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whenthegoldrays · 4 months

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ELLY'S TOP TEN K-DRAMAS (with songs to match!)

10. Would You Like A Cup of Coffee? (2021)

Centers around Kang Go-bi and the regulars of 2Dae Coffee. Coziest show ever.

Song for this drama: Slow Down

9. Our Beloved Summer (2022)

Former high school/college sweethearts Ung and Yeon-su are brought back together by work five years after breaking up. My favorite OST!

Song for this drama: skinny dipping

8. The Matchmakers (2023)

A royal decree to marry off old maidens forces uptight prince Gyeongwoonjae and professional matchmaker Soon Deok to join forces. Prettiest show you've ever seen.

Song for this drama: Caught In A Blue

7. Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022)

Woo Young-Woo navigates her career, life changes, and love as a rookie at Hanbada Law Firm and a woman on the autism spectrum. Young-Woo is a darling, and her boy is the greenest flag ever.

Song for this drama: pov

6. Familiar Wife (2018)

A married couple who have fallen out of love get to see each other in a new light after the husband, Ju-hyeok, goes back in time and changes their history. You've never rooted this hard for such an infuriating man.

Song for this drama: No One Knows

5. Castaway Diva (2023)

After 15 years stranded on a desert island, Seo Mok-ha pursues her dream of becoming a singer while searching for the boy who helped her escape her abusive father. Despite the horrors, this show will make you believe there is good in the world.

Song for this drama: Sweet Chamomile

4. Hometown Cha Cha Cha (2021)

Yoon Hye-jin moves to a seaside town to open a dental clinic and finds the home she always wanted amidst its colorful residents. So funny and the male lead is basically the perfect man.

Song for this drama: Apple Pie

3. Crash Landing On You (2019-2020)

After a freak accident lands her in North Korea, Yoon Se-ri must rely on the soldier who saved her life in order to survive, stay hidden, and get back to South Korea. Rips you apart in the best possible way.

Song for this drama: If I Never Knew You

2. Live Up To Your Name (2017)

Renowned acupuncturist Heo Im falls 400 years through time, where his life and fate intertwine with cardiac surgeon Choi Yeon Kyung. Beautiful, unmatched chemistry.

Song for this drama: epiphany

1. Twinkling Watermelon (2023)

Ha Eun Gyeol is mysteriously sent back in time, where he meets his parents as teenagers and discovers he didn't know as much about them as he thought he did. Peak family feels, peak soft couple, and peak enemies to lovers.

Song for this drama: Long Live

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svtskneecaps · 3 months

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FRIENDS I HAVE BEEN PLAYING WITH SOME OF THE QSMP MODS AND I AM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH

BEHOLD THESE THREE PARTICULAR BLOCKS FROM THE FRAMEDBLOCKS MOD!!!!! FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, THE "FRAMED SECRET STORAGE", THE "FRAMED DOOR", AND THE "FRAMED ONE-WAY WINDOW"

FRAMED SECRET STORAGE, A BLOCK WITH SOME STORAGE THAT CAN BE CAMOUFLAGED TO LOOK LIKE WHATEVER BLOCK YOU DESIRE!!!! WANT TO BUILD YOUR WHOLE HOUSE OUT OF CHESTS AND STILL MAINTAIN AESTHETIC?? GO FOR IT!! HAVE SECRET CONTRABAND BUT NEED EASY ACCESS? HIDE IT RIGHT IN YOUR WALLS!!!

THE FRAMED DOOR, ABLE TO BE CUSTOMIZED TO LOOK LIKE A WALL!! THE TOP AND BOTTOM CAN BE ASSIGNED BLOCKS INDEPENDENTLY!!

SECRET TUNNEL!!!!!!!!!

