#sorry. the brainworms.

[smokestarrules]

Suletta saying love me. love me please. I’ll do anything. I’ll kill for you, I’ll listen to you, I love you. love me and let me stay. vs Miorine going hate me. hate me. I need you to hate me because I love you. I need you to run away, to stop loving me, to be safe. hate me and it will be worth it in the end. hate me and leave. (Suletta saying love me, please love me, please don’t leave me)

#sorry. the brainworms. #it's just abt the miscommunication yes but it's not really a misunderstanding. #they both want to protect each other So goddamn much BECAUSE of their past losses and/or fears and it's those fears that keep them from #meeting in the middle. prospera has raised suletta in such a way that she believes her only worth is what other people make of her. miorine #has grown up to believe that her worth is based on herself. so this disparity comes from suletta going Please see me like I see you and #miorine responding with Please believe in yourself like I believe in myself. #and therein lies the issue: neither of them are Correct but that's the difference in how they've navigated their lives. it's just. so #convoluted and fucked up and it's Interesting.......... anyway. I'm normal #mobile suit gundam the witch from mercury #g witch #miorine rembran #suletta mercury #sulemio #smokey speaks #500

[raineyraven]

c!eretbur really are just like. yes they're married with three kids yes they're an old divorced couple yes they're awkwardly in love teenagers yes they're yearning narrative foils. you get me.

#sorry. the brainworms. #button duo #eretbur #/rp #dsmp #dsmpshipping

[blorbopolis]

starting to understand one another

#there's no gale in this im sorry #lae'zel #tav #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #sune #act 1 sune #oh yeah i guess karlach's in there too #karlach #it's not laezel's fault everyone speaks in riddles and she's the only one brave enough to be mean #i dated lae'zel in act 1 before the wizard brainworms took over #shes always my beloved ex gf

[isjasz]

The Promised Neverland manga spoilers!

[Day 201]

Everyone blame cherrysherin2 (go check out this art that made me absolutely lose it) I take no responsibility

#dddaily4sherin #The Promised Hermitopia #desert duo #grian #goodtimeswithscar #ft cub cameo #trafficblr #my art #comic #tw blood #tw impalement #tw scopophobia #dialogue taken from chapter 93 of the tpn manga ofc!! as well as some panel redraws but i changed a lot around #this got out of hand sO INCREDIBLY QUICK HELP ITS NOT SUPPOSED OT BE FULLY COLORED #so sorry to the people that have absolutely no context I swear im planning to do a premise comic thingy soon (probably) #im just struggling to design xisuma bc how the HELL DO U MAKE HIM XISUMA WITHOUT THE HELMET ASJKDHAHUD O7 #this au is not only living in my brain rent free. its brainworms are eating up the fucking walls

[trashmancer]

Another Gale I drew today because I have no self control

#I have brainworms #gale dekarios #bg3 fanart #my art #his hand looks so wonky but honestly I wasn’t paying attention to that when I drew this #sorry for the art spam

[taakitz]

ATLA (zukka….) au where everything is mostly the same except that the phrase “friend of the Avatar” is a euphemism for being gay, a la the phrase friend of Dorothy

(the phrase started towards the start of the 100 year war because in this universe Avatar Roku was some flavor of gay, then Sozin canonically banned gay marriage after their situationship went downhill. so people had to be more subtle about communicating their identities, something something something, the phrase became semi-commonplace throughout the fire nation and later the earth kingdom. maybe it started even earlier because of bi queen kyoshi. who knows!)

miscommunication and self-discovery ensues throughout the events of ATLA:

early on into his banishment and search for the avatar, Zuko runs into someone who casually mentions that they’re a “friend of the Avatar” and he’s immediately like “THE AVATAR IS ALIVE? WHERE ARE THEY. TELL ME”

…he learns a new phrase that day! perhaps he didn’t even know gay people existed until that awkward encounter (bc sheltered fire nation royal.) maybe he does some self reflection at this point, or perhaps he puts off his sexuality crisis in favor of his avatar hunting mission. who’s to say?

(the next time he hears someone say they’re “a friend of the avatar” he asks if they’re gay or if they actually know the avatar. you know, just in case they actually do.

….and the next time after that, too.

but after that he catches on pretty quickly that, no, it’s REALLY just a turn of phrase, and he does not repeat the mistake again.)

+ early into the series events sokka runs into some confusion when he mentions to a stranger that he’s a friend of the avatar while aang isn’t around—

sokka: hey so uhh i’m actually a friend of the avatar… think i can get a discount for that??

kindly ally shopkeeper: oh! i love that for you!! you know, i have a cousin who’s gay, real swell guy. anyways about the discount—

book one sokka, canonically sexist and with perhaps a fragile masculinity: what wait a sec, IM NOT GAY??????

shopkeeper: oh that’s okay, you don’t have to explain yourself or put a label on it to me (:

(sokka does in fact get a discount.)

he walks back to katara who was waiting for him and overheard the whole conversation, and she says “you know, sokka, it’s fine if you like boys.” sokka responds as you’d expect he would at this time.

