#light remnant

[mienar]

remnants of where we have been

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#artists on tumblr #animated illustration #animated gif #digital art #2d animation #environment art #environment illustration #backgrounds #background illustration #art backgrounds #night sky #constellation #cozy #myillust #hellooo! just wanted to drop by and share this piece with you! #there were a combination of ideas here: i wanted to do a glowing cityscape of its city lights and have it softly blur into the night sky #the title is also a big description for this i guess - 'remnants of where we have been' is like how the city lights were where humans were #the clutter around the character shows the remnants or the past of what they did #the map-like contours of the skies are like where the stars have travelled #idk i guess it's something that i think about often and it makes my heart ache sometimes;; #anyways! i really hope you'll like this! thank you so much for reading through this if you have and for your support as always c':

[spittyfishy]

If you break all your toys then there won’t be anything left to play with

#I tried to make them look like action figures I hope that’s clear lol #the lighting made it a bit hard to see #this was sitting half finished for Months lol #but I got some danganronpa vibes again so I thought I’d get it done! #danganronpa #remnants of despair #sdr2 #junko enoshima #mahiru koizumi #ultimate imposter #mikan tsumiki #hiyoko saionji #teruteru hanamura #nekomaru nidai #gundham tanaka #ibuki mioda #nagito komeda #peko pekoyama #goodbye despair #danganronpa 2 #danganronpa goodbye despair

[nellasbookplanet]

Book recs: Queer science fiction, part 1

There is a lot of queer sf out there, and I read a lot of sf. When I started working on this list, I quickly realized it was impossible to include all that I've read and enjoyed in one single rec post. Thus, this is the first of so far three queer sci-fi book rec posts.

A note: queer here does not necessarily mean "guarantee of an f/f or m/m ship with a happy ending", but rather simply a significant presence of queerness. Some of the books feature no romance but has a same gender attracted/trans/a-spectrum lead, or features an m/f relationship with bisexual, trans or aro/ace characters, or simply features a world-building which is heavily queer inclusive in ways that don't always compare to our own ideas of sexuality and gender. I have however disqualified works where the only queer presence is along the lines of "gay best friend" or a blink and you'll miss it confirmation that never comes up again.

Previous book rec posts:

Really cool fantasy worldbuilding, really cool sci-fi worldbuilding, dark sapphic romances, mermaid books, vampire books, many worlds: portal fantasies, many worlds: alternate timelines, robots and artificial intelligences, post- and transhumanism, alien intelligences

For more details on the books, continue under the readmore. Titles marked with * are my personal favorites. And as always, feel free to share your own recs in the notes!

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley*

Dietz is a soldier in the war between Earth and Mars - to travel to the battle front, she and her fellow soldiers are broken down into light to be able to quickly travel across space. But something keeps going wrong with Dietz's travels; her memories don't match up with the mission briefs, as she experiences time itself turning in on itself. Is she going mad? Or are the things she's learning skipping through time the truth - and the war that's stealing her life the lie? A mindfuck of a book that's scathing in its critique of fascism and war. Features a sapphic lead but no romance.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot duology) by Becky Chambers

Novella. Long ago, robots, upon gaining sentience, simply laid down their work and walked into the wilderness. Long after, a tea monk looking for purpose follows after them into the wilds, where they come across one of the robots seeking its own sort of answers. While not plotless, this story focuses more on character and vibes over plot. Also has a nonbinary main character and features conversations on gender between human and robot.

Meet Me In Another Life by Catriona Silvey*

Thora and Santi are strangers, brought together by a coincidence and torn apart just as abruptly when tragedy strikes. But this is neither the first nor the last time they meet - again and again they encounter each other, as friends, lovers, enemies, family, every time recognizing in each other a familiarity no one else carries. But with every new life, a mysterious danger grows ever closer, forcing them to find out the truth of their connection. This is a puzzle-box of a story that goes some entirely unexpected places in a very wild ride, featuring a bisexual co-lead.

The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence) by Emma Mieko Candon

In a world where AI gods sometimes lose their minds and take entire populations down with them, Sunai was the only survivor when his god went down. In the 17 years since, he has wandered on his own, unable to either die or age, drowning his sorrows in drink and men. But his attempts to flee his past comes to a stop as he is forced back into the struggle between man and machine. Featuring some pretty wild world building and narrative techniques, this book will definitely confuse you, but it is worth the experience.

The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart

January Cole works security at the Paradox Hotel, last stop for tourists heading for the timeport, which allows them to travel to and witness any moment in time. But years of proximity to the timeport has left its damage on January, making her unstuck in time, letting her relive memories of her dead lover even as her sanity slips away bit by bit. As she starts witnessing proof of a horrible crime in the hotel that no one else can see, January must race against her own mind, a killer, and time itself to solve it before it's too late.

A Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares

Hayes Figueiredo is a struggling film-maker who wants to finish his documentary, whose life gets turned upside down when handsome physicist Yusuf Hassan enters his life, claiming an alternate version of him is a great inventor who’s sent a mysterious device to their universe. As Hayes gets drawn deeper into the conspiracy - and his feelings for Yusuf intensify - he has to decide just how far he’s prepared to go to win the life and the love he wants. Featuring a very gay and very morally dubious lead, this is a creative and strange read.

Bridge by Lauren Beukes

When she was little, Bridge and her mother Jo used to play a game - one where they traveled to other worlds, inhabiting the bodies of their other selves. Now Jo is dead, and as Bridge is cleaning out her apartment she finds a strange device: a dreamworm, the very thing that supposedly makes inter-dimensional travel possible. Suddenly faced with the possibility that multiverse travel is real, Bridge is struck by a different question: could her mother still be alive? Scifi spiced with a healthy dose of body horror and some absolutely wild twists, Bridge also features a bisexual lead (however this is a blink and you’ll miss it moment) and a nonbinary co-narrator.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers series) by Becky Chambers

Rosemary Harper just got a job on the motley crew of the Wayfarer, a spaceship that works with tunneling new wormholes through space. With a past she wants to leave behind, Rosemary is happy to travel the far reaches of the universe with the chaotic crew, but when they land the job of a life time, things suddenly get a lot more dangerous. A bit of a tumblr classic in its day, this is a cozy space opera with an episodic feel and vividly realized characters and cultures. While pretty light on romance and focusing found family, there is a main f/f relationship.

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Life on the lower decks of the generation ship HSS Matilda is hard for Aster, an outcast even among outcasts, trying to survive in a system not dissimilar to the old antebellum South. The ship's leaders have imposed harsh restrictions on their darker skinned people, using them as an oppressed work force as they travel toward their supposed Promised Land. But as Aster finds a link between the death of the ship's sovereign and the suicide of her own mother, she realizes there may be a way off the ship.

Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire trilogy) by Yoon Ha Lee*

Military space opera where belief and culture shape the laws of reality, causing all kinds of atrocities as empires do everything in their power to force as many people as possible to conform to their way of life to strengthen their technology and weapons. It’s also very queer, with gay, lesbian and trans major characters, albeit little to no romance.

The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle) by Ursula K. Le Guin

1969 classic. Genly Ai is an emissary sent to the planet of Winter, meant to help facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But he's unprepared for Winter's citizens, who spend much of their time genderless or switching between genders, making for a culture wildly different from that Genly is used to.

Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota series) by Ada Palmer*

Centuries in the future, humanity has deliberatly engineered society to be as utopian as possible, politically, socially, sexually, religiously. Written in an enlightenment style and featuring questions of human nature and whether it’s possible to change it, and what price we’re prepared to pay for peace, this book is simultaneously very heavy and very funny, and written in a very unique style. While still human, the society presented often feels starkly alien.

The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley

This book fucked me up when I read it. It’s weird, it’s gross, there’s So Much Viscera, there are literally no men, it has living spaceships and biotech but in the most horrific way imaginable. Had I to categorize it I would call it grimdark military sf. It’s an experience but not necessarily a pleasant one.

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling*

Possibly one of the most unsettling books I’ve ever read, and definitely the most claustrophobic. Gyre, a caver on an alien planet, ventures into the dark and dangerous underground, guided only by a woman who has no compunctions on using and manipulating Gyre as she sees fit to obtain her secretive goals down in the caves.

Escaping Exodus (Escaping Exodus series) by Nicky Drayden

While my feelings on Escaping Exodus were mixed, it cannot be denied that the dynamic between the two leads and the way they go from childhood best friends to enemies on different sides of a class and power struggle is very delicious. It also features some really cool worldbuilding of living, alien generation spaceships and the human culture that has developed inside them.

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky*

The Doors of Eden is something of an experiment in speculative biology, featuring versions of Earth in which various different species were the one to rise to sentience, from dinosaurs to neanderthals. Now, something is threatening the existence of all timelines, dragging multiple different people and species into the struggle, among those a pair of cryptid hunting girlfriends and a transgender scientist.

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi

Ascension follows Alana Quick, an expert Sky Surgeon who stows away on a spaceship in hopes of landing herself a job. But the ship and its crew are in deeper waters than she expected, facing threats emerging from a whole other universe, all of them searching for the same person: Alana’s spiritually enlightened sister. Undeniably a bit of an odd read, Ascension is also very creative and features polyamorous lesbian relationship.

