#LET THE SCALES BE BALANCED

[sky-kiss]

A/N: Apparently, there's been a lot of soft!Raphael lately. Allow me to rectify that. Ascended Fiend!Raphael and Haarlep hunt you in the dark. Hiding sin under the gif.

Fiend!R x GN!Reader, H x GN!Reader: Full Dark, No Stars 18 +

The world is absolute blackness. 

Not grayscale, not outlines, just shadow, magically dense. You hold your hand in front of your face; the heat is there, your other senses struggling to compensate for the sudden lack of vision, but everything else is gone. You're left to swallow, arms held before you, fumbling in the dark. 

Something shifts on your right. Only one footstep, as if they want you to hear. Infernal heat registers at your back, hands carding over your hips. Then it's gone. You're left rounding on nothing, breathing hard. 

Time lost so much of its meaning in the dark. You could have been minutes or hours. You know that your feet are sore. There's a dull ache in your feet from padding across the flagstones, an ache in your right arm after Haarlep wrenched you too harshly to the side. And the burn everywhere else from Raphael's insistent touch. 

They're hunting you. 

You shiver, scanning the blackness as if it will help. Both devils are unnaturally quiet. The ascended fiend's prodigious size does not slow it down. It moves with liquid grace, sinuous, on all fours rather than its typical upright posture. The sight makes something clench in your belly, fear finding its mate in arousal. It's Raphael stripped down to his basest essence, feral, infernal, and hungering. 

"Tsk-tsk, little mouse," Haarlep calls. They're somewhere on your left, closer than you'd expect. Something passes in front of you, and you stumble. A hand fists in your hair, yanking to keep you upright. Pain blossoms across your scalp, muted when they tip your head back. You open your mouth to respond, and the fiend takes full advantage, tongue pushing into your mouth. They nip your chin, chuckling, and then push you away. "You're slow, far too slow for a mouse. I'm disappointed." 

You keep very silent, very still, trying to orient yourself. 

Haarleep behind you, tail curling around your thigh. The tip strokes between your legs, pressing, prodding. Their voice dips to little more than a growl. "But, ah, I suppose you have other problems? And sweet Haarlep is the least of them." They jerk you back against their chest, arms a vice across your torso. Haarlep's nose tweaks against your cheek, the caress gentle. It contrasts the rasp of their voice, the erection digging insistently against your ass. "I am not in the habit of being ignored, pet. Just this once…I shall permit it." He groans, rutting against you. "Alas, our time is short. The Master comes. And he is so…" licking your cheek, licking into your mouth again. The sweetness of their saliva overcomes your better senses. "...hungry."

You feel Raphael's heat, a portent of things to come. He could be anywhere in the dark, but he's near, crouched low. You imagine him slinking through the darkness, tail cutting slow arches through the air, claws digging at the stone. 

Haarlep hums, giving you a playful pat on the stomach. "Be good for him, yes? He's waited so patiently. And we both know…the fiend has so little patience."

Their weight is gone again. You take three steps forward; the heat steadily mounts. Raphael howls in the dark. Close, how the hells can he be so close? You haven't heard a damn thing. 

And then there's teeth at your shoulder. Hot breath on your neck. A long tongue teasing the column of your throat. You inhale a stuttering breath, careful to stay very still. The fiend growls, pleased with itself as it scents the air. His senses are much sharper. Raphael hears the thundering of blood in your veins, your heartbeat. Smells your arousal. 

You muster up whatever courage you have left to run. 

You don't make it far. Not even a step. Raphael shrieks, the sound higher than you would have expected, clearly delighted. A hand curls around your midsection, stopping you cold. The claws bite against your skin but don't cut. Even in this form, he knows not to break you. He'll only bend. You squirm as it drags you nearer, bracketing you as it lays you on the cold stone. Its tongue is back on your skin, dragging down your stomach to your sex. 

It borders on too hot, but the wet heat and the pressure are too good to ignore. Raphael laps at you, tip prodding at your hole, pressing, pressure, until it can finally push inside. You're left to pant, thrashing under the weight of its hand as it settles over your chest, caging you.

The hunt is over. Raphael intends to feast.

