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F&F: First Arc Q&A!
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Hello friends and beloved readers! It's Aboleth-Eye, host and recapper of the amazing Ravenloft campaign Freaks & Facades! And we're doing an In-Character Q&A! Check out the question form here!
If you've somehow missed it, I've been hosting a Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 edition campaign set in classic Ravenloft for all of 2023. Currently the cast is in the seductive and surreptitious realm of Dementlieu. The player characters, aka the Freaks, are an amazing group of would-be adventurers and have gone through a lot in their first dip into gothic horror adventure! And we've been sharing their exploits and misadventures on a new blog! I started the recaps on this Tumblr a while back, but there were some formatting problems that arose when Tumblr changed how bullet points work. blech...
But we've persevered, and have found a different avenue to share the group's awesome adventures on This New Separate Blog! If you haven't gotten the chance, check out the story here!
And, as the story is coming close to the end of the first arc soon, and is almost caught up to the players in-game, I wanted to do a bunch of fun things once the First Arc (False Accusations) wraps up. So, we'll be posting a bunch of fun things on there and here once the arc recaps finish in December. So We're Planning An In-Character Q&A!
If there's anything you've wanted to ask our Freaks/Player Characters (see here for their bios), or even their Players themselves, send your asks through this new Google Form, or DM us directly at either @aboleth-eye or @freaks-and-facades-ravenloft!
Questions can be put to specific Freaks Characters, about their backstories, abilities, character builds, anything!
You can also ask something of all the Freaks together!
and/or the Players and Host (aka lil' ol' me Aboleth Eye)!
Questions can be made anonymous if you wish! Just keep things PG-13 please!
There is soooo much to talk about with this campaign, and the Freaks each have a lot of thought put into their stories, motivations and relationships. Like all D&D players, we are excited to overshare about our characters and campaign!
Hope to hear from you guys!
Love, Aboleth Eye!
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littlelightfish · 27 days
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This... this is a whole different kind of psychic damage here. When nightmares got Marcille, we get to knew that her's biggest fear is outliving her friends. This isn't even canon probably, but look at this. This isn't a "I don't want my friends to die" kind of dream. This is a "I'm terrified of loosing my daughters, of something killing them, and being incapable of stopping it" kind of dream. It's so simple yet it explains perfectly the whole of chilchucks character. He loves, he cares, deeply. But he, or doesn't acknowledges, or doesn't know what to do with that knowledge.
Besides that. Someone had to wake him up after this. Imagine the devastation in this man after he wakes up. He just saw his three little babys murdered corpses (or maybe he saw them die, wich isn't better). He would possibly not talk about it, and that would worry the hell out of the party, because we'll, they see him all down and only one of them knows what he saw. Imagine being the one to pull him from that nightmare. Seeing this man, usually so composed, fuking staring with tears and terror in his eyes to the composes of what you can only assume are his daughters. It would be heartwrenching.
Idk, I love this man so much...
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aboleth-eye · 7 months
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We return to Freaks & Facades, and our beloved Freaks entering the hedonistic and insidious domain of the Dementlieuse gentry! They attempt a heist for clues, survive flagrant flirtation and learn the face of their true enemy. Our group will not forget their Teatime at House Montagne!
Come along and read up on our beloved Freaks' misadventures in the gothic realm of Ravenloft! New recaps will be dropping every other Saturday (or at least attempted lol!
Thanks for reading! -- Love, Aboleth Eye!
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darqx · 26 days
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Fellas, is it scandalous to ask your bodyguard for a dance at your coronation?
It was Izm's prescribed bday yesterday (April 2) so I redrew an old Royal!AU doodle from 2022 (which I never posted here) °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°
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rillils · 3 months
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STEVE & BUCKY'S LOVE STORY, UNABRIDGED SOMEWHAT ABRIDGED, part 2/3 (here is part 1)
picking up from where we left off:
some 65 years into the future, steve's plane is fished out of the ice, and they find him, frozen like a sexy hot-dayum popsicle, but still alive thanks to the same super serum that made him go from Smol to Lorge.
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steve is thus brought back into the world, but it's a world he no longer recognizes after all these years; a world where all the people he used to know and love are long dead, and his own face has been turned into a tool for propaganda over the years. obviously, he has a hard time adjusting, and he turns to fighting again, joining this group of kinda possibly superheroes, aka the avengers.
lots of exciting new things happen, sure; but steve is still pretty miserable. until one day, a mysterious masked assassin dressed in bondage gear (but not really), and sporting one very shiny metal arm (!!!!), is sent to kill steve's sort-of-boss. and then to kill steve himself. oh no!!
