#I wasn't sure about this one

[theartingace]

So after many people kept putting some very confusing posts somehow connect by a mysterious book series on my dash I finally borrowed Gideon the Ninth from the library and dear lord. I'm halfway through I was not expecting to love this strange conglomeration of settings, tropes and characters as much as I do. Excellent vibe, delightful writing style and use of first person, love this meathead enjoying her vacation locked in a haunted rundown murder-monastery very interested to see how literally any of the posts I have seen regarding this series winds up relating to what I have read so far.

#Gideon the Ninth #the locked tomb #no spoilers #i'm only halfway through the first book #gideon nav #sci-fi in MY high fantasy?? #more likely than you think #as someone who usually reads exclusively high-fantasy #and usually only tolerates scifi in certain circumstances #I wasn't sure about this one #but man I love the weird mix this series just grabs and mashes together #delightful

[frogwynwebber]

Chapters: 17/17 Fandom: Merlin (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Merlin & Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) Characters: Merlin (Merlin), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) Additional Tags: Arthur Pendragon Returns (Merlin), Confused Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Arthur Knows About Merlin's Magic (Merlin), Slow Burn, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Resurrection, Humor, Attempt at Humor, Renaissance Faires, Merlin is So Done (Merlin), Arthur Loves Humanity, Immortal Merlin (Merlin), Modern Era, Merlin is irritated all the time but he’s doing his best not to kill the vibes, Original Character(s), Banter, Homoeroticism, Canon-Typical Violence, Protective Merlin (Merlin), Sexual Tension, Drunken Confessions, spirit freya, Necromancy, Plot, Plot Twists, I cannot stress the angst tag enough, Or the necromancy tag, or the plot twist tag, lots of stuff going on is what I’m trying to say Summary:

When Arthur rises from the Lake, it isn't immediately clear what new purpose he's meant to be fulfilling this time around. Thrown into a strange new world with strange new problems and next to no clue what to do about them, Arthur finds solace in the only two things that remain from his old life:

Merlin, and the mysterious stranger who wants Arthur dead.

Just like old times.

#ao3 #fanfic #merlin #merthur #my recs #I wasn't sure about this one #but the writing was very good so I kept going #then I hit the twist and it made the entire thing great

[deuteragonist1]

Merthur really have it all huh. King and lionheart dynamic. Fucking hate at first sight then speedrun to trying to die for the other. Slow burn? Never heard of her. One of them wears gloves and one doesn't and I'm not even gonna bother to explain why that is top fucking tier. Lies and secrets that could bring about the doom of the kingdom. Obviously adore each other but will actually fucking die before saying it with actual words. The prince is a gigantic asshole who doesn't know how to show care or ask for attention like a person who had healthy emotional development as a child and oscillates between pulling pigtails and acting like an over-eager puppy or both at the same time. Domesticity levels previously unheard of. They canonically wear each other's clothes. One of them makes up words and the other promptly starts using them. Both are extremely into the other's specific brand of dumbassery. Their love language is fucking playing together. "I don't want you to change" fuck this fuck everything

#also i just thought about arthur using one of merlin's made-up words in front of uther at dinner or something #and uther is like come again???? #also i said hate at first sight but i'm pretty sure that was entirely one-sided #it came from merlin's side in case that wasn't clear #arthur got tingles from this peasant boy insulting him and didn't know how to deal with it so he threw him in the stocks #argue with the wall #when merlin isn't there he is just so fucking lost #imagine being a servant in camelot like #oh here's the king. wandering about the castle in his nightclothes again #checking corners for his daydrinking servant #again #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #bbc arthur #arthur pendragon #merthur

[ruporas]

all I wanted was to save them... (ID in alt)

#nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #tw blood #let me know if there's any other tags i need to use!!! not sure if it counts as gore #ruporas art #*vash voice* YOU ARE NOT WRONG/LOST WOLFWOOD!!!!!! #i think very often about ch 49 where wolfwood thought it was fr over for him for that brief moment. he was already bearing with so much #fatigue that it wasn't going to be enough for him to fight back properly.. and ough... augh..... for the first time after bearing that cros #someone saved him. someone saved himmmm AUGHHHH <-- guy who can't be normal about it even though its been 7 months since i read it #but he's suffered alone for so long and continued to do so because it's all he ever knew in those short years #and its devastating. his one and only desire was simple and it was still difficult for him to reach T_T #anyway... i love him... holds him tenderly in my palms

