#this is it! the final installation

[serickswrites]

Recording VIII

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7

Warnings: hospital, referenced captivity, referenced torture, referenced temporary character death, referenced restraints, referenced rescue, hurt/comfort, hurt/aftermath, hurt/recovery

James lay in the hospital bed, looking smaller than Max had ever seen him. The hospital had cleaned his hair. Cleaned the wounds on his face, and Max imagined, cleaned the wounds that were out of sight under the blankets. But James still looked terrible. He was almost as pale as the sheets he was under and his face still swollen from all the beatings. The bruises on his throat were more pronounced than before. 

But he was alive. 

“Hey, buddy,” Max said as he entered the room. 

“Max,” James croaked. He blinked his one working eye. “You have to hurry.”

“I’m here. We’re all here, James. They’re just letting one of us in at a time. You’re in a fragile state.”

James swallowed before speaking again. “You have to hurry. He needs our help.”

“Who?”

“Lance. He needs help. Dexter,” James’ eye welled up with tears, “Dexter is going to hurt him. We have to help him. Please.”

“Why would we help him?” Max didn’t agree with Kyle’s interrogation style, but he agreed with Kyle’s assessment that Lance hadn’t been cooperating. And that he should face the consequences.

“He needs help. He helped me. As much as he could. Please.”

Max swallowed. Could the team have been wrong about Lance? “He’s out. We got him out.”

James sagged with relief. He closed his eye. “Good. That’s good.”

“How did he help you?” 

James was quiet for so long that Max thought perhaps he had fallen asleep again. “He didn’t let me die.” James’ voice was barely audible. “He could have. But he didn’t. I owe him, Max. We have to help him.” 

Max stood up. “We’ll help him. You just focus on getting better.” 

James nodded, his eye drifting closed. “Thanks. For….for everything.”

Max ducked his head. “You would have done the same for any of us.”

Before long, Max was back at headquarters, Lily and Kyle in tow. “I think it’s time for you to be a little  more forth coming with us,” Max said as he sat down opposite Lance. 

Lance surveyed him with wary eyes. “You spoke with James?” 

Max nodded. “I did.”

Lance nodded his head twice. “I’m glad to hear he’s still alive. He seems like a pretty stand up guy.”

“The only thing he wanted was to be sure you were safe. Why?” Max wasn’t willing to give Lance the benefit of the doubt yet. He wasn’t sure that James was right. 

Lance looked away. “He might feel he owes me.”

“Why?”

“Because he didn’t die. I told him he wouldn’t. I promised him he wouldn’t. And he didn’t.”

“That’s why you kept sending the videos and talking on them? So he would know?” Lily shook her head. “But you didn’t stop any of the torture.”

Lance looked up. “If you think that I could have stopped Dexter, could have stopped any of it, don’t you think I would have done that? You think I enjoyed watching Dexter beat him to death?”

“You did nothing to stop it, so yeah.” Kyle leaned against the door jam, arms crossed tightly across his chest. 

“The only thing that would have made Dexter beat him more, kill him faster, was direct interference. The best I could do was make sure you got the videos. And take more than I was ordered to.” Lance sighed. “Look, I know you don’t believe me. That’s fine. But if you aren’t going to believe me and you aren’t going to let me go, you can just lock me up. I won’t fight. I won’t do anything. But I’m tired of answering the same questions.”

Max shook his head. “That won’t be necessary.”

“What?” Lance’s eyes were wary once more. 

“I’m not interrogating you. I’m interviewing you. James wants you on the team. For whatever delusional reason he has in his head, I have to believe him. He brought all of us together, so I trust his judgment of character. So you’re on, if you like.”

“Just like that?”

“Just like that.”

“Even though he,” he nodded towards Kyle, “wants me dead?”

Kyle frowned. “If James says you’re good. Then you’re good. Doesn’t mean I have to like you. You have to earn that, newbie.”

“And if I decline?”

“Then we let you go. James will be disappointed of course, but if that’s what you want.” Lily watched him with careful eyes. 