Contagion (Contagion duology) by Erin Bowman*

Young adult. After receiving an SOS, a small crew is sent on a standard search-and-rescue mission. But what they find are not survivors awaiting help, but an abandoned site, full of dead bodies and crawling with something... monstrous. No romance, but features one sapphic co-lead and one who can easily be read as demisexual (however this doesn't show up until book two, which has more romance).

A Memory Called Empire (Texicalaan duology) by Arkady Martine

Mahit Dzmare is an ambassador sent to the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire, where she discovers that her predecessor has died. Trying to protect her home, an independent mining station, from being taken over by the empire, Mahit struggles to find out the truth of her predecessor's death while carrying the voice of his ghost in her head, guiding her as best he can. Light on the romance but does feature a sapphic relationship.

The Outside (The Outside trilogy) by Ada Hoffman*

AKA the book the put me in an existenial crisis. Souls are real, and they are used to feed AI gods in this lovecraftian inspired scifi where reality is warped and artifical gods stand against real, unfathomable ones. Autistic scientist Yasira is accused of heresy and, to save her eternal soul, is recruited by post-human cybernetic ‘angels’ to help hunt down her own former mentor, who is threatening to tear reality itself apart. Sapphic main character.

Dawn (Xenogenesis trilogy) by Octavia E. Butler*

After a devestating war leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, survivor Lilith finds herself waking up naked and alone in a strange room. She’s been rescued by the Oankali, who have arrived just in time to save the human race. But there’s a price to survival, and it might be humanity itself. Absolutely fucked up I love it I once had to drop the book mid read to stare at the ceiling and exclaim in horror at what was going on. Queer in the sense that the Oankali doesn't follow human ideas of gender and relationships, which is mirrored in their romantic relationships with humans. It is, however, pretty dark, with examinations of agency and consent, so enter with caution.

Remnant by Kate Genet

One day, Cass wakes up and finds everyone else is gone. Not dead, just gone, leaving her in a world which nature starts taking back with a dangerous, unnatural speed. But as she tries to survive this new normal, Cass realizes she may not be alone after all - but who else is out there, and are they a threat?

The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace duology) by Erin Bow*

Young Adult. Featuring a dystopian future in which an AI forcibly keeps world peace by holding the children of world leaders hostage. If anyone attempts to start a war, their child will be executed. Greta is one of these children, kept in a school with others like her. But things start to change one day when a new, less obedient hostage arrives. A unique, slowburn take on the YA dystopian craze, also featuring a bisexual love triangle.

Iron Widow (Iron Widow series) by Xiran Jay Zhao

Young adult. Zetian is a citizen of Huaxia, where mecha aliens are constantly trying to breach the Great Wall. To keep them at bay, couples of men and women pilot so called Chrysalises, giant transforming robots. But the pilots are not equal - the women almost always die, sucked dry by their co-pilots. When Zetian sets herself up to become a concubine-pilot, she does so with the plan to assassinate the male pilot who caused her sister's death. Features a polyamorous main relationship.

Bonus AKA I haven't read these yet but they seem really cool:

Survival Instincts by May Dawney

Lynn Tanner has been surviving the post-apocalypse alone with only her dog for a long time, trusting no one. But when she's forced to travel the dangerous remains of New York City alongside another woman, her priorities are challenged. Is staying alone really the best way to stay alive?

These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs

When con-artist Jun Ironway gets her hands on possible proof of the powerful Nightfoot family, controllers of interplanetary travel, committing genocide, she has in her hands a chance of taking them and their monopoly down. But the family and their allies won't go down easily, and sends two brutal clerics to stop her.

Everfair by Nisi Shawl

A neo-victorian alternate history, in which a part of Congo was kept safe from colonisation, becoming Everfair, a safe haven for both the people of Congo and former slaves returning from America. Here they must struggle to keep this home safe for them all.

#nella talks books #the light brigade #a psalm for the wild built #meet me in another life #the archive undying #the paradox hotel #fracture infinity #bridge #the long way to a small angry planet #an unkindness of ghosts #ninefox gambit #the left hand of darkness #terra ignota #the stars are legion #the luminous dead #escaping exodus #the doors of eden #the outside #xenogenesis #remnant #the scorpion rules #iron widow #survival instincts #these burning stars #everfair

[rouguang]

fans: haitham and kaveh can’t stand each other

hyv: haikaveh go to the tavern and drink and play tcg together in evenings and during the day they go on lunch dates to the gardens to play music and enjoy the sunshine together and they share research and fun facts with each other

#genshin impact #kavetham #haikaveh #kaveh #alhaitham #genshin #in light of the new art of the two of them playing tcg together and also the sumeru video #where alhaitham is clearly waiting for kaveh in the garden while he plays tcg with cyno #but they have the remnants of a lunch date surrounding alhaitham as he waits #so cute 🥰 #hyv saw our fanfics and said i raise you them being married and domestic and sweet and simps for each other

[excavatinglizard]

What’s an angelic being without a little body horror?

