#she's doing her best

[bigbee-billy]

well i know what went through her head when she met Charlie

#hazbin hotel #hazbin vaggie #hazbin hotel spoilers #vaggie #she's doing her best #but she's down BAD

[sofibeth]

Baker Amy supremacy continues

#amy rose #sonic the hedgehog #sonic channel #she's doing her best

[bethdehart]

Mousegirl May Day 29: Hereford

and also mousegirl Monday uwu

[ID: A sketch of a mousegirl. She has brown fur and a white spot on her face. Her paws, tail, and ears are pink. She has long brown hair in a ponytail, with her bangs being a lighter brown. She is wearing a pink and yellow shirt with a pink pleated skirt and a black waitress’ apron. She has pink bows on her tail and in her hair. She is tripping on something and losing her balance as she holds a tray of drinks.]

#mousegirl #mousegirl may #mousegirl may 2023 #mousegirl monday #mouse #mice #rodent #furry #furry art #furry fandom #she's doing her best

[puppycheesecake]

Just a sad lil' clown nurse.

#ts4 #sims 4 #sims #she's doing her best #clown

[nivylemongrove]

#she's doing her best #you'd think they'd have taught her to act like a human #love her to death #komugi inukai #wonderful precure

[brightlotusmoon]

Comments on a FB post that shared this tweet:

"Well, she's actually more correct in what she called it. Babies can't tell us their gender as it's a self-concept, so it could technically be called a "sex party," lol!"

"I’m calling them sex parties from now on! Because you are revealing the sex they will be born as (creepy, not something I’d do) and not the gender which is unknown at birth. I’ve been calling them “penis or vagina reveals” but people don’t like that. I’ve never been to one."

#awwww #she's doing her best #good for her

[skyjynxart]

@robthegoodfellow asked for some cowboy Billy on my Billy requests post and life kept getting crazy but I got around to it!!

#billy hargrove #billy hargrove fanart #cowboy billy #stranger things billy #cowboy billy hargrove #stranger things #stranger things fanart #sthings #sthings fanart #my art #I saw some of your other suggestions and listen they're in the brain bank 👀 #alsp pls nobody laugh at my horse #she's doing her best #and so am I #I love horses but they are my bane how do those legs even function

[misssclumsy]

"i can fix her"

Meanwhile 'Her'

I mean please boy shut up

#pretty gurl #desiblr #desi tag #desi academia #desitags #desi tumblr #desi teen #desigirl #desi girl #fictional girlfriend #pretty girls #tumblr girls #alternative girl #desi reader #book girl #bad gurl #i can fix her #she's doing her best #aesthetic girl #dark moodboard #dark academia aesthetic #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark acamedia #dark fantasy #desi dark academia #dark academia #dark academia moodboard #darkacademism #indian dark academia #moodboard

[journalofimprobablethings]

Oh hey I started re-listening to Balance and I had forgotten that when they find the red robe in Wave Echo Cave that Justin asks about the robe's stats and whether he could take it and god can you just imagine if Taako had shown up at the Bureau wearing Lup's robe??

And then I wrote a thing about it.

--

Lucretia thought she was prepared for seeing her brothers again.

She's had time to build up her walls, to steel herself for what she knows will be a painful encounter. She's had a decade now of secrets and privately held regrets and memories, and she's become adept at hiding her emotions, learned how to school all the dismay and sorrow from her expression.

Even so, it takes everything in her to keep her expression neutral when the three of them walk into the room.

Magnus and Merle look in many ways like she expected--though older, ten years older; and she realizes she's never seen them age before. They've been in stasis for a hundred years, always come back each cycle looking exactly the same; but now Merle's wrinkles have deepened, and Magnus has new lines at the corners of his eyes and grey threaded through his hair, even though his body is barely thirty.

The joy and and intense sorrow she feels at the sight of them, with all the changes the past ten years have wrought, is so strong she doesn't think she can hold it inside her.

But what nearly undoes her is when Taako walks in. He looks exactly the same; elves don't age the same way humans do, or even dwarves--but for a moment she thinks--

She knows it's impossible, but for a moment, every signal is telling her brain that the elf in front of her wearing a red robe and carrying a familiar umbrella isn't Taako--it's Lup.

Then she blinks, and her brain recalibrates, and she realizes her mistake.

It's not that she has trouble telling the two apart--after a century living together, the twins lost the ability to fool the others unless they were trying very hard.

But she thinks she could be forgiven for the lapse, because the robe Taako is wearing isn't just any red robe--not some ironic twist, the universe mocking her with echoes.

It's an IPRE robe. Lup's IPRE robe.