THE FRAMED ONE-WAY WINDOW!! ANY ONE SIDE OF THIS BLOCK CAN BE MADE TRANSPARENT, INCLUDING THE TOP AND BOTTOM!!! the transparency can also be REMOVED, so if your friend forgets to look at the name of the block their crosshair is on, YOU CAN TOTALLY PRETEND IT'S A TOTALLY NORMAL SOLID BLOCK AND ADD THE TRANSPARENCY ONLY WHEN NECESSARY >:D

NEEDLESS TO SAY, I AM SO EXCITED FOR WHEN THE PARANOID MEMBERS WITH MANY SECRETS AND MANY THINGS TO HIDE DISCOVER THESE BLOCKS HEHEHEHEHEHE. AS SOMEONE WHO LOVES AND CHAMPIONS ESPIONAGE THIS CONSTITUTES AN ABSOLUTE WIN

#qsmp #I LOVE ESPIONAGE I LOVE SECRETS I LOVE HIDDEN PASSAGES #HOHOHOHOEHOEHOEHOEHOHEHOE #reading through the mod notes apparently if you use phantom membrane on a block it allows you to walk through it like ghost blocks #how FUCKIGN DOPE IS THAT #THIS MAKES ME SO FUCKIGN EXCITED LIKE ACTUALLY I LOVE ESPIONAGE AND SECRETS AND HIDEY HOLES SO MUCH #if mr badboy 'paranoia incarnate' halo stops being deceased i hope he discovers these blocks bc he'd go CRAZY #cellbit would also like DAMN like DAMN #imagine if he'd been able to conceal the security door in the fear room behind a door that looked the same as the wall #jaiden being able to see through the fog using the waterframes couldn't have revealed the door >:D #this is so COOL this is so DOPE i'm in tears i love espionage i hope someone finds these blocks soon #also don't mind that you can't see my hand in any of the screenshots i found a scarf that gives me invisibility #WHICH IS ALSO FUCKING DOPE #the artifacts mod is actually so OP like genuinely #i have bunny slippers that make me jump the height of three fences and take 0 fall damage (i make bunny noises when i'm hit too >:D)#i have a snorkel that gives me 15 seconds of water breathing every time i surface for air #i have night vision goggles AND i have a CLOUD IN A JAR that gives me a DOUBLE JUMP so combine that with the bunny slippers and :DDDDD #and NONE OF THESE have durability and i can have them on AT ALL TIMES unless they conflict in slots ofc like no two in the head slot or smt #tho this is assuming that i downloaded the correct mod (i would have grabbed it from seeing it in a tooltip on a stream so jury's out)#(i don't remember what stream either lmao)#but yeah assuming these items exist on the server they're so fucking cool; i'm assuming they'll pop up in a shop later #since i haven't seen people find many yet #anyway not to be a fucking nerd or anything lmfao just got a lil excited #long tags #shut up vic #block game brainrot

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magical-misfit · 1 year

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Live footage of me waiting for the Dimension 20 Twitter account to drop Rumplestilskin as Neverafter homework so I can finally go feral about the fairytale that fucked me up mentally as a child.

#neverafter #dimension 20 #honorable mentions to the Goose Girl and East of the Sun West of the Moon #also the glass mountain and the Snow Queen #I had several books of the original fairytales and they were all fucked up I loved them #seven year old Tessa reading ‘and he tore himself in two’ and not even blinking #also I’m really glad I decided to combine Cinderella and Rumplestilskin for my OC cause I think Brennan’s gonna pull #some bullshit #side note I am curious how the nutcracker is gonna come into play #maybe Pinocchio will end up meeting Clara and she’ll break the spell?#cause Brennan already did SPF in acoc so there has to be something

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delightfuljay · 6 months

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Regrets(?)

on a lonely night, during the Time War, the Time Lord formerly known as the Doctor sits and thinks back on choices he made long ago...

this didn't turn out how I hoped tbh, I definitely wanted to do more with this, but I hope it's good enough at least

and hey! at least I got something Doctor Who-related posted on the actual anniversary! :D

(probably should've had a more interesting setting than just... a forest... on Earth... BUT OH WELL)

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byanyan · 11 months

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ㅤi'm realizing it's been a while since i've explained why byan is, you know, even called byan in the first place. i feel like a lot of my mutuals probably have no idea, so lemme change that real quick!