#bg3 raphael #raphael bg3 #raphael x reader #haarlep #haarlep x reader #bg3 smut #my writing #LET THE SCALES BE BALANCED #ascended fiend raphael #bg3 fanfiction

[luck-of-the-drawings]

smth smth about 'the thing that the character did that you thought was rly rly funny in the moment is actually linked to a terrible trauma that lies within said character.' or wahtever.

#jrwi show #jrwi fanart #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #made this within a short span of wahtever bc i gotta go up to the mountains for my stupid gay job tonight n im trying #nnot to frrRREAAAK THE FUCK OUUTTTTTTi dont wanna work but. get that bread we fuckin shall i guess #ONWARDS TO THE FISH TORMENT!! sometimes flowers feel pain when you trim them before their blossoming. atleast i imagine so #i used to draw gillion with loooong hair tied into a big ol braid. and then it was confirmed that he had short hair when he was little. #AT FIRST I WAS SAD. but then i realized the duality of. when they were little. gill had short hair. edyn had long hair. #AND NOW THEYRE OLDER. and gillion has long hair. and edyn has short hair #both mirroring eachother. looking up to eachother. subconsciously or not. they most certainly care. and most certainly miss eachother. #GILLION ALWAYS LOVED HOW LONG HAIR LOOKs. atleast i imagine so. he hasnt cut it since he left the undersea. sure he wanted to go back home #but even at the very start. he knew he was free in some way now. free to grow out his hair. an adventure would await him before he returns. #he knew it would be a while. so he cant let this go. he cant let this sought-after hair-length get cut away from him again #not yet. not yet. i like to think he loved music too. I SAW SOMETHING INTERESTING A BIT AGO #i see alot of ppl commenting on my baby gill comics like;'i wouldFIGHT this teacher i wanna KILL EM i want them DESTROYED #all very good and nice sentiments! i LOVE the energy here! and it would be nice. to have that catharsis #but the story of young tidestrider is not a story of catharsis. it is a story of agony and being so so small and so special and also so dum #and sucking so bad. and just being a kid and doing the things that a little kid does and so many tired tired people reacting badly to it #youre supposed to be the hero that will save us. our world hangs in the balance and you are the one who tips the scales. #YOU are supposed to SAVE US!! you NEED to SAVE US! CAN YOU PLEASE STOP SQUIRMING IN YOUR STUPID CHAIR!! #you'd think that young tidestrider ought to prevail. and be tucked someplace all safe and sound. #elders gone missing and rotting in a jail. their cultists nowhere around. but theres no happy endings. not here not now. #this tale is all sorrows n woes. you may dream that justice n peace win the day. but thats not how this story goes #BIG ideas for this lil baby gillion series. if anything i make ever gets disproven im killing myself in a well as to poison a water supply

[auckie]

yeah i wish bogleech was less annoying on tumblr cause i actually like his website. gotta lock him in there.

I will say i think his website it cool. I just hate people who have to butt in and weigh in constantly ESPECIALLY when they’re contributing net zero information. Like yeah okay pal you read an article about this that’s cool. I’m glad. Thanks for spreading more pop psychology or outdated information or better yet wild conjecture on something only vaguely related. I can only handle know it alls when they’re actually correct. But I also do think he is 100% harmless. He’s probably a fine dude. I’m just a huge hater and soooo easily annoyed by like milquetoast lib types. And repetition. If I see something around more than thrice and it doesn’t make me smile and clap my hands and stamp my feet then I HATE it and go into a boy king rage. You know the drill

#for every bogleech hater out there do we not have our own haters manifesting to keep the scales balanced #let he who throw the first stone take resedence in this glass castle #ye verily

[artist-rat]

swordtember ended over a month ago but i wanted to do more! :') these are based on prompts sent in via replies and asks (tysm all!) (+ the last one an extra, a design i came across in my old sketchbooks a while ago)! from left to right: ball python, tiger, lion, balance, earthworm, pond

#swordtember #lol i'll still tag it swordtember anyway... #swords #one prompt was 'a perfectly balanced sword' and i went like. hm. perfect balance? in my designs? i don't think so but let's have a scale :D #xD (thanks!) #i also fused some vaguer ideas together into these more specific themes i got #thanks so much again! i think i'll take a break for now but this has been a lot of fun <3