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in what is possibly the most gripping, most visually pleasing hand-to-hand fight sequence in the history of cinema,
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(NO BUT SERIOUSLY, all jokes aside, if you've never watched it then please do bc it's!!! *shrieks* so fucking good!!!)
a fight sequence which also happened to unlock both steve's and an entire fandom's competence kink with that little sexy knife-flipping trick alone -- i know you know what i'm talking about, don't you lie to me babes--
as i was saying, steve manages to knock the mask off of his opponent's face. and who do you think appears before him? can you guess??
DING DING DING!!! EXACTLY!!! IT'S HIS LONG-LOST BAE BUCKY! who apparently doesn't recognize him??
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confused and upset, steve fights to uncover the truth. turns out, the man is indeed the very same bucky he grew up with and loved. only, he didn't actually die in that tragic fall in the ravine; rather, due to the experiments performed on him while he was a war prisoner, he survived long enough to be found and captured by the enemy. who then proceeded to torture and brainwash him, using him as a tool for murder against his will, and literally putting him back in the freezer when they didn't need him.
which, as it happens, is how he stayed so young in the first place: he, uh, spent the better part of 70 years frozen. yeaaah, are the parallels paralleling or what, hmmmm?? preserved in ice like your mom's best lasagna from last week? plunging to a 'death' that isn't really a death? waking up in the future kinda screwed over? :D
ANYWAY
steve is even more devastated than before, now that he's learned that while he was asleep in the ocean, bucky was out there suffering. when he finally confronts bucky again (and it's fucking epic and also fucking heartbreaking, believe you me) steve is desperate to bring bucky, his bucky, back. knowing in his heart that his bae is still somewhere in there, no matter how deeply buried.
in the most critical moment(TM), steve chooses to stay behind, on a plane that's about to fucking blow up around them - just like bucky did for him all those years ago - because if he can't save bucky, then he'd rather die with him.
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only, bucky is scared and confused af at the moment, and he attacks steve, because 1) he has a mission after all, he's supposed to kill this guy dammit, and 2) wtf is even going on here??? who IS this man, WHY does he keep saying that they've known each other their whole lives?? and WHY does bucky feel like he's actually seen him somewhere else before?????
AND HERE IS THE PIVOTAL MOMENT OF ALL PIVOTAL MOMENTS: for the first time in his life, steve refuses to fight back. like he literally drops his shield out of the plane and into the river underneath, in a very powerful and symbolic gesture, signifying his surrender: he's not going to hurt bucky anymore, no matter what. THIS FUCKER LITERALLY LETS BUCKY BEAT HIM TO A PULP, WITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO DEFEND HIMSELF, 100% ready to let bucky kill him if that's what's gonna happen here, because that's still better than living in a world where bucky's gone - a world where bucky will look at him and only see a target, or a stranger at best.
and then!!!!
no this is like, this is THE most romantic shit, okay, like you could try to convince me that it isn't for the next hundred years and i wouldn't buy it, because. BECAUSE.
at the very last moment, steve finally manages to break through bucky's brainwashing, breaking the metaphorical spell bucky was under. and do you know how he does that? i ask you, do you know how steve does that, my love?
by repeating to bucky the very same words bucky offered him way back in the beginning, when he proposed asked steve to move in together. till death do us part the end of the line, baby. romeo could NEVER
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bucky, who was about to deal the fatal blow, freezes instantly, finally recognizing the man under him.
and when steve falls out of the plane, bucky jumps after him, instinctively saving his life instead.
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but bucky can't stay. confused, wounded, vulnerable, and only just beginning to remember who he used to be and what was done to him, he slips away and hides from steve - and from all the other people who might be looking for him, and probably want him dead. you think this is gonna stop steve, though?? now that he knows that bucky is still alive, and that he remembers him??? now that he knows that bucky's not lost to him forever?? AS IF!!