ㅤbyan's actual, legal name is yeong-hwan byun — or byun yeong-hwan but, because they exist in a primarily english-speaking setting, they're in the habit of saying and writing it the western way. that is, with their given name first, followed by family name rather than the other way around, as a korean name typically would be.

they've always hated their name. in part, it's because it was given to them by the mother who didn't even want to keep them. the fact that she's never been in their life, yet they're stuck sharing her surname is something they've always despised. mostly though, they hate yeong-hwan because it's long. it's boring. they have to correct people on the pronunciation an exhausting number of times. and, of course, it's masculine. nothing about it has ever felt right to them.

by the time they were about six, they were desperate for something different. so, since no one else was giving them a nickname like they were secretly hoping would happen once they started elementary school, they took it into their own hands. taking the 'by' from byun and the 'an' from the end of yeong-hwan, they crafted the name byan for themself. it was shorter, it was cuter, it was unique and not inherently gendered — it felt so much more like them. it still does. they've been using it ever since, demanding that anyone who interacts with them on a regular basis use it over their "real" name, and they often threaten violence on anyone who doesn't. —and yet at the same time, most of the people they meet outside of school have no idea that they even have any name other than byan.

#in the setting they were originally created for no one goes by their actual name #and it's v common to make a nickname by combining your first and last name in some way #i wouldn't have probably landed on the nickname byan if not for that which is wild to think about #but then again they wouldn't exist as a character if not for ghost and the world he created s o #ALSO if anyone has ever wondered how to properly pronounce byan #i have this whole hc post in mind where i want to play around with how the nickname would be written in korean characters #where i was gonna get into that but i'll leave it in the tags on this post since it's relevant #basically the 'a' in byan is pronounced the same way as the 'a' in can #which is Not the same way the 'a' in yeong-hwan is pronounced hence my reasoning for wanting to make the aforementioned post #...i'm getting lost in a lot of little side notes down here #wait one more: they actually had a different surname for their first few years - that of the parents who adopted them after they were born #but when that couple were able to have a biological child of their own and two children was too much #and byan was subsequently put into foster care... their biological mother's surname was given back to them (:#━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ HEADCANON ⋮ DANGER IN THE FABRIC OF THIS THING I MADE.

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volaenii · 11 months

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I have this whole ass Trigun x Nier au made up but no one to share with

#i NEVER make au’s for anything!! so the fact that I have one this fleshed out is crazy to me #haha me combining two of my favorite pieces of depressing ass media to make a cluster of angst #nier series #trigun #trigun maximum #I legit have a shitton of notes in my Google docs for this au #would y’all care to see it?

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t-u-i-t-c · 4 months

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they did this for me

#me the only person constantly taking note of the connections between koh and canalo #that is to say they can pilot the ultimate combination with just the two of them <3 #might i say i love the shots of them inside the mecha like i think they utilize the reflections and lighting well to show they're working #together like the glowing just does something y'know?#ryusoulger rewatch lb #super sentai lb #umbrella.thoughts #umbrella.posts #koh and canalo hours

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safyresky · 1 year

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Hullo bestie, it me. So sorry for the late(ish) ask but since the weather's been warming up I have a question about CS. Specifically about how a Beach Episode would go lol.

Cause Away with the Fae is kinda almost like that considering that they go to a beach at one point. But I wanna get inside your head and wanna know how a true to form Beach Episode of Crystal Springs would go.

Considering that the Frost Fam aren't exactly beach people (I wouldn't think) this has gotten me curious as to how this would play out. Would there be snowball fights at the beach? Would the twins try and make glass by super heating the sand? Would they make it such a mess for every other beach goer? Idk, just a fun thought that I thought you could answer 😌

ANDIE GET OUT OF MY HEAD! I HAVE BEEN THINKING OF A BEACH EPISODE OF CS ALL WEEK! (probably bc of the post I saw earlier this week that mentioned how gr8 filler episodes are tbh)

And this isn't the FIRST TIME I have thought of the Frosts at the beach >:). this shit's been BREWING!

First off, surprisingly, the Frosts are beach people! 5/6 are, of course. Three are Summer Sprites and enjoy the day spent on the sunny shores of the Southern Province; and for the other two, the summer sprite blood gives them a penchant for occasional tropics, and this includes beach days :)

The only Frost that ISN'T a beach person is Winter, but she goes anyway because she does enjoy her beach ritual. BUT I AM GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF, OF COURSE! FIRST THING'S FIRST.

WHAT. DO. THEY. WEAR.

I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR SO FREAKING LONG, BEHOLD!

