#to stoke a flame

[cold-neon-ocean]

Can I interest you in a Spinosaurus pirate captain in these trying times?

#Dinosaur #Pirates #Spinosaurus #Terato #Captain Ives #Takamatsu's Art #[ behold my new brainrot #idk what stoked the flames of this idea but my god i am burning alive #these were all I did this weekend lol #also please know I'm not aiming for anything remotely paleo accurate #just drawing designs and shapes I think are fun #they're essentially sexy monster men with vaguely dinosaur features #paleo bros please don't crucify me please and thank you ] #Dinosaur Pirates

[ask-the-dweets]

He's a nervous bean, no manhandling please

Twitter meme, thought I’d share it here too XD  More Dwight content for the fire twitter post with source

#dwight fairfield #dead by daylight #dbd fanart #dbd #artwork #meme #I know Dwight is popular #but there is still never enough content for him #I must continue to stoke the flames

[bodycountgame]

nell have you read the infamous if yet 👀

hahaha the infamous demo has come STRENUOUSLY recommended so of course i had to check it out and i can confirm that it fucks severely! excellent vibes, super fun, would recommend 👌

#you all made it VERY clear that this should be top of my list for things to do upon my return to tumblr #and i gotta say #it did Not disappoint #already have 2 new ocs to throw in there and i fear that it is not enough #having an absolute crisis abt how to romance so i am attempting to stoke the flame of chaos by reigniting orpheusgate #because what better tie breaker right??

[jemmo]

that final scene in this ep of utsukushii kare. it feels like someone just ripped out my gut, slashed it open and trampled over the bloody remains. i want to sob. I want to out loud, fat tears, shaking my body sob. but all im stuck on is hira’s brokenly confused face, kiyoi on top of him grabbing onto his clothes and crying, an absolute tornado of emotion the likes of which he’s never shown, all to hira, all because of hira, and yet hira sits there and it’s like the storm covers him but he’s inside this impenetrable building and not a single drop of rain hits him. he knows it’s raining, he can hear it battering down on the roof, but it’s just rain. he doesn’t understand the full extent, doesn’t know the wind is ripping down trees and lightening is cracking the sky in two. and because he’s inside, he doesn’t need to know, doesn’t care to know, doesn’t want to know. hira will happily stay inside, in his bubble, in his constructed world, and he will be alone, and he will suffer, but that’s alright bc he’s not out there.

it’s like he’s gotten used to the internalized problems he faces, and they stick with him, almost a comfort to him now, in that he’ll see them when they’re not there. the external things that make him worried and anxious now, they’re less so, but hira still is that high school kid, getting picked on for his stutter, that faded into the background. he’s stuck there, and he’s never grown past it, and there’s almost a security in not growing, not changing, even if the thing you’re stuck as is worry and anxiety and invisibility and self doubt and constant internal doubt and criticism and lack of confidence. at least he’s used to it. at least there isn’t anything new to challenge him. and it shows, bc whenever he is challenged, in the sense that something that doesn’t fit he’s established world and role happens, he puts himself down and apologizes, like it’s a practiced, default reaction. that’s how he got through before, it’s how he learned to get through. but now, in the place he finds himself, in the situation and relationship he’s in, this is not a place for that reaction. the people he’s around, kiyoi, he doesn’t need hira to put himself down. he doesn’t need apologies. he wants understanding. and hira just resolutely refused that, said that he not only doesn’t understand hira, but that he doesn’t want to, and he’s not going to attempt to. and I don’t think he could have said anything more heartbreaking to kiyoi. all he has ever wanted was for someone to see him and understand him and love him for it. hira gives him love, unendingly and uncritically. he’s love is irrespective of anything kiyoi does or says or feels. it’s love of an idea, of a theory, of a concept in a pretty shell. it’s not love of the human inside, it can’t be, bc he just said he doesn’t want to understand that person, and without that there can’t be love. you can’t love something you can’t see or comprehend, that there’s a person kiyoi that isn’t the god kiyoi there is in his universe.