(some amount of time later, sokka comes up to katara and aang very nervously and says “hey guys. i think i might. um. be a friend of the Avatar.”

and aang, confused but enthusiastic, goes “aww buddy, we’re already friends!!!!”)

at some point they’re fighting Zuko and during a back-and-forth exchange, Sokka proclaims “i won’t let you hurt him, the Avatar is my friend!” or something to that effect

Zuko, who has learned from his past mistakes in misconstruing this phrase, says “love is love. but your sexuality will not stop me from capturing the Avatar”

#i have brainworms sorry. #zukka #atla #a:tla #avatar the last airbender #long post #god. sorry. #zuko as the edward elric meme: I See No Difference. Love Is Love #sorry if this makes light of the actual historical implication of the phrase #i am just here for a fun time

[blackcurrant-juice]

drawing prsk npcs that like 5 people care about

#iori #arata tono #prsk #pjsk #project sekai #can art #sorry i like their outfits lol?????????? #anyway rushed bc i have an exam tmr but!!! brainworms come first

[were-changing-cake-vaults]

Gem would like to pretend that things are normal around Magic Mountain.

Or, well, that everyone else is normal, and she’s keeping all the weirdness to herself. She’s the one who decided to go a little creepy this season, after all, and as far as she can tell, she’s the only one smelling the rot coming from the river. All her neighbors should be fine, and have only commented that her boat burns a lot of coal fumes that sort of reek. It’s definitely not rot, and things are normal for them, and they are decidedly abnormal for her.

Which is fine! Gem wants her friends safe! Sure, she’s been hearing weird gurgling noises from the flooded caves that line the beaches, but she’s probably just hallucinating. Or maybe Scar is smacking salmon heads on note blocks again, despite living on the other side of the mountain. And sure, Impulse died and came back completely washed of color, but that’s just a demise thing. It’s just the creepy she dragged along with her- Joel’s totally fine, and that’s enough evidence for her.

Well, it would be if not for the fact that the salmon she’s been getting from fishing are starting to look…strange, all sharp-finned and much slimier than normal. And the cod, too, have far too many gills, like gashes down their sides. Grian pulls up a fish one afternoon and Gem swears it’s got six eyes, but Grian only remarks them as “weird patterning” and shoves it right into the furnace for cooking.

He’s been eating a lot of fish, recently, straight from this very river, the one that smells of rot. Caught them all himself. He’s also been fishing a lot- Gem doesn’t know the last time he worked on his base. He keeps trying to dredge up a book. She asks him one day why he keeps going if he’s already got a ton of books from the water, and he sounds haggard when he replies:

“The book, Gem. I’m not looking for a book. I’m looking for the book. It’ll give me all the answers I need. I haven’t found it yet, but the ocean will provide for me. I know it’s the next one.”

Something in the way he looks at her makes her gut twist. His eyes are empty, glossed over, and she knows the joke is that he looks like a cod, but it’s- he’s different, now, washed out and shiny skin, little to no meat on his bones, bags like pits under his soulless eyes. Something about the way he phrased that—the ocean will provide for me—makes her spine recoil back, feet dragged backwards towards her boat. A fear-stricken laugh bubbles up Gem throat as she tries to remember the last time he wasn’t fishing. When was the last time he slept?

Come to think of it, when was the last time she slept? Isn’t there a warning for those who stay up too late?

And when she tells him it’s an addiction, Grian just laughs it off, throws his rod into the sea, and pats the seat next to him. And then there she is, fishing alongside him, like she was always doing. She was planning to do this, yes. More and more of Magic Mountain arrives, plus Etho, who brings along a disc to put them in the mood. It’s a swan song.

The ocean sings back. It gives her an image of a great tall lighthouse, cherished by watery angels, who dance around it. It gives her the size, the colors, the materials to recreate it in verse. She smiles. It tells them all to knock another hermit off the list of survivors. She grins.

Before turning to join the group on their quest, Gem looks into the water one last time. Staring back is a well-kept woman with long, shiny red hair.

There is a book in her hand.

#woosh writes #dredge spoilers #hermitcraft #geminitay #grian #magic mountain #oceans calling au #I HAD BRAINWORMS!!!! I! HAD! BRAINWORMS!!!! #sorry some elements here do have spoilers for the main twist in dredge so if you haven’t played or seen the game already this will spoil it #but cmon guys. cmon #this has been stuck in my head all day

[perpetualcynicism]

“May I hold you?” you ask Jing Yuan one afternoon as you lie sun-warmed in his garden. 

You almost think he is asleep until he invites, “Please,” carrying a smile in his voice. 