[apollos-boyfriend]

absolutely no one asked for this but. divorceverse timeline for ur viewing pleasure <3

mianite s1 takes place when jordan is 17 to 18, mostly sticking to canon, although with two exceptions: capsize doesn’t die, and the void-hopping works, landing them back in their proper universe.  the heroes semi split from there. after saving the world, jordan decides the logical next best decision is to seek higher education. obviously. 

the two end up at the same college. jordan’s there for chemical engineering; schlatt’s there for business.

they meet at a houseparty, with jordan having been invited over by antvenom, a mutual friend of theirs. they don't exactly hit it off, but they don't not get along, either. jordan becomes schlatt's weed dealer, become a couple a week after, then break up two weeks after that. this cycle repeats indefinitely.

schlatt gets pregnant at the end of their first year. at that point, jordan was already considering dropping out, as college was Not as filling as he thought it’d be, so fatherhood gave him a perfect escape. he had plenty of riches from ianite, and his upcoming clothing company was looking prosperous, so he jumped ship. 

both of them had off-campus housing, but schlatt lived with roommates, while jordan lived alone. they decide to have schlatt move in with jordan for the time being. 

tubbo's born when the two of them are 19. schlatt lives with them until he graduates three years later, although he ends up crashing on jordan's couch more often than not, at least when the two are actually together.

when the two are 24 and tubbo is 5, ianite calls jordan for a favor. a young godling somehow stumbled into their reality, and while she'd been looking after them since they were found, her increasing duties have made it harder and harder for her to be a good parent. the pirates are busy, and jordan is the only person she trusts with such a task. jordan accepts, and crumb joins the family.

(this is why the void-hopping worked, btw. crumb's quintessance mixed with what remained of dianite in tom was enough to balance out the scales, so there was no need for the other heroes to intervene)

the two are 37 when adam is born. tubbo is 17 going on 18, and age is hard to calculate with crumb, but it's Somewhere in its teens. schlatt once again moves back in with jordan after adam's birth for the first few years of his life.

#icarus speaks #divorceverse #as all my crumbs go. it is Kind Of a version of dianite. more of an offshoot of chaos #hence why its existence would balance the scales #it ages differently and weirdly. usually id have her in only in her teens but. let's just not think about it too much #essentially smplive is Canon but not directly. it's more in the sense that a lot of the silly stuff still happened and everyone still- #knows/met and stuff like hits are just pranks and stuff #but the Actual events do not happen. if they did i would be fighting a losing battle bc there's no way jordan's bitch ass is- #-winning over connor in schlatt's mind

[legacyphoenixx]

Local furry has lots of fun playing a dragonborn in bg3 more news at 6

#her name is fen zhel everybody say hi fen #former monk in training who fell out with her family over their ideas of ‘keeping balance’ and went off to be a hero instead #likes fighting and punching people a little bit too much perhaps #literally in love with metallic dragon scale color options they’re all so good but this brass one is my fav so far #ended up letting ‘starion bite her that first night which i will not be doing again. fuck bloodless (yes i am petty) #worst thing tho is how few basket of equipment options have dragonborn visuals >:[ #legacy posts #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 tav #baldur’s gate 3 tav #bg3 posting #fen posting

[lizardsarecute]

Since a few people have asked through messages/inbox:

I don't do commissions. Currently, the thought of it stresses me out, sorry.

#personal #anon ask #and also I just have so much on my plate already #between full-time job my comic and adulting and also spending time with my partner #im at a really nice balance in my life rn and would not want to pile anymore on my scales #i've said on my pinned that I've had years long burnout #unfortunately comms were a part of that #I appreciate wanting to support me in some way though that's very nice of yall #the best way to do that is just to let me know how much you enjoy my drawings #that's all #thankie #additional note to the anon who keeps calling me liz in my inbox... pls no. full username or none is preferred.