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I have never seen this man in my life.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jin guangyao #jin guangshan #xue yang #nie mingjue #Surprise guest appearance from Xue Yang! It feels so nostalgic to draw him. #I love how chipper he is here. Genuinely being such a bro to JGY and celebrating his achievement. #After all his trials and tribulations - Our Little Yao Yao has acquired the recognition he wanted. #I sure hope no further twists happen with his political career and/or marriage! #NMJ *does* strike me as a 'babe' guy. I don't know what it is about him. #He has one term of endearment. Unlike LXC who has a terrifying arsenal. You'll never hear the same one twice. #Xue yang's terms of endearment are 'murdering that guy for you'. And slapping your ass affectionately and platonically. #God damn it I miss Xue Yang. This wasn't supposed to happen

[zecoritheweirdone]

hehehehehhooo,, decided to draw some hermits as the mystery skulls animated gang!! why? uhhh mostly just 'cause.

special thanks to the ibaaf server for helping me pick the roles! gem is vivi,, false is arthur,, pearl is lewis,, and etho is mystery!!

better pic of pearl under the cut, where you can how lazy i am,,ms ksmsksjs

#my art #hermitcraft #mystery skulls animated #falsesymmetry #geminitay #ethoslab #pearlescentmoon #falsesymmetry fanart #geminitay fanart #ethoslab fanart #pearlecentmoon fanart #this wasn't supposed to have this much effort put into it. and then it took five hours. #chose etho's role first cuz i really like the kitsune etho headcanon #(yes his collar has a maple leaf on it) #and the lil deadbeats are a bunch of lil tillys!! #we also gave roles to some of the other characters. bdubs is shiromori and cub is reverb/???/possession guy #sorry guys; you're antagonists now 😔 #actually i don't think cub would mind this #also i refuse to think any harder about what bdubs being shiromori means. they're both plants okay. #it was either this or joel #or that one sock monster guy from season six #joe and cleo are duet and chloe respectively. joe as duet fits. cleo as chloe does not but also no one else really fits chloe anyway so idc #no more wanting an undead boyfriend.... THEY are the undead boyfriend now. #i think we had uncle lance as iskall??? still not too sure #they both have beards tho. that's something #oh!! also rendog is galaham bc i said so. #anyway. please watch msa it's so so good. #(or watch hermitcraft if you haven't already. a new season started a while back it's the perfect time to join) #not sure if i'll draw more of this;; this is less an au and more just me being silly #but i hope y'all like it regardless!!

[lucabyte]

Hmmm just gonna spit this headcanon out in text post form since A. I don't think I could exposit it well enough in image form and B. It's not actually textually/thematically substantiated and I don't like actually staking my stuff on just vibes alone*

But anyway. I'd say it's pretty evident that all the islanders forgot their names, right? King obviously. Because why the hell else would he do that, but also Siffrin No Middle Names No Last Name.

They're 'pretty sure' they've 'always' been 'Just Siffrin' 'as long as they can remember'. It's a pretty cruel twist of the knife to say that they don't even get to keep their birth name as a memento, which is why I'm saying as such.

My utterly unsubstantiated claim is I think it'd be cute to say that Sisyphus *is* the name Siffrin initially picked, assuming the myth of King Sisyphus is recontextualised as idk, just a play or something in the setting. But I like the idea of Siffrin going 'oh shit 🫵 he's just like me fr' at a tortured fictional character long before the irony kicks in.

As for how Sisyphus -> Siffrin. I think that chronic mumbler and emotional doormat Sif just did not correct people who misheard the name during their time travelling, and went through enough places with incompatible phonologies (pronounceable sounds in the language) without ever really writing it down that it just got kinda. Changed until it was unrecognisable, and Siffrin just went with it until the earlier pronunciations slipped out of their swiss-cheese brain. And they just kinda don't remember any of that.

Also, something something the horrid realisation that Siffrin also named themselves after a King. Just not as blatantly.

*(though I think there's something here about Siffrin, a guy from a belief system that seems to thoroughly disincentivise autonomy and self-motivated choice continuously having their hand forced to make changes/choices they don't want but have no choice but to... It's not solid enough to really back this up tbh, but it informs it.)

Anyway.

