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qasian-tech-support · 6 months
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But I also want new Megas and Protomen :(
RIGHT?!?!
I mean, yeah, the Megas also have their takes on Skullman's theme ("Cracked Skulls"; inspired by MM4) and Chill Penguin's theme ("Chill XMas"; inspired by MMX), and I guess there's also one based on Storm Eagle's theme ("Rougmer Storm"; MMX), but I haven't listened to that one yet.
Like, I get that they have a good story arc to cover the first 3 classic games, but it would be so cool if they explored some of the themes of the following games, y'know? Or flesh out the MMX or other series music! Or hell, pick and choose some Robot Masters and make a new narrative, or like literally anything, please, people are starving over here! And it's not like they aren't still active. Don't get me wrong, I love their Castlevania stuff under the Belmonts label, but it would be nice to get Mega Man content outside of just remixes/remasters of their existing songs. Plus, they're still doing concerts, so like the audience is there for it!
And as for the Protomen, I hope that they actually end up releasing Act III at some point. Having listened to The Fight, it makes me crave it to an unhealthy degree. I love the grimdark kinda take on Mega Man that focuses more on the role that humanity takes in all of the conflict. I feel like that angle gets extremely neglected in Mega Man media.
Idk, as a fan, it's just kinda frustrating how neglected mega man gets. Like, it feels like the rare times whenever we do get content, it focuses on the first three or four games (if we're lucky), and then it just dies off! Or goes dormant for a decade or more. The franchise has so much creative potential that just isn't realized and it's so sad!
#hoping praying everyday for more#oh god and like just how foundational both bands have been for the creative efforts for the classic series#the archie comic even references The Megas a few times!! I GAVE YOU HAIR (ROBOTIC HAIR)#imagine the potential with a Bass focused narrative! or Quint! or Dr Cain!!#and Capcom themselves arent free from scorn here. if they encouraged more creative efforts a la the archie comic it could stimulate#even more interest in the series beyond just jumping and shooting. like that helps to build an evergreen fanbase#and i mean more than just XDiVE. like i find XDiVE charming yeah but like. Im not seeing the profits from being put back into mega man stuff#having friends that have gotten me back into transformers really makes me reflect on Mega Man. i get that transformers has toylines and MM#is more game focused and that def makes a difference but like. the amount of comic series and issues that help flesh out the transformers#universes. for MM we get like 55 issues for archie? 'indefinite hiatus'? bro we know the sonic stuff brought MM down with it just say 'dead'#let IDW take up the license and get Ian Flynn to come back. i know we likely wont get ArchieOCs like Tempo back but like#idk.... it hurts bc i know how good of a job the archie comics were. its hard to imagine a reboot that isnt basically identical in story to#archie. esp bc how much love was put into tying in with the side content like the hand held games. but surely something could be done#somehow it could be continued. find some kind of Genesis Wave-esque mcguffin to change the OCs out. retcon the sonic stuff out completely#i really dont want to see MM1—MM3 needing to be revisited *again*. its like a Dr.Wily/Sigma in their own right for how much it comes back#like thats prob what kills a lot of creative endeavors tbh. the themes and events are so foundational that theyre nigh inescapable#I'm just.... tired..#i have so much love for mega man and so many chains holding that love down
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wormswurld · 4 months
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saltburn characters as beyoncé songs! 🌟
this is dedicated to all my bey fans that just so happen to loveee saltburn lolz also i am listening to beyonce as im writing this so i just found it fitting,, lyrics will be added to give u a feel of the songs and the characters vibes,, hope you enjoy!! ✨
🦌 oliver
- deja vu: "baby, seems like everywhere i go i see you, from your eyes, your smile it's like i breathe you, helplessly i reminisce don't want to compare nobody to you"
- love drought: "all the loving i've been giving goes unnoticed it's just floating in the air, lookie there are you aware you're my lifeline, are you tryna kill me if i wasn't me, would you still feel me?"
- all up in your mind: "tell mama, that I do it for you the rider, always want you, i'll be groupie for you it may hurt at first 'cause i'ma make you work put me first is what you need, i know you're gonna love me (i'll make you mine, mine, mine)"
🪽felix
- drunk in love: "i get filthy when that liquor get into me i've been thinkin', i've been thinkin' why can't i keep my fingers off it? baby, i want you, now, now"
- ego: "some call it arrogant i call it confident you decide when you find out what I'm working with"
- pure/honey: "it should cost a billion to look that good but she make it look easy 'cause she got it you can find the one when the tempo's good four, three, i'm too fuckin' busy"
🧚‍♀️ venetia
- alien superstar: "i'm too classy for this world forever I'm that girl feed you diamonds and pearls ooh, baby i'm too classy to be touched i pay them all in dust i'm stingy with my love (unique)"
- flawless: "i know when you were little girls you dreamt of being in my world don't forget it, don't forget it respect that, bow down, bitches"
- sweet dreams: "tattoo your name across my heart so it will remain not even death can make us part what kind of dream is this?"
🎠 farleigh
- diva: "everybody hated on him, then he bounced right back i be gettin' to the money, everybody mad i think I'm gettin' too much money, everybody mad"
- don't hurt yourself: "beautiful mane, i'm the lion beautiful man, i know you're lying i am not broken, i'm not crying, i'm not crying you ain't trying hard enough"
- america has a problem: "i see you watchin' (fiendin') i know you want it (schemin') i know you need it (drug lord) you want it on you? (don't i know) you need love, i need some too do you want this like it wants you?"
i love love love beyoncé’s music so i hope some of y’all see the vision w these! mwahhh 💋
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loversgothic · 10 months
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Maybe you've done it already and I missed it, but what would Gabriel's two-week-notice look like in the Ultradanse AU?
This has nothing to do with any other comments you have made about feral Gabriel or any other desire to see how he changes from The Gilded Nightingale to The Nightingale.
:3c. OOOHH. WELL
ive been really trying to think about that hard, since comparing the characters to those in fairytales and ballets tended to skew the story a bit.
and uh... my descriptions wont be the best.. im not the best at explaining things in ballet terms moreso just based on my perception of the art form and what i see in it through my eyes.
also im gonna go off of the concept that ultradanse is almost like a stage performance, a show
the most i can do to describe how it looks is to compare it to my vision for the first encounter with Odile/V1... because of the way i designed his lil costume he has a sort of princely look, and even though hes yknow. out to kill V1 because V1 traversed past his warnings, his dancing with V1 then is much more... poised. it might feel a bit distant, maybe it might even seem like hes unsatisfied doing it, as at the time there is no personal connection with V1, no love nor hatred. its not romantic, hardly so. i dont know if this is a good example, but i was thinking abt Prince Siegfried's dancing in Waltz: Tempo di valse...
once V1 is pretty much responsible for his 2-week notice, i like to think Nightingale/Gabriel starts to match V1's high energy, his grace is kinda going out the window... itd be much more intense. if its a pas de deux hes probably getting his fucking hands all over them like hes about to tear them apart. hes abandoning that princely facade. i feel like though in the second half a pas de deux between them would make them slow their pace. now that both of them are dancing together and able to match intensity, it starts to slow down into something more... romantic? yeah :3 i like to think this, this is where any romantic tension starts
now about how he changes from the gilded nightingale to the nightingale. you see... after their second encounter, Gabriel is convinced hes going to die, after all thats what he was told. once he returns from heaven, he seeks out V1 to ask of one final request. he doesn't want to die lonely, and asks V1 to dance with him until the final hour runs out. V1 has no reason to accept his request, other than something pulling at it do so and the possibility it could take a little bit more blood before he's gone. dancing together, progressively Gabriel becomes weaker and weaker.
i REALLY wanted to keep this secret for a scene i wanted to draw but honeeesttlyyyy i dont think its too bad if i share it. after all, im not sharing V1's feelings here. im sharing Gabriel's :3
i had this whole.. plan
my thing abt pas de deuxs is that. i like to find symbolism in the fact that traditionally, the male dancer is supposed to support the ballerina to be able to perform moves she typically wouldnt be able to on her own without someone holding her.
towards the end of their dance, V1 switches positions to hold and uplift Gabriel instead, who has this entire time been in the place of the male dancer. in his approaching final moments V1 lays him down on the ground. he's hardly moving, and V1 holds onto him, finding itself not wanting him to just... disappear.
now im still figuring out HOW i want this to work. but i thought abt V1 in desperation, grasping onto the sides of his helmet and ripping his helmet in half being the symbolic thing that sets him free. the thing about the gilded nightingale, is that the armor is the bird's cage. Gabriel's design in this AU only really has the helmet and no other armor, so it just... makes sense to me. this is what sets him free. how the transformation works though? i am.. still thinking about it. you might need to give me a bit to think about that
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pesterloglog · 3 months
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Dave Strider, Karkat Vantas
Page 291-293
DAVE: i dunno who the flower is in this case
DAVE: shit what if im the flower
KARKAT: SO
KARKAT: DAVE
DAVE: no hold up that makes no fuckin sense i gotta rewind back to the beginning
KARKAT: ARE YOU GONNA KEEP MUMBLING TO YOURSELF OR CAN--
DAVE: oh shit sorry what
DAVE: i was just thinking through some really convoluted metaphorical horseshit
KARKAT: YEAH THAT WAS PRETTY FUCKING EVIDENT.
DAVE: my b bro
DAVE: what were you saying
KARKAT: I WAS SAYING I THOUGHT WE MIGHT GO, I DUNNO, ANYWHERE ELSE ON THE ENTIRE SHIP WHILE THE CLOTHES WERE WASHING.
KARKAT: SEEING AS THIS DECREPIT MACHINE WE WERE SO BLESSEDLY PROVIDED WITH MAKES A WHIRRING SOUND SO PANCHAFINGLY ARHYTHMIC THAT IT THREATENS TO ERADICATE THE ENTIRE CONCEPT OF TEMPO FROM THE UNIVERSE.
KARKAT: AND YET SOMEHOW BASICALLY ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WE STARTED THE LOAD IS THAT YOU’VE BEEN USING IT AS A FUCKED UP BEAT TO WHISPER TO YOURSELF ABOUT FLOWERS TO.
KARKAT: AT THIS POINT I'M EITHER GOING TO NEED YOU TO SPEAK UP OR FOLLOW ME THE FUCK ON OUT OF HERE, BECAUSE THIS IS EXCRUCIATING.
DAVE: ok fine ill do the first one
KARKAT: GREAT. TURN UP THE FLOWER TALK VOLUME.
DAVE: so uh
DAVE: kanaya was telling me this kids story the other day about this dude who didnt cherish a flower enough until it peaced out to do flower stuff idk its not pertinent to the story
DAVE: except the flower was a person
DAVE: because it was a metaphor
KARKAT: YEAH LIKE YOU SAID,
DAVE: really convoluted metaphorical horseshit
KARKAT: REALLY CONVOLUTED METAPHORICAL HORSESHIT.
DAVE: yeah
DAVE: anyway what goes down in the story is that once the flower lady is out of the picture
DAVE: the main character goes around making all these connections between her and everything else in the universe until every damn thing feels like a symbol for how much he fucked up and how much he will never see her again
KARKAT: THIS SEEMS PRETTY FUCKING INTENSE FOR A KID'S STORY
DAVE: yea thats pretty much what i said
DAVE: but i guess its not so much what the story was technically textually about but more like the version of it kanaya internalized and then told me when we were talkin about how she misses rose
DAVE: so like now im taking the story she told me she was projecting her feelings onto and projecting my feelings on top of that
DAVE: this is just one big game of emotional projection telephone so feel free to go paraphrase it to roxy later and make it about whatever fuckin thing youre currently missing
KARKAT: YOUR ABILITY TO GET TO THE POINT
DAVE: gotem
DAVE: anyway you’re not gonna have to miss that skill of mine for long
DAVE: get ready for this shit because i am about to slap you with the point so hard youll fall ass first into the washer
DAVE: just scrambling around in there getting all sudsy
DAVE: but your brain is gonna be so blasted from the mindfreak of a point im about to make that there wont be anything left to clean
DAVE: are you ready
DAVE: karkat you havent made any kind of comment about how youre ready in a few seconds so
KARKAT: YEAH DAVE DROP THIS FUCKING BOMB ON ME.