[girlonthelasttrain]

there's so much ~inclusive~ genre fiction where you can tell the author comes from the m/m fanfiction scene and cannot bring herself to care about women (and relationships between women) with the same intensity or even curiosity but still has some kind of "f/f romance" in her saga(s) which leaves the reader completely underwhelmed. eat your veggies mentality

#I could name so many... #I'm sure they all feel compelled to balance the scales but let me tell you. not worth it

[arolesbianism]

I am still not over the level cap thing what do you mean level fucking 10

#rat rambles #like do they not realize how fucking pathetically low that is? #like it is So easy to get a follower to level 10 especially late game #like in every playthrough of this game Ive done I always have at least one follower whos past level 40 usually several #Im glad they didnt retroactively lower existing followers levels but it still sucks #it just makes leveling them feel kind of pointless when theyre likely going to passively max out after a certain point anyways #like genuinely I dont even understand what the point of this change is #because its not like getting broke. high level followers is much of a concern early game #and mid game is usually only a potential issue balance wise if youve been putting in a stupid amount of effort since the start #and by the time you get to the late game I. genuinely dont think it matters. #like in early late game again youll only have genuinely broken high levels if youve been going hard at leveling followers #and by the end of the late game its like ok and. let ppl be powerful cmon man. #like theres So many things they could have done to adjust the balancing that wasnt this #like if theyre concerned abt faith generation then make a cap on that or make it not a one to one level thing #if theyre concerned about demons then they could again adjust the scaling slightly or simply make it harder to level followers #they could have even used the deciple thing to help with that by having it be a prerequisite to higher levels #like maybe you could have a couple rings of inner circles with each tier unlocking another ten levels #and they could even add a lower cap at like 50 or smth just dont make it fucking 10 #that might genuinely be the worst part of this update and Im not even joking when I say this just killed my motivation to play more #its one of the few things that you were able to keep working on and expanding after unlocking everything else #I genuinely really hope they change this because if not then I think Ill have to drop the game thats how bad it is to me

[taihua]

extremely late and I'm not sure if you've even played through sumeru's archon quest yet, but for the ship ranking ask meme, what about dehya and dunyarzad?

Oooh forgot to answer this yesterday because I was at a concert but allow me--

Send me a ship, and I’ll rate it:

Squick / Just nope / A trainwreck you can’t look away from / Mehh but they are bloody everywhere / Not interested but no negative feelings / I need to see how I could make it work / BroTP / Cute / I love them / They rented a room in my mind and are here to stay

I am so weak for bodyguard x person they're supposed to protect and let me tell you that I sobbed like a broken person during the Sabzeruz Festival quest thanks to Dunyarzad. I can't say I've interacted much with fandom content for them, but I'd file it under the category of "ships that would probably be canon if they were allowed to do that." I think they should kiss and have coffee together and Dunyarzad should patch Dehya's wounds when she comes home from the battles and they definitely still get butterflies in their tummies when they look at each other <3

#meme answers #dunyarzad should've been playable along with jeht #we didn't need all those men in sumeru. balance the scales #let the girlfriends go to war together.

[miscomm]

the possibilities that hufflepuff’s traits have to be twisted and turned to make a ‘villain’ character are insane

#if y’all let me speak !!! #driven by justice but being so focused on balancing the scale you don’t realise that you’ve tilted it even more #loyalty to the ‘wrong’ cause #unwavering loyalty the perfect servant #loyalty to the cause — I would lay my life down for the cause kind of thing #hard work means anything really you can really hard on the ‘wrong’ side of things #basically. i barely realise I am a villain I am fighting for what’s Fair!! #all death eaters were slytherin!!! boo that’s boring. hufflepuff de is Interesting. it has a little spice. #anyways. this is my hufflepuff barty agenda. if you’re going to make him anything other than a slytherin then it’s not ravenclaw babes it’s #hufflepuff #this rant can go under the file Guy Gives Too Much Thought To A Sorting System That Makes No Sense #popular entries include: Let Sirius Black Choose !! and The Value of Tradition: Exploring Why Slytherins Stay Slytherins

[ihumaneveryday]

Feeling ungrounded?

Rest.

Drink water.

Exercise.

Meditate.

Don’t focus on the problem

Make peace where you are and

Rest.

Don’t get caught up in worldly things.

Change is coming.