#theres also something one of my french-speaker friends said about siffrin's official pronounciation being the feminine way to pronounce -in? #which i dont know enough about to really corroborate and theyre busyyyy and havent started the game yet so i cant really ask #im sure someone else has already voiced this easy-to-come-up-with headcanon anyway but just in case nobody has i decided to post it #isat #isat spoilers #in stars and time #isat siffrin #isat loop #i also personally picture sif (and loop especially) being more hostile to the concept of changing themselves after The Encounter #both of them being big grudge-holders and that 'want' to control your own destiny being clearly against how they interpret the universe #as for whether they should be so hostile? probably not! but they appear to be anxious in fear of some kind of divine retribution should #they like. ever even dare to Want. and uh. well. that certainly went well for Loop. not sure they'd be gung-ho to do it again #so Loop being able to go 'oh well it wasn't my REAL name' as a salve for having to make a new identity AGAIN.... #while sif is explicitly clinging to it as an anchor for Who They Are If Nothing Else.. they can upset each other and also mirabelle i think #lucabytetalks

[coldshrugs]

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vierapril day 10: breath

#io laithe #ffxiv #endwalker spoilers #azia gposes #vierapril24 #posting these out of order and at 2am T^T failing the community event #GOD. my game crashed during my first attempt of this and i wasn't sure i'd feel like redo-ing it #but tbh i've been thinking about this for a minute #what it means for her to be A Hero and still have anxiety on a good day. but on the bad days... #what it means to the people who love her most to see her break #maybe not for the first time but in a raw and scary way they haven't witnessed before #so important to me that thancred is the one who goes to her first (and who takes her inside). idk. their friendship is so special!!! #and estinien's shock is also v important to me (peep him dropping his lance). he's feeling so many things rn alkjsfdlk

[time-is-restored]

anyone else thinking about how us crows canonically reacted to that diorama in the aquarium? like. imagine being q!phil, desparately trying to convince himself that none of this is happening and his dreams are just dreams... while all of the crows surrounding you are going NUTS

vocalising, ruffling their feathers, flapping their wings - immediately and viscerally reacting to all of the trappings of endlantis and the king.

im just. can you even imagine trying to process that. imagine ur kid wakes up and can't see any of the shit that's driving you + ur entire murder to hysterics, even when they're all Clearly reacting to... something in the aquarium. imagine phil trying to say he's fine and that he just needs air while the crows are fucking RIOTING.

we knew + were shouting abt the king and endlantis LONG before q!phil was able to acknowledge it. and the dissonance of that is just,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, OGH!

#qsmp #q!phil #q!philza #there's more i want to say abt. q!phil's simultaneous knowledge and lack of certainty abt hardcore #but i don't actually know for sure what q!phil/cc!phil have said on the topic so far. wasn't hardcore one of the last things q!phil #remembered before the island? and then he dreamt he was back there WHILE 'dreaming' about the birdhouse? #imo if the birdhouse was just a dream and he's leaning HARD into denial for it he's gotta be trying his best to repress what he does/doesn' #know abt hc too. yes its only dreams yes it was the most vivid thing he's felt in his life yes he knows its lore and entities by name yes #none of its real bc they can't get to him bc if they CAN get to him there's absolutely nothing he can do to stop them. y'know?

[somnimagus]

digitally colored some sketches from my sketchbook! i've fallen in love with yet another game and her name is Bayonetta

[id in alt]

#bayonetta #this game made me smile so much it just radiates fun #my favs are bayo and rodin! rodin looks so serious i wasn't expecting his silly sense of humor; he's super cool #and just. ms cereza you are everything to me #ahh but i love jeanne too #not sure about luka yet but his hair's very pretty! most exhausted looking man in the world #but gosh the game is gorgeous ost is gorgeous it's immediately one of my favorites #i really wanna get 2 3 and origins when i have enough money and don't have more pressing things to pay for someday #fan art #my art

[fereldanwench]

2065 "Why blue?" "Cliche sad girl shit. Just sorta stuck."

⚠️ do not reupload or edit my shots without my permission ⚠️

#cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077edit #cp2077 screenshots #cyberpunk 2077 photomode #cyberpunk 2077 v #cyberpunk 2077 oc #female v #fem v #fem v friday #oc: valerie v powell #g: cyberpunk 2077 #mine: edits #mine: stories #long post #nsft #for the cheeky shots #we've had one fem v friday but what about 2nd etc etc #the shot with her putting the dye in her hair was what was confounding me last night btw #still not sure if i like it but whatever GOOD ENOUGH #also i know she's skipping an essential part of the electric blue hair dye process lmao #but i wasn't doing that kind of edit twice dfgjkhdfgdf #yes she was a smoker when she was younger #ahhhhhhhhh working on this has made me manic lmao #fave: valerie v powell