With ginger movements, you reach over and place your hands on either side of his face. It begins as mere holding, but soon you find your touch roaming. You smooth your fingers over his eyebrows and trace down to each side of his jaw. From here your hands climb up again, and once more back down, mapping out each crevice and dip of his face, his skin, his bone, until you are certain there is no part of him remaining that you do not know better than you know yourself.

You play this game with yourself, sometimes. You imagine people not as people, but as planets. After all, what is a person anyway, if not a world of their own? You trace the ridge of his nose, and imagine there lies a mountain range. Around his eyes you find oceans. Where his cheeks dip, there are valleys, and a river runs between his lips.

“What are you doing?” Jing Yuan asks. There is an element of amusement to his question, but his voice is primarily gentle. Endeared.

You still your hands. They rest on his cheeks while your thumbs brush back and forth over his skin, holding him. Though the world melts back into the familiar shapes of his face, there is still an assured sturdiness to his features which is grounding; a gravity which draws you towards him, as if you were the moon to his planet. Small, perhaps, and bare, but casting light on him wherever you can.

You answer, “I think I’m holding the world in my hands.”

You feel Jing Yuan’s smile through the way his cheeks press into your palms. Two hands cover yours, large and calloused, but gentle, and hold yours securely in place against his face. There is the tender press of lips to your skin as he turns his head enough to kiss the inside of your palm.

You hear Jing Yuan’s smile through the way his words come warm and bright and filled with adoration. You wonder why you thought him a planet, when he is so clearly the sun.

“And I am being held by the universe.”

#i’m sorry i don’t know what this is #it’s past midnight and i needed to get this brainworm out #my thoughts are literally comprised of jing yuan these days and i don’t know how to fix it #enjoy this random and hopefully not-too-pretentiously-written drabble i suppose #(my writing style goes weird after midnight sometimes and i mistake myself for a poet (which i am most certainly not)) #honkai star rail x reader #jing yuan x reader #jing yuan

[samuelroukin]

#indirect kiss my beloved TAIKA WAITITI as Blackbeard & CON O'NEILL as Izzy Hands in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022— ) Episode 2.06

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #izzy hands #edward teach #blackbeard #taika waititi #con o'neill #tvedit #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 #gradient text #sorry i have brainworms real bad and they can only be cured by on screen se- [gunshot] #ben.gif

[joljulep]

had to draw this merry christmas based on this post

#mp100 #reigen arakata #reigen arataka #shigeo kageyama #my art #sorry moots the brainworms got me #ill finish by late jan prob

[u3pxx]

wtf!!!!! klapollo yuri???!???!?!?

#sorry the fem!disco art has been giving me brainworms and it seeped into the klapolly dfgdhjd #hits fem!apollo with the butchification beam. anyways DFGHD #there is something near and dear to my heart abt nothing changing <- does that with their own gender #also pls do know that klavier would also wear that fit. in fact i might doodle that too someday pftt #sunnysiderambles #sunnysidedoodles #genderbend #<- blacklisting purposes #sunnysideattorney

[ssalballoon]

ah yes my favorite rogue ast... vax'ildan? (aka gale has hair envy + hairswap... kinda)

this is purely self indulgent + wanted to try some unconventional (radioactive) color palettes for them

these two r my favs from dnd related media + ylfa from never after but idk as much about it? caleb + jester will probably join this group lol but m9 needs to get animated first bcs... i'm not watching all those streams man

hey isn't this almost the exact color spectrum dogs can see

#every few months i've been searching “vox machina s3 news” bro PLEASE titmouse i need this so bad u dont understand #i've only watched the animation so please don't spoil anything;; #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #bg3 fanart #my art #vax'ildan #legend of vox machina #sorry astarion vax was the first rogue in my heart ... his va was already giving me brainworms (+heartbreak) years back

[theartingace]

The delivery and facial expressions delivering these lines. Killed me on the spot

#sorry the cr brainworms are back in full force #critical role #laudna #vexahlia #imogen #c3 #bells hells #cr

[kitamars]

downtime

#sorry guys the hospital yuri brainworms took me over again #it’s just. such a good time #almost makes you forget the impending horrors #maybe in a sweeter life that bubble wouldn’t need to be broken #it could just be all that there is #but for now they could still have this #and as much as that kills me what could be more wonderful than that? #fuck. i hate them #i didn’t ask for these emotions TAKE THEM BACK #you know what to say #partners (affectionately derogatory) #vash #vash the stampede #wolfwood #nicholas d. wolfwood #vash x wolfwood #vashwood #trigun #trigun maximum #ok bye

[daily-grian]

Due to my strong personal conviction i wish to stress that this daily blog in no way endorses a belief in the occult

#the rift has got me thinking about this album again #sorry my brainworms won on this one #mcyt #grian #hermitcraft #grian fanart #daily-grian #mod finch #spirit phone #lemon demon #professor beak