#scales #balance #peace #let go #wait it out #rest #I am okay #change #take time #self concept #life #self love #universe #the law #love #energy #lawofaffirmation #loa #breathe #energized #energy shift #water #meditate everyday #🧘‍♀️ breathe #inner self #grounding #charge #breathing #receiving #law of universe

[mangoisms]

spotted today…. timtam 🫶

#see it’s literally so perfect we could’ve had SO MUCH if the writers didn’t make the choices they did #i just. Are We Not Tired Of The Vigilante/Superhero Withholding Important Info/Misguided Civilian. like. Are we not #i know ppl complain about miscommunication but like. it is a Very human thing and i think it takes a certain thing to really hit it to where #it doesn’t feel. hmm. silly? #Like there’s a balance. But also sometimes it is silly and stupid. BUT LOOK. idk. it’s dc. it’s superheroes. let’s branch out a little #there were so many other reasons timtam could’ve had a falling out over. so many other ones. i prommy. but we went with the most obvious one #idk. idk. let’s end it here before it turns into a full scale rant these tags are long enough

[porlovistoeinmasochist]

#arthur harrow #I liked how he seemed almost disappointed or weary when Ammit insisted he should be her avatar #my belief is still that he embarked in this almost with a hope of it all ending #he wanted to do penance so his scales could maybe be balanced #but he knew of the futility of that hope #if we take marcs ‘recruitment’ by khonshu as an example we see khonshu likes his avatars desperate because they are dying #or they are suicidal so he makes an ‘offer’ of life and purpose to desperate people in exchange of slavery #I can think arthurs ‘recruitment’ and time as khonshus avatar was like marcs but without the support of a steven or layla #so its really interesting how ammit in a way is falling in khonshus footsteps #she is bending her own rules letting someone live whose scales are unbalanced because it serves her purpose #and I think the moment he says ‘as you wish’ he knows he is exactly back in the situation he warned marc and steven of #be it khonshu or ammit they will always have ‘one last job’ and will never grant their avatars the freedom they ask for

[s4crificial-a]

The Global Defense Ministry Info & Tag Drop

Overview

The Global Defense Ministry, or GDM, is an elite security agency specializing in supernatural intelligence and counterintelligence with a global and interplanetary reach. The ministry acts as the first line of defense against demonic, paranormal, and extraterrestrial threats, and operates using covert, paramilitary, and investigative measures. Under the jurisdiction of the United Nations, GDM operatives are selectively placed among civilians to protect them from various otherworldly threats. 

Purpose

In order to give humans a chance against such powerful foes, operatives from all nations are selected based on a predisposed ability to wield eldritch magic. All field agents, highly experienced veterans, are indoctrinated into a hive mind connected to an eldritch god code named Alphard. When threatened, these agents have permission to tap into Alphard’s abilities and defeat supernatural targets. 

History 

Historically, the GDM’s founder, a close friend of US President Harry Truman (founder of the CIA) summoned an incorporeal Alphard and struck a contract with it. Of this contract, a vessel is promised to Alphard, and permission to conquer whatever he wants as long as the Earth is excluded. 

Candidacy

As it stands, repeated exposure to Alphard’s abilities and knowledge drive humans to a state of profound madness, and an extermination division was founded to terminate compromised operatives. Currently, a Japanese American man named Toshiro Hirawa, reborn as Nol, is the number one candidate elected to become Alphard’s permanent vessel. 

Mission

The GDM’s mission is to protect all humans’ right to live in the face of superior opponents, namely creatures of the Netherworld, and/or Hell. Knowing these creatures believe humans to be inferior, the GDM is a direct response and active destroyer of this belief. 

Priorities

The GDM has 5 priorities:

Establish humans as a superior race against supernaturals.

Protect humanity from supernatural threats.

Prepare in the event of interplanetary and/or interdimensional war.

Supernatural counterterrorism.

Supernatural counterintelligence. 

Training

Operatives in training are subjected to years of various magical and non-magical programs. In order to graduate, they must become highly proficient in the strategic and tactical employment of modern weapons, explosive devices, hand to hand combat, confinement avoidance, parachuting, combat SCUBA, several foreign languages, SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape), wilderness training, EMS medical training, tactical communications, and tracking. Magical training includes exercises in mental fortitude (resisting physical and psychological torture), generating, and manipulating eldritch energy in order to achieve specific objectives. 