I cannot decide for sure if both Blaise and Jack wear that old timey stripey shorts tank top one piece swimsuit, or if it's funnier if only Jack does and Blaise goes for the swim trunks and open Aloha shirts, or vice versa, or they BOTH go for the funky shirt and swim trunks combo!

The mental image of the pair of them in this number absolutely sends me tho, tbh:

Though when I picture beach episode they are both in the funky shirt and swim trunks :)

but GOD if the old timey trunks aren't funny as FUCK

Winter covers tf UP. She wears a HUGE sunhat, absolutely GINORMOUS, and just as big black shades, probably like Gucci or Prada or something, to shield her eyes. She burns SO easily (being made of snow and ice and love would do that to a gal, she supposes) so she covers tf UP

Something victorian-esque for her as well, like this:

but with longer pants and a longer skirt, if not a full on bathing gown from way earlier like the lady behind the first one there, lmao

Jacqueline is ALSO in big sunhat mode, but not as big as Winter's. She does not burn as easy as Winter does, but does burn--usually the tops of her shoulders, her cheeks, and her nose! Her aviators are PLANTED on her face, they do NOT come off

She and the Twins are more modern in terms of swimwear. She wears a one piece, with your typical asymmetrical long beach sarong

The Twins are pretty versatile! I think usually they BOTH wear swim shorts and tops, though Fiera will switch out for a swim skirt every so often! she deffs prefers the shorts, though, since they are always running around on the beach and in the water like the wild hellions they are

SO LET'S GET INTO BEACH DAY ITSELF! AGAIN! SINCE I IMPLODED THIS ASK LAST NIGHT IN MY EXCITEMENT AND LOST THIS PART COMPLETELY!!!!!

AND UNDER THE CUT SINCE I WENT AHEAD AND UH, GOT EXCITED ABOUT ✨✨FASHION✨✨ AND THIS WILL BE V LONG

but in point form because I'm not that much of a monster!! ANYWAY, BEACH DAY

Winter's beach day ritual is as follows:

bundled up as breezy as can be when you burn as bad as she does, she finds a nice, shady corner, preferably up against a rock side or cliff face

sets up her umbrella, which Blaise has enchanted to keep her out of the sun at all times (like moving solar panels but opposite)

lays her blanket down beneath the umbrella, sits down with a good book in one hand and sunscreen ready to attack all four kids with it if necessary

She stays put in her shady corner ALL DAY.

Blaise, meanwhile, goes to the bar, gets himself a drink, plants his reclining beach chair with attached umbrella that is never deployed down right beside his wife, sits down with drink #1 (tells the bartenders to keep them coming when they see it empty) and does not move at ALL.

he sinks into the chair, kicks his feet out into the sand, and BEACH BUMS. He melts into the ground. he becomes one with the beach. he is in MAXY RELAXY mode and the ONLY THING that could move him is if Winter, in a moment of cloudy weather, asks to go for a walk or swim with him

he'll be out of that chair SO FAST

But that's IT

Some say he COINED the term beach bum; he INVENTED it! He is the OG beach bum

He will also on occasion substitute the sand for the water, and his chair for a beach floaty

these leads to a fun game Jacqueline, Fino, and Fiera enjoy called TIP DAD INTO THE WATER! They never win. Unless Jack plays. Jack always wins

(Both of these Blaise scenarios work best picturing him in the trunks and funky shirt >:)

If Summer finds out that her sister is at the beach, she will put everything aside to go hang out with Winter! The pair will spend the ENTIRE day chatting up a storm (literally on one occasion. the resulting tsunami was surfed by Jack and averted by Summer being the literal season and the one with the fastest reflexes) and lounging about together for the day while Blaise melts beside them

I never thought about the twins trying to make glass out of sand, but I am thinking about it now! Summer shows them how. They have yet to master it, but they're getting close!

(Summer fears the day that they learn she can do much the same but with diamonds, as they both will want to learn it immediately!)

The Twins are the most active people you'll ever see on a beach! They spend a LOT of time swimming, mostly splashing the crap out of each other (and the cold front if they join, but Jacqueline is really good at splashing them BIG TIME)

They make HUGE sand structures and run amok, with NO concept of beach spot boundary etiquette which means a lot of people have to deal with, you know, messy blankets, sand flying up as the pair rush by, sparks threatening to set fire to their dry beach towels, and so on and so on. The lucky ones only have to deal with a sand structure potentially cropping up beside them!

