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bonefall · 5 months

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Does leopard still have 3 lives in her final battle? Or was that changed?

Yep. I think she drowned her once, then Leopardstar lunges up refreshed, and she gets the upper paw on Mistyfoot with 2 lives to go.

(MAYBE tw gore, but I really did try to be tasteful about a head being smashed on a rock.)

On her back, splashing and thrashing furiously against Leopardstar's claws dunking her head under, Mistyfoot glimpses a wave breaking just over the tip of a stone-blue rock. Her only chance.

With a surge of power, her claws sink into her leader's golden shoulder and they tumble and roll to the right. Before the tyrant even realizes what's happening, she's yanked up, and then whipped backwards with a wet CRUNCH

And then again

And again

And again, until Mistyfoot can't even make out what's left of her leader anymore. All she can see is that it's a red, brown, and yellow blur, because her eyes burning with salty tears and her whole body is trembling.

She drops the corpse onto the stone and it slides into the water, lifelessly. After a moment it spasms aimlessly one last time, like an insect does after its head is bitten off, unlike the deliberate, agonized throes of Tigerstar suffering through his doomed lives. And then it's still.

There's only the tranquil sound of bubbling water, and Mistyfoot's frenzied panting. Her pounding heart makes it hard to hear either.

The blood is carried off by the shallow water in scarlet swirls, but the lake runs pale red as if it's washing it away. Some were aware of this prophecy, but Mistyfoot was not.

It isn't closure to her, or a fulfillment of divine decree. It's just blood that should be on her paws, slicked away by the complicit river. She wished it could feel like it's over, but she's smart enough to know the truth. Has been through enough terrible events like this to understand what comes next.

Her body will move foward. Her mind will need to consider her deputy. Her paw will come down on code-defying cats like Blackclaw and Greenflower. But her heart will stay here, next to the remains of Leopardstar, the same way another piece of it remains at Stonefur's side across space and time.

#Tw gore #Juuuust in case but I did try to stay tasteful #While also trying to write it as gut-wrenchingly violent as I imagine in my head #Because it's important that it haunts her #The kill wasn't pretty and clean. It was awful. She didn't want this. It wasn't heroic #'Why did you do this to me? Why did you make this so cruel?'#'Why was the last thing you ever did to me such a horrible command as a leader?'#'And why did I obey your orders until the bitter bitter end?'#'How could you turn my defiance into a new kind of cruel obediance? Did I not suffer ENOUGH for you?'#'And now there is no head to bury with your body. I am cursed with the last memory of your face. I alone will know how you looked at me'#'That the last expression on your face wasn't pain or confusion or realization.'#'It was all fury. For me.'#OF COURSE tho I will continue to make funny rock jokes until the day I die lmaoo #Duality of Bones #Hmm maybe when I get to this in BB!TNP I'll be quick and objective about it and save the Misty Emotions for like...#I miss how the field guides used to have stories told in 1st person.#It would be fun to have a BB!Mistystar Speaks #Because I do LOVE writing Misty's verbose and philosophical speeches.#As you can see from the tags lmao #BB!Mistystar #Better bones au

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your-average-multifandom-mess · 1 year

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Wylan Van Eck at the sight of rare butterflies: Wow. look at these incredible and unique rare creatures. I’m going to spout copious amounts of facts about them whilst I think about how lucky I am to be witnessing this right now.

Wylan Van Eck about five minutes later: eat the pissing butterflies you fuckers or die

#perfectly summed up both sides of him tbh #if duality was a character #wylan van eck #shadow and bone #six of crows #crooked kingdom #jesper fahey #crows #crow club #kaz brekker #inej gafha #nina zenik #mattias helvar #wesper #helnik #kanej #wesper supremacy #this is why they waited until season two to introduce him they knew he would be too powerful

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beanslushee · 9 months

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okay but do you remember kaz’s encounter with smeet’s little girl?

“because if you do, i’ll slit your mother’s throat and then your father’s, and then i’ll cut out the hearts of all these sweet slobbering hounds. i shall save Duke Silverhaunch for last so that you will know it’s all your fault.”

he did that and went out of his way to rub a dog’s belly in the same fucking house. in the same fucking chapter. the duality of this man.

#and then kaz casually said that it was that or snap her neck and make it look like she fell off the stairs. hello????#i let out the ugliest wailing soung and then started laughing hysterically because what the heck man #kaz brekker the man that you are #the duality of kazzle dazzle #inej ghafa #wylan van eck #shadow and bone #six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse #kaz brekker

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five-of-cr · 3 months

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the crows as reductress headlines: part 2

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olisgifs · 1 year

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#interesting narrative choices were made

#mal oretsev #nikolai lantsov #malkolai #malkolaiedit #shadow and bone #sab #shadowandboneedit #shadowandbonesource #shadowandbonecentral #janielook #userk8 #underbetelgeuse #userrobin #usersunny #*gifs #posting malina and immediately following it by posting malkolai #ECFGVHE the duality of man

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infamous-if · 10 months

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Seven: I'm punk rock. I'm badass. I live life on the edge. My name is 'Lawless' for crying out loud. I have no fear-

Also Seven:

Hides in their metaphorical shell whenever they get overwhelmed.