[silusvesuius]

drawings of @gutztism's idea 😼 get horsed

#my art #skyrim #elenwen looking perfect even as a pony she;s always slaying My queen #i saw U say that ulfric wud be an alicorn and at first i wasn't sure about it (nords would probably just be pegasi); but then it hit me.... #the greybeards done facked up and gave him a horn #elisif would have the regular smaller pony build while elenwen should be c*lestia/l*na sized maybe #it doesn't matter if she's a pony.. they'll all still look elongated and mutated as altm*r LOL #imo elisif would only have a horn (mer attribute obvi) before becoming high queen but it'd also still be fun - #- for her to be an alicorn pre-reign and just be.... INEPT #at everything #cus nobody is training her to fly or to use magic #she'd 100% be too scared to fly 😢 i want her to try and fall flat on her face - #- and cry about it after like a baby #rikke is the only one supporting her thru that DFVOUOT5I5 #she probably used to fly alongside/with torygg's help but not anymore Thanks a lot ulfric #sorry this is getting too meta #also i forgot elisif's braid wtf

[risingsunresistance]

I think Skyblock, at its core, is the ultimate challenge in resource management. You spawn on a tiny island in an empty universe. All you have is a tree, some supplies, and some dirt to stand on. You have to treasure every dirt block, because if one falls into the void, there's no way to replace it. And as you carefully navigate your absurd circumstance, you gain a new appreciation for the few things you have as you meticulously use them to their fullest effect. With nothing but some ice, lava, and saplings, you slowly transform this empty expanse into a world of your very own. Skyblock teaches us that, no matter how ridiculous the odds may seem, within us resides the power to overcome these challenges and achieve something beautiful---that one day, we'll look back at where we started and be amazed by how far we've come.

#JGDJHFJFH I WASN'T SURE ABOUT THE ''CAPTION'' BUT IT LOOKS SO FUNNY I'M LEAVING IT LMAO #technoblade #sb #my art #sword is the pigman sword btw!! loosely based on furfsky's texture for it bc i looove the idea of it looking like a butcher's knife <3 #and the diamond shapes ARE there for a reason. i expect maybe 3 of you to know why jdhgjh #it's not a big deal it's like... a thing specific to my blog sorta #one day i'll dm minikloon and ask him to add it and then he'll block me amen

[thosewildcharms]

can i just say. and this is obviously my bias at play here but. rick and michonne's absence was sorely felt when they left the walking dead but by contrast the only characters from the mothership i want to see on the ones who live are their children lmao

#the only reunion i care about i'm sorry! #but i'm right! #the ones who live #richonne #they are so compelling on their own and towl is so legit. better than anything twd produced in years #'season 9 was a return to quality' you might say. #i mean sure #but at that point the bar was kind of on the floor wasn't it #and from what i've seen of michonne's treatment in her last two seasons well. maybe she should have left earlier

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 6: Dress-up

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#better drawn mdzs #mdzs #bonus comic #lan wangji #wei wuxian #Its the dawn of a new arc! Which means a new day! And new outfits for our duo as chosen by all of you! #Bte; mxtx never said lwj *wasn't* wearing lingerie under his hanfu the entire time so.... #It makes him feel confident! And he enjoys it! AND he looks good in it. #wwx has NOT yet noticed. He keeps looking away to give lwj privacy while he changes. This is slightly devastating to lwj #at the end of the day he's wearing it for himself but he would like to be acknowledged. #I had a blast drawing this one! Lots of reference searching but I find that part kind of fun too. #I originally was going to have references to all the outfit options but oh man it got cluttered. #I did NOT trust myself to colour in the floor. My markers are getting dry & i wasn't sure about colours. #Thank you all for support with the polls! And for all the very sweet fan art and outfit propaganda! #This one is for all the people who wanted to vote for bikini lwj. Blows you a kiss (platonic).

[nell0-0]

Day 4: memories!

They took a photo to celebrate the twins' beginning as pokemon trainers!

The kids have clear objectives for their journey. To become the best at single and double battles, to battle against and with each other, and to claim uncle Drayden's Gym Badge, the last one they would need to progress to Victory Road. Drayden will be waiting for them at the gym ^^

#submas #subway bosses #kid submas #subway boss ingo #ingo #kid ingo #subway boss emmet #emmet #kid emmet #gym leader drayden #drayden #ingo and emmet #monthofemmet #tynamo #joltik #litwick #pokemon #my art #I wasn't all that sure about this one but oh well #I'm posting it anyways