(to be continued in part 3)
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TAEMIN - Advice (STUDIO CHOOM)
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kurjakani · 7 days
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*rereads the messages you've sent* (i love you) *thinks about the way you word your sorrows and what that way implies* (i love you) *thinks about what kind of dishware i would buy with you* (i love you) *keeps a folder of your photos on my phone* (i love you) *talks about you to my other friends and family* (i love you) *smiles at the sudden thought of your face* (i love you)
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misc-obeyme · 8 months
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Okay okay I was not at all expecting the new lesson to drop so soon. I was in the middle of writing that nsfw Barbatos prompt when I got the alert yesterday and was like what?!
They're really going hard with the lore and stuff, huh?? I don't have time to write a ton about it, but there's so much to process I have to write a short thing, so here I am.
Spoilers below!
Okay, Barbatos is Nightbringer. Right? I mean it's not like we haven't had a TON of proof, but I did think it would be interesting if it all turned out to be a misdirection. But at this point... I'm like... it's not, though, right?
I am feeling a tiny bit apprehensive about it. Because listen, it could turn out to be super cool but they could also totally screw it up.
I was just getting such villain vibes from Nightbringer and that just doesn't jibe with my understanding of Barbatos's character. So either Nightbringer is less villain-y than he seems, Nightbringer is Barb from another timeline/a different version of him, or my understanding of his character is off. Or all of the above, even!
Still we got some new stuff about him - the Celestial Realm calling him the father of all demons, huh? That's certainly interesting. And we know Barb has been around since before the Devildom really existed... also there's the whole "goes by many names" situation. I just don't see how they could have it be anybody else. Unless it's an entirely new character that we haven't met yet and that Barbatos is somehow tied to...
But anyway...
I LOVED the new lore about the Little Ds!!! I was so happy that they get to have a more important role without it changing them as being little castle cleaning helpers. See, that was well done, imo. They didn't change anything, they just gave us more info. Little Ds born from a tree, sorta fairies but call themselves demons, and we still don't really get how it works? Perfect. Also note how Barbatos is the one who knows all this lore...
Also, without spoilers, I loved the hard lesson lol.
Anyway, Little Ds are great, Little D No 2 is especially my fave, and I am so interested to see how this part of the story goes.
I was gonna stop there, but really quick I HAVE to talk about Mammon and Asmo oh my god...
Their fight in the library!!!
I mean of course it's bad when the boys fight and obviously Mammon is not in his right mind, but the way Asmo just goes for it, like he is ready to throw down.
And all the other brothers are staying surprisingly calm and trying to stop them!!
I just really love how Asmo seems like the kind of character who wouldn't jump in to fight immediately, but in reality he absolutely is. It reminded me of the way he went after those rumor spreading demons in the Princess event (which is funny since he was doing it to protect Mammon in that event).
And then Lucifer's just like ugh what now lol. I can't deny that using a little bit of his magic to knock Mammon out entirely was pretty cool.
Anyway, I'm worried about Mammon, but I'm sure this is all going to be resolved somehow. I found it very interesting how when we go into his mind with Little D No 2 at the very end, we're in the Celestial Realm. Wonder what that's about? Hmm.
Okay, now I'm done. Sorry for the lack of screenshots this time around, but I just didn't have time to fit them in lol.
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inkblackorchid · 7 months
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Love how this outtro contains both the biggest slap in the face the show has to offer as well as arguably my favourite shot of all outtros, full stop.
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wolfpai999 · 4 months
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Just a lil recap vid just in time, goodbye 2024✨
Went from OC art to Trigun and trolls LOL
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Freaks & Facades: Session Three - The Misty Morning
Welcome back, my beloved readers and rapscallions.  This is the recap of Session Three of Freaks & Facades.  Our cast of beloved Freaks has had quite the night.  Quite a dark, dark night indeed...  Check out the past recaps collected on our Index, to learn what our party of Freaks has done to get to this point, (or find them linked at the bottom below the cut).
The Freaks’ time at the Ravens Loft Inn has come to a close, many questions left burning like the ashes of that mysterious tavern’s hearth.  First impressions were made, masks held tight amongst the group of strangers.  The Inn’s strange circumstances placed each of them in a bloodstained room during their stay, their futures read by a comatose Vistani seer.  When night came they found a curtain of darkness and animated furniture attempt to swallow them up!  Many were flung into the darkness unaware; while others struggled to hold the light.  One of our Freaks discovered a new face to the Tavern’s keepers, and willingly chose the darkness!  What does it all mean?
Warning: this is a horror campaign setting, so bear that in mind before reading.  Possible triggers include: bones/bone manipulation, skeletal bodies, transformation body horror etc.