#sneak peek #their duality #actually not duality #i dont think seven has a 'badass' bone in their body tbh #seven lawless

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fumifooms · 15 days

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Canines

The hand that feeds

Mickbell Tomas & Kuro Dungeon Meshi

^ 1: Ink-the-artist, I will remove my teeth / 2: Margaret Atwood / 3: C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy / 4: Mitski, I’m your man / 5: Ojibwa, I love you like a rotten dog / 6: KotOR II / 7: Stardrop, Everything that’s ever been mine is covered in teeth marks / 8: Sodikken, People Eater / 9: Mitski, I’m your man / 10: maxime., The life and death of a dog / 11: Mitski, I bet on losing dogs / 12: maxime., The life and death of a dog / 13: hun, I did not bite with Malice / 14: C. Michael Davis, Don't Pet the Dragon / 15: Mitski, I’m your man

v 1: Early versions of the myth as in aeschylus orestes / 2: Ink-the-artist, I will not remove my teeth

#Yeahh i’m workng on a mickbell & kabru party analysis oops #I’d bleed for anything if it held me the right way. Even teeth #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #Mickbell tomas #kuro #mickuro #mickrin #It’s on topic in my heart #The red means I love you…#The duality between the care & devotion and the hurt & isolation is really what gets to me #Traumabonded kittens highkey #Tw #cw #cw abuse #tw abuse #Web weaving #web weave #webweaving #I hit 30 pics :( would have added more if i could #Idk even anymore… Pls tell me you see the vision #Mick obvi loves Kuro a lot but this was meant to focus on the unhealthy side if that wasn’t obvious. Abuse tactic of isolation etc etc #People always leave. doesn’t matter how or why but his parents his sister everyone he’s never enough to stay #and that’s why he thinks he has to trick Kuro into thinking Mickbell’s the whole world or he’ll discover that there’s more out there.#Stuff that’s worth leaving him for. He has to make the world scary and unknown and not pay him and not let him have connections #That’s why he doesn’t want people to have a choice!! Either Mickbell doesn’t care about you or he’ll make sure you can never be without him #and there being a third option/outcome in this freaks him out!!!#Some of these should be called ‘No Title’ instead but I have bad academic crediting etiquette this looks cooler sorry #He’s scared of course he bites. There’s only throwing bones when feeding a stray. So bare your teeth and chew me up

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dustykneed · 3 months

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The Doctor is hurting, Spock realises, and it sinks like a stone in his chest, terrible and suffocating-- he has been hurting for very, very long. Leonard clings to his shirt and he shakes and shakes and does not seem to be capable of stopping.

Spock has never seen him so fractured.

Spock has never been so terrified in his life.

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in spirit a semi-continuation of yesterday's insane word dump: in fact the long story short before spock drags bones to jim is bones breaking down in front of spock when spock tries to bring him to jim, spock being very worried because the logical solution to him is to make them talk and he doesn't understand why bones is so desperately, vehemently against the idea of talking to jim at the moment. ("Doctor- Leonard, might I ask, are you opposed to conversing with Jim indefinitely, or temporarily?") and they talk and he begins to understand that bones needs time to adjust and to heal (in the sense that you're supposed to adjust to food in small portions after a period of starvation, bones needs time to adjust to knowing that spock (and jim, too, but he can't make himself believe it at the moment) care for him as much as he does them).

personally about aos jim vs tos jim (solely based off of vibes and whatever i've picked up from absolutely barrelling through the trek tags on ao3 every few weeks): in my head tos jim is much more in touch with the emotional needs of the people he's closest with and he's very good at wading through the hangups or navigating the boundaries of the rest of the triumvirate, while aos jim is very >:333 and he's got that bright-eyed, bushy-tailed sort of enthusiasm about everything that catches his eye and that results in him being less attuned to other people's unspoken emotional needs. and to expand on this i strongly headcanon that aos spock in fact takes on tos jim's emotional attunement more quickly than aos jim himself (partially because it is incredibly interesting but also it makes so much sense in my head. seriously when i have more brain juice ill yell about it more) LIKE. for aos spock and bones, they get each other on an emotional level and it scares the hell out of both of them but they make it work incredibly well.

if y'all read this far thank you so much !!! appreciate y'all so much here's some aos spones (pre mcspirk?) fluff as your reward (BONES TUMMY BONES TUMMY BONES T) (ABSOLUTE CUTIES BOTH OF THEM)

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or-we-could-take-a-walk-together · 6 months

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no thoughts just jesper making jokes during the goodbye scene because that’s his way of coping then waiting for inej to get out of ear shot and only then allowing himself to break down

#i’d like to have a chat with the netflix employee who decided that deleting this masterpiece of a scene was a good idea #kit young #the duality of this man #shadow and bone #jesper fahey #inej ghafa #six of crows #shadow and bone season two #shadow and bone cast #six of crows cast #amita suman

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jazzy-a · 1 year

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Inej to Kaz, heartbroken: And how will you have me? Gloves on? Fully clothed? Head turned so our lips will never touch?