DAVE: ok thanks
DAVE: so its genuinely cool that kanaya can go around creating meaning that may or may not be actually present in every little thing
DAVE: connecting every feeling she has to the idea of her wife existing out there
DAVE: so i told her she should keep that shit up
DAVE: but im having the opposite issue where im struggling to find anything to be that kind of tether because every single thing i could possibly consider about what it is were doing just reminds me of yet another thing to be afraid about
DAVE: so if you were looking for a more concentrated point
DAVE: the real point thats that point simmered in its own juices into a perfect point reduction
DAVE: here it is
DAVE: everything fuckin sucks huge cosmic donkey sack and im terrified
KARKAT: OK, SO I FEEL LIKE YOU SKIPPED A COUPLE NECESSARY STEPS IN YOUR POINT CLARIFICATION PROCESS.
KARKAT: I’M GOING TO RESIST THE URGE TO CONTINUE YOUR REDUCTION METAPHOR EVEN THOUGH I HAVE SOME INARGUABLY GOOD SHIT LINED UP FOR IT BECAUSE I’M AFRAID OF US GETTING TOO FAR OFF TRACK, HERE.
DAVE: ok but were you going with sweet or savory please give me that much at least
KARKAT: YEAH IT WAS GOING TO BE SUNDAE-BASED.
DAVE: nice
KARKAT: YEAH.
KARKAT: DO YOU WANNA WATCH MORE GBBO AFTER THIS?
DAVE: absolutely
KARKAT: GREAT. ANYWAY, LIKE I WAS SAYING, FOR THE LOVE OF SWEET HUMAN CHRIST, PLEASE BACK UP TO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU’RE ACTUALLY SCARED OF.
KARKAT: ALSO COME HERE, IDIOT.
DAVE: ok yeah this is a better position to unleash all my inner fears n anxieties from
DAVE: so uh
DAVE: like i said i talked to kan about it some
DAVE: and its not like weve not talked about it either but i dunno
DAVE: those times its like my mouth was saying words about the situation wherein our friends are AWOL and maybe dead but my brain wasnt fully letting me experience the emotion that goes along with them
DAVE: man its like i cant even start genuinely thinking about how afraid i actually am for rose and john without my brain flippin its wad and whiting out
DAVE: like haha fuck i hope theyre ok
DAVE: now i better make a fuckin joke before i succumb to the gaping mouth of despair waiting for me to fall in it as soon as i look down and acknowledge that its there ogling how juicy my ass looks as it trembles with terror
DAVE: and then if i think about either of them then its only a matter of time til i have to think about dirk too
DAVE: its an if you give a mouse a cookie situation but instead of more snacks its just another layer of fear about my loved ones
DAVE: and with dirk its
DAVE: whew
DAVE: i guess im just fucked up about how to worry about dirk and be angry at him at the same time
DAVE: because if i get as unholy pissed at him as i sometimes wanna be i also gotta admit to myself that maybe i coulda done something different there
DAVE: like if wed kept up better maybe there woulda been a point along the line where i could have said the right thing somehow and hed idk
DAVE: not stolen rose away on some nightmare family trip
DAVE: forcing us to accept the fact that hes our enemy now and chase after him for an unreasonably indeterminate number of years
DAVE: also like
DAVE: and this by the way adds a whole other layer of guilt on there that i dont really know how to fuckin reckon with but
DAVE: even with all the shit hes pulled and the fact that we are more or less heading toward having to take him down
DAVE: whatever that is gonna mean and whether or not he planned it like that
DAVE: i just
DAVE: me and him had come so far with each other and it was really cool for a while to have him and i
DAVE: ugh
DAVE: i dont WANT to hate him
KARKAT: IS THAT ALL? I’M POISED ON THE PRECIPICE OF REASSURANCE WITH MY COUNTER-RANT LOCKED AND LOADED BUT IT FEELS LIKE YOU’VE GOT MORE SHIT YOU’RE HOLDING BACK ON.
DAVE: yeah i got another thing
KARKAT: WELL THEN QUIT FUCKING PICKING AT THE SEAM ON MY SHORTS AND SPIT IT OUT. THEY'RE BARELY HANGING ON TO THE DEFINITION OF "SHORTS" AS IT IS.
DAVE: ok fuck its just
DAVE: ...
DAVE: the part i mentioned before about how we really have no goddamn clue how long this trip is even gonna take
DAVE: i cant help but feel like its barely getting revved up
DAVE: and for me and roxy and jade and callie and kan thats normal shit at best and boring at worst but we all have our immortality to thank for that
DAVE: we can just dick around in space for near-eternity waiting to catch up to our friends who may or may not be our enemies now and itll be fine
DAVE: i mean no itll be categorically miserable
DAVE: but well survive it
KARKAT: HOLD THE FUCK ON.
DAVE: but you
KARKAT: DAVE.
DAVE: no lemme say this
DAVE: we dont talk about it much and i got shit to say about it
DAVE: its not like i never thought about how youre mortal before but i just thought wed be able to figure it out before it mattered
DAVE: come up with some kind of plan
DAVE: i was just distracted being happy with you i fucking guess and so i didnt think up a way to fix it
DAVE: and now thanks to dirk we have to work it out right the fuck now
DAVE: because i cant spend this trip just sitting around watching you get old and die
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mirohtron · 26 days
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HEY GIRL
Watched / read anything good recently?
was watching dungeon meshi but then that gay ahh bath scene came on and my moms in the room w me so like 💀💀💀💀 reading 1984 rn bcs assignment, im ten pages in bcs i keep fawking playing honkai star rail 😭😭😭 omg, but i was in the midst of watching dil se before i realised i was getting distracted too easily and it was keeping me from enjoying it properly. was only watching it bcs i couldnt find bombay (1995, not the city 💀💀) anywhere. probs bcs nobody gaf abt archiving desi movies 😭😭😭😭 its tough out here, but like for dil se honestly i rlly liked the screenplay and the way it was directed even tho like . i literally only got to the first song of the film 💀💀 even then. also oh my god srk has not a SINGLE dancing bone in his body like ive bitched abt it before but oml hrithik roshan and tiger shroff are actually carrying the reputation of bollywood's male actor's dancing abilities on their back....now if only theyd stop FAWKING taking up propaganda films 😭😭😭
i actually kinda need to leave a separate paragraph for how bad srk dances like its not just when he was young...in chaiyya chaiyya literally EVERYBODY is on beat except him....and it KEELS me because ure telling me u cant keep tempo ??? brother 😭😭😭😭😭 but ok even in the present like, he stays on beat (barely) but hes SO STIFF?? i like saw some clip of him dancing with an actress, it mightve been deepika padukone in happy new year ??? oh my god it was SO bad. he was SO stiff. it KILLED me. bollywood actress go through HELL but sanjay dutt srk and a bunch of other male actors get away with not being able to dance well 😭😭😭😭 my queen kareena kapoor took dance classes before filming k3g yet srk and amitabh bacchan got away w shava shava....Sick and Twisted world we live in like....anyway i actually dk if thalapthy vijay is a bhakt but this is y he solos even tho i have verithanam trauma....sings n dances well etc, this is y bollywood flops consistently actually
pls take that paragraph lightheartedly if ure desi 💔 ok anyway
the god of small things by arundhati roy is good....i only read like 20 pages tho but ik plot 💀💀💀💀 i think the seven moons of maali almeida might also b good, its by shehan karunatilaka
ok last unfinished thing im gna recommend....Hot Tkae but....i liked saltburn...i still have the 2nd half of the movie to finish (stopped some time after the reveal) but again, ik the plot 😭 i still have some problems w it tho but its not rlly abt the hypersexuality. cinematography fucked. 4:3 aspect ratio choice? ATE. SO BADD. but ill also need to finish the film. but tbh its obsessed boy x rich boy trope wasnt rlly handled well in my opinion, micah nemerever's these violent delights solos in that area. and i think the story is flawed
ok NOW. i liked fleabag. actually i LOVED fleabag. think its a masterpiece. both seasons but esp the 2nd one (felt more refined but compared to other shows, s1 SOLOS). the boys s4 is dropping!! invincible s2 was alr i bet the animation studio suffered hard tho bcs wtf was that style change mid season 😭😭😭. and i don't rlly think the direction in which Nolan's character arc is gna go to will turn out that great? also, i loved gerta gerwig's ladybug! its actually crazy how she made ladybug and barbie both . one is amazing. the other is well uhm.
oh also i liked inglourious basterds and pulp fiction . quentin tarantino kinda looks like a walking talking serial killer mugshot tho i saw an interview where he was asked why kill bill had so much violence and was honestly surprised by how girlypop he was. not forgetting him choking diane kruger on set tho !
watched batman begins. it was aight 😭 rewatched matt reeves' batman right after. liked it betterr. i LOVEDDD heartbreak high, s1 and s2 !! usually with shows i only like s1 best, but w heartbreak high i literally ADOREDDD s2, the finale was so good !!! im also watching the gentlemen (the show) rn, and i rllyyy like it hehe. tried watching tick tick boom again bcs I'd actually dropped it midway when it had first released bcs that one scene where she was like "you're thinking of a song rn aren't you" was so stress inducing that I had 2 click away 💀💀 n then i forgot abt it. picked it up again and omg it's actually so good how did I miss it the first time 😭😭😭
oh yeah I also liked the fall of the house of usher . also ! another incompleted thing but im also in the midst of watching the three of us (film). its so good !! i loved the atmosphere and cast performances can't wait 2 see how it turns out :))
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abishekmuses · 2 months
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Marketing is seduction
Style is a virtue - it's an external indicator of the lens through which you view reality, events and situations. It's the "Frame" that you inhabit - it's an expression of your aesthetic ideals - it shows the world where you find beauty. It shows the world the internal cadence - the tempo that marks the beat of your movements through life. More importantly, it reflects your capacity to appreciate beauty and your commitment towards embodying beauty and the extent to which you are willing to go for beauty.
We are fart-bags that are filled with flesh that's slowly rotting. We emanate odours, burp and one day, we'll die. Before that, depending on how unlucky our lot is, we suffer a bunch of ignominies - injuries, heartbreaks, embarrassments - we shit our pants, we get hard for people that don't want anything to do with us naked - we get jacked up wanting to see people naked - people who themselves will one day get old and need diaper changes or surgeries where their shit comes out through tubes on their abdomens. Why am I painting this grisly picture?
Because none of this stuff is news - we all know this. This is the nature of our physical reality as humans and this truth isn't lost on most of us. However, there is still is extraordinary capacity for style that we possess - This capacity to appreciate beauty - to do things with a sense of aesthetic - to " present" ourselves as works of art rather than as stinking pieces of meat.
Beauty makes life beautiful - duh! Ok let me try another way. Beauty makes life tolerable. Why do any of the things we do if we don't do them beautifully? Every moment, a human has the choice to frame things in such a way - do things in such a manner - that it can be elevated to poetry.
Again, none of these ideas are new. We know how the act of drinking coffee can be an act of ugly compulsion - think lines of irritated, haggard looking people at an airport starbucks waiting to catch an early morning flight - or an exercise in love, style and aesthetic bliss - think of someone who wakes up, works out, showers, does his hair up just right - puts on a clean white tee shirt and crisply ironed chinos - and with meticulous precision, arranges his cup, his spoon, his milk jug, his coffee grinder - and goes about infusing as much love and devotion as possible into making that cup of coffee - pouring his attention into every single step involved - doing it with a sense of care like not getting a microscopic part of the process perfectly right would be the end of the world. That's what i mean by elevating actions - making poetry out of life.
i'm not speaking about OCD though. that's just as unaesthetic as being slapdash as far as Im concerned. Insouciance is attractive. Devotion with insouciance - now that's poetry.
I think seduction is closely tied to this. An expert seducer is someone who values aesthetics - he lives it and breathes it. He might not even necessarily understand it as such. But his movements, his life possess a quality of otherworldliness. a sense of cinematic allure. A sense of art. Something elysian, astral, supernal. A sense of something immortal and infinite. Something that isn't so immutably beset by the banal, the mortal, the rotting and the mundane.
I feel like marketing is very similar to seduction in this sense. marketing is all about framing things - It's about creating something a bit more ethereal around commodities/products/services -which are just banal things.
A product is a commodity. It belongs to the realm of flesh and bones. A brand is something undying - it belongs to the realm of demigods. It is something supernal. Something astral. Something that is nebulous, subtle and powerful.
I'm writing all this just to get down some ideas that I've been working with. This is an attempt to publicly post my process.
I came across the term public journal recently - I guess this is an attempt to have one of those myself.