Aside from that, most people actually don't mind too terribly when the Frosts hit up the beach! Which is gr8, bc they be in situations a LOT, and Blaise deals with the dumbest people sometimes, so they're more than happy to see them chillin'

A lot of magibeans are quite happy when the twins are in the water! It warms up NICELY. Not that it's FREEZING. I mean, the South is HOT so the Arctic Sea can be refreshing, and Summer pulls some strings to take the edge of that portion of the CS shoreline--it's just nice to have warm water knowing it is because of magic children gifted with fire manipulation and not, you know, PEE

Though Fiera sometimes snickers when people say that, which gives Fino cause to be SUS

Fiera gets buried in the sand at some point by Fino and hangs out there, watching her twin wading in the shallows, trying to catch some minnows with a little net

Like. The Twins try to do ALL the beach things at once!

ALL OF THEM

And if they make rivals via sand castles or any other beach sport, it's an EXPERIENCE

Since Blinter is checked out, Jack usually takes up the "parent" part, but in the most big brother way you could imagine: very irresponsibly, encouraging the rivalries and participating until all four kiddos end up defeating said rivals

This has happened more than once. Jacqueline has lost count.

SPEAKING OF THE FROSTY BASTARD HIMSELF, He camps at the bar! He gets ALL the local gossip on beach days. ALL OF IT

Later he shares with Blinter and when Blaise gets into work the next day, my GOD do people get OWNED and does shit get DONE.

Everyone's like wow Blaise! Relaxing looks good on you!

And Blaise chuckles like thanks, but inside he's just a gossipy old man and so is his son >:)

BUT ANYWAY Jack deffs wades into the surf, ankle deep, sipping his drink and freezing the water as people drift by. He gets a kick out of it; it's very amusing, even more so when they can't tell why it's happening, AND DOUBLY SO when he does it to the Twins

who THEN proceed to warm it up again, only for him to freeze it again, and it goes on and on and Jacqueline watches from her chair like "Fino and Fiera are two halves of a whole idiot"

Jacqueline would be the person roped into a volleyball game and kicking ass with her new magibean pals

She also will go for swims too! And beach walks! And she'll hang out in the shores with Jack to shoot the sleet as he antagonizes the swimmers

That's how Jack gets his Legate gossip >:)

Joke's on him, bc that's how Jacqueline gets the latest goss on the Legends

>:) >:) >:)

SOMETIMES DITE APPEARS! And when this happens, it's bc she heard there was a beach day and jumped at the opportunity to stare at her beautiful curvy lil girlfriend in one of her fave locations

Jacqueline LOVES when this happens bc then she can spend the entire time staring at her strong gf bc Dite goes full bikini and Jacqueline is positively ENTHRALLED with her all day

And vice versa with Dite @ Jacqueline 😂😂

On these occasions, Winter scoots closer to Blaise's chair, rousing him from his zen mode to try and once again figure out where on earth Jacqueline gets her curves from

"You're curvy," says Blaise. "Well yes, but also, not quite; I have some unfortunate lankiness here and there. Perhaps she gets it from your mother?" To which Blaise SCOFFS and says "That woman was ballroom gown shaped, I am convinced. She may not have even HAD legs." And Winter giggles and says "Well, it shall remain a mystery, I suppose."

the things parents discuss about their kids! (my parents have this discussion about my nose quite often. I think wedding photos finally put that debate to rest tho)

Jacqueline, funnily enough, actually gets the curves from her maternal grandmother, the Snow Queen.

She was a very curvy woman, so much so that the Winter Warlock called her "Bodacious Bianca", and, well, Bianca simply didn't have the heart to tell him that "bodacious" doesn't quite mean what he thinks it means.