And he's holding Lup's umbrastaff, casually slung over his shoulder like it belongs there.

Lucretia has spent any moment she could spare from her search for the Relics trying to find any trace of where Lup might have gone, and has come up empty.

Taako doesn't know what he's lost, hasn't even known to look--but somehow he's succeeded where Lucretia has failed. Clearly, at some point in their recent adventure--

He found Lup.

Or at least, he found Lup's things. What does it mean, that the robe and staff were left somewhere Taako could just pick them up? If Lup left the staff behind, does that mean--

With effort, Lucretia stops her train of thought, forcing herself to take a deep, even breath and push the roil of emotions down deep inside her. Later, she'll be able to sit and think through what this could mean.

For now, she has a part to play.

She straightens her shoulders and smiles, only leaning a little bit extra on her staff as she stands to greet them.

"Welcome, you three. Magnus, Merle, Taako. Killian has told me a lot about you and your...exploits."

She glances over at Killian, who is watching her with a sharp expression. She can't have failed to notice Lucretia's reaction to the robe when Taako walked in. Lucretia wonders what she knows about how Taako got it.

"I wanted to personally thank you for your help in retrieving the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet," she continues. "Thanks to you, an enormous danger has been removed from the world."

Magnus coughs awkwardly. Lucretia knows he's thinking about Phandolin, all those people he failed to save. "Yeah, we uh. We were happy to help."

"Does this thanks come in the form of gold?" Taako asks. "I think retreiving a super magic weapon is worth a reward, right?"

"Or a job? We were told there might be job openings here," Merle adds.

Lucretia laughs a little.

"We'll get to that in a minute," she says. She glances at Killian. "First, I--Taako, I would like to know where you got that robe? It's very--"

"Red," Killian finishes.

Taako looks down at himself. "Oh this thing? Yeah, I picked it up off some skeleton in a cave."

A yawning, empty pit opens up inside Lucretia.

"I figured, he was super dead, so finders keepers." He swoops the ends of the robe a little. "Stylish, right?"

The pit inside Lucretia yawns a little wider.

It's not that she hasn't considered the possibility--probability even--that Lup is dead. And just because her body is dead doesn't mean that she is gone.

But it's the confirmation--and Taako's cavalier description of his sister's bones--that nearly undoes Lucretia for the second time that day.

She grips her staff tight, and forces herself to keep her breathing even. She places one hand behind her back, so that the others can't see the tight fist she's balled it into.

"This was the cave where you first found the gauntlet?"

"Yeah. What about it?"

Lucretia exchanges glances with Killian.

"You all have visited Johann, correct? You've taken the voidfish's ichor?"

"You mean the fish poop?" Taako asks. "Yeah, we drank it. Not my favorite thing ever, I've gotta say."

"Yeah, it was super gross," Magnus puts in.

"Salty," Merle adds. "But I dunno, it had a kinda--"

"Oh my gods, do not--" Taako says.

"I'm just saying, it wasn't the worst thing I've ever tasted."

"Please stop."

Taako pinches the bridge of his nose, and Magnus busts out laughing. Lucretia has to steel herself against another wave of emotion as she watches the three of them banter. The familiarity aches.

She raises her voice a little to be heard over Magnus's laughter. "In that case, you've remembered the Relic Wars."

Magnus sobers instantly.

"The wars were caused by the Grand Relics: a series of extraordinarily powerful magical objects created by a group of magicians that we...refer to...as the Red Robes."

All three of the boys look down at Taako's robe.

"Oh," Merle says.

"Shit," Magnus says.

"Well," Taako says.

"It is very probable that the...the remains you found belonged to a member of that group."

"But that's good though, right?" Magnus says after a moment. "If one of them is dead--that's a good thing? Isn't it? They can't cause any more harm if they're dead."

Lucretia digs a fingernail deep into the palm of the hand behind her back.

"I'm afraid the harm the Grand Relics are capable of will long outlive the Red Robes themselves," she says. "But that's why we're here. We are doing our best to right the wrongs the Red Robes did. To remove the dangers they put into the world with the Relics. And we'd like your help."

"Sounds like a good cause," Merle says. "Does it pay?"

"It does pay," Lucretia says. "Competitively, if I say so myself."

"I'm in," Magnus says.

"Can I ask a quick question?" Taako says.

"Of course," Lucretia says. "I understand if you want more information before--"

"No, no, I'm--as long as the pay is good, I'm all on board," Taako says. "But I wanted to ask--"

He gives the robe a dramatic swish.

"Would it be in bad taste for me to keep the robe? It's just so comfy, you know? Great armor stats."