Jesper in every fanfic to the exact same conditions: That sounds hot.

#god bless him haha #like in EVERY ONE Jesper is just like yep yeah I can make this work whatever you can give is good enough for me!#I mean I want an OT3 i love trios #shadow and bone #six of crows #polycrows #kaz brekker #jesper fahey #inej ghafa #kanej #kazper #kesper #I just think the duality is hilarious here #Jesper is a bi disaster ready for EVERYTHING and I love him so much for that #In fanfics he is always like 'OKAY I can make this WORK!'

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shesalittlelost · 3 days

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Time to bring this back. She is so real for this lmao.

#the darkling #leigh bardugo #he is a monster AND a small baby 🥰🤍#the duality of man #aleksander morozova #posts #grishaverse #shadow and bone

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shadowofaghost5 · 7 months

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“Orin’s lucky to have you.” … He didn’t correct her.

Sketchbook doodle turned digital art; here’s more Aaron Fox’s Tounge and Kirin’s Bone for you. This line lives rent-free in my head.

@muffinlance

#fox’s tounge and kirin’s bone #This is my first time adding an image ID so I hope it both works (you never know with tumblr) and the description is good enough #Also i had an unnecessary amount of struggle with that shirt #I didn’t want to render Aaron’s Coat™ so initially I gave him just a green shirt since that looks good on my rendition of him #Also aaron would appreciate a bit of a camouflage methinks #But it blended too much with the background so i tried brown but that didnt look good so i went with blue which worked ig #So yeah that’s the Shirt Situation #Meanwhile me drawing the background:#“What’s the minimum amount of trees I gotta draw to make this look like a forest and can I get away with even less?”#Duality of man etc etc #Fanart

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mud-castle · 8 months

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There's something satisfying about making fool/jester inspired character designs.

#Brick and Sol my beloveds #And also Hollyleaf but for much meaner reasons #ah the duality of jesters and clowns and the like #being made to amuse and distract while also being unnerving and sometimes in media the cleverest person in the room #or the most dangerous in their case #unfortunately Sol's character is mostly just vibes. And I hate that he's an outside force like nooo. not the message I want #making him a spirit is a maybe but I don't knooowww #Brick Bone and Scourge are all different types of dangerous which I love.#If you have not noticed by now I am overly attached to Eye of Stars Bloodclan #I could talk about the three leads for so long from their relatioships to their designs and I haven't even finished writing their stories.

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archiveofourcrows · 1 year

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the person i will become if we don't get s3 and specifically wylan's identity/past reveal. but also the person i will become if we do....

#the duality of man or whatever #i just need s3 so bad 😭😭#shadow and bone spoilers #shadow and bone 2 #shadow and bone #soc #six of crows #wylan van eck #wesper #shitposts from crow

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soldier-poet-king · 2 months

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I am slowly trying and learning to be more comfortable with unanswerable complexity. Everything is both wonderful and terrible. 'Despite everything it's still you' is both a curse and a blessing. Life is just like. How beautiful. How awful. Is it more accurately, awe-ful? I don't know, it's a both/and, perhaps.

#its the. i love you. itll pass #ykwim???#im going to bed but also. its so much. there is so much.#im full to bursting with it. and yet i am starving and hungrier than ive ever been #i will never be satisfied.#i should read more historical figures journals except that would probably make me more insufferable #me reading fuckin like. kafka everyday. god. i would be even more annoying and PRETENTIOUS #im just. trying to wring meaning of it all. and love. i am so hungry and so bone deep weary #the duality of fran

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diorsbrando · 7 months

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that undead man andy…..had me biting my finger whole time bc why are you like this ??? why do you behave this way ?? why are you so cool? why is your dick not nestled deep in my guts?????? hello????

#ʬʬ.sosa speaks.com #undead unluck #like i KNOWWWW ik it’s big #every fiber of my being is telling me so #it’s huge and veiny #bc why did the censor thing so long #bc it’s big and his balls hang low !!!!!#the way he can be serious and endearing in addition to his rambunctious demeanor #duality in a man >>>>>>#and THE WAYYYY he tilted izumo’s chin up to give her a haircut?????!#girl.#had me in shambles #idk how she ain’t jump his bones he strong and he fine it reeks of himbo #squatting in front of me suddenly my lips are kissing your balls🤷🏾‍♀️#anyway im talking too much maybe im ovulating

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