(Or, I actually inked this traditionally for once, because this manga was powerful enough to briefly drag me out of my burnout)

Process below the cut

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #trigun fanart #excavatinglizardsart #look y’all I started this manga on a whim and finished it sobbing because it was over #for context. in my mind this is happening directly following the couch scene. like this is the moment before more of his hair turns black. #so maybe that sheds some light on his expression :) #I PULLED OUT MY ANCIENT MANGA KID SKILLS FOR THIS #I haven’t inked anything this big in pen for ages #it’s literally A3. used the remnants of my highschool sketchbook because I usually draw a5 #tw body horror

[wily-art]

#Guess who's dreams this kid haunts?

Oh my gosh. It’s Asgore isn’t?! Oh muh gosh the Justice kid is haunting Asgore’s dreams as vengeance🤣!!! Now I absolutely NEED to see a drawing or animation clip of it (I know you probably don’t take requests, but still...)!

And I bet this kid’s also CAUSING Asgore to have insomnia!

Sooooo

You're not entirely wrong

This is part of a wip from a couple months ago for a thing that is a later thing after other things

#undertale #asgore #fallen child #justice #vengeful remnant #animation wip #nightmares for everyone #you get a nightmare and you get a nightmare #things in the to do list #i need 13 of myself #to do all the things #i have ideas for #epilepsy warning #flashing gif #flashing lights

[weiwuxianismybae]

Wei Wuxian would NOT help Jiang Cheng torture demonic cultivators

So a while ago (and I mean a while ago), I saw the worst take at that moment. If it was just one poster I would have ignored it, but! There were at least 3 people and even art was drawn and all of it to say that if Jiang Cheng was really torturing those non-existent demonic cultivators, than Wei Wuxian would have happily helped his brother! And before anyone comes at me, I don't care what people do with their free time or with their skills. I'm an artist myself and would definitely not appreciate people telling me what I can and can't draw. It's not about that, it's just that their take was so bad that I couldn't ignore it and had to vent about it! So, where do I begin?

Well, let's begin with those demonic cultivators! (I know a bunch of people said it already, but I don't mind repeating it for the slow learners.)

Oh! And keep in mind that mdzs is a third person omniscient narration (not wwx's narration!) That's why we get to read direct thoughts of so many different characters, not just Wei Wuxian.

Jiang Cheng really did torture them. He admits it himself!

A moment ago, Jiang Cheng was certain that this person was Wei WuXian, and all of the blood in his body started to boil. Yet, now, Zidian was clearly telling him that he wasn’t. Zidian definitely wouldn’t deceive him or make a mistake, so he quickly calmed himself and thought, this doesn’t mean anything. I should first find an excuse to take him back and use every possible method to get information out of him. It’s impossible for him to not confess anything or give himself away. I’ve done things like this in the past anyways. After thinking it through, he made a gesture. The disciples understood his intention and came over.

ExR ch. 10

His nephew, who lived half the time in Lotus Pier, also confirms it:

Wei WuXian asked, “Do you know why your uncle wants me?”

Jin Ling answered, “Yeah. He believes that you’re Wei WuXian.”

Wei WuXian thought, 'This time, it’s not merely ‘suspect’ anymore. He’s got the right person.' He asked again, “Then, what about you? Don’t you suspect it as well?”

Jin Ling, “It’s not the first time my uncle did such a thing. He has never let any of them go, even if it was possible that he caught the wrong ones. But, if Zidian couldn’t draw out your spirit, I’m just gonna trust that you’re not. Besides, he wasn’t a cut-sleeve, but you even dared to harass…”

ExR ch. 24

Even the Lan juniors speek of it! Reminder that gossip is forbidden, so this must not be gossip or at least the possibility of it being just some rumours is low.

Lan SiZhui tried to reason with him, “Young Master Mo, it was for your sake that HanGuang-Jun brought you here. If you do not follow us, Sect Leader Jiang will not be willing to let the matter go. During these years, there were countless people whom he caught and took back to Lotus Pier, and none of those people were ever let out.”

ExR ch. 11

And let's not forget the innkeeper from Yunping with her eyewitness!

Wei WuXian moved his gaze from Lan WangJi’s calm face with a short pause of surprise, “Lotus Pier is scary? How could Lotus Pier be scary? You’ve been there?”