Paralysed with potential - This is an itneresting idea
Best writers make errors -e diting is key
Excitement is actually a really subtle form of fear - when it doesn't allow us to settle into the present moment - I catch myself these days with a feeling that i would traditionally label as "positive" - a feverish sense of excitement - like hey "I'm pumped!!!" - but upon closer inspection, it's an attempt to move away from the present moment. It's a refusal to accept the intensity of a given moment and relax into it - accept it. It's using the mind to project an imaginary future where the intensity of internal state in this moment is used to create positive fantasies in the future - subtly suggesting to yourself - i'll be happy and fulfilled then" - subtly sowing seeds for waking up the next morning (or whenever) with regrets for not inhabiting that fantasy reality.
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oldpotatoe · 3 years
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this is an apology post, and also a snippet post.
apology post, because this chapter is, uh, taking me a lot longer than I thought it would? there’s a lot of moving parts to it, which I want to perfect before I let ch21 loose into the world, so there’s that :// 
but since it was Eid a few days ago (Eid Mubarak to anyone celebrating!) I thought I’d be nice and post a little taster for what’s to come :))
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Contemplating life in absolute silence has never been one of Sokka’s strong suits, but he thinks he’s doing a good job of it. Well, as good a job anyone can do when perched on the floe edge, back splayed against the icy ground and feet skimming the top of the water.
Either way, the stars sure are taking their sweet time in revealing all of life’s mysteries to him; they wink merrily against the purple-black backdrop of the night sky, like they know something he doesn’t. 
He’s been finding himself coming to this particular area more and more often over the last few nights, Zuko’s robe tucked into his pocket, his feet tracking their way across the tundra until he’s standing at the edge, toes inching over the line that separates solid ice and dark, still ocean water. There he stands, and there he sits, and there he thinks of all that swirls in his brain, as muddy as the water is clear.
As usual, he tries to separate the strands of facts and nebulous spool of emotions from one another, trying to make sense of things in a way that makes, well, sense.
Fact #1: He’s Sokka, strapping meat and sarcasm twenty-something who’s apparently a Big Deal in two major nations.
Nebulous spool of emotions #1: He’s Sokka. Too big for his shadow, too small for his grief, and lonely in the skin that houses him.
Fact #2: He’s apparently married? Engaged? Betrothed, at least, to one previously-surly fire bender who is also a Big Deal in the nation that said fire bender runs. Wow, wooer of royalty indeed.
Nebulous spool of emotions #2: He’d only just gotten used to being haunted by moonlight. Where is he supposed to turn, when the sun’s golden rays now mock him too?
Fact #3: He’s the victim of an alleged assassination attempt, the result of which is the current lack of about, oh, half a decade’s worth of memories.
Nebulous spool of emotions #3: Sometimes it’s like he’s forgotten how to breathe, too.
Fact #4: He’s back in his homeland for some much-needed rest and recouperation, surrounded by his loved ones. Water Tribe for life, babey!
Nebulous spool of emotions #4: If only he could count the nights he’s lain in the furs of his family’s hut, the crackle of his hearth drowned out by the hollowness that rings ever-present in his chest, and yearned for home.
Fact #5: He can’t sleep.
Nebulous spool of emotions #5: He can’t fucking sleep.
Sokka sighs, feet swinging as he beats out a tempo with the back of his heels against the ice, absently picking at the fraying threads of the robe.
Maybe what pulls him to the water’s edge, night after night, is the longing that calls on him to swim back to where he left his heart— in the embrace of warm arms and gentle floral scents, ocean-salted wind whipping at his cheeks and stealing away the words he wishes he’d had the courage to say: 
I know. I’m sorry. I love you. Let me fix this.
Ask me to stay.
But Zuko didn’t, and Sokka hadn’t. 
And now he comes here night after night, eyes burning with tiredness and regret as he looks at the robe, and thinks of all that he is, and all that he has, and all that he’s lost.
And like every night, when Agni peeks over the horizon and bids Yue good morrow, Sokka drags himself upright and trudges back to his hut, as unfulfilled as always.
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4dtk · 3 years
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have this absolute shameless drabble of sugar daddy gojo that i wrote in between requests. my fingers have never typed so fast im sorry this is literally self-indulgent at this point ARJGJFFJ.
disclaimer i honestly can't see anyone calling gojo daddy but just for this fic..... ill allow it..... and also bc sugar daddy gojo is just always residing in my mind. did you see how he transferred 10 mil to mei mei!!!!! i will never shut the fuck up about that scene. pls spoil me <3
warnings: praise, public sex, sugar daddy/sugar baby relations, breeding kink, pet names
NSFW UNDER THE CUT, MINORS DNI
sugar daddy!gojo pushes you up against the window of the store, visible for everyone to see you getting fucked senseless. in the gucci store four floors up, it could work both ways. fortunate to be so high up, although people would be getting a treat if they happened to look up.
“you know what you’re doing, baby?” he grunts, hips rocking into your soaked pussy as the staff outside try to ignore the lewd noises coming from behind the curtains.
it was supposed to be a simple trip: get a dress for gojo’s event in a few weeks and get out. with a tight arm wrapped around his, you followed him around like a starstruck puppy, the edges of your lips curled up knowing he’d treat you a million times over if you just asked for it.
gojo wasn’t any different, either. sure, he’s had sugar babies in the past, but not quite like you who’s so easy to please and spoil, knowing you could never say no even if your life depended on it. with your desperate listing for the requirement of monetary assistance, gojo couldn’t resist taking up the offer.
he just hadn’t expected you to be so… pliant. you had taken it like a good little bitch, too, moaning out for everyone to hear because you liked it like that.
“you’re taking my cock so well, princess,” gojo muttered out, lips nibbling on your ear as he continued to pound you. his grin that you feel against your skin plagues your mind, wanting nothing more than to see how he enjoys ruining you.
the catchy, upbeat pop song playing above you seemed to provide some rhythm, the sultry lyrics fuelling you further.
"so needy that i had to buy out the whole store for an hour, huh?" the male slows his pace, delivering deep thrusts into your cunt with the precision of an expert.
all you can reply are in little pants, sentences incoherent from how deep his cock is in you.
"i don't even think an hour is enough to satisfy my pretty little girl, isn't that right?" gojo picks up the speed again, and you're brought back to the many times he's fucked over his counter, washing machine. to the times where he's eaten you out on his office table and in his sheets of his king-sized.
and now, you've got another memory locked away for nights full of loneliness and soaked underwear when gojo's just too busy for you.
a tongue to your nipples and a hand to your clit makes you choke out a moan, writhing against the glass just to feel more of gojo, more of his cock and more of his lips on your neck.
you're struggling to keep yourself up, finding the right time in between muffled moans and whimpers to ask for one more wish.
"daddy... p-please, i wanna see your-"
"what, baby? repeat it for me." goddamn, the man had no problem articulating his words, how much had he fucked you already?
clearly not enough if you're still able to speak.
"w-wanna see your face when you fuck me deep, daddy!"
your wish is taken away when you're already creaming all over gojo as your hot breath creates fog on the glass in a silent scream.
"aw, you're cumming so hard baby~ you didn't even get to see me yet," he coos, enjoying the gush of your juices that coat his dick and your thighs. everything feels sticky and dirty, but you don't hesitate to beg for one more fuck with your eyes.
gojo catches your drift immediately, hips twitching from the idea of pumping you full of his cum. after all, he hasn't come yet.
he grunts at the time with a quick glance to the clock above your head. without wasting any more time, he flips you over, the restraint to cum slowly reaching its limit with your lolling tongue and fucked-out face.
the male doesn't bother to hide the deep groan that rips from his throat when he drags his dick along your folds, strings of both your juices stretching out in a way that hypnotises gojo.
"n-need your cock, daddy! please!" you whine, grinding your hips against the tip to make sure gojo knows of your desperation. that he's the only one to fuck you so good that no one else can satisfy you.
he smiles knowingly before he sinks into you.
gojo knows that he's the only one that can make you feel this way as he picks up the tempo, hitting spots in you that you didn't know was physically possible.
gojo knows that he's the only one you call daddy shamelessly as he writes off his card to help you in your student debts and the sparkly dress you've been eyeing.
he could throw you away the second you're done with university, the second the media's off his ass about his love life but, the sweet, sweet moans spilling from your lips pull him back in every single time, eager to hear it for as long as your bank's empty and his is piled up with money.
"more! satoru, more, fuuuck..." you groan, shying away from the striking blues of his eyes the more he drinks in your current state.
he's barely holding on, not even minding the first name you called him. the short skirt he'd given you flipped up makes him go crazy, your panties moved to the side to receive the dressing room quickie you always wanted.
"you're so de..eep daddy! i need all your c-cum please...!" it's a mix between a whimper and a whine.
"yeah? 'course i am, baby. your pussy is sucking me in all the w-way," gojo's hips stutters at how you squirm in his tight grasp, locking eyes with him as yours fill with want. your pussy is throbbing, stretched out so much that you don't register the thumb playing with your clit.
"s' too much...! s' too much, d-daddy!"
"you're a good girl, aren't you?" the way you nod is pathetic, eyebrows knitted from being stuffed so full.
"pretty little thing- fuuck..." gojo's losing control himself, the way his balls slaps against your cunt resonates around the small space and nothing feels better than being inches deep in you.
you're a babbling mess by then, unable to even scream out as you cream his cock. with head thrown back, you're left frozen for a second as the orgasm washes over you and a violent shudders goes through your thighs.
"daddy has so much, s-shit- cum for you, doll," it isn't long before the other comes undone, a groan escaping his lips before he shoots his load deep into you.
your pussy is stained white from all the cum he's giving you, gasping from how much gojo is leaking into you.
"thank y-you, satoru..." you trembling has affected your voice, too, burying your head into gojo's neck while your body shivers from sensitivity.
"take all of it, baby," gojo whispers, the hand near your middle moves instantly to finger his cum back into you, fixing back your underwear over your pussy.
a cheeky giggle leaves your mouth as you untangle yourself from the embrace, welcoming a kiss from the man as he slowly begins to clean up himself.
"have you chosen a dress yet, sir?"
gojo's smile is mischievous, not missing the way your face flushes at having to face the embarrassed staff outside.
"we'll take everything, thanks," his eyes never leave you as he helps you off the changing room chair, tugging your body flush to his before leaving you with one more hungry kiss.
"you did so well for daddy, doll. i may just have to treat you tonight since you have a day off university tomorrow..."
even if it wasn't in the contract, gojo loved to spoil you, admiring your mettle when it comes to material items. although...
"you know what i mean," it's enchanting, the way his voice travels like silk, "i'll call in sick for work tomorrow, yeah?"
your mind goes to mush at what tonight might entail, losing all train of coherence when his hushed whisper of my baby's so cute reaches your ear.
in a second you're out of there, hand twined with his while you remain giddy with the thought of getting used by gojo until you reach your limit.
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amazinglyegg · 3 years
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hello lad i was thinking sole survivor starts a secret band and the compainons react to walking in on them practicing w/ their mates (im sorry ive been listining to too many video game sountracks and tempted to actually play my guitar for once)
Falllout 4 companions react: Sole Survivor in a secret band!
