”wake up, and let the cloak of life cling to your bones.”
the static buzz of noise in simons ears is the first thing that indicated to him that something was wrong. his whole body was burning with pain, and currently unable to move. there were too many voices, all bred to a discordant warble in the air. the smell of fresh blood and the tang of the stuff had long settled on his tongue. and suddenly, he was choking.
and then he knew where he was. hands scrabbling desperately at the wood of the containment that held his body. he didn’t know if he was alive or dead at this point. what was that saying? dead man walking? that saying was born of the cursed flesh that was simon riley, the man like a mangy mutt with no owner.
till he found you, of course. his light at the end of the tunnel. his reason to wake up in the morning and transform into the phantom that stalked the earth like a dying ballet solo. the man who flickered like the flame of a waning candle in the dusk.
and before long his eyes snapped open with a guttural noise, as if his air had been stolen from his lungs, choking and gasping in a puddle of sweat his panicked mind had made. and there you were. your hands gently pulling his face into your neck, fingers eagerly holding onto your body like he was being taken away. his hands were covered with the blood of thousands, and yet you still helped him wipe the ichor from his palms and teach him how to love again.
you didn’t have to say anything. he didn’t want you to say anything. he knew you were real. he wasn’t the man he was before. he didn’t take the lives of those in a heartbeat, he no longer laughed at the sight of his own horror and he was no longer a skeleton. he was a man of skin and bone now, and most importantly; a heart. a heart, that was stitched and rebuilt so that it could love you.
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Big fan of sun motifs in characters not necessarily being about positivity and happiness and how they're so " bright and warm" but instead being about fucking brutal they are.
Radiant. A FORCE of nature that will turn you to ash. That warmth that burns so hot it feels like ice. Piercing yellow and red and white. A character being a Sun because you cannot challenge a Sun without burning alive or taking everything down with them if victorious.
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hikikomori gale encounters strange things on the (water)deep web
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guys Sasha is not the responsible one in the archives. She saw a weird guy with fucked up hands and an uncanny laugh and immediately followed him to several secondary locations. I’m SO sorry to say this but the only og archives crew member with self-preservation instincts is Tim
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also by the way i am always obsessed with how spider-people just click and can work together without anything being said in spiderverse . mcu spiderman being like "omg ive never worked in a team” “how are we going to work together” “well im on a team so i’ll lead us" like that was the most boring way to do it . spiderverse instead saying "we just know how to work together because our histories and lives are so linked, its like knowing someone your whole life. seeing the self in the other. our lives rhyme.” LIKE I LOVE YOU GUYS
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personally I think Mr. "I rush into relationships too fast" and Mr. "How would you like our second date to be my SISTERS wedding" are perfect for each other
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I have seen three different "how much of this site is queer" polls this evening poking fun at staff's 1/4 assertion and not a single indication any of them understand statistics. One someone even replied "This might have some sampling bias" what do you mean might what do you mean SOME
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actually i think sony should take their sweet fucking time with beyond the spiderverse cuz even with the time they took with atsv it wasn't enough for the animators to have proper working conditions. like take ten years i don't fucking care, people can bitch and moan but i would rather know the employees aren't working 8hours a day plus overtime for 7 days a fucking week to get a movie about spiderman done cuz "waah waaaah i wanna see it" people won't shut up and sony demands their film be made for the profit of it all
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Things I wish women were learning from true crime podcasts: how to spot early warning signs of abusive relationships, how to escape abusive relationships, how easily domestic violence can escalate to murder, how incredibly unlikely it is to be the victim of a crime done by a complete random stranger as opposed to friends and family
What women are learning from true crime podcasts: I am in CONSTANT danger and every day I survive without being murdered by a serial killer is a miracle. I should react to everyone I meet with distrust and paranoia and live my life as if I am in mortal peril and if anyone suggests that might not be healthy then they just don't understand what it is to Be A Woman In Today's Society
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