Taako gives her a shit-eating grin, and Lucretia's head swims for a moment at the image, one part of her brain telling her Lup, it's Lup, while the rest replies no it's not, it's not, she's gone, maybe forever.

She forces a small, rueful smile.

"Well, I can't deny that seeing a red robe around the Bureau regularly might cause some talk, some... discomfort. But we're not in the business of dress codes here. I'll leave it up to you."

"Great!" Taako drawls. "Can't wait to be the fashion talk of the moon!"

And Lucretia can't help but smile genuinely at that--he's still Taako, even after everything.

"Very well." She sets her staff carefully against her chair, consciously relaxes her shoulders. In her imagination, Magnus's hand rests firmly on her shoulder, Merle's a reassuring presence at her hip. The memory of Lup's voice whispers in her mind. You got this, Luce.

"If that's decided, let's get you three up to speed."

She gestures widely to the reception room, putting a little bit of the theatrical flair she learned from Taako into the gesture.

"Welcome to the Bureau of Balance."

#taz balance #taz #taz lucretia #taz taako #taz lup #taz fanfic #i started relistening to balance recently and i can feel the obsession slowly rekindling #the image of taako walking into the bureau wearing a red robe was just so vivid #can you imagine #anyway i love lucretia so much #she's doing her best #and the boys are a Trial #scribblings #long post #taz balance spoilers #i did not proofread this #even a little

[woetoy]

Who is this witch turning people into insatiable breeders instead of a frog or perhaps a toad?

They deserve praise.

The Arby's witch :3

#woetxt #she's doing her best

[arikuraaa]

Don't remember how it started, but I finally ended up reading Taking life as is by @nerdydowntherabbithole

I have WAY more sketches in progress but figured I had to commit to finishing one at a time cause if not, I'll just have a million unfinished pieces.

Anyways, love Arti being forcefully domesticated, it makes me laugh every time.

The original was meant to be in limited color, but I found that it was tough to keep consistency so I scrapped it.

#tlai fic #taking life as is #umbilicals severed au #artificer is everything to me #the entire bit with her just like... flopping for pebbles #she's doing her best

[thecharcoalsalamander]

Suvi means so much to me.

The love she has for her friends, even when she's frustrated beyond reason by them, even when they do what they want with little regard to the ramifications of their actions, the way she dives headfirst into danger to protect them from it, or at the very least so they know they aren't alone....

I want to be a friend like Suvarin Kedberiket. I want to *have* a friend like Suvarin Kedberiket.

#Worlds Beyond Number #Suvi #The Wizard Sky #Im so proud of her #She's doing her best #and she's doing SUCH a good job

[varley-of-torment]

I don't say this much but I love Annette Fantine Dominic

#she's doing her best

[deepinifhell]

All of my Detectives: *have mommy issues, for roughly the same reasons*

Lauren Jenkins: I will sneak out of the house to make dangerous decisions, get into physical fights any chance I get, and say things to you that are specifically designed to do maximum emotional damage with the skill only a middle school girl can have. In high school I will run away from home and skip school for a few days at a time just to see if you notice. I will start smoking in the house just to spite you.

When I move out and get access to Big City Bad Decisions™ I will do hard drugs and become a stripper and squat in abandoned buildings and date a man 30 years older than me not out of financial need but just because I think you will hate it. Did I almost die a few times? Yeah, but fuck you. I will only call you for help when I am about to go to prison.

In my late 20's, when you are still constantly lying to me, I will still be putting thumb tacks on your chair. I will start fucking one of your precious agents and grope them in front of you. I will refuse your assistance any chance I get and air your dirty laundry to everyone you know. Will I almost die a few more times because of it? Yeah, but fuck you.

#lauren jenkins #she's doing her best #her best is just...really bad #she's like one of those feral kittens that needed to be put into a purrito and loved on until they chill out #but no one ever did that and now she's an adult feral menace to society #she would be a lot different in a Rook lives AU #and so while Morgan's love and devotion may not be particularly warm and snuggly #it is revolutionary for her

[prettylesbianprincess]

Telling girls I have a motercycle license always ends up embarrassing because my bike is literally an over powered moped

#Her name is Nancy and I love her #She can't go over 60km/h #she's doing her best #lesbian

[yourworsttotebag]

When Shadowheart finds out Gale needs powerful artifacts to live, she starts turning up these arcane lockets and rings nearly every day. And obviously Gale is touched but he does remind her she could be selling these for a profit.

Of course Shadowheart can't just say that another day where Gale is safe is worth a pile of gold. So she just has to be like, "Nah, this ring....can't even do any cool tricks," and then launch it at him.

#she's doing her best #gale x shadowheart #galeheart #m: writing