Cait: Cait isn’t the biggest fan, I’ll be honest. She joined you to smash some heads in, not to play music. She’ll walk right in on you and your band playing and after a bit of questioning probably turn around and leave you to continue. That being said, if you were to play in front of others, or to her, she’ll listen and soon enough it’ll begin to grow on her
Codsworth: He’d be so glad you’re still finding time for hobbies such as these! If he walked in while you are all in the middle of a song he wouldn’t interrupt, but if you’re taking a break he’d float in with water and snacks, whatever you guys needed. He’d always be up for being an audience member and sometimes listens through the door during practices
Curie: She’d walk right in even if you were in the middle of a song, not even thinking of knocking or waiting. She would be fascinated with how you all got together, asking questions about the instruments and the music. “What wonderful music! May I stay and listen?” Tries clapping along but she absolutely cannot keep a tempo for the life of her. Your music could sound like a dying walrus and she’d still applaud at the end of every song
Danse: He finds it sort of unnecessary at first, thinking it would be a better use of time to serve the brotherhood, or at the very least learn skills that would benefit you on the battlefield. Once you explain it to him he’ll let it slide, as long as you’re not practicing to the point where it hinders your work. Eventually it grows on him, and after Blind Betrayal he learns to appreciate hobbies such as these a lot more
Deacon: Probably went snooping around knowing something was up. Once he finds you and your band he’s surprisingly impressed, especially if you’re playing is really good but even if it’s just mediocre, I like to think Deacon has an interest for a lot of things pre-war and probably tried to teach himself an instrument or two. He wouldn’t walk in if you were in the middle of a song but he’d bring it up afterwards and make jokes about it, not to mock you but because jokes are sort of his way of complimenting you without having to be mushy
Hancock: Hancock can appreciate good music when he hears it, so he’ll definitely like this. He’s polite enough not to barge in if you guys are in the middle of a song but he’ll walk in once it’s over and clap, maybe even see if you want a gig in the third rail when Magnolia isn’t on. Despite his brash exterior he’s a surprisingly good and polite audience member, and he enjoys listening to it a lot
Maccready: “I was hired to kill people, not listen to a dumb band”. I have the feeling that, specifically if he isn’t close to you, he may get a bit annoyed. But once you two get close enough that your friends and he’s not only hanging around as a mercenary he’ll be a lot more supportive, even if he doesn’t understand the dedication. He’ll listen if you ask, and make a (probably awkward) compliment at the end, not really knowing how to compliment music like this
Nick: Pleasantly surprised at the fact your band managed to get and/or fix all these instruments and manage to meet up regularly. Whether you play pre-war songs or make your own music he’ll be very supportive, Like Hancock, he’s a polite listener and will give honest compliments at the end, even offering to pick up supplies for high-maintenance instruments if you need it
Piper: “Woah! You guys are good! It’s hard to find good musicians now in days”. She’ll probably walk in even if you’re in the middle of a song but will wait until you stop to compliment your work. Probably puts out an ad in the newspaper to show her appreciation for your dedication. She may end up being a bit critical without realizing it - “Was that supposed to make that sound?” “Are you supposed to be holding it that way?”
Preston: A surprising use of the generals time, but not unwelcome. He wouldn’t barge in, may not walk in at all, even if you weren’t in a song, but instead wait until you’re done practicing to bring it up. He’ll be happy if you play at settlements, he thinks music brings people together and it’s nice to get a break from everything else in the world
Strong: Doesn’t really understand it. I mean, he’s a supermutant, what do you expect? “Human fight, not make sounds!” If you made him sit down as an audience member he probably wouldn’t last for a minute before getting up out of boredom and wandering off
X6-88: If it doesn’t benefit the Institute, X6 finds it a waste of time. He’ll make that known, but will give you time to practice if you ask. He’ll be a lot less judging as long as you give him a specific time frame - he lives on a fairly strict routine, and doesn’t appreciate it when things have to change. He’ll give you your allotted hour or so, and even be an audience member if asked, but if you try going too far overtime he’ll remind you of your work and start to get huffy
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weirdlyhornyforegos · 4 years
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Darkiplier x reader
@moriimae: sending in one more req cus im a lil bitch; 70, 34 and 28 with a very subby, vocal reader? [ brownie points if they have a sensitive neck,, ;) ]
28: “If you keep making those sounds I’m not going to be able to stop myself.” & 34: “I love the sounds you make when you come undone.” & 70: "Say my name over and over again and, once you think you’ve said it loud enough, scream it. I want the whole neighborhood to know who’s making you feel good.”
MINORS DNI!! You didn’t specify an ego, so I went with Dark, because I know us lol ;) 
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You should have realised where your teasing would lead you.
All day, you had been putting it on thick for Dark. ‘Accidental’ brushes against him, dropping things and bending over at the waist to pick them up, sucking obscenely at that lollipop at lunch.
You should have realised it would lead to you pressed against the hallway wall as soon as you both were home, Dark growling as he bites along your neck, his thigh pressed between your legs.
“Such a tease.” He moves to speak in your ear, nipping at you earlobe. You moan as his hands push under you shirt, making their way up your stomach and chest. Your shirt is soon off and gone, thrown into some corner to be forgotten about. Dark kisses you, his lips firm against yours. You kiss back, clutching at his suit while you try to move against his thigh. 
Dark breaks the kiss and chuckles. Blacked out eyes looking at you as you try to catch your breath.
“I don’t think it’s going to be that easy today.” Before you can even think to ask, the world shifts around you, and then you find yourself pressed against the bedroom wall instead. 
Dark spins you around, pushing you towards the bed. You scramble to get up on it and Dark quickly follows. 
You on your back, him inbetween your thighs. His hardness pressing against you, and when he leans down to kiss along your neck again, he moves his hips, making it even more obvious. 
You tug at his suit, wanting it off, but Dark seems to ignore your silent plea. Instead he moves a hand downwards, skimming along the hem of your pants. He’s in no hurry, letting his fingers slide slowly against your skin while he kisses you, teasing you with the almost there touch. 
You whine as you try to move your hips up, wanting his fingers elsewhere. Breaking the kiss, Dark moves to kiss along your neck, moving down you collarbone and back up. He’s going in the same slow tempo as his fingers.
“Dark, please....” You feel him grin against your skin as he sucks a hickey just above your collarbone.
“Please what?” His tone is low, rumbling against your skin.
“Please touch me!”
“But I am touching you.”
“You know what I mean.” Dark leans up and back so he can look down at you, eyes completely blacked out.
“You got to use your words, little one.” He leans down to kiss you and you tangle a hand in his hair, dragging him down to give him an intense kiss. 
You don’t want to break the kiss, his lips moving against your own feeling amazing, but you know you have to if you want to get him to move at all.
“Please, touch me and make me come apart against your fingers. I just wanna come hard as you touch and kiss me.” Dark pauses, giving you a once over.
“Very good, using all those words.” He moves his hand, unbuttoning your pants, zipper going down next, and then finally, his hand is stroking against you. You throw your head back and moan, your hand still in his hair.
“Is this what you wanted?” You can hear how smug he is, but you don’t mind one bit.
“Yes!” Dark chuckles, before giving some more attention to your neck. He briefly stops touching you so he can drag your pants and underwear off, that too thrown away and forgotten. This leaves you completely naked, while Dark is still fully clothed.
You barely have half a mind to think about it before your thoughts go elsewhere, as Dark finds the bottle of lube you keep in the nightstand, popping it open and coating a few fingers. He leans down, starting to kiss along your neck as his fingers dance against your hole before one enters you. You moan, wanting more of him already.
He keeps a steady pace, driving you wild with how you want him to speed up. When you try, he just slows down or stops completely, so you soon stop trying, letting him take his time with using his finger. 
One finger soon turns to two, and not long after, three. Dark moves down a little to kiss along your chest and take a nipple in his mouth, sucking as his fingers work you open. 
His hand against you suddenly speed up, and he moves to bite down on particular spot on your neck. You moan loudly and move your hips against Dark’s hand, chasing the feeling of his touch. 
You continue to writhe and moan underneath Dark for some time. You have no idea how much time passes, not caring when his fingers are going in and out of you, his mouth kissing and biting along your neck. 
You are more or less a moaning mess, falling apart under Dark. 
Dark isn’t quiet himself either, letting out small groans and moans as he works you over. You can feel his hips twitch every so often, and fuck, it must be getting warm and tight in his suit, but he’s not moving. 
On special twist of Dark’s fingers, you let out a loud groan and tug at his hair, making him let out a matching groan.
“If you keep making those sounds I’m not going to be able to stop myself.”
“Don’t.” You pant out, and just seconds later his fingers leave you. Disappointed, you whine, but that soon stops when you look up at Dark and what he’s doing. 
His jacket is already off, and his tie soon follows, leaving his shirt half unbuttoned. 
Next is his pants, he unbuttons and unzips them, just showing them and his underwear down far enough to take his cock out. 
He gives it a few strokes before locking eyes with you. You lick your lips, and then Dark is hovering above you, his cock just at your hole. 
Pushing in, he’s not slow about it at all. Sinking to the hilt almost immediately, he pulls back so he’s almost out of you before slamming back in. Giving you no time to adjust, setting a much quicker pace than before.
You moan, one hand clutching at his shirt, the other twistting up the bedsheet. Dark kisses you, lips pressing against yours hard. His tongue asking for entrance, and you let him in.
Every snap of Dark’s hips moves you upward, enough that Dark has to hold your hips down.
 Shifting a little while he trusts, he manages to hit the spot that makes you see stars. You scream, breaking the kiss. 
Dark hits the same spot over and over again, making you feel like you’re about to melt from his actions. You start to chant his name over and over again, not even aware you’re doing it until Dark moans and speaks up.
"Say my name over and over again and, once you think you’ve said it loud enough, scream it. I want the whole neighborhood to know who’s making you feel good.”
“FUCK! Dark! Dark! Dark, fuck, fuck, fuck! Dark!” You know you’re rambling, almost incoherent, but fucking hell, you don’t care. Dark is making you feel so good, and ah, fuck!
You keep saying his name over and over again as you get closer and closer to the edge.
“Dark, Dark, I’m about to come!” Dark groans.
“Good little one. I want to feel you come around my cock, so good for me.” You moan, and just seconds later you’re falling apart, moaning and whining mixing in with Dark’s name over and over again. Dark fucks you trough your orgams, grunting as he feels you come underneath him.
“I love the sounds you make when you come undone like this.” A few more pumps, and Dark is coming too. You moan as his come fills you up. If you hadn’t already come, that might have pushed you over the edge.
Dark stills, breathing heavy as he rest his head on your shoulder. He’s still inside you, and when he moves away and pull out, you feel his come leaking out of you. 
Dark rolls over, getting out of bed, returning just minutes later just clad in his boxers with towels and a water bottle. You drink it while he cleans you off, and you can feel the hints of arousal returning as his hands presses against you with the towel.
Any thoughts of a second round is spoiled by the big yawn you let out, making Dark chuckle where he’s putting the towel in your laundry hamper.
Dark joins you on the bed again, and you cuddle close as he pulls the blanket over the two of you.
“We can go a second round when you have gotten some sleep.” Feeling your cheeks up with how well Dark knows you, you give him a brief kiss on his cheek, which he turns into a proper one when he turns his head. 
His lips moving against yours briefly before he breaks the kiss. He licks his lips, and your eyes follow the motion.
“Later, sleep now.” You huff, but does as he says, settling back down. Head on his chest, arms thrown across his stomach, his arm against your back. Not long after, you’re sound asleep.
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chocolate-parfait · 4 years
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IM SORRY IN ADVANCE!!! It makes me feel horrible but like... 💀 for Mozart and Isaac... lowkey want Dazai but I think I’d rather die than to see his despair lmao. I hope hope youre well and take your vitamins~~
I'm (kinda) back for now!! Here ya go and sorry for the wait~
(TW; death and mentions of suicide)
☠️ How do they react when they find out their s/o is dead?