(had she, he would've replied like so: "Ah, yes, but you see, that's the beauty of words! They can mean whatEVER you want them to! And that's why I'm one of the best Warlocks there has been >:)" and she would laugh in kind at her silly little warlock)

(Queen Frost probably HATED him, given that she considered herSELF the best Warlock and did NOT appreciate this man in dress pyjamas and bunny slippers and pointy hats bouncing around claiming to be better than her)

(it was a very one sided rivalry, for certain)

(Unless Winter Senior knew she hated him and hammed it up just to piss her off more, which, goofiness aside, is highly probable)

BUT YEAH

BEACH DAY

I think that about cover all my musings! Honestly, a CS beach episode would go SO well. The Frosts would just have a very good time, probably at the expense of a couple of disgruntled magibeans but hey, can't win them all, Blaise always says.

but yeah! It'd go VERY well! An enjoyable day for them all! I think in an actual beach episode, Jack would be gossiping, Jacqueline would be chilling, the Twins would have a BEACH DAY BUCKET LIST and try to do it all, upsetting a few people on the way. By the end of the day, they have a small angry mob and Fino and Fiera look at each other like >:) because guess what the last thing on their list was?

When it's time to head home the Twins are soaked (crowd tossed them into the sea and they love every second of it), Jack is burnt af bc he BURNS BAD, Winter is chipper, Blaise is seven shades darker and so relaxed he's actually slouching, and Jacqueline has a first place volleyball trophy in her hands, a group of magibeans waving bye to her, one of them miming CALL ME.

They return later once the beach is clear to collect abandoned/forgotten sand toys, bc I used to do that with my cousins and our grandfather and I can see Blaise walking on the beach in the sunset, twins skipping ahead and collecting loose toys, tossing them into their big red bucket!

When they get home, the Twins pass out bc long, energetic day, and Blinter enjoy a quiet evening with Jack, who they chat with all evening while Jacqueline sleeps on the couch!

#dani answers #alpharra #crystal springs FACTS #ask box shenanigans #crystal springs #cs beach episode #THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN UP LAST NIGHT. BUT MY EXCITEMENT COMBINED WITH THE FACT THAT TUMBLR IS A FUNCTIONING WEBBED SITE #CAUSE TWO THIRDS OF THE REPLY TO VANISH #I think I remembered all my points! some of them last minute lol #nappy jacquie and chatty blinter and jack were originally in the list with the gossip section #and i am too excited to share this to try and fight the formatting again #I'M NOT LOOSING EVERYTHING FOR A THIRD TIME #NO SIRRIE #anyway! plz enjoy the official dani's notes of a cs beach day!#i should doodle the mental images of them on the beach that i have for you guys #i should doodle more #may be a good way to kick away the perfectionist thing #tsc #tsc3 #ps - not late at all. i am a night owl. bedtime is 1am. i need to fix myself

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theurgic-necromancer · 2 months

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Wizards are not exactly known for their physical strength and sturdiness. You are no exception. On the other hand, as the oldest living child of Bhaal, you're much tougher than the average wizard.

Which is how you're still conscious even after a minotaur came barreling into you. The wind's been knocked out of you, and you're fairly sure you've either gotten slashed or else you hit the ground hard enough to break skin. You reach for your side and feel something slick and wet. When you pull your hand away, you can see traces of your blood all over it. Yep, you're definitely bleeding.

You stagger to your feet and take stock of the situation. The minotaur has cut you and Astarion off from the rest of the group. Zia, Shadowheart, and Karlach are doing their best to avoid the minotaur's wild axe swings and piercing horns. Astarion is visibly irritated at being caught out in the open with little to hide behind. He shoots an arrow into the minotaur's back, then dashes towards the nearby stone formation to hide behind it. The minotaur rips the offending arrow out of its back. It turns and slams its axe down where Zia was just standing a moment ago.

There's a surging in your blood, a feeling like something trying to claw its way out of you. For a moment you can't breathe, and you're not sure if it's from getting the wind knocked out of you, or from the thing in your blood trying to exert control. Either way, you find yourself coughing and choking as you struggle to maintain control. Everything hurts. Your head is swimming.

You manage to shake it off enough to blast the minotaur in the back with a few Magic Missiles. It swings at you. You're not fast enough. The axe catches your arm and you're sent staggering back, clutching the bleeding gash. You feel a soothing calm fall over you, like a quiet evening. Shadowheart's cast a healing spell, and you feel some of your injuries knitting together.

You don't have time to shout a thank you before the second minotaur slams into your back and knocks you out.