Lance considered a moment. “I’ll join you. I just don’t know where you’ll trust me to be.”

“Wherever James tells us. Welcome aboard.” Max reached over to uncuff Lance but stopped as Lance flinched. “We’re not going to hurt you. We just had to be sure…”

“That I didn’t torture your leader. Yeah, I know. Doesn’t change the fact that I was trapped under a maniac for years. I think we all need a little time to adjust.” Lance withdrew his hands from the table. 

“He asked if you would visit him, you know.” Lily said softly. “I’ll take you, if you like.”

Lance nodded. “I’d like that very much.”

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#serickswrites #whump #whump writing #whumpblr #whump community #tw hospital #tw referenced captivity #tw referenced torture #tw referenced temporary character death #tw referenced restraints #tw referenced rescue #hurt/recovery #hurt/comfort #hurt/aftermath #queue #this is it! the final installation #team whump

[7greentears]

They weren't lying. That Pyro can trans your gender.

#I finally broke and installed the funny men running around game #myart #fanart #Pyro #tf2 #tf2 pyro #sketches #i'm still figuring out how to draw Pyro #Pyro is my main #Pyro blessed my crops (with fire) and healed my acne #So fruity for setting things on fire I love them

[sojutrait]

week in the life of the most interesting girl in the world

#ts4 #s #ty simkoos sm for the hooters cc now i have an excuse to make hot women #im providing zero details just to cement THIS ISNT GOING TO BE A REGULAR INSTALLMENT DW #ik i have too many gps going on as is KFGKG #i say this knowing i have at least one more post about her queued #and also made like. 15 side chars #hey. im pretty much done with finals and cant play chu huas save bc itd be starting the next gen pleek im a star

[zannolin]

lockwood & co + text posts (part 4)

#lockwood & co #lockwood and co #l&co textposts #zanna memes #textpost memes #the long awaited (by me anyway) final installation

[idoodlestuffsometimes]

Story Post 14 (Part 3)

AU MASTER POST

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[Image ID under the cut]

[IMAGE ID: Two pages of a black and white comic. PAGE ONE PANEL ONE: On Dell as Gwen, from off panel, offers him the crow phone. "Well, your father wanted to call for good reason," she says. "Here, I'll put him on the phone!" PANEL TWO: "You should really talk to--" Eda stares down at the crow phone, horrified. PANEL THREE: "CLICK" The phone hangs up. A large panel of Gwen and Dell at their dining room table, stopped in the middle of Gwen giving and Dell taking the phone. "...him," Gwen finishes. PANEL FOUR: The same angle as before, but the the panel is mostly blank, empty except for Gwen and Dell. The two of them hold hands, their heads bowed in sadness.

PAGE TWO PANEL ONE: Whip! Eda hurls Lilith over her shoulder. PANEL TWO: Crack! Lilith slams against the ground. PANEL THREE: An overhead view of Eda standing over a defeated Lilith, crumpled on the ground. Instead of looking at Lilith, she glares up at the crow phone flying overhead in the foreground. "I told you to stop coming," she growls. PANEL FOUR: In the foreground, Eda's fist clenches around her lowered staff. Beyond it, Lilith stares up at her, hair in disarray, furious. PANEL FIVE: A distant view of the cliff-side path leading away from the Owl House. Eda stands near the house, glaring down at the ground while Lilith flies away on her palisman, glowering over her shoulder. Her scouts, groaning and decidedly worse for wear, trudge after her. PANEL SIX: Close on Eda's face, turned away, scowling. The panel is very wide, but the rest of it is empty. /End ID]

#The Owl House #TOH #doodle art #eda clawthorne #lilith clawthorne #gwendolyn clawthorne #dell clawthorne #Brother's Keeper AU #presenting to you another installment of Clawthorne angst #today in: Eda should maybe not drive her family away quite so much...literally in lilith's case #finally! the final pages for this part

[itspileofgoodthings]

always thinking about when I was talking to a friend about IX about Ben’s death and she said “there was a whole lifetime in his smile” and I just. think about that forever.