The Freaks are assembled.  In the coming morning light they must decide to either stay together and face the unknown, or let their new situation split them apart!  Let’s see if they survive this first day together in Ravenloft proper!
*starts projector*
Everyone’s sleep is of nothingness.  A terrible blackness swaddling each and every one of them.  They are startled awake all at once, several weakened by this unknowing descent through the Elemental Darkness!  They are inside a cave, damp with the early morning Mist...
Fenri and Schrödinger each remember the Curtain of Feathers swallowing the inn!  But their memories about what befell them all afterwards is unclear and foggy...
Someone notices the weapon Schrödinger has instinctively drawn and alerts the others.  A dagger made from his own bones, extruding from his palm!  Solange instinctively rolls away, fearing the Lamordian is actually an undead--and collides in the stomach with a stalagmite.  Fenri is also a bit startled, as she is a priestess who has faced many undead in the past...
Schrödinger reveals this is his Science, his life’s work: to utilize the body’s skeletal structure beyond simply as a biological framework to build upon.  
Channa has no qualms. She has used blood in her elemental magecraft in the past, why not use the body’s elements for something new?  Despite their misgivings, Solange and Fenri decide to be open-minded (but keeping an eye on the lordling all the same).
Pryrrish is entirely unaware of this briefly tense situation, too focused on her Tome’s current location to care.  Reassuringly, it is still beside her despite this change in scenery...  She has no qualms about Schrödinger’s abilities--she isn’t one who can judge easily.  She uses her swirling eyes to look about the cave.
Fenri goes outside to pray in the dawn’s gentle light!  Solange steps outside as well, keeping the halfling and the rest of the party all within sight.  Pryrrish, Channa and  Schrödinger examine the cave they woke up in...  There’s signs of an unhoused person having slept here recently.  The cave is within a small plateau beside a forested country road; the trees and their autumn foliage are quite familiar to those Solange knows, so they may be in Dementlieu still.  Perhaps merely a single night has passed since she was lost in the Catacombs?
The cavern’s walls are all painted in extremely old squiggles and symbols, depicting tides of Mist, the jagged mountains between and shadowy wolves skulking the woods....  At the center of the ceiling, between the stalactites, is a vaguely prehistoric image of a gray figure dressed in robes.  Holding a shield and a sprig of flowers... 
Pryrrish peeks into her Tome, revealing this must be a figure of Ezra, the Guardian in the Mists, the unknown protector goddess of this realm...  A god unknown to all but Solange and  Schrödinger (but neither are religious for reasons of fashion and rationality).
Channa discovers there’s an ancient set of stairs carved into the back, going up to the top of the plateau...  But Schrödinger begins to talk about witnessing the Matron and Maiden of the Inn revealing themselves as horrible wraiths; and the group is distracted from further investigation by this news...
Fenri gathers her daily reservoir of divine magic, but Pelor is still so far away in her heart.  The Sun above is not the shining hope of the Dawn Father, but an eerie ball of sustaining light and warmth that makes the priestess feel nothing.  Solange watches the priestess’s devotions, bemused.
Schrödinger, after learning of this place’s connection to the Guardian in the Mists, recalls the Mists that swallowed him in the alleys of Ludendorf.  He goes around asking everyone if they also encountered banks of misty clouds.  In truth, they all affirm his suspicions--they were brought together by this unknown force of Mist!
Fenri actively tells of her fiery experience in her homeland, and everyone is quite shocked at how calm and sunny the halfling is about their traumatic experience!  Channa is especially touched, but she hides her emotions from being so open.  
Fenri tells Schrödinger she prayed about how to handle his Science, and she’s concluded he’s not a bad person.  She gives him a hug--awkward because he’s nearly three times her size, as well as it’s exceedingly intimate for a Lamordian to be hugged!  
The group hears a wagon approach, and Solange replaces her disguising veil.  It’s a halfling man driving a large wagon of milk jugs and hay.  He greets the group in low Mordentish, and Fenri in their shared racial language; introducing himself as Terrii of the Jollydell Clan.  Terrii sees the group is quite out of sorts, so he offers to take them on a ride into the nearby town of Campanula--far to the north in Dementlieu.  Terrii Jollydell’s sons pop out from the hay bales in the wagon back, having hidden with crossbows in case the group were bandits.  Fenri makes friends with them, even giving Terrii a Pelorian prayer to help his ailing wife on their homestead.