Mozart
Natural death:
The void caused by your departure is always there, lingering in his troath like the bitter aftertaste of a terrible medicine. Sometimes this tight and oppressing feeling squeezes his heart as if a sharp string constricting his whole being
The more you love someone, the more you find it difficult to move on one once they're gone. The same way, at least one part of Mozart's mind is always focused on the memory of you, your smile, your scent, the feeling of your touch. When his thoughts start overwhelming him as he's playing the piano, he suddenly changes tempo and transforms whatever he's playing into something more akin to a violent storm. Then, when he's finally relaxed a bit, the tune becomes what one would describe as a soft, light rain with a tinge of sadness underneath
Whenever he's not cooped up in the music room playing, he can be found wandering the empty halls of the mansion like a lost soul in purgatory. He's tired and his limbs feel heavy, and during the first months of his mourning he doesn't even have the force to throw his usual hard stares and harsh words at the other residents. After some time, despite his constant longing to see you, his mood improves ever so slightly, but he knows he probably won't be getting back to his tiptop shape anytime soon, not that he actually wants to. To feel happy without you by his side is almost a blasphemy to him, and this time he's not going to change his mind
Sudden death:
He will never be able to forgive himself for not protecting you. From the outside he's as pale and dull as the ashes left after a fire dies out, but underneath it all, there's a flame hotter than any star in the endless space, a raging storm of anger fueled by sorrow and utter desperation. Though he may not be as expressive, his music speaks volumes. His piano is now the only thing he focuses on, and anyone who passes by the music room can understand how well it must mirror the state of his soul. It becomes painfully clear how deeply affected he is even to Mozart himself when he nearly destroys some piano keys from hitting them with too much force. He doesn't really care, he just wants you to come back, but knowing how unlikely that is, he can do nothing but deal with his emotions in the only way he knows, through music
Once his overwhelming rage subsides, he's left with nothing but a dull ache that spreads from his heart and tightens in the coldest of embraces, the exact opposite of your warm and loving one
Ever since when you're no longer with him, no one has ever heard a happy tune coming from his piano ever again
Isaac
Natural death:
You're the first person who truly loved him, embraced him and supported him unconditionally, and after you decided to spend your entire lifetime with him, saying he feels grateful is an understatement. Of course there won't be a moment in which he won't be thinking of you nor missing you, but after the gloom and a talk with the other residents, he feels confident enough to try and face life again
This does not mean that the process is an easy one, and it takes him quite some time to get used to a life without you. He's so used to holding your hand and talking to you that sometimes he wakes up with the illusion that you'll be there to greet him. When he realizes that you're no longer there, his heart almost stops beating as tears start forming in his eyes
Sudden death:
He cannot forgive himself. Your death causes him to revert to his original hermetic state. His confidence is crushed, his heart hollow and his mind numb. He had always known he wasn't man enough to protect you, and now for his stupid mistake you had lost your life. If you hadn't met him you'd probably be somewhere happily smiling as you enjoy your life to the fullest. Though he feels guilty for doubting your love, his brain acknowledges that it's the very reason why you had to suffer so much
After uselessly pleading Comte to find a way to bring you back to life, he finally surrenders to the utter desperation that angrily whirled between the the walls of his heart. He starts neglecting his research, his job at the university, his own needs and hunger. More often than not he cries himself to a sleep haunted with nightmares and feverish visions of you. With you, a big part of him died, too, and there's no angel nor devil that can make him feel alive him anymore
Dazai
Natural death:
He had always known this day would've come, and surprisingly enough he's way calmer than what he thought he'd be. Maybe his brain hadn't yet fully realized what happened, but mostly it's because you had spent your whole life loving and protecting him from his dark and unhappy thoughts and tendencies, so now he couldn't bring himself to let your efforts be in vain.
Your positive energy has rubbed off on him, but though tries his best to smile it off, there's still a hint of desolation in his golden orbs. He's going to feel extremely lonely without you there, but he wants to try and keep up a front by focusing on the immense gratitude and love left in his heart for you. If he spent the rest of his days slumped over his tear stained pillow you'd probably feel really sad too, right? That's what he wants to believe and it pushes him to at least try pretending he's fine
Sudden death:
How could he be so blind and foolish to crave something so atrociously horrible during his life? Was this the salvation he had so much believed in? Dazai's heart fills with contempt towards life and destiny. All those times you told him life wasn't something that exists for the sake of atonement, he had believed you like a child would with their mother, but the truth was another
You, who didn't have any faults nor commit any sin, why was it you who had to pay the price for something you were not culpable of? But in his heart he knows the answer. The only mistake your pure soul could be accused of was loving him. He, who could not protect you. He, who had wasted an entire life running to reach the end as fast as possible, believing that all his wrongdoings would have been forgiven if he did so
But now what use does he have of all those worthless conjectures? Now that you are no longer there, now that he's left alone in his suffering, now he could perhaps embrace the cold end without the egotistical wish to be forgiven, but to meet you again instead
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cosmicbash · 3 years
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this is hella specific but my personal sadistic liking i guess, but imagine kells and em were rough fucking and em goes too far and kells actually starts to cry in pain and takes a few seconds for em to notice but when he does, his whole personality does a 180° and he becomes the sweetest motherfucking thing
im not sure if u saw my post where i said i like crying kells/ soft em combo
When they first started fucking it was always rough. There was teeth, nails, blood, like the two of them were trying to tear the other to pieces just as badly as they were trying to meld their bodies together.
Eventually things started to even out, their fucking softened the same way their voices and touches did.
Actual feelings blossoming and a relationship rising from the scorched earth they liked to think their original beef had caused.
They couldn't call it hatefucking anymore, not when the hate was gone and something warm and scarily close to love had slithered in its place.
So now their sex was mostly normal, tinted with moments of softness or the rushed clumsiness of some spontaneous hookup. But, that didn't mean the roughness was completely gone.
They'd fucked that way in the beginning for a reason. It was good. Colson's nails cutting into his back or along his scalp to try and futilely pull on his short hair just felt invigorating. Like it lit a fire deep in Marshall's stomach that he'd long thought smothered.
They still fucked hard, and fast, just not as often. Sometimes after a nasty argument to get out the anger, other times just because the blonde came to him with that challenging glint in his eyes begging for a punishment.
Tonight was the latter.
Overall it had seemed like a perfect day, their voices soft and smiles softer over the course of a rare breakfast together and an even rarer lunch. The usually annoying call of a 'required' industry party appearance actually pleasing Marshall for once just because it meant he had an excuse to linger in LA, to publicly visit the same event as his boyfriend with little suspicion. Colson had stayed overnight to steal the whole day together in preparation. It was perfect.
So of course Marshall should have seen the devious little plan of his boyfriends coming. Colson always buttered him up before he got bratty.
It started with batted eyelashes and flirty licks of icing off some silly cupcakes, and ended with some other douchebag snaking his slimy presence into Colson's bubble. Stealing away attention that wasn't meant for anyone but Marshall.
The sparkle in Colson's last glance his way had announced the request for tonight's sex better than any words the blonde could have simply used instead.
So that's what Marshall gave him when they got back to the hotel room, a firm fist in the back of blonde locks. Colson's arrival an infuriating 20 minutes later than his own.
Per usual the younger rapper barely struggled, the glee on his face at Marshall's jealousy so much stronger than any desire he may have had to play along with a few feigned huffs.
It was hot, seeing Colson smile so catlike up at him with every rip of expensive cotton and snapped threads through Marshall's trembling fingers. He honestly didn't know if he wanted to strangle the brat or grab him like something precious. Colson just knew every button to press to get him riled up and angry. Teetering on the edge of real rage and violent jealousy that might have fucked up his marriage but somehow never truly settled here between them. Because looking into those sparkling mischevious eyes Marshall somehow always knew it was fake, that no matter how many times Colson and he played this game the blonde would never actually cross the line and cheat or hurt him.
The fire in his stomach burned white hot on nights like this. Where his hands could curl tight around Colson's wrists and risk leaving bruises both along them and the small of the boy's back where they sat pinned. Marshall's other hand roughly stretching open a hole he can tell has been fingered already in the car or maybe even at the party itself in hopes he would just bend it's owner over and force his way inside the moment they met back up. But that was a risk Marshall wouldn't take, not one where his assumption could seriously hurt Colson, no matter how many times he found the blonde already slick and ready. Because yes it was rough, and they still clawed at one another and bit mutual bruises along pale skin but it was also still more like making love than the angry hate fucking they'd had in the beginning.
Which is why as his hips snap in their rapid pace and his fingers cut into Colson's skin Marshall faintly notes the shift in his boyfriend's spine. Colson's still moaning, still rocking back to meet his harsh thrusts but theirs a silent thought nagging at the back of the older rapper's brain about it. Like there's something right in front of him that he just can't decypher yet.
The sex swamped part of his mind only urges him to go harder, reminds him of how his boyfriend has only come once so far and how utterly beautiful he looks overstimulated and trembling from a second uninterrupted orgasm. Brushing the blip of concern off as a moment of overthinking while he chases down his own release.
Marshall's eyes have slipped closed and his fingers tightened to that nail cutting grip when he hears it. The slight change in pitch to Colson's cries, not enough of a warning for his own hips to slow down. Not with how tight his stomach is getting and ready to burst his balls feel while he somehow finds the ability to speed up his fucking. Thighs clapping loud and fast against Colson's like he's going to fuck his way right through the other man. Increase his tempo until the seperate beats turn into one long ring.
Colson jerks beneath him then, not in his own release but away from his grip like the fire in Marshall's stomach has finally leeched its way outside to burn him. The usual chorus of "ah, ah, ah-" replaced by a wet sounding and higher pitched copy. Less pleause and more pain. Cutting through the older rapper's own roaring pleasure like a hot knife.
He's seconds away from coming. Just a handful more of thrusts and he could be pumping the tight hole clenching double time down on his cock full, but Marshall's heart has already dropped.
He's out of Colson in an instant, not caring how dizzy his own movements make him or how his cock throbs agonizingly for release. The fear bubbling up is too strong for him to care. "S-shit, Col, baby, I-I'm sorry-"
He's on his side, rough fingers now jarringly delicate as he curls around the blonde to pepper a dozen apologetic kisses along his shoulders. Careful as he turns Colson's flushed face to see the genuine tear tracks that have wettened perfect cheeks. A complete contrast to the harsh grab and jut of thumb into jaw hinge he'd done only an hour earlier on in the night.
"Shh, baby, I'm sorry, shh, where does it hurt?" There's a hundred different things rushing through Marshall's mind. Second guesses on how prepped Colson had been, how harsh his last bite was, on the belittling terms his dirty talk had included. What he could possibly do to fix the tear stained mess he's creates on his boyfriend's beautiful face.
"No-" Colson's voice is still tight, his eyebrows scrunched. "Don't-" a hiss and Marshall's stomach can't drop any deeper. But then crytal blue eyes are opening to meet his and the unmistakable sound of a bitter laugh is tumbling past Colson's lips.
The look shot is way sparkling with the request of forgiveness. "Just my hip-" And Colson's smiling at him, weak and sheepish like knows a reprimand is coming his way. The heavy wet weight of tears hanging on his lashes softening his eyes to emphasize that boyish charm the older rapper was smitten by.
His hip. The one he'd injured last week falling off stage and swore up and down to Marshall was fine all week. The brunette wants to collapse back onto the bed in relief and also smack his idiot of a boyfriend aside his head for terrifying him like that.
He settles in the middle with a sigh and soft bump of their foreheads together. Palm cupping Colson's wet cheek and eyes closing to thank whatever deity above exists that he didn't actually cross that invisible line inside himself and directly hurt Colson on his own.
"I love you." Colson's voice is still a little rough, still silently asking for forgiveness, and Marshall can't help but sigh again and try to smother that insecurity with slow kiss. Fingers softly skating through bleached hair and body rolling cautiously close to connect their skin.
"I love you too-" he sweeps away the salty tears with some scattered kisses. Fingers leaving his boyfriends hair to stroke down over the hot jut of unknowingly tender skin he'd been further injuring. "You idiot." The insult could be directed at either of them. Colson for lieing and himself for forgetting how dismissive his boyfriend could be of his own health.
"It- it wasn't that bad-" Marshall finds his mouth smothering an argument. Not interested in hearing the same childish defense from his boyfriend. Mentally he's already searching for the contact of his wonderful chiropractor to schedule Colson an emergency appointment and just how quickly he can get the precious man into a warm bath to soothe the ache.
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talkfastromance4 · 4 years
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crazy in love-- l.h oneshot
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hey ya’ll :) sorry I haven’t posted in a hot minute. I’ve been working on outlines and the last chapter of FYEO but I’ve been feeling some type of way and had to let it out somehow.
**also I don’t know who made this gif, it’s in my camera roll so if someone knows or it’s you, please let me know so I can properly credit**
Word count: 1320
Warnings: smut (surprise, surprise)
Masterlist
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You’d caught his eye as soon as you came into his line of sight across the way. You flirted mirthlessly with your own eyes, taking him in like he was a tall glass of water that you had to take a taste of. Eventually, he made his way over to you through the throng of people. Other girls grabbed at his shirt like he was a piece of meat, but he brushed them off as if they were feathers. 
You were his target, you had that pretty red ‘x’ he so desperately wanted to see what the treasure was underneath. With the fluidity of water, he dips his head by yours, his lips brush against your ear as he speaks. 
“I’m Luke. Can I ask you for a dance, pretty one?” his voice is low and seductive in the shell of your ear. Shivers pinprick your skin and makes your neck hot from his lips. 
You answer him by grabbing hold of his wrist, dragging him to the dancefloor but he’s in control, not you. Luke spins you around until your backside is flush against his front. His body is hot against yours as you begin to move to the beat of the music. You elongate your body to his frame the best that you can, you want to touch every part of him and when you curve your neck upwards his lips find your pulsepoint.
You feel him smile on your skin, his tongue swipes against you before his teeth sink in your flesh. You can’t help the moan that slips out as you curve your hand behind his neck pulling him closer. His own hands grip your hips, moving with the rhythm of your movements grinding against him. You feel him become aroused just as you are with him. 