#reylo #i know that like. nobody cares. and all the reylos have left/unfollowed in the way of scattering fandoms and I’m still at the restaurant #sitting in the corner I haunt #but reylo will always be that to me #anyway there WAS a whole lifetime in his smile 😭😭😭😭 #the thing about Ben and Rey is that they were simply and ultimately so quiet and so private #like. just the two of them in all the world #and for them to be stuck in the hugest of franchises in the most controversial of sequels in the most disappointing of final installments #just makes me love them more. #I’m a fighter. I’m a lover AND a fighter #anyway it’s just. I know #he just. it’s all there on his face. Breaking through the mask of his suffering and his dysfunction and all of his choices #just shining out for one perfect moment before he slipped away

[ruvviks]

MINECRAFT ➤ [10/?]

#minecraft #minecraftedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #aartyom #aelyosos #swordcoasts #userbrujah #userkarlo #usermorvaris #userredacted #usersleuth #uservanguard #nucleargifs #*m #FINALLY INSTALLED THE GAME AND SHADERS AGAIN SO WE ARE BACK IN MINECRAFT BUSINESS

[uncanny-tranny]

"haha, are you an art gay, a science gay, or a math gay"

Actually, I find the division between art, science, and math to be a very nebulous idea and useless when you actually interact with the universe. The more you learn about the world, the more you surround yourself with art and science and math, and you'll never be able to see it any other way and it will be beautiful. When I take your hand, it won't be the science of our atoms closing the distance between us that we will experience, but the math of our fingers interlocking and the art of our bodies that we will experience. You are math and you are science and you are art, and nothing will make you any lesser💛

#positivity #the planets are singing right now. are you listening? #if you can't experience the art of science and the science of art then i think you're missing out #the more i intentionally try to learn the more i love art and sfience and the world 💛 #i was always more of a humanities person but i've grown restless and taking up science??????? holy shit?????? #i was in class the other day and a very simple concept finally clicked in a fundamental way and i think that's why i'm alive actually #i think i know how michaelangelo felt when he painted the creation of adam #this is why i really encourage y'all to look up on youtube some free lectures because some of them are so amazing #like i watched a lecture about elements and it's still fucking me up when i think about it #this is also why i despise the whole 'modern art isn't really art; it takes no skill 😡' thing people like to do #please sit down and paint one of the installments of Who's Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue #i've learned to appreciate that installment and art series as of late and i think it's nice art #i love this stupid fucking world 👾

[hoofpeet]

[Previous] Everyone happy :]

#hoof draws #replacement ingo au #long post #aou.... final installment <3 #everyone is back in unova now . tha end

[zarla-s]

Do/for you have to make references for any other characters in Handplates? Like the mouse or pterofractal? The same goes for the characters that have canon designs in Undertale. Did you ever need a ref for them?

Honestly I like never make reference sheets until something forces me, haha. With the mouse I just go back to the first comic he appeared in and just ref off of those. I might have mentioned this before, I forget, but originally that mouse was supposed to be the mole in the MTT comedy club but then I looked up their speech pattern and it didn't fit, so instead I made them a Rathbone cameo from The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain. :B

I had to improvise his lower body so I just gave him big wading pants lol.

As for Pterofractal, Jaz gave me this!

I do have a folder for canon refs, mostly screenshots I've taken to get colors and layouts for certain areas in the Underground, haha. And some sprite sheets if I need them.

Nothing really official or purposeful though, just screencaps and snips from other files I end up reusing.