The halfling boys excitedly talk about local vigilante, named Night’s Vengeance!  A masked rake and friendly scoundrel who has humiliated the local nobility, riding on a pitch black steed through the deep forest roads uncaught for weeks.  He’s crashed noble soirees on horseback, as well as stolen the clothes of an entire noble entourage for the local baron’s son!  
For the latter, Night’s Vengeance unhorsed the carriage, stole Baron Montagne’s son’s infamously bejeweled cloak and abandoned the boy naked in his horseless carriage--in the middle of the woods at night!  The rake then rode through town, standing on the horses  laughing and throwing the cloak’s jewels in the central water fountain of Campanula’s central square.
Campanula is a town surrounded by thick forests, and supposedly wolves prowl the dense foliage and mountains.  The group does some shopping  for supplies and getting their bearings.  
Solange recognizes they are on near the northern border between Dementlieu and Lamordia.  She’s never been away from Port-a-Lucine in all her life, but thankfully it seems no time has passed since her experience in the Catacombs...
Pryrrish (with her swirling sight invocations) helps Schrödinger translate the signs of a halfling greengrocer and helps him pay for apples--he’s never had to buy sundry goods on his own before.  Pryrrish garners some attention for being an elf, and Schrodinger begins to be protective of her.  
They barter at a local stable for a pair of horses and a wagon, meeting a noble’s stableman Vincente Quint.  Vincente is quite average but happily helps negotiate a fair deal with them and the local horsemaster.
The group goes to the town hall to exchange their coins for Dementlieu currency.  Upon approach, they see servants of House Montagne wading through the square’s fountain for any remaining jewels of the baron’s sons.  And speaking of, Lord Isaac Montagne II (Baron Montagne’s son) appears from town hall and immediately insults them as peasants for not moving out of “their better’s way”.  Channa despises nobles but is convinced to step back.
Inside Campanula town hall, they encounter Baron Montagne leaving after speaking with the local magistrate.  A hunting dog perfectly follows him after.  Fenri can sense the baron’s disdain behind his placid, confident smile.  (And she gets the awful thought that as he passed the group, he was learning their scent...  Like the dog obediently beside him would...)
Schrödinger, as a noble scion of Lamordia, is easily able to procure a bank note to exchange his golden gluttons for Dementlieu’s corona gold coins.  But Channa and Pryrrish, who have pooled their Eberronian gold together, are outright rejected by the magistrate for some reason.  
While Pryrrish accompanies Schrödinger in obtaining his money at the bank, Solange, Channa and Fenri head to the local watering hole.  The Howling Wolf Alehouse.
The Howling Wolf is a raucous but warm peasant’s tavern.  Solange, in her dour mourning veils (her hatpin of disguise hiding her caliban nature), gets a large table for the whole party.  
Before the bread basket is even brought out, Fenri sneaks away to the alleyway outside, hoping to pray to Pelor again now that it’s about noontime.  Channa volunteers to find their sunny companion, and the two bond over the strangeness of this land.  Channa hesitantly accepts Fenri’s hug of appreciation.  (She has never been one for many friends before.  Especially not after he vanished...)
Meanwhile, Solange awkwardly sits at the big table.  She overhears the sounds of carousing on the upper floor of the tavern.  According to hearsay, they are The Flying Wolves: a group of ex-Falkovnian refugees hired by Baron Montagne to capture Night’s Vengeance.  They are led by the infamous half-elven spearwoman, the Falconeater...
Pryrrish and Schrödinger easily obtain the Dementlieuse currency.  They have a similar matter-of-factness to the way they talk.  Pryrrish is reminded of her older brother, sadly.  
After an exceedingly good meal at the Alehouse--with Schrödinger taking half a dozen rolls with them--the group obtains their wagon and horses.  They decide to camp somewhere for the night, as the journey to Port-a-Lucine will take at least three days!  And the night is dangerous so far from civilization.
At a small well-used campsite beside a mountain stream, the group prepares to bed down for the night.  It seems the horses instinctually dislike lord  Schrödinger, so it takes Solange and Fenri to direct and care for the animals.
Solange, upon dusk breaking, uses her gravedigger deathchatter ability to send messages at night, to alert any fellow gravedigger or death cleric of her position.  She hopes they will pass the message along to the Order of the Moonlight Vigil...