The owner, “I haven’t been there myself, but I know someone who went because his house was being badly haunted. But it was all bad luck. That Sect Leader Jiang was cracking a glowing whip right on the training field. The victim’s flesh and blood flew as high as his screams! A servant secretly informed him that the sect leader caught the wrong person again, that he hadn’t been in a great mood, and that he definitely shouldn’t be irritated in any way. He was so scared that he dropped off the gifts he brought and fled at once. He never dared visit again.”

ExR ch. 92

So. There is no point arguing that Jiang Cheng didn't torture those poor people demonic cultivators. So, how about Wei Wuxian? Would he have helped his "brother"?

No.

The answer is simply no.

Wei Wuxian is a kind and caring person. He would never judge and even less attack a person without a good reason. And before someone says, "But he killed so many people! Torture Wen cultivators, massacred 3000 cultivators in the Nightless City! Surely he would–" Let me stop you right there. It was war. Like Mianmian once said:

The woman tried hard to protest, “The Sunshot Campaign is a battlefield. On the battlefield, would it mean that everyone is killing indiscriminately? Let’s consider this as it stands. I really don’t think it’s right to say that he killed indiscriminately. After all, there is a reason. If the inspectors really abused the prisoners and killed Wen Ning, it wouldn’t be called killing indiscriminately anymore, but rather revenge...”

ExR ch. 73

(This passage is in case someone argues that the deaths of those guards were also unjust.)

Wen Chao and his people massacred Wei Wuxian's home. He had every right to exact his revenge. In case someone forgot, this is seen as just by the cultivation world:

Xiao XingChen spoke as though he couldn’t believe Xue Yang’s words, “Chang CiAn broke one of your fingers in the past. If you sought revenge, you could’ve simply broken one of his fingers as well. If you really took the matter to heart, you could’ve broken two, or even all ten! Even if you had cut off an entire arm of his, things wouldn’t have been like this. Why did you have to kill his entire clan? Don’t tell me that a single finger of yours was equal to more than fifty human lives!”

ExR ch. 41

And after that, he never went after people that did him nothing wrong! He even protected the Wen Remnants. (Unlike a certain someone that holds a grudge until the very end, even after that person had saved him countless times!)

In case of the Nightless City, let me paraphrase Wei Wuxian: who attacked whom first? Who had gathered 3000 cultivators to pledge to kill 50 innocent elderly, sick and a child? Who went against their word to let the matter go?

Wei Wuxian is the moral compass and we should aspire to be more like him. This is how MXTX wrote him. He would have never helped his "brother" (they were never brothers, people, let it go already) torture and kill innocents. And he would definitely not relish in it.

+ Bonus

The same innkeeper from Yunping about some rando with surname Wen:

The owner, “Also, I’ve heard of another person who was scared away.”

Wei WuXian, “Scared away by what?” It couldn’t have been when Jiang Cheng was whipping someone again, could it? Just how often did Jiang Cheng capture people and whip them?

The owner, “No, no. It was his misfortune. The person’s surname was Wen, and that Sect Leader Jiang’s archenemy happened to have the surname of Wen as well. He's hating on everyone in this world whose surname is Wen. Whenever he sees one, he’d grind his teeth in hatred, wanting to skin them alive. How could he give a single friendly look to...”

ExR ch. 92

Good thing that guy's name wasn't Wen Kexing or it would have been Jiang Cheng who was tortured to death!

#mdzs #wei wuxian #is our guiding light! #mxtx #jiang cheng #canon jiang cheng #wen remnants are innocent #jiang cheng should kowtow to wen ning for saving him and jin ling so many times! #and yet he is still attacking him post canon #what an ungrateful brat!

[hajihiko]

I'm watching the Terror rn, and I forgot one of my other fave horror things; arctic horror. There is seriously a Different feeling to perpetual dark and cold

#Kholat also which was a video game I mostly remember for the atmosphere #The absolute desolation of freezy cold places. If you've ever been out in the countryside in mid winter- #-and you seriously can't see a single light except the one outside the farmhouse even tho you know theres a house over the river #And if anything happened you would be screwed because its impossible to drive to town in a storm #Anyway. Remnants on a ship in a storm. Cant leave or even see the world outside. Stuck on a cold dark ship no possibility of shore... #Not an art #Why yes I am from somewhere far north why do u ask

[yaeggravate]

haha the light streaks in kaeya's hair have a similar color to the gray crystals which could mean nothing

#i don't think this means he was frozen or anything lol but it could indicate remnants of corruption #and now his new outfit shows that those light streaks are in his ENTIRE hair not just in his bangs #remember there was green energy pouring out of the harvisptokhm blocking the purple energy; green + purple = grayish blue #this also fuels my khvarena theory; what if the khvarena is holding back the abyssal corruption #hence the remnants in his hair #.txt #i think i might be going crazy but that's ok #lore bytes #kaeya alberich

[haunted-xander]

The first thing she noticed was the bandages wrapped around her. Secondly, the aching pain all over her body. Slowly waking up, her eyes latched onto the red-eyed sillhouette at her bedside. ...Wait, bedside?