#asks and answers #novafloofeatsbirds #undertale #handplates #this is unrelated but you would not BELIEVE what i went through to get that cap of rathbone #first i couldn't find my disk for lost mind of dr brain #then i couldn't get it to install on windows 10 #so i had to get pcem and set up windows 3.1 on a virtual machine which was its own whole thing #THEN i had to set it to a graphics driver that had 256 colors which was ANOTHER different thing #and i FINALLY got it working and the sound stutters lol #well i got my own personal shot that's what matters #and maybe this emulated machine will come in handy sometime who knows

[flowersforagrave]

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 virtual photography #solo: astarion #▵ #finally installed a bunch of mods so i could take pictures of him in new outfits and what do i do? #take pictures with his original outfit

[grey-wardens]

#bg3edit #gamingedit #* #shadowheart #ara #baldur's gate #god bless this mod for finally fixing this dialogue #i tried to install the tattoo mod too but nothing i tried worked 😭

[idontmissu]

231231

#stayc #femaleidolsedit #lee chaeyoung #ggnet #femaleidol #isa #sophiegifs #we are so backkkk #thank u for 1k🙀 #i finally got vs to work on my mac #bitch everything is so much faster here i made these in 15 minutes #my old laptop would take at least 45 minutes for a 4k video #also i didnt want to install topaz again so i used the vs denoise for the first time lmk if it looks shit

[the-oc-king]

"Monster fucker"??? Well what about monster LOVERS huh. What about monster HUGGERS!!!

#stardew valley #stardew oc #stardew krobus #stardew farmer #stardew valley krobus #sdv fanart #sdv farmer #krobus #i've finally gotten back to fig's save file after so long #ever since i started the game i knew i wanted him to platonically court the shadow monster in the sewers #i've installed a bunch of mods for a richer experience and i'm sooooo excited #getting to see these two hug in the game eventually will be all worth it

[ovcii-doodles]

The Director always said it was important to have ambition, Captain Tucker. We are the Meta, and together we will be strong enough to save your friends.

meta tucker gang we've waited almost 10 years for this (I made the quote up btw)

#I have full faith that restoration will be the send off rvb deserves after 21 years. I trust burnie with my life on this #rvb #red vs blue #rvb: restoration #red vs blue restoration #lavernius tucker #the meta #if sigma doesnt tell tucker to 'sick em' referring to the bgc i will cry #also do yall think there will be wash vs the meta round 3? maybe he actually gets crushed by a warthog this time... #jk! ...unless? #i was pissed about wash being possibly killed off in s15 bc it was just for shock value and it wasn't the final season #but im cool w him dying in the very last installment of rvb #he finally gets to sacrifice himself as the hero he previously tried so hard to be #ANYWAY the art: buff tucker. thank you #im using my old tucker fc bc if it aint broken dont fix it lols #and im not messing around w sigma he gets a stick figure face lmao

[dangerpronebuddie]

I've Fought Tougher Men (But I Really Can't Remember When) 3k

Eddie left Bobby to babysit his patient and stood beside Hen, handing her a fresh piece of gauze as a pretense. “There a problem here?” he asked, keeping his expression as neutral as possible. Hen smiled and accepted the gauze, trading it out for the bloodied one she had pressed against the guy’s cheek. “Nothing major.” “Damn right it's major,” Dick hissed. He batted Hen's hand away. “Hey.” Eddie snipped. “Keep your hands to yourself.” “You got no right to tell me what to do, boy,” Dick huffed, shaking a finger at him. “I have my reasons.” “Being a repressed boomer isn't a good reason to assault the people who are trying to help you, let alone jam broken glass into your friend's head,” Eddie scolded. He had a split second to wonder just how ruthless the scolding from Bobby would be before Dick punched him right in the eye.

Read on ao3

She's here!!!!! Don't ask me why 3k words took so freaking long 🙄. I'd just get a rhythm going, and then another fic idea would pop into my head. This has been in my drafts since December. But I'm happy to finally have it done and out of my hair!

And look at the stunning cover @ronordmann made me!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰

(Also, please be advised, there is some homophobia in this fic, specifically from the character Dick. It's not for very long, but please be careful 🥰)

#911 #buddie #eddie diaz #evan buckley #911 abc #9-1-1 #fanfic #my writing #Danger Prone Diaz #finally another installment!! #911 fic #buddie fic #buck x eddie #eddie x buck #eddie whump #technically everyone whump lol #Maggie writes