Magic Divisions

Eldritch magic must come from a proper source and in the GDM’s case, they utilize ALPHARD, an eldritch abomination with the power to warp universal laws, among many other things. At a basic level, individual operatives must be able to perform void magic, giving them the ability to erase targets from the mortal plane. Some operatives specialize in psionic magic, ranging from dream magic, hypnotic magic, transmutation, and more. Others specialize in morphing magic, cosmic magic, and so on. Only a few select operatives have tapped into higher forms of magic, such as Nol, who currently wields corruption magic, fueled by Alphard’s divine insanity.  

**This post will be reblogged and updated as necessary. 

#{ global defense ministry ; study } — the scales will be balanced. #{ tsurya v; gdm } — only you can banish me to Hell. #{ beck v; gdm } — hurry up and give me a reason to live. #{ samael v; gdm } — ever the necessary nuisance. #{ kagura v; gdm } — redefining the definition of a threat. #{ nol v; gdm } — embrace the god of madness. #{ mika v; gdm } — the enemy of my enemy is never my friend. #{ yaketsu v; gdm } — righting the wrongs of this messed up world. #{ louie v; gdm } — crucial & cruel. it is the only way. #{ shion v; gdm } — let my split loyalties save you.

[lavenoon]

Good Morning, or Night as I think it is for you!

Happy to hear you enjoyed my very weird agents setup story dream thing.

The game of snake portion of that dream had killed me with laughter and was the main reason why I wanted to share the dream so it's nice to know you liked it too!

However, it looks like the dream did to you what it did to the 'agents' in it: misdirection.

The dream is about two people: an animatronic and human. Field Agent and person in the chair. (well i guess it still is an animatronic sona, there's just two new agents not one)

In the dream, the Agency had thought them being one and the same.

Remember when I mentioned wanting to add Neon Eclipse? Thats the animatronic.

To avoid confusion on saying Neon I'm taking my sister's nickname for him and now he is Agent Glowstick. (wont stop me from maybe doing a silly doodle later) Viper is still Viper.

I am still so very tired from having just woken up so I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day!

*relooks at your tags real quick and sees* #very lighthearted but the anime joker in the yt vid took me out

pfft this tag took me out. brain didn't even process that was what the background image was so thank you for that.

also imagining when Viper and Glowstick work for the Agency all the other agents are like "so this is the slippery fuck we never found- wait wait why are there two of them oh dear god"

: )

- Viper

I AM THE AGENCY CONFIRMED IM STUPID AND FORGOT ABOUT YOUR ECLIPSE!! head in hands I am. SO scattered GFHDJ I have no excuse I am simply all the distractable brain and none of the attention

BUT HELL YEAH ACTUALLY Oh my god a tag team - Glowstick and Viper give me serious "Someone will die." "Of fun!" vibes from their codenames alone hfjdks (tho Viper seems to enjoy those games very much also <3 So perhaps "Someone will die >:3c")

Funny thought of Robin only hearing about the Viper incidents, and upon successful recruitment heard through the grapevine it was a team, actually, so they go "wow how come no one noticed they worked in a team, smh so careless" while Sun/ Moon just look at them like. really. you of all people. you of all people make fun of agents thinking a tag team is one person.

Robin feels their gaze, and just goes "Shut up" because they realize the hypocrisy just a second later.

Also also also blue Eclipse blue Eclipse!!! Hell yeah hell yeah hell yeah he sure gonna look like a glowstick then hehehe

It's 6PM now - time for dinner for me! I have a bigger reply to an ask scenario in the works that I'll finish after, so not quite night yet (because I'm a weenie responsible adult who goes to sleep before 11PM) <3

#answer let luce #agent viper asks #I am simply. hm :). at myself #so Glowstick for undercover work and Viper for infiltration - they got a good balance!! #chews on them like a chewtoy #oh no poison galore #BUT YEAH I WAS SUCCESSFULLY BAMBOOZLED #10/10 misdirection team I love that <3 #my agentsona stopped being in charge of the entire agency a while ago but this would make her happy she's just a small scale supervisor #fghdjsk