"You are awake." A dull, yet familiar voice spoke. The sillhouetted man looked over her with scrutiny. "Your wounds have yet to fully heal. Do not move. I will bring you food." Leaving the room, he ignored her cry of, "W-wait, don't go yet, Hinata-!"

He closed the door, leaving Chiaki alone.

Unable to do anything else, she fell back onto her pillow. All she could think about was her classmates and teacher. Yukizome-sensei must've gotten brainwashed by Enoshima-san after she saved me and Komaeda-kun from her... That must be why she pushed me into the elevator... I think. ...But what happened to Mitarai-kun? He wasn't in the video... I hope he managed to escape.

Her train of throught was interrupted when the door opened again. Not sparing any words, the man simply commanded, "Eat." Laying a bowl of fruits in her lap. Slowly grabbing an apple slice, she started to eat the pieces one by one. When the bowl was empty, the man took it and placed it on a nearby desk.

Silence filled the room, as Chiaki took the time to formulate her questions in her mind. After some time, she finally began with, "...You're Hinata-kun, right? ...Or you used to be, at least." His blank expression showed no emotion, but she swore she saw his red eyes squint ever so slightly. "You've called me that before. I have no recollection of the 'Hinata' you mention, though it is highly likely that you are correct. It will not be difficult for me to confirm it." Without a word more, he left the room once again.

...So it really is Hinata-kun. Left alone with her thoughts, she wondered if that is why he saved her. Last time I saw him, he seemed to be working with Enoshima-san... I think. ...Why would he join her? Or maybe he didn't... He just intercepted Komaeda-kun, it doesn't mean he joined her... Maybe the part of Hinata-kun that's left stopped Komaeda-kun because he doesn't want anyone to die, even her. ...Speaking of, I wonder why he grabbed Komaeda-kun like that when stopping him... Komaeda-kun seemed to enjoy it, even when he was getting shot... maybe.

"How boring. Your current train of thought will lead you nowhere." Startled, she jumped up only to be pushed back down by the hands of the man she had just now noticed had returned sometime while she was lost in thought. "...Oh, you're back. I didn't see you come in... um..." Not knowing how to refer to him, she trailed off. If the man noticed her awkward pause, he did not show it. "...How did you know what I was thinking?" With his red eyes boring into her own, he replied, "It is easy to tell what someone is thinking by analyzing their facial expression. You were thinking of why I am assisting Junko Enoshima. As well as the reasoning for my behaviour towards Nagito Komaeda." His tone left no room for doubt, stating his observations as fact. "...Yep, that's right. You got me. ...Are you planning on answering me then?"

"No."

"...Oh, okay then."

Scoffing softly, he added, "At least, not those specific questions. They are not relevant to you, and as such, I see no reason to reveal my motivations to you." Chiaki wondered what other things to ask him, but it seems he beat her to the punch. "Regarding our earlier conversation, I have confirmed that you are, indeed, correct. The test subject chosen to create me was a reserve course student called Hajime Hinata." Not allowing her a word, he continued, "You want to know why I saved you. You are hoping for shreds of Hajime Hinata. I saved you for my own entertainment. Nothing more." Entertainment...? Chiakis head was starting to hurt, and she started getting drowsy... "...Rest. Your wounds will heal soon." As her consciousness started to fade, she could just barely make out a last whisper,

"I will look forward to watching your hope and despair collide, Chiaki Nanami"

+ a lil bonus

#this ones more light-hearted lolol #chiaki nanami #izuru kamukura #kamunami #not yet but. eventually #kamukoma #mentioned kinda? #chiaki thinks nagito had a thing for izuru (shes right) #remnant searcher chiaki au #danganronpa #super danganronpa 2 #sdr2 #danganronpa 3 #dr3 #art #my art #xanders art #xanders haunting art #digital art #fan art

[inuhodo]

work doodle of dr rosario fabroa, braytech scientist, utterly fatalistic but also unethical and hot and will later become an exo and later later known as the whimsical warlock catgirl-15

#i am Burning #not maintagging but this is destiny 2 #oc tag #catgirl-15 #tldr combo of exo memory corruption + light rez + strand/veil = complete total personality change while remnants of the original remain #kind of a jekyll hyde situation but not at all its just that shes very silly mode except the times she says some out of pocket warlock shit #and doesnt elaborate