You’re leaving the club before the song even ends, Luke’s hand is high on your thigh, his pinky rubbing tantric circles near your panty covered pussy. His lips curl into a smirk when he makes contact and you let out a little squeak from his touch. 
“What do I call you?” he asks as he takes a sharp left. 
You roll your head on the seat to look at him. “Call me, lovie.”
Once you're inside the house Luke makes quick work of getting his lips on yours, his hands bunch your dress over your waist so he can squeeze your ass. His lips are soft but urgent against yours, his tongue swiping into your mouth and you bump against a table before you feel the edge of the couch.
You try to move around it so you can pull him down on top of you but Luke halts you.
“Oh no, lovie,” he sighs trailing his fingers up your hips to hook under the elastic of your panties. His lips suck on your neck as he drags your panties down, his body following accordingly. His eyes are dark as he looks up at you from the floor and you feel your wetness drip down your thigh. “I want you right here.”
He wraps your legs around his broad shoulders, the action makes his arms flex and you’re so turned on by him that you need him to touch you already. You open your mouth to ask but then his mouth is on your core, tongue slipping and sliding in and out of your folds with ease. Your legs squeeze around him and you toss your head back from the already intense ecstasy he’s giving you. 
“Mm, you taste as good as I thought,” he hums working his lower jaw open so he can suckle you up. 
“Fuck…” you sigh. One hand is gripping the back of the couch cushion while the other is fisted in his hair. Luke’s hands are  tight on your thighs keeping you locked in place. 
You begin to clench as his tongue works wonders, his lips moving with expert precision and when he pushes his tongue into your hole you let out an animalistic scream. Your knuckles are white against the couch as you keel over in pleasure, your whole body aflame. Luke flicks his tongue against your clit quickly and then his mouth is gone. 
You feel your body start to fall back, it’s still in aftershock of an orgasm but he catches you quickly.
“What do you think, lovie? Should we keep going?” he exhales, his breath fans over your face as he thrusts himself against you. You feel his bulge rub against you and you moan.
“Please, please, please,” you nod already working on his pants. 
“I’ve got a condom--”
“Pill,” you shake your head shimmying his pants down his thighs. You sigh at the sight of him, his long slender dick touches your thigh and you grasp at him. His shaft is soft and warm between your fingers and you need to feel him inside you. “Please just fuck me.”
“Turn around,” he smirks and your stomach flips. 
He helps you off the couch to turn you around and he pushes on your back so your face falls into the cushion. Luke spreads your legs open, his finger teases up your slit a few times and you’re reeling. You push back against him, needing him inside you. 
“Such a needy little thing, aren’t you lovie?” he chuckles breathlessly. 
You feel the blood rushing to your head and you’re getting impatient.
“Will you just---ohmygod!” you moan as he slams into you and starts a steady pace already. You’re so wet from the arousal of him that he fucks into you rapidly, his hips snap against yours and his grip is strong.
“Take me so well, lovie,” he grunts and you’re moaning chaotically onto the couch. You angle yourself so he hits you deeper, that deep spot has you coming in seconds and it’s wave after wave of erotic pleasure. 
Your heart is pounding in your ears, you feel each pull and thrust he gives you loving the sound of him fucking you. 
“You’re coming a lot, baby, Jesus,” he hisses and grips your hips harder in his hands. “Feel so good on my cock.” You moan at his words. “You like it too, huh? Should I keep fucking you like this or should I slow. . . it down. . .” his thrusts turn to a slow rocking and you moan at the change of tempo. “Like that too, hm?”
“Love it all,” you whine trying to grip onto something but the couch cushion isn’t that easy to grab onto like his hair is. 
“You come faster like this though,” he says and then pounds relentlessly into you until you’re seeing stars and he won’t let up. 
But you don’t want him to. You’re feeling so blissed out and then he pulls out and you feel his hot load land on your lower back. His groans and moans are delicious in your ears but he makes sure you’re still feeling pleasure because his finger is rubbing hard against your clit so you’re coming together. 
When he removes his hand from you, you melt into the couch. Your body is buzzing and all the blood has rushed to your head. You’re vaguely aware of him cleaning you up and then he’s pulling you back into a standing position. 
The dark lust in his eyes is gone and is replaced by a softer blue and filled with care. He cups your cheek and gives you three light kisses to your lips. You try to chase him for a fourth kiss but your movements are sluggish and he laughs quietly at your attempt.
“How was that?” he asks tenderly.
You kiss the inside of his palm instead then stare at him through heavy eyes. 
“Wonderful,” you sigh then stretch your limbs a little before wrapping your arms around his waist. “Next time, it’s my turn to pick you up in the club like we don’t know each other.”
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obeymeoof · 4 years
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how the brothers + simeon and solomon would be or react with a gender neutral idol mc that is surprisingly famous in the realms? considering a headcanon that human idols are a new trend for non-humans lolol
Lucifer
He found out about you while looking through your documents
Admittedly, he thought it would be a bad idea to pull someone with so much influence on the human world into the devildom. But Diavolo insisted that it’d make a stronger bond b/w realms so of course it happened anyways.
Little did Lucifer know about the influence you had on the devildom AND celestial realm.
He had heard a few of your songs but had never put the songs to a face. He just thought it was another devildom singer.
He appreciates the work you have put in to come as far as you have but most likely won't treat you any different.
He’ll still threaten to kill you during those first few days when he’s suspicious of your intentions or try to attack you when you touch the grimoire.
Although he will (after you guys get more accustomed to living with each other) ask you to sing for him from time to time. He finds it calming and it helps him focus on his work
Mammon
mammon had heard of you of course.
Being the avatar of greed, he had dreamed of living a good life like you, raking in the big bucks.
Of course, he didn't want to put the same amount of work in. He just wanted money to give to his first love, Goldie.
When he hears about your planned arrival in the devildom he gets dollar signs in his eyes.
When you get there and are released into his care, he immediately wraps you up into his money schemes.
Will get gigs for you at Hell’s Kitchen and The Fall and act as your ‘manager’
Make sure you’re always paying attention because he has trouble fighting his sin and will take more than his fair share if he thinks he can get by with it.
If you decide you don't want to continue with doing this he won't force you...but he will definitely try to change your mind.
He has fun during these times to be honest. At first it was all about the money but he ends up having fun and growing super close to you.
In all honesty, sometimes he finds all the attention and publicity you get annoying. He gets greedy and doesn't want to share you so sometimes he’ll get pouty. but it's nothing a head pet cant fix
Levi
Oh, Levi knew about you. As a matter of fact he is the leader of your fan club in the devildom.
He is elated. And that's putting it lightly.
He’d always been envious of those who got to meet you face to face and now?! You were coming to LIVE with him! for an entire year!!!
He's going to ask for your autograph, selfies, and just be an overall fanboy
May ask if he can record you singing/dancing to one of your songs
He is DEFINITELY posting this. “Omg, cannot believe (MC) is staying at my house! Literally dying!#omg #HatersGonnaHate #Trending #MC”
Eventually, he will settle down and treat you a more equally as time goes on but he will keep you on some sort of a pedestal for a while.
Satan
He knows who you are but he acts so nonchalant around you that you're not too sure that he really does know.
He doesn't bring up the whole “idol life” in conversation or really bring any part of your fame up at all.
He doesn't do it to be rude he just doesn't see the point of treating you any differently than he would anyone else
It'd be a nice change of pace to not have everyone all in your business all the time and only seeing the idol side of you
That being said, he will sneak around and listen to your music and play it while he reads because he's secretly a big fan.
Asmo
This is the demon that keeps up with all things trendy.
He knows all of the popular human idols, including you, and their songs.
Reads about human idols im the devildom magazines
He follows the fashion trends that idols set as well so don't be surprised if his current apparel very closely resembles yours
He wants whatever gossip or stories you got on other idols/celebrities
Has more than likely been with a few or a lot of your coworkers or celeb friends
Will ask to song a duet with you and if it ends up being really good you guys may just make it an official song.
Asks if your managers and stuff are treating you good because he know that stuff can get shady sometimes he will NOT hesitate to set things straight one way or another.
Beel
This soft big boi would be clueless on the whole idol thing but he will show his support none the less
Will sit and listen to your celeb stories/rants or really anything you want to talk about. He just likes being around you in general
Now, if you want to catch his attention for real, tell him about all the exotic and high class food youve had the opportunity to try.
You'll have him drooling before the end of it
He may attempt to drag you back to the human world so that he too can experience these delicacies
He doesn't worry about being rushed by a crowd of fans since big boi can just give you a piggyback ride and walk through the crowd. nothing can keep him from his food
Belphie
Listens to your slow tempoed songs to combat his insomnia
He is no fanboy by any means but he does take somewhat of an interest in your idol life.
Asks you questions about your everyday life like “how do you run off of such little sleep” and “how do you keep up with everything without crashing”
Respects the grind. What you do is pretty tough for any average human to do so kudos to you.
Is definitely going to ask you to sing him sleep. Depending on how close you two are he may ask you to lay/cuddle with him while you sing
Ironically enough, he tells you that you have the voice of an angel.
simeon
He is somehow the most unmodernized, technologically impaired, being in the game.
hes caught up on exactly 0 trends, despite Luke’s best efforts to teach him.
He does take an interest in your life and interests so he will insist that you explain EVERYTHING to him.
It’ll feel like you're talking forever because there's so much he doesn't get but the sparkle in his eye makes it worth it and hard for you to say no.
He supports you even if he doesn't quite get it.
Loves to hear you sing and may even join in
Cups your face in his hand and smiles and tells you about how he can't wait to see you in the celestial realm so that you can show all the other angels how beautiful your voice and soul is...bold of him to assume you'll be going to the celestial realm when your time comes.
Solomon
Solomon would take a major interest in the whole idol thing.
He thinks it's neat but it's just not one of the things that sparks his (shady) interests.
If you seem hurt by this he may make an attempt to seem like he's more amazed by it by giving you little words of encouragement,advice, or praise but don’t expect much more from our mysterious sorcerer. His priorities lay beyond the human world, that's all
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bladekindeyewear · 4 years
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HS^2 bloggin’ mainline 2020-08-23
More homestuuuuuck
I’m a little tired today so I don’t expect much intelligent analysis out of myself, but if anything classpecty happens I doubt I’ll be able to help myself regardless.
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oh, always
(EDITS: added note on horn colors, link to ask on potential Blood powers reference)
> CHAPTER 12. Really Convoluted Metaphorical Horseshit
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cuuute
In the bowels of a different ship, at a moment in time that is not pinpointable in either direction from the previous interaction, another Dave raps quietly to himself.
another dave raps quietly to himself.  i am glad that phrase exists it brings me joy
(LATER EDIT: A friend on Discord pointed out that throughout this entire update, Karkat's horns are #FF0000 red. They were normal candy-corn colors in previous glimpses at the ship crew, though they used a dark single-color shortcut typical of old Homestuck at one point... but THIS time it stays STARK red even when we zoom in close later. Is this just artistic liberty? Did Karkat color his horns for fashion? Does this happen to red-bloods like the Sufferer after a certain age? Just how much time has actually passed, here? We might have to wait for the commentary for this one.)
KARKAT: I WAS SAYING I THOUGHT WE MIGHT GO, I DUNNO, ANYWHERE ELSE ON THE ENTIRE SHIP WHILE THE CLOTHES WERE WASHING. KARKAT: SEEING AS THIS DECREPIT MACHINE WE WERE SO BLESSEDLY PROVIDED WITH MAKES A WHIRRING SOUND SO PANCHAFINGLY ARHYTHMIC THAT IT THREATENS TO ERADICATE THE ENTIRE CONCEPT OF TEMPO FROM THE UNIVERSE.
Karkat really has chilled out hasnt he?  like this is surprisingly level for him, and that fact is hilarious.