Just after they prepare their campfire, the sound of beating hooves alerts the party!  Fenri grabs her sling-staff and clutches her holy symbol.  Pryrrish grabs the large Tome at her side, shadowy wisps emerging from its pages about her fingertips.  Channa unwinds her spiked chain and has Iggy the earth familiar burrow underground.  Solange lights her lantern-staff and peers into the darkness of the road.  And Schrödinger twists his bones into a rapier-like weapon, thrumming with green electricity!
A figure in a mask, standing in the saddle and wielding a hand crossbow and rapier, rides out from the darkness and into the moonlight!  The horse he rides is a majestic stallion of pure ebony, breathing heavily as its powerful hooves beat the earth!  
The figure is Night’s Vengeance, though not as cartoonishly evil in his depictions on the many wanted posters in town!  He begs the group to distract those following him!  He rides east, throwing a bag of coins towards them for their trouble!
A group of riders in wolf pelts and swords comes down from the direction the vigilante came.  The Flying Wolves on the hunt!  And leading the pack is the Falconeater, with her spearhead glistening in the moonlight!  A Wolf notices the bag of coins on the ground and the hunters give chase, ignoring the group’s attempt to point them in the wrong direction.
Suddenly, the noble Schrödinger causes his entire body to emerge in a necromantic suit of spiky bone armor!  This upsets Channa and Pryrrish, the latter of whom was right beside him when his transformation occurred!  
Solange creates a magical area of briars upon the road, slowing and harming the horses of the Flying Wolves!  Combat has begun for this group!
Freaks & Facades will continue in Session Four - Perilous Roads!  Click here to read on! [WIP]
Thanks for reading!  We hope you love our friendly freaks as much as we do!
Parts: Zero/Cast, One P1, One P2, Two, Three, Four [WIP]
- Aboleth Eye, 08/06/2023!
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muchinery · 1 year
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dnd session recaps i did for my campaign
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youphoriaot7 · 7 months
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QSMP RECAP : DAY 185 (9/23)
TUBBO made plans to break into the federation offices
TUBBO and FIT set up a stasis pearl chamber for tubbo
TUBBO used a codebreaker and got pictures of the treatment room
cucurucho saw TUBBO (while invis) and killed him (the stasis chamber did not work properly due to warp perms within the federation offices)
TUBBO and FIT discuss things in the elevator shaft—TUBBO received a book in his inventory (“:)”)
cucurucho spied on TUBBO for most of the day, messing with his inventory
for a better recap, check out jack’s notes here!!!
BAD checked phil’s house for something
the remnants of PHIL’S kidnapping were gone
BAD’S entire skin lightened to a shade of gray
[ooc] CELLBIT, BAGHERA, ROIER, PAC, FOOLISH, and QUACKITY played part one of a one-shot in cellbit’s rpg universe ordem paranormal!
[ooc] ANTOINE finalized his lore with the admins
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rillils · 3 months
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STEVE & BUCKY'S LOVE STORY, UNABRIDGED SOMEWHAT ABRIDGED, part 3/4 (here are part 1 and part 2)
i just want to preface this by saying: as much as they tried to make this movie all about tony, and as much as they tried to no-homo the steve/bucky situation, they still somehow ended up making CACW the gayest movie in the whole cap trilogy, and that's saying something *throws confetti*
now, picking up where we left off:
aided by his friends sam and natasha, steve spends the following two years or so chasing after bucky, looking for clues as to where he could be hiding, until he eventually finds him.
their reunion scene is like. i honestly don't know if i can convey the sheer, ridiculous, absolute beauty that is this scene.
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the thing is, steve isn't the only one who discovered bucky's location: the bad guys did too, and they're coming. like they're coming RIGHT NOW, as sam keeps trying to warn steve. which means that he and bucky have about 20 seconds to do this, and that might sound like too short of a time, right? but honey, the amount of repressed emotions and homoerotic subtext these two manage to stuff into those 20 seconds, my god--
no because like, there's a whole-ass SWAT team outside, waiting to crash through their door and blow up the place, yeah? and instead of getting the fuck out of there PRONTO, steve, mr romeo fucking rogers, decides to spend those precious few seconds trying to get bucky to admit that he loves him, making this much yearned-for, long-awaited reunion the most high-stakes game of gay chicken in the whole of history. you might think i'm kidding, but i'm not!!!!