[ygoartreviews]

Nunu, the Ogdoadic Remnant

An absolutely gorgeous and stunning card. Egyptian themed Yugioh cards are where it's at. These kinds of cards are the heart and soul of this game to me, because they so clearly harken back to the early days of the franchise. I've also just really truly loved ancient Egyptian stuff for my entire life basically lol. Contrary to what the wiki states, I'd say this card is based on Naunet instead of Nun, because the feminine aspects of the Ogdoad (the eight primordial gods of ancient Egypt) were depicted with snake features, while the male aspects have frog features. Regardless, this card screams primordial. The relative nothingness of the background beyond some gray smoke and a small burst of light at the very top. And of course, the very way the majority of Nunu's body is drawn: as mysterious black ripples of an unknown substance. It contrasts so well with all of the bright and shiny gold bits. I really love the way her cobra hood is rendered to look like a pharaoh's headdress, even down to the blue stripes. She's got some fancy headdress things of her own going on, but it's mostly just nonsense shapes (but they do reflect the big ol' wings she's got). To top it all off, they even included a fancified water lily, an important part of ancient Egyptian religion closely associated with the primordial waters of the Nun.

Rating: 10/10, this is a card I would probably frame on my wall

#Nunu the Ogdoadic Remnant #yugioh #yu-gi-oh #ygo #Effect Monster #Light #Reptile #Literally though if you see a snake god from Egypt......... They're all ladies #All of them

[spittyfishy]

9: Gundham Tanaka

Snuck a sneaky pattern on to the snake scales :3 Also big oof for Gundham in the scar department

#the lighting makes it a little hard to see but the snake scales are emulating junko lol #also yeah I always thought the marks on his face were scars not tattoos #could be wrong- it’s almost funnier if they’re just like temporary tattoos lol #but logically probably scars #tw blood #tw scars #danganronpa #remnants of despair #sdr2 #gundham tanaka #remnant Gundham #despair Gundham #danganronpa goodbye despair

[sergeantsarga]

Something stupid I made of @spittyfishy’s Remnant Kirumi

(+ the meme I used for it)

#drv3 #kirumi tojo #kirumi #v3 remnant au #remnant of despair #danganronpa v3 #cat #funny #art #lolz #mega man fully charged #megaman #mmfc #mrs cho #hypnowoman #elecman #sergeantnight #aki #aki light

[wangxianficrecs]

Into the murk by MissCellophane

Into the murk

by MissCellophane

G, 1k, Wangxian

Summary: Wei Wuxian is dead. Lan Wangji wouldn't believe those words until he sees it for himself.

Kay's comments: A lovely starting point for a canon-divergence! I really enjoyed this!

Excerpt: Lan Wangji awoke with a jolt, body ice cold as fear shot through him. Wei Wuxian was- Wei Wuxian was- Wei Ying is- A soft snuffling noise cut through his panic, his eyes snapped over to see a familiar head of hair shining in the moonlight through the window. A small body curled up close to his. A-Yuan. A-Yuan was alive. Unless Lan Wangji himself is dead. He didn't feel dead though, the pain in his back was sharp enough to prove that. It could be a dream, if it was, Lan Wangji didn't want to wake from it.

light angst, canon-divergence, pov lan wangji, pov wen qing, wen remnants live, wei wuxian creates a sect, yiling wei sect, wei wuxian lives, blood and injury, lan wangji stays at the burial mounds, protective wei wuxian, hurt/comfort, pre-relationship, angst with a happy ending, @misscellophane-ao3

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#Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #wangxian #MDZS #Kay's Rec #light angst #canon-divergence #pov lan wangji #pov wen qing #wen remnants live #wei wuxian creates a sect #yiling wei sect #wei wuxian lives #blood and injury #lan wangji stays at the burial mounds #protective wei wuxian #hurt/comfort #pre-relationship #angst with a happy ending #short fic <15k #Gen #MissCellophane #Into the murk

[quirkle2]

oh nooo that's quite a bummer :( but i'm very glad that i helped brightening up your day :") tbh your writing brightens up my day too (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

AND WAIT I'VE BEEN ACTUALLY QUITE THINKING ABOUT WHETHER ZOMBIE MOB HAS FOUGHT OFF A ZOMBIE WHEN I ASKED IF HE HAS EVER BITTEN SOMEONE and since you brought it up, well, would be okay to ask about the details of how it went 👁️👁️ (also him fighting off a fellow zombie to protect tome got me sobbing)