KARKAT: AND YET SOMEHOW BASICALLY ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE WE STARTED THE LOAD IS THAT YOU’VE BEEN USING IT AS A FUCKED UP BEAT TO WHISPER TO YOURSELF ABOUT FLOWERS TO.
oh gosh that’s why he’s rapping
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DAVE: kanaya was telling me this kids story the other day about this dude who didnt cherish a flower enough until it peaced out to do flower stuff idk its not pertinent to the story DAVE: except the flower was a person DAVE: because it was a metaphor
Oh right, coming back to the Little Prince stuff I was too lazy to metaphor-deep-dive into, and literally asking the same questions we were asking about who the Little Prince’s story applies to mapped here if anyone at all, like Dirk and such, or what biases were in the retelling of it and the way Kanaya phrased it.  So now we’re practically mocking it by deep diving it here, hence the last page’s “DAVE: i was just thinking through some really convoluted metaphorical horseshit”, which means we’re both about to further explore AND shit all over the existence of this story metaphor until it doesn’t mean anything and most of the meaning we drew from it earlier is made a joke~
well, not “we”, cause I was too lazy, so... y’all
DAVE: anyway what goes down in the story is that once the flower lady is out of the picture DAVE: the main character goes around making all these connections between her and everything else in the universe until every damn thing feels like a symbol for how much he fucked up and how much he will never see her again KARKAT: THIS SEEMS PRETTY FUCKING INTENSE FOR A KID'S STORY DAVE: yea thats pretty much what i said
Oh holy shit.  That’s yet another way to put it.  Are we doing a whole moral takedown of the Light aspect today?  cause it sounds like we’re taking a dump on the Light aspect and RoboRose getting too obsessed and immersed in it, which would be excellent
DAVE: but i guess its not so much what the story was technically textually about but more like the version of it kanaya internalized and then told me when we were talkin about how she misses rose
exactly
DAVE: so like now im taking the story she told me she was projecting her feelings onto and projecting my feelings on top of that
yes absolutely, you just rephrased it a different way with that exact same bias
DAVE: this is just one big game of emotional projection telephone so feel free to go paraphrase it to roxy later and make it about whatever fuckin thing youre currently missing
perfect. i need an emoji for that Italian thing for when you pinch your thumb and forefinger together and kiss it
ah this’ll do:
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its like the expression “choice” but in nonverbal form
[...] whatever fuckin thing youre currently missing KARKAT: YOUR ABILITY TO GET TO THE POINT DAVE: gotem DAVE: anyway you’re not gonna have to miss that skill of mine for long DAVE: get ready for this shit because i am about to slap you with the point so hard youll fall ass first into the washer DAVE: just scrambling around in there getting all sudsy DAVE: but your brain is gonna be so blasted from the mindfreak of a point im about to make that there wont be anything left to clean
Anytime dave is told to get to the point he is contractually obligated to spend at least 20 seconds talking about how he’ll get to the point in a way that is not getting to the point
DAVE: so its genuinely cool that kanaya can go around creating meaning that may or may not be actually present in every little thing DAVE: connecting every feeling she has to the idea of her wife existing out there DAVE: so i told her she should keep that shit up DAVE: but im having the opposite issue where im struggling to find anything to be that kind of tether because every single thing i could possibly consider about what it is were doing just reminds me of yet another thing to be afraid about
Great examples of Light being good and bad!  Attaching strands of connective meaning to everything.  --though, in Dave’s case AND Kanaya’s case you could argue it’s both bad in terms of effects.  That it’s great for Kanaya to care, but that she should be able to divest herself and live on her own terms without idealizing Rose literally everywhere she looks, personal growth which would be useful in helping bring Rose back to her in the first place.  The struggle they’re looking forward to is largely philosophical, not just physical, and until Rosebot acknowledges that she was wrong it’s not over.
DAVE: everything fuckin sucks huge cosmic donkey sack and im terrified KARKAT: OK, SO I FEEL LIKE YOU SKIPPED A COUPLE NECESSARY STEPS IN YOUR POINT CLARIFICATION PROCESS.
Pretty sure Dave was on the same page as most Epilogue and start-of-HS2 readers.  This situation is pretty bleak to dump our heroes into, no matter how much we believe will be resolved in the long run.
DAVE: ok but were you going with sweet or savory please give me that much at least KARKAT: YEAH IT WAS GOING TO BE SUNDAE-BASED. DAVE: nice KARKAT: YEAH. KARKAT: DO YOU WANNA WATCH MORE GBBO AFTER THIS? DAVE: absolutely
--ah, Great British Bake-Off, can’t say I’ve indulged
do they still have that?? did they save it from old Earth?  or did they go where unflooded Britain used to be and say hey, new show reboot
KARKAT: GREAT. ANYWAY, LIKE I WAS SAYING, FOR THE LOVE OF SWEET HUMAN CHRIST, PLEASE BACK UP TO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU’RE ACTUALLY SCARED OF. KARKAT: ALSO COME HERE, IDIOT.
That last line is like, exactly as fucking sweet and awesome as we imagined their relationship to be.  :)
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OH MY GOD THAT’S ADORABLE
DAVE: ok yeah this is a better position to unleash all my inner fears n anxieties from
indisputably.
DAVE: those times its like my mouth was saying words about the situation wherein our friends are AWOL and maybe dead but my brain wasnt fully letting me experience the emotion that goes along with them DAVE: man its like i cant even start genuinely thinking about how afraid i actually am for rose and john without my brain flippin its wad and whiting out DAVE: like haha fuck i hope theyre ok DAVE: now i better make a fuckin joke before i succumb to the gaping mouth of despair waiting for me to fall in it as soon as i look down and acknowledge that its there ogling how juicy my ass looks as it trembles with terror
I really hope that the writers of HS2 know full well that this feeling? the one Dave is describing here? is what many of us who got way overinvested in the well-being of Homestuck’s surviving characters felt reading the Epilogues and Homestuck^2.  So I really hope they’re working through it in a way that will result in a preponderance of GOOD THINGS happening and hope-filled situations.  Cause that “can’t even think about X” feeling is too familiar, and if they understand it as well as it LOOKS like they’re getting to, I’d really like them to give us a helping hand healing.
I think that’s what they’re going for?  Seems hopeful for me to think so, but they HAVE been doing better as HS2 has been going forward, from an emotional standpoint anyway; definitely better than the Epilogues.  And I’ve worked through some of that stuff with the help of that, because it’s MUCH easier nowadays to think about Homestuck without my gut clenching.
DAVE: i guess im just fucked up about how to worry about dirk and be angry at him at the same time DAVE: because if i get as unholy pissed at him as i sometimes wanna be i also gotta admit to myself that maybe i coulda done something different there
Mhmm, Karkat’s potentially a pretty good person to speak with here since he’s done so much work trying not to feel responsible for everything that’s ever gone wrong.
DAVE: also like DAVE: and this by the way adds a whole other layer of guilt on there that i dont really know how to fuckin reckon with but DAVE: even with all the shit hes pulled and the fact that we are more or less heading toward having to take him down DAVE: whatever that is gonna mean and whether or not he planned it like that DAVE: i just DAVE: me and him had come so far with each other and it was really cool for a while to have him and i DAVE: ugh DAVE: i dont WANT to hate him
Yeah, Dirk and Jane’s heel-turns were really shitty for anyone who was a fan of them in the fanbase, as well.
KARKAT: WELL THEN QUIT FUCKING PICKING AT THE SEAM ON MY SHORTS AND SPIT IT OUT. THEY'RE BARELY HANGING ON TO THE DEFINITION OF "SHORTS" AS IT IS.
That is an adorably real boyfriend-laying-in-boyfriend’s-lap thing to do
DAVE: the part i mentioned before about how we really have no goddamn clue how long this trip is even gonna take DAVE: i cant help but feel like its barely getting revved up DAVE: and for me and roxy and jade and callie and kan thats normal shit at best and boring at worst but we all have our immortality to thank for that DAVE: we can just dick around in space for near-eternity waiting to catch up to our friends who may or may not be our enemies now and itll be fine DAVE: i mean no itll be categorically miserable DAVE: but well survive it KARKAT: HOLD THE FUCK ON. DAVE: but you KARKAT: DAVE. DAVE: no lemme say this
Oh god damnit.  Karkat’s limited lifespan.  As if we hadn’t ALREADY covered a nauseatingly extensive gamut of disheartening topics of conversation.  We really have to confront every shred of misery in their past, present and future one after the other after the other in the Epilogues and HS2, don’t we?  >:(
I guess it had to be discussed, though.
DAVE: we dont talk about it much and i got shit to say about it DAVE: its not like i never thought about how youre mortal before but i just thought wed be able to figure it out before it mattered DAVE: come up with some kind of plan DAVE: i was just distracted being happy with you i fucking guess and so i didnt think up a way to fix it DAVE: and now thanks to dirk we have to work it out right the fuck now DAVE: because i cant spend this trip just sitting around watching you get old and die
Jesus.  I mean, WE know(?) that it’s not gonna be THAT many years, but THEY don’t know that.
Unless it really IS going to be that many years and HS2 is going to shamelessly take a fucking sledgehammer to our feelings for no goddamn good reason.  Which it won’t!  Right???  >:T
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Dishwasher ding
> Dave: Grapple with the clean, soggy consequences of the passage of time.
Hey, don’t make it a metaphor here. --though, fuck.  I suppose we are dealing with everyones dirty laundry.  God damnit.  SURE, deal with it all story but then GET IT OUT OF THE WAY AND PUT SOME SERIOUS FUN AND LAUGHS IN HERE so we don’t feel like we’re wading through an entire garbage dump!!!  *click*
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okay Karkat explain the nope you’re lodging
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*put*
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*foot*
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DAVE: ok go on
I mean I at least appreciate the time investment in adorable boyfriends.  That’s definitely something of SOME good value they’re giving us in exchange for this misery
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That Karkat image makes me wanna do that red-shaky-gif-thing with it
KARKAT: IT'S NOT LIKE I'M NEW TO THE PARTICULAR MOOBEAST WRANGLING EVENT OF SOMEONE I PREVIOUSLY LOVED BRUTALLY TURNING ON ME AND LEAVING ME TO TRY AND CRAM MY FEELINGS ABOUT THE SITUATION BACK TOGETHER ALL ON MY OWN.
True
KARKAT: HE DID THAT ON HIS OWN. AND WE MADE THE CHOICE TO GO AFTER HIM ON OUR OWN.
Yes, and you’ll possibly convince him more of that over time, though not in this short conversation
KARKAT: I WAS FOLLOWING YOUR LITTLE TRAIL OF COOKIE CRUMB FEARS UNTIL IT LEAD TO THE BIG SNACK FINALE OF WORRY ABOUT MY FRAGILE MORTAL MEATSACK. KARKAT: IF I HAVE SOMEHOW NOT BEEN CLEAR ABOUT THIS WITH YOU YET, LET ME GO AHEAD AND RECTIFY THE SITUATION RIGHT THE FUCK NOW. KARKAT: HANGING OUT WITH YOU ON THIS LONG TRIP TO WHO THE SHITTING FUCK KNOWS WHERE IS QUITE LITERALLY THE HAPPIEST I HAVE EVER BEEN IN MY ENTIRE MEAGER EXISTENCE. KARKAT: I'M SO ABSOLUTELY BLISSED THE FUCK OUT OF MY MIND TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT YOUR STUPID IMMORTALLY SMOOTH HUMAN FACE SKIN EVERY DAY AND NOT HAVE A COMPLEX ABOUT IT.
D’AWWW
And with that darkly angry expression too, that’s PERFECT
I mean it’s true.  What exactly would they be doing DIFFERENTLY on Earth C other than enjoying each other like this?  It’s pretty fucking great.
...hm.  Isn’t this journey-not-the-destination stuff pretty Breathy?  Karkat’s proving more balanced by the moment.
KARKAT: AND I'LL BE STRAIGHT WITH YOU. IT'S NOT LIKE I HAVEN'T BEEN EXPERIENCING SOME COMPLICATED GUILT, MYSELF. KARKAT: THE FACT THAT I'M HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE JUST FUCKING CHILLAXING AND BEING IN LOVE IN SPACE IS A CLEARLY INCONGRUOUS WITH THE REASON I'M ACTUALLY HERE CHILLAXING TO BEGIN WITH, AND I'M NOT LETTING MYSELF FORGET THAT, EITHER.
Pff.  He feels guilty for ENJOYING IT so much.  <3
KARKAT: BUT I RESENT THE IMPLICATION THAT MY HAPPINESS IS REGISTERING FOR YOU AS YOU HAVING TO JUST "SIT AROUND AND WATCH ME GET OLD," BECAUSE I KNOW YOU KNOW IT'S MORE THAN THAT.
I’m glad Karkat knows that DAVE knows somewhere in him that it’s more than that, because yeah, if Karkat thought he DIDN’T know that at some level that’d be a reason to take MUCH MORE SERIOUS offense.