and the thing is, I think hira could’ve understood kiyoi, back when he saw a side of kiyoi that no one else did and still showed him love. I think down the line he could’ve gotten to know that person more and liked him, but the thing is, it’s different bc of kiyoi’s feelings. bc kiyoi’s feelings contradict so much what hira believes about himself that he can’t understand him. it’s easier to not know kiyoi that way and stick to his established universe, rather than understand kiyoi fully, bc in that he has to reevaluate everything, about himself and his place in the world and kiyoi’s place too. that is not an easy task. and it’s not that hira wouldn’t, I don’t think. I think there is a feasible future where hira recognizes that choice he can make and chooses kiyoi, chooses to challenge himself out of love for kiyoi and a want to understand him, and maybe even a want to understand and love himself. but bc he doesn’t recognize that as a choice he can make, he can’t do it. and I think that’s what hira needs to face, which I think is more than kiyoi and his feelings and care for hira can manage to accomplish. hira’s mental dissonance is gonna be a work in progress, it’s just a matter or him realizing it and getting to a point of actually working on it. the only thing is, in the meantime, can kiyoi be patient with hira, and the hurt he makes him feel? should he? bc when hira outright refuses to understand, when it feels that rigid and definite, when there’s no feasible future where he will understand, what’s the point? that’s the heartbreak. that hira is constantly worrying about forever, but he just denied a forever with kiyoi. and the problem is him, just not for the reasons he thinks he is. he needs to realize there is no forever with kiyoi the god, bc gods don’t last forever, they’re ephemeral, they’re fleeting. there can be a forever with kiyoi though, the man, the person, the human being, he just needs to step outside, into the storm, and let it soak him. bc when he gets to stand with kiyoi in the rain, he’ll see it’s worth it.

#im on my rant shit but oh my god what an ep #like seriously #if I were ever to get the bravery to make a video essay it’d be on utsukushii kare #and it’d be 7 hours long of me incoherently rambling sobbing screaming and foaming at the mouth #bc this show is just that good #like never before have I wanted to crawl inside a character like hira #and never before have I wanted to hold and cradle and love a character as bad as I do kiyoi #they are everything #and this #this is how you do s2 drama #this is how you take a couple that have gotten together and show that things are not perfect just bc they kiss #there is so much more to a relationship #and so much more depth for character investigation and growth and struggle when a relationship is established #that’s when the real work begins #when you take something just beginning a small flame and try to build it and and stoke it into something that can survive and last and burn #forever doesn’t just happen it is created #and hira needs to find a way to make it #utsukushii kare #utsukushii kare 2 #my beautiful man #my beautiful man 2

[dimingwins]

#much to consider #(stokes the flames) #hema #buhurt #bohurt #Medieval Posting

[dennisboobs]

its my understaaanding that there is a waaar going on right now, am i– am i right in this?

#WHAT IS HAPPENING. #ada speaks #my dash is on fire right now and i am. not about to stoke the flames fbdjdnjf #im going to work on the wiki

[thatsuccubabe]

If you need me I'll be reading iron flame for the entirety of the day 🤘

#bibliophile #iron flame #fourth wing #fucking stoked for book 2 #my thoughts

[phoenixcoin]

❂⭃ Starter for @phoenix-flamed ⥷❂

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"How kind of His Most Honorable Archduke to grace us peasants with his presence!"

The comment would have sounded harsh and sarcastic from any other person, but from Byron and shared with his beloved brother it took a completely unique tone. Byron knew better than anyone the important and arduous work that Elwin did, and he did not keep grudge nor grievance against Elwin for his absences. Not to mention the fact that Byron himself was not always present in Rosilith proper. He more often was looking over his ward in Port Isolde, tending to his business and his coffers. In spite of all of this, there was no love lost between them, and when Byron came to visit to learn that his brother had just made it home as well, he was eager to greet the returning noble and bring mirth into what must have surely been a stressful and burdensome trip.

Thus it was that as he came in close Byron clapped a strong arm over his brother's back and pulled him in to a hearty sort of half-hug, "A very merry welcome home for my esteemed older brother! I bet you are quite a bit surprised to see me here, no? I had intended on following up on some investments before I came, but I was missing my family. And how were your endeavors? Everything turned... favorable, I hope?"

Just the lightest drop in his tone, as if to silently denote that he understood the gravity of the situation. And to offer a shoulder should things be too grim for his usual light and boisterous mood. Elwin, strong and courageous as he was, was also just as vulnerable to the horrors of war and battle as anyone else, and he whatever he might need after the return of keeping the peace of his duchy may or may not be his loud celebration.

#tap a cask and stoke the ovens‚ for your favorite uncle is here！➻⌠ic⌡ #but what of security？➻⌠closed⌡ #had i the courage of my brother ➻⌠pre night of flame verse⌡ #phoenix flamed

[soulsxng]

"Ellie and I, spreading rumors? About our darling cousin Satan, nonetheless? My, how slanderous! As if we would ever even entertain the thought of such a thing, let alone exposing little Cynna to it!"

#[Enoch -commentary-] #Eno: I actually didn't start that colloquialism; nor did I tell it to Cynna #Eno: But Ellie might have and I find that funny so I'll stoke the flames a little why not.