You awaken back at camp, with at least half the party hovering over you. Shadowheart and Zia are both busily pouring their healing magics into you. You can tell without opening your eyes just from how their respective magic feels. Shadowheart's like the calm of a nice evening, Zia's like the feel of a long-forgotten lullaby.

It's Zia who notices you stir first. "Oh thank the gods he's awake."

"You alright, soldier?" Karlach says, leaning over to get a good look at your face. You can see the worry writ large across hers.

"I feel like I got run over by something, but otherwise I think so," you reply. You grimace from the lingering pain of mended bones. You're fairly certain you might have broken a rib, but the healing magic seems to have fixed that.

"Try two minotaurs," Zia says.

"Two?" you repeat incredulously.

"It's a miracle you're still alive," Shadowheart points out.

"From the way you were splayed out on the ground I was worried you weren't," Zia says. "By the way... why in all the hells is your blood black?"

You blink. "You just noticed?"

"Unless you've been secretly bleeding without us noticing, yes," Shadowheart says. You know she's lying—about herself, at least. You still remember the way she'd stared at your bleeding head after the crash. The look of confusion and vague horror that flashed across her face before she... simply healed you and moved on.

"Surely Astarion noticed, at least," you say, shoving yourself into a sitting position.

There's a pause. You glance at Astarion to see him pointedly looking away.

"You literally drank it," you say.

"It was dark!" Astarion protests. "And—Well—You know as well as I that darkvision isn't exactly good at distinguishing color."

You catch Lae'zel grimacing and shaking her head in exasperation out of the corner of your eye. You honestly feel about the same way as she does.

"Well, now you know: I have weird-colored blood." You shrug, hoping that no one will press the issue.

"I presume it has something to do with your necromantic studies?" Gale chimes in.

The guess surprises you, but you're not going to bother correcting him. "Something like that, yeah." You hold up a decidedly not injured hand. "Kind of neat, don't you think?"

"Not the word I would have used," Shadowheart says.

"It's fascinating," Gale says. Zia's expression says she also finds it intriguing.

"Hm... Now that has me curious," Astarion muses. "How does everyone else's blood compare to yours?"

"Well, mine probably tastes like his," Zia casually tosses out. You shoot her a look. Before anyone can ask the obvious follow-up she adds, "It turns out we're related. He's like my great-great-uncle or something."

"I suppose that would lead to some similarities," Astarion says. You quietly breathe a sigh of relief. Shadowheart glances between you and Zia. You don't need the tadpole to sense that she knows what that connection means.

"I'd offer a sip of my blood as a potential point of comparison," Gale says, "but I fear my... condition—" He gestures towards his chest, where the Netherse orb lies, "—might possibly taint the results."

"Such a shame, that," Astarion says. "I imagine your blood would taste like a finely-aged wine."

"Thank you?" Gale sounds bemused.

"If you so much as look at any of us as prey, vampire..." Lae'zel warns.

Astarion waves a hand dismissively. "It's just idle musing, darling, I'm not actually going to bite anyone here. Unless anyone wants to volunteer~"

"Maybe after I've recovered a bit from getting flattened by a pair of minotaurs," you say, absentmindedly rubbing at your neck.

"That would be for the best, I'd say," Shadowheart chimes in. "You were out cold far longer than I would have expected."

"I... was?" You blink in confusion.

"Yes, even after we'd brought you back from the brink you wouldn't wake up," she says.

"It's why we ended up dragging you back to camp," Zia adds. "Figured it would be better to fuss over you somewhere safe rather than risk a third minotaur showing up."

"...Huh," you say. That's certainly weird.

"You feeling alright, by the way?" Karlach pipes up. "Head's not hurting or nothing?"

"I'm fine, all things considered." You shrug. "Still a little achy from getting run over, but otherwise..."

"That's a relief," Karlach says, visibly relaxing. "Next time, don't wander off so far. Made it way too easy for those two big lugs to separate our group and prevent us from getting to you."

"Yeah, noted," you say. "You'd think I'd know better by now, but apparently not."

#notes from the journal (drabbles)#!long post #((this got so much longer than I expected it to lmao))#((and ended up combining two ideas into one alskfehlshfe))

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