KARKAT: LIKE, JESUS, DAVE. YOU KNOW I'M AFRAID FOR YOU, TOO, RIGHT? KARKAT: OR DID YOU FORGET THE WHOLE HEROIC DEATH THING? KARKAT: I WORRY ABOUT LOSING YOU FAIRLY FUCKING REGULARLY.
Hah!!!  Point taken.  Karkat must view Dave as practically more fragile than HIM.
KARKAT: ONE: WE'VE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH HELLACIOUS PANWARPING TRAUMA THAT I REFUSE TO NOT ENJOY THIS SHIT WHEN I FINALLY FUCKING GET IT, NO MATTER HOW LONG IT MAY OR MAY NOT LAST. KARKAT: TWO: IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE DOING NOTHING. WE’RE MOVING. WE’RE WORKING. WE’RE HEADED SPECIFICALLY TO A PLACE WHERE WE WILL UNDOUBTLEDLY ENDURE YET MORE FUCKING HELLACIOUS PANWARPING TRAUMA. KARKAT: AND THREE: WE'RE DOING THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE FRIENDS WHO WE CARE ABOUT THAT NEED US. THAT IS OUR FOCUS, HERE. NOT OUR FEAR. IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE HAVE TO SAVE. KARKAT: SO DON'T FUCKING WORRY ABOUT ME, DAVE. I'M FINE.
Okay, this is great and wholesome.  I am now retroactively GLAD that this topic got brought up.  :)
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Dave is still afraid. There is a part of him that will always be, he thinks. He has accepted this about himself. There is another feeling coursing through him too, though. It’s something he's felt before, though never quite so intensely. He looks up at Karkat and understands, viscerally, the simple power his words have. They pump through Dave’s own body, alive and warm and true.
He wonders if Karkat realizes it, or if he’s just, as always, saying what he feels as he feels it. Dave doesn’t attempt to dissect it further. There will be time for that later.
Every really loving moment like this is sort of undercut by the fact that it’s also, in some senses, part of alt!Calliope’s narration and, by extension, her fanfiction.
EDIT 2: There's also either a hint to potential Blood powers or even an explicit Blood power use here that I didn't recognize. I'm leaning towards it's-laying-the-groundwork-for-future-use-of-Blood-powers-but-isnt-magical-in-this-case.
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Smooooch!
That was nice.  Still gonna wait on doing any commentary til next time or a Bonus update or two, cause I’m beat.  See y’all next time!
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Chapter 17: The Sound Of Friction
“Where should I put this?” I ask Sebastian. 
During the ride back to the mansion, I explained the ordeal at the coffee house and told him how Arthur had helped me. He was less than impressed, promptly declaring that he would find another vendor of the product that does not display such unacceptable behaviour. I told him how I had met Shakespeare and been invited to a ball, and he said he would let le Comte know so he can get me a proper evening dress.
Upon arriving, I started helped him organize the shopping, which I am still doing now. This sack of flour is the last of it, it seems.
“Up there in the pantry. Make sure it’s high so mice can’t get to it,” he instructs. When I open the cabinet door, he immediately corrects me. “No, no, the other one! To your left.”
I have to climb on a stool in order to push the heavy sack into the shelf. Just when I am about to close the cabinet, I spot a jar of cocoa powder and grab it before jumping down onto the floor.
“I’m making hot chocolate,” I announce. “Would you like some, Seb?”
“No thanks, I still have a lot to do.” He hands me a small pot as I gather the rest of the ingredients, which is easy now that I am better acquainted with their location in the kitchen. “You know who would love some? Mozart. He practically lives off that stuff,” he says. “Now that I think of it, it’s almost his feeding time. Would you mind taking him a bottle of blanc with it?”
“Gotcha.” I haven’t seen the musician since I arrived here, though I know he has not left the mansion because I keep hearing him play. I wouldn’t mind seeing the famous music room for myself, especially given the fact that I have nothing else to do for the rest of the day.
Sebastian leaves to do laundry, leaving me to prepare the hot chocolate. When I finish, I pour it into two cups, and put them both on a tray, along with a bottle of blanc I find on a shelf.
I knock on the door to the music room only for it to open upon my touch. I could swear I just heard Mozart playing as I walked down the hallway, but now he is nowhere to be seen. Taken over by curiosity, I set down the tray on a small side table and slowly approach the piano. It is the most beautiful instrument I have ever seen, pure white and pristine like its owner. Before I know it, my hands are running along its smooth edge. I can’t help but sit on the bench when I spot the music sheet resting above the keys, and with unsure hands, I try to play what little I can decipher.
“Do not touch my piano!” Mozart must have heard me from wherever he was, because barely a few seconds after I played the first note, he barges into the room, frantically barking for me to step away from his precious instrument.
“I’m sorry, you were gone, and-”
“I don’t care,” he rudely interrupts me. “I do not want your filthy hands anywhere near any of my instruments, or my sheet music, or anything at all, for that matter. I knew you would be a bother the moment you stepped into this house.”
My eyes narrow in indignation. Had he been nicer, I would have apologized and vowed to never touch his belongings again, but he’s acting like I chose to be here. Like my sole purpose in life is to be a nuisance. Naturally, this just makes me want to annoy him more, and I know just the way to do it.
I turn back to the piano and, before he has time to protest again, my hands begin gliding over the keys, forming a melody he will surely recognize as his own. The tempo is slightly off, and my fingers slip on a few notes due to the lack of practice, but this is undoubtedly an arrangement of Leck mich im Arcsh. I taught myself how to play this canon in B-flat major when I was a teenager, for no other reason than the fact that I found it hilarious when I learned of it existence. Thank you for the laughs, Mozart, but you can kiss my ass.
To my surprise, he has grown quiet. I stop playing and glance at him over my shoulder only to see a puzzled expression on his face, accompanied by what looks like the faintest hint of a smile. Am I hallucinating right now?
“I am surprised you know that,” he states. His voice is devoid of all trace of emotion, which is quickly disappearing from his face as well. I simply shrug.
“Serves you right for being a mean, stuck up prick,” I say nonchalantly as I get up. “Anyway, I brought you this. You’re welcome.” I reach for the bottle of blanc I was meant to deliver and hand it to him.
“Blanc? No way I am drinking this garbage,” he exclaims, disgusted. Seriously, somebody needs to teach this man some manners.
“Okay, then.” I pick up the tray with the hot drinks still on it and make my way to the door. “No chocolate for you.”
Mozart’s eyes widen at the mention of the sweet drink, and I watch him reluctantly open the bottle and take a sip. The childish resignation on his face makes me laugh, but as promised, I turn around and return the tray to the table, before grabbing my own cup and sitting on the single armchair next to it. He quickly downs the blanc and exchanges the empty bottle for the hot chocolate.
“It’s... good,” he says after trying it. I suppose that is the closest I’ll get to a “thank you” from him.
“Uh-huh. Sebastian told me you liked it, so I made you some, because I am a nice person who doesn’t deserve to be yelled at like that.” I raise my eyebrows and proceed to punctuate that statement by sipping my chocolate, but I almost spit it out when he speaks again.
“Your playing was awful.”
He is not exactly wrong, but I casually give him the middle finger. I doubt he knows what it means, because he briefly looks at me and completely ignores the obscene gesture before sitting on the piano bench. He begins playing the exact same melody, and I am not sure if it’s his way of telling me to fuck off of if he just wants to show me how it’s done properly. Either way, he makes it sound incredibly and ironically beautiful, and I soon find myself enjoying just watching him play.
Halfway through the canon, he seamlessly changes to a new melody, one I have never heard before. It could be one of his lesser known pieces, but seeing the neatly stacked papers on every flat surface I am inclined to believe it is a new composition. 
I relax into the plush comfort of the armchair and close my eyes. I think Mozart has already forgotten I am there, but I don’t mind in the slightest. I enjoy listening to his music, and I am happy to find out my presence does not bother him as much as he led me to believe.
Eventually, someone knocks on the door. It is hard to tell how long I’ve stayed in this position, but it has been a good while since I finished my chocolate. Mozart stops playing and gets up to open.
“Sorry to interrupt, Wolf, but-” Jean’s eye lands on me, lounging in the back. I raise my eyebrow at the nickname, but I guess it makes sense that those two are friends. I can picture them being quietly judgemental together. “Anaïs. You’re here too,” he softly states, surprised. I smile and give him a little wave. “Le Comte wants to see you both.”
Mozart and I look at each other. I assume he is as intrigued as I am, although his face is completely expressionless, unlike my own. He silently nods and exits the room with Jean. I follow, and we part ways with the soldier to walk to le Comte’s study.
The door is open when we arrive, clearly awaiting us. I sit across from le Comte’s desk, and Mozart stands beside me. The nobleman acknowledges us with a solemn nod and a smile full of old world charm.
“Anaïs,” he finally speaks. “Sebastian tells me you have been invited to a ball, correct?” I nod. I wonder what this has to do with Mozart. “It is my understanding that Mozart here will be performing at the same event. He needs a suitable companion for someone of his status, and I think you would be perfect for the occasion, ma chérie.”
Well, that explains it. And I do not like it one bit. Mozart and I exchange another look, his face mirroring the indignation on my own this time. He opens his mouth to protest, but is cut off by le Comte.
“You both need companions for the same ball, yes? This is the best solution to this problem. Any reasonable adult could see that.” His tone is almost fatherly, full of gentle authority. Damnit, I can’t say no to him. I sigh, defeated by the way he looks at me.
“Ugh, fine! I’ll do it,” I give in. “But only because I intended to go anyway.”
Mozart takes longer to answer, but eventually cracks too.
“Remember our deal, Comte. You owe me. And you,” he turns to me, “you better learn how to dance properly. I will not be humiliated by my companion’s lack of etiquette.” There it is. That stupid mean attitude of his. I was beginning to wonder where it went.
I roll my eyes, and he purposefully storms off. With Mozart gone, I turn to le Comte, and give him a pleading look that practically says “why are you doing this to me?”.
“Well, that was disappointing. And terribly awkward, you know he is not the easiest person to get along with.”
“Forgive me, ma chérie,” le Comte laughs. “You two arrived together. Were you having an argument?”
“Something like that,” I sigh, pinching the bridge of my nose. “I touched his piano.”
“Oh my. I am glad to see you made it out alive and well, in that case,” he jokes. “You know, I had to bribe him with a new bench just for him to agree to perform. The host of the ball is a dear friend of mine, and he has been begging me to invite Mozart on his behalf ever since he heard one of his new pieces. Of course, he knows him by a different name.”
That explains the mention of their deal. In the few days I have been here, I have not seen Mozart so much as step outside of his room, so it does not surprise me that he needs to be bribed in order to leave the mansion at all.
“Speaking of friends,” I change the topic, “Sebastian must have told you I met Shakespeare today. Did something happen between you two?”
“Well...” le Comte begins, leaning back into his chair. “We have our differences, but I am his sire, after all, and I care for him dearly. He simply decided he did not wish to live here anymore, so now he has his own house in the outskirts of Paris,” he explains. “Vincent visits him quite frequently. They are good friends.”
Of course Vincent would be the one to befriend the playwright. Much like the sunflowers he paints, that man is the physical embodiment of a ray of sunshine.
“Back to the ball, however... I must get you a gown fit for a princess, ma chérie. Do you have a particular style in mind?” he inquires.
“I trust your good taste, Comte,” I shake my head with a smile, but I perk up as something occurs to me. “Actually, there is something...” I unbutton the cuff of my sleeve and roll it up as far as I can, exposing the tattoos that litter my pale skin. “Anything that can cover these. They go pretty high up, so sleeves and gloves, maybe? I am not very familiar with the evening fashion of this time.”
Le Comte’s eyes widen at the sight of the dark ink on my arm, reminding me that he had not seen them until now, not to this extent. To be fair, the sleeves of my chemise covered most of them when he assisted with tying my corset.
“Gloves will do just perfectly,” he declares. “The very long ones are quite the trend with the ladies, nowadays.” 
“Great.” I roll my sleeve back down, and catch him staring intently. The way he watches me is reverent, rather than uncomfortable. I can tell he is simply admiring the tattoos, but he refrains from voicing his curiosity, I presume to avoid being indiscrete. “Thank you, Comte.”
“It is my pleasure, ma chérie,” he smiles.
Before I leave, I stop to look at the large hourglass in the corner. The pile of sand at the bottom has become the slightest bit taller since I arrived, but most of it remains the same, what looks like an eternity resting on the top portion of the glass, barely trickling down.
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