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aww im glad my silly little words brighten ur day!! ur so sweet :]

and yes, it went horribly <3! tome prolly wasn't paying attention as closely as she should've been and got herself surrounded by a crowd. to be clear, that's not Always dangerous, since zombies arent like,, after ur brains in this constantly. but these zombies did look quite hungry, and human or not, she looked like a good meal,,

she had wandered off a bit from mob n ritsu, but mob heard the commotion first. tome has a big fucking baseball bat in this au that she likes to swing around, but a baseball bat can only get u so far in terms of self defense. she thins the horde but there's simply too many of them

mob lets exactly One zombie grab her and yank her toward them before he goes ballistic

watching zombies fight is a lot closer to watching wild animals fight than anything else, and it gets quite horrid sometimes. since their bites aren't rly "dangerous" to each other beyond the typical Oh No a Chunk of Flesh is Gone (not even painful for them, since their nerves r.. less than functional), the fight is a lot more close up and gruesome than a fight against a zombie and a human would be. humans usually back away from zombies immediately and try not to touch them at all in fear of getting bitten; zombies don't need to care abt that

most of the horde realizes that this meal isn't going to be easy and they wander off, but a few more hungry, more desperate ones try to rip into mob's throat at the first sign of defiance. it's not exactly a fair fight; it's like 1 against 4, so he's sorta bound to lose

thankfully ritsu shows up and shoots two of them down (he's Terrified of shooting mob by accident, but either way he'll probably die, so) and tome gets the last one with a good swing to the head. ritsu rushes to mob and is horrified by the amount of blood dripping from his neck and his arm; tome is equally as shocked, but she's mostly thinking, "ive Never seen a zombie defend a human before"

mob's neck is thankfully mostly just scraped up and clawed, but there Is some gruesome punctures where canines sank in and tugged. it's a lot worse along his arm that's bitten and gouged beyond belief. he loses a lot of blood here, but the whole nerves-no-longer-work thing is a blessing in disguise atm; he'd be in a lot of pain otherwise. while ritsu and tome are patching him up w shaky hands he simply glares beyond their shoulders like he thinks he's still in danger, even when they tighten the bandages. it's like he barely notices what they’re doing

his strangely alert behavior makes them think abt the possibility that maybe mob Knows he could've easily been shredded apart there, and he's a little scared and worked up abt it. the only reason he managed to fight as long as he did without dying is prolly bc the other zombies weren't as well-fed as mob—they were kinda weak and shaky from days of no food, but mob has humans taking care of him and keeping him fed 24/7

they're all shaken up by it pretty good.. tome is still reeling from the fact that mob defended her so valiantly, and ritsu is quietly horrified by the idea of another zombie killing mob instead of a human. he doesn't know which is worse

#qktalks #anon #zombie au #this isn't the first time ritsu has had to kill a zombie btw ^ #this is just the first time he's had to kill one since he started seeing zombies in a different light #it was either letting his brother die or killing a zombie. ritsu's upset that he had to make that decision at all #but he's not afraid to say that the decision was incredibly easy to make #it sucks that he had to kill one but . for mob ? literally anything goes #ritsu checked tome over after they took care of mob too. tome's very surprised when he's rly gentle abt it #ritsu's been known to .. lose his head a little in moments of stress #and sometimes he snaps at tome bc of it. he never means to he's just..worked up #but this time he's kinda fretting over her and it opens her eyes a little bit #ritsu has indeed grown to care abt tome a lot. they bicker Most of the time but it's usually not very serious #in all the excitement tome just hadn't rly realized that until now. ritsu is so high-strung that it's hard to get a read on his softer side #but now he's not just directing his softer side to his brother‚ but to tome as well #i have 15 more tags to explain smth i wanna make clear btw let's hope i don't start rambling abt smth else entirely #so i've been using a lot of vocabulary in these au posts that hint toward mob being ''special'' or ''abnormal'' in his behavior #he is not special or abnormal in any way #Every zombie is like that. every zombie has a personality‚ and a gentler demeanor hidden behind that desperate starvation #and remnants of their past selves in there somewhere #mob is simply one of the only zombies that have been taken in and cared for and treated like a sick person rather than a monster #as i've said before most people just.. either run away or shoot them between the eyes when crossing paths with a zombie #they don't give any of them a Chance. mob is a very very lucky zombie. #he is healthier than most other zombies and he is treated far better #and the way ritsu constantly talks to him is actually great for his health ! gets those rusty gears in his head rollin #exercises that brain‚ even if‚ to ritsu‚ he's only responding in odd gibberish #that's only one of the things ritsu gives him that other zombies never receive in their lifetimes #i'd say mob prolly ? has one of the longest ''zombie lifespans'' #most zombies either die of starvation‚ dehydration‚ or sleep deprivation within a few weeks #he's lived a long zombie life !