothing agains the gym leaders here! #galar has some great folk in the gym circuit i think #like i know milo is good friends with some of my farmer neighbours even tho he lives a good train ride away #but still... those big battles look scary lol #also its SOOO shoved in ur face its like Damn! maybe i wont care out of spite!! #pkmn irl #pokemon rp #pokemon

[nightwingandhissquad]

ah the good old cancelled by “technically” not renewing us 

#young justice #yj #yj is cancelled just say the word cancelled hbo max #we all know that means cancelled #only in the yj fandom we would have the same fate twice #and I know yj had it's issues and we were probably just riding the high of how good s1 & s2 were #but it still stings a little bit to be cancelled again #after all the waiting and effort put in to bring it back #bit of a slap in the face but can't say I didn't see it coming #just can't have nice things in the dc fandom apparently #first the batgirl movie now this #smh #also teen titans go has 7 seasons and 4 movies #and is still going #do with that information as you will #definitely not seething with rage at that fact over here #anyway it was another good run folks #better luck next time guys #and to all my wally west clowns out there stay strong #it was worth it for the very small chance of getting him back #we weren't that lucky unfortunately but that's how it goes sometimes #oh my god can you imagine if they brought wally back and then cancelled it #I'd be mad as hell but it would also be really funny #my post