INTRODUCING:
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in the red corner, we've got steve basically telling bucky: "i know that you remember me, i know that you saved me because you still love me, please will you just say it out loud babe"
and in the blue corner there's bucky, extremely conflicted because YES, of course he loves steve, but he also knows he's putting steve in danger just by standing in the same room as him, and steve shouldn't even be here in the first place, and anyways STEVE NOW'S NOT THE TIME PLS FUCK
so he's just (unsuccessfully) trying to deny everything, you know?? "fuck no i don't know you, just know your name from a museum, what do you mEAN i saved your ass because i love you more than life itself and that's literally the first thing i remembered when i got my memory back"
(a quick reenactment:)
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but really, you'll see the love in bucky's eyes if you just look hard enough.
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n- no, look harder
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a bit harder?
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see, i told you
so here they are, just about to slam each other into the nearest wall and make out like it's brokeback mountain and they're just two guys coming from a time where their love had to be kept a secret and they miss what little privacy they used to have in their own little bubble when they were younger and living together and then life tore them apart and they haven't seen each other in ages and they've been yearning all the while and now that they're finally standing before each other again the air feels electric between them and they just can't help but- wait. uh. that, uh. that sounds familiar. uh.
OKAY so they're totally about to snog the living daylights out of each other, but time is running out. the bad guys are here!! and- and also a bunch of other people! because apparently everybody wants bucky either dead or locked up for one reason or another!! MY BOY CAN'T CATCH A FUCKING BREAK!!
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so bucky is apprehended. but before anyone can do much about it, this other guy - this movie's Official Antagonist™ - gets bucky alone and triggers bucky's brainwashed assassin persona into taking over.
no longer conscious of his own actions, bucky wreaks havoc in the building, knocking people down in his wake like a sexy buff steamroller, and tries to escape; but steve, desperate not to lose him again, goes after him and stops him.
by grabbing onto a fucking helicopter, as one does
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one extremely romantic, freaking insane stunt later, steve manages to get bucky to safety. next thing you know, bucky's waking up and back to himself, and they finally have a bit longer than 20 seconds to talk. you think they're gonna be normal about this? you think they're gonna share a standard heart to heart conversation? oh hell no, babes. WHIP OUT THE BEDROOM EYES, TURN THAT SOFTNESS UP TO ELEVEN, WE'RE UNLOCKING A BRAND NEW LEVEL OF EMOTIONS HERE
seriously. you don't know what true tenderness is, until you've heard james buchanan barnes softly say, in his sweet, gruff, velvety drawl, barely holding back a smile, "your mom's name was sarah. you used to wear newspapers in your shoes."
also the two of them just. spend half the scene making INTENSE heart eyes at each other, gazing deeply and intimately in each other's eyes, just bypassing the flirting zone to move straight to eye-lovemaking lane, while sam is in the room, because they've got no chill whatsoever.
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unfortunately, sam cockblocks reminds them that they don't have time for this shit (dammit, sam) as they kinda have more pressing matters at hand, being on the run from like every government in the world (and then some). also they must neutralize The Antagonist™ before he can act on his Evil Plan™, so, you know. put the eyesex on hold, guys!
(to be continued in part 4)
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pridesobright · 1 year
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36 DAYS OF TYPE · 01
36 Days of Type is a yearly challenge inviting artists to share their own creative take on the letters and numbers from the Latin alphabet — I obviously made it about One Direction.
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tedcicle · 1 month
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swagger SDMP day 4 highlights - swagger first improved his tools, getting a fortune 3 neptunium pickaxe (from aquaculture) and getting stacks of ore (diamonds, iron, etc) from a hollow hill in the twilight forest - the rest of stream was dedicated to working on his restaurant/dispensary, swagger's hasherdabbery (a play on words on haberdashery. hash and dabs like weed. you get it)
- here are some screenshots of the build! (the menu is transcribed under the cut)
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Breakfast: 2x Fried Egg, 1 gold Egg Sandwich, 2 gold Bacon and Eggs, 3 gold Lunch: Grilled Salmon, 5 gold Mushroom Rice (vg, gf), 3 gold 3x Kelp Rolls (vg, gf), 2 gold Dinner: Plate of Roast Chicken, 5 gold Bowl of Stuffed Pumpkin Soup, 5 gold Dessert: 3x Sweet Berry Cookies, 3 gold Slice of Chocolate